Year: 1875

Once npon q time a very important per-
sonage called ''Uncle Samuel" fell very
sick. Many doctors were called in to at
tend upon him, who differed and quarreled
as to the disease and the remedies, but fin
ally agreed in bleeding tho patient very
freely.


Under this treatment Uncle Samuel got
quite weak, and all the doctors saw that un-
less he got astimulant to keep him up un-
til the crisis of his sickness was past, he
would die.


At this juncture, after a greatdeal of con-
sultation, it was resolved to adopt and use
the prescription of Doctor Chase, famous
doctor who had been in attendance upon
Uncle Samuel, and who at this time pre-
scribed a very powerful stimnlant which,
although had been used before under diff
erent names, now became known as "Green-
backs"


After this medicine was given to Uncle
Sam his circulation was much increased
and quickened, and. partly because of the
artificial strength which he got from his
stimulant, but mostly because he had a
naturally good constitution, he passed safe
ly through the crisis of his disease, and fin
ally III great part recovered


But, as sometimes happens in such cases,
when Uncle Sam began to get the better of
his disorders, he found that he had taken
co muab of tho cfip,1lo,1 o,5 -, ,--.t.--.
had become so used to it, that it was hard
for him to get along without it. The doc
tors who had attended him all along now
got their heads together, to find how to cure
Uncle Sam of Doctor Chase's medicine.
After good deal of talk they came to the
conclusion that he had got so used to the
''Greenback" "stimulant, and that his circu-
lation was so unnaturally increased by it,
that it would be dangerous for him to stop
taking it suddenly; so they advised the ''ts-
pering off" plan, and put him upon that
kind of regimen.


1t was not long after, that Uncle Sam
began to feel depressed and nervous, and
again applied to his doctors for relief


These, when they heard the new symp-
toms described, told the old gentleman the
''Greenback" stimulant was only tempo
rary expedient to give strength in his ILL
ness, when his system was undergoing such
a great strain; that of course the strength
thus gained being artificial and unnatural,
there would be very considerable distress
and debility when he left off and resumed
his old habits; but that this distress was
but temporary, and was the only and nee
essary way to natural and healthful mode
of living.


Now there was a certain Doctor Pendle-
ton, who had been one of the doctors in
attendance upon Uncle Sam when he was
first taken sick, and who had opposed at
that time the "Greenback" stimulant, be-
cause, as he claimed, it was inconsistent
with the patients constitution. This Doc
tor Pendleton had been discharged by Un-
Gle Sam about that time.


Doctor Pendleton now came forward, and
told the old gentleman that his doctors
were all wrong, and ought to be turned of,
and he employed in their stead. That


''Greenback" stimulant ought to be taken
all the time in large quantities; and that by
keeping up the stimulant Sam would fin
ally get so strong, that his circulation in
its natural state would be as great as it then
was, and that he could then leave off with
out even any temporary distress or trouble


But certain other doctors of the same
school as Doctor P, but who were jealous
of him, chief among whom was Doctor
Thurman, opposed him, and claimed that
Uncle Sam had had enough ''Greenbacks,"
and that he could no more become really
stronger by taking ''Greenbacks," which
in themselves contained no nutrimeni, than
he could lift himself up by the straps of his
boots. TRIMMER.