Barbour County index. [volume] (Medicine Lodge, Kan.) 1880-current, 1892-08-24
I the standard remedies, but all of no

of the standard remedies, but all OF no
avail.
By this time. your nerves are "all on
edge" and the slightest unaccustomed
noise is agony. But nobody seems to
think anything about that. The doors
are slammed, it seems TO you, as they
were never slammed before, and the
dust-pan is being continually knocked
down, and the poker is constantly obey
ing a well-known law of gravitation
and tumbling into the grats, and the
housemaid rattles the crockery and
sings snatches Of religious melodies in a
way that makes you wish you lived in
an absolute monarchy, and that you
were the absolute monarch, 30 that you
could order your chief executioner to
bring you that annoying females head
on pike.
If you venture TO suggest to any per-
son the propriety of making less noise
about the house, he will laugh at you,
and advise you not to be nervous and
have the Mysteries over the toothache.
Nothing but the toothache! Nothing
indeed.
After about a weeks intermittent
agony the dreadful truth is forced home
to you. That tooth must be extracted
There is nothing more to be done. You
feel weak in the knees and the cold
perspiration bedews your forehead at
the thought.
Every one you meet pIetends, to sym
pathize with you, and he will tell you
in detail just how it was with him ON a
similar occasion, and ends with the
cheeEul suggestion that cold iron is the
thing for it. And he will supplement
this suggestion with the information
that it will probably nearly take your
he ad off, but it will be only for q min
ute.
After fighting numerous conflicts with
yourself, you tie your face up in hand
kerchief, and start for DIR. Pullhard's.
Before you have got half way there
your tooth ceases 20 ache, and your
temper is up, and you resolve to see it
out literally.
DIR. Pullhard is not in, but he will re-
turn soon, the attendant informs you,
and he shows you into the operating
room to await the doctors coming.
You can amuse yourself by looking
at the marble slabs under the windows
.
profession are ranged in tidy rows, in
terspersed at intervals by upper sets of
teeth on pivots, and teeth drawn from
the jaws of some wretched human vic
tim, which, being hard cases." the doc
tor has thought worthy of preservation
for future reference.
There is generally, on one of the
shelves, very yellow skull, set out
with very yellow teeth, and II it is any
satisfaction to you in your present state
of mind, you can look at the formation
of the jaws and study their articula-
tions and repeat for your edifcation the
well-worn truism, 1--WE are fearfully
and wonderfully made"
The more you look at that formidable
array of instrum ents, the more it seems
as if they were laughing at you, and
making a mock of your misery; and you
fell like challenging the ginger-hiired
attendant for daring to whistle Little
Annie Rooney" and as he puts the bot
ties of ether and chloroform in order,
and arranges the spittoons, of which
there are half score, more to his lik-
ing.
BY and by DIR. Pullhard arrives, brisk
and smiling. He is very glad to see
you, and says it Is a fine morning, and
asks what he can do for you in very
animated tone, and he washes his hands
and slips into dirty dressing gown,
and fingers among those derisive instru-
ments, and politely invites you to take
seat in green-cushioned chair Of tor
ture.
When once he has got you there, he
let's down the back of the chair and
your head drops back, and he sticks his
fingers, which taste of scented soap,
between your lips, and he puts his head
so that his breath, strongly favored
with cardamon seeds, puffs into your
face, and asks you If it is a cuspid or q
molar.
He goes over your teeth in two mi
nutes. He sticks a probe here and
there, and tells you that four of your
teeth need filing; two more are on the
point of liberation, and he says there il
a dreadful accumulation Of tartar, and
mentions the fact that PullhardS Pre-
eminent Tooth Paste will remove all
discolorationS and parAsitical forma-
tions in ten days, or the money will
be refunded.-Kate Thorn, in N. Y.
Weekly.