Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 83, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1913 — Page 3

HE HAD THE NERVE

And That Is Why the Young MedA ico Built Up Practice Among Strangers. 1 BY MAUDE J. PERKINS. Old Doctor-Bliss had sold* his practice and good-will to a young M. D., and the village of Roselands resented IL The people for five miles around had come to believe that the old doctor was infallible. Where one of his patients had died he had saved a score. He was a fatherly, sympathetic man, making his calls no matter what the weather or the distance, and even if he had got to be sixty-five years old he had no right to turn the people over to a. young man fresh from college and not yet having a case to diagnose. “Oh, he’ll do —he’ll do,” was . the doctor’s reply to the grumblers. "I had to start that way, you know. I ehall be here to help him out if he needs it. i*ve tried him out and found him very bright.” Mr. Royal Preston fully realized ’what he had to meet, and that it would take time to remove the prejudice. He must do the best he could and hope to be lucky with his first few patients. “If you get a call from the Gilberts, the rest of the people will follow,” said Doctor Bliss. "The Gilberts are rich and sort o’ run things in this comjnunity. Have you seen Nina Gilbert yet?” “Not to know her." ‘'’Charming, handsome girl and an heiress. I must get her to champion your cause. Don’t fall in love with her, for she is not for you. She can have her choice of several rich men’s eons.’’

That evening Doctor Preston attended a lecture in the town hall. In front of him sat two young ladles, and as the lecture didn’t Interest them much, they presently began talking to each other, leading off with: “Mollie, have you heard about the new doctor?” “Yes, Nina.” Doctor Preston pricked up his ears. It was possible, but not probable, that here was the Nina Gilbert the old doctor referred to. Yes, good-looking so far as he could jffdge, with a haughty poise of the head. “Isn’t it a shame?" she queried of Mollie. “What?” ’ “Why, Doctor Bliss stepping out and leaving us to the mercy of a fledgling.” “He is pretty yofing. I understand he’s only about twenty-four." “And never had a case. He’s surely some quack that has deceived the good old doctor." “But if we are ailing?" 1 “If it's any one la our family, we’ll send to the city for some one that Knows beans from putty. Mrs. Davis •says anybody would know the young man was a quack to look at him." A doctor must have nerve. Doctor Preston had it. If he had been a failure as to nerve he would have jumped out of one of the open windows, or at least stood up and taught those young ladies how to swear in three different languages. He may have blushed a little, but his nerve held him fast. Of all the 200 people making up the audience he appeared to be paying the most attention to the words of the lecturer.

The young ladies had just ceased to discuss him when his landlord came down the aisle and halted and said: “Guess I’ll have to take a seat with you, Doctor Preston." . , “That’s right—sit down." "Doctor Preston!” gasped Miss Nina. “Doctor Preston!” gasped Miss Mollie. There he was right behind them, and must have heard their comments and criticisms. They hadn’t nerve. No young lady has need of it. Their best plan was to rise up and walk out doors as carelessly as if old Doctor Bliss was only forty years old. Many people looked at them in surprise, and the lecturer got so muddled up that he got it that Eve wks created before Adam, and that she was disagreeably ’surprised when he came loafing along qne day. “Well, that cooks me,” mused Doctor Preston as he walked home after the lecture. “They were simply discussing me before. Now that they Know I overheard them they can never see any good in me. It’s surely good-by to the Gilberts for me." Doctor Preston was fit for the beat society in the village, but he did not eeek It He could ♦ accept of no invitations without meeting the two young ladles who had a grievance, and it ■would be embarrassing to both sides. He had three or four patients and effected speedy cures, when there came m lazy day and he got out the horse and sulky for a make-believe call to some farmer’s house. Of course, you Know that this is a little trick practiced by all village doctors when working up a practice. They order their boy to harness up with the speed of lightning —rush out as if a dozen men were at death’s door —climb into the sulky, and with a “g’lkng” and I a cut » of the whip they are off like a tornado. “Some one must be badly hurt or ■very sick," remarked a dozen people, and about the time they were remarking the horse is being pulled down to a walk, half a mile away. Doctor Preston had jogged along for three or four miles to kill time, and was thinking that the blacksmith’s trade held out many possibilities for a brainy man, when he got a sudden jolt. Coming towards him on the bsead highway was a pony and cart

