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Stow*??* Lincoln's Remarkable Intellect By George JL Knapp F.we put aside the popular preconceptions Of Lincoln, and look instead at the recorded facts, we shall find evidence ot his remarkable intellect at every stage of his adult career. In his youth, indeed! he had the misty-vagaries proper to youth and like eo many great men, he came to maturity late. , But from thermo'that he entered seriously on. his life wwfiw work^ his ?.sntal. poweh were held ^ high> almost reverent Ttjutfltitl regard by all who were close to him. In one sense, he was -T-T? not a great lawyer. He lacked the broad cUucation, to begin with; and he lacked even more the soldier-of-fortune conscience that-enables -a man to fight on one side as well es on abutter, in a. bad cause as well as in ai good one. Lincoln's intellect was too keen, too cold, too accurate, to t?r ate quibbles or evasions; heliated crooked reasoning- quite as virulently as crooked dealing. But when he believed in his case, he could state that case la a way which made argument almost needless; and he had that sure and certain mark of genius, the ability to brush aside non-essentials and seize at ?nee on the central, vital issue. And yet in the- struggles of politics, the. work which he really loved, the sam? qualities show out. in yet higher relief. Seldom if ever was there a more consummate politician ?han Abraham Lincoln. The aim o:t his early political life was to save the Union. If Lincoln ever made a wrong move to gain his goal, history has failed to record it When he put pis famous ques tipa to Douglas, as to the possibility of excluding slavery from the territories, his friends thought he had thrown away his own future and that of his party. I Jr. co In knew better. He was trying, not to keep Douglas from the Senate, twt to keep him from the White House. He could see already that the crisil o? the struggle would come, not> in 1858, but la 1860. He offered the gambit, and Douglas accepted it-to And himself checkmated two moves later.-Lip pin colt's. .vVy.V^"'.^ "' ?: ''',-L '. .'. ..r.'? ?'.''J ?. ~ '? '*.'?.' . a * * ?fi ?I a* V> & Man In a Hurry By IV. T. Childs MAN was in a hurry. He acted like it He squeezed and pushed and shoved through the crowded side of the street as if something of the'greatest Importance depended upon his haste. It never occurred to him that he could make more progress on. the other side of the street, which was not so crowded, or that he would be less Impeded on another parallel street Now and then he would be heard to say "Excuse me!" or "I beg your pardon!" but he was not heard to make such a remark when he roughly brushed against s o ure child. He was said to he very polite, but his politeness seemed to be toward some certain few, not to ward everybody. But he was in a hurry, and of course he thought his haste excuued a multitude of his sins of omission. , He thought the old colored woman, whom he pushed to one side, had no husiness on the street when people were in a hurry-when he was in a hurry. He did not know that this old colored woman was making as much haste as ?li? possibly could, to summon a doctor to attend her sick mistress. Of course, if he had known this, he would not have acted so selfishly. Indeed,, it is doubtful if he saw the little girl whom he almost knocked down. If he had, he certainly would have begged her pardon. To he sure, lie did not know that she was a cz. s h girl in/one of the department stores and that she was so tired that she could hardly stand upon her "feet The blind beggar who stopped him and begged a penny got only a rebuke, hecause ho was in a hurry. "Haven't got time!" he gruffly said to the poor .XeHow. When he finally reached home, he even forgot tb greet his wife with his customary kiss; he was in a hurry. And why was he in such a hurry? He 'had an engagement rx? attend the theatre that evening with several friends. ' It is a good thing that everybody ls not In a hurry. fer & lt at M a ... Why Woman Lies... 1 P ty Marcel Preoost in Paris Figaro I XCEPT when in love, man is much less given to lying than his long-haired companion. There is good reason for this. Primeval man, who controlled woman by the right of the conqueror, or, at least the stronger, had no need - for lying to make Hie as pleasant for himself as he saw tit Woman, on ithe other hand, was a slave, using her in telligence in slave fashion-that is, as a rank egoist. Her * . prime object in life was to please her lord, to work as little as possible, to avoid punishment, to fool her master and to conceal