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Cincinnati, O., June 9.-Revelations
in extortfon, plotting and murder by
the Black Hand, as uncovered by the
InostofFice inspectors, show conclus-
lively that the gang in Columbus, Ma
rion. DennisOn, Bellefonta1ne and
other Ohio towns, was organized along
the same line as the old Mafia, but
with a setter system o. conce2ling its
movem ents.
1t is now known that the Ohio
Black Hand, or society of the ba-
mana" had branches in PittsbuTg and
Chicago. and a line that extended in
to South Dakota. Regular meetings
we're held and the money obtained by
extortion was distributed to various
divisions in this country. Some was
sent to relatives in Italy for safe
keeping.
Chief Postoffice Inspector Holmes,
of Cincinnati, said today 1t had taken
five men six months to run the lead
ers down.
He further stated that the evidence
gathered by his inspectors and by de-
tectives and the police of several cit
les working IN conjunction with the
postoffice authorities Is yoluminous,
and that there can be ne doubt that
the crimes of blackmaiL extortion and
Threatened and aftemp1sz5 murder will
be fastened upon the gtfAtsl men.~
MORE ARRESTS MADE.
In addition to the arrest of four ST
cilians in Marion, Columbus and Den.
nison, Tuesday, Joe Botella and Sam
Uel RiZZo were taken into custody in
Marion Tuesday night Those arrest
ed earlier in tie day were Sam Lima
said to be the ring leader of the gang
IT
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and the south. and that reconstruction
did more to postpone reconciliation than
did the war itself"
In referring to the public utterances Of
Lincoln during the period of discussion
preceding the war Secretary Wright said
that nothing had impressed him more
than the singular clearneSS of Lincoln S
perception that the responsibility for
slavery rested upon all our people, and
was a burden which should be borne by
all alike. There was temperance of
statement. a respect for the opposite point
of view. and a moderation in his positions
which, when the excitement of the time
is considered. is most extraordinary and
must command our admiration.
We'll would it have been for all our
people had they been able to approach
this burning question With the same con-
servatism and good sense. He sincerely
believed in an indissoluble Union. He SIN
cerely believed that slavery was a curse
and a great moral wrong. and in believing
thus he was right.
He was opposed not only to it's extern
sion, but believed that gradual emancipa-
ton was a possibility worth striving for;
and yet he respected the Constitution and
did not believe in the right to extinguish
slavery by force. In all the speeches he
made there can be found no word of i'll
will or malice toward the southern peo-
pie and in reading his utterances no
southern man finds himself entertaining
the slightest sentiment of resentment to-
ward him or aught save admiration for
his sincerity, frendliness and broad hu-
mainly"
boarded train at 80 o'clock. The cere-
monies, until William H. Taft in April
dedicates the completed memorial hall.
were ended,
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ADDRESS READ AT GETTYSBURG
Business Suspended and Veterans
Given Place of Honor.

GETTYSBURG, Pa, February l2.-Lin-
coin day at Gettysburg was observed by
a general suspension of business and by
citizens joining in paying tribute to
the man whose fame Is intimately aSSo-
ciatad with this historic place.
The principal exercises were held on
the campus of Gettysburg College near
Seminary Ridge. where much of the first
and second days fighting occurred during
the great battle Members of Post 9,
G A. r. occupied the seats of honor.
REPRESENTATIVE D. F. Lafean of this dis
trict presided.
s e. Heffebower of Gettysburg College
delivered the invocation and after the
singing of America" Judge Samuel Nc
Swope of the local common pleas court
read the famous address delivered by
President Lincoln November 10. 1863.
The principal address was delivered by
former Representative James I. McCleary
of Minnesota. He was followed by Ed
win NJ Amer, national head OF the Sons
Of Veterans organization.
After singing the Star Spangled Ban
ner' the benediction was pronounced by
the Rev H n. Minnigh. who commanded
the only company of local soldiers who
fought in the battle here.
, Prior to the exercises on the campus
the martyr Presidents memory was ap-
propriately honored in the new high school
where a large portrait of Lincoln was I'M
yelled All the schools of the town also
held exercises
During the day hundreds of people visit
ed the National cemetery where Lincoln
delivered his address.
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LINCOLN.

