Show H COURAGE STILL GOOD I An Army Officer Personally Bwnoves a Bullet I Bul-let He Has Carried for Thirty Years Special to THE HEBALD Examiner Dispatch CHICAGO Oct L General Joseph T Torrance left New York today after extracting ex-tracting personally a confederate bullet which he has carried in his right leg for thirty years He received tho wound when 17 years old marching toward the confederate army at Perry ville The bnl Jet lodged between the tibia and fibula and could not be extracted at the time Sur eons wanted to amputate it but the sol her refused Lately the wound has been 1Pgettiflg very painful and to make matters worse General Torrences presence in New York was necessary without delay He called in a leading physician and asked his advice The surgeon thought an operation oper-ation was necessary and made an engagement engage-ment to meet tie general in his office When he arrived he was surprised I I sur-prised by a request to stand by and watch the patient perform the operation I opera-tion himself only Interfering in case it was necessary General Torrence rolled up his garments took a lance and a pair of thin pincers lanced the wound afresh nnd when he felt the bullet put in the pincers and though his face pled and great drops of perspiration came from the pain he triumphantly extracted the long buried missile The surgeon dressed the wound and General Torrencs left on his bossiness trip The general whose qualities as a hustler bave long been famous in Chicago explained ex-plained that his purpose was to save time and trouble and that he knew best how to find that bullet himself after an intimate I inti-mate acquaintance with it of such longstanding I long-standing I |