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20 THE OMAHA DAILY BEE ; SUNDAY NOVEMBER 5 , 189H-T.VRNTY PAGES. WE MUST HAVE MONEY. WE FEEL the pressure of HARD TIMES and so -OR. come down to a PRICE that must ATTRACT ATTEN- . TION. $20.00 takes CHOICE of 500 elegant and new pat terns of HEAVY WEIGHT SUITINGS or OVERCOAT INGS. 300 Styles PANTINGS TO ORDER at m T ! Y. M. O. A. BLDG16TH NEAR FARNAM. THE WONDER OF THE AGE An Infant in Years , a Giant in Energy and Usefulness. ELEGTPICAL PROGRESS IN 17 YEARS Tribulations of lira lie Beam Tourists Is Chrutinnlty a Failure ? How the 1'co- 1 > 1 e Are.Robbed Gleaning ! from November Miiijuzlnei. The marvelous development of electrical power Is the subject of an Instructive paper by Arthur V. Abbott in Frank Leslie's Popular Monthly. Mr. Abbott contrasts the power exhibits at the Centennial exposition nnd at the World's fair , which forcibly il lustrates the country's progress in that line ln.sevcntoen years. In the days of the Con- tcimlal , ho says , animal force and heat energy , as transformed into -mechanical work by the steam engine , were practically the only commercial forms of power. Now the lightning is captured , and at the World's fair it pulls the cars , drives shafting , lifts elevators , propels the boats , lights the buildings , warms the ofllccs , cooks food , purlllcs water , tans hides , makes conversa tion between Chicago and Boston of daily occurrence , signs checks across the con tinent and forms u conservatory substitute for sunlight In which the most acllcato plants can flourish. At the Centennial , with the exception of the telegraph and a llttlo electroplating , there was absolutely no com mercial application of electricity. Now there is scarcely a single detail of dally life that Is not permeated by and dependent upon it. So rapid and so Important has- been elec tric development that within the suvcntcun years this country has Invested fl.000,000,000 In electric industries. At the Centennial the entlru electrical exhibit was Included in ft small section of the main building. Today the Columbian exposition not only devotes to electricity a special building , 70(1 ( feet long ftud 340 fi'ot wide , covering nearly six acres of ground , but In addition at least one-third of the Palace of Mechanical Arts Is given up to dynamos , and In the Mines , Transporta tion nnd Manufactures buildings exhibits Involving electrical applications meet the yo txt every turn. At Fulrmount park a ilngle uru lamp , as onoof the greatest novel ties , was shown running from u primitive Wallace dynamo , Todify Jackson park blazes with thousands of arc and clew lamps ihcddlng such a Hood of light that , except ing under the sinulo of thu thickest trees , pno can at night read with ease anywhere on the grounds. In the I'alaco of Mechanical Arts one hugo dynamo supplies power to a large circuit of arc lumps , some thousands of Incutidescents , and onorgUes a number of powerful motors located In the various other buildings , absorbing from the boilers of thu exposition sufficient power to equal the com bined effort of u team of horses that would bo. if arranged In tandem , about thrco miles In length. ' From all the buildings except tho'Puliice of Mechanical Arts the steam engine Is banished , and the electric motor reigns in Its stead. At the Centennial Prof. Dell gave one of the earliest public exhibitions of the telephone - phone , then regarded as hardly moro than a teleutillo toy. Now , on the World's fair grounds alone , moro than 800 miles of under ground wire connect the various exhibitors ivlth a complete telephone exchange , by means of which conversation may bo car ried on. Dot only all over Chicago , but from Qshkoah on the northwest to Lewiston , Mo. , on the northeast , or to Washington on the touth. lu JSTfUha storage battery was not only unknown , but was unlmaiflued. Now the waters of Jackson park are constantly tr verqad by a lleot of boats requiring some hundreds of horse power , actuated solely and most successfully by this source of elec- frloeucrifjv At Philadelphia the eloctrlo railway was .but a dream in the imaginations of onw.or-two most sanguine inventors. Now thu Intramural road is a formidable engi neering rival to the famous elevated system * j/ New York , and from tus gates