The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1885-02-12

blink at me, but had better come right
away, for the calf's head is buttin' all
the dumpiins out of the poi"
LEGS TO ORDER.
Interesting Items About tho Army Of
Crippled Soldiers.
1--WE have the names of about eight
cen thousand veterans who have ap-
piled for repairs,' said Mr.. Ramsey,
who has charge of the artificial limb
department of the surgeon generals
Office, to a Washington Star reporter.
''You know we fit them out with new
sets OF legs, arms, or other apparatus
every five years. 1t is now getting to-
ward the close one of those periods,
and we have repaired IA. 600 veterans.
Aren't the One-legged men dying
Off" asked the reporter.
''Now that's an interesting question.
I guess they are. presume many OF
those whose names we have have since
died. but can't tell certainly. Now,
as I've said, every five years we recon-
struct the MANNED veterans of tho
army, but they have their choice to
take the repairs or the money. The
allowance for q leg is S75, for anything
less than leg is $50. From one period
to another many old veterans drop out.
Some Of them make one or two appli-
cations, and then we never hear from
them again. Naturally, we conclude
when they don't send for their money
or legs they must be dead and have no
more use for them. But we don't
limit ourselves to men who have actual
ly lost their limbs. A man who has
simply lost the use of his limbs is en-
titled to a wooden leg or arm. as the
case may be, though he can't wear them.
So you see we can t keep a record of all
the one-leggcd men, but l guess there
aren't as many as there used to be.
Yet there are lots of them, and many
who haven't any legs at all, and some
with neither legs nor arms. Then there
are many who have not lost their limbs
but who have no power to move. There
is one man who gets two arms and two
legs allowance, who cannot move any
part of his body except the little finger
on his left hand, which he can bend
the least little bit. There is another, a
New England soldier, whose arms and
legs are dead, and who is blind in both
eyes. Not long ago man came in
here with no arms and sat down at
one of the desks and wrote with his
teeth. 1t was not particularly fine
writing, but you could read it. know
of another man-he was in the sharp
shooters service-whO can't be stood
on his feet because he is bent in the
back so that his head would strike the
floor first. Think how many years
these men have suffered. and many of
them are still living! Why, there's
hardly enough left of some OF them to
hold together.
But you asked if they were dying
off. Now, here's roll we are just
completing, and he laid several i'm
mense taliy-sheets out on his desk.
.You can see how they run. This is
the fourth period, and here's man
who has gotten four legs-quite num-
Der for one man ii he used them all at
once. And here's another who has
gotten four legs and four arms. No,
we don't furnish heads. but we supply
parts of heads, jaws, and sections of
skulls, and eyes. Now, here's a man
who got one leg in the first period, and
has never gotten any since; he is prob
ably dead. But here is another who
came in for repairs just after the war
and was never heard from again until
now. when he comes up again. He
didn't wear out very fast. Some men
wear well, and don't bother about get
ting repaired 50 often. Here's another
man." he added, pointing to another
name on the list. ''here's q man vino
comes up now for the first time, hav-
ing done without his limb all these
years. 1t runs this way, you see. all
the way through. Those men who have
not applied for their fourth leg, OF
Whatever it is they want, We conclude
must be dead. Some, l presume. will
live to get five or six legs, or as many
arms"
The Care of the Eyes.
There is great difference in the
prices of eyeglasses and spectacles.
du ODtiClslu SstlO. Ou Cstu DON 80 PstAA
of eyeglasses for Is cents, while a pair
that looks exactly like them will cos:
you g. The difference between them
is that by using one pair Il man is very
liable to ruin his sight, while the other
will materially aid it,
What makes the difference in val
ue?"
1.-The quality of the glass and the
amount OF work used in polishing them.
The cheap ones are generally made OF
very common glass, and are by no
means perfect. Sometimes there are
a;r-bubbles in them, and sometimes
there are wavv lines. You have looked
through window-glass that distorted
everything, haven't you? Well, just
imagine taking such kiud of glass to
improve your sight with. Persons are
not half careful enough of their eyes,
and the sight of thousands of persons
has been injured by using bad and un-
suitable glasses. Poor quality. ol
glasses are injurious enough. but when
a person looks through glasses that are
both poor in quality and in no way lit
ted to improve the sight, he runs ter
rible risk.
'.Can not one tell if the glasses helr
him?"
ut depends on circumstances. If ;
man finds that he is getting far-sightet
and tries on a pair of far-sighted glasse:
and they make him see better at tha
time, lie is apt to buy them. They may
however, be too old, and thus strain hi:
sight; or. they may be too young fol
him. and he does not receive the benefit
that he should. BY going to first
rate optician his sight would be tried ir
the proper manner. and he would ge1
just the right kind of glasses. 1t i;
very fa.s economy to buy cheap
glasses. I've seen 4 man stop ut :
stand in the street and buy pair o.
glasses for quarter, just by trying
them on and looking at newspaper
Lots of persons eyes are not OF the
same strength. and ought to have
glasses o. different strength in the same
frame. Ii man with eyes of thi:
character gets ready-madc pair o.
spectacles he is going to suller.-Pai'a'
deiphia NORTH A.4eric1n.
In one of the Cherryfield. Me.
schools the question was recently ask
od a litfia cnvar-vaar-nf1. .sWh1t iS