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Morning appeal. [volume] (Carson City, Nev.) 1877-1906, 1899-07-19

rorreyson & Summerfeld,
F. u. Norcross,
For Pelat0r.
f.. L. Williams, District Attorney of
Washoe County,
4. e. Cheney.
For Respondent.
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CAPTAIN CHAS. RATH.
HE EXECUTED THE LINCOLN
CONSPIRATORs.
Ascollecttons of an Event That THRILLED
the Whole World-Hs IL New A
Empioye Of the Railway Nail service
of the United states.

Captain Charles Rath Of Jackson,
Mich. was saw more Of the Lincoln
conspirators during their confinement
than any other man and who was de-
tailed by the war departmet as the ex-
ecutioner of those who were condemn
cd to death, is now an employe of the
postoftice department. being clerk in
the railway mail service At the
outbreak Of the war he enlisted in the
Michigan, with the rank
of second lieutenant, and saw active
service until the close of the war. He
was given the position OF aid on the
stan OF Gen. Hartranft, and was seTv-
Ing In this capacity when the general
was hastily summoned to Washington
early in April. 1865. Although the gen
eral and his stan started Immediately
Tor the capital. 1t was not until the
news had spread throughout the army
that the president had fallen under
the bullet OF an assassin. Then those
on the stan understood the reason for
their going. 1t was in some way con
nected with the punishment of the
criminals. On his arrival at Washing
ton, which took place after the killing
OF Booth and the Imprisonment OF some
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TIMING A TRAIN.
dow to Tell the Rate of speed whss
RunnFnp

dow to Tell the Rate of speed whss
Running.
Not one person in a hundred who
travels has any idea of the speed OF =
train, and even large percentage of
the regular trainmen cannot tell With
any degree of accuracy. Engineers use
their driving-wheel as a gauge. They
know, says the Chicago Inter-Ocean,
its circumference, and by counting its
revolutions within a certain time can
tell very accurately the speed at which
they are running. favorite method
of timing among passengers is to count
the telegraph poles. AS a rule these
poles are planted thirty to the mile,
but in prairie countries. where only a
single wire is used. the number d.
minishes to twenty-five, so that rule
will not always work The most ac-
curate method, and the most In use by
experienced railroad men is TO count
the number of rail joints the train
passes over in twenty seconds The
rails on nearly all roads are thirty feet
in length, and the number passed over
in twenty seconds is the speed per
A"oi q 'ioia AS NAAAA4B. It vi LIS Lt-llGe,
il passenger can count thirty clicks
on rail joint in twenty seconds. the
train is running at a speed Of thirty
miles an hour. Actually this me .hod
falls little short as in the example
given above, the speed would be near
er thirty-one than thirty miles. but it
is near enough for all practical pur-
poses.
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Missouri, is the daughter OF United
States Senator Francis Marion Cock
rell Of Missouri. The new man-of-war
will be ready for launching In October.
and the ceremonies will take place at
the Newport News shipyard. The peo-
pie of st Louis and Missouri
will endeaVor to make the event
memorable one. The governor
and thousands of eminent men
and their families will go to the
shipwards via Washington. where
they will be Joined by the president
and government officials. Miss Cock
rel 10 q beautiful and accomplished
young lady, and representative
daughter OF Missouri. During her res
idence at the national capital she has
become we'll acquainted with the score
tary and Miss Long, his daughter, and
1t 10 said that old acquaintance
prompted the secretary to ask Miss
Cockrell TO oAristen the finest battle
ship Of the navy.
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No Looxrr N..,,..,

Wife reading the psper)-wen. I
declare, II that isn't the Queerest thing
ever heard of Husband-What's
that Wife-Why. here in the paps.
is an account of wedding in Man
chester, and among the wedding pres
ents was a bull terrier. given TO the
bride by her father. Husband--I don Z
see anything odd about that. She was
the old mans youngest daughter.
wasn't she? Wife-Ys: but what's
that got to do with it1 Husband WHY
of course, il she and all the rest were
married. he had no further use for the
dog.--Rival.
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mich To Re Desired.

oh my friends. there are some spec
raclDs that one never furgetsi,' said a
lecturer, after giving graphic descrip-
Jibn OF "a terrible accident he had Wit
messed. I'D like TO know vi re hey
sells EN-" remarked an old Iady in
the audience. who j. always mislaying
her glasses Hebrew
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nj. -, sriIIcd.

