The Pascagoula democrat-star. (Pascagoula, Miss.) 1878-1920, 1888-03-30

Only a BIT vi Limberra.


Little Rock ARK Gazette.
Probably the meanest triek
was ever played OH q wLita aas
was played last week in this " %au
and the fact that there il M wy
Hence COMMITTEE here is the ons.'
reason the perpetrators Of tia t,i.t,.
are alive. A business man hss
purchased Il new stiff hat. ma "au
went intO a saloon with 4 L"I. 10
dozen friends to fit the bar q" :
head. They all took beer, Aug m
passed the hat around SO All oo" ~"
see IT, Que Of the meanest ma..
that Ger Leld a county oas".
went to the bartender and lad "
thin slice of limberger cheese .'
of and when the party vera lo"t
ing at the frescoed ceiling thro""t'
beer glasses, this wicked nersen
slipped the cheese under the Swe,t
leather of the hat, ami the mo-,
put it on and walked out. Tho
man wLo own the hat is one Of yonr
nervous people, who is always com.
planning of being sick, and Vho
feels as though some dreadful din
ease was going to take possession Of
him and carry him of. He Went
back 10 his place of business. took
of his hat and laid it on the tahle
aud proceeded to answer some lsti
ters. He thought he detected a
amell, and when his partner asked
him ii he didn't feel sick, he said he
believed he did. A clerk said il
was evident that somebody's feet
needed washing. The man turned
pale, and said he guessed be would
go home. He met a man on tbe
sidewalk who said the air was roll
of miasma, aud in the street car a
mau whO sat next to bin moved
away to the end of the car and ask.
ed hin ii he had just come from
Chicago. The man with the has
said he had not, when tho stranger
said they were having a great deal
al smallpox there, and he guessed
he would get out aud walk, aud be
pulled the bell and jumped Oft.
The cold per~spiration broke out
on the forehead of the man with a
new hat, and be took it of to wipe
his fo.ehead, when the whole piece
of cheese seemed 10 roll over and
breathe, aud the man got the full
benefit of it, aud came ear faint
lug.
lie got home, and his wife met
him and asked him what was tue
matter. he said he believed NOR
t fication had set in, and she took
one Whit as he took off his hat, and
she said she should think it had.
Where did you get iuto itW said
she. "Get into 1t ~ said the man;
81 have not got into anything, but
some deadly disease has got hold
of Lnp, and / SHALL not live" She
told him ifany disease that smelled
like that had got hold of him aud
was to be chronic, she felt MS
though he would be a burden to
himself if he lived very long. She
got his clothes off, soaked his feet
III mustard water, and he slept.
The bat was lying on the center'tl-
ble, and the children would come
iu and get a smell oft and look at
each other With reproachful glanceF,
and go out aud play. The man
slept aud dreamed that a smallpox
flag was hung in front at his house,
and that he was riding IN a butcher
wagon TO the pest house. The wo'
man sent tor a doctor, aud when
the man of pills arrived she told
him all about the case. The doctor
picked up the patients new bat,
tried it on, aud got a Whit. de
SAID the hat was picked before It
was ripe. The doctor and the vile
held a post moIten examination OF
the hat aud found the piece OF lin
berger. "Few and short were The
prayers they said" They wOkethe
patient, and to prepare his MUD
for the revelation that was about
to be made, the doctor asked him
if his worldly affairs vert in a sat.
isfactory condition. He gasped
and said they we're. The doctor
asked him If he had made his VIII.
He said that he had not, but lhas
he wanted q lawyer sent Tor ~
once. Tue doctor asAed him Il Nc
felt as though he was prepared 70
shuttle off. The man sad be nau
always tried to lead a different NE,
and had tried to be done oy Tue
same as he would do 1t blfnSeii'
but that be might have made a mis-,
take some way, aud that he "oulu
like to have a minister sent tor T"
take an account Of stock.
Then the doctor brought to tne
bed side the hat, opened up .ue
sweat leather and showed the ~
ing man what it was that sIne''eu
so, aud told him he was rs wen =
any mar ia this city. The palleus
pinched himself to e it be was
alive, and then jumped ont Oh usd
and called for his revolver NV
they couldn't keep up with him oa
they way down town. The lass
saw of the od~oriferous citizen neNso
trying to bribe the bar tenaei
tell him which one ofthOse pelcsa
it was that put that slice oil cne0'S
in his hat lining.
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