HIS SILVER ABDOMEN.
Ilnrt Many Time* Wnrie Than tho Tres
hlent, Yet Lived.
Discussing the non-recovery of
President McKinley from tho
wound in his stomach, says the Bal
timore Sun, has recalled to many Bal
tlmoreans tho desperate wound re
ceived by Col. R. Snowden Andrews
of the confederate artillery service,
now living at No. 107 West North ave
nue.
Col. Andrews was riding on Lis horse
at the battle of Cedar Run, when a
slieil struck him ou the right side,
completely tearing away the abdominal
wall, crushing the bones of the hip
and narrowly missing the intestines as
it passed out.
Col. Andrews was placed by the road
side by some friends. Messengers were
sent for a surgeon, but none could be
found. The colonel lay by the road
side from noon until night, when an
ambulance picked him up. All that
time he had been suffering, fully con
-1 scious, without any relief whatever,
and no dressing to his wound. In fall
■ ing from his horse and afterward as he
lay prostrate much dirt and other for
eign substance entered the wound.
After being jolted over the rough
ground for eight miles he was depos
ited in a farmhouse, still alive, much
to the amazement of the driver, and
all that were aware of the case. When
told of the wound the army surgeon
who had been unable to respond had
declared that his services would have
availed nothing. At the house the in
mates thought he was about to die
at any minute and said it was useless
to send for a doctor, but the colonel
insisted that he was going to get well
and to satisfy him a country doctor
who was passing by was called in.
This physician also said it was useless
to do anything, especially as he had
rno instruments with him save such as
were carried in the usual assortment of
country physicians. Colonel Andrews
declared mat he was not going to die
without a strong fight for life and or
dered the doctor to proceed.
Acting under these positive instruc
tions the doctor pulled out the intes
tines with his baro hands, the colonel,
who was under no anaesthetic, bear
ing the suffering in a stoical manner.
Ptiro spring water was used to wash the
intestines, after which the doctor re
placed them as carefully as he could
ejid tewed up the wound, lie then set
the injured leg.
it was a slim array of Instruments
with which the feat was accomplished
and even they were not of the best,
for some of them were so rusty from
long lack of use that the. operation
had to he stopped while they were
sharpened and cleaned on an emery
stone. That the wound in itself did
not kill the colonel is a wonder but
that he did not die anyhow of b'.ood
. poisoning is something that has never
been understood.
When the doctor had finished his
work the soldier was laid fiat on his
hack in bed and left to be treated by
his orderly, assisted by the occasion
al visits of the surgeon of the battal
ion. They were absolutely without
medical appliances of any kind, medi
cines being scarce in the south in those
days, and all they could do was to
bathe the wound every half hour witli
cold water. This they did, with the
remarkable result that no fever devel
oped and in six weeks the patient had
recovered his strength to such an ex
tent that he was able to lie carried to
Richmond on a train, partialy support
ing himself on crutches. At Rich
mond he remained as a convalescent
for several months and then returned
to active duty in the field. But the
actual work ol' soldiering was too much
for even his wonderful strength and
constitution at that time, so he was
K withdrawn and was sent abroad in
the interest of the confederacy, serving
, there for many months, but was not
able to again take his command.
When Col. Andrews reached Rich
mond the best doctors in the confeder
acy took charge of bis case, and he
was fitted out with a silver plate to
wear across his abdomen, and he has
worn it ever since. Alter the war he
becamo almost as strong as he was
before the wound and frequently went
fox hunting. It is related that one
day he rode 50 miles on business and
pleasure combined without feeling any
serious effects from the unusual exer
tion.
A ReinarkHhln IVnr.
Quite as curious phenomena may be
found in the vegetable as in the ani
mal world. To two such phenomena
M. Henri Gourdin, a French uatural
-Ist, now draws attention.
■ "There was," he says, "in my garden
. until recently a pear growing on a
tree the branches of which had trained
to run along an iron netting. This
pear, as it developed, passed througli
one of the openings in the network,
and then it grew to a great-size on
each side oi it, the resqlt being that
when the time came for removing the
fruit I had to cut a.vay the network
by which it was hold captive.
"I recently noticed a similar phe
nomenon in my kitchen garden. A
potato of quite a large size had grown
around a copper ring, which was bur
ied in the ground. The metallic belt
encircled the potato and did not add
anything to its beauty."
Klie Conlcln'f.
Father —Then I have but one more
question to put to you. Have you seen
my daugtehr play golf?
Lover —I have sir; but I love her
still.— Brooklyn Life.
1 lift 11 liy,
■Willie —Pa, why do they call our
language the mother tongue?
'w pa—'Sh! It's because your father
' never gets a chance to use it.—Tit-Bits.
KiiUfball RIIRIISII.