from' him everything that might possibly result In annoyance to her self. So the wife-slave of old developed into a most accomplished Har. It would be foolish''to deny that woman's status has changed since then, . at least among civilized peoples. But ther.i are still many laws on the statute hooks compelling women to use deception and lying in self-defense. "J If man did not use his physical and legal muscles against, woman, woman would be more honest! She might even In time forget how to He. Most of the Hes women tell ought to Ue credited in the Book" of Judgment to man's account * It goes without saying that long-continued experience-i. e., the heredity ct lying, so to speak-has made woman an expert prevaricator. Man is a robust Har only. Listen to the nuin Har's statements in any court of Justice. For the most part they are ridiculous, utterly absurd. And woree still, when a man liar is found out-as he must be found out-he utterly goes to pieces. Of course, men encourage woman's lying. The man who is caupht In a lie loses caste, is kicked out of his club, whUe few, If any, men find serious fault with woman's"flbs. {??rn ? M tf ll Jl Little* Sermon 1 By Jindrew Carnegie } MAN "has tb give an account of every word he speaks. Ev ; esy boy weaves a web, No false thread can be eradicated, not"-'one, because the \ web moves on. Every act you do . leaves its imprint on .your character, which is your web. You would,'-be better men if you made no false threads in your web. . There, is a ji:dge, not on high, nor below, but in your own self-your conscience. You can't deceive the Juage within you. You can't chest yourself. No fooling that court. When-you lay yourself down at night and say to that judge, "Today I have been kind to all and have done nothing wrong," and that Judge is satis fied, then you have no judge to fear above or below, or on this earth. That's my sermon today. I'll be thankful if one clay some of you men re call me and. say, T one day heard Mr. Carnegie deliver a sermon that was worth a hundred sermons I heard elsewhere." If you don't live this wond' well,, I wouldn't give three cents for your chances in the next" The Crimean Crime. Kinglake'wit? all for war. "He used to say," -says ' Mme. Novikoff, "that peace wduld Emasculate the world. "Brides,"' he continued, population wh<5n .too domiu is not at its best" He did not like .Bright. ?Mme. Novikoff toidi Kinglake, one day that Bright had ' made a curious remark about the Cri meitn statue.- In Pall Mal. "The in scription," he had said, "should be al tered. The 'a' should be put before ithe word 'crine/ and not at the end." --London Chruilcla. Survival of the Unfit. "Professor, what do you suppose is the origin of that tiresome slang phrase, 'C, you!'" "It sounds as iS it might be a con traction of the even more tiresome 'I. O. U.'"-Chicago Tribune. There is a telephone line over the Alps, but the record elevation In this respect belongs to the. United States, ther^ being a Une at Camp Bird, Colo? which'-ii? 18,000 feet above the sea level ARE GRANTED NEW TRIAL Supreme Court Reverses Verdict in the Cases Against the Murderers of Captain Quentin Bankin on Technical Grounds. Jackson, Tenn., Special.-The cases of th? eight night riders, 6 of whom were under the death sentence charged with the murder of Captain Quentin Rankin, at Walnut Log, on Reel Foot late, October 19 last, were reversed hy the State Supreme Court Saturday and were remanded for hew trials. The six men, who were under the death sentence are Garrot Johnson, alleged leader of the night riders'or ganization in Obion county; Arthur Cloar, Fred Pinion, Sam Applewhite, Tid Burton and Roy Ransom. The other two, Bud Morris and Bob Huff man, were convicted of murder in the second degree. The opinion in the case was deliv ered by Speeial Justice Henry Craft, of Memphis, appointed .in the stead of Justice M. M. Neil. In reversing the case, he assigned two principal reasons. The first was that the grand jury which found the indictments against the alleged night riders, was not seelcted in a proper manner. The grand jury was select ed out of a panel named by Judge J. E. Jones, the trial judge, whereas the law provides the panel must be chos en by at least three members of the county court. The second error on which the reversal was based is that the State did not allow the defend ants a sufficient number of chal lenges. The eight were tried on one indictment and trial court upheld the State's contention that the eight de fendants were only entitled to the legal number of challenges, twonty four, which would apply if one man was on