The daily morning journal and courier., 1901-08-22

Tn the afternoon they went to Lincoln Park While they were looking at the animals the old man was taken with l cramps,
 Ut must be the ice cream, Jennie,'
 he said to his daughter-in-law, and she ] fearing that he had typhoid fever ol something quite as malignant, i'm
 mediately called cab and hurried him
 off to the office of the family physician | Now, this dispenser of knowledge and
 advice on all things medical was a shining light in the community in
 which he lived. He boasted of the fact that during the five years he had practised he had lost only seven cases. | Those, he said, were turned over to
 him after 1t was too late. Never when he had been given first chance at a patient, he was wont to say, had he failed to furnish relief. When "Freds' wife and her aged father law arrived the doctor" was reading a paper. He diagnosed the case and said 1t wasn't anything serious His very manner was con- vincing. and both the visitors were re- lieved.
 T can fix you up in about two minutes, my man." was his cheering remark as he wrote out prescription. Mrs Fred" had so much confidence in the physicians opinion that her husbands father was not going to be seriously Ill that she consented to his going alone to the drug store to have the prescription filled, while she went on home to superintend the preparation of the evening meal.
 q want this filed" said old Mr. Henderson to the clerk behind the counter, taking slip of paper from his pocket and handing it to him.
 The youth looked worried as he looked at the paper.
 Want it filled, did you say?" he asked
 "Yes, want 1t filed" was the answer. "Dr. Jones just gave it to me"
 It's the oldest prescription Isever put up" said the clerk but I suppose Dr. Jones knows. Guess he means equal parts, though he don't say so," he added.
 He went back of the partition and soon returned with a bottle filled with a brown mixture.
 ''There are no directions with thiss' he said, as he wrapped a paper around 1t, but I suppose you can take 1t as you would an ordinary tonic-a tea spoonful in half a glass of water half an hour before each meal and before you go to bed. I wouldn't take any more of it than I had to, however" he continued as he handed the old man the bottle.
 That evening MT Hendersan felt doses of the medicine, notwithstanding the advice of the clerk, and his gripes had gone.
 That must be fine stuff Dr. Jones gave me- he said to Fred's wife. Guess I'll get another bottle and take it home in case any of the folks get taken with pains
 On the way home the next day he stopred in the drug store and called the clerk to him.
 Young man, did you keep that pre- scription Dr. Jones gave me yesterday and I had filled here. ?"
 "I did," said the obliging young man. just moment. Here, is this it?" he said, returning from the rear of the store and handing Mir Henderson the slip of paperSH'Did you want copy of it?' he asked, as the old man took it in his hand.
 No, don't exactly want that he said but I would like another bottle of the mixture. It's fine stuff. Great Scott!" exclaimed the old man lis, that what you put up for me? Why, that's Marys llst-sugar, lemons and 
 They haven't decided yet who the joke was on--the old man or the ysician.--Chicago Post