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Show VOL IV. AM KIM CAN FOBK, 1TTAII, SATURDAY,' SAW LINCOLN KiLLKU COULDN'T .1 Rnvlird T.u Wuuml. from Julia HiMith'. Knife anil Hat Arrnlnl fur Ihr Munler of Ilia Wllkm fmlilnl. R. WITHERS, the leader of Augustin Daly'stheorchestra, distinc-tlo- n enjoy of having not only been at the theater the night d, Lincoln was but having been pierced by the dagger of the asaas-ainate- juat a few momenta after Hooth bad fired the shot that made Lincoln a martyr. Here ia the atory aa be tella it: I waa leader of the orrheatra at the time, and aa the preaident waa to wlt-nethe performance of 'Our American Cousin, 1 thought that aa befitting the occasion I would compost? a Bong. So I did. It waa entitled: 'Honor to Our Soldiera, and dedicated to the preaident. Thia waa to be., sung ltween two of the acta by a Quartet I had engaged and the entire company, who were to be attired in the American coaa lor. Jury iif lotHyrnt Tlul liauilrtl the a Aa I waa on my way to the theater I met John Wilkea Booth juat in front of Geo. Harry'a aaloon, which adjoined the theater. It waa a mill ry night and Booth had bin overcoat over hfa arm. 'Good evening, Billy,' he aaid; 'come, have aomething.' Aa I waa leaving to enter the theater Booth remarked: Til witness the I noticed nothperformance ing strange about hia dcmeanoi'. and" aubceqiientiy aaw him aa I waa coin-lu- g out for the overture. 'Soon the president, hia wife, MaJ. Rathbone, and Robert and Tad entered their box. I signaled for 'Hail to the Chief, and the audience cheered and the preaident turned smilingly and bowed. Then he seated himself, and with hia accustomed modesty drew the curtains half across the bos'. After the first act J. P. Wright, the stage manager, sent me word he would be unable to have the special song sung at that time, but would try and have it rendered between the second and third acts. A similar message was sent me at the close of the second act, and I became somewhat exercised. I started to go upon the stage, when I saw Booth in the balcony, walking down the aisle, in the direction of the president's box. He was seemingly attentive toward the acting, for the cur-tai- n had gone up again. I encountered a scene shifter, Spangler, whose office 1 afterward learned was to turn out the lights in the theater as soon as the shot was fired, lie obstructed my passage. " What do you want here?' lie demanded. In reply I told hitn it was none of his business. Mr. Wright Spangler left his position on the siage alongside the box in which was the apparatus for illuminating the theater. I rinsed the lid of the box and sat upon it to talk to the manager, unconscious that I was spoiling the plan. "Mr. Wright told me the song would he sung at the close of the performance, and Miss Keene had sent word to the president requesting him to stay and hear it. I was Just about to return to the orchestra when the rrack of a revolver startled me. All was quiet instantly. I saw a man jump from the president's box on to the stage. It was Booth. He ran directly toward the door leading Into the alley. This course brought him right in my path. He had a dagger in his hand, and he waved It He evidently did not threateningly. recognize me. for he appeared like a maniac, his eyes seemed starting from their Sockets, and his hair was diahev- eled. With head down he ran toward me me prss. He slashed and cried: at me and the knife cut through ray He coat, veal and underclothing. struck again, the point of the weapon penetrating the bark of my neck, and ihe blow brought me to the floor, watched him' make hia exit Into the alley, and caught sight of the horse held by 'Peanut John.' The commotion In the audience Several actwas something terrible. ors. including Harry Hawke, rushed out, and a man who proved to be a detective lifted me up and said: 'I arrest you.' "What's all this about?' I asked. 'I'm stabbed.' 1 was quickly told what was the niBtter. The thought flashed across my mind that Booth was the assassin. . "1 was taken to the police station and received in the presmy deposition was ence of Mayor Waliach. That was. ' believe, the first intimation that they haa of the Identity of the murderer. I was at the trial of the ronspirators, and the second to give testimony. My wound healed In a short tirno. - necessary state of cleanliness for healthful school rooms requires that the floors shall be dampened and swept every day, with all the windows open, the dusting to be done the next morning with a damp cloth. In addition to this cleaning. Dr. Adams, who is the president of the Orange County Medical societies, believes that at least every other day the floors should be thoroughly scrubbed with soap and water. The various women's clubs throughout the country whose members are interested in the work of the public schools will do well to find out how near the school rooms where their children spend the greater part of their