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A Love Potion
[Original ]
The great scientist sat reading his
morning paper liefore goiug into his
laboratory.
"I'lease. sir." said the butler, "there's
a young woinnu to see you, sir."
The scientist, always accessible, di
rected that she lie shown iu. A well
formed, rosy cheeked young Kuglish
girl entered with evident diffidence.
"What can 1 do for you i" asked the
scieutist iu a kiudly. reassuriug tone.
She re|ilie?l iu one of those well modu
lated voices for which the daughters of
Brltaiu arc eouspicuous.
"I've heard, sir. that you're a great
haictoemy."
The scieutist smiled.
"Is It astrologist you are':" she has
tened to add by way of correcting a
possible mistake.
"I'm a chemist."
"Well. sir. I'm Molly Baiue. a poor
girl that dances for a llviu". One o" the
girls has taken my young man away
from me. aud 1 thought you'd be so
kind as to give uie a a love draft to
bring him back."
The scientist smiled again.
"He's a good young man Is Tommy."
tbr girl went on.v'aud I'm not a bad
girl. Indeed I'm not. sir. though they
say all dancing girls is. Tommy's a
scene shifter, sir."
The great man. whose discoveries
had made his name famous throughout
the world, pondered. Presently he rose
from his seat, went out aud returned
with a fistful of violets.
"My dear little girl." he said. "the?e
flowers need ouly l>e displayed before
your youug man to put him again In
your (lower. But 1 warn you that !f
you tell him who gave them to you the
spell will lie broken."
The girl's face lighted with pleasure.
"You don't mean it. sir? Is it iu the
smelling, sir':"
"Never mind where it Is. Do as (
tell you and you will have your de
sire."
The girl t'*>k out a pocketbook and.
selecting n half dollar from anions
some copper coins. offered it to the
chemist. "I tn sorry, sir. I've no more
to Bive y for the spell, but I out
sets"?
"Never mi ml the pay The violets
came from my own conservatory ami
cost nothing. I hope you will find that
they will work well. (Jood morning."
The great man bowed the girl out
ami. proceeding to his lal>oratory. soon
forgot everything except his crucibles
and test tubes.
Just twenty-four hours from the time
of his first interview with the dancing
girl he received a second visit. He lay
down his pap..r ami. looking up at the
g:rl standiug before him. saw that she
was in a teni|>estuous mental condi
tion.
"Well, my dear." he asked, "didn't
the spell work?"
"Oh. yes. sir. it worked, but the
wrong way. sir. When the ballet was
called last night I went on with the
violets in my girdle. Tommy had just
rolled a palace on when he caught
sight of *em.
" "Who givey' the violets?' he asked.
" What's that to you?* I told him. *
It s a swell. I knew one of 'eni
'ud git you.' says he.
Never you mind who give 'em.'
says I. mindin' what you told me to
keep from him. At that I danced on.
When I came off he wouldn't speak to
me. turned his back on me. and. after
we all went off and had our supper, I
tried to get a kind word from him. but
he hacted 'orrid; sir. So I. thinkln'
you might 'ave made a mistake and
given me the wrong spell, 'ave come
back for the right one."
The scientist pondered for awhile,
then said:
'Tell Tommy the Howers given you
contain an antidote for love."
The girl went out wondering, but
with full confidence In the chemist's
ability to do what lie liked? that is, If
he didn t get the wrong potion mixed
, up with the right one.
The next morning the scientist re
ceived a third visit, this time not from
the daucing girl, but from Tommy.
"Please, sir, is It you as give my
sweetheart a hantidote for lovin' me'*'
"She told me you had gone off with
auother girl."
"So I did. sir. but." looking down
and picking at his cap that he held In
his hand, "when I see she'd got some
violets, so hexpenslve as only a sweil
could afford 'em. I, thinkin' I'd lost 'er.
wanttil *er."
"iou mean you don't want what you
can get and do want what vou can't
get."
"I supjiose so. sir. I think, sir. If
you'd withdraw the spell from Molly I
wouldn't shirt agaiu."
"Well, tomorrow morning vou and
Molly come here together, and I'll see
what I can do for you."
"Do you think you can kill the hanti
dote?" the young man asked anxiously.
"rhat will depend somewhat on
you."
The next morning the pair appeared,
Molly much comforted, her lover In
considerable trepidation.
"Thomas," said the great man stern
ly. "you have deserved to lose this
sweet little girl. The only antidote for
love I gave her was your suspicion of
another man to take your place. Molly,
you have always loved him, haven't
you?"
"Yes, sir."
'Well, you can liotb go novr, and,
Molly. If you find him straying away
again or otherwise ill treating you
come to me. and next time I'll give you
an antidote that he won't get over so
easily."
Tbe only otker gift the scientist be
stowed upon the couple was a wedding
priisenr. a check aceompaaied by a box
of cut flowers from iiis conservatory.
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| of the men who used it ever reached
j Lake Bennett. Hundreds eave up in
I dispare and returned to their homes in
I the States, while many settled in Skag
I way and engaged in various business
I enterprises.
Newspapers were established, one of
which is still published, the Daily Alas
j kan a newsy little evening paper,
which sells at ten cents a copy. Here,
1 too, the tirst camp of that society
j known as the Arctic Brotherhood was
I formed in 1899, and its building, the
front of which is made of crift-wood
! found on the Skagway shores, is one of
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I wilderness to the dignity of a city in
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In the present age wherever civilized
man goes primitive conditions are ot
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I the most advanced transportation
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This fixed the fate ot Dyea."
letter list
Unoalled for Letters Remaining In
SkiMtway Poitofflot Anl . 2, 1906.
Barry, Richard,
Bridges, Harry,
Gretchin, John,
King, Geo. R.
Simons, E.
Smyth, Frank,
Wm. B. Sampson, P. M.
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.1906, is as follows:
| Temperature time observat'n. .54 above
Max. temp. preceding 24hours..ti2 "
I Min " " " " -50 "
| Mean " " " " '
Barometer 30.04
Cloudy, Strong^south wind.
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