Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1889 — Deserved to Live. [ARTICLE]

Deserved to Live.

He was only a stable boy, as hardened and unholy as they make them, yet he was an immense favorite with patron and proprietor alike at the Monmouth track, and especially with his fellows of the Morris stables, says the New' York Sun. Recently stricken with a very grievous disease, yesterday his physician told him that medicine and science could do nothing more for him. While quickly realizing that he was fast covering the homestretch of life, with the death wire, as it were, plainly visible, the ruling passion in the confiding and always courageous youth Uius portrayed itself: •What’s my chances. Doc ?” “Not worth mentioning, my boy.” “One in twentv, vou s’pose?” “Oh, no.” “In thirtv?” “No.” “Fifty, then?” “I think not.” “A hundred?” “W—well, perhaps there might be one in a hundred.” “I say then, Doc,” pulling the medicine man close dow n to him and whispering with feeble earnestness in his ear, “just you go in, do yer best, and put everything on der one living chance.”