The Birmingham age-herald. [volume] (Birmingham, Ala.) 1902-1950, 1921-05-19

Funeral services will lie held at Chr
| cage. where his body will be cremated
following a private funeral, one Of MT
Lanes requests.
Messages from President Harding,
Woodrow Wilson, scores of governmenr
officials and personal friends were re-
ceived by Mrs. Lane during the day.
WASHINGTON GRIEvEs
Washington. May 49, Word Of the
death of Franklin X Lane, came as a
peculiar shock today to the nations
capital for so many years even more
his home than his chosen place of resi-
dence in California. There were mani
festations of grief in every department
Of the government from the President 10
the messengers in the interior depart
inent who had known so long the kindly.
humorous but efficient public servant.
Messages Of sympathy went to Mrs
lane from the President and Mrs Hard
ing, Former President Wilson. and scores
OF others high in national aud diploma
tic life
Mr. Wilson did not make public what
he mad said TO Mrs Lane of the man
who stood by him in his cabihet for
seven years The blow fell most sharply
at the home Of Mrs. Phillip C. Kauff-
mann, his only daughter
10 some of the former secretary
most intimate friends there, came before
his death by onls few days Tie mes
| by him in the hospital at Rochester.
Mimi. after the operation which preceded
his death by onlS fed days The mes-
sage showed that the former secretary
| had undergone the operation with full
consciousness and acceptance OF the
fact that he might not survive. 1t told
j in detail of his sensations before, dur
ing and after the operation of which he
was fully conscious as the condition OF
heart would not permit the use OF a
general anesthetic The message follows
in part:
REMARKABLE MESSAGE
! 1t is Wednesday afternoon and | am
now sitting up in bed talking to my
4 good friend Cotter. Until yesterday
did not clearly visualize anyone thing
lin this room and did not know thar it,
4 had window except THAT there was u
place that ioise came through but |
did know that 1t had a yellow oak door
that stared at me with its great big
square eye all day and ali night. Last
i Friday, YOU see, about 10 in the morn
ing | took the step that 1 should have
taken months, yes years ago. -
To-day most tentatively crawIed on
10 a char and ate my first mouthfai
OF solid rood But four days ago man
aged to shave myself and am regarded
as pretty spry.
Il have. seen death come to men IN
various walks, some rather novel and
western | once saw man hanged. And
i / have seen several men shot, and came
very near going out that way myself
two or three times but always the other
fellow aimed poorlvBI was being shot
~ hacauee / YEA. a,,,ausnanar ,aa,, ava
n should have heerg shot 81 There mi,st
he n1blic concern ~ xvhat is nrintad is
we'll az its truth IA iuatifv II rba4 n
| somefbiny ths, ,,a,ysI,.,,ers sbould eat
70 tno,v p this oa,,,t,s. fts,. ~ earfb-
1 opaka IL s.n Isra,cisca 7 sa, waits
tn ua ont onn frapcise9 nd saw asve Wa aa
more intimate plimnses stiI or the pic
turesoue and of he nrosi,c wavs ~
! which men come 10 their taking orr
cpEAT Af,r
| ops. 49,. 1870,
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npoa - ue'lpeia eeis wa'h my .ne W.
10y =. sne salauo", anu say VIA VIA 800
WI ~ - eiea. ao', l nase salu W.
tns ny pos. i''oi'ens =, e,uiess ena.i'iia
, ,iea, Una, man WIN ,'tie CURIOSITY anu
ne.'e nui'oi anu ''.'ie money VINO Na'
not III 700 great pam coulo enjoy HiHi-
sen stuuyihs the ways Oh DOCTORS anu
nurses as ne Journeyed tne lhvahd pain.
II was, indeed, made flowery path Tor
me as much as any path could be IN
| which man suffered more Illumination
and distress and thwarting and frustra-
! ton, on the whole than he did pain.
"But there was path, the end OF
which ! could not see. ] was not COM
PEELED to take it.. My very latest doctor
advised me against taking it, ] could
like sometime without taking it, 1t was
a bet on the high card with chance to
win and / took it,
At this point occur details regarding
the preparations for the operation. with
a note of the fact that general anes-
thetic could not be applied on account OF
the patients heart, which had been "cul-