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Show WEEK IN CONGRES&i Wdnwdajr. Hon The poetefflre appropriation bill ai ndr cuoaidenttloa Ex tension of the tube aerrlce which wan stopped lut jem by alleged frauds, was eonidered at length without rrachlnt' any conclusion Samara The military academy bUL, roniaio-In- g a clause to prevent hazing was paaaed after a consideration of an hour The war revenue reduction measure was also passed, with amendments levying a tax on transactions In bucket shops and modifying the tax on cigars and cigarettes and several others of a minor character were passed Aa effort to compel express and telegraph companies to pay the lax which they now compel thnlr patrons to pay was defeated Thursday House The postoffice appropriation bill passed the amendment appropr'ating IMS (XX) for extension of the tube service having been ruled out of order Reduction of u1m was mall ruled out railaay pv The senate bill lo allow travel pay to certain officers and mcD ho in the Philippines upon their disc barge from ihe volunteer serv lee s as passed. The diplomatic c onsular bill larrvingan apWBS taken up for conpropriation of 11 Hus sideration It is a no tabid bet the! an Che Bets of the tea greatest 9t th century th world has K0RTH1YEST.N0TB1 NEWS SUMMARY. ,r.. - Lincoln's name Is found neas The Oregon house defeated The Twentieth infantry, which has resolution in favor of an eqnal tn all and foremost ta many. Th ' been two years in Manila on provost amendment. entire world now recognises his greenness. Not alone la mind was he greedy duty, has sailed for Vigan on field serTb house committee on but tat heart and character. .Hs wa . vice. , noted fevorebly on the bill retakityptsal of th American Idea of equals ' Hundreds of teachers in the United mints at Omaha and Jaeoiatf ng lty of opportunity. .He wa hs th States are applying for positions in the aeniteW man. self made Not sens a fullest The Washington state lbllippiues. It would he easy lo se- passed e bill for the purchase ilfth merely that he hewed for himself a cure 1000 pathway from oheeurRy to the highest Thurston county coortheus at vljn-picivic honors. Other men have don Au authorized delegation of iiontoc buiMsj. a for th use as capitol that It is that he formed for himself asigorrotesare returning to the province Th Northwest a character upon which his tame wan from Manila with hoolbooka. flag, sociation has decided that hffkiill bullded. Born to abject poverty. me one The for boy day. Insulting and high opinions of the Americana and abuse, the miseries of bin boxes used by association members i was was of ths bully sort, and boy The steps taken by the Oovernment fruit should contain an Bet much larger than Abe. One day he hit childhood and the eorruws of his youth packing to complete its title to the Basher ami bushel me. It didnt hurt me. but It fired Abe deepened the shadow with which hie " other islands to the north of t.QOb and he thrashed him soundly, while spirit was' endowed by a wretched C. M Hale, grand secretary fle Reared la backwoods settleit is said were dee to representations I stood off and cried. I don't know mother. Odd HoUgenville, Ky Correspondence. Fjllovs, with grand state lodge of the advantages of only ments, I was mads bv Japan never W what Girl's about. hen Uncle Austin" Oollaber breathwM crying one of dropped dead Thursday night schooling, pursued year regular of know. The boys often made fun ed his last up In the hills of LaRu Baroness von Kettrler. widow of in iniatatory eer by adversity until he reached almost part taking Aba's f his and a clothes, gawky ragged county year ago. it ax said that the Baron von Ketteler, theGermro minis- at a local lodge of Washington. fast and only living childhood play- movements. Abe was awkward They the prime of life, his strength of mind ter lo China, who was assassinated in end heart conquered vevery obstacle The California Wine acjstiat, mate of Lincoln had died, teased him, too, because he minded his He was bora to a heritage of gloom, Pekin d unng the Boxer outbreak, has houseawhrh H because mother. often would and allied the cry that the stories still to be told of representing but he was a capital companion and departed for Germany are now in control of the raarkzt, ha tbe boyish pranks of the great emanci- they pulled at his clothes and tor a His quaint humor good story-telle- r. n Eighty-sevemembers of the Tliirti- - declared an advance of pator would be only an echo of tho them, but