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The age-herald., 1901-09-12
M'kINLEY THE MAN.
From the Cincinnati Times-star.

From the Cincinnati Times-Star.
 It takes great crisis to reveal the man, for there are times when the mask of studied endeavor Is cast aside and the man himself is seen, not as he would have us see him, but as he really is. Grandly has William Mckinley stood the test in the great crisis which he has faced. The first thought that came to him was for his wife. My wife; be careful about her. Don't let her known was the first utterance he made after he had been shot.
 Pity even for the assassin who had so grievously wounded him came next. Mo- ticing the miscreant lying on the floor, bleeding and helpless from the blows of the enraged spectators, he raised his hand. red with hts own blood, and said: "Iet no one hurt him!"
 A few moments later came the third ut terance of this unselfish man. He turned to President Milburn of the exposition and said: T am sorry to have been the cause of this trouble to the exposition!'' n these three utterauces stand revealed
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
JOHN w. GATES, BIG PLAY.

Saratoga Letter to the Kansas City Star.
 Among all those who go to Saratoga no one plays a stronger game against faro bank than John W. Gates of Chicago. His wagers are always large, and, as he plays to give the house as little percent age as possible, he has succeeded in hold- ing his own fairly well. A few years ago a noisy, bustling stranger made his way to one of the faro tables in the Sara toga Club and bought five stacks of checks at s100 stack. He placed his bets on the layout and expressed the de- sire to get quick action. The dealer showed an inclination to walt upon tho convenience of quiet man who frequent ly consulted "tab" and bet four blue checks on various cards. t+4A
 This play went on for some time, to the undoubted annoyance of the stranger. He made audible remarks about ''piker' who would hold the game when other men desired to win or lose their money. Finally he pushed stack of hls checks over to the gentleman with the "tab", saying: Here! Play those and don't be so much afraid of losing your money"
 MT. Garfield, who was standing by, and who saw the incident, tapped the stranger on the shoulder and asked him to step aside with him. After getting out of hear ing of the other players. he said: My friend if you cannot carry yourself as gentleman should prefer that you play elsewhere For your own information I will tell you that the gentleman whom you just insulted is John w. Gates pres- ident of the Illinois Steel Company. The checks that he is playing, fourNon a card, are worth $500 each. So you will see that your .piker' is betting just twenty times as much as you are" i
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

our increasing surplus. A system which provides a mutual exchange of commodities is manifestly essential to the continued and healthful growth of our export trade. We must not re- pose in fancied security that we can forever sell everything and buy little or nothing. If such thing were pos sible it would not be best for us or for those with whom we deal. We should take from our customers such of their products as we can use with out harm to our industries and labor. Reciprocity is the natural outgrowth of our wonderful industrial develop ment under the domestic policy now | firmly established. What we produce beyond our domestic consumption must have a vent abroad. The excess must be relieved through a foreign outlet, and we should sell everywhere we can and buy wherever the buying will enlarge our sales and productions and thereby make greater demand for home labor. If perchance some of our tariffs are no longer needed for revenue or to encourage and protect our industries at home, l>why should they not be employed to lextend and promote our markets Sbroad?'
 $This is what the Republicans call reciprocity" but it is really con- fession that Dingleyism is a failure. A tariff policy that fills the land with oyergrown and oppressive trusts and that hampers and restricts foreign tradeA7that puts one price on home consumers and offers another and a lesser price to outsiders-such a pol ! icy stands condemned by President Mckinley himself, and he insists that it shall be abrogated by what he terms reciprocity" It matters little how the change comes. It Is essential that it should come, and that, too. speedily if the rapidly increasing trusts are to be checked, and our export trade main tained. The entire protection system stands discredited, and fortunate will the nation be If President Mckinley recover his strength until he Is able to lead the party into correct eco homie paths. Complete and entire lreciprocity is what is needed and must
 come.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
REFLECTIONS OF A BACHELOR.
From the New York Press.

