Richmond Palladium (Daily), Volume 34, Number 96, 12 February 1909 — Page 6

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MOST DRAMATIC HI ALL HISTORY It Was Staged and Executed By a Great Actor and Accomplished With Dramatic Features. MURDER OF CAESAR IS RECALLED TO MEMORY John Wilkes Booth, Evidently In Fancy Saw Himself the "Hero" of a Vast and Historic Tragedy. , Staged and- executed by a great Actor, the assassination of Abraham Lincoln is the most dramatic event la all history. Even the assassination of Caesar, which parallels it In many particulars, lacked the intense effects of the complete dramatic climax. Perhaps John Wilkes Booth had the death of the Roman in mind 'when he planned to slay Lincoln. In fancy he saw , himself the hero of a vast historic tragedy, he heard the sound of the shots, beheld the fall of the reunited nation's president, the rage and tumult of the audience, the panic on the stage and then himself as the "deus ex machina." appearing suddenly in the glare of the footlights to shout "Sic semper tyrannis." , "Our American Cousin." On the afternoon of April 15 President Lincoln planned to witness "Our American Cousin," a benefit for Laura Keene, to be given, at Ford's : theater. It was one of the rare evenings of relaxation the busy president permitted himself. It was doubly grateful, In that the war was over. General and Mrs. Grant were to have been of the party. Because they decided to go on to Burlington, J., where their daughter Nellie was at school, they did not accept the president's invitation. So Mr. and Mrs. Lincoln Invited in their ; stead Miss Clara - Harris, daughter of Senator Harris of New York, and her fiance, Major Henry Rathbone. . The Box Was Draped. As was the custom, the front of the presidential box 'was draped during the day with the ' treasury flag. In addition . there had been hung before It a portrait of George Washington. For the convenience of the president's party two ; boxes were thrown into one. During the afternoon someone, possibly Booth it , never has been discovered who placed a bar across the door, barring Ingress. Booth had been around the theater during the afternoon. : In the evening he was much in evidence. He had ridden to the alley by the playhouse, as was his frequent custom, and left his horse. During the performance he was In and out of the theater many times. ' . A few minutes after 10 " o'clock Booth went to a nearby restaurant and took a drink of whisky. When he came back 'he was humming a tune. He passed the door man. Buckingham, and walked along the south wall of the theater until he came to the entrance of the president's box. There was no one on guard; At the time the audience' was shrieking with laughter at some sally delivered . by Asa Trenchard at the back of Mrs. Mountchessingtdn. : . It was at this moment that Booth Wdli To Yonr Meals Like A man Bat What You Will and Learn to EnJoy Food and to Digest It. HERE'S THE SECRET, FREE. Make up your mind after reading this that you will let the next' meal : hold no terrors for you. Ton can enjoy it. - You can digest It All that is needed is to give nature the juices she. lacks, to give the stomach a chance to remove the terrible irritating acids, alkalies and gaswhteh turn food and nourishment Into gas and decomposition. When a system is run down . and depleted it needs building up. Ashes won't rekindle a fire and wrong digestive fluids will not take ' proper juices from food no matter how good the food is. Is this common sense? Men spend years' and even life experimenting on the, human system, what it lacks in disease and what it needs In perfection. This knowledge is known to every physician or should be. Stuart's Dyspepsia Tablets are compressed natural vegetable and fruit essences which when mixed with the saliva of the mouth go into the stomach ca--pable of digesting a full meal and they digest it to the uttermost shred. Then such a meaJMoes a man good and it Clves to him the means to overcome : stomach , troubles. Forty thousand physiels&s use these tablets and charge yon for writing a testimonial of their merit which they call a prescription. . Any druggist In America or Caaada win sell you a box for 50c. Think t; Every druggist 'carries - them.' -Hare's common sense again. Don't this teU you there Is merit? Go to your druggist today, buy a package and walk up to your meals knowing that -they will not cause you pain. Cend us ycxr name and address and vr ? " ' a trial package by

