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Show A SPARTAN IN WASHINGTON. Among all the names of congressmen who have served their country in the legislative halls ' at Washington, none will go thundering down the halls of time with more honor attached than that of lion. W. T. Tyndall of the Fourteenth district of Missouri, Mis-souri, whose successor took his seat last month. We do not know that Mr. Tyndall ever took an active ac-tive or aggressive part in the congressional proceedings, pro-ceedings, but we venture he was as diligent in his attention to the public welfare and to the -wishes of his constituents as he was in his practice of economy econ-omy and thrift. In view of the recent act of congress increasing the pay of congressmen that they might live with all the dignity commensurate with their official position, po-sition, the record of Mr. Tyndall is all the more worthy of praise, lie was not a beneficiary of the $7,o00 salary, but had to content himself with the parsimonious sum of $.",000 and perquisites of which, in two years he had placed to his credit $11.-000, $11.-000, with which as a foundation he intends to start a bank in his native town of Sparta, Mo. The evidences evi-dences of his financial ability are too plain to warrant war-rant any other opinion than that his hank will be a success. |