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Show Another Use for Medicine. A Chicago family which employs as Its butler an old-fashioned negro was constantly annoyed by the doorbell of the house getting out of "order. ' Or several occasions an electrician who used some sort of white powder in his work, had been called in to fix the bell. One evening when there were guests at dinner, one of them complained 3f a sore throat. The mistress of the house turned to the butler and said: "Sam, when dinner is over, go to the irug store and get a small bottle of Dobell's solution." "Before de Lawd!" exclaimed the oegro in genuine distress. "Is dat do'-bell do'-bell out of ordah ag'in?" Popular Magazine. |