Lakeland Evening Telegram Newspaper, February 24, 1913, Page 2

PAGE TWO. THE EVENING TELEGRAM, LAK E1.'\D. FLA, FEB. 24, 1913, A FIGHTING DOCTOR How One Young Physician Lit-' erally Fought His Way Into Fame and Practice. BY JOHN PHILIP ORTH, When a medical student has re- cefved bis diploma and is of his life. Not one in ten can figure out how he is going to support himself until he can get a foothold. When he has selected his town and his office and his home he must wait for pa- | tients, and weeks and months may go by before his prescriptions begin to be handed in to the drug store. When Dr. Charles Chisholm made | Bis advent at Lansing he found seven | M. D.'s for a population of 3,500, That was 600 each. In the course o fa year, as doctors figure, ten people out of every 500 will need the serviee of a physician. That is the average, out- side of epidemics. Taking the doctors’ figures again, the charge to the ten pa tlents will not average over §15 each. That means year, and an outgo of $€00. seven doctors in a town with the popu- fatlon giveu, two will make a fair in- oome on and wish they had learned the car- penter's trade. Doctor Chiskolm had this all figured out, and yet he decided to take chances and hope for luck. Another man might have been kept walting for months. He was taking his first drive into the country to get the lay of the fand, when luck came galloping up. Miss Nellle Mayfield, daughter of the owner of the big shoe factory, was ta- king a walk in the suburbs with her fittle dog at her heels when she sud- denly found herself face to face with an evilfaced vagabond. screams as he laid hands on her purse that reached the young doctor's ear from around a bend in the road and | eaused him to apply the whip to his | somewhat lethargic horse, The shindy did not last more than | two minutes. The doctor leaped trom | his buggy and knocked the fellow down, but that wasn't the finish. When the vagabond scrumbled up he drew | @ koife and made a slash that scratched the doctors’ shoulder. Down | and this time he got | His knife was left be- | be went again, the full dose. hind, and h= had seven different limps 88 he disappeared into the bushes. When the victor turned to the girl she was a quarter of a mile down the soad and still running. Young Chls- bolm drove home without a word to snyone of the affair, but within & day | be was being congratulated. - Among those who called was Mr. 004 wmowmwmmwm turned | adrift to succced or fail it is the crisis | an income of $150 per | Out of ' The other five will gimply hang | It was her| Mayfield. He was a man nf rm‘ v«ord- “They say he had a knife and used t.” he said as he held out his hand. “It was only a scratch,” was the reply. “Have you set up here as a doc tor?” “Yes." “Think you can make a go of it?” “I shall try hard.” “Good!" There were three bullies in l..1m~lng Jake Wolf, the driver of a brewery | to fight. | hicle of Mr. Davis, the banker, i tore off & wheel It was Jake's bad ’dri\‘il‘g that caused the accident, but | he jumped down for a serap “Quit that!” commanded the a8 he stood in hiz door 1f you waut to mix in come along! Doctor Chisholm threw off his coat and stepped out. His was a strong | prescription. In the bully licked for the first time in his life. | “You are the new doctor?" queried llu banker as they shook hands, i “Yes” “How are yoi making out?” | “I've licked two men so far!™ “Then you'll get slong. Any time vou want a hundred dollars on your ‘m\ln come and see me” i1t went all over town that the new doctor ad given Juke \Wolf his dose, i and there were more compliments. Mr, doctor | " Mayficld stepped within the door of | the office to nod and say: “Keep right on! You are doing well!” “Thanks.” Jack Brown, the stone mason, had the habit of going on a spree every two weeks. When about half-drunk he would start in to make Rome howl. It came his day, and as he passed the doctor's office he entered to wreck things. The only thing wrecked was the stone mason He got such a thumping that the ‘Temperance union had to let him sien the pledge in three places before he was satistied. A score of men dropped in to shake hands with Doctor Chisholm, and Mr 'M.nlin Id met him at the post ofl'ce fand linked arms with him and said “Con nlnn,. to dinner with we, 1 like a fishter.” “But 1 am ho mun to pick rel,” war the reply, “No? You just happen to be on the spot when the row starts, Well, come a quar- to say about it. | think most girls like a strong-armed man.” There were introductions and a | pleasant evening, and while Doctor Chisholm was enjoying himselt he was being discussed by two doctors seated in the office of one of them. “He must surely starve out” marked one. “He can make no headway here,” re- FOROHOPOBOBOBOBOPOS O"Of)Ol!O ( KO, H. STOWE 1. V. 