The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1897-02-04
Turned His Hair Gray.
A SAN FRANCISCO DRUMMER'S
CLOSE CALL.

George II. HendricksOn. . We11-known
Travelling Man, Describes Never
to-be-forgotten Experis noe
Thought He Was Going to
be Launched Into
Eternity.
From the Chronicle, San Francisco, Cal.
George r. Hendrickson, of sos Mar
ket street, San Francisco, CAL, is one
of the best known commercial travellers
on the Pacific coast. Mr.. Hendrickson
has grown gray in the service but MS
frosted hair and patriarchial beard are
due more to an experience he had about
three years ago, than to age.
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said the old-time traveller when relat-
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It is not pleasant thing to contem-
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to be seized with sinking spell and
think you are about to be launched
into eternity That was the condition
of nv existence for about six months.
The doctors told me that l was suffer-
ing from nervous prostration. Well l
guess was. had had an attack OF the
grippe, and my complaint was the re-
suit of that disease. consulted the
best physicians in the town and took
their medicine, but | grew no better.
NV stomach went back on me and
suffered all the ills that accompany
nervous disorders.
"While under the care of the doctors
never knew what peace OF mind was.
The least sound coming unexpectedly
threw me into a cold sweat, and caused
chills to run up and down my back. l
was subject to vertigo and every time l
had an attack feared that would
drop to the sidewalk corpse. l began
to think I would be better off if dead,
when came across DR.. Williams Pink
Pills down in Los Gatos. have
studied medicine and recognized the
value of the pills very readily. 1 threw
nv last bottle of medicine over the
bridge at Los Gatos and began to take
the pills. At once my condition began
to improve. I got relief from the start
and determined to give the pills all
the chance in the world. l went home
and stayed there for three months, at
the end of which time l was new
man, my health being completely re-
stored"
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a colored man in his employ of tamper-
ing with his private stock of whisky,
allowed the demijohn to become emp
ty, and, instead Of filling it again, put
the liquor in bottles in a cupboard and
labeled them poison" One night,
as he came home from the theater, he
caught the colored servant in the act.
SEEKING the bottle in mock terror, the
employer exclaimed: "Great heavens!
Do you know what you are doing?
Don't you see that what that bottle
contains is marked poison?" The col
ored man held 1t off and looked at it.
Then he smelled it, and, with look of
melancholy, replied: '"Tain't poison,
sub. Use done been fooled ag'in."
How dared you tamper with it,
whether you knew it was poison or
mott" BOSS, it was dis-a-way. Fun
de way yoh acted bout dat demijohn
in de cellar done thought youh had
yoh s'picions OBJ me, an it made me
melancholy, fob sno'. rs been tryin'
fob mos two weeks now ter commit
suicide out'n dat bottlew
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