Rensselaer Republican, Volume 22, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1890 — Misplaced Zeal. [ARTICLE]

Misplaced Zeal.

“I was once sent to attend a man who had taken laudanum,” said a dootor. “I hurried to the place and found the would-be suicide being walked up . nd down the room aa fast as they could walk by two friends of his. As they put him down in a chair for mo te-treat him one of them remarked: “awful glad to set -ou, doctor; we’ve been walking Jim up and down for an hour and a hslf. It’s been terrible hard work to keep him aiive all this time.” I made a slight examination. took my hat, and started to go, when one of the pedestrians B iidi •What’s the matter. Doc; un’tyou going to givo him an vthingP’ ‘He’s been dead for an hour,’ I replied, and left 1 '