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Show LEW WALLACE SINKING. Author of "'Ben Hur" Now Living on Stimulants. Although the family of General Lew Wallace, author of "Ben Hur," "The Prince of India" and other works, refuse re-fuse to admit that his condition is more serious than it has been for several sev-eral months, close personal friends who have called upon him recently assert that he is dying by Inches and that be himself has abandoned hope of recovery. re-covery. For several years he has been a sufferer from chronic indigestion and the disease has recently reached a stage where his body receives no nourishment nourish-ment from food. He takes stimulants freely and it is upon these that he is living. His friends do not believe that he will live to complete his autobiog-ra autobiog-ra phy. The general is bearing up bravely under un-der his affliction. He has covered the civil war period in his autobiography, and is now engaged on the military commission, which tried the conspirators conspira-tors aganst President Lincoln, and of which commission he. was chairman. The periods embraced in his governorship governor-ship of New Mexico and his services as minis-tec to Turkey are yet to be dealt with, and his only solicitude seems to be to finish this particular work before he is claimed by death. Ho occasionally leaves his task to fide out to his farm, ana a iew uajs he attended a football game between two college teams: but he receives no visitors, except old friends and relatives, rela-tives, and even these are requested by members of the family to make their visits brief. A phvBician who visited him recently said today: ..... "General Wallace may be said to be, dying, yet he may live for several weeks. lie is receiving no nourishment from what he eats and is being sustained sus-tained wholly by mild stimulant?. He is 73 years old. and beyond failure to assimilate his food, and thus gain nourishment nour-ishment for the body, is in good health. But he is gradually wasting away and is sustained only by his indomitable will. It takes a man of his -constitution and especially of his will power, a long time to starve to death." |