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To Defend Thaw. 1 -«■- ' I iBJMMp- - I*ei« «tereo*rr»|id. ro^yrl^tit, #»y Underwood 3: Underwood, N. V. Delmas, although unknown in the East, has made an enviable record for ' himself as a criminal lawyer on the Pacific coast. He will aid in the defense af Harry Kendall Thaw at hie trial for the murder of Stanford White. A FORT QF SECRET REFUGE IN 80ST0N RE CALLS REVOLUTION. Wonderful Network of Concealed Rooms and Trap. Floors Disclosed Accidentally in a Raid Made on a Gamblers’ Oen. Boston.—A wonderful network ol concealed rooms, secret, passages and trap floors, sufficient to serve as e hiding place for a score of men, and probably secret meeting places during the revolutionary war for the colon isle, have been unearthed by Chief T O. Urquhart of the Arlington police as the result of a raid on the famous old Oooper Tavern, on Massachusetts ave nue, Arlington. The raid followed the Issuance of a warrant for a search for liquor, but sc astounding w^re the discoveries that Chief Urquhart will continue his search until he has laid bare all the secrets of the famous old hostelry. Tbe discoveries so far show that the old house is literally honeycombed •with secret rooms and passages, la one of which was found a full gam bling layout Early In tbe raid a pa 4rol wagon full of liquor was taken from the place and liquor of every kind from champagne to beer was lo cated. The place was being conducted by Louis and Ida Brown and run with out an innholder’s license. Cooper s Tavern was built prior tc tbe revolutionary war and was im woctaiized by the martyred deaths ol .iabez and Jason Winship, who made I heir iast stand behind its stone win dows hemmed in by the British le mons in April, 1776. Others in the building at the time disappeared, and It has always been thought they es caped by secret recesses. it feil to the lot of gamblers, the police say, to discover the hidden haunts, and their knowledge was guarded well. The police at the raid discovered that the foundation wall seemed too short for the actual sup port or the walls of the building, and. digging down, laid bare a complete ’76 FOUND. room—small but compact. Inspired by their discovery, the police contin ued in their search, and will not rest until the entire inside of the building Is torn away. CITY OVERSTOCKED WITH CASH. Money in Treasury Is Becoming a Veritable Drug. Crystal Falls. Mich.—Crystal Falls is crowing over other towns in the upper peninsula, for the latter have a hard time making both ends meet and they often borrow money to tide the municipality over until the annual collections have been made. Crystal Falls city is so loaded with money that the surplus funds are be coming a veritable nuisance and the council has decided to invest $10,000 of the money, putting it into circula tion instead of allowing it to lie idle in the hands of the treasurer. The annual report of the treasurer showed a balance on hand of about $13,000 over and above all outstanding orders. As the time for the collection of taxes is at hand the funds in hand will be increased very shortly by an other $10,000. The sewer work is all paid for and the suspension of operations haa elim inated the demand for money from that source until next spring. The treasurer has been instructed to place the money at interest, wherever the liest rate can be secured. Love Not Marriage Motive. ! Paris.—A French statistician recently j asked 95 girls between 15 and 17 years j wliy they wished to tae-rry. Sixty-one were unable to specify their reasons, five replied that they wanted to be able to go out alone, ten in order to amuse themselves, five so they could travel, seven because they wanted to own their own homes, and four want ed to marry for the sake of a future family. Three did not wish to get married. None suggested love as a motive for matrimony, but doubtless many of them were toe shy to do so. IRELAND SENDS OUT 5,000,000 Ifith Emigration to This Country Has Been Enormous. Washington.—No page in history reveals such a migration as that of the Irish to America. The figures are astonishing. From 1840 to 1SG0 not fewer than 2,000,000 crossed the ocean to settle in the United States; from 1860 to 1880 an additional 1,000, 000 made a fresh start in life in the great republic over the seas, and from 1880 to the present time another 1,000,000 was added to our population. Since 1860 the average has been 500. 