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Show 8LIM PA88ENOER A SKEPTIC. Story of Wonderful Surgical Operation Received with Doubt. It happened on a Pullman car between be-tween New York and Chicago. Dinner having been finished, the gentlemen assembled In the smoking-room to en-Joy en-Joy their cigar. "During the time I was In the war," said the quiet man, "I saw a wonderful thing In the line ot surgical operation. A friend of mine was shot through the right breast, the bullet passing clear through him. The presence of mind of hi companion undoubtedly saved hi lire. He wrapped his handkerchief around the ramrod of his ,gun, and, pushing it through the path made by the bullet, cleared the wound of all plosonous lead. I know It Is hard to believe, but, gentlemen, gen-tlemen, rthe mnn still lives to tell the tale." "Which man?" Inquired the slim passenger on the other seat, quietly. "The wounded one, of course," exclaimed the old soldier, Fcornfully. "Oh, I beg our pardon; I thought It might be the other." |