Evening Star Newspaper, July 15, 1893, Page 10

AT THE AQUE THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON, D. 0, SATURDAY, JULY 15. 1898-SIXTEEN PAGES. DUOT BRIDGE. ON THE POTOMAC. Pleasure Boats That Dot Its Broad, Smooth Bosom. ITS NATURAL ADVANTAGES Are Unsurpessed by Any River in the Coun- try—Its Wooden Banks Offer Tempting Places of Rest—How the Sport Has In- creased Year by Year. —-+__—_ VER SINCE THE aborigines, smoothly along in their light canoes, shot for- ward by the muscular = strokes of the Indians, the river on which this city borders has been s favorite one for boat- furnished ending and ove which any fashionble ‘would be delighted to have. ENJOYING THE ADVANTAGES. & i # — to be a dividing oarsmen and the yachtsmen. Above ing, and those i F ee A a. te ly used on Sunday, and they are not so ‘Bumerous as those on the Georgetown portion the river, where the more attractive sur- are. ® BOATS ARE ABUNDANT. All along the Georgetown shore are s num- Der of pisces where, for a very acasonable sum, comfortable boat can be obtained that is fitted with the latest appliances and can be de- instruct them for their own safety and pleas- ure. | This is no doubt one of the reasons why this form of enjoyment has become so popular. ‘The genius of the American bas invented boats safe 8 pUFicULT®. évenachild can send them along ats good ¢. The boatmen were not slow to see that best boats were the most attractive and Would increase their business if obtained, and consequently the most approved styles can gen- erally be found at the public boat houses. Then, too, there is something deliciously fas- Ginsting about being out on the water. As one along over the south surface the motion brings about = feeling of happy contentment that is not to be resisted. The rippling water sings a pleasant song, accompanied by the regu. lar dip, dip, dip of ‘the oars, which leave an eddy that flows along behind and has an irre- sistible charm thet one cannot but watch. BOWING A HEALTHFUL sroRT. The benefit that is to be derived from the exercise is not to be underestimated, for row- ing is one of the most healthful of sports. When one rows properly almost every muscle of the body is brought into play. The back is strengthened, the limbs are hardened and the muscles of the arm are brought into active play. The condition of the system is thus | made healthy and strong and if one is careful not to overexert himself the necessary result must be that. he is better prepared to withstand the effects of the summer's heat. The greatest danger is that in returning from a row up the river when the body is glowing with the exercise taken, one is to sit about on the cool verandas of the | house and thereby take cold. During the early part of the season there are likely to be some blistered hands from the oars, some blistered arms from the sun and some well- browned faces, but generally there is a fair companion for whom one would endure almost an; in order that she may regard him as a it and hardy young man. Not a little of the increased interest taken in rowing must fall to the credit of the various boating clubs. To the Columbias, the Potomacs and the Analostans is due a great deal not only for keeping up the ardor of the young athletes who wish to show their prowess with the oar, but for providing every week or so a regatta that never fails to attract. The Columbias were to have had o regatta this evening, butowing to some unusual circumstances it was necessary to postpone it for a week. "These reguttas are always « source of entertainment daring the progress of oue of them the balconies of the club houses are crowded with the friends of the con- testants. Though the rival crews are composed of members of the same club each crew takes a pride in doing its best, and thus the acme of amateur sport is obtained. Generally after one of the regattas the boathouse is turned into @ ball room, and there on the banks of the cool Potomac the admirers of Terpsi- chore can amose themselves even though it be the middle of the samme. The approach of the District regatta, which is fixed for the 9th of September, has necessarily added more the usual interest to the sport. ‘TRE DEAR GIRL PASSENGER. ‘The easy access to the river no doubt fs another of the reasons why boating is be- coming more favorably looked upon. A mo- ment’s walk, and that is all down hill, from the Georgetown cars, will ‘bring one to the river's bank. Once at the boathouses the young men excuse themselves to goto their lockers and Put on acostume more fitting to exercise in, while the young Isdies gather on the balcony and watch the sturdy young men with well- browned faces and arms carry the light shells from the boathouse and gently launch them on the river. In this performance the young ladies appear to be deeply interested, and as the oarsmen step gently into the shell and swiftly move away they are filled with ad- miration. Some of the young ladies are a little Himid about getting into the boats, and then | their proud companion . steps forward | and gallantly assures thom that they are perfectly safe. When they have proceeded some distance the ease with which the boat moves generally arouses the envy of the fair companion who has heretofo: the arduous task of holding the tiller rope and innocently steering the young man wer the stream, INSIDE HISTORY. The Bargain That Resulted in the Election of Hayes, THE ELECTORAL COMMISSION. ae oe ce Governor Tilden Did Not Accatesce in Its Formation, as Was Stated by Mr. A. B. Hewitt — The Wormley Conference — 014 Landmarks of Washington Being Ob- Mterated, ee HERE ARE SOME phases of American po- litical history which, like Banquo’s ghost, will not down. Every year or two they rise, and with them controversies that are supposed to settle the disputed point, and the ghost is laid for the time bein; At the meeting of the congress of charities in Chicago Frederick H. Wines delivered 8 memorial address defending President Hayes from the charge of bargain- ing to obtain the presidency, Gov. D. H. Chamberlain, who was at that time governor of South Carolina, publishes a letter denying the truth of Wines’ statement and says there was a bargain and that Hayes was cognizant of it. I can confirm Gov. Chamberlain's statement, if it confirmation, for I was at that time with Col. Pelton and