Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-02-26
ON HIS DEATH BED.
Gossipy account Of Tisit to Be, Wade.
Cincinnati Times.

GOssipy account Of a Tistt to Ben Wade.
Cincinnati Times.]
SO the doctor locked up his drug store in
which he has vainly been seeking q refuge
from his onerous practice, and few steps
brought us to the door of the beautiful
Wade residence. We were met on the
threshold by Hon. 81. E. Parsons, of Ashta-
bula, brother of Mrs. Wade, and friend
of the Senator of fifty years standing-a
friendship closer than that of brothers, and
never marred by doubt or an angry word.
In an arm chair in the drawing room-of
which opens the parlor where the sick states
man ies-sat Mrs. Wade. She is but
single lustrum younger than the Senator,
but she carries her seventy two years wonder
fully well. The golden color for which her |
hair was so long noted has not altogether
faded into the snowy white, and the delicate
lace cap, with just touch of lavender rib
bon, sat off a lovely countenance in which
the look of mingled hope and resignation /
was very touching. The names which l
mentioned as those from whom came were |
almsot as familiar to her as to her husband, |
and the suggestion of the doctor that mo-
ment's interview might please the Senator |
seemed to strike her favorably. Twill see,"
said she quietly, and, passing into the sick
room. drew the folding doors together. A
moment later she returned, saying: 'sMr.
Wade will see you.''
AT THE BEDSIDE.
An instant later stood in the darkened
room grasping the extended hand of the .sold
war HORSE His face was pale and attenu-
ated, but the growing beard did not conceal
the powerful outlines which the wasting of
flesh served only to make more prominent.
The eye was piercingly bright, almost light
ing the darkened room. 1t seemed as if all
the intense vitality for which tho man had
been SO famed was concentrated there, speak
ing of a courage and a will as dauntless as of
old. Slowly and painfully, and with long
pauses between the sentences he said:
"My mouth is very dry. can not speak
much. But am glad to see you. do not
know you, but know ---. He was a
good man. He was always good man, =
and agatha very good man. And Mr..
Eggleston, too, did you say? Yes, I know
him. He is true. 1t needs true men now.
Say to my friends in Cincinnati that they
must stand fast. The old ship is in danger.
She needs brave men,
told him of the messages of sympathy
and affection that brought to him.
81 am very grateful to the1n," said he,
.'that they remember me. Give them my
love-
asked him if might give them some
encouragement as to his health.
81 fear not said he; 81 am an old man
and am we'll on my way through the last
suffering. If were to get well it would be
but for little while, and should have it
all to 60 over again.
Then, with another grasp of the hand, I
strength.
WHAT HIS FRIENDS SAY.
Pausing again i'll the drawing room on my
return, asked Mrs. Wade if there was no
word of good cheer she could give me to
carry away. She shook her head sadly.
''Mr. Wade seemed much stronger, and did
have some hopes. But to-day he is weaker
than he has been at all. His constitution
was most remarkable one, and keeps him
up wonderfully, but I can see that it gives
way from day to day. I fear"-and the
tears came into her eyes-s'that we cannot
keep him with us much longer
Mr.. Parsons, Mrs. Wade's brother, shook
his head gravely, when, upon leaving the
house, | asked his opinion. ''We can not
tell said he, "but he may weather it; but
he is unquestionably worse to-day, and the
outlook is bad.'' Such is the view of those
who have watched his case most closely
They are, of course, unwilling to admit thai
they can discover no reasonable foundation
From DR.. futile I learned much of thu
J. case that is interesting. The Doctor is sur,
that the fever was on him some ten days be
4 fore he took to his room, but no persuasion
could keep him from his daily walk so lonl
as he could command the necessar,
: strength. The tenacity with which he clunl
to the command over his body has been curl
/ ously illustrated. On several occasions. un
til very recently, he has got out of bed t
perform some service for himself, aud find
ing that he could stand, but not move, ha
consented to be helped back again. Eve
yesterday he moved himself back and fort
n in his bed, and turned himself over withou
! assistance. He has been enabled to keep u
SO long against the wasting of the fever Gt
twenty-five days since he took to his beO b
} the fact that he could regularly take and d
gest some slight nourishment, such as grue
beef tea, aud occasionally few raw oysters
:, but yesterday there were alarming symptom
s. of a failure in the tone of the stomach
alarming because, though slight, the en-
N would follow very quickly upon the inabilit
to take food.
1t is the impression of DR.. Tuttle, ais
=, that the break in Mr.. Wade's system date
: from
Il THE CINCINNATI CONVENTION
a. of 1876. The fatigue and the heat were
Of much for him, at that time, coupled with IL
interest which he took in the subseque1
lis campaign, that he has never been as we
since. am assured-though not by D
as Tuttle-that Mr.. Wade was well himse
to aware of this fact, and that, while he wou
never have begrudged giving the few yea
of life left to him to the cause he loved
we'll, yet he was fain to confess, at time
that the result hardly justified the sacrifc
TX There are host of "reminiscences, both
his more active life and of the past ty
ty years, that reached me on my visit, but the
d. narrative is deferred to more proper occ
sion.
no THE LAST REPORT
o. of his condition reached me at $40 til
afternoon, from Mr.. Parsons, who was !
turning to his home in Ashtabula for Il
~ night. He spoke of him as growing stead
OF weaker, and as showing arrangement
the stomach. Nothing that care and SIX
or can do to sustain his strength to the ute
Wy most will be spared, and it is simply impc
ng sible to describe the intense sympathy al
anxiety with which all the northern sectio
las of the State listen for news from his 81
sts bed.
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