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DASTARD WORK OF VANDALS
Washington Monument and Capitol
Shamefully Mutilated.
OTHER ART OBJECTS ' MARKED
Belle-seekers, Wttfc Knife and Ham
mer," Deface Beaattfal Stataury,
' Palatlags and Memorial
Tablets.
' Vncle Bam has spent millions of dollars
In buildings In which to carry on the busi
ness of the government, and millions more
In the purchase of works of art with which
to 'beautify them. All over the capital city
are scattered statuary and memorials of
heroic deeds, and the corridors of the scores
of "buildings are lined with paintings com
memorating the deeds of valor by our Illus
trious dead, who won for us the name of
the greatest nation on the face of earth,
and all for what purpose? To supply ma
terial for the vandals who yearly destroy
almost as fast as congress can make appro
priations to repair or supply new works for
the vandal to deface or destroy.
Every now and then the police are able
to detect some act of. vandalism and to
drag the brainless fool Into court, where a
punishment awaits him which is so light
that he can well afford to pay the fine and
depart laughing at the police and the taw.
Meeca at te Vandal.
The great Washington monument, which
eost millions of money and years of time
to , complete. Is the great meeca of the
vandal here where the whole world haa
given tribute to perpetuate the memory of
the 'Greatest of Americans," our Washington,-
where the whole Interior is lined with
tones of untold value, each one contributed
by .soma body or society, and la many In
stances by the nations of the earth Is
sowly being destroyed by vandalism.
On the east and west walla of the Interior
of the monument are to be found hundreds
of such memorial atones. Many are most
elaborately and delicately carved and at
gieat expense. They range In slse from a
foot square to stones of Immense else. They
are things of beauty, and not only perpetu
ate the patriotism of the donors, but are of
the greatest value as showing the state of
art and of the mechanics of the day.
The outside of the monument has suf
fered as well as the Interior. As high as
the hand of man or woman can reach the
atones have been chipped away till today
hucdreda of pounds have been removed.
Repair, In such a position. Is not possible,
and the damage lnfllclod must remain for
all- times as a perpetual reminder of the
tool's visit to the capital city.
Xorrta Memorial Marred.
One of the most Important stones,
(rout a historic view, la the or given
by the employes of the R, Norrls
Sons' locomotive works of Philadelphia,
and shows the locomotive of the year
15. This stone has bean well worked
upon, and large pieces of It have been
removed by the visiting vandal, till a
great part of the wheels are gone gone
for all time as repair is not possible.
Another Important atone la the one
erected by the American Medical asso
ciation. The integrity of the whole group
f figures haa been destroyed by the re
moval of the noses and ears of the sev
eral heads, and In one Instance the whole
head haa been removed. What the ob
ject could have been no one can divine.
These few Instances will show the
many losses Inflicted upon the people at
Urge. It Is to be feared that the dam
age is by no means st sn end. Almost
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Many a man who has been in business, and who
has accumulated a competency, is often
willing to retire.
He will sell out if he gets the right kind of offer.
The only way to reach him is through The Bee.
He reads The Bee and watches the Business
chances from day to day.
A line, saying that you want to enter the field,
naming the kind of business you prefer and
the section most desirable, together ,with
your resources and available capital, will
bring him out
He will tell you what he has, and what is neces
sary for you to acquire his property. fi
It is worth while. "
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less Injured, and there Is no way to
stop It unless the whole surface of the
Interior be guarded with wire or iron
bars. There are nearly 100 landings on
the stairs Inside of the structure, and
It would take no less than twenty-five
men to care for the entire length, from
top to bottom, a care which would en
tall an expense which can hardly be
entertained.
It Is not a difficult thing to make a
rough calculation and discover that at
the present rate of destruction It will
be simply a matter of time when the
great Washington monument will ' be a
pile of ruins.
Capitol Defacements.
Going to the capltol building, the
pride of all real Americans, we find the
vandal has been there before us. As
we enter the great east doors we find
the vandal has been at work upon the
the panels beyond all repair. These
doors, for which congress paid 190,000
and upon which the brains of the country
was engaged for years to produce, are
now a mass of mutilation; every part
of the bronze which is not a part of
the solid casting has been broken off.
These panels were designed to perpet
uate in history the deeds of the revolu
tion, and not belong alone to the present
generation. They are the property of all
the people who are now here and those
who are to come.
The ends of the pistol, the points of
the bayonets and, in several instances,
the buttons of the coats have' been
chipped off. It must not be imagined
that this was an easy Job; in some cases
ft was necessary to use-hammer and cold
chisel, and in 'others even a crowbar was
required to break the casting. In one
or two instances the vandal, not being
able to remove any particle, has muti
lated the eyes of the figures.
Throughout the National Museum are
hundreds of instances where the vandal has
destroyed property of untold value, but of
late years most of the exhibits have been
encased, and acts of vandalism are more
rare than formerly.
