Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1884 — TURNED TOO MANY PAGES. [ARTICLE]

TURNED TOO MANY PAGES.

Three or /our miles out of Eastport, Ga., a negro was taken sick a few weeks ago. A brother of color, who had bo’t himself a cheap med Cal treatise, volun. tiered to eure the pat ent for folr bushels of sweet petatoes, tfe had not docu ered him over three days, however, be* fore the patient was cold iu"death. A white doctor living in the town happened to be passing and was cat ed in. When he had tasted the medicine, which was n a trail jug, fatasK?d: “What disease* Id yea decur fort ’ •‘Poll evil, anh. ’ “ W bat? Who ever heard of a man having pell evil? That is a horse dis* ease.” The other at once opened his book to page 79 and said; “R ckon you’ll find it right dar, sah.” “Yes,” said the doctor,.'ns ho thumbed tl • leaves over, ‘ but the diseases of man are net found iu this department. This is headed ‘Ailments of Live Steck'.” “Fo’ de Lawd,” gasped the negro, as be suafchid the book aud hurriedly tun * ed the leav> s, “fo’ de Lawd, if 1 didh’t turn overlive pages too many! I meant to hit him fvr consunjpshuu aud billyus fever.”-j-Dctrolt Free Press.