The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-01-13
warned him that the odor

so they would like it. But for this
warming it is doubtful If either of
the Fond Parents could have staid
in the neighborhood after the remedy
began to throw off its clouds of thick
and sitting black vapor. II spread
and penetrated all through the fiat,
and it was two hours before any
member of the family could get to
sleep. Half an hour later they were
reused by furious ringing at the
front door. The Fond Father rushed
TO the door in his bath robe and
opened it. There stood the janitor
of the building in scanty apparel with
chemical fire extinguisher strapped /
to his pack.
What's on fire in your fat?' he /
said. Everybody in the building has
been smelling smoke for an hour and |
we've finally traced it down here"
The Fond Father smiled weakly
and said he supposed it was a new
cure for whooping cough they had
been trying which had caused the
trouble. He was sorry if the other
tenants had been disturbed.
Next morning when he got up he
had slight tickling in his own
throat, due, no doubt, as he conclud-
ed, to the effects of the tar vapors of
the night before. But the tickling
did not leave him during the day. In
fact, it was worse when he got home
+ that night. After dinner he even
1 coughed little. Then an awful
thought struck him.
"Whooping cough is exclusively a
child's disease, isn't it?" he asked
his wife, artlessly.
20, no." she promptly answered.
, when / had it my father caught it
from me, and / remember he almost
coughed his head off before it was
cured"
He spent the next two or three
days in trying to prevent himself
from coughing while at home, though
on the streets and downtown he gave
free vent to unmistakable whoops.
Finally, he confessed to his wife, and
then he felt free to add his deep bass
whoops to the treble explosions of
the Child. Shortly it dawned upon
the Fond Father that whooping
cough was not joking matter. He
coughed sometimes till he was purple
and black IN the face, and finally, in
shame and despair, he called one
evening at the doctors office.
Doctor" he began, II think I'm
going to die. T."
A spasm of coughing seized him
just then. and he gave demonstra-
tion in the whooping line which was
strong and convincing.
80, whooping cough is just joke,
you know" said the hard-hearted
physician. sit does a boy good to
have it."
But the Fond Father was beyond
feeling any insult. He begged for
something to help his cough, and
! finally he got it. Then things went
on a little more easily for few
days. Finally it got so that if either
the Fond Father or the Child com
menced to cough in the presence Of
the other the second invalid would
Immediately start whooping as if il
sympathy.
But not even yet had the climax ar
rived. 1t was when the recent corr
corner was at its height and tn,
: Fond Father had accumulated a fair
ly large line of the cereal, which h
was waiting to sell at big advance
One night he got Tip" that tn
e corner would be broken the mex
, day. He went down to the board tn
= next morning prepared for actor
He knew that he must dispose of hi
stuff in the first few minutes of tn
E session if he wished to clean up tn
y handsome profit which he had on ps
per- Finally business began in tn
i'd corn pit, and he plunged into tn
Or thick of it. The first sales shove
re that the price was still at the to
De notch, and he determined to unloa
lie without a moments delay. The kin
to of the corner had just sold $4,000 9
the top, and everything SCENE
&C. rropitious. His hand was raised an
lg he was about to shrek out his offe
w when he felt that terrible ticklin
in his throat. he crushed it dow
he with mighty effort.
"One hundred thou"
d. The cough seized him in its r
IT morseless grip. He bent over nearl
is double with the paroxysm. The othe
lie frantic brokers pushed and shove
him out of the way. He stood on tt
IN bottom step of the pit and whooDe
he for a solid minute. In the babel {
he voices the sound of his coughing w;
e. entirely swallowed up and lost. T
at could hear, even as he shook al
IT, strained with effort. the pit break OF
ed into a fresh riot of confusion. III
oh corner had broken. Corn had dronp,
% Is cents in two minutes. The For
ST Father was barely able to save h
III distance by letting go his holdings
NO the low figure.
ID The family has now recovered
he normal condition of health. But L
mt tie Charley is now being reared I
~ the sheltered and protected" polio
h. while the Fond Father sees nothil
~ approaching humor in jest about Z
- diseases of children.-Chicago Tri
oc- une.
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