elect do roads , In commercial operation , radiating southward nnd westward , extend through out the suburbs of Chicago. How Trumpj Travel. The November Century contains an unique articled entitled "Tramping with Tramps , " being a record of the actual adventures of a young American who disguised himself as a tramp and took to the road. The following is an extract from the article : Of the states in the western district , I think that Illinois , Iowa. Wisconsin , Minnesota seta , Colorado , Washington , and u part of California arc the best for tramps. Illinois Is thought especially well of by vagabonds because of its "good" railroads. Tile-Illi nois Central , for instance , Is known the country over as the best for a journey south , and I have known tramps to travel from Now York to Chicago , and go south by this line rather than start from Now York direct to New Orleans. The % 'C. , 13. & Q. " Is also a great"snap : " In fact , so much so. that when 1 was on the road. It was called "the bums' line. " In Nebraska where the "Q' ' becomes the "B , & M. K. , " the lines arc tightly drawn , and it-behooves a roadster to take to the trucks if Up is anxious to make peed tirno. Truck riding is necessary almost every where west of the Mississippi. Of course ono can ' 'fool around" the freight trains , but ho is liable to bo knocked off when the train is gain ? at full speed , and unless this occurs oil the desert , or where the ground is rather soft , it may provo dangerous. I once attempted to ridoa "freight" on the Southern Padilc road , and It was the hardest experience I over en countered. I hung on to the side of a cattle cur in order to keep out of the brakeinan's way , but ho eventually found mo and ordered mo to geL up on top. There I was made to turn my pockets inside out to convince him that I had no money. Being angered that I could not give him a dime , ho said : "Well , hit the gravell I can't carry you on this train. " 1 told him thai I would not hit the gravel unless ho stopped the train. "You won't , eh I" ho said ; "well , now , we'll .see. " i So ho chased mo over his train for about llf- tcon minutes , I dodged hero and there , nnd found that 1 was quite ublo to elude him as long as ho alone followed mo , but soon the "con" appeared , and then the chase began In earnest. They finally pressed so near tnut i was compelled to climb down the side of u cattle car. They then tantalized mo by spitting1 and swearing. Finally the ' con climbed down also , and stepped on my lingers , so I had to lot go. Fortunately , the train was slackening its speed Just then 1 really think the engineer had u hand in the matter , for ho Is usually a good fellow and I got'oft safely enough. But I hud to "drill" twenty mile : ) that afternoon without a blto to cat or a drink of water. In the far west , after that experience , 1 always uiado use of the trucks. The usual time- for eastern and western trumps to start south Is in October , During this month large squads of vagabonds will bo found traveling toward "Orleans , " I oucu was on an Illinois Central freight train when sovouty-threo tramps were fellow- passengers , nnd nearly every ono was bound for either Florida or Louisiana , Kan Francisco and Denver are the main dependence pf tramps in the west. If ono meets a wcstwara-bound beggnr beyond the Mississippi , ho nmy usually Infer that the man la on his way to Denver ; and if ho Is found on the other side of that city , and still westward-bound , his destination Is al most sure to bo "Frisco , " or at least Salt Laku City , which Is als'o a popular ' hang out. " Denver has a rather difficult task to perform , for the city is really u Junction from whiuh tramps start on their travels In various directions , and consequently the pcoplo have moro than tboir share of beg gars to feed. I have mot In the city , at ono lime , us many as 150 bona lido tramps , and every ono had bcon in thu town for over a week. Thu people , however , do not seem to feel the burden of this riff-raff addition to the population.at ; any rate they befriend it most kindly. They seum especially willing to give money , 1 onuo knew a kid , or "prushun , " who averaged. ' peuver nearly $3 a duy for al most a week , by standing In front of shops and buttering" the ladles as they passed in and