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Show TT colas birthday, brings to oof stronger than ever this noble mans Ilfs, says Hatred Harpers Round Tabl books have recorded and will his good deeds for eenturl but It Is a pleasure to then of some little act of will stand aone Illustrating breadth of this mans aymprtv the nobility of his character. C1T all that dreadful period wbea tb Llnco country war was ravaging the held the reins of the government. and D although worn out with ths opportunity toil, he never neglected an to help those who suffered tears OueTay a poor woman, wh cheeks her down worn bad furrows aaa gained an audience with Lincoln, in a few words related ths d her husband, who had fought In tus Union army, only to lose his W. of her three boys who were then fightof ing. She requested ths discharge rd One of Mr. Unooln's characteristics his Ineffable tenderness toward otbera, says the Springfield Republican. He wrote lnjurlee In the aand, beneflta on marble. The broad mantle of hla enduring charity covered a multitude of tins In a aoldler. He loved justice with undying and aollclt-ou- a affection, but he bated every deserter from the great army of humanity. He waa dowered with the love of love. He waa always equal to the occasion, whether saving a sleeping sentinel by one stroke of the pen from a dishonored grave or writing that bold and steady signature to the proclama- - u Blair told Richard Vaux this story: "Mr. Lincoln had become Impatient at Gen. McClellans delay on the peninsula. and asked Frank Blair to go wltb him to see the commanding general. The distinguished visitors arrived on a hot day, and went atraight to McClellans headquarters. They were received with scant courtesy, and the commanding general did not ask the president to eat or drink. Lincoln sat In his white linen duster, uncomfortably ailent, with hia long and sinewy limbs doubled up like s jackknife, till finally Gen. McClellan broke the denae silence by saying. "Mr. President, have you received tbs letter 1 mailed you yesterday? No, courteously replied Lincoln; I must have passed It on the way. Gen. WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN. The greatest names In American history ire Washington and Lincoln. One is forever associated with the Independence of the states and the fmma-tlo- n of the federal union, the other with the universal and the preservation of that union. Washington enforced the declaration of independence as against England, Lincoln proclaimed Its fulfillment, not only to a downtrodden race in America, but to all people, for all those who may seek the protection of our flag. These Illustrious men achieved grander results for mankind within a single century from 1775 to 1865 than any men ever accomplished In all the years since first the flight of time began. Washington I'D GIVE THEM JESSE." tlon of emancipation which made the engaged In no ordinary revolution. black race give him a crown of Im- With him It was not who should rule, mortelles. As the negro preacher In but what should rule. He drew his not for a change of rulers upon Vicksburg said of him: "Massa Lln- - sword, an established throne, but to establish ebery-tlnhe he know kum, eberywhere; a new government which should acbe walk de earf like de Lord. knowledge no throne but tbs tribune of Hu Km Iroay. the people. Lincoln accepted war to Abraham Lincoln could say true save the union, the safeguard of our things when just resentment required censure. He released some prisoners on the other side of the "divide" In 1B6S. The wife of one of these Insisted "that her husband was a religious man. even If he was a re bet." Mr. Lincoln wrote the release slowly, as If In doubt, and, without-smiling- , handed It to the now happy wife, but said, with keen Irony: "Tou say your husband Is a religious man. Tell him when you meet him that I say I am not much of a judge of religion, but In my opinion the religion that sets men to rebel and light against their government because, a they think, that government does mat umloU, u& U wt their bread In the sweat of other men s (aces is not the sort af religion upon which people can get to heaven." g; 4 Dick Oowra Appolatmaat. Mr. Lincoln once told Horace Denting. a Connecticut congressman, when he had been Importuned to join a church, that "when any church will Inscribe over Its altar as its sole qualification the. Saviors condensed statement of the substance of law and gospel, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy soul, and thy neighbor as thyself tbit church will I join with all my baart His great good sense was shown In hla making Dick Gower a lieutenant In the regular army. Dick had shown his bravery and his capacity among the western Indians, but was rejected by the board of military