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THE RESURRECIIuN. sr S. MOORE, Gray streaks of dawn had shot athwart the gloom. While stalwart soldiers watched around the tomb. But suddenly there conies an awful shock, Which opes the tomb and rends the solid rock. A mighty angel rolls away the stone, While on his face the light of heaven shone. The stricken guards fall prostrate on the e-irth. The scene has hushed their jibes and songs of mir.h. The resurrection—Jesus leaves the cave— O’er death triumphant, couqurror of the grave. The prostrate guards, still trembling with affright, Creep from the tomb, and take themselves to flight. They reach the city, and the storv tell Os what they saw, and what to them befell. The wicked Jews persuade the guards with gold To tell a lie, to quash the truth they told. They might as well have tried to quench the sun, And hide its light, as stop the work begun. The risen Tx>rd to chosen saints appears—- “ The Lord is risen,” thrills His people's ears. The wondering angels linger at the cave. And talk of Him who come the world to save. The weeping women came at morning light. And start to see the strange, mysterious sight. The sympathetic angels kindly say. “The Lord is risen—see the place He lay. Go tell the loved disciples of your Lord That it has been according to His word.” They run and tell Christ’s followers, but they Gave little heed to what thev heard them say. But Job- and Peter run and reach the cave. And find that Christ has risen from the grave. They leave the place, awed with strange hopes and fear,-, But lingering, loving, weeping Mary hears The Master’s voice—to her divinely sweet— And cries "Rabboni” while she clasps His feet. The blood-stained feet she once washed with her tears When Jesus saved her from her guilty fears. The sad disciples met again that night And suddenly they see a glorious sight; Their risen Master in their midst appears. Dispels their doubts and calms their rising fears. Week after week the Savior comes and shows The wounds inflicted by His cruel fors. For forty days the Resurrection Lord Oft met His own and caeered them by His word. Thon from their midst they see their Lord arise And wing His flight toward the upper skies ; And while they gaze with wondering affright A passing cloud hid Jesus from their sight. Two eons of light assuage their rising fears And whisper w> rds of comfort in their ears : “Cease from your sorrow and from tears refrain, For this same Jesus shall return again.” Ten days they wait to be endued with power. And to them comes the Pentecostal shower. The Spirit comes their rapture to inspire And on them rests like cloven tongues of fire ; And thus endowed they hasten to proclaim Salvation in the risen Savior’s name : “The Lord is risen! let tho peop'e sing. The grave is conquered, death has lost his sting. “The new and living way is now made known From sin and death up to His glorious t hrone. “Then shout for joy ! ye sons of earth arise ! And waft your loud hosannas to the skies ! “Sing of the triumphs of your conquering Lord I Sing of His love. His mighty deads record. "The Lord is risen ! Sing the loud refrain, That as He rose, so shall we riso again. * —Chicago Ledgir. I GREAT TREASURE. ft Strange Mystery Snrronndinir Its Disappearance. A STORY OF EXTRAORDINARY INTEREST. BY FRANK BARRETT. CHAPTER VIII.

mer position. In face of my evidence, sie .was firmly convinced at hat what she had seen

for a tolerably widespread belief in supernatural appearances. She was ashamed of the feebleness of mind which her experiences seemed to imply, and, resolved to overcome the weakness, she resisted all her father’s persuasions to change those conditions under which she had passed the last two nights. Van Hoeck alone refused to believe in Edith’s hallucination. “One has only to hear Miss Lascelles speak to discredit a notion of that kind,’’ he said; "she has every sign of mental vigor and physical strength, and to accuse such a girl of that kind of morbid insanity called hallucination, is just as creditable to your understanding as to believe in the simplicity and honesty of a vagabond Californian card-sharper and the half-breed wench he chooses to call his daughter.’’ When night came he said to me, after we had separated from the rest: “This is no time for sleep, Thorne; we must watch through the night, whether you like it or not. if it is only for Miss Lascelles’ sake." i readily agreed to this, and for an hour we walked on a part of the lawn from which I could see Edith’s window. Then the rain, which had been drizzling for some time, fell heavily, and forced us to go in. We changed our boots for slippers, and sat together in my room, I with a book, he with his chin in his hands, his face hideous with the light of the lamp on his protruding eyes. Heaven knows. I was not wanting in love for Edith, or solicitude for her welfare, and yet I could not keep awake. It must be remembered that I h ad had no sleep the preceding night, and that I did believe in Edith’s hallucination, and therefore saw no actual danger menacing her. I tried to interest myself in the book, but my thoughts grew confused, the type swam before my eyes, and helped to bemuse my senses. At length I put down the book, and shaking my wits together, I said to Van Hoeck: "Let us talk." "Talk!" he muttered, scornfully; "why not ask me to sing you a eomic song? If the Kid were here I suppose you wouldn’t want me to amuse you. You could keep awake until three or four in the morning Watching her, but as it’s only your future wife who is concerned, you are log-headed before midnight," This sarcasm did not prevent me dozing again a few minutes later. I was ashamed of my drowsiness, anil after a minute’s dose I would wake with a guiltv start, only to drop off again in a few 'moments. I know not how long this had been going on, wheu Van Hoeck

