A veteran plainsman who had met Edison
when ho was out west in 1878, tells the follow
ing story about Edison, a Philadelphia doctor
ami a chance patient of tho doctor. !le said:
“A ranchman came along on his way to
Rawlins for a doctor to see his daughter, who
appeared to have been suddenly aftlicted by
some peculiar disease, the cause ami nature of
which puzzled and alarmed the family, who
wore evidently simple and well moaning but
ignorant people. Seeing such an unusual stir
about Separation, and so manly men there, ho
stopped and asked if any among us was a phy
sician. Dr. French, of Philadelphia, was there
and volunteered to accompany the man, so ho
THE SOUTH AS IT IS.
