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TITR OMATTA DATLY HEE: SATURDAY, DECEMDETl 12, 190.1.
AT THE PASTURE BARS
By Curran Richard Oreenley.
(Copyright, 1W6, by Curran R. Qreenlrjr)
Then this la the end?"
Ths girl's eyes dropped beneath the stern
-& that dwelt hungTtly on the amall iweet
(ace, aa the color tiled from cheek and Hps,
but the cur-Tin llpe et .firmly, at ehe
anawered. "Tea, this la the end. Grand
father will never forg;t that quarrel with
your father. It la useless to plead with
him, as he regard my love for you and
the bare mention of our marriage aa the
dot-pent Ingratitude to him. I cannot leave
lUm, old and alone."
John Perwent leaned across the ban, and
taking the wlatful face between We strong
brown handa, held It there a long moment,
as he eald, ''And my clalnv on you how
about thatt We have argued this caae In
all Its bearings, and we are still at the
same old parting of the ways. Is It fair
that the whim of an old man, toe old to re
member his own youth and love, should
4tand between us? A man should not
waste all his Ufa on a forlorn hope, and I
am wasting mine. There Is a call for all
strong American men at the front, and If
for the sake of that old
man who has never been anything else but
a tyrant to you, I am off for the front to
iilht. Ia It go or stay?"
- Dorothy Holmes shivered a little as her
eyes were lifted to meet the earnest gray
ones of John Derwent. Then with a mighty
effort, stifling the sobs that would come,
the girl answered.. "Oo." She stood, with
(trained eyes, half doubting their witness,
aa the stalwart figure swung away across
the fields, and was lost In the gathering
shadows. "Dorothy fell face down amid the
tangled grasses, ' fighting out her misery;
but through It all the consciousness of the
old man waiting alone In the twilight drew
her home.
, lie met her at the door with querulous re
proaches for her long absenoe. "You have
been meeting that John Derwent; don't
you dare lie to me, girl, you have?"
' Dorothy stood stlland faced him, "Tee,
grandfather, I have sent him away,' per
haps to his death, down there In Cuba."
the , fled up stairs, heedless of the storm
of words that the old squire shouted after
her.
The old man complained monotonously as
Dorothy went silently through the round of
evening duties with feverish haste, long
ing for the moment when she could be
alone to face the , future that remained
to her. . . '
She knew It so well. Did not the lives
of aoorea of women that she had known
all her life' foreshadowed her own doom.
She would wait and wait through , the
m.ry years, and after a while she would
be "Old Miss Dorothy," and people would
whisper of her story. True, she. would
have the "Beeches." But what could the
empty rooms, the smiling acres of wheat
and corn bring to the heart on whose altar
the ashes of youth and love lay In perpet
ual sacrifice. At last she fell Into a troub- '
led sleep, broken by dreams that were filled 1
with veiled horror. .
She awoke to find the sun shining In,
her face, and the stir of tha kitchen and
yard came up through the open windows.
She realised that here was another day to
live through. At tine door of the old
'squire's room she paused, nerved herself to
bear the small torrents of ' fault-finding
arM friktftilnMim that WfAM hmr dstlv HieAd.
The window was wide open, and a flood
of sunlight poured across something that
lay half In, half out of the bed. Dorothy's
wua snnex went peaiing inrougn uie quiet
houm Squir David Holmes would never
complain of aught again. A bloody raxor
' lay upon the floor, and two gashes across
the skinny throat told the tale. The room
had been fairly torn upside down, as If
an Insane rage had possessed the murderer.
the room had been entered.
Ail that dreary day people came and
went. Farmers for twenty miles around,
men who had. feared the old squire and
hated him as well, 1 came to look ''upon
him dead, and at the small, alight flgurs
that sat by the side of the dead man. Im
movable throughout the long hours.