martinets at Washington because he "did not know what an abatis, or echelon, or hollow square was." Well, sharply said tL dilettante offleer with a single eyeglass, "what would you do with your command if the cavalry should charge on you?" Td give them Jesse, that's what 1 would do; and Id maka a hollow square In every mothers son of them." - Uneolii. signed bis com mission sod . Dick made a famous soldier. SMd the Vattmr. McClellan then requested his chief of staff to find a copy of ths letter. It was speedily produced, and Gen. McClellan proceeded to crush Mr. Lincoln by reading bis vituperative stuck on BUnton, with reflections on Lincolns conduct of the war. Lincoln's peaceful smile vanished- - When the letter ended he rose quickly, looking neither to the right nor left not waiting for any farewell to Gen. McClellan. He seemed oppressed with the consciousness of ths dangers of ths military as well as the political situation of things. He drove slowly with Gen. Blair over to the boat, which was to convsy them from .Harrisons landing back to Washington. Whan ths vessel had started, Mr. Lincoln, for the first time since leaving McClellans tent, broke the silence and said to Gen. Blair: "Frank, 1 now understand this man. That letter is Gen. McClellans bid for the presidency. I win stop that gam Now Is the time to Issue the proclamation emancipating the sieves," He forthwith issued "the proclamation of emancipation. Within a week after the world was sUrtled by a' new charter of freedom for the slave. a LINCOLN ROSE QUICKLY, It npon liberties, and "Indestructible foundations as forever To quote his "one and Indivisible. own grand words: Now we are all contending that this nation under God shall havs a new birth of freedom, and that the government of the people, by the people, for the people,' shall not perish from ths earth." LINCOLN AND THE WIDOW. The 12th of February.- Abraham - Lin- - Ing a veil of mystery around Ada Rehan, who was never allowed to b Interviewed by newspaper men or to her accept social Invitations save Intimates. The same system of seclusion was practiced with remarkable success by Eleonora Duse, and J. M. Hill established the fame of Margaret Mather by keeping her sedulously hidden except when she waa on the stage. The Uncertainties of Life in Volcanic Italy. The u unccrtalmus of lire lu the districts of lia die again forcl-1- ! tailed to mind In the Amalfi one of the moot remarkable that hate occurred in the ear just closed. Part of a great rot k upon which stood the Capuchin hotel and the Hotel Santa Caterina slid hodlly into the sea on the afternoon of Dec. 22, carrying the hotel and other buildings. The hotel Is the white building in the center of the above puture Thirteen lives are known to have been lost, but had It not been for warnings caused by preliminary earth tremors, the destruction would have been much greater. Owing to the tremendous noibe and the great crack in the Mirfaoe of the earth, whiih suddenly vawned, It was at first feared that manj more had perished. Some persons w ho were In the vicinity are still unaccounted for, and their names may be added to the list of dead. Amalfi is twenty miles southeast Of Naples and but a few miles from the site of ancient Tumped, with Its dreaded neighbor, Vesuvius. Residents of the town are taught from childhood to fear landslides am1 volcanic eruptions. At the first sign of danger most of them temporarily abandon their homes, but, as is usual in such aees, there are eome w ho do Bet take precautions. This was illustrated forcibly at Amalfi. Among the killed was Miss Weir, a daughter of James Galloway Weir, a member 'of the British house of commons She was with her governess. They had escaped, but turned for their valuables, and were LINCOLN WROTE THE ORDER, One of the building her eldest boy, tbst she might have killed together. a venereble some one to support her. Lincolns that was damaged was heart responded to the appeal, and he Certainly, If you bav given replied: us all, and your prop has been taken sway, you are justly entitled to one o! your boys. The poor woman went sway light o! heart, only to return later, tearfully begging ths release of her second son. Tbs discharge of the first son bad eome too late. He was killed before It reached htm. SadtyLincoin sat down and wrote the requisite order for ths release of the second son, and rising, handed the paper to the afflicted woman, saying: .Now you have one and 1 have one of the two boy left; that Is no more than right Weeping wltb joy, the poor mother blessed Lincoln and hurried out to send her precious order. vol-idn- ei from the post, and stripped tor action. No enlisted man was permitted to be present It was remarked by several Nelson was of the culookers that John but trained a bit too fine. After the chapstripped beautifully. lain bad Instructed the principals In the center of the ring they were gloved and ordered to tbelr corners. As there was no gong. It was agreed that the referee should clap his hands and cry Quit! at the end of every three minutes; then the principals were to retire each to his corner for refreshment and rest. "Gentlemen, let her go, said the referee; "but gently, gentlemen do not, I beg of you, excite yourselves Be calm, gentlemen." 