The incident below, printed in the New York _Times_, illustrates
how pride and resolution will fortify a man to endure pain:
“Whom do you s’pose I’ve got inside here? Old one-eyed Ben
Tillman! And if I don’t make him squeal nobody can. I won’t do
a thing to him--oh, my!” And the dentist-surgeon brandished his
forceps gleefully and returned to the pleasure of torturing the
senator.
Next day the same young man came again. “Well, did you succeed
in making Tillman yell?” he asked. The dentist shook his head
sadly. “No,” he replied in a disappointed tone. “I couldn’t make
him flinch. He didn’t make a sound, and, d’ye know, when he got
out of the chair he turned to me with a smile and said: ‘Say,
doctor, I didn’t know before that you ran a painless dental
shop.’” (Text.)
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