Evening Star Newspaper, January 25, 1925, Page 64

THE SUNDAY BY RAFAEL SABATIN STAR, WASHINGTON, Suspense and Thrills From Pen of a Master of Romance. O stealthily did Duroc como down the Rue de la Harpe that his steps hardly made a sound. He moved like @ shadow, and when at last he came to a halt before house of the Citizen Repre- tative Clairvaux it was as if he had totally effaced himself, as if he had be ome part of the general gloom. It vas in the time of the French revolu- There Duroc paused, considering, his hin In his hand, and perhaps becausc the ground-floor windows were equip- ped with bars he moved on more steathily than ever along the gard wall. Midway between two of the lan terns slung across the narrow street and edding & feeble yellow light he paused agam He stood now at a point where the shadows were decpest. He listened in- tently for a moment, peered this way and that into the night, and then went over the wall with the swift, silent ac- tlvity of an ape. He found the summit of that wail guarded by a row of iron spikes and on of these, for all his care, Duroc left a strip of his breeches The accldent annoyed him. He be- ated all iron spikes, puncing them n excerable, ariste ¢ tnstitution to which no true patriot could be gullty of aving recourse. Indeed, from the 3 in which the Citizen Represent- {rvaux guarded his house it was plain that the fellow was a bad republican. What with bars on its windows and spikes its_walls, the place might have been a prison rather than’ the b of a representative of he august peoy > had something to | us that this mod- st dwelllng 1 the Rue de la Harpe was thing of a treasure house, stored with the lootings of man: « mobleman's property, and it was being whispered that patriot —and a citizen representative into the{ bargain—could have suffered himself to | amass such wealth in the hour of the pation’s urgent need * ¥ [DUROC advanced fu v across the gard : the silent sleeping house. Emboldened by the fact that no light or faintest sign of vigilance showed anywhere, he proceeded so itly that ithin five minutes he had opened a window and entered a room that was used by the deputy as his study Within that room he stood quite still ind listened. Save for the muffled tick- ng of the clock, no sound disturbed the tlence. He turned, and softly drew the heavy curtains acr the window. Then he sat down upon the floor, took a small lantren from his breast and a tinder box from his waistcoat pocket. There was the sharp stroke of steel on | and presently his little lantern was sk of light upon pro It was notor . placed the light on a to the Ho listen- closed the feet making ne sound and costly rugs that were flung here and ther. In midchamber he paused, looking about him and taking stock of his lux- lings. He considersd the vainted pan the inlaid woods, the zilded chairs and the ormolu-incrusted cabinets—all plundered from the palaces of cidevants who were either guillotined or in flight, and he asked himself if it was In this sybaritic fashion that it be- came a true Tepublican to equip his home. He was a Duroc, whose looked the breeche urious surrour short slender man, this habby brown garments worse for the rent in the He wore a fur bonnet, and hig lank black hair hung in wisps about is and neck. His faco was white and wolfish, the jaw thrust for- ward and ending in a lean, square chin; his vigilant, -moving eyes were close set and as a rat’s; his thin | ps were curled now In a sneer as he | considered the luxury about him. However, that attitude of his 10 make philosophy, but to accomplish a purpose, and to this pu he ad- | dressed himself forthwith. He took up his lante: 1 crossed to a tall secre- talre that was a very gem of the court | in the days of Louls quick was come_then | lantern on top of it, h s pocket a bunch of skele- | gripping them fi so that should rattle. He stooped to the lock, and then on the in- e upright again, stiff and tense gden alarm. A knock had allen upon the street door, and the echo ? it went reverberating through the | silent house * ok * UROC'S lips writhed as he breathed imprecation. The knock before was repeated, more in now. To the Duroc the sound of a window being ihrown up. He heard voices, from #bove, the other replying the treet, and guessed that the awakened Clairvaux was ing this mid- night visitor befo ning down to open. Per he would not come Perhaps he would dismiss t yortune int But t koon quer The window w raspingly and 2 moment later the fil slippered feet came Fhuftl > stairs and along the passage to the door. A key grated and a chain clanked this Clairvaux made a Bastille of his awelling—and then voices sounded in the passage. The door of the house elosed with a soft thud. Steps and an of a snoment wisten came lister down nop- 1t hope was | hand about him at all the as the room in atood, immov- voices approacked which Duroc still able, listening. At last he stirred, realizing that he had not a moment to spare it he would escape detection. He turned, so that his back was to the door, snatched up his lantern, and pressed it against his breast, so that while it might still ight him forward ity rays should not strike backward to-betray him. Then in three strides he gained the shelter of the heavy velvet cur- tains that masked the window Behind them, his back to the case- ment, he at last extinguished