other friends of Gov. Tilden in charge of his interests here. ‘The facts came to us almost as soon as they transpired and ru- mors of the bargaining were traced to. their source, and it was known to Gov. Tilden’ friends that the man behind Gen. Gordon the other southern mon was the late Justice Lamar. He kept himself in the background, but was the inspirer of those who took part in the ““Wormley conference. REFUSED AID FOR SOUTH CAROLINA. I never blamed the friends of Gen. Hampton, for the national committee under Hewitt treated the state of South Carolina very badly and re- fused the means promised in aid of the ex- penses of the campaign. I was. at Columbia when Gen. Hampton was nominated and was fully authorized to tender what help wae needed. in campaign, but when the committee was called on by » now Senator, Butler for aid Mr. Hewitt refused it, and made excuse that the funds of the committee had been depleted. Dr. Gwin offered to raise the sum needed if authorized, and that was refused. At St. Louis the day Hewitt was made chairman of the na- tional committes Dr. Gwin said his a] int- ment was fatal to the success of Gov. ‘Tilden, and so it proved. Through his action we lost South Carolina, and by his unauthorized state- ment that Gov, Tilden approved the eloctoral commission it passed Congress. Mr. Manton Marble was present at the interview in which Hewitt affirmed Gov. Tilden acquiesced in the formation of the commission, and I have his letter before me contradicting Hewitt flatly. Gov. Hoadly denied it in speech on the au- thority of Gov. Tilden. GOV. TILDEN’s DENTAL, A day or two before the final decision by the electoral commission I was sent to New York to obtain from the governor a denial to be used on the floor of the House of Representatives, and obtained it, but it was too late. Thata bargain was made no one cognizant of the movements at that time doubted, and it ‘was carried out and the troops removed. Gov. Chamberlain was ma position to know all he asserts. He bad become so conservative at that time that his nomination by the democratic convention was very seriously urged by some of the most conservative democrats in the state. Gov. Tilden wrote a lotter to Mr. Julius Brown, son of Gov. Jos. E. Brown, denying every state- ment made by Hewitt and others that he had, even for a moment, considered the question of submitting his claims to a commission, however appointed, and always said there was sufficient power in the Constitution to determine the resultand none outside of it. The telegram which reached us on the day the vote was taken in Congress reiterated whathe had always said— exbaust tho power contained in the Constitu- tion before you talk of other and illegal means. ‘THE STAR EVERYWHERE. It would seem Tux Eventxe Star penetrates all parts of the world. I had some months ago a letter from a friend living in London thanking me for a kindly allusion to him in recalling his residence bere during the years of the war, when he wasa military representative of the state of Pennsylvania, and I have just had another from an old friend from Los Angeles county, Cal., recalling events of fifty years ago, when, as young whigs and ardent lovers of Henry Clay, we sang and marched to the tune of “Rally, Whigs.” This letter speaks of Wash- ington as we knew it then and of the friends who were with us, but, alas, now gone beyond the stars. Fifty years, a balf a century, and in those fifty have been crowded ail the great in- ventions, the vast improvements and exten- sion of this country from the icy shores of Alaska to the sunny slope of the Pacific. It is saddening to read of those who at that time made up so much of the life of Wasbing- ton, and the memory of whom can now be re- called by but very few of the living. ‘The con- trasts in everything can hardly be realized. The changes produced by discoveries in science, the application of them to our daily life, has so obliterated tho past that we wonder how we managed to live without the present appliances which have revolutionized the world. Time and space have been annihilated since that May day in 1844 when for the first time the telegraph became a reniized fact. That was the entering wedgo and all the rest followed, for since that day discoveries and im- provements have been and are being made daily, until nothing seems unattainable or be- yond’ the reach of human knowledge and human effort. A FORMER STATE AGENT. ‘The letter from London comes from Sir John Puleson, now a member of the British parlia- ment and a banker, and he recalls with much pleasure the four years he passed here looking after the Pennsylvania troops, as the agent of the state when Gov. Andy Curtin, as he was then called, was the war governor of the key. stone state. I rarely enter Brady's gallery without admiring the governor as he then was, one of the harisomest historical characters which look at us from those walls, crowded with the great ones of historic renown, and recall them in their pride of manhood. The old governor was here some weeks ago and sub- mitted to tne camera of Mr. Brady, and though age has deait gently with him he looked with a very proper pride at “the counterfeit pre- sentment” of himself taken thirty years ago. Col. Vuleson, as ho was then, returned after the war to his home in Wales and became a representative in the house of pariiament and was knighted for some servi rendered the British government. He takes a deep interest OUT For 4 Pry. and she becomes imbued with the idea that can propel the boat herself. The change of t! position is at once gratifying to the young mai who insists that he is not in the least bit tired, but is nevertheless willing to humor her whim, | and the positions are reversed. For a moment or two, perhaps, all goes well, but it is not long before the would-be oarswoman geta ito difficulty, and the young man with re- newed efforts again grasps the oars and rows toward the wooded shores on tho Virginia side. hady retreat where Cupid can play havoc with the young hearts. Perhaps the entire evening is spent above the Aqueduct bridge, and then as the shadows begin to fall the boat is headed toward home and allowed to drift along with the current. It beats driving in Washington, where but very few of his old friends are left, for death has been busy among them. ANOTHER OLD LANDMARK