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Show EVENT AND COMMENT 'Picking their eyes out one by one" •Construction and hospital headquarters have been quite movable. Dr. Tucker began in a mud hut overlooking the threshing floor, and next moved to the "pest house" ere it had either doors, windows or roof. Now he is iu the eleventh location, the hospital office, though iu the summer the family will locate in the physician's residence now nearly completed. He has made the trip between the two places, fourteen miles, fifty-cue times in the eight mouths, often before sunrise or after sunset. Sometimes there have been as many as nineteen different gangs of workmen on the place, (carpenters, masons, painters, tinners, etc.), and at one time, nine buildings were iu -process of construction. During the busy season, they picked •up a sleight-of-hand performer, as that seemed a good way to accomplish much! But in showing his fellows how to make jaro-e pebbles disappear, he by accident swallowed a large one and came to the hospital in a fright. Contractors, business agents, and friendly railway engineers have all helped to make •the building go well. To be sure, when one came along unexpectedly at two in the morning, and found the watch man asleep, it "jarred a bit," and when the doctor happened upon masons o-ambling in one of the wards, he had to confiscate the stakes and scatter the men. But at other times the wacchman was apparently too watchful. Time, sand, lumber and other -supplies by rail or Grand Canal had to be carefully watched, night and day. Women and children were especially troublesome in their taking of lime, for our police are not particularly useful! The watchman pushed away a beggar woman who was stealing a basketful, and -she was crafty enough to fall iu a heap and feign unconsiousness. Then the police arrested the watchman, allowing the lime pickers Temporary Quarters in a Ward Pavilion |