, 1881-08-28

AA AZ ~ n
: . STILL ALIVE
- Ep<stdt Di,aatea 70 The Chica@3 Tr1unx.
!. WASHINGTON. D. c., Aug. 21.-"T
H. President lires7 Those. are the .wor
J.. :: which this morning It was thought it vou
be Impossible to write tonight 1.-The Prc*
r. dents symptoms show Slight aneiioratit
~ this afternoon" That is statement 1f1ie
: the most hopefni OF the Presidents surgeon
:N g. a1 midday did not suppose it would te po
+ s5b1e to make at sundown. This has bee
L: the most extraordinary day in the history
- the Presidents illness Eight weeks az
l: this morning he was shot. In exactly tw
- Lunar months from that time ne ser
, al waiting in the same ante-Ioon
T. looking -anxious1y into the same face:
:; and earnestly asking the same questions, ~
he a1ive?" ''Wul be liye3'' The place wa
the same. The. faces were many Of then
!: greatly changed. Eight weeks ago TIL
morning the President was shot down b,
Gui1eau-> Nature Was ut peace. The DAY wa.
Bright, SUNNY, AND CHEERFUL
twas then difficult for men to realize that St
horrible a deedhad been done. To-day has
=: been in many respects repetition, of that
terrible day two months ago. Nature has
been as PEACEFUL. There have been
>. the, same clear, bright skies, the same
t. warm though not Oppressive air, and,
with the exception OF the excitement OF the
;. for1neE day, there liaye been the same scenes
within and without the White-IIou5e. At
: tending surgeons wore all anxious look.
!. The officials showed the traces Of
& their weary watch The Journalists were
Z worn With their long aud anxious period Of
waiting, and the answers which came from
/ that sick chamber we're almost the same,-
H. 60 If~>r. r. ..SIf
night still we are Standing there under the
:: Iortico beneath the trees waiting at this hour
Is p. n.y. with ~~
=. - II FAINT SHADOW OF 4 HOPE
that all may yet be we'll That hope has
veryfraii foundation, and We are waiting
with bated brea1hs for those terrible morl,-
ing hours, from until = when the President
has always reached the lowest period OF de-
preston. ''-That!le will live" the faithful.
enthusiastic friend and nurse, Gen. Swaiu
who has never yielded his hopes to fear
says,-" is certain.:' :'.That he will live is
undoubted.'' - says Mrs. Garfield, "for my
husband cannot die.'' "That he mar l1rc,''
the patients faithful, weary nurse. alra. Dir.
Edsun, says. - is. family possible, because he
eats better and says that he can taste his food:'
;. That be ulay :l;eo the Cabinet officers al |
say tney will try to hope, but they say it |
sadly, and they call the hope straw to catch
ut, "That he will liyeo all medical men in /
Washington say is
IMPOSSIBLE,
and in this opinion all who, can read between
the weary, sasidened lines in the faces OF the
atte.,dtn.: surgeons concur All day fringe /
Of aixioUs PEOPLE stood BY the roadway, and
all day The porch Of the Mansion was thronsed
by anxious seekers Of the news, and all day |
the carriages Of physicians and Cabinet officers
rolled up The graveIed road. The visitors
were more numerous to-day than they had
BEEN Besides those who have official reIa-
lions with the Presidents family came those
WHO have had merely social relations Tor
fnanF years It vas one Of tie signs Of sup- |
posed approaching DEATH The Qnickened
5ympattics OF those who knew Mrs Garfield !
led them to make a pilgrimage to the White |
House to express their coincidence 1T the I
coming sad visitation.
.. .TuKHE MAS SADNESS EyERYwuEEE.
These who caiue and those who went bore
40 Smiling hope in their faces. Men and
women felt that they we're In the presence Of
leath. 1t was true the event had not hap
'ened. bat that it was to come was an assur-
tnee common to all There was no Coli
'o]atlon 1Dr anyone Gen- Swain, with the | +
duck and hope which has animated him | {
nom the first, refused TO give ZIP. but the {
sNful facts were against him. People sadly :
hook their heads when they repeated his
aopeful words, for very few were able / !
Q accept them< Still outside the grounds | /
he lille of the world went on, There was
title attention paid to it, however Men, T a
romen, and children studied the bulletins t
nd discussed the gravity Of the situation. J.
fha f7:.arafa in fta | 6
EoSDERED WHEN TIL: PRESIDENT WOULD p
DE- G
he crowds at the drugstore windows, \
here bulletins are posted, debated as to the ] a
me when death should come to the suffer- | II
u patient. There were very few who asked ! a.
&he would die. That small and feeble ray n
"a hickercd for 4 while in the bosoms | W
those WHO have always looked on the ! "
right Side of the case was all gone. DR.. fl
llss had given UP hope, and. if he lad lost t.
it'll, who was there to believe that there il,
as left a chance for the Presidents recoy- &C
y? There we're fcw indeed who insisteyl al
! hoping against the facts against the lip1,t Il,
: reason, against everything but their tn
rong hopes. 1t Ii 4 sad sight, that Of these le
ithfui but too sangnine friends of the in
resident They cannot desire his recovery | Il
ore than those who have
GIVEN C5' uOEE, / an
I'd their determined fight against the facts he
i'd the evidence, added to the pain of the be
,owledee that life is slowly ebbtns from "a
e man who LETT the White-I1ouse 50 strong N;
sht weeks ago and returned so weak. The tn
ws that DR.. bliss had given up hope car til,
I'd CONSERVATION with it everywhere Men mt
Il reasoned before that they believed the o,1
esident to be dying. but they did hot know th'
~ much Of hope remained to them until col
ny heard the inal words OF the physi- wa
n who had been so faithful in tllt
!; ninistrations to the woundM Pres va
ent, and who had so long and thu
stubbornly maintained the contest against no
: tearfui od'ls of the case. Hope had re- rec
'tncd III the breast Of even the most de- | sig
ondent. 1t was because Of that they stood, bel
mindful OF WEAKNESS, about the White
'use gales hour after hour, that they ant
ATcHED EAGEELy At LIVERY HOPEFUL. | all
SIGN. a;1C
It they asked earnestly after information anc
IN the White House. Dr. Bliss statement the
t he could see TO ground for hope broke aba
slender threads. There ,yas mn f7pro,, ! +},,