driven by a girt. No, not driven, because the driver had lost the lines and they were squirming under the pony's feet, while she was clinging to the seat like grim death. ’ No screaming with terror! No calls for help! Just a pale-faced girl, with tight-shut teeth—just Nina Gilbert! There was time for the doctor to turn out and leave the runaway a clear road, but there was the bridge he had just crossed. If the pony swerved so much as a foot when he struck the bridge there must be a smash. To spring from the sulky and poise to jump out on the runaway for a bridle-hold meant taking a hundred chances to one. The doctor threw up a hand to tell the girl to brace herself, and then wheeled his rig square across the road. He hadnH five seconds to spare before the crash came. The pony never raised a foot to leap the obstruction, bht struck the horse like a cannon ball, and there was a grand smash. Seen in a moving picture show, it surely would have captured the kids. When Doctor Preston sat up and wondered where he was at, both horses and vehicles were mixed up. His horse was dead, and the other had a broken leg. His sulky was kindling wood, and the pony cart needed hundreds of repairs. It slowly dawned on the doctor that there was something else. He had no broken bones, though he had been badly jolted. He got to his feet, staggered around to see Miss Nina Gilbert lying unconscious in the road. The sight aroused him and <gave him strength. After a brief examination lie said to himself: “Left arm broken; scalp wound; right cheek gashed; probably half a dozen bad bruises; unconscious, but not so badly hurt.” A f&rmer came driving along in a hiifl r c r v Mugw* zj-

‘T’ve got to borrow your rig to get this patient home,” said the doctor. » “Runaway?” was queried. “As you see.” “Who is the gal ?” • , “Miss Gilbert of the village.” “Then you don’t borrow no rig of mine! She’s a high-flyer. She drives around the country crowding humble folks like me into the ditch-” Doctor Preston had to thrash the farmer to gain his point, but it was well and cheerfully done. Thfen he threatened to do it over again unless he lent a hand to lift the patient up. Miss Nina regained consciousness barely five minutes before reaching home. Her first words after recognizing the doctor were: “I—l thought you’d surely be killed!” “Ohly a few bruises. You got the worst of it” “Am I badly hurt?” “A broken arm is the worst. You will want to send to the city for a doctor, I suppose?" —“No, sir, I won’t!” was the spirited reply. “It’s your case, and you’ll tend tp it.” “But—” “That’s aH, please,” and then to her father and mother, who came rushing out of the house: “Don’t make such a fuss over it please. Poor Billy saw a tramp asleep •by the roadside and bolted with me. I lost the lines the very first thing.” “I will telephone at once to —” began the father, but he was halted by: “I have already arranged with Doctor Preston to attend my case.” It was while the doctor was at his office to get the things needed to with that Miss Nina, despite her sufferings, told the brief but thrilling story. That was why the young medico found two hands stretched out to Kim on his return. The broken arm Was set, the scalp wound sewed up, and next day when old Doctor Blfss accompanied the young doctor to Inspect the work, he said to the parents: "Couldn’t have been done better by any city surgeon." c The villagers did not hear of Doctor Preston's quick wit and heroism from his own lips, but when it was known he was kept very busy shaking hands. In a day or two another horse and sulky were driven around to replace his loss, and the old doctor shook hands with him and said: ■ “My boy, you are beginning far betten than where I left off. Will you do something for me?” "Anything I can.” "Then marry Nina Gilbert!” (Copyright, IMS. by the McClure Newspaper Syndicate.)

Didn’t Like the Signature!

A Chicago woman whose husband gave her a checking account decided, the other day, to save a two cent stamp by persuading the grocer’s boy to carry a check to his employer. When he returned later with a supply of household necessaries he handed back her cheek. “What's the matter with it?” she asked. “Doesn't Mr. Dobbson know that it’s just as good as the cash?" “I don’t know,” the boy replied. "He never said not'n’ to me about it, except he would like to have it signed some other way.” She had signed it: “Yours truly, Anna.” That was all.