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shook me by the arm, and wmte me thoroughly. "It is courting destruction to sit here with the door open,” he said, "one of us blind, and the other dead asleep. I cannot stand it any longer; it is intolerable. Tell ! me if it rains." I went to the window, and found that the j rain had ceased. I told him this. “I will go out; take me down to the door," j he said. I led him down stairs, and gave him his umbrella and hat. Then I took mine ami opened the door quietly, fearing to awake Edith. 1 would have accompanied him. but he refused, saying night and day were alike to him, and he know his way along the i paths and about the lawn. "Go back to your room and fasten your- ; self in," he said; "it is our only security. Tap at the window to let me know that all ; is fast. I beg you to do this,” he added, earnestly; “you cannot understand the feelings of a man in my position—the torture of conscious impoteney as you feel the approaehing fate that you are powerless to avert." His voice rattled in his throat, ami indistinctly I heard him mutter, as he groped his way along the wall of the terrace: "Cramped in a coffin, ami the elods falling. falling ” I closed the door, ami returned to my room with a shudder. AVnen I had fastened myself in I tapped at the window, and Van Hoeck replied by tapping on the wall below. The fresh air had revived me; I had no ; longer to struggle with an irresistible drowsiness—the inclination to sleep was gone. I had my book to finish, but my mind was not sufficiently composed to read. As I walked about the room I thought of Edith and of Van Hoeck, wondering if there could be any connection between her strange hallucination and the terrible presentiment which night and day possessed him. It seemed as if there must be something abnormal in the conditions under which we lived, to produce an effect which, though characterized by different peculiarities, was in both cases attributable only to a disor- j deredimagination, and I wondered if I. in 1 my turn, should come under this occult in- ; fluence. I might have been occupied with the speculation for half an hour, when I heard a scream of terror that I could not doubt came from the wingin which Edith lay. In I an instant I opened the door and ran : through the corridor. The doors in the [ picture-gallery were open. As 1 drew aside I the curtains which closed in the staircase corridor of the left wing. I saw Sir Edmund । come from his room with a lamp. The door ! of Edith’s room exactly faced his; it was j wide open; all was dark within. "What is it. my dear, what is it?” he ■ called, as ho entered the room. There was no answer. I followed to the door. Sir Edmund was standing by the empty bed. looking around him in blank dismay. “She is gone.” he gasped. “The door was wide open ” Tiie bed stood away from the wall. I bade Sir Edmund look on the further side. There was scarcely room for him to pass between the foot of the bed and the wall, but as he lowered the light he said, in quick alarm; “She is here—unconscious. Ring the bell for the women.” I ran to the bell ami rang it violently: , then from the stairs in the cross-gallery 1 called to the servants to come down. In the meanwhile Sir Edmund had raised Edith and placed her on the bed. where she lay like one dead. From his room I got a spirit ease, but wo knew not how to apply the remedies at our hand, and it was an intense relief to us when the housekeeper bustled in, followed by Edith's maid, for we were as helpless as ! children in this emergency. | The housekeeper told me to leave the 1 ! room. I went to the door, and stood there I trembling from head to loot. I had taken Edith's hand, ami the ley coldness of the lifeless fingers that 1 had only known quick with warm blood chilled my very heart with fear. There was a long period of terrible sus- ! pense. and then I heard the dear voice I murmur, and. my heart bounding with joy, I ventured forward that I might see the life once more in her beautiful face. Sir Ed- i mund stopped me on the threshold. “Thank God!” be said, fervently, “she has come baek to us; but the women say she j must be kept quiet. Go back to your room, my dear fellow, and we will talk it all over at breakfast - time. Good-night, goodnight.” I returned reluctantly to my room. As I , passed his chamber I heard the Judge