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THE INTER OCEAN, PltlDAY 13, lnlil. CHICAGO. AND NATION HONORS MEMORY OF ABRAHAM LfrJCOLN, EMANCIPATOr 5 THR011GS PRESEHT AT SPRIHGFIELD BANQUET JwO Thousand Citiiens of State Capital Attend Lincoln Centennial Association Cele- bration at Arsenal. SEN. ROBINSON IS SPEAKER JSloquent Arkansan in Address, Tribute From the South," Declares Sting of feat Is Gone.

Special Dispatch to Ths Inter Ocean. SPRINGFIELD. Feb. 12. Springfield honored the memory of Abraham Lincoln tonight at the fifth annual banquet beld In the state arsenal under the auspices of the Lincoln Centennial The event was attended by 2,000 persons, 'i The speakers were Senator Joseph Robinson of Arkansas, Habbl of New -ork.

the Hob. Rennick of eT JUd.V TP Springfield of the centennial as- ociatlon. The state officials, together with the speakers of the evening, were seated at the speakers' table. --During the day the speakers, who were guests of the association, visited the' home and tomb of the martyred The tomb was heaped with flowers. Senator Robinson Spoke on "Lincoln's Title to Enduring.

Fame a Tribute From the South." He said In part: 1 "Called by' the courtesy of the Lincoln Memorial Association to speak on this anniversary of the birth of Mr. Lincoln, ram awed and Inspired by the surroundings, Springfield was the home of Mr. Lincoln throughout the greater part of his public career. It was the center of-the political conflicts which he. waged conflicts that produced the new Republic, founded on universal freedom and the perpetual union of the states.

Here lie his remains, his memory cherished by old friends, his fame se- cure In the love and gratitude of a reunited May I assume to contribute to these proceedings a message from the present-day South, the heartfelt tribute of all her people! the spirit of revenge had seized the souls of many then In power; when the South lay at the feet of the Union armies; when the multitude were crying 'Hang the and 'Little God bless his memory, said "No; let's not hang them; let's hang on to them. Mr. Lincoln declared Tad Is right; let's hang on to them; not hang SPIRIT IS IXAXIMOCS. "It Is for this that the' South reverently Joins the North in celebrating this occasion; -commissions to bring" whits" rose' plucked by the daughter a Confederate soldier from a garden blooming In the heart of Dixie. If Mr.

Lincoln were now alive there Is not a home In all the South that would not give him Joyous welcome. Tho surviving followers of the dauntless Leo. untitled knights la gray, would com-'e with the scattered fragments of Grant's legion to form his guard of honor. '-if SOUTH IS GRATEFlxi bave said that the South unanimously honors tho memory of Mr. Lincoln because his generosity and In the hour of its desolation.

There la yet another greater reason. Emancipation was far sore necessary to tho section Immediately afflicted with slavery than any other. "If slavery had continued. It would have made the poor white "man's condition Intolerable. It fostered an aristocracy: of landowners, excluded tho poor white man from opportunities of profitable labor and harred to him the avenues of progress.

At tho outbreak of tb war the total number of slave owners in the United States did mot exceed 370.000. remaining millions that constituted the white population of the South were compelled to earn their living by competition with labor." "Throughout the war Lincoln's courses i and his confidence, were often tested. They ever enUrelyliaiWdJThe mistake of fed oral commanders in the field, the brilliant victories of tho Confederate armies, were all, blamed upon" enemies de-- aounced Mr. Lincoln for not bringing the war to a speedy His friends slow to assert what is now, apparent. He exhausting every constitutional power to -encompass that "May never again such a trial come to -any man.

May never again such strife dls- sum our iana. ir In the future it shall come, may there be found another who will nso his power as resolutely, yet as mercl-; fully, as then did Abraham Lincoln. PEACH AT r-' At lst It cameto pass' that peace was restored. Peace at a price costly sacrifices of Vbloo and fortunes! What sobs of anguish, what of pain! What a godsend that Lincoln still lived and ruled! If another more vindictive and less charitable than he had tlen been President the wounds, of war might have never healed. "Abraham Lincoln, huashte; awkward patriot! To you It was given to perform anlghty service to your country and to all aaansina.