he wouldn't tell his mother, stpr wit war due to strangely origand feel for he It knew would her eth regiment have died of wounds and make dead. But still another survives gallon In the price of ordinary flaw, inal and sometimes grotesque intelleo-tu- al Aged, Infirm, and bent with the weight bad I sometimes mended his clothe diseases, and 250 have been discharged the figure 25 S cents, perceptions and to a marvelously making of 83 years. Miss Sulite Castleman livee to keep her from knowing they were because of sickness Ileiti.iinder sail) fertile fancy. He indulged these facul4 Eleven once pereon tore. Abe made a of all alone prominent in tn a little log house back pants pair for home February lsth as much by exercise of will la Wash , were arrested fbq a secluded portion of this county, al- for a Christmas present They struck i ties to throw off th order depression Many Japanese and native workmen with most within a stones throw of the lit- him middle always between the knees inciting riot. In ths'elfertt which weighed upon his own spirit on the island of Maui, Hawaii have them and not wear like Lintle ankles, on they log sihoolhouse where Abe Sundsjilis selling as for th purpose of affording enjoyformed an association, on the hues of prevent liquor endeavored coln, Austin Gollaher and she attended now, and he wag proud of them, too ment for others. In his later yeare, pt they charged some American unions and they have ever were he tb first They pants long evidence by peepiDg over the tranls. when ears of state almost overtjor wore. started a aeries of strikes Robert W. Steele, Aral territorial him, the relief afforded by this relaxAbe made speeches in school, ation Is said to hav averted utter ecd-The recumbent statue of the late atbishane died governor of Colorado, and they were good ones, too, I Queen Victoria, chiseled tbiity years in Colorado In the most serious crisis he pee morsisg Friday Springs He always was a talker. My would make some thought quaint remark ar ago, is being prepared for its place on of an attuck of grip. died wife Hie father owned a slave at tbat lime, and tell an apposite story that would anas top of the sarcophagus by the side ol wsehtld A double funeral Abe thought a heap of him. He was a Tuesday. laugh, and would Immediately rethe Prince ( unsort's statue. and husband and wife buried loth mean negro and my father had a Into profound melancholy. Batlapse The Confrdrate Veteran association asm grave. Mr. Steele was (i yen great deal of trouble with him, and of- he did not obtrude his gloom upon of Bavaonah has passed resolution ten whipped him. This mad Abs feel others. He was always eompaalonnbt , old. sorry for the negro, and I have al- tn social intercourse. He was th soul against the invitation to President Andrew Carnegie has offered to firs ways believed that then waa the first of honor, scrupulously elean ta his life McKinley to attend the reunion of Conthe city of Tacoma 930,000 for s timftah Ides of emancipation entered end had pwri, tender twirl, patent-- federate veterans in Memphis. lil on conditlonlhat building his head. On account of ing with sympathy for every creators; with be furnished and 95,000 yearly spettla Abe used to make Ink out of polk in distress. Ha could not hear to see. government regulations concessions maintenance. Tbe city has eopUd berries and sell It In school. Ha had anything suffer. Other men have been have been revoked on Sixty-Milth gift. It is probable, bswevsr a l.ttle store. He made money out of admired for their Intellecta or honSlate creek. Stewart river, that the amount wilt be increased ta Abrar-haored for their achievements. chips. Fifty-MilOttawa and Billard creeks. 975.000 as the city U willing vto pay Lincoln was loved for hts great Abes father went from here to IlliThe United-Statenois when Abe was about thirteen heart, human sympathies and eomrwa, . 