The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1874-10-08
"A Knife in My Eye.


grams on the tissue-paper which the Sun
received from the Office Of the New York
Associated Press began to seem DINNER
and DINNER, until at last | felt constrained
to ask the night manager OF that nstitu-
tlon to be more liberal in using the chemi-
Cal sheets which supply color in manifold
ing. tie replied that the manifolders in
| yarlably made more copies OF the tele-
grams than were required by the members
| OF the Associated Press, and that he sent
to the new spapers none that We're not as
PLAN as though written with coarse pen
ana black INK on white paper. | did not
dream that the defect was in my falling
vision. After some months fine, tantas- |
tie cobWeb tracery began to float before
my rgh eye, and on shutting my left eye
l was unaOle to read with the right Then
TREND SAID that Il film was growing over
my right eye. Instead, however, of |
MN covering the eye. it was the death OF |
the crystalline lens within the eye Then |
1t became evident that blindness was |
creeping upon me.
1he remedies that friends offered We're |
varied and numerous. The first tested |
was that which suggests itself to every |
body who becomes conscious of impaired |
eNeSlght. l Went to an optician Strong
| cataract glasses served their purpose for
while. Then the eye required something
OF greater magnitying power, and ram |
sacked the opticians stores, and even en- |
pIoycd an expert to make Il combination |
OF lenses; but all these articles failed |
with the lapse of time Next tried the |
turimens panacea for diseases in horses |
eyes, namely, the bathing of the eve in u |
solution OF common rock-salt and water |
SALT water, especially that Of the sea. is |
good lor weak eyes. but useless in case |
OF cataract. That demands the knife
The serpentne spider-web5 which float |
ed in front OF my right eye were slowly and |
lmpereeptibly followed by the fading Of
all objects that were not distinctly defined. |
and the power Of vision in the left was
soon so far reduced that reading became
impossible Gas-lights became faint
orange-colored disks Of haze; the setting
sun looked like a sun viewed through a !
glass covered with thin coat of lamp
black, and The moon was NO longer visible |
lhcu Mr., Daua at down at my desk one
day, saying: ..
tbs has gone long enough Youm must !
90 to an oculist At once, or your ewes may |
De lrretrieyably ruined BY these expert !
menl-. on must 20 to my oculi5t, right |
OIL | will see him and make arrange
ments for You tomorrow, and meantime
Will relieve you of such duties rs can not
| readily be performed by IN amanuensis,
whom the san shall employ to assist in
your work"
ON presenting my self before the Doctor.
my first concern was about the dreaded
dark room IN which patients are traditions
ally Kept fortnight OF longer after the
common operation for cataract
MY practice" said the Doctor, in
an-Wvr to my question, '.does not contine
the patient at all Twill not operate when
| the atmosphere or any thing in the
patient system has a tendency to inham-
nation. and inflammation Is all that need
be iearc.I"
Requested the Doctor t9 @Nre me chic
'"''io+
"Slr." -tid he with emphasis. II uever
took risk, and Will not begin 70 lake
rlaks ut my advanced ace Besides he
continued, exhibiting knife whose mimi
teslmal blade was barely visible Under a
| powerful magnifEnm glass there i+ no
! pain
| TINS astonishing assertion taltcd with
! that OF Wilkie Collins oculis1 in Poor
| Miss Finch Therein Herr Crosse as
| sures lucjlla Finch that the operation for
cataract in almost painless could not
| believe r..
Ban nam o1. no MAIN tbaro .,,-o. no
! eScane tnl NE Tha nn,tor ,-c,lId NOT
I listen to file yy0r,l rhloro+orn, III r;ont
eve ,r,s tnt.ll,, Mind ond t,n o,t.,,.,c+7 ~
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| thouoht as b,arra n,salf T., ,hn r[ai,.
| and fhe knifq descended f.1r sbfl9trI
whirIs And tbe deaJ I4rs wa. cnt The
| blade was drawn out AND Inc w,tar of tha
eve trfc4sle, down INV rbael,--,,, ;n.o,.tnd
nacl,trom which swent the ovn,s inhabi-
tants to death IN snacr bcIond thni,. sL.y
| Thn nain MA nnt hnnn tLa. n o n,asc,1;ito
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