as the ages pass your name win become more and more familiar today the citizens of this Republic repeat the sentiment you ottered when assuming- the heaviest responsibility' ever committed to nan. -Aoranam- uoeoinf-7 Tour prayer has been No' thought -or fear of civil conflict or disunion. Peace and abiding friendship among the states; freedom and progress tho watchwords of all bur people. TJntll the future 4area the. past your fate and famer shall be an echo and a light onto eternity." RABBI WISE SPEAKSi ta an eloquent tribute to Lincoln Rabbi Wise said: man beloved of God and men! This was Abraham Lincoln, a man beloved of Cod, whom God raised from among the simplest and tho lowliest of the people to be a prince among men.

and to be remembered reverently and Jong after the princes of the earth shall have been forgotten. "A snsn beloved of God and rn! Men i be Lincoln's Prowess in Baseball of Day Told by Woman Once His Neighbor Yesterday was a day "of anecdotes and sidelights on Abraham Lincoln's life and character. Hundreds of storytellers relat ed tales, all Interesting but many of doubtful authenticity; revealing" o4d or little known things about the great emancipator. Abraham Lincoln might have been a professional' baseball flayer, or a white hope If he bad- lived in this day. according to Mrs.

Rachel Billlngtoa of Decatur, 111., who celebrated her ninetieth birthday yesterday. Lincoln was long a neighbor of her family at Springfield and she declares that Lincoln excelled, in the crude kind of baseball, that was. played at that time. He was also considered the best' fighter- In Illinois and frequently had- to whip river bullies. On account of his shoulder, obtained by patient railsplltting for years, Lincoln's muscular prowess 'waa the admiration and envy of the young men la the neighborhood, according to Mrs.

Billington. i Captain Stephen B. Hanks of Albany, 111., is 92 years old and a first cousin of Abra ham Lincoln, although. he never saw the martyred President. This fact has been -th- oM regret of Captain Hanks' use! 'uI Jtf- like Washington, spent I of youU and hU WOrk 1.

said to have been a. a.nst.iiB th K. be. Lincoln was a member of the surveying party that laid out the town of Albany, according to hia Simeon King, -United States commissioner, for the Northern district of Illiaols, did not always love him; thy did not always understand him. It vac Just before his passing, as the bearer of a -martyr's crown, that men began to understand this how-men-have-loved him since! How the world has come to cherish him as Its own! But It Is all so' obvious and Inevitable." Lincoln' was'" God's man.

and God's man who can withstand BLOOMIXGTOW D. A. R. IS MEMORIAL. tBy tb Associated Prems.J BLOOMINGTON.

IIL. Feb. 12. There was no general celebration of Lincoln's birthday In Bloomlagton. but the local chapter of the D.

A. R. made it the occasion of a memorial to the late Mrs. Adlal E. Steven son.

former president general of tho order. Letters were read from prominent mem bers in all parts of the United States. BCSIKESS STOPS IS Ql I.CT. QUINCT, HU Feb. 12 Qulncy.

ono of tho cities In which Lincoln met Douglas in their series of. famous debates, held no general program for the observance of Lincoln's birthday. The banks and public buildings were elosed today' and several churches gave Lincoln entertainments. JEO CEREMOXIES "AT JDAKTUXK. DANVILLE.

nL. Feb. 12. Danville, the last Illinois town Lincoln ever saw when he made his secret Journey to Washington bo. inaugurated, did net hold any special exercises today, the anniversary of his birth.

All banks and public buildings were closed, and the schools had special Lincoln day programs. The emancipator for many years maintained a law office here with Ward H. Lamon. "Old timers' here recall that it was fifty-three years ago this morning that a special train passed through hero with Mr. Lincoln oa board.

CALIFORNIA GOVERNOR EXALTS LINCOLN AS A PROGRESSIVE JsksMa Declare ReaaMleaa Leaders Have Akaadescd Ortslaal Prla- pala sf Party. IBy the Associated Press. LOS ANGELES. CaL. Feb.

12. Exalting Abraham Lincoln as a Progressive and de claring that, as ho prophesied, a new party had been formed from the principles of human freedom, upon which tho Republican party was Governor Hiram W. Johnson opened the Progressive campaign here tonight by delivering an address on "Lincoln and Progresslvlsm." Lauding Lincoln for his speech at. the Bloomlagton (IIL) convention In 1856, Gov ernor Johnson said the principles upon which the Republican 'party waa founded still shine as brightly as at any time, but hat they have beear abandoned by Its lead erg." He scored men prominent -in Re pub Ilcan party councils from the Atlantlo to the Pacific coasts, I'J," t.7jt-:Z "The common right of humanity, the doe- trine enunciated by Lincoln, is tho funda mental principle of the Progressive be A. GIVEN BOOK BY LINCOLN 1 ssaaasvaaBsaasB Kaasas Uaa Has Preaeatea.t i HIas Ltaerateiy -By the Aseaclated Press 1 GIRARD, Feb.