The coroner and his jury took their places
and Dorothy listened dumbly to the array
of evidence that even the few short hours
hit A hrrivht forth. Tha mnr mam m. Mm.
mi in black handled one that bore no dis
tinguishing marks; but the coat that had
been found burled under the stable floor,
ttlwtAw a nil tA,n In Ik, ifaoth , m irrt, bi a m
one that she knew, that others knew for
, the property of John' Derwent. Point upon
point the threads were woven together. Lit
tle Tim . bobbins testified to having been
hidden In the fence corner the evening be
fore and overheard the conversation that
had taken place between herself and Der
went. Between the numerous questions
Tim's Imagination and his sense of lm
. portanoe In . being thus prominently con
r truth was startllngly different from the
( version that he swore to as the solemn
- truth was startlngly different from the fact.
i i a i it.. . . w .
ui yum wwuu iicMviijr inai xerweuc
had referred to the old man as the one
thing that stood between them and their
lutppineas. The, deduction was all oo sure.
There Was nothing missing from the room;
therefore, the murder must have a personal
1 motive.
No one spoke to hor aa the day wore on,
. through all her numbed consciousness
pierced a truth her name had not been
luvnuoncu. uui jum as surety mey were
Connecting her with the dastardly crime.
Only a whisper; but Wins Nancy Allen's
whisper was possessed of carrying power.
'They do say as to how the window was
kept locked and . somebody on the Inside
must have opened it. Slndy was a tellin'
how she sassed the old squire last ev'nln'.
Ef John Derwent cut that old man's throat
the wan't far away when he was doln" It.'
' The room was a whirling mist as she
taggered out from among the accusing
faces up to her little white draped room
and double locked the door.
- Just at sunset, twenty-four hours from
the time she bad bidden John Derwent
goodby, there came a thundering knock at
v her door. She opened It to find big Jim
Evans, the sheriff, standing there with a
paper In his hand. He looked at the White
face, drawn and strange, and a wave of
pity choked the words upon his lips. He
had known her all her life, his children
had played with her. Laying his rough
hand gently upon her shoulder he said
slowly, apologetically, "Miss Dorothy
Holmes, I arrest you In the name of the
commonwealth as accessory to the murder
of your grandfather, Squire David Holmes.'
No answer but the flare of wide fright
ned eyes Into bis, and then a huddled
heap of black at his feet. The big sheriff
caught her In his arms, and strode down
the stairs. "Here, you, Mandy Slndy! Qod
help her; even the niggers are against her."
From thst moment stalwart Jim Evans
guarded his prisoner with a father's care.
All too soon Dorothy struggled back to
. the shame that awaited her; the night
mare of her dreams, the terrible days la the
county jail, where. In spite of Jim Evans'
t ",wniui care, int owinaied (o a mere
shadow of the girl who had watted at the
pasture bars.
The, trial was short, a fiery chrism of
shame that the girl endured without
murmur, with only the knowledge of her
lnnocenc . and the fact that not ten paces
away sat John Derwent, undergoing the
same, in even greater danger than her.
sen. er on y ray of comfort was the
steady giant of the gray eyes across the
lece mat dlvl.Ud them. PulUo oolnlon
aa etrocf against them, n4 though melr
lawyers made a strong fight, the evidence
of little Tim, who came out stronger than
ever under the limelight of notoriety,
borne out by the bloody coat, and various
other trivialities, welded a chain of cir
cumstance that sufficed the Jury. In vain
Derwent strove to explain his absence from
home that night, and repeated, word for
word, the conversation at the pantere bars
between himself and Dorothy. In vain he
told how, angry and maddened with .dis
appointment, he had hurriedly packed a
small grip, and while the family were at
supper, h,ad dropped out of the window of
his room, leaving It open, and struck . out
across the country te the Junction,' and
there caught the Cannon Ball for Louis
ville to enlist with the legion that had
been ordered to Porto Rico. No one had
seen him enter the house, no one had seen
him leave. The empty .bed, and the fact
that he was Intercepted 200 miles from
home and the scene of the crime, were all
damaging links that each effort to explain,
seemed to forgo the tighter. The Jury were
out a bare thirty minutes,. when they filed
In again. The hush that comes before a
storm held the courtroom as the foreman
announced, "We find the defendants guilty
of murder In the second degree; but ow
ing to the fact that thai evidence Is mainly
circumstantial, would recommend them to
the mercy of the court." '
The Judge cleared hia throat In aplte
of the evldenoe, there was something In
the two faces before him, that plead with a
louder voice than all the prosecuting at
torney's arguments. He sentenced Derwent
to state prison for life, and Dorothy, the
lighter sentence of twenty years. I
There was no motlbn for a new trial. Pub-
llo opinion was too strong, and their law
yers felt that the best had been done for
their clients. Derwent - appealed to the
Judge to grant him one last interview with
Dorothy before they were separated for
Dorothy noticed a small bright spot In the
dull wood, anall head, that on pressure
revealed the fatal hiding place that had
tempted the gypny to murder. Behind a
sliding panel of the wainscot lay the dar
lings of the old Squire's heart, for whom
he had given his life shining eagles and
half eagles, rustling bonds and stock cer
tificates, the accumulation of a lifetime.
