South Bend News-Times, Volume 37, Number 340, South Bend, St. Joseph County, 5 December 1920 — Page 23

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A RAMBLE IN APHASIA By 0. Henry

My wifA end I partM on that! ncrnlnpj In rrclöly our uual man r.cr. Fhe jrft hr nr-rond cup of tea to foMow m to th? front d-or. Thre ihn plucked from my lai 'l the lnvlftlble Ptrand cf lint (thj universal act of woman to proclaim ownerfhlp) and tad1 mo take care of my old. I had no cold. Nxt cam hr-r khs of partim? the l-vr-l k!s of domesticity flavored with Youns llyion. TTier was no f ar of th" ortmroranenu. of variety pplcir.s J her Inf.nlt cutnm. With the dft , tOTJCh of long inalpractlce. fho d lb-r-od awry my well-set f-varf pin: and then, as I closed the door, I heard hr morning 'lpper pattering hack to her cooling tea. When I net out I had no thought or premonition what was to occur. The attack cam suddenly. "For many weekn I had ben to!llnar. almost night and day, at a famous ral!rofi1 law ca that I won triumphantly but a few days previoutly. In fact, I had been dipping away nt th law almost without cessation for many years. Once or twice (rood DsctoT Volney, my friend and physician, had warned me. "If you don't slacken up, Bellford." ho said, "you'll po suddenly to plcr. Either your nervo or your brain will ylvo way. Tell me, does a week pann In which you do not read In the paper of a cas of aphaala of eome man lost, wandering" narnelfs, with his paßt and hla identity blotted out and all from that Ifttlo brain clot made by overwork or worry ? "I always thought," eald I, "that th olot In those Instances was really to ba found on the brains of th rjevBpaper reporters. Doctor Volney shook his head. Tfhe disease exists," he .nld. "You need & change or & rest. Court-room, office and home there Is the only rout you travel. For recreation you you read law books. Better take waJninij In time." M0n Thursday night' I said, defemtvely, "my wife and I Klay cribbane. On Funday Phe reads to me the weekly letter from her mother. That law books are not a recreation remains yet to be established." That morning as I walked I was thinking of Doctor Volney's words. I was feeling as well as I usually lid possibly in better spirits than usual. I woke with ptlff and cramped muscles from having slept long on the Incommodious feat of a iTay coach. I leaned my head against tho at and tried to think. After a long time I aaid to myself: "I must have a name of some port." I warched my pockets. Not a card; not a letter; not a paper or monogram could I find. But I found in my coat pocket nearly $3,000 in bills of large denomination. "I must bo some one, of course, ' I repeated to myeelf, and began again to consider. Tho car was well crowded with men, among whom, I told myself, there must have been some common interest, for they intermingled freely, and seemed in the best pood humor and spirits. One of them a stout, npectacled gentleman, enveloped In a decided odor of cinnamon and aloes took the vacant half of my peat with a friendly nod, and unfolded a newspaper. In tho intervals between his periods of reading, wo conversed, as travelers will, on current affairs. I found myself able to sustain tho conversation on such subjects with credit, at least to my memory. By and by my companion paid: "You aro one of ua, of course. Fine lot of men tho west sends in this time. I'm glad they held the onvention in New York; I've never been east before. My name's II. V. B Idr Bolder & Son. of Hickory lirove, Missouri." Though unprepared. I rose to the inergency, a.s men will when put to It. Now must I hold a christening, and be at once babe, parson and parent. My Fens came to the resue of my slower brain. The inslstrnt or dor of drups from my companion supplied ono Idea; a glance at his newspaper, where my eye met i conspicuous advertisement, assisted me further. "My name." aid I Kllbly, "is Edward Pinkhammer. I am a drug-, gi-t, and my homo la in CornopoU. Kansas." "I knew you were a druggist," said my fellow traveler, affably. "I .-aw tho callous apot on your right forefinger where the handle of tho p.-stle rubs. Of course, you are a delegate our our national convention." "Are all thfe men druggist ?" I asked, wonderlngly. "Thy are. This car eamo through from Üio west. And they're your old-time druggists. too none of your patent tablet-and-granule phsrmashootists that use slot machines Instead of a prescription desk. We percolate our own paregori and ro'l our own pills, and we ain't above handling a few garden seeds In tho spring, and carrying a aide line of . confectionery and shoes, I tell you Hamplnker, I've got an Idea to eprinff cn this convention new ideaa la what they want. Now. you know the shelf bottles of tartar emetic and Rochelle pa.lt Ant. et Pot. Tart. one's poison, you know and the other's harmless. It's easy to mistake one label for tho other. "Where do druggists mostly keep 'em? Why. as far apart as rouble, cn different shelve. That's wrong. I say keep 'em side by side, so when you want one you can always compare It with the other and avoid mistake. Do you catch the idea?" "It peems to mo a very good one," I 6ald. "All right! When I spring In on the convention you lack It up. WeTl make eome cf thsf eastern crange-phosphate-a n d-m a s s a g ecream prcfe.seors that think they're the only lotenors In the market look like hypodermic tablets." "If I can bo of any aid." I paid, warming, "the two bottles of er " "Tartrate of antimony and potash, and tartrate cf soda and potash." "Shall henceforth sit side by side," I concluded, firmly. "Now, there's another thing." said Mr. Bolder. "For an excipient In manipulating a pill mass which do you prefer the magnesia carbonate cr the pnlverlrd glyr. rrhiza radix ?" Th" t r magnesia." I raid. It was eajsler to yay than the cth r word. Mr. Bolder planned at me dltustfullr through Ms yjvr tar r s. "lJ!v inn th clyr. rrhira." Fail he. "Magnesia caks." Ht-r" nnotlif-r ( r.r rf th5 fake aphnsta cases." h- fail, presently, handlr.g T:.e h!- r. ? n sj. a ;x r. and laying hl. f!r.g-r up-t; ar article. "'I don't believe lr, Vm. I put nine out f !ni cf 'em down a. frauds. A max; cets sick f his t-u ine ud