12: S. M. Elder, Irom A. Lincoln." This' Inscription written "on the flyleaf of a yellowed volume oi "Tne uncoin-uougias Denates" was proudly displayed to frfoads today by Rob- ert-M. -of this V- Before the war Elder was a Justice of the1 peace ta a country district near Spring- Held, HL Ho is years old.

I was much of a lawyer, says Elder. when abroo knotty legal problem would confront jne I would go to Lincoln and ho seemed to delight la advis ing me. And many is the -time Tve -passed his wisdom off as my own la court next day. LINCOLN'S OWN AX EXHIBITED Tool rsea hy Esmaaelaater la Rail-. Spllttlaa Days Saewa hy Wesaaa.

MONTGOMERY, Feb. 12. An Abraham Lincoln birthday celebration today revealed a precious relic of the martyred President when" Mrs. Savannah Vandaver of this city exhibited the very ax with which Lincoln 'made rails years before he was ever thought of for President. The ax was given by Lincoln himself to Mrs.

Van-daver's ancle. William Smith, at. Carroll-ton, IIL, eighty-five years ago, shortly after Smith and Lincoln had cleared -off a tract of land. In Gentry county, before Lincoln moved to Illinois. The story 'can corroborated.

Mrs. is elgbty; elfHt years Id spent Lincoln day in hia office, as has been his wont since the time he helped carry the body of the martyred President to Its last resting Mr. who is 81 years old, yesterday told of his introduction to Lincoln. a clerk In a South Clark street office making $10 a month when Mr. Lincoln came to see my employer at.

7 o'clock the' morning. I dld'st know him," but when I told him my principal had not come down to work he sat down and opened a He asked me If I was the right kind of a boy and if I loved my Ssvlor. and I told him 'yes. name Is he said. 'Abe Lincoln of was my Introduction to the greatest man I have ever known.

"Lincoln was not an Infidel, as some fcave stated." declared Bishop Charles Edward Cheney at Memorial, ball yesterday afternoon. VMI welt remember on Nov. 20, 1860, I preached at St. James' Church on the North Side. During the singing of the hymn I glanced over the congregation and noticed particularly a tall man at the back of, the church who conformed himself to the postures of those about him.

I recognised, him. as Lincoln and noted that he paid as close attention to my boyish as if I were the, most eloquent speaker in. the "Besides, this visual evidence Lincoln's written and spoken words bear, testimony to. the. deep piety of Lincoln's nature.

speak of Lincoln as an. agnostic or an infidel Is a slander upon tho noble dead." ROBBERS PUSH IN WINDOW; FLEE WITH $2,000 IN GEMS Latest West Si Gmmm la- eressei Leet Slaee Mesasr 1 ibvooou Contlnued From First their bands swept along the racks, sweeping them clean. r. Joseph, his father, his mother and tho castomer dashed toward the door, but tho robbers turned into an alley and escaped. The robbery earlier la the day occurred less than a block from Hull House.

Two men snatched a satchel containing emeralds, diamonds, rubies, gem-studded Jew- virj mm targe Bumser or gold from a buggy in front of the Boston Jew elry Company, 1021 South Halsted street, and, pursued by scores of persons dowa Halsted street, escaped by disappearing la aa alley. -V The property belonged to Pernettl A Co wholesale Jewelers of New York city. The Maxwell street police and Deputy Superintendent of Police Schuettler were notified and detectives wer scattered throaghoat the district. Samuel j. Pernettl.

a member of the Jewelry-, concern, had been selling Jewelry to concerns in South Halsted street for a number: of years. He rented a horse and buggy and drove to the store of tho Boston Jewelry Com-paay shortly after o'clock. He left tho satchel la tho back of the buggy when be entered the store and asked Abraham Greenberg. 14 years old, to watch It for him. After Ulklng with Jacob Levine.

manager of tho store, aSout fifteen minutes ho went to South Halsted and Taylor streets to another customer, leaving tho horse and. buggy In front of tho Boston Jewelry Company's place. When Pernettl. returned he and the Greenberg boy entered tho store, and a few moments later two men. ran up and seised tho satchel out of tho back of the buggy and fled.

