The Topeka state journal., 1908-11-16
Has WONDERFUL VitaIitv.

Has wonderful Vitality.
Stuffing his handkerchief into
let that also passed through his
appendix, Eugene P. O'DonneH, of
this city, calmly passed the long hours
that intervened between his injury
Saturday night and the departure of
the first train for the city yesterday
morning asleep in the railroad station
at Bringantine Junction.
Arriving in this city he walked into
the PENNSYLVANIA hospital and sought
treatment for the injuries which, the
physicians say, will probably prove
fatal, nearly twelve hours after they
were received.
The physicians at the hospital could
hardly credit the mans story at first.
nerve and vitality which he gave as
the most remarkable that had ever
come under their observation, and
said that his recovery, in view of the
serious nature of the wounds, the loss
of blood, and the delay in treatment,
would be just as remarkable.
1t was shortly before 10 o'clock
yesterday morning that O'Donnell
walked into the Pennsylvania hos
pital, calmly informed physician
that he had been shot, and asked to
be examined.
The physician discovered bullet
hole in his abdomen on the right side,
which was large enough to permit
O'Donnell to pack a portion Of his
pocket handkerchief in to stop the
flow of blood
On further. examination the physi-
clans found that the injury was made
all the more serious by the fact that
the bullet had passed through O'Don-
nelPs appendix.
The unconcerned manner in which
O'Donnen related his story added to
the physicians astonishment They
say that the wound was dangerous
enough to have caused the death of
an ordinary person within a few
hours.
According to his own story,
O'Donneu was shot shortly after 10
O'Clock Saturday night, and it was
nearly twelve hours later before he
received medical attention.
The handkerchief which was
pushed into the bullethole, O'Donnell
says. was put there by himself in the
railroad station. 1t stopped the flow
say that despite this the wounded
man lost enough blood to kill an
average man.
O'Donnel1 declared that after he
had packed the handkerchief into the
wound he went to sleep on a bench at
the railroad station until he was
awakened by railroad employees
Philadelphia Inquirer -4-5
Watched by Plants.
He contends that the leaves of plants
see, think, and form habits. They even
take snapshots of you while you un-
suspectingly pass by. I can already see
amorous young men clipping leaves
from plants in private Conservatives,
hoping to obtain negatives of divinities
who may have ventured there, in the al
together. It is most unfortunate that
these negatives of nature are destroy
ed by the frosts of autumn. I can see
lPRiOnS n
men whose charms have been photo
graphed by the laughing leaves blush
ing at the thought of being caught
undisguised by those camerists in bot
any-the leaves of the orchard the
rhododendron, the Japanese SNOWFALL,
the geraniun, the lily, etc.
Every raindrop is a lens. 1t is COM
plete picture taking outfit. But its life
is too brief for the development of a
plate. Hailstones are better. They last
longer. 1 have seen pretty women walk
ing in garden and wondered why the
flowers leaned toward them. Darwin
explains the mystery. The flowers were
behaving like a lot of newspaper illus
traitors with cameras; they were photo
graphing beauty. Perhaps there are
cameras in our cement walks, cameras
in our carpets, cameras in our fruits
and vegetables. 1 have not the slight
est doubt that an oyster takes pic
ture of US before he is swallowed.
Two young people (1915) are counting
in a garden. The young man slips his
arm around the waist of his inamorata
and essays to imprint upon her damask
cheek q true lovers kiss. She sudden
Iy shriekss squirms, pulls away. There
is a look of horror in her face "Darl-
ing, darling, what is the matter ?''-cries
the anxious youth. Pointing toward
giant si1nAower, her finger wabbling in
an excess of emotion the girl Kisses:
Look! Look! That fellow has his eye
on me! He is taking my picture!' Il
will kill hint" says the bold hero, and
with one whack of his steel-bladed pen
knife he sewers the impertinent sun
flower in twain. The girl calms down,
uplifts her pretty face, purses her bow
and-arrow lips and whispers-'Now,
Leander, you. may kiss me."-New York
Press.