The herald., 1895-10-24
At o'clock a. m. Lieutenant Governor
Millayd was still alive.

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At 4 o'clock a. m. Lieutenant Governor
Millayd was still alive.
His most intimate friend would hardly
recognize Lieutenant Governor Spencer
G. Millard today, could he look upon him
in his quarters at Hotel Locke. He is
mere skeleton of his former self. Wasted,
smnciated and helpless, there is but lit
tie left of the man who did such effective
work in the last gubernatorial campaign
but his dominant will power, which is
all that keeps alive our Lieutenant gov
ernor from hour to hour and day to day.
This is we'll illustrated by the character
lstic reply he made yesterday afternoon,
when the doctor, after due consideration,
concluded to inform Mr.. Millard of the
near approach of death. Upon the doc
tors having stated that his death was but
question of days-pernaps hours-the
lieutenant governor replied, "Oh, no, no;
/ will be about again. My grit and my
nurse will pull me through" But he
had no sonoer spoken these words when
he suffered the m ost severe relapse of the
day. Later.he revived, but /, to again re-
thought that the end was near at hand.
Mrs. Millard was hurriedly sent for, and
]. b. Millard. with the nurse, we're in at
tendance. The patient managed to swal-
low a little champagne, and an hour later
was quite comfortable and apparently as
strong as at any time during the day.
1t is noticeable that Mr.. Millard is most
likely to suffer a relapse at about sun
down and at sunrise. The relapses at
these times are more severe and pro-
longed than at any other time of the day.
At all tim es Mr.. Millard is in full pos
session Of his senses, his t.mind is clear
and he quickly grasps the import of all
that is going on about him. He suffers
but little from pain ami sleeps fairly
we'll, but is very weak. The only move
ment OF budy that.hi strength will per-
init Is the lifting OF his nand from his
side to his head and he Is able to turn
his head slightly from side to side. Other
than this he lies helplessy in the one po-
sltion being moved only by his faithful
colored nurse.
The stomach refuses to assimilate food,
and he is sustained only bv stimulants
and liquids. LIQUID peptinoids and clam
broth are given as freely as he can par
take of them, which at the most is in the
smallest quantities. AS his nurse ex.
pressed it, "He does not swallow more at
one time than could a canary" Of late
he has been troubled wi tn a soreness IN
the throat hich any attempt to swallow
GEMS to agAravate. For time he could
partake of diluted bwhisky or brandy, but
champagne is the only stimlant he can
take, and of this but few drops at a
time.
Last nj ght Mr.. Millard's tongue was
quite moist, which would indicate that
he had very little if any fever. At times
his pulse is very weak, and. as the nurs 9
said, $50 weak you can scarcely find it,"
Upon taking few drops of champag ne
the pulse revives. only to diminish as
the stimulating effect of the champagne
passes. This would indicate how ex-
tremely weak Mr.. Milard is when he is
susceptible to the Influence of SO slight
quanGlty of champagne as two or three
drops, which is as large quantity as he
can take.
Every few hours the muse gives him
a sponge bath OF tepid water. followed
by an alcohol bath and brisk rubbing.
These baths seem to revive the patient
for q tm,, when he again relapses to a
normal condition.
Mrs. Millard is in constant attenda nee.
day and night, and is holding up remark
she has been unoer for the past few days.
Professor Millard has a room at the
Locke within easy cali of the lieutenant
governors room.
Lieutenant-Governor Millard is for
tunate in securing the services of SO
valued a nurse as r. J.. Fletcher. MIR.
Fletcher has had long expert Ance as a
trained nurse and has the reputation of
being one of the most skilled of his pro.
fession. He has made speciality of cases
.ol~ 4k, &c L., ,a sr,,t l.
bowels, and is therefore the more valu-
able in this instance. His story is best
told in his own words:
my early poyhood was spent in the
Danish West Indian island of St.Thomas.
Was 20 years of age bfore L learned that
l was ar American citizen. My mother
died when l was but days old, and six
years later my father died. AS all my
boyhood had been spent with an aunt in
st. Thomas, it never occurred to me that
| might have been born any where else
than at st. Thomas. About the time of
the breaking out OF the rebe lion l accl-
uentally learned that I was born in
Brooklyn, N. Y, ana was therefore an
American citizen. A desire came over
me to see my native city and q came to
the navy ana remained there to the close
of the war. My last ship was the Van
derbilt, under Admiral Wilkes. After
securing my discharge I went to Panama
and from there to Tobago, an island in
the bay of Panama. There | entered the
British hospital as an orderly and was
soon promoted to nurse. | remained at
the hospital four years, and during that
time great many interesting cases came
under my observation. The hospital was
maintained by the British government as
a sort of military and naval sanitarium.
Later visited the South Amer ican ports.
| came up the west coast by easy stages,
and finally brought up in San Francisco
l located in Sacramento IN 1868. A year
later returned to San Francisco, but in
1878 again visited Sacramento and con-
cluded to locats there and have remained
there ever Since, following my profession,
that of skilled nurse. Among the prom
inent men whom l have recently cared
for | might mention s. S. Wathran, Cy-
rus Miller, c. G. Hayden, l.. B. Berch
and T. M. Lindley. TIE most difficult
and pc rhaps the most interesting case
ever attended was that OF John Glachen,
who was shot few years ago By Tony