trial. When Justice Craft concluded his opinion a storm of applause broke out in the court room, but was quick ly stopped by the marshal and his deputies. The prisoners will be tak en back to Union City and an effort will be made to secure their release on bail pending a second trial on their cases. Those most . active in the prosecu tion of the alleged riders of Reel Foot lake consider the situation now such as .may again assume a serious phase. That it will be difficult to secure a jury to again hear the cases is conceded and as yet no decision has been reached by the representatives of the State as to their future plans. An immediate trial of other pending cases O?A similar nature, however, is not looked for. Bolled Whole Family. Aberdeen, S. D., Special.-J. W. Christie, a farmer living near hera, his wife, his daughter Mildred, aged 18 years, and a boy named Roymaine, were murdered Saturday. Mr. Chris tie was milking a cow in his barn yard when the unknown person or persons shot him dead. The murderers hurried to the honse and fining Mrs. Christie and her daughter and the Roymaine, boy, who was visiting at the house, they be gan firing upon them. The first shots took effect and the two women and the boy fell ' dead. . It is supposed the men who com mitted the crime were acquainted to some extent with the Christie family and their habits, for few people knew that Christie kept large sums of money in his house. It is believed he had several thousand dollars in his home at the time of the murden The1 entire countryside is wrought up. Bands of farmers were immedi ately organized and search for the murderers wai; begun. The farmers threaten the murderers with lynch ing if they are caught. 1 Mr. Christie was one of the most prosperous farmers in the Northwest. Continued Eaith Shocks Keep Messi na Alarmed. Messina, By Cable.-Seven earth shocks of Saturday and Sunday which have kept the populace in a state of alarm. A fire broke out in the wreckage, and while the troops were trying to extinguish the flames another Are started at Milazzo, a short distance away. A Woman's Heroism. Mobile, Ala., Sp?cial.-W. L. Sam son, bridge-keeper'for the Louisville & Nashville at Bayou Sara, Ala., early Thursday night was in his loft near the bridge when lightning killed him and threw his body into the water in front of his wife and little child. Mrs. Samson remained at. the bridge all Thursday night and the greater part of Friday alone with her child, seeing that trains could safely pass the structure. As it was not a stopping point she couid not get as sistance until Saturday when she succeeded in flagging a train. Boll Weevil Reaches Mississippi. New Orleans, Special.-A report that the boll weevil in its flight east ward has reached Pike county, Mis sissippi, and that several specimens were found near Magnolia, that State, is contained in The Picayune's weekly summary of cotton crop con ditions in Mississippi and Louisiana. The pest appears to have gained an early start this season in the infested territory and planters are abandon ing weevil ridden cotton. Condition of Cotton Crop. Washington, Special.-The condi ion of the cotton crop by States for June 25. 1909, June 25, 1908, and the ten year average respectively follows : Virginia, 76, 92 and 84; North Carolina, 75. 89 and 84; South Caro lina, 77, 84,'81; Georgia, 79, 83, 81; Florida, 88. 84, 85; Alabama, 64, 82 and 80; Mississippi, 61, 84, 86; Loui siana. 62, SO. 81: Texas, 79, 80, 80; Arkansas, 76, 85 and 81; Tennessee, 80, 89, 84, Missouri, S3, 87, 84; Oklahoma, 84, 04, 82. THE iwsi? Items ef Interest Gathered Wire and Cable GLEANINGS FROM DAY TO BA? Livo Items Covering Events of More 'or Less Interest at Soma find Abroad, The first bole of cotton for the sea son was gold at Houston, Texas, or Monday. It brought $425. ? Georgia's new governor, Joseph Brown, has installed a long handled gourd in the capitol out of which tc drink his iee water. . Little Lucretia Norris was bom six years ago in Omaha, Keb., , with a deformed jaw. Some days ago thc surgeons took away the bad part of her jaw bone and inserted a chicken bone in its place. The operation is said to be a complete sucoess. Jfoseph M. Brown was inaugurated governor of Georgia last Saturday and governor Hoke Smith retired ap parently not in happy frame of mind. "Wheatland," the home of Pres ident James Buchanan at Lancaster, Pa., was destroyed by lightning last week. The steamship Cartigo was 150 miles from New Orleans and by wire less called to the surgeons on shore for a prescription for a case of blood poison. It was promptly dispatched and