000 a decade. The 12 agricultural states, repre sented by Ohio, Indiana. Michigan, Illinois, Wisconsin, Missouri, Iowa, Minnesota, Kansas, Nebraska. North and South Dakota, contain one fourth of ihe 5.000,000. Of the portion set tled >n the North Atlantic states but one-fifth are on farms; but this ten dency to crowd into tow-ns disap pears when the surroundings are agri cultural, as is shown by the large per centage—more than 5C—of those who have taken to farming in the 1.2 agri cultural states above mentioned. it is only because the bulk of the Irish in America are not in the midst of farming districts that they are less an agricultural people than the other immigrant elements added to the population. They have found an outlet for their energies in the con gested districts and their wonderfully adaptive natures have allowed them easily to enter upon the industries of the people among whom they were thrown. It is in the eastern states that the Irish promise to ultimately constitute a majority of the population. This is already the case in three New Eng land states and in many New England cities. In New York city they are barely behind the Germans and slight ly so in Chicago. Rabbits in the Water. Mr. Millais tells how rabbits swim —when compelled to: “They swim with the head held as high as possi ble, while the hocks of the hind legs appear above the element at each stroke. The shoulders and front part of the body are buried beneath the Water, while the rump and tail are high and dry.” ^ ~ --— Gives a Large Farm to His Niece. - I Relatives and Church in Controversy Over Property Worth |50,000. Champaign, 111.—The village of Hoiper in the son there part of this county, is excited over the extraordin ary gift made by Josiah Gorham, an aged resident of that place to his: niece apd housekeeper. Mrs. Louise Pyatt, the gift being his entire prop erty, constating of S20 acres of land, valued at 9176 an acre. Mrs. Pyatt *144 gave a hard time retaining the gift, however, as Gorham's son Henry, . who live* in Champaign. , has filed a salt id the circuit court, charging Mrs. Pyatt with obtaining the property by - undue influence. It is only two months age that the woman invited her aged unde to come from Champaign, where be had been living with his son. to establish a home in the village of Homer, where she could care for him. He readily consented, ss did the sob, who, however, demanded a contract from her in regard to compensation. This wee agreed to. but for some res son was never written out Rev. O. K. Doney, a Christian minister, walked into the Cittsens’ bank at Homer and told the cashier, Perte Wiggins, who attended to the business affairs or Jbslah Gorham, that Mr. Gorham had made over his farm to Mrs. Pyatt who would devote a part of it to for eign missionary work in the Christian church. Wiggins communicated with the son, Henry Gorham, and the letter at once instituted suit He will allege that the old man Is incapable of at tending to his own affairs, and that | he did not know what he was doing. Net the game Kind: ef Pease. An old Connecticut farmer Peaae had some difficulty with a neighbor of the same name, who brought suit against'him. While giving his aide of the affair, the defendant was asked: “Are you two men ot the same family?” “No, sir,” said the defendant; “he is a wrinkled marrowfat, and I’m n 'Little Gem.’ ” RICHES OF UNCLES! TOTAL WEALTH REACHES STU PENDOUS FIGURES. More Than Half a Dozen Americana Worth More Than All the Rulera of the World Together—All Records Broken. Washington.—“The United States iff the wealthiest nation in the world,” said a close friend of President Roose velt's the other day, who had Just gone over a remarkable official report, which is soon to be made public. He added: “In a brief span of young life this infant nation has broken all records relating to the accumulation of riches. We are beginning to think in billions, instead of millions. Take it any way you like, our affluence outstrips any thing ever known before. “Our country has more actual mon ey, more gold, a larger volume of ex perts, greater banking facilities, rich er farms, more productive mines, more raCroads, more internal commerce, more millionaires, more farmers, more highly paid laborers, and a greater distribution of luxuries than any other has enjoyed since time began.” To prove all this some facts are gleaned at random from the reports gathered by the statistical department of the trea<m rv One day last October Uncle Sam had gathered into his money store house in Washington the greatest amount of gold ever collected in one place in the history of the world— gold representing $871,893,899. Thia was indeed the high water mark. There was in one little room more gold than was in circulation in Great Britain. The largest receipt ever given and the greatest money trust ever under taken was when the present treasurer of the United States, Charles H. Treat, went into office. He receipted to