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FINAL SCENES IN
GREAT TRAGEDY
Mortal Remains of McKinley, “The Peacemaker”, are
Sorrowfully Consigned to Earth.
LAST SAD OBSEQIES IN CITY OF CANTON
With Solemn Pomp and Sad Requiem Body of Illustrious Dead Is Given
Once Again Into the Bosom of Mother Earth, There to Sleep
Until the Trump of Resurrection Morn Is Sounded.
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With majestic solemnity, surround
ed by his* countrymen and his towns
people, in the presence of the presi
dent of the United States, the cabinet,
justices of the United States supreme
court, senators anil representatives in
congress, the heads of the military
and naval establishments, the gover
nors of states and a great concourse
of people who had known and loved
him, all that is mortal of the third
president to fail by an assassin’s bul
let, was committed to the grave at
Canton, Ohio, Thursday afternoon. It
was a spectacle of mournful grandeur.
Canton ceased to he a town and swell
ed to the proportions of a great city.
From every city and hamlet in Ohio,
from the remote corners of the south
and from the east and west, the hu
man tide floived into the town until
100,000 people were within its gates,
there to pay their last tribute to the
fallen chief. The final scenes at the
First Methodist church, where the fu
neral services were held, and at the
beautiful Westlawn cemetery, where
the body was consigned to a vault,
were simple and Impressive.
The services at the church consisted
of a brief oration, prayers by the min
isters of three denominations and
singing by a quartet. The body was
then taken to Westlawn cemetery and
placed in a receiving vault, pending
the time when it will be finally laid to
rest beside the dead children who
were burled years ago. The funeral
procession was very imposing and in
cluded not only the representatives of
the army and navy of the United
States, but the entire military strength
of Ohio and hundreds of civic, frater
nal and other organizations. It was
two miles long.
During the morning the streets of
the little city of Canton were filled
with waving plumes, prancing horses
and densely packed bodies of moving
men assembled for the procession
which was to escort the remains of the
late president from the church to
Westlawn cemetery. Thirty special
trains, in addition to the regular
trains had arrived before noon. The
biggest crowd in the history of Canton,
which was there during the campaign
of 1896, estimated at over 60,000, was
largely exceeded.
The face of the president was seen
for the last time when it iay in state
Wednesday in the court house. The
casket was not opened after it was re
moved to the McKinley residence and
the members of the family had no
opportunity to look upon the silent
features again. The casket was seal
ed before it was borne away from the
court house.
As the time approached for bearing
the body of the dead president from
the McKinley home to the church the
little cottage on North Market street
was the center of a vast concourse of
people. Regiment after regiment of
soldiers, acting as guards, were in
triple lines from curbs back to the
lawns. Iii front of the McKinley
tage, drawn up in two rigid files of
body bearers, eight sailors of the navy
and eight soldiers of the army, await
ing the order to go within and take
up the casket.
Wave of Universal Sorrow.
The entire world joined with the
United States in sorrow for the dead.
All southern cities showed deepes* re
gret by a suspension of business gen
erally and holding memorial services
on the day of the funeral.
Roosevelt Back In Washington.
At 7 o’clock Thursday night Presl
dent Roosevelt and the members of
the cabinet left Canton on the return
journey to Washington.
A brief private service hail been
held within the darkened chamber.
Dr. Manchester saying a prayer, while
the relatives gathered around, and
Mrs. McKinley listened from the half
opened door of her adjoining room.
The double file of body bearers, now
stepped into the room and, raising the
flag-wrapped casket to their should
ers, bore it through the open entrance.
As the casket was borne along above
the line of heads could be seen enfold
ing Stars and Stripes and on top great
masses of white roses and delicate
lavender orchids. Tenderly the coffin
was committed to the hearse and
borne to the church.
The services in the church were sim
pie. They begun with the rendition
of an organ prelude, Beethoven’s fu
neral march as the last notes of the
prelude were stilled, the Euterpean La
dies’ quartet, oi Canton, sang “The
Beautiful Isle of Somewhere.”
Rev. O. R. Milligan, pastor of the
First Presbyterian church of Canton,
delivered the invocation,
Dr. C. E. Manchester, pastor of the
First Methodist church, delivered the
funeral sermon.
The line of the funeral march from
the church to the cemetery was about
one and a half miles in length. For
hours even before the time set for the
commencement of the funeral exer
cises at the McKinley home the
streets along the entire length of the
lino of march were crowded with spec
tators. From the gates of the ceme
tery to the doors of the church there
was on each side of the street an al
most an unbroken line of soldiers, and
on all the intersecting streets detach
ments of the militia were posted.
No greater reverence lias ever been
shown to any man, living or dead,
than was expressed toward the dead
president. As the funeral car passed
through the streets men and women
sobbed convulsively and at the ceme
tery gates, where the crowd was
densely packed and where the people
remained for hours pressing against
the iron fence, two women fainted dur
lug the exercises at the vault,
At four minutes after 4 o’clock the
funeral car bore the rema ns of the
dead president through the gateway
of hts last resting place. Twenty min
utes after that time the brief services
at the vault were over, the members
of the family and distinguished men of
the nation who had come so far to do
him honor had passed through the
gates on their homeward way. One
hour and forty minutes after the
hearse had entered the cemetery the
place was clear and the dead president
was resting alone under the watchful
care of the men of the regular army.
