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Funeral Ceremonies Over Illustrious
Dead at Washington.
MANY GRIEVING THOUSANDS CROWD GREAT EDIFICE
Great Dome of Capitol Building Vast Throngs of Sorrowing Human
Under
Are Given Last Glimpse of the Features of Martyred Presi-
ity a
dent—Even the Elements Were In Accord With Nation’s
Great Grief—Procession Moved Through Drizzling Rain.
Beneath the great white dome of the
capitoi building in Washington funeral
services of state were held Tuesday
over the remains of the dead presi-
dent. The services were conducted in
accordance accordance with the rites of the Meth-
odist Episcopal church, oi w
president was a life-long member.
They consisted chiefly of hymns, a
prayer, an address and a benediction.
Gathered around the bier were rep¬
resentatives of every phase of Amer-
ican national life, including the presi-
dent and the only surviving ex-presi-
dent of the United States, together
with representatives at the capital of
almost every nation on earth. Great
Britain, France, Germany, Italy, Spain
and all the republics to the southward
of the United States mingled their
tears with those of the American peo-
As the sweet notes of Mr.
leys’ favorite hymn, "Lead, Kindly
Light,” floated through the great ro¬
tunda. the assemblage rose to its feet.
Bared heads were bowed and eyes
streamed with tears. At the conclu-
sion of the hymn, as Rev. Dr. Naylor,
presiding elder of the Washington dis-
trict, rose to offer prayer, the hush
that fell upon the people was profound.
When, in conclusion, he repeated the
Lord’s prayer, the great audience
joined solemnly with him.
Scarcely had the word “amen” been
breathed when the words of the
“Some Time We’ll Understand
straight to the c
-~u«. was sung by Mrs.
w was „„ echoed and the
ble re-echoed by the
quartet choir.
The venerable-Blshop Edwin G.
Jrews. of Ohio, Av
the oldest bi^ ** th
the Methodist Episcopal ^'“
took . head 01 the
his position -
bier, and th»> P eace that passeth all
underst<*“ uln 8” seemed to rest upon
the venerable man’s countenance as
ne began his eulogy of the life and
works of William McKinley. His words
were simple, but his whole heart was
in every one of them. His tribute to
the Christian fortitude of the dead
president was impressive. Upon the
conclusion of the sermon the audience,
as if by prearrangement, joined the
choir in singing “Nearer, My God. to
Thee.” All present seemed to be im¬
bued with a sentiment of resignation
as the divine blessing was asked by
Rev. W T . H. Chapman, acting pastor of
the Metropolitan Methodist Episcopal
church.
Mrs. McKinley did not attend the
services at the capitoi. It was deem¬
ed wise that she should not undergo
the ordeal.
Arrangements for the movement of
the funeral cortege from the white
house to the capitoi were completed
Tuesday night after the remains of
the president had been deposited in
the historic east room of the mansion
While the men of note were arriv¬
ing at the white house the funeral es¬
cort, under the command of Major
General John R. Brooke, was forming
immediately in front of the white
house. Besides regular soldiers, sail¬
ors and marines, the escort was made
up of a detachment of the national
guard, members of the Grand Army of
the Republic, Loyal Legion and kin¬
dred bodies and civic organizations
representatives of all branches of
the national government and the gov-
of states and their staffs.
At precisely 9 o’clock a silent com¬
was given and the body bearers
raised to their stalwart
the casket containing all
was mortal of the illustrious dead
placed it in a black
hearse drawn by six coal black horses,
caparisoned in black net with trailing
tassels, with a stalwart groom at the
head of each.
As the hearse moved away the
mourners from the white nouse en-
tered carriages and followed the body
on its march to the capitoi, where the
funeral services were to be held.
Slowly down the white house drive¬
way. through a fine drizzling rain, the
solemn cortege wound its way to the
gate leading to the avenue and halted.
Then with a grand, solemn swing the
artillery began the “Dead March from
Saul.” A blast from the bugle sound-
ed “march,” aud the head of the pro¬
cession was moving on its way to the
capitoi. Pennsylvania
Both sides of avenue
from the white house to the capitoi
were massed with an impenetrable cor-
don of people wishing in this way to
final tribute of love and respect
{Qr dead t he funeral cortege
ged down the b roa d thoroughfare
to the solemn notes of the “Dead
.March from Saul” the sorrowing peo-
nle V bared their heads despite the rain,
and many tear-stained faces bespoke
their grief more eloquently than
words. Not a sound was heard, Tbe
people recognized as one of the mourc-
ers former President Cleveland. They
recognized, too, the new president.