GoxE. Another old Jandmark has been swept away within the last few weeks by that iconoclast, the spirit of improvement. My earliest recol- lections are of Bacon's corner, where in 1803 Mr. Samuel Bacon, the father of the late Samuel Bacon and of Gen. Peter F. Bacon, os- tablished himself in the grocery trade, and where his sons succeeded him, and where until this change Gen. Bacon remained all his life. He was born on that ha and only retired at the mature age of eighty, yielding to the demands of improvement, 4xhose resistless advance wipes out all traces of the long past, leaving only the record on the frail memories of our boyhood and our matured life. Theoid hotel a was rendered somewhat all to pieces, for there are no reins to be aided and no unraly horse to shy and cause ‘ight to the fair companion. gio. rere Figuring to Beat the Chicago Men: From the Indianapolis Journal. The earnest-looking man was figuring on scraps of paper at a very busy rate when the man who had dropped in wanted to know what he was at. “Making out bills of fare for the time I shall beat the Chicago show,” answered the esrnest- looking man “Bills of far ‘Yes. I'm going to have a regular assort- ment of truck for each day, and I'm going to find out the price of the layout outside the grounds and inside the grounds, and whenever difference is more than fifty cents in favor of the man on the outside, I'll go out and get | my feed, give up « haifadollar for a second | admissioa, and come back in again. They | don't skin'me out of a cent more than I can help, I bet you.” | And the financier leaned back and admired | himself to a great degree. { famous by Tom Loyd, a bright, witty son of the emerald isle, whose sayings and whose subsequent political effort to renominate John ‘Tyler are remembered by the old fellows of that day. In the long ago the old tavern was a famed boarding house, where the statesmen of that day boarded with Mre Myers. That fact I learned from Gen. Bacon, for I can only go back to the Tom Loyd’s Steamboat Hotei, whose commencement of @ story was alwa; “There was Jesse Brown, John Gadsby and myself.” Tom had been provided for by Mr. ‘Tyler in the Baltimore custom house, and on the election of Mr. Polk brought over a very fine horse to present to the President, who not only declined the gift, but removed’ Tom, He then opened @ hotel ‘near the President street depot, Baltimore. Gen. Bacon was a member of the Blues from the first organization under Capt. Doughty who was succeeded by McClintock Young, for, many years chief clerk of the Treasury Depart- ment. He was succeeded by Capt. Lemuel J. Middleton. My old friend and correspondent was a member of the Blues, which never mus- tered more than twenty muskets, but aug- mented their parade by the full Marine Band. Time has reduced the ranks, neve very largo, 7 leaving, I think, only eight of the old guard to answer the roll call, Gen. Bacon, Capt. As- bury Tucker, Jas, D. Hendley, Joseph An- derson of Los Angeles, Ashton White, ‘‘Consin” John Waters, John McDermott and myself. ‘The general's military ardor outlasted ours, and, like Claude Melnotte, he rose from the ranks to the command of the District military. THE KIRKWOOD DRUG STORE. ‘The elder brother of the general died some years ago, and the last time we mot was at the Capitol, where we lunched with our old friend, Gov. Kirkwood, then in the United States Sen- ate. “Sam” Kirkwood, as we boys called him, was the especial friend of all the boys in the aaigtbortord of the drug store kept ty him- self and his brother, Wallace Kirkwood, on the spot where Tur Evexrxo Stan now rearsits white walla, It was then a little yellow frame build- ing, only one story, I think, but the resort of the politicians of the day, a sort of whig head- quarters. After “Sam” Kirkwood left Wash- ington we heard a good deal of Gov. Kirkwood of Iowa, but nevor dreamed it was the friend of our boyhood until he came to the Senate, and then entered the cabinet as Secretary of the Interior. His political elevation made but little change in him, and even age had failed to chill the genial nature we remembered so affec- tionately. The old store so familiar to everybody in this city has been given up to the needs of the in- oreasing demands of our own people and thelargo number nt viallacs who crow an at all seasonsof the year. The dingy andagedappear- ance has under the magic towh of the pe decorator been effectually eliminated from the ancient edifice, There are no traces of its age, ‘and to the stranger it looks like an example of the prevailing taste, so manifost in the build- ings of today. It is announced that a restaurant fitted up in the latest style, and supplied with the best the market affords, succeeds the Venerable store known for nearly a century. ‘That nelghborhood has known some mighty fino restaurants. Lataurna, Boulanger, Shad & Walker, the Brothers Dubants and some others drew custom from all parts of the city. The revolutions of time and the changes wrought are nowhere more manifest than in the appearance of the eating and drinking places of today. The old-time boxes where we Were ensconced to eat our oysters have given place to polished tables and wainscoat of +e Comman! To the Editor of The Ev. I did not propose to discuss this question, for it has been argued over and over many times, but as two of your correspondents have replied to my article of the 6th instant, will you permit me to saya word in support of my position, and then Tam done with the subject? Mr. B. M. Millet in Saturday's Stan gives the views of an unknown writer in the Christian Tnion in 1891, to ehow that there was but one wine known to the ancients, the intoxicating wine, and concludes that the wine Christ made and blessed was of this character. I will quote also, but will name my authority. In the “Christian Herald and ay of Our Times,” November 16, 1892, Mrs. M. 8. Barbour, Fort Wayne, Ind., asked three questions of Dr. 'T. DeWitt and received replies as fol- lows: “L Was the wine used by the Lord at the institution of the Lord's Supper fermented or intoxicating wine?” Answer.—-The question long been argued without result. It is most probable that it was the unfermented juice of the grape.” “2. Is it disparaging to Christ to decline in- toxicating wine at the sacrament?” Answer.