DAILY. PAPER FOR DOCTORS
rabltratlon ef m Journal to Give the
Htm of the Medical Profession
Planned In New York.
New Tear's day will see the first Issue of
a new daily paper, whose headquarters will
be In New York, but which, if plans do not
miscarry, will be published simultaneously
at various points across the continent and
perhaps even in Europe, that It may reach
all Its readers while Its news Is really news.
It will not deal In "scare" heads, nor In red
Ink. nor yet In alleged portraits of all the
principals In the scandals of the moment.
It will be purely a medical newspaper,
known as the Dally Medical Journal, writ
ten by physicians for physicians, and deal
ing only, with matters of. professional In
terest, or with news atorlea Involving .phy
sicians.
Physicians have long chafed at . the Im
possibility of getting accurate medical or
surgical news out of the daily papers. The
reports of important medical discoveries or
surgical operations or cases In which phy
sicians are greatly Interested are so con
densed and frequently so garbled In the at
tempt to reduoe them to words of one
syllable for the lay understanding as to
give medical men more annoyance than en
lightenment. They have to wait weeks or
even months until the medical Journals get
around to It, and publish accurate reports
of the case and Its treatment. Now they
are to have a newspaper all their own, and
to know within twenty-four hours Just
what has happened In their own field.
They are to have the report written by one
whose professional standing Is unques-
life; and while the matter hung, big Jim Kloned and whose professional training fits
Evans took It Into his own hands. For a I him to report It accurately. They are to
brief hour they were left together, while
the guards paced the corridor outside.
Dumb and helpless, they sat with clasped
hands, so many things crowding for utter
ance, and over It, like a pall, the con
sciousness that this was their last meeting
on earth., Derwent drew the. sunny head
down against him shoulder, and held her
closo, hushing the pitiful, remorseful words
that she strove to utter. She had brought
htm to this bitter cone; but he would gladly
have laid down his own life to set her free.
In voiceless agony, the moments ticked on;
have a report whose various parts bear
their true relation, the one to the other;
not a report that perhaps tells lies, but
that seizes on some one point of relatively
small Importance, that seems to the editor
or reporter a bjlt sensational, and distorts
It out of all proportion. That Is frequently
I the sort of report that 'gets Into the daily
papers and makes the medical man grind
his teeth In Impotent rage.
To obviate all this the Dally Medical
Journal Is planned. It has the backing.
moral end financial, of a number of the
then swift steps came rushing down the best known medical men In the city. It
corridor, and big Jim Evans; thrusting the
guards to the right and left, tore Into the
cell, and grasping Derwent by both shoul
ders, wrtlrled him over the floor In a mad
war dance. "Glory to the living God! Down
on your knees, both of you, and thank Him
that you are a free man and woman, this
day." Then It was Derwent'a turn to shake
the sheriff, holding his arm aa In a vice.
"Man! What are you saying?, For God's
sake don't torture us with talk of freedom
unless you mean It."
Jim Evans dropped down on the side of
the Iron cot, "It's too long to tell while
she's waltln' In this place," polm'ng to
Dorothy, who leaned against the wall,
looking more like a ghost than a woman,
"but the meat of the matter fs this. Along
erbout ten years ago the old squire sent a
man to prison for stealln' some chickens.
and while they was a tryin' him for the
will have for managing editor Dr. "Martin
W. Curran, who has f,or nearly two years
past been running the Medical critic, in
fact. It Is an offshoot of the Medical Critic.
