Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1894-02-15

ccnteredness; but u you take this
Golden Remedy every time you get TO
thinking about yourself, and take large
doses Of II when you are in company,
you'll be cured as sure as fate"
The young man looked increduloun
as he took his little gilt box and his
departure, and went his way.
"Oh, doctorr' said the next, q poor
little drcssmaker with so sad a voice
that the black cat again retired 10 the
sofa. I'm so bluei When get through
my work and sit alone in my little
room evenings, feel so lonely I'd most
like to kill myself haven't q rels-
tion or a friend in all the town. and it'a
something dreadful to have no one 10
welcome you home-nobody 10 tell
things to, nobody TO say GOOD night or
morning TO you. Why, sometimes I
kiss my own arm, | feel so desperately
lonely" and she burst into tears.
Poor thingi poor thingr' said tho
doctor, in a cheerful voice, as II ha
were saying: Fine dayl fine dayi Wen
fix you up Now, my dear, Just follow
the directions in this little gilt boz
whenever you begin to feel lonely; and
take a specially large dose In the oven
ing when you come home from work."
The young girl smiled feeble little
smile us she thanked him for the bon
and let the room.
"What in the world is the matter
with your inquired the doctor Of his
neat patient, an elegantly-attlred
/ young man, who looked as sleek and
well-to-do and about rs intellectual a.
a well-fed, well-curried horse.
''rm bored to DEATH" drawled the
young fellow. II was so bored with
balls and parties and racing and cards
and shooting aud theaters and every
thing else in that line. IL was positively
relief to wake up one morning and
find ! had the blues; for II was q new
sensation. But I've had them 30 long
now, I'm bored with them, too, aud
I've come here to get cured"
WELL" said the doctor, looking st
him through his mugnifying-glass till
the young man actually blushed, you'll
find my remedy SO hard to follow II
will be like drawing teeth; but I can
assure you IL will be q new sensation,'
and II you stick TO 1t IL will cure even
YOU
I'm take 1t at any pricel'' said this
afflicted representative Of boredom.
''No price," said the doctor, except
secrecy. The remedy does no good II
anyone else learns that you are trying
1t for such purpose"
The young man signed the bond, and
departed with more animated express
sion on his blase countenance, and .
small gilt box in his pocket
The next arrival was an invalid In o
rolling chair. Her pale face beamed
with pleasure.
"0h, hoi So you're backl Remedy
don't workP" said the doctor, knowing
better.
II should think II did work." she an
swered, gravely. "You know how
long the days were AZ lay In my bed
or sat in this chair, knowing could
never take step, and brooding over
every ache and pain. Well, now the
days are not half long enough TO do all
| wnnt The remedy has given me 30
mu;h to do, and made life entirely Diff
ferent to me. How can thank you,
doctor?"
"Pshaw, childl" said the good man,
don't thank pe. It's the remedy.
Keep 1t up; just keep IT up"
Next came a very intcliectual-looking
young woman, who had obtained q de-
gree from "A university. She complained
that through all the studying TO which
she devoted her life for the cultivation
of her mind, there ran an undertono
of melancholy which, whenever she
stopped work, eliminated in an attack
of the blues.
AS usual, the doctor dispatched her
with his universal prescription, and
also the other half dozen patients who
called that afternoon. One was "a man
made miserable by his own selfish
jealousy of any attention paid his wife
| Another got the blues because she was
80 discontented with her humdrum,
monotonous life, being kept at home
by an invalid sister when she wanted
to study music in Germany
SO they came, rich and poor, young
and old, no class in society seeming TO
be exempt from this miserable ailment,
and each departed thankful for the
Great Golden Remedy.
| At last the clock struck six, and tho
doctor closed his Office door and settled
himself comfortably by the fire. Tho
black cat jumped up in his lap. and the
doctor took one of the mysterious lit.
tie boxes from the table. As he, in an
absent-minded way, removed the cover,
little paper futtered out Not pill
nor powder was to be seen, and the
Great Golden Remedy consisted only OF
the little paper, on which were printed
in golden letters these words:
WHENEVER you ARE FEELING BLUE,
SOMETHING FOR SOME ONE ELSE 90 DO.
"Ilow silly people arel" said the doc
tor to himself "They travel miles TO
get here, take no end OF trouble, sign
that bond and all that nonsense just
to get what they could have learned
from the Book of the Great Physician
Just us well as did. just because the
idea is dressed up in poor rhyme and
a gilt box, and there's a mystery about
1t, and it's the fashion to come here,
the Blues cure is bowling success,
and all the world is running after my
Great Golden Remedy" And the black
cat switched her tail and said amen,
as well us she knew how.-N. Y. Inde-
pendent
During the years from 1885 to 1850
poisoning by means OF arsenic became
so common in England that parliament
in 1851 passed very stringent laws reg