The Arkansaw traveler., 1883-08-18
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 Over in St. Paul me, man with eyes of cadet blue and terra eotta nose. His eyes were not only peculiar in shape, but while one seemed to constantly probe the future, the other was apparently ransack- ing the dreamy past. While one ram bled among the glorious possibilities of the remote yet golden ultimately. the other sought the sombre depths of the previously.
 He told me that years ago he had a mild case O. strabismus. and that both eyes seemed to glare down his nose ill he got restless and had them operated on. Those were the days when they used to fasten a eroohe; hook under the in- fernal ree,us muscle and GU, i, little with pair Of op,i:a sheep shears. The etiec, of this course was 10 allow the eye to drift back 10 direct line. bu, this man fell into the hands of a drunken surgeon who GU, the muscle too much ard thereby weak ened II so that |. gradually swung past the point l, ought 10 have stopped at. and he saw with horror ,ha. his eye was going 70 turn ou, and proirude. as l; were. so that man could hang his ha, on i; The other followed suit. ard the two orbs that had for years looked along the bridge of the terra co;,a nose. gradually separated. and while one looked toward neX, Christr, as with fond anticipations. the other loved to finger ove, the remem- brances of las; fall.
 This thing continued til he had 10 peer into the future with his ott eye closed and wee versa.
 1, Is needless 10 say tha; he huasered for the blood of ;ha; physician and sur seou. lie tried 10 lay yiolen; hands on him and wipe up the ground with him, and wear him ou, across a telegraph pole. Bat the authorities alw,ys pre- vented the administration oi swi!; and awful justice.
 Time passed on til one nigh; :he ab- netmal wal.-eyed man iooseued board n tire sidewalk ep towa 50 tha: the physician snd surgeon caCsht his loo, IT !: and caused an o5ilque fracture of;he scApula. pei IL, dgra me-c- busted h.> eo.nuceait ani wrecked hi> >arah- beiiun,
 Perhaps am in erro. as b some oi these medical terms and then orth0sra phy. bu; ,ha; Is about the way the man with the diver sent olbs to,d !, :o me.
 The physician and surgeon was qui:e ! ruin. He had .o wear ciap-boatis or himself for months. and there were other doctors and iaudable pus and threatened gangrene and doctors bills with the eem- etery looming up in the near future Day after day he took his own ant.-febrie drinks and rammed his busted system full of iron and stychnine and beef tea and Dover's powders and hypodermic squirt illl he wished he could die. but death would not come. He paved the air and howled. They fed him his own nuNvomica. ,incture Of rhubarb and phos- phates and gruel. and brought him back ,o lite with a crooked coilar-bone. a shat tered shoulder blade and look of woe.
 Then he sved the town for S5olooo damages because the sidewalk was i'm perfect. and the walleyed man. with the lndamed nose. go, on the lury.
 vii no: explain how :, was eione. out ,he;e was i verdict for defendan; with costs on the Eseuiapian wreck. The man with the crooked vision is no: hand some, ba; he Is very happy. lie says the mills of the gods grind slowly. bu; they pulye,iie middling line.