Fort Worth gazette. [volume] (Fort Worth, Tex.) 1891-1898, 1891-11-16

Walk tue IrdRlnentS Oh WHISKY HdSh hSeteiS
done up in brown paper so that its shape
had been concealed The flask still re
| tained some Of its original shape, being
held together by the wrapper, and the young
man stopped TO pick it up. The owner
perceiying this move, blushed furiously
buried her face in the soft fur of her wraps
and rushed ahead in the utmost confusion
without waiting to hear further or offer any
explanation. -
A drummer was pacing the floor at one Of
the leading hotels, nursing his face sympa'
thetically between his hands, with a mourn.
full expression of countenance the other
| night. His jaw was much swollen, and II
was plain to see he was suffering intensely.
''Toothache2" inquired gentleman, walk
ing toward him.
The sufferer only stopped and gazed al
the speaker as only man suffering with
the toothache can gaze, uttering not word
but oh, that look.
sit is bad" continued the speaker, fol.
lowing the sufferer back and forth across
the corridor, land the worst Of II is such
pain could be avoided"
The speaker was a well-known dentist IN
the city, and while the sufferer moane1 the
dentist dilated upon the fine art to which
dentistry had been reduced in this country,
as well as upon the numerous things which
go to make dentistry necessity.
1.-THE fact isl he continued, 1.-The people
Ol IUlS country 10 uOl LAKE any STcdU cure
of their teeth paradoxical as the statement
may seem. l mean they do not care to pre-
serve them against decay, but when they
become decayed no other people can go to
such an amount of trouble to have them
remedied. The first thing which makes
the teeth of the average American so bad is
the quantity of sweets and ices las he ut
tered ''ices'' the sufferer collapsed in a
chair. with 4 groan, the dentist pulling up
a chair by his sidel he consumes, and the
next is the changeableness of the climate.
Then the teeth should not only be thor
oughly brushed a couple of Times a day
with warm water, but some fine silk thread
should be drawn between the spaces to
cleanse them of any substance which may
have remained after eating. AS these
things are not done, we dentists live and
thrive, and, by the way. we have almost
perfected every branch of our calling. In
Europe there is no such thing as dentistry,
as we understand it on this side of the pond.
1t is only the wealthy classes who think of
having their teeth filed"
? Here the bell-boy announced, s'Your room
is ready, sir; a good fire." and the sufferer
few up the steps, four at jump, and the
dentist lighted a cigarette, walked over to
the register, perused it absent-mindedly,
remarking to the clerk, "That gentleman is
suffering from toothache."
n RECENT SulCluc WIS OSlug ulSCuSSeu Nv IL
group of gentleman within the hearing of
the hummer recently.
"Yes,'' said one, there you see 1t was
German again. Germans commit more
suicides than any other people on the face
of the GLOBE
you are mistaken" said another, Sand
it reminds me of the old charge by the
French that England showed the higher
rate of death by self-destruction than any
other nation. Such charge is altogether
uufounded just as unfounded as that with
regard to Germany. As matter of fact
by statistics gathered some years ago,
France was proved to hold first place in the
list, and England came long way below,
and the curious thing about it is that nearly
a half of the whole OF France belongs to the
northern portion of the country. By the
statistics to which l have reference, Russia
stood lowest of ali countries. 1t was one of
the Jokes among F'renchmen that the fogS of
England were responsible for the great
number of suicides. 1t is a fact that the
most of those committed in France were
committed in the brightest and sunniest
markable about the matter is the num-
Der of children who have ended
their life by their own hand-in
France in particular. Disappointed
love is at the bottom of the list of causes
which drive men to such desperate acts.
II is a mistake to suppose that all suicides
are the result of mental arrangement, But
there have been scores Of cases where a
man was supposed to be in the happiest
frame of mind, and his brain in the sound
est condition, whose physician had long ago
learned that he had been haunted by hallu-
cinations which have made him grow
weary of life.' ~
A number of gentlemen were seated
around the stove at the Mansion few
asrn of hng
riences in different parts of the country not
many years ago when life and property
were more at the mercy of bands of desper-
ADDE'S who prowled about from place to
place.
my father was a banker" said one, "and
one day l was left to take charge while all
the others had gone to dinner. At this time
most of the robberies of banks took place
during the dinner hour, and was aware Of
the fact. l had a revolver in one drawer
ready for use the first moment any one with
q suspicious look approached, and not hav-
ing been very long in the place was unac-
quairted with quite a number of the regu-
lar customers. The sheriff came in and
suggested that l should close the back en-
trance, which did, growing more fearful
and suspicious by this warning. AT length
a gentleman appeared and said he wanted 4
draft on bank in New York. l looked at
HIM hard, and he looked at me in return.
He was preparing to get the money to pay
for it when he pulled gun
from his pocket and left it on
the counter. The sight Of the revolver
was too much. All my courage fed. l
stopped under the counter for protection
and yelled to him not to fire. He looked in
as l saw from an occasional
peep, and the louder l yelled. At length he
asked what l meant and seeing my fear Of
fered me the gun. took it and arose. He
then told me his name and who he was and
explained that he pulled out his gun to en-
able him to reach his pocketbook which
was in the same pocket. Even with this as
surance l trembied,' although holding his
gun, and when l received the money l
thought it necessary to apologize. l also
felt ashamed of my own cowardice. Here,
| said, is S., go and get youself hat and
say nothing of this. He took the s.,
bought hat for s.. 80 and returned me the
balance. He never spoke of it and this is !
the first time have opened my lips on the
subject"
M,redan BarYor,I RoIro