Kfforts to safeguard.
In the library of congress the practice
of vandalism is reduced to a minimum, so
acute Is the watchfulness of the attendants,
who are off In a hurry at the least sound
of the hammer or even a scrsptng sound.
All one has to do to attract attention Is
to tap on the wall with the head of your
lead pencil, and it will be but a moment
before the visitor Is In the hands of the
authorities. Here the act of the vandal Is
confined to the mutilation of books by
those if ho. tear a leaf or two out rather
than copy It, and even this variety of
"fool business" Is a dangerous procedure
whloh Is followed by swift punishment.
All over Washington are hundreds of In
stances where the innumerable statues and
monuments have suffered, and there Is
no abatement of the destruction. Every
time the city is visited by a" delegation
vandals leave their marks and Just so much
less beauty. The authorities are at their
wits' end to devise some plan or system
which will put an end to th pracUoa
Philadelphia Ledger.
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His Employer.
A Philadelphia Judge, disgusted with a
Jury that seemed unable to reach an agree
ment In a perfectly evident case, rose and
said. "I discharge this Jury." One sensi
tive talesman Indignant at what he con
sidered a rebuke, obstinately faced tha
Judge.
"You can't discharge me," he said In
tones of one standing upon his rights.
"And why not?" atked the aurprlaed
Judge.
' Hivaue," answered the Juror pointing
to the lawyer for the defense, "I'm being
hlied by that man there." Cleveland
BANKS MAY WASH MONEY, TOO
Woald Be Cheaper Than Expressing
It to the Usnsrr at
Waahlnvtoa.
Uncle Sam's money laundry for washing
soiled paper currency has been the subject
of much comment The general opinion
seems to be that the government scheme
will be imitated by the banks, which will
find it cheaper to do their own washing
than to pay express chatges on money to
and from the Washington laundry.
The cost of installing a money washing
plant is not expected to exceed from $500
to $700 In most cases. The government Is
planning to give the bankers the benefit
of what it learns from its own experiment.
The whole process Is quite simple. It has
been found that the best mediur.', Ur
cleansing the bills Is soapsuds 'ms5e iii'rti
almost any grade of potaBh soap.
Following a vigorous churning Is mt?.yy
water and a bleaching the bills are rti!m)
In warm water. One stage where care tuuui
be exercised Is in the bleach lug- ojwMiyi',
and It Is not yet determined Junt ysplA In
gredients in a bleaching powder glvu fViiest
assurance of Indicting no Injury to the bills.
All the bills of lower denomination have
been found to launder satisfactorily, but
the Ink employed In the printing of some
of the bills of high value shows a tend
ency to run when washed. However, there
Is little need of laundering these longer
lived bills.
After the washed bills are dried by arti
ficial heat they are put through a sluing
machine, which by means of' a bath of
alum and glue restores the finish of the
paper. Finally the bills are packed between
large aheets of cardboard and run through
a press, which In addition to the application
of great weight Imparts a pecular elongat
Ing motion to each package, with the re
sult that the rejuvenated bills emerge with
all tha crisp appearance and body of newly
manufactured currency.
It has been suggested thst the launder
ing Include a sterilisation of the money
either in conjunction with or Immediately
following the washing of the bills, but the
officials have not yet decided whether or
not there is - necessity for such chemical
purification.
Only a banker can appreciate what the
express charges for the money haulage to
the Treasury department might amount to
in the course of a year. Of course in the
case of a : small bank located near the
point of exchange the expense Is nominal,
but such is far from being the case with
the large banks, some of which send In
hundreds of pounds of bills at a time for
redemption.
'ine renovation of currency which has
thus far been accomplished, and It has
been ample In scope and volume to dem
onstrate the practicability and economy
of the project, haa been carried on by
means of a comparatively amall washer
operated by an electr.o motor of one
eighth horsepower, but era the summer
of 1110 has closed there will be In full
operation at the bureau of engraving and
printing at Washington a specially de
signed laundry capable of cleansing
100,000 notes a day.
The cost of Installing this plant will
not greatly exceed 1.000, and the offic
ials are confident that when experience
has pointed the way to Its most economi
cal operation It can be conducted at an
expense not to exceed $20 a day. This
would mean a cost of only ' about one-
fifteenth of a cent a t.ll laundered.
In the preltmlnary work tnat has been
done the cost haa never exceeded one
tenth of a cent per piece of currency, and
wust a saving can be effected even at
this maximum figure will be appreciated
when It la explained that It costs approxi
mately one and a third cents for the man-
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certificate turned out at the money fao
tory. If each bill In circulation Is laundered
but once it would double the life of our
paper medium, but the tests which have
been made by tne treasury launderera
demonstrate tnat the currency Is not in
jured and suffers no voierloratlon In the
washing process, anu there would seem to
be no reason why a bill should ot be
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laundered several different times.
