Iowa County democrat. [volume] (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1877-1938, 1881-12-30
WASHINGTON.
Washington Hospitais--The Court of
Claims--House Bills Presented
--Guiteauis Christmas.
RANKIN on HOSPITALS

RANKIN on HOSPITALS
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Dr. ]. E.
Rankin, of the Congregational church
in this city, preached a sermon to-day
upon hospitals preliminary to the col
lection of the morning for the Garfield
Memorial Hospital, basing it on the
parable of The good Samaritan. After
characterizing hospitals as peculiar
feature of Christianity and referring to
the name given the great Paris hospital
of the Hotel of God, he said that the
managers of this proposed hospital had
called upon the Christian churches of
the country to put this cause with that
of foreign missions and home missions
and their other religious contributions,
and it was fitting that in making their
gifts Christian people should express
| their views of the mode in which their
gifts should be used.
A hospital should be as little a mon
ument and as much a utility as posi-
BILE; great piles of stone in the noisy
city where the cries of the swillman,
and the FISHERMAN, and the general din
almost drove a we'll man out of health,
were poor surroundings for hospital
which ought to have no more than a
receiving branch in crowded parts,
while its main pavilions should be like
an airy room, free to sunlight and air,
and suburban in the fields. He had
observed a tendency In the study of
medicine to materialism, and, while
there were many physicians not open
to his criticism, he thought fear was
often manifested that the spiritual Wis
ion brought shadow of death ilto the
sick room. He would have a daily
ministry Of prayer and worship IN the
hospital; neither medicine nor theo-
logy dealt out by the prescribed rules
Of any school. He was
VERY SEVERE ON THE PHYSICIANS
who arrogated all knowledge to them
selves. He denounced any arrange
ment that did not recognize the bodily,
the mental, and the spiritual needs OF
suffering man, and thought this group
of doctors should recognize something
beyond bodily injury. He did not
know why the Almighty could not
guide probe as we'll as anything else
Upon the subject of free air he pic
tured strongly the monumental hospl
tai called the
WHITE HOUSE,
with its malarial situation, its artificial
air pumped into the sick room, the in
finite satisfaction Of the almost per
ished patient in the free breezes of Ell
boron, and added that # he had haC
these earlier there is no telling wha
power of recuperation might have no
lo,-a1Aan1 Uh,s Ghr,ofIor, hos
pital should not have its lectures en- thu
Sabbath That should be quiet and
holy day to the poor dying inmates, al
well as to those of higher prospects il
life outside We build jails and aims
houses with high regard to the person
al comforts and health of the surround
ings, and hospitals with little regard t.
these requirements. Compare tn,
treatment of an assassin or of .othe
base criminals with that in hospita
ward. DIR. Rankin extolled the worl
of Florence Nightingale and of tn,
English sister Dora, for its high Christ
ian character, and thought if there wa
such woman in the land. or any
where in the world, to be secured 70
this hospital, she should be secured
He fortified his position by quotin,
from high medical authority. He haC
gone out of the usual range of pulpi
utterances. He could say much more
He should not have been satisfied tt
say less before taking collection TO
this memorial to the late president.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The name o
Judge Thomas Settle, of North Caro-
lima, has been suggested to the presi
dent in connection with the vacancy in
the court of claims. There is likel,
soon to be another vacancy in til,
court of claims. The latest lumor i
that Chief Justice Charles ID. Drake
being now upward of 81 years of age
is contemplating retirement from civi
service.
UPToNS SUCCESSOR.
To a confidential friend of Secretar,
Folger the latter said that he had de
cided one point relative to the success
sor of Mr.. Upton as assistan. secretary
/, Mr.. Folger said: II shall not selec
for that place anyone who now hold
position in the treasury department
have about come to the conclusion, bu
| am awaiting the results of correspon
dence on the subject" This is sup
posed to refer to ex-senator Paddock
to whom, it is understood, the offic
has been rendered.
NEW BILLS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-There wer,
about 2,150 bills introduced during tn
two days on which bills and joint reso
buttons were presented in the hous
, before the holiday recess was taken
OF tt csc, Alabama presented %; Ar
kansas, 30; California, 40; Colorado, 2
Connecticut, 81; Delaware, ] Florida
S; Georgia, "a; Illinois, al; Indiana
81; Iowa, 60; Kansas, with only tire,
representatives, 141 Kentucky, %
Louisiana, SO; Maine, IS; Maryland
Minnesota, 10; Mississippi, 80; Mis-
sou 10; Nebraska, II; Nevada, 3
New Jersey, ~; New York, 143f Nortl
Carolina, 13S; Chic, $50; Oregon, II
Pennsylvania, 1S4; Rhode Island, none
South Carolina, Is; Tennessee, 81
Texas, 70; Vermont, q; Virginia, So
West Virginia, GO; Wisconsin, So TIL,
Territories presented bills as follows
Arizona, .; Dakota, p; Idaho, 9
Montana, s; New Mexico, 3; Wyo
ming, ,.
CHRISTMAS IN JAIL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-As has beer
customary in days when Guiteau diC
not 60 into court, on Christmas day h,
held quite a levee, receiving his numer
Gus visitors in red shirt He was il
very good spirits, and engaged in con
versation with great freedom. In tn,
afternoon he placed himself in tn,
hands of barber, and had a clear
shave At first he determined to ALLOW
his beard to grow again, but on bein,
told that he looked much better with
clean face, he changed his mind Al
appeal to his vanity is never lost, ant
his counsel might resort to this devic,
, to hold him in check in court. Among
, his visitors were a number of ladies
and he was very polite and courteous
in his manner toward them.
ONE % HIS LADY VISITORS
remarked that she did not take mucl
stock in religious festivals as they nov
, existed, for the reason that the com
, memorated only a certain kind ant
not all religions. A panied expression
crossed the face of the assassin as h,