The Assassination of President Lincoln. <>tf>OOOCSXHC)C£X>O0<5C<>>DCsa>0C>a>^^ N April 14 just thirty-three years box, quietly holding a pistol in one hand ¡vill have passed since President and a knife, or dirk, in the other. Maj. Lincoln was shot' down in Ford’s Rathbone rose and asked this intruder Theater,' Washington, by John Wilkes his business. Booth rushed past the Booth. The excitement all over the Unit Major without making a reply and, plac ed States to-day,^ caused by the war scare, ing his pistol close to the President’ s brings to mind the thrill of horror and head, actually in contact with it, fired, excitement that passed over the country and instantly sprang upon the cushioned thirty-three years ago, when, just as the baluster of the box, when he made a minds of the people had become settled backward plunge with his knife, aimed after four years of war, the country was at the face or breast of Mr. Lincoln. startled by the announcement' of Lin Maj. Rathbone, springing forward to pro tect the President, received the stab in coln’s assassination. Announcements had been made in his arm. It was towards the latter part of the Washington papers that President Lin coln and Gen. Grant, accompanied by play. Perfect stillness reigned through their wives, would visit Ford’s Theater out the house. The audience listened to (now a pension office) on the evening of the dialogue between Florence Trenchard and May Meredith, when the pistol shot April 14. Gen. Grant found it necessary to visit rang through the theater-^ M was w 41" Burlington, N. J.. on that memorable ■ U H a « 14th of A p"), and he accordingly sent to *-,v-r>nlont T/mColn a note of regret at nis Inability to accompany him to the the ater that evening, leaving Washington on the 6 p. m. train. To Schuyler Colfax, then Speaker of the House, the President extended an in vitation to attend the theater as late as 8:15 p. m., for it was not until then that the President’ ^ party left the White House. President Lincoln manifested a curious reluctance to going, but stated that the papers had advertised that him self and Gen. Grant would both attend, and, since Gen. Grant had left Washing ton, he did not want to have the audience disappointed, as the people would expect to see at least one of them. The theater was crowded. The box reserved for the presidential party was the double box forming the second tier on the right-hand side of the stage. The , front of the box was decorated with flags and in the center, on the outside, hung IN TE R IO R OF F an engraving of Washington. As the Grants had declined an invita tion to attend, Mrs. Lincoln invited, in ently fired behind the scenes on the right their stead, Miss Harris, daughter of Sen of the stage, and it was accepted by the ator,. Ira Harris,' and Maj. Henry R. audience as an introduction' to some new passage, several of which'had been in Rathbone, the Senator’s stepson. The play presented was the original terpolated in the early part of the play. Booth had been noted as a leaper, hav Version of Tom Taylor’s “ Our American Cousin,” as it was always given before ing become habituated to sensational the late E.> A. Sothern’s changes in it, leaps in his repertoire of characters. He afterwards made to elaborate his still leaped nine feet down on the stage, but remembered character of Lord Dun his spur caught in the flag decorating the front o f the presidential box and as he dreary. The assassin, Booth, familiar with the reached the stage he fell, recovering him self in a wonderful way, though his leg was broken. He bounded across the stage, pushing past Miss Laura Keene, who stood near the prompter’s desk, striking her on the hand with his own, still holding the dagger. As he crossed the stage Booth cried out, dramatically, “ Sic semper iyrannis!” and “ I have done it!” Once through the side scenes Booth quickly escaped by the rear door of the theater, where a horse awaited him, its bridle held by an employe of the theater whom Booth rewarded- with a kick,; his agony from his broken leg being intense. Meanwhile the shrieks of Mrs. Lincoln made clear to the audience the nature of the horrible crime that had just' been per petrated. Pandemonium reigned. Wom en cried, men hollowed and children screamed. Miss Laura Keene advanced to the footlights and called out: “ For God’s sake, have presence of mind! Keep your places and all will be well!” Miss Harris called to Miss Keene to bring some water, which the actress did, and afterwards accompanied Mrs. Lin coln to the house opposite, to which the unconscious President was at once re JOH N W IL K E S BOOTH . moved. It was found that he had been ,‘heater, visited the box about 9 p. m., shot through the head, above