waking hours approach this state. New York Cost. flirt hlay. The centenary celebration of the alrlh of Schubert will take place on Jan. 31 in Vienna and Berlin. The festival in the Austrial capital will be devoted entirely to Schubert's works sml there will also be an exhibition of his autograph manuscripts.. In Berlin the celebration will have a unique character. The rom poser' opera, "Zic Verachworenen" (The Conspirators") will be rendered, several member of the royal family taking part In the PMfar3At.ee. N I York Tribunal .,,h j ' , : Hnu-rllM.i- l ; of ,h" t'.cuns destruction. .j., Vll,.j. f fi,,!,,. down some precip- Items gullcy is not less deadly than the? hail of shells uud bullets on the battle-O- F And. hi a less degree, burning,. and the manlier forms of athletic:, give? the same result. Sports involving risk 0f supreme value from j,, jjfp U11. (he national point Of view, SUd till should lie remembered when the iioraiil mid degenerate assail them.'' ig-ifu-i-jr NIiM-klui- O N G R K ? S MAX : i Nulsin llilixiev. Jr., who is mentioned fur the secretaryship of the treasury Mcin I'rcaident cabinet, Kinley's represents the secof district ond Maine in the prea- ent congress and has been conby that district to the fifty-fift- h gress. He Is not only one of the ablest men In the house, but Is also one of the most admired and most respected. During his very long career in that body he hm not made a single enemy, while it Is also true that he haa won the warm legard of hia fellow legislators of all parties. The quality of hia politics la vealthy and the philosophy of his statesmanship is profound. When he speaks both sides of the house listen, not because he Is a great orator, but because what he says always adds wisdom to the situation. Mr. Dingley came up from the farm to congress through the college. A native of Maine, he was educated at Dartmouth and became a lawyer. Law did not please him, how-- i ever, and his mind turned toward the larger field of journalism. In that profession Mr. Dingley has been an emphatic success. He acquired the Lewiston Journal, converted it into a daily and soon earned with his pen a wide reputation for the paper, of which he still retains contcc. liis political life began with the legislature, in which he served six years. His next step was his election as governor of Maine. He was and declined re- - I don't know how long it was befon I wus awaki-uei- l again, ibis time not by the noise of the storm, but by s curious movement of my bedalrail say Frank R. Stockton in McClure's It actually forward as if it were descending In the trough of tht sea, but, unlike a ship, it did not rise again but remained in such a slanting position that I began sibling down toward the foot I believe that If it had not been a bedstead provided with a foot-boa1 should have slipped out upon the floor. 1 did not Jump out of bed; I did not do anything. I tried to think, to understand the situation, to find out whether I waa asleep' or awake, when I became aware of noises in the room and nil over the house, which, even through the din of the storm, made themselves noticed by their peculiarity. Tables, chairs, everything in the room, seemed to be grating and grinding on the floor, and in a moment there was a crash. I knew what that was; it was my lamp, which had slipped off- the table. Any doubt on that point would have beer dispelled by the smell of kerosene which filled the air of the room. Now, it was Impossible for me to get up and strike $ light, for to do so, with kerosene oil all over the floor and its vapor diffused through the mum, would probably result In setting the house oil Are; so I must stay in darkness and wait. I do not think I was very much frightened I waa so astonished that there was no room in my mind for fear. In fact, all my mental energies were occupied In trying to find out what had happened. It required, however, only a few more minutes of reflertion and a few more minutes of the grating. VERY iui-che- rd age. "Fear, he writes, "is greatest where (he imagination is strongest. It la an emotion which seriously affects both body and mind. On the physical side it checks the flow of saliva, and brings lhat peculiar thirst of the battlefield; it causes organic derangement and a t'lluiu degree uf muscular relaxation. increa:cp the tension of the voice, and is accompanied by a ilesjierute effort to avoid the ibmger. On Hip mental side it purnlyzes the intelligence and leads ' io the blind desire lor flight, though sometimes it goes even furllior, and deprives ihe vletlm of all power of movement. If flight takes place, it is Hie flight of panic, u reflex and often involuntary net. Only sirength of will an overcome Oils tendi ncy to run. As a mailer uf faet. flight is rarely the best road out of danger; In liattle ii is the worst. To go forward and die is heller Ilian in go backward and die; for, in the first place (lie enemy. who is experiencing precisely