With silent salute they greeted him
and with them he mingled his tears D
sorrow for the dead.
The procession occupied an hour sne
a half in passing a given point.
As the hearse halted in front of ihe
main entrance to the capitoi, (he
troops, responding to almost whisper-
arms.
As the eight sturdy n 0 dy bdrers,
four from the army and foui v r cm the
navy tenderly drew the flag-<H pe d
, the binds
c&skGt from the hearse,
sweetly wailed the pleading notes of
Thee.' Every (
“Nearer. My God, to
attendar 4 * ar ° n «> *as
head in the vast **
bared. Tear-bedlmr» ri<1 re
heaven and a s ? r& L° T
raised to <!fl0uaands hear j- s
went ud from the solemn tread the -
and
* ^rs began the ascent ot the
, .
«T°airca*e with the* it precious catafalque burden
and tenu . ,. r i v > bo re to the
ni
D jni8lon of the funeral
At a* ♦he'- tne rotunda
' .ne the casket lid was
v c .S p ved in order that the immediate
friends of the dead president might be
afforded the comfort of & last giance
at his features. During the six hours
in which the body was lying in state
it is estimated that 55,000 people re^
viewed the remains.
When the body of the dead presl-
dent were finally closed forever to
the view of Washington people, the
cavalry escort again was formed “ and
“””7! ,7 __; 7 “ 7 “'
whloh was M boar thorn ,„ , to Canton. The
lagniflcent display of floral offerings,
numbering 125 pieces, and making the
most remarkable floral tribute ever
seen in Washington, were placed
aboard a special car,
The Last Journey.
The funeral train left over the Penn-
sylvania railroad at 8:20 o’clock Tues-
day night.
The escort for the body from the
capitol to the train consisted of com-
mittees from the army and navy and
two squadrons of the Eleventh caval-
Z'enle -j,,.. JS Z „ t?"? , Ppna T . flvania /
a enue, uhich was lined on either side
b> troops of the District of Columbia.
v>< n \ cars in t ree trains were re-
quired for the transportation of the
funeral party to Canton.
train President^ at 7:50. Roosevelt Mrs. McKinley arrived declin- at the
ed to use a rolling chair from her car-
riage to her car, and walked with sur-
prising firmness to her place, assisted
by Abner McKinley and Dr. Rixey.
The observation car bearing the re-
mains was flooded with light, so that
even as the train swept through the
night the people in the country could
see the casket.
The countless thousands extending
from the station of the route into the
suburbs of the national capital, wait¬
ing patiently there in the drenching
rain to pay their last farewell, had an
opportunity to catch a last, fleeting
glimpse of the flag-covered casket as
the train sped by.
FEARS FOR MRS. McKINLEY.
Friends Are Apprehensive That Col¬
lapse Will Follow Close of Tragedy.
The friends of Mrs. McKinley are se-
riously alarmed about her. They speak
with grave paprehension of the day 3
that are soon to come when she will
be borne up no longer by her sense of
duty and the sustaining force of her
desire-to perform her full part in the
ceremonies that the national character
and tragic end of her distinguished
husband make appropriate, After
these are ended it is feared the col¬
lapse will come.
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In civilized countries to-day government documents are sent free through
tie mails and bear stamps showing that such a privilege has been accorded
ta them. On each of these stamps appears the name of the country or city
There it is issued, the number of the document and the letter It, which is
the Initial of the French word “Recom mandee” and which indicates that
the document Is franked, or, in other words, is exempt from the usual postal
charges. The stamps are Issued in the following countries: Russia, Italy,
Finland, Japan, Roumanla, Mexico, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Greece, Chile,
Sweden, Ecuador, Germany, Austria, United States of America, Colombia,
Holland, Hungary, Persia, Great Britain, Switzerland, Montenegro, Costa
Rica, France and Uruguay. As grap hologlsts mainUfln that the character
of every human being is revealed in his or her handwriting, so it is claimed
that national character Is in each case revealed in these stamps, and espe¬
cially in the manner in which the capital R is formed. That the formation
of this letter is not the same on all the stamps can be seen at a glance. On
some it is strictly regular, while on ot hers it Is more or less artistic, as the
graceful curve of its tail shows.—New York Herald.
