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BILL ARFS LETTER.
From the Atlanta Constitution.
I don't know whether I can write
a letter or not. I will try. The ef
fort will keep me from thinking
about myself. For a month I have
been playing "Billy in the low
grounds," but I had a good doctor
who has nursed me night and day
and cheered me up and comforted
me and I am on the up grade, though
as the Georgia crackers say, "I am
powerful weak." This doctor is my
sou and he says he has not forgotten
how his mother and I nursed him
for three long months in Florida and
saved his life and now I shall not
die if he can help it. I take all his
medicine, quinine, strychnine, calo
without number, and tonics, too,
and if I get well I will never know
what cured me, but he will. What
.would the world do without doctors?
t."-: wj i ,i t l.i l
laat week.
About twenty years ago I had a
spell like this one, for I had been
working in the water all day trying
to dam up the branch in the meadow
so that the children could go in bath
ing. That night I liked to have
died and old Dr. Kirk was sent for
and worked on me for three or four
days and got me up again. My wife
.told me then that if I didn't be more
careful of myself I wouldn't live out
half my days. She told me the same
thing the other day, and she knows.
Old Dr. Kirk is. a trump. lie was
our family doctor until he got old
MUfl ritrrl iinrl mnvoH uwuv ti va
with his children. Before he moved
HOUSEVJORK
Too much housework wrecks wo
men nerves. And the constant
care of children, day and night, is
often too trying for even a strong
woman. A haggard face tells the
story of the overworked housewife
and mother. Deranged menses,
leucorrhoea and falling of the
womb result from overwork.
Every housewife needs a remedy
to regulate her menses and to
keep her sensitive female organs
in perfect condition.
wine cardui
is 1 doing this for thousands of
American women to-day. It cured
Mrs. Jones and that is why she
writes this frank letter :
Olendeane, Ky., Feb. 10, 1901.
f I am so glad that your Wine of Cardui
Is helping me. I am feeling better than
I have felt for years. I am doinir my
own vork without any help, &nd I
washed last week and was not one bit
tired. That shows that the Wine Is
doing mo good. I am getting fleshier
than I ever was before, and sleep good
and eat hearty. Before I began taking
Wine of Cardui. I used to ha.va
down five or six times every day, but
now I do not think of lying down through
the day. Mas. Richard Jones.
si.co at nm cicisrs.
For Me nd literature, ddres, giving lymp.
tomi, "lhi Ladles' AdvUory JJepertmenT ", lite
ChutUDOOg Medicine Co., Chattanooga, lunn.
to this place from South Carolina ho
hai a lore scrape oyer there, and he
had a rival, too, and they fell out.
The girl wouldn't have either one of
them and the other fellow heard
that the doctor had told stories on
him to the girl and so after the doc
tor located here his rival wrote to
him and demanded a retraxit or else
a fight. The doctor wrote him a
stinger and refused to make a retrax
it, but would accept his challenge
and light him until Hade3 froze over,
and as the fighting code gave the
challenged party choice of weapons
and time aud place aud distance he
should choose rifles at long range
and the next 29th day of February
as the time and the other fellow must
stay where he was and shoot over
this way and he (the doctor) would
stay here and ahoot over that way
and both must aim high so as not to
hit anybody between them.
But I must stop now and take
breath. A good long breath is what
I want. The old woman was asked
what disease her husband died of
and she said the doctors differed
about it, but she always believed he
died for lack of breath. I don't
want to go that way. I was rumi
nating about these physicians, for
doctor is not the proper name. Doc
tor means a teacher of anything
whether it be science or art or law or
pharmacy or theology. Physician is
the right word. It is a very ancient
name for the profession. The Bible
tells how Joseph got the physicians
to embalm his old father, but I do
not think it was a very popular pro
fession among the Jews, for it is
mentioned only two or three times
and with doubtful favor. King Asa
had a disease in his feet and would
not call upon the Lord for relief,
but sent for a physician, and he died
and slept with his fathers. Then
there was a woman who had an is
sue of blood for twelve years and had
suffered much from many physicians
and spent all she had and was no
thing better, but rather grew worse.
