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Show TOO HASTY A DIAGN08I8. Victim's Glass Eye Nearly Condemned Condemn-ed Him to Death. Stoiles of railroad accidents were being told at Tuxedo. Bpcncer Trask, banker and author, of New York, sold: "In a certain railway collision one of tho lctlms lay for n long thno on his back across tho ties. Finally two men picked him up and carried him to tiie station and placed him on the lloor. "'He'll Ho easier hero,' they said, 'till the doctor comes.' "Tho doctor enmo a little later. " The poor chap Is done for, I m afraid,' he snld, glancing at tho prostrate pros-trate victim. "Then he knelt down, lifted one of tho man's closed eyelids, and peerod Into a dull, blank, uiiBeelni;, lifeless eye. " 'Yes, he's dead all right. Take him away,' said the doctor. "But the pale lips of tho injured man moved slightly, and a feeblo volco murmured: '"That was my glass eye, you fool. "New York Tribune. |