Editor and Doctor

Manawatu Standard, Volume XL, Issue 7090, 26 August 1901, Page 4

Editor and Doctor

The following from a Texas paper explains itself:—The doctor-, from Bonanza says we are running our paper for revenue only. What in the thunder do doctors run for anyway ? Do they run for glory ? One good healthy doctor's bill would run this office six months. - An editor works half a day for 3dols with an investment of 30,006clols;' a doctor looks wise and works ten minutes for 2dols, with an investment of 3 cents for catnip and a pill box, that cost l-37d015. A doctor goes to college a few years, gets a diploma and a string of words the devil.. himself can't pronounce, cultivates a look of gravity, that he palms off for wisdom, gets a box of pills, a cayuse,and a.meat saw, and sticks out his shingle a full-fledged doctor. He will then doctor you until you die at a stipulated price per visit, and :.pujfc them in as .thick as your pocket will permit,' An editor never gets his education finished; he learns as long as he lives and studies all his life. He eats bran mash and liver, aud takes his'pay in hay ; and turnips. If the editor makes, a mistake ho has to: apologise for it, but if the doctor makes a mistake he buries it. If we make one there is a lawsuit, tall swearing, and a smell of sulphur, but if the doctor makes one there is a funeral, cut flowers, and a smell of varnish. If a doctor goes to see another man's wife he will charge the man for his visit. ' If the editor calls on another man's wife he gets a charge of buckshot. • The editor works to keep from starving, while the doctors work to ward "off the gout. The editor helps men to live better, and the doctor assists men to die easy. The doctor pulls a sick man's leg, the editor is glad if he can even collect his bill at all. Eevenue only? We are living for fun and to spite the doctors. , ■'"' ' .'.. '