Part 13 (2/2)

When the old lady had pro out to his horse, rode away to his own home, where he related this incident, and ended with, ”Noant this put on ly humored his every whim, immediately complied with his wish, and from that day to the hour of his death the spread was never out of his service

One of theincidents to me was one which related to his last illness and death Always, during his later years, when he felt the least bit ill, he refused to prescribe for hi at all, was never such a fool as to take any of his own medicine Instead, and in sequence to this huerto practice here, one, for instance, who having other nition occasionally to help hi doctor, one as greatly ad, ”Doctor, I'm sick today,” lay back on his bed and waited for further developreat repute and knowledge, was very much flustered, so much so that he scarcely knehat to do

”Well, Doctor,” he finally said, after looking at his tongue, taking his pulse and feeling his forehead, ”you're really a better judge of your own condition than I aive you?”

”Now, Doctor,” replied Gridley sweetly, ”I'm your patient, and you'rein the world, and I'ive ive me what you thinkdoctor,on all that was new or faddistic, decided at last that just for variation's sake he would give the doctor so of which he had only recently heard, a sample of which he had with him and which had been acclai the doctor whether he had ever heard of it, or what he thought, he merely prescribed it

”Well, now, I like that,” commented Gridley solemnly ”I never heard of that before in my life, but it sounds plausible I'll take it, and we'll see What'sdoctor like yourself who thinks up ways of his own--” and, according to his daughter, he did take it, and was helped, saying always that what young doctors needed to do was to keep abreast of the latest , and perhaps it was just as well that old doctors died! He was so old and feeble, however, that he did not long survive, and when the tio

One of the sweetest andof all his mental phases was, as I have reason to know, his attitude toward the proble and death, an attitude so full of the human qualities of wonder, sympathy, tenderness, and trust, that he could scarcely view the the emotion he felt He was a constant student of the phenomena of dissolution, and in one instance calmly declared it as his belief that when a man was dead he was dead and that was the end of him, consciously At other times he modified his view to one of an al Ehts,” his copy of which I long had in es relative to death and a future life with interesting coes, which reads:

”I don't know if it be a peculiarity within the cha mourner shares the duty with me I see a repose that neither earth nor hell can break, and I feel an assurance of the endless and shadowless hereafter--the eternity they have entered--where life is boundless in its duration, and love in its sympathy, and joy in its fullness,”

he had added on the in:

”How often I have felt this very emotion How natural I know it to be And what a consolation in the thought!”

Writing a final prescription for a young clergy, and for whom he had been s he had written in Latin, the lines:

”In life's closing hour, when the tre soul flies And death stills the heart's last eel of mercy arise Like a star on eternity's ocean!”

When he hireeted his old friend Colonel Dyer--he of the absent overcoat and over-shoes--with:

”Dyer, I' upon the very brink I cannot see clearly, I cannot speak coherently, the filht I knohat this means It is the end, but all is ith s that would have been better left unsaid and undone, but I have never willfully wronged a man in my life I have no concern for myself I am concerned only for those I leave behind I never saved money, and I die as poor as when I was born We do not knohat there is in the future now shut out from our view by a very thin veil It seems to me there is a hand somewhere that will lead us safely across, but I cannot tell No one can tell”

This interesting speech, made scarcely a day before he closed his eyes in death, was typical of his whole generous, trustful, philosophical point of view

”If there be green fields and placid waters beyond the river that he so calmly crossed,” so ran an editorial in the local county paper edited by one of his most ardent admirers, ”reserved for those who believe in and practice upon the principle of 'Do unto others as you would have them do unto you,' then this Samaritan of the medical profession is safe fro of that which was gentleness and tenderness here with the earth and the waters, then the greenness of the one and the sparkling liht, and returned unto theain”

_Culhane, the Solid Man_

I met him in connection with a psychic depression which only partially reflected itself in ht almost say that I was sick spiritually At the saly imbued with a contein with, he was a wrestler of repute, or rather ex-wrestler, retired undefeated champion of the world As a boy I had known that he had toured America with Modjeska as Charles, the wrestler, in ”As You Like It” Before or after that he had trained John L Sullivan, the world's chahter of his day, for one of his hts, and that at a tiht any one

Before that, in succession, from youth up, he had been a peasant farmer's son in Ireland, a scullion in a shi+p's kitchen earning his way to A company, a cooks' assistant and waiter in a Bowery restaurant, a bouncer in a saloon, a rubber down at prize fights, a police the Civil War, a ticket-taker, exhibition wrestler, ”short-changeattained his greatest fame as champion wrestler of the world, and as trainer of John L

Sullivan, he finally opened a sporting sanitarium in some county in upper New York State which later evolved into the great and now decidedly fashi+onable institution in Westchester, near New York

It has always been interesting to me to see in what awe men of this type or profession are held by many in the more intellectual walks of life as well as by those whose respectful worshi+p is less surprising,--those who revere strength, agility, physical courage, so-called, brute or otherwise There is a kind of retiring worshi+pfulness, especially in men and children of the loalks, for this type, whichin the extreme

However, in so far as Culhane was concerned at this time, the case was different Whatever he had been in his youth he was not that now, or at least his earlier rawness had long since been glazed over by other experiences Self-education, an acquired politeness ae of the manners and customs of the better-to-do, permitted him to associate with them and to accept if not copy their manners and to a certain extent their customs in his relations with them Literally, he owned hundreds of the best acres of the land about him, in one of the most fashi+onable residence sections of the East He had already given away to soreat estate in northern New York His stables contained every type of fashi+onable vehicle and stalled and fed sixty or seventy of the worst horses, purposely so chosen, for the use of his ”guests” Men of all professions visited his place, paid hiladly the six hundred dollars in advance which he asked for the course of six weeks' training, and brought, or atteed in the vicinity but could not use I myself was introduced or rather foisted upon him bycould have been said to exist in his life--he was I was taken to him in a very souests in person or at once On the way, and before I had been introduced, I was instructed by ood brother as to his moods, methods, airs and tricks, supposed or rumored to be so beneficial in so h--purposely so