A neater article of the national had
never been put up on the home
grounds, and when the visitors picked
lip the stick in the final with the tally
standing 2 to 2, everybody from the
oldest l'an to the youngest jiaper seller
was standing on his seat and yelling
to the local slab artist to serve up his
choicest assortment of round-house
benders, and keep whatever guy was
handling the ash pivoting at delu
sions. The twirler was up to busi
ness and laid 'em over so fast that
the receiving end of the battery, who
wears a bird cage and liver pad,
looked as if he were shelling peas.
The first two victims only tore
rents in the atmosphere, but the
third guy connected and laid off a
flaming grosser which would have
made a projectile from a 13-inch gun
look like a bean bag tossed from one
baby to another. The man on the
difficult corner was right there,
though, and flagged the horse-hide pill
with his sinister talon, assisting it
ever to the initial hassock in such
short order that someone yelled de
risively, "That fellow runs like an
Orange street automobile."
The home aggregation came to the
bat. Every one was confident that
they were going to pound the sphere
around the lot, but the opposing team
ran in a new guy with a slow south
wing, and before they had expected
there were two man down and two
strikes on the next guy. But, oh,
I-hocbe! on the next delivery he be
came the father of a bouncing swat
which landed in the last row of pota
toes in the outer garden and enabled
him to press down three buttons an .1
scratch the rubber. "Did the crowd
go wild?" "Say, did you ever see a
game of ball?" —Yale Record.
Iliiclinlnrs Run the Farm.
The Virginia constitutional con
vention has more bachelors in its
membership than any similar body
that ever assembled in the Old Do
minion or elsewhere. One of the
most prominent members is Charles
E. Miller of Pittsylvania county.
Mr. Miller is the present owner of a
1500 acre farm, situated one mile
fiom Mount Airy, which has the dis
tinction of having been owned by
bachelors for a couple of centuries.
No married couple has ever lived in
the house. In speaking of the old
place Mr. Miller said:
"The property descended to me
from my uncle, who died at the age of
nearly eighty. Like myself he was a
bachelor. My uncle was Crenshaw
Miller and the property was left to
him by a bachelor uncle. For more
than 200 years no man and wife has
ever lived in the house.-
"There was never any obligation,
contract, or understanding that the
heir or owners should never marry.
It just happened that my uncle nor
my great uncle ever married. That's
all there is to it. In fact, prior to
my uncle's death, he constantly urged
me to marry, hut up to this time I
have not compiled with his request.
"The farm has never passed out of
tho family since it was originally
granted, and it has never had a lien
or mortgage on it nor has it ever
been delinquent for taxes."
While a confirmed bachelor Mr.
Miller is fond of society and enter
tains many parties at his home. —
Chicago Chronicle.
IMfcCovnretl l>y Accident.
Ail forms of bituminous paVements,
whether manufactured from natural
or artificial asphalt, are in fact artil
ficial stone pavements. The industry
started with the use of the natural
rock asphalt from the mines in tho
Val do Travels, Caulon Neufchatel,
Switzerland. Tho mines were dis
covered in 1721, but it was in 1849
that its utility as a road covering was
first noticed. Tho rock was then bo
ing mined for the purpose of extract
ing the bitumen contained in it for its
use in medicine and the arts. It is a
limestone found impregnated with
bitumen, of which it yields, on analy
sis, from S to 14 percent.
It was observed that pieces of rock
which fell from a wagon were crushed
by the wheels, and under the com
bined influence of the traffic and heat
of the sun a good read surface was
produced. A macadam road of as
phalt rock was then made, which gave
very good results; and finally, in 1554,
a portion of the Rue Bergere was laid
in Paris of compressed asphalt on a
concrete foundation. In 1858 a still
larger sample was laid, and from that
time it has been laid year by year In
London, being laid on Threadneedle
street in 1869, and Cheaps'Je In 1870,
and in successive years in other
streets—Municipal Journal and Engi
neer.
Tho Miignct ill Surgery.
Dr. Garel of Lyons lias drawn a
French nail about two inches long
from the bronchial tube of a boy of 18
months from Buenos Ayres. The nail
had been there for some time, causing
the child to cough much. Rontgcn
rays showed the position of it, and an
electro-magnet drew it out. Another
successful operation of the same kind
has been performed by Dr. Piechaud
of Bordeaux, on a child of 3 years, in
this case the trachea wa3 opened to get
a projection from the pole of the mag
net near the nail. These experiments
are well worth tho attention of sur
geons everywhere.—London Globe.
Indirect Clmmlllciirlnn.
"New York," ho remarked, "has a
social innovation called the dog lun
cheon. Every one invited must bring
a poodle or a puppy of some kind. That
must he jolly fun, don't you think?"
"A poodle or a puppy," she repeated,
reflectively; "if that idea ever becomes
popular in the west I shall be glad to
take you when I go to IC.—Chicago
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