Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-07-12
n. EAson ON the Presidents condition.

WASH Cor N. Y. Herald
How did your patient spend Sunday?r the
He'nM correspondent inquired of DIR. Susan Ed
son this morning just before she resumed her
duties at the Presidents bedside
" fTet1y well for man as sick as he isl
:. What is he thinking himself about tt?"
All along he has been so cheerful and hope
fui that you could imagine he felt his recovery q
sure thing But yesterday he seemed to grow q
little respondent for the first time"
Still he understands that his case is progress
ing fayorably?"
Yes, he knows that. but he was very rest
less all day yesterday and seemed more than
ever conscious Of the struggle he was making
between life and DEATH"
Then he is conscious Of the chaRces?"
g Perfectly. He became quite tired out yes
terday, and said to his WIFE, Il wonder if all this
hight against death is worth the little pinch of
life | will get anyway Mrs. Garfield said to
MN. Don't talk that way; Of course it is worth
WHILE"
:. Mrs, Garfield keeps hopefuiy7
Just as cheerful as ever. The President
wanted her near him a good deal Yesterday. and
She remained. We are trying. though. for her
TO reserve her strength. for as the President
convalesces he will want her more and more with
him"
4" Did not al the work of putting up tine cool
ing apparatus annoy you Yesterday"
Yes. il did. frequently. Once we had to have
the work stopped altogether. as the President
grew quite restless and excited about it. At
night. after the hypodermic injection had been
given him and he fell asleep. the work started
again and progressed rapidly 1t wilr probably
be in operation to-day"
do you think the wound is healn3:'
1T IS suppuratng nicely. The President can
not see why he is not feeling better when the
wound is getting along SO well; but that. of
course, was expected.
us he getting tired of the bed 20
Dreadiully so. Yesterday he seemed sick and
tired OF the whole affair. That exalted sense of
hope which had overweighed all the suffering at
was c.nvassing his chances this way or that
with some misgivings as to the result Besides
the muscles Of his back are SO sore and painful
That for heavy man it must induce severe pain
and wetlrineSs
rs he anxious to know the Durport of the
bulletins 2"
CALCULATING HIS CHANCES
Though the physicians told him YESTERDAY
after the consultation how he was progressing.
ne dld not seem entirely satisfied and asked to
see the bulletin. Il procured the early morning
and neon bulletins and read them TO him T
told him once before that the bulletins were
anXiOuSly looked for outside and he said yester-
day, The people must be sick and tired reading
them: What is one lifei What difference does
it make any way"
"1Ou do not like to hear such dcsnairino 70
marks do yOu?'
NO, we do not: but lie is suffering so. putting
IN day after day in pretty much the same state.
and we attribute the less hopeful view he is
taking Just to these reasons. He was so full of
encouragement the first days. and had no idea
tllat the process OF recovery would be SO tedi-
Gus"
Has anything been told the President of the
New York gift to his wife,
NO nothing has been said about it to him at
all. AS for Mrs. Garfield she is unable to talk
about an unlocked for and magnificent express
Inv n,,d {1rr
much Kindness quite OvercOmes her."
has the President any intimation of the ex-
cltement the shooting caused:"
Oh, yes; he has some idea. He asked me
last week one day what were the people saving
ABOUT 1t, and l told him that thought it his
right TO know something of the intense excite
ment pervading all classes of people. and that he
had the sympathy of the whole civilized world
told him that messages from every direction
ana from distinguished people all over the world
were continually arriving, but. said. we can
NOT let you see them. He answered. 4 don't
want TO; but do you think the excitement greater
than in Lincoln's time?' l told him that l
thought it was; that then the end soon came
While now everybody was in agony. suspense
and alarm. But, continued. don't you reinem-
per your own words then. God reigns, &C. Well
it will apply as well now this way. God still
reigns and the President lves.'' | DISCOURAGED
any talk from him. and he made no further com
lhent. also told him of the interest shown by
the entire religious world evinced by the regular
ana special services held in his behalf-that
Cathoilcs. Protcstants and Jews were each unit
me. and that the event had proved an immense
harmonzer OF conflicting elements in many
ways"
UNJUST ANNOYING CRITICISM.
DO the theories advanced by the physicians
here and elsewhere annoy you. DOCTOR"
wen, 10 Is not very pleasant when one is
ali their energies at that bedside and
then read afterward that the Presidents condi-
ton is exaggerated, that his doctors are making
"a great scare because it is the President. and
that II ne were an ordinary citizen such grave
conclusions would not be feared. However. we
lee ta, we are DONG only our duty, and theories
with no facts to strengthen them give us no
trouble at all. Talking OF the sympathy to the
President yesterday said, 1T don't hardly nav
TO nHd out ones friends at the expense of an
assassination He smiled through his pain and
said. Not much. tell you"
You had no visitors in the sick room vestcr
day." ~''''
mo. indeed. and II the slightest unusual stir
is made in that wing of the house he notices il
Immediately. Yesterday morning an artist for
an Illustrated paper was sketching the sick
room from one adjoining it, getting views be-
tween the PRESIDENTS maps. Col. Rockwell and
Major Swain were looking over the artist 8
shoulder The President waking saw them in
that lntencpOstiOn through the Open doorway
and wanted to know what was up. Mrs. Gar
ueiu SAID TIE gentlemen were only chatting to-
gether. but he seemed to fear something about
him was being talked about. and would not rest
until his wife told him that it was only an artist
sketching his room.''
The shock received by the President at the
shooting must have been very severe ?"
Yes; he received a greater nervous shock
than thought it possible man of his GOODNESS
could. He says he distinctly remembers being
carried up stairs at the depot, but does not re,
member the vomiting His first thought was of
death. He was for some minutes unconscious
though he does not think sO.''
"Well, If everything goes along smoothly now.
when 90 you think he could be removed to cooler
quarters -
Not for several weeks could any question of
him be entertained at all, / have re-
ceived letter from man in PENNSYLVANIA adj
vistng me that he has shipped an invalid bed for
the Presidents use. If It is good one it will
De very beneficial to the sufferer These beds
are used chiefly by paralytic or other helpless
ihvailds, and a person can be turned or moved
with no trouble to themselves BY q simple use of
a crank at the foot of the bed had already
spoken to Mrs. Garfield how desirable such n
bed would be if we could succeed in getting a
thoroughly good patent. This one viii arrive
to-day and we will see how it will do.'
A WATERFRONT last Safurdov oorr;o .,.