Elli3 H. Roberts, retiring treasurer, for all money and securities in the vaults of the treasury, a total of $1,259,598,278. It required from July 1 to Sept. 5 to count the money and at the comple tion of the task the accounts balanced to a fraction. The costliest governmental estab lishment in the world is the British navy, upon which $1,500,000,000 has been expended within the last ten years. Yet three individual Ameri cans — Rockefeller, Carnegie, and Clark—could have paid the whole bill and have pocket money left. The United States is spending about $100,000,000 a year on its navy, and the country is new at this kind of ex penditure. That it is not investing more than it can afford Is shown by the fact that the display loving women of the United States spent $100,000, 000 for diamonds purchased in foreign lands during the last two years. In fact, we are so rich the sales of prod uce and manufactured articles we are sending abroad each year are equal to a sum sufficient to support all the navies in the world. When it comes to individual wealth we have dozens of citizens who are worth more than all the kings and rulers of the world, taken collectively or severally. The czar is reputed to have a greater income than any other living man, but his private fortune is so mixed up with government rev enues that it is impossible to separate them. If distinction could be made John D. Rockefeller undoubtedly could make comparison with Nicholas and show the biggest revenue. The Rus sian monarch's wealth is the accumu lation of an empire centuries old in making, while the Ohio oil magnate can remember when he had nothing. Leopold, king of the Belgians, is the richest monarch in Europe after the czar. Although his income from the state is but $1,700,000 a year, his business interests are so large and the income from the Congo Free state so great, it is estimated he gathers $5, 000,000 annually. Senator Clark has an income that is at least three times as great. V1TT 1_O 1 1AA AAA myuvutiu UUO VJ|1VV,VVU A VCftl to provide a style that should sur round a king, but John Jacob Astor could easily outstrip this youthful monarch if he felt disposed. The kais~ er receives a small annual allowance, only $650,000, so that either William K. Vanderbilt or August Belmont has more ready money at his disposal than Germany's emperor. To Shun Men Without Whisker*. Harrisburg, Neb.—A number of so ciety belles of this western Nebraska town have formed a pro-whiskers so ciety. They have agreed to discour age attentions from men who do not wear full beards. They maintain that men with whiskers are handsome and in every way more acceptable as sweethearts, husbands and fathers. They regard whiskers as a genuine ornament. Ridicule, according to the girls, has made the good old custom obsolete in this country, and this so ciety has been formed for the purpose of reestablishing the fashion. LONELY ONES ORGANIZE CLUB. Unite to Drive Away Solitude Inci dent to Life in Great City. New York.—There is no longer any excuse for men or women in this great city to suffer the pangs of lone Tineas. A club has been organised ex clusively for the lonely ones. Eighty "lonlles,” 40 men and 40 women, at tended the second meeting of the or sanitation the other afternoon. Several young men, unknown to one another, chanced, at about the same time, to write letters to the newspe pern telling how lonely they were In New York, especially on 8nnday af ternoon. Next tbeee young men be gan writing to one another. Then they got acquainted" and out of their ac quaintance came the idea of getting the "lonelies” organised. It is said that Charles Knox, to really father of the club Idea, and it was he who hired the hall and called the first meeting. At the first meeting appeared Dr. Elmer Lee, and he took to the Idee with a fervor that aet it going with whirlwind momentum. Dr. Lee was ; named ae temporary president IN A CHILD’S LOVE LONELY COUPLE FOUND HAPPI NESS IN LIFE. _ -5 Advent of Little Nellie Filled Void of Which Physician and His Wife Were Scarcely Con scious. Mrs. Dayton entered her husband's study and sank into a chair. “You look hot Eleanor,” said Dr. Dayton, glancing up from a scientific loumaL “Have you been out in the sun?” “Yes. I walked over to the fresh air camp to see the children who were brought from the city this morn ing.” “I wish you wouldn't go there so often, Eleanor,” he said, a trifle im patiently. “A visit to the fresh-air camp seems to exhaust you more than anything else." “But, Harry, I love to see the chil dren. One such darling little girl came this morning. She has yellow curls and big brown eyes, and her name is Nellie. I used to be called Nellie when I was her