Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-05-09
A MEAN TRICK.
Experience Of q Philadelphlan
With New Hat.

Experience OF q Philadelphlsn
With New Hat.
Probably the meanest trick that was
ever played on white man was played
last week in Philadelphia, and the fact
that there is no vigilance committee is
only reason the perpetrators of the trick
are alive. A business man had purchased
new stiff hat. and went into saloon
with half dozen friends to fit the hat
to his head. They all took beer, and
passed the hat around so all could zee it.
One of the meanest men that ever held
n county Office went to the bartender
and had thin slice of Limberg cheese
cut of, and when the party were look
ing at the frescoed ceiling through beer
glasses, this 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 ia
one of your nervous people, who is
always complaining of being sick, and
who feels rs though some dreadful dis
ease was going to take possession Of him
and carry him off. He went back to his
place OF business, took off his hut and
laid it on the table and proceeded to
answer some letters. He thought he
detected smell, and when his partner
asked him if he didn't feel sick he said
he believed he did. A clerk said it was
evident somebody's feet needed washing.
The man turned pale, and said he
guessed he would 80 home and take
some Althorp's Tonic, as it always
helped him. He met man on the
sidewalk who said the air was full of
m'asma, and in the street car man who
sat next to him moved away to the
other end Of the car and asked him The
was just from Chicago. The man with
the hat snld he was not, when the stranp-
er said they were having n great deal If
smallpox there and he guessed he would
get out and walk, and he pulled the bell
md jumped off, The cold perspiration
broke out on the forehead of the man
with the new 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 full benefit of it, and he
came hear fninting away. Hegot home,
and his wife asked him what was the
matter. He said he believed mortlfica-
lion had set in. and she took one whiff
A. he took off his hat, and said she
should think it had "Where did you
get into it?' said she. "Get into it,"
said tho man, II have not got into any
thing. but some dreadful disease has got
hold of me and shall not live"
She told him that if any disease that
smeIled like that had goI hold of him,
and was going to be chronic, she felt as
though he would be burden to himself
if he lived very long. She got his clothes
of, soaked his feet in mustard water and
ne slept. The hat was lying on the GEN.
tre table, and the children would come
in and get one smell of it, and look at
each other with reproachful glances, and
90 out and play. The man slept and
dreamed that smallpox Aag was hung
in front OF the house, and that he was
riding in u butcher wagon to the pest
house.
The wife sent for doctor, and when
The man Of pills arrived she told him all
about the case. The doctor picked up
he patients new hat, tried it on and got
! sniff. He said it was picked before it
VAS ripe. Then the doctor and the wife
held post examination Of the
,at and found the slice OF Limberg.
Few and short were the prayers they
'a'd." They awoke the patient TO pre-
pare his mind for the revelation that
VAS about to be made. The doctor ask
ed him if he had made his will. He said
ne had not, but he wanted lawyer sent
Tor at once. The doctor asked him if
ne was prepared to shuttle off. The
man SAID that he had always tried to
lead a different life and had tried to be
lone by the same rs he would do it him
self, but that he might have made a
misdeal some way ond he would like to
have minister sent for to take 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 smelt so, and told him
ne WAS as we'll as any man in the world.
The patient pinched himself to see if he
WAS alive, and jumped out of bed and
called for his revolver, and the doctor
conldn't keep up with him on his way
DOWN town. The last we saw of this
odoriferous citizen he was trying to bribe
he bartender to tell him which one of
hose pelicans it was that put that slice
Of cheese in the lining of his hat.
A Fly Young Man.
MIDWAY, May 3.-Just across the line
n the town of Alta there l;vaa an uodr.