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NATIONAL EDUCATIONAL ASSOCIATION,

SARATOGA, JULY 12-15.

MANAGER FOR STATE OF TEXAS:

ALEX. HOGG,

OFFICE, 303 LAMAR STREET.

Fort Worth, Texas, June 22d 1893

"Leaves have their time to fall,
And flowers to wither at the north wind's breath,
And stars to set - but all,
Thou hast all seasons for thine own Oh! Death."

My Dear Mrs. Stanford:

But yesterday I was thinking
of writing you, that written lately on
two occasions hearing nothing from the
Governor Alas! On opening the afternoon
paper I read with sorrow the enclosed:

[newspaper clipping follows]

SENATOR STANFORD.

The Celebrated Californi-
an Passes Over the
River.

He Died Last Night at 12 O'clock
From Appoplexy [sic] - His Death
Was not Unexpected.

Menlo Park, Cal., June 21. - United
States Senator Leland Stanford died at
12 o'clock last night. He passed away
peacefully at his residence in Palo Alto.

Governor Stanford was in the best of
spirits yesterday. He took a drive
around his stock farm, and seemed as
well as ever. He retired shortly after
10 o'clock, and about midnight his
valet going into the governor's bedroom
found he was dead. It has been evident
for some time that Senator Stanford's
demise was a question of but short time.
His symptoms were appoplectic, [sic] and
his weight was increasing alarmingly.
There was a stiffness about his limbs
that made locomotion an exceedingly
difficult task. His body was fast be-
coming too heavy for his limbs to sup-
port. He could take only the slightest
exercise. Curtis of San Fran-
cisco, his doctor, prescribed he-
roic treatment, but the senator
was not ready to undergo the drastic
methods for the reduction of flesh and
the restoration of his waning strength.
Appoleptic [sic] symptoms incresed and his
situation became such as to cause seri-
ous alarm. About six weeks ago it was
found necessary to impose severely plain
diet upon the senator and since then his
sole food has been dried hashed meal
with hot water as the only liquid ac-
companiment. The senator rigidly ad-
hered to the severe requirements of the
physicians and it seemed for a time that
its results were most beneficial and
might have the effect of a cure. He ex-
pressed himself as much encouraged
and looked forward cheerfully to the
time he could devote himself with re-
newed energy to public affairs and to
the completion of certain educational
and other enterprises that were very
near to his heart, but his strength was
not sufficiently great to respond to the
demands on it. He passed quietly