The Weston Democrat. [volume] (Weston, W. Va.) 1875-current, 1880-06-12
4 Mean Trick.

Il ued,, Trick.
Probably the mcanest trick that
was ever played on a white man
was played last week in New York,
and the fact that there is no vigfT
lance committee there is the only
reason the perpetrators Of theitrickt
are alive. a business man had
just purchased a new stiff hat, and
he went into a saloon with half a
dozen of his friends to fit the hat
on his head. They all took beer
and passed the hat around SO all
could see it. One Of tho meanest
men that ever held a country Office
went to the bar tender and had a
thin slice ofLimburger cheese cut
of, and when the party were look
ing at the frescosd ceiling through
beer glasses, the wicked person
slipped the cheese under the sweat
leather Of the hat, and the man
put it on and walked out. The
man who owned the hat is one Of
your nervous people, who is always
complaining Of being sick and who
feels rs though some dreadful dis
ease was. going 10 take posses
sion Of him and carry him off. He
went back to his place Of business,
took of his hat and laid it on the
table, and proceeded to answer
some letters. He thought he de-
tected a smell, and when his part
ner asked him if he didn't feel
sick he said he believed he did.
The turned pale and said he
guessed hewould go home. Helmet
aman on the sids,walkwho said the
fullyof miasma, and in the
street tear a man who sat next to
him moved away to the end Of the
car. and asked him if he had Just
come from Chicago. The man
with the hat said he had not, WHEN
the stranger said they were
having great deal Of smallpox
there, and he guessed be would get
out and walk, and he pulled the
bell and jumped of. The cold
perspiration broke out on the fore
head Of the man with the hat, and
he took it Of to wipe his forehead
when the whole piece Of cheese
seemed to roll over and breathe,
and the man got the full benefit of
it, and he came near fainting away.
He got home and his wife met him
and asked him what was the mat
ter? He said he believed mortii-
cation had set in, and she took one
Whit as he took off his hat, and
said she should think it had.
"Where did you get into it?"
said she. SECT into it2" said the
man, II have not got into anything,
but some deadly disease has got
hold of me, and | shall not live.n
She told him if any disease that
smelled like that had got hold Of
him and was going to be chronic,
che felt as though he would be a
burden TO himselfif he lived very
long. Sho got his clothes of,
soaked his feet in mustard water,
and hs slept. The man slept and
dreamed that a smallpox flag was
hung in front Of his house and TINT
he was riding in a butcher wagon
to the pest house, The wife
sent for a doctor, and when
the man of pills arrived she
told him all about the case. The
doctor and the wife held a post
examination Of the hat,
and found the slice Of Limburger.
"Few and short wero the prayers
they said" They woke the patient,
and to prepare his mind for the
revelation that was about to he
made, the doctor asked him il he
had made his will. lie said lie had
not, but that lie wanted n lawyer
sent for ut once. The doctor asked
him if he felt as though ho was pre-
pared to shuttle of. The man
said he had always tried to lead
different life, and had tried to DO
done by the same as he would do
it himself, but that he might have
made misdcal some way, and lie
would like to have n minister sent
for to take an account OF stock.
Then the doctor brought to the bed.
side the hat, opened UP the sweat
leather and showed the dying man
what it was that slnelled so, and
told him he was as well as any man
in the city. The patient piuchcd
himself 10 SEQ if he was alive and
jumped out Of bed and called for
lis revolver, and the doctor couldn't
keep up with him on the way
down town. The last we saw of
the odoriferous citizen he was try.
ing TO brihe the bar tender to tell
him which one of these pelicans il
was that put that slice Of cheese in
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