snoring loud and long. It needed something more than such trifles to wake him when he had a bed to : sleep in. What already puzzled me was how Edith's door came to be wide open when she had tainted in a quite remote part of the room. CHAPTER IX. What happened in Edith's room that night ; I did not learn until the next morning, but ! I will give her account in this place in order to preserve the sequence of events. True to her resolve, she had left the win- j dow open and the blind down, exactly as on | the preceding nights. It was her habit to ’ lock the door, and that she did not omit to ' do so on this occasion she was convinced j by the fact that she found some difficulty in I turning the key. and had afterward tried ■ the handle to know if the bolt was shot, I She left the lamp burning on the table. ■ screened from her by the lace curtains of i the bed. It was past eleven when she lay ; down, and she felt so little fear that she feil i asleep almost immediately. A pillow slipping from beneath her head ; awoke her. she believed. Her first eon- I sciousness was that her head felt uncom- I fortubly low. She put her hand out to find i if she had slipped to the edge of the bed: ' but no. her position was unchanged. Then it struck her that she had left a light on the table; it was now out. and all was dark. She wondered if this was a trick of imagination. Was she awake or asleep? She touched her eyes to be sure they were open. Then it occurred to her that she might have ' been asleep a long while. There was noth- i ing extraordinary in her lamp going out, or her head slipping from the pillow. Say- ! ing this to herself, she felt for the pillows. To her astonishment she found that both 1 were gone. | It was droll. She felt inclined to laugh. । thinking how she must have tossed about j in her sleep to knock both pillows out. But the bed-clothes were perfectly smooth, the bed on each side of her even, soft, and yielding. That was strange! "I must have done all the tossing with my head,” she said to herself, still tickled by the oddity of the thing. One thing was certain—she could not sleep in comfort with nothing but a bolster under her head. She leaned out and felt upon the floor as far as she could reach to the right The pillows had not slipped out on that side. Then, putting her shoulder against the wall, she felt down on the left. There was nothing there. What did it all mean? Decidedly this must be a new freak of the imagination. She was not yet thoroughly frightened The spirit who would steal her pillows must have some sense of humor; it was j preferable to drumming on the window- j panes and glaring through the blind at her. ; Hearing and sight had been tried, and now , her sense of touch was to be tested. But, though she tried to make light of the affair, she felt that something terrible underlay its comic aspect, and a little shiver ran through her at the thought of getting up and striking a light. It was so much easier to be courageous in the daylight than in such darkness as this. After all, perhaps the pillows had slid out of the bed in a natural way. and lay only just a little beyond her reach. But. rather than stretch her arm out again in the dark | space, she preferred to put up with the j bolster doubled. She doubled the bolster and gave it a lit- | tie pat: then she put up a lock of hair that | come down, and told herself nst to be stupid about a little thing like that; and won- I dering whether she should dare to tell of i this incident in the morning, she dropped ! on her elbow, and laid down bor head—down. down, down till it touched the bed. "What is this?” she asked herself, starting up in a fright. She felt from side to X

DITH could not say whether the laths she had seen turned were open was she went to the window, und there were no means of confirming the fact afterward, because in ipulling up the blind. Jthey would, if open, be ’returned to their for-

and heard was an extraordinary illusion of the senses paral^lel to that whi c h furnis he s the sole excuse

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side: now the bolster was gone: the.-e was nothing there but the bed. But this pantomime trick was no longer comic. She felt the tears of fright springing in her eyes, and something rising in her thro&u Cold fear chilled her to the I bone. Was she in reality awake? The striking ■ of the clock in the belfry assured her of I that. Ding-dong, ding-dong, ding-dong, dingdong is lightly chimed; and then the Hour was tolled out slowly, sonorously, solemn: Boom, boom, boom. boom. But if this was not hallucination, what was it? The work of actual hands? What ; then? It’ they had no more direful inten- » tion than to play a trick of this kind, they ; were not to be feared. It was not l terrific; it was merely childish mischief, and this reflection suggested that, after all. it might only bo Lola who was trying to frighten her. And just for one moment, as she leaned baek on her elbow, she fancied she saw something like those luminous eyes in the midst of the darkness, and close to her—there! there, above her, toward the side of