8ALLIE CASTLEMAN. transport McPher- 97,300 annually toward keeping dp the son ran about half her length 'on a library. f - t- - School together Tour score years ago. years old. ' I bated to see Abe go. He He yearned for peace on earth, good All the old structures that clustered kissed me good-breef eight miles west of Matanzas, and told me with will to men," be agonised over the The Guggenheim block, a horrors and sufferings which war enCuba, in a fog Tuesday morning while building nt th corner of Main pad around the hills of that section have tears tn his eyes w were both crybut governed by aa unfaltering one by one rotted and disappeared, ing that he would some day com tailed, on her way from New York to Mant-anzFourth streets, Pueblo, Colo.,eceu(ied until now of duty, bis Iron will carried him sna the little log hut atauds back and claim his boyhood sweeCroms-Beggs Goode by the Dry trial. There was not n alone, and she, the last of little Abe's theart He worked on a farm In Illi- through-ever- y Rev Martin Hansen, former pastor big department store, was gut- companions, Its sols occupant, ts quiet- nois a year or two and then clerked moment during the four year of fraof Norwegian Lutheran churches of ted by fire Friday morning. The loss ly winding up the last years of her in a country store. He then studied tricidal strife that he was not ready La Crosse, Wia , and Houston, Minn., is estimated at 9130;000; dnssraset, allotted time. Retiring and unassum law awhile. I then lost trace of him to hold out th olive branch if thereby has been sentenced to the county jail 9100,000. The fire started in tbaboilar-roorn- , ing, Mias Castleman is beloved by until I heard he was president, snd I peace and union could have been sefor three months for deserting his presumably ia aoms loan piper those of her acquaintances, and her was happy. Wall, hs deserved to be cured. Destiny had foreordained tha too osar ths boilsr. .f memory, which is remarkable, has president When I heard he was as- the arbitrament of arms should settle family. lying gained her considerable notoriety. It sassinated I couldnt at first believe it the questions at issue onoe and (or all,, ' Series B, from a is Butts Sydney Everret, secretary and sufficing and Providence raised up Abraham is seldom, though, that she assumes a and dont you know I cried when Charge d'Affairea of the United States water famins, and the city, almost retrospective mood Lincoln, mighty of mind, mightier when she con- realised that he was dead. legation at Guatemala City, committed without fir protection. All tin miss verses. "Yes, I am now the only living child- still in the power of eommoa sensed suicide Tuesday by shooting himself of th Anaconda, Boston A fbotaaa, Yes. she said, I knew Abe Lincoln hood acquaintance of Lincolns living." strong In resolve and tender of heart in the mouth. He had suffered a long Bntt k Boston, Washoe, Pint, Col when he was a boy, but 1 dont think Illness. orado A Montana Or Pi h siing, tbat It is anything wonderful that I " banana h was president, from Baku just Dispatches say all the companies have been "compellt to sus- shtmjd, to school with Abe in a little cut on account available hospitals are filled with peo- pend xoperetlMs iji'TSe schoolhouse that stood up there on the ple injured by the naphtha fire, while failure of the City Water eomptuy t common bon a and I 9,0V. mi bill, B was just such a the ahede on the fair grounds are filled supply water, rest of Ilka the green country chap. by those made homeless by the confla- have been laid off temporarily. fany us In those days, only that he was of the mining companies even had to gration. awfully smart, .mare Intelligent than stop th pumps at some of thtnisss, the average boy. Yes, I felt glad when Pat Gay shot and killed M. and if the suspension becomes secee they told me that Abe was made presiproprietor of the American I hotel and at Crescent City, Cal., sary for any length of time thus nee dent, and when the papers referred to him is President it sounded a little fill will water with and th dimsge, Snnday evening. Gay had been barred will be , , strangnto me, as I always called him , great. , A from playing cards by McNamara. Abe. nnd would have done so had I Special Agent G. B. Abbott if the met him on the streets in Gay surrendered. Washington Enormous snowfalls are reported interrior department, has retuned to after he was president from a visit to tb Lsraml Oh yes, I know of several incidents throughout the Sudelain and Harts Cbeyeone monntaina in the West Prussia and in plains eonntry and teUa of a wique .connected with the boyhood life of the Black Forest. In some places the system of telephoning in vogue ii that Little Abe. Yes, I was a part to one snow lies eight meters deep, rendering section. In one locality night ruches of them. You know, nowadays a girl are connected by telephone, ibeulr aint a girl unless there is a bit of communication impossible. used being tb top strand of abarb romance connected with her life, and F. Roger has bean de1 suppose it was always thus. Well, wire fence. Regular