The new enterprise. (Madison, Fla.) 1901-1908, 1902-08-07
Being in convalescsnt Stage he
DiscourseI Upon Doctors.
Ills SON PULLS HIN THROUGH SAFELY
Barlow Man Declares that Were Il
Not for Medical Science He and
King Edward Both Would
Have Gone Hence Last
NIeak
Week.

1 don't Know whether l can write
a letter or not will try. The effort
viii keep me from thinking about my
SELF For month have be playl
Billy in the low giounds," but had
good doctor who has nursed me
night and day and cheered me up and
comforted me and l am on the up
grade, though as the Georgia crackers
say 81 am powerful weak" This doc
tor is my son and he says he has not
forgotten how his mother and nursed
him for three long months In Florida
and saved his life ana now shall not
die If he can help it. i take all his
medicine, quinine, strychnine, calomel,
spirits of nitre, capsules without mum.
Der, and tonics, too, and Il get well
will never know what cured me, but
he will. What woulG the world do
without doctors? King Edward and
would have died last week
About twenty years ago had a spell
like this one, for / had been working
in the water all day tryi' g to dam up
the branch In the meadow so that the
children could go in bathing. That
night likec to have died and old DR..
Kirk was sent for and worked on me
for three or four days and got me up
again, Ny wife told me then that IL
didn't be more careful of myself |
wouldn't live out half my days. She
told me the same thing the other day,
and she knows Old DR., Kirk is
trump. He was our family Loctor TN
til he got old and tined and moved
away to live with his children. Be-
fore he moved to this place from South
Carolina he had love scrape over
there, and he had a rival, too, and they
fell out. The girl wouldn't Lave either
one Of them and the other fellow heard
that the doctor had told stories on him
to the girl and so after the doctor 10.
Gated here his rival wrote to him and
demanded a retrasit, or else a fight.
The doctor wrote him a singer and re-
fused to maze a retraxit, but would &C.
cept his challenge and fight him until
Hades froze over, and as the fighting
code gave the challenged party choice
OF weapons and time and place and dis
lance he should choose rifles at long
range and the next Goth day Of Febru-
airy as the time and the other fellow
must stay where he was and shoot over
this way and he 1.-THE DOCTOR would
stay here and shoot over that way and
both must aim high so as not to hit
anybody between them.
But | must stop now and take
breath. A good long breath is what
want The old woman was asked what
disease her husband died of and she
said the doctors differed about II, but
she always believed he died for lack
Of breath. don't want to go that way.
was Illuminating about these physl-
clans, for doctor is not the proper
name. Doctor means a teacher OF any.
thing, whether 1t be science or art or
law or pharmacy or theology. Physl.
clan is the right word. It is very an
Client name for the professor. The
Bible tells how Joseph got the physt
clans, to embalm his old father, but
do not think II was a very popular pro
fession among the Jews. for it Is men
TONED only two or three times and
with doubtful favor King Asa had a
disease In his feet and would not call
upon the Lord for relief, but sent for
a physician, and he died and slept with
his fathers. Then there was a woman
who had an issue of blood for twelve
years and had suffered much from
many physicians and'spent all she had
and was nothing better, but rather
grew worse. The Jews unto this day
do not give much patronage to physl-
clans or quack medicines never
knew but one jew doctor, though there
are a few very eminent ones in the
large cities, for whatever learned
Jew does he does well. There is doc.
tor Jacob in New York city who
stands at the head Of the profession
and is consulted by the rich and great
men OF the nation.
Now let me stop for another good,
long breath. When was a boy we
didn't have but one doctor in the town,
and he weighed 800 pounds and was
never in hurry. He left little babies
around ever and anon and when one
came to sur house the old cook told us
where he got them and she slyly point.
ed to his.corporosIty. He had little
office on the street and few shelves
With hntIlee ON thaln containing cain