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timr. iio pklps out somewhiTP, and vhcn they Und him he pretends to havo r.st hi-) memory don't know his own namo, and won't even recornlzo th Ktrawbfrry mark on his wife's Wt .houlder. Aphasia! Tut! Why can't they stay at home and fofK't?" I took the paper and read, after "Have You liver Dared Since That the pungent headlines, the follow ing: "Denver. June 12. Elwyn C. Bellford, a prominent lawyer,' is mysteriously missing from his home since three days ago, and all efforts to locate him have been in vain. Mr. Bellford la a well-known citizen of the highest standing, and has enJoyed a large and lucrative law practice. Ho is married and owns a fine home and the most extensive private library in the state. On the day of hl3 disappearance, he drew quite a large sum of money from his bank. No one can be found who saw him after he left the bank. Mr. liellford was a man of sigularly quiet and domestic tastes, and seemed to find his happiness in his home and profession. If any clue at all exists to his strange disappearance, It may be found In the fact that for some months he has been deeply absorbed In an Important law case In connection with the Q. Y. and Z. Railroad Co. It is feared that overwork may have affected his mind. Every effort la being made to discover the whereabouts of the missing man." "It Feems to me you are not altogether uncynlcal, Mr. Bolder," I said, after I had read the despatch. "This has - the sound, to me, of a genuine case. Why should this man. prosperous, happily married and respected, choose suddenly to abandon everything? I know that these lapseg of memory do occur, nnd that men do find themselves adrift without a name, a history or a home." "Oh, gammon and jalap!" said Mr. Bolder. "It'. larks they're after. There's too much education nowadays. Men know about aphasia, and they use It for an excuse. The women are wise too. When it's all . . over tney iook you in the eye. as 1.' , - c - x The

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say: , Thus Mr. Bolder diverted, but did not aid me with his comments and philosophy. We arrived In New York about 10 at night. I rode In a cab to a hotel, and I wrote my name "Kdward Pinkhammer" in the register. As I did so I felt pervade me a splendid. Night to Touch, Smell or Look at Wlilt u'lld, Intoxicating buoyancy a sense of unlimited freedom, of newly attained possibilities. I was just born into the world. The old fetters whatever they had been were stricken from my hands and feet. Tho future lay before me and a clear road such as an infant enters, and I could set out upon it equipped with a man's learning and experience. I thought tho hotel clerk looked at me five seconds too long. I had no baggage. Indigestion Sourness

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"The Druggists convention.' .-aid. trunk has somehow failed to arrive." I drew out a roll of ; money ir,, ' Ah! said he, showing an arirlff rous tooth, "we have quit a num- ' ber of the western delegates stopping here." He struck a bell for the boy. e Uoses Wot With Ilain and Dew?" I endeavored to give color to my role. "Thre is an important movement on foot among us westerners," I said, "in regard to a recommendation to the convention that the bottles containing the tartrate of antimony and potash, and t'.e tartrate of sodium and potash be kept in a contiguous position on the shelf." "Gentleman to three-fourteen," said the clerk, hastily. I was whisked away to my room. The next day I bought a trunk