The Medical Critic Publishing company has
been reincorporated as the Medical Pub
lishing Company of America. It will con
tinue to publish the Critic as a monthly.
but Its main business will be the publlca
tion of the new dally, of which the Critic
will be a sort of monthly summary. The
directors of the company are Drs. George
E. Maurer, Martin W. Curran, Thomas F.
Rellly, George B. McAuIlffe, Albert War.
ren Ferris, H. A. Haubold, John B. Huber,
the first four being the heaviest etockhold
era All the men who figure as "associate
editors" of the Critic among them Drs.
Russell Bellamy, Louts Faugeres Bishop,
Joseph B. Blssell, Frederio Griffith,. Wil
liam Carr, Joseph Brown Cooke, Edward
chickens. It come out that he was mixed up Anthony Spltzka and Edward C. Bpltzka,
In some horse stealing over In Bourbon, on'
he was tried on both counts, an' got the
limit of. the law. It seems he Just got
through a settling the bill for the squire's
chickens and the other feller's horse, and
when they turned him loose up there In
Frankfort, he makes abee line for the old
squire, a meanin' mischief beyond any
doubt He passed .your house on the way,
and seeln' the open window of your room.
slipped In and helped himself to anything
he could find loose, an' he took your coat
off the bed where you flung It, which they
said was the chlefest thing agin you.
"Then ha come on to ther Squire's and
lay. around until he saw a light In the
old man's room, and aeed he waa a-settllng
down for the night; when he ups and gets
the ladder and puts It to ther window. The
old Squire, beln deaf, never saw him
look In' at him. . To back a bit, Mandy, that
I yaller nigger that cleans up the house, has
ownea up mat sne forgot ana left the win
dow up that day; and said she waa scared
to tell It when they laid so much weight
on Miss Dorothy opening it Well, the
gypsy saw the old Squire a aettln' on the
side of the bed, counting some money out
of a leather bog. That settled the ques
tion for the Squire. He put up a pretty
good fight for an old man and tried to
holler, but the gypsy got him; by the wind-,
pipe. They struggled pretty nearly all
ever the room. , That was how It come so
tore up and the coat so bloody; but.lt
didn't take the gypsy teller long to fix
him. Then he tried to find where it was
the Squire got them money bags; but he
couldn't' do It and the old man was too far
gone to be made tell. Bo after aearchln1
around until he most tore things wrong
side out he put the old man back In bed.
crept down the ladder, took off the coat
and burled it and made tracks for the next
eounty. But he came back In a few days
when he heard that you was arrested for
the murder and he's been layln' around
here ever since, a llvln' on ths old Squire's
money. Last week he fell in with a gang
of tramps what was comln' down below
the trestle, an' fust thing he know'd he
came down with the smallpox. There
wouldn't nobody go near him but old
Mammy. Cynthy and the Lord only knows
why she did. Since Miss Dorothy got Into
this trouble (Tlat old nigger has been nosln'
around every hole and corner tryin' to find
out somethln' about the murder. She took
the gypsy feller to her cabin, an' I reckon
she nussed him aa well aa he deserved; but
he soon got to where he aaw he was
gnin' to peg out; so this mornln' old
Cynthy come In town a wantln' a doctor
and a notary. I smelled a rat as soon as
I heard the fust word, an' me an' a half
dosen more wen out there and hung
around as close as we dared, until the doc
tor and the notary It waa Jim Maakln
who bad had the smallpox and wa'ant
afeard come out and tola us. He'll be
dead by sundown that's no matter but
there's fifty people out there now a waltln'
to go bail for you and a wonderin' why
I m so durned long a bringln' you out I
reckon we'll have 'the pardon all regular as
soon aswe can get the facts before the
Governor. Come on you two," and he half
'dragged them out to where half the county
were lined up In an excited mob. At the
sight of the tall, well-set figure, and the
s.ignt, arooping one at his aide, a? mighty
cheer rent the air. A sea of faces surged
forward and a hundred hands shot out to
grasp and welcome John perwent back to
bis own.
. Out Into the free sunlight and back to
the stately old home, where the tall oaks
kept watch and ward over the rolling
reaches of the blue grass. Dorothy Holmes
came back; and late that "evening, in the
prim old prj or, Dorothy Holmes and John
perwent were married.