Sr- >pru-g Md II ! Lgciine to le<
E3t .-' trUghter what do you
propose e.. d.
Mir NlsD.e- en- warn you that in
that case W, % 4. ,pa.t i TO ap1. Even
nov NY ns#DEse tUg, IN ha- er best
clothes on and sw.litS go. u,-. IIil-
WY ata,iOr. Il .ru decide against us
We will flee together and never come
back.
Mr.. Sprpggius without a moments
hesitatioul Then l retuse!-Chicago
Daily News
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IHcUusiderlte.

TN never invite that young woman
again" exclaimed the hostess, who
looked worried
Bur she is very intellectual and
seem auNiCua TO be agrg able.
"Gets- But she lack -.. she in
sists on irving 10 get i!H5 g.uteman
Is marriage failure?' Wa hington
SIar
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Wanted

AT w. c. Dyer's Real Estate agency
yout property TO sell, If you really
want to sell your house and lot. or il you
want to sell vacant 10, list it With Dyer's
agency. have several customers 70,
houses and lots close In; also If you have
a grocery business think l can place i,
for YOU a, the right price.
WARREN c. DYER.
Camera Block
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Suspected.

What a fiatteror your wife is
"Flatterer? Oh, no, ycu wong her.
What has she said la; makes You think
sha fatIeTed yUu?''
1T wa~s't me she fattered: but don't
sos rgu mber what she said about hop
iE that your boy would grow up TO be
5ar like his papa?' a?''-Chicaeo Daily
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A GREAT FREN CHMEN.


rhs New President OF the French
Senate
The new president of the French
oeen a political factor for over twenty
Years. although he is only SIS years OF
dgc. He was elected to the chamber
of deputies as a Republican in 1876
and in 1880 was under secretary of
tate. When Carnot became president
Of the republic, the first prime min
ster he thought of was Fallieres. and
he asked him TO form a cabinet, in
which the latter failed to succeed
Nevertheless he became a member Of
three cabinets under Carnots presi-
dency. That would be enough to show
what kind of man he Is. But his
whole career shows 1t as we'll While
his first chief, Jules Ferry, was unable
TO be chosen as prime minister for fear
II the animosity of his foes. Fallieres,
who belonged TO Ferrys whole minis
try and was genuine opportunist, was
looked upon as an excellent choice,
which nobody could fairly resent From
member OF the government He has
cen once prime minister and minister
Of foreisn affairs t1SSS), twice minister
Of public instruction uSsS and 1880,
twice minister OF justice QsST and
1922 and three times he has occupied
the ministry Of the interior. in 1880,
1882 and 1887. He Is not a fine-lookinx
resident He is somewhat too stout
90 fat and too heavy, and the cartoon
lists have often taken him as their tar
at. But he is an orator OF great skin.
Moreover, he is a man OF absolute In
lescity, whose whole career is above
suspicion Nothing is more important
for great body like the senate. which
has sometimes to face unpopularity,
than to be represented by a man whose
character is unquestionaale and whose
purity cannot be assailed.
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Wash Lse,s E,ntution.

Mr.. Goodheart Ito Chinese washer
MANI was surprised lohn. to SEQ
by the papers that one OF your coun-
try men had been arrested fer heing
drunk and d!sorderly on The street.
John iproudlyl lyl-Nesee; alice s,.mee
MeIican alderman. -Eac m Life
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carly called his "pigtail," shedding his
oriental robes and his lofty turban and
appearing In pants" coat and vest
of American cut and sti1 derby. This
king, like many another royal oriental.
has been harried and worried by his
more powerful neighbors until now he
has been driven to putting on a bold
front with american clothes in the
hope Of awing his external and internal
enemies. His entire suite have adopted
the new style OF dress.
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A New Arrapgem ut

The Colorado & Southern has plaSeo
full line Of tickets reading to al Poi Is
east via the Great Rock Island rou;r
This is a great advantage for those going
east. Tickets can be purchased a, Roul
der rates and baggage checked through
Heretofore passengers were required to
repurchase at Denver.
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A Practical Disautant.

It's a grer wa-te q lime" said Mr..
Rafferty,, "ry argue about politics
II is" replied MIR. DoIau. W mats
the good o. pre'iminar;cze leS mere ely
use up lung force that NIGH come u
very handy when yc wan1 an Yer say
in powers for the eighth or ninth
round va shirrton Star.
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Plan, Of LsM

There Is plant in JamaisA called the
iifs-Dlant. because it u almost impos-
salas to kill 1t, Whsn isaf Ia cut
= and hung up by . strins. Il sends
sst white, thread-like resea. gather,
nseaturs from the air. ~ lesins d
uUW Hov IaAvsa
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! G-.G I.ia..