age. She’s from the foundlings’ home, and I couldn’t help wishing. Harry, that we—” “Now, dear, don’t bring up that sub ject again. You know I doubt the wis dom of adopting children, and you are not strong enough to assume the care of a youngster.” The doctor smiled tenderly at Mrs. Dayton. “Haven’t you trouble enough looking after me without flying to ills you know not of?" As he ceased speaking the tel ephone bell rang. “I'm wanted at the camp." he ex plained, hanging up the receiver and reaching for his medicine case. "A child lifted the top of a beehive and has been badly stung." An hour later Mrs. Dayton rose from her porch hammock at the sound of her husband's voice. “Here’s a little visltior, Eleanor!" he called. She ran out to the motor car and look in her arms a limp little baby girl. “Hfcy, it’s Nellie!” she said. "Is it Nellie? I wasn't thinking about anything but her stings, which were pretty severe. Talk about grateful patients. Eleanor! When 1 managed to relieve the little thing’s sufferings she clung to me, and I simply couldn't get away from her. So I told the matron we'd keep her uYer mgui. um see aer race ana arms are badly swollen, and she may need more care than they’d have time to give her at the camp.” “I like the doctor man," lisped Nel lie. “I want to stay with him.” Mrs. Dayton kissed the yellow curls and laid the child in the hammock, and the doctor disappeared into the house, murmuring something about preparing a soothing lotion. One morning two weeks later the matron of the fresh-air camp tele phoned Dr. Dayton that the children with whom Nellie had come were to be returned to the city that day. She requested him to bring Nellie to the camp in time for the afternoon train. "To-day! Why, is the time up al ready? Why—well, you see, I think my wife wished to keep her—that Is. I—hang it all—I beg your pardon, I mean that we both want her.” He turned from the teelphone and aaw Mrs. Dayton listening in the doorway. Her eyes were bright and her cheeks wore an unwonted glow iif health. She was a winsome pic lure with Nellie hanging to her skirts md the chain of flowers in her hands ihat she was weaving for the baby’s curls. “Oh, Harry!” was all she said, but the look of love and gratitude in her ?yes filled his own with happy tears. —Youth's Companion. ALASKA’S GREAT FISH RIVER. Nushagak the Basis of Important Can ning Industry. now many readers ever neara or tne Nushagak river, asks the Youths Com ponion. Not many, it is safe to say. Yet the department of commerce and labor pronounces this river of western Alaska "one of the important, fishing streams of the world.” The fish which the Nushagak furnishes is salmon, the taking, canning, freezing and salting of which is an Alaskan industry, the importance of which is shown by a re cent report issued by the department of commerce and labor. The first two canneries were built in 1878. Since then the number has increased until in 1902 there were 64 establishments, which put dp more than 2,500,000 cases. Low prices since then have somewhat reduced both the number of canneries and the output; neverthe less, since canning began in Alaska, □early 22,000,000 cases have been sent out. In order to provide some coun terpoise to this tremendous drain the packers combined to start hatcheries. These have been carried on with im portant results and increasing success, in 1905 the United States bureau of fisheries took up the work, in addition to what had been done by the packers. There are now nine hatcheries, from which about 450,000,000 fry have been liberated. Tides Upon Land and 8u. A correspondent of the Geodetic Burvey has recently made observa tions with the seismograph at Mau ritius that have led to tile suggestion that not only t£e oesss and the at mosphere but even the land stay ex perience the effects of a dally tide running round and round the earth as 1 revolves on Us axis. Bat, while the tides la the air and the sea are due mors to the moon than to the sun. the supposed "land tide” arises solely from the sun’s ac tion. Moreover, it to censed not by the at traction of the sun but by its beat A. wave of. depression Is supposed to tot low the sun from east to west, caused by the extraction of moisture from the SOU. At Mauritius it Is found that there la a relative upheaval of the land to the west of the place of observation from morning until evening and a relative depression on the same side, or sa upheaval to the east, during the same Bight QUEER SIDE OF JAPAN. Odd Faith Exhibited in the Mikado’s Domains. In Japan the lower orders of life not only make war and supply meat, but evince other peculiarties that ren der them invaluable concomitants of civilization. A few days