Democratic Sentinel, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1882 — To Take a Cold Bath. [ARTICLE]

To Take a Cold Bath.

It happened when M. was Presect of Police. One morning a man, pale, haggard, panting for breath, overwhelmed. with emotion, forced his way into the office of the great personage who presides at No. 7 Boulevard du Palais. “Monsieur le Prefect,” he gasped, “ I have just received a letter. My soul is in despair. My wife has written me that I shall never see her more. Why, she explains not, yet to me all is plain; at this moment my darling spouse, my heart’s treasure, has ceased to exist. She must have committed suicide.” “Are you quite sure about that?” asked the Prefect, with a skeptical smile playing around the corners of his mouth. It was the faintest possible of smiles, one of those smiles peculiar to Magistrates who have learned from experience to believe nothing of what they hear, and not a great deal of what they see; but, faint as it was, it exasperated his visitor, who forthwith exploded as only could explode an intrepid husband ready to stake his life on his helpmate’s fidelity. The Prefect sat quietly until the storm had passed, and then calmly, “Very well, so be it; your wife is dead. What do you want me to do?” “Why, I want you to give orders at once to dredge the Seine for the body of her who has always been the tender, loving companion of my hearth and home. ” The Prefect again smiled, and then, after an instant’s search through a pile of papers lying on his desk, picked up a telegram, glanced over it rapidly, and with the remark, “That’s the one,” proceeded to assure M. X., that the dredging of the Seine was quite unnecessary, as Mme. X., very much alive, and apparently in excellent spirits, had this morning crossed the Belgian frontier, on the arm of a young man who presumably was her lover. “The dispatch,” added the Prefect, “does not indicate the direction taken by the fugitives, but as the thermometer stands at ninety-three degrees in the shade, I should recommend some seaside resort as the surest locality to be dredged, although I do not believe the couple have gone there to drown themselves.”— Paris Correspondence New York Times. Having used Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup in my family for the last three years, I find it the best preparation I have ever used for Coughs and Colds, giving almost immediate relief. B. Walkeb, Gen’l. Oom. Merchant, 118 Light st., Balto., Md