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EXPERIMENTING ON ANIMALS WITH MUSIC.

other hand two striped hyenas, when they heard the music, darted back to the very end of their cage and tried to escape through the bars.
 Monkeys showed much curiosity, bue only a small one from South America showed that he was intensely pleased with the music. His cage being made of glass, he placed his ear against one of the small holes In 1t so that he could hear more distinctly. and, when the play CT passed on, he followed him as far as his cage allowed. Prairie wolves, at the first sound of the violin, came out of their holes and ran here and there as though they were trying to find out where the sounds came from. Then having satisfied themselves on this ponit they sat in a semi-circle around the player and, when he stopped playing. they came uo to him and stretched out ther paws as though entreating him to continue the music.
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SKETCH OF THE
 PRESIDENTS LIFE

land that 1t enabled him, at an early age, to become instructor in the district school, which added to his funds with which to pursue his studies in the acade- my. An old citizen of Poland. on being asked for "reminiscences of MT. Mckinley, said in reference to him:
 He was always studying, studying, studying all the time"
 He thus became familiar with the de- tails of the life of the masses of the peo- ple in whose welfare and prosperity he has always shown such a marked degree of interest during all of his public ca- reer.
 Mir. Mckinley began his war record as a private in the Twenty-third Volunteer Infantry. On account of distinguished services rendered he rapidly rose in the ranks and on March 14, 1865, was brevetted major of United States volunteers by President Lincoln. He as mustered out of service July 26. 1865. and returned to Po- land, was admitted to the bar in 1867 at Warren, O., and the same year removed to Canton. In 1869 he was elected prose cutting attorney of Starke County. serving one term.
 MT. Mckinley was married on January 21, 1871, to Miss Ida Saxton. Two daugh- ters were born to them, both of whom died in early childhood. He was elected to Congress and for fourteen years repre- sented his Congressional district except for portion of his fourth term. when he was unseated. the fight against him being led by MT. Turner of Georgia, chairman of the committee on elections. In the Eff
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sixteen years of age and worked in a drug store for s3 per week, sleeping nights on the prescription counter so as to get an early start sweeping out the next morning. At least the oldest Massillonian relates this romance, and Mir. Platt has never denied the soft impeachment of tho hard bed. But that is another story, to wax Kiplingesque. In any event, before Mr Mckinley became a national figure Massllon was quite jealous of Canton, and declined to accept a bit of the re- flected glory of having the Congressman from their county. Indeed, the town even held the present President up in undlg- nfied contrast with the astute New York boss Then MT. Coxey assumed mi- croscopic proportions and Massilon be- came vainglorious; but Canton replied by selecting Senator Charles Manderson of Nebraska to successfully knock the f1g- urative chip from the Massillonian shoulder For MT. Manderson practiced law in Canton and vicinity early in hls career and one of his amusing exper1- ences was so pleasing to MT. Mckinley that he frequently told 1t to members of the House when Manderson was Sena- tor and strolled over to the south side of the capitol to indulge In little inter legislative repartee.
 Mckinley Tells a Story.
 Tn the very outset of his career MT. Manderson was a member of the firm of Manderson & Greenwood, in the little vil- lage of Minerva, twelve miles south of Stark's busy county seat. MT. Greenwood still fingers there, but MT. Manderson for sock the parent nest when his wings be- came strong enough. At the time of this experience the fair form of prosperity had not visited the firm of Manderson & Greenwood to roost on its shingle, ano there was no great money in the firms strong box In short, the business was confined chiefly to collecting bad debts. Even this business led to endorsements of diverse nature. Once MT. Manderson had collected a small bill for a rather
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preciate humor-far from it-No man en- Joys a clean story or an innocent joke more than he does. And he relates good, bright anecdotes. too, when occasion calls them forth, but their humor Is more in the situation than in the stories them- selves. That Is the reason persons have difficulty in recollecting and relating them.
