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% '. :rS' A T\TT\T? A T T?p li^yiiilLLU N SLYKE, Editor and Pub. licHKNRY. ILLINOl*. JUL FRAKER WANTED. mm WHO WILL GIVE «40,000 TO SEE HIM. w ||L *icniM>trw Break* to®*® te Court --Attorney Ncaley in a Peck of Trouble 4 <-Bn«ineM Awaita the Effect of the Bond Sales, Reward of $40,000fnr Df« lhrallte. , Forty thousand doling is the reward jlffered for the approhenaloii of l>r. George (Prater, of Kansas City, Mo. The offer la made by the insurance companies which $uned the policies on Dr. Jt-'rnkor's life. 'When the confession and judgment was taken in the Federal Court in the case brought to collect the $40,000 insurance, It was agreed in the stipulation filed that the main sum should not be paid until the expiration of six months. There were no reasons given by the insurance so­ licitors for this clause and none was re­ quired, but it was understood that it was simply one of business, and that it was in good faith. Now, however, it is learned the companies have joined in issuing a circular to its agents offering $40,000 re­ ward for Praker's recovery within the six months' stay before the payment is due. The number of agents employed by the companies amounts to a small army and Includes every city, village and htPmlet in the land. In addition the offer has been made to every reputable detective agency in the country. - „ He Is in«Jbad Box. ' With the Federal and State courts on Ms trail Attorney Joseph A. Nealey, 6 Chicago attorney--furnisher of straw bail on short notice--is in a bad box. Judge Grosscup sent him to jail for per­ jury for swearing he owned a six-story flat building at No. 57G2 Soqth Leavitt Street, a spot occupied by railroad tracks, and he will have to give bond before he obtains his liberty. Judge Clietlain. who held him to the Criminal Court for con­ spiracy, is confident he c$n send him to the penitentiary for from two to fourteen years, there being three distinct charges on which he can be convicted. When Nealey swore to the ownership of the mythical South Leavitt street building he enabled matrimonial swindler Cavelle to escape. Inspector Stuart was convinced he was committing perjury, and twenty It is thought al! will recover. The woo- motives met in the center of the tushe!. In the crash that followed the men were buried in the debris and their escape from death was littlb short of miraeuis Traffic was delayed for several hours by the accident. Lynn. Mass., was visited bjr a bad fire Wednesday night, and besides the loss of property, there was a sad loss of life. While the fire was at its height, a dozen firemen were crushed beneath the walls of one of the buildings as a result of an explosion of powder. Half the firemen were on ladders directing streams of wat­ er into the burning building. They es­ caped, but with bad wound*. The Bodies of three of their comrades were dug from beneath the debris, and it is believed that one or two more have not been recovered. A man named Buttrick was with the fire­ men at the time the wall collapsed, and he has not been seen since then. Two or three other firemen are missing, and three bodies may still be beneath the big pile of debris. Several of the men who were dug out alive were so badly injured that it is feared they will <lie. The fire, which caused a loss of $100,000, consumed two big business houses on Monroe street. It started in the hardware store of Repre­ sentative William H. Hutchinson and had gained considerable headway when dis­ covered. WESTERN. Yankee Doodle" and "Dixie" were played as a joint melody Thursday night at the Chicago Auditorium while 300 men who had once recognized the airs as the battle marches of contending armies stood touching glasses in good fellowship and cheering themselves hoarse in the enthu- siastn of friendship. It was at a reunion of "the Boys of the Blue and the Gray," and it formed the most inspiring feature of a banquet given under the auspices of Cblumbia Post, No. 706, G. A. R. Four'»an years ago the steamboat James Howard caught fire at the foot of Olive street, St. Louis, and sunk in the river, carrying with it a safe which at the time was said to contain valuables amounting to $300,000. Monday Captain Joseph R. Jobin, a sub-marine diver and wrecker, located the wreck and found the safe. It was found to contain a large quantity of coin, which had been melted by the heat of the fire, and also a gold watch with the name Lena Peters engrav­ ed on t)$ case. Just as the last Lincoln avenue cable trajn entered the car house at Wright- wood and Sheffield avenues, Chicago, at 1:10 WTednesday morning, fl a fries broke out in the east part of the structure and in an hour almost had destroyed the big building. The loss amounts to $50,000 on building and from $200^000 to $250,000 on rolling stock. There were 125 cars burn­ ed, and Superintendent Roach of the com­ pany says these cars, which include those lour hours' investigation showed there for ^ wiuter and 'summeT traffiCf range wasn't a budding within blocks of the in ^ from $1 >000 tQ ^ qqq effch Tho the place Stood. attorney's structure Confidence^ Is Strong. R. G. Dun & Co.'s- weekly review of tlade says: "Another week's exports of " gold and withdrawals from the treasury- have been almost entirely stopped by the contract for purchases of gold from Messrs. Belmont and Morgan. For the moment business only waits to know whether sales of American securities and Withdrawals of gold from the treasury have been lastingly stopped by the re­ markable increase of confidence. The two obstacles which block the path just now are exceeding cheapness of farm products and restricted operations in the industries. There has been no gain in prices of farm products on the whole.