The news & observer. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 1894-current, 1904-05-24

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doctor. The story of his noble un-
selfishness of his heroic endurance,
Oh ms many sacrifices, of his unaf-
tected love for the simple folk who
well nigh worshipped him is one that
| VIII touch the heart of the braVest
ana best. He was the model physi-
clan, but let US not suppose that we
nave not men among us in North
carolina possessing the high qualities
that won him the tender love of every
child in Drumtochty. Every old doc
| tor ought to read Barrie's famous
Beside the Bonnie Brier Bush"
every year just before Christmas and
thank God for such an eXamplar and
be humbly grateful for every sacrifice
that he has made that puts him nearer
William MacLure. Every young doc
tor ought to have the book on his ia
BILE and the best passages craven on
the heart, to call him away from him
self If ever tempted to make merchan-
disc of his gifts. his skill, his helpful
ness to men and women in suffering or
| man MacLure must be to every ply
| sician who comes into the practise OF
medicine In the right spirit!
All who have read that masterpiece
Will recall the words of the doctor,
wher an humble friend begged him to
do al: he could for his sick wife. Here
is the scene:
aye medina plead wi me, Tammas
| to dae that best a can for yir wife.
Man, a kent her lang afore We ever
| luved her; a brocht her intae the
warld, and a saw her through the
| fever when she ives a bit lassikie; a
closed her mithcr's cen. and it ives me
| he'd tae tell her she ives an orphan,
an nae man ives better pleased when
| she got Il guide husband, and a helpit
| her wi her fewer BARNS. Ave naith-
| er wife nor BARNS O. ma own. an "a
| coont q the fouk o the Glen ma
! family. Div We think a wudna save
| Annie if | cud? If there Yves a man
! in Muirtown at cud dae mair for her.
a'd have him this vera NIGHT, but a
the doctors in Perthshire are helpless
| for this tribble.
"Tammas. Ma puir fallow, if it could
! avail, a tell We a wud lay doom this
| auld Woin-oot ruckle o a body o
| mine just tae see ye bath sittin' at
| the hreside, an the BARNS rooned We,
| codthy an canty again; but it's no tae
| be, Tamnas, it's no tae be-"
when q lookit at the doctors
face" Marget said. "a thocht him the
! winsomest man a ever saw. He ives
| TRANSPORTED that night, for am jud9-
! inR there $ nae TRANSPORTATION like
ave- .t..t.t I
| Or what is finer than the story of
| how this Drumtochty doctor, after the
81 eat London specialist had q given
| Saunders six hours to live. have his
| ''facc turned into iron before their
! eyes, Cooking like one encountering a
inerciless foe as he said: - Ill.
1.-THE London doctor said that Saun-
ders wud sough ava afore mornm'.
| did he? Weel, he's an authority on
| feVers an sic like diseases, an ought
| toe kan ,''''''. ~
| Its may be presumptous o. me tae
! Iiffer frle him, and it wudna be vera
respectful o Saunders tae live after
| this upeenion. But Saunders ives aye
| thraun an IL tae drive. an he's as
| like as no tao gang his ain gait.
| Am no lneanin' tae reflect on. sac
| clever a man, but he didna ken the
/ SPGIudIiOn.
| a bulk, but he never cam across sic
( thing as the Drumtochty constitution
a his days. rrG
| Eye see, when onybody gets as low
| as puir Saunders here, it's JUST hand
| to hand wrastle atween the fever and
| his constitution, an of coorse, if he
| he'd been a shllpit stuntit, feckless
| efteegy o a cratur, fed on tea an
made dishes and cushioned wi lad
| A chance.
| lie Yves doomed tae goe DOT like the
| snuff o 4 candle.
Put Saunders hes been film his
| lungs for five and thirty year wi
| strong Drumtochty air, an eaun
naethin' but fresh milk frae the coo,
an followin' the ploo through the new
turned, sweet-smellin' earth, an swing
/ in the scythe in daytime and harvest,
| till the legs an Arms o him were
| iron, and his chest ives like the cut
| tin o.. cn oak tree.
He's waesoome SIGHT the NIGHT,
| but Saunders Yves a buirdly man aimee,
and swull never lat his life be taken
| LIGHTLY frae him. Ma ma, he hesna
! sihned against nature, and nature III
stand by him moo in his o6r @ DIS
! tress.'
There was "a stand UP fecht atween
him and deith for Saunders, and the
old doctor who had not shaken ma
ain legs for thirty years" attempted
the Highland fling when he had won
| the victory over death and snatched
Saunders from the grip of death.
But the time came that the good
doctor was to die. He knew 1t in
ltinctively and said: There's knock
! that Gamma be mistaken, an a heard
it last night. Axe fought delth Tor
ither foulk mair than forty year, but
ma time has come at laist and to
Drumsbeugh he gave :"me directions
saying among other things;
"a didna keep buiks, as we ken,
for a aye he'd a guild memory SO nae
body ill be harried for money after
ma deith, and we ill haze nae accounts
tae collect.
But the fouk are honest IN Drum
tochty, and they i'll be oferin We
siller, an all gle We ma nina aboot
it. Gin it be a puir body, tell her tae
keep it and get bit plaldie WI the
money. and She ill maybe think o
bar a,,Id doo+or at a time. Gin ii be