Ladysmith news-budget. [volume] (Ladysmith, Rusk County, Wis.) 1907-1927, 1908-12-03
A ROW REPEATED.

1t is said that a person under the in
fluence of laughing gas is apt to re-
call some of the important scenes of
his life. This was verified in the case
of Mr. Henry w Shertuff, a we'll
known lawyer, and very good man,
whose weight Is about 2So pounds.
Twelve years ago he participated in a
lively row in a popular saloon uptown,
and lent valuable aid in turning the
place inside out He occasionally
dreams Of this row, and therefore it
is not wonderful that dose of laugh
ing gas, recently taken, brought the
scene wildly before him.
He awoke on Monday morning with
a raging tooth. On his way to bust
ness he called upon New York den
fist in the neighborhood of Thirty
fourth street and Third avenue. The
dentist is slender man of thirty,
with silky whiskers and a meek air
of protest, as if apologizing in advance
for the pain he might infict He was
fanked by one male assistant as slen-
der as himself, and in the background
were two young ladies, also assist
ants. When Mr. Shartuff stood up in
front of the doctor to tell him of the
wayward tooth. the shadow of the
big lawyer quite threw into eclipse
the smaller form of the operator. The
doctor led him to the chair, and Mr..
Shartuff squeezed his frame into its
soft cushions, threw back his head,
opened his mouth, and awaited de-
velopments The doctor tunneled for
moment In the cavity, looked at it
through a magnifying glass, and an
nounced his ultimatum:
TOO far gone to be filled; have to
pull it. Can give you laughing gas
"Will it hurt?" asked Mr. Shartuff.
mot at ALL" was the reply 'The
gas will set you dreaming of your
past life, and you will wake up with
the tooth gone"
Bring on your gas" consented Mr..
Shartuff.
He took long breath from the
mouth of tube which the doctor an
piled.
The next moment the old fight of
twelve years ago came back to him.
He found himself with three enemies
bearing down on him.
With whoop and bound, he seized
one Of his assistants by the throat and
threw him the length of the room.
Then he grabbed the second, and, with
all the force that suppressed rage
could give, he forced him backward
through window. ne wrenched the
heavy chair apart, and was about to
brain the last of his enemies, when
the gas lost it's power and he awoke.
He beheld scene of desolation.
The parlor with its rare blue china
and expensive bric-a-brac, was a
wreck. The furniture was a confused
jumple Of old lumber. The operating
chair had disappeared. So had the
two ladies. The doctor still remained
He nad to. Mr.. Shartuff had him by
the throat halfway out of the second
story window. In another moment he
would have dropped him to the pave
ment.
The dentists assistant had bravely
come TO the rescue when the trouble
began. Now he was slowly disentang-
ling himself from the debris of an
etagre, and he came forward rubbing
the sore spots. The doctor looked for
a bottle of arnlca, and Mr.. Shartuff
looked for his porketbook and offered
to pay for the damage The young
ladies came out from their hiding
places. AlT. Shartuff apologized, told
about the fight twelve years ago, and
gently insinuqted:
Shall we try it again?"
mo, sir" said the doctor. 81
wouldn't run that risk again for S..
Geo."
DR.. Modemann said he had been a
practising dentist for many years, but
never before had little gas wrought
such change in his establishment.
Mr.. Shartuff still has hollow tooth
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