 Nor was this tendency to avoid an- ecdotes an acquired one for it dates back to his earliest appearance in the political arena. His first speech was made at the little village of New Der lin few miles North of Canton, short ly after he located and began the prac- tice of law. This was about 1867. These were the days of reconstruction. and the soldier-politician was ruling the land. Maj" McKinley-as he is still affec- tionately and familiarly called by his old-time associates-was an aspiring fledgllng in the political coop. untried and nearly unknown. It was not for some years after this that he became the party candidate for the position of prosecuting attorney of Stark county and thus began the steady ascent culmi- Diting In his second election to the Pres idency. He yet had to prove the most meager of ability. Reconstruction, the tariff. finance. negro suffrage, and 8 dozen other questions were live topics then; Stark was close county; United States Senator was to be elected: New Berlin was about evenly divided politi- cally, and the party managers decided that the Major" was too young and un- tried to fll the assignment alone. So the committee sent George E. Baldwin an excellent talker of the George Sher1- dan type-with the aspiring spellbinder. When it came to arranging the order Of addresses, Mir Baldwin magnanimously yielded to the younger man. You go in' Major, and talk on anything you wish. as long as you wish. I'll follow and cover anything you leave out"
 That was the beginning of this most unique of political careers. The crowd admired young Mckinley for his war record and warmed up" nicely. He cov- cred every question forcefully and elo- quently, and when he tried to stop the crowd would not permit him to do so. They liked Baldwin, too, but they had
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heard him before. and here was new Richmond in the field. with the sword of eloQuence and the shield of logic. After three hours of rapid-fire eloquence Mo Kinley concluded amid cheers-and MT. Baldwin confessed that there was noth- ing to talk about. The men often recall that meeting and laugh over 1t. the great est of good humor prevailing. In May last the President appointed Mir. Bald win-now an ex-tudge- to a vacant con- sulship in Nuremburg, Germany. a posi- ton acceptable to the popular barrister on account of falling health. Of course New Berlin has an original Mckinley man. He Is Michael Bitzer, and he pre- sided at that memorable meeting thirty four years ago.
 He Would Smoke.
 Oberlin, Ohio, in the center of the Con- necticut Western Reserve, is probably the most Puritanic spot in the entire United States. A large university gives the town It's being. and 80 jealousiy have the college fathers guarded the morals of their young people that not only Is the sale of liquor prohibited in the village limits and for miles around. but tobacco, whether for smoking, chewing or snut- ffng, Is unknown in the stores, while playing cards are even scarcer than the proverbial hens teeth. One Mir. Monroe, formerly Congressman from the Ober- lin. district, was the leading Republican of the village. and usually entertained political orators of the party when they visited "the city" During MT. McKin- ley's first gibernatorial campaign Pro- lessor had the pleasure of entertaining the candidate. After dinner on the ev- ening preceding the address MT. McKin> ley took cigar from his pocket and cas- ually remarked: ''You don't mind if smoke, do you, professor"
 MT. Monroe was aghast. He didn't wish to appear inhospitable. yet dreaded the almost certain social ostracfsm due to follow the discovery of a smoker on his piazza, even he be the prospective governor of the great State. He compro-
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muSlC on dIllIndiS A COHCci L was first given at poultry show in Po- sen While the musicians were tuning their strdnged instruments the fowls paid no attention, but as soon as they began to play they listened intently. and the only one among them that seemed dissar- isfied was an old turkey cock. Though ali his companions were perfectly quiet he made even more noise than usual The concert was regarded as a success ana as a convincing proof that poultry like string music.
 That animals like to hear a violin played seems also to be clearly proved. Herr F. c. Baier, a German zoologist. played in their presence many times and found that the music pleased them. A puma at the first sound of the violin stretched himself at full length in his cage and listened quietly as long as the music was soft and low. but the mo- ment 1t became loud and fast he sprans to his feet lashed his sides with his tail and began to pace nervously up and down his narrow enclosure. A jaguar at the sound of lively music showed great uneasiness, but became quiet when soft music was played, and even further man. ifested his pleasure by thrusting his paws through the bars or his cage, so as to detain the violinist, who was passing In order to play for another animal.