Mrs. McKinley Absent.
One of the most pathetic features of
the day was the absence of Mrs. Me
Kinley from the services at the church
and cemetery when the body of her
husband was laid to rest. Since the
; first shock from shooting, then of
i death and through the ordeal of state
ceremonies, she had borne up bravely.
But there was a limit to human endur
anve and when Thursday morning
came it found her too weak to pass
through the trial of the final ceremo
nies.
THOUSANDS 1)IE OF PLAGUE.
In a >Veek List of Fatalities in Simla
Goes Over Six Thousand.
A dispatch from Simla to The Lon
don Times says the plague returns for
the last week show' 6,386 deaths,
against 4,822 in the preceding week,
and U36 in H • corresponding week
last year. NU 5 ro Df the deaths were in
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/ Islands, accord
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ing to letters officers of the United States cruiser Philadelphia sent from
New Zealand. They say the Tutuila Naval Guard Is one of the best drilled
bodies of troops in the world. The natives look upon the soldier business
with great enthusiasm when enfisted under the American flag, and they,
have been drilled until they show great perfection in military movement.
The Samoan troops wear red turbans, white navy undershirts and blue dun
garee “lava-lavas” or breech-cloths, with two red straps around the hem.
The legs and feet are bare.
BLOSSOMS THAT EMIT LICHT.
When the Pollen Bursts Electricity ig
Generated With Faint Flashes.
To a woman belongs the honor of
having first fiiscftvered flowers that
emit light This woman was the
daughter of Linneaus, the celebrated
Swedish naturalist One evening,
when the aged man and his daughter
were walking in their gardens, she
called his attention to some nastur
tiurns glowing with a faint phospho
rescent light. They removed these to
a perfectly dark room and there
viewed the ghostly illuminated flowers
for hours, trying to solve the mystery.
Since that time, says the New York
Herald, a number of different flowers
have been found to give forth a light,
among them being the corolla of the
common sunflower; also a species of
called by the French botanists
the “rose d’lnde,” and the large and
beautiful compound flower called in
this country the dahlia.
“Luminous nasturtiums,” writes Pro
fessor A. Frederick Collins,” “have
been frequently observed in Golden
Gate Park, San Francisco. I observed
one evening a number of persons
bending over an iron pot full of nas
turtiums. Curious to know what the
attraction was I fell into line until it
became my turn to inspect tbe flow
ers at closer range.
“I was surprised to see a flash of
light dart repeatedly from the yellow
petals. The next day I photographed
jt.
“A strange fact regarding the phos
phorescent light emitted by certain
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Swimming Pheasants.
The pheasant, everybody knows, is
a non-aquatic bird; therefore Pro
fessor Lloyd Morgan’s observations
that newly hatched birds of the age
of thirty hours swim easily, show apt
leg movements and exhibit few signs
of distress, is of singular interest. Is
this swimming habit a tlirow-baek or
reversion to an antecedent state in the
bistory of tbis land-giving species, or
is it to be regarded as an example of
a direct and sudden adaptation to a
new' environment?—Loudon Chronicle.
Armor Presented to the King.
The sixteenth century suit of armor
presented to the King on June 13 by a
number of gentlemen, headed by the
Duke of Marlborough, was worn at
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the coronation of King George I., by
the champion, Dymoke, whose fee it
became after the ceremony. The suit
was made for Sir Christopher Hat
ton, and is the work of the armorer,
Jacobi. The breastplate, of markedly
peascod form, is of great size, with
two laminated plates at the bottom,
and on the left hand side five staples
for the attachment of the lance rest.
The decoration of the breastplate is of
great interest, as at the top of the
centre band is the crowned reverse
cipher, represented by a capital E and
beside it the same letter reversed, a
symbol which was used, no doubt, in
compliment to Queen Elizabeth; above
the monogram is a strapwork panel,
containing the figure of Mercury; at
the base of the breastplate is an ob
long cartouche, with the date 1585.
The same theme of ornament is re
peated on the back plate. The legs
are small in comparison with the rest
of the suit. It was purchased by the
presentation committee from a New
Bond street art dealer.
A Hoodoo Bird 1
Boone County, Mo., has a sort of
hoodoo bird known as “tbe belled
buzzard” which has returned to the
neighborhood at intervals of a few
years since before the days of the old
est inhabitant. It carries a bell at
tached to an iron' collar. The bird
has just come back very gray and
sluggish. It is believed to be at least
a century old.
The sweets of family life are not to
be found in family jars.
Miton Rite
A Height of Three Miles Ileachofl
at Ulue Hill Observatory,
T- 1TE flying Is no longer a
I / boy’s amusement merely.
