Iron County register. [volume] (Ironton, Iron County, Mo.) 1867-1965, 1883-03-29

VIC agency AUDf o. ii!cHLlOucu gave HE VIC
tory, You Will at least credit me with just
cause FOR sincerity in my thankI illness and
beilef. L VIII also spin nv yarn anent my
emma cruise. and, altogether, expect to
teftaIn as we'll as b. entertained by you.
with pest wishes. Sincerely yours,
Rear Admiral y. S. Navy.
Hon. GEORGE WENDELL
Sinclair Pace, Boston.
An autumral afternoon in tue year 1885,
1oanu tue taut flag ship Nonadd rounding
the treachefouS alad dangerous extremity OF
cputh America. And this day certainly ill.,
Tended To lace itself on record with those of
It's predecessors marked STORMY, its nastiness
III Winu and feather giving all hands on boa ard
the fAgsnip their Till in hard work and dis
comforts. he record OF the Aonts8 on this
cruise, which she WAS now completing on her
LomeWard bound pasS~ge TO Boston, had
peen most uISagreeable, when considered i'll
the light Of heavy We ather work From suez
10 Alden, then on to Bombay, Point de Gale,
singapore, Hong Kong, SHANGHAI, Nagasaki
ami IokoAama, tie balance sheet stood
largely m favor Of oil. 0Ne tunes rough char
acLer.stics, but with remarkable eyenness the
health aui original roster OF the ships COM
pans stood this day it did nearly three
Years ago--vIth one exec ption. Throughout
lA1 diverse and varied exposures Incidental
to cruising over the Asiatic station, where
cholera, fevers, liver com plants, malaria, and
COLTS OF All degrees reign IN lull force, none
Oh the crew hal suffered more than teul-
porary Inconvenience, and thus it seemed
very hard that now, IN the clio sing days of
the cruise, there stood nihe chances Tor, to
one against, victory being at LAST scored for
the destroying angel Death When the -Nonldd
reached Shanghai IN the early portion of her
cruise her admiral was the healthiest man
ABOARD a grand pecimen of manhood was
be. Over SIX feet in height, weighing two
hundred ounds broad in chest aud strong in
limb, he rightly claimed for himself a full
Share Of Natures blessings. While returning
late one night from diplomatic reception at
the ClnSuI Al at Shan yha thrnuuh
heating and insufficient protection from the
dangerous effects of the peculiarly damp and
searching night air, he caught cold. "Only
a cCid," remarked the admiral to the doctors
OF his ship, land easy to cure.' So thought
the medical officers, out with quiet though
lnoldlous progression. this cold chung to the
admiral in spite of their best efforts to era l.
cate 1t, and when the time came for leaving
Yokohama, homeWard bound, the admiral
realized taat his lungs and throat were dec-
dedly out OF order. The doctors advised re-
turning home by mail steamer to San Fran
cisco, So that greater means for curing this
persistent cough might be found in the
Naval hospital there; but the admiral
pre- erred to stick to his ship, still i'm
aglning til It his trouble would eventually
be overcome by the doctors treatment.
No one who looked at the admiral even in
those days imagined that he would fall a
victim to lung trouble. But it was the old
story again typified in this case. Only cold
at first; and in spite of orthodox treatment
the peculiar climatic effects of China nursed
il, and fastened the result of such a
deep-seated trouble. Time passed after leaV-
ing Yokohama Tor Boston. bringing varying
symptoms in the admiral's case, and the
doctors imagined that they held the disease
in check at least. But with the formation of
tubercles, night sweats, and the rapid
consumption OF lung tissues. which had set
in with alarming symptoms, the patient
realized that his cold had laid the seeds of
that fell agent Of Death, consumption. The
Ia viking cough of the admiral had III itself ,
been sufficient food for serious con-
sideration, and now, as in the warm
autumn days the flagship CALAMITY rode
over the blue waters of the Pacific, bound for
Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for sue /
cess. But this boisterous afternoon iound /
tn" good ship struggling with gigantic seas !
set off from the Cape by fierce northerly |
wind Leaden were the heavens and sad the !
he .rts of all aboard, for thu morning the /
uaaa! bulletin of the medical officers had set .
forth this intelligence: THE admiral is in /
same condition as reported last night. A !
burning fever his been slightly reduced, !
while other symptoms as heretofore an
nourced.' All understood these words with /
out questioning. The beloved admiral had |
during the past two weeks sunk very low. |