telepbom Intached from duty as president of the and connections arch use I was Abes sweetheart struments board of inspection and survey preparaWeil, I guess Ill have to tell the at the ranch and the ayatem stems whole tory to going to China on the cruiser to be in story of mine and Abes life. perfect working order. .It is My father waa a pioneer. He came New York to command one of th two of great benefit to tba nelghbsring here from Virginia and settled where divisions of the Asiatic fleet ranchmen. Tbe settlement ia slsotpu-nectwe now llvje. This Is th same old IN THE AGRICULTURAL MUSEUM OF, THE UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS. Serious ambarrassment prevails in wi. house that he built. It waa s plain old by wire with La ramie. - The yoke was made by Uaeoin whs tha navy becauae of tbs inability of the relies of in weather-hoarde- d recent A rearrangement was It but then, George Brown, while driving vtth logbous Unimedical corp to obtain competent he waa on a farm near Decatur. For museum the of the born waa I agricultural many years ago. hie wife in a sleigh i about fivsnilea of Illinois brought to light the several years It was In service a bong In 1808 In this very house. Abes paryoung physicians willing to accept ap- from Butt versity Friday, ahotand killeihis ents cam to this the Lincoln homeetead. as assistant surgeons. county in 1808 and old ox yoke made by Abraham Linpointments wife and then put a bullet hole is to The yoke Is of black walnut and on now famous Lincoln coln and presented to the university Thsre are now fifteen vacancies. settled the his own head. Hs will di. Noesassj 70s. shows evidence of hard usage. Th orders of Presith in By side of early on other the homestead, Five members of the W. C. T. U. at- for the act can be learned A toy Abe was born In 1809. When dent Draper ths yoke was inclosed In workmanship is rough, ths iron part tacked two blind tlgere in true Nation case made of boards being especially crude. Indicating that wood a seta,' near tb Abe was but nine years old bis par- a glass-toppwsgon driving fashion at Dalton, Ark., Wednesday. heard tbe they were made at a country blackcouple qusureliog andu- - ents moved from near Hodgenvllle to from the old Lincoln home at Spring-fielAll th bottle of liquor were smashed smith shop. on farm a state. this lived section. They mediately thereafter heard the th eouteut of keg poured Into the When near but were one. thla poor, ecensibw They reached th people lb etreet and fixture demolished. Abes father people. woman waa dead and th man unws-scio- n. Whefi asked how she passed away to be the ruling spirit of ths times, t was a carpenter, but didnt make much. The House Committee on Banking temper firmness with mercy. Thee know time alone, she said: t the Nobody appear H couldnt In those days. My father and Currency ha tabled the bill repealwhen I am not busy with my was not a drop off blood off hatred laj Oh, about th couple, bat the supp was tolerably well off. The next year I read the time sway very Lincolns body.. During the feverish1 tax on State bank sition is that they were ranchers vth ing the Abe and I started to school together. dally duties I never get lonesome, snd days of the civil war he was one maai iasne and th bill requiring national bad been to town on Vnsiaess lid pleasantly. About twenty of us chaps were going. In corner th little room whose motives were never questioned, to s bank depositories to pay interest to were on their way home. going i Austin Gollaher was among the numa row whose wisdom was trusted, wboew a raised curtain, showing she. th Government on pnblie deposit. Bribery, or attempted .bribery, is ber. .Austin waa Abes best boy friend works of the best authors from Milton strength never failed, whose ear was Charles A Hickley, alias C. M. again charged in th Montana legists snd I waa his best girl friend, so Abe down to th latest always opes to appeals which hi aid. No, Abe wouldnt tell a story. snd Shakespeare Morris, was lured across the British ture, although on a considerably heart was only too ready to grant works. literary You to see, Abe was too poor a boy New York Ledger. Colombia line nnd is now in jail in Is an extraordinarily Smaller scale than two ysars agi Castleman Miss buy any books, and so was Austin, so N. Y., on th charge of stealing While the house, talks and old quite lady, consider! was I let them use mine. Abe was a good Intelligent Friday, subject that is 107,000 from th weat Sid bank, New