People's voice., 1900-09-06


of pure trampS get the benefit Of len
ieDCy OD the part of the crews which
makes this existence possible.
Barney Sheridan received a long
letter, dated April "a last, from tie
late John J. Ingalls,, which he has
just made public. The letter says.
Il suppose you know | am on the staff
of the New York Journal las an inde-
pendent Republican to write what
and when | please) and also a contrib,
utOr to the Saturday Evening Post OF
Philadelphia and other periodicals
Besides this, two publishing houses
are pushing me for book in the line
of my Post papers, and as the doctors
insist upon my lOafLg five or six hours
every day in the open air, am 30
hOpelessly In arrears 10 my contracts
that l sometimes resolve to cOmpro-
mise by doing nothing at all. These
are the facts about my health: Last
fall, year ago, | got pneumonia in
Minnesota and Dakota on a lecture
tour in the blizzard that struck that
region Unexpectedly in October. |
had twenty-One consecutive engage
ments, and met the last ten when l
ought to have been IN bed with a
trained nurse in attendance. recov-
cred sufficiently to return to Wash.
ingtOn, where my wife and daughters
were. The grip was epidemic there.
It was the time when Dingley, Russell
Young, Senator Morrill, and many
Others died. In January | was ATTACK
ed, convalesced and then had a second
attack in which l got 50 low the doc
tor said l might drop off soon and
suddenly, and they telegraphed my
son Ellsworth, who was in Texas. Ny
pulse was l4O or l5O and my tempera-
ture los. BY the time Ellsworth ar
rived | was out Of danger and prompt
ly convalesced, though did not re-
gain my strength. About a month
later the poison attacked my kidneys
and passed blood with the most nor
ri6le, excruciating torture for a num-
ber of days. | recovered from thi,
and then my heart became irregular
and intermittent. This soon passed
of, and | thought l was well, wheE
in May this Inflammation of the larynx
set IN with loss Of voice, under which
lam now suffering. | have beenin
New Mexico, Texas, and here since
October for the climate cure bul
have not yet received the benef,
that was predicted. My lungs are
sound and strong, my kidneys right
and my appetite and digestion good,
and sleep well, and 20 and come,
and work and loaf and walk and drive:
do not cough much, except now and
then IN high, shrill note like a child
with Group, though there is consider
able secretion during the day and
night. have no fever, nor tempera-
ture, nor sweats, nor any pain, except
In swallowing, which at times Is very
distressing, Never having been iii
before, the expatriation and enforced
idleness are lrksome and | suffer much
from depression Of spirits. The doctor
says the hot, dry air OF summer is the
best medicine, aud l shall give it a
trial. The past few weeks have been
unfavorable, cold, changeable and
damp. II, on the one hand, am not
much encouraged, on the other I am
not particularly cast down. Ihave no
right TO complain or repine. NY life
has been long already; and in the
course OF nature must soon end.
though my mother yet survives 10 the
full possession OF her powers at SO. ]
count it great good fortune to have
been permitted to live In an age the
most fertile and opuleut In history:
when man has made his greatest
achievements and penetrated most
deeply into the mysteries of the moral
and material universe. Destiny has
not denied me any Of the gifts that
held most deslrable-a devoted wife.
lovely children, friends, good retute.
a reasonable measure OF success, and
fortune, not superfuOus but sufficient
for my needs. / see many errors that
lregret, many mistakes that | deplore.
many failures it is now too late To
remedy, but / should be uugrateful to
fate and unworthy the bouors be-
slowed on me by great constituency
did not keep on TO the end; accept
ing the inevitable with dignity and
enduring adgersity with fortitude.n