Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-10

warned the crowd that he couldn't stay long,
as the method he used put terrible strain
his nerves, he doing the suffering instead of the
patient, the ones that operated
early wouldn't run the risk of still having
their teeth when he had to quit. Then he
gave me the signal, and | went up. While he
telling me Id have to pay in advance,
that being his rule. | noticed a good many
people feeling in their pockets and edging up
toward US.
"Ah,' he said, looking into my mouth and
bending my head back nobody before
could see how he operated, you have some
thing here that would cause you serious in
convenience if permitted it to remain.
Friends, you are about to see take out a
tooth with no more pain to the patient than
IS experienced by sweet girl who while enter
tanning her beau in the parlor hears poor, tired
ma washing the dishes. There is something
here that it would be pity to leave un-
touched. as the politician said when he OBJ
tanned access to the public safe"
When he had lifted the false tooth out with
his forceps, he closed his eyes, drew a long
breath, and gave a kind of shiver as though
he agony
The next man up stocky looking young
fellow with black. curly hair that he wore
pretty long so as to show it off well. Some
body yelled:
Look out, Jimmy he'll pull your mod
estyl' and Others began to guy him; but the
Doc held up hand and looked at them with
whitening scorn, saying:
world that boot. They are owls, fools. and
Scotchmen. Which have we here this evening""
Then Jimmy opened his mouth, and |, be-
ing near, could hear him grunt as the painless
method was being worked on him. He was
game though and when the Doc handed him
his tooth he turned around with laugh, say
ing, "Oh, well, l don't know. Some people
have to get their nerve through gaspipes."
The Doc went through his shiverng act
again, and l began to think human nature
yIac To he rrefty to AMI
on, after all. A middle aged man with reddish
whiskers tried it next Although he wriggled
some, his tooth wasn't in very deep and he
claimed he liked it when he had stepped aside.
The boys had quit being funny by that time.
Everybody was interested, and it looked
if the receipts would be heavy
THINK it was about the seventh man up
who brought the proceedings to a close. He
probably a stone mason or something
like that; for he had pair of fists on him
that he must have had to take in one at time
when he went through a door. The Doc had
got hold and was up on his toes working the
method with all his might when the man with
the tooth let out whOOp.
There was a whirring noise that seemed to
be made by the Docs heels, and then in few
seconds he left the bandstand head first.
the patient spit out the fOrceps, and |
had an idea that it would be no more than
right to leave them there, because he might
want them for a souvenir. The Doc was on
his feet by the time got to him, and the
crowd was unsympathetic we decided without
taking vote on the question not to stay.
If political candidate could run for office
the way l ran for life that night. the other
fellow would show lack of good breeding by
not moving to make it unanimous. The Doc
and | got separated early. | could hear the
with the fists begging his fellow citizens
to let him deal with the tooth tinker" when
they caught him, and got an impression as
Jumping over ash barrels, stumbling
through gardens, and and then leaving
part of my best suit hanging to picket fence,
that if l ever saw Quintius Coghostro again it
would be und r painful circumstances. It's
remarkable how impressions come to us some
times Another remarkable thing is the habit
people have of stringing their clothes lines
just high enough to catch a man under the
chin After | had been flung back with my
Adams apple badly damaged, and my whole
being quivering with surprise and pain, | be-
gan to realize the beauty of the system they
have in the crowded cities, where they have
to hang their clothes the roofs
A FTER getting away from the crowd, took
= off my false whskers and circled around
the town. slipping into the little hotel before
long, to find Clytie in the parlor, humping
lightly on a piano AS soon as she saw me,
she knew something was wrong.
What do you think they'll do to him?"
she asked after I'd told her what had hap
pened.
I'm afraid" said. g if the man he operated