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"I am overjoyed to know that everything is going all right." In these words, Vice-President Roosevelt signified his pleasure at the encouraging reports from the sick chamber of President McKinley. His manner indicated that they were heartfelt. We know now that everything was not "going right," and the confidence of Mr. Roosevelt was ill founded.

The Vice-President occupied a position of extreme delicacy after the President was shot and uncertainty remained as to the result of his wounds. He felt the blow so keenly, however, that no room was left in his mind for the thought that his enemies were watching every word and action in the hope of finding something which might be misconstrued to his disadvantage. His first impulse was to come immediately to Buffalo, and he did so without delay.

MESSAGES OF SYMPATHY.

A newspaper correspondent furnishes the foilowing:

"President McKinley was told that from all parts of the world messages of sympathy had arrived. He was also told that the American public had shown great grief over his misfortune, and had demonstrated that he holds a strong grip upon the affections of his fellow countrymen. He was deeply touched, and said that he felt himself to be too highly honored. To Dr. Rixey he said that he hoped to recover to show that he appreciated all that had been done for him.

"Nothing has caused so deep distress to the friends of President McKinley as the publication of the cruel canard that Mrs. McKinley has not yet been informed of the attack made upon her husband. This This publication carries with it the impression that the President's wife is in no mental condition to realize what is going on about her, as it has been known that she had seen her husband each day since his injury, and that she has known of the crowds that gather in front of the house eager to learn of his condition.

"The truth is that Mrs. McKinley was told a few hours after the shooting, and more, she has been kept in no ignorance of his

condition since. She is stronger to-day than she has been before in years, and the physicians are all of the opinion that the tragedy has aroused her from that lethargy which was perhaps the prime cause of her illness.

"The strangest feature of the progress that has been made toward recovery by President McKinley is that he has at no time. shown any symptoms of relapse. After the operation there was no sinking spell which usually results from such a shock, and from the moment that his wounds were dressed his progress has been steady and satisfactory. Each hour has shown an improvement over the previous one.

"Dr. McBurney said that in all his experience as a physician he has never known another patient who exhibited so great a tendency to respond to medical treatment as does President McKinley. 'It is marvelous,' said he, and it is worthy of the study of men who are capable of understanding such matters.'

HER VISITS QUIETED HIM.

"Mrs. McKinley was permitted to have more than the hour with her husband. This was granted for the reason that the physicians have found that her visits, if anything, had a beneficial effect upon the President. He seems to rest more easily when she is with him than at any other time. She obeys the injunction not to permit her husband to talk, and it seems to give the President confidence in himself to see that his wife is so greatly improved in health.

"She went to his rooms a little before ten o'clock this morning, and remained there until after eleven. After she left him the President asked how long it would be before he would be permitted to partake of food. Dr. Rixey told him that the wounds in his stomach would not heal inside of a week or ten days, and, during that time it would be impossible for him to take any solid substance. This information was far from pleasant, but the President made no complaint.

"There seems to be no abatement in the interest displayed in President McKinley's condition, and there is certainly no

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