A TERRIBLE FATE.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume V, Issue 1328, 30 August 1886, Page 3

A TERRIBLE FATE.

Waiting for death, the fYorld says, In a lit’le back parlor in Brooklyn lies Dr Charles F. Reed, 56 years old, who has not been able to move band or foot or turn in his bed since he was 34, He lit es only in his head, for every joint is fast bound, and bis body and limbs are wasted to the bone. His eyes are sightless, his neck Is stiff his jaws set so close as to prevent him from taking any food unless t be in very soft or form, and shoulder joints, elbows, prists, linger pints, hips, knees, and toes are immovable. The knees are drawn op, the left knee joint is almost thrown from its socket, the right foot is tamed outward so much as to be almost turned backward, A white moustache and board that Blp Van Winkle would have envied, cover the lower part of a face strong in outline and full of chai aster. Around thia sufferer’s bed, where so heavy a cross has been laid, gather almost dally people who come to get consolation in trouble Dr Reed is a philosopher, and his cheerful disposition in spite of the extreme hardness of his lot, has mac e him the wonder of everybody who knows him. Those who have lo t friends call there to learn lessons in fortitude, snd all who meet the doctor say that they go away with new ideas of life and its purposes. He is well read in evety branch of llteratrre.