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and Assistants.

since the day when the serpent traded
news with the woman and convinced
her that the proper thing to do was to
uisobey, her tyrannical partner has had
the supreme satisfaction of earning her
oread by the sweat Of his brow, while
she still prattleS gossip with the SER
pent and follows his injunction Labor,
linen, Is honorable, for the edict went
out over 5000 years ago, and age has
proven its worth. So by degrees 1t has
come to be recognized that true dignity
cannot exist without labor, but, unfor-
tunately for the toiler, that old ante
deluvian edict carried with it a. penalty
THE day that thou eatest thereof
thou shalt surely die" and that penalty
has been rigidly enforced down to the
month of October in the year of our
Lord, one thousand eight hundred and
ninety-six.
Thus it happens that life and labor
and sickness and death are so nearly
allied as to be able to claim kin, each
with the other, and men have learned
from experience to provide for each con-
dition in its turn. Ever since the in
ception of the railroad shops in this
city provision has been made for a GER
tain amount of labor. A certain num-
49,
to earn bread for the woman (who still
continues to tempt them, by the way),
but sooner or later, in accordance with
the penalty before mentioned, the ac-
count must be paid and at the end of it
all the laborer (and even the most in
f1ated of bondhOlderS is one of them)
must lay down the burden to make
room for others and still others.
1t was soon found by the workers, not
only in the shops, but all over this di-
vision of the road, that accidents
would happen in the best regulated
families and that the glorious climate
of California was not proof against
accident, and could not forever stave
off the ills to which man is heir. Sick
ness followed health as surely as the
tides followed the moon, and the toll
ers on the road and in the shops We're
not slow in arriving at the conclusion
that a mutual benevolent association
ought to be formed for the purpose of
healing the MANNED, succoring the
stricken and burying the dead. The
officials, too, saw that something must
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back the appetite Of a sick one, even
though he thinks it is gone for good.
Everything has it's place and there it
must remain. The chef is a genuine
article. He is a cook and doesn't pre-
tend to be a DOCTOR His place is
among his kettles and pans and he is
apt to resent any intrusion into the do
main where he is lord and master.
In the basement are situated two din
ing rooms 34x276 feet and 74x23 feet,
where the coaXing viands prepared by
the cook are dished up; the smoking
room, 34x15 feet, where the GONZALES
cent smokes his pipe and dreams
dreams as he takes his ease; the laun-
dry, which is the same size as the dim
ing room, three storerooms, one linen
room, pantry, two clothes rooms, a wine
room, 9.6x12 feet, a large roomy hall
and two bedrooms, while on both front
and back a broad, shady, cosy, inviting
porch extends. The elevator with
which the building is supplied is nearly
in the middle of the floor
On the first floor are wards Nos. /
and 2, each 44x23 feet, the dispensary.
physicians room, reception room, two
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of suffering humanity. It consisted of
a main building 6Ox35 feet, facing east.
or Thirteenth street, was four stories
high and basement, with a wide veran-
da at each story, from either of
which is to be had as fine a view as
is to be seen anywhere in the city; two
wings, each 35x52 feet, and kitchen
"A feet square, situated behind, and a
few feet from the main building.
The building, when completed, was
more homelike than imposing. 1t was
built for comfort, which should be the
first point aimed at in the construction
of all hospitals, and it was successes.
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It was made roomy so as to At an emer-
gency should one arise, and contained
six large, sunny, well ventilated hos
pital wards, fitted out SO as not to
throw the shadow of the valley in a
mans face the moment he entered, as
are SO many hospital wards. The pro-
moters realized that cheerful surround
ings were often more than half the
battle in cases Of sickness, and planned
so as to attain that end. The building
will accommodate 125 patients.
Hospital wards are all very we'll in
their way, though the very name is
apt to send shivers down the spine of
the ordinary citizen, for whoever heard
a hospital ward mentioned who did not
associate with it the operating table,
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their hours of trial. 1t was a necessity.
Not for a moment did they hesitate in
granting the monthly pittance. The
company proposed TO erect the hos
pital-they proposed to furnish the
funds to keep it in operation by paying
current expenses and interest on the
amount expended. The crucial test was
passed. Both company and employees
wished hospital erected, and early in
the year 1869 a force of carpenters were
detailed and assembled at Thirteenth
and streets on the southwest corner
of which was laid the foundation for
the Southern Pacific Railroad Hospital,
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amputated arms or wooden legs, but
there are often cases when the life of
the patient depends upon privacy and
quiet, and to meet such emergencies
eight private rooms We're fitted out for
patients. And each of the eight rooms
are exceedingly quiet. To look into one
CT them is conducive to slumber. Even
the footballs of the nurse seems to die
away before it reaches the ear Of the
sufferer. 1t is a good place to get well
in-one of these rooms, unlike those of
sc many other institutions, which in
voluntarily bring up pictures of grave
yards and funeral corteges and make
the patient wish to die, if for no other
reason than to escape it all.
An the library which has been gath
cred is good to look at--better still il
is good to read, only the patients-those
who love books at least and the hos
ptal attendants say there are MANY
such-find it difficult to make a selec-
ton. Why shouldn't he? Here before
his eyes are ranged those authors he
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be done, and the conclusion arrived at
resulted in the erection of the Railroad
Hospital, situated at Thirteenth and c
streets.
1t is no recent addition to the city, this
Railroad Hospital. 1t is a landmark.
1t stood where it now stands when most
of the men who furnish the bone and
sinew which now gives life to the great
railroad were boys. Through its portals
have passed thousands of good men and
true, many of them sick unto death
many suffering from slight indisposi-
ton, many hopeful of recovery, a few
respondent and past hope. but each and
everyone certain that the best attention
and medical skill procurable would be
his. If the Railroad Hospital Gas it is
commonly called) is a charity, it GER
tainly follows the Scriptural injunction
and begins at home, for while the build
ing was erected by the company, the
assistants, stock of drugs and interest
upon the amount advanced, is paid by
the employees themselves.
Between the years 1854 and 1865. the
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Why He Was Indignant

