Dodge City times. [volume] (Dodge City, Kan.) 1876-1892, 1891-02-06
WITH THE DRUMMERS.
Tales They Tell of Life on the
Road.
A Gay Chicago Drummer Who Exchanged
One of His Own Teeth for n Lady's-
How 1t Changed His Tastes
Other Amusing Incidents.


Other Amusing Incidents.
well, yes. i might relate something
that is rather extraordinary" said a
drummer for a Chicago boot and shoe
house to Chicago Herald reporter, IF
You will pardon me for narrating a
story which chiefly concerns myself. l
was down in a Central Illinois town
drumming up trade one day when l
was attacked with the toothache. had
an unsound tooth that had troubled me
for quite awhile and | determined to
have done with it then and there. /
sought dentists chair and told him to
pull it out. lie tried to convince me
that several dollars worth of gold fill
ing would make it good as new, but my
ire was reused and l was bent on hav-
ing revenge. / would not be satisfied
until had convinced that tooth that l
rould do without it. So l commanded
rim to pull it out, and with protesta-
tons he reluctantly did SO. 1t occupied
the place that this tooth does" said the
travelling man, tapping one of his incis-
ors. land when it was once out l saw
that | looked SO strangely that some
thing else must take its place as soon
as possible. ! asked the dentist if he
had nothing else he could put in the
place of it as did not like my appear
ance at all. He was thoughtful for a
moment. when a light seemed to dawn
on his mind. lie took from a cabinet a
bottle in which was a tooth immersed
in a liquid of some kind. 4 have here
he remarked. n good, sound. healthy
tooth that will almost exactly match
the rest of yours, that can plant in the
one Just extracted and it will grow as
though nothing had happened He per-
suaded me. without much opposition on
my part, that it would he better than a
false tooth, and it was the work of only
1t was sore for a short time but soon
grew firm and solid, and to-day it is as
good a tooth as have.
''But now for the stranger part of the
story. Before the dental operation l
speak of was performed l had been adj
dicted to the use of tobacco. l smoked
and chewed almo st to excess. From
the day / got my new tooth my love for
tobacco began to decrease, and by the
time the tooth had become firm and
solid couldn't use the weed at all. A
chew of tobacco or smoking a cigar
made me very sick. In fact 1 became
opposed to the use of tobacco generally
and have remained so till the present
day. But as my love for tobacco waned
my love for chewing gum increased, and
I'm never without it now. l became
passionately fond of ice-cream also, and
during the summer season can scarce
~ get enough of it, and a strange feat
ure of the case is l want some other
man to pay for it There seems to he
something about that tooth that makes
me crave for ice-cream. 1t is with great
difficulty / can pass millinery store
without going in and pricing all the
goods in stock. Sometimes, when I'm
in great hurry to catch q train, find
myself stopping in front of some millin-
er's window to inspect the latest style
of hats. When pass a lady wearing
an attractive gown or hat on the street,
it wouldn't matter if there were mad
dog after me, I'd stop and look around
to see if her dress and hat were becOm-
ing. 1t didn't take me long to surmise
that the new tooth was in some way to
blame for my strange antics, and when
visited the dentists town again 1 went
to him and told him every thing. Oh
said he, it is even worse than feared
it would be. That tooth used to belong
to a young lady"
A CONDITIONAL SURRENDER
up in a little town in Wisconsin"
remarked a trade seeker whose sample
case bears the name of q Chicago
grocery house, ''there used to be two
merchants who hated each other as
they hated poison They were both re-
tired farmers who had gone into bust
ness to while their time away as much
as to make money. Their stores were
directly across a little open square
from each other, and, trade being very
slow, they had plenty of time to watch
each other. They were opposed to
each other in business, religion and pol
itics. They avoided meeting on the
street, and when they did meet they
never spoke. Aside from the hatred
they bore each other they were genial,
friendly men. Their friends used to try
to get them to patch up their troubles
and differences, but each was firmly de-
termined that the other must take the
first step toward a reconciliation and
all efforts to amicably adjust matters
failed. Finally one of the men became
very ill. When told that death might |
come at any moment he expressed de- |
sire that he be permitted to make peace
with his enemy. He sent for him to |
come, and presently the two men who
had hated each other for 90 long were
brought face to face. We have been |
enemies for long time said the sick |
man, but they tell me now that am |
going to die. and if I do bear in mind |
that forgive you every thing you have J
ever said or done against me, but II I |
should by chance recover remember I'll
keep up the fight just as bitterly a.
heretofore, and don't you forget IT."
MEETING AN EMH1aENCY.
"A rather peculiar incident occurred |
on car in which was riding out in !!
Iowa few days ago." said ono Of Chi |
cago's commercial touristA ION the |
car was a lady and her 1oW>year-
old boy. He was . sweet, attractive /
little fellow and at once became the r.
vorite of all the passengers, who BE-
slowed a great deal Of attention upon
him. He wore a neat little fm-trimmed /
overcoat, from which button had be-
come detached. As matter Of course
the button found its way to the child's \
mouth. Suddenly the mother uttered .
wild scream and the passengers were
all greatly excited The child's face
grew pale. 1t had swallowed that but
ton. The mother exclaimed that her
child was dying. There was no doctor
en- the train What was 70 be done9 /
In this emergency. g IN most N othsEs. |