Liberty High School - Lion Yearbook (Brentwood, CA)

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'l'I ll-I LIBERTY BELL I was worried to think Mike had es- caped because 1 knew he would make trouble. Sure enough that night my telephone rang. The call was from an old friend of niine who lived a few blocks from us. He said, Hello, doctor, come to my house quick. The devil is to pay. What is the trouble? I asked. Hanged if l know. We've all sneezed ourselves nearly to death. Grandma has sneezed her spectacles to pieces, 1 sueezed all the buttons off my vest and the baby has sneezed herself out of the cradle. My wife is badly frightened and says its ap- pendicitis. Hurry. When I arrived at the house here was Mike roaming around the room so I said. Get this dog out of the house. As soon as he was taken out they stop- ped sneezing so I gave them some harmless medicine. Tom said, You're the best one for giv- ing medicine for immediate relief of any one I know. l left them and went home sore at heart because I knew Mike would make more trouble but I heard no more com- plaints at the end of a week so I was beginning to feel easier because I thought perhaps Mike had been killed but alas! no such luck. My wife and I were in church and the preacher had just announced a hymn when who should come marching up the aisle, but Mike. 1 began to feel my heart sink when he went nn to the preacher. The preacher said, We will now sing nnniber-ker-chew. We will now sing ker-chew-ker-chew. The poor man sneezed till the tears came from his eyes and his false teeth fell to the ftaor. When the choir saw this they started giggling so Mike thought he'r' '.'sit them too. As soon as he reached the choir they started sneezing too: the alto arsgi soprano taking the lea-J When everyone started sneezing Mike became alarmed and left. It was funny. l laughed. although I was the real cause. The preacher when he had recovered his breath and teeth said, I do not know what sacriligious person distributed snuff in this room but it is obvious that further services cannot be decorously conducted this morning. The congregation will arise and be dismissed. The affair caused much excitement and much talk and the trustees of the church offered a reward for the perpetrator of the outrage. while the Daily News came out with The Growing Depravity of Our Young Men. l, alone knew the guilty person and my conscience troubled me. I tried very hard to capture Mike without success. At last. however, I heard of the people of another town being afflicted with sudden and strange attacks of sneezing or acute in- f1nenza . as the doctors called it. I smiled t'or I knew Mike had departed our neigh- borhood and a great weight of responsi- bility was taken from me. E281 'I

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'l'llIC I.lIll RTY IlEI.I. A Gllimuirzzl ?xperiment By BI..-XNCHE I. .Il'I'ITT, '15 Did you ever hear about my queer experiment? Well, then l'll tell you about it. As you know, I am a country doctor but I always try to keep up to date. I was very much interested in the study of mi- crobes for it is this tiny germ that causes disease and if we can find some way to get rid of the germ we have a cure for the disease. I had a tiny room built in my back yard where I carried on my work of ex- perimenting. I had several bottles, each crntaining some kind of microhe. One was labled, Germs of Yellow Fever. Germs of Tuberculosis, and Bacteria of Small Pox. My wife thought it was awful to have such things about and said, Why, John, I wouldn't go in your old bug hospital for anything. You never know what kind of a bug is liable to get hold of you. I carried on my experiments in private and cne day, by mistake, I found that the application of radium through certain chemical ingredients would cause a mi- crobe to increase in size. I was alarmed at first because I thought that a larger micrcbe could do so much more damage than a smaller one but I decided to get a harmless germ and increase it in size, then try to find something to exterminate the az'-rm all together. I I at last decided a harmless germ of influenza would be the thing and at the end of a month I had a germ walking around my room about the size of a small dug. In fact it resembled a dog in its size. shape and eyes. I named him Mike and we soon became very fond of each other but every time he came near me I would have a fit of sneezing just as if I were coming down with a had cold. No one knew about my secret until my niece came to visit us. One day she had a party under the trees in the back yard and we were all enjoying ourselves when I was called away. In my hurry I forgot to lock the door to the labora- tory. Soon after my departure the young folks were walking around the yard when they came to my room. Nancy, my niece, said, This is Uncle John's room. He has all kinds of queer things but he always has it locked, She tried the door and as it wasn't locked. the young folks went in. Mike spied them instantly and came running to them. They thought him very cute but as soon as he came near to them, they all started sneezing, and wiping tears from their faces until at last all had to go to their homes. Mike followed them. When I returned home my wife told me about the time Nancy and her friends had had but I was very innocent. I

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