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Show BOSTON WILL PAY NOTABLE TRIBUTE TO ABE LINCOLN Boston, Feb. S. New England, fifty vears ago the hot-bed of abolition, will pay notable tribute this week to Abraham Lincoln. The author of "The Battle Hymn of the Republic," Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, will read a poem written for the occasion at tho exorcises exor-cises In Symphony hall hero Friday evening. Friday noon Senator Henry C. Ix)dgo v 111 deliver an oration on Lincoln before be-fore the joint assembly of tho house and senate at the State House In Boston. Bos-ton. In Maine, the legislature had made Feb. 12th a legal holiday. In Burlington. Yt.f General Oliver O. Howard will speak. |