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mmmm i . . CtyritkUd, iqa Path. N. V. .-RESIDENT Any man who has occupied the office of president realizes : the incredible aiuount of administrative work with which the president has to deal even, in time of peace. , He is of necessity a very busy man, a much driven man, from whose mind there can never be absent for many minutes at a time the consideration of some problem of importance, or of some matter of less importance which yet causes strain and worry. Under such circumstances it is not easy for a president even in times of peace to turn from the affairs that are of moment to all the people and consider " of moment to but one person. While this is true of times of peace, it is of course infinitely more true of times of war. No president who has ever sat in the white house has borne the burden that Lincoln bore, or been under the ceaseless strain which he endured. It did not let up by day or by night. Ever he had to consider problems of the widest magnitude, and ever through and entered the box, slipped the improvised bar in place and fired a Derringer pistol a few inches from the back of President Lincoln's head. For a short time 1 the audience thought the shooting a part of the play. . The sound of the shot had been deadened by laughter, and the play was a farce. President Lincoln himself sat, head bowed down, with the same smile on his countenance he had worn as Trenchard amused the playgoers With his sally. Assassin Leaps to Stage. Mrs. Lincoln, sitting next to the president, gripped one arm; Miss Harris another. Major Rathbone had grappled with the assassin. Booth had, thrown aside his derringer i and drawn a dagger. He. made a vicious lunge at the breast of the young officer. Rathbone warded it with his left arm, receiving a severe wound. Booth cast his adversary aside and Jeaped to the stage, fourteen feet below. But as he leaped the wounded major grasped at him, caught him for a moment, and Booth's spur struck in the folds of the flag and tore a hole In the canvas of the Washington portrait. It was his undoing. Brave as he was in the face of physical danger, the limp limb impeded his escape. Nevertheless he made a strenuous effort. Rushing across the stage he hobbled 4q the exit, covering those who sought to stop him with his pistol and his eye. In the alley faithful Davy Herold awaited,, with horses saddled and bit ted. He helped his idol to mount, and they sped away. .' Crowd in' a Panic Meanwhile the audience, aroused from its first stupor of realization that a great tragedy had been enacted - in a most spectacular manner, surged in panic for the exits. Many tried to enter the president's box. but found it barred frx the inside. Finally Major Rathbone succeeded in lifting the barrier bar, and admitted some who claimed to be surgeons. .Dr. Charles Gaich, an army surgeon, determined at once that a , long ride over the cobblestones of the streets of Washington would be disastrous o one in Mr. Lincoln's condition. As a resultJUn--?Ta the M Vt

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. - ROOSEVELT, across his plans to meet these great dangers and great responsibilities was shot the voof of an Infinite number of small wories and small annoyances. He worked out his great task while unceasingly beset by the need of 1 attending as best he could to a multitude of small tasks. It is a touching thing that the great leader, while thus driven and absorbed, could yet so often turn aside for the moment to do some deed of personal kindness; and it is a fortunate thing for the nation that in addition to doing so well each deed, great or small, he possessed thatmarvelous gift of expression which enabled him quite unconsciously to choose the very words best fit to commemorate each deed. His Gettysburg speech and his second inaugural . are two of the half dozen greatest speeches ever made. They are great in their wisdom, and dignity, and earnestness, and in loftiness of thought and expression which makes them akin to the utterances of the prophets of the Old Testament. on the bed of a soldier, Willie Clarke by name. There, through a long night vigil, Gatch and the other doctors who had been summoned did all that science could accomplish in their efforts to save the life of the war executive. There Mrs. Lincoln, surrounded by her friends, waited with the various intimates of the president who shar ed the vigil. .And there, at 7 o'clock the following morning, Abraham Lin coln died. Shot in Back by Trooper. Boston Corbett, whose chief claim to a place in American history is due to an accident, svas the New York trooper who shot John Wilkes Booth, the assassin of Abraham Lincoln. Cor bett was one of the guard stationed about the tobacco house on the Garrett farm, which was the scene of the last stand made by Booth in his ef fort at escape. Booth's attitude had been so recklessly brave, and his prof fers to the commanding officers of the body that surrounded him so chival rous, that even they, Chief I. C. Baker of the secret service and Colonel Con ger, regretted that he had been shot from behind by a trooper who had .lost his head. The Death of Booth. "After ( doubling back on their trail the successful pursuers of Booth and his companion and accomplice. , Davy Herold, found them in the . Garrett barn. The building was surrounded and negotiations for surrender were conducted -with the fugitive inside. Booth offered to come out. though the leg fracture he sustained when he leaped from Lincoln's box In the Ford theater at Washington made him practically an Invalid, and fight squarely against his opponents for his life. This was refused, and when finally the barn, filled with dried hay. was fired, he shouted to those outside to prepare a stretcher for him. At the last moment Herold weakened, leaving the companion he had followed to make his last stand alone. This Booth was preparing o do when Corbett, excited, fired andhot the slayer of the emancipator iniTfce back of the neck. Herold died otfUie scaffold. Corbett lived until a feVI years ago. when his death aiuDouacrN received : briel