when the ship arrived Friday the patient was improving. Bernard J. Dobbin, while setting a trawl got lost from his fishing ves-( sel . by a dense fog and drifted foi eight days with a half pint of water and a little raw fish, when picked up almost famished and brought into Rockland, Maine, Monday. His ma'es searched for him 24 hours and he rowed his strength away trying ta reach them. He saw a number oi vessels pass but could not attract at tention. A singular test was made 'in the Chicago Appelate court last week, where a physician claims that he was to give patient treatment for life and receive $100,000 at the death of the patient. The courts declared the contract void in that such contracta are fraught with the temptation for a physician to hasten the death of the patient. At the mortar gun practice last week at Fort Monroe, two companies made 50 per cent of hits while firing so rapidly that each gun kept two shots in the air. at once all the time. The Virginia Passenger and Power Company will effect a complete-phy sical reorganization of its railway lines in Richmond. There is a strange phenomenon in New York in the case of. one Mary Moldon, a cook. She is known as "Typhoid Mary.,J She is, immune ? herself, but is infested wi^h^the germs and conveys them . to those with whom she comes in contact. She has to be quarantined. Evidence has been found that Leon Ling tried to bury Elsie Nigel 's body under the floor of the Harlem laun dry. A dray was driven down Market ?treet in San Francisco, Monday morning, hauling $10,000,000 in gold. Mrs. Lpuis La Bartia, in New York on Monday fired four pistol1 bullets into the man that killed her husband a year ago. Nine deaths in Philadelphia and ten in Chicago were recorded last Monday as heat fatalities. Washington News Notes. Marines have been restored to all the battleships and cruisers. Ex.-Qov. W. M. 0. Dawson, of West Virginia,, has been appointed a United States commercial - agent in China. Fifty babie?i and six adults have succombed to the heat in Washington the past week. New restrictions are imposed on the Civil Service law by the bill pro viding for the Thirteenth Census, which was sent to the President for his signature. The income tax resolution was re-_ ported to the Senate , from the Fi nance Committee by Senator Aldrich Monday. At the very last moment cotton bagging and ammonia which enters into the Southern fertilizer business was voted into the senate tariff bill. The Senate.put cotton bagging and binding twine on the free list Mon day, and closed the discussion on the Payne-Aldrich bill schedules. Extensive experiments in wireless telegraphy will be made by the At lantic fleet during its war maneuvers off the New England coast in July. The Aldrich ' committee and the Senate have made a thousand changes in the House Tariff bill. Foreign Affairs. The thirteenth vain attempt of the militant suffragettes to obtain access to Premier Asquith by deputation resulted in exciting scenes in Parli ment Square Wednesday night, and in the arrest of more than 10O women in London. ister of Great Britain and Lord umbia, is in London for his health aud it is rumored that he will not return to his South American State but he asserts to' the contra-y. Detective Draper, of Spokane, with a pack of bloodhounds,, has traced the Canadian Pacific badits who held up an express train last week at Kamloops into an old mining tunnel at. Red Gluch, six miles east of Ash Croft, British Columbia. Detective Draper has sent for help, as the two men trapped are heavily armed, and show a disposition to fight; They seem to be in a hole. At Vilna, Russia, prisoners mu tinied and a pitched battle resulted in the killing of four wardens and seven convicts last week. TENNESSEEJpiWESDRY The Midnight Hour Wednesday Marked the Passing of Saloons in Tennessee. Memphis, Tenn., Special.-Bells in church and town clock steeples on .tolling the midnight hour Wednesday i night marked the? passing of saloons I in Tennessee, for at that hour the Holladay State-wide prohibition law - went into effect. This law makes it . illegal to sell all alcoholic beverages within four miles of any school house in the State. Only two oases are left in all' Tennessee. Both ar? within 12 j miles of Memphis, near the Mississip pi State line. The nearest school ' house is six miles from both of these I points, but steps have already been taken by white ribbone rs to have the j county, board bf education erect a i school house within the distance pre scribed by the Holladay bill, so that there will be no mecca in the entire State for thirsty pilgrims. Thous ands of men are thrown out of em ployment and barkeepers are seeking better irrigate^ fields. The passing of the saloon m Memphis, and in other cities throughout the State, ac cording to advices received Wednes I. day night, is marked by scenes of un usual hilarity. Would Debar Standard Oil. Jackson, Miss., Special.