*' He Tames a Fighter. jes iioach, an ex-employe of the Pro- art at Chicago made a vicious at- Deputy Sheriff Hermann Schar- ingburg in the office vault adjoining the court-room Friday afternoon. He tried to escape at once and got as far as the ele­ vators before he was overtaken. With Charles Cullen, a friend, Roach made-a desperate fight against the officers, but was finally overpowered and taken before Judge Kohlsaat. After receiving a sen­ tence of thirty days in the county„ jail for contempt of court Roach kicked an­ ther man in the stomach. He was land­ ed in jail without further casualties. BREVITIES. Joseph Robinson, agent of the- Nex •Pierces Indians in Idaho, is dead. Jose Carabjai and his son Juan were found frozen to death near Albuquerque, N.M. The tank steamer Elsie Marie, from Hamburg for Baltimore, which went uhore on Little Yachiongo Shoals, off the Virginia Shoals, was pulled off with little damage. Major Charles H. Jones, recently edi­ tor of the New York World, and formerly folding the same position on the St. Louis Republic, has become editor and manager of the S*» Louis Post-Dispatch. A bill has been reported to Congress granting the abandoned Mount Vernon barracks military reservation, comprising •bout sixteen hundred acres of sterile land, to the State of Washington. At Brooklyn the grand jury presented Indictments against Benjamin Norton, (/president of the Atlantic Railway Com- imd Superintendent Daniel J. inn, charging them with a violation of ie ten-hour law. The Russian Thistle Interstate confer- ; p ence at St. Paul adopted a series of pro­ posals for laws in the interested States. Their purport is that/the weed should be declared a public nuisance and a special ^ ; ^ law relating to Russian thistles alorfS < < should be passed. Much anxiety is felt at Philadelphia ; «ver the safety of the British steamship ^ Kingdom, Capt. Jones, which sailed from ^ Hamburg Dec. 18. The last report of her WasDec. 24, when she was signaled from the Ti^thouse station at the Butt of Lewis, one of the Orkney Isles. At tLloyds a "premium of (JO guineas was aske<l for her insurance. She has a crew of forty. Peter May, a negro farm laborer, shot and killed W. B. Lyle, the overseer of the large South Christian farm' of W. S. Cheatham at Hopkinsville, Ky. V £4^ . The loss by the burning of the Dougher- !,IZ> fr * k Wadsworth silk mills at Paterson J-. is $300,000 on building, machinery And stock. One thousand hands are / ^thrown out of employment by the fire. I>- W. Morfey, of Paterson^ N. J., beat jfohn Rothacker, of Philadelphia, in a trap •. Shooting matth by four birds. James Hodges, ex-Mayor of Baltimore f / and prominent in public affairs during the know-nothing days, is dead. • •* EASTERN. 'Mwi l^avfs, teacher of a district school, ' was found frozen to death in a snow bank ,*«ear Lyons, N.cY.^ ^ Engines N<(s. t5 and' 8 on the Castle fc Shannon Railroad collided in the tunnel t f,*. near Monongahela, Pa., causing one of • the worst wrecks that has occurred on the * r.<«, road in a number of years. Five men ' -were hurt and an engine and twenty-five " cars demolished. The injured were: Con- jU • . Jductor John Walker, Engineers Henry • Hitters and Frederick Risgaf, Fireman ! - Emiuett Hamilton and an unknown man. ... The first three were seriously injured, but The building was insured for $20,000 and the rolling stock for $80,000. Owing to the rapid work done bythe firemen the flames did not reach the part of the building in which the horses were stabled. Over fifty of the animals were taken out, but only after a hard struggle, the glare and the smoke rendering them practically un­ controllable. Never before Tuesday has Chicago so generally observed Lincoln's birthday. A common and widespread impulse of patri­ otism was apparent on every hand and fitting observance of the occasion in elo­ quent addresses and patriotis music gave expression to the veneration of the people of every section of the city for the idol­ ized Lincoln. A large number of promi­ nent business houses gave their employes a holiday. In this particular the city, under orders from Mayor Hopkins, set a good example. With the exception of the police and fire departments, practically all city employes were -granted a holiday. Public and private schools throughout the city with one accord devoted the day to exercises best calculated to impress upon the pupils who participated the exalted character and services of the martyred President. The most extensive exercises, however, were those held in the evening at the Auditorium by the^ook County cabinet of the National Union and at the Marquette Club banquet at the Grand Pa­ cific Hotel. Henry Watterson, the bril­ liant Kentucky orator and journalist, de­ livered the Auditorium address, and the great hall was filled to its utmost capacity. When Rufus Ramsay, who died sud­ denly at Carlyle three months ago, sup­ posedly of heart disease, went into the State Treasury two years ago he was thought to be the richest man in Southern Illinois. Now his estate is completely wrecked. Within a week over $500,000 in claims against it have been filed, but the most startling is that of the five Chi­ cago bankers who were his sureties as State Treasurer. When Henry Wulff succeeded the dead man he found every­ thing in shape, and the cash verified to a cent. But it transpires that the bonds­ men of the dead ex-treasurer had made good a shortage of $303,539.52. This shortage, was occasioned by advances made from the State funds to Henry Seiter, the wrecked Lebanon banker. The Ramsay estate holds notes signed by Seiter for $244,000. To secure this col­ lateral is held which if forced on the mar­ ket would fall short about $185,000. The total claims filed to date against the Ram­ say estate show a total indebtedness of nearly $500,0Q0, with assets that will pos­ sibly reach $200,000. The State has not lost a cent, but Carlyle creditors are sure to suffer heavily. in