The old Squire's room had been closed
ever since the body of Its owner had been
carried out of It and for a time they
shrank from even the thought of entering
It; but oue day the question of the mys
terious hiding place that the gypsy had
sought In Vain occurred to both, and they
searched Vry Inch of the walls and
wainscot jW kshi4 the head of the boa
Henry Graham McAdam, Warrek. Bchoon
over, Jr., David Gilbert Tates, J. Bergen
Ogden, Jerome Kingsbury and others are
more or less Interested In the new venture,
certainly enough to assure Is professional
standing Brooklyn Eagle.
CLEANING UP IN CONGRESS
Nation! Temple of Wisdom and Thing!
Pat ia Applepie .Orati
RENOVATED FROM BASEMENT TO DOME
l.nneh Counters, RonvrnlV Mends, fold
Ten and Camp Followers Banished
Astonlshlasc te Old Timers,
bnt Welcome to Everybody.
WORKING AN OLD SCHEME
Fortnne Seekers Induced to Give Up
.Honey la . Quest of Ances
tral Estates.
In America the fleecing of credulous for
tune-hunters Is a regular business, which
makes large profits and keeps agents In
England. One of the- methods adopted by
these human sharks for catching their vie
tlms Is to insert In the newspapers bogus
advertisements similar to that which
brought these two old men to this coun
try. They do not want to find the persons
named; In all .probability no such persons
as those mentioned in the advertisements
eyer existed, but In others, for the sake of
verlslmlltude, names are uaed seeking men
who are known to be dead. The advan
tages obtained from such advertisements
i gained lndlreotly. There are thousands
of families In this country with relatives
who years, perhaps generations, back went
to Amerca and become loat to all knowl
edge of their connections here.
These relatives, seeing that someone. In
similar circumstances, has died and left a
large fortune to his distant and unknown
relations. Immediately think that they too
might have, been sought for. and that a
fortune may be awaiting them. Bo they
write to make Inquiries, and after that are
quickly Induced to forward fees or the
search of the record, and then further fees
for tracing the relationship, and later on
still further fees for documents and proofs,
and sometimes, if they have any money
left by this time, further fees and costs
for a supposed lawsuit Many a poor ig
norant family has been drained dry of all
its savings and been ruined In this way.
Another trick frequently adopted la to
send out a story that some agricultural
laborer In Ireland has Just Inherited a
million In America, or that some tramway
car conductor In America has Inherited
half an English county and a castle or two.
These stories are soon found to be untrue,
but they are never overtaken by ' the de
nials, and they go the round of the world,
gathering credulous victims everywhere.
For the poor in America, Australia and the
other colonies, many of them descendants
of good families In England, readily be
lieve that money may have been left here
to their ancestors, and only needs claiming
to be obtained.
Some time ago a solicitor In the city was
employed as the sgent of an American Arm.
He told a representative at the time that,
though he always assured the applicants
that nothing would come of the Inquiries
they always Insisted on having their names
and fees sent on to America, and were so
confident that money was awaiting them
that often they rather suspected his ad
vice as having been given merely to put
them off the scent after they had parted
with all ths necessary clues.-London News.
FINDS SAN DOMINGO DOCILE
((earner Cherokee Brings Report
Ha viae Enjoy Poneenble
Treatment at All Ports.
of
If a congressman of twenty years ago
should wake up In the Capitol building
today after a Rip Van Winkle sleep he
would probably wonder "where he was at"
This would not be surprising, because the
metamorphosis which has been worked In
the beautiful structure In recent years by
soap and Water, common sense and modem i
methods of heating and lighting Is remark- 1
able, even to those who have seen It going
on from day to day.
The Capitol building Is now a model of
Cleanliness and good management, and
everybody who knew It In the old days Is
happy in the change.
A few days ago a couple of the senior
senators who rarely stir out of their com
mittee rooms In this era when the house
must come to the senate for everything
It wants,, condescended to stroll through
the corridors to the house wing, and It wsa
amusing to hear their expressions of sur
prise and satisfaction as they gazed about
them and gossiped of the changed condi
tions. Stone and tiled floors were as clean as
those of the Vatican In Rome, the walls
and ceilings freshly tinted, every nook
and cranny Illuminated by a soft electric
light, and from one end to the other not a
pie stand or a Junk shop! The policemen
were all In uniform, and even the clerks
and messengers seemed to be better dressed
and more closely shaved than in the "good
old days."
