The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1904-02-04

bin. ''Thus doth conscience make cow
ards OF us ALL"
This means the loss of quite sum to
good many. The Representatives from
mileage, about SIG. Mr.. Cushman.
(Washl, who left an important lawsuit
and rushed back to Congress purposely to
draw mileage for the two sessions, loses
$1,000, to say nothing Of his lawsuit
Prince Cupid, who comes from far away
Hawaii. loses $1,000, while others lose
from So to $50 and from that on up TO
| 5000.
| Some of the members who dared not let
| it go back to their constituents just at the
beginning Of campaign that they had so
bodily taken the money from the u. :.
| frea s,uy, are hoping that the Senate will
estore the clause to the appropriation, but
| is not likely that the Senate will do any
will be miffed because in its hurry to get
the appropriation for the mileage in the
deficiency bill, the Committee on Appropri-
atoms neglected to include the Senate in
lis calculation, so that if it had passed
che House the Senate would have been
ont in the cold if it had not inserted a
clause to pay its own mileage.
While there was not a single vote
against striking out the mileage clause,
there were about 80 members who sat in
their seats and did not vote at all.
"Carnation Day" was very generally OBJ
served in the National Capital. The late
President McKinley's fondness for carna-
lions was remembered on his birthday an
niversary, Jan. 20. and though it was n
cold, snowy, bleak day, when no one
| would be thinking of flowers, nearly every
| body had one.
At the Capitol the Senators and Repre-
| sentatives very generally wore them.
Democrats and Republicans. Populists and
SOcialists-there were no party Lines.
People just remembered how Mckinley
| loved the yividly-colored. sweetly-sce:.ted
"arnation, and in his memory pinned one
| on.
/ A great many of the organizations in
| the city held short memorial services on
| that evening. Notable among these was
Lincoln Woman's Relief Corps. of which
Mrs. Mary Y. Goundie is President. The
! altar of the Corps room was draped with
Flags, and a great vase was filled with
large ferns stood upon it. The Flag used
| is the property of Mrs. Isabel Worrell
| Ball. and was one of those which hung
above the head of Senator Fairbanks
when he nominated Mckinley in st. Louis,
and was spread over the desk of the Sec
rotary of the Convention, when he was
| nominated the second time in Philadelphia.
| Each member of the Corps wore or carried
carnations, and these were placed in the
| vase among the ferns. the members march
ing to the altar led by the color bearers.
The program. which was arranged by
Mrs. Isabel Worrell Ball, consisted Of Nc
<inley's two favorite songs. LEAD Kindly
Light" and Nearer My God to Thee"
and short addresses and paragraphs from
his speeches, particularly those which re-
fefred to the teaching of patriotism.
Capt. James e. Heffner, who has fine
record for service in the war of the re-
beIlion. and who has been upon the police
force of Washington for nearly 80 years,
having joined the Metropolitan police force
in 1869, as a private, is about to retire.
He has certainly earned a rest. Capt
Heffner is a member Of Kit Carson Post,
G. A. Il.
The Patent Office is a paying institu-
ton. It's last report shows that it has
Melted for the Government, since its in
ception in 1886. the sum Of FIVE and one
half million dollars. which isn't half bad.
The work has increased enormously of
late years, and the Commissioner of Pat
ents declares that it will be impossible to
keep up with the work Of the Office unless
there is an increase in the number OF
clerks.
Nine inches Of snow ON the level in
Washington! Think of it, will You? And
it came down softly and with persistence
that was even more amazing. 1t was not
cold, and the wind did not blow, and by
the time there was an inch of the ''beau-
tifur' spread like white carpet over the
broad asphated streets, every sleigh and
cutter in Washington was dragged out.
Such dash and jingle as was kept up till
far into the night. Sleighing in this lati-
tude is a very infrequent enjoyment, and
the people make the most of it when they
get a chance. The luckless wight who
didn't take his best girl out in Jumper"
might just as well quit. Before noon of
Saturday, however, the warm sun had
made squash" of the beautiful and the
snow queens brief reign was over.
A disastrous fire on last Friday night
partially destroyed the Lutheran Memo
rial Church, one of the handsomest
church structures in the city. 1t burst
into flames about the big central chande-
lier, and the big tower, which had been
built by Mr.. George Ryneal as a memo
rial TO his mother and father, formed
regular chimney for the flames, which
very shortly reduced the church to mass
of ruins, nothing being left except the
great stone walls. A birthday reception
was in progress. rendered to Rev. Dr. J.
G. Butler, the founder and pastor of the
church, who was rs years old that day.
Oddly enough, Mr.. Ryneal had come over
to Washington to attend the reception,
and saw the tower built to the memory of
his mother crumble before his eyes.
The church was erected and dedicated
in 1874, and grew out of the organized eff
fort of it's members to be q great memo
rial in recognition of Gods mercy in de-
livering the land from the evils Of war
fare and slavery, and DIR. Butler has been
the pastor from the beginning. 1t had
three towers, and, as has been stated,
these were erected by Mr.. Reyneal for his
mother and his father. A fine statue of
Martin Luther stands i'm the small park
in front of the church. There is also con-
'nected with it the Lutheran Eye, Ear and
Throat Infirmary for the free reatment
of the INDECENT poor, regardless of race,