Tho hold-up last Monday night occurred la the store of Frank Nerad. 1831 Blue Inland avenue. Four men with revolvers frightened Nerad and his sister Into submission, made captive a customer and es caped with Jewelry valued at 15.000. Ono of tho mea was captured, but ho would not disclose tho Identity of his companions. ITALY OUSTS AMERICAN WIDOW AT CULMINATION OF ROMANCE Mrs.

Leslae Gsrtoad Draerted After Attesspts te RetsUa Affeetlsa sf Tswmsr BmarUaltaaaaw (Copyright, by rrsss PabllstUng Conpaay. -i Tork World.) Special Cable Dispatch to The later Ocean and -New Totk -World. ROME Feb. Mra. Louise' Garland of Washington has been deported from Italy as an undesirable, as a climax to a stir, ring romance that began In the United states, Mrs.

Garland, not ye 10. a widow of many attractions, and until recently with to her credit In a Washington bank, met young Jack Heyne, an Englishman. formerly aa army officer. They toured Eu rope together in tho belief that they were out mates. Heyne began to tire of his partner, but sne held to him with a fervent affection.

Then her money. gave out. When he aoti-fled her of his desire to recross tho Atlantic, Mrs. Garland is said to hare put every ODStacie In his way. At Naples she.

charged him with steslfns- a oiunona natpin. He waa arrested. Ttu next day the hatpin was found and Hevns was reieasea. Now Heyne Is -in Naples, hldlne trnm us way a attentions, pendlna the densrtnM of his while she waa last heard or outside the Itallaa frontier. ASQUITH AGAIN REFUSES PART.

IN. PANAMA FAIR Tells Walderf Aster la n. MSMwas Geverasseat Will Ket Reeeaalaer. fBy the Associated -'-LONDON. Feb.

11 Premier Asouith to day again refused British official participa tion la tne Panama-Pacific exposition at Saa Francisco. Whea asked la tho House of Commons by Waldorf Astor to reconsider the mat. ter Mr. Asqalth said: "The British government recently recon sidered the question of participation la the exposition at San "Francisco, but regrets that it does not feel able to modify its previous decision." 'JOE' CA1I1I011 SCORES WILSOll AT PEORIA Attacks President and Administration Generally in Fervid Speech at Lincoln Day Celebration. Special Dispatch to The Inter Ocean.

-PEORIA, Feb. 12. in his speech before the Peoria Sons of Veterans at their Lincoln memorial banquet tonight "Uncle Joe" Cannon of Danville, former Speaker of tho House of Representatives, assailed President Wilson and the Democratic administration generally Id decidedly vigorous terms. "We wYo call ourselves Republicans' and have been steadfast in the faith have a right to celebrate the birthday of Lincoln," said Mr. Cannon.

"He waa our first Republican President and he was elected on a platform from which we have not departed In the sixty years that have passed since the Republican party was organised. Others may honor Lincoln and now recognize him as a great patriot, a wise man, a patient and long-suffering executive, and we can Join with them In all the tributes they pay to hia nobility of Character; but the man who became a Republican In 1854 and has been a Republican for alxty years cannot be robbed of the satisfaction that he has stood by the party then organized and the principles then declared through good report and evil report. 5 SEVER HALTED PROSPERITY. "We do not claim to have Invented seed time and harvest, or Industry and thrift, but -we do claim-that we have 'not pre vented prosperity. Thst Is something which cannot' bo said of our political opponents at.

all times. never claimed to have Invented the "new freedom" or the "constitution of peace, but we do claim that we have not stood In the way of the people working out their salvation and that entered Richmond, the capital of i have not tried to Invent new methods of having God's blessing fall on the Just and the unjust, "I am not going to recite the experiences of the -last preceding Democratic government. We who are old enough to remember are glad to blot the recollection from rur memories 'aa a horrible nightmare. Neither do I Intend to prophesy concerning the present administration. Mr.

Wilson Is onr President for the time being and the Democrstic Congress Is our- Congress, making laws nnder which we all must live, and wo will obey the law and grin and bear whatever lUo may come. "We ar still looking for the rainbow of prosperity that was to follow swift oa the heels of the Underwood tariff law and waa to rua even with the new currency law. We are now told It la waiting for the new ttaat so as not to get too far ahead cf the Democratic procession. The rainbow ei prosperity may he trust cloud oa which the President sees bright silver Using, but the people la Illinois have a old-fashioned notion that the, raiabow usually comes after the shower, and tbey would welcome lust a sprinkle of this boasted Democratic prosperity. -v SCORES WILSOITS METHODS.