Must Pay for Fault of Dog.

The supreme court of Massachusetts had a case involving a dog, an ice wagon and an automobile. The auto and the Ice wagon were passing on a public highway, bound in opposite directions, when the dog ran out barking At the auto. He went under a wheel and the auto skidded in front of the ice wagon. The Ice wagon horse reared and came down on the auto, causing Injuries for which the owner of the dog was sued. The trial judge held that the dog was the cause of the Injury and his ruling is sustained by the highest court.

OLD PLATE IS FOUND

French Explorer’s Tablet Discovered or. Missouri’s Bank. Metal Bears Latin Inscription, the Arms of France and the Date When It Was Imbedded ' ■ ‘ the Soil. - Pierre, S. D.—A metal plate buried more than 170 years ago by Chevalier de le Vendrle of France to mark his explorations in this country and proclaim the sovereignty of his king over the territory visited has just been found on the bluffs of the Cheyenne river near here. It was in 1741 that Chevalier de le Vendrle started on an exploration for France in the new world, coming into the west by way of the great lakes. On leaving France Louis XV. gave him a number of leaden or zinc plates to be buried at the various points he visited. These were graven with the coat of arms of France and bore a Latin inscription. It wis known that De le Vendrle went west as far as the Rocky mountains and came back to the Missouri river at some point not far from the present site of this city, but the exact spot wap unknown. At the point where he reached the Missouri river his journal shows that he went to the top of a ,hill and buried one of the plates. A few years ago Bishop O’Gorman of the Catholic church, in an address here mentioned the fact of the -Vislt of De le Vendrle, and said that at some time the plate he had buried on the hills along the Missouri river would be found. Another plate, according to the chevalier, was burled on the bluffs of the Cheyenne river about sixty miles from the point where he reached the Missouri river. Recently at Fort Pierre, while playing near the school building, Hattie Foster, a little girl, picked up a niece of metal and gave it to a* boy to clean off. The plate was about eight inches square, and deeply graven on one side

JAILED FOR CHARGE

Secretary of Treasury in Hungary Accused Premier. Zoltan Desy Imprisoned When He Alleged Minister-President Used Three Million Kronen for Political Purposes. Budapest.—For years America has been described in the columns of the European newspapers not only as the noble land of liberty, but as the happy land of dollars and the unhappy land of graft. But here in Hungary, where we have bad a speaking acquaintance with graft, we have believed always that America could not beat us in this matter. Now, this is no more a belief. It is an indisputable fact, since the trial of Zoltan Desy, ex-assistant secretary of the treasury, in the libel suit which was brought against' him on account of his statement that Minis-ter-President Lukacs used 3,000,000 kronen from the state treasury for party purposes. The trial ended with the sentencing of Desy to one month’s imprisonment and a fine of 600 kronen after the presiding judge had refused to allow him to give evidence and prove the statement. This may seem to be incredible to Americans, but nevertheless it happened. The minister-president protested against any proof or argumentation and the court, in such cases

Crown Prince Ferdinand.

three judges and no jury, did not allow the evidence. Public opinion protested in vain against such a trial Lukacs still is the premier minister. After the trial the convicted ex* secretary of the treasury Issued anew the same statement and brought up proofs and arguments. Among these there was one according to which a bank director, Paul Elek, was brought before a ’’court of honor" one year ago in his club and charged with abuse ®f the funds of the bank. The

RESCUED FROM A STRANDED STEAMER

The British steamship Lugano, bound from Liverpool to Havana, and having on board crew and passengers numbering 116, went aground on Ajai reef, near Key West, Fla., recently. All those aboard the Lugano were taken off by the wrecking tug Rescue, which intercepted the wireless calls tor aid. These photographs show members of the crew and passengers soon after their rescue.