— “No; there would be no reflection on the Master in not tasting it; but many churches now use non-intoxicating wine at the com- munion.” “3. Is there danger to a converted man, once @ drunkard, in partaking of wine {iotoxtcating) at the communion?” Answer.—Yes: there ix a danger of the taste of the wine reviving tho slumbering appetite, but not the same danger as he would incur if he drank it elsewhere. The solemnity of the service would have a tend- ency to counteract the temptation, but there is no miraculous property about tho’ sacramental wine, depriving it of its seductive influence.” Dr. Talmage is supported in the view of un- fermented grape juice by many men of high standing who have been long in the east. I will quote from one, Taylor , LL.D. a8 found in Butler's “Bible Work.” vol. 1, p. 81, par. 9: “Whether among the Jews, and in our Sayior's day, there was a wine that con- tained no alcohol ‘is hard to be determined, al- though in regard to the significance of the He- brew yayinand the Greek oinos there can be but little doubt. Theso words simply meant the liquid that came from pressing the gra There is no evidence of any further idea ciated with it. It is not fermented fluid, but grapejnice. This, it was well know grew stronger with age. It was at first pleasant and nourish- ing, then exbilirating, and at last intoxicating. In the Bible the first use is commended, the second mentioned without disapprobation or approval, the third in all cases condemned.” Christ was well acquainted with the books of the Bible, for he often quoted from them. He had read Habakkuk, 2:15, ‘Woe unto him that giveth his neighbor drink, that puttest thy bot- tle to him and makost him drunken ——.”” And would he do this? If we had no other means of knowing that the wine used by Josus on the occasions mentioned was not intoxicating we could know it, as we do, from his life and teach- ing. It was said of Him that He was tempted onall_ points, likeas we aro, and yet without sin. If He pressed intoxicating wine to the lips of His acligwera thet Ho wes nos guiltless, But it was the fresh juice of the grape that He | recommended, and He said in Matthew's ac- count of the Lord's supper, “I will not drink henceforth of this fruit of tho vine until that day when Idrink it net with you in my Father's kingdom. So Paul, taught of Jesus, says that “‘no drunkard shall inherit the king- dom of heaven;” yet Mr. Miller would make us think that Christ placed before His disciples that which, if taken in too large a quantity and too often, would exile them from the very king- dom where he was to drink the yayin new. Let me ask howa faithful Jew could drink intoxicating wine? He was prohibited from eating leavened bread because of the ferment that leavened it. How could he drink fer- mented wine? That some did it is true and they have their reward. The late Rev. F. 8. De Haas, D. D., consul of the United States at Jerusalem for many years, said to me at one time when discussing thi question that he had often been invited to dine with rich Jews, who had tine vineyards, and that the grapes were pressed and the juice strained through hair cloth, The jnice was then given him to drink as wine—yayin—and it was ns nourishing and refreshing as milk, If your correspondent, “Old Fogy,” had added “pure, fresh juice of the grape” to his last parapraph he would have come close to the truth. We donot have to prove that the wine was not intoxicating. We argue from Christ's mussion, his teaching, his acts of mercy and love, his words of wisdom, that he did not use ‘nor recommend intoxicating wine, and it remains for our opponents to prove that we are not correct. I thank you for your courtesy in allowing me so much space. My on'v object is to strengthen the weak and to show to “Mother” and to other fearful Christians that the communion can be partaken without defilement and without fear that a taste for that which damns the soul will be formed. Ti. A. Donsox, M.D. ee ‘Where the Eagles Roost, From World's Fair Puck. Mrs, Thamesby-Jones—‘’Arry, dear, what- ever is that bird? Is it a heagle, au ‘awk, or a hextra large ’en?” Mr. Thamesby-Jone lemma, hit’s an American heagle of the bald-‘eaded waricty.” Miss Thamesby-Jones—"“Do the Americans heat the heagle, pa?” Mr. Thamesby-Jones—'Arriet, they do not. Hit is only fit to roost like a howl, wich the blahsted injuts call it the bird o’ freedom.”” Mi by-Jones—“Hit hain't ‘arf so ‘andsome hay one of hour howls at ‘ome, and wot a ’orrid heye bit ‘as.”” Mr. Thamesby-Jonos—Ansome is ai some doea; an’ the Americans ‘ i houtlandish beast becauso it gazes hup to the sun. But wot’s the hodds ¢o long’s they're ‘appy?” on Section J. ‘From World's Fair Puck. In any building. How appropriate some signs are! LAWS COST MONEY. Congress Spends Many Millions Yearly on Its Own Support. ART AT THE OAPITOL. ‘82,500,000 for Pay and Mileage of Senators and Representatives — Enormous Expense of Running the Two Houses—The Outlay for Printing Bills sand the Congressions! Record — What the Keep of the Capitol Conte. —— HE EXTRA SESSION tional legislature run on during its absence from Washington, they jump to s maximum when it site, To make laws costs Uncle Sam pile of money annually. bers of the House amounts to $1,800,000 a year, and they get €130,000 extra for mileage. To help them transact their business they require mall army of clerks, doorkeepers, bookkeep- ors, pages, messengers, &c. The salary list for this. force of assistants runs up to $730,000. This does not include the office of the sergeant- ‘ms, which is a sort of bank,through which the salaries of the ntatives are paid. To run this financial institution on outlay of $16,000 more is needed. An additional #26,000 provides for the support of the House post office, through which as much mail matter passes as comes into and goes out of a good-sized city. Cost OF THE SENATE. ‘The number of Senators being much smaller, their annual pay amounts only to $440,000, with an addition of $45,000 for mileage. There isan expense of 5,460 for employes in the office of the Vice President. The office of the secretary of the upper house, which does the banking and attends to much of the clerical business of that august body, costs $64,500 in Clerks and messengers to the various committees draw $163,500. The sergeant-at- arms, doorkeepers and other helpers