The Caucasian. (Shreveport, La.) 1900-192?, 1912-03-24
A RanbIe In :
Aphasia
Experience of q Man Who Lost
His Memory and Enjoyed 1t
By @. HENRY
Copyright. 1910. by Doubleday, Page
& Co.


She left her second cup of tea to fol
low me to the front door. There she
plucked from my lapel the Invisible
strand of lint 1.-THE universal act OF
woman to proclaim ownership and
babe me take care of my cold.
When set out l had no thought or
premoniil0n Of VIII; was to occur The
attack came Sudde y
For maLv weeks j had been tOiling
almost nigh and day It a famous rail
road law case that on triumphantlr
but few days previc Isly In fact.
had been digging away at the law al
most without cessation many years
CncC or tUi@r GGOd =. N0!uCy, H.
friend and ply sician, hao warned me-
If you DOM slacken y. Bedford -
he said. you'll go sudden',7 to pieces
Either your mel 'eS or you brain Will
give way. Tell he, does reek pass
in which you do NOt read in Tue papers
of Il case Of apha. ia-0f some man lOsr.
wandering name. ess, with his past
and his identity dotted out and al
from that little lrain clot lade Dy
overwOrk or worry
That morning as I walked I was
thinking of DR.. Voin ,y's words was
feeling as we'll as l Usually did posi-
bly, in better spirits than usual.
j awoke with stiff and crampet rnus-
cles from having step: long ON the ia
commodious seat Of 4 day coach.
leaned my head against the sea, and
tried to think. After a long time |
said TO myself. 81 must have name OF
some sort" | searched my pockets.
Not a card. not letter. not paper or
monogram could / find But found in
my coat pocket nearly $1,000 in bills of
large denomination. Il must be some
one. of course" ] repeated to myself
and began again to consider.
The car was well crowded with
men, among whom, | told myself
there must have been some common
interest, for they mingled freely and
seemed in the best good humor and
spirits. One of them-a stout, spec
tacled gentleman developed in decii
ed odOr of cinnamon and aEoes-took
the vacant half of my seat with
friendly nod and unfolded newspa-
per. In the intervals BETWEEN his
periods of reading we conversad. as
travellers will, on current affairs ]
found myself able to sustain the con
versation on such subjects with credit.
at least to my memory. By and by
my companion said:
You are one Of US, Of course. Fine
lot of men the west sends In this
time. I'm glad they held the conven-
ton In New York. I've never been
east before. My names r. P. Bolder
-Bolder & Son of Hickory Grove. Mis-
souri,
Though unprepared. rose to the
emergency, as men will when put to It.
Now I must hold christening and
be at once babe. parson and parent
My senses came to the rescue OF my
slower brain. The insistent odor Of
drugs from my companion supplied one
idea: a glance at his newspaper assist.
ed me further.
"My name" said glibly. sis Ed
ward Pinkhammer. I am a druggist.
and my home Is in Cornopolis. Kan"
II knew yon were druggist" said
my fellow traveller affably. 81 saw
the callous spot on your right fore
finger. where the handle Of the pestle
rubs. OF course you are a delegate to
our national convention
asked wonderingly.
They are This car came through
from the west And they're your old
time druggists. too; none of your pat
eDt tablet and granule pharnashootists
that use slot machines instead of a pre-
scription desk. We percolate our owp
paregoric and roll our own pills. and
we amt above handling a few garden
seeds in the spring and carrying a side
line of confectionery and shoes. I tell
spring on this convention. New ideas
is what they want. Now. you know
the shelf bottles Of tartar emetic and
Rochelle salt Ant. eft Pot. Tart. and
Sod. ct Pot. Tart. Ones poison. you
know. and the others harmless It's
easy to mistake one label for the other.
Where do druggists mostly keep 'em?
Why. as far apart as possible on diff
ferent shelves. That's wrong. say
keep 'em side by side. SO when you
want one you can always compare 1t
with the other and avoid mistakes Do
x,,rx oo xob fba id,a
''It seems to me very good one" ]
said.
IAN right. When | spring it on the
convention you back it up. Well make
some of these eastern orange phos-
phate and massage cream professors
that think they're the only lozenges In
the market look like hyPodermic tab
let's"
"If can be Of any aid" l said.
warming. s.the two bottles of-er"-
"Tartrate of anthony and potash
and tartrste Of soda and potash"
"Shali henceforth sit side by side."
concluded firmly.
Heres another one of these fake
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