the bed. "Is it you. Lola?" sho asked, but in a voice so taint, for she was sick with fright, that she herself could hardly hear the words sho spoke. It was n fancy, or the eyes were turned away. Yet still leaning upon her elbow that quivered under her. she strained her eyes to penetrate the darkness. Not long, perhaps, though it seemed so, her heart beating painfully, her mouth parched and dry. the hot breath catching the baek of her throat. Something seemed to be touching her hair. Was it the lace curtain? She raised her trembling hand and felt something level with the top of her head. But it was not the curtain. It was the pillow. or she was mad. Her strength gave way, and she fell back upon the bed; but the terrible suspicion that the pillow had been withdrawn for the purpose of smothering her made her throw her hand up. The pillow had descended; it was close to > her face. She tried to scream, but the pillow j was already upon her mouth, and smothj ered the cry. It closed down upon her head, firm and I hard. She eould no longer breathe. It I pressed upon her throat as sho lay with the • back of her head pushed down into the bed. The touch of Death aroused the instinct j of self-preservation within her. and. with a i frantic effort, she tore herself from under i that suffocating pressure, flung herself from I the bed. and. as respiration returned, cried i with all her force for help. [TO BE CONTINUED.] Hale and Harty at the Age of 115. A widow of a Revolutionary soldier is still living in the beautiful and picturesque country of Valley Diver, in Western North Carolina at the advanced age of 115 years. The old lady, whose name is Elizabeth Boston, is hale and hearty and bids fair to live a few years yet. She stated, in a recent talk with the writer, that she was six years old when the battle of Kings Mountain was fought (1780). Her husband was wounded in that historic combat. She talks very intelligently, at times, in regard to the struggle for national independence. She rememb rs seeing the "lied C< ats" as she calls them, and als > rememb rs the time when the patriots made up a company in her neighborhood to go und tight the British at King's Mountain. She is living with her great-grands n. She had three children, one of whom is still living. The old lady las 1 >st her eyesight almost entirely, but can recognize the voices of persons with whom she is acquainted. Her husband has long since pasitd ov< r to the silt nt majority. The old lady has always led a very industrious lite, until her advancing age has left her without much endurance. She is still able to walk about the house by the aid of holding to the chairs, and whatever she can reach to steady her. She has always been very regular in her habits. Facts About Feet. The common unit of lined measure, a foot, was derived from the length of th? human foot. In a man 5 feet 11 inches tall the foot measures 10} inches, and the middle toe 21 inches. In Chinese subjects, the ordinary height being 5 feet, the length of foot was 9 inches and 5 lines. The longest foot of measure is that of old Turin, which is equal to 20 inches of English measure. There "’as a time when not only each country, but each town, had a footmeasure of its own. indicating different averages of the different feet in various localities. Among a tribe of low-stature Indians, whose height varied from 5 feet 1 inch to 5 feet 3 inches, the length of the feet wp« found to be from 9 inches 4 lines to 9 inches 6 lines. In order to get an idea of the lehgth of shoe sizes in inches it may be stated that a foot measuring 10 inches, with the weight of the body resting upon it, may wear comfortably a No. 6 shoe. A youth in the South Sea islands, 6 feet 7 inches in height, had a foot 12} inches long, his lower extremities measured 30 inches in length, circumference of calf of leg 17} inches, and his ankle 10 inches.— Minneapolis Tribune. Swift’s Latin Puns. Among the Latin puns of the famous Dean Swift is the following, which, by allowing for false spelling, and running the words into each other, makes good sense in English: Mollis übuti. Moll is a beauty. Has an acuti. Has an acute eye. No lasso finis. No lass so fine is, Molli divinis. Molly divine is. Omi de armis tres. Oh. my dear mistress! Ind na dis tres, I'm in distress. Cantu disco ver. Can’t you discover. Meas alo ver? Me as a lover? A Strong Man. A man who had no feet was standing i on the sidewalk with a bar of iron on . his shoulder. An old negro who saw ; him excitedly exclaimed: “ ’Fo’ greshus, look at dat man! Got I sich er heaby load on his shoulder dat his feet dun sunk down in de rock. Neber seed sich er strong man in my life. Huh, hate mighty bad fur dat man ter tramp on me.”— Arkansaw Traveler. An Unfinished Appearance. A little girl was walking the other day with her governess. They met a man with I a club foot, at whom the child looked a i little wouderingly as he passed and then j laughed. “You must not laugh at him," said the | governess. “Why not?” “God made that man.'' “Humph!” said the child, “it must have ! been the first man he made!”— Boston Transcript.