ago a num ber of people were seen gazing intent ly toward the upper limbs of a large pine tree. Stopping to learn the se cret of this unusual interest, a man was observed descending the tree, while a crow was furiously cawing and beating about his head; then it was seen that the trespasser had possessed himself of one of her brood, an unpre possessing little chick that no one could be imagined to fancy for a pet. Asked what he intended doing with the young crow, he replied that it made excellent medicine for the blood: “Chi-no-michi-no knsuri,” to use his exact words. To insure the efficacy of the medicine, he explained, the bird must be taken before it leaves the nest, if possible, or, if it has left the nest, before it gets to where it can drink water; for, he asserted, if it has of itself taken water, it loses all virtue as a blood-cure. The pro cess of preparing the remedy is, first, to kill the crow and, without cleaning it, to encase the body in an air-tight covering of cement or clay. The mould is then baked for two or three days in a hot fire. When the clay crust is removed, naturally the crow will be found to be black, a lump of pure charcoal. This is pulverized and converted into pills of the “pink” or der, which are very popular here as a blood regulator. He reminded his in terlocutors that the medicine was very rare because of the difficulty of find ing a crow that had not taken water. The man was perfectly sincere, and appeared extremely proud of his suc cess in having secured the bird. Ha was reluctant 10 leave the tree lest there should be another one on the ground somewhere. muse who, since ine nninani achievements of the Japanese Red Cross Society in the late war, are ac customed to take for granted the ad vance of medical science in this coun try, will, of course, bear in mind that the practitioner under consideration had not at this time acquired member ship in any legally recognized thera peutic fraternity; but probably his nostrum was quite as effective as much of the medicine that is sold to a large constituency at a higher price in other portions of the globe.—Har per’s Weekly. Paved with Good Intentions. A diplomat was talking in Washing ton about the late Auberon Herbert, son of the earl of Carnarvon. “He was connected with the British embassy here,’’ said the diplomat, “but after he turned Utopian he would have naught, to do with diplomacy. Why, he once addressed a crowd in New York like this: “ 'The mad, blind struggle for the dollar, with no thought for the higher life, is ruining your country. The hearts of your men are like the rocks that underline your great city. It Is a great city of hard hearts.’ “Mr. Herbert was always original. I once heard him address a New Year’s banquet of clergymen. ‘I’ll try and repeat the address in his own words. It ran: “ ‘Meeting this morning the gentle man called Mephisto or Beezlebttb, I greeted him politely and said: “’How are things down your way?' “He grinned and shook his head. He pointed to the mud on his hoof and tail. “ ‘We are in a deuce of a mess down there,’ he said. 'This is the season, you know, when our pavements are being laid.' ” How the Sexton Foretold the Weatheri. When anybody asks Abe Hicks, sex ton of the Bushby orthodox meeting house, what he thinks about the prob abilities for fair weather, Mr. Hicks, gives his opinion with the air of one having authority. “When 1 took my old bel! rope in hand last night to ring her for the Christian Endeavorers,” Mr. Hicks will say on occasion, “she’s squunched up dry as an old bone. You no need to carry your umbrellas to-day, unless you want ’em for looks.” But there are other times when Mr. Hicks shakes his head at the hopeful leaders of a picnic party. “Better plan to stay nigh shelter to^ day so’s you can get under cover.” he says firmly. "There wa’n’t a mite o give to my old bell rope till yesterday* but last night she’s most as m’ist as a sponge, all kind o’ stringy an spodgy. I tell ye, 1 should put off that, enterprise o' yours till next week. The roads’ll be prime after the tw'o days rain that’s coming to us.”