The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1903-08-30
.. ,nnd 1 ruess Won could come pretty

face, ard guess you could come pretty
nigh stopping me altogether with what
you've got in that same medicine chest.
Wouldn't that be nicer What's your treat
rient for neuralcia-a norIual solution OF
ground glass and prussia cidY
"'Oh, we'll, If you don't want TO be fixed
up, all right lie said. ard dropped 1t for
a time.
When the train vas about Eal' an hour
from Washington the ache he'd me clcmp-
ing up and down the aisle of the car Like
a wild man. 1t was SO fierce that it warped
my judgment, and | couldn't see anything
else in life but some chance to get rid OF it.
~'Get out your kit, Jack. and dope me-
along | said to my prisoner. The way
feel about it right now, I'd as lief take
q chance on losing YOU If could lose this
internal misery at the same time.
He got out his dope cabinet, unshipped
a bottle that contained watery looking
stuff, and gave me dose Of it in the glass
of water I got from the cooler. Then
sat down alongside of him, and about
Quarter Of an hour later a few minutes
before the train pulled into the Washing
ton station, my eyes began to droop. 1t
came on all of sudden and left me all but
powerless, although | vas perfectly con
scious. | felt as If hadn't seen bed for
a year, and with that was a pleasant
lumbcd sensation that caused me TO re-
feet idly that it didn't make particle of
difference TO me- whether my prisoner slipped
me or not. But fought that and srrug-
gIed to my feet and began to grope up and
down the car aisle in the effort to keep
awake.
at was a good thing for me that the car
was lust slowing w in the Washington
station. got feeble clutch on the medco
who had put the job up on me-he tried to
break away. but ! was just able, in my
drowsv condition. to hang on TO him1and
pulled him out on to the platform and down
the steps of the car. | was riGlt on the
verge Of collapse when | saw the station
detective, a man knew we'll, hiking toward
me. | could sec that his first thought was
that was drunk, but as he swung alongside
of me he got that out Of his head
Take this dope, chum,' | eaid to him,
handing the prisoner over to the station
detective, and keep the hatch over him
for me for bit | fell to n bolus that he
rugged UP for me for the neuralgia
II was Just able to unreel that much,
and then | was all in. The station detec-
tive liked the prisoner over to Washing
toms No. /. to be kept over night, first
having me luRgod to the station masters
room and 'phoning for the railroad doctor
The doctor, it seemsI didn't know any
thing about it at the time got n couple of
switchmen to dance me up and down for
four or five hours and when finally swung
around he told me that had gulped enough
choral to send a battalion of iiassan Ben
Ais TO the happy hasheesh grounds.
The most ingenious and entertaining
crss that ever ran home with was fellow
that held the worlds record at that time
As n bgamist. He'd been hi'Ched up
with about half the femininity Of western
New York and northern Pennsylvania at
the time | was sent out for him, and when
] got him in Chicago he was stopping at
the main inn of the town and making love
IN "A wealthy hovden of IS, q guest Mt the