From the New York Press.
 Half the men in the world wouldn't be married If it hadn't been for some other woman.
 There are plenty of women who aren't pigeon-toed. but mighty few who aren't knock-kneed.
 It sounds awful nice to talk about a mans wealth of love, but that kind doesn't buy many mutton chops
 Before she marries a man a woman may care a whole lot to have him look like god; but after she has got him, what she most cares about is not to have him get up cross fin the morning.
 When they are engaged a man can't think of anything so prosaic as what his future wife knows about things to eat, but after they are married he will raise thunder if he can't give cards and spades to the best cook on earth. 3es
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
HAS NEVER HAD A SALOON.

From the Municipal Journal and Engi-
 neeF.
 The city of Hoopeston H., is an ideal temperance town, for it has never had a saloon. This has not interfered with its growth. for in 1890 it had population of less than 20oO, and today its inhabitants number 3S23. The Mayor receives salary of 50 cents a year: the remuneration of each of the Councilmen is one-half that amount, and no fees arc accepted Hoopeston has paved streets. electric lights. a system of water works. we'll organized fire department and more and better sidewalks than any other city of her size in Illinois, and the boast of her citizens is that liquor does not contribute s1 of license money to these improve mentS.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
Freer Trade and a Canal.

President McKinley's words just be- fore he was struck by a cowardly assassin were the wisest he has ever spoken, and they will endure longer than any other words from his tongue. He advocated an isthmian canal, in sisting upon it's early completion; and then he went on to denounce in unmis- takable terms the robber tariff that bears MT. Dingley's name. That we may not be charged with exaggeration we quote what he said: By sensible trade arrangements,' he says, which
 '" not interrupt our home produc' kn le& 3eac5 ,.S L-e-stand the outlets for
 IG .
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
SHORT STORIES
 OF THE DAY
DIvuIaed Hle rrsde seor.t.

DivuIaed His Trade Secret.
 Sometimes of sunny afternoon Mark Twain strolls up and down that part of Fifth avenue above Twenty-third street where art and book stores are frequent, relates the New York Times. The hu- morest appears to find certain rest In pering in windows of these, though he rarely crosses their threshoids He was was about to turn away from the win dow of shop when his eye was caught by what seemed to he an etching of himself. The humorest was staring blankly at his likeness when he was joined at the window by one of those chatty individuals always ready for a street corner exchange of opinion.
 Pretty good likeness of the old man, isn't it?'' said the chatterer, without seeing the writer's full face. which was partly in shadow.
 Mark said It was.
 Say, what do you think of that fe,- lows work, anyway?,' went on the chat terer. ssr
 q think" said Mark. still without turning his head, that he is the great est imnoster the American people ever refused to take seriousiy.h
 "Haw soPn
 "WelI because he really Is serious and because nohodyill believe him; he passes for being humorous" With that MT, Clemens faced his questioner, Well, I'll be sybtchedl" calculated the chatterer
 The face of the humerlst became deep lY concerned, For heaven's sake, don, tell anyone I told you It would ruin me with my publishers" he said starting up tho avenue
 But the chattcrer went home and told his friends.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
The Magic of a Name.

Dr. E. R. L. Gould of City and Su- hurban Homes distinction recently had occasion to visit one of the company's 8 apartment houses on the upper east side, when he was accosted by tot of some seven summers, whose ideas regarding his work and Helen Gould's beneficence seemed hopelessly tangled, says New York newspaper.
 "Oh MT. Gould" she cried, running up to him wont you or your little girl give me and my mamma a house in the eountry-it's so hot here. and l never saw the country" she pleaded.
 My little girl?" repeated the big man in surprise.
 "Yep-your little girl, Helen, what gives so many things to people-isn't you the man what has houses In the country to give way? Oh. Mr. Gould, please give us onei"
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
IN HOTEL LOBBIES
 AND ELSEWHERE

Astrologer Raphaels prophecies for thls day, Thursday, September 12, lseli Doubtful; keep myself quiet"
 sfhis being thy birthday, an unsettled year awaits thee; thy business will cause thee great anxiety and 1t will require much attention to keep 1t together
 Those in employ must bo earefuLn
 eFhose In love will grieve'
 An unsettled life will be lead by the child born on this day. and the child be often in trouble"
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
-------------------- THE VILLAGE BLACKSMITH.

