Morgan County republican. (Versailles, Mo.) 1906-1914, 1909-07-22
A Prize Winner.

story by us readers, and Dr. W.
Boles, of our city, carried of the en-
tire bakeshop with the following true
story, which we clip from the Bull
letin:
II noticed in the May Bulletin
several articles describing such excit-
ing experiences as hold-ups, poison
ings by mistake, encounters with the
'demented. attempts at suicide. rifings
of the cash drawer, and SO on. |
think can cover the entire field at
one sitting, by relating an actual oc-
currence which I experienced over a
quarter of century ago, soon after
launching out in a professional way.
was endeavoring to practice both
pharmacy and medicine when the
following incident happened.
had located at small village way
Back in the beautiful Ozark hills.
One pleasant evening in the latter
part of May was sitting alone in my
combined store and office. wondering
where my rent and laundry money
was coming from, when a young man
entered apparently about twenty-five
years of age and perfect giant in
every way except in intellect. He
called for fifteen cents worth of laud-
anum. saying that the medicine was
for himself and that the woman for
whose husband he worked had re-
luested him to come to me for it.
Knowing the lady to be intelligent.
and the wife of wealthy farmer liv-
ing nearby. filed the order and he
went on his way rejoicing.
1t developed later that the woman
had directed him to get paregoric in
stead of laudanum, and believing that
he had purchased what she ordered
directed him to take a tablespoonful
Immediately on his arrival home. 1t
being nearly dark. the mistake was
not discovered until he had entirely
emptied the bottle. and on lighting
the lamp the lady noticed the label
e,
on the bottle and at once proceeded
to drench him with some greasy dish
water which happened to be nearby.
This of course produced vomiting.
and on being repeated several times
caused the stomach to be entirely
emptied of its contents, but in short
time he became drowsy. or pretended
to. and the family became alarmed
and sent for me.
was on the ground in short time
and on hearing of the treatment and
the patients copious vomiting, in
formed the family that l did not an
ticipate any serious results, and that
there was nothing more to be done
but to give him plenty of coffee.
directed the farmer and his two stal.
wart sons to keep him awake by the
means used in such cases.
The good. sympathetic housewife
prevailed upon me to stay over night
for fear of collapse, and along about
two O'Clock in the morning the farm
er came into the parlor where wa.
asleep on couch and aroused me
saying that he and his sons had about
exhausted themselves, and that the
giant had the floor and was going tc
sleep in spite of all they could do,
arose and followed him out into the
yard, and sure enough there he lay
stretched out apparently ready fol
his last nap, while the family, which
was large. stood by grieving. saw
no signs OF collapse. however, ant
believing the big fellow shamming te
create sympathy and to get attention
directed them in as lloyd and com
manding tones as l could to rub him
which they did, and did well. Final
" we got him on his feet. and aftcl