The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1912-10-18

how important it is that I get back
to work.
i piled DR.. Murphy, but we have only
one concern:
When you go out of here we want
you to go to all purposes well man,
or so well on the way to recovery
that no setback will be possible with
better lose a day or two now than a
week or month later"
/ Mrs. Roosevelt agreed with this and
Col. Roosevelt said: We'll, you're all
can do is to protest vigorously every
| time I have an opportunity. I will
admit I am doing famously with such
breakfasts as 7 had this morning"
| He asked about his running mate,
Governor Johnson, and when told the
governor had arrived in chicago and
would come to the hospital after
noon day meeting, he was pleased.
The Colonel Is Surprised.
| THE colonel himself is surprised to
| see how that shot whipped the strength
out of him. said DR.. Lambert, the fam
| lily physician.
No man can go through what he did
without having his nervous force just
simply drained right out of him. Had
| he gone to the hospital Immediately
| after he was shot he would have reen
| allie to save a lot of vitality that has
| 'SAAA N''OS W Ills AOAIAfAA t-SAOA1
| speech
That effort not only prevented his
body from beginning at once to save
his vitality but his whole activity there
was fed by his nervous force alone.
Nothing but robust constitution could
| have supplied force sufficient TO nave
| made it possible.
He found yesterday after debating
| his statement that when he removed
his mind from the concentra ton of die
4s,fI h. ii
fatigued. He was surprised at the ex-
| harstion but We We're not
If exigencies make it necessary to
see any one, only one person will be
allowed to see him at a time. That will
NOT be while he is sitting up
Robert Bacon. former secretary of
state and ambassador to France called
on the colonel today.
GOV. Hiram Johnson, Col. Roosevelt's
running mate arrived at the hospital at
1l:3G a. m, and was admitted to the
coionePs room at once.
The Colonel Sits Up.
After Gov. Johnson had gone. at
PENDANTS assisted Col. Roosevelt to
his feet and he sat in an easy chair
for an hour. He said it rested him
so much and so relieved him from the
monOtony of lying in bed, he was fH-
ing to ask his physicians to allow nj n
to repeat it later today. A man Civ
ing his name as Etienne La Tourelle
Col. Roosevelt be measured. He said
he wanted to send the candidate coat
of chain mail which might be worn
under his waist coat and which would
turn a pistol bullet of an ordinary
weapon much better than the steel
plate the colonel wears
1t appeared he had heard that Cos.
Roosevelt always wore a steel plate
over his heart and he wanted to pro-
vide better defensive armor. When
informed the steel plate story was a
hoax he appeared disappointed and
left.
Col. Roosevelt physicians at 1 D.
m. found his condition so unchanged
they did not consider it necessary to
issue the usual bulletin.
Chicago, Oct. 1S.-The following
bulletin was issued by Colonel RoOse-
velt's surgeons at $50 a. NJ:
Pulse, 10; temperature, 9S.4: res
piratiOn, Is. Pain in chest diminish
ed, breathing freer. general condition
up for an hour today. His GONZALES
cence is progressing favorahly and un-
less some latent Infection manifests
itself his progress should be rapid.
DIR. JOHN B. MURPHY,
"DR. ARTHUR D. BENAN,
DIR. ALEX. LAMBERT,
DIR. SCURRY L. TERRELL"
Chicago, oct. 1s.-Colonel Theodore
Roosevelt awoke at Mercy nospita, to-
day shortly before O'Clock full of
Yigor. His nurse fastened into the
cOlOnePs room and was assured he had
mad a perfectly bully night" His
temperature then was normal
The reading was: Temperature. 9S.2;
pulse, rs; respiration, 18.
Last night brought Col. Roosevelt
more sleep than he has had since he
was wounded Shortly after II o'clock
last night he dropped the book he had
been reading, Mrs. Roosevelt retired
to her room, the lights were extin-
nd I7o faII moi To X
en- until 4:30 this morning, when his
clinical record was taken for the only
time during the night. In all Col.
Roosevelt slept more than six and a
half hours which he declared upon
waking was more than he had been
accustomed to in all his life.
The colonel felt fine. He not only
said so himself but he showed it in
every way. His color was good, his
eyes were bright and his manner was
his nurse during the process of tax
ing his clinical record.
During the entire night quiet reigned
near the cOlonel's quarters. No anxiety
L. Terrell who travels with the col
onel, retired to his room at 10 o'clock
and did not visit his patient once af-
ter that. Not once did Mrs. Roosevelt
awaken to find how her husband was
faring. She also was satisfied that all
was well.
He Suffers No Pain.
It is said the colonel now suffers no |
pain because of pressure of the bullet
against his fractured rib. The rib it
self is believed to be mending rapid |
ly. When he awoke this morning the
colonel wondered whether the attend
ing physicians would decide to re-
move the bullet. He said if it was
extracted he would have it gilded and
made into a pocket piece. Another
consultation was planned for O'Clock.
While. in the opinion of the doctors.