Cowboy's Toothache.

Star (Christchurch), Issue 7045, 23 December 1890, Page 4

Cowboy's Toothache.

FACING A DENTIST FOOLISHLY. HOW SUFFERING COULD HAVE BEEN AVOIDED. Col. Metaalf, of Denver, Colo., U.S.A., was once a cowboy, and tells a good story. "The winter of 1831," he says, "was a hard one, and I never saw anything like the rain that spring. When June came we were truly a drowned-out set. I never was so worn out. I made up my mind to go to Denver. I hit upon the toothacho for an ezcuse. My employer was at the home ranch far away, as I thought, and so, having pressed my excuse on the boys, I started. I got to Denver in the morning. After breakfast I lighted a cigar and Btood on the steps of the hotel, and standing there came face to face with my employer. I whipped out my handkerchief and whipped it up to my cheek. 'Toothache — terrible.l murmured. ' Toothache, eh ! ' he said, looking at me keenly, 'come with me and have it out,' I hadn't the courage to say a word, and followed him meekly round to the office of the dentist. I sat down in the chair in a state of utter collapse, pointed out a back tooth, and groaned, 'Full it.' The dentist had hard work to get that tooth out, for it was one of the best teeth a man ever had. I had to pay two dollars for the operation too, and when the tooth was out, and the dentist had soothed my wounded jaw, my employer took me down to the station and saw me off on the next train for Kit Carson, bound for the camp. I never dared to tell any of the boys how I got beaten at my game." To lose a good sound molar in that sort of fashion was simply stupid cowardice. Any sort of quick-witted man would have spoken of St Jacobs oil, which everybody knows to be an absolute cure for the toothache and for all kinds or any kind of ache or pain. How easy, then, if he must fib, to say that he had come to town to get the great remedy, and he would have been believed. Thousands testify to its efficacy; but one or two instances will suffice to prove it. The Hon Billa Flint, Life Senator, Parliament, Dominion of Canada, says : "It acted like a charm in the cure of face neuralgia, arising from a defective tooth." Mr Edward Waters, 87, Bourke street West, Melbourne, writes: — "That members of his family have used it most effectually for toothache." Mr H. H. Hoermance, Lawrenceburgh, Ind., U.S.A., August 17, 1888, Btates that he suffered with toothache for two days. " I tried," he says, "St Jacob's oil, and it cured me immediately, and there has been no return of pain." A most remarkable cure was that of Mr Samuel P. Shiplor, Paragon, Ind., July 30, 1888— "I suffered," he says, " with pain in my head from sunstroke for twenty-two years, and was cured by St Jacob's oil ; no return of the pain in four years." _____^__________