'I he round ended, the chaplain clapped his hands, shouted "Quit! and the principals retired each to his corner. Again the principals advanced to the center of the ring, and after a rare ex hibttton of sparring. Milea made a tremendous effort end uppercut, but the blow missed Weston, who wheeled around to deliver s pivot blow, which Mile dodged, but the Impetus was such that Weston kept spinning like a top until the chaplain again clapped his hands and shouted "Quit!" Weston went to his corner groggy. After nve more rounds the chaplain, after long and much argument consideration with the witnesses, solemnly announced that It was a draw and declared all bets off. This was satisfactory, but ft was found that the principals were completely exhausted by their efforts ao much so. Indeed, that It was necessary to Bend to the post m As An i Palaaa, tarlhqaak-Fnw- f earthquake-resistin- steel- g, framed palace for thecrown prince of Japan la now being designed, and the foundations are being laid, with the view of obtaining the structural ateet in February. The palace Itself will he built of granite and marble around the steel skeleton. It will be 270 by 400 feet and the height will be 60 feet, and will be built in the French Renaissance style. A Chicago engineer has been called upon to design an elaborate heating and ventilating plant. . An American Ice manufacturing and electric light system will also be addetL It is thought that steel construction will revolutionise the building lndus-r- y tn Japan. The new palace will rest on four hundred deeply anchored ateat embedded In The Carnegie company will furnish .kII kjeel. rat Trek. between war of At the outbreak France and England in ISOS, Capa Colony belonged to the Netherlands, says Alleyns Ireland In" the current Atlantic. In 1806 Louis Napoleon was made King of the Netherlands, and ltk the same year England attacked the n. Cape as it was then a French posse-aloThe colony capitulated on Jan- uaty 10. 1806. Tb British occupation was made permanent by a convention. signed In 1814, between Great Britain and the Netherlands, by the term of i which England paid 130,000,000 for the , I cession of the Cape Colony and of the The -- -- Hobart and Kowtpapor Mnn about people and things bordering on Bohemia. The ware of newspaper men strangely interested him. He said once that he envied them because of their roving freedom and ths esse with which they seemed to write. He conart than sidered writing a greater I find no trouble In talkspeaking. ing to an audience, he said, "but when It comes to putting my thoughts on paper I find It a great task. Readers are more critical than hearers. Ths art of writing la the greater." How Foddnr to Vmrmlrj Molasaea for cavalry horses will la future be one of the Items of expense tor the maintenance of tbe army lx the Philippine. LINCOLNS HUMBLE HOME3. SFcrotNfs oXs'C MAtfS10T&; monastery founded tn 1212 A. D. Tbe building, which has been used for s naval school and other purposes In the coursa of Its existence, has fine cloisters and a charming veranda. Amalfi now has about 10,000 Inhabitant. In the days of Its prosperity it rivaled Genoa as a seaport and had 50,000 elstkm, bat its 'importance' be "hjtig been on tho decline." It Is surrounded by Impoelng mountains and .picturesque rocks. HANDY WITH THE GLOVES. Tears Aga Both Mllee aid Weetoa Wore Xaaeoae ae Clerer Boeen. Think of the commanding general of tha army and tbe.commlasary-gen-erof subsistence as tbe best boxers la tbe army. Gen. Miles has used the gloves with great effect upon many of hla fellow-officer- s, but he met hla match In Gen. Weston, and more than his match in Brig. Gen. Leonard A. Wood, now commanding the department of Santiago. Tbe fight with Gen. Weston waa declared a draw, while In the "scrap" with Gen. Wood. Gen, Miles got n crack on the jaw which caused him to be counted out Gen. Miles and Gen. Weston have always prided themselvee upon their athletic accomplishments. Though both had seen hard service In the civil war, and one of them had been wounded more than once la the Wilderness, and ths ether had been through 'several arduous Indian campaigns on the frontier, they were at the time of the fight, which la historic in tha annals of the army, active and quick. In fact, "fit" for the work cut out