gold If the Government cannot main­ tain the parity between gold and silver. The interstate commerce commission has suspended the long short haul clause of the interstate commerce law so as to enable railroads to carry at cheaper rates to points in the Nebraska region of crop failures. Secretary Gresham received from Con­ sul "General Williams at Havana Mon­ day morning a cablegram stating that the Spanish officials had received instruc­ tions to place the products of the United States in the second or minimum column. Thus the old relations are restored. The merchants of the United States can now ship goods to Cuba and Puerto Rico on the same terms existing prior to the enact­ ment of the present tariff law. The threat to retaliate is off and the incident is closed. The third attempt of the Administra­ tion at this session to secure legislation looking to the relief of the treasury failed' in the House Thursday. First, the Car-) lisle bill for the reform of the currency) system went down; next, the bill for the, issue of $500,000,000 of gold bonds and) the retirement of the legal tenders, rec-j ommended in the President's special mes-j sage, was defeated a week ago by a ma-j jority of 27, and Thursday the House, byj a majority even larger (47), refused to order to a third reading the resolution by which it was proposed to authorize) the is^ue of $66,000,000 3 per cent, /gold bonds to substitute for the 4 per cetft. 30- year coin bonds sold-by Secretary Carlisle under the contract with.,the, Rothschild- Morgan.syndicate. FOREIGN; United States Minister Isaac P. Graj died of pneumonia at the City of Mexico. Thursday evening. He had been uncon­ scious sixteen hours. He was carried from the train to the American Hospital, and Dr. Bray placed in charge of the pa­ tient. The physician saw at once there was no hope, and informed Mrs. Gray that her husband would not live twenty- four hours? He had just returned fromi Washington. ^ The fishing schooner Clara F. Friend, one of the stanchest of the Gloucester; fishing fleet, was driven ashore near Liv­ erpool, N. S., in a howling gale early Sun­ day morning and stove to pieces on the rocks of Eastern Point. All of her crew of fifteen men were drowned. The wreck was within hailing distance of the shore, yet the 100 men who .gathered were pow­ erless to render assistance, for it would have been foolhardy to have launched a lifeboat in such a surf. Intelligence was received at Yoko­ hama Wednesday morning of the surren­ der of. the Chinese forts and warships at Wei-Hai-Wei. The surrender is complete and the Japanese are in full possession of Wei-Hai-Wei. It is officially announced that Captain Nuros, of the Japanese squadron operating at Wei-Hai-Wei, re­ ports that on Tuesday one of the enemy's gunboats approached the Japanese fleet flying a white flag. She brought a mes­ sage from Admiral Ting, of the Chinese navy, offering to surrender Wei-Hai-We} and his vessels providing that the lives of the soldiers, crews and foreigners were secured. Captain Nuros' report added that a formal surrender was yet to be ar­ ranged. The commander of the second Japanese army, in an official report of the operations of that body before Wei-Hai- Wei, says that its losses from Jan. 29 to Feb. 1 were eighty-three killed, including five officers, and 219 wounded, including General Otera and three other .officers. During the same period 700 of the enemy were killed. SOUTHERN. Thomas Ault, a St. Louis timber, man, ended his life by poison at Memphis, Tenn. The continued cold weather has caused a stagnation in the Alabama iron busi­ ness. Several furnaces have closed down at Birmingham. A stick of dynamite was found in a bale of cotton being loaded on the ship Flori- dian at New Orleans. A striking 'long­ shoreman was arrested. It is now feared the recent norther will be destructive to cattle and other live stock in Texas. The sleet and ice have undoubtedly caused much hardship to live stock, and the loss will be heavy. Re ports which have been received indicate that the cattle on the range passed the winter very well, but since then sleet has come and complicated the situation. . Charles Gayarre, the venerable ihisto- rian and litterateur, died kt his NeV Or leans residence Tuesday, aged 90 y&nrs. He was a native of New Orleans, of notile birth and fgraous for having introduced the culture of indigo and sugar cane, and as the first Mayor of New Orleans. He wrote the "History of Louisiana," the "Influence of Mechanic Arts on the Des­ tinies of the Human Rapf," etc. The freezing weather continues at Jack­ sonville, Fla. The mercury was 19 at sunrise Monday morning and 26 at 11 o'clock. The prediction of the Weather Bureau was that freezing weatha* would continue until Sunday night. The best informed orange grower in Florida, Jas. A. Harris, of Citra, says that 95 per cent, of the crop is killed outright, and that next year's crop will not reach 100,000 boxes, against 5,000,000 boxes this year. The early vegetable crop, the entire straw­ berry crop and four-fifths of the pine­ apple plants are destroyed. The aggre­ gate loss is conservatively estimator at $10,000,000. WASHINGTON. Senator Hill has introduced a resolution declaring that coin bonds shall bt> payable X INOENERAL Prominent pottery manufacturers an*, jobbers have formed a combine to shut out European pottery products from the American market. The White Star Line steamship Majes­ tic, from Liverpool for New York, brought $1,290,000 in gold for the United States. Later vessels brought $3,710,000 from London. The French liper La Gascogne, eight days overdue, came into New York harbor Monday night under her own steam, hav­ ing been delayed twice by the breaking of her piston rod. Greatest anxiety was felt for her. Dealers in live stock and dressed beef express considerable concern about the meat