The evening herald. [volume] (Shenandoah, Pa.) 1891-1966, 1895-05-28

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condition, and spoke words of hope and
cheer to his stricken wife and daughter.
Sometimes his mind wandered slightly
and went back to the days of long ago, re-
calling incidents of love and happiness in
the springtlme of his life. He spoke, too,
of his absent son and his private secre-
tary, Mr.. Lands, whom he loved as a son,
and who, like his son, was speeding to his
bedside all too late. But just before the
physicians retired he ceased speaking,
though he appeared to be conscious.
Mrs. Gresham sat at the bedside smooth
ing his fevered brow and occasionally
reading to him from the Bible passages
which he loved As the end approached
his pulse became hardly perceptible. Grad
ually his eyes glazed and closed But Mrs.
Gresham, with noble and heroic for
titude, continued TO read the words of the
gospel to her departing husband. Her
daughter and son-in-law stood with bowed
heads at the side of the couch.
At l:15 o'clock his breathing ceased; a
peaceful Shadow passed over his pale coun-
tenance, his pulse flickered and the sorrow
ing family We're in the presence of death
One of the nurses conveyed the news that
| the end had come to the physicians in the
next room, and they, in turn broke it to
the watchers in the reception room.
Mrs. Gresham devotion to her husband
during his illness has been of the most
tender, patient and faithful character.
Although physically slight she displayed,
, so said one who has been in the sick
chamber several times a day throughout
the secretary's illness, remarkable endur-
ance and nerve. For four weeks she has
hardly had her clothes off. Night and day
she was at the bedside, snatching an hour
or two of sleep when she could on a
lounge in his room. She seemed deter
mined to fight off death. If he dies
she said many times, "Tlose all.
lBut she did not complain. With pa
| tience and devotion she ministered to his
every want, giving everything her per
sonal attention, and trying to cheer and
brighten him when he was peevish and
| fretful The utmost persuasion was re-
quired to induce her even to lie down On
/ Sunday she grew so faint fromsheer ex-
haustion that she reeled and would have
fallen had not one Of the nurses caught
her in her arms.
| Mr., Gresham's illness began May !
when he was attacked with acute pleurisy
The etfusion filled the pleural cavity, but
MS tOHulll'n gltiutu 10 treatment unbl
last Saturday, when he suffered a relapse
accompanied by acute pneumonia. Hit
condition since that time has been ex
tremely critical His heart action becam,
enfeebled, requiring the econstant admins
tration Of the most powerful heart stimu
lants. One or the other Of his physicians
Drs. John and Prentiss, or both, were
constantly with him His pulse reached
100, and was so feeble that it could barely
be counted.
Stimulants kept him alive. Nitro-gly
crime and strychnine were given continu
ously hypodermically, together with digi
tails and whisky He was able TO take NJ
nourishment save in liquid form-prin
Uipally milk punches-and the whole ef
fort of the physicians was directed toward
sustaining end strengthening him. Tn
right pleuritic cavity was filed with tn
sffused fluid, and the lung so compresse,
! as to make breathing impossible. Abou
:8O last evening he sank so rapidly tina
leath was momentarily expected. RestoI
itives were applied and hypodermic injeC
D aons of nitro-glycerine and strychnin
were made. His blood vessels were in
state OF collapse, and his condition was S
4 extremely critical that the physicians d
Il cided hatNtransfuslon was immediatel
necessary TO stimulate the heart ID
z Van Ransseletr, an expert young su
r | geon, was hastily sent for. He opened
vein in the left arm and infused a pi1
D and a half of noImal saline solution. III
operation was successful and at o'cloC