was the coat of arms of France and an ipscriptlon in Latin to the effect that it had been placed there in 1741 by Pierre de le Vendrie in honor of

director at last came out with evidence to the effect that he gave the missing funds to the premier-minister in the time of the' general election campaign for party purposes and he was acquitted by the "court of honor" and he is even, now director, just as Lukacs is even now minister-presi-dent, although according to Desy he abused state money in millions and according to the bank director he extorted bank money from him. Count John Zichy, a member of one of the most ancient Hungarian families and the only Hungarian personal friend of Crown Prince Francis Ferdinand, seems to believe the statements of the other two gentlemen, and not that of Lukacs, as he has resigned as a member of the Lukacs cabinet. He went to Vienna to the Hungarian apostolic king, Kaiser Francis Joseph, and resigned as secretary of education and culture on account of his unwillingness to indorse Lukacs’ doings in this matter.

GIRL WHO EXCELS IN SPORTS

Miss Catherine Re Qua of Chicago Has Won Many Trophies Throughout the U. S. Chicago.—Miss Catherine Re Qua. one of the most popular leaders of the younger set, has returned from the east, where she made preparations for entering several tennis and golf tournaments. To her belongs the distinction, perhaps, of holding more athletic trophies than any other young woman in Chicago. She is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Re Qua, 3639 Grand boulevard, and made her debut into South Side club and social circles last November. Miss Re Qua graduated last June from Farmington, where she led the school in a majority of field sports, winning many national honors.

VAIL PLANS UNIQUE COLLEGE

Head of Telegraph Companies Declares He Will Leave Big Ranch to Educate Children. Boston.—A new college for New England that will teach boys Jo become happy and successful farmers and girls to be efficient wives and mothers is planned by Theo. N. Vail of Lyndon, yt., president of two large telegraph companies. It la to b) one of the most unique educational institutions in the world. The wealthy head of the “wire combine" has confided to close friends that he Intends to leave his great 5,000-acre ranch at Lyndon to the new college and endow It generously. Boys and girls, preferably from the country districts of New England, will be received in the academic department at the age of about twelve or fifteen years. A three or four yean* course will fit them for college or for entering the specialized branches. At his beautiful country estate at Lyndon Mr. Vail told a reporter that be is more interested in the school he is building up than in any of the great business enterprises from which he reaped a fortune. , *T believe the great secret is to teach boys and girls how to be happy

his sovereign. On the reverse side, scratched with a sharp instrument, was “Le 30 la Mars 1743.” The piate appears to be genuine.

Tennis and golf are her specialties. She has won seven loving cups in tournaments on the eastern coast On the clay courts at Cape Cod Miss Re Qua has carried off the honors for. three successive seasons. Miss Re Qua also has one of the finest collections of sport trophies in Chicago. A large silver cup won at a golf mpet in the White mountains was presented to her by Charles Barnes of New York in 1907. Two sterling cups, one an exact copy of a United States

Miss Catherine Re Qua.

hunting cup. were added to her collection by R. G. Garden, father of Mary Garden, the grand opera star. Miss Re Qua is the granddaughter of Luther Haven, a pioneer of Chicago and a well-known political factor of the state before the Civil war.

in the country as well as how to make farming scientific and profitable,” said Mr. Vail. “We shall try here to teach our boys to be happy. They will learn how to make farming a success and their minds will be broadened so that they will be good companions with themselves and with their brother farmers.”

WEARS LIZARD AS BROOCH

Woman Haled to London Court on Charge of Cruelty to Live Reptile. London. —An application was made at Lambeth police court for a sum mons against Miss Maud Duvall of Brixton for wearing a live lizard as an ornament. Inspector Knight of the Royal Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals stated that he saw Miss Duvall tn Atlantic road, Bfixton, wearing a live lizard like a brooch on her breast. It was tied . around her neck with a piece of string. “The string cut tightly and the tail «f the lizard had already fallen off.” The inspector alleged that the reptile was tn a sorry condition. The summons was granted.

