The age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1897-1902, 1902-04-20
A Weeks News and
Chat Of Gotham.

main, and the boiling Democrats who
have sighed and sought in vain for fat
jobs. are now beginning to listen to the
voice of the new shepherd, who calls to
the straying sheep; return. return, and
be welcome" Shepherd-Nixon nightly
wanders about among his thirty-fve
! sheepfolds, and says:
Il wish to be plain on one point. and
that is I won't be a party to any DIFF
ferences which may spring up in any
Democratic district. l think that the CEN
trail organization ought not to interfere
in any of these fights and l will see to it
that they fight it out themselves. You
may have your differences, your prefer
ences and your ambitions-they are all
right and proper-but l believe that you
should have them out in the good old
Democratic way. When you have selected
your man all get behind him and have
him elected"
This policy of Mr.. Nixon was at first
laughed at by the old leaders. They call
ed 1t Politics as 1t is played by a boy
Politician" But 1t reached the people.
Tammany of late years. has not been
represented in the several districts, ex-
cept by leaders. Croker did not degn
to visit the headquarters. All the districts
knew was conveyed in mysterious mes
sages from organization headquarters.
didates or fairly encouraged others. Nix
on's policy draws the factors of the or
ganization more closely together and
cements them In a unit. He Is rapidly
gaining strength: and is fast becoming a
power in municipal politics. In national
politics he is a potential factor, even
though he declares his energies are cir
cumscribcd by the limits of the Tam
many organization.
Some recent surgical operations have
been SO startling that they appear in
creditable. Several gentlemen were talk
ing about cases that they had heard OF
when VIM. ]. Hilands, of Chicago, the
promoter and financier. said: you have
been telling of famous operations per-
formed by the leading surgeons of New
York and London; but in my opinion we
have surgeon in Chicago who has no
equal In the world. His name Is DIR. Allen
7. Halght. A man who had been a
sailor went to the Cook County Hospital,
complaining of wound he had in his
eye. DR.. Haight examined i'm. He found
between the eye ball and the eye wound
that was supperating The sailor stated
that sometime ago he had had a fight
With his messmates and his face had been
cut In several places with a knife. All
the wounds save this one had healed,
and he had seen many surgeons In many
places in regard to 1t, but none had cured
him. DR.. Haight made careful exam
nation. He removed a knife blade which
measured two and three-eighths inches
In length by one-half an inch In width,
and he did 1t so skillfully that none of
the muscles of the eye were severed and
no nerve touched. OF course l am not a
surgeon, but l can appreciate the delicacy
of the operation. 1t seems that there
is space between he bottom of the eye
socket and the lower muscles of the eye,
and the aperture back of the nose just
about the width of the knife blade, and
by singular good fortune when the man
was struck the knife blade fitted absol-
utely into this space. 1t must have been
a very forceful blow, to break the blade
off tho handle. You can easily see that
In removing the blade 1t might have
severed muscles or nerves, as 1t was with
drawn. Now we talk a great deal about
surgery when cases are successful. but
what have you to say about the eminent