By Longfellow.
 Under a spreading chestnut tree Tie village snithy stands; The smith, mighty man Is he, With large and sinewy hands; And the muscles of his brawny arms Are strong IS iron bands .- His hair is crisp and black and long; His face is like the tan; His brow Is wet with honest sweat He earns whatere he can, And looks the whole world in the. face, For he owes not any man. Week in, week out. from morn till night. You can hear his bellows blow; With measured beat and slow Like a sexton ringing the village bell, When the evening sun is low. Ard children coming home frcr. school Lock in at the open door; They love to see the flaming forge, And hear the bellows roar, And catch the burning sparks that ny Like chaff from threshing floor. He goes on Sunday to the church, And sits among the boys; He hears the parson pray and preach; He hears his daughters voice >4 Singing in the village choir,
 And 1t makes his heart rejoice. ss It sounds to him like her mothers voice Singing in Paradise! He needs must think of her once more, How in the grave she lies; And with his hard rough hand he wipes A tear out of his eyes.
 G. Toiling. rejoicing, sorrowlng. X Onward through life he goes: z Each morning sees some ask begin, n Each evening sees it close; ss Something attempted, something done. j.. Has earned nights repose Thanks, thanks to thee, my worthy friend For the lesson thou hast taughfl Thus at the flaming forge of fife A.s Our fortunes must be wrought; Thus on its sounding anvil shaped M Each burning deed and thought ss.@ ' 1't'-7 '- f.5 -
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Beyond reasonable and generally in- visible precautions it is impossible to go in protecting an American Presi- dent. He cannot be kept in a bomb proof cage, as the Czar Is said to be. He must accept the penalty of great ness to some extent, but whoever as- sails him should be hurried away to severe punishment and complete isola. tion.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
spanIsh War Victims.

Buffalo. September 1.-The second an- nual encampment and reunion of the Ma tional association of Spanish war vete- rans completed it's business today and adjourned to meet in Indianapolis next year. The following officers were elected:
 Commander in- -Chief-Col J. c. Coryell of Pennsylvania.
 Senior Vice Commander-in-Ch Chief-Col. William Kirby of Auburn. N. Y.
 Junior Commander in Chief-G. A. Pat terson of Tennessee.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
AN INQUISITIvE CHOIR.

From the Coosa River News.
 This thing Is meandering the rounds some more: At a marriage out West the persons were Corn and Farmer. At the close of the ceremony the fool choir sang What Shall the Harvest Be?' and small boy in the rear of the church bawled: Nubbinsp"
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
The Story of oarfieId's Wound.

''But that is neither here nor there. The Pennsylvania depot was the scene of Gar fields assassination, July 2, 1881.
 Garfield was shot while walking arm in arm with Mir. Blaine, his secretary of state. Like President Mckinley, President Garfield received two bullets, the first in the right arm. just below the shoulder, causing a painful, but not dangerous, wound, and the second and fatal one in the back. Just above the right hip and near the kidney, He was taken first to Q private room in the railway station and thence to the White House.
 Surgeons hastily called probed for the ball in the back, without success, but an> nounced that its course had been down. ward and forward into the groin, and. while serious, was not likely to be fatal, President Garfield's recovery from the shock of the wounds was very gradual. Later attempts to find the bullet failed. There were no immediate signs of inter nal hemorrhages, and there was little ex- ternal bleeding.
 These symptoms developed during the afternoon, however, accompanied by vom- iting Sunday, July S. he was better, and the surgeons hopes were high, but at night serious Inflammation set in, and the case looked so desperate that Vice-Presi- dent Arthur was told to await a summons to take the oath of office as Presirent Garfield's successor. By noon on Monday the doctor had relieved the pain, but the patient lowered between life and death. Tuesday and Wednesday were compara- lively comfortable days, but the fear of blood poisoning was ever present. From the rise of the surgical fever, July to July 6, the variation of pulse were from 9S to 126, of temperature from 9S.9 to 1919 and of respiration from 1s to A.
 "On Friday pus--which the physicians said showed the wound was healing-was seen.
 ''Ten days after the shooting the pa- tient's temperature reached its highest point-102.S The doctors at this time be- lieved that the bullet passed through the eleventh and twelfth ribs, through the liver and to the abdominal cavity where, they said, it had lodged in the anterior wall of the abdomen. from which they expected to be able to remove 1t readily, in due time and without danger.
 sGarfield died September 10, 1Ss1."
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
CABINET SHORT OF susPENDERs

