Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1906-12-19

Z Il New England can inflict on suffer-
/. Ing humanity. The dispensary was
In darkness, save light which cleaned
from the windows of the resident physi-
clans room.
. DIR. Brown, the resident physician, had
made bad day of it, tramping through
the snow, making his regular calls on the
SICK poor of his district. Now he found
small comfort in his pipe as he sat by his
little stove in the dispensary room.
Just now the young doctor suffered
from an attack of the blues. He had
worked hard, this last year, for his de-
gree, and after graduation had been chos-
en- from among 20 applicants for the post
OF resident at the dispensary. The posi-
ton paid in experience and gave a wide
held for work among the poor of the dis
ltrict, both at their homes and at the dis
pensary. The salary was chiefly salary
IN name, 500 year and room rent free,
not enough to cover expenses; but it was
the experience to be gained that paid.
lie had been young man with expec-
tations and had had matrimonial designs
on certain dainty young lady, and what
hope was there for a poor dispensary doc
tor! Only that morning the wealthy Mr..
Peabody, her pompous papa, had passed
DR.. Brown on the street and had return
ed his polite good morning" with cold
look, which seemed to say: II do not
wish to know you, sir" And that, too,
when but few years before the student
Brown, with great expectations, had been
a welcome guest at the Peabody mansion.
Society had gossiped that Dolly Pea
body and Harvey Brown would make a
match.
ii lie had written once since that to Miss
Dorothy and his letter had been returned
to him unopened. The Peabodys had gone
abroad and he had heard no more of them
until to-day, when Mr.. Peabody had given
him the cut direct.
DR.. Brown had worked hard all day,
had had case at slum tenement house
that afternoon and had missed his supper
at the boarding house. As he brooded
over these things small wonder that the
.'blue devils" tormented him.
80 Devil of a7night out" unused the. doc
tor. Christmas eve, too! Hope won't
have call out tonight. What an old
duffer that Peabody is, anyway. Won
der if Dol-Miss Peabody would cut me
like that! Hang it all! A man don't
feel good to be frozen out like that just
because he has lost his expectations. I
thought knew Dolly-dash it, do know
her! She wouldn't throw fellow over
like that. But why-hang it all, but I
do feel empty; pity that boarding house
couldn't keep open of night once in
awhile, and I'm broke, too. Well, there's
no hope for me with her pater, that's
sure J" u.
The electric Dell over his head rang
violently and DR.. Brown, stepping to the
speaking tube, shouted: well, what's
wanted!
Say, be youse de doctor? Deys swell
bloke up de street wots all smashed up.
Dey wants de doctor to get wiggle on,
seeW
A few minutes later Or. Brown was
stumbling through the storm in the wake
Of the small gamin who had summoned
him. At the corner two men were holding
frightened horse, to which was hanging
the remains of broken harness. A little
further on was an overturned cab, sur
rounded by number of residents who had
turned out in spite of the storm. They
had just pulled from under the wheels an
elderly gentleman, whose dress had stamp
ed him as swell" with the gamin.
DIR. Brown was all professional in an
instant, and superintendent the carrying
of the injured man to the dlspensary,
where he was placed on the Doctors own