Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1892-09-25

who say little, remain dignifled through
life and die leaving the impression that
they had an enormous reserve power Of
thought which they never used. have
often wished that l had been gifted
that way, for there is no chance to crit
else a severe man who never says any
thing, He lives and dies great man in
the eyes Of the hoi polloi, for they never
know when he might possibly say some
thing.
This doctor cut off legs and arms with
rapidity. He had been in the war Of
1912, or some such war, and had done
good deal toward bringing peace
about, for both friend and foe decided
| that he was worse than arson, treason,
rapine and;death, so the war closed.
was handed over to him just as chill
dren used to be fed to the crocodiles OF
the Asiatic countries. We wanted his
good will, even if it cost lobe of the
liver of the Oldest child or an eye or an
ear to make him feel pleasant.
The reader has doubtless known in his
or her life country doctor OF this
class; one who settles all great questions
with grunt, likes to be regarded as
taciturn, and has a way OF losing his
temper in time to prevent the discovery
of his ignorance. This man was one OF
that kind.
He had called 10 convention Of other
doctors 10 see the peration-docto-s
from Trimbelle, Eau Galley, Little
Bethel neighborhood, Harriman's Land
ing and Beldenvlle, also from Erin
Prairie and East Unionforever.
Cocaine was unknown then, and so
the doctor had brother physician from
Primroy's Bridge hold my head with
| hands that smelled like pair of saddle
bags. can smell them yet. The oper-
ating surgeon, the sphynx who was
never known to smile, went into little
dark closet and smiled by himself, COM
| ing back with his coat off and the odor
| OF cognac about his whiskers.
He had ground up pair OF curved toe
nail scissors and had them lying on the
| oilcloth of the table. He now picked up
a button hook which he had used during
! the Mexican war, and asked me to look
intently at the collar button on the back
Of my neck while he made an exami-
nation" This he did bv rolling up the
lid and fastening it in 1.-THE forward, " as
he called it, Then he hooked the button
hook under the internal rectus muscle,
as he stated, to hold the eye steady and
give him a chance at IT with his tOenail
scissors. He now took of his cuffs and
gave them to the doctor from Pleasant
Valley to hold, wiped his glasses and
! took some more mince pie material,
which he breathed on me while operat-
| ing, and thus cheered me up, vicarious-
ly, so that 1 felt like another man.
He cut the rectus muscle entirely off.
1t took him some time, but he did it,.
A very able physician did the same
trick for Robert Todd Lincoln, now
minister to England. The blood ran
down my face quite plenty, while the
surgeon called the doctors from Erin
Prairie and Harriman's Landing to come
and see what a beautiful operation it
was. They said it was by far the most
attractive operation they had ever seen
| outside Of post norton.
I then returned to my studies with a
green patch over this eve, but l caught
a slight cold in che eye one evening
while being hazed, and so had to leave
college for the time, and suffered q
great deal with my eye. Years after
ward the eye began to drift of to the
left. and people who came to call on me
cot To calling in pairs, so that one could
Iool, me in the eye from front while the
other would take me on the flank and
occnnv nv attention from that direc-
tion. Strangers reported that / had a
closs eve. and some said that must
heve very DOOR record indeed, as l
never seemed able to look one In the
eve. This was true. But very few OF
INV wears could look two in the eye any
better than could.
wears afterward saw, even with my
odd and copious vision, that l had SUI
Serad from the grossest malpractice.
The large tin god Of the countryside be-
car,e IN me what John L. Sullivan be-
csn,e TO his audience on the night OF
the 18th inst, only so much osseouss,
muscular and adipose tissue oetnroneo'
husted and knocked out.
Vet the people generally had not dis
covered IL. My eyes, however, had been
ooanod One Of them had been so
sti1fnllv opened that I could hardly
oiosa n while sleeping. The lack OF
o,,,scular attachment on the inner cor
oe- hed permitted the eye to protrnde
- geve me q choked appearance as
one might have II his neighoors nao
sskan the law into their own hands.
n vas At this time that Dr. Black-
Ser the man who had operated on
a~e. brought suit aSal1ss the Town