The Roanoke times. [volume] (Roanoke, Va.) 1890-1895, 1895-08-25
Copyright, 1895, by Edgar W. Nye.I

men grossly insulted the violinist, when
quick as thoughta pruning knife flashed
forth, and with shrill cry the offender
fell to earth with his whole system of
doing business exposed to the prying
eyes Of the world.
Tho pruning knife not only slashed
open the whole abdominal cavity, but
laid the stomach itself open, while at
tho Same time the curve or hook at tho
end OF tho blade drew the stomach out on
tho grass i'll such a way as to mako the
gents supper menu no longer secret.
Naturally the wound was regarded MS
fatal No one had ever heard of that
time OF repairing fractured rennet, and,
FAR from medical assistance, weeping
friends gathered about the young mans
PROSTATE form, for every one realized
that even this phenomenal climate,
which for years has euchred the ceme-
terry out Of its dividends, could not save
him.
1t was ut this supreme moment that
tho woman Of the house came forth and
honorcd her sex (this is matter of his
tory, and the facts and photographs are
i'll the hands OF DR.. billiard, Asheyille.
n. CO.
Carefully removing the contents and
preface Of the stomach, consisting Of
chestnuts and Rhode Island greetings,
she cleaned the cut, and then taking
the catgut E" string of the violin she
softened it. and with needle sewed up
the stomach, returned it to the vast
watch pocket and then sewed that ND
carefully also
OF course she did not embroider a
bunch of goldenrod over the wound,
but yet the job was on the hole tidy
one. physician from Asheville came
the next day, looked at the patient, took
his temperature and smoking tobacco,
said, Pooh - and went away.
But the man stubbornly lived on and
on, and today surgeon thinks no more
OF prying into a man S true inwardness
than he would of pulling tooth.
This was the pioneer operation for
grating the catgut OH the human being.
What the result may be i'll future genera
lions if we continue to do this of course
even science cannot foretell The scien-
fist cannot even tell us what ones fe-
lines may be under such circumstances
(Scotch plaid joke).
They can only go on crocheting peo-
pie together here, and assisted by the
most glorious maximum temperature
perhaps that ever laid ont of doors death
Is deprived of his stinger and "the lun-
ger" possesses the land
But should we not learn o valuable
lesson from this? think so
Should we not recognize the fact that
woman walked first into this untrod-
den field of science? OF course l would
not advise woman to rise en- masse and
march into abdominal surgery or 20
about disabling whole orchestras for the
purpose Of sewing up and backstitchine
or buttonholing or herring boning the
yawning chasms of humanity, but let
them have an equal pull Mt the great in
tellectual food supply, so that usefu,
knowledge may not be solely in the
hands or heads of one sex.
Let us remember that the world never
suffered so cruelty as at the time when
the clergy turned the key OH education.
Let no class, nation, denomination or
sex undertake TO say who shall control
the knowledge supply Those who az
first undertook it are year by year sing
ing lower and lower
A friend and fellow student who WAS
expelled from Harvard ut the same time
that l was and for the same cause-yiz.
catching crab in the middle of a race
and who has for years held ont stoutIy
against CO. education, wrote me last week
long, heated letter, III which he spelled
diseases 'dezzcs.
He prints a paper which I subscribe
for, together with another man, on ac-