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With a Diagram Which Simplifies ©
the Explanation. q
In a pamphlet by Alfred F. Sims,
v*«pared for and circulated by the
G f Du al Electric Company, there Is
boroe interesting data about the
b ' st ° r ^ of a thunderstorm, from which
the folov, ng Is taken:
The attempt* phenomena m * thurv-
derstorm vary e» n9 iaer*bly. but are
osually as follows; First, dmie haze
appears hi the morning. Then dark
clo «ds are seen lying \ow In the west-
e™ sk 7- oeoall y to the afternoon; -ti*
air Is warm and sultry. Later on the
douds mount to near the aenlth. and
ab> near the ground ^ ‘ a solemn ,
* tllae8a bolds.* The elouds cm the
ot *he thnnderstcnn are grayish
? h[te ° r retW,sB and htn « 0TCr aud * n
fpont of the w,n cloQ<J - Above
th °? e den f e d * k S™? and violet eu-
ratas " e ? eea * « 1 ®° tho
<*>uds arc
nXn Often these are Interspersed 1° ^ with ^ atU9 one ’
« r m °« thlck cum.lo-ntrnras do,id
lnyws abow a „ ll|9 .
tributed cirro-sbatus.
The herald of the storm is heard be-
f 0 re the cloud rtaches the zenith, and
the first rain conmences after it. The
interval betweenthe first thunder and
the beginning ofthe rain varies from
a ^ ew minutes tobalf an hour or more.
About fiTe minut 's before the rain be-
£ ins there comet from the west or
“ ort hwest a br f wbicb sad '
denly i InCrea9es ,n violence and be '
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TIie Gme a,, f ramfa11 . f ,, varie3 . :
sometimes it occirs [ at the beginning f J
and somotlnies iu he latter par tl
time the rain lightninJ eloul draws over a local-
Ity . The strokes and loudest
thunder occur son? minutes after the
rain begins. Gradually the western
horizon loses its dark aspect, lightens
up a little, and finaly opening clouds
appear. The storm clouds pass by
overhead and the rain ceases shortly
before their western edge reaches the
zenith. The last ^thunder is usually
heard after the rear edge of the cloud
has passed to the zenith. The usual
direction of translation of thunder-
storms in this latitude is easterly,
aDd they revolve around a horizontal
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DIAGRA.UMATIC SECTIO X OF A THUNDERSTORM.
axis, whereas tornadoes revolve
around a vertical axis.
Before the thunderstorm the meteo¬
rological conditions undergo the fol*.
lowing changes: The air pressure and
the relative humidity decrease, and
the temperature rises; the wind is
light. At the moment of bursting of
the storm the air pressure aud relative
humidity increase very rapidly and the
temperature falls; the wind suddenly
subsides almost immediately after¬
ward, while at times it increases un¬
til near the dose of the thunderstorm.
Toward the end of the thunderstorm
the air pressure and the relative hu¬
midity reach tiieir maximum and the
temperature Hs minimum.
For Western Farmers.
The up-to-date farmer with a largo
acreage finds it slow work to plow
his fields with the old single plows
of the past, and so he utilizes the
^ectrlc number current sod multiplies the
at plow shares to suit him¬
self. In the West this Is practically
a necessity, on account of the largu
stae of the fields and the cost of labor
and tfismi Our fHusrtration ■R'yws a
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ELECTRICALLX-OPERATED PLOW.
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convenient form of motor plow which
has been designed by Conrad Meiss-
nor, of Frieurlchsburg, Germany. It
consists of two electric motors oper-
ating winding drums on separate car-
riages,‘which may be placed at any
required distance apart, only one mo-
tor being connected with the main
feed wire. To supply power to the
second motor a feed cable lying paral-
lei with the traction cable is readjust-
ed at every trip of the plow to follow
the latter down the field. The inech-
anism is so adjusted that when once
set in motion the apparatus practically
operates itself, moving the carriages
forward at the beginning of each trip
to bring the plow-shares in position
for the next row of furrows. The
plows are attached to a two-wbeolcd
truck, which is pulled back and forth
across the field, moving forward at
the end of each-set of furrows as long
as the power is turned oa.