the same emotions, will lose courage and shoot less steadily, thereby diminishing the risk of the assailant. Nothing is more contagious than panic; a single man with ashen face rushing to the rear will draw others after him and shake the ronfldenee of all who see bim. Hence the problem is how to Implant courage I and avoid panic. J Courage ia simply control of the nerves, and is largely due to the habit ' of confronting danger. General Sher-- 1 man thus defines it: 'All men naturally shrink from pain and danger, and only incur their risk from some other higher motive or fronT habit; so that I would define true courage to be a perfect sen- -' aibility of the measure of danger and a ' mental willingness to incur it, rather than lhat insensibility Io danger of which I have heard far morp than I have seen. Thu most riiuragooux men ' arc generally unconscious of possessing Hie quality; therefore, when one professes it too openly by words or bearing there is reason to mistrust it. I would j further illustrate my meaning by describing u mini of true courage to he all his faculties and one who possei-ecsenses perfectly when serious danger is aciuully present. "ITiilo, habit, duty, these are the forces which enable men to control themselves. All can be fostered and implanted by training. Sheridan reckd men, oned that, of the have not tlie requisite about rapacity for courage, and are, thereSuch veak fore, useless for battle. hearts must Iu weeded out. 'No matter how brave a veteran may lie,' says Private Wilkeson. of Grant's army, 'lie rdlcs on the men on either side of him to stand there till they fall. He must know that his comrade are as staunch fighters as he. DINGLEY. "Even In the bravest and most fully tiled men fear is subdued and not bumping, trembling of my house to en- wholly eliminated. Skobeloff said of able me to make up my mind what himself, I confess that I am at heart had happened; my house waa sliding a coward. He despaired of General down hill. (iourko because the latter would duck In the to avoid bullets and shells. Northern army, at the close of the civil Kstroorillnsry fane of Ward llllmlnese. An extraordinary, case of word war, General Horace Poiter tells us blindness'' Is mentioned by Dr. W. that there were only two men known I bowed the head to Pringle Morgan, of Scuford, England, ! to him who never in the British Medical Journal. It Is iron and lead. Of these, one was Gen-- i n lad of fourteen, eral Grant. So purely a mutter of hab-- that of a the son of intelligent parents, who finds it. a reflex action, had such ducking hc- -' it Impossible to learn to read, though ' come, that after a great battle men he haa been to school or under tutors would involuntarily but), as they stood since he was seven years old. All bis nr sat about ciinip, at the slightest life he has been a bright. Intelligent noise. How. then. Is courage to be In peare? A Russian general once boy, quirk at games of all aorta, and taught in no way inferior to others of his proposed to 'salt' his soldiery by loading one rifle in ten with ball cartridges age. Ills name is Iercy, but he selduring manoeuvres. This ghastly pre-- . dom succeeds in placing the five letters comiioslng It in their correct or- punitive was too revolting to rlvllizrd never been carried der, and even when he haa done so minds, and it has five minutes later he la uncertain what ' out; but. if adopted, il would make the under such circumstances they represent. With arithmetic and army trainedHiid j w iu the cud tend to algebra he finds no difficulty whatever, j invincible. but printed or written wtirda have no shorten wnr and iuivp life. It would soldier to the sights and meaning for him. The schoolmaster, accustom the who has taught him for some years, scent of the baitleflcl I, and overcome unknown. Il would says he would be the smartest lad In Ms dread of the the school If the Instruction were en- enable him to control hi nerves In the of the actual encounter. tirely oral. In a less scientific age tumult "Buch a piimitt us climbing hna Hie this unfortunate boy would probably have been thrashed every day of hia same moral effect. Endurance, mutual may be learned on school life by an ignorant pedagogue trust, for not doing that which nature had the high Alps, or. for the matter of that. In a Waaldulc, where a slip on the face deprived him of the oower of doing. - eer-luin- lv i ! s able-bodie- one-four- th WILLIAM In 1881 nomination for a third Mr. Dingley went to congress, and his career in that body since has been on of ability and honor. He haa served on many Important committees, not the least of which is the ways and means committee of the present congress. Mr. Din.jey Is 64 years of age. POPULIST BROOK FARM, llreldrat hal Projecting a Settlement In Karnes. John W. Breidenthal, chairman of the Kansas Populist state committee; CongEdward R. Rldgely of ressman-elect tie Third Kansas district and Treasurer W. II. Biddle are