Shepherdstown register. [volume] (Shepherdstown, Va. [W. Va.]) 1849-1955, 1894-01-04
BUT THE Too7fl CAME OUT.
One of the King IF Dahomey's Femais
Warriors Proves an Ugly Patient.

Warriors Proves an Ugly yatlent.
1t was late one night during the fair
when DIR. Yeager's residence bell was rung.
The visitor was a messenger from Man.
ager Penny of the Dahomey village. ask
ing the physician to come = once TO the
village and attend patient suffering from
the toothache. The doctor went more for
the sake of the adventure than for the fee.
He was shown to the bedside of the wom-
an and proceeded to examine the big teeth
inclosed in mouth that opened like cell
lar door. To make sure which was the
offending tooth DR.. Yeager began prying
around with his little steel instrument so
familiar 10 all who have visited the cham
Der of horrors known rs dentists parlors.
He accidentally touched the nerve of the
decayed and aching molar, and the anna
zon let loose Il yell that drew to her side
every member of the village.
1t was an excited and wildly demonstra-
tive crowd that danced about the wom-
ans bedside. DR. Yeager coolly contin-
ued his work, however, and finally, before
the woman could prevent him, he had
sneaked from his pocket pair of shining
forceps and hooked on TO the pain produc-
ing worry. Sari was not astonished, but
went crashing into the gum surrounding
the aching tooth the brawny woman set
ND howl that set every one Of her sisters
and the black men wild with excitement.
The louder the amazon yelled the harder
DR.. Yeager pulled. She struck wildly at
the man at the other end of the fOrceps,
but the doctors lodging powers are as
acute as they were the day he left the col
lege football team.
She finally leaped from the cot on which
she reclined, and still the doctor pulled at
the molar Sari struck viciously at her
torturer, but here the doctor showed great
strategy by keeping the woman's head so
far in advance of her body that the blows
fell short.
Around and around the village went the
doctor and the patient. The former tugged
and kept cool. The woman made the night
hideous with her cries and grew angrier
every moment Still the molar held its
own. The men in the village danced about
the struggling doctor and amazon and
expressed their delight at the spectacle in
wild dances and peculiar cries.
The end came ut last and in a most I'M
expected manner Some of the villagers,
perceiving that the doctors strength was
almost exhausted and admiring the pluck
he demonstrated by holding on rs long as
he had decided to take the matter IN
hand, separate the man of medicine from
the insanely angry woman and at the same
time protect the former from injury.
Three or four men seized the woman, and
two amazons seized the doctor. The two
par IS pulled in opposite directions, and
suddenly the bond that united the doctor
and she of the aching molar was broken.
At the same instant the woman was
thrown over the heads Of the attacking
party at her rear and the doctor went sail
ing over the shoulders of those who had
seized him.
A moment later DR.. Yeager was seen sit
ting on the ground holding aloft the for
ceps, from which projected the offending
piece of ivory that once adorned the mouth
of the troubled amazon.-Chicago Herald.