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Show Made the Doctor Jump. A large and lanky recruit drifted Into In-to the National Guard armory to give his service to his country. After h had gone through the necessary ex amlnatlon as to his age, parents, constitutional con-stitutional ability to walk through seas of mud, the color of his hair and eye and locality of tattoo marks and other preliminaries to a military career, th examining surgeon took up a stethoscope stetho-scope and began listening to the recruit's re-cruit's heart, lungs, etc. This was a new experience for th boy. He had never seen a man with a stethoscope before, and had the Impression Impres-sion the doctor was deaf and that th stethoscope was a pair of ear trumpets. trum-pets. Consequently, when the medical man) said : "Ever have any consumption In youf family?" the rookie picked up the en of the stethoscope dangling In front of the physician, and yelled Into It a loud as he could : "No." The doctor jumped a foot. A stetho scope Is extremely delicate, and a roa like that nearly splits the ear drums, i |