Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 April 1910 — CRYING FOR QUARTER. [ARTICLE]

CRYING FOR QUARTER.

When Pasteur’s treatment of hydrophobia by inoculation with a virus was first practiced at Paris, there was much suspicion and (pread in the minds of patients. In “The Captains and the Kings,” by Henry Haynie, who was then living in Paris, a chapter is devoted to Pasteur and his method of treatment. Four little boys had been taken over from New Jersey for treatment, and Mr. Haynie accompanied the doctor who had them In charge to the office of Pasteur. The last arrivals, apprehensive as to the results of their injuries, and not oversure of this method of treatment, expressed surprise at the calm confidence shown by those who had preceded them. It was easy to see that they were asking themselves the question, “How is it that they are able to take things so easily, and laugh and talk so merrily over It all?” Then they would brighten up with hope, and when their turn came they entered the private office with confidence, seated themselves on the operating stool, and stood the ordeal well.

When our turns come, Doctor Billings and myself took the boys in, one at a time, to where the illustrious Frenchman awaited them. He did not understand English, and so I whispered to Billings to notice closely this apparently unemotional being, and. he would find him possessed of a tenderness and sympathy far beyond that of ordinary women. One of the victims,' Eddy Ryan, was but a little more than three years old, and he showed fear at the first inoculation. Mrs.. Ryan, whp was of the party, took the boy in her arms and tried to reassure him, but ceuld not. Tears of sympathy gathered in the master’s eyes; and as he wiped them away he said to me, in French: “Tell her to stand over there where the little one can see us care first for the others—it wiH encourage the dear little fellow.” One of the other lads, Patsy Reynolds, also grew frightened, and rebellion was Imminent. I took him to one side, and put It to him that, as a young American, he ought not to be outdone in pluck by a French boy who had Just come out of Pasteur’s room looking perfectly happy. “Well, sor, will yer give me a quarter If I bate him??" “whispered Patsy, and when I shoved a silver piece info the hand of the young rascal, he went In without the slightest show of fear or suffering. A woman needn't expect tq take a man to church after she marries him, just because she succeeded in dragging him In for the wedding. A compliment that isn’t exaggerated seldom makes a hit