A general, an old bachelor, who
usually dined in restaurants, had a
habit of wiping his knife and fork on
his napkin before eating. One day he
was invited to a dinner party, and the
hostess, noticing this performance, told
the waiter to bring him a fresh knife and
fork. Again he wiped them, and again
a fresh set was brought, whereupon the
General turned and snarled at the wal
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keep right on parading the Mckinley
button; that they should contribute
their campaign fund to the Mckinley
collectors, and to deport themselves as
jealous supporters of the Republican
candidate. but on election day they
should secretly use a pencil and scratch
the Mckinley Electors. He told them
that it was all right to be Republicans
and shout for Mckinley every day OF
the campaign, but on election day they
should quietly slip a Bryan ticket into
the ballot box.
KNOCKED OUT.
Santa Rosa Republican: Wheat con-
tinues to go up in price and silver con-
tinues to fall The price of each is gov
erned by the law of supply and de-
mand-neither being affected in any
manner by the other Thus the laws OF
trade have knocked the props from un-
der another Popocratic proposition.
"DE PUSH
San Jose Mercury: The attempt of the
Examiner and "de push" to break uI
tf Republican party in San Francisco
has proved a dismal failure. The 'Ex-
anniner' will now have its hands full
locking after it's own disrupted, disor-
canized and already defeated Popo-
cratic aggregation Of SpoilSmen.
BOYCOTT.
Stockton Mail: Now Canada proposes
to legislate against American labor
Isn't it about time for the American
shippers to boycott the Canadian Pa
cific line? 1t was built as an adjunct
to the military establishment Of a ma
ton not altogether friendly with us and
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Total for ten years. 90, ,257
DR.. 5. p. Thomas, formerly of Au-
burn, Placer County, was the physician
in charge of the temporary hospital, but
when the new building was opened Dr.
A. B. Nixon was put in charge. In 1889,
however, there was another change,
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has heard of all his life, but never had
chance to read, and he is sorely
tempted to take turn at them, but,
so say the attendants. in most cases he
turns away with a sigh, to laugh with
Sam Weller. or weep with Little Nell
search with Collins for the Moonstone
or travel down into the caves Of Kor
with Haggard, to gaze upon the fatal
beauty of She. And why should he
not be confused when asked to choose.
when there are before him over 1900
volumes? 1t is quite natural that he
should turn from strangers for conso-
lation with friends he has known from
! childhood.
Then there are appointed execu-
| tive and medical rooms, and while the
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road being then in its infancy, the ma
jority of the employees were strangers.
The placer mines were running at fuli
blast, and the days were not yet past
when the miner, armed with a shower
and pan, and good supply OF the artl-
Gle luck" could take out his ounce OF
dust between the rising and setting or
the sun. The resident population OF
the State, therefore, preferred the mines
with their chances and viciSsitudes
rather than railroad employment with
the steady and sure salary attending it.
The employees. consequently, were men
without homes. and as the road passed
through a section of the country sparse
ly settled, where little accommodation
could be furnished for those who by
climatic changes, accident or exposure
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Southern Pacific
Railroad Hospital.

