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OPEN EvEmucs ' nearly killed him. ‘I shall not sleep a wink. 5 ' THE EVENING GAZETTE A CASE OF onscreen. “Did you 'ever' give a man the wrong medicine, Dr. Macphcrson?” I asked him as we sat chatting in my SDUggel‘y, where the famous doctor' treated me to many cur-ions reminis— cences of his early career. "“I should think that most medical men must make slips of,that kind at least onCe in a lifetime.” - Macpherson shook his head. “I do not remember doing it. But I once gave a man an overdose of a drug for a. sleeping draught, which It was his own fault, though, as you will see when I tell you the story.” “One night my door bell rang.- The violence of summons suggested that somebody was in urgent need of my services, and I sighed to think of the probability that I was to be called out again. “When I opened the door I found it was as I expected. A small boy, breathless with running, informed me. that I was wanted at once at an ad- dress he gave me in a street about half an hour’s walk from my house. . “The door was opened by a genial looking old gentleman in a flowered dressing gown, who carried a lamp in his hand, and his first words set my mind at rest as far as my fears of a hoax were concerned. “ ‘Oh, you are the doctor, I sup- pose?’ he said. ‘Will you walk up stairs, please?’ “He was chatting all the while that he preceded me up the staircase in a voice that certainly did not show any anxiety. ‘ “The room was comfortably, almost handsomely furnished as a sitting room, and contained a cheerful look- ing fire, before which two arm chairs were drawn up, with a small table between them, containing two glasses, a bottle of whiskey, a syphon of soda water, besides a box of cigars. ,But there was no sign of a patient. “ ‘Take off. your great coat and sit down,’ said the old gentleman; ‘you can put your things on the table. I suppose you will not object to a Scotch and a cheroot? I can recom- mend the cheroots.’ “He had seated himself in one of the arm chairs as he spoke, and was filling the glasses. “ ‘Pardon me,’ I said, in considera- ble astonishment, ‘but had I not bet: ter see the patient before I do any- thing else?’ “He looked up, as if surprised at my suggestion. “ ‘Oh, I am the patient,’ he said, placidly. “I started in greater surprise than ever, for he looked quite a picture of health, and he smiled good naturedly. “ ‘If you will sit down, I will tell you what is the matter with me,’ he said, as placidly as before. ‘I do not like to see a man standing when I am sitting, and if you do not take your coat off you will catch cold when you go out again. You doctors never use your knowledge to take care of yourselves. That is better,’ as I obeyed, wonderingly. ‘I am a victim of insomnia,’ he went on, after I had taken the other arm chair; ‘I suffer terribly. You cannot tell what it is to stay awake all night long while the rest of the world is asleep. Not a soul to speak to, the one living per— son in a city of dead. I think that it will send me mad some day.’ “ ‘Yes, it is a great afiliction,’ I said shortly, not a little chagrined that I had been summoned at that time of the night to a consultation which could have been had at any time. ‘but it can be cured in time with healthy living.’ “ ‘But that does not help me to- night,’ replied my patient, pushing the box of cigars toward me. “ ‘You are sufiering tonight?’ I asked, with my most professional air. “ ‘Yes, I am perfectly certain that It would make me feel suicidal to go to bed and try. That is why I sent for a doctor, but I am sorry you have had to come so far.’ ‘ -, “ ‘Well, it is lucky that I have brought some drugs with me,’ I said, opening my bag before me. ‘I will give you a sleeping draught for to- n' ht, but you must give up drugs and diet yourself, if you really want a cure.’ f “I took out the soporific ‘I had pre- . pared before starting as I spoke, but the old gentleman shook his head hopelessly. “It is not the least use to give me, drugs,’ doctor, he said. ‘ have satu- rated my system with them, and they have no effect upon me}, ‘ “ ‘Then, may I ask why you have sent for me?’ I asked quickly, feel- ing very much like losing my temper. “ ‘Well, it is like this. doctor,’ he said, placidly. ‘I can’t sit up all night by mvself. I feel as if I should go mad if I do. I must have somebody ' to talk to.’ “ ‘And you mean to tell me—’ I'be gan, hotly, and paused for want of words to express my indignation. - .“My patient took advantage of the pause to proceed in his gentle, half- apologetic manner; “ ‘I assure you, doctor, that I looked upon it as quite a business matter. I do not look upon a physician as a philanthropist, but as a business man, Whose chief inducement, after all. is to make money. May I ask you what your fee is?’ “ ‘My usual fee is 7s. 6d.,’ I said, se- Verely. I was a modest beginner in those days. ‘But when I am called out in the night-’ ' “ ‘You make it higher, of course,’ put in my patient, imperturbably. ‘Shall we say 108?’ “I nodded. ' “ ‘And may I'ask how long your visit usually takes?’ “ ‘It varies from five minutes to an hour.’ “The man performed a slzsrt calcu~ iatiozi‘ on his fingers. -" ".-‘hen we may call, your average visit thirty—two and a half minutes,’ he said quietly. ‘ T.‘eil, I am quite prepared to pay you 10 shillings'for every thirty—two and a‘ half minutes that you remain with me. You came exactly 12:20. Allow me to pay you up till 12:53.’ He gravely handed me half a sovereign as he spoke, and went on: ‘If you prefer it, I have not the least objection to your giving me medical advice at the time you are here, although that is immaterial to me, so long as you talk about Some— thing, and keep me from the loneli- ness that I dread. Do take a cigar and help yourself to whiskey.’ “His tone was so business-like and matter-of-fact that it was impossible to quarrel with him. Besides, his ev- ident dread of being alone, which so many victims of insomnia have, ap- pealed to my sympathies. “I began by reading aloud to him in a soft, monotonous tone, which I had generally found effective, and at the. end of half an hour was congrat- ulating myself on my success, when the old gentleman jumped up, wide awake, and, fishing in his pocket, pro- duced another half sovereign. “ ‘You must not forget your fee,’ he said, as he lay back at full length upon the couch; ‘please go on. It is very soothing.’ ‘ “I was getting desperately sleepy myself( and more than ever anxious to succeed and get away, when my patient roused himself again sud- denly. ' “ ‘This won’t do,’ he said, quite aux- iously. “If you go .to sleep, how on earth shall I know what I owe you?’ “ ‘You can trust that to me,’ I said, shortly, and continued the reading again, with what seemed like com- plete success, til] at 2 o’clock my pa- tient jumped up as lively as ever to present me with my fourth fee. “The want of sucéess made me des- perate, and I was already regretting deeply the promise which prevented me leaving the old gentleman to his fate and getting home, when another thought suggested itself to me. “The sleeping draught which he re- fused was lying on the table before me. He admitted having taken large quantities of every known drug, but this was a very strong one, and might affect him more than he expected. If I could get him to take it. He had refused so point blank before that I did not ask his consent, but slipped it quietly into a glass while I was read- ing. ' “ ‘Perhaps another glass of whiskey will help you,’ I said, filling it up; ‘try drinking it straight off.’ “He obeyed me without suspicion, and took the whole dose. which, of course, I should not have ventured to give anybody unaccustomed to drugs. “It appeared tome to take effect very quickly, but I did not'fiatter myself on the point until my next fee became due, when finding that my patient did not stir, I rose softly, put on my hat and coat, and turning down the lamp, felt my way down stairs in the dark, and let myself out of the house. “As I walked home I told myself that I had secured a desirable pa- tient, and already given him some reason to have faith in my powers. The four half sovereigns jingled pleasantly in my pocket, and I had still time left to get a good sleep be- fore it was necessary to begin the day’s work. “But rest was not for me yet awhile. As I opened my door with a latchkey a single glance at the hall was suflicient to put another complex- ion on the case, and I strode rapidly through the house, to find it had been ransacked from top to bottom. “My old friend with the insomna was simply the accomplice of a gang of burglars, who had taken this means of keeping me out of the way while his friends removed the greater part of my portable property. It seemed to me as if they must have taken it away in a furniture van. “I hurried ed at once to the neigh- boring police station, and the inspec- tor in charge looked serious. “ ‘It seems to me like the work of a gang that we have been hearing of for some time. but that we can’t get hold of,’ he said. “ ‘Well, I think I can take you to a house where you will find one of the gang,’ I said, and told him briefly of my patient. The policeman smiled a superior smile. , “ ‘He is one of the gang, without doubt, as well as the lad who brought his message, but you won’t find him at the house now. 4’ You will find that he has taken the room furnished for a day or two, and vanished the in- stant you left the place.’ “‘I have no, doubt that was the plan,’ I said; .‘but I happened to give the gentleman a dose which, if he isn’t used to dugs, as he pretended, will keep him asleep for a. week.’ ” “And did you find him?” I asked, when Macpherson had reached this point in his story, and the famous physician nodded. “Yes, exactly as I left him. I had some trouble bringing him round- As we thought, he was a notorious crim- inal,» and his arrest led to that of the whole gang, and—what was of more importance to me—the recovery of my furniture. It has often made me smile to think of that little sleeping draught effecting what the whole po- lice force of the metropolis had been trying to do for months. I call it a triumph of medicine.’——Tid-Bits. . Time Flies. - “You don’t mean to say you became engaged to him after but five hours! acquaintance?” ‘ " _ “Certainly! How much time would you have me devote to one engage- ment.” ' ' bra—Washington Times. FIRE IN GREAT Boaaireror. ,. Blaze That Deal-raved Many Buildings, Dmng; $230,000 Damage. GREAT Bananas-my, Mass, Oct. 14.— iTho worst: fire that. over occurred here ‘broke out from an unknown cause in a tenement house near the New York, New Haven and Hartford railroad station. The fire soon spread to the Kennedy hotel and livery stablesand the Miller House sta- bles, situated in the center of the town. These were burned at a loss of $10,000, stock and carriages being saved. The syndicate building, three stories, and of brick, went. next. It was occupied by E. D. Humphrey, harnesses, . Id J. loney, furniture: loss,'$20,000, fully in- sured. The Girling block, occupied by T. J. Kearin, clothing, and Maurice Led- drick’s big store, was burned with a loss of $6,000. The Miller House annex, three stories, all rooms occupied, was destroyed at a loss of $4, 000. These buildings were on the West side of Main street. On the south side of Railroad street there were burned Culver’s block, containing Ed Gor- ham’s grocery store, J. H. Morgan’s news rooms, and Culver’s furniture, repair and storage rooms, at a loss of $10,000; three small wooden blocks, owned by A. L. Hubbell, loss $5.000; Charles McAuliflo’s meat and provision store, a two. story building worth $33,000, and Crctty’s saloon building, loss, $3.000. All telephone and telegraphic connec- tion was destroyed. The fire had been driven by the gala across to Castle street and the residence part of town. The town’s only fire engine threw eight streams. Conservative estimate places the loss at $200,000. MISS CALDWELL TO HARRY. She Will Wed the llIarqnls do Morlnvllle at Dre-den on Oct. 19. WASHINGTON, Oct. 14. 4—A letter received heretfrom Miss Mary Gwendolin Caldwell, founder of the divinity college of- the Cath- olic university, announces her contem- plated marriage at Dresden, on Oct. 19, to the Marquis de Merinville. Miss Caldwell’s marriage will be a very quiet one in consequence of the recent be- reavement of her only sister, the Baroness von Zedwitz, whose husband was killed in a yachting accident about two months ago. The wedding will occur in the Dres- den home of the Von Zedwitzes, and the ceremony will be performed by Bishop Spalding of Peoria, who is the adminis- trator of the Caldwell estate. He was summoned to Germany after Baron von Zedwitz’s death to settle the affairs, and he has been appointed the guardian of the young son of the baron and baroness. t l i g in this city. At the French embassy no definite information of his family could be obtained. ' Mutiny on a Spanish Warship. MADRID, Oct.- 14.