supply. They do not pretend to say that there is any-immediate danger of a meat famine, but they are unanimous in saying that the market will be seriously crippled unless the blockade on the roads leading to New York is raised in a few days. While the Government of the United States is building a new post office for Chicago, the city's ,mail will b^ handled in a temporary structure on the lake front. Official sanction of this was given at Monday's meeting of the City Council, coming quickly after the reception of the news that the post office bill had been passed and was in the hands of the Presi­ dent. The Columbian Exposition Sal­ vage Company has offered the use of the Government Building at Jacksdn Park. Traveling men all over the country were jubilant over the action of the President in signing the bill amending that part of the interstate commerce act which refers to mileage tickets. For several years the Travelers' Protective Association, the largest organization of traveling men in the world, has been agitating the mileago ticket question, and it has just carried its point. Under the old system all a man could get was a 1,000-mile ticket, good over just the road that issued it. Un­ der the new law he will be able to buy a 5,000-mile ticket, good over any road or number of roads he wants to u£e it on. TRIBUTE TO LINCOLN. HENRY WATTERSON'S, ORATIQN AT CHICAQO. ^bgillceat Audlenco HeaH theBlo- «nent Kentackian'a Brilliant Effort --Hia Words Were Worthy--Life and Character of the Great Emancipator. MARKET REPORTS. In Honor of the Martyred President. The most notable feature of the Lincoln memorial exercises at Chicago was the speech of Colonel Henry Watterson, of Louisville, Ky. Mr. Watterson began his oration by a reference to the poise and dignity of the statesmen in knee breeches and powdered wigs who signed the Dec­ laration of Independence and framed the Constitution, and who made their influ­ ence felt upon life and thought long after the echoes of Bunker Hill and Yorktown had died away. It was not <£intil the in­ stitution of African slavery got into poli­ tics as a vital fo"xee that Congress be- f ,- >£J5T; la TWnols} y colony, iun ? He to call "a i nlgger- ilrit of a lor; the heavy neath long His was a Kentucky colony: what is Chicago, b» jrOTTu SOSlcWuav OU was in no sense whaj poor white." Awkw less, certainly, but as] hero beneath that r imagination of a poet brows; the. courage those patient, kindly before he was of legal first love was a Rutled. Todd. Let the romancist tell the story of his romance. 1 dare not. No sadder idyl can be found in all the annals of the poor. We know that he was a poet; for have we not that immortal prose-poem recited at Gettysburg? We know that he was a statesman; for has not time vindicated his conclusions? But the South does not know, except as a kind of hearsay, that he was a friend; the one friend who the power and the will to save it from Itself. The direst blow that could have been inflicted upon the South was deliv­ ered by the assassin's bullet that struck him down. Throughout the wild contention that preceded the war, amid the lurid passions WORK OF C6NGBESS. came a bear gardenVJPrS' men who.sign- w" ed the declaration and their imfflediate^---.that attended the war itself, not one bitter Chicago--Cattle, common , to prime. $3.7G@5.75; hogs, shipping grades, $3.00 (&4.50; sheep, fair to choice, $2.00<g|4.75; wheat, No. 2 re^» 50<g£»le; corn, No. 2, 42@43c; oats, No. 2, 27®28c; rye, No.v 2, 52@54c; butter, choice creamery, 23^ 24c; eggs, fresh, 23<fj24c; potatoes, car lots, per bushel, 70^.80c. Indianapolis--Cattle, shipping, $3@ 5.50; hogs, choice light, $3@4.75; sheep, common to prime, $2@4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, S2®63c; corn, No.l white, 41@ 42c; oats, No. 2 white, 32®32V4c. St Louis--Cattle, $S4£5.75; hogs, $3® 4.50; wheat, No. 2 red, 51@Q2c; corn, No. 2, 40fal41c; oats, No. % 30@31c; com, No. 2, 54<£fi50c. Cincinnati--Cattle, $3.50@5.50; hogs, $3.50(34.50; sheep, $2@4.50; wheat, No. 2, 55(«;5Cc; corn, No. 2 mixed, 44@44%c; pats; No. 2 mixed, 32@32%c; rye, No. 2, 58<&59c? Detroit--Cattle, $2.50@S.50; hogs, $4Q 4.50; sheep, $2@3.50; wheat, No. 1 white, 54@55C; corn. No, 2 yellow, 42@42%c; oats, No. SV^vhTfe, 33V6<&34i4c; rye, No. 2, 54@56c. Toledo--Wheat, Nq. 2 red, B3@54c;< corn, No. 2 mixed, 42@43c; oaxs, No. 2 white, 33Vii@34^c; rye, No. 2, 53@55c. Buffalo--Cattle, $2.50@5.50; hogs, $3(35 I 5.00; sheep, $3.50@4.75; wheat, No. 2 red, 57%@58i4c; corn, No. 2 yellow, 47@47J/&c; oats, 2 white, 35^@36%e. Mil\$auk5fee--Wheat, No. 2 spring, 53@ 53%c; corn, No. 2, 43©43%c; oats, No. 2 white, 3l<fi3l1/2C; barley,r No. 2, 53@56c; rye, No. 1, 52@54c; pork, mess, $9.7JX(£ 10.25. New York--Cattle, $3@5.75: hogs, $3.50 @5.00; sheep, $3@5; wheat, No. 2 red, 59 @59%c; corn, No. 2, 48@40c: oats, white Western, 37@41c; butter, creamery, lSQ 86c; eggs, Western, 28@29c. successors were succeeded by a set of party leaders much less decorous and much more self-confident. Continuing, the lecturer said In part: There were Seward and Sumner and ChasefCorwin and Ben Wade, Trumbull and Fessenden, Hale and Collamer and Grimes, and Greeley, our latter-day Franklin^ There were Toombs and Ham­ mond, atid Slidell and Wigfall, and the two little giants, Douglas and Stephens, and Yancey and Mason, and Jefferson Davis. With them soft words buttered no parsnips and they cared little how many pitchers might be broken by rude ones. The issue between them did not require a diagram to explain it. It Was so simple a child could understand it. It read, human slavery against human free­ dom, slave labor against free labor, and involved a conflict as inevitable as it was irrepressible. Lincoln Enters the I*ray. Amid the noise and confusion, the clash­ ing of intellects like sabers bright, and the booming of the big oratorical