T rroIn tHe flUSDurB DlSpatch.
 One evening after Cabinet dinner the conversation ehaneed to turn upon the youthful ambitions of the members Each related his early plans for the fu- ture. and when Secretary Wilson's turn came the genial Iowan said: My ambi- ton has not yet been realized l wanted to be worth million dollars and have two good pairs of suspenders at the same time. As yet I have neither" The Cabi- net unoff1ciarly laughed at this frank con- fession. and Secretary Gage, after a min ute. confessed that he had never simul- taneously possessed two pairs of depend- able suspenders. Secretary Long remark ed that when he graduated from Harvard he had two pairs of new trousers, each with good new ''galluses," but that the experience had never responded to an encore while the now Justice McKenna said that. although he came from the Pa- cific slope, two pairs of "hold-ups" were unknown to him all in the same day or night. Others made similar confessions, and finally Secretary Bliss, the wealth. est man present, said with laugh: This seems to be a strange coincidence. Last Saturday evening Mrs. Bliss came into my study and said, Papa, are you going out at all this evening?' I replied that I did not so intend, and asked the reason of her question. Oh, nothing, she replied, only If you are not. Ed-our son-wants to use your only good sus- penders.' i"
 As a sort of final course to this tale MT. Mckinley tells that Secretary Wilson related this conversation at the breakfast table the morning following. Three of his children were present. It was in the early holiday season. Each of the chil- dren sat interested and observing. Christmas came. and In the figurate stocking of the Secretary of Agriculture were found three dozen pairs of suspend ers of high degree of excellence. The children had remembered the story. All Secretary Wilson then needed to realize his youthful ambition was the million dollars.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

The men who saw Czolgosz fire the shots that felled President Mckinley already number thousands. None of them, however, knocked the miscreant down except the negro, Parker.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
HE WILL DO IT.
. Sheffield Standard.

From the Sheffield Standard.
 Mir. Underwood. the manager of the Constitution campaign, will score sig nal victory if he manages so as to hold Jefferson County in line. Tbere Is more disaffeetiopsin that county than; anywhere else in kfrIartats.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

If a Denver physician be correct in his theory as to the uses and advant- ages of the vermiform appendix the doctors should be compelled to put back all they have cut out.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Bellaire in Ohio built new city hall partly because it wanted to sample a jug of whisky S1 years old In the cor ner stone of the old city hall.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

When the Emperor William Is car tooned he gets out his snickersee, but Boss Hanna can only snicker when the cartoonists present him in pic lures.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
"Deepo" and earfield's Death.

An interesting fact of history, in re- lation to the attempted murder of Presi- dent McKinley-an attempt which seems now most happily to have failed-was the assassination of President Garfield In the Baltimore and Potomac Railway station in Washington-then and now called the Pennsylvania depot even as some per- sons refer to the Union passenger sta tion in Birmingham as the deepo,' and as many citizens of Montgomery refer to the most beautiful railway station of the South as the Union deepo' of the Louis vile and Nashville Company-that noble structure upon the southern bank of the muddy Alabama river" said a friend of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad last night.
 What a pity that the noble passenger stations of the gigantic and enterprising Louisville and Nashville in Alabama-the one at Birmingham and the other at Montgomery-should be referred to as the "deepov There Is one newspaper In Bir- mingham and two In Montgomery which refer ito each passenger station of the respective cities as the 'deepo.'
 "The story is told that sometime cultured woman, who was about to visit Montgomery, received a telegram from her hostess-to-be to the effect:
 "Tn meet you at the deepo at 725 p. m
 "Assuming, as she properly assumed, that the deepo' meant the freight depot of the railroad over which she was trav- cling, the visiting woman left her train a mile from the Union passenger station in Montgomery.
 'Imagine an angel telegraphing you to receive her at the 'deepo,' when she meant the Union Passenger Station!
 Great grief-as the honorable and revered Major William Wallace Screws editor of the Montgomery Advertiser used to cry in way of emphasis-Great Grief,' that's awful"
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
1vI oaly DAILY nEwspApEa IN ALABAMA