Like some grand mountain rising from
Or like the radiance OF the polar star.
He'll shine adown the ages through each
scene
With all the glory Of the Nazarine;
A man of Of sorrow faith and lofty love.
Inspired by truth from heavenly powers
Filled with the beauty OF msgic mind
That struggled for the freedom of man
kind.
His honesty was pure as Eond'r sun
With all the patriotism OF Washing on.
And heart and soul that felt for one and
sll
Who linger on this bleak. terrestrial bal.
Within his mind no malice found place
Fo' any mortal az the human race:
For manhood. lofty as a mountain range
And charity without scar or change.
A martyr for the cause Of truth and
right
He fell the hero Of the freedom fight.
And by the blow Of assassin hand
HIS spirit scared into the Better Land.
Where from the ramParis oi that glorious
He looks upon the people far and near.
And blesses all who kneel AZ Freedoms
shrine.
Imploring fer the pure and superfne.
This man was reared among the pioneers
OF western woods. undaunted by false
fears.
Where an were free as nature in her
With dashing streams resoundins night
And birds Of beauty fitting on the wing
Among the wild flowers Of the carly
Where God was recognized in rock and
tree
Eternal emblems of the brave and free.
The iron jaws of poverty and pain
Held fast his hoyhoud years In sun and
rain.
While rustc labor with it's hungry face
Pursued him constantly from place 10
Yet upward in his plodding course for
fame
He saw beyond the heights the flashing
fame,
And never faltered in his Go,ilike creed
To coin his words OF freedom for the deed.
Lincoln was called TO save the nations
life
And soo:he the sorrow OF each warning
Where slavery and freedom battled
strong
To elevate the right or crush the wrong.
When raging brothers on the firing line
Poured out their blood foaming. spark
ling wine.
Startling the world with Their glorious
deeds
To show at last that Liberty succeeds.
His proclamation that the toiling slave
Should he forever free on land and wave
Was heard across the nations far and wide.
And gave TO human hearts lasting pride
That cruelty and wrong were crushed at
last,
And that the slavery lash and chains had
passed
Into the dungeons of defeated crime
Bur ed forever In the tomb Of time
Then thousand years from now his name
shall be
Repeated by the men who would be free
Who live for lofty aims and love lit play
Among the beautiful and bright and CAV,
And while the Great Republic shall re.
main
To bless this world by mount and stream
and plain
The fame of Lincoln shall forever grow
AS pure and brilliant as the Alpine snow!
JOHN A. JOYCE.
Washington. D. c.
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GUNS BOOM IN NEW YORK.
Two Exhibits Of Lincoln Relics
Open-Public Exercises.