guns of the North and the South, now definitely arrayed, there came one day into the Northern camp one of the oddest figures Imaginable, the figure of a man who, in #pite of an appearance somewhat out of line, carried a serious aspect, if not the suggestion of power, and, pausing a mo­ ment to utter a single sentence that could be heard above the din, passed on and for a moment disappeared. The sentence was pregnant with meaning. The man bore a commission from God on high! He said: A house divided against itself cannot stand. I believe this Government cannot endure permanently half free and half Slave. I do not expect the Union to be dissolved; I do not expect the house to fall, but I do expect it will cease to be divided." He was Abraham Lincoln. Kow shall I describe him to you? Shall I do so as he appeared to me when I first saw him immediately on his arrival at the national capital, the chosen President of the United States, his appearance quite as strange as the story of his life, which was then but half known and half told, or shall I use the language of another and more vivid word-painter? In January, 1861, Colonel A. K. Mc- Clure, of Pennsylvania, journeyed to Springfield, 111., personally, to become; ac­ quainted and to consult with the man he had contributed so materially to elect. "I *went directly from the depot to Lincoln's house," says Colonel McClure, "and rang the bell, which Was answered by Lincoln himself, opening the door. I doubt wheth­ er I wholly concealed my disappointment at meeting him. Tall, gaunt, ungainly, ill-clad, with a homeliness of manner that was unique in itself, I confess that my heart sank within me as I remembered that this was the man chosen by a great nation to become its ruler in the gravest period of its history. I remember his dress as if it were but yesterday--snuff- colored and slouchy pantaloons; open black vest, held by a few brass buttons; straight or evening dress coat, with tight­ ly fitting sleeves to exaggerate his long, bony arms, all Supplemented by an awk­ wardness that was uncommon among men of intelligence. Such was the picture I met in the person of Abraham Lincoln. We sat down in his plainly furnished par­ lor and were uninterrupted during the nearly four hours I remained with him, and little by little as his earnestness, sin­ cerity and candor were developed in con­ versation, I forgot all the grotesque quali­ ties which so confounded me when I first greeted him. Before half an hour had passed I learned not only to respect, but, indeed, to reverence the man." Lincoln's First Inangrural. I am not undertaking to deliver an oral biography of Abraham Lincoln, and shall pass over the events which quickly led up to his nomination and election to the Presidency in 18G0. I met the newly elected President the afternoon of the day in the early morning of which he had arrived in Washington. It was a Saturday, I think. He came to the capitol under Mr. Seward's escort, and among the rest I was presented to him. His appearance did not impress me as fantastically as it had impressed Colonel McClure. I was more familiar with«}x& Western type than Colonel McGlure, and whilst Mr. Lincoln was certainly not an Adonis, even after prairie ideas, there was about him a rugged dignity that com- iffaiided respect. i' I met him again the next Monday fore­ noon in his apartments at Willard's Ho­ tel as he was preparing to start to his in­ auguration, and was struck by his unaf­ fected kindness; for I came with a matter requiring his attention. He was entirely self-possessed, no trace of nervousness, and very obliging. I accompanied the cortege that went from the Senate cham­ ber to the eatt portico of the capitol. As Mr. Lincoln removed his hat to face the vast multitude in front and below, I ex­ tended my hand to take it, but Judge Douglas, just behind me, reached over my outstretched arm and received it, holding it throughout the delivery of the inau­ gural address. I stood just near enough to the speaker's elbow not to obstruct any gestures he might make, though he made but few, and then I began to understand something of the real power of the man. He delivered that inaugural address as if he had been delivering inaugural ad­ dresses all his life. Firm, resonant, earn­ est, it announced the coming of/a man; of a leader of men, and in its ringing tones and elevated style the gentleman whom he had invited to become members of his political family--each of whom at bottom thought himself his master's equal or su- perior--might have heard the voice and seen the hand of one born to rule. Wheth­ er they did or not they very soon ascer- taijled the fact. From the hour Abraham Lincoln crossed the threshold of^he White House to the hour he went thence to his tragic death there was not a moment When he did not dominate the political and military situation and his official sutmrdinates. The idea that he was over­ matched at any time by anybody is con­ tradicted by all that actually happened. Lincoln and the South./7 I Want to say just here a fevfr words about Mr. Lincoln's relation to the South and toward the people of the South. He was himself a Southern man. He and all his tribe were Southerners. <A1 though he left Kentucky when the uwest child, he was an old child; he neve'/was very young; he grew to maahood #n a pr narrow word escaped the lips of Abra­ ham Lincoln, whilst there was hardly a day that he was not projecting his big, sturdy personality between some South­ ern man or woman and danger. The Laws of Inspiration. From Caesar to Bismarck and Glad­ stone the world has had its statesmen and its soldiers--men who rose to eminence and power step by step, through a scries of geometric progression, ||s it were, each advancement following OT: regular order one after the other, the whole obedient to well-established and well-understood laws