The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-08-18
The Euenins Story
Things Happened.
(By Donald Allen.)

(By Donald Allen.)
He'll starve in q year!"
4 Probably hasn't a dollar!"
The old doctors will run him QUIT"
Il wouldn't trust him to doctor a
cat!'
but we ought to wait and see!''
The Hon. Jordon Sweet Of the city
was at his country home. He was
Hon. because he had been a member
of the legislature. There was seated
at the breakfast table with him his
wife, his mother, his daughter Nettie
and his son Bob, the latter being thir-
teen.
The Hon. had read in the paper that
young DR.. Will Hazen, just graduated,
had begun to practice at the village
three miles away, where there were
already two doctors. He had then led
off with remark number one. His
and Bob, and Miss Nettie had come
last.
II say he'll starve in a year," re-
peated the Hon. in a loud and agrees
lsive voice, and that settled it. The
matter was dropped and the young
doctor began to starve.
i And who was Will Hazen? Just the
son of a widow who had pinched her
income to send him through college.
He had pinched, too, and il he had
mot been in love with the profession
he meant to adopt he wouldn't have
graduated. He had very little money
to keep him until he could build up a
Ipractice.
Young Dr. Hazen sat down to wait
for his first patient. In the course OF
two months he had had several callers.
but no patients. Mrs. Johnson had
dropped in to ask il catnip tea really
/ had any medicinal virtues. Mrs. Shaw
had called to say that she rather ex-
pected her baby to break out with the
hives; Mrs. Smith had dropped in to
ask IL there could be any whooping-
Primrose had called.
Lawyer or doctor?" the elder had
asked.
Fair, think. Do you need my
services?"
mot today. but may tomorrer.
own a farm out here piece, and am
goin' to begin to. cut hay tomorrer.
Durin' the haydn season I allus break
leg. Shall likely do SO this time.
Whatll you charge to see me
through"
my charges will be very moderate"
1.-The last time broke it the doctor
was goin' to set it with the heel in
! front. I'd have been walkin' forward
and backward at the same time if my
. old woman hadn't happened to no.
tice it,
The village druggist and the village
doctor are always friends. 1t is logical
that they should be. The druggist at
Columbia was young man who had
just graduated and bought out the
place. There was friendly feeling at
once between the two young men.
Though he had no prescriptions to hand
in DR.. Hazen was in the drug store two
or three times day.
l One afternoon he stood in the door
r of his office and saw a boy drive up in
a pony cart and enter the store and
: after stay Of a few minutes come out
again and drive away in a hurry. The
doctor sauntered across and the drug
gist hailed him.
) 1.-The Hon. Jordon Sweet is having a
bad turn with malaria and is trying to
break it up with quinine.''
3 Hope he'll fall and have to call me, .
, was the laughing reply
While the druggist had a call to wait
: on a customer the doctor lOunged back
) to the prescription counter, and hardly
q minute had passed before he made q
3 discovery and called to the druggist.
: Get rid of your constomer as soon
as you can and then come back here. -
what il it?''
t HAS Mr.. Sweet a telephone?''
Yes. but it's out of order just now.
why?''
You put up morphine in place OF
: quinine."
: Great heavensr'
Don't lose your head. That boy
! must be followed and the stuff recov-
ered.''
, But I have no horsev'
, But have one and can start in sew
en- or eight minutes. II this gets out
! you are a ruined man.
' How could have made such a
[ mistake; how could I!''
d Meanwhile Bob Sweet was driving
f homeward. He was letting the pony
r jog along while he read a dime novel
q Of the boy-hero sort. He had read
! many others before. and had come to
8 feel that he would be hero If he had
half a chance. A boy-hero should go
armed. He never can tell what minute
Y burglar Is going to hover over him
: at night, or a htghwayman hold him up
I by day: Therefore. young Bob had
t cribbed his fathers rusty old revolver
: and loaded it, and even il he was only
: going to feed tho chickens it reposed in
!. a hind pocket.
e. It was with him as he drove to town
. that day after the quinine. and as he
p waited in the store he thought how
easy 1t would be to hold up the drug
e gist for few thousand dollars and
: cons that restrained him was that he
r entered the store. and he had read that
{ such an untoward incident would smash
a boy-hero's luck all to squash.
z Bob didn't look back after starting.
but after a mile or two the sounds Of
q galloplng horse aroused him. II
was q man in q buggy. and the man
RI held up hand for him to stop.
4 Did he stop? He didn't He was
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