\ \ Mature men enjoy the sport
(2 greatly, though the oppor
tunities for It may not be afforded ex
cept during their annual vacations.
Kites are used a great deal nowadays
for scientific purposes, too.
The device which Franklin found so
convenient for investigating the elec
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BRIDLE OF DIAMOND KITE.
tricity of a storm cloud has also been
employed for carrying up self-register
ing thermometers to great altitudes.
The United States Weather Bureau,
by simultaneous observation over a
wide area, has learned much about
atmospheric conditions at an eleva
tion of nearly ten thousand feet. At
the private observatory of A. Law
rence Botch, near Boston, kites have
been sent up twelve thousand and fif
teen thousand feet. Photographs have
in the same way been obtained far
above the earth’s surface, and a num
ber of daring and ingenious army of
fleers have sought to sustain them
selves in the air at a sufficient eleva
tion to reconnoitre. These last men
tioned ventures, though rather promis
ing, have not been attended with any
marked success. Still, the vast ma
jority of those who fly kites do so for
recreation and not for purposes of re
search.
At the shops one can find a great
variety of kites. Some are shaped
like yachts, and others like eagles,
These are rather expensive, however,
The more common forms, both In the
toy trade and among scientists, are
Eddy and box kites. Both of these
are tailless, which fact simplifies the
work of flying them, though calling
for a little greater precision in con
struction.
It is possible for a person endowed
with a fair amount of mechanical
skill to make his own kites. Inasmuch
as it is common to fly several at once,
tandem, and as there is more or less
loss from breakage sooner or later,
one naturally wishes to have any
where from two to a dozen, and if
that number were purchased ready
made the cost would not be trifling.
For the Eddy kite two sticks are
required, one upright and the other
crossing it at right angles, one-fifth
of the way from the top. The propor
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tion is eighteen per cent, to be exact.
Straight grain white pine or spruce
is the best wood, and for a kite three
or four feet high the sticks should be
half an inch wide, and a quarter of
an inch thick. At the intersection the
sticks should be fastened together
with brads or twine. The ends being
suitably notched, twine or fine wire
should be tightly stretched around
them.
Before this stage of construction is
reached certain other measures must
be taken, in order to give tbe kite a
slightly bulging front. The cross stick
should be bent backward like an
archer’s bow, and the curvature pre
served by a string from end to end.
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wind will make shallow pockets 7
bridle for flying is made by tying one
string to the bottom of the upright
stick and another to the intersection
of the two, their lengths being such
that the upper end will go out at right
angles from the face of die kite. The
bridle terminates in a loop, atl( ] ^
kite string is tied to the latter.
Hargrave, an Australian, is credited
with originating the cellular or hoy
kite. But the experts of the United
States Weather Bureau have tried a
number of modifications of the design
in matters of detail. So have Mr
Clayton, of the Blue Hill Ohserva
tory; Lieutenant Hugh Douglas Wise
U. S. A., and others. Some men have
the tops and bottoms of the cells hori
zontal. Others turn them up corner
wise. Again, one experimenter im
parted a diamond shape to the big cell.
For the Potter, or diamond, kite the
United States Weather Bureau gives
these dimensions: Four corner sticks,!
forty-four inches long, five-eight inch'
wide and quarter inch thick. Upright
braces, or struts, fifteen inches, and 1
horizontal braces thirty-eight inches
long. The cells are of cloth, hemmed
on both edges, thirteen inches wide
and eighty-one inches long. Two of
these are needed, of course.
Eddy kites are easily sent up with-'
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out assistance. To raise a box kite it
is wise to let out 150 or 200 feet of
string; have this lie exactly in line
with the wind, and get some one to
hold the kite lightly until the wind
catches it and begins to lift. At the
instant it is released'fifteen or twenty
feet of cord should be pulled in. That
performance has the same effect on
the kite as running. If the kite shows
a disposition to dive, let out a little
twine quickly.
When a flag is to be sent aloft by
means of kites, one edge should be
tacked to a stick sufficiently heavy to
hang vertically, and the upper end
of file stick tied to the kite string
when the kite or team has gone up
only a short distance.—New York
Tribune.
The Largest Ship Afloat.
The new White Star liner Celtic
heads her class of passenger steamers
in size and magnificence. Her cabm
capacity is 2859 passengers, yet to
give an idea of the roominess and
comfort of the boat, it is estimated
that 40,000 men could stand on one
of her spacious decks. She is TM
feet long, has a beam of seventy-five
feet and a depth of forty-nine feet
Although not so long as the Oceanic
by five feet, she has seven feet more
beam, and measures 3000 tons more.
Her tonnage is 20,000 gross, and her
displacement, at load draught, is 3S,-
220 tons. With engines of the Quad
ruple expansion type, twin screws,
great depth of beam and huge keels,
she ought to be the steadiest ermt
afloat. The staterooms are large o ati
comfortable; and suites, including 1* T '
ing room, chambers and bathrooms,
are furnished for families. The steer
age is said to be as luxurious as the
first-class accommodations of twenty
years ago.
Very few of us would be willing W
take our own advice.