got an aggregate of $118,600. There are further ex- enditures of €30.700 for the documel folding rooms, €18,200 for the Senate post office and 16,000 for stationery and news- papers. YOR THE OFFICIAL RERORTERS. This brief statement by no means comprises all the expenses involved in running Congress. Among many things left out, which are paid for out of the contingent funds, is the item of salaries for the official reporters. These are the men who write out the reports of proceed- ings and debates which make up the daily pub- lication called the Congressional Record. There are five of them on the fluor of the House, who table in front of speaker's desk. It is their duty to report evory word that is said from the opening to the adjournment. Being all of them rapid stenographera they manage by toking turns. As quickly as No. 1 has got 1,000 words put down he holds up his thumb and No. 2 takes up the thread, very likely in the middle of a speech, while No. 1 goes down tomroomon the floor below, where he dic- tates the 1,000 words he bas taken to two short- hand writers—500 words to one and 500 to the other. While the two shorthand writers are copying off their notes quickly in type script reporter . 1 gree back to his seat in front of the r's desk. Meanwhile No. 2 bas finished ,000 words and held up his thumb to No. 8, who in his turn takes up the thread, while No. 2 goes down staira and dictates—and so on until No. 5 holds up his thumb to No. 1 and the | business goes on as before. ‘This arrangement renders it possible to have the complete type- written report of the House proceedings ready for the printer & few minutes after that body adjourns. Tt is the same way with the Senate. Thus each Congressman finds on his breakfast tablo next morning a copy of the Record, com- prising a complete. report of everything that was said and done in the national legislature on the day before, ‘These skilled stenographers get $5,000 a year cach, cost oF THE “RECORD.” There are ten of them, and so it costs €50,000 a year for the writing of the Congressional Record, the stenographers paying their own as- tants, The printing of this interesting daily publication is done at an expense of near! $150,000 annually. During the Inst fi year it used up $25,000 pounds of paper and 1,053 pounds of ink. For the titles and ornamentation on bound copies 150 packs of gold leaf were required, valued at $1,009. Five barrels of flour were consumed in’ the hape of paste for binding. During the first session of the last Congress the outlay on the printing of bills and joint resolutions for both House and Senate was $71,880. During the two sessions 10,837 such documents were pre- sented to the House and 4,056 to the Senate. Bills bave to be printed and reprinted at all es of their progress, #0 that a single one have to be put into type @ score of times before it becomes a law. FOR EULOGIES. Among tho advantages which a Congressman enjoys is the expectation of a costly eulogy in case he dies during his term of service. In such an event enstom demands that his virtues shail be embalmed in book form at the expense of the government. During the last fiscal year nine Representatives and Senators were thus honored, at an outlay of 46,462. The most extravagant of these publications came to $10,812. The expenditure for eulogies runs from $2,500 up. From ten to twenty-five thou- gand copies ordinarily aro distributed. Fifty are presented to the family of the dead states- man; most of the others find their way, sooner ‘or Juter, to the junk shop. Each ono must have a portrait, the engraving of which costs uni- formly $34. A WASTE OF PUBLICATIONS. Congressmen have cause it waste of the public funds by scattering the publications ise sued from the government printing office broad- cast where there was no use for them. As a re- sult of this practice thousands on thousands of volumes every year were sold todealers ir waste paper all over the country without having been taken from their wrappers. Compilations of statistics, produced at enormous expense, have excited the wonder and dismay of bucolic con- stituents, while learned essays on “Tertiary In- sects” or other equally abstruse subjects astonished the untutored residents of city slumé, ‘This abuse has been done away with to agreat extent by recent legislation. Among the materinls consumed by the public printer in the last year, mentioned in his account, were three gross fire balls, $50 worthof eggs, eighty- four yards of blue jeans, 206 gailons of benzine, 16,171 worth of gold leaf and $2,090 worth of imitation gold leaf, Lithographed and en- graved illustrations for the reports and execu- tive documents of both House and Senate cost $8,824. CHAPLAINS AND PACKING BOXES, Congress is fairly economical with respect to ite expenditure on religion. ‘The salary of the House chaplain is only €900, while the chaplain of the Senate gets the same amount. The two branches of the national legislature spend twice that much in the course of a year on packing boxes. These are made by carpenters at tho tol, and, being handsomely put together, found very useful for stowing dresses in and for other purposes of transportation which would otherwise require trunks. Ont of the | », contingent funds the “junkets” of special cor mittees aro paid for, “Often they are very en- joyable as well as expensive irs, costing many thousands of dollars. Statesmen who travel thus at Uncle Sam's cost are usually lib- eral with themselves. It is quite interesting to look over their printed accounts of disburse- ments. They always travel in drawing room cars, put up at the best hotels and enjoy the choicest of whatever is to be had. TO RUY THE CAPITOL. It costs alot of money to run the building which Congress occupies for business pur- poses. The Capitol is under the charge of Architect Clark, who is allowed $65,000 a year for keeping it in order. Seven carpenters are emtployed all the year round in making re- pairs, while six painters devote their exclusive attention to the many acres of wall surface in- side and outside of the structure. Four plumbers do nothing tut mend and renew the arrangements for water and gas, while » skilled coppersmith attends to the roof and secs that {thoes not leak anywhere. Half. dosen gars deners and a score of assistants are always at work on the surrounding