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Former Resent Marshall's Recommendation That a Committee Be Appointed to Investigate State Offices. SAY IT REFLECTS ON , PARTY MANAGEMENT Senator Kirkman Announces That All the Departments Are Now Operated on a Business Basis. . Palladium Bureau, . Indianapolis, Feb. 12. ThO row in the senate yesterday afternoon between the democrats and republicans grew out of one of the things that Governor Marshall recommended. In his message to the legislature the governor urged the appointment of a committee that should investigate the state offices and find out how the work is done how much help is required to do the work how much help should be paid and where assistants and deputies could be dropped without impairing the public service. The house adopted a resolution of that kind some time ago and sent it to the senate. The resolution explains the purpose of the committee and says the commfttee shall make recommendations for placing the offices on a sound business basis. Republican "Holler" It was this that the republican senators objee'ted to because they said it carried with it the insinuation that the state offices at this time under republican administration were ' not being conducted on a business basis. They did not propose to be made a party to any such accusation. This drew the fire of the democrats and for a time it looked squally. 1 "This part ofi the resolution may not have been intended' as an insinuation that the state offices are not now on a business basis," said Senator Kirk, man, "but it is there. The offices are on a business basis and the people know it." "The people have spoken,, said Senator Kistler. Rah for Kirkman. "And the people will continue to speak long after you and I are gone," Kirkman remarked. "The people will say you intend to continue running the. offices as you have in the past," said Stotsenburg. "Do you object to putting these offices on a business basis?" Senator Horace Hanna of Plainfield, republican, went after the democrats with hot tongs. He charged that the democrats were extravagant. "Look at the house of representatives," he said There are more employes there this time than ever before. You can't get into the house without stumbling over a spittoon cleaner. There are so many employes there that they will not all get acquainted with each other during the session." "Were you speaking seriously?" ask ed Fleming. "Yes," Hanna answered. "I merely wanted to know," said Fleming. " Want Investigation. Hanna was a member of the legisla tive visitation committee that visited the state institutions and offices and recommended the appropriations for all of them. Kistler referred to this fact. "We want an investigation," he said "and the visitation committee should not be afraid of an investigation." "We are not afraid,' Hanna retorted hotly. "I want you to understand that." - "This man is so wise in his own conceit that he can make no mistake that it would not be unwise to make an in vestieatlon." said Kistler. The objectforiable clause in the resolution was stricken out by a party vote. ' ., Santo Domingo's cocoa crop will be unusually large this season, according to present . indications. The first gathering will be In April, and mature trees will yield a second crop in August Santiago is now in wireless communication with the capital, San to Domingo. . "What is PegssusT "The only horse in the world," answered the poet, "that can live without oats." Lousiville Courier-Journal I want every chronic rheumatic to throw away all medicines, all Hniaaeata. all plaster, and give ML'XYON' S RHEUMATISM REMEDY a trial. K matter what your doctor may aay. bo matter what yonr rnenas may aay. m matter now prejudiced to may be against all advertised remedies. o at one to toot drna lea. ro at aec to toot drnjrfist and set a bottle of tte KHEUMATISM REM ED T. If It fails to give satistactkm.1 will refand yonr mocy. Mnnron Remember this remedy contains no aajSuc aeio. no opiam cocaine, aorpune or er earmfnl drags, it w pot np ander

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