River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1882-01-05
WASHINGTON.
Washington Hospitals--The Court of
Claims House Bills Presented
--6uiteau's Christmas
RANKIN on HOSPITALS.

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WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-Dr. ]. E..
Rankin, of the. Congregational church
in this city, preached 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 a 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 10 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 mon
ument and as much utility as posi-
BILE; great piles of stone in the noisy
city where the cries of the swillman,
and the oysterman, and the general din
almost drove 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 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 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 well as anything else.
Upon the subject of free air he pic
tured strongly the monumental hospi-
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 had
these earlier there is no telling what
power of recuperation might have not
been developed. This Christian hos
pital should not have its lectures en- the
Sabbath. That should be quiet and
holy day to the poor dying inmates, as
well as to those of higher prospects in
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 to
these requirements. Compare the
treatment of an assassin or of other
base criminals with that in hospital
ward. DIR. Rankin extolled the work
of Florence Nightingale and of the
English sister Dora, for its high Christ
ian character, and thought if there was
such woman in the land, or any
where in the world, to be secured for
this hospital she should be secured.
He fortified his position by quoting
from high medical authority. He had
gone out of the usual range of pulpit
utterances. He could say much more.
He should not have been satisfied to
say less before taking a collection for
this memorial to the late president.
COURT OF CLAIMS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-The name of
Judge Thomas Settle, of North Caro-
lima, has been suggested to the presi-
dent in connection with the vacancy III
the court of claims. There is likely
soon to be another vacancy in the
court of claims. The latest ,umor is
that Chief Justice Charles ID. Drake,
being now upward of 81 years of age,
is contemplating retirement from civil
service.
UPToN's SUCCESSOR.
To confidential friend of Secretary
Folger the latter said that he had de-
cided one point relative to the success
sor of Mr.. Upton as assistant secretary.
Mr.. Folger said: II shall not select
for that place anyone who now holds
position in the treasury department.
have about come tothe conclusion, but
/ 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 office
has been rendered.
NEW BILLS.
WASHINGTON, Dec. 27.-There were
about 2,150 bills introduced during the
two days on which bills and joint reso-
~, cd IN thn hnIICp
before the holiday recess was taken.
OF these, Alabama presented 20; Ar
kansas, 80; California, 45; Colorado, 2;
Connecticut, q; Delaware, /; Florida,
s: Georgia, "a; Illinois, 141; Indiana,
81; Iowa, 90; Kansas, with only three
representatives., al; Kentucky, 90;
Louisiana, so; Maine, AS; Maryland,
So; Massachusetts, So; Michigan, 80;
Minnesota, IS; Mississippi, SO; Mis-.
sou 119; Nebraska, IA; Nevada, 8;
New Jersey, 40; New York, 143f North
Carolina, 1873; Chic, $50; Oregon, II;
Pennsylvania, 1874; Rhode Island, none;
South Carolina, Is; Tennessee, 81;
Texas, 70; Vermont, "a; Virginia, Sc;
West Virginia, 60; Wisconsin, SO. The
Territories presented bills as follows:
Arizona, 2; Dakota, 81 Idaho, 8;
Montana, s; New Mexico, 3; Wyo-
ming, 2.
CHRISTMAS IN JAIL.
WASHINGTON, Dec. Gas has been
customary in days when Guiteau did
not go into court, on Christmas day he
held quite levee, receiving his numer-
Gus visitors in red shirt. He was in
very good spirits, and engaged in con-
versation with great freedom. In the
afternoon he placed himself in the
hands of barber, and had a clean
shave. At first he determined to allow
his beard to grow again, but on being
told that he looked much better with
clean face, he changed his mind. An
appeal to his vanity is never lost, and
his counsel might resort to this device
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 OF HIS LADY VISITORS
remarked that she did not take much
stock in religious festivals as they now
existed, for the reason that the COM
memorated only a certain kind and
not all religions. A panied expression
crossed the face of the assassin as h
listened to this rather irreverant or
cism, and he gently, but kindly, urge
upon her the importance of seeking
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