The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1902-06-22

benefit others who are similarly affected
/ have been very sick man and hardly
expected to see my next birthday, which
is today, the 18th, but / have scuffed
through and am now on the up grade
One of my PARKWAY boys wired me to
work on my stomach and l would get
we'll He might as we'll have wired;
Keep on living and you will keep living
on"
No, it wasn't the stomach. 1t was
higher up where the left yentricle OF
the heart had got walled in and the trou-
bic was what the doctor calls the angina
pectoris, and my left arm was. helpless.
Fer two days and nights / suffered more
of real agony than / ever suffered IN
all my life. Our doctor boy was mere
from Florida, and knew exactly what
was the matter, and / took all his medi-
cine, ,ut got little relief, and was
willin. to die to get out OF PAIN F1nal-
ly he gave me morphine in both arms
and | went off to sleep and rest. Those
morphine dreams and visions are always
a miracle to me. / thought that in his
talk about my trouble he called it an
gelina pectoris, for / don't hear well
now, and | got the refrain on my mind
that pretty verse from Goldsmith's
Hermit"
Turn, Angelna-ever dear
My charmer turn to see,
Thine own, thine long-lost William here,
Restored to heaven and thee
Ever and anon l could hear it raining
on the tin roof, but it didn't rain drop.
All night long l was murmuring Turn,
Angelina. ever dear / couldn't stop 1t
nor think of anything else to say, but
l wasn't restored-next day l got some
better and as / hadn't taken any nour-
ishment for three or four days | craved
something acid. and like a foolish boy
eat a small piece of huckleberFy pie for
supper, which they told me not to do.
That set the dogs to barking about mid
night and set me back Just where / had
been, and the doctors work all had to
he done over again. EmeticS and hot
baths and hot water bags and more NOR
Ihinc finally brought relief That night
after supper the young people had the
dining table, cleared off and were playing
that pretty little childish game called
ping pong or ding dong or sing song or
Hong Kong, or some outlandiSh name
with it's tinkling balls, and so | got up
another refrain and was murmuring
ping pong, ding dong and ding dong bell
all night. One of my boys, who is al
ways punning, told his mother that
huckleberry pie business was simply
case of too much pie-eaty, and they
tried to make me smile. but they
couldn't. l was past all wit and humor
and puns and jokes. But l am done with
huckleberry pie and huckleberry cordial
and HuckIeberry Finn and any Other
huckleberry. Only last Saturday my
only brother died suddenly of heart fail
ure away off from home. His time was
not out, for he was nearly twenty years
younger than l am, and now, alas! l
have no brother, and he was always
good brother to me. But almost every
body is threatened with heart failure
now, and so l am looking out for it, but
don't want it to come along the Angelina
line. The heart is the most wonderful
and mysterious organ of our anatomy
1t is called the seat of affections, the
Desires the emotions. The organ of
love and hate and Joy, but it is not 1t
is mentioned in the Bible more than six
hundred times, and always in connection
with our good or bad traits, but it has
nothing to do with feeling or emotion
or character. 1t is nothing but 1eshy,
pulpy organism, a mechanical contriv-
ance, and has to be carefully nursed or
it will rebel. 1t is the engine that
drives the whole anatomical machine.
If overworked or overfed with ice or to-
bacco or anything else it will work on
faithfully until it can't work any longer,
and then gets discouraged and dies sud-
denly at it's post. The book says that
hnf m science
concerning the heart until the eigh-
teenth century, and that within the last
fifty years many books have been writ
the, and now no part of the human sys-
tenn is better understood or more salts
factorily treated. The disease called
angina pectoris is declared to be the
msot dangerous to which it is subject
because of it's distressing pain and
sense Of impending death. If | had read
that while 1 was suffering 1 should have
surrendered, but the doctor wouldn't
tell me nor let me read it.. He SAYS it
is better to minify rather than magnify
the apprehensions of his patients. But
the young people ought to be told told
often and earnestly, that they can't fool
with the heart. A boy who smokes
cigarettes on the sly is storing up trou-
his manhood and shorten his life. This
is so we'll known now that good men
will not employ boys who smoke. One
vice calls for another and a news man.
ager told me the other day that one of
his newsboys skipped some of his patrons
every week so as to have a paper or
two to sell and get money to buy
cigarettes. OF course he discharged him.
1t is pleasant entertainment to listen
to doctor tell his varied experiences
and this one uttered a truth the other
day that ought to provoke serious
thought in every parents bosom. He
says that his greatest foe in the treat
ment of diseases of children is their
disobedience to their parents and it is
most generally the mothers fault. They
will do things and eat things that are
forbidden, but she loves the little dears
so much she overlooks their disobedience
and so when they get sick they will not
take the physicians medicines without
force or a struggle, and if the doctor is
not there to force it the mother lets
the time pass rather than hear the
sceams or cries of the child. Not half
the parents enforce obedience from their
children Prompt and willing obedience