Morning journal and courier., 1886-05-24

steady purpose of first making me senseless
 body, and then to dig, gouge, cut, punch and pull at my silent mouth to their hearts content, what could do but obey? drew l in column of gas, and then breathing back little, drew another and so continued. The tormentors eomplimented me. 'That's it! Ohl you're doing nobly!" "Don't let go his 1 noss!' Tormentor No. 3 tightens little on the nose. ''How many has he?" "Four double ones. Shall have to cut good deal. :" The third or fourth respiration began to tell upon me. Just then I resolved to notice
 carefully every sign and sensation, both | physical and mental. It seemed to me that I was about to put out into strange and unknown sea, and 1 determined to keep a faithful 'log" of my mysterious voyage as far as possible, or at least to signal with the shores of consciousness to the last moment. SOUND OF CELESTIAL MUSIC. The first positive evidence of the effect of ] the gas was peculiar tingling sensation. This finally centered at the ears and resolved itself into the sweetest music. I concluded that after two more respiratiops I would make an instant and overwhelming assault on the man holding captive my nose and with one bold dash release the prisoner. But after two more breathings thought would let the nose alone. Wondered if noses were 8 real necessity Doubted whether the man had actually mad my nose. Then the music! Could have spoken am sure | should have ! talked of the harpings of heaven. Qs it some such sensation that deceives the dying, or does celestial music descend to earth when the golden doors are opening to the spiritO Coupled with these sweet notes was mono tonous and regularly measured sound, which I now think must have been the noise Of breathing.
 was still conscious; knew that I was in the chair and taking the gas; saw the doctor and the possessor of two noses. Now I was t0 hav and ence. All sounds ceased, but the nerves of the ear seemed to gently quiver, like the most delicate vibrations of the strands of some instrument when the fingers of the mu- sician have ceased to touch them; and sud denly there dropped before my eyes thin misty veil. Another and another came. l was far out on the unknown sea and the shore lights were glimmering dimly and doubtful in the distance. I knew I was go- ing. I am confident that the horror of pass ing away, that awful sense of letting go my last hold of life, was the very counterpart of death.
 My little girl was at my side and the two men had left me. ''I shall not take the gas my child, and if I do I know it will produce no effect; dentist touch my teeth and I not feel it." As I seemed to be saying this heard some one groan at my side; it was my own signal of return to consciousness; it was the ship of life touching the dock; I had got back with two teeth lost overheard on 
 the voyage.
 EXTRACTING TEETH BY STEAM POWER. A second bag of gas and a similar physical experience. The music came and ceased. The white veils fell and agan the instant, nameless horror and then vision as wild as ''the dreams of an opium eater" I thought was on the New York Central railroad go ing west from Albany to Buffalo. I stood on the platform of the last and at my side stood giant. His head lowered to heaven, and on his mighty arm was coiled Il rope said to be three miles long, and to which attached a hook more than hundred feet in length. This monster and the entire train were at my command. It seemed to me that l had stopped the train, and then at my bidding the giant threw his hook at four-story tooth which | stood by the roadside and instantly put on | the cellar deep cavity. ''No laughing
 l gas about this" I exclaimed, ''but the new \ and improved method of extracting teeth by | steaml' In this way it seemed to me that we tore out all the buildings on either side of the railroad for thirty miles. Our last grand feat, however, was to pull up an en- tire village of some ten thousand inhabl- | tants. Out it came and in the cavity, deep | and wide the crater of Vesuvius, there were men, women and children all jumping
 | and bounding like maniacs. 'What are
 those?" I asked of my giant, who was lau4 h
 ing in ecstasy in view of this last grand
 | pull. 'tThose," said he, ''are the nerves
 ! The village had the jumping toothachen
 i HNow for Syracuse!' I exclaimed. "Al
 l rightl'' said the giant. sFAll right!' shouted
 the man on the engine.
 "Hes all right said the doctor, and I was
 ! hack apajO nniOuS two teeth