The Chickasha daily express. (Chickasha, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1899-current, 1905-01-25
How Sunshine" c me to
| the House of Pain-A
| True Story !!

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They brought him 10 the House Of Pain
in the changing equipage q that esta0-
lshment. ycleyt the ambulance.
A policeman had stumbled across MIN,
not Distinguishing the slight FORM OF tne
boy from other snow covered inequaiiiles
in the drifts OF that fearsome night In
deed II was only by feeling with his foot
that he was able to tell what il was that
lay there covered with drift snow
few newspapers tightly clutched nnder
The arm told the story. II required an
EFFORT 10 pry the icy form of the frozen
ground the newly formed mixture ol
snow and ice being seemingly loatn q
loose It's hold on the tattered garments
of the newsboy. Two blocks away Dlinked
tile iighted windows Of Pat F@annery
Gin mill Il was the nearest place where
there was sure TO be warmth. There
the policeman took his bundle OF rags
On me run. A crowd Of labcrers huu-
lied against the bar when the bluec0at
entered with his burden.
At first they seemed 10 resent the APP
pearance OF the man that meant the law
70 them. but only fer moment. ana IN
the next they surrounded the piuiui bun
die OF humanity that he nad laid on the
floor. He gave hurried orders 20 chale
the wrists OF the boy while running 70
the telephone In she corner Where ne
The surgeon applied his stathoscope
only for a moment. then he bundled the
boy into the ambulance and worked over
him while return ng to the hospital. AT
Fiannerys the policeman took zone on
the house. and the incident was closed,
as far as that end was concerned.
How long 1t was before the doctors
were sur, Of being able 70 save Barney
life Is not material TO this story; sufilce
it to say that they did il in way. In
were so aifected after that cruel night
that he could not walk al all
Yet the strangest thing Of all happened
unknown TO Barney. or the doctors, OF
the other patients. or the nurses, or any
body else In or about the hospital, except
one man. Yer ii did happen, and nap
pen II did a week after the arrival ~
Barney at the hospital. and. moreover, Il
is happening ever since. and will, II Is 70
be hoped. happen while Barney remains
there and even afterward. Ine only
person at first who was aware OF II was
the clerk who keeps tabs on the little
house tucked away in corner ot the
grounds. from which wagon carries the
silent garnering Of the night in the early
morning hours. The clerk noticed a de-
cided falling off. and spoke to the prin-
cipal physician about IT,
That worthy, with pardonabie pride
flguratively patted himsel. on the back by
congratulating the young doctors under
him on the decrease Of mortality at the
hoaIital, largely due to the great system
of Keeping track Of every shade Of tenn
perature by means OF chart. That chart
being his invention he like every snc-
cessful man, naturally claimed the credit
for It altogether. But the professor was
wrong. II was all due TO Barney.
Three nights after Bariey's experience
ne WOKE up to a realization Of existing at
gil, AMI likewise. az he explained to the
doctor next morning, feeling very sore
in me- shape" He expressed his salts
faction when told that he had better
stay IN bed for few days. At twelve
years boy who gets his training IN the
eAY fu loo 40 afn
Barney was not slow to note that, |
though the patients all we're in nice clean |
beds, with shirts on them furnished by |
the hospital yet they exhibited in THAR |
dnrnean3r and manner Of suffering an |
endless variety.
After once having made up his mind |
as 70 the nature Of the motley human |
mixture In the hospital ward. he became |
painfully aware also OF the depressing |
effect Of the quiet that reigned through |
out the room, an oppressive stiffness only |
broken by slghs and groans of pain.
Barney did not Ike that. 1t was en-
tirely foreign to his nature He began |
to whistle IN order to make sonic kind |
Of noise The other patients turned |
henalvely toward where the head nurse |
sat. But she, instead Of reproying the |
whistler was quietly tapping time with |
her toes TO the tune that Barney was |
whistilng to wit, Meet Me n st. Louis.
Louis" while she wrote her report
colOred man In the next bod but /
one 70 Barney took u the tune and
huted second 10 II. 80 It went on for /
about quarter Of an hour. and the |
other patients liked It, and some even /
began TO hum the tune. The sighs and |
groans became less frequent
Barney saw that his innovation was
heing viewed with favor, but neverthe-
less he asked the nurse when she came
around whether shr minded the noise. /
She smilingly answered Not at ALL as
long as the other patients like It, and"
che added as she caressingiy smoothed
.iOWl the tousled red hair on his fore
heao. they seem p. Barney smiled at
she was a good nurse; for any nurse
who lets her patients enjoy simple little
pleasures as long as they do not inter-
her business
Then Barney propped his head a little
higher and spoke to the other inmates Of
the room as follows: Say, feEers. ! am
rotten on de CAB. but / viii have my say
just the same. and it strikes me Dat there
is too blamed much whOOping ard signing
in dis place and not enough cheerful
SOUNDS. A well feller can't live without
cheertulness. leastwise he has not got no
license to live without It, let alone
poor sick duck like some Of youse fellers
There wero mumbled inurmurs Of an
proval from the other beds and Barney
continued II read a piece In de name
onct Dat says dat dere Is about five days
y what i don't rain to every one in
all fired long. but long enough to catch
on TO one thing and dat Is dat It cuts
no never mind how long It rains dere
must be an end TO 1t sooner or later. and
demand den" Barney went on anthIfsi-
aetically "da SIN comes out all dc SINNER
and kinder and like a day diamond An
say what's the use moping about rain
or 2 ,ckness when you have de bright
dat comes afterward to look
forward to? ] am de apostle Of sunshine
''I-urrah for Sunshineif called ont one
OF NE patients and anC ther. an old coll
ored man. exclaimed Amen FOR de
apostle" and he was entirely serious at
thnt
FRI N that time on, as song and tuneful
increased everybody's cheerful
ness in the ward. the doctors began Ia |.
wonder at the remarkable reeoveries In
the room. even In some cases where the
sage medical prognosls was unfavorable
The apostle Of sunsh ne became the life
Of the ward He played checkers with
The patients who were well enough to
be allowed 10 be up. told stories the Doints
Of wnirh never wounded anybody was
yet cheerful, with every
body lie became the pet of nurses and
doctors, and he soon was known to VISIT
orA. who pitled the poor orphan bov ana
brought him little goodies that he after
ward reigiously divided with the other
patients
The d7y on which Sunshine. as he was
soon called, received for the first time
permission to get up was a day Of 10Y
~ first and Of bitter DISAPPOINTMENT
to him. For on that day he
found out thst he could moi walk But
did he lot ueOplc see his chaRrin Not he
Indeed. He Just called for a rolling chair