, 1879-07-06

wardly; '.he ha. died and they've carted off the
CORPSE and now therel1 be inquest and the devil
to pay. Did he suffer much." be inquired Of the
servant-girf.
:t'Sutfer much, No, it WAS the expressnan that
eufere1,-his eyes are all bunged up and hell
have to step into bis 4hrt through the mock he has
such head on him -
''I don't understand you," said the doctor.
'.Why.'' said the girl, - got the medicine yon
prescribed for the sick ooarder, and early this
morning he got up ana dressed himself, and said
he guessed he'd 90 home, and he sent out for an
exprcssman, and while he was waiting for the
wagon he carried his trunk down from the third
story. and when the expressman came he said It
would be half dollar extra for the trunk,-he
contracted to carry trunks three story houses.
and he aud the sick boarder had fight, and the
sick boarder licked him In less'n a minute."
"Great Scott!' said the doctor to himself 1.-THE
druggist has given him something that cures con-
sumption inside OF sir hours. I must find out what
it il. The draggist can't know, or he would have
made 4 fortune and retired from business long
ago."
So he went to tho druggists, and, aAking to SEQ
the proprietor. said, my name il Dr.. so-and-
30. I've called about prescription Jou made up
for sick boarder On Such and-snch street last
night,
''Hushr said the druggist, turning pale. II
was afraid the wreched boys mistake might cost
human life, but we must keep the matter ont OF
the papers If 1t costs SO, 600. II 1t gets out my
business II be ruined" Then the druggist showed
him the prescription which had been brought in,
and tho doctor saw that 1t WAS an old piece Of pa
per on which he had copied out chess problem
from TIE TRIBUNE. and On which at later period
he had made some estimates OF the vote for judges
at the June election: by long friction in his pocket
it had become illegble to the kccnest eye.
't'There! eaid the druggist, ''that was what they
brought last night to be made no Immediately for
dying man. had gone ont, and my son, young
devil OF H. was all alone in the store He couldn't
find me, anu as ha thought it would iuiure bust-
ness II the shop got the reputation Of not alwaye
being ready, and as it Was for dying man who
couldn't be more than killed anyhow, he Just took
pinch out OF one bottle and spoonful out Of
another, and sauirted In something here. and took
a chvak OF something there, and mashed them all
together and poured eome tiuid over them, hustled
it into tourounce bottle charged the girl So, and
told her to shake it up before giving 1t"
'.Can your sou tell me what bottles he took It
out Of, and the approximate quantities." asked the
doctor, an1iousy.
mo; cross-queshoned him go as to be able to
administer IN antidote, but he didn't remember
what he took, nor how much Of each Ingredient
The only thing he seemed to be ali positive about
was, that he took heapng teaspoonful ont Of the
bottle OF oxalic acid and that he put In some Paris
green to givs it d good, bright, durable color.~
The doctor explained the circumstances to the
druggist, much to the 1atter's relief. But there
a.e in Chicago to-day tho two maddest men in the
universe,-one doctor and one druggist, who
have come within an acc OF stumbling upon med
ical discovery worth $40. 600, 600 II it is worth
cent, and there IL boy II years old who has e.
fected cure unparalleled In the annals OF medi-
cine and not one OF them can tell how 1t was done.