out. Ilo > vas a handsome child , add this , of course , must ho taken Into consider ation , for his success was really phenom enal. It ChrUtianltjr looting GrnundT Dr. 0. A , Brlgga , Prof. Felix Alder , and Dr. Paul Carus , of Chicago , contribute to a religious symposium in the November Forum. Dr. iBrlggs , who writes of "Tho Alienation of Church and People , " declares that the church has lost the conlldence of the pcoplo in its ability to teach them the truth , in its sanctity , and In Its authority as a divineinstitution. . Prof. Adler thinks that scepticism is inrreasing among people unable to accept the current creeds ; and Dr. Carus believes that the parliament of reli gions at Chicago celebrated the dawn of anew now religious era. All agree that there may bo true religion outsldo of the churches. Dr. Brlggs contends that denominationalism - ism Is the great sin and curso'of the modern church. Dcnominatlonulism Is responsible for the elaborate systems of belief which arc paraded as the banners of orthodoxy and which by their contentions Impair the teaching function of the church and destroy the conlldence of the pcoplo in its posses sion of the truth of God. Denomination- ullsm Is responsible for all these variations of church government and discipline , for all those historical tyrannies nnct wrongs , which have undermined the faith of the people In the dlvino authority of such Im perious , self-complacent and mutually ex clusive ecclesiastical institutions. Uonoml- nationallsm is responsible for all that waste of men nnd means , all those . unholy Jeal ousies and frictions , all that absorption In oxtqrnal , formal and circumstantial things , which disturb the moral development of the individual and the othlcal advancement of the community , and especially retard the evangelistic and reformatory enterprises at homo and abroad. Liberal men in all the denominations , holy men and women in all religious agencies , have set their rninda nnd hearts upon the removal of those hindrances to the progress of the kingdom of God. The denominations have accomplished their his toric task. There Is no longer any sufficient reason for their continued existence. They should yield their linTand tholr experience to a moro comprehensive- moro efficient church plan. An ArUtocrncy on IIur ebaclc. Thu first show of the day In London , writes Hichurd Harding Davis In Harper's , Is the nrocesslon of horses in the How. It lasts from 0 to 11. It used to take place In the afternoon , but fashion lias changed that ; and Englishmen who have been in the colonies , and who come- homo on lenvo and walkout to the row at 4 to see the riders , find seldom more than n dozen from which to pick and choose ; and they will llnd even u greater difference if they again po at the right hour , in the modern garb of both men and woman. At least it was so last summer. The light habit and high hut of the girls and'tha long trousers and cutaway coat of the men had given way to a dishabille Just as different us dross can bo , and Just us rigorous In Its dishublllo as in its former correctness and "form. " The women who rode lust summer woreloosebelted blouses and looser coats that fell to their knees : straw huts ; and their hair , instead of being bound tightly up , was loose and untidy ; and the men aupcared In yellow boots , or oven leggings , and sergu suits and pot-hats. All these things were possible because the hour was early , and because women who follow the hounds dress moro with an e.vo to comfort than they did , and others dress llko them to give the Idea that they , too , follow the hounds. The vow , with COO horses on , it. Is ono of the finest sights of this' show city , It would not bo possible were it not for the great leisure clas1 } , and It and all the other features of Ilydo park show not only how the leisure class Is recognized as un institu tion in the way the authorities have sot aside places for it , but h'ow the people them selves , not of that class , bow to It and give it the right of way. There is nothing so curi ous or Incomprehensible to an American as this tacit recognition that Homebody is bet ter than comobody else. Wo never could got any ono to admit that in this country except those who thought they were the better ones , and they are so ipuoy I How the