Judge — April 5, 1913 — page 17: what you’re looking at

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= Q ivetcie 365 nosing hookworm without examina- tions, Dr. Miller said, “It is practically impossible to tell from looking at a man just what he has inside of him. Like the man who bought apatent heave cure for his horse. The care was some unknown but innocent- Jooking powder, done up in a small metal tube. You broke off the seals at each end, put one end in your mouth and the other end in the horse’s mouth; then you blew the powder into the horse. “Well, a few days after he sold the dope, the merchant saw the farmer com- ing into his store, breathing like he had the heaves himself. “‘Hello, Smith!’ the dealer called cheerfully, fearing that, after all, the horse had succumbed. ‘Horse all right, I suppose.” “Oh, yes, I guess so. By the way, jost what was in that tube, anyhow?’ “‘Stuff to cure heaves; what do you sappose?’ smiled the dealer graciously. “Why? “The farmer cackled derisively. ‘I guess I got mumps, then,” he barked. ‘I got to thinking about the testimonial I was going to write, and the darned borse blew first '!’’ A Clew That Failed Major Richard Sylvester, superintend- ent of the Washington police, says that deductions in the manner of Sherlock Holmes do not always work out success- fally—at least, they did not in the fol- lowing case. Anumber of newspapermen were once discussing the famous stories, when one young man, who liked to put the theory of Holmes into practice, suddenly pointed toa man standing some distance away. “That person,’’ said he, ‘‘used to be a sldier."” “How do you figure that?”’ “Observe the manner in which he puts his hand into his trousers’ pocket. He lifts up the side of his coat—see him do itnow—instead of pushing the coat back, a8 the average man does. That habit, gentlemen, he acquired by reason of his Wearing a fatigue coat while in the army. A fatigue coat, you know, is cut square about the body. To put the hand into the aaa pocket, one must lift up the In the discussion that followed, some ene volunteered to lay the speculations before the stranger. He was much ‘amused. “The reason I put my hand in my Pocket in the manner you speak of,” he aid, ‘is because I used to be a butcher, in Philadelphia, thirty years ago. I got the habit raising my butcher’s apron to make change.’ The Winged Message Noah’s messenger was a dove. In In America, the land of the tele- Solomon’s time, pigeons were trained phone, the carrier pigeon is bred only to carry messages. Brutus used them for racing. The winged word has at the siege of Modena. They served _ taken the place of the winged mes- the Turks in their fights against the — senger. Crusaders. In medizval wars they were more useful than ever before. Pigeons may fly more than a mile soo il a minute, but the telephone is as France had a carrier-pigeon mai quick as speech itself. service, with messages reduced by photography and read through a The dove is the emblem of peace. microscope. The telephone is the instrument of Even today carrier pigeons are = peace. The telephone lines of the utilized as news-bearers in isolated Bell System unite a hundred million parts of Europe. people in one national family. AMERICAN TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANY AND ASSOCIATED COMPANIES One Policy Universal Service For Liquor and Drug Users A scientific treatment which has cured half a million in the past thirty-three years, and the one treatment which has stood the severe test of time. Adminis- tered by medical experts, at the Keeley Institutes only. For full particulars write To the Following Keeley Institutes: Hot Springs, Portland. Me. Oklahoma City, Okla. SIAN, Stiles St. Waukesha, Wis Avante“ Borate eae Phitndcipoias Fac ate N rca St Winnipeg. Manitoba, Dwight. i Manchester, N.H. Pitteburgh, Pa. dius Fifth Ave. Guatemala City, Guatemala, Marion, Ind Buffalo. N.Y. Dallas, Tex, Puebla. Mexico. Des Moines, 1a. Greens N.C. Sal e City, Utah. London, Engtand Crab Orebard. Ky. Columbas. Ohio. Seattie, Wash. In answering advertisements please mention JUDGE. It will be appreciated comicbooks.com