nay IN the Early Days Of the Raroad-Donations From
Doth Work1nen and Corporation Why Hospital Was
Necessary-Ihe Building, Its Dimensions and Location
Comfort Aimed at and Secured-The Library-Kitchen
and Cook-Suppy Point for the System Hospital and
Office Patients Number Of Each Treated-Ihe Faculty
and Assistants.
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First Floor

grove, Frank Murphy, Harry Moles-
worth, Ed Raymond, Arthur Raider.
Porter, j. H. Briggs.
Night Watchman, Fred Stoore.
Gardener, John Lauffer.
Chief Cook, ID. Mckay.
Assistant Cook, William Margadont
Waiter, p. w. Anderson.
Engineer, Christ Zurchar.
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RebeIIiOuS.

Teacher-Willie, you are to stay in
after school and do three extra ex-
amples.
Willie-What! And get put out of the
Scholars Union for working overtime
/ will, don't think!-Cincinnati En-
| ti1.ca1e
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lines.
BOILER AND WHISTLE
Woodland Mail: Mr.. Bryan. a candi-
date for President, continues in his
palace car on what he is pleased to term
his tour of education. At Wheeling,
day before yesterday, he reminded the
assembled masses of the millions of the
capitalists money one Hanna was
spending to corrupt the plain, common
people, and appealed to them to resent
the insult by arraying themselves
solidly against the plutocrats. If such
language had been used by the ordinary
campaign stumpers it would be
stamped as a red-hot appeal to madden
class against class. Is it any the less
demagogic coming from candidate for
President? If Mr.. Lincoln were yet
alive, he would easily dispose of this
windy educator as he did like one in
his day, by saying that the orator re-
minded him of steamboat he once saw
on the Ohio River. 1t had six-foot
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Wedding Presents.

Within ten months after marriage al
most all bridal couples would be glad
to exchange all the weddings presents
they received for $40 bill.-Atchison
Globe.
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WARD s.

opening of the hospital-from 1869 to
lSl9L4,776 patients were admitted, and
1913 treated at home or in the office.
Believing that a statement of the
number Of patients admitted, and also
those who received office and private
treatment during the last ten years
would be interesting, the hospital Off
cials have kindly given the following
tabulated information:
n ;oko
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ter idiot! Do you expect me to clear
knives and forks for all the guests ?"--
Fliegende Batter.
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when Dr. T. w. Huntington took charge,
and is Superintendent of the building at
the present time.
The persons connected with the hos
pital at present are as follows:
M. Gardner, Chief Surgeon and Super
intendent Hospital Department, South
ern Pacific System.
DR.. T. w. Huntington, Superintendent
Southern Pacific Hospital.
A. d. Prentice House Doctor
Dr. Robert Forbes, Steward and Dis
penser
Walter Forbes, Assistant to Druggist
John F. Daul, Clerk.
A. Peters, in charge at night
w. p. butcher, Surgical Dresser.
Nurses-George Bragg, Carl Mus
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WARD s.
BOILER AND WHISTLE

! it doesn't seem like good policy to pat
ronize it at the expense Of the American
lines.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-04

'llot. slr?r said the engine driver,
with what might have been either q
SILVER or shrug mo. sir, ! don't
think thls hot; warm, maybe. bu; hot
nor
well" ! painted, 81 should Ike 10
know what you would call hot n this De-
only warm. Why, here's TIE mcreury
climbing up into the hundred and twon-
ties, the leaves are scorchlug on the
trees and there isn't a breath OF wind
n a drop Of cool water on earth. Real
ly. don't thlnk you'll nnd much hotter
weather than this-at least not In this
world
But have had a. he said. a triac
testify, as though he didn't quite like
The allusIon. why. I was driving an
engine once on a stretch OF line In
South America whore u was so no, lha,
Re used to throw the furnace door o1cn
and stand mp close to O. 20 as 10 ge,
that side Of us cool-eool by contrast,
SIR, Good dayw
Then he sauntered oil. whilt,lng soft
. ly, and climbed into the cab OF his
engine. presumably TO have warm
Exchange.
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-04
A woNpgRruL pHoTooRAPn.
shows u with Deiishifui Realism
Father Feeding iils Child.