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Florida 290 Blue. ‘wagon, was a bully because he loved | A week after the docter’s ad- venture, and right in frout of his of- | fice, Jake's wazon collided with the ve- | and | five minutes he had | along and hear what Miss Nellie has | | i i 1 Rev forage K. Holtzinger of Philadelpbia has installed a cowplete wire- less outtit in the Fifth Street M. E church, where he will have classes in wireless telegraphy as an inducement for the boys and young men to come to church and wires of the wireless; was the reply. !tor™ “I don’t know “This community won't stand for his tictics.” “Bound to o under “l have cut him dead thus far.” “We cau't recognize him"” There was oue more bully, and he | War a bad tempered man Jim Kecles, He was bad tempered drunk or sober When he heard how Doctor Chisholm had seived the others he growled: “Come to run the town has he? Well, you walt a bie!” “What are you going to do?’ was asked. “Bounce hiin out of Lansing!" | Again the doctor sat In his office reading a medical work when he had A caller. It was Jim Kecles. He was sober and he had a job before him “Skate!" he said as he pointed to the street. “Why?" was quletly asked. “Recause 1 tell you to!™ “You are Jim Kecles, the bad man?” “Bud all the way through, and | don't generally hold my temper as long as this.” ! “Your blood is out of order Mr. Ko | cles, and I'll give you a prescription for it!" f The scrap took place out of doors, | and the audience said it was just the neatest little affair the town of Lan- | sing had ever been treated to. When ' it was over the doctor had a black eye | and Mr. Jim Kccles sald he was going | to California to take on an earth- | quake or some other easy mark. | Three of the doctors in the town wit- nesRed the affair, and as they walked | away they were agreed that it was the finlsh of the new comer. Doctor Chis- holm wag bathing his eye when Mr. Mayfield entered the office to say: “So you got around to Eccles, eh? Come to dlaner with me.” “Can't. See this black eye?” “All the better. Miss Nellle has al | { ways wanted to see one close at hand, No cause for embarrassment not in ! the least.” ' And the doctor went, and things were made very nice tor him. Agr he ieft the house it was Miss Nellle who said: “Father thinks vou will succeed.” | “Oh, I've got to,” he langhed. At the door of his office a woman | wsmud to ask “Are you the fighting doctor? “Well, I've had a few scraps.” “Then come and see my sick child.” The next morniug it was a woman with an ailing husband, and there were | | six calls before nizht. In each and | | every case the caller made sure that | he or she was addressing the fighlmg doctor. And next day what happened but that the banker's wife got a chicken bone in her throat. and Miss Nellfe | Mayfield bad a sudden pain in her side : | and wanted medical attendance. “Go ahead and treat us all for any-: thing you wish!" laughed Mr. May- | field; and the fighting doctor Imev, that his practice was an assured thing. ? “Did you ever!"™ exclaimed the doo-l tors to each other. They never did. When they woke up they found a new dootor at the head of the procession and the town predicting a son-inlaw for Mr. May- fleld. For once the gossips hit it right. It was the fighting doctor that left his many patients long emough one day to get married and it was Mrs. Nellle Chisholm who said: “Never mind the bridal tour uatfl ! we are worth a million dollars aad caa hlre special trains.” (Copyright, 12, by the McClure News- paper Syndicate.) Appreciated, but Costly Memer. On ome occasion, when a publie reception was given to Mr. Gladstome, & partioulardy cbecquioys old_gumple “But Is he a prize tighter or & doc- | United States chasing elsewhere. ‘the upper picture shows the roof of the church with the posts the lower pictire | study of the church receiving a message shows the clergyman in the wan was introduced to him and forth with commonced flattering him to «ich an extent that the late premier grew weary of him, so, bidding the | man good day, he sett'ed down heavily t the nearest chair. The bore, in ead of passing on, lingered near and seemed to have something still in his mind, though he looked blissful. Mr | sweetly, “May | ask you, want anything more of me? “Oh -oh, no,” said the man, smirk- ing; "only perhaps | may be permitted to remark that | am proud to say that hat is having the Inestimable honor to occupy the same chair with Womanly Reason. 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