Woodville Republican. (Woodville, Miss.) 185?-current, 1902-08-02
ARP AND DOCTORS.
Says he and King Edward Would
Have Died But for Them.
Bill In Recovering from His Illness
and Tells of the Medicine He
Has Been Taking-Old DR..
Kinks Duel.


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don't know whether / can write
letter or not. 1 will try. The effort
will keep me from thinking about my
self. For month have been playing
BILLY in the ow grounds" but ! had
a good doctor who has nursed me night
and day and cheered me up and com
forted me and I am on the up grade
though as the Georgia crackers say;
81 am powerful weak" This doctor is
my son and he says he has not forgot
ten how his mother and l nursed him
for three long months in Florida and
saved his life and now / shall not die
if he can help it. l take all his medl-
cine, quinine, strychnine, calomei'
spirits of nitre and capsules without
number, and tonics, too, and If l get
well l will never know what cured me,
but he will. What would the world do
without doctors2 King Edward and
would have died last week.
About 20 years ago had spell like
this one, for 1 had been working in
the water all day trying to dam up
the branch in the meadow so that the
children could go in bathing. That
night liked to have died and old Dr.
Kirk was sent for and worked on me
for three or four days and got me Ut
again. My wife told me then that Il
l didn't be more careful of myself
wouldn't live out half my days. Sh'
told me the same thing the7lther day
and she knows. Old DR.. Kirk is
trump. He was our family doctor un
til he got old and tired and moved
away to live with his children. he
fore he moved to this place from Soutl
Carolina he had love scrape owe
there, and he had rival, too, and theI
fell out. The girl wouldn't have ethel
one of them and the other fellow
heard that the doctor had told stories
, on him to the girl and so after the doc
tor located here his rival wrote to hin
and demanded a retraXit or else
fight. The doctor wrote him stinge
and refused to make retraxit, Blu
would accept his challenge and fgh
him until Hades froze over, and as tn
fighting code gave the challenged par
ty choice of weapons and time an
place and distance he should choos
rifles at long range and the next got
day of February as the time and tn
other fellow must stay where h
was and shoot over this way and h
1.-THE doctor) would stay here an
shoot over that way and both must ali
high so as not to hit anybody betwee
them.
Bit / must stop now and TAX
breath. A good long breath is what
4 want. The old woman was asked wha
s disease her husband died of and 81
said the doctors differed about it, br
she always believed he died for lac
of breath. l don't want to go tn;
way. ] was Illuminating about the'
physicians, for doctor is not the prop
name. Doctor means teacher of an
thing whether it be science or art
law or pharmacy or theology. Phyi
clan is the right word. 1t is very a
cient name for the profession. II
Bible tells how Joseph got the ply
clans to embalm his old father, but
do not think it was a very popular pr
fession among the Jews, for it is me
toned only two or three times al
with doubtful favor. King Asa had
disease in his feet and would not CT
upon the Lord for relief, but sent f
: physician, and he died and slept wi
a his fathers. Then there was womi
who had had an issue of blood for
years and had suffered much frc
many physicians and spent all she h
and was nothing better, but rath
grew worse. The Jews unto this d
do not give much patronage to ply
clans or quack medicines. l new
knew but one Jew doctor, thou