Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1903-01-10

road wreck ten years before his death gave
MN more downright inward satisfaction
enan any OF his other cases.
"a ans smash,ap occurred near Patchogue.
snG sweet who had been seen In that town
carrier In the day by one Of the injured
passengers. was sent for at the latters
earnest solicita ton. In company with
several doctors he rushed to the scene of
the accident, and as he snapped the bones
INTO place or set them and tied rough
spiints about them-his usual splints were
OAK shtngies-he turned the sufferers over
20 PHYSICIANS for medical care. 1t took
him just an hour to set about two dozen
Dones. and Sweets truthful boast to the
day Of his death was:
AND every consumed bone knit as good
limped."
II 1t was after he had made this bone set
.ing record with such dizziness that all the
Sweet a IN present present We're astonished that
asking where he got the talent, said:
Ion know; just came to me all of a
su ue one day when 1 had caught a
InIcheh ana was about to kill it, But first
l pegan iddling with 1t, and the first thing
l knew I'd pulled a bone out of place. IN
putting 1t back / pulled another out OF
p ~ ue,., ana ! pulled another out of place
IN putting that back. Then. when I'd got
EN- all back In place. l got an idea I'D
learn now to set bones and give up farm
, ,ns. 30 practiced uncoupling and coup
tha Up up .he oones OF my dog until 1 learned
PONIES. Guess took that dog apart nigh
on to a hundred times, on and off. He
got SO used to it that he seemed to enjoy
1t, and l do believe he missed the exerc;Sa
when let up on him. Yes-yes."
what the peculiar twists were that each
oone required Sweet always refused to ox-
pam pam 10 any one except his sons and daugh-
TER ana they have refrained from dissipat-
ing the family secret
II USED to be common thing for doctors
10 watch old man Sweet with the hope Of
ua"i9 serins the efiicacious twists, but the
rapidlty with which he worked precluded
an possibility of discovery. Where 1t would
take the average physician an hour to set
bone Sweet could do the trick in a few
minutes.
Revenge on a Practical Joker.
one case, however. Sweet prolonged for
an hour or more
A New York drummer went to Sag Har-
Dor, and while lounging in hotel one night
he heard about Sweet
Bet he's fraud said the salesman.
and I'll prove it. too, IL you fellows will
bind up my shoulder so it'll look as If it's
broken and then call in Sweet"
The man was bound up forthwith by his
partners IN the joke. and then Sweet was
summoned.
When he arrived the man from New York
was grooming as If suffering intensely
sweet walked up to him, felt of his shoul-
der, smiled grimly and then the next In
slant the man was vainly trying to raise
his arms and yelling that they were out of
place at the shoulder joints
You bet they are, stranger" said Sweet
and they'll not get back into place. either
until you and your friends have paid me
$25 for putting 'em back"
In vain the drummer pleaded and the en-
treaties of his assistants were equally of
no avail. Sweet would not relent, and so
every mothers son Of them had to part
with all of their loose cash and do some
lively borrowing from friends besides. Then
Sweet. when the sum demanded was finally
handed him. gave the mans arms a jerk
or two. which sent them back into their
sockets. and walked off as slouchily as he
had come.