The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1906-08-11


One of the interesting speeches in
Mrs. Leftingwells Boots" is that of
DR.. Rumsey the lovable old gentle
man whose conversion to osteopathy
furnishes the solution OF the plot tan
gle. 1t is long speech and, read with
less sympathy than Mr. Harmon en-
ploys, it would doubtless prove tire
some rather than interesting AS it is,
it is one of the gems of the perform
ance. 1t is as follows:
Great things, those megaphones.
See in the papers that some fellow in
Virginia's preaching through one of
them. Simply an application of the Old
fireman's trumpet. And the fireman's
trumpet came from the huntsman's
bugle, and 1 suppose the huntsman's
bugle was discovered by some idle boy
blowing through a rams horn way
back in the tribal times. That spec
trumized wood-by jove, isn't that a
pretty flame? A chemist makes that
| nowadays, but it was discovered by
| the fishermen that used to burn the
| driftwood of old boats that had been
| covered with copper. Whisky! I'll
wager that the first distillation Of
whisky came from some neglected and
accidentally fermented grain that the
owner thought was total loss.
quite likely"
/ Undoubtedly. That horse hair lari-
at hanging there-every plainsman has
one to lay around him when he sleeps
| somebody discovered by accident
that snake won't cross a rope made
of horse hair. I'm 70, and I've really
come to u state where l EXPECT verv
| little from elaborate preparation, and
am rather disappointed if the casual
accident hasn't the kernel of a real
benefit in it. Now this-you and I
the fire-all the small talk tucked into
! bed-you can't beat this. Accident!
| The plan. the plan was to tuck me in
| bed-and to have Mr. Klargess in your
place. My profession-an accident
No, l was a physician and surgeon by
intention, but my going over to oste-
| opathy-ever tell you the story?
used to have in my stable Il little
! black mare-a regular pet, Drove her
on my morning round-always finished
! by giving her a lump of sugar. One
morning l went to buckle a lily net
that had come loose at her breast. She
expected the sugar-had on binders
and she turned her head suddenly and
struck me right there-I couldn't hear
sound for three years, and yet all
the time l heard a roaring like Ma
CARA. Did verything-medicine-
ters-knife-no use-gOt a little funny
up here too"
you mean mentally
"Yes-they were taking me to Cali
fornia-some sanitarium. A bridge
washed out on the old North Missouri
railroad near a town called Kirksville.
Had to lie over there one day. 1 new
er knew such heat-hundred and ten in
the shade. Commenced to get violent.
Mrs, Rumsey was with me, and in her
alarm She called IN a doctor there, q
long slab sided fellow in a linen dus-
ter Two men were holding me by this
time-the doctor felt around my skull
and neck a minute or two, then sud
denly gave my head n wrench and a
crack, and 1 was a we'll man like that
(snaps fingers) Slight displacement
of one of the vertebrate impinging on a
nerve. Pressure gone. the trouble was
gone"
Hard of hearing?"
"Only been so the last four years.
practlced medicine thirty years after
that accident. But to finish my story
That same doctor later developed a
new system OF therapeutics based on