The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1901-09-10

MILBURN HOUSE, BUFFALO, N. Y,
Sept. Goods contribution to the
American people will be the sparing of
the presidents life AS the evening
shadows were falling tonight John G.
Milburn, president of the Pan-American
exposition, reverently uttered these
words as he stood before the house in
which the nations patient was fighting
so bravely with death. And all who
have been at the Miburn residence to-
day reflect the view that the battle will
be won and the prayers Of the world
will be answered. Since last night not an
unfavorable symptom has appeared.
Every hour has been a victory. Faith in
the outcome grows stronger and stronger
and hope mounts higher and higher until
in the minds of some the danger of all
future complications is brushed aside and
hope has become conviction. indeed,
many of the presidents friends seem
possessed with d sort of SuperStitious
confidence in the presidents. recovery
which nothing but an absolute change for
the worse can shake. And the basis for
the confidence that is expressed is solid.
There has been nothing but improve
nient, gradual and slow. but steady i'm
provement. Every bulletin, every private
and public word of the physicians in at
tendance breathes encouragement. The
reports the physicians have given out
are facts as they exist from a scientific
standpoint unmixed with sentiment.
NOT YET OUT OF DANGER.
Still that the president is by no means
out of danger is the verdict of each OF
them. Not one of them will risk his
professional reputation with a statement
that the p1 esident will live. All they will
say is that with every hour the danger of
complications from peritonitis or blood
poisoning decreases. DR.. McBurney, the
most eminent of the physicians in at
tendance, expresses the opinion that il
the Improvement continues it will be a.
week yet before the president can be
pronounced out of danger and con-
valescent. And some of his colleagues,
like Dr. Mann, place the limit of danger
still farther away. The fear of peri
tcnitis, it can be said positively. has well
righ disappeared. AT the expiration OF
the Seventy-two- hour period, at o'clock
this afternoon, danger from the source
was almost gone The president himself
has been cheerful all day and has ex-
ressed confidence in his recovery. To-
day he asked for morning paper, but
this, of course, had to be denied him. 1t
is with some difficulty that he can be
restrained from talking, and Col. Myron
T. Herrick, of Cleveland, is quoted as
authority for the statement that he has
spoken at intervals of several things he
proposes to DO in the future.
PRESIDENT MOVED HIMSELF.
This morning he asked to be allowed
to move his position, and when permis-
sion was given, before the attendants
could move him, he changed to the po-
sition he desired to assume without diff
ficulty or pain. This speaks much for
his general health and spirits Mrs. Nc
Kinley saw him again today for brief
visit, and Secretary Cortelyou was adj
mitted for ithe first time. No one else
was allowed to see him, although he in
quired several times who were below
stairs. He was given nourishment to-
day in the form of eggs beaten in milk
administered through the rectum. The
water which has been given heretofore
cold did not appear to agree with him.
and since last night very hot water has
been taken into the stomach through the
mouth with splendid results. His bowels
moved freely during the day, and this