VAST BEYOND COM PARE. NEW YORK CELEBKATES IN A FITTING MANNER. The Greatest Military Display of Modern Times Brilliant Decora Gons and Fitting Display at Chicago — Observances Throughout the Northwest. Nkw York, May I.—The town woke up more sleepily Tuesday morning than it did Monday, and with good reason. Its in- i habitants, permanent as well as temporary, were tired, the latter even more so than | ; the former. Still, the earliest streaks of ! I dawn found many people in the streets, ! and these indeed were fortunate, for in all | the range of meteorological chance a more perfectly morning eould scarcely have j been found. As the mon tug wore along ; the crowds in the streets became even i I greated than they were Monday. The : I hurry was even greater, for one and all I saw the necessity of reaching points at the j earliest practical moment. The crush in the streets in the lower part j of the city was so great that it was found ’ necessary to start the jiarade somewhat earlier than had been intended. This was done in order that the line might be lengthened out and got in marching order, thus relieving at once the pressure in the lower wards and placing the head of the column in such a position that, when the President reached the reviewing stand, he need be subject to no delay. At precisely 10:25 Gen. Schofield gave the order, and the greatest military parade of modern times started. From Pine street, the point from which the start was made, up Broadway as far as the eye coul I reach the sidewalks were literally blockaded with people, while the windows, doorways, and roofs of the buildidgs were simply a mass of humanity. As the gorgeous pageant N gan to move up Bioadway all the patriotism in the mass, which had been pent up now for many hours, broke forth. Cheers rent the air, handkerchiefs and banners hold in the hands of the people began waving and New York and its mnnv thousands of visitors were happy. The parade was led by Maj.-G^n. Schofield, accompanied by his staff and corps of aids. The right of the line was given to the West I’oint cadets, 190 strong, who were followed by the regulars under Maj.Gen. Howard. The secon t division consisted of State militia Thev marched in the order of the admission of the States into the I nion, as follow-. Delaware, 750 men, Gov. Benjamin T Briggs commanding; Pennsylvania, ^,[>oo men, Gov. James A. Beaver commanding; New Jersey, 3,700 men. Gov. Rolaut S. Green commanding; Georgia, 350 men, Gov. John B. Gordon ■ commanding. Connecticut. t>oo men, Gov. Morgan G. Buckley <.s>inmanding. Massachusetts, 1,f175 men, Gov. Oliver Ames commanding; Maryland, 500 men. Gov E. E. Jackson commanding; South Carolina, 350 men. Gov, John P. Ruh- । nrdion commanding. New Hampshire, 1,000 num, Gov. I'harlws H. Sawyer ' commanding; Virginia, 500 men, Gov Fitzhugh I’ve ■•ommamLng; New York, j PJ.IS’D men. Gov. l’avid Bennett Hill. I eomtnander-in-chief North Carolina, 150 men, Gov Daniel <’ Fowl commanding. ; Rhode Island, 151 men, Hoya IC. Taft I c-inmanding Vermont, 750 men. Gov. William I'. Dillingham t'ommanding; Kentucky, >SO men. Gm Simon H. Buckner I commanding; Ohio. 3,.500 men Gov. Joseph ; B. Foraker, commanding; Louisiana, ‘OO I mon, Gov. Francis T. Nichols commanding; i Mississippi, OOu men. Gov. Boin-rt Lowry I commanding; Michigan, >oo men, Gov Rolart Lowry commanding, Michigan, -iOO j men, Gov. C. G. Luce ct-mmamlmg; District of Columbia, sou mon, Commissioner i Col. E. C. Blaunt commanding; Florida, 2(H) men, Gov. Francis P. Fleming eomnmmlmg; West Virginia. 300 n -n, Gov J. B. Jackson commanding. Places were given in this division to Gov. Seay of Alabama, Gov. James I’. Engle of Arkansas. Gov. J. N Coo)«>r of Colorado, Gov. J W, Fifer of Illinois, Gov Hovey ’ of Indiana. Gov. 1 arrats e of lowa. Gov. Burleigh of Maine. Gov. Merriam of Mm CHAUNCEY M. DEPFAV. OKATOK OF THE DAY. nesota, Gov. Francis of Missouri, Gov. Thayer of Nebraska, Gov. Pennoyer of Oregon, and Gov. Hoard of Wisconsin. The third division consisted of the Grand Army of the Republic and the Loyal Legion. The scenes along the first part of the line of march beggar description. The city hall and the stands were packed almost to suffocation, and numerous ticket i holders were unable to gain access to them. Broadway, as far as the eye could see, was a blaze of bunting and a sea of faces. Housetops, windows, telegraph poles, and lamp posts, private stands without number, and every possible vantage ground vied with the sidewalk crowds in point of numbers. Just before 12:30 o’clock the President and other honored guests of the day were driven past the city hall stand in open carriages. The knowledge that they had started had been telegraphed along the line and the military bodies had been : drawn up in saluting columns on the east side of Broadway. The Presidential party was at last placed in position and the rei view of the parade began. It took nine hours for the procession to pass. In tne box with the President were Vice-President Morton, Chief Justice Fuller, Secretary of State Blaine, Mayor Grant, Gen. Sherman, Admiral Porter, Hamilton Fish, Elbri Ige T. Gerry, and exPresidents Cleveland and Hayes. Services were held in all the churches, the principal services being held at St. Paul’s church, where AV ashington attended on the morning of his inauguration, and which were attended to-day by President Harrison, Vice-President Morton, ex-Presi-nents Cleveland andJHayes, and many of ■ the most distinguished people of the country. Bishop Potter, in his address dwelt upon the tryst and depemjenee which induced the first President after lie had taken the oath to turn to the church and ask God for । help. j At the close of the service at St. Paul’s I the doors leading out upon the west porch । were thrown open and the distinguished ' congregation which had entered the Broadway entrance passed out under the canopy which had been stretched to the Vessey

