Blackfoot news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1891-1902, 1893-11-04

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and brushed
/ washed nv face and brushed my
! hair, and N my heart thought that
4 10 wear an unreutilate6 hat. even for
I three whole hyurs. couldn't BE- 50 very
dreadful 4 punishment. after all
i ] had reeEulel without E1V host
This way. gentlemen, II y0n
4 please said the haster's assistant. as
( he motiooed rs 70 follow hin through
. door leading toward The basement
At the end 81 a passage was sort
Z Of little room with sl0DiDg roof. il
WIS exactly under the shop front
Side by side were two easy chairs be-
meath each Of which was 3 winch for
raising Or lowering the chair . any
required height
Ny companion took ais seat AZ 0uee
he was evidently used to the WAYS
Of the place Then the assistant
strapped him IL bT means If two
Thick leather hands, with massive
Buckles one AZ the neck ana the other
At the waist
Then the shopuan suddenly opened
the little trap door, some twelve
inches square. n the low. slo1ing roof
Of the apartment and worked aBzy
actively AZ the winch The chair
slowly rose. and the head Of lis o,acu-
pant disappeared through The little
tap 7oo- 70 the shoulders
Then the man turned = large tap
which vas afzKe6 70 the back u the
chair. and uotioae2 me 70 take ny
seat il the other one.
hy do ron strap Us in2T I said 70
the man as I took mr. seat
-fOu-l know why. governor. b.
the time you've earned that half dol
lar. sid the man. with a malignant
grin Now. look here, he continued.
If you want TO s1seze, or cough, OF
anything, get i done now. and don't
ron 60 a-larhng o. larking with the
boys az the window; if you do il viii
be deducted for.
Then he began 70 wind me up. and
] made ny first appearance il Mr..
wilkins shop front 70 a round Of
tunultuous applause from crowd Of
idlers in the street, who stared into
the shop window. Then somebody
carefully fitted a hat on 10 my head
and gave il a knowing cock.
And then a draught OF cool air be-
gan to flow through the holes that
surrounded my neck Mr.. wilkins
| really took. wonderful amount Of
trouble 70 insure our comfort
At first the novelty Of my situation
entirely occupied mr. mind
Then took look a nv fellow vic
tim out OF the corner OF my eye.
He was evidently already suffering
from the effects Of his unventilated
hat His teeth were tightly set: he
| looked anything but happy: great
drops Of perspiration already stood
| upon his brow / didn't trouble my
self very much about him.
The time passed pleasantly enough,
and heard the clock Of Shorediteh
church at length strike l. As did
80 was startled to hear the wearer
Of the unventilated hat give q hollow
groan
He had become ghastly pale; he
looked as If he were melting gradually.
In fact the poor fellow seemed verv
III indeed. Strange that a badly ven
tilated hat should produce such
marked effects.
After awhile the clock Of Shore
ditch church struck 4:3O. I heard
| footsteps in the room below. and at
the same time l was deprived of nv
yentilating hat. 4 brand new hat was
| placed upon my head and the show
| cards which stood behind our respec-
/ tive heads were exchanged
The draughts Of cool air which
came through the innumerable little
| holes in the mahogany flooring around
my neck suddenly ceased. A current
Of heated air supplied its place
] looked out Of the corner Of my eye
at the other head; its face wore an
| ecstatic smile.
Then an extraordinary thing took
place. The easy chair in which / was
sitting suddenly began to grow warm;
it then became actually hot - un-
pleasantly hot
saw through the whole fiendish
trick at once. / was to be tortured
tortured for period of an hour and
half for the amusement Of an idle
crowd-in order that the public might
be gulled into the purchase Of the So
called vcntilating hats Of the fend
Wilkins.
was being gradually cooked alive,
and / felt that concentrated boiling
gravy, not blood, was coursing through
my veins.
NY features were contorted with
agony: the crowd in the street outside
gave me tremendous round Of ap-
plause.
tried to break loose. As I did So a
voice from the room below uttered the
following dreadful threat:
''Itis l.20 now, my man, and IL you
move I'll make it I 5G"'
endured the most dreadful tortures
for whole hour and half When |
left wilkins establishment was more
dead than alive
1t is the dream Of my life that and
Mr.. wilkins, the inventor of the ven
tilating hat, may meet In some lonely
place. ! am not a revengefuI man,
but feel that / owe wilkins some
thing that should like to repay
Black and White.
No stock In 1t.
An ignorant old farmer in the
rough regions Of West Virginia owned
farm which was 50 poor, to use a
classic expression, that you couldn't
raise an umbrella on it, when all at