STORIES CAMP AND WAR

BRAGG AT MISSIONARY RIDGE Hard Fighting by Fifteenth Corp* Drew Heavy Force From Enemy’s Center —Loss Severe. I have seen a great deal in print about how the forces commanded by General Thomas broke the rebel center and drove Bragg's army from Missionary ridge, bat very little about the hard fighting of the Fifteenth corps on the north end of the ridge, which drew a heavy force from the enemy’s center, and made it possible for the Union forces to break through and drive the rebels from the ridge. The forces under General Thomas deserve great praise for doing their part so well. At 8 a. m., November 25,1 saw our line of battle was formed in the edge of some timber west of the north end of Missionary ridge, writer Joseph Wiftiam of the Twelfth Indiana, of Cherryvale, Kan., in the National Tribune. From there we could see across the cleared field in our front the enemy and his batteries on the ridge but little more than 100 rods away, while the timber hid us from their view. At 10 a. m. we emerged from the timber, climbed over a high fence and landed in the open field in plain view of the enemy. Here we were greeted with the heaviest storm of shells we ever experienced.

In a few minutes we were in line and ready to move. The order was given to charge, and we advanced on die run, forcing the enemy up the steep hillside. We halted 15 or 20 rods before we reached the foot of the ridge, and there we remained in the open field exposed to the shot and shell of the' enemy for five long hours. The brigade was composed of the Twenty-sixth and Ninetieth Illinois and the One Hundretdth and Twelfth Indiana. The last named regiment wasjm the extreme right As we crossed the open field the battle raged in all its fury. In beautiful and unbroken line the command pressed forward, with flags flying, bullets whizzing and shells shrieking and bursting overhead and among us. I saw a picture of the brigade in that battle when I was in Washington in 1865 at the time of our Grand Review, and it was so true in every particular that I think there was a photographer on the field of battle who took the picture there. At 11 a. m. we could see General Corse’s men lining up at the foot erf the extreme north end of Missionary ridge./■ Soon they began to ascend the ridge in line of battle, and when within about 30 steps of the enemy’s works they halted for nearly one minute, while the rain of iron and lead from the enemy was terrific. AH of a sudden the boys in blue went forward on the run, right on to the enemy’s works, as their loud cheers rang down the valley. We could clearly see our men clubbing the rebs with the butts of their guns and having a general mix-up. Away down on top of the ridge to oqr right a column of rebel infantry was coming from the center of Bragg’s line as a reinforcement At first we could only see their head bobbing up and down as they came. Soon they were near the end of the ridge, swinging into line of battle. They fifed a vedley at our men on the rebel works, who, being outnumbered, retreated to the foot of the ridge. Soon Corse’s men were reinforced, and again gained the summit as before, where another furious hand-to-hand conflict occurred. And again a force could be seen coming from Bragg’s center, and when they arrived our men were repulsed as before. Thus the furious battle raged, charge after charge, until 3 p. m., when we could heard the rattle of musketry far down the line to our right, as Thomas was charging the enemy's center- It was then that our bugle blew retreat, and we retreated under a galling fire from the enemy. Their loud cheers of victory rang down the valley. But our demonstrations on the enemy’s flank had secured Bis defeat by weakening his center, and the day was ours. Chaplain Gage, who was in this battle and wrote a history of the Twelfth Indiana, says: "The loss in the Fourth division was severe. In the First brigade nearly 500 men were killed and wounded.**

A Southern Embassador.

Mr. Winthrop, one of the Boston Union committee, called on that hot old secessionist. Senator Mason, in January, 1861, and, referring to his former visit to Massachusetts, remarked in the blandest tones: “1 hope, Mr. Mason, we shall see you again at Bunker Hill.” “Not unless I come as an embassador, sir,” said the senator stiffly.

Better Than Stopping Thom.

“It must make you soldiers terrftly nervous in battle to hear the bullets whistling past your ears,” said the girl he “left behind him.” “Well, I don’t know,” he answered; "there's a certain amount of satisfaction in hearing them whistle yon know they're going past”

Enough for Willie.

Teacher—“ Willie, give three proofs that the world ia actually round.** Willie- "The book says so, you say so, and ma says so.”