grounds, while twenty-live laborers are engaged every day of the year in scrubbing the corridors of the great ‘The pay alone of mem- } for edifice, washing the steps, &c. All this has nothing to do with the keeping up of the two wings, so far as their interior arrangements are concerned. The care of them devolves upon the Senate and House tively. Furniture and repairs require an annual outlay of $18,- res to — on be added about — for and gas. es of elevator cendciland yore, See $8 extra. The pay of the Capitol policemen is $39,000 per annum. THE CAPITOL AND GROUNDS Tepresent acash outlay of nearly $20,000,000. This estimate would have startled its original Projectors, Wanting a design for the building, they offered $500 and « building lot for the best onethat should be submitted. Andrew Ellicott got 5a day and expenses for marking out the foundations by the aid of astronomical instraments, so that the structure should face exactly to expenses Until twenty-fiye years ago the site comprised an area of only twenty-two acres. It was en- larged to its present size of fifty-one and one- sores at ® cost of $685,000. The old Cap- {tol, partly destroved by the British in 1814, had cost $2,750,000. The portion which they burned was rebuilt within thirteen years for TRE NEW wiNGs. Forty-five years ago it was realized that the Capitol was not blg enough. It was decided to construct the wings which at present accoramo- date the House and Senate, ‘The cost was esti- mated at $2,675,000, which sum was appropriated for the purpose, It was supposed that the work could be done within five years. At the end of that time it had only progressed one-third of the way toward completion, the money was nearly gone and the engineer in charge asked ,000,000 more. total outlay for the completed wings was €8,000,000. In 1851 it was determined to put on # new dome and $100,000 was provided for the mat expenditure of 81,150,000 more. In those days it was the usual practice to bam. ooze Congress into authorizing a thing by misrepresenting the expense of it. Nowadays such affairs are managed differently. For ex- ee the cost of the new Library of Congress not exceed the $6,000,000 appropriated, and {it will be finished within the time specified. ‘The total cost of the er Rog and grounds is reck- oned by Architect Clark as follows: Old Capitol... Enlargement of site Renewal after British invasion Senate and House wings Works of art. Furnishings New terrace and appr: Improvements of grounds. Total. WORKS OF ART. ‘The item of works of art mentioned in this estimate isa very important one. To begin with, there are several expensive monuments. Story’s statue of Chief Justice Marshall, an ad- mirable work, cost $40,000. Washington by Greenough, opposite the east front, which has to be covered in wiuter to delay its ‘crumbling, cost $45,000. The Peace monument cost €41,- 000. The group of figures over the Senate por: tico, illustrating “American Civilization” in an gorical manner, cost $50,000. two groups supposed to typify respectively the “Discovery of America” and “Civilization,” on either side of the main portico on the east front, cost $48,000. Two statutes of “War” and “Peace” at the same door, represented by ‘Mars and Ceres, cost 2,000 each. An unde- tected vandal broke off one of Ceres’ bands, but it has been stuck on again. Over the door is bust of Washington—price $3,500. The statues in statuary hall have cost the government #35,000. ‘Two statues elsewhere of Franklin and Jefferson cost $10,000 each. A statue of John Hancock cost $5,500. Busts and portraits of various justices in the rooms of the Supreme Conrt have cost €10,000. ‘There are two very artistic bronze staircases, repro- senting entwined vines with various animals, which cost $22,000. Twopairs of bronze doors atthe mainand Senate porticoes were very beautiful originally and doubtless worth the €87,000 paid for them, but it wasa pity that they were bought, because they have been badly defaced by vandals, The four scenes from the revolution exhibited in the rotunda represent an expenditure of £32,000. They were painted by Col. Trum- bull, Washington's aid-de-camp, to whom Father of his Country gave = number of sit- tingsdin bis full uniform as commander-in. chief of the continental a1 Of the other phintipge in the rotunda, the ‘Discovers of the issisarppi,” by De Soto, cost $12,600; the ‘Landing of Columbus,” €10,000; th of Pocahontas,” €10,000, and the tion of the Pilgrims,” $10,000. There are a number of other huge paintings elsewhere in the Capitol Two by Thomas Moran, representing the “Canon of the Colorado” and the “Yellowstone Gorge,” €10,000 each. Two by Albert Bis picting the ‘Settlement of Californ: “Discovery of the Hudson River,” were like- wise purchased for $10,000 each. The great picture entitled “Westward the Star of Em- pire” cost €20,000, and €25,000 was paid for “+Lineoln Signing the Proclamation of Emanci: pation.” The “Battle Between the Merrimac and Monitor” and the “Electoral Commission,” by Mire. Fassett, cost $7,500 each. The Storming of Chapultepec” cost $6,000 and the | “Battle of Lake Erie” €25.000. The frescoing of the ceiling in the President's room cost IN THE GERMAN carrban, Holidays Made Happy by Bright Suus—A Royal Marriage Talked ‘of. Correspondence of The Fvening Star. Bensix, June 80, 1898. The people forgot their political differences for a time when they devoted themselves to the celebration of that most joyous and popular of all German festivals—Dfingsten, or Whiteun- tide. Its name is, of course, corruption of the Greek word which we have abbreviated into may occur on any day between May 10 and June 13, its enjoyment depends largely on the uncertain weather conditions of that season of the year, and the hopes of the expectant cele- brants are sometimes sadly disappointed. The German's ideal is to spend his few days of rest from the toils and burdens of life by the sea- shore, where he can drink in the cool ocean breezes and find refreshment from the first fervent foretastes of the coming summer in an occasional plunge into the salt Waves, or in the country, where, sccom- panied by his wife and children, can wander at will over the fields and through the clear pine woods, softly carpeted with the of former years, and amuse himself and his family with picnic dinners eaten in the shade