i'ublla u Itobbml , New Issues have coma to the front in our country of momentous Import to every wan , woman and child , says a writer in Douahoe's. They press forward for settlement and will not be danlod. Hero is ono ; I have been robbed liore la Boston , since- the 1st of May of thtt present year , by the coal barons of Pennsylvania , of 65 cents a ton on every ton of coal which I have bought. They have raised the prlct twice since May. The wages of the minors were not raised , but cut down. During the summer and fall of 1802 they robbad mo of 51.25 a ton ever and above the fairly , to bo presumed , liivgo profit which they exacted in thu early spring. This wholesale robbery of the masses on this necessity of life has been going on foi l-cars , but the lords of anthracite are grow ing more arrogant and cruel from year to year in their nefarious exactions. Every household , along the Atlantic seaboard at least. Is aroitrarily mulched by the coal combine and the railroads which help to form It. What have the republican and democratic to this stand-and-dellver parties say to - - game ? Nothing , absolutely nothing , save the passage of au anti-trust law which can not be enforced. They keep up a rub-a-dub- dub about the tariff to confuse nnd perplex ana hoodwink the unthlnkiiig voter , but the tariff has nothing to do with this coal tribute. There is not a cent of duty on anthracite coal. Even Shylock's honest gold dollar has nothing to do with it. It is n naked system of robbery t operated by men who arc stanch supporters of the old parties and generous contrioutors to their campaign funds. Tno first on KiiKllsli Soil. An interesting story is told of the artist , John Singleton Copley of Boston , says Dom- orest.'s. 'At his studio In London he was painting a portrait of un American pcn- Iciiiun of 1703 , sixteen years after the Declaration of Independence , but when , as yot. England had not for- muily recognized the existence of the new nation. The background ot the portrait had u special sUtnllluanco of the birth of the new republic , being u ship at sea bearing the American colors. As the English royul family cumo continually to Copley's studio ha thought it imiiolltio to paint In the flag , and the picture remained unfinished. Finally tho'tlmo came when the king ana Parlia ment formally recognized the American re public. Copley listened to the speeches In the House of Lords , nnd then , rushing home , pjtntod in the stars and stripes on the flag staff probably the first American flag hoisted on English soil. Copley paintoU many portraits of English aristocracy ; his picture of thu children of George III. still fiancB In Buckingham palace. The portrait of John Hancock , In the Boston Museum of Fine Arts , Is iv good example of his qulto dignified though stiff style , and the same ga'ilory has often other interesting speci mens loaned to It , from time to time , bv the Now England families who own them. The most celebrated of his works Is "Tho Death of Lord Chatham , " In the National gallery , London. _ ( irent Human ( iittlinrinirii Ttibulut < d. A glance at the fallowing table will glvo in comprehonsivn form an idea of the compara tive size of great gatherings In the past : Chicago day at World's fair 751,020 Greatest day at World's ' fair , 751.02(5 ( Greatest day at Centennial 217,520 Bank holiday in London , 1890 ( est. ) . . 2.10,000 Cleveland day , St. Louis fair , 1880. . . 1UO.OOO Melbourne cup day Melbourne , 1803 , ( est. ) , . 225,000 Shah of Persia day. Paris exposition 330,000 Closing day , Purls exposition a7,000 ( ) Cleveland's inauguration , 18'jt ; ( est. ) . . 273,000 Grand Army eucampti.ent , Washing ton , 1802 ( est. ) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 325,000 , Review of union armies , Washington , 1805 ( est. ) 500,000 English Derby day , 1803 ( est. ) 150,000 Oxford-Cambridge bout race , Ib03 ( est. ) BOO.OOO Unvellimr Grunt monument , Chicago , 1801 ( est. ) 170,000 Edison day at Purls exposition 254,000 American Derby day. Ib02 41,000 Naval review. Now 'York , April 23 , 1803 ( est. ) . . . . . . . . , , S50.000 iluile I'laln , Detroit Free Press ; 1 > A million dollars tn gold , " read the wife from the newspaper , "weighs 11,035 pounds , 12 ounces , " "By Jove , " exclaimed the husband , who had always