The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-03-08
HE WAS ABSENT MINDED.
When His False Teeth legal tn Ache He
Went to Have Them FILLED.

Whom His False Teeth began tn Ache He
Went to HAVE Them FILLED.
Uncle Hiram Potter is the most absent
minded and forgstful man IN Scranton, Pa.
says tho New York Tribune. On one ocoa-
sion he forgot who he was and walked two
blocks to get a man to identity him before
he would take money out Of his own pocket
boob to pay for an apple. To-day he IL At
home nursing a broken arm as the, result Of
his poor emo while one of the leading
dentiats Of Scranton IN under the doctor
care for tho same reason. Ten Yeas ago
Uncle Hiram's teeth AL came out, He went
to philadelphia and got the best aes q
false teeth to be had in that city. Ihev
fitted perfectly, and made of six weeks he
had forgotten that he had false teeth at
all. Indeed, sincs they were adjusted ne
has many times boasted OF hls SOUND
teeth and rebnked younger men for having
taking \ slight cold, he began to be tro1n-
led with neuralgia pains in his face. he
endured them a day or two when it oc-
Cured to him that probably it was tooth
ache that WIS troubling him. 1t Atands 70
reason,. he said to himself, that even the
best teeth can't last always. Here l am
upward Of seventy years old and hnve never
been inside of q dentists shop. I'll so ana
have en- looked after"
Accordingly Uncle HiraEa was soon aated
in the operating chair of one OF the bent
dentists in Scranton. The dsntist went
and a lone-handled looking glass anS then
said 'um." twice, which a dentist always
does when the case 10 serious. Then no
told Uncle Hiram that his teeth were IN
pretty bad condition. that there we're u
dozen cavities that needed filling. and that
if he didn't havs them attended to at once |
wouldn't have a tooth in his head in six
months, and would be going about with
false teeth, and with tho constant danger
of swallowing them or OF having them
over and bite the roof OF Eis
Uncle Hiram told the dentist
to 90 ahead and do what was right BY /
The teeth. So the dentist moved up his
apparatus and got out his other in
nj Of torture and went at Uncle
Hiram hnlnmer and tongs. He bored and
drilled and dug and excavatsd and did
everything except put in blasts. Uncle
Hiram said it hurt somewhat, Of course, es-
when the point Of the drill which
comes out Of the end of the garden nose
the nerve, but he was too old to
complain pbout such q little thing. Atths
Of six hours the dentist had . gold I'LL
in fourteen Of Uncle Hiram,s teeth and
mentally counting up the bill, and had
got az far as $40. wien the Philadelphia
Of ten years ago suddenly
upon Uncle Hiram. He reached
into his mouth, took out both sets Of
teeth and laid ths1n before the ~astonlshed
practitioner. The dentist flow into = pas
SION because Uncle Hiram had NOT told him
in the first place that his teeth were false.
10 that he might have taken them out md
flled them at his leisure on his work bench.
Hiram was angry st what he believed
20 be an attempt on the part OF this dentist
% cheat him. The trouble we have spoken
followed, in which the old gentleman's
arm was broken and the dentist generally
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