The Jews unto this day do not give
much patronage to physicians or
quack medicines. I never knew but
one Jew doctor, though there are a
few very eminent ones in the large
cities, for whatever a learned Jew
does he does well. There is a doctor
Jacobi in New York city who stands
at the head of the profession and is
consulted by the rich and great men
of the nation.
Now, let me stop for another good
long breath. When I was a boy we
didn't have but one doctor in the
town, and he weighed 300 pounds
and was never in a hurry. He left
little babies around ever and anon
and when one came to our house our
old cook told us where he irot them
and she slyly pointed to his corpor
osity. He had a little ollice on the
street and a few shelves witli bottles
on them containing calomel, salts
and castor oil, senna and cammomile
and Peruvian bark, balsam of copaiba
and kucIi simple things and in the
corner was a skeleton in a box that
stood upright, with a screw in the
skull, and sometimes the little, long
door was open and we school child
ren could peep in and then run for
our lives. It was an awful sight.
But the old doctor got too old and
fat to practice and sent to New York
for his nephew, Dr. Philo D. Wild
man, a student of Valentine Mott,
the great New York physician and
surgeon. He was as smart as his tu
tor and went to cutting and slashing
our people just like killing hogs.
He straightened cross eyes and sowed
up hare lips and cut stones out of
bladders. The agonizing screams of
little John Thompson, my school
mate, still haunts me, for he was
simply dying of stone in the bladder
aud the doctor cut it out. It was as
large as a pigeon egg, and the little
boy got well. My brother and Jim
Craig studied under Wildman, and
when they wanted a stiff they would
go out to the Redlaud grave-yard in
the night and dig up a fresh buried
corpse and haul it to a little room
back of their office and cut it up and
boil it down and make a skeleton of
the bones. I went with them one
night and helped them to dig up a
negro, but somebody rocked us as we
were taking it out and we had to run
for our lives, for they threatened to
shoot. That satisfied me with the
business and I never went again.
But our little town wasn't big
enough for Wildman and so he moved
to Columbus and made a great repu
tation. About that time the yellow
fever visited Savannah, and Wildman
believed ho could stamp it out and
that he was an immune, out he was
n't. He took the fever right away
and died. It is a curious coincidence
that three doctors from our town
went to Savannah to fight the fever
and every one of them took it and
died.
But I was ruminating about the
suffering and agony that the advance
in surgery and physic has saved man
kind and I rejoice that Crawford
Long has been given the first place
iu the Hall of Fame. I was at school
in Athens when his discovery was
made, but the magnitude of it was
not realized until Jong after. I was
one of the first to have a tooth ex
tracted by the use of his lethean.
Let me rest awhile, for I am weak
and nervous and, as Bjron said
"My visions flit less palpably before me."
I have just enjoyed a good, long
letter from my old school-mate, Na
than Crawford, of Lincolnton. He
is the honored school commissioner
of the county and will die in harness
I reckon. He is in his eightieth
year, but we were class-mates, for he
was one of these sure and slow boys,
while I was precocious and uncertain.
Only three of us left now, for Tom
Alexander is living at Home. Nathan
writes a good, old-fashioned, cheer
ful letter, and says that he never
stole Frank Alexander's watermelons,
and hints that it was Overton Young
and a boy of my name. The only
reason he didn't steal them was that
he boarded with Mi. Alexander and
got a plenty without stealing. It is
too late now for him to assume a
saintly morality, for Tom and 1 still
live to testify. But it was a good
letter and the memory of Nat Craw
ford is always comforting and re
freshing.
Now, for a good long rest.
BILL ARP.
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The mac with a Panama hat now assume
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could scarcely breathe and sometimes
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Congressional Convention.
By order of the Executive Com
mittee of the First Congressional
District, a Convention of the Demo
crats of the First Congressional
District is called to meet at Plym
outh, N. C, Wednesday, July 30th,
1902, at 3:30 p. ai., for the purpose
of nominating a candidate for Con
gress. W. B. Rodman,
dim. Dem. Cong. JUx. Com.
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