shows 4 With Delighted Realism
Father Feeding It's Child
Tho new system of multiple photo
graphy. whereby a great number Of im-
prossions OF the same perlon or object
are taken In moment or $50 OF tme'
exhibits life TO as In a very natural
and realistic manner. says Tie New
York Journal This ia one OF the most
interesting features OF this wonderful
invention. for the old-fashi0nci photo
graph represented human nature In the
most unnatural manner possible. u Is
no,iIou6ly difficult to look pleasant
when sitting Tor photograph tn"
subjects OF instantaneous multiple pho
Biography DO not have the same difficult
iles. for they are either ignorant OF
what Is going on or they are not re-
qulred 10 pose a moro pleasant eX-
ample OF a multiple photograph could
hardly be found than shows us father
feeding a little child. while the mother.
fCitcd on the other side Of the child.
looks smilingly on. u Is a delightful
/ little scene OF domestic happiness. Il
is a photograph that touches the heart
when such results as this can be pro-
duccd by one Of the wonders OF modern
science We must no, accuse that science
OF being neglected. o. the beauties ~
| lie. The father Is evidently a man OF
the poor class otherwise BE- would not
be photographed In hts shirt sleeves aud
IN the act OF feeding hls child. Bu' tais
conduct Is what ondelss aim TO us.
The man who can take such evident
pleasure In the simple but worthy aot
OF feeding his little chilli must be truly
happy and the sight OF happiness Ia
good 20 an rightly constituted per.
sons 49, means OF this wonderful pho.
tograph you may follow his gentle ac.
ton from iis inception 20 los conclu-
sion. You see no, only the raising OF
tho spoon with the food and the gradual
turning OF the mans head as he brings
the sp1an near the child's mouth but
also the tenderness whl-h accompanies
the ac,ion The youngsior looks up
happily and smiling and the mother Is
equally 80. The photograph Is a hne
study for the lover OF human nature
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-04

lG last. Ter ten years he has lived 10
retirement on his Welsh estate and ior
the past two years he has not been out
Of the two rooms In which he slept and
ate. attended by two female relatives
There Is no doubt whatever as TO his
age. lncontesthle documentary proof
exists that Dr. Salmon was born In
1880 lie belonged 10 the ancient and
honorable family OF salmors Of Mar
ket Wickham. sunolr. HIS father was
q practitioner and a country gentle
man OF rank in the little English town
where the dead oCntenarlan was born.
Dr. Salmon was the Oldest member Of
the College Of surgcono and that body
has the proof OF his great ego. In
his youth he was a spark-a dandy
ard al ore time a surgeon IN the army.
lie was not In the battle Of Waterloo,
but was on the field few days after
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-04

the university 70 have coaisssc3 spon
him toe decree OF master oi arts and
two years later he was preaching 70 a
Methodist charge at Middleport. Ohio.
Until 1870, Or. Cranston served the Ohio
conference. preaching to many con-
gregatlonn. In that year he was trans
ierred to Winona. MINI. and there h.
built a church. which was left behind
him as a monument 10 his energ~ when,
at his own request. he was transferred
70 jacksonville In that city bis wife
died Dr Cranston stayed his iull term
there. and jacksonville has Grace
church as a result OF his iahors. Evans
vile. Ind. had him q short time, aud
then his duties called him 10 Cincinnati
and later TO Denver. Col. For -four
years he was presiding elder OF the
Southern Colorado conference. and his
energetic work In that district won for
him the admiration OF all who saw H.
In 1854 he was sent Cincinnati as the
representative Of the Western Book
Concern. a position he held when he
went 10 the conference az Cleveland
that wldened the scope Of lis work by
making him a bishop.
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oRaAr FREsHEr.
Is wide Extent and tho Desirucliss
Force OF the Waters