street gate and took the carriages assigned them. As soon as the Presidential party reached the platform a shout of applause arose from the assembled crowd. Archbishop Corrigan, wearing his scarlet robes, was on the platform. He was introduced to the President and Vice President, Gov. Hill, Mayor Grant, Dr. Storrs and several others. Hamilton Fish, Sr., opened the exercises by introducing Elbridge T. Gerry as chairman. The latter said: , “Fellow-Citizens: One hundred years ago, on this spot, George AVashington, as । first President of the United States, took I his oath of office upon the Holy Bible. ■ That sacred volume is here to-day, silently attesting the basis upon which our nation was constructed and the dependence of our people upon Almighty God. In the words, ■ then, of one of the founders of the governi ment: ‘With hearts overflowing with । gratitude to our Sovereign Benefactor for i grunting to us existence, for continuing it to the present period, and for accumulating on us blessings spiritual and temporal through life, may we with fervor beseech Him so to continue them ns 1 est to promote His glory and our welfare.’ ” Mr. Gerry then introduced the Rev. Richard F. Storrs, who delivered the invocation in a very clear voice. Clarence AV. Bowen, secretary of the centennial committee, was next introduced. He read J. G. AVhittier’s poem, which had been comoosed for the occasion.

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A* tue coiiclu'ion of the reading the Assembly gave Mr. Whittier three cheers i and a tiger. The Hon. Chauncey M. Depew, the orator of the day. was next introduced. He received a hearty greeting, and when this iiad subsided deli , erod his speech. « 111 < v«.<> < iii.kbk vns. Thousands <>t Patriots in Line The Bisplay anil Decorations Superb. , Chkao", May L—Never before in the history of the city was Cnicago more profnsely deeorated with the National colors and tainting than that displayed I’uesduy in commemoration of the centennial in- | auguration of (Jeorge Washington. Every business house and a larger portion of the residences displayed decorations of some sort. Down town the [decorations were elaborate, the business men seeming to vie with each other in making ti e most pretentious display. Tile streets were a marching host of Hagbearers. The holiday allowed by the business houses turned thousands of young patriots loose. Business was entirely suspended. The whole population was busily burning tiie patriotic flame. Pictures of Washington were hung in windows, fastened to Hags, and wreathed in thNational colors. He appeared in a thous- i and attitudes and wore a greater variety’ of suits than the knight of modern society. ’ He wore his hair pompadour, combed flat, or appeared baldheaded. If humor has a ; place in the hearafter Washington must have been amused to see himself in yellowtrousers and blue boots, with knee breeches and red stockings, and all the vanity and pomp of civic and military trappings. The older folk marched behind blaring i born and sullen drum. Several societies joined the festivities in brilliant uniform and added the pomps of military parade. Banners of all nations spread their folds ' under the starry t ag. Natives of other countries joined the throng of patriot Americans. A cataclysm of oratory spread over the city. At Central Music hall Robert T. Lincoln, the Rev. S. J. McPherson, and the Hou. John M. Thurston of Nebraska, temporary chairman of the last । Republican convention, spoke. Farwell hall listened to Judge Tuthill, the Hon. L. i D. Thoman, ex-Civil Service commissioner, I and Rabbi Hirsch. At the Exposition building were the Rev. C. C. Albertson j and ex-Senator Doolittle. The Board of Trade building rang with , the j voices of Robert Mclntyre and the ' Rev. Dr. Gunsaulus. In Battery D | was heard the oration of the । Hon. John M. Langston, the colored delegate from Virginia who espoused the cause of Senator Sherman at the national convention, and the Hon. Peter Hendrickson of Wisconsin. Judge Harlan and the Rev. Dr. Barrows spoke at the Second regiment armory. On the lake front Mayor Cregier and Judge Prendergast held the audience at tent A, while Congressman Mason and Mr. A. G. Lane did a similar service at tent B. In many of the churches services iu honor of the day were held. Catholic, Protestant, Hebrew, and unorthodox —all joined in a national thanksgiving observance. In the evening fireworks wore displayed at the parks, and the town turned out to see them. The streets were glutted with sightseers, and the lake front was a solid jam. A ban- i quet at the Union League club swelled the tide of oratory that rolled to the feet of Columbia’s first ruler. At Springfield the centennial celebration was highly creditable. A delightful day permitted a turn-out of all the military’ and secret societies in the city, who marched through the principal streets to the Capitol grounds. There thousands of people assembled to listen to an eloquent oration by Bishop Seymour and the exercises of prayer and song. In the afternoon

