The star. (Reynoldsville, Pa.) 1892-1946, 1910-11-23


y kind of putty which. becoming naru
| 1..tctly. causes the tooth TO ache 50
tl3rehy giving The dentist two sue
r'7'.,!yc fees for tllr same job.
lH,hnGiApr WAS one day seated In
his uaicr IN the city of Boston when a
si,'., old fellow named Byles pre-
sr'i'rl himself to have IL back tooth
Lrawn The dentist seated his patient
IN ,ar chair Of torture and. opening
his nit = h. discovered there an enor-
nous tnhth on the right hand side
about is large. rs he afterward eX-
pressed IT, "as II small pOlyglOt Bi,
BILE" Il shall have trouble with this
tooth" thought Tushmnker. but he
clnpppd on his heaviest forceps and
pulled. 1t didn't come. Then he tried
the mrnscrew. exerting his utmost
strength. but the tooth wouldn't stir.
"Go away from here said Tueh
nnker to Byles. "aad t, turn in Il week
I'D I'll draw lha; tooth for you Ur
'.puw the reason why" Byles got up,
,,atped Il handkerchief to his jaw and
,'u forth
hen the dentist went to work. and
I'm three days he invented an instru-
Mont which he was confident would
pUl anything. 1t was Il combination
~ the lever. pulley, wheel and axle.
nclinrd plane wedge and screw. The
a'Ilngs were made and the machine
paj up in the office over an iron chair
rendered Gsrfertly stationary by lroH
rods going down into the foundations
Of the granite building.
In ~ week old Byle1 returned. He
vas clamppd into the iron chair. the
forceps connected with the machine
attached ilrmly to the tooth, and Tush-
maker, stationing himself in the rear,
took hold of II lever four feet in
length. He turned it slightly. Old
Byles gave groan and lifted his
right leg. Another turn. another
groan. and up went the leg again.
What do you raise your leg for?"
asked the doctor.
81 can't help it." said the patient
"Well." rejoined Tushmaker. that
tooth Is bound to come out now"
He turned the lever clear round with
a sudden jerk and snapped old Byles
head clean and clear from his shoul
ders, leaving space Of four inches
between the severed parts. They had
a postmortem examination. The roots
of the tooth were found extending
down the right side, through the right
leg and turning up in two prongs un
der the sole of the right foot.
"No wonder" said Tushmaker, "he
raised his right leg"
The jury thought so, too, but they
found the roots much decayed, and.
five surgeons swearing that mortfca-
ton would have ensued In few
months. Tushmaker was cleared on
verdict Of 'justiiable homicide"
He was little shy Of that instru
ment for some time afterward. but
one day an old lady, feeble and faccid,
came in to have tooth drawn, and,
thinking that 1t would come out very
easy. Tushmaker concluded, just by
way of variety, to try the machine.
He did so and at the first turn drew
the old lady's skeleton completely and
entirely from her body, leaving her
mass Of quivering jelly in her chair
Tushmaker took her home in pillow.
case. She lived seven years after that,
and they called her the India rubber
woman" She had suffered terribly
with the rheumatism, but after this
occurrence never had a pain in her
bones. The dentist kept them in a
glass case.
After this the machine was sold to
the contractor of the Boston custom
house, and It was found that child
of three years Of age could, by sin
gle turn of the screw, raise stone
weighing twenty-three tons. Smaller
ones were made on the same principle
and sold to the keepers Of hotels and
Restaurants. They were used for bon,
ing turkeys. There is no moral to this
story whatever, and it is possible that
the circumstances may have become
slightly exaggerated. OF course there
can be no doubt Of the truth Of the
main incidents.-John Phoenix.