Show fnE IMAGINATION the Parts It Plays III Mat of t ir ° SOll1C involving LUc and Death tcrS Doctor dont a good many people rocure medical treatment who are not pick 1Of do Theres Of course they nothing the matter with half the socalled invalids alids 1 always kept a big batch of ireul pills l nwle up for that class of patients pa-tients Many a one Ive got out of bed Tvith that sham medicine and they thought 12 a man of profound learning Hi skill They just imagined they were sick Certainly A woman is the contraries f Gods creatures If she makes up hero her-o ind shes sick yon cant talk her out of Dl You must administer something I t that lay in bed hid one call me years ago months and she was as well as I nine for or On a certain day there was one of fheie 111 circus and animal combinations in < r 1 had an insPiration that beat ms anvconipound my skill could produce 1 hired the manager to let a tame bear out i of the cage and we all set up a hue and I the children went for the woods and that err woman took after them without even stopping to make a toilet There was nothing under the heavens the matter mill her and when her husband came to settle I thought for a while hed boot her ill over the farm Ever huo any other case of the im ainatiO11 Lots of them A big hulking fellow about leu miles from the town I was practicing in got the idea that lie was jioinz to die at just eleven oclock in the forenoon of a certain day About nine oclock a messenger came for me I hurried out When I got there the crank had fifteen minutes to live according to Ins calculations He did look like a man on the verge of eternity His eyes were dim ami sunken his face had that peculiar pecu-liar pallor which heralds the near approach ap-proach of death and his breathing was wry labored The family were gathered around and weeping as they took a final leave Something had to be done quick There was u smart looking woman there and I called heraside Pointing to the clock on the mantlepiece which the patient was watching I said When I haw his attention turn that ahead Then I crowded into the family group hustled them into the next room sat down on the age of the bed and began telling that fellow f one of the most horrible murder stone von ever heard I located it right in the town whore he knew everybody named the woman killed went into bloodcurdling details and so completely I interested l the man that he forgot about I his eleven oYlock appointment When I gave him chance to look again it was twenty minutes to twelve and he was actually mad for a time claiming that he had been tricked He finally got to laughing and we all took dinner together The next day he whipped two men at a barn raising for twitting him about the programme of death that miscarried Wa < nt there anything the matter with han P Vot a thing except what he imagined He was sound as a bullet but if I had 1 tadoptel t that ruse he would have OQC to the majority at 11 oclock Joesnt imagination sometimes cure V who are really ill j be sure it does Imagination has fcnge and unaccountable power I Ja funny incident that answers your i3rv There was a giddy young Fios called at my office one day She r1S a hit2lity creature Talked all the as she was awake yon know and had much laugh as she had talk She tnt pry clipper when she came how frer Sh3 was on crutches and accom lamed by a solicitious companion who w brim full of sympathy The invalid tad a knee badlv swollen from rheumatism rheuma-tism and wanted to know if I could administer ad-minister electricity which alwavs helped her I soon had a battery in shape The sympathetic friend placed one connection at the invalids knee which appeared angrily inflamed I held the other connection con-nection in my left hand so as to complete the circuit by touching the patient with my right I drew my finger across the back oi her neck and of course she indulged in-dulged in a few little screams and some tosteneal conversation Doctor thats a strange sensation Ouch havent I got bout enough My knee feels a great deal better Dont fill me up with that jelectrinty Ther now you must just I quit Ive got a whole streak o lightning Pine now and I knew it was all I needEd need-Ed The pretty widow walked out to 1ercarria e without a limp and had nom trouble no-m being the belle of all balls for Imbalance of the season I had noticed a aggish student of mine in the next rOOm htiflin handkerchiefs in his month writhing with suppressed lau her h-er winking at me on the sly and indulg jffig In a cancan whenever visable to me I tonehat tVlIat in thunder are you making FUeh a fwi of yourself about I enquired pen the ladies had departed He roared ay and pointing J to the battery said lOi n might have killed that handsome iatlJrl by an overdose of electricity I I I ked and joined in the hilarity I had h lated < to hitch on to the battery and I I zeiillOWs vivid imagination had sup ted the currents which wrought so sud I na cure Detroit Post I |