Life — April 7, 1898 — page 15: what you’re looking at

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retired millionaire named Waterbury. Mr. Waterbury went to Dr. Squills to have a tooth pulled. Dr. Squills pulled it, and charged two hundred and fifty dollars for the service, claim- ing that Waterbury told him that he suffered the tortures of the damned, and adding that two hundred and fifty dollars was a very small charge for lifting a millionaire out of purga- tory, especially ove who really belonged there. Waterbury’s claim is that he went to have his tooth and not his leg pulled, and that his resistance is merely to protect the latter against undue elongation; that a dentist has no juris- diction over the leg of a patient; and he there- fore respectfully begs the Court to compel him to take his hands off. WORM'S-EYE VIEWS OF US. ON THE OCEAN STEAMER. Sympathy is running high on both sides, and Judge Grinnen Barritt, who will sit in judg- menton the case, will not find it easy to decide as between the two litigants and retain that popularity which will insure his re-election next fall, [5 shite of the immense hue and ery for news, and the prodigious expenditure of money to get it, the really important items are not sure to get the attention they deserve, Senator Proctor’s story of what he saw in Cuba was an exceedingly important and influential utterance, worth pages of rumors and scare-head gossip, yet it was not easy to find a complete and readable report of it. One of the most enterprising of the saner papers in New York, which is ready at any time to make any expenditure for news, and which, to do it justice, does get the news and print it, printed scarcely more than half of that report, and gave that half very ineffectively. When enterprise crowds out discrimination it overdoes its job. The fact that an item fs easily obtained does not warrant its omission or contraction, pro- vided it is really important.