It was Speaker Thomas B. Reed who
Inaugurated the reform, and his successors
have continued the good work. As recently
as when Mr. Reed first became speaker the
passageways from the senate to the house
of representatives on both the main and
the basement floors were lined with lunch
counters and booths for. the sale of curios
and relics, . typewriting stands and tele
graph offices. Even Wall street tickers
were there, so close to the main door of the
house of representatives that the passage
way was blocked up half the time with
those who had other business to attend to
than serving congress or the public
Clara Had to Go.
Having raaoe up his mind that all this
was cheap and undignified, Mr. Reed, with
characteristic promptness, laid hia plans
and carried them out He ordered that
the corridors be cleared of the whole army
of camp followers, and It was done almost
literally in the twinkling of an eye. No
trouble was encountered, except with
"Clara Morris," the antiquated dame who
presided over a niche In the main corridor,
Just where the private stairs come up from
the supreme court room, between the
rotunda and Statuary b.alL
Clara had been ensconced here for years
and ruled the roost Ilka the eagle that she
was. She sold guide books,, souvenir
pictures end designs of 'all kinds made up
from the pulp of macerated treasury bank
notes, and she did thriving business. She
was supposed to be a little crazy, but she
knew enough to feather her own nest night
and day. She had a habit of pouncing from
her perch on unwary congressmen and
bothering them about all sorts of things
until she had become a common nuisance.
The statesmen all. resented her presence,
but nobody had the nerve to "shoo" her out
until Mr. Reed made up his mind that It
was his duty to do it, and then Clara went,
fluttering and screaming, with the rest For
a time she and the others who ware doing
business on the side were allowed on the
basement floor, but business was poor down
there, and so all have deserted now, and
the Capitol ia clean from one end to the
other and the corridors passable from
every point 1
It was ,not more than twenty years ago
that another old woman kept a pie stand
In the beautiful corridor running east and
west outside the senate' chamber. The
counter was actually placed up against
the windows of the democratic cloak room.
It was nothing but a rude wooden' affair
covered with white oilcloth. Ilere David
Davis, Henry W. Blair, "Uncle Joe" Brown
ot Georgia and numerous other temperate
and frugal-minded statesmen used to line us
at noonday with paces, messengers, clerks.
colored laborers, policemen and the general
public and eat pie 'and milk, applea and
cakes, dropping their crumbs on the floor
and never for a moment thinking that
everything waa not Just as It should be.
The Dryr Resrlmo.
Nowadays every senator who does not
have hia lunch brought into his private
committee room and this number Is not
at all small goes to the senate restaurant
and eata In dignity and comfort Tea,
coffee, chocolate, milk and mineral water
are all they can drink In the restaurant
now under the "dry" regime, but In the
private committee rooms no questions are
oaked.
What would Roscoe Conkling and Oliver
P. Morton and Allan O. Thurman and
other men of their day think if they could
come to life and walk through the private
lobby of the senate today T There Is no
more beautiful corridor anywhere. The
walla are paneled In gilt beautiful chande
liers holding electrical bulbs hang from the
celling, the tiled floor is covered with a
rug so thick and soft that It la noiseless.
and there is not one article of furniture,
not one mat or picture, and not one useless
article from one end to the other. Glass
panelled mahogany doors have taken the
place of the old leather swingers, and no
flock of dust Is ever allowed to enter.
In the old days, how different I On one
side of the lobby there stod a great, old
fashioned combined table and bookcase,
where Captain Bassett the doorkeeper who
served the senate for more than sixty years
continuously, kept extra copies Of the Con
gressional Record, twine, snuff, Ink. medlcl-
cines and all other odds and ends such as
might be needed In the course of the day
by somebody for some purpose. On the
other side was a table with paste pots,
where packages were wrapped for mailing,
and at either end waa a large basket Into
which the pages dropped the senatorial
mail.
Policemen and doorkeepers lolled about
and everything was run on the free-and-easy
plan of a police court Now It re
quires as much formality for an outsider to
enter the sacred precints of this private
lobby as It does to gain admittance to a
lady's drawing room, and a whisky-drinking,
tobacco-chewing, unshaven employe Is
no longer tolerated.
