Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1890 — Misp aced Zeal. [ARTICLE]

Misp aced Zeal.

“I was once sent to attend a man who had taken laudanum,” said the doctor. “I hurried to the place and found the would-be suicide being walked up and down the room as fast as they could walk by two friends of his. As they put him down on a chair for me to treat him one of them remarked: ‘Awful glad to see you, Doctor; we’ve been walking Jim up and down for an hour and a half. It’s been terrible hard work to keep him olive all this time.’ “I made a slight examination; took my hat and started to go, when one of the Eedestrians said: ‘What’s the matter, 'oc; ain’t you going to give him anything?” ‘He’s been dead for an hour,’ I replied, and left. ” — San Diego Union.