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THE MORNING ASTORIAN. ASTORIA. OREGON.
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HA RAKE DISEASE
Peculiar Form of
Locomotor AUxli.
5nes break, very easily
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8t Cam U Nw York HoiplUI
WWrt Woman Baa ABUetioa At
ftiBc tout so That Uut Mer.
" aat Causa nm te Break.
NEW YORK. Ji. 10.-Aftr having
tunVr4 (or torn tim rom on of the
rrtt affliction known to tb medical
world, Mr. Catherine O'Neill died
Tue4a In Uie King County Hospital
Ik woman had 'a pernllar form of
locomotor tl. wakh rus tb
bon through kr ntlr body to be
cow brittl and .break eily
twig ( wood. 8eral time ht np
p4 I htm wbn turning over in bd.
Mr. O'.Velll, who we ntiv ot
In-Und and had livod to Brooklra
bout twenty-two jreara. had euffered
with tb ditcea for (our or flv years,
tut It wu only quit recently that bf r
family and frland reellaed that her
condition waa likely to nd fatally,
Ihklaae nutrd t It peculiar turn
Iter affliction had taken, and advld
that'kh b eat to a boapUal.
About th firat of October all wa
takra to th King County llwplul
and th houno aurgaon and phyitclan
at one Hf that thy had. (rom a
Pears'
Pears' Soap is made in a
clean, sun-flooded factory;
then stored a full year in a
, dry, airy place, before com
ing to you.
Is it such a wonder it
lasts so long?
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mi-diral atandpolnt eartaialy, latr
ting eaee to deal with, Tbr appear.
d (rom th first but littl bop (or tb
iilToring woman, but everything; a
dun to make her lat day aa eomfort
abb a poibU under tb rlrcum-
tanor.
8b waa vl.lted eontantly by her
devoted buiband, I'etrlik, and bar two
littl daughter, who brought flower
and delkawie. Mr. OKelll waa fully
a war of th eerkaenee of hr condi
tion, and oftn apok of tb peeullarity
of th affliction that had befallen bar.
She remained cheerful to th end.
however, and eaud littl troabl to
thoa about hr.
On day, about (our week ago, b
turned auddenly In bd while ber hu
bam! waa eltthif naarby. Th latter
wa atartled by a aharp rry (rom th
wmn, and, leaning over btr, hi at
ono that aumrtliing had happened. A
our haatOy eummoned a pbyik-lao,
and th latter wad tb dleeovery that
Mr. O'Neill had fractured her right
rwllarbona.
"Klmply from th amall tffort of
changing her portion in tha bed," b
aid, a be oomph-ted hi Invxtlgation.
About a week Inter Mr. O'NVill
jumped up auddenly in led and broka
Iwr Ifft arm. Tha following day, after
towing rtlely around (or aom time
it wa (ound that her right l.f wa
frarturrd.
Mr. O'Neill waa about forty year
old. and up to a few year ago, wa a '
trong healthy woman. , '
A reporter talked with on of the
urgeon. H told th atvry, but did
not wlh hi Kama to be mentioned.
Tb malady la a rate one," be nll.
"TVr hav. however, been other eeee
in thi boapltaL Thrra waa ono of a
man about a year ago. think. The
dieae 1 on of th form of lmo
Ur alalia,"
Mr. O'.N'irll wa burbd from her late
home, 48 Franklin atret, thi afternoon
Interment wa made In Calvary Ceme
tery.
rSEX HOSPITAL SYSTEM
FOB GREATER HEW YORK
Chain o( Municipal InfirmarUa to Coat
Sevanty-Fiv Million ia
Plaoatd.
NEW YORK. Jan. 10.-Detail war
aide known today of plana (or a chain
of municipal hospital. wbUh, when
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fully real lied, will. It'ia, declared, give
.Vew York tha greateet ayatem of free
treatment (or the akk that tb world
baa ea. Mayor M1llan, (ormnr
Controller Grout, Uird 8. Coler, praei
dent of tb borough of Brooklyn, and
ConuiilMtmw-r of Charltioa Robert W.
Ilebbard r th leading advomia of
the project. Aa e.tluit of tha total
eot ia S73,OOOI0OO. '
Tb plan I for the dewhipmeat of
a central ayatem of kitpital in the
tva borough, th building to be of
uniform arrhitertura, th aervk'a to be
orgaabwd on a rbi-me of unity, and
all under the control o( on department
of tha city government.
