Democratic Sentinel, Volume 11, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1887 — He Was a Brave Soldier. [ARTICLE]

He Was a Brave Soldier.

“You were in the late war, were you pot, Doctor?” was the question put to a quack physician. “Oh, yes!” he replied, straightening himself up, “and I was accounted a very brave soldier, if I do say it myself.” “Yes," the questioner went on, “your experience in your profession, I imagine, would necessarily make you indifferent to personal danger.” “Why so?” asked the quack. “Because yon are so accustomed to lacing death."—FMladslphia CSrUt