the light o ox ot FHE door opened an instant later Indeed, had Clairvaux, who en- tered, candle in hand, in nighteap and quilted dressing gown, bestowed an attentive look upon the curtalns he would have detected the quiver that stili agftated them. After Clairvaux, came a tall young man in a fong black riding coat and a conlcal hat that was decorated by & round tricolor cockade to advertise his patriotic sentiments. Under his arm he carrled a riding whip, whose tormidable quality as a weapon of offense was proclaimed by its round head (n. plaited leather with sflver embellishments. He placed it upon | a-table beside his hat, and the thud | with which it dropped to the wood further announced its quality. The citizen representative, a short, stifly built man whose aquiline face was not without some resemblance to that of his visitor, flung himself into . gilt armchair upholstered in biue €1k, near the secretatre that but a moment ago had been the object of Duroc’s attention. He three one knee over the other, and drew his quilted dressing gown about his legs. “Well?" he demanded, his volce harsh. “What {5 this important com- nunication that brings you here at euch an hour as this?” The man in the riding coat saun- tered across to the fireplace, He set his back to the overmantel and the ormolu clock with its Cupids by Deburau, and faced the deputy with @ smile that was almost & sneer. ‘Confess now,” he safd, “that but for your uneasy consclence, my cousin, you would have hesitated to admit me. But you live in the dread of your own misdeeds, with the blade of the guillotine like a sword Damocles suspended. above you, and you dare refuse no man—however un- Welcome in himself—who may be the possible bearer of a warning.” He laughed an Irriteting laugh of mock- er Name of a name” growled the| deputy, “will you tell me what brings you without preamble? “You do nmot llke preambles? And | you a representative! Now, that Is odd! But there, Etlenne, to put it I am thinking of emigrat- It was the deputy's turn to be-| come mocking. “It was worth while being roused midnight to hear such excellent| news. Emigrate, by all means, my | dear Gustave. France will be weil rid of you." ““And you?" Gustave asked. “And I no less” The grinned sardonically. “Ah!” sald his cousin. “That s ex- cellent! In such a case no doubt you will be disposed to pay for the priv lege. To carry out this plan of mine 1 need your assistance, Etienne. I am practically pennileds.” “Now that s a thousand pitles” The doeputy’s voice became almost | ympathetic, yet slurred by a certain | note of sarcasm. “If you are penni- | loss, 50 am 1. What else did you ex- | pect In a member of the National Con- | vention? Did you conceive that a| representative of the sacred people— | an apostle of libert equality and | fraternity—could possibly have money at his disposal? Ah. my good cousin, I assure you that all that I possessed has been offered up on the sacred altar of the natton.” R USTAVE looked at him and pursed his lips. “You had better resarve that for the National Assembly,” he said. “It may sound convincing from the rostrum. Here’—he waved a mbled like at deputy splendors—*it sounds uncommonl a barefaced lle.” The deputy rose with overwhelm- ing dlgnity, his brows contracted “This to me? he asked in a shocked | tone. “Why not? Come, come, Etlenne, I | am not=a child, nor yet a fool You | are a man of wealth—all the world knows it, as you may discover to| your cost one fine morning. These are days of fraternity. I am your coustn, and—-" “Ouf of my house!” the deputy broke in angrily. “Out of my house this instant!” | Gustave looked at him with calm eyes. “Shall T then go tell the Na- tional Assembly what I know of you? Must 1 denounce you to the commit- tec of public safety as a danger to the nation? >Must I tell them that In ecret you are acting as an agent of the emigres, that you plot the over- throw of the august republic?”’ Clairvaux’s face was 1ivid, his eves bulging. He mastered himself by an effort. “Denounce all you please,” he ered in a suffocating volce. »u'll leave your own head in the sket. Sainte Guillotine? You fool, » 1 a _man of straw to be over- thrown by the denunciation of such s thing as you? Do you think to {1s no one el lyou? frighten me with threats of what you will do? Do you think that is the way. to obtaln assistance from me?" elng that no other way Is pos- sible,” flashed Gustave. “Out of my house! me! Go to the devil! here with you.” “Reflect 2 moment, Etienne!” The other was breathing hard, and his yes flamed with anger—the anger of o baffled man, “I am face to.face with ruin. I need but a thousand franc: Not a thousand Sous, pot a single sou from me. Re offf" Clairvaux advanced threateningly upon his cousin. “Be o He caught him by the lapels of his riding coat. don‘t dare to touch me!” Gustave warned him, his volce shrilling sud- denly. However, the deputy, thoroughly enraged by now, tightened his grip, and began to thrust the other to- ward the door. Gustave put out a hand to the table, where his hat and whip were lying, and his fingers closed upon that ugly riding crop of his. The rest had happened almost be- fore he realized It; it was the blind action of suddenly overwhelming fury. He twisted out of his cousin grasp, stepped back holding that lite preserver by its slender extremity, swung it aloft, and