 On leopards the violin made hardly any impression A lioness and three cuba seemed somewhat disturbed, but as soon as the player started to go on to the next cage. they came forward and lay down. Herr Baier then played soft music which seemed to please them. and this was fol- lowed by lively dance, at the first bars of which the cubs sprang up and gam boiled wildly about the cage. On the
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MR. M'KINLEY AS A HUMORIST.

missed by conducting MT. Mckinley to the second floor. through a long hall to a back balcony. where, safely screened from public view. the weed was enjoyed. As the smoke curled upward instinctive- ly Mckinley looked about him for cus- pidor. There isn't such a thing in town,' said Professor Monroe. A coal bucket was finally impressed Into service as a compromise.
 Two days after the Oberlin meeting MT. Mckinley spoke in East Liverpool the tion the Oberlin experience To his friend, Col. John N. Naylor,- the proprietor of one of the big potteries, he said:
 By the way. Taylor. just for a joke, send a gross of your china spittoons to Professor Monroe. Don't tell him where they came from or he will suspect that had hand in it''
 Following the suggestion. Col. Taylor crated up an assortment of really beau tiful chlnaware and sent 1t on to Ober- lin. A year later MT. Mckinley again was MT. Monroes guest. Forewarned and consequently forarmed with liberal supply of good Havanas, he again sought the secluded and vine-draped balcony. Lighting his cigar. he said with twinkle of his eye:
 '.You haven't a cuspidor In town yet, have you, Monroe?"
 Its mighty funny" was the response, but few days after you were here last year some one sent me a whole crate of those things. Of course, I hadn't any use for them and they were such nice china and so prettily painted that my wife used them all for flower pots There isn't one about the house not in use.'
 Stark county. in which Canton Is To- cated. brides itself upon being the homo of other great men and having sent into the world several embryonic statesmen with the impetus which made them pow CTS in the political world. Massillon, a. thriving rival of Canton on the west, claims the distinction of once having IS an humble citizen Thomas c. Platt of New York The Senator was then but
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l SlSteT-WaS, uedu
 The funeral was to be next day, and he wished his nephew to return. The l artist knew that there was good train | to town at two o'clock, so resolved to take that. and as he had three hours stflf before him, made up his mind not to forego his bath. He walked around to the little cove where he usually bathed and had a delicious dip. Then he spread his bathing fowl upon the shing1e and
 lay down for few minutes bask in tho sun.
 When he awoke 1t was nearly one o'clock the tide had risen and covered the rocks. He knew better than to try to swim around the point in the power full current that runs up the Bristol Channels and the cliff behind was toe steep for climbing. He missed his train and as there was no other till next morn. ing he arrived too late for the funeral. His uncle was furious. never asked him to his house again, and when he died a few months ago was found to have cut him out of his will and left all of h1s money, $40o 900. to a more distant relative. tive.
 Many train has been wrecked by, tired signalman slumbering at his post But without any doubt the most awfui catastrophe short sleep was ever I'd sponsible for happened in the State of Kansas. in America, just thirty-one years ago. A party had been out on . shooting expedition on the prairfes and made two-days camp. The weafher was hot and the long prairie grass dry as finder.
 So alive to the danger of fire were the sportsmen that they left their colored cook in camp with strictest orders fo keep the embers of the camp Ire we'll raked together. But the man doxe6 peacefully under the wagon. Along camo one of those sudden gusts which vAfrl over the plains in hot weather the glow ing charcoal, and in five ninueu th6uas ands of dollars were In ashes.
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fitness. thus exalting the race for which 1t was established.
 Nowhere, I think, could a more ee- lightful location have been chosen for this unique educational experiment, which has attracted the attention and won the sup port even of conservative philanthropists in all sections of our country.
