The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1895-02-02

Of the bed and over pulley to coupe
of fiat irons which kept my limb pulled
out to its full capacity all the time
when the bone was knitting One day
beaved a sigh, and as ] did so the bed
fell with loud report, leaving my foot
in the air.
Gosh, how it hurtl
A nurse and my fond wife were there,
but they could not pull me ont from the
chaos of bed and shattered legs All
they could do was TO wiring their hands
and put cologne on my brow.
1t was one of the saddest situations /
ever accepted. Finally my wife, who
is woman of quick intelligence, sug-
gested that | could be slowly elevated
by an educational process. She got two
sets Of cyclopedia and some of my own
literary works, and with these she man
aged to build up under my giant frame
as i went up on one elbow at time, SO
that when the doctor came l was rest
ing, white and faint, with work on
phrenology under my head and big
octave on numbering in the northwest
under my lumbar region.
The cyclone is very quick movement
Of disturbed air in various directions
and is injurious to animal life. IL is, as
| may say, in almost every case, acute
disturbance of aerial particles resulting
from inflamed climate.
The careful student of atmospheric
phenomena notices at first small cloud
about the size of mans hand, but
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ness Of threatened tariff legislation, and
before one can find the key to his cy-
clone cellar he is twisted SO that he
looks at the future over his shoulder
blades and tears of anguish roll down
over his eyebrows into his ears
When l rose cn my good leg to go to
the assistance of my brother, the sharp
bones of the tibia and fibia cut through
the lacerated flesh, and also spoiled
comparatively new pair of pantaloons.
The green leaves of the forest had been
whipped to mucilage by the wind and
hail and plastered over fences, houses
and even horses. Our horse was hang
ing by his breeching from lonely tree,
plastered with green, and the blood was
all rushing to his head. l moaned and
sank into pool of mud, hail and rain
water.
My patience, how my leg did ache
mel
Help was miles away, but busy re-
lieving the distress of the injured and
comforting the bereft or searching for
the dead at Clear Lake. 1t was MEM
orable night. lay on my back looking
up at the alternate cloud rack and the
cold, unsympathetic planets. Now and
then it would rain some more on my
upturned spectacles. Nothing is more
annoying than spectacles in a cyclone.
My brother paced the torn and di-
sheveled road near me, almost crazed
by tho fear that his family had been
killed during his absence. Finally a
foot passenger came by on his way TO
the village, and we sent for relief. / ask
ed for stretcher, q physician, a rubber
blanket, a bottle of moxie and an even
ing paper.
The accident occurred as the whistle
blew for 6 o'clock, and it was midnight
when relief came. can recall the cir
cumstances almost without effort. A
kindly dentist pulled my leg and then
set it as one would set hen-that is,
he fenced it in with pieces of fence
boards. He tied these to the shattered
limb as far as the fracture and then
stopped SO that he prevented circulation
and yet gave no protection to the ago
nized leg. By morning it had swollen
to its full capacity, and / shall carry
down to my tear soaked grave the scars
of those diagonal blisters made by the
accursed bandages.
After "a hours l saw that / would
have to wear a hickory leg up the gold
en- stair, as things looked, and so had
six good healthy pallbearers take me
to the evening train, put me on the bag