Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1894-12-09


The little upper Mississippi steam
boats came up the river after the ice
went out, and one long toot OF the whis-
tie would empty a church 10 eight min
utes. Some of these little boats were
like the Georgia steamer with the one
horsepower engine and l2 horsepower
whistle. remember little boat With
a pocket engine caliope, and every
time the caliope played tho boat stop
ped. Sam Jones says there are too
MANY Christians like that. When they
"holler" amen. they stop.
1t was near this spot where ! am
writing that my brother, now psrsecnt-
ing attorney OF Minneapolis, once In
vited me to come with him and partlci-
pate in cyclone. II did not last long,
but the taIlors now make one OF my
trousers legs thrss.eighths OF an Inch
shorter than the other.
People now come hundreds OF miles
TO view the SPOT. l have referred 10
this accident before, and probably by
referring to IL again now those few who
did believe II will 30 over 10 the ma
jorlty, but can prove IL Dy two physl-
clans, both OF whom set my leg. and
third physician who reset II abont y
week later when my bed fell down.
was placed on a cheap bed and an
extension put on the leg-that Is q
pie.e OF adhesive plaster was put on the
sole of the foot and TO this a cord WAS
attached which passed up over the foot
OF the ed and over pulley 30 couple
OF fat irons which kept my limb pulled
out TO It's full capacity all the time
when the bone was knitting. One DAY
| heaved a sigh, and as did 80 the bed
fell With q loud report, leaving my foot
In tkp air.
Gdshs how II HURT
A nurse and my fond wife were therey1
but they could not pull me ods-fToiiil
the chaos OF bed and shattered legs. All
they could dA was to wiring their hands
and put cologhs on my brow.
1t was ono Of the sAddest situations
ever accepted. IN Ny wife, who
is woman OF quickly s2ce, suR
Qested that could ~
by an educational proc~ -
two sets OF cyclopedia and vino
own literary works, and with these suo-
managed to build up under my giant
frame as went up on one elbow ~
time, so that when tho doctor came
WAS resting, white and faint. with
work on phrsnOlogy under my mead
aud a big octave on numbering 10 the
north west under my lumbar region.
The cyclone Is q very quick movement
OF disturbed air In various directions
and Is injurious 10 animal life. II Is,
az may say, 10 almost every case. acute
- narfirIQa rambling
from in1amed climate 4
The careful studens OF atmospherid~
phenomena notices at first small cloud
about the size OF a mans hand, but
very soon IL assumes the size aud black
ness OF threatened tariff legislAtlon'
and before one can 6nd the key to hts
cyclone cellar he is twisted 30 that be
looks az the future over bis shoulder
blades and tears OF anguish roll dow
over his eyebrows into bis ears.
The leaves OF the forest bad bee
whipped TO a mucilage by the wind 81
hail and plastsred over fences, hon
and even horses. Our horse was ha
Ing by his breeching from q lonely q
plastered with green, and the 81
was all rushing TO bis head. i mos
aud sank into pool OF mud, hall |
raInWater.
MY patience, how my leg did -
me-
Help was miles away, but ou
| lleving the distress OF the iDJIref
comforting the bereft or seatehin
the dead at Clear Lake IL was
orabIe night. lay on ny back loI y
no At the alternate cloud rack anSShe
cold, unsympEthetic planets No" and
then IL would rain some more on ny
upturned spectaeles. NoGhlng IL more
annoyIug than spsctRcles 10 cyclone.
| dMy brother pacsd the.torn and dis
heyeled road near me, almost crslsd
by the fear that his family bad been
! killed ddTisg bis absence. Finally
foot passenger came by On his waJ 20
the village, aod we sent for relief.
asked for stretcher. & physielan'
rubber BLANKET, bottle OF morie and
az evening paper
The accident occurred ss the whistle
blew for 6 o'clock, and II was midnight
when relief cane. can recall the cir
cumstances almost without effort A
kindly dentist pulled ny lez and then
set IL as one would SET hen-that is-
/ ne Ience0 W 10 WIN YpS'f W 49,"
boards. He tied these 20 the shattered
limb - far AZ the fracture add theS
stopped so that be prevented circuia-
tlon and yet gave no protection 70 The
szonlzed leg. By morning 10 bad sWol'
len 70 It's full capacity. and snail
carry down 70 my tear soaked grave
| the sears OF those diagonal biisters made
by the accused bandsges.
After % hours 1 saw that would
have 70 wear q hickory leg up the gol1.
en stair. a. things looked, and 20 bad
six good healthy pallbearsrs take ne
10 the evening train, pnt ne on the bag
gage car, stretcher. fence boards aud
all. and was taken 70 Hudson. where
there was q physician who had studied
medicine.
lie sat my leg.
He also put Il 10 glass. People nsed
10 come from away behind Martell 70
see IL growing 10 its little eonseryato-
~. AAndiy clergyman for whom
once Isetnred, 10 order 10 rebuild the
BELLY blown Of BY this sane zephyr
| tod me that probably IL Was judge
1ent on me-, for vas just learning %
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