The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1916-12-29
THE HIRED MAN

the other things, the day is not far
distant when surgery will put one man
to sleep and take out a part of his
liver and tack it onto another man
whose liver is dead We now call
upon friends to give up part of their
skin for those who need it, and it is
we'll within the reach of praying sur
gcons to call upon friends to yield up
L part of their intestineS to rescue
hose whose insides are dying. 1t
will be common thing within forty
years to put a man to sleep and take
cut half his colon and put it into man
whose colon has gone punk. Even
low the surgeons have taken out a
,iece of sheep bowel, put it in cold
storage and kept it there three weeks.
hen when needed they have brought
it forth and transplanted it into a !
human being where death was ap-
preaching owing to a piece of dead
| BOWEL, and that human being has gone
Tome part a sheep and part human.
| | have noticed good many human
being in my time who were part dog
md part human, but | hope surgery
never brings us to that. Talking about
hat colon exchange. it has already
Necn suggested by one surgeon that at
birth we remove the entire colon of
the babe, for, it is claimed, we would
bS better off without it, but even the
Hired Man in his most radiant dreams
ft 'hc future, would not like to be on
record for this innovation just yet. I
should not be surprised. that, if the
world later has another war that is to
excel the one we now have in Europe
that surgeons are on the battlefield at
work and when man is killed, cut
him open and save some of the pieces
from inside that are most generally
needed in the usual surgical practice,
md to carry out my idea, it would
then be the usual thing for hospital
surgeon to open the abdomen of some
Door victim of disease, see what &C
, cessory he needs, send nurse post
haste into the store room for the
part, and then stick it in where it be.
longs and charge up reasonable fee
: COR his work. But let us remember
hat in all of this we are not going tc
S be able to slip one over on God anC
\ deceive him, for we'll get what i
v coming to us any how.
t | am going over to the Potter
e field in a day or two and stand Their
e while and wonder We are keep
e ing that sacred spot in splendid shap
u since the city has begun to do thing
II splendidly. A young man lies quiet i
n our Potters field who might not b
! there had it not been that a hospita
in Baker City hustled him out befor
h he was able to go. He was maxim
e his way through the west, and hi
8 travels were too much for him. II
=, fell i'll in Baker and was cared for i
l. the hospital, but being a stranger an
r Door and modest, the hospital author
e ties unloaded him too soon. He cam
it down to Caldwell One evening h
e showed up at the door of T. NJ. Nicho
II the Land Man, who saw he did nc
h look we'll Mr. Nichol asked him i
y md had him eat supper with then
This was all the boy had asked TO
and he was courteously permitted t
n pass on. He drifted out of Nj
it Nichols mind and the matter Wa
it dropped The young man stage
i'd around town day or two, fell sic
i'd with pneumonia and died and We
is buried in our Potter's field Toda
ut some mother stands at the windo
a md wonders, or sits and thinks or liz
re 'alf asleep dreaming of Fred, or 10
0r Will and prays that no i'll sha
i'd befall him, even if he has quit writir
I'd o them. But young men in Potter
a fields do not write home. Sister m;
tn write to half a dozen postoffic
id where she thinks he might be, but Il
id 'etters go to the dead letter offic
I'm since the lad went to the place of Il
OK lead Mr.. Nichol almost condem
at himself for not compelling the your
a nan to stay with him. but no co
Sc '"mnation is due, for how could
er I'll? AS he was talking with me abo
to he case, he pulled out green ba
of md handed it to me, and said use th
e? Ee wants the state and county to
vii rood to all unfortunate strange
he ~assing this way, as we'll as to all o
in