Diseases desperate grown By desperate appliances are relieved Or not at all.
 Hamlet.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

The court of inquiry may do great many things, but it cannot prove Ad- miral Sampson present when the Span ish ships came out.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12
From the st. Louis Post-Dispatch.

From the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
 Radium, a newly discovered mineral, is the rarest substance in the world. Prof. George B. Pegram of Columbia University Is experimenting with radium. Its exist ence in the universe was not suspected until recently. Only a few grains of free Tadtum are in existence.
 Its light will bore through solid metal plates and will make a photograph after passing through sheet of tin,
 Fifty tons of pitch blende treated chemi- eally for three months would yield few grammes of radium.
 Radium will give out light for an in- definite time without heat and with the expenditure of no energy whatever.
 From a tiny white bit of white radium salt particles of matter are constantly shot off with ineonoeivable velocity of light Rerer still, they possess the prop erty of rendering other substances capa- hle of giving off light.
 So infinitesimal are the amounts of this substance yet massed that few experi- mentors have ever actually seen a parti- Gle of radium. Nearly all work Is carried on with radium salt, which is in effect the metal uranium mixed with radium.
 Radium light is simply light-it heats nothing, 1t moves nothing.
 A plate six inches square covered with radium would shine on indefinitely. At the end of 5000 years 1t would have pro- duced heat enough to raise the tempera- tnre of one gramme of water one degree centigrade.
 should radium ever be separated from It's compounds it would revolutionize the aghting of the universe. New York city's lighting system once Installed with radi- um lights could run forever at the cost of the original plant.
 Hadium is found in pitch hlende and gold ores. Down in the deepest mine, where ray of sunshine has not pene- trated for ten million years, a bit of ra- dium continues to give out its strange light It may be prepared in the dark and kept in the dark and its radio -aotlv- ity will continue.
 No other substance in the world shines by its own light Phosphorescent bodies store up sunshine and then give 1t off 9-NNNtfAS AAA hiiAttS 4dahtibACS' hC SuH- ply is soon exhausted if the phosphores- cent body Is shut away from the sun rays. The firebug comes nearer to being an independent light plant. It derives its phosphorescent properties from its foods. This, however, in the last analysis, is de- rived from the sunlight.
 The various apparatus employed in the Columbia University laboratory in expcri- ments with radium are among the most delicate instruments in scientific use.
 The most interesting machine is the one which Prof. Pegram has measured the energy of the light given off by radium It measures heat to an amount which is iniinitesimally small to the human mind.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Massachusetts has not a single horse railroad left, the last one having un- dergone reconstruction last week.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Russian expression and Russian po- litical methods. togther with Emma Goldman, made Czolgosz a crank.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

At the latest accounts Peter Nc Nally was getting along swimmingly.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

No man has been discovered south of the Ohio river who has read Web. Davis book.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Cartoons are considered lese maj este in Germany, but America wants no lese majeste laws, and will accept none.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Cranks and assassins are fame hungry, and the more their acts are pictured the more their vanity is fed.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

An assassin always wants to live while the newspapers are full of his act and history.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

There are 40.000 too many women in New York City, not counting the chorus girls or the 400.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Jonathan Deliver cannot understand why Governor Shaw should have in his bonnet a Presidential bee.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Minister Wu talks freely on all oc- casions and on all subjects, and yet he retains his influence and popular ity.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

The court of inquiry may add one more to the list of Presidential possi- bilities.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Carrie Nation was born in Ken lucky and Czolgosz in Ohio.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Potatoes have gone up in the Klon. dike to $14 a sack.
The age-herald., 1901-09-12

Senator Vest begins to think his
 toga will fit him six years longer.