The Milan exchange. (Milan, Gibson County, Tenn.) 1874-1978, 1883-03-24

UeIlel' VIII also SPIN my yarn auenb my
China cruise, aud, altogether expect to en-
terrain as well as be entertained by you.
With best wishes Sincerely yours
Rear Admiral U. 5. Navy.
Hon. GEORGE WENDELL,
Sinclair Place, Boston.
An autumral afternoon in the year 1885,
found tue taut flag ship NoHtad rounding
the treacherOus anu dangerous extremity OF
South America. And this day certainly N
Tended TO flacc itself on record with those of
its predecessors marked stormy, its nastincss
In wind and weather giving all hands on board
tue hegsIip their flll in hard work and dis
comforts. The record oil the AOHlqd on this
cruise, which she was now completing on her
homeWard bound passage 70 Boston, had
been most disagTeeable, when considered in
the Light Of heavy weather work From Suez
TO Alden, then on to Bombay, Point de Gale,
singapore, Hong Kong, Shanghai Nagasaki
anu Yokohama, tae balance sheet stood
largely in FAVOR Of oltaNe ptune's rough char
acJerlstics, but with remarkable eyenness he
health and original roster Of the ships COM
pany stood ths day as it did nearly three
years ago-wlth one exec ption. Throughout
the diverse and varied exposures incidental
to cruising over the AsiaLc station, where
cholera, tevers, liver comp plants, malaria, and
colds OF all degrees reign in tull force, none
oil the crew ha1 suffered more than tenn
porary Inconvenience, and thus IL seemed
very hard that now, in the closing days Of
one against, a victory being at Last scored for
the destroying angel Death. When the NOnidd
reached Shanghai IN the early portion of her
cruise her admiral was the heIthiest man
aboard a grand specimen of manhood was
he. over SIX feet in height, weighing two
hundred ounds broad Ia chest aud strong IN
limo, he rgutly claimed for himself a full
share of Natures blessings. While returning
late one night from diplomatic reception at
the Consulate at Shanghai, through over
heating and insufficient protection from the
dangerous fl CTS Of the peculiarly damp aud
searching night air, he caught cold. "Only
a cold,n remarked the admiral to the doctors
0 his ship, land easy to cure.n SO thou Int
the medical officers nut with quiet though
lnsidlOus progression, this cold chung to the
admiral in spite of their best efforts TO era l.
cate 1t, and when the time came Tor leaving
Yokohama, homeward bound, the admiral
real zed tnat his lungs and throat were deCi-
dedy out OF order. The doctors advised re-
turning home by mail steamer to San FIR H.
cisco, 50 that greater means for cur ng this
persistent cough might be found IL the
Naval hospital there's but the admiral
pre- erred to stick to his ship, stIl I'M
agining that his trouble would eventually
De overcome by the doctors treatment
No one who looked at the admiral even in
those days imagined that be would fall a
victim to lung trouble. But it was the Old
story again typiGed in this case Only cold
at first; and in spite Of orthodox treatment
the peculiar climate effects of China nursed
It, and fastened tue sure result oil such a
duep-seated trouble. Time passed after leav-
ing Yokohama Tor Boston, bringing varying
symptoms in the admirals case, and the
dortoIs imagined that they held the disease
in check at least. But with the formation of
tubercles niEht-sWeats, and the now tpid
| consumption OF lung tissues, which had set
in with alarmi g symptoms, the patient
realized that his cold had lid the seeds of
/ that fell agent Of Death consumption. The
/ hacking cough of the ad iral had in Itself
/ beeu sufficient food for serious con-
/ slderatlon, and now, as in the warm
autumn DAYS the flagship CALAMITY rode
/ over the blue waters OF tie Pacific, bound lOl
J Cape Horn, the doctors hoped much for sue
4 cess. But this boisterous afternoon ound
| the good 81 p struggling with gigantic seUE
set of from the Cape by a fierce Rorthely
wind. Lenden were the heavens aud sad the
he rts of all aboard, for tn morning the
usual bulletin OF the medical officers had sci
forth this intel igeuce; The admiral is in
| burning fever his been slightly duged
! while other symptoms are as heretofore an
| nounced." All understood these words with
out questioning. The beloved admiral had
during the past two weeks sunk very how
| The symptoms of blood POISONING, a tOrAit
! liver intense pain 5 throughout the body, eve
sight and mental aculties Affected appel Il
| gone, through inaction OF that great regula
tor-the liver. These were the mcn IS which
had retuced the admiral rom the pinnacle O.
| health to the valley and shadow OF de tn
Consumption held full swsy low, and the well
| known skill of naVa, doctors was in this in
stance at least COM lete,y 70 led.
The admiral had Issued orders for the flag
ship to touch at Aouteyi1co for Goa, ana il
was the intention or the doctors to land TIN
admiral there for treatment. But one MAJ
in the ship was wra ped in the gloom OF lis
pair, as standing by the weather rig ing OF
the roop deck he gazed abseutly over thu
sect ing waste OF waters. This was the ad
mira's son, a eutenant, and ttschel To- hi
faith RS sraI lie feared TIA the wear aul
tear of Shi. LII would saphis faIh RS str ug
beyond endurance. ami before the shin cou
re Ch "on.eyde0. Among groap ofsaiIur
gathered around one Of the great guns on h
sp T deck stood the captain If the fo,e-top
Brown, slight but healthy looking m u
his conpan ons were liste ming to a recital O
his sulterlnSs from consumption, which ha
developed wAile he was sttac e % the slOop
oi-war HANGER lying in the rbor 81 YoSl
hama year aga, tn yarn" b wing heo
! started by a discussion about the admiral
condition. The men had Just returRed from
some work around the deck, sn order 70
which b. d interrupted Browns story a fe1
moments previously.
"A year ago this day | was hove to IN IA
pill ma s. sick bay in the Ranger, then o.
Ypkopama, an tell you pards, tw-sno us
pfpin' my number, cause | was nigh o
p ssn' in my en- istmsnt papers for on
cruise alOtt," continued Blown. "Cousum
ton h q me fiat abacS, AM The doctor VS.
was no use 10 stow away IA lush in ny hol
, seCin' that my be lows vas cord mned y
higher o er than he could wrastlr with"
p How did You pucker out OF itF' asked
guuners male.
"Waall." replied Brown. my Chine