of cause and effect. They were not what we call "men of destiny." They were "men of the time." They were men whose careers had a beginning, a middle, and an end, rounding of lives with histories, full it may be of interesting and exciting events, but comprehensive and ^compre­ hensible; simple, clear, complete. „ The inspired men are fewer. Whence their emanation, where and how they got their power, and by what rule they lived, moved and had their being, we know not. There is no explication to their lives. They rose from shadow and they went in mist. We see them, feel them, but we know them not. They came, God's word upon their lips; they did their office, God's man­ tle about them; and they passed away, God's holy light between the world and them, leaving behind a memory, half mor­ tal and half myth. From first to fast they were the creations of some special Provi­ dence, baffling the wit of man to fathom, defeating the machinations of the world, the flesh, and the devii, and, their work done, passing from the scene as myste­ riously as they had come upon it. Tried by this standard where shall we find an illustration more impressive than Abraham Lincoln, whose career might be chanted by a Greek chorus as at once the prelude and the epilogue of the most imperial theme of modern times. Born as lowly as the Son of God, in a hovel; of what ancestry we know not and care not; reared in penury, squalor, with no gleam of light or fair surroundings; without external graces, actual or acquir­ ed; without name or fame or official train­ ing; it was reserved for this strange be­ ing, late in life, to be snatched from ob­ scurity, raised to supreme command at a supreme moment, and intrusted with the destiny of a nation. The great leaders of his party, the most experienced and accomplished public men of the day, were made to stand aside; tvere sent to the rear, whilst this fantas­ tic figure was led by unseen hands to the front and given the reins of power. It is immaterial whether we were for him or against him--wholly immaterial. Thai, during four years, carrying with them such a pressure of responsibility as the world never witnessed before, he filled the •/ast space allotted him in the eyes and actions of mankind, is to say that he was inspired of God, for nowhere else could he have acquired the wisdom and the grace indispensable to his mission. Where did Shakespeare get his genius? Where did Mozart get his music? Whose hand smote the lyre of the Scottish plow­ man, and stayed the life of the German priest? God, God, and God alone; and as surely as these were raised up by God, inspired by pod, was Abraham Lincoln; and a thousand years hence no story, no tragedy, no epic poem will be filled with greater wonder, or be followed by man­ kind with deeper feeling, than that which tells of his life and death. Notes of Current Events. Jim Price, the man who shot and killed Marshal Beard at Clarimore, I. T., gave himself up. The cotton screwmen at New Orleans are striking again for the third time with­ in three months. At Richburg, Ky., Henry Denson was murdered by his stepson, Jean Burke, as the result of a family row. Report that the Pope had declined to mediate in behalf of Turkey on the Ar­ menian question is confirmed. James Story, of Sioux City, la., a cattle speculator, has disappeared from Omaha. He had $2,600 on his person. At Alexandria, Egypt, a mob attacked, and beat three men belonging to a British cruiser. An inquiry is in progress. Great damage was, dgpe by the storm on Chesapeake Bay. Mdny oyster boats were wrecked and loss of life is feared. A Panhandle passenger train was wrecked by a broken rail near Newcom- erstown, O. No one was seriously hu Lewis Billings, College Springs, I recently married, shot and killed himstflf. Despoudency from sickness was t\e cause. Experiments with a jmallpox serum a: rbeing <pnducted by .Health Commissioned Tlolmf/n at the quarantine hospital, St. Loui*. . Seth T. Sawyer died at Alton. He was 88 years old and had been a ̂ practitioner before the Illinois bar for more than fifty years. Ralph S. Selby, a well-known real es­ tate dealer at San Francisco and a mem­ ber of an old family, shot himself through the head. At Boston, Mass., 3,368 shares of Bell Telephone Company were sold at auction by order of the *Bell directors. Prices ranged from 189^4 to 191- Lotus Niles, 76 years old and a promi­ nent resident, is dead at Springfield, 111. He had held Government and State cleri­ cal positions the last1 thirty-five years. Life savers succeeded in rescuing two of the crew of the schooner Louis V. Place, ashore at Point of Woods, N. Y. The other Bis were drowned or frozen to death. ' John Clark and tieorge Lnmont, Wa­ bash, Ind., glassblowers, accused of the murder of Frank Gallagher in a strike of glassblowers last June, have been ac­ quitted. Extreme suffering is reported at Med- ford, Ok., and half thte^populatlon is said to be-in destitute circumstances. Aid in food, fuel or clothing/can be sent to the County Commissioners. The Union station at St. Joseph, Mo., completed in May, 1882, and which was used by all the railroads entering the city, was laid in ruins by fire. The loss will reach $400,000. It was one. of the moat severe fires ever suffered by the city. THE WEEK'S DOINGS IN SENATE :iigrtiu' HOU8£i*' mm 1 ' " W v A Coiijt>^ehettalve Digest of tile ^ro* • ceedings in the Legislative Cham­ bers at Washington -- MatterB that C o n c e r n t h e P e o p l e d ' * i . # ' Lawmakers at " Resolutions defining the policy of the. Government in regard to gold an# silver and one arraigning the management of1 Yfef Pram/trta I the Pacific roads and directing the Attor- TOCeedS U rider ney .General to begin foreclosure proceed­ ings were presented in the Senate Mon­ day. Correspondence and reports regard­ ing the Behring Sea fisheries were sent