wanted 11,000,000. but had never come nearer than fOOJ,000 of it , "I under stand what's the matter now , " "What do you meant' * abkod the puzzled "Why , I understand now why a mau of my Btrongth couldn't raise tl,000,000. Scot" Nauralalo headaches promptly cured by Bromo-SeUz r trial bottle 10 ctt. A THING OF SIZE ASD BEAUTY Mammoth National Mausoleum for Congres sional and Other Thought. COSTLIEST LIBRARY BUILDING IN THE WORLD A rittltii ; .Uato for the N.itlou.il Capltol Internal anil External L'e.tturcs of the structure Gliding the Grant Uuino with Gold. A few hundred yards southeast of the cap ital building , across a stretch of lawn bor dered with walks and shrubbery , is theanas- slvo new congressional library building. Besides being the second largest building on the continent , exceeded only by the national capital , it is the largest depository of writ ten or printed thought ever undertaken. It covers four acres of ground , nnd will , when finished , represent an outlay of at least $0,000,000. While magnificent in its proportions tions , its nearness to In no way detracts from the grandeur of the enpltol , nor docs the contrast belittle its own dimensions. Italian renaissance Is the period repre sented , and granite : ho material employed. The general features are arranged so as not only to express the purposes they ore In tended to servo , but in so doing to form thu decorative as well as the useful features of the building ; there are no superfluous porti coes , no obstructive pediments , but a pleas ing and reasoimbln design throughout. Tha granite pllo rises cool and grjy iron ) Its cm- or.ild setting of trees , suggesting bolldlty , restful to the eye , und u plcuslmr contrast to the marble fairness of thu Temple of Fume on the west. LHmnnsloHH mill t'up iclty. The throe floors of the building will repre sent twelve acres. Thu ground plun repre sents 12.SOO square feet more than Unit of the British museum , 11.000 moro than thu royal library of Bavaria , and 21,001) , ) moro than the War , Stuto and Navy buildings. It has a storage capacity for fifty miles of books , or in round numbers j,000,000 , vol umes , which Is something over -1,000,000 more than the United States now possesses. Twenty-live millions of brick are used in thu walls that line the inside of the granite bowlders which form the exterior surface. It bus 1,500 , windows , not counting the glass bookstueks nor the skylights. The construction is as thorougnly Ameri can as it is possible to make It. Those 25,000,000 bricks uro manufactured out of American niuil , grown In the District of Co- luinbln. Pennsylvania and Now Jersey fur nished all the Iron used In the construction of the main body of the building , Thu iron arches used In the big aomo were made In Indianapolis. New Hampshire furnished most of the grauito and the remainder Is a product of Maryland , When the workmen got ready to put In the flooring Massachu setts will furnish the handsome tllos , The pretty "ohna" | brides that give artistic ilnish to the Inner court wore made in Leeds , Kiig. 'They are manufactured in this coun try now , but"at the time the contracts were let neither quality nor quantity were up to the requirement ! . Italy will bo called upon to furnish the marble for the interior orna mentation. The kind of marble required does not grow in this country. JUoitaru L'ouveiiloucoi. The mica that gnaw those bookshelves will have stool tooth , and thu dust , mold ami bookworms that infest the damp , dark dungeon , where the library has bcon stored so long because of congressional penurloui- ness , will have to emigrate to more congeulnl climes. They all hate sunshine und Old Sol won't crack a smile , from the time ho washes his face in tko Potomac in the morning till he bathes In the salt.water of the Pacific at night , th t will not only penetrate that in- gouious book stack , but every nook and cor ner of that whole great building us well. Those'aro two of its strongest points , sun- shlno aud pure air. The walls of the court Into which th book itacVi project are con structed of white enameled brick ns smooth nnd polished as a dinner plate. They are impervious to dust or moisture and have splendid refractive qualities. It is nearly a Sabbath day's journey , as they counted it before steam , cables .And electricity , to get around that building , and the most complicated mechanism has been summoned to the aid of aching legs. In the big rotunda under the skylight is the main reading room , and in the center Is the librarian's aesk. This Is about the only feature that may bo said to bo copied with out modification or embellishment. It is adapted from the plans of the British museum. Around the librarian's desk , radi ating llko snokcs from a hub. nro ranged the desks for the readers. Hero , wlUnn. in range of the librarian's eye , there will ho accommodations for 300 people to read and write. From the center desk to the hook stacks , in a tunnel. Is stretched an endless chain , with metal baskets attached. It is noiseless and automatic in action. Each tray has its station in the bookstack , and unloads its freight of books at that nolnt. Returning to the reading room it empties ltd contents and stolidly travels back for moro. It never gets tired , never makes a noise , and never goes on n strike. There will bo pri vate reading rooms for the use of congress men who are not too lazy to walk ever there to use them. A miniature tunnel will con nect the capltol and library , and through it , by pneumatic force , the volumes used In preparing original speeches adapted from thu ideas of the ancients will bu whisked to impatient statesmen. High salaried clerics nnd the Congressional Record will do the rest. Them will bo pretty llttlo alcoves for the use of the privileged students , und around the Inside of the dome , above the reading room , will bo a handsomely deco rated lobby , from which thu Inquisitive stranger can view thu literary animals und not disturb their ruminations , and the guides can roluto their remarkable talcs un checked. Montiil nnd IMiynlcnl Fotlilur. There will bo a museum some place in the labyrinth of rooms , and a booic bindery. Up in th'o topprobably in thu bout Invest corner , there will bo n restaurant. There mi'-'lit bu one In each corner , for there is n chance to got hungry in going from ono to the other , but ono will fill all the requirements of Li brarian SpolTord , though book worms do not form any part of his menu , ns ninny suppose , Up there , while hi feeds his mentality on bulccd beans und blue fish , hocunhlso feast his artistic senses on the sconu without. Ho can view the utorlea Potomac from Arling ton's provo crowned heights , past drowsy Alexandria , clear to historic Mount Vurnon. Ho can nod almost on a lovcl to Miss Liberty on the dome of the capital , and within the sweep of his vision around the horizon ho has a scope of country that has moro stirring history to the cubic foot than any other ton miles square of country In the universe. TIIOBU who t'a/.o with understanding eyes upon the sinipln exterior decorations will have ample education to cope with lile'a disadvantages. Bo arranged that they form eight keystones on each of the four Hides of the building arq thirty-two heads , repre senting the types of mankind. Kuch head is carved from granite , after n picture taican for thu express purpose by ethnological artists. There Is a barbarian from somewhere - whore who pierces his lower lip and at- laches a , dinner plato or butter bowl and thus achieves his idea of , ornamentation , and the father of the society girl who hangs plate Blassin her ears and hopes It will bo mistaken for the IColUnoor ; There < s the woolly headed son ot Africa und the carniv orous cutthroat Bloux , The head of Apollo , und u Persian whoso eyes are invisible oven in stono. They are there to the number of thirty-two , and that is enough for orna mental purposes , according to the sculptor , Mr. Boyd. Tlin Oolilon Dome. Hitherto the great white dome of the United States capltol , rising in the blue sky ' like a snowy mountain , lias be'en ono of the most conspicuous and beautiful slchtu of the city of Washington. It is to have a goldun rival. The roof of the now National library is to bo capped with a dome of generous proportions covered with pure gold. Part of the work Is already completed , and a gor geous picture it is. ' The work of gliding the dome Is full of In terest. Thu details uru worth remembering. Moro gold will bo used on this dome than on any gilded dome In the world. There ara toaio 10,000 squar * foot to bo