"Meanwhile President Wilson Is engaged la smashing precedents. Some oao has said that 'a precedent embodies a principle, an I tho human race haa beea living under precedents since the days of Moses. Some of them may have led ia the ways of I error, but tho devil waa the first smasher of precedents, and bo has beea busy through "several thousaad years trying to smash good No, I would not Intimate that the devil could oven get Into tho White House grounds with a strict Presbyterian President on guard, but some of tho precedents -be is smashing had good origin and have lived In good report through a hundred years. They, are Demo cratic, too. "I am Inclined to like the smashing of old precedents by Lincoln more than those by Mr.

Wilson. Lincoln smashed a precedent of barbarism and led the world la abolish lag slavery, making this a republic of free He made history without prophecy, He made no threats or predictions, but signed tho name 'Abraham Lincoln' to the most significant document of all time. That was Lincoln's way. CITES "DEMOCRATIC DISASTER. "President Wilson and his party have smashed another precedent not so old, the Republican precedent of prosperity.

We hsd It for half a until you younger mea had forgotten that prosperity was in any way identified with political policies. The Democrats came Into power last March and. smashed that precedent. going back to the Democratic precedent of disaster in 1891. I know it Is tho habit of our Democratic friends to insist that they are the victims of circumstance and that the cycles of Democratic ascension and business depression merely happen to come together; but there la a higher law, which old Ben Franklin 'translated 'God helps them that help i "A year ago.

before he had taken up the full responsibilities of the Presidency. Mr. Wilson was engaged in, building a gallows higher thaa Hainan's for the trusts, but la the latest message from the White House wo find that the gallows has been transformed into a Maypole and the' trusts are invited to Join the President' In a May day danco to celebrate the new 'constitution of "I am an Republlcaa and a standpatter on prosperity. I am old enough to have seen the. American people take Jeshurnn for a model -and kick when they grew fat with "prosperity.

I have several times seen many followers of Lincoln turn away the rock of their salvatloa and follow after new. and apparently strange, gods, neither feared nor worshiped by their fathers. The followers of Lincoln and others are now kicking at the Democratic policies which have been put' Into life to remove the fat of American pros perity. "It is a good time for them to quit kick ing at each other, ahoulder up their re sponsibilities and tarn to the Rock of Sal vation. Wo do know how to revive In dustry; we do know how to restore confidence.

If we co-operate we will have majority and will bear the responsibility." The Inter Ocean Is a paper of high Ideals a T'lrr. GEN; IIILES PRAISES 1IEGR0 AS SOLDIER Army Man, in Lincoln Address at Quinn Chapel, Pays High Tribute to the Col- U'- ored Race. REP; MADDEN GIVES RESUME Congressman Tells of Early; Life -and Struggles "of -Rail-Splitr i terV Before He fFound Himself." A striking tribute was. paid the bravery I of the negro soldier last ulgbt by Lieuten ant General Nelson A. Miles, retired, for- strategy that resulted in placing in com-merly commander-in-chief of the United nnd of the Held forces a Sherman, a 8tates Army, who was tho principal orator and a Grant.

at a celebration of Lincoln's birthday an-1 material progress and eco-alversary at Quinn ChapeL East Twenty, jomle changea have taken place during the Fourth street and avenue. jPMt fiftr Jesrs. How shall the high cost "Even la the Civil war," be said, "the of 'rlng be equlUbly" reduced? How shall negro proved that he was brave and worthy tB P'oblems relieving the people from to be a free man. When volunteers were burdens be solved? greater called to man vessels which were destined tribui be paid to Lincoln's Increasing to go down to sure destruction against the hsn the qcestioq" so often asked Confederate vessel Merrlmac, the terror of present con Jit Ions, What the an appeal for negro volunteers jwouIa LIntoln do If he were, here today waa made and all who heard the' call re-j "7i cems' that many of Ihese problems In the fever camps of the Soaalah at this time are belna met war. after negro troops bad Ukea and held San Juan bill, a.

call was made for volun teers to light fever in the hospitals. -Aa entire regiment responded as one man. The negro is a brave soldier. He haa the stuff of which good citizens are made. -4 ''Abraham" Lincoln' knew I what he was doing when he struck "the shackles be "would be as earnestly enlisted In the slave.

