Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1910 — His Last Moments. [ARTICLE]

His Last Moments.

Nurses in hospitals are rather apt to lay too much stress on the advantages received by the patients and their duty to thankfulness, but still it is the poor soldier who suffers most from always having his causes to be ■jrateful flung in his teeth, the San Francisco Chronicle says. Witness the following true story: Chaplain—So poor Hopkins is dead. I should have liked to speak to him once again and soothe his last moments. Why didn’t you call me? Hospital Orderly—l didn’t think you ought to be disturbed for ’Opkins, sir, so I just soothed him as best I could myself. Chaplain—Why, what did you say to him? Orderly—“’Opkins,” says I, “you’re mortal bad.” “ ’I am,’ says ’e. “ ‘ ’Opkins,’ says I, ‘I don’t think you’ll get better.’ ? “ 'No,' says ’e. ‘“’Opkins,’ says I, T don’t think you can ’ope to go to ’eaven.’ “ ‘I don’t think I can,’ says *e. ‘“Well, then, ’Opkins,’ says I, ‘you’ll go to the other place.’ “ ‘I suppose so,’ says ’e. ‘“’Opkins,’ says I, ‘you ought to be very grateful as there’s a place perwlded for you, and that you’ve got somewhere to go.’ And I think ’e ’eard, sir, and then ’e died.”