the back of ¡poking in for a last survey of the various the temporal bone, and that some of the positions of its occupants. It was sup brain was ooziig out and that' death was posed, at the time, that it was due to a inevitable. mistake or the exercise of an imperti Within a comparatively short time the nent curiosity. Unknown to the presi- terrible news had spread all over Wash iential party, Booth had, during the day, ington, and by midnight every member bored a hole through the door of the box of the cabinet, except Seward, whose own lor observation or perhaps to fire through. life was attempted, had gathered at the At "tp p. m. Booth again entered the bedside of their dying chief. Mrs. Lin- @S: coin was present, frustrated with grief and other members of the family, Sena tor Sumner, Speaker Colfax, military of ficials of the War Department, severa generals and physicians, the latter in eluding Surgeon General Barnes, wh< had from the first assisted Dr. Stone the President’s family physician. President Lincoln never recovered con sciousness. As day dawned his pulsi faileiFand a look of perfect peace over spread his features. At 7:22 a. m. hi ceased to breathe. Rev. Dr. Gurley knel down and prayed and Secretary Stantoi broke the silence which followed with thi remark: “ Now he belongs to the ages.” The South lost, in Lincoln, one wh< would have proved to be its best friend as is, perhaps, now realized. In a letter written to Gen. Van Alen on the last da: of his life, Lincoln wrote words tha- strike the" keynote of his character, Ii it he said: “ I thank you for the assurance you giv< me that I shall be supported by conserva tive men like yourself in the efforts i may make to restore the Union so as t< make it, to use your language, a unioi of hearts and hands as well as of States.’ Over all the members of that presi dential theater party a black and awfu fate hung menacingly. Many have not followed the end of oth ers indirectly associated with the tragedy The stricken widow of the martyrec President passed the balance of her day: in melancholia and madness. Of th< guests who were with her in the box thal night, one slew the other and ended hii own life a maa^o. and anything that would BEVELING OF GLASS. I watch it. The child took to the great, amuse strong man and was always quiet when he held it. P R O C E S S L IT T L E U N D E R S T O O D “ W hy do you, my lord,” asked one ol BY LA Y M E N . the relieved passengers, surprised te see the governor general o f India play H ow th e E d g e o f G la s s I s Cut A w a y ing nurse to a crying baby, “ why de and R efin ished—A V e r y S im p le P r o you take such notice o f that child?” “ Because to tell the truth,” an cess, b u t One R e q u ir in g S k ill in I t s swered Lord Lawrence, “ that child ii E x ec u tio n . the only being in the ship who I car feel quite sure does not want to gei Beveled glass in not new, but it is anything out o f me.” —Pastimes. now far more extensively used tnan formerly. Twenty years ago beveled Fatal Consequences. mirrors were comparatively rare, now “ Be careful how you invoke a force they are common, and are seen in many that may destroy you,” says a writer; shapes and sizes. Beveled plates, la^ge “ whether it be the force of electricity: and small, and both straight and bent, the force of habit or of appetite.” F op are used for various otner purposes. ward tells of two chickens who invoked The process o f glass beveling is very a power unconsciously. simple, but the work calls for skill on The other night, nearly all the electric the part o f the operators. lights in a certain city suddenly wenil The plate to be beveled goes first to out, and after a minute came on again the roughing mill, which is a solid, Pretty soon an odor like that of aj heavy steel wheel about two feet and a overcooked dinner filled the powei half feet in d.ameter, set horizontally, house, and on examination it was found and turning at a high rate of speed. The that a couple of chickens had stolen ii upper face, or top o f this wheel, is and gone to roost on the main wires. All went well with them until Chan slightly roughened. Suspended over the wheel is a big hopper containing tlcleer, who was perched on one wire sand, which is fed dowfi through a l-eached across to give a good-night kiss spout in such quantity as may be requir to his dear Biddy, on the other. The ed upon the top o f the rough-faced moment their bills touched, the current steel wheel. The grinder holds the o f thousands of volts was short-cir plate to be ground in his hands, with cuited through their bodies, and the v a len t C es o u t of d a te . the edge to be ground off upon the face kiss ended in a lightning-flash and O r