ing a bill for th inspection of meat student K.iiuln0t of Htart. , and when we had hard lessons interestingly upon any President Lincoln's gladness of heart York, of which he had been the teller. and milk. Representative fledges, a he alwayg knew his. When lessons broached, her manners ere refined and was known to everybody. His doorIn view of tberecebt Boer activity member of th committee to which the were hard I was glad to let him use her appearance rather striking. keepers had standing orders that, a my bill waa referred, Informed tbe houe in varions divisions, th British books, because he would then help matter how great might be the public get my lessons. In that way we has decided in addition to that an effort had been .roads to cor If either senators or representhrong. were nathrown a together heap, and the large force recently equipped ruptly influence the commit tea's setlo had tatives to wait, or to be turnad a common liking for each other locally 1b Sonth Africa to reinforce ths bill. He charged the milk dealers turally, away, he must see before the day closon ripened into love. school Our Lord Kitchener by 30,000 mounted and butcher of the state with raising INCOLN Da r. Feb ed every wseesengarwrho cam to hiss a teacher was strict "with us. and with a petition for the saving cf life. A. la generally obtroop beyond those already landed in a corruption fund to head off this leg 12, he wouldnt let us sit together, islatioa. served bf Repub- woman carrying a baby, waited three Cape Colony, then we wrote notes. Since Abe was lican organizations days st the White House to see MS. In Madrid it is asserted tbst thenew The fire and pollen board of Denver mIa President I wish I had saved aom of them but we were afraid the much ss Jackson Lincoln. Her husband, who had sang Spanish Embsssador at the Vatican ia have begun a public investigation of day Is the occa- a substitute, had enlisted subaeqeently charged to inquire into the complaints the ehargea of raising moaey from teacher would catch on, so we tore sion for tbe annu- himself when intoxicated snd had deOP after reading them of tbe priests expelled from tn Phil- keeper of gamhling-bonae- s sad other of serted, been captured and sentenced ta al gathering in' nearest those church day ippines who are seeking to obtain th illegal houses, for which Folic Cspt was miles from be shot On his way through the anteclan Democratic ana father add my celPopea support for their property Arthur Marty a, three detectives sad mother used to ns, Mr. Lincoln heard ths bsby cry. of custom room, The go for Abes parents one patrolman heva Veen suspended. Tory claims. Hs instantly Vent back to his office ebrating the anni8unday and take them to church. Then Abe would come over and stay versary by appro- and rang ths ball. Daniel,' said ha,s Crying ont that drugs were tb agent District Attorney Harry A. Liadsley n -- women priate exercise in Is there a wo -- an w;h a baby in the of tbe devil, a examining th witnesses ea behalf of with m and we would have a time. Send bur to ms at ones." th board, and says that if .any facts old go that stream of water tha publie schools Is extending ss Urn faith-cu- r followers of Dowle, th went She down the tod I er - v, and the In, magnitude more should wade there distinctly reveals under the hill and develop whieh would justify leader, adopted the tactic of Mrs. true the president pird." ' hr ju of the work Lincoln wrought it Carrie Nation a number criminal proceedingaJ-againe- t any offi' funda-ment- al Abe the man and of was the In a and In proportions school, fighter of drug stores on th weat side Chicago, cere he wilt at once file aa informatics - roost on th banmind he was a hero. character of the principle he - Fortune I suppose, -- i - against them. Thursday. ner of the ough, it was k i he whlnned, a txsmnllfled. a coin! -- s, Fruit-Growe- M , " I Sknsik The senute passed the, bill allowing travel pav to officers and tnlisied men of the Eleventh cavalrv and Thirty-siit- h and Tlurlv-xeven- th rcgimenis of lnfaulrv who entered the servite of the Pulled States in the Philippines, and also a bill putting In force In the Indian Territory the laws of Arkansus relating to corporations Tho pension appropriation bill wa then passed after Mr Uallinger had st tted that 1,500 names had been placed on the pension rolls thus tar on account of the Spanish war, at an annual cost of about 1170.0 to The shipping bill was then debated Little progress was made, although a night