the school children to the number of five i thousand were marshaled for parade, pass- I ing over a raised platform on Capitol avenue, where the people could witness the presentation of medals. The Rev. Father j Hickey, Roman catholic vicar-general, | gave them an address of welcome, and the I Rev. Dr. Post of the Congregational church delivered the speech of the occasion. ! Flags floated from public and private buildings. The city was handsomely decorate I. At Danville there was a general observ- j ance of centennial day. All business was | suspended in the afternoon, and the business houses and privates residences were handsomely decorated with bunting. The large parade of military and civic societies was witnessed by an immense crowd. Speeches were made at the armory by prominent gentlemen, after which the Oddfellows laid the corner stone to their new temple with appropriate ceremonies. In the absence of Grand Master Underwood Past Grand Commander AV. R. Jewell of this city officiated At Monticello the day was ushered in by a salute of 100 guns. The bells were rung and steam whistles sounded for an hour. At 9 a. m. a grand union service was held at the Methodist Episcopal church. Prayers were offered and addresses delivered by the Rev. J. 1). Fry and the Rev. M.AValler and others The city was gayly decorated wit h the national colors. At Bloomington the Hon. Adlai E. Ste- | vehson delivered an address to an immense

audience at the Second Presbyterian church. Other speakers of the day were the Bev. W. H. Wilder and Dr. James B. Taylor. Th*' bells were rung and cannon tiro I. At Elgin special services were held in all of the schools and in the evening an address was delivered by Bishop Fellows of t ’hicago. At Waukegan all business was practically suspended and the citizens celebrated. Charles Whitney delivered a patriotic address and the schools took up the occasion with joyful memorial exercises. At Kankakee the centennial of Washington's inauguration was appropriately’ observed by the ringing of bells, church services, a monster paratie, and patriotic speeches Fully ten thousand people were in the city. Throughout Wisconsin. Milwaukee, Wis., May I.—Great crowds attended the numerous centennial celebrations in this city. From 9to 9:3(1 o’clock all the lire bells anl church bells rang in chorus, and whistles tooted in i accompaniment. Union services were held in the three divisions of the city, and at 11 o’clock a monster meeting was held at the Academy of Music under the auspices ;of the Merchants’ association ami the chamber of commerce. The speakers were Mayor Thomas Brown, John' Johnston, exCongressman G. W. Hamilton, and Gen. ।E. C. Winkler. In the afternoon the Fourth regiment, light horse squadron, and First light battery and the six turner societies, a thousand strong, marched to the Washington statue on the west side, where an immense concourse of people ; listened to addresses by local orators. A big demonstration was held on the south i side. At La Crosse the day was favorable and business was suspended. Religious services in several churches were well attended. There was a procession, in which more than twenty-five societies united together, with citizens on foot and in carriages, forming one of the most imposing parades ever witnessed in that city. Col. Bryant ■ addressed the people in English the Hon. F. A. Husher of Minneapolis in Norwe i gian, and Dr. Ollie in German. At Waukesha the demonstration assumed ' large proportions. People came from all parts of the country and with all WaukI esha turned out to show their patriotism, i At 9 o’clock all the bells of the village ! were rung, and then services were held in • the different churches. The procession was I the largest ever seen in Waukesha. The I exercises at Amuseimnt hall consisted of prayer, music, reading of Washington’s i first inaugural by T. E. Ryan, and an ora- ; tion by John T. kelly of Milwaukee. | At Racine business was suspended for the day and everybody united in celebrating the 100th anniversary of the inauguration of Washington. At Oshkosh the day was fittingly observed. Judge Cleveland made a short speech and read Washington's inaugural. He was followed by Judge Burnell, Richard Guenther, Charles IV. Felker, the Rev. C. B. W’ilcox, and others, in short speeches. It Madison there were no public exercises. Cannons were fired on the university campus at noon, but Madison did not wake up. The l>»y in lowa. Des Moines, lowa. May 1. —Des Moines was in holiday attire Tuesday in honor of the inauguration centennial. All of the principal business streets were handsomely decorated. An imposing parade of the principal societies and organizations was held in the afternoon, after which Foster’s opera house was crowded to overflowing by persons who desired to listen to addresses by the Hon. A. B. Cummins and F. W. Lahmauu. Thousands at Vitters