The Rhine is only 960 miles long, but
drains a territory nearly double Um
area of Texas. __
HOWISON IS DEPOSED
In First Ronnd of Inqniry Schle '-r;
Wins a Victory.
COURT SUSTAINS CHALLENGE
Adjournment Necessitated to Await
Appointment of Third Judge.
Incidents of Initial
Proceedings.
A Washington special says: Thj
formal proceedings of the Schley court
of inquiry were begun Thursday with
the reading by Captain Lemly of Ad-
miral Schley’s letter requesting the
convening of the court aud the nary
department’s precept.
Admiral Schley won the first victory
before the court. Within less than
three hours after the organization he
convinced Admirals Dewey and Ben-
ham that his objection te Admiral
Howison was based on good and suf¬
ficient grounds and Admiral Howison
was relieved from duty as a member
of the court. The decision was no sur-
prise to those who watched the pro-
ceedings. The evidence was strong as
to the possibility of Admiral Howison
having already formed an opinion
There was no criticism on the part of
Admiral Schley and his counsel of the
statements Admiral Howison was al¬
leged to have made, but these state¬
ments were used to show that it was
evident the admiral had already form¬
ed an opinion on the merits of the
case and was therefore disqualified.
Those who remained away from the
court at inquiry under the impression
that the first session would be of rou¬
tine nature and consequently dull were
disappointed. There was not a dull
moment. No feeling was displayed,
but Schley’s counsel were earnest and
terse.
Since Admiral Howlson’s disqualifi¬
cation the question naturally arises as
to who will be his successor. The
navy department will be notified of the
court’s action and since Secretary
Long la absent from the city, Acting
Secretary Hackett will doubtless make
the appointment Haokett some days
ago made earnest, one might say per¬
sistent, efforts to induce the depart¬
ment of Justice to name an attorney
to assist Judge Advocate Lemly. AI
ter falling to secure aid from the de¬
partment of fustics Mr. Hackett ap¬
pointed E. P. Hanna, solicitor of the
nary department, te assist Captals
Lemly. Mr. H&ekett's interest in me
matter wua freely commented upon at
the time and his announcement of the
new member of the court is a matter
of no small importance and Interest.
As soon as tne court was organized,] ill
Admiral Schley, upon being asked
he had any objection to any member I
of the court, arose and formally obj ba-J
jected to Admiral Howison. As a I
sis for the objection he declared that
Admiral Howison had already formed!
an opinion upon the case and for that!
reason was disqualified. To sustain!
these charged a number of witnesses!
were introduced and each relate^ comment!
stances where Howison has
ed upon the Schley-Sampson matter i*
a manner adverse to Admiral Scblew
Admiral Howison made a writte*
statement to the court. This was - j
by an argument from Mr. Ra> nor, acS
the court, upon retiring, sustained AM
nriral Schley,
The usual formalities on the
of a court were transacted vi
dispatch. The first skirmish rising was from opeij ti
by Admiral Schley
seat and, speaking In a strong v o:«
calmly and deliberately challenged mei Aj
mirai Howison’s eligibility as a
ber of the court. Three witnesses
brought forward in support of 4
challenge, namely, Francis Foster S. Nkboj Fnj
William E. Spon and
They gave very positive testimony j
to expressions they favorable had heard to Alj A-J
ral Howison make Ad*|
ral Sampson and unfavorable to
ral Schley. On concluding this
mony, the question arose whether issue*J J
miral Howison would join
the statements made by the witne*!
or would rest upon his privilege ■
withhold any answer until he cho^B
submit it.
The admiral met the issue by
ing at once to Admiral Dewey an¬
nouncing that he would make » ]
ten rejoinder to the This statements rejoindeM o j
three witnesses. M
prepared very speedily, While
ceding the accuracy of some P 01 -'
the evidence, it threw consid eI M
doubt on other points and disc-H
any recollection of the talks -‘'i
have taken place It oa not the 6U ® trans-Aj] c ’ eE ",^
tic steamer. was J
ever, to counteract the very dir
tlmony given by the three
and, moreover, the admiral
concluding his statement. in ^
plainly that he had no J es ‘ rt J
main on the court and was
ply In obedience to orders
,