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Show DENTIST WAS JOLLY SOUL 1 But He Had Been Oelabratlng, aa P. IjM tlent Found Out to HU Sorrow. jjB Otis Harlan, the actor, has been re- uH Ins about with one Up looking- like an jjH old rubber overtime, says the New jjB York correspondent of tbe Cincinnati iB Times Star. It appears tbat for some jft time he had ban Intermiteiitly both- !Bj ered by an ache In one of hU most Bj aafely anchored teeth. "It's an odd Hj thing, though," VP& Harlan, 'Hliat jBj ache used to disappear absolutely er- JBs ery time I walked up the steps of a m dentists's oQce. Fm not pulling any jjH c4d Joke here. It wonld ralry go JjW away. Then the dentist would pin b&ok Kj my moe and gt hie right arm to tho $B elbow inside my moutn, and gniD 4Hg around ther with a discouraging air. M Always he would emerge declaring .1H that ha could not find anything -wrong JB& with any of my toeth, and adtise mo JS? to return tn next tinw It worried JBM me." ? That happened several times. At Ml last the tooth got to aching for fair. i Harlan waited until hi face began to well allghtly enouch so he could mark tbe spot with a cross and be cer- t & tain of undlng It afterward. Then he jf Bm, went Into tbe nearest dentist's office i Kg The dentist wan a jolly soul-a very rM. Jolly soul. After Mr. Harlan cat down JK he becamo -convinced that tho dentist 1 j had probably been celebrating some 1 H little thing. He could isolate the scent 1HJ of enracoa and sauterne and the clovor Bg cocktail upon the dentist's breath. fBNn Then he had been eating cabbage, too. Rjt "Harlan told him to hurry. The den- IBg tist fastened his forceps on tho aching I W.i tooth. I IjJ? "Uh," groaned Harlan. "Hoo! TJh, IKr uh, uh! You've got hold of my lip." iWP "Thash all right, Mr. Harlan," said I Eft the dentist, Bmillng, vaguoly "Thash f BJlv ail right. Don't you lot that worry J J you, Mr. Harlan. I got hold of tho tooth, too." ij pflt i -air, |