NEW YORK, February 12.-The boom
ing of guns at Fort Hamilton. Fort Wads-
worth and on Governors Island. from
warships in the harbor and by batteries OF
the National Guard, early this morning.
ushered in the celebration in this city Of
the one hundredth anniversary Of the
birth of Abraham Lincoln
AS the city bestirred itself thousands
who remained at home for the holiday
prepared to go to church and synagogue
for services in homer of the great eman-
cipator School children made prepara-
tions for exercises at the 56l schools
throughout Greater New York.
AT = O'Clock this afternoon the exercises
in Cooper Union, with Mayor Mcclellan
presiding, began.
Perhaps the greatest celebration of the
day will be held in Carnegie Hall to-
night, where Gen. Horace Porter will
preside with a chorus Of five hundred
from the United German Singing Societies
as one of the special features. Others
celebrations will be held at the university
Of the city of New York and the various
armories in the city in addition to minor
ceremonies.
Two exhibits of Lincoln relics are open
to public view today, one at Columbia
University, the ether at the College of
the City Of New York. The projectors
of the Columbia exhibition assert that
manuscripts ever brought together in one
exhibit. Loans have been made by col
lectors in all parts of the country.
Notes Of Gettysburg Address.
One of the most striking features OF
the exhibit is the manuscript of the orig
inal notes of the Gettysburg address,
loaned by w. ]. n. Bliss of Baltimore
The manuscript was given by President
Lincoln to Mr.. Bliss father. Col. Alexan-
der Bliss, who was one of the military
officers who accompanied the President
to Gettysburg which the address was de-
livered.
Robert T. Lincoln, the Presidents son,
has also contributed some interesting
manuscripts. among them that OF the
emancipation proclamation and the cor
respondence between Lincoln and Secre-
taries Seward and Chase over their resig-
nations in the cabinet crisis of 1862. J.
Pierpont Morgan has. loaned an original
copy of Lincoln's notes for the first Doug
las debate, and also manuscript copy
of some unpublished verses written by
Lincoln in 1918. and entitled The Bear
Hunt"
The city college exhibit has been made
up entirely from New York city coliec-
tions of Lincolniana. 1t contains several
originals of Lincoln'S commissions to his
generals in the war, and also shows
original copies of the New York papers
describing the assassination and death OF
Lincoln
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was delivered by Rev. Father Maurice ].
Dorney of Chicago. William j. Calhoun
was chairman.
This was followed by the firing of a
at spot near Lincoln monument in Lin
coin Park.
A feature of another meeting was the
arrangement Of members of a chorus to
represent gigantic American flag.
Speakers selected for other meetings in
cluded ]. A. Macdonald of Toronto and
Edwin L. Sparks of the State College of
pennsylvania. A large meeting is to be
held tonight at Dexter Pavilion, where
Rev. Jenkin Lloyd Jones will he the
speaker
Mr. Wilson said in substance:
The nineteenth century hurried the
world forward with giant strides. and
that far year, 1909 which lay almost at
us peglnning' saw many man of genius
born into the world who was to add l,ster
to its annals: Alfred Tennyson, our own
Poe. Chopin. Mendelssohn, Charles OAR
win. Gladstone. Lincoln-merely read the
nst In Its singular variety and you will
be conscious that the last name strikes
upon the ear with significance all its
own, SO unique and separate that ii does
not seem to belong in a list of names
at all, but to embody something com
plete in itself, as the name of Shake
speare does.
Every other man on that great roll
had some characteristic gift of his own
the music and Interpretation of perfect
speech, or of the perfect harmonies of
voice or instrument. or insight into the
great processes of nature. akin to New
tons. or the eloquence that stirs and
guides nation and determines the poll
tics of the world But the man Lincoln
had no special gift.
Instrument of Humanity.
He was of general use. He was like
some great instrument of humanity.
Wherever life touched him he spoke back
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GRAND RAPIDS BIG DAY.
Three Conventions, Corner Stone
Laying and Centenary Banoeut.

GRAND RAPIDS. Mich. February H.
With the arrival from Washington today
Of Senator William Alden Smith, Repre-
sentatives Nicholas Longworth. Duncan
E. McKinlay and Richmond Pearson Hob
son, Mrs. Alice Roosevelt Longworth. w.
H. Sanger, W. H. Montague. ex-secretary
Of state of the Dominion of Canada;
President NJ. w. Woolsey Strycker Of
Hamilton College and Dean w. P. Rob-
erts Of the Cincinnati Law School. Grand
Rapids entered upon the most memorable
18th of February in it's history.
On the days program were three state
conventions. the laying of the corner
stone of the new S7JOOOO federal building
and Lincoln centenary banquet for
which 1900 covers will be laid.
The three conventions of the day are
the republican state convention. the so
cialist state convention and the conven-
ton Of the Michigan state league Of re-
publican clubs.
Preliminary to the corner stone laying
this afternoon was a parade OF military
and civic organizations.
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EXERCISES IN PHILADELPHIA
! Schools and Patriotic Societies Oh.
serve Lincoln Day.

PHILADELPHIA, February 12.-The
observance of the centennial anniversary
of the birth of Abraham Lincoln was gen.
eral throughout the city. although there
were no official exercises on the part OF
the city of Philadelphia.
LincoIn's birthday is a legal holiday in
PENNSYLVANIA. There was partial suspen-
sion of business.
Exercises were held in all public and
parochial schools. Scores of patriotic So
cieties observed the day
All the Grand Army posts in the CITY
united in holding commemorative exer-
cises in the Baptist Temple The chief
address was delivered by Hampton L.
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SUCH ANOTHER NEEDED NOW.
Lincoln Could Solve Today's Prob
lens, Saws Woodrow Wilson.

CHICAGO. February 12.-Fifty public
meetings. a city fairly buried beneath
flags, bunting and portraits of Abraham
Lincoln, show WINDOWS filled with civil
war relics and Lincoln mementos and
streets crowded with marchers and mill
tary bands-this is the spectacle which
Chicago presented today in the celebra-
ton of the one hundredth anniversary of
the birth of President Lincoln.
The federal. county and municipal de-
partments and many branches of business
were closed to make the holiday proper
climax to Lincoln centennial week
At the principal demonstration of the
day. held in the Auditorium, the orator
was Woodrow Wilson, president of
Princeton University, and the invocation
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BALTIMORE TO CELEBRATE.
Representatives Moore and Raipey
to Speak at Lincoln Meeting.