session was held. riday. House The House passed 1S4 private pension bllla, making so farixX) fur this congress Bills were passed to permit homesteaders on the abandoned Fort Feiterman military reservation In Wyoming to enter one quarter section of grazing land; ts er,Brir, t kvatisns sf Chippewa half-breescript In Salt Lake City. Sxnxt An Ineffectual effort was made to secure an agreement on a time for a final vote on the shipping subsidy bill. Senator Spooner introduced sn amendment to the army appropriation embodying the provisions of what la known as tha Spooner bill for ths government of the Philippines It gives the president greeter powers ts establishing elvll govern ment In the Island. Saturday. Hocsl Something of a sensation was created when Representative Brown of Ohio, standing in the center of the Republican aide of the chamber, made a speech strongly condemning a colonial policy and urging that congress should at once give assurances to the Filipinos that the purpose of the United States was to give them independence His announcement that os would advocate a resolution to this effect was loudly applauded , Bbmati The naval bill was under consideration all day. snd with the exception of a section regarding the price to be paid for armor plate, was completed. Monday. Hops Aa Interesting debate ever the constitutional Umliutlona on the power of the senate over revenue legislation Initiated by the house was precipitated when Mr. Payne, the chairman of the ways and means committee, brought in the resolution of the committee to disagree to the substitute proposed by the sea ate st an amendment to the war revenue redue tion set and to ask for a conference with the eenate. Sbwatb The naval bill Wat completed and passed and the shipping bill kept before the Senate the rest of the day. During consideration of the naval bill it developed that representatives of armor plate factories had confessed to agreeing to make the same price for armor plates. They had further stated that Krupp armor could not be made for less than 545 per ton, but had accepted a much lower price, showing bad faltb . Mr. Caffery addressed the Senate in opposition to the shipping bill, declaring It would not promote the commerce and increase the foreign trade of the United States, as its title proclaimed, but was really designed to furnish a donation to certain steamship lines. He believed that no new lines would spring Into existence under the bill, as the entire subsidy would be absorbed by the present lines He thought the bill unconstitutional, snd dwelt st length on the large amount of subsidy It gave to high speed ships . KANSAS TEMPERANCE REVIVAL. by Mrs. Nation A rouse Temperance People to Action. Crmawds Begun Kansas i experiencing a temperance revival. At Holton Saturday a band of 1000 men, which was directed by the leading men of the city, Wrecked three Joints, and for the first time in fifteen years the city is absolutely dry. A vigilance committee waa formed to see no others started np. Drugstore in, piany towns,' which have - been violating the law have been scared into it observance, and the law now ia more generally observed than it ever before has been. Coagreasioasl Committee Set ore on Frwetice The report of the congressional committee, which investigated the practie of hazing at West Point wa Saturday, and la an exhaustive review of the practice in all its forma It specifies more than 100 different methods el annoying and harrasslng fourth classmen and describes them in n. il. 1 1a J i e. Ten-Mil- e, e, s y, Iwo-slo- iy can-pao- 1 nr Rear-Admir- al ed -- Hodg-envill- e. ed d. hard-worki- ng i sty-thi- ng nt Con-conul- Gov-rnme- al detail. The report atatee that a system of fighting has grown np which is shocking in its character. The fight are described,, and the committee states that the West Point code is more vicious than the Qneensberry code. Alleged Dynamiter Arrested. John Boales, one of the d si ness men of Alton, I1L, was Sheriff by evening Saturday tz, charged with being one of the evincible thieves," "ho hT bee a Bottom farmers, rriiing American homes reatenlng to dynamite intheir a certain leas 9 W00 were placed tee by the farmer. W. JL. Fairman, attoi nry of Upper Alton, ta also arrested on the same charge, 4 both Boales and Fnirmnn e seed 5a 'jail by the sheriff to await best-know- n nr-tie- well-kno- s amfjation ice ta alleged to have betrayed the on Monday. An corn- som'e-tlme- tn - 1 half-doze- ant-roo- end-wrecke- d, L. S . |