Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-07-24
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ture," young man began, he said
this:
".AlI COLES mean appendicitis nova
days, and are admitted to the surgical
wards-much to the detriment OF the
patient, as a rule, with the sacrifice of
several weeks in bed and the loss of his
appendix, when, perhaps. his pain was
only due to the lobster salad of the
night before. Pain in the stomach
nowadays is always appendicitis. and
is recognized by the doctors wife over
the telephone
THAT declaration" said the young
physician, pleased me, and my pleas
ure was still greater when l heard
that the next evening at the banquet
| was to sit beside DR.. Osler. l ex-
pectcd some rare conversation, and L
was not disappointed. DR.. Osler told
me many good things. many good
stories of medica! adventures.
He told me one story about a
young Tecumseh physician.
This young man one rainy night
in November was awakened very late
by n loud ringing of his bell. He put
his head out Of the window and voice
said:
"Doctor, my wife is very bad witt
symptoms of fit. She's foaming and
frothinS at the mouth. I've walked all
the way here from GleddOn. Can you
come to her right away"
THE doctor said he would come and
the caller said he would wait and re-
turn, then. in the doctors carriage.
This was 4 wise course, for the storm
civ
miles away.
Through the pelting rain, through
the mud and over the ruts, the carriage
iolted and in an hour GleddOn was
re. chcd At the outskirts the Gleddon-
ito said to the doctor:
I'm get out here. / want to get my
wife's sister. You keep right on. My
house is only seventy yards ahead.
It's the second house on the left
80 the doctor kept on alone and at
the second house on the left he tied his
horse and knocked.
But no one was sick there.
Strange. He must have mis-
counted. He tried two other houses.
Still no one was sick. He tried some
more houses on the right side Of the
street, only to meet with the same re-
suit.
And the Gleddonits. with his sis
ter in-law did not return.
FINALLY after trying a dozen houses,
the young doctor drove back to Tecun1-
sch, altogether puzzled. Why had not
the Gleddonite reappeared? Why had
he himself forgotten to ask the Gled-
donitc's name? Altogether n hideous
miX-up.
The next evening the doctor re-
ceivcd this postal card:
Dear sir: ] was sorry to make you
| drive me so far last night, but ! had
to get to Gleddon somehow and there
was no time and the livery man said
the weather was too bad to let any of
his teams go out. So I worked 4 lit
tie trick on you, DOCTOR which l hope
you'll overlook, for I had to get to
GInddon and couldn't very well walk.
Yours, gratefully"
"The Self-assurance Of the Chicagoan
is quite one Of the wonderful things
of our country" said Representative
]. Il. Bouten of Washington recently
at the Grand.
Il was talking the other day with
Chicago business man who was q typ
zeal product of the Windy City, and
during the conversation, which dealt
mostly with affairs concerning his
town. he described to me briefly how
the real Chicago man is made.
"'Take Il New York or Boston boy,
cheeky and empty headed said he.
quite seriously. Send him to n Chica-
go school to get all the cheekiness TAX
en- oui of him; let him knock about the
town for IL while afterward and mix
among the people 50 that he may
get 10 know things; then put him into
| Il Chicago business house to learn bus
mess habits. When that's been accom-
pliShed he will he a man physically
and mentally. and Il real American to
boot, ana if he wishes to remain such
ana make Il white mans living or 4
name for himself he will stay right in
Chicago. Then you have the Chicago
man."
The late Gen. H. V. Bcyrton." said
| an old soldier, used 10 tell on the
Fourth of July Il story about E ish
sea captain.
This captain. after beng defeated
in n sea tight in the war OF l@l2, lnSpec-
ted tho ship to which he had sur
rendered.
But hang it al. half yonr sailors arc
English he grumblrd at tn" end of his
inspection.
"'And had you not all Eng!ish?" said
the American captain. calmly.
"Hyperbole," said Rev. Russell II.
Conwell to a Temple college student.
means exaggeration. A country
minister of sarcastic turn once ex-
planned hyperbole to his congregation
quantity.
He looked down from the pulpit
over his spectacles and said:
Nov. my friends, some Of you may
not understand the word hyper-hyper-
hoical. I'll explain it. Suppose i
should say this congregation was all
asleep. That would be speaking hyper
bolically. for / don't believe that more
than half of you are sleeping. -.....
Admiral Dickins. during the sham
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