Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1881-03-03
RES0LUTELY FACING DEATH.
Senator Carpenter Aware of his Coming
Demise for Fourteen Months.

Senator Carpenter Aware of his Coming
Demise for Fourteen Months.
Chicago Times, Feb. @.
It is interesting to know that Senator
Carpenter has known for fourteen
months that he must be prepared at al-
most any time to look death in the face.
No physician whom he has ever consult
ed has given him the slightest encour-
agement. Every one has told HIM that
his lease of life was of the most fragile
character, and only to be maintained for
even short time by the most rigid care.
One year ago, upon visit to Wisconsin,
his old family physician told him that he
had diabetes. Placing himself at once
under the most rigid medical care, the
senator wrestled with this insidious de-
stroyer of lite only to find that, when he
consulted the celebrated DR.. Clark. of
New York, while, he had succeeded in
conquering the diabetes, the sequel to
this trouble, Bight's disease, was
upon him, and to such an extent that
there was no possible hope of
his recovery. This is the secret OF the
senator's remaining outof the campaign
last summer. While other public men
were securing up and down the country,
this senatorial leader was seated in his
office at Washington, coolly studying the
chemical analysis that showed how much
nearer, that day, death had pushed its
claim upon him. Every week the chem
ist sent to him personally the analysis
that showed to the dying man the exact
condition of his blood, the proportion of
the albumen that thin the blood down
to water in this dread disease. To fully
understand the stoicism, the heroism,
bravery and patience of this great man,
who so carefully studied his own case,
one needs to look back over his previous
life Of perfect health. For over twenty.
five years his iron constitution and per
feet physical health have insured him
against the knowledge OF the sim
plest ache or pain. He has eaten
and drank what he pleased
without the slightest injurious effect
He has written briefs all night, braced
against sleeplessness with stimu)ants
that only served to clear the animate to
the highest degree his clear, vigorous
mind, without bad effect. His enormous
power Of duplicating and study have be-
come proverbs in the mouths OF the
greatest lawyers Of the land. Suddenly
after years Of this gigantic strain upor
1 greater powers than are ordinarily given
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and tie utter absence Of pain gave way
to'a life of almost continuous torture ant
suffering. He could not eat or smoke
without paying the penalty of hour.
J of pain; yet through all these month
of torture no one has ever heard him ut
ter word Of complaint. ehas lndulged
in no empty. hopes or fretting sbou
what might have been. Hs has simpl,
met the facts of his terrible position witt
the composure Of d philosopher and th
serenity of we'll balanced mind. 1t i
hardly over . week ago that he was il
his Office. He came down alone, an
8 while there he received the last bullet,
8 from the chemist. That bulletin plainl
1 said to the senator, who now only to
: we'll understood its language: "Withi
8 ten days you will be in your grave
8 The senator remained two hours in h
I Office, locked in his inner room, and r,
. fused to SEQ all callers. From there |
9 returned home, as he knew, to die.