to the Senate by President Cleveland. The Senate Committee on the Judiciary will report adversely the nomination of W. M. Campbell, to be marshal of Minne­ sota. The House agreed to the Senate amendments to^ the Chicago post office bill, and it went to the President. The House completed consideration of the leg­ islative appropriation bill with the excep­ tion of the paragraph relating to pension offices. A bill to incorporate a company which proposes to lay a cable to Hawaii, Australia and Japan was^presented^n the The legislative appropriatlon i>ill was passed by the House Tuesday after tp€ item .placing clerks on the annun4-^ay roll had heen stricken out. The House Ways andV Means Committee discussed the gold bond plan and made decided pro­ gress toward an agreement. The House Committee on Pacific Roads decided to again report the Reilly bill, together with the proposition of the companies to pay' the principal of the debt. Messrs. Mor­ gan and Pugh protested in the Senate against the speech of Mr. Allen on the alleged election frauds in Alabama. A bill providing for the unlimited coinage of silver was favorably reported to the Senate from the 'Financ Committee. A bill providing for the issuance of $65,000,000 in gold bonds was presented to the Senate Wednesday by Mr. Vilas. A resolution authorizing Secretary Car­ lisle to sell gold bonds was favorably re­ ported to the House from the Ways and Means Committee. A copy of the bond contract was also submitted. The House Thursday defeated the prop­ osition of the President to issue gold bonds whereby $16,000,000 in interest could have been saved. The measure providing for the construction of a new Federal building at Chicago has been signed by President Cleveland. In response to a re­ quest Secretary Carlisle has sent to the Senate his figures on the treasury gold reserve and expenditures. Labor Com­ missioner Wright has submitted a report outlining plans for providing homes for the working people on easy terms. The Senate passed the postoffice appro­ priation bill Friday, Senate hostile amend­ ments being defeated. The agricultural bill was taken up. Senator Chandler has introduced a bill to establish free Ameri­ can ports where foreign raw material may be manufactured. Strong oppositioiT«4o the bill appropriating money to builV more war ships was developed oh the floor of the House. The House Committee on Commerce submitted a report favoring a deep waterway to connect the ocean and great lakes. The Navy Department is advised that the war ships Charleston and Yorktown are rescuing American nais- sionaries at Che Foo. j In the Senate Saturday Mr. Wolcott charged the President with misstating the financial situation. Senators Cullom and Palmer appeared before the sub-commit­ tee of the Senate Appropriation Commit­ tee and urged an amendment to the sun­ dry civil bill providing an appropriation for the beginning of the work on the pro­ posed new Chicago post office building. They have received a letter from the Sec­ retary of the Treasury recommending an appropriation of $400,000 for beginning work on the new building, and of $200,000 for temporary quarters for the post office while the new building is in course of construction. The IIouso voted to in­ crease the navy with three battle ships and twelve torpedo boats. The Curse of Scotland. Among the reasons why t^e nftie of diamonds has been called the curse of Scotland, I think that the following has not be$n given: ... "Diamonds, nine of, called the curse of .Scotland, from a Scotch member of Parliament, part of whose family arms is the nine of diamonds, voting for the Introduction of the malt tax Into Scot­ land."--"Chronology; or, the Histo­ rian's Companion," fourth edition, by Thomas Tegg, London, 1826, p. 308 (Addenda). - . . Could the arms of Daniel Campbell of Sliawfield, member of Glasgow, oon« tain the nine lozenges? His house was destroyed by a mob in 1727, because rhe was suspected of " lia\»iiig giv­ en government information en the habits and » statistics of Scotland necessary for the preparation of the malt tax, as well as of having ex­ posed a system of evasion of duties in the Scots tobacco trade."--See "History of Scotland," by Jolin Hill Burton. In the index to the "History," Camp­ bell of ShawfleldHI Christian name is given as David. There is ajGeorge Chnipbell men­ tioned as hqf^fng caused the nine of dia­ monds to be called the curse of Scotland because he stole nine diamonds out of the royal crown in the reign of Mary Stuart, in consequence of which all Scotland was taxed.--Notes and Que­ ries. Hairs from Mohammed's Beard. The treasure of treasures In the new mosque at Tripoli, Syria, is a magnifi­ cent gold casket in which are placed three hairs from the Prophet Mohan.- med's beard. v ' . . t - - ' .- -.4 .fer , V ./ ' I - ' Odds and Ends. The original of the face on the silver dollar is Miss Anna Willess Williams, formerly,a teacher in the Philadelphia schools. \ Matanzas Inlet, Florida, was named by Menendez to commemorate his vic­ tory over Ribout The word means "massacre." India rubber used for erasing peacif marks was known in England as early as 1770. A cube of it half ah inch square cost 3 shilings. Cape Hatteras took Its name frcm that of a tribe of Indians who lived in the neighborhood. Minnehaha means "laughing water." The Indian word is Minfierara, the Frenchman Henm^pin lmv/jfig mistaken the sound. Rev. Dr. James M. K?ng at the rc cent dinner of tlTe'Tatiia Club, New York, exhorted his hearers to remem­ ber "that with substantially unrestrict­ ed suffrage, a republican form of gov­ ernment is still on trial, in this coun­ try." He, however, was hopeful for the l'uture. < V ' ! • ' - Umps Into Port Eight Overdue, j"'--" •KC;; Her Steam. Her Machinery Disabled, but All o» . Board Are Safe--Piston Hod Break*. Twice on the Way Over, and Sever® Storms ilinder Repairs-Lying fc^ •:> Honrs Perfectly Helpless In HowV ingr Gales-^Anx iety for Her Pasieifc '": sers Givejr 'Way to Wild Rejoicing. La Gascogne, the eight-day-overditfv French steamship, limped into port u#»'v der her own steam at New York Monday,* with three red lights hanging from h<jr ' ^tfiizzen mast as a signal that sh€*W«^s di»> abled. The vessel was a moving j||ouif'\ tain of ice. Her passengers were all oil deck, some of them singing and most qif •, them cheering as persons are wont to c£^ when their minds are suddenly relieve^ of a heavy strain. For thirteen days of a voyage lasting sixteen days the ship had been disable^* one of, her main piston rods having broil" • en on her third day out from Havre. Foff " sixteen hours oh that fateful third day .