—Youth’s Companion. Strong Language Used by Pastor. Rev. Cnarles W. Savidge, founder and pastor of the People's church, in Omaha, is one man who daily lives and talks bis profession of saving souls, and he is so decidedly simple and frank in his ministrations—be cause they have become his chief end in life—that he infrequently lets slip a fine bit of humor in hiB serious work of trying to make others feel bright and happy without realizing IL A few days ago Dr. Savidge paased one of the numerous Salvation Army young women who are collecting alma in the pots at various down-town street corners. "Mies," aaftd (he preacher, with a. suite on his face, “R’» mighty cold standing here, isn't it? But have you thought that it baata bell a long waya?” A Merciful Matarman. The paasengera on a crowded croaa town car in Brooklyn one day last week fait the brakes applied with each suddenness that only a few at those who were standing withstood the Jar. Than they saw the motor mas Jump fropr tbf jjiatform and jpneel in front ot the' ear.' Several of the pas sengers made their way out and were surprised to see the motoraan strok ing the feathers of a mother dove that sat on one of the rails with a little one under her wing. 'Tve never taken a life yet," he ex plained as be placed them on the curb out of harm's way. “and I don't propose to start with a tame dove.** \mosu Capitol r<> ExpAim I PronzX OF* CAPlTtOL, gZHOWWG FRPPOd&D, 2?KT$N<£[ON OF F&FF FQGNF • * ' * * The question of expansion faces our congressmen at Washington, and this without going outside of the city it self, and one may at once set his mind at rest for it is not an issue of annexing more territory but has to do with the annexing of the new con gressional buildings to the capitol building. There has been in course of construction for several years now two new’ structures for use of the members of the house of representa tives, and senators, and now the pro ject. is on foot to extend the front of the capitol building and connect these two structures which stand on either side. The material used would be marble to match the face of the pres ent capitol building and would make af the capitol building a vast and magnificent structure far beyond the streams of the designers of the orig inal structure. The two apartment buildings, as they are called, for the house and senate members, are splendid struc tures, and when completed will have cost $2,500,000 apiece. They flank the capitol on either side several hundred feet distant, and this space it is pro posed to fill up by extending the capi rol structure itself. These wings already are for the ex clusive use of congressmen, and will be devoted wholly to the personal con venience and comfort of their legis lative occupants, who will be sur rounded by every imaginable luxury. In effect, they will be huge hotels, each of them occupying more ground than the Waldorf-Astoria in New York, though not so tall; and the din ing rooms will be on a great scale and very handsome—though “guests” will be at liberty to have their meals serv ed in their rooms, by messengers on the government payroll and in uni form, if they so desire. Also, there will be magnificent barber shops; and, indeed, the only regular hotel feature lacking will be bedrooms, all of the apartments being intended for day time use merely—a fact w'hich, never theless, will not bar occupants from utilizing their quarters for sleeping purposes if they wish. The two buildings, which are of white marble, are exactly alike in re spect to their exterior, and will not differ much so far as their interior is concerned. Flanking the capitol at either end, they form With the latter, an harmonious architectural whole, the great dome dominating the group as the central feature. It would suf fice, then, to give a description of one in order to convey a satisfactory idea of both—save for one or two differ ences relating particularly to the num ber of rooms. In the southern flats allotted to the lower house, there will be 410 rooms—one for each represen tative. On the other hand, in the northern flats the same amount of space (comprising the whole of the three floors) will be occupied by 99 apartments. Now, at the present, time there are in the house 391 members and dele gates; so that 19 rooms will be left over for a future margin. In the sen ate there are 90—so that quarters for eight additional senators from possible future states will be available. But, it will be observed, the smaller num ber of senators makes it practicable to supply them with much more com modious quarters; and, so, while each representative will have only one room, there will be for each senator an apartment, in the proper sense of the word comprising a room for him self, a slightly smaller room for his secretary, and a bathroom. ' These senatorial apartments, of course, will be very handsomely dec orated and furnished. A small army of uniformed messengers wiil be at hand to furnish the requisite service; and, with private staircases and pri vate elevators for the exclusive use of the wearers of the toga, the whole outfit will be of the most comfortable not to say luxurious, description. A furnished private apartment In a white marble palace, with rent and all sorts of incidentals paid for by the government, is not by