Sometimes I think that the tne combat to free the white slaves as he proudest moment of Lincoln's life 'n hia time In the combat to free the w7 a vvuicseracy. inousanas ef the black men who had beea freed came out. to greet him aad scatter rosea and.01 tsvanston last night at exercises Industrial concerns. George Wl Per- green leaves la his path." On account of the long program General Mllea speech was not finished uatll tea minutes after midnight, although he spoke only half aa hour. Several colored orators and Martin B.

Madden. Representative la Congress from the First Illinois district, preceded the General on the program. Adjutant General Frank S. Dickson. N.

acted as presiding officer, Congressman Madden's contribution was a well-written resume of the life of Lincoln and his struggles to find himself. Ho recounted Lincoln's career as a country postmaster, whea ho carried the mall la his high hat, his failure aa a storekeeper, his hard struggles for small results la the Legislature and In Congress, his defeats, disappointments aad final triumph. Splendid arasie was furnished by the U. 8. Grant Dram Corps," aa organisation of veterans who fought la tho Union Army.

The Umbrlaa Glee Club, an orgaaUatlon of negroes, also contributed music. EDISON COMPANY ORCHESTRA GIVES LINCOLN CONCERT rears mi at Seeoael Asasal Eveat ef Oraraalsatlea Sir lea Mas leal Trl. asapa kf Aaaieaee. The second annual concert of the Commonwealth Edison Orchestra was givea la Orchestra hall last Bight. Tho program waa a musical triumph, according to the verdict of tho host of friends aad patrons who filled tho halL Conductor Morgaa L.

Eastman directed tho orchestra of 100 pieces. Luella Chilsoa Ohrmaa. tho Soprano soloist, sang two numbers. The versatility of tho Commonwealth Edison Orchestra was exemplified by the variety of selections Included ia the program. The orchestra is composed of nonprofessional musicians who are connected with the Commonwealth Edison Company and who are members of the orchestra by rea son of the love of music.

A. Lind wai the rounder of tho orchestra. W. R. White Is the secretary-treasurer and W.

L. Ab bott is manager. Several dinner parties followed the concert at which members of the orchestra participated. Conductor Eastman was the guest of honor at one -f theses IXDIAHAPOLIS REPTBLICAKS MEET. IBr the Associated Press.

INDIANAPOLIS. 12. Indiana Republicans today revered the memory of their first Abraham Lincoln, on the anniversary of his birth by an air-day meeting which was participated in hy Re-pnblicana from all over the state. BOSTOJT IHVEILS STATUE. BOSTON.

I IS. Lincoln's birthday was observed here today la va rious ways. The principal celebration' ar ranged was tho unveiling of a memorial statue to the army nurses who served la the Civil war. SHERMAJT AT BALTIMORE. BALTIMORE.

Md Feb. 11. Special ex ercises commemorating the birth of Abra ham Lincoln were held la the schools here today. At a "banquet tonight of tho Union League, a Republlcaa organization, the speakers Included United 8ta tea Senator L. T.

Sherman of Illiaols and Congressmen James 8. Parker of New York aad H. Sloan of Nebraska, The' memory' of Lincoln also was honored by the Progressive party at' a banquet. The principal speaker was' Judge William H. Hlnebaugh of Illinois.

SOOO la Mall Slelea. i BILLINGS, Mont-. Feb. U. Postofflce Inspectors began a search today for a registered mall pouch said to contain 13,000 and other valuables that disappeared from tho Northern Pacific depot last The mall wagon driver Insists that he gave the pouch to -the railway clerk at tho depot.

Mather saa Child Killed. FREEPORT. IIL, Feb. 12. Mrs.

Henry Brinkmeler and her 11-month-eld baby were burned to death in their home near Pearl City early today. The woman poured kerosene Into the stove. The baby perished It Its Hrh cbalr nesr te rfove. ALL CHICAGO HONORS IIEIIORY OF LIIIG0L1I City Celebrates One Hundred and Fifth Anniversary of Liber-v ator's Birth in Impres-. sive Manner.

(Continued From First Psge.) West Chicago avenue and Noble street. In the evening. "Lincoln was a man of sorrows, foreordained by God to ennoble the human race," he said. "He died 'wearing the crown of martyrdom. The Union, established by Washington found Us great defender in Webster, and in Lincoln its savior.

