Show STONE E MAN IN BAFFLES CALIFORNIA C A II FOR NI A J. J f i. i i SCIENTISTS SCIENTISTS- Confined j to Bed Bed for 25 4 Years This Is i l Body rl Satisfied F 1 Dec Dee 10 Beyond Beyond a door at at the county hospital that always I stands rut t slightly sll ajar a cheery come In g. g greets all who approach the threshold ol or the room occupied by John ill n Daley 2 who Vho for the past quarter of ot a century 5 t has laid laid- In his bed or sat eat in a chair JJ f like Jlko a a. rigid statue of ot marble or bronze t unable to move hand or r foot as slowly j r 9 rough h the years he Is turning to tit Stone stono ne J KUUN I X A d 6 f a Although a patient Invalid whose mind and soul has been consigned to the dungeon of ot a useless body ly that has but one portal to freedom his intellect y T has remained keen hico his counsel has h been wise and many times in the political history of Contra Costa his advice has 10 been a potent factor In determining a victory or defeat A miracle man of stone whose whoso case is ta vt ho tho most unusual that has ever beena been 0 known to the medical profession and a 2 has baffled scientists wIth a happy smile a ready wit and resigned to his fate tate John Daley lives in apparent contentment contentment contentment con- con as the days and the years pass slowly dy DISEASE SETS IV IX It It was In r 1896 as the year rear was drawing to a close that the active life of ot John John John-Daley Daley as a teacher in the tho Oakley school In the vicinity of ot Antioch An- An Antioch came to came to an end and he took to his bed never again in this life to walk or to enjoy y the social intercourse and society society-of society of his fellow men It was then that he suffered sutter d the last serious attack of ot rheumatism that spread through the bones of his body like a poison olson circulating circulating- In the Blood His Ills Joints stiffened the muscles relaxed and the slow solidifying j Ing pro process ess began MOTHER GIVES GOES CARE I For two years his aging mother I ministered to his needs but the constant constant con con- j stant care required when ho he was first taken to his bed became an arduous task and on June 26 1898 he was re removed removed removed re- re moved to the hospital here where he has remained ev ever r since with the id- id terest and sympathy or of all who have come to now know him The that has brought on this life In the tomb of or of-an of an ing body bod bodis d is known to the medical profession as arthritis arthritis' According According- to Dr E E. W W. Merrithew county physician through a process of of is the Joints of ot the body have nave become welded together into one solid mass of bone I and with each successive year the solid solid- has increased and from a lack f use the muscles and flesh have gradually atrophied |