-Applica tion was made Wednesday in /tho Chancery Court of Clay county by District Attorney A. L. Lamb for a .perpetual injunction, restraining the .Standard Oil Company from operat ! ing in the State of Mississippi and seeking to collect penalties aggregat ing $11,000)000 for alleged violation cf the anti-trust law of the Comman wealth. The injunction bill recites in detail the history of the Standard Oil Company and tho methods by which it is alleged to have stifled com petition in this State. Under the Mis sissippi code, as amended by the Leg islature in 1906, the State is entitled to recover a statutory penalty of $5,000 a day for each specific viola tion of the anti-trust laws and the ; penalties sought to be recovered in this case cover three years. The hearing, it is understood, will take place at West Point during the No vember term of the Chancery Court. ?-: Blow to Prohibition. Montgomery, Ala., Special.-In a decision of the Alabama Supreme Court Wednesday the "locker sys tem" was upheld. The court holds that liquor when kept in lockers by individuals and is not ktpt for sale is personal property; that the keep ing in the possession by a person, whether for himself or for another, unless he does so for the illegal sale of it, or for some other improper pur pose- "an by no possibility injnre or affect the health, moral? or safety of the public. Seven Thousand Go Out on Strike. Pittsburg, Pa., Special.-Fifteen . plants with a total capacity of 190" mills, were crippled or entirely tied up,, at midnight Wednesday by the strike order that went into affect in. the union sheet and tin plate mills of the United States Steel Corporation, according to claims and by the offi cials of the Amalgamated Associa tion of Iron Steel and Tin Workers. The total number of men on strike is estimated at 7,000. The strike is the outcome of the open shop order post ed four weeks ago. Young Lady Killed. San EranciscOj Special.-Miss Caroline Brasch, cashier for a con tracting cdmpany, was shot and kill ed Wednesday in the Wells-Fargo building, presumably by one of the concern's employes. The police say the man shot the girl during a dis-1 pute over the deduction of $5.75 from his time check. J. Novak, a quarry laborer, is sought by the police as the slayer. Calhoun's Motion Overruled. San Francisco, Special.-A motion to set aside the second indictment against Patrick Calhoun, president of the United Railroads, whose trial oh a -charge of offering a bribe to a su pervisor resulted in a disagreement, was Wednesday overruled by Judge Lawlor. Attorneys for Calhoun then made a motion for a change of venue. The hearing on this motion was set for July 8. Fought a Street Duel. Middleboro, Ky., Special.-J. W. Mayes, a locomotive engineer, and Robert Culbertson, both of Norton, Va., fought a duel in the streets of Middleboro last Tuesday night. Anna Hayes, over whose affections the men were jeolons, was shot twice during the fight and is dying. Mayes was shot twice and cannot live. Culbert son escaped with a serious wound in the arm. Mayes, mortally wounded, fled after the shooting, and when the police and a posse ..>vertook him, is said to have ?ttempted suicide by jabbing his throat with a pocket knife. Chung Sin is Identified. > New York, Special.-The compla cency of Chung Sin, went all to" pieces Wodnosday afternoon when Arthur Logan, an expressman, walked into the cell and bruesquely shouted: ''Hello," "You are the man, who told me to take the trunk down stars carefully. There was another slim fellow with you in the room-the same that came over to the office to give me the order .to call for the trunk." Bill Provides For White Firemen. Atlanta, Ga., Special.-A bill re quiring all railroads to employ on passenger trains one white fireman, or assistant engineer, was introduced in the Senate Wednesday. The bill requires that this assistant shall be competent to tako charge of the loco motive in case of disability of the engineer and authorizes railroads to increase the passenger tariff on all such trains so as to pay the cost of this additional help,_? Two Terrific Quakes Fol Inhabitants In Panic-F Babe And Dies WI Messina, By Cable.