ig in a l V e rse , F lo w e rs o r C andy A r t o f the roughing mill; he shifts the plate burnt feathers. N o w th? P r o p e r Gifts, along as the glass is ground away. The Valentines are out of date. That i: expert grinder, holding a sheet o f glass the edict of society. When the 14th ol February comes around now the propel against the roughing wheel in this man caper is to wrife'to your lad^ fair a fev ner, will grind a true bevel, with a per choice stanzas of valentine verse, or, it fectly straight line along its inner edge, case of your inability to construct propel and he brings the side bevels together rhyme, send around a few bunches of vio with a. perfectly true angle at the cor lets or sweet roses or a nice box of candj ners. —a heart shaped box preferred, of course In the roughing mill the bevel is —all tied up with pretty silk ribbons. Th< Sycose, having a sweetening power flowers and the .(¡andy may not last as wrought to shape, but its face is rough 550 times greater than that o f sugar, looking and feeling. In fact, like what long as the poetry, but the flowers wjl be prettier, the candy will taste better anc it is, ground glass. The plate goes then is the newest substitute offered in dia both will be more appreciated. to the enemy wheel, also o f steel and betic conditions. When it is said that valentines are otil set horizontally. Suspended over this Stain o f banana juice is almost indeli of date the stat&fnent has to be made, ol wheel is a little hopper filled with ble. It does not proceed from the stalk course, with some reservation. They art emery, the emery feeding down upon or plant, but exists in the green fruit out of date as gifts between fashionablt as well, from which, when cut or adults, but among children they are popu the wheel. Upon this wheel the rough bruised, It exudes in the shape o f viscid lar still. Every little lad and lassie face o f the bevel as it comes from the watches for the postman on the morning roughing mill is again ground, the plate or. cream-like drops. Monsieur Salome, a French artist, of St. Valentine’s day, o f course, and is being held in the same manner by a disappointed if the mail brings no lovt grinder, and the surface is brought mixes his colors with petroleum in message, no little embossed and painted nearer to smoothness. stead o f turpentine and drying oil, and Cupid. What is meant by the statement he thinks he has made an improve From the emery wheel the plate goes that valentines are out of date is that thi ment. The colors are first ground in to the smoothing stone, which is also day of the three-story, fussed and fuzzy, oil, and then rendered with petroleum. hand-painted, lint and nonsense creation, set to turn horizontal y. The smooth The reason kettles sing is a very sim over which young ladies used to go intc ing stone, which is o f an extremely ecstasies of delight and young men used fine sandstone, is made with its upper ple one. As the water gets hot, little to go into bankruptcy, has long been pass surface, that against which the glass is bubbles o f steam are formed at the ed. The custom of sending that sort oi brought, very slightly convex. This bottom o f the kettle. These in their remembrance is as dead as the custom oi stone is finished perfectly smooth and rush upwards strike the sides o f the New Year’s calling. It was never a sen kettle, and set the metal it is made o f sible custom anyway.,' for no young man it is so fine grained that to the touch it in v ib ra tion , th u s ca u sin g the hum seems almost to be polished. A tiny felt really repaid in putting a- week’s sal ary iirtc, a grift.-I q a la&y ^nen,, be- strea m of.^ v a ter, enough to keep the ming sound we call singing. You will ■¡..^ ZE au gr ---------- - face o f the' stone wet, is made to notice that a large copper kettle, the trickle down upon it and the glass is sides o f which are thin, will emit a held to this wheel just as it was to the much louder and more musical note others, and here the beveled edge is than a common iron kettle. brought down to a smooth surface, but A new dredge for use on the Volga not polished. The plate goes then to a river, in Russia, has just been built and polishing wheel made o f wood and set is constructed in two parts so as to to turn vertically; the bevel edge o f the pass through the canal system leading glass is held against the edge or face o f from the Baltic. Each half is 216 feet this wooden wheel as it rapidly re long, 3 Ys feet wide and 9 feet deep, and volves. The face o f the wheel is kept wet each half can be operated separately, and constantly supplied with pulveriz making a bottom cut 62 feet wide. The ed stone. Upon this wheel the beveled dredge has steel hulls