Democratic Sentinel, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1884 — Unsuccessful. [ARTICLE]

Unsuccessful.

“I understand that you have stopped practicing,” said the Secretary of State to an eminent colored physician. “Yas, sah; ’eluded ter gin up de trade an’ go ter preachin’. In dis country dar ain’t no money ter be made in de practicin’ o’ medicine. sah, es I had er ’voted my time ez close ter suthin’else ez I has ter dis business I would er been putty well off by dis time. Ober two-thirds of my patients neber paid me, sah.” “Why didn’t you sue them?” ’Twouldn’ done no good, ’case da wuz dead, sah. I got de wus’ class of patients. None o’ ’em neber had no health an’ constitution.” Arkansaw Traveler.