• the vessel was h6ve to while the brealt was being repairedX It was comparative­ ly good weather when the break occurred •' but the steamer %ias Roomed to run int0> some of the nastiest of her voyage. When the break iv^l been repaired the steamer proceeded on het way, but under greatly reduced speed. When near thfe banks of Newfoundland,\La Gascogn*^. ran into a gale that increased^to hurri-* cane force. ^ i ' X Machinery Breaks Again. While off Sable Island the machinery broke down again, and the steamer wail hove to again, this time for forty-ona hours. During all this period the enginei did not make a single revolution. Whett the second repairs had been made tiai steamer started ahead once more under still further reduced po^yer, and headed toward the Long Island coast. It is a remarkable fact that during the entire voyage across the Atlantic La Gas­ cogne did not sight a steamer until she passed one bound for Philadelphia latfe Sunday. Late Monday afternoon tbfc French steamer signaled Fire Island and then proceeded toward Sandy Hook light­ ship. v J}p Panic Among the Passengers. While the passengers were considerably worried on account of the delay, there was never a panic among them. They knew their ship was stanch, and they had every confidence in their captain. And* besides, they knewthat the ship was not totally disabled. But they were nervoqM' and apprehensive it times, and they hail- " * ed the conclusion t^f their voyage with joy. They cheered the captain and they cheered the crew and they cheered tha tugs that came out to meet them. The fact that La Gascogne was safe was established by the fact that about 5 o'clock Monday afternoon it was ob­ served from the Fire Island light-house jand at the time was abreast of the Shin- necock light, eastward from Fire Island. The steamer was proceeding slowly, but had no signals for assistance displayed. A1J that was known was that it showed the three red balls, denoting that its ma­ chinery was disabled, but it could pro­ ceed without outside aid. The fact that two steamers were near the incoming Frenchman gave rise to the report that La Gascogne was being towed into port, and as this story passed from mouth to mouth the condition of the delayed steam­ er became greatly exaggerated until it was generally believed La Gascogne was almost a total and helpless wreck. Later advices, however, dispelled all these sup­ positions. Forget Had Given ' Even as late as Monday afternoon the French line agent, Mr. Forget, to his in­ timate friends had given up the last ves­ tige of hope he had concerning La Gas­ cogne. But three hours later there came a rift in the black cloud of despair, and, the brief message that La Gascogne was: sighted off Fire Island sent a thrill of joy through every heart ih New York. The . bulletins told the story with exasperating briefness and lack of detail. But it was the fact of safety alone that the people craved, and this made all rejoice. Agent Forget for a moment was rendered speechless, which evidenced how anxious he had been for the safety of La Gas­ cogne. Then he regained himself and- became wildly hilarious. He shouted, « ran here anA there, grasping the hand o£< this one and that one, and fairly jumped up and down over the floor in the excite­ ment of the moment. Then he put on his coat and started for the French line pier' ~ at the foot of Morton street, where a tug- had been in readiness for days to taktt him to meet La Gascogne-shouki it be sighted. The story of the Captains of the two steamers that had overhauled La Gas­ cogne off the Long Island coast added nothing to the sum of knowledge of the awful voyage oi the Frenchman The Washington is a tank steamer of the . Rotterdam Tank Line. The Frenchman, the Captain says, was moving «it about' eight knots an hour." The Washington, itself a slow steamer, came opposite La Gascogne, but as no signals were dis­ played, and having no knowledge that it' was overdue he staid on his course like any good skipper would bound for New York in such weather( and after such gales. Can Get in Alone. A couple of hours later up came the Bo­ livia of the Anchor line from Gibraltar* Jan. 23, itself with a long and tedioujik - passage to its credit, and'it also gave Ik critical eye to the slow-going express" steamer. Then Lik Gascogne was nc enough to Fire Islktid to make itseJ known, and had ujjJts fla^ ^umbers and three red balls as Well. The-Bolivia'® captain saw at a glance his services v. er# not needed. * The signal was to tell , observer at Fire Island'that the machiiP** ery was disabled, but «tfyat the steamer , needed no assistance. A Coup de Force. Clematla--After succeeding so well la getting Mr. Meani^all desperately I0r love with you, why'did you struggle s© hard When he kissed you under the mifr tletoe? # Antigoner-Oh, just as a piece de re­ sistance.--New York World. Insulted Him. Isaatywho keeps a pawnbroker's shop, a went flto a base-ball match ojie day last summer, but did npr 'stay long. H» wouldn't be lnsul^d. 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