Wife decier.- i'r,c- am almost.
ashamed to- 20 ouy with th's hll OF. II
isn't a, all tEe style.
Fred this l'ridge,'s da! out?
W=No.
FuG-Taen why don't you borrow
hers 2-Harl ~ Lie.
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THE KING OF COREA.

This is King Ii Hsi of Corea. who
has played havoc with the traditions OF
his subjects by cutting of what is yul-
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cut R.,~.-s.oona Class.

Spokane. Seattle and Portland sag.
California common points $50.
+. f. GiIler, Agent.
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The bes, Sunday dinner IN ,owa attte
Porter restaurant, first door east of arm
ory. I76t
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Estssm II . great thing always to cot
- - AAA ~ oADo AAA,-0sAAoA
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Will cHRtsrEN THE MISSOURI.

Miss Marion Cockrell, who has been
selected by Secretary OF the Navy
Long TO christen the new battleship
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a low tone. "Dey ain't no sense in what dey slngin Dey all ravin' crazy. Look a.t um, how they waggle dey heads an wobble bout wen dey walk! Dey sho is got usf'
 When the song, if such it could be called was done, the little woman came towards the children. Her attitude was not threat ening, but Drusilla made haste to get be- hind her companions. You don't seem to know me?" the little woman said.
 "No we don't. Who are you?" asked Sweetest Susan.
 I'm the Queen of Dreams" replied the otter.
 Are we dreaming now?' Buster John asked somewhat bluntly.
 '.IIow could that be?" said the Queen of D1eams You are not asleep; and we are only here because of a hideous noise we heard. We were asleep. Do you think we should be disturbed in our own Kingdom? We can't help ourselves at this moment, but do you think 1t is right to invade our territory"
 What she talkin' 'bout?" asked Drusilla in whisper. Who's been ,'vadin' any toiritcry?"
 Why MT. Bobs made this bubble for usI Buster John explained
 Tie Queen of Dreams seemed to be pug zled. What is a bubble?" she asked. Why, a bubbIe-a bubble is-WeIl a bub- ble Is piece of soap suds into which air | has been blown," replied Sweetest Susan, somewhat dolefully. How big a piece and how much air is, necessary to make bubble?" inquired the Queen of Dreams. I'm sure I don't know" responded sweetest Susan. Bubbles are of all sizes; but thie is the la1Zest ever saw" 2 Which one?" The Queen of Dreams was a very persistent seeker after informa- ation.
 The bubble we are in now" explained E The Queen of Dreams shook her head and
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legs were short, while its hind legs were long, so that in crawling along the ground as it was now doing it seemed to be crt uching as if ready to spring. It had two tails longer than an alligator's body, ard it's head was as big a barrel and shaped suomething like that of a hippo potamus But its ears were long as those of a mule;fts eyes were long and green, and, when it gaped, the inside of its mouth was as red as red flannel.
 Seeing the children huddled together in a stupefying fright, the Queen of Dreams told them they had nothing to fear. Its nobody but poor old Nightmare. He was ou. all last night and worked hard at his busiress. He should be resting now, but the poor thing gets lonely when he opens one eye and finds us gone. He's a great pet of mine. Come. tickle his ear, and see him open his mouth and growl"
 At this Drusilla turned and ran, and the children ran after her, and the next mo- ment they were standing, panting for b1 cath, close to Mir. Bobs, who was calmly sharpening his tools on an oil stone"
 "I clean forgot to tell you not to stay in there too long," he remarked. "Folks must have fresh air, and you can't git that in bubble. But ef you say the word I'll blow you up a bigger one. an you can stay in 1t longer"
 But the children shook their heads and thanked him. They didn't want any more bubbles that day
 ''You better le'me make you a good big 'un," MT. Bobs insisted. "I most know the nigger gal there would like to git in a great big 'un."
 "Humph You don't know me- den," said Dlusilla with some bluntness. "Dem what likes bubbles can git in um an stay in um fer what I keers. All I'm skeered un is dat Iii git in um in my dreams. Elf does every hair in my haid Il be gray de nex' time you see me-"
 At this MT. Bobs fell to laughing and he laughed so loudly that Miss Elviry came to
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le1 buddy git lonesome"
 Sweetest Susan was still little afriad, but she went forward all the same, and the bubble seemed to swallow her just as It had swallowed Buster John.
 MT. Bobs now turned to Drussila- "Ccme on, eff you're a-comin'.'
 T ain't bleedze ter go in dar, Is I?' she asked.
 "Go in or stay out; it's all one to me. Come Talk out! Which it is? It'll do you no good to go in ner no harm, nuther.'
 Drusilla hestated a moment-just a mo- ment--and then she went to the bubble. "I don't want none CT dat ar soap suds ter git in my eyes," she remarked with a silver
 "Shet your eyes, then," said MT. Bobs.
 Drusilla did more than that; she held her breath. Then, with whip of dampness on her face, she found herself inside the bub- ble. She turned to see where and how she got in, but was so surprised at the view that presented itself that she fairly gasped with astonishment. Away off in the dis tance she could see somebody that resem- bled MT. Bobs, but he seemed to be hang ing in the air, heels upward. Not far from him was his house; and that, too, was upside down. By some curious freak of perspective the house and it's surroundings, including MT. Bobs, did not look larger than your thumbnail.
 T didn't know I was sech mighty JuInper, she said to herself.
 Then she looked around for Buster John and Sweetest Susan and saw them some distance away. They were evidently as much puzzled as she was. The bubble no longer seemed to be a bubble. Viewed from the outside, it appeared to be no larger than a small house. Tn the inside, however as Drusilla remarked, it was as big as all out of doors. They walked about timidly at first for fear of breaking the bubble, but they soon forgot all about that pre- caution. sThey seemed to be in wide and perfectly level ield-a field with a shining floor. Over this floor the many-hued col ors of the rainbow chased one another in- cessantly, wrigging, twisting, whirling. The children watched this display until Drusilla made a remark that had aston isning results