 ITO speak of Tuskegee without paying special tribute to Booker T. Washington s genius and perseverance would be impos- sible. The inception of this noble enter prise was his and he deserves high credit for it. His was the enthusiasm and enter prise which made its steady progress pos sible and established in the institution it's present high standard of accomplishment. He has won worthy reputation as enc of the great leaders of his race, widely known and much respected at home and abroad as an accomplished educator a great orator and a true philanthropist. Long live Booker T. Washington
 His Speech at Montgomery. At Montgomery, MT Mckinley spoke In l the capitol. He said:
 "The warm-hearted welcome which has | been given to me by the citizens of Ala I bama has deeply touched me and in re- turn for 1t I cannot find language to ex- | press my gratitude and appreciation. To be welcomed here in the city of Montgom- cry, the first capital of the confederate l states, warmly and enthusiastically wei l comed as the president of a common country, has filled and thrilled me with | emotion. Once the capital of the confed. eracy, now the capital of great and 1 glorious state, one of the indescribablt states of an indescribable union.
 '"The governor says he has nothing to | take back. We have nothing to take back | for having kept you in the union. We are | glad you did not go out and you are glad l you stayed in. Tremendous applause) Alabama like all the states of the Union north and south, has been loyal to the flag and steadfastly devoted to the Amer 1 ican name and to the American nation | There has never been in the history of I the United States suchza a demonstration of patriotism from one end of the country l to the other as the year just passing and 1 never has American valor been more bril- l liantly illustrated in the battle line on shore and on the battleships at sea than by the soldiers and sailors of the United States. Everybody is talking of Hobson and justly so. but want to thank Mother | Hobson in this presence. Everybody is | talking about General Wheeler, one of the | bravest of the brave, but speak, I want
 to. of that brave little daughter that fol l lowed him to Santiago. (Great Applause) | and ministered to the sick at Montauk | (Cheers).
 All Were Patriots.
 q have spoken in many places and a
 many times of the heroism of the Ameri
 can army and the American navy, bu
 In our recent conflict the whole peool
 were patriots. Two hundred thousan'
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What One Woman ThInks.

Did you ever meet the woman
 Who waits until the car has all but passed the corner before she signals the conductor to stop, and then gets mad because he carries her past her destina- ton?
 Who puts the front door key under the mat and then walks away with the bliss ful consciousness that the house Is per- fectly safe?
 Who confesses that she wears her cor set too tight?
 Who dresses shabberly in the morning because there is nobody around to see?
 Who will sit down with thirtean at the table?
 Who gets a dress 50 good that she Is afraid to wear 1t and hangs it up in the wardrobe until 1t is out of styie7
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 NH only occasionally exciting. Still, III it is not often that one of a S jury selected to try a case
 finds the proceedings too sooth- ing to keep awake.
 Such a case did, however, actually oc- cur recently in a London court of law. The judge did not notice the slumbers or the juryman until it was time to close the court When he did, he merely mo- tioned to the rest of the occupants of the jury box to move quietly away and allow the sleeper to finish his nap. The man was lucky to get off with nothing but the loss of his days pay as Juryman ana the fright he experienced on waking and finding himself alone in the dark solitude of the court room.
 A few minutes extra in bed have proved terribly expensive before now. Just be- fore the Spanish American war broke out one of the partners in great Manchester cotton spinning business, who was in London at the time, wired to another member of the firm that he had better look out for rise in the price of cotton and be early on the market next day. The latter overslept himself the next morning but managed, by going without any breakfast. to catch his train and be at his office sharp at nine. Then he pre- pared to write a cable to his agent in New Orleans, ordering him to buy 20Oo bales at once. It was not until he had written the message and prepared to put 1t into cipher that he discovered he had, in his haste at leaving home, left his code book behind him. Before he could have 1t fetched it was nearly eleven o'clock. cotton had risen five-sixteenths, and tho loss to the firm amounted to some $700o. Even more serious was the loss which
 
 artist who spent part of last August at a little seaside place in North Devon. near Ilfracombe. Just as he was goine down to batf1e one morning he received a telegram from an uncle in Hereford shire saying that his aunt-his uncle's
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Lithoeraph Passes To Be Stopped.

