The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-09-25
Then | would turn the other eye and
beautiful Roman nose on him.
FINALLY his lswvar said 10 hun.

Ihen | would turn the other eye and
beautiful Roman nose on him.
Finally his lawyer said to him:
Doctor. who is that young blonde Jury
man with the misunderstanding between
his eyes, who now and then looks at you
as though he would like TO do some au-
topsy work for you2''
Me Godp' said Dr. Blacksmith, 81 be-
heve that's young Nye, whose eye oper-
ated on to for strahismus years ago. Why
didn't know that before and have him
excused from the jury7n
Alas, it is too late now, and can see
by the way he acts that he intends to hang
the jury" spoke up the lawyer.
As went to my dinner trembling
hand with the odor of deodorixer upon
1t offered me a cigar wrapped up in q
bank note. 1t was poor cigar, and the
execution, SO | showed it TO the jury, told
where IL came from and sent il back. /
was not smoking at that time, anyway.
The jury took everything into considers
ton. and remembering that the suit was
brought to recover the value of broken
leg on account of a defective sidewalk, and
that DIR. Blacksmith admitted that he
had worn overshoes habitually before
that, but on that night "had his skates
on" instead, having taken seven or eight
of what the London barrister calls ire
freshers," though different of course in
this country. they did not seem favorable
to the physician.
The jury sat up all night, and by noon
the next day was able to disagree 1t was
my first and last experience on jury.
The odor of a jury room still comes back
to me if / ride to England in the steerage,
or go down cellar late at night to find a
| large gas leak between me and the meter.
This year | decided to consult an eve
| surgeon Of great repute and see what he
| said
| went to his office at $50 a. m. to see il
| he had reached the Office. He had. but
there were nineteen people ahead of me. l
! waited till 2:2O p. m. and got short
| glimpse of the eye trim mer's partner. He
looked me over and said that must come
| early or that / would have to wait quite
/ awhile. Tomorrow will be our busy day
because you know this is Labor day, and
/ SO we have excused half our patients till
4 tomorrow"
| l went the next morning before day.
| light and sat on the step till the milk
| man came, and he let me into the base
| ment for dollar. Then l remained
till the maid began busting the reception
room; then got in there and looked al
the album till the doctor came, bu
| eleven people who live near him came
with him to be attended to, and clergy
! man from Montana wanted to take ar
| early train, so he got in ahead of me also
| People who say that newspaper men defy
| all rules and get the finest cut from tn,
| best joint, have never closely studied the
soft and elastic feather bed upon which
the clerical anchorite journeys TOWARD
what he hopes is even q still better ant
| more well-disposed world.
The doctor finally saw me. He wa
wiping his hands on napkin and put
ting away bloody crochet hook as l en-
tered. "And how long have you beer
looking over your left shoulder into tn
past that way, Mr.. Nye?" he asked.
''For twenty-four years" replied. sit
ting down on soft, elastic, round object
which gave me chill as I thought hoy
they had neglected to put away the las
eye they had secured.
However, it was q small rubber bulb
used mostly on big squirt, by means Q
which the doctor keeps the eye covere'
with moth preparation. judge.
"The result of the old operation" sal
the oculist, dropping whole lot of house
hold utensils into fngerbowl full Q
diluted carbolic acid, ''is that the rectu
muscle was completely cut off from tn
eve, leaving it as smooth and shiny as tn
top of your head. In twenty years it ha
grown on again at the posterior precinc
of the eye. The conjunctiva has gon
back into the cerebellum. and is used fo
thinking instead of winking. l will hay
to cut the muscle away from the back {
the ball of the eye. dissect it also from tn
optic nerve, then with forceps draw tn
old and dilapidated muscle forward an
stitch it to the ball of the eye, where
was at first"
"And do you heat the forceps and use
redhot needle in sewing on the muscles 2
ooh, no; certainly not"
s'Then," said l, writing little codic