 T know whar we at," she said "dish SUNDAY STUFF 6 ..6..6 ..6. .6....6 ..6.. here is the place where they make rain bows. You kin see um plattin um now"
 At this both Buster John and Sweetest Susan laughed aloud; whereupon, the rainbow coors seemed to- be shattered into thousands of fragments, and they ran about on the floor, shaken into all sorts of disturbed shapes. Almost as curious as this spectacle were the wonderful echoes that took up the sound of the childrens laughter, carrying it away and bringing 1t back egain in greater volume. A thousand children seemed 10 bc laughing, sometimes close ct hand, and thon far away.
 Drusiila was alarmed. "T done tol you all bout putting yo' heads in all kinder
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examined it critically, smoothing 1t with his wooden paddle.
 "Tm jest a-feeln' round fer to find whar the door is," he explained. Apparently he found it, for he spoke to Buster John. Come on," he said; jump right in." The youngster hesitated for an instant, but his surroundings gave him assurance. Walk right in," MT. Bobs insisted, and gave quick fiirt with the paddle as Buster John touched the bubble-a quick flirt with the paddle, and Sweetest Susan and Drusilla saw Buster John disappear, swallowed up, as 1t were, by the bubble.
 ''Now, then" said MT. Bobs, waving his paddle on high, "come on, and in wi you! There, plunge right in!'
 Sweetest Susan went forward timdly. "Is 1t going to fly away with us, MT. Bobs?" She had already experienced one adventure that was not pleasing to think of.
 why, what idees you've got, honey!" exclaimed MT. Bobs. How can a bubble fly away with you children on the inside? You might well ax me eff a crow can fly away wi a bale of cotton"
 "But this bubble is different from other bubbles" suggested Sweetest Susan.
 Tt is; it shore it. assented MT. Bobs; eft shore is, fer I made it myself. Don't
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holes an traps," she said under her breath. "You may call dis a bubble ef you wanter; but 'tain't no mo bubble dan I'm bubble. Look over yo' head; does yo' see any bubbleskin CT frame CT hide, or whatsomever you may call it? No, you don't. Stidder dat, yo' see two suns a-shinin'. I done promise myself when we went und dat spring dat want gwine let you drag me in here, an now yo' got ter drag me out-ef ever Is ter git out"
 "Why, there's nothing to do but to break the bubble," Bluter John stoutly as- serted.
 Show me whar dey's any bubble" cried Drrsilla. "Yo' don't see none, an I don't see none. We're in a rainbow fact'ry, an we better git out fo' 1t thunders."
 Drusilla's considerations led the child ren to look around them more carefully than they had done; and ever Buster John was compelled to admit that he could see nothing like walls of bubble, if walls they may be called.
 One fact that disturbed them more than any other was that they could not see a horizon line. The horizon exists only in the imagination, but it plays very im- portant part in our actual experience. It provides a boundary, limit But it was absent now, and it's absence. together with
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drowned slightly. At this Drusilla nudged Buster John and remarked in a whisper: IT done tol' you we ain't got no business in here-ef we is in here. Dem are ereeturs Il sho' do us damage"
 But the Queen of Dreams was not an- gry; she was only puzzled. In a little while she tried to make herself very pleas ant. She seemed to be very proud of her subjects She paraded them before the children and called off their names. There welt Mince Pie Dream and his twin twin brotker Fruit Cake Dream, and Muffin and Waffies and Green Apple Dreams, and ever so many more. While the Queen of Dreams was describing the beauties of her dyspeptic subjects Drusilla saw com ing toward them the most horrible locking object imaginable Sne tried to waIn the others, but she couldn't speak. She could only point her finger and nod her lead. The creature seemed to be as big around the body as horse. Its fore
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tie fact that two seperate and distinct suns, appeared to be shining over head. gave a weird aspect to this new land- scape, or, to be more exact, the bubble scape. And while the shimmeripg, seeth- ing, whirling rainbow colors were beautiful to behold, they began to add to the confu- sion after while.
 In the midst of it all, Drusilla sneezed, not once, but twice. She tried hard to keep the sneezes back, to ''hol 'em in," as she said; but they had to come, and when they did come, they seemed to shake the foundation of things, and the sound Of ten thousand sneezes was heard in the air. The two suns overhead reeled and shook and whirled about each other. and the
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people-if people they were. The little wo- man, who seemed to be the leader, was not ugly at all. If she had been on old creme with a yellow tooth, the children might have left some uneasiness, but her appearance was very pleasing, although she seemed to be somewhat weary. And all the smaller ones that came after her seemed to be solemn and weary. But they were not too weary to form themselves in ring, of which the children were the cen ter and go marching around, singing a song Of complaint. Their voices were not strong and it was all the children could do to catch few words of the song. A part of it was as follows:
 IT you stay awake while you sleep,
 You will find that the whole isn't half; You will find 1t is funny to weep,
 And awfully solemn to laugh.
 on hear one cause of complaint
 is 'tis it twas, it 'taint"
 T tell you dey got usp' said Drusilla in
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4 HORSE THIEF
 KILLS PURSUER Near Dothan-SmaIlpox Spread. ing at Ozark-Rainbow
 Around the Sun.

