The Tucumcari news and Tucumcari times. [volume] (Tucumcari, N.M.) 1907-1921, 1910-07-05
TFNDERFOOT EU[OG|zES
THE COUNTRY DOCTOR
Frances Willard Most Remarkable Type of American
Womanhood and Greatest Temperance Worker In
This Day and Age She Loved as Only Woman of
Powerful Character Can
ALBUQUERQUE DOG SHOW BLUE BLOODED
PUPS AND THE AMERICAN COON DOG
Our Debt To The Doctor

Very few people have a correct sense
of the debt we owe the doctor, and II
they ever think of il at all, dismiss It
with the reflection that he gets his pay
and that ends It. And yet how pitt.
fully little can money recompense the
services of the country physician, who,
year after year, in seed time and har'
vest, in the blush Of autumn and the
sting of winter, follows his people ON
the journey from squills to gloryl His
pampered brother of the great city,
who gives pills of bread TO the imagined
wealthy invalid, knows nothing of the
personal element and the soul that goes
/ into the practice of his rural brother,
VII" sees the child he helped into this
world of troubles pass with unhesitatirg
feet to young man or womanhood, hv'
ing over again the existence of them
who gave them life. From time tn
time, mortal illness Greens into the
| big family of the country doctor, col
the most sincere mournor is the family
! physician, perhaps with an unpaid bill,
but with an interest and regard that
death cannot efface and sorrow that
is as real as that Of those of blood. for
he has added sense of failure 10 re-.
tain the vital spark that means so mucn
or so little TO those with whom personal
contract is deereod bv fate. How many
nights he has lain in unrest, his mind
on the fevered form at is battling Tor
existence, trying TO devise some course
that win more que kly and 'urely throw
aside the grasp OF discsse, and relieve
the strain CT those who love! How ~
ten has the pulse of love been changed
10 the sluggish current of discourage.
ment as the daily call showed the ya.
tent slipping away in spite of nis
knowledge and skill; that is close 10
agony to the average country doctor,
and one that most of all he must hide.
Then after health or death has come.
his Offices do not end. lie is the con
fdent and advisor of the whole family
as he Is of the whole countryside. lie
points with kindly mein the way 20
right living TO the feeblest womanhood,
and the life a man should lead lie
warns the erring and helps 10 retrieve
the mistakes that sting and are costly
in all that makes life worth living.
He is the confessor, the physical father
of the whole community, and upon his
counsel hangs more of real happiness
than the advice of an ambassador or
minister, simply because he reaches the
real human part Of us, that we must
he right before we can lay hold of high.
er aud better things. In every emer-
goncy the people lean on him, and their
trust il seldom misplaced. lie knows
his duty and discharges it to the best
of his ability and IL the race were prop
erly grateful they would rise up and
call him blessed; would anoint his head
with honor, and last, but by no means
, least, pay his bill first of all, instead OF
> last or never, as is most apt TO be the
: ease under our strangely perverted code
:, of practice. He deserves II and more
I for civilization has no more stalwart sol
4 dier, and the gospel Of merch no more
faithful disciple, than the faithful, plod
ding country doctor.
!, How Frances willard Loved
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