Each year. notably In the season be.
tween actual winter and conventional
spring there are foods In New Eng
land that seem 80 widespread and de-
structlye That the communities afflicted
think the waters must this time have
done their worst, says the Boston
Transcript. Floods are. however no
rcspeclcrs OF records and the high-wa-
ter mark Of ono year may be passed by
the swelling waters Of the next The
floods that are now beginning to sub
side have broken the record at Man
chester. n. H.. where structures IKE
the steam bridge" OF the Amoskeae
company. built 80 far above the high
water mark as TO be deemed perfectly
safe from the maddcsi freshet. have
been carried away. The spectacle Of
large. well-bullt. valuable business
block. undermined by the waters. slid
ing into the food was the startling
feature Of the freshets work at Dover
n. II.
The wide extent OF the territory
covered by the floods renders an est
mate OF the damages inflicted very dli
hcult. but'there can be no question thai
they will aggregate millions OF dollars
reckoning the costs Of repairs and re
placements
spcaklnggonerally. the food district
may be said TO reach from Bangor, Me.
to Newburyport. Mass. east and west
and from Northern Vermont southwark
to Springfield. Mass The bridges ina
hare been SWEET away may be reek
oncd by scores along the course OF IN
Androscoggin. Connecticut and Merti
mac. and their replacement will max
a big bin for communities and ran
roads TO pay. Travel eastward hn'
northward has been an but paralyzo'
for several days and to render washed
out tracks safe and build temporar'
bridges has called for an army IN mum
bers and energy.
The most yexatous reflection follow
INK the subsistence OF the floods Is tina
no measure either 10 prevent them o
curb their waters to the safety poinl
is humanity practicable Il 30 impos
slble to wall in such rivers as thos
mentioned an along their course an
wherever they have flowed they hav
wrought havoc. what has made ihes
floods peculiarly destructive Is %
fact that the rain OF three days hein
unable to sink into the frozen GROUND
ran upon the Ice Of the rivers. While
was thereby dlslntegrated and va
borne q battering mass against all III
bridges the swollen waieis cd
countorcd In their course
The Bryan daily eagle. (Bryan, Tex.) 1895-1898, 1896-07-04
TWO EXTREMES IN SKELETONS
That OF tho Irish Clint .. over Eigh,
loot ia Height.

That OF tho Irish Clint 4 over Eigh,
loot in Height
The largest and smallest skeletons
Of humans over preserved are kept In
the museum Of the Royal COLLEGE Of
Surgeons in Llncoln's lnn fields, Lon.
don. says the New YorS World. One
b eight feet four inches IN height The
other is less than two feet,
Charles Byrne, the famous Irisl
giant. who was more generally known
as O'Bricn. died In 1888, when be was
% years old. Ills capacity iorilquorwai
In keeping with his huge physical pro
portions So keen was his anguish oyel
losing all his property to-wit. a f3Oo
note that he drank cask OF ale In one
day. The day following he died
Byrne had a great dread Of becoming
a dlssectlng room subject he made
a bargain with q lshermln before he
died to take his body out into the chan'
mel and throw Il overheard Hunter
the English surgeon. learned OF this
arrangement ana by paving the fisher
man $500 he prevailed upon him to ear
~ out his bargain TO the letter, but 10
attach a rope 10 the body and drag Il un
again after 1t had been Immersed. The
fisherman served two masters and Hun.
Ter got the body The tiny skeleton IL
that Of Caroline Crachaml, the slcllian
dwarf. who was exhibited In Europe IN
the early part Of the century. The child
did rot grow after birth, and before she
reached her teens she died. Her body,
O "a said. was sold to a British surgeon
by her parents Beside the giants
frame stands one OF the boots he wor,
when he died. The skeleton Of the
dwarf can be slipped into !, as easily al
a pipe stem.
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he downfall OF N.p3.Con. His career
IN the array Was cat short by a lortu-
nate marriage with tie daughter Of
lelcr Deere. l.C i-hui,'d from ;he
cG.c. The Gre osta.e ca which he lived
Tor almost a century. and on which
Sc died ms. salmon d.ed az the age
4 80 years in 1858.
Urul q shor, timo lcioge lls death
lh5 patriarch OF PUl'yn 2lar, Uas well
In health lie ne well. dept wei and
'elt "h5lo ana hearty" lie ro.o Of
neon. Glnol at g. aTd Ieil,,d q, y. tic
used Tobacco until ~ w,l 50. and ,Acn
ave iiu9 Iut ae never gave up his
poi,. a which ho drank tvo glasses
da'ly lie wns compelled to abandon
lis Gs'ycs over BIS beautiful ol'aio ~
his 10oh yc.r On hi1 last birthday
be received congratulations from Mr.
gladstone. WHO expressed sincere
wishes ior him here and hereafter
Dr. Salmon outl.yoi all his coatom-
porarlcs Iii- CID ii.eni1. wac know
llm Intimately. an p-gsod awgy l5ng
org ago. Ills children, With the eX-
csp,ion Ct one daughter, arc all dead
although he lgi, mlly grandchildren
who. TO him. seemed 10 belong 10 an-
other world. Up 90 the lasi Dr. Snl'
mul retained most OF his faculties. llli
sight was lad. but bIs hearing We.
emily sl,glly affected. HIS momory
was clear In anc,cu, matters, but poor
for things OF the last half century