Ozark, May 13.-(Special.) l.)-Another mur~ der is laid at the door of Southeast Ala- bama, this time by a horse thief near Cot. tonwood, fifteen miles south of Dothan. A horse and buggy were stolen from a gem tleman at Dothan on Tuesday night. and Wednesday Sheriff Joe Pitcher and young man by the name of Lightner, son of Sam Lightner, who lives at Clayton, started in pursuit.
 They came up with him near Cottonwood and after chasing him for some distancei ordered him to stop. He refused and the pursuing party rushed up closer and ofz dered him to surrender. At this the thief raised his Winchester, and, quicker thah thought, shot young Lighter through the heart Lighter falling to the ground deadl Particulars are meager.
 The citizens of this place think that the state board of health should take steps to stop the spread of smallpox in this sec- tion. At first it was confined almost ex- clusively to negroes. but now 1t is spread ing among white citizens. Among others, eight members of Sam Winhams family are seriously i'll with it, only MT. Windhann and a 6-year-old child being up. The type now prevalent is far more serious than the cases here during the winter, several deaths having occurred In the past month.
 Grasshoppers in large numbers have ap4 peared in the southwestern portion of the country, and they are sweeping the fields clean before them. With the drouht, bad stand of cotton and grasshoppers, the crop prospect is not bright.
 At Il o'clock yesterday a well defined rainbow of large dimensions entirely sur7 rounded the sun and remained for an hour. It attracted widespread attention in this section such a thing having never been seen here before. ,
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NUMBER 89.

the door to see what the matter was.
 Why, what in the world?" she exz claimed
 ''pIn jest laughin' at that gal there," Mir. Btbs explained, when he could control himself. "She went into the bubble along wi the others"
 "Why will you go on that away? An at your age, too. It's a plum shame!' ex- claimed his sister
 And no doubt this was true so far as Buster John and Sweetest Susan were con7 cerned; but with Druslla it was different For many months she was filled with inc dignation toward MT Bobs, and it was many months more before she could be in- duced to go out of the house alone at night Even then she would say, Elf you want me ter go, you better gi me bot tale CT some kinder medicin', kase ef meet dat Thing out dar I'll have ten fits fo' you kin ax me what's de matter"