Event (rom time to tint demon-
trate, aaye thoe who (avor tha under-
taking, that Xew York'a hoapiUb aer
vbe in it a aeraral braachea ia not up
to tb point of efficiency that th aeo
ond city of tb world ha a right to
pert. For thia rooditioa th advocate
th aw plan find a reaaoo ia tb in
definite aewi of reponlbility.
' WW eveatae i
Count BataMt, wh bwatk of Buv J
marrk'a truat la bin and bl perfect
k oowled ge of Freortt plarad a promi
nent part la tb eurreader of Emperor
Napoleoo III. after tb battl of Se
dan, tbua deax-rlbe tb arraagatat
for tb aurrender In a letter to bla wlf.
wbb-b baa bem pflMlsbed: "It wa a
aolema moment when Oeneral Rellle,
galloping up the aid of tbo bill, drew
op fifty pace from tb king la order
to dlamonot and then approached bare
headed to deliver tb eiuperor'a letter.
Tb king aaked blm to wait and with
draw to conault wltb Blamarck and
Mortk. I took advantage of tbla mo
atot to approach poor Rettle to xprea
By aynpaitfay wltb blut. Blamarck
then aent for me. Two cfaaJra were
placed ob oa top of tbe other and I
waa given pen and paper. Tbe king
and Blamarck dictated, and we drew
np a draft of tb anawer. Afterward
tbe king aat down oa ono of tbe chair;
Alton bold tbe other a a deak, and I
bald tbe lak bottle and dictated to tbe
king tbe a newer that Rellle took wltb
Mm."
Pleasant and Moat Eflectlv.
T. J. Chamber, Ed. Vindicator, Lib
arty, Texai, writ Dee. 23, 1902 1
"W3th pjraeur and unsolicited by
you I bear teatimony to tbo curative
power of Ballard' Uorehound Syrup. 1
hav ud it my family and can cheer
fully affirm it ia th moat effective and
beat remedy for cough and colda I hav
ever ned."
HERE YOU ARE
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iMtetlea mt Ike t alaoakt Df Umt.
Th er i-an never tare tb jita tt
mt ear, tmring tb Brat twelv or
foiirtd year of norma! lire, knowl
edge rntera lb ml ml mainly through
tb ear. The little deaf uulo la. Uter
for. a tbouaaud time nor iaolated
than tb child wbo I bora blind. Id
tb domain of moral tbe anedocatod
deaf mnte'a laolatloa la mad danger. 1
oua bf im fart that tbe allatwmetri to
aln ar uoatly addreaaed to tb ejre,
wblle tta rewtralnta, la yoatk at leaat,
ar mainly appeal to tb car. More
over, tbo blind eblld. cultivating bl
bearing, la only going back to natore
to bl forbear, tb rare dweller.
Next to tb aeardi for food, llatetilng
for ouada ia, perbapa, man' a atrongeat
primal laatlort Tb deaf learwer, de
pendent aolely upon hi eye, baa, of
courae, tb Srt InaUnet without tb
aafegtianl of tb econd.-Reader.
Tfce Vtalla.
It eem at rang to tblnk that my
violin waa once a tree, bat I do not
know what elae could bare rangbt tb
mualc that lie within It. waiting fot
tb touch. It moat be ceaturlee old,
and through all tbo year It wu
listening and learning, weaving la
wltb Its growth tb forott melodic to
alng to geaeratkma yet unborn.
Wind and wave and (oaf of bird
craah of thunder, drip of rain aad mat
Ing call-all of tbeae are la tbe flbet
of the violin. And tbe thou tend note
of ea and atorm. tb mualc of tbe wa
terfall and atream-wbat wonder that
It I ao nearly tbe bnmaa voice! Tberr
muat bare been a love story la that
foreat. for It sing love, love and only
love, tbongh I do not remember bear
Ing ft until I knew you.-FoeL
(a r-reat Ike Skr.
Every country and every age ha it
blatorlcal, aemlhiatortcal or traditional
atorle concerning Immenae atone fall
ing from tb aky, or, mora properly,
from p. Levi tella of a whole
shower of aerolite which fell oa tbe
moantalna near Bom la tb year 6M
B. C. Tbe Arundel marble (marble
table giving tb event ot tb Gre
cian blatory from 152 B. C to 624
B. C. In chronological order) gjtve an
account of a great atone which "fell
down from heaven" at .Eogoetaml
about tbe year 407 B. C Pliny, wbo
died Id tbe year TO A. D, Bays that la
but time tbe "great atr atone" men
tioned In tbe foregoing waa a till to b
aeea oa tb Hellespont, "and." b
quaintly adds, "tt la even now ot tb
blgneaa of a wagon."
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