The Saline County journal. [volume] (Salina, Kan.) 1871-1893, 1880-07-22
A MEAN TRICK.


Played With New Hat and N Old Cheese.
Probably the meanest trick that WAS
ever played on a white man was play
cd last week in New York, and the
fact that there is no vigilance commit
tee there is the only reason the perpe-
traitors Of the trick are alive. A BUSH
ness man had purchased new stiff
hat, and he went into saloon will,
half u dozen of his friends To tit the
hat on his head. They all took beer
and passed the hat around 80 all could
see IL. One OF the nleane>t men that
ever held = county office went to the
bartender and hal a thin slice If Linn
burger cheese cut OFF, and when the
party were looking ut the frescOed
ceiling through beer glasses, this wick
ell 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 ner-
vOus people, who is always complain
ing OF being sick, and who feels rs
though some dreadful disease was go.
ing 10 take possession Of him and car
~ him off He went back to his place
Of business, took of his hat and laid il
on the table, and proceeded to answer
some letters. He thought he detected
u smell, and when his PARTNER asked
him il he didn't feel sick he said he be
lieved he did. The man turned pale
and said he guessed lie would go home.
He met u man on the sidewalk who
said the air WAS full Of niiasnla, and in
the street car the man who sat next to
him moved away Ia the end of the car,
and asked him If. lac had just come
from Chicago. The man with the hat
said lie had not, stranger said they
were having great deal Of smallpox
there, and lac guessed he would get out
and walk, and he pulled the rope and
Jumped Off The cold preparation
broke out on the forehead Of the man
with the new hat, and he took il off to
wipe his forehead, when the whole
piece of cheese seemed to roll over and
breathe, and the man got the full beIl-
eft OF 1t, and he came near fainting
away. He got home and his wife met
and 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, aud said she should
think il had. "Where did you get
into it," said she. Get into it," said
the man, Il have not got into any
thing, but some deadly disease has got
hold of me, and shall not live" She
told him if any disease that smeilei
like that had got hold of him and Wa,
going 10 lie chronic, she felt as though
lie was going To he u burden TO himself
il he lived very long. She got his
clothes of, soaked his feet ia mustard
water, AMI he slept. The man slept
LII
hung in front Of his house, and that
he was riding in "a butchers wagon To
the pest house. The wife sent for II
doctor, and when the man of pills ar
rived she told him all about the case. |
The doctor and the wife held post |
examination of the hat, and |
found the slice of Limburger Sew |
and short We're the prayers they said"
They woke the patient, and To prepare
his mind for the revelation that was
about To be made. the doctor asked |
him ii hc had male his will He said
lac had not. and he wanted Il lawyer
sent Tor at once. The doctor asked
him if he felt as though he was pre-
ln,re,l Ia shuttle oil The man said he
had always tried to lead u different
life, and had tried TO be done by the
,aiiir a. lac would do il himself, but
that hc might have made u misdc.il in
some way, and lac would like to have
4 minister sent for to take an account
IF the stock. Then the doctor brought
10 the bedside the hat, opened up the
sweat leather and showed the dying
man what il WAS that smellel so, and
told him he was as well rs amy man in
he city. The patient pinched HIM
,rlf to see il he was alive, and jumped
,ut Of bed and called for his revolver,
ND the doctor couldn't keep up with
lin on the way down town. The last
Ne SAW Of the odorifrrOus citizen lie
VAS trying To brile the bartender to
ell him which one "f the Pelicans il
vas that put that slice Of cheese in his
lat lining.