and is propelled edge gets it first polish. The glass and controlled by electrical machinery then takes the final step in the beveling o f American manufacture. Steam is process. It. goes to another wheel, also generated by American boilers fired o f wood, and also turning vertically, with naphtha. whose face Is o f felt. The face o f this In the Bay o f Plenty, New Zealand, wheel also is kept wet and it is suppli is one o f the most extraordinary isl ed with a fine polishing meterial called ands in the world. It is called W hite from its color, rouge. Here, as at the Island, and consists mainly o f sulphur first polishing wheel, the g ’ass is held mixed with gypsum and a few other ORD’ S TH E A TE R. with the bevel against the edge, or face minerals. Over the island, which is o f the wheel. On the rouge wheel the about three miles in circumference, and cause of the mystery and secrecy that have to be observed in sending valentines, bey el gets its final polish and finish'and which rises between 800 and 900 feet he could not accompany it with his card. the surface o f the beveled edge, which above the sea, floats continually an It was altogether too discouraging M after the first operation was rough like immense cloud* o f vapor attaining an have his hated rival get the credit for ground glass', is now as smooth and as elevation o f 10,000 feet. In the center sending a sentimental lot of poetry all polished as the flat surface o f the plate. is a boiling lake o f acid-charged water, done up in fluffy expensiveness for which Great plates that are too big to be covering fifty acres, and surrounded he had cheerfully emptied his pockets and held by hand are locked into a frame with blow-holes from which steam and “ gone broke.” Valentiiies of that sort that can be so moved as to bring the sulphurous fumes are emitted with have had their day and belong now to the edges to be beveled against wheels ad great force and noise. With care a sweetly remembered past. justed for the purpose.—New York Sun. boat can be navigated on the lake. The P R A Y E R T O ST. V A L E N T IN E . sulphur from White Island is very pure, but little effort has yet been made to Great Man’ s Tender Heart. Lord Lawrence, viceroy o f India, was procure it systematically. a blunt man o f action, impatient of - Young long-leaf pines, according to contradiction, and thoroughly self-re Mr. Pinchot o f the Department o f Agri liant. Yet, like many o f the truly culture, protect themselves against for great, he had a heart as tender as a est fires in a most interesting and re woman’s. The night on which he markable manner. For four or five started from London to govern India he years the stems o f the infant trees at gathered all his family in the drawing- tain a height o f only as many inches room and made each child repeat a above the soil. During this time their favorite hymn to him. His youngest bark is extraordinarily thick, and that son, 10 years old, nestled in his father’s alone gives some protection. But in arms. Suddenly the strong man burst addition, the long needles spring up above the stem, and then bend over on into tears. “ I shall never,” he cried, “ see Bertie all sides “ in a green cascade which falls to the ground in a circle about the a child again!” It was not o f the hardships before seedling.*' This green barrier can with him, or o f his own death he thought, difficulty be made to burn, while the but o f the fact that Bertie would not shade that it casts prevents inflamma ble grass from growing near the pro be a child to him on his return. On board the steamer with the gov tected stem. Mr. Pinchot thinks that it ernor general o f India was a lady with is owing to this peculiar system o f self her infant child. She neglected the protection which the pine seedlings baby, which revenged itself by crying have developed that the growth o f ever day and night. The passengers com green oaks in Florida has been restrict plained in language more forcible than ed in regions where fires have raged while our pine forests have taken their polite. “ Steward, throw that baby over place. Hearts or dollars? ahr'to which board!” was petulantly shouted from Should my maiden heart incline? Pearl Fishers o f Ceylon. sleepless berths. To be loved or to be rich? The pearl fishing season in Ceylon A t last Lord Lawrence, seeing that Tell me, good St. Valentine. the child was left motherless by its only lasts twenty-two days, and during Should I scorn the shining gold? ow n mother, took it on his knee. For that period 11,000,000 oysters are Is a heart a richer mine? Here I’ m waiting to be told— hours he would hold it, showing It his brought to the surface by fifty divers. Tell me, good St. Valentin«.