-Messina ex ' perienced two terrific earthquakes ht about 7:30 o'clock Thursday morn ing, which were accompanied by roaring sounds and are said to have had a stronger and more undulatory move ment than the earthquake of last December which destroyed Mes sina, Reggio and other cities, laid waste to many villages in Calabria and killed 200,000 people. Although the shocks Thursday hod no such terrible consequences the 25,000 residents of this city were thrown into a state of terror. : They I ran into the streets panic striken and Thursday night nearly the entire pop ulation was encamped in the open. The broken walls of the old ruins were thrown to the ground and Mes sina was for a few minutes smother ed in a cloud of dust. The casualties were few and the only persons killed, so far as is known, were a youu^ woman and her infant. The woman had come here only a few days ago and had settled in rooms, which the great earthquake had left relatively un damaged. She was standing at the ORVILLE WRIGHT MAKES Tl Washington, Special.-Calm, confi dent and nerveless, Orville Wright late Thursday encircled the Ft. Meyer drill grounds time after time in his aeroplane in three successful flights while a crowd of thousands cheered him for the success that attended his persistency and pluck. While the ma chine oscillated at certain points in its flights and dipped and rose sud denly at other points, it was evident from the regularity with which these things, happened that they were due to the condition of the atmosphere and not to any fault of the machine. For the first flight the machine got away with a fine start. Down the field the aeroplane sailed, curved gracefully and came back up the east, side of the field along the edge pf Arlington Cemetery. The machine seemed to be behaving beautifully. The first round was made in fifty sec onds. Five times the machines skirt ed the field, attaining a height which varied from 15 to 30 feet. On the sixth round Mr. Wright came to e?rth within a few hundred feet of the starting point, completing the flight in exactly five minutes. The landing was perfect, the machine swooping down in successive glides until Orville pulled the string which stops his motor and the aeroplane glided smoothly over the grass on its skids until it eame-to a stop. The ma ohine was returned to the starting ap paratus and again was placed in posi tion, and another flight was essayed. COMMISSION DECIDES ADV Washington, Special.-The Inter state Commerce Commission has de cided adversely in the matter of the complaints filed before them by five bishops of the African Methodist Episcopal Church, who claimed that they had been the victims of discrim ination while passengers on Southern railroads. The complaints were di rected against the Pullman Company and the Richmond, Fredericksburg STRANGE FREAK OF L?GH? Cumberland, Md., Special.-Light ning struck the house of Johnson Collins, last Wednesday, four miles east of Flintstone, while Mr. and Mrs. Collins, their six cbihlren and Mrs. Johnson, a neighbor, were in the kitchen. Mrs. Collins was. putting pies in the bake oven. When Mr. Collins recovered from the shock he found his wife and the youngest MAY BE THE BODY OF I New York, Special-Although com plete identification was impossible as yet, there appears to be a strong probability that the body of a China mau, which was found floating in the Hudson river in the upper part of Hie eily Thursday evening, was that of Leon Ling or William L. Leon, the murdarer of Elsie Sigel. The man's height, weight and general appear ance tallies with that of Leon Ling, but as thc body was nude, except for a silk undershirt, and had been in the water for more than a week, a thor ough examination will be necessary. Coroner McDonald, who was the first POLITICAL PRISONERS M Seattle, Wash.-A cable dispatch from Nome, Alaska, describes a bloody outbreak of Russian political prisoners in the Yakutsk District, Siberia and the flight of the muti neers across the wilderness toward Bering Straits in an effort to reach Alaska. The dispatch says: Advices from Vladmir Station oi the Northern Siberia Company, across Behring Strait, are to the ef fect that a band of prisoners in the UNWRITTEN LAW HAS BE Chicago, Special-The "unwrit ten law," was sustained Wednesday by a jury in Judge Kiersten's courl which freed Michael Pacellano, charg ed with the murder of Frank Serene as a result it is alleged, of the lat ter's betrayal of Pacellano's sister. The defendant's sister, Mrs. Jose phine Fresso, was a bride of ' s week, when, it is charged- Serene persuaded her to leave her husband / lt Thursday-The 25,000 riot her Dashes For Her Ith It In Her'Arms. door when the shock occurred and rushed inside to