New York Letter in Pittsburg Dispatch.
 New York theatre managers are going in this winter to abolish the free pass system. Of course, this does not mean that all free passes will be done away with. but an effort will be made to aboI- ish all window paper" by which Is meant the free tickets that are given for placing Autographs in windows. It Is pointed out that this rule has worked successfully in Pittsburg, Philadelphia and Boston, and the New York managers do not see why it should not work as well there. First 1t is to be tried in Brooklyn. If the theatres there find that they can afford to abolish the window tickets, then the New York houses will immedi- ately follow suit. The managers do not so much object to giving out tickets for Autograph purposes as they do to having the persons receiving them sell the tick cts to scalpers.
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From the Washington Post.

From the Washington Post.
 40 MATTER how great a Me ,ef Nf Kinley admirer one may be,
 IMI the most enthusiastic devo- S1 tee of the President will not
 sound his praises as a hu- morist A leading metropolitan maga- zine recently sent one of it's best writers to Canton with instructions to secure story on Mckinley humor." The young man spent nearly a fortnight In inter viewing the lifelong friends of the Pres ident. and then departed, confessng him, self defeated. ''rve yet to find man who has heard Mckinley tell comic an- ecdote." he said. "He seems to enjoy humor as much as any one, but never ap- pears as source of amusement. One could conceive that he might have re- luctance to appear as a comedian since he is the chief executive, believing It in- compatible with the dignity of the office, but even In his early days in politics l can find no record of his relating stories. In any event that Is the result of my in- vestigation and I am ready to give up the trial"
 Nor was the magazine writer aNogeth- CT wrong in his conclusion. Mir McKin- ley is not humorist, nor Is he even a passible story teller. Had his final lot been cast in the House of Representa- lives he would never have wrested hon. ors from the Hon. Champ Clark, and had his native State rewarded his services with A United States Senatorship, MT. Mason and Mir. Depew would have no cause to tremble for their laurels. In all his political career MT. Mckinley made use of but one comic anecdote on the stump-and that he invariably cred iited to Lincoln. The shady or indehcato story, so popular with certain class or statesmen and politicians, has never passed his lips and few men have had the hardlhood to relate such an anecdote In his presence So it is little wonder that the casual searcher for Mckinley hu- nor should have departed In oisap- pointment.
 Not that the President does not ap-
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T THIS hour when the name of
 1AN the President of United States /SN is upon every lip thousands or SS Alabamians will remember the member the last visit of MT. Mckinley to this State on December 1s. 1898. He came to Alabama just after the war with Spain. He had just participated In the peace jubilee at Atlanta and visited Tus- kegee in the morning and Montgomery at night. He was greeted by enthusiastic thousands everywhere.
 MT. Mckinley had just shown a dispo- sition to make friends with the south and southerners were in humor to re- 2 ceive him to their hearts. Summarizing his reception in the State, staff corres- pondent wrote in the Age-Herald of De- cember r, 1898:
 Ills Reception In the State.
 "Montgomery, December 16.-(Special )- The president and his party made tiy- ing trip to the state of Alabama today. During the early morning hours in a special train he crossed the borders from Georgia. and before nightfall he had re- turned.
 "The president and his guests had the pleasure of visiting one of the greatest negro educational institutions in the world. under the management of the not ed Booker T. Washington, at Tuskegee. Here they witnessed the work being done in the south to upbuild the African race, mentally, morally and industrially. From the expressions of opinion from the presi- dential party the sight that met their gaze here must have been revalation.
 'The spectacle of a president of these United States addressing an audience from the former seat of government of . the southern confederacy was witnessed. Just below where Mckinley stood today, his stalwart form quivering and swayng with the enthusiasm of the crowd, in 1861, the president of the states of secession was inaugurated in the presence of a throng equally as mad with enthusiasm. Today words from the big caldron of ora tory telling of reunited country dropped upon the responsive chords of the multi tude and made the historic state house