South Bend news-times. (South Bend, Ind.) 1913-1938, 1917-07-23

u NcAFtu MS diploma. and has been
pronounced nj TO 90 out into the
world and doctor siIing humanity.
or take of leg or an arm his strug
I giles have just commenced. He has
7 little or no money. He must have
an office. and he must have patients.
A doctor may be ever so good, but
unless he has patients he is no bet
\ ter TO himself and the public than
7 as II ne were mere hitching post
Godfrey Randolf had his diploma
and had his office, but ne lacked the
/ patients. His Office was the front
room OF a boarding house. II didn't
have any oriental rugs, nor marble
hreplaces. but il had TO do. The
main thing was the sign beside the
front door 10 announced that Geof
frey Randolf was "A physician and
surgeon and that his Office hours
were 50 and so. When that sign
was in place the graduate had done
all he could do. OF course. like all
the rest OF his class, he hoped that
an epidemic Of grip would visit the
city. There might be and there
should be several thousand cases of
measles and whOOping cough among
the children They were good all
ments 10 begin with, and they
would at least bring in the money.
None of these things took place.
however A sudden wave of health
seemed 10 spread over the city. and
. day after day, and week after week,
Dr. Randolf sat in his office biting
his finger nails. or walked the
streets He was out walking one
day almost in hopes that a street
car might run over somebody and
give him a job at surgical work,
when an auto drove up to the curb
stone, near which il had halted for
a moment. A handsome young lady
began rather hurriedly 10 descend.
Her skirts seemed to catch in the
door i'm such n way that she would
have fallen face downward on the
sidewalk but for the doctor. If he
had let her fall there would have
been a patient for him, but he didn't
let the thought hold him back. lie
sprang forward and caught her in
his arms. saved her from a bad fall.
and received the incest kind OF
smile and a few grateful words as
his reward. OF course, these would
not pay his board bill and his office
rent, but still he felt a warm glow
in his heart as he moved on.
Such incidents happen every day
in the city, and DR.. RandOlf soon
almost forgot it. Perhaps it was
so with May Rogers, the young lady
in question, but il cannot be vouch
ed for During the next two weeks
the doctor had one patient She was
an old woman who was deaf in one
ear. She had been so for p years,
but as a new doctor had come into
the neighborhood she thought he
might effect a cure. The ear was
examined and no help could be ex-
tended, and there was no money 10
pay. After the patient had gone
the doctor went out for one Of his
usual walks. His feet carried him
into the park and he hadn't gone
far before he remarked two partic-
ular things. There was a nice young
lady seated on a bench feeding tho
squirrels, and there was a pair OF
runaway horses coming along the
drive at a furious pace. There was
a chance and a pretty even one that
they would cross from the drive 20
the path, and that the young lady
would be i'm danger The doctor for
got the old woman with the deaf
ear. ran forward. and seized tho
young lady by the arm and dragged
her 80 feet away. She cried out in
alarm. but he did not heed her. The
runaway horses left the drive, and
cut across the green and the way
they made splinters Of that beach
and run the squirrels up the trees
was a sight 10 see
May Rogers saw it-for il was
May-and realized the danger she
had so closely escaped. With her
breath coming in gasps. she muir
INJURED her thanks. and, when she
had more fully recovered herself.
the doctor had disappeared. The
girl wondered at this. He had done
a brave deed and should at least
have tarried until they should have
exchanged names Eut for him.
there surely would have been
tragedy.
DR.. Randolf passed another des .
pairing two or three weeks. There
was but one ray of sunshine for
him in that time a child attempt.
ed 10 swallow "A spool of thread
and he was called 10 extract the T.
spool as ii stuck in the throat lie /
got il out. all right. and the CRATE .
ful mother handed over the two dol [
lars with a hope that he might have I
40 cases before a week had passed. /
After all, that was doing pretty we'll {
for young doctor, and DR.. RandOlf /
almost felt that he could afford 10 /
smoke a 10. cent cigar as he returned \
TO his Office. Ii was the next day, \
as ne wandered around 10 make be
lieve he was visiting patients, that
an automobile collided with a brick .
wagon just across the street from
him. There was a scream and a
crash. and oaths flew about like
snOwfakes from the chauffeur and
the driver. The doctor was over be
side the vehicles in a few seconds.
and he helped a half-fainting girl 20 \
a place Of safety on the sidewalk. \
Il was the same May Rogers. She .
was in bad nervous state, and ne
escorted her TO a nearby drugstore, /
and gave her something 20 steady I
her. ueryas IL might have seemed /