Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1880-08-21
a slDE-SrsIiTTEyG TRAGEDY

The Little Rock Gazette shows mp
the effects OF the imagination in the fol-
lowing
A business man bought q new silk
hat, and went into a saloon with halt
dozen friends. After taking a quantity
oi beer, one of the meanest men that
ever held a county Office slipped piece
of Limberger cheese under the sweat
leather, and the man put on his hat and
walked out.
He was nervous individual, and
when he went to bis place OF business,
he thought he detected smell. His
partner asked him if he didn't feel sick,
ne said he believed he did. He turned
pale, and said be guessed he would 60
home. He met man on the sidewalk
who said the air was full of miasma, and
in the street car man who sat next 10
him moved away TO the end OF the car,
aud 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 he would gel out
aud walk, and he pulled the bell and
jumped of. The cold perspiration broke
out on the forehead OF OF the man with
the few hat, and he took it off TO wipe
his forehead when the whole piece of
cheese seemed TO roll over and breathe,
and the man got the full benefit OF II,
and he came near iainting away. lie
got home, and his wife met aud asked
him what was the matter lie said he
believed modification had set in, and
she took one Whit, as he took of his
hat, and said that she should think II
had. She cot his clothes of, soaked
his feet in mustard water aud he slept.
The hat was lying on the centre table,
and the children would come in and get
a smell of it, and look at each other
with reproachful glances and go out in
the street and play.
The man slept, and dreamed that a
smallpox flag was hung in front Of Lis
house, aud that he was riding on a
butcher wagon to the pest house. The
woman sent for doctor, and when the
man of pills arrived she told him all
about the case. The doctor picked up
the patients new hat, tried it on and
got a sniff. lie said the hat was picked
before it was ripe. The doctor ana
wife held postmortem examination OF
the hat, and found the slice Of Timber,
ger. Few and short were the prayers
they said. They woke the patient, and
TO prepare his mind for the revelation
that was about TO be made tie doctor
asked him if he had made bis will. lie
said he had not, but he wanted lawyer
sent for at once. The doctor asked him
if he felt as though he was prepared TO
shuttle off The man said he had al
ways tried to live different, and tried
to be done by Tie same as he would do
To himself, but that he might have made
Il mistake some way, and that he would
like 10 have minister sent for TO take
account OF stock.
Then the doctor brough: &c the bed
side the hat, opened up the sweat-leath-
er and showed the dying man what it
was that smeled so, and told him that
he was rs well as any man in the city
The patient pinched himself to see il lie
was alive, aud jumped ont of bed and
called for his revolver, and the doctor
couldn't keep up with him Oh The way
down town. The last he saw of the
odorfcrous citizen lie was trying TO
bribe the bartender TO tell him which
one Of those pelicans it was that put
that slice of cheese in his bat lining.