BALTIMORE. Md. February 12.-Lin-
coin day was celebrated here with meet
ings, dinners and the unwilling of me-
mortal tablet
The principal meeting will take place at
the Lyric Theater this evening. Gov
Crothers will preside. Among others Rep
resentatiyes Moore of Pennsylvania ard
Rainey of Illinois will speak.
At Morgan College (negro) Rev Dr.
George Edward Reed, president of Dick
inson College, will deliver an address at
the unveiling of a bronze tablet.
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however, aroused him and with cause
which justified his best efforts he threw
his whole soul into the fight. The debates
with Douglas have never had parailel
in this. or. so far as history shows, In
any other country.
when the debates were concluded
every one recognized him as the leader OF
the cause which he had espoused. and II
was a recognition of this leadership
which he had secured through his pub
lie sneeches that enabled him, a west
ern man. to be nominated over the east
ern candidates-not only western man.
but a man lacking in book learning and
the polish of the schools. No other Amer
lean President has ever so clearly owed
his elevation to his oratory. Washington.
jefferson and Lincoln and Jackson the
Presidents usually mentioned in connec-
ton with him, were all poor scholars
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attorney general of Penn

Carson, former attorney general of Penn
sylvania.
Tonight there will be numerous dinners
by societies. The Pennsylvania COM
mandery of the Loyal Legion will hold
elaborate exercises in the Academy Of
Music. Brevet Mai. General Joshua L.
Chamberlain of Maine will deliver the
Grafton.
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ABRAHAM LINCOLN.

From Punch. May
a wreath Oh murdered Iincolns bier;
You who with hooking pencil o trace.
Broad for the self-complacent British sheer.
His length of stumbling limb, his furrowed
His gaunt gnarled hands; his unkempt bristling
His garb uncouth. bearing at ease.
His lack of all we prize debonair,
OF power or will to shine, of to please
You. whose smart pen backed the pencils laugh:
Judging each STEP though the way plain
Reckless. SO it could point its paragraph,
OF chiefs perplexity peoples pain.
Beside this corpse that~bears for windng-sheet
The Stars and Stripes he lived o
Between the mourners feet.
Say, scurrie jester is there for you?
Yes. to my sneer
To lame pencil and confute my pen
To make this hind of princes peer,
This rail splitter a true-born king of
My shallow judgment had learnt to rue
Noting how height
How his quaint wit made home-truth true;
How. ironike, his temper by blows
How humble, yet how hopeful he could be
How in good fortune same:
Nor bitter in success, boastful he;
Thirsty for gold. nor feversh for fame.
He went about his work-such work as few
Ever had laid on head and heart and hand
knows, where there's a to Ii.
Mans honest will must Heavens good command
Who trusts the strength will with the burden grow
That God makes instruments to work His will,
will arrive o know,
Nor temper with the weights of good and ILL.,
So he went forth to battle the side
That he felt clear Lbertys and Rights,
in his peasant boyhood he had piled
His warfare with rude Natures thwarting nights;
uncleared forest the unbroken SOIL
The bark that the lumberers
he
The prairie hiding the mazed wanderers tracks.
ambushed Indian and the prowlng
the needs that helped his youth train;
culture-but such trees large fruit may bear,
their stocks be of right girth and grain.
So he grew up a destined
lived to do t-four ong-sufering
I-fats il-feeng, ilreport lived through,
then he heard the Kisses changed to cheers;
tribute the abuse praise
took both with the unwavering mood;
light, from darkling
And seemed the goal from where he STOOD
A hand, between the goal and him.
Reached behind his back. a trigger prest-
And perplexed and patient eyes dim;
words of mercy were upon his lips.
Forgiveness in his
When this brought swift eclipse
To thoughts peace earth. good will to
The Old World the New, from to
Utter voice of sympathy and shame!
Sore heart stopped last high;
Sad life cut just its triumph
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GovWiIL3oN Xxx.
its meaning; gave forth fire to kindle it's