covered with the precious metal. Imagine sqmo great hotel lobby paved with gold , and some ido.i Is gained of the immensity of the work which is being done. There are not many gilded domes in the world. The Hotel des luvalidos in Paris , the Connecticut Stata house at Hartford and the Massachusetts State house at Boston arc the best known , and yet the dome of the new library build' , , inff is larger than any of these two-thlrd ( larger , It is estimated , than the funioul dome of the state house in Boston. It is not hard to realize , therefore , what a conspicu < ous sight it presents , although there Is n < doubt but that It lose ; some of its brilliancy by being somewhat less spherical than th < great goldun ball which shlnosundshlmmuri above the Boston common. liuw It IH Uuno. Only n portion of the work hus been com plotod. Some six weeks ago the upper p.trl of the dome became enshrouded in a hiigu bonnet of dirty white canvas. It was tin usly chrysalis. Underneath the canvas where the wind could not blow Its disturb ing breath , a score or more of men wore al work placing the little bits of gold leaf upou the metal frniro , and presently , when th < covering of the chrysalis was thrown aside , the dome stood revealed In all its coldod glory. Now the workmen are busy with tin lower part of thu dome , below the nalu3 < trado. This part of the dome U too largo to bo bonneted all at once , and so the cunvai only covers u section. It is a slow and k tedious task. If ruin or fog comas they will have to suspend tholr delicate labors und wait for the atmosphere to get dry again. Under the shadow of the library building are thu onices of the government ofllceri who have charge of construction , and In tlia room occupied bv Mr. Bernard F. Groan , tha representative of the chief of engineers , Is a little safo. In this s.ife are kupt thu prcclout packages of gold leaf. Gold is worth ut Ilia mints ubout $20 an ounce. Purchased by tin government in the form of gold leaf it coatt about $ ' )7 an ounco. There are 2,000 shooti In un ounce , each a llttlo less than foul Inches square , but these 2,000 sheets will only spread themselves over about thirty square foot of space. Witn 10,000 squara feet to cover It Is easy to sro that the govV eminent will rcqulro n good many ounces of gold to carry out the work of gilding tin dome. "Gold has many curious characteristics , " said Mr. Green , "but the one that serves us best in this particular work is Us extroina malleability. See how gossamer-like this sheet of metal U. It Is us lixht au u breath of wind. It takes 150,000 , to make an Inch In thickness , but an instance Is recorded whara gold was beaten so thin that a leaf of It was ! 107,050th part of un Inch in thickness. It Is the extreme malleability of gold that makes It possible to uao It in covering Itirftu sur faces like u dome , Otherwise the oxpenia would bo beyond thu treasury of even thu government of the United States. " No attempt has been mudu by the govern ment ofllclals to learn whether they uro cov ering the dome with American irold or not , but they uro rather Inclined to believe tlut the precious metal which they are using came entirely from American minus , It is beaten into leaf in Baltimore by a man wlia has achieved quite a loputution as u gold beater , und he sends I' to the library build ing In packages of twenty hooks , each book containing twenty-five leaves. Another In teresting fact ubout Urn gold Is that it Is as pure an e.ui bo found. Twenty-four-carat' gold Is tha purest form of the metal , and tha gold that Is being used to beautify and adorn the greatest domu in thu world is "H-curau fine. . A Duliioiin Compliment. Now York Press ; "luted to think you wore not u man of your word , Jones , but I've changed my mind , " "Ah , you understand mo now , friend Smith. But what led you to change your mlndt" "You remember that $10 you borrowed , from mut" "Ycs.'t "You said if I lent It to you you would b Indebted to mo forever. " "Yes. " "Well , you are keeping your word ilko a man. " , j The "No. 0" Wliqulur & Wilson , with Its perfecti'd tenlsous. upper and lower , is tha only lock-uUtch muchuie that makes au elastic seum , It is the dressmaker's1 favorlta on that account. Sold by Gee , W & Co. , QH South Sixteenth street. a tt n ri ot .in