at the head of a movement to establish a tract of company on a 2.000-arr- e land in Crawrord county, Kan., build a city and engage In farming, mining, manufacturing and mercantile business ona plan, each person employed to be a part owner of the property with a share in the profits. It is estimated that 1 1 Ob .000 will put the enterprise on Its feet, and the money will be raised by 1,000 persons investing 1100 each. When the company gets the plant in operation, it will proceed to extend its business and take In new members as the enterprise develops. Those who have no money will be permitted to pay for their stock out of their share of the profits. The sum of 120,000 already haa been subscribed. ex-Sta- le one has heard the story told of Murslial Xey, to i he effect that he ails observed Just prior io a desperate charge apostrophizing his trembling legs and telling them that they rtOSJV 1 would shake a great Jy deal more if they only knew where he was going to take them. Tills physical sensibility to danger and mental resolution to face It constitute. In the opinion uf II. W.'Wil-so- n, who writes on "The llunuin Animal in Battle" the highest type of cour- . , lleiilf lifal Rrhftolrooniiu An ideal, but, we are assured, quite lrm r An Italian Inventor linn a Kulmiarlnn Aifivnturr. An Italian Inventor, named Corzetto, says La France Miiitaire, has constructed an apparatus which he calls a methydric sphere, and by means of which he professes to be able to descend to any depth in the sea. In hia experiment at Spexsia he stored some two thousand cubic feet of compressed air in his apparatus, which he entered with two friends and which waa then lowered to a depth of some thirty feet. As after the expiration of nine hours the sphere" had not yet been seen to reascend to the surface, a message waa sent to the admiral In command of the naval department, who at once sent a diver to the spot. The sphere" was found still resting on the sea bottom, but the diver heard nothing in answer to bis knocks. Some barges having been brought to the spot by u tug. the "sphere was hauled up with ropes, and as soon as ir emerged its dour was opened, and the inventor appeared with a livid fare and half asphyxiated. His two companions were unconscious, but were quickly resuscitated. They had remained eighteen hours under water. The inventor explains that so far all his experiments were successful, but on this occasion when he intended to return to the surface the air pressure at his command proved insufficient to expel the water ballast, of about two tons weight, which had so fur kept his appliam-submerged, anil hence they had to remain where they were until rescued. At any rate, three persona were enabled to remain under water for eighteen hours, and this experiment may not he without significance aa regards the much discussed probitfn of submarine navigation. fV WV 1,10V J er UNDER WATER FOR 18 HOURS. NO. 11! 1007. j miter. "I think it was lu Is i'J." said an old bar to a momliei' of (lie Clevelund Cltvcland Linder man. "w! e:i the Supreme court judges used to go from county to county, on horseback or in huggiea. still hold court. On the occasion referred to eourt was being held in the courthouse that stood on the south side of the public square. The Juilgea were: Judge Hitchcock, Eben-ezLane, Kruben Wood and Frederick Grimke; Harvey Rice was clerk and M. R, Kietb deputy. The case on trial, and in which ihe late Sherlock J. Andrews and Henry B. Payne were attorneys, I believe, waa oue concerning a contract and a Jury waa demanded. There were not so many people hanging around the courthouse aa there are now, waiting for a jury job, and Judge Hitchcock immediately ordered a Jury of thejawyera present. The legal gentlemen tried every way to get out of it, but the judge was inexorable. Twelve lawyers were eeleetd and sent Into the box. I don't remember all tha names now, but there were Herman Hurlbut.Woolsey Wells. Edward Wade, and, I believe, Messrs. Bolton and Kelly. Finally the rase was concluded and the jury sent out. They were locked up for the day and returned at night with the word that they could not agree. Judge Hitchcock said they ought to agrpe and sent them bark for another day. In vain they pleaded important business; there was no help for them. At the end it the second day they reported tliut they could not agree. Word was sent bai-that the court saw no reason why they could not agree and that they must try it again. But In vain. At 2 o'clock of the third day they were called out. and as there was no possible hope of their agreeing they were discharged. Judge Hitchcock was disgusted and I don't that lie ever held anothrr case before a jury of that kind. 2. l Wl The pro.Vrluii fr.pe.l t.j he.-iopera1 IIL tions next Kpiiiii;. nl( y have lakfl ; options on l!. Li ml wli n li tin y have it KEENLY SENSIBLE ONE Or' THE ABLEST MEN IN view. Mr. Bt e:di in tial is nos a leadint ! BRAVEST candidate for ihr I'uited States seuau DANCER. THE PRESENT HOUSE. to succeid William A IVffer.