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Show WONDERFUL NERVE. A Ulan Who Looked on Calmly While th Surgeons Cut On His Foot. Thomas E. Byrnes, a molder, had a portion of his right foot crushed by being be-ing run over by a Lake Roland C3r yesterday yes-terday morning, which necessitated the amputation of about one-half of the foot During the amputation Bjrnes gave one 4 of the most stolid exhibitions of nerve and impassiveness to pain ever witnessed. witness-ed. Drs. R- F. Blake and Geer made preparations to put their patient under the influence of chloroform for this purpose, pur-pose, but when Byrnes was informed of what they were about to do he amazed them by telling them -to go ahead with the cutting, but that he didn't want a narcotic. Tho physicians feared h ccaldn't stand it, robust as he is, and plainly told him so, but Byrnes was firm and said he would get through it all right. Then tho Burgeons proceeded aa gently gen-tly as possible. Tho pain must have been terrible. Just imagine taking a knif and sinking it down into the flesh, severing sever-ing bones and joints! "It's enough to make one shudder, " said a bystander, a surgeon, too, accustomed ta the horrors of a surgical hospital. But Byrnes never eve winced. He sat in the chair with folded arms, braced himself against the back of the seat and watched the move ments of the knife. There was no moan, oo rolling of the eyes, no twitching absolutely no indication of the terrible pain except the pallor of his faoe. The operation over, Byrnes thanked the surgeons, sur-geons, who seemed to be far more concerned con-cerned and anxious that the job come to an end than the heroio patient Bal Cunore AmnrjcaJu. Fly Catchers. A gentleman who went into the woods region on a hunting excursion and "put up" at a farmhouse in a remote clearing was annoyed during the daytime with the abundance of flies that found access to tho house. But when twilight of evening came he was treated to an exhi bition of fly catching that more than repaid re-paid him for his vexation. The windows were opened as tho darkness settled down, and the hostess' tallow dip only partially dispelled the gloom in tho old fashioned kitchen, when he suddenly became aware of odd creatures darting to and fro in tho room, often coming almost al-most into his face, while a queer little noiso of "snip, snip, snip," seemed to follow their velvety fluttering motiona For an instant he was startled, not knowing what to make of Buch intruders. intrud-ers. "It's only tho bats," said the lady quietly aa she pursued her work. ' 'They are catching flies. Don't you hear 'em snip off their wings? There'll be hundreds hun-dreds of fly winga on the floor here in the morning." The gentleman aroso early and looked for the wings, and sure enough tho floo and tables were littered with them. Lewiston Journal. |