The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1899-11-19

fenced sight dizzlress. While Tecumseh
was engaged in wiggling his tomaheNk
loose from my sku41 Johnson shot him.
With great presence of mind 1 held my
brains in with my left hand and rea he'd
for my elixir wi my right I took a swa =
low and the gaping wound closed with a
click.
In the Mexican War.
Il was with Tayler at Buena Vista dur
ing the Mexican war. 1t, was during this
war that 1 came n -. er death than at any
time in my career. While in The front
ranks moving down Mexican after Next
can, was roped by a Greaser and dragg-
ed five miles over a hil[y country. The
lasso had caught me by the neck and the
moose gradually frightened as the Greaser
spurred his horse into a run. Sometimes
was on my back and sometimes on my
side. The sharp ava stones tore the clio rs
from my body until nothing remained but
this shoe stringf and the vial, which you
see about my neck. The cact which in
that country is very beautiful pierced my
flesh in painful manner. 1 experienced
a strangfng sensation and great desire
TO swallow. 1 found il impossible 10 mois-
ten my tongue, which protruded.
Finally l struck a boulder and to my
relief the rope broke. was weak beyond
belief, and to my horror found that my
Adams apple had worked around to the
BILE My neck was much elongated, and
was bleeding profusely from the scratches
of the cacti. To my great JOY after much
effort, managed to get in a few drops of
the elixir down my throat. I Immediately
walked back to the battle and resumed
my place in the front ranks.
again, when the John c. Calhoun was
blown up on the Mississippi, 1 awoke to
consciousness on the bank only 10 find that
both arms were gone-blown off entirely
l felt stiffness about the shoulders and
a ringing in my ears. AT first l was in
despair, for / did not know how I should
get a swallow of the elixir. Suddenly l
recollected that l was barefooted, and
though somewhat awkward, l fumbled in
my bosom with my toes until found the
vial. Removing the cork, I swallowed
few drops. Immediately an arm shot out
from my right shoulder with such force
that my knuckles We're bruised against a
stone wall. Both arms were restored to
me.
''These are only a few of many such
adventures. Doctor, take your chair off
my whiskers," said DR.. Smith. addressing
his partner in a tone of ANNOYANCE.
I'm the year 1885," continued DR.. Smith.
Germany was rent with civil strife and
revolution. A plague known as the Fgyp-
tian eye trouble spread among the German
soldiery. A Cairo theater had been OMEN
habitually went TO see the performance. I
was sent for, having been graduated from
a veterinary and medical college, and 1
saw at once that could make no headwly
against the Egyptian troubleias long S the
Cairo theater remained open. So the per-
Torrance was ordered by the government
to stop.
while removing a mote from the eve of
a drunken soldier, he hit me on the head
with a large German sausage which left
this circular scar you will observe above
my forehead. For this 1 was pensioned by
the Hanoverian government,
Il was with the Fifty-seventh PennsyI-
vania at Fort Fisher, where a Bible saved
my life. A bullet buried itself in the thir-
tenth chapter OF Revelations. felt only
a slight shock at the time.
Il have no time TO relate other remnls-
cences, said the doctor, tying on a large
gingham apron, 80 you must call again
Foster turn on the Schuyllxill, and bring
my medicine chest from the closet. The
Philadelphia Club has ordered one barrel
of elixir to be delivered tonight before 8
o'clock"