| Show camphor for his wife is there was a f farmer ar mer up home he said midi wh who 0 used to have his occasional spree every one knew his failing and neither of tho ho druggists in ia town would sell him a drop one day he brought a quart bottle into one of the apothecary shops with two or three big lumps lamps of gum gam camphor in the bottom he told the druggist that his wife wanted her camphor bottle filled with w ith alcohol the druggist filled it without suspecting any thing in ili a week the old man came again F baud and in a little while the third time finally the druggist discovered that the gum camphor was milky quartz picked up in the fields and that the farmer had bad poured camphor over the outside of the bottle until enough had crystallized there to look natural and smell right the quartz hurt the alcohol for drinking purposes I 1 time rod and tho the hour |
