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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. A.: %• u \ a. a f m ■> r 'vv \\YL A Si* 8 % MS I" Ji | «m Dins $ c , , m v \Y •4 i ■j – l '/ W- i .7 i S 7 m 1 to: H h HH m CS W2 <*7 --- 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 Bombay p ? A NEW TYPE OF AMERICAN SOLDIER, A * ,y ■'ll / m it L / v-Jy–fc j 1 m Ml 1 V 5 X 7 />•' 0 li V m 1 M v r A -- i I PI V * ‘XI I- 1 !L ~~ P x 'jic, 7 li / X "i $ I / .? _ Is V . * wm ml m V \ o. V i i i I V^ m I r, \ r \l i k - .J- to J* ONE OF UNCLE SAM’S SAMOAN SOLDIEBS. —» / Islands, accord r The United Slates has a model little army in the Samoan 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 OTiil * Hi* ./*' H ’.11 m mm m m i I siiiill lS W -A • m rc . mm •' 4 LUMINOUS NASTURTIUMS IN GOLDEN GATE PARK. flowers, it has been observ ed, is that * u v\ hich the y ellow and orange l )nK l°nun:Ue exhibit the greatest amount o g k. oh (.mu aggun. ^ f t ^h^ the electr citj . is pro . (iuced> am j i igllt follows.” 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 f ■■ -- y'j , mj I an m m m !>•; f-v M Htta V* A ' – - pi m m 5!^ W (a v l m 1 If * 1 Ml $ m h m m ifKgai; W\W/i .... 1’ V jMtm w ffi m uMtsM I m 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 : i . j 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 \ 1 r! HI THE HARGRAVE CELLULAR KITE. 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. THE NEW FLOATING STEEL DSYDOCK OF THE UNITED STATES NAVY. ~ 1 \3e. (Sfi 9 i mi V: — W - '/ r i: I f'^=r rj “r| "-t t ----T -a:— LAUNCHED AT SPARROW’S POINT. MD.. AUGUST 15-AS IT WILL LOOK HOLDING ONE OF THE 'BIG BATTLESHIPS. it [This is the largest dock in the world, and a valuable addition to our nai J • is 525 feet long, with a lifting power of 20,000 tons and cost $810,000. It will ; tioned at Algiers, near New Orleans.] Thin man 11a paper, silk or llgllt n%l lln will make a good coverin- T >,. should little " 18 fit a loosely, 80 that each side of the upright r stick th e ! .40 1 MODIFIED FORM OF BOX KITE 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-' t, \ I ill . -i 'i THE EDDY KITE. 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.