The Sedalia weekly bazoo. [volume] (Sedalia, Mo.) 187?-1904, 1880-05-25
A TERRIBLE DISEASE.


Peck Milwaukee sun
Probably the meanest trick that was
ever PLAYED on q white man Was
played last week in this city, and the
fact there is mo- vigilance committee
here is the only r-ason the perpetIa-
tors Of the trick are alive. A business
man had just purchased 4 new stiff
hat. and ne went into saloon with
half dozen friends to it the hat Z"
his head. They all took beer. and
passed the hat around 50 all could see
il. One Of the meanest men that
ever held a county Office went to the
bar tender and had a thin slice Of
limburger cheese cut of. AMI when the
party were looking al the irescoed
ceiling through beer glasses. this
wicked person slipped the cheese IN
der the sweat leather Of the hat. and
the man put it on aud walked out.
the man who Owned the hat is one
Of your nervous people. who is a.
ways complaining Of being sick. and
who feels As though s'me dreadful
disease was going To take possession of
him. lie went hack to his place If
business. took of his hat aud laid il
On the table and proceeded to answer
snme letters. He thought he detect
e.l smell. and when his partner
a,kesi him il he didn't feel sicE he
said he believed he dill. \ clerk
said it ws> evident that s"meb nly's
i.et nes-l,.l washing. The m,sn turhed
= ,le. and SAIL h. guessed ne would
z, home.
lie met nlaa nn the sidewalk VIII"
said the air WAS iuli If mi.isn,a. AMI
in the street car "A man VIII" >ai next
t. him moved awav to the ei.d 1t the
car, and asked him If he had just
ic"me from Chicas.. The man with
the hat said he had not, when The
stranger said they were having ."Sl
DIAL of small pix there. AMI he
guessed he would get out and walk.
and he pulled the bciI AMI jumped of.
The cold per>pirsii"n br,'ke out OH
the forehead Of the man with the new
hat, aud he tDk IL oF to wipe his
forehead, when the whole piece Of
cheese seemed tn ull over and
breathe. and the man got the full
benefit Of it. and he came near faint
ing away. He got home. and his
wife met him AMI asked what WAS the
matter. He said he believed mortif-
cation had sci IN. aud she took 'Ne
whiff, rs he took of his hat, and said
she should think it had. where
did you get into it," said she. Get
into it ," SAID the man. 81 have not
got into anything. but some deadly
disease has got hold Of me. and shall
not live" Sne told him il any disease
that. sme)led like that had got hold Of
she felt rs though he would be bnr-
den TO himself If he lived very long.
She got his clothes off. soake,l his feet
in mustard water. and he slept. The
hat Was living on the center tabIe, and
the children would come in and get q
smell OF il. snd look at each other
with reproachful glances. aud go out
and play. The man slept and dream
Ell that smallpox flag was hung in
font OF his house. and that he Was
riding in a butcher wagon Ia the pest
house. The wife sent for d"ctor.
and when the man Of pills arrived she
told him all about the case The
doctor picked up the patients new
hat. tried il on, and got sniff. He
said the hat WAS picked before it was
ripe. Then the doctor and Ire wife
held post mnr,em examination Of
the hat. and found the slice If linn
burg. Few AMI short we're the
prayers they said" They woke the
patient. and To prepare his mind for
the revelation that was about To lie
made. the doctor asked him IL his
SOrldly affairs were in n satisfactory
condition. He gasped and said they
were. The doctor asked him IL he had
made his will. He said that he had
not. but that he wanie.l a lawyer sent
for at once. The doctor asked him If
he felt n though he was prepared to
shufii. of. The man said he had al
ways tried to lead q different lite. and
had tried tn he done BY the same as he
would do it himself. but that he might
have made q mis.leai some way, and
he would like to have minister sent
for to take an account Of stock.
Then the doctor brought "a the bel
side the hat, opened up the sweat
leather and showed the diving man
what it was that smelled %. and told
him that he was as we'll rs any man
in the city. The patient pinched
himself TO see If he was alive. and
jumped out of bed and called for his
revolver. and the doctor couldn't keep
up with him on the way down town. |
The last We saw of the ~ioriferous |
citizen he was trying 10 bri',e the bar |
tender to tell him which one Of those !
pelicans it WAS that put the slice Of
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