The Robesonian., 1918-09-30
in THE MOUNTAINS
The Beautiful Golden Autumn
The Doctors a Busy Man
Mountain Folk and Prohibition.
Correspondence of The Robesonian.

Waynesville, Sept. 19.-Dear
Friends: The beautiful golden autumn
is coming fast The flowers are gor-
geous-golden and purple and maroon. |
At daybreak l hear the hunters horn
and the delighted yelp Of the fox
hounds. The chauffeur tells me Of
meeting the huntsman on his Wayl
home, disappointed of the fox. but
with the glow Of morning on his face.
The hounds leashed in pain, horse and
dogs francing in pleasure over the
prospect Of home, mistress, and
breakfast.
The red hillsides are beginning to
peep with little green wheat. The
corn, still green, bows with heavy
ears. The chestnut burs are full
grown and we watch everywhere for
| the first brown enc.
Haywood will not have a county
| fair. Uncle Sam has leased the
ground and will drill soldiers. La
| borers and soldiers are at work in
The government hospital getting ready
to keep both sick and we'll ccmforta-
BILE during the cold winter.
| Friends ask US if we are afraid Of
the cold. The doctor has ordered a
sheep-skin lined overcoat and he will
need that and a helmet like the sol
diers also after while. He is very
popular, some times, l think rather
too much so if you will listen TO the
following experience. Last week
was in Asheville and called him tc
come after me and as the day was
rainy he went on the train, leaving
the chauffeur in charge of the office
When we came home at 10 p. n. Some
one about twelve miles away on Hem|
Hill creek had been trying to ge1
him all day. The call came again
! six miles Of good road, four miles o;
bad road, a horse in waiting and s
mountain climb Of two miles, man IL
agony of pain. How the doctor hate;
b to refuse; but he knew he could no
! find the way in the dark. Next morn
ing early he left. The good road wa
soon gone over, the bad road, car
} track of loose stones, was made by th
Ford without trouble and the docto
mounted the horse. Neighbors O
nearby coves and valleys gathered in
The home, tiny one-room shack, wa
} full of sympathy but. no help. Tn
14-year-old wife was crying an &C
! compartment to the groans of he
: husbands acute appendicitis. dag
nosed at once, the doctor told then
J only an operation could save him, dn,
they must take him down the noun
} tain and On to Waynesville. Their
was only one guilt in the house AM
the doctor showed how to sew it t.
2 poles; so soon four sturdy mountain
wood-cutters had the man sw1ngin.
} in the improvised stretcher. TIL
doctor headed the procession on tn
old horse, all the neighbors followed
Z | The man in the stretcher under tn
influence of kind doctors hypode1
Il mic made no complaint. The docto
was stopped twice nthe way dow
\ the mountain to prescribe for sic
babies, so turned the horse over to
girl cousin. The chauffeur ard ou
D little friend boy at the foot Of tn
I. mountain were being entertained b
! all the neighbor children. They wer
taken into the school house and show
the blood on the seat and the holes i
J the door made by an infuriated schot
teacher who killed a committeema
4 and ran away never to be seen again
The two dogs along were given
J bath; the apple trees were visited an
! the chestnuts admired. The chau1
feur said he began to think his doc
! tor was so precious he was going t
be kept. when one of the boys calle
J "Look outlook up-here they com
and the mans dead and thev'1
bringing him down to lock him un
Experience the Best Teacher.