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Show I for Six years Cftls man Hasn't J 1 castea 700a, yet fie still Clues I M tsrwuiiy uued of for tho executive aita of the police department under las now set, which provides for a sin-fle-hctdtd commission, the commls-,loner commls-,loner to be appointed by the mayor, tad to be subject to removal by either tM governor or the mayor, Is one of lbs Dost remarkable men In this town. He tells his friends that he Is las only Tammany district letder who U sot a high liver, and the only one who sever attends a Tammany beefsteak beef-steak dinner, the favorite gastronomic feist of the Fourteenth street braves. Eleven years sgo, Colonel Murphy, voile a member ot tho state senate, vis aOlctid with a stricture of the cMOpasgus, which Anally became so serious that to prevent death from urvttlon he submitted to the rare tad dinieroue operation known to the , surgical profession as gattrotomy. In 1 tiler words, a hole was cut through I At sMomlntl wall Into (he stomach , to that food might be conveyed to the ; tttleat's stomach by meant ot a tltver ( tube Inserted In the opening, the , uturtl food piastre In the throat be-. be-. telng entirely closed I 'Modern turgery has achieved Its , aioat signal triumphs In connection , with abdominal operations, and ot all : li " PE 1 ' fli t prrtvc LCGULAfroaru r l?"' "" 1 t il cOLCNoJ T ttlCMAEL jj: 1 1 1 cnicr orTrtc norm namo., of these none Is more wonderful than that ot gastiolomy. You may almost count upon the Angers of one hand the number ot operations such as that which waa performed on Colonel Murphy that have been successful. Few ot Colonel Murphy's friends had faith to bellevo that ho could bo permanently per-manently cured, and even Dr. Weir, the eminent surgeon who performed the operation, la said to have privately private-ly expressed grave doubts upon this ATAMAWNY ixAtra. During tbo twelve months Irame- H dlatety preceding tho operation Colo- H nel Murphy was reduced In BetU H from 226 to 10S pounds He had near- H ly starved to death, and been trans- H formed from a man ot great strength H and seemingly perfect health Into a H walking skeleton The operation, B however, saved Colonel Murphy's Ufa) M and to all appearances be Is today In H good physical condition, although he M does not weigh more than 135 pounds, M and his ruddy cheeks of a doien years M ago have now a pallor which at time M Is almost ghost-tike. 1 For quite eleven ycart Colonel Mur- B phy, who used to live on the fat ot tho H land, and was one ot Tammany's most H noted epicures, bas been content to M tako bts dally mealt through a tuba H directly Into hit stomach; not a inor- M sel ot food haa passed hla lips. Three H times a dsy his faithful old Irish H nurse and housekeeper has pumped) H Into bis stomach the nourishing pulp in which waa prwcrlbed Jar him eleven at years ago by Dr. Wtlr. The colonel's id diet Is a simple ono, consisting chiefly it ot beef, eggs, bread and milk, every- ) si thing solid ot which he Is allowed to -- il. psrtake being crushed until It Is al- H id most as fine aa flour, and then mixed r- and strained until It haa tho consist- , tr, ency of a heavy consomme. Whll jU td thus taking the only nourishment e- which goes to build up tho waiting its tissues of hit body, Colonel Murphy aw Me totiM.Mt.bttXaiMjttfa&mtfllimV -" s.t. |