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. - ou t pror-iems or tne past, It was piquant and sparkling cup that the creat Island cltv Kelrf nn to my Uns. I drank of it rpfuliv. The keys of Manhattan belong to him who is able to bear them. You must be elih?r the city's guest or Its victim The following few davs were as gold and silver. Edward Pinkham mer. yet counting back to his birth by hours onlj, knew the rare joy of having come upon so diverting a world fullfkdprd and unrestrained. I sat entranced on the magic carpets provided in theaters and roof-par-dens, that transported one into strange and delightful lands full of frolicsome music, pretty girls and grotesque, drolly extravagant parodies upon human kind. I went here .nd there at my own dear will, bound by no limits of space, time or comportment. I dined in weird cabarets, at weirder tables d-hote to the sound of Hungarian music and the v.lid shouts of mercurial artists and sculptors. Or, again, where the niurht life quivers in the electric glare like a klnetoscoplc picture, and the millinery of the world, and Its jewels, and the ones whom thev : adorn, and the men who make all I three possible are met for good cheer and tho spectacular effect. And among all these .cer.es that I have mentioned I learned one thing ; that I never knew before. And that ' is that the key to liberty is not in tho hands of License, but Conven- ' tion holds it. Comity has a tollgate at which you must pay. or you may not enter the land of Freedom. In all the glitter, the seeming disorder, the parade, the abandon. I saw this law, unobtrusive, yet like ion, prevail. Therefore, in Manhattan you must obey .these unwritten laws, and then you will be freest of the free. If you decline to be bound by them, you put on shackles. Sometimes, as my mood urged me, I would seek the stately, softly murmuring palm rooms, redolent with high-born life and delicate restraint, in which to dine. Again I would go , down to the waterways in steamers I l1 I4W if j.nen uh vociierous, neaecKed, unchecked love-making clerks and shop girls to their crude pleasures on the island shores. And there was always Broadway glistening, opulent, wily, varying, desirable Broadway growing upon one like an opium habit. One afternoon as I entered my hotel a stout man with a big nose and a black mustache blocked my way in the corridor. When I would have passed around him. he greeted me with offensive familiarity. ;Hello. Bellford!" he cried, loudly. "What the deuce are you doing in New York? Didn't know anything could drag you away from that old book den of yours. Is Mrs. B. along or is this a little business run alone ch?" "You have made a mistake, sir," I said, coldly, releasing my hand (CONTINUED ON PAGE 12.) ft Why

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STEALING A SECRET OF STRONG MEN'S STRENGTH

MedicrU Science shows why Spinach and Carrots with organic iron often so surprisingly increase one's strength, vigor and endurance.

Th'u bq burly mm lying on the noor OUGHT TO BE ASHAMED OF HIMSELF but hii blood is thin, pile and watery and he timpljr hadn't the trength and endurance to "go up ipainst' the little fellow. When there it rreat deficiency of iron in the blood vou often have hortneu of breath cr palpitation of the heart and you may THINK. YOU HAVE HEART TROUBLE.

The reatcn for thii is simple: THE IRON IN YOUR BLOOD TAKES THE OXYGEN from vour lurg-s and carrie it to every part of your body. WITHOUT IRON YOUR BLOOD CARRIES NO OXYGEN and WITHOUT OXYGEN you may have shortness of breath; your heart flutters on some ilijjht provocation and sometimes there is A FEELING OF SUFFOCATION OR DIZZINESS, the same as if someone shut off your breath, to no vrondw you lose 10 much of your bodily vigor, strength and endurance. Scientific experiments have proven conclusively that a secret of the strength, POWER AND ENDURANCE OF ALL STRONG MEN, is an abundance of iron in the blood. Without iron yo?r blood loses its power to charge food into liying tissue and nothing you eat does you the proper amount of good

you do not get the full strength out of it. PRIZE FIGHTERS, WRESTLERS and ATHLETES have learned the value of plenty of plain, coarse foods H their training as such a diet helps supply their blood with iron. THERE ARE 30,000,000,000,000 RED BLOOD CORPUSCLES IN YOUR BLOOD AND EACH ONE MUST HAVE IRON.

Karore pat plmty of Iron in the hnski cf grains and thskins and pee s cf veretablM and fruits to enrich your blood, but modern cethods of cookery throw all thee things away hence the alarmirf increase In recent years in anaemia iron starvation of the blood, with all its attendant i'.ls. When you j tet up feelmi tired in th? mcrmcg; when you find yourself nenrous, irriUtble and easily upset; when you can no longer do your day's werk without being ail fagged out at night; when your dUestioa all roes wronr, or you hare rains aoss tl.e back and your face looks pale and drawn, do not wait until you fo all to tieces and coliapoe in a state of r.ervons prostratlon. or until in your weakened condition you contract some

serious diseas:, but consult your family physician and have him take a specimen of your blood and make a "blood -count" of your red tilocxl corputcJra or test the iron-power of your blood fOure!f by adding r'entr of spinach, carrotj, baked apples or othr iron-containinr frrits and vpt?tabs to ycur daily food ind take organic iron with them for a while and see bow your condition Improves.

Tbauunda of people hare urrrMnt'ly lncT?a?4 their ttrrrtth, energy and eadurance in two weeks time by this imple experiment. But ia making; this test be wrt that the iron you take is organic Iron and not raetjUk: iron cr mineral iron which people usually take. Organic Iron i like the iron in your blood and like the iron in spinach, lentUa and apples, while metallic iron is iron jut as It comes from tfee sietion of strong acids on small pieces of iron. Organic iron may be had fron your druggist under the name cf Nuxated Iron. Njxated Iron represents organic Iron In such a highly concentrated form that one dos is estimated to be approximately equivalent (ia

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