To Defend Thaw.
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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
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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.”
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Gives a Large Farm to His Niece.
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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
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■ " ■
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