TIPPLES FOR EVERY TASTE
Drinks of All Nations and Races
Afford All Varieties of
Headaches.
It would take a person Just about one
month to start at the Battery In New York
City and drink a moderate amount of va
rious kinds of tipples which are dispensed
from there to the Bronx. ' In Whitehall
' street and also in the tenderloin district
I may be procured pulque and mescal. These
are Mexican drinks, so-called, but in reality
are purely Aztec. They were used by the
Incas long before the times of Plsarro and
Cortez. Pulque is a sourish beer made from
the agave. It looks like milk and water,
has a not unpleasant taste and Is about as
strong as ordinary table beer. Mescal Is
obtained by distilling pulque, and is a fiery
fluid of yellow color and a very corrosive
aroma. It produces what the cowboy calls
a crazy drunk, and is said to contain more
inebriety to the cubic inch than any other
drink known.
In the little Spanish restaurants In the
tobacco district, near Maiden Lane and
Pearl street, are sold the common and
coarse wines of Spain and Portugal, as well
as the liquors which were invented by for
gotten monks. The wines are generally
red, full bodied, rather sweet, and quite
harsh. They contain a great deal of tannin
and are said by their friends to cure dys
pepsia, and by foes to create the worst
forms of that dread disorder. The liquors
which are made from chocolate, tea and
cinnamon, with cloves, are extremely
palatable and would add to our own bill
of fare.
In the business district, between Maiden
Lane and Beekman street are many res
tauranta and pothouses where the Canadian
can obtain hla ale and rye whisky, the
Irishman his potheen, the (Scotchman his
Highland dew and the Cockney his rum,
shruin, dog's nose and bitter.
Half a mile uptown brings the visitor
into the Chinese quarter. Here our almond
eyed cousins drink, but never get drunk
upon samsul, Ungka-peh and No-mai-Jow.
The first Is a wine or beer made from rice.
It is the color of sherry and has a pleasant
vinous flavor. Different kinds have dif
ferent tastes, ranging from a subacid to a
moderate aweetnesa. The Ung-ka-peh be
longs to the liquor class and suggests
Chartreuse In character and appearance.
No-mai-Jow la another distillate made from
rice wine aud flavored aith lemon and
other fruits. Nearly all of the Chinese
drinks possess the curious feature of cloy
ing the appetite with a small quantity.
They are served in tiny porcelain cups,
which hold a tablespoon ful. Five of these
oups Is about all a person drinks, or cares
to drink at a meal.
On the other side of Chatham square Is
a small Japanese settlement Both here
and In the other Japanese quarter uptown
you can sample the many kinds of sakl,
the national Intoxicant of the land of the
mikado. It Is made in the same way as
the samsul of China, and in many Instances
cannot be distinguished from It
In Mulberry bend the Italian storekeep
ers earn an honest penny and often a
dishonest one by retailing what purports to
be the favored beverages of the northern
shores of the Mediterranean. Among these
are aruegnaa which is fiery spirit, said, ;
despite its burning quality, to be beneficial
to the stomach; a rose liquor that Seems to
be made of sweetened alcohol flavored with
geranium and any number of chlantlas,
baroles and other ordinary wines.
. On the West Side down town the Scandi
navian seeks solace In Swedish punch,
Kornbrantvln, and Christina beer. The
Swedish punch is verv deltpinni.. it- i
made from arrack, lemon, sugar and other
ingredients, and is probably the most fas
cinating strong drink that is known. The
kornbrantvln halls from Denmark and la a
rough whiskey which, to an American pal
ate, seems half fusel oil and half oil of
vitriol. The Chrlstlanla beer 1 . ii.h
sparkling, tasteful malt liquor and may be
ciassea among the best productions of King
Gambrlnus.
In a French establlshrne.it In the neigh
borhood of Bleecker street can be seen
some wines which are crown nn.
north coast of Africa. They are of very
good quality and for an experiment com
pare well with the older vlntAirp. t tr...
rope. In the last twenty-five years the
rrencn government and French capitalists
have introduced viticulture Into .Algiers
Tunis, Tripoli and Ezvdi. In nn. .. .. '
Instances it was found that the new vine
yards were upon the sites of those that
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years ago. Oddest of all is one vineyard
near Alexandria. It supplied red wine to
the Pharoahes, the Ptolemies, to the Van
dals and the Goths. The vines were de
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Saddle Horse Stolen.
ORINNELL, la., Aug. 20. (Special.) A
fine saddle horse was stolen on Tuesday
night last from the pasture near the home
of George Morris, between Newburg and
Grinnell, and a saddle and bridle were
stolen the same night from Newburg.
Strong circumstantial evidence exists, but
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where Hamor Shock ley of this city recently
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