Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1890 — The Doctor’s Grief. [ARTICLE]

The Doctor’s Grief.

Dr. Hill’s autocratic bearing in the sick room gave strangers no hint of the deep sympathy which he felt for the humblest, of his patients. A gentleman entering his office unannounced was surprised to find the doctor with his head bowed over his desk and sobbing convulsively. The intruder was about to withdraw in silence when the doctor wheeled around in his chair and, with tears streaming down his furrowed cheeks, said: “Take a seat. There’s no occasion for privacy. I was thinking of little Willie M-—, who has been sick with I scarlet fever. It was a severe case, ( but I had it under control. In fact, the boy was out of danger, when bis aunt, moved by his entreaties, gave him a hot doughnut to eat He’s nearer death’s door now than he was in the first place, and there isn’t one chance in a hundred of Saving him.” The gentleman was expressing regret at this sad turn of affairs, when the doctor, as if ashamed of his unwonted display of feeling, exclaimed impatiently: f“I don’t particularly care for the boy ; what I am sorry for is that I can’t kill his aunt before she has a chance to murder another sick person with her confounded doughnuts.”—Lewiston Journal.