of some dense forest or on the flowery margin of some gently flowing stream. Bat this is not always possible. Two yearsago, for instance, though Whitsuntide was bright and sunny, it wasso cold that the snow lay on the ground in many localities near Berlin, and the mere thought of a plange into the surf, or of an excursion to the mountains, was enough to ve oneachill. This vear, have been peculia fortunate in their holidays. The kaiser’s birth- day—the 27th of January—was a mild and pleas- ant winter's day, and the streets of Berlin were filled to overflowing with gaily dressed crowds, who had come out to witness the court te of the day and to admire the brilliant illumina- tions of the evening; the Easter season, at the Doginning of April, was charming, and the weather at Pfingsten’ was so lovely that the most hardened grumblers were reduced to silence. The sun shone bright and warm out ofa deep bine sky, flecked with clouds, the trees were in full leaf, the horse chestnuts displayed all the glories of their white and red-purple clusters, the great clumps of lilacs in the public equares loaded the air with their delicate fragrance, the lush foli- age of the lindens was enlivened by the yellow- green envelopes of the coming blossoms, the court yards of the houses in the residential treets were filled with flowers in profuse vari- ety, and the Thiergarten was veritable droam of Eden. Beautiful as Washington is in the spring, there are quarters of Berlin which ex- ceed it, Here the love of fowers amounts to = passion. ‘The decoration of the windows is not carried to the extent which is observable in London, for example, but every court yard and almost every balcony is adorned with blooming ants, often potted and so grouped as to effect of color, and the Eco the most striki show windows of the florists, of which there are often three or four on a single square, are mar- vels of beauty and ingenuity. I know of no city where the “floral cult” is so fully devel- oped as in Berlin. MINISTERS AND AMBASSADORS, Americans resident abroad cannot help view- ing with satisfaction the elevation of certain of our diplomatic representatives to the rank of ambassadors. The distinction between @ min- ister plenipotentiary and an ambassador doubt- less appears to many to consist only in the pame: but in Europe it is real and important, ‘The difference in rank, we may say, is a relic of feudal times which a modern republic is pot bound to ize; but it is nevertheless « fact which must be taken into consideration, for the question of lence is one which not only sflecta social relations, but often plays an, in- tant part in the dispate! vusiness. Soon; Se cosanpla, the epiees Sneeteell a difficulty with Turkes, in which we desired to secure the good offices of Germany; is there any conceivable reason why our envoy, because he is only « minister, wait in Count Caprivi’s an’ sultan’s ambassador, who has arrived later, goes in before him and obtains first access to the chancellor's ear? This is but oneof many illue- trations which I might adduce. is often represented as out of and rendered unnecessary by the ease and di- rectness of telegraphic and other means of com- munication—and diplomatic education is con- sidered superogatory. No patriotic American who 1s perronally famihar with European af- fairs will subscribe to this view. Can any one doubt the value of the services rendered to our country by Charles Francis Adams, or James Russell Lowell, or Whitelaw Reid, or William Walter Phelps? Even when no opportunity is presented for the display of ai ability, the maintenance of a ing is often of incalculable importance. ITALY'S FUTURE QUEEN PERBAPS, It is quite generally believed that the Prince of Nuples, heir to the throne of Italy, is be- trothed to the Princess Feodora of Schleswig- Holstein, youngest sister of the German em- press. She is a Protestant, while the prince, notwithstanding the strained relations between the house of Savoy and the $40,000, In addition to all these it is reckoned | BX? that there is $100,000 worth of smaller works of art in and about the building. oe The Capitot. Julien Hawthorne in July Lippincott’. Talking of Congress reminds me once more of the Capitol. It is true, and sorry am I for it, that the dome is made of iron and the main body of the building is not white marble, but a sort of composition. Only the mighty wings are what they appear to be, and their truth | prlliates ima degree the prevarication of the | older portion, But, after taking what excep- tions we may, our Capitol is still o work une rivaled in modern art. Its site is as fine as | itself. Except the Acropolis at Athens there is | no other to be compared with it. And the mag- | nificent opportunity has been fully improved, ‘These sumptuous terraces that mount, range above range, to the marble summit on which this wonder rests, astonish the eve and sat-| isty the imagination, One has dreamed | of such thing, but has never ex- ted to renlize it. And when, by rage and stately degrees, we have ascended | the ordered flights to the topmost platform, and turn to look back, what a noble spectacie | lies slumbering there in the mellow sunshine! | The wide, straight avenues radiate to every | point of the compass; a mile away uplifts iteelf the almost incredible height of the tapering monument, 500 fect of snowy marble. On a line with it to the northward is the White Housy, flanked by the gigantic treasury and | the army and navy buildings; to the left winds | the broad placidity of the Potomac, and on the | night is spread ont the lovely city, mounting | gradually to the bill. And all this superb ex- nee i8 intercalated and enriched with the | firing green of the omnipresent: tress, and parks, Overhead, a sky of unfachomable blue. EEG AS The Utility of Inference, From the Boston Dzily Globe. ‘The baidheaded man with four days’ growth of beard on his chin went into a barber's shop and sat down in one of the operating chairs. ‘To him presently wenta knight of the razor, who remarked, interrogatively: sir?” growled the man in the chair. “I want to be measured for a suit of clothes. This statement seemed to surprise the barber, ‘What is it?” It's a barber shop.” ‘What sort of work do you do in this shop?” “Shave men and cut their hair, sir.” “Do you think a manu with no hair on his .d