any means to be sneezed at. so to speak. A pretty fair notion of the magni tude of the structures in question is conveyed by the statement that each of them occupies an entire block, and on its four sides has a total frontage of 1,747 feet, or about one-third of a mile. Each of the twin palaces is built in such a manner as to inclose a great quadrangular court, walled with Indiana limestone. This court will be 300 feet square, and from it access will be bad to a tunnel leading to the capitol. Both of the great flat houses, it is understood, are to be con nected with the basement of the capi tol by subterranean passageways, lined with vitrified brick and brilliant ly lighted by electricity, so that, rep resent a rives and senators can pass to and fro without going out into the open air. There will be in each building four features specially elaborated in an architectural sense—namely, the ro tunda, the main staircase, a great room for caucus meetings, and the dining-room. The rotunda will extend from the ground floor through the en tire height of the structure (four stories) terminating with a dome un der the roof. It will be 75 feet in diameter. On the second floor will be the caucus room aforesaid—a su perb apartment 86 feet long and 54 feet wide. It is designed to be used for public hearings before committees of the house whenever such hearings are largely attended. Private en trances communicate with private stairs and elevators, as well as with cloak rooms and smoking rooms—all of these arrangements being in dupli cate so that members of the majority and the minority may utilize them comfortably without interfering with each other. On the first floor of each building will be a large and full-equipped post office, as well as accommodations for telegraph and telephone service. Be neath will be the barber shop. On the second floor will be the dining-room, 65 feet long and 30 feet wide and two stories in height, with an elliptical ceiling. It is the intention to finish this room in ornamental plaster, paint-, ed. Adjoining the dining-room will be a lunch room for the accommodation of the employes of the building. In all there will be eight staircases and 12 elevators in each flat house. Architecturally considered, the two new buildings are properly to be re garded as additions to the capitol—a structure which, beautiful as it is, has been from the beginning a patchwork. The wings, the terrace on the west, and even the dome are comparatively new; and the final touch of perfection will be added when the necessary $2. 500,000 is appropriated (as is confi dently expected) by the next congress for an extension of the east front in white marble. Retirement Wctl Earned. Capt. Edward Howard, of Oakland. Cal., probably the oldest mariner in the United States, has retired after having followed the seas over 80 years. During his life on the ocean wave Capt. Howard visited every quar ter of the globe, fought pirates several times and suffered shipwreck. Her Plaint. She—What horrid seats we have. Tom, right in the middle of the cheer ing section! I can’t see a single hat or dress. HE SIMPLY HAD TO LIVE. Old Man's Demise Would Have Left Qreat Question Unsettled. When the doctor came to see him and felt of Us pulse sad looked at his tongue and learned that he was over 60 years old, he shook his head and •aid there was no hone. "But I can’t die for several years to come," protested the old man. “You must die. but you can tell me ypur trouble,” said the doctor. “Well, then, 45 years ago I attended t circus and menagerie. 1 took an version to the elephant at once, and determined to make it hot for him. I ■cooped out an apple, filled the hoi low with red, pepper and gave it to him.” “Well, they say that an elephant remembers such things for 50 years.” “Yes 1 have heard so.” “And the 50 years won’t be up for five years more, and during that time old Behemoth Is sure to come around, j I want to be there. I want to see if ha remembers me. I want to settle j i ' ' ■ " ■ this question of an elephant's memory for good and all." "Then that's different." answered the doctor, and he took off hla coat and pulled the old man back ftom the grave. fffcMfty of Heart. Little faithfulnesses ere not only the preparation for great ones, bat tit tie faithfulnesses L In^SmS,!* f'tJ1** e“M*Ual flinty the heart is the same whether it H* exercised in the mites or In a ros«j treasury; the genuine faithfulness at e,MUy dutiful whether it be displayed in governing an eamlre or In writing an exercieeT-p w £.? nr. w* *»• WorU*** De'V to Bessemer We owe to Sir Henry Bessemer th. Improvements in our mod^T^L^ 8kyscrar«.r. !j v d Products, and the been built save by the use of steel