The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1902-09-16
JOBSON AS A DOCTOR.

inquired MT. JoDSon OF hfs. JODtOn
at the breakfast table one morning about
ten days ago.
Mrs. Jobson had no idea, Of course, and
said SO.
I'm going to fetch home" said Mr.. job
son, oracularly, about two pounds of pow
dered sulphur and jug of blackstrap mo-
lasses Of the old-fashioned kind"
What for?" inquired Mrs. Johson.
"What for?" repeated Mr. Jobson, with
a surprised expression. Now, what dye
suppose powdered sulphur and molasses are
generally used for cltnip tea? Mrs. job
son, might | inquire whether you ever had
! home as young girl-s real, sure-enough
home, presided over by a mother who
knew enough to repair to shelter when the
rain began? Is it possible that you never
heard of the combination of sulphur and
molasses for use as blood-purifying
spring medicine?"
Oh, yes, Mrs Jobson had heard Of that.
you have, eh?" said Mr.. Jobson. well,
what do you think Of it as a spring medi-
cine"
Mrs. Jobson reluctantly replied that she
thought it all right in some aspects,
but
There are no butts about it," said Mr.
Jobson, in his most impressive judicial
tone. Sulphur and molasses make the
greatest spring medicine that ever came
over the hills And that's the stuff that
we're going to take every morning before
breakfast for a month or So just like ev-
erybody else, we've been sitting around all
winter like dollhouse plants, eating too
much, and not taking anything like enough
exercise. The result is that our blood's
all thickened and clogged up, and if we
al. a Il.
TENS we're liable to attacks OF illness for
the rest of the year. Sulphur and mo-
lasses is the thing, and when we take it
right along for about month we'll feel
like colts just turned loose in a field Of
dandelons."
Mr.. Jobson, having assumed his I-have-
spoke manner, Mrs. Jobson didn't make
any reply for the cake of peace, but it was
obvious that she wasn't looking forward to
the sulphur and molasses scheme with any
great degree of equanimity.
Mr.. Jobson was as good as his word and
home he brought that evening the package
of powdered sulphur and a huge Jug of
blackstap molasses, for which he had to
search the town After dinner he mixed
the great spring medicine in large crock,
all the time conversng volubly on the won
ders wrought by the stuff on the human
frame if consistently adhered to.
at won't do you any good if you only
take it once in awhile" he explained.
you've got to stay right with it every
day for month or so to get any good out
of it. 1t may not taste like pate de foie
gras, but that's only detail It's reachin',
80 to speak. and that's the main thing
When Mr.. Jobson made his appearance
for breakfast the next morning Mrs. job
son was already presiding over the crock
of sulphur and moasses.
Have you taken yours yeti" inquired
Mr. Jobson.
NO." she answered 81 was waiting for
/ you to come down, SO that we could take
| it at the same time. Ugh! 1t looks so
! NASTY"
Don't try to be quite so girly-girly, Mrs
Jobson," said Mr.. Jobson, sarcastically
Airs like that aren't exactly becoming in
a person of your years"
Mrs. Jobson produced a couple of table
spoons and handed one of them to Mr.
Jobson. But if she expected that he was
going to be the first to go against thC
spring medicine she was mistaken. II,
stood by in an attitude OF expectancy, anC
SO there was nothing for her to do but tc
dip into the crock. delve up a spoonful o.
made an extremely wry face over it, bu
said nothing
Mr. Jobson then dipped into the mess
bringing up considerably smaller spoon
full than Mrs Jobson had taken, and downet
it. His countenance looked nightly dis
torted by the time he had swallowed tn
stuff, and he spluttered and coughed a 10
over it for some time.
do you like it as well as you did whel
you were young one?" inquired Mrs. Job
son.
Its great" spluttered Mr.. Jobson, blu
he didn't say it in a convincing way. H
didn't have his usual appetite for break
fast, and he looked thoughtful throughosi
the meal.
He wasn't feeling well, he said, when h
returned home that evening, and he wen
to bed early. When he made his appear
ance in the dining-room for breakfast Mrs
Jobson was again lowering over the SUI
phur and molasses crock. Mr.. Jobson didn'
go anywhere near it.
well the spring medicine is stirred u
and waiting" said Mrs. Jobson Mr.. JOB
son pretended to be so interested in tn
headlines of the morning paper that h
didn't hear her.
Are you ready for the blood purifier,
inquired Mrs. Jobson again, and again MI
Jobson pretended that he hadn't heard
Then Mrs Jobson walked right over t
where he had pumped himself in chat
and said
MY dear, shall we take our sulphur an
molasses now"
Huh" said Mr. Jobson, making believ
that he had just emerged from his trance
Our spring medicine, you know" sal
Mrs. Jobson.
oh" said Mr.. Jobson, sternIy, "yo
mean that beastly decoction that you force
upon me yesterday morning, do you. Ne
Mrs. Jobson, /, for one, am not-n-o-t, no
going to take it this morning or any othe
morning. You can take all you want of it.
gallons and hogsheads Of it, if you choose
but il you think for an infnitesimal fractio
of time that you're going to bullyrag an
bulldoze and hector me into sozzling my syi
tenn with poisonous mess that makes m
feel as II I'd been living on poisoned snail
for a month, that causes me to wake up i
the morning with taste in my mouth like
motorman's glove, that puts every toot
; in my head on edge and that's liable to max
me break out in boils and carbuncles unit
I'd look like twentieth century Job--the
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