-l'h- ila j ! delpliia lres--- , i iMiqaera ihrir Hut Thrir wilt I'uwi-Til Nbtiir llufi Vfiiiioiinl a a Mil Iter Win. Wire Nrr- Krara lircul IImm Frailmlil I'MliliiPt Ofttivr HOUSE MOVING. IIiu ia Ten- iuus (Tiiiiiiina i i H'ti C'onismiiiik ll'4riin slue IMtfl A Sr KiM'rirui-alijr Kraal t .mrsae. iu crr-stUi JuuraalUtU truiurts K.r BOX. NKLSOX Ili.Nti .1 WAS LEADER OF ORCHESTRA THAT NIGHT. W AGREE. FKIlIU'AltY I I well-grow- ' ; . . self-contr- A NEVER-FAILIN- Why llie MAGNET. G frond tiailipHd anil KciuulaeiL fur I lie Kluiw. For days beforehand the billboard of Queen City bad been aflame with posters, announcing Hie nature of an entertainment w hich was to take place on the outskirts of the city on the afternoon of June 12, and which waa heralded as the greatest effort to which the professional entertainer could aspire, says the New York World. Great were the excitement and joy when tha news became known, for what man had not cherished the fond hope that he would some day behold this wondrous sight? When the day came round the residents of Queen City turned out en. masse and, with beaming faces that told uf cares for the once forgotten, they repaired to the rendezvous on the outskirts of the city. Arrived there, they found a square inclosure of great urea which (hail been boarded to a height of some twenty feet, added to which, after one had been successful In the mad tush for admission, one beheld a three-stor- y brick house in the center of the Inclosure. This house was all that the arena contulned, and as every spectator made a point of getting aa dose lu it us possible, it was evident that It was to figure prominently In the day's spectacle. The grounds were quickly packed with an eager, surging multitude that iinpuiiciiily awaited the happening ot what was destined to be the greatest event in Qaivn City's history. :iitdi! It lias begun!" As the crowd ia breathlessly pussid, every one ie on tiptoe, with eye riveted on the brick house. Five, ten. fifteen minutes pass. During this time the Immense throng: stands transfixed with awe and admiration. Then comes tlio rude awakening: from that hi I asm I repose; for the block and tackle have done their work,' and aa the fireproof safe disappears through-second-stor- y window the mob breathes freely agulu and then dallies forth to continue the battle of life. a Wllil Itimr Against Tiger. The wild boar never knows when il Is whipped. In India recently Col. G. 11. Trevnr saw a boar fight a tiger, and be tells about it in the Badminton Tlie fight was pulled off la Magazine. a pli ten yards in diameter, wiib a sanded floor and sixteen-fowalls. a served as entrances Several through which to introduce the animals. A trail of grain through one of throe doors served to ilccny a boar into ihe arena. A tiger, nearly full grown, that for a year hail lived an !nolTen::iv(; cxistei.ci- in a cage, was rurnd down a plane from another door, were together. The ami the two tiger wanted to g?l away, his head hung down like a whipped dog's, and iifs tail drooped. The light was going io be a fizzle, when the natives began to throw things at Then tlie beast Legnn to growl. Suddenly the hoar dived at him. The tiger lea pi'll into the air, and the boar rushed underneath and went half a dozen feet iipyonil. It puzzled the boar Immediately to have the tiger gel away from him in that way, but he turned and made for the tiger again. Three times the tiger leaped above the boar, but the fourth time the boar threw up his head, and the tiger got a rip with the lusks that drew blood. Then the cat turned on the pig, grabbed hint by the nape of the neck, and shook him. as a schoolninsier shakes a small boy. This done, the tiger dropped the boar-anwalked away. The tiger had merely Intended to punish the little beast. The boar got his breath and recovered somewhat from his dizziness, and, facing the tiger again, made for him Juat as if the tiger wasn't several times-biggerThe tiger eluded the charge easily. Then a trap-doopened, and the tiger bolted through it at full speed , leaving the buar wild for a fight.. ot trap-dqur- two-year-- - s the-tiger- . . I'onruiiliiii of Names. It Is not generally known here whe artist's works are Nnore familiar tb their fares-th- at George Du Mauri and lomrcm-- Alma Tadema resembl one Riiullier lo an Hniusing degree; much that even their Intimate frien A young lady w mistook them. prided herself that she had no difllcul in determining which was which, fin Ing herself oni seated next to I)u Ms I cannot imagi rier. remarked: how any one can mistake you for 1 Tadema. To me the likeness is ve slight. By the way. 1 have a phol graph of you. Do lie so good as lo p your autograph to it." Du M.iuricr, i seining graciously, the photograph w produced. He looked at it, sighed a vi ry gently laid it on the tab "That. he remarked, "ia a portrait Mr. Alma Tadeua." e A |