As commander-in-chief of the American Army and Navy during the war he displayed a courage and rare ability, and that American itsteamsnshlp is equal to every great crisis which may arise'in our eoutry'a. afrairs." O-HARA MAKES SPEECH. "If Abraham Lincoln were la the prime and vigor of his life' in present day III! bImck ivea." said Lieutenant Governor I Rinill VU .1 tm kuui rs, si lie x-ce- i nezer African Methodist Episcopal Church nial commission. Judge Julian W. Mack spoke last Bight at the Lincoln, day celebration givea for the graduates of the "Hull House School of Citizenship and Naturalization Ia Bowen halt.

Hall CREATKST Jadge Mack spoke Lincoln aa the greateit American" and admonished the audience to be as persistent ia their ef forts to become useful cltizoaa aa ho waa to servo his country. The other speakers were Merton A. Stur- gea. chief examiner of naturalization ia the federal service here; Dr. Percy L.

Prentls of the immigration bureau and Bernard P. Barasa. V- HISTORICAL SOCIETT CELEBRATES. The Chicago Historical Society held a Liacola celebration la tho afternoon la its building. Jesse W.

Welk of Greeacastlo, Ind an historian and authority on the life of Lincoln, delivered a lecture to 200 high -school pupils snd "others upon "The Career or the Immortal Ralleplittsr." "Tho wit and humor of Abraham Liacola were the safety valves that kept him In good health and gave him his cheerful disposition," said Frank Hamlin, son of Hannibal Hamlin. Vice President with Liacola. the principal speaker at tho Liacola day banquet of Liacola council No. S. National Union, at tho Auditorium hotel last night.

"So much haa beea told and written about Lincoln." ho said, "that It fa hard to avoid repetition, but among all that haa been told aad written the oao great feature has beea overlooked, namely. Lincoln's great human nature. We have belittled his humanity and forgotten aim as a human be ing, a giant ta Intellect aad democratic to a Tho Waveland Avenue Congregational Church gave a Liacola supper last night. John L. Whitman.

superintendent of tho house of correction, being tho speaker. Thomas P. Turner Lodge. A. F.

aad A. held a Lincoln day meeting at the Audi torium Masonic hall to hear Henry Riggs Rathbone deliver his lecture oa "The Last Day of Lincoln's Life." Davis Square fieldhouse celebrated Lin coln's birthday anniversary with speeches by Miss Msry McDowell and Miss Mary Johnson. The Betsy Ross. Tent. No.

.1. of tho Daughters of Veterans, observed the day with a patriotic program at Palmer Park, One Hundred and Eleventh street and In diana avenue. Charles O'Connor was the principal speaker. The Arteraft Guild celebrated at the Hotel Sherman, listening to an address by Mrs. Vernette Morse." Addressing' the Men's' Club at Aurora, 111.," Dr.

J. Clgrand of Batavia said In part: "There Is not a character in our history which Is not connected with tho Bible, not a man whose life we hold up to our youth, who did not believe la. tho Supremo Being, and now as wo are oa the evo of Lincoln's birthday let mo urge that In his Ufa will "His dying mother left him a Bible aad admonished him to be faithful to Its and he grew strong la'hls knowledge of that good book and could repeat and psalms la of Inspiration. Later, when ho had met with business and political, reverses and he grow melancholy. whea the world robbed him of his business credit, sold his few treasures and.

under sheriff's sales, closed him oat. his heart ached for support. "la the midst of his poor financial credit he was made strong before tho credit, window of Christ whea a woman called aad presented him with a Bible and la aa aa- gellc aad Christian way gave aim bow hopes, offered her prayers and by this means brought from grave depression a men of giant "Did he forget this scriptural assistance? No. ho remembered it well aa he climbed tho ladder of fame and whea ho was tho matter of tho LIXCOL (XEB.) REPCBLICAKS MEET. LINCOLN, Feb.

11 Tho anniver sary of Abraham Lincoln was observed hero tonight by a banquet given by tho Young Men's Republican Club, which waa Intend-! ed to servo the purpose of reuniting the two factions of the party. The sentiment In the speeches was favorable to harmony and a otlfffl frcct In tee core'n. cav'--i. Is 8. PERKIIIS CRITICIZEC UILSOH'S progr: Tells New York Progressives Lincoln Festival President Policies "Will; Mean Re: turn to Old JANE ADDAMS ALSO SPEA: Senator Borah Addresses Goth.