save her child. Be fore she could escape from the room the second shock threw down the walls, burying both mother and child under the debris. Soldiers and en gineers who rashed to the rese?e heard the voice of the mother call ing for help and they worked heroic ally for several hours, when they found the dead bodies, the mother with her child in her arms. \ The first shock was followed quick ly by a second and the people fled pell mell to the American quarter, which they seemed to feel was the safest place of refuge. So great waa the rush to the American huts , that the authorities were unable to check the invasion and as a consequence these structures, which were design ed for the most needy of the popu lace, were taken possession of by the first comers. The soldiers, however,. sooB drew a cordon around this quarter and a guard was mounted at the bridge leading to it. Many of the panic stricken people were driven off and orders were issued that no one be permitted to occupy the American quarter pending further instructions. Li REE SUCCESSFUL FLIGHTS The start was as successful as the first. In the second flight Orville made much wider turns and rose tc? a greater height. Wilbur Wright watched every detail of the flight with care. It was noticed that at tunes the motor skipped, but this seemed to have no effect on the progress of the aeroplane. The starting rail runs downward into a little hollow in the i field and whenever the aeroplane passed over this hollow it dipped no ticeably and whenever it passed over a vacant space between two of tho stables, it was seen to rise as though on billow of air, but these atmos pheric conditions were easily over come by the clever manipulation of A - the levers. On his second flight, Orr ville made nine rounds of the field in a few seconds less than eight min utes. ^ . In his last attempt he remained aloft for a few seconds more than nine minutes and encircled the field nine and one half times. Fer one complete round he flew very close to the ground, evidently preparing to land. This he did within two hun dred feet of the aeroplane shed. Dur ing this las: flight bo went highei than on his previous trials, reaching a height of forty feet. Just before making his landing the left wing scraped the ground and raised a cloud of dust, but Mr. Wright con tinued to fly half way around the field before descending._ ?RSELY IN BISHOPS* CASE an J Potomac, the Southern and the Central Railway of Georgia. The complainants wer6 Bishops Wesley J. Gaines, H. M. Turner, Evans Tyree, C. S. Smith and E. W. Brampton. The principle involved in the com plaint was the old one of the "Jim Crow" car, it being alleged that the coaches furnished for the negroes are not as good as those for white pas sengers and that the negroes were re fused sleeping accommodations and food on trains. WING IN MARYLAND TOWN child in her arms standing under a tree in the yard. She could uot tell how she got there. One of her shoes Had been torn from her foot and the flesh was scraped from her ankle downward almost to the bone. The roof was torn from the house, one side of the building demolished, the stone chimney shattered in pieces and dishes in the cupboard broken. iXSIE SIGEL'S MURDERER. to inspect the body, believes that it is Leon's as do a number of policemen, but until measurements and facial characteristics are carefully gone over the identification will remain in doubt. If it is Leon the cause of his death will, be another mystery although one theory, that of suicide, would appear reasonable. In salient features the body bore a marked resemblance to Leon Ling. The teeth were good, as were Leon's, the height about 5 feet 4 inches, which was Leon's height, and the weight 125 pounds, which was about Leon's. !AKE DASH F?R FREEDOM Yakutsk district revolted and killed the guards and started on a retreat of 2,000 miles for East Cape, where \ they planned to take small boats and ( make the mainland of Alaska, thirty six miles away. Captain Kalinnikof, acting gover nor of the district, ordered Cossacks to overtake thc prisoners. The fu gitives in ambush killed four Cos sacks and wounded twelve others. J forcing them to retreat. EN SUSTAINED IN CHICAGO \ ? According to Pacellano's defense, r Sereno took her to New York and . placed her amid questionable sur roundings. The brother followed and brought > both back to Chicago,Sereno having - promised, it is said, to marry Mrs. Fresso after a divorce had been se cured. When the party left the train here, i it is charged, Sereno declared ho > would have no more to do with the . girl. The shooting followed.