America's institutions of higher learning were not looking to Q ^ 

 Rush's graduates for educational leadership. 



Wherry wrote of his plight as follows: 



I am pretty much "out" of things — partly because there is a 

 scarcity of vacancies and partly because my price has gone up 

 to 2000 per. So I am working on "editorials" for the coin 

 and beginning to get ready for the State Board Exams. . . . 

 It is up to me to get something pretty soon or I may have to 

 postpone my wedding day — an awful calamity. If I prac- 

 tice, I think I'll go west. But I am so loth to go into practice 

 that I am hanging off for a while. Write and tell me the 

 prospects for a practitioner out west. PS I have a double 

 conjunctivitis or I should inflict you with a longer tale. P P S 

 My hands are sterile so cheer up! 



In spite of his levity, Wherry was in despair. Without 

 funds, without space even in which to work, his mental state 

 was such that Marie, when she again saw him, declared that 

 his affection for her "had cooled." Theobald Smith offered 

 him a thousand dollar job as a stop gap; and almost simul- 

 taneously his "dear friend Joe Ohlmacher got busy and got 

 the superintendent of the Iowa State Hospital for the Insane 

 at Independence, Iowa, to offer me a position as one of their 

 ward physicians at about fifty dollars per month with room, 

 board and laundry." He expressed his fears regarding this 

 offer in the words: "I am afraid to go into an insane asylum 

 in my present state of mind. Anyway it wouldn't do, for if 

 I have to practice, I am going where there are flowers and 

 birds." 



September 28, 1905, he sent this note to Marie: 



Nellie tells me that the coolie Miss Mitchell and I set a broken 

 leg for at Landour is getting along nicely. When he left, he 

 said to Miss Mitchell that since she had done so much for him 

 up to that time, would she please furnish him with a new suit 

 of clothes and some bedding. The cheek of the Oriental is 

 boundless! 



August of 1905 had made me the professor of pathology 

 in the Oakland college of medicine. Feeling myself happily 

 situated, I urged Wherry to come west. In answer, he wrote 

 as follows (October 6, 1905) : 



