The gold leaf. [volume] (Henderson, N.C.) 1881-1911, 1901-09-12
HENDERSON, N. c., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER II, 1901.

patients are not always men, | would
say that if a fellow has a girl in a
town where there is an unmarried
dentist, he ought to be mighty thank
full il she has good teeth.
| believe that | have never given
you my first experience With a West
ern dentist. He was one of those big
mountaineers with hair all over his
face, broad chested, and an arm like
the mainmast of the Gertrude. | had
only ''chair acquaintance" with him
but that was enough by which TO re-
member him. l had been told, by
those who ought to know, that ones
affections clustered about the heart,
and the nerves in the brain. but it
seemeu to me that at this time both
| nerves and affections centered in q
certain superior central incisor. You
never could induce this man to admit
that tooth would hurt. ooh, doc
well" said he, "this may be little
teius." | warn all sufferers to beware
of the ste jus" teeth. Before he finish
ed with me | was almost prostrated,
and"for weeks after this upon taking
a seat in a barber's chair for shave
by an association of ideas my heart
| would leap faster and | would quiver
as an aspen leaf for fear the razor
would be ste Jus"
Since DR.. Harper was boy there
have been many wonderful strides
made in the science OF dentistry.
They used to plug tooth, but now
it is filed; then they pulled them, but
now they are draUn, extracted and
sometimes even removed. Paralline
and bees-wax have given place to bone
filling and gold; the maui, the sledge
and the crow-bar have been supplant-
ed by more humane inventions that
kill without mangling; instead of hit
ting each successive nerve in the
gamut as Of old, they, strike the whole
octave at once. Our mothers no
longer have to draw the loose tooth
with thread of silk nor to suspend
the struggling victim from a nail in
the wall, a mere clasp of the fingers
and twist Of the wrist and the work
is done. An ingenious Frenchman
has hit upon the plan of having phon
ographic attachments for the ears of
the patient so that he may be RECALLED
by music while undergoing an opera
ton; but | do not like fhis idea, it
sayours too much of fiddle in a
graveyard or a brass band at a hang
ing.
| congratulate you upon the high
standard set by the profession in this
State. 1t speaks well for a people
when they insist on thorough prepa-
ration on the part of those entering
he professions or callings. There
are scores of men who would find it
difficult to enter the Freshman class
of the institution from which they
graduated several years since. This
is not reflection upon these men,
but it is crcdi. to the institutions.
A sympathetic public has been i'm
posed upon too long by quacks in law,
letters, medicine and the ministry.
SO young men if any of you fail it may
not be because of your weakness, but
on account of an increased zeal in the
examining board for the highest in
terests of the people of the State.
Far better is it for you to fail a score
of times before entering, than having
entered to fail once.
We are sorry that owing to our loca-
tion we cannot offer to you the wood
ed park, the walk-way and spacious
drives with coach and four to match :;
but we do what is better in giving
you the freedom of the boundless
deep. Even now you may hear the
Atlantic roaring out its welcome
against Che shingly beach. For a
moment it crouches behind its break
ers and then rears aloft as if to en-
fold YOU in its surf-like arms; the
Sou-west winds as they harry over
the banks of Bogue whisper to you
their welcome; and in past bar and
inlet there comes from far off Dia-
mond and Hatteras the swell of the
/ mighty sea to greet the s'swell'' but
newly come from Greensboro. Every
boat in the harbor flaps its sail in well
come, from that of Capt. Bartimaus
Willis, the Shell Fish Commissioner,
to the cat rig of Dr. w. E. Headen.
bid you welcome in the name of the
merchants and maidens of our town,
in the name of suffering humanity
here aud elsewhere, in the name of
proprietors of the hotels and the
cooks thereof, and also in my own
name. We are glad to have you all
with us, from Dir. Everett with his
iron grip and bear-like hug. to Dr..
i;enton with his yelvety tread and the
touch of a mother, and we only hope
that you have left your work baskets
at home.