The Circleville Herald from Circleville, Ohio • Page 7

Wednesday, August 4,1926 THE CIRCLEVILLE DAILY UNION-HERALD Seventh The Ties That Bind By DOROTHY WEST SHOULD DOCTORS (Copyright.) rp VERY night lie would traverse the length of the garden to the distant, lofty oak and stare down, for a brief and bitter moment, the grave of his mother. And inevitably he would stoop to pluck a long-stemmed flower and twine it about his wrist. There was something terribly brutal about it. A mocking reassurance of a deathbed promise. He hated the valley.

He hated the splendid stretch of land that for generations had belonged to the family, riotous, neglected now save for a small patch of garden that supplied his daily needs. He had chained himself by a deathbed promise to the rolling, far-reaching acres a sentimental mother loved. He had been too young and too awfully sorry to foresee the droning years. He had wanted, wfth youthful pity, to make her last moments happy. Ami so he had promised, eagerly, forever to live in the valley.

And then there had been her weak voice calling Martha; the young Martha kneeling beside her with tears in her eyes. And suddenly she had joined their hands, and there had been something about son, my best motherless and be bad found himself pledged to Martha, staring into her tear-wet, adolescent eyes. He had always wanted to write. From earliest youth lie had scribbled on any and every scrap of paper. He felt, perhaps wrongly, that he hud a splendid gift to give to the world Ami he lived in that future hour of recognition.

He had never been outside the valley, He had never seen beyond his narrow community. There had been little expansion of his own soul. And lie had the happy faculty to realize his restriction, lie was wedged in by stupid conventionalities, lie had, he knew too poignantly, little to write about. He had held tenaciously to ids dream of ultimate freedom, lie had heavily mortgaged the land. He knew, with almost mad complacence, that within a few years he would lose the far-stretching acre And then would begin his pilgrimage to the world.

The world he thirsted for, and from whose living pages he would transcribe. Tonight he walked slowly hack to the house. He began to hope that Martha hud gone to bed. There was something about her of late that disturbed him. She was pale and unhappy and ailing.

And wistful, too. And he would raise his head suddenly to find her gad eyes intent on his face as if there were something she wanted to tell him. It annoyed him, because It frightened him. He felt, somehow, responsible. She had not gone to bed.

She was sitting before the empty hearth, staring unseeingly at the darkened bricks. lie did not turn to look at him. She held out her hand. He went slowly to her with cairn indifference. Sue was only a child, and she knew, vaguely, that she had never really pleased him.

She had so little to give him. and now she felt that her sole gift would he unw: fed. He looked down her. not unkindly, and put a gm. der.

been meai said with d'Hcali She faltered. Ile sudden he sun She was it tn Tell Secrets of Patients For Good? Whether his greater duty is to society in general or to his profession, is a question which a physician must consider many times during his career. At commencement time, medical graduates are enjoined to obey an oath supposed to have been written by Hippocrates, tlie Father, of Medicine, who lived in Greece from 470 to 357 B. C. This oath, writes Hugh Fullerton in an article in this Liberty, binds a doctor to strict sccrecv regarding any information about his patients.

of medical Mr. Fullerton writes, that the code of the doctor has delayed progress in medicine. They argue that wider pubicity would mean more widespread knowledge, less quackery, and more I rapid advancement in the science. The great majority, however, insist upon strict observance of the ethics. physicians have refused to divulge secrets of their eonsul- tation-room even to the point of protecting murderers.

How far the courts may compel a physician to reveal what he learns from his patients always has been a vexed question. the United States the point is vaguely uncertain and varies in different states. In most places it is impossible for the court to compel a doctor to tell anything he regards as confidential information. He can fall back upon his constitutional privileges and refuse to ANNUAL REPORT OF CLERK OF COURTS WHITE Discovery of Germs Fifty years ago gerras were discovered. Before that time the human race was less like rabbit in a brush pile with a dog on one side and a boy with a shotgun ort the other Louisville Times.