it's meaning; gave forth fire to kindle its
| life.
Each power slumbered in him and
waited to be awakened. He seemed slow
of development, waited upon circum-
stances to quicken him, but always re-
sponded upon whatever scale the chal-
lenge came: seemed a great reservoir of
living water which could be freely quaned
but not exhausted.
There was something native, natural
rather than singular. and wholly mex
haustible about him. His nature su"-
been partly drawn upon, and his life
ended as if unfinished, fuller of promise
than when it begun
His character stands colossal there
amid that troubled history of war and
disunion. like one of Robins only half
nodded figures. revealing less than it
suggests only in part disclosed. shrouded
! in lines that lead the imagination off into
infinity and very great conjecture.
Send Us Such Men Again.
God send us such men again. We
are confused by a war of interests. a
clash Of classes, a competition of powers.
an effort at conquest and restraint. And
the great forces which war and toll
among us can be guided and reconciled
only by some man who is truly man
of the people. as Lincoln was. not caught
in the tolls of any special interest. united
by wide sympathy with many kinds OF
men familiar with many aspects OF life
and led through many changes to a per-
sonal experience which unites him with
the common mass.
He must not be too hot or intense;
must be large and genial and sailed with
humor; but as certain and definite as
the veriest tool of precision in his pene-
tration and in his exposition of all that
he sees and knows. man who speaks
as fearessly as he looks upon the affairs
from any use or declines the challenge
of any call of duty a man of universal
sympathy and universal use, whom few
men can approach in power. but to whom
all men can feel akin and with whom all
men can dare TO be familiar.
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Attacked by Both Sides.

When he was the Sacond-time candidate
for President the majority of his oppo-
nents attacked him because OF what they
termed his extreme radicalism, while
minority threatened TO bolt his nomina-
ton because he was not radical enough.
He had continually to check those who
wished to go forward too fast at the very
time that ne OVERRIDE the opposition OF
those who wished not to go forward at
all.
The goal was never dim before his
vision: but he picked his way cautiously,
without either halt or hurry, as he STROBE
toward il, through such a morass of diff
fculty that no man of less courage
would have attempted Il, while it would
surely have overwhelmed any man of
Judgment less serene
Yet perhaps the most wonderful thing
OF all, and, from the standpoint of the
America of today and of the future the,
most vitality important. was the eXtraordi-
nary way in which Lincoln could fight
Vahantly against what ne deemed wrong
and yet preserve undiminished his love
and respect for the brother from whom he
differed In the hour of a triumph that
would have turned any weaker mans
head. in the heat of a struggle which spur
red many good man to dreadful vindic-
tveness he said truthfully that so long
as he had been in his office he had never
willingly planted thorn in any man s
BOSOM, ana heSouSht his supporters TO
study the incidents of the trial through
which they were passing as philosophy
from which to learn wisdom and not as
wrongs 10 be avenged; ending with the
solemn exhortation that. the strife was
over, all should reunite in a common
effort 10 save their common country.
Lincoln's Clear Vision.
He lived in days that Were great and
terrible. when brother fought against
brother for what each sincerely deemed to
be the right. In a contest so grim the
strong men who alone can carry ii
through are rarely able to do justice to
the deep convictions of those with whom
they grapple in mortal strife.
\. such times men see through a glass
darkly: TO only the rarest and lottiest
spirits is vouchsafed that clear vision
which gradually comes to all, even 10 the
lesser. the struggle fades into distance
and wounds are forgotten, and peace
creeps back to the hearts that were hurt
But to Lincoln was given this supreme
vision
He did not hate the man from whom he
differed. Weakness was as foreign as
wickedness to his strong. gentle nature /;
but his courage was of a quality so high
country and of all mankind. the mightiest
of the mighty men who mastered the
mighty days. Abraham Lincoln
The President yielded to Gov. Wilson,
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ENGLAND's APPRECIATION.
Laud Lincoln and Mayor
Commentaries Day.

LONDON, February 12.-The English
newspapers today devote much space to
appreciations of Abraham Lincoln. There
was no celebration in London.
In the mayors house at Manchester
there was small gathering this after
noon, at which the Rt Rev. James Well
don dean Of Manchester, presided.
Alfred Hopkinson. vice chancellor OF
Victoria University, moved a number OF
eulogistic resolutions. Church Howe.
American consul, spoke i'm reply.
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OBSERVANCE IN NEW ENGLAND

Senator Lodge Speaks at Boston.
Exercises in Many Cities
BOSTON. February 1.-THE tribute Of
Massachusetts to the memory Of Abraham
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