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SO IT was finally decided to have Deacon Everest

SO 1t was finally decided to have Deacon Everest
investigate the matter.
ing just when there was q big rush OF patients.
Seeing the office was full, and not wishing 70
disturb Doc during business hours. the good
deacon thought he would step into q room
across the hall and wait. He gave a little tap
at the door. Three or four voices said Come
In, In the deacon marched and The sight that
met his eyes was enough to jar the feelings OF
THE room into which the deacon wandered
happened TO be- the place In which Doc placed
hIs subjects while they were recovering from
the effects Of their h. pnotic Jaes. Uncle Billy,
Pete White and two or three more OF the bo>,s
had already been treated, and were IN an ad-
vanced state when the deacon entered They
greeted him with hilariousJoy . nm
" Here's Deacon Evcres' said Uncle Billy
Hospitality 'Zcre amt nothing TO. drink.
deacon, but have q look AT the metal dis with
me Great Inyenshun
liar remarks. and the good man backed out OF
the room a.. quickly, a. possible, thinking the
whole crowd were drunk and that the liquor
dealers were right when they said Doc Pilkinson
was running a private still. But the deacon
was a pretty fair-minded old fellow and he de-
termined not TO say ANYTHING until he had given
Doc a chance to explain matters SO he waited
until the rush of business was over, Then he
handed II to Doc hot and hard, calling him a
hypocrite and a decciver and other pet names.
" There wasn't a single man in that
room drunk. he answered They just thought
And 1 Just thought they were. replied the
deacon. tart like II they weren't drunk
they we're giving an imitation that was Just az
good as the real article
" Did YOU smell any liquor on their breathsf'
We'll no. when he thought the matter over.
the deacon had to admit that he hadn't de-
tected any smell Of liquor. Then Doc ex-
planned things, The DEACON wasn't a bit 1atl5-
and that IL was just as bad TO have a hypnotic
jag as a bona hde whiskey one.
IAN these men took the pledge and they've
kept IL insisted Doc. They promised to alb
have. There isn't a word In the pledge about
abstaining from looking at metal disks, or
not allowing Themselves to be hypnotiIed.
I'm doing the greatest practical work in the
teW6' II RiaaRd f my S de.ert saf fd been N Pr EMS
dent Of the Temperance society long ago
The good deacon seemed a little doubt
full about that and said he would leave the
was to hold a meeting that evening. Doc
was on hand at the meeting and put up a good
argument in his own behalf.
IF ! hypnotic a man 80 that for a few
rightly say that he deserved TO be hanged
a man who thinks he's intoxicated is drunk
The Temperance Society was a little puzzled.
and finally decided that Uncle Billy, Pete White
pledge and that Doc Pilkinson hadn't been
guilty OF leading them astray, but all parties
concerned must be careful not TO do II again.
Doc tried 10 keep up the business. but the force
felt. though, that he had been unfairly treated:
IT had the liquor interests groRgy and
would have put them out Of business In a few
weeks. Doc used to say In grleved tones. And
just at the critical moment the temperance
people themselves delivered a body blow TO
the potle cause Of, reform and my own grow
ing bank account