would come iu here to have his hair cut?” ‘No, sir.” Be Look ttke a tunatic2" is was replied to by @ silent sbake of the head, but the barber thought he was acting like one, “Then, presuming me to be a sane man, but baldheaded, what would turally suppose Tcame here for? Ca ae ae “For a she “Then, dear sir, why did you ask mo if I wanted a shave when I took ® seat in your chair? Why didn’t you go to work at once? If some of you barbers would cultivate a habit of inferring from easily ascertained data, instead of developing such wonderful conversational and catechistical powers, it would be of ma- terial ald in advancing’ you in your chosen Vocation and of expanding your profits, Do you comprehend?” “Yes, sir,” replied the man as he began to lather the customer's face, and he never even asked him if be wanted oil on his hair when that operation was performed. ———+e-- Very Plain. ‘From Truth. Mr. Norris—“Do yeu like the uew girl? How does she answer: Mrs. Norri ihe generally rays, ‘No, ty Oi k and Oi won't do nothin’ ese," eNO | | cirealated without cause, the denials of Tsar Nicholas once playfully objected to the Pronened unification of Germay, because, said . “if the principalities are exti where are the noffs to find their wives?” The kaiser's own sister is crown princess of Greece, and has embraced the orthodox faith. Princess Feodora is a charming girl of nine- teen, witha long list of names, ending rather oddly with “Alice Jenny;” the empress’ last name is also Jenny. Prince Victor Emmanuel is a fine soldierly young man in his twenty- |fourth year, who bids fair to maintain the glorious traditions of the house of Savoy—the oldest of European reigning families—as bis fathers have done before him. In view of the intimate and unmistakeable cordial friendship between the German and Italian soverei | | si sealed almost two centuries ago, when the first | king of Sardinia hastencd to recognize the first king of Prassia, and twice confirmed through successive generations, the match would seem to be a suitable one in every respect. The re- rt of the engagement is denied, of course; at, while rumors of royal are often them are apt to be quite as untrustworthy. It is hardly « month ago that the Westminster Gazette, the new illustrated London evening paper, was “authorized h to mg the re- port of anengagement between Prince George of Wales, Duke of York, and the Princess May ‘k were ‘destitute of all foundation in nd yet, ten days afterward, the engage- ment. which had long been an open secret, was ficially announced in the Court Circular, It ‘ot wise, therefore, to lay too much stress on oficial denials. The young couple whose fate is now in question seem personally in every way enited to each other. and it would really be difficult to imagine an alliance which would offer greater political advantages, The Cath- olic princesses of Europe bave “fought shy” of the Italian crown prince because of the appar- ently immediate breach between the guirinal | and the Vatican, but his union with » Princess so nearly related to the imperial house would strengthen the ties of the dreibund and form an additional security for the maintenance of European peace. ‘Vexxox. a ‘and what is Iife? An ardent, anxious, chequered race ‘With Time, a little breathing space ‘Of care and strife. And whither Goes it lead? ‘Alas! poor fools, we little know To what sad goal or bitter woe ‘Our courses speed. And wherefore Is It so? Why should we straggle, ight and die, Not knowing whence we come, or why, 4 ‘Or whither go? If death be life indeed Why should we longer here Beset Uy hope and doubt wd fear— Vhy uot be freed? Yet why dol deplore My present lol? If God so win ‘That I should tarry longer etill, ‘Need J ask more? And if this life be sad Will death no briguter prospect bri ‘WIL it not lose the only sting wal It might have had? And if to die be gain Will not my gain be greater stim ‘TO leave this world with all its il 1 ite paint ‘On! why should I repine? To Him who marks the sparrow’s fall ‘Shall 1 not leave my life, my all— Az, even mine? —J. Gaxsome. soe Adaltional Train to Chicago, via B. £0. RK. R. To accommodate the largely increased trave to the world’s fair the Baltimore and Obio rail- Toad, in addition to its present three through trains, will place in daily service, commencing Sunday, July 9th, another express train to Chicago. leaving Washington at 8:40 p.m. and running via Pittsburg and Akron, Ohio. This | train will carry through Pallman sleeping cars from Baltimore and intermediate points to Chicago.—Adct. | that ON THE INSIDE TRACK. Dentists and Surgeons Now Explore the Homan Interior With the Electric Lamp. From the New York Sun. Prof. Elsberg exhibited in this city about ten years ago one of the earlier applications wf the electric lamp as an adjunct to surgery, and the Fecent exhibition of an illuminated human bead at the Academy of Medicine is a further develop- ment of the same interssting wubject. The in- candescent electric light is now employed in @ variety of interesting ways by physicians and nec gd One of the earliest uses of the tiny mp was for the purpose of detecting spots of decay in teeth that upon ordinary inspertion seemed sound, or at least did not reveal the ex- ‘Sct location of the defect. A small incapdes- cent lamp placed in the mouth of a subjost 0 ‘iluminates the teeth that no defect can eerape detection. Prof. Elsberg’s experiment was for Siees with the nose. The cavities, also, lie #0 hear the roots of some of the tecth that an wleer at the root of such a tooth sometinaes results in After this use of the electric light came tts application to the illumination of diese’ LS Sak? i Fi the most e biadder. ri il si ue ! fl stteeee, if AY 8f i While we were waiting for the cable process sion to move on five Arabs stopped « policeman on the street corner. They were lost, They made frantic endeavors to tell blue coat and aEved ee, Peles ll i ti i } & f i E E nim the other two centa And those Arabs would not give the thet register. Brerybeds in’ the ; iF in conductor and the Arabs laughed was dropped into the conductor's i i 3 §. Ey 8Fa i i a gz i be Townsend (spending a day in the country).— “Eareka! Eureka! A four-ieaf clover? Now I will have luck with « big L! | “He will be ALL firsteclass d Lithia. “Acccyt no sul keep Buite Bromo Three doses, Lee tee