Salt in Illinois Saline county, Illinois, derives its Dame from the fact that the earliest settlers in that district made great Quantities of salt by boiling down the water from the salt wells there. Lives Long Without Food A species of snail has been known to live without food for a year and a half. Clerk of Courts C. M. White on August 2nd, has completed one year in the office of Clerk of the Common Pleas Court, and during that time has filed ISO new cases, divided as follows: Ninety-seven cognovit judgments in the sum of civil action for monev onlv, 61, for the 7 of 10 partition 3 to construe wills, 4 divorce cases and 5 transcripts from the Justice courts in the county.

During the year there has been disposed of 161 cases in which the costs have been paid and 8 disposed of in which the costs have not been paid, making a total of 169 cases disposed of during the year, on the civil docket; cases pending on August 2nd. 1926, 369. Criminal cases filed during the year, 38, divided as follows: Operating motor vehicle while intoxicated. 1 attempted rape, 1 burglary and larceny, perjury, assault, discharging fire arms near residence, assault and battery, making and drawing check with insufficient funds, 1 failure to provide, It; ignored bv grand jury, 12. All cases on criminal docket have been disposed of except the cases of failure to provide, in which the accused are paying weekly payments on the jamounts fixed by the court; during the year $835.35 has been 'assessed in fines and collected.

No. of bills of sale filed during the year, No. of licenses issued during the year. 581 No. of licenses issued during the year, 89.

Amount of fees collected during the year was $3,146.64. Cases settled and costs not collected in the year, $394.77. Total fees earned during the year, $3,541.41, Respectfully submitted, C. M. WHITE, Clerk of Courts.

A. A. Greeno, Demitv. ARRESTED ON MURDER CHARGE Toledo, Aug. F.

A. Miller and Harry Grosehowski were held by tborities here today in connection with the clubbing to death of Simeon Lee, 68 years old. Lee was found Sunday morning on his farm dying from the severe beating. Nearby a bloodstained club was found. Lawrence Durham, a neighbor, summoned authorities.

Lee was rushed to a hospital where he died later. Sheriff Harry Emmert. investigating the murder today, questioned several of employees. Lee is survived by his wife and daughter residing here and a daughter, Mrs. Peter Naehtrab, of Fostoria and a son, Harold, of Perrvsburg.

Toys Beat Big Balloons In a balloon race between toy and real gas bags, held at Paris, the toy balloons greatly outdistanced the larger craft. Where the Bennies Go A million dollars In pennies is fed into vending machines each day by the American public. Each machine registers protits of S3 to $5 a month, according to the Dearborn Independent. cm her shou! die I IV to tell you. the hand fell away, lie and drawn, quietly, stricken.

il.e are. There's hardly enough for two." She caught her shred of age. She was fighting for some! him: lugger than herself. Something potent within her. She was fighting, with terrible strength, for iveaiise we've done nothing, either ol us, about the farm.

We've let it go to ruin. lived our days in laziness. Idled the hours. Why, ours is the finest land for miles. We must," she ended with quiet finality, it a payiiui farm for our He did not answer her.

He saw. very vividly, the approaching days. He would awaken at six to the smell of fried food and shrill voice. Then a long, hard morning in the field, and dinner. The field again, dragging, didling hours, then merciful dusk, and supper.

And when he could get out his paper and pen, they would dance before his eyes, and the only alternative, of course, would be bed. Apathy dulled him. It was as if the strength of her words had crushed Ids spirit. He could not even cry out in protest. An inbred New England conscience compelled him to realize iiis duty.

There was nothing beyond the impregnable wall of right. He heard himself mumbling, bound both my hands, the quick and the His ironical laughter flooded the room. be the ties that to Wait A young farmer was urged to set out some apple trees. said he, are too long growing, and I want to plant for other The young farmer's father was spoken to about it. but he, with better reason, alleged that apple trees were slow nn 1 life was fleeting.

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