NEW YORK, Deo. 11. The Clyde line
steamer Cherokee, wnicn arrivea toaay
from San Domingo, reports that quiet pre
vailed in that country. Order had been
restored before Its arrival there and it ex
perlenced no difficulty in loading and dis
charging cargo at all ports of call.
The Cherokee, when It left New York,
had no clearance papers for several of the
ports, therein the bands of the Insurgents,
for which it wm bound, ana it was an-
' nounced- that the Dominican government
navy would enforce the blockade on those
porta. The fall ef the w us jr UU govern
ment eodvd this actuation.
that a quarter of a centju-y ago made the , r
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look something like a Donnybrook f ilr.
Telegraphing and telephoning are as neces
sary now aa speech making was twenty
years ago, and It has been found impracti
cable to banish the Instruments out of
sight. Their construction, however, Is In
keeping with their surroundings, and so
they are not subjects for severe criticism.
But the great newspaper stands, where
the morning dallies were sold along with
cigars, postage stamps, chewing tobacco,
campaign badge's and what not have been
banished, along with the desk of the little
man who wrote visiting cards and who
looked so much like Stephen A. Douglass
that many of the old "befo' the wah" I
statesmen used to shake his hand for mem
ory's sake, even though they forgot to
leave an order.
A great deal of money has been spent In
putting the capltol Into Its present condi
tion. Modern heating and lighting ap
paratus, modern furniture, telephones,
typewriters and all the latter day Inven
tions come high, but congressmen must
have them, and as the pleased senators
walked about and saw sll these wonders
they admitted that even at the price It
was well to have the style, and that It
would not be good to go back to the old
regime.
Praiseworthy Improvements.,
One of the most praiseworthy Improve
ments of all that have been made was the
Installation a few years ago of dust-
proof steel oases for preserving archleves.
They have been put In place all over the
building where needed, and much space
has been saved, with a great gain also In
orderliness, acenracy and cleanliness. Just
now Elliott Woods, superintendent of the
capltol, who Is largely responsible for the
pleasing transformation In the building. Is
arranging to put In place electrlo chande
liers to light all the corridors, and he Is
hopeful that when they are ' hung the
beauty of the Interior will be even more
greatly enhanced.
Among the treasures that Mr. Wood fell
heir to during the summer Is the beautiful
crystal chandelier from the state dining i
room of the White House. When the man- I
slon was "restored" last year It was taken
down and ordered to the Junk pile. Mr.
Woods resurrected it and has hung It In
the private room of the secretary of the
senate, Charles G. Bennett of Brooklyn,
where It Is an object of constant pleasure
and delight This chandelier Is a beauti
ful thing in Itself and Just fits the artistic
room which Mr. Benett occupies as his
personal den.
This cosy chamber, In the southwest cor
ner of the senate wing, with its artistically
ceco rated walls and celling, its beautiful
old mahogany furniture, soft rugs and
curtains, la altogether the most attractive
spot In the capltol, and here the senators
are likely to gather during the day for
private conference. Mr. Bennett has an
artlstlo eye and never misses a chance to
add to the beauty of the aenate chamber
and Its surroundings and to preserve its
traditions.
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TION of your ailments, an examina
tion that will disclose your true phys
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which you are groping In the dark. If
you hsve taken treatment elsewhere
without success 1 will show you why
It failed. I want all atUng men to feel
that they csn come to my office freely
for examination and explanation of
their condition without bring bound by
any obligation to take treatment un
less they so desire. Every man,
whether taking treatment or con
templating same, should take advan
tage of this opportunity to lesm his
true condition, aa I will advlae him
how to best regain hia health and
atrength, and preserve the powers of
manhood unto ripe old age.
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tem Is polluted with disease, or until
your nervous system Is tottering under
the strain, and you become a physical
and mental wreck, unfit for work,
study, business or marriage. With
special diseases and weaknesses you
can make no compromise. You must
conquer them cow by the right treat
ment or they will fill your whole life
with failure, misery and woe- Uncer
tain, Improper or half-way treatment
. can only do harm. The worst oaseo I
have treated were those that had been
Improperly treated before coming to
ma, some having been maimed for life
by bungling surgical prooedum. I euro
by restoring and preserving Important
organs, I do not advocate their muti
lation or destruction in lie effort te
make a quick cure. Every afflicted
man owes It te himself, his family,
and to the future generation to get
cured SAFELY and thoroughly.
