The age-herald., 1900-09-19
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
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I affairs before o'clock in the afternoon"
 Success will attend thy endeavors, and thy money and business will increase, but l take care of thy health."
 'The young will court
 l "A child born on this day will be fortu- 1 nate and rise in life, and be generally sue l cessful in all that it undertakes" l Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for l Thursday September 20, 1900: l "Very uncertain all day.
 Thy birthday is a quiet one, and thy | affairs will go usual.'' | Young women must be careful of their | acquaintances, and not rely promises" "A child born on this day will have ], quiet life, but much will depend upon the 1 hour of it's birth. "If female she will not marry happily | or well.'
 Nineteen years ago-September 19, 1SSl- | James Abram Garfield died in the Frank | lyn cottage, Elberson New Jersey, after | an illness of 7S days resulting from a pistol wound inflicted by Charles Guiteau in the | waiting room of the Baltimore and Poto- | mac Railway station, Washington. His death occurred about 10 o'clock at night, 1 and it called forth unexampled evidences | of national mourning, due to Garfield's ex- alted station President, the duties of 1 which he had assumed in March previous, and to the terrible crime of his taking off, which Colonel Robert Mckee, then writing l for the Selma Argus, declared to be "a | damned spot which all the ages will not | wash out" All adult Americans now iiy- l ing recall the horror of those black days l of the summer nineteen years ago. 'Oh, Swain, the pain, the pain! and l Garfield died in the full meridian of his l earthly glory: happier in his death than l in all his career living. It is idle now to l speculate as to what would have been the l political effect of his continuance in the 1 Presidency; he had already gone far in l the disruption of his party and even the l politicians had ceased to guess at the final l result Idler still is it to recite the maxim l to speak nothing but good of the dead | De mortius mil nisi bonum is false senti- l ment, false to morality when applied to men in exalted station to whose lives the children of the nation look as exemplars and examples. Garfields influence in | large measure not good, and, whilst he is | forgotten outside of the schoolroom, there | is too much of the martyr nonsense l which lives in print concerning him. 1 And, as you said, and it was wisely said, 'T1s meet that some more audience, than mother
 Since nature makes them partial, should o'erhear
 l The speech of vantage.
 It seems almost odd to the American so- 1 journing abroad to understand that foreign l CTS feel a sort of reverential interest in 1 Garfield, and esteem him one of the great | est of the Presidents. They associate him | with Lincoln; and that Is not altogether due l to the similarity of the taking off of those | Preeidents, the two being murdered by madmen within sixteen years of one anoth- | CT; but. knowing Garfield to have been in- l tellectually great, the foreigners believe him | to have been pre-eminently good in the moral sense, an opinion not shared by any Well-informed Americans. The campaign | lies about Garfields personal dishonesty | never found any stronger credence in this country than the campaign lies that he was an ideal preacher man morally Alabama figures in praiseworthy emil | hence in the history of Garfields death. | The very first one of the untold thousands | of resolutions of regret and condolence sent
 
 and the message of earnest and eloquent sympathy was delivered in the house of the dead within thirty minutes after death en- tered to cheat the nation of its elected head.
 The historic message was sent by the old | Waverly Club, a society club, at Selma. 1 The clubrooms were the second floor of l building at Water and Broad streets, diag- l onally across from the office of the Selma Morning Times, then owned by Frank P. | Glass and Harvey L. Mckee, and easily the best newspaper in Alabama. Glass, the ed- ! itor, was at the moment away from home, and in charge of his paper was youth with an extraordinary capacity for gush pure and undefiled.
 The Associated Press bulletin which fell l on the youths desk was a copy of the one | that rung around the world: "President l Garfield died at 936 tonight This was in- l stantly sent across to the Waverly Club, | and the dozen members there were 1 called to order, and within five minutes l had adopted ringing resolutions with which 1 a member was hurrying to the telegraph | office to send them to Mrs. Garfield. This l fact the youth reported to the Associa ted | Press, and proceeded with a leading edi- l torial ringing with remarkable gush still remembered-by himself! The Waverly | Clubs resolutions and the gush of the | youth attracted some attention through | out the United States, both pro- | auctions being sent out by the Associated Press that night and appearing next morn
 ing in all the daily newspapers of the coun- try. Mrs. Garfield, through her secretary,
 thanked the Waverly Club and the Selma 1 Times. Stanley Brown wrote in Mrs. Gar ! fields name; and he was the same Stanley | Brown who, in the after years, married | Mollie Garfield, little girl at the time | of her fathers death.
 | At the time referred to several of the men | who are now amongst the principal citi- | zens of Birmingham were amongst the lead | ing residents of Selma, amongst them be- 1 ing Governor Johnston, Hon. w. c. Ward, | Iinn Sam Will Inhn. Colonel Sumter Lea