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came in from the surrounding country? 1 here was a fine display of fireworks in' the evening At Keokuk the day w ua appropriately < elebrated at Ranj p ark with a parad 7 i speeches, music, aud Balutes of • Special services were held in ali the ; churches. At Mason City the city was in holiday attire. Owing to the chilly atmosphere , thu excises were held in the Grand opera Washington’s family coach. house, which was filled to overflowing. Ihe principal speeches of the day were made by J. J. Clark, AVilliam Wilcox, J. McConlogue, J. R, Jones, and E. J. Blythe. Celebration in Indiana. Indianaholis, Ind., May 1. —The day was very generally observed in this city.. Business was suspended in many lines of trade and the public schools were dismissed. In the forenoon services were! held in a number of churches, while ini others addresses were delivered by wellknown men. Senator Turpie spoke at St. 1 au. s cathedral and the Hon. John M. Butler at 1 lymouth church. In the after-' noon a street parade, consisting of military and civic organizations, accompaniedi by numerous bands of music, was wit-; nessed by large crowds of people. The celebration closed at night with a meeting] at lomlinson’s hall, where addresses werei delivered by Judge Byron K. Elliott, I Mayor Denny, and others. At Peru, Ind., the centennial was fitly” celebrated by general suspension of busi-j ness, services in nil the churches, and a 1 large parade and demonstration by the 1 Catholic church in the evening? The] decorations were profuse. At A\ abash the AV ashington centennial was celebrated by services held at the 1 Christian church in the morning and at the court house in the evening. Tire principal speaker was the Hon. Meredith H. Kidd. HE SAW WASHINGTON’S FACE. ! WHliam H. Burgess Tells About Open* ing the < oflin of the Dead ’re* i<l ♦» nt. Washington. May I.—William Burgess, who is now laving the foundation of! the Confederate monument that is to be erected at Alexandria, is one of the few men now living who has looked upon the face of Gen. George AV ashington. “It was in 1836, ’’ he says, “when I was an apprentice employed in building the new tomb now at Mount A’ernon which so many visitors now come to see. I was a lad then, and I remember this was about my first piece of work. AVhen the vault was completed I assisted in removing the bodies from their old tomb to their present resting place. It was decided to open AVashington’s coffin, and whan it had been conveyed to the new tomb the lid was raised. A number of people were present and stood in breathless silence while the workmen extracted the rusty, screws. AVhen the top of the coffin had been lifted I looked in. The body was apparently perfectly preserved, the features of the face were complete, and there was nothing to indicate the length of time which he had been dead. The exposure to the air, however, had its immediate effect. In a minute or two the body suddenly collapsed, and shrank into an almost unrecognizable form. Other than this my recollections are very indistinct. Ido not remember how the body was dressed or anything further about it. The features, as 1 recollect them, were like the pictures I have seen. ’’ Mr. Burgess is 70 years old and has lived in Alexandria many years. Those who know him well have heard him relate the story often. A CENTENNIAL ARCH. Philadelphia’s Method of Decorating in Honor of the Centennial. Philadelphia, Pa., May 1. —A centennial arch has been placed over the WASHINGTON’S PLATE. e’ .nee to Independence hall, where Conj c met during the last ten years of the last century. The arch has thirteen golden stars. Over each of them is painted the name of one of the original States, Pennsylvania forming the center of the arch. A memorial tablet has been placed on the side of the building bearing the following inscription: “The Capitol of the United States. 1790 to 1800. Here was constructed the arch of the union of which Pennsylvania becomes the keystone; an arch must fall if any single State withdraws. Philadelphia greets the centennial President of the U nited States beneath a triumphal arch, the symbol of perfect union.” Another tablet, placed on the building reads as follows: “Let President Harrison, himself the lineal descendant of another Benjamin Harrison who reported finally the Declaration of Independence July I, 1716, pass hereunder and stand for a moment on the very spot where loth AVashington and Adams swore to sustain the constitution of the United States. ’ ’ MANY PEOPLE BURNED. Fireworks Burn e Number of PeopleWorkmen and Children Are Hurt. i Chicago, May 1. -During the display of fireworks in the Lake Front part Tuesday night horses at the corner of Michigan avenue and Harrison street became unmanageable and plunged right and left into the spectator Men and women were knocked down and trampled upon, and a grea many were seriously hurt. Mhi e win tims of the crush were being carried off the field a package of pyrotechnics and seriously burned a number of boys who were hovering around the operators in charge of the display. There were many women hurt, who during the excitement attending the eai y suenes of the troubles, escaped before thennames could be learned. In tact it is t e general impression along Michigan avenue that a dozen others were both burned and injured and were carried off o leir homes in distant parts of the ci y. ne woman is reported to have had the co ing nearly burnt from her body bj an exploding rocket. London is to have an exhibition of ( “antique aud historical shoes.