The Lonarest taMlskon.
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snoelnJista In eVIseaooo of men.
VITAL WEAKNESS
Above all other things I strive to
save the thousands of young nnd middle-aged
men who are plunging toward
the grave, tortured by the woes of
nervous debility, the result of youth
ful habits, excesses, etc. I hsve
evolved a special treatment for Ner
vous Debility and special weakness
that Is uniformly successful In esses
where success was before by other
doctors deemed Impossible. It does
not stimulate temporarily, but re
stores permanently. It allays the Ir
ritation of the delicate tissues stir,
rounding the lax and unduly expanded
swmlnai glands, contracting them to
their normal condition, which stops
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ud and strengthens the blood vessels
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strength snd vigor. WE MAKE NO MISLEADING STATEMENTS or decep
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DAYS In order to secure their patronage, but jruarante a COMPLETE, SAFE
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BBB WANT ADS SgS
Beginning Monday, Dec. 7
Another Quotation Contest
Ending Sunday, Dec. 13
Aroana the Honso Chamber.
The lobby of the house of representatives
Is a little less exclusive and a little less
quiet In tone, but It is just as spick and
span. Indeed, all of the corridors of the
house ar4 clean now. The committee
roome are furnished as those in the senate
are. and there Is a general air of orderli
ness snd style which Is very commendable
and especially refreshing to those who can
compare it with the days gone by.
Just outside the main door of the house.
on the north side looking toward the mto,
ate. there is a telegraph counter, and that
is the only obstruction left of all those
During tile week beginning Monday, December 7th, and ending Sunday, De
cember 13th, The Bee will publish each day, , well known quotations twenty-five in
all which will be printed from day to daj at the top of ita Want AA Page; the
names of the authors will not be' printed. Prizes as given below will be awarded
to the winners of the Quotation Contest, on tho following conditions:
At the top of . a sheet of paper, write your name and address. Then write
out the quotation, as it appears in the paper and give the author, or source of the.
quotation. Then look through the Want Ads and cut out any advertisements ap
pearing in these columns on that day, from which words may be taken to make up
the quotation; paste them underneath the quotation in regular order and under
line the words constituting the words of the quotation. Do the- same with the sec
ond quotation, and so on, until you have completed the twenty-five quotations, th
last of which will appear in The Bee of Sunday, December 13th.
1 Each correct quotation made up from words appearing in Want Ads, in the
way described above, will be counted as two, and each correct name of the author
as one, on the score of the contestants.
The person having the highest score will receive the first prize, the one hav
ing the next highest score the second prize, and so on.
In case of a "tie," the person sending in the answer first, aa shown by the
postmark on the envelope, will be given preference.
All answers must be sent by mail.
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pete for a prize. ' . , .
Do not send in your quotations until the end of the week. 1
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PRIZE. VALUE.
1st One Man's or Wotnan'g Tailor Made Suit $30.00
2nd 1 Dinner Set 1000
8rd-l Dinner Set 10.00
4th 1 International Encyclopaedic Dictionary, wortn 8.00
6th 1 Set "Life of Napoleon "three volumes 6.00
Gth 1 Set "Life of Napoleon," three volumes 6.00
7th 1 Year's Subscription to The Metropolitan Magazine 1.50
gth 1 Year's Subscription to The Metropolitan Magazine 1.60
0th 1 Year's Subscription to Th Metropolitan Magailne 1.50
JOth 1 Years Subscription to ine Meiropouiau juasuzuie .w
11th 1 "Life of John Sherman," worth , 160
12th 1 "Llf or John Sherman," worm ,; - i
13th 1 Copy "Mother Goose's Paint Book" ... 1.5
14th 1 Copy "Mother Goose's Paint Book" 125
ic.i, i ri "Mother Goose's Paint Book" 1.5
16th to 25th New Books and Novels, worth fl.25 ,? ?
26th to 36th-Mr. Bunny, His Book, worth $1.25 12.50
80th to 60tU-State Map. worth $1.00. 15.00
200th Art nciures, wonu uw -
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