for them. Both were known as the crack boxers of the army. - Which was tbe better of the two waa the question. On bright, frosty morning, after a deal of palaverclub. Oen. MUes ing at and CapL Weston, accompanied by six bottle-holder- s, tbelr seconds, two timekeepers, officers and tbe chaplain, who volunteered to act as referee, wended I their way to a barranca, a mile or two t al -- THL lincol: "h om eT Hiitste Congressman Vaux of Philadelphia, in hla late yeara changed hla views about .President Lincoln. He told an intereating story about th proclamation of emancipation. The classic and scholarly Vaux had been making speeches - In Connecticut, and came home with Frank P. Blair of Missouri, who was very close to the many-side- d atrlot president while the war lasted. DISASTER AT AMALFI of Her are three homes of our great martyred president, asoWtUou as be wa himself. Hla birthplace wm a cabin la Hardin county. Kentucky. Taint much of a place to be born in," said young Abe, rvlltlng the scene In hi youth. The years from 7 to 10 th,e lad spent la th ladlaaa home, near Farmington, Cotes county. The picture also show - the modest bouse in Springfield, where Lincoln lived wbea events beg to Push him toward ths top of tho ladder. the-Office- rs" for a water wagon to convey them, to the hospital, where they remained un der the surgeon's treatment for three week. New York Herald. AS WISE AS BEAUTIFUL. : ri4nkl Vihn-Wi4litTtim- Saelabla Ksnk with HU win. Paderewski Is as wise as h Is beautiful, - Ths Pole with tho alburn hair dislikes to be interviewed, add, after briefly expressing the compliments of tbe season on bis arrival, he escaped to the seclubion of his hotel, says the Near York Press,. Among his friends the pianist is sociable enough, being possessed of a pretty wit and a lively sense of humor, but to tbe general public he Is a melancholy, absorbed, romantic personality, which is an InterTbs esting pose and advantageous. domestic life of great men, however decorous It may be, Is not revealed to their admirers without Imperiling their fame. Tbe author of Vanity Fair" once met at a dinner one o'Jtls moat enthusiastic worshipers. Unconscious of the ecstsry with which she gaxed st him, he asked for a second helping of potatoes. Her idol waa dethroned by his appetite, and crying,- - with a shudder, "Oh, Mr. Thackeray!" she left the table in dismay at the realization that her doll was stuffed with sawdust Paderewski must sat, and that his appetite la Thackeraylan may ba judged from the fact that he has gained almost lOd pounds since he left uspbut he cats in private and thus maintains ths sentimental delusion of his devotees. In his habit as be lives the pianist Is an every-da- y young man who would like to have bis hair cut and njoy life like his neighbors. Bat secrecy, when It can be preserved, is tha badge of all ths trlba of artists, and, by not knowing Its favorites, the pub, lie exalts them. Jean de Reszka refused all social Invitation while ht was, singing In our opera, thong! among hia familiars he waa full of fun. Augustin Daly insisted on draw-- Dutch colonies of Demorara, Serbic and Essequlbo, which now form tha colony of British Guiana. It waa hoped that tha Dutch and tbe English In tha Capa Colony would live together Intercourse, and that eventually by Intermarriage a fusion af tha two race wouldbe effected, TbU hop . aii doomed to disappointment, for gradually developed b- tweea the old and the near COlijfliaU which led to tbs establishment (ot two republics beyond the border (ot tba colony. The first step toward the formation of these republics was The emigration, during 1836 and 1837, Lf about eight thousand Dutch fanner ftom tha Cap Colody, a movement wlich la generally referred to as tb Orest Trek. These men went on; of ths colony and established Uyfawelve In the vast hinterland. rttor '' Fata. Perhaps tha most ad venturous addition to tha house menagerie la London la that of a hive of bees, which live In a sitUtig room and fly out to gather honey in Hyde Park among tha flowers and the bloosoms of tha London lime trees. The beet are reported to ba as Industrious and exemplary bee should be and not to be demoralized by such Intimate association with less Industrious human buildings. Th practical difficulty In the way of keeping beea in the house arises when tb cold weather comes in, because they are tempted to carry on "work" Ja th house, when It Is too chilly for them to be abroad, and when bees are anxious to b busy with so work to hand their temper la always uncertain. Spectator. u Of Oiene Mack ORell Thera la tom plan where they " manufacture artificial egg. What name would you giv an establishment of that kind? Luka Warms Why, an egg plant, of course, Toledo Blade I rV xiJ' WAA. vA - . , $ Wft vt ' |