Show AMP ad STRANGE CIVIL WAR INCIDENT Negro With Piece of Spent Ball In Head Is Restored to Consciousness by Surgical Op Operation After Arter the battle of Bull Run when the whole country was holding up Its hands bands in dismay and breathing hard In the realization that the war was not lot after all to be a n picnic for Cor the northern troops J r together with many other doctors and surgeons rushed Into Info Washington from Crom dl distant ant cities writes G. G Cuffing Gut ng Wilcox in the Ine Ne New w Orleans Times Times Democrat I was talc taken en one dark rainy night by an affable old negro woman to her cabin in the outskirts of the city She came to me nae in tears Dot Doc tah I des wisht yoh come an an see my Samson He pears curious an he acts des like h he At her cabin I found her son a tremendous tremendous tre tre- fellow as black as a coal and evidently e an athlete with no ria evidence evl evi dence dente of a wound upon his body but with a tendency to bear off oft to one side as he walked aji an apparent inability to ta talk and possessed of or ora a persistent effort et ef- tort fort to march and keep time Ume to martial martial mar mar- Ual music which he could not do Aunt Hannah told me that her son had always been strong and healthy and that when he left Washington with the army he was perfectly sound and des like de res' res of at de folks but dey fotch him back to his po po ole mammy des like yoh se him docta 1 an I des plumb outer my senses dat I Is carefully I examined Samson carefully and could find not the slightest thing the matter with him and and half halt believed that he was shamming The room was whitewashed and 1 noticed a streak entirely around It that was so o ev evenly drawn that it attracted at my attention but in the stirring stirring stirring stir stir- ring events of at those days I really paid scant heed to so trifling a case as Samson's and so apparently trivial an indication as was that level streak on the wall I sp spent t several years in Paris andIn and andIn andIn In Germany after the war var and it was wa not until 1886 that I was back in Washington We had an international convention there at the time and were taken tavarious to ta various public institutions among Mry al C 1 r lf l tt With a Tendency to Bear Off to One Side for and anO which was a little litHe asylum poor insane negroes hi lA one room as we we were passing g observe on I to the door I happened I streak whitewashed wall a worn well level and circling the room drawn so I Ia Ia so BO perfectly that it called to my mind minda vision which I had wholly forgotten a Before DeCore noon the next day we had had Samson's small room looking like a a hospital operating room and the great the table under the black frame lay fay on Influence of ether the right side sido of the I cut open spUn n- n thick skull and sure enough a sp piece of or bone from an old depressed depressed depressed de- de pressed into thee the pressed fracture brain with dressed It I lifted e It it and scalp and skull and replaced I IThen him in bed placed reviving him set about Then we opened his eyes eyes Presently Samson stared about him and and asked It was the first articulate Then e word he years Whar had uttered ar old did for ao de' de dearmy over twenty long Y i iI to yesterday V army move excited to reply and ana no noto noI I was too the ho tan lull else eue seemed to grasp one meaning of the tho question Forward Rich I said Presently were hurt a aUt lit but you Samson mend mond and anel we behind and lied had to sta stay tIe ale You are aU all doctoring you ou have bave been n f c eYou 1 I How BOW do ao You yuu n. n right noW sir first rate I thank rate First Ourn 1 side licked Y Which to and his experience nce up The war he be was struck on the tho when that time likely by a piece of spent head bead most in yesterday esterday If they were shell are as and his bis mind Is as clear his memory of his race average and as asgood good as the where that mind but and condition occupied during hoW it was was and iTs never failing query to tome is a 3 those years it because It it themore perhaps a ii more p ail 11 the me Samson Ithe It I. does not trouble or p puzzle the least |