The sun., 1907-09-15

- ia ai,iin Just ID same AMI as hard as
" =, an! fe.t that | was in for ano,her
IA lchr fIi and IN" event prove was.
That second nj Iht got half hour nap
after II O'Clock, anp ! slept again IRON
midni ght to / 4. NJ; hut at ! got up and
read FOR a while, anl at > O'Clock ! took
10 the big chan again, once more 10 ~
aud suffer ! slept in the big chair irom
80 Ia !. making two hours sleep Tor IN"
night, and then dressed for the day. after
two nights. now. spent with only four and
a hali hours sleep altogether. and after
a Toriod Of thirty-seven hours of continuous
suffering was worn and wretchei and
the tooth still ached.
But al \ O'Clock. just after | had started
again for the dentist, with whom ] had
an emergency appointment for this morn
ing al " o'clock, the pain all ceased, anu
went to sleep on the cars on my way TO
the dentists Office What the dentist
did this time he said ought TO stop the pain
entirely; and that day, from 4. NJ. 10
y NJ. ! did have complete and absolute
relief: and what blessed relief it was!
Il was tired and worn and weak, bu,
lhesa hours offreedom from pain ~ere filled
with the languid delight Of convalescence;
and then AZ p. NJ. that tooth began 10
grumbe little But the pain didn't come
back AZ il had before. II was transient
now and slight; and that night 1 slept
grandly straight through, my first nights
sleep IN three nights.
W lHr I "oNC w thhs WIG 'U'''s
a little sorer again; nothing like so bad
~ II had been in the heavy siege, but sore
enough TO make me uncomfortable and
to disturb me with the thought that the
old hard ache might AT any minute return.
But it didn't the tooth Just grumbled along
80 through the day until 7 came to make
my next visit to the dentists, which wns
at $50 y. NJ; and this time he stopped the
ache for good and all, after a siege that
had covered. from beginning to end.
period Of seventy hours.
Even the soreness had now dissp-
pearei. and that night at home ! found
myself laughing. All my misery had de-
parted; and that night slept again. grandly.
restfully; and the next morning ! awoko
quite free from pain, and rested, new
man,
Il had come back to the world and its
Joys. and the world and its Joys had come
back To me. The trees waved their branches
NJ me once more and the sparrows chirped
now tangled musically; the laughter Of
children AT play betokened happiness;
people passed whistling. so happy were
they; there was cheerful ring now TO
the horses hoofs ns they trotted along the
streets. merry buzz to the automobiles:
and liked the sound Of the hammer COM
ing from house in the neighborhood where
they are CarpenterinR.
Everybody seemed TO be doing some
thing and everybody seemed to be feeling
good: the sun was shining. the air was
bright and the whole world was full of peace
and JOY; a world in which just TO live was
"a delight.
What a blessed. blessed relief. and l
hope may never, never again have tooth
ache; and wouldn't voluntarily suffer IL
for any price II some man should come
along with a million dollars, to be mine
il would take il with a toothache attach
men,, | would say:
You can take ii away and burn il IL
YOU wish, my friend. II has no charms for
me- I take for my music the greGter Joys
Of painless poverty"