-—A dispatch from Forrol says that a mutiny has occurred on board the Spanish warship Alfonso XIII, lying at that port. Forty gunners re- belled and attempted to seize the boats and go ashore. A fight between the muti- neers and the marines and others on board the ship ensued, with the result that the revolt was suppressed and the mutlneers put in irons. Mayhew and Koch Must Die. ALBANY, Oct. 15. -—Arthur Maybew, col- ored, of Hempstead, Queens county, and John Hoch'of Martinsburg, Lewis coun- ty, will have to be resentenced to death in the electric chaiir, inasmuch as the court of appeals today rendered decisions affirming the judgments of conviction of murder in the first degree made by the lower courts against both men. Bismarck Suflering From Netti-nigh). BERLIN, Oct. 14. —-Thc Hamburger Nach- richtcn, the personal organ of Prince Bis— marck. says that although the ex-chancel- lor is suflering'fromneuralgia in the face, which is especially troublesome, there is no change in his general health. A Determined Suicide. TROY, N. Y., Oct. 14.-—Miss Anna L. Adams, aged 49 years. committed suicide by jumping into the Hudson river at Lan- singburg today. Before doing so‘ she tied her feet together. No cause for the deed can be assigned. The Weather. Generally fair; winds. FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL Closing Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. . NEW YORK. Oct. 13.—Money on call firm at6 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. nominally 7%@S}§ per cent. Sterling ex'c ange steady. with actual business in bankers’ ills at 84.8% 4.84% for demand and [email protected]}§ for 60 days. Posted rates, SASWJW and [email protected]. Com- mercial bills, 84150. Silver certificates, 64% 65c.; no sales. Bar silver, 64%0. Mexican dol- lars, 4954c. Government bonds firm. State bonds inactive. Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: - New England..... — Atchisond . . . . . . . . 12%; Bur. & Quincy.. . . 68% N. J. Central ...... 99 0.. 0.. C. & St. L. . 24% North American. 4% Chesapeake &O.. 13% Northern Pacific. 12% Chicago Gas ...... 60% Do. pref ........... 1956 Cordage...., ...... 4% N. Y. Central..... 91 Cotton Oil ........ 13 Omaha ....... ..... 36 Del. & Hudson. . .ISOM Ont-trio & West. . 18% Distillers’ Trust.. — Pacific Mail ...... . 20 Erie ............... 13% Reading ...... . .. .. 23% General Electric.. 26, Rock Island....... 59% Hocking Valley.. 16% Silver Bullion..... 64% Lackawanna......153 St.:Paul ..... , 69% Lake Shore.......144% Sugar Reflnery...10’i% Lead .............. 20 Texas Pacific ...... 636 Louisville & Nash 42% Missouri Pacific.. 19% Northwestern.... 98% Union Pacific..... 6% Wabash pref... . .. 14% Western Union... 83% General nuke“. NEW YORK, Oct. 13.-—FLOUR—State and western quiet and held higher with w , ates mills patents. [email protected]; winter patent 33. 4.10; city mills clears. “@445; winter straights. $8.55@3-75- WHEAT—No. 2 red was strong and do (1- edly higher all the morning on unexpecte ly higher cables, foreign buying and local bull support: December, 76%@78%c.; May, 78% Wife. CORN—No. 2 advanced sharply on recent-ex- : port activity and sympathy with wheat; Octos bar, 31@31}§c.: December, c. OATS—No. 2 quiet. but nominally firmer with wheat: track. white, state, 20@30c.; track. white. Western. 20@30c. PORK—Quiet: mess. [email protected]: family. $10.50 @1250. - LARD — Firm; nominal. BUTTER'—Steady; state dairy. 10@17c.; state creamer-y, 12@190. - state. large, 7®9%c.: CHEESE — Steady: small. 7®10c. ' EGGS—Quiet; state and Pennaylvania.19@ 20m; western. 13@18}£c. - - SUGAR—Raw quiet, but steady: fair refin'. ing, 296cc centrifugal. 96 test, 80.; refined quiet; crushed. Me; powdered. 459B. TURPENTINE—Firm at 29W. . , MOLASSES—Firm;'New Orleans. We. RICE—Firm: -doméstic, We Japan, 4@ Me. i '. . . ' TALLOW—Steady; city. 3%@ic.: country. 3%@4c. ' ‘ ’ ‘ HAY—Steady; shipping. mum: Road to choice. 80@%c. prime western steam, $4.95; H. Ma-- northerly to westerly ‘ The Marquis de Merinville is not known - ' WWI.- Who wins in the race? Is itasick man? Is it a man who is weak? Is», it a man whose blood is impure? An athlete trains :5:- .every race: The best athletes train all the ' time. They are always in perfect condition. It is pretty safe to say that the best man wrll always win. The man who is strong and in the best condition Will surely distance 1115 competitors. ‘ In the race for suc- cess, the best man will win if he takes care of himself. He cannot win if he neglects his- -- physical condition. _It doesn’t make', any dif- ference how smart he is. If his bpdy isn’t strong, he Will never finish the race. 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