Republicans Ground Broken for $2,000,000 Memorial to Great Emancipator. NEW YORK, Feb. 13. Celebration of anniversary of the birth of Abraham LI -coin In New York today Included pot: meetings, receptions and dinners, both of public and private The Women's Political CnloB seized op the day. to advocate suffrage at a score of meetings ia all artt of the "citr.

At Columbia UMversity hundreds of t' 17,000 alumni gathered to do honor' to n.emory of. Lincoln. Senator Borah of Idabo'ff of ihe Rtpu' -Ilcan Club -NeWvYork tonight oa- "Tl Republican. At the National Progressive Mias Jane Addamf, and George Wpefkir speke. iOne of the most novel, affairs' as.

tv-f "banquet. for. reformed drunkards' at. Salvation. Army Memorial Con-mander ills Booth attended.

A 1ERKI5S ASSAILS Assailing the' policies of President' Wilson, especially those relating to at declaring' that ir this country is to return to conditions which prevailed in buiisess Prior to the formation of the big. central dinner of the National Progressive tarty. declared: "Wo need not have -much concern atout lack of competition, for If our present tariff and corporation policies are pcriUted In. tho rest of the world will give us all tbe competition we want, both at boase aad abroad. "Are we going to re-establish this condi tion and call It tbe 'new freedom'? A much core appropriate name would be the 'ell adage.

Miss Jane Addams made a plea that tl PrtX follow the example of Lincoln, act forgetting the condition and thoughts those below them; meeting Industrial problems as national problems; trusting. -tct la social but la the good eess-sense of the people, and leading tb people to Inevitable conclusions threntfi arguments such as Liacola. tbe lawyer, advanced, based oa fundamental Justice. BORAH TALKS. "When tie returns came la last November a year aad It was kaowa that Ike then dominant party hsd carried but twe stater, tho opinion quite generally prevailed tbst one ef the most Interesting aad chapters in the annals of political partUi was drawing to a close," said Mr, Barth.

la his talk at tho Republlcaa Club. "In domitable and aggressive, directing with remakable skill and Judgment the course cf government for fifty years, the party ow seemed Bearing complete dJsorganlsatfcn. But tho signs were misread. It was ret dissolution but evolution. "Lot as therefore have no platforaa cf compromise, aad ao harmony that is based upon a common conviction.

We watt a platform made at tho Immediate time, a platform which speaks of battle and conflict aad which will record la the hartb language of truth the actual convictions tho majority of the Republican voters. tho Republlcaa voters are not progressive la tho true, sound sense of the term, then tho way for some of us Is clear. If. on tho other hand, they are. then so tar as I am concerned, no mere question of organization shall be permitted to stand In the way or to drive mo out of the party." MEMORIAL GR0V5O BROKE.

WASHINGTON, D. Feb. 12. While freezing winds swept across the Potomac from thesloping hills where stands tho Lee mansion at Arlington, a bare-headed Southern officer of the Civil war today opened the simple exercises that marked the breaking of the ground tor tho construction of the great white warble memorial tho nation is about to erect to Abraham Lincoln. day, tbe one hundred and fifth anniversary of Lincoln's birth, was chosen tor.

the breaking of" too ground from which the $2,000,000 structure wlU rise as rapidly as the contractors can push the work. Only a small group gathered to witness tho significant event- Joseph C. former Senator from Kentucky, was -the first to sink a spado Into tho ground, and then, with uncovered ho spoke la -high praise ef tho memory of tho President against wbcm he fought halt a century ago. GREATEST OP AMERICA memorial show that Lincoln now regarded as the greatest of all Americana," said Senator "a that he Is so held by the' South as well' as tho North. Todsy wo let the country know that this great work haa beea begun and will bo carried on steadily until its com-pletloa.

i. M. F. Comer of Toledo, Ohio; Colonel TV. Harts, Lieutenant O'Connor, U.

IL A. Veile. John Bethuae snd Henry Baeon sought turns with the spade for the honor of aiding ia starting tho building of the Ia -tho Sonata today It waa a Southerner who made tho tnotioa to adjourn out of re spect to tho memory of Lincoln. The motion waa made without prearraagement by Senator Overman of North Carolina, following tho reading of tho former President Gettysburg address by Senator Kentucky. It was Senator Kenyon Iowa who had suggeated that tbe feet' might well pause, a moment to ebserr tho birthday anniversary.

The House, too, paued ln its dclitt: tlona to pay Its respect to the memory.