Tensas gazette. [volume] (St. Joseph, La.) 1886-current, 1917-06-15
BY DOCTORS ORDERS
Nv GEORGE BREWSTER.

least mOnIn, COnCiuuSu ehS
Young Wayne Gilbert had carried
out an enterprise in real estate that
had taken nerve and hard work, anu
at its conclusion he found himseii
shaky. His appetite was gone, he hao
a touch of insomnia, and every az
uuaintance he met gave him the same
advice:
"Go to a doctor and then follow MS
advice"
The doctor advised a tramp over
country highways.
"Take little or no money" he con-
tinued "In fact, look like q tramp
feel like a tramp and be tramp for
the time being"
Mr.. Gilbert left the office sneering at
the advice given him, but after day
or two he came to look at 1t in di1-
ferent light.
oh. YES there is romance in tramp
| ing, and when it is recommended by
doctor. his advice should be followed.
| Young Gilbert came to take this view
of 1t after couple of days, ana SET
| forth. 1t took him about fortnight
to get the sunburn and the general
Crime and desolation of a tramp, but
he persevered.
One summers afternoon girl OF
twenty and her mother and aunt SAT
on the veranda Of q farmhouse 'front.'
ing on O prominent highway. The
girl was reading-the others were sew
ing. OF sudden the reader laid aside
her book, rose. and shaded her eyes
to look down the road.
Looking for anybody, Dora?" quer-
led the mother.
"It's tramp coming, l guess
"But don't you encourage him to
come in here" protested the aunt. L
dreamed the other night that tramp
to whom l was kind rewarded me Dy
cutting my throat, and l don't want
it to prove n true dream"
"He limps badly" said Dora.
"WelI, Dora Thorn, you let him limp
right along past here on his own busi-
ness!'
Dora always pities every tramp
that comes along" apologized the
mother.
But she shouldn't. Every tramp Is
ready to rob and murder. Is he going
to stop here, Dora"
HE is sitting down to rest. 1 be-
lieve he is ILL.,"
That tramp was Wayne Gilbert. dc
had given the doctors prescription .
fair trial, and he was more than READY
to abandon it. While limping along
he had been overcome with dizziness
and realized that he was going to be
i'll. He sat on the grass with his BACK
to the fence when u girl suddenly ap-
, peared before him.
"Are you ill?' she asked.
81 fear l am going to be-" he an
. swered.
!, "You-you don't look like most OF
: the tramps that come along here
!, 'Secause i am not a tramp. l have
: been walking the highways by doc
tors advice. / have money and pa
pers that will identify me. l am go
|. ing to try to reach the railroad. Ii l
!, can't do it"
:. And the world whirled around him
:, and he tainted away.
The mother and aunt came running
down in response to Miss Dora's cries,
and n farmer who had been to town
stopped his team.
i, 1--WE must get him to the house.
10 said the girl.
'. "If you do, I'll leave it!' exclaimed
= the aunt, who was visitor there.
y 1--WE had better get this farmer to
take him to town, where he can be
= cared for" whispered the mother.
= I'VE shall do no such thing! He
- shall be cared for in our own house
He is not a tramp. He told me that
- he had money and papers"
: The patient was put to bed, and II
=, was the opinion of the doctor that M
p" would have to stay there a couple o.
weeks. In reply to the query as Il
whether he thought the young man
l. tramp, he laughingly replied:
"Not any more thap 1 am. TIT
Al chances are that he lives in city, ant
was recommended by doctor to tr,
tramping to build himself up. In
country doctor is not the only dunder
n head hanging sign. =
IN Miss Dora searched the clothing an
lv. found money and papers. She an
oh her father and mother were satisfied
he AS was to have been expected, tn
TO fever was much higher the next morn
av ing. but the doctor was not worried.
,ot 'We'll break ii up in three or fou
he days" he said to Miss Dora, "and the
you will come in with your chicke
On soup and kind words and help him
nc get well. Last night 1 telegraphed I
nd some of the addresses given in his pi
pers, and the replies say that he is
fine young man, and charge me to Civ
\. him every attention. He will be IN
10 patient and your hero"
but heroes come with steed an
IRE sword and lance, don't they?" st
laughed.
"Not always. / have known the
to be stumbled over in the blackberr
ia bushes. The lad doesn't look muC
I'M like, hero now, but give him
be- chance"
eff 1t was two weeks before Wayne cou
ity sit on the veranda, and careful nur:
ggs sat with him. It was only when
If was able to walk In the orchard TIL
all the aunt said to her sister:
Josephine, / believe those two al
n