Democratic Sentinel, Volume 19, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1895 — An Unfortunate Admission. [ARTICLE]

An Unfortunate Admission.

“You began practice in Arkansas, did you not. Doctor?” “Yes,” replied the physician, “I did. I would have gotten along all right, If it had not been for my diploma. It occurred to one of tlie natives to ask what it was. ‘My diploma,’ I answered, ‘is froji one of the best schools In the country.’ ‘You don't mean to tell me,’ said the old man, ‘that you badter go to school to larn your trade, do ye?’ ‘Certainly,’ said I. ‘That is enough ter meXsald the old man; ‘any feller that hain’t got no more nateral sense that he has to go to school to larn to be a doctor, an’ him a grown man, ain’t no man fer me,’ and be jammed his hands into his pockets and walked out. I stayed six weeks more and gave it up.” —lndianapolis Journal.