brought the londed end down whistling upon the deputy’s nichtcapped head There was a herrible sound like the crunching of an eggshell, and the citizen representative. drapped, crushed by the blow, and lay in a shuddering, twitching heap, while the color of his pighteap changed slowly from the nurderer's staring eyes. ISTAVE * % % % G stood there, over the fallen man, motionless while one might count ten. His face was leaden, and his mouth foolishly open between surprise and horror at the thing he had done. @ sound disturbed the an, not a_movement from fallen man. Nothing but the muflled ticking of the ormolu clock and the b ng of a fly that had been disturbed. Still Gustave thera In that haif-crouching attitude, térror gaining upon him with every throb' of his pulses. And® then suddenly a sharply. upen the stillness it asked. “And what do pose to do now? Gustave ame erect, stifling a scream, to ufront the white face and beady eyes of Duroc, who stood considering him from between the parted curtaing _In a long silence Gustave stared, his wits working briskly th while. Who are you he asked at la. his voice a hoarse whisper. “How come you here? What a you? Ah! A thief—a housebreaker! least,” sald Duroc Go aenounce But out of bending house; voice cut Well?” you pro- aryly, 1 id Gustave, his wild eyes Jturned egain upon tragically grotesque mass that his feet. ‘“Is he—is he dead? “Unless his_skuil is said Duroc. He came forward in that swift, noiseless fashion of his, and dropped on one knee bLeside the deputy. He made a brief cxaminatior The citizen representative represcnts a corpse,” he said. “He Is-as dead as King Capet.” He rose. “What are you going to b again, “Mon s dead and that lay at Dieu! checked. racing now His knavish He looked inw round black eyes. “You'll me,” he cried. “You dare are in no better case than L And there in the house. He lived all alone. He was a miserly dog, and the old woman who serves him will not be here until morning.” Sk k. ROC was watching him intently, almost without appearing to serve him. He saw the man’s fingers suddenly tighten upon the life pre with which he had already launched one man across the tide of Styx that night. “Put that thing down,” Duroc com- manded sharply. *Put it down at once, or T'll send you after your cousin.” And Gustave found himself covered by a plstol. Instantly he loosed his grip of his murderous weapon. It fell with a crash beside the body of the man it had slain. ‘I meant you no har panting hoards retatre? e other's not betray not. Yo Gustave said, *“Do you know what wealth he in_these consoles, in that sac- You do, for that is what you came for. Well, take it, take it all. But let me go, let me get away from this, I—I——" He seemed to stifle in his terror. Duroc’s 1ipl mouth distended in a smile Am I detaining you he asked. “You didn’t suppose I was going to drag you to the nearest corps de garde, did Go, man, If you want to go. In your place, I should have gone already.” Gustave stared at him almost Incred- ulously, ‘as if doubting his own good fortune, Then, suddenly perceffing the motives that swayed the other, and ask- ing nothing better for himself than to be gone, he turned, and, without another word, flcd from t room and the house, his one anxiety to put as great a dl. tance between himself and his crime as postble. Duroc watched that sudden scared flight, still smiling. Then he coolly crossed the room, took up the dead man’s candle and placed it upon the secretaire. He pulled up a chair—there wes no longer any need to proceed with TOOK UP HIS LANTERN AND CROSSED TO THE TALL SECRETAIRE. white to crimson under | 0od | made of iron,” | caution—sat down, and, producing his keys and -a chisel-like instrument, he went diligently to work to get at the contents of this sccrotaire. * ok ok % IKE a flash Gustave had gone the length of the Rue de la Harpe, driven ever by his terror of the conscquences of his deed. But as he neared the corner of the Cordellers, I he was brought suddenly to a halt by the measured tread of approach- tni steps He knew it at once for the march of a patrol, and his consclousness of what he had done made him fearful of meeting these servants of the law, .who might challenge him and demand to know whence he was and whither he went at such an hour—for the new. reign of universal liberty had imposed stern limitations upon indi- vidual friedom. Ho vanished into the darkness of o doorway, and crouched there to wult until these footsteps ‘should have faded again into the distance. And it s in those moments gs he leaned there, panting, that his fiendishly wicked- notlon first assailed him. He turned it over in his mind, and in the oom ‘one might have caught the gleam of hls teeth as he smiled evilly to himself. He was his cousin's heir. Could he but fasten the guilt of that murder upon the thief he had left so callously {at work in the very room where the body lay, then never again need he know want. And the thief, boing & thief, deserved no less. He had no doubt at all that the fellow would never have hesitated to do the murder had it been forced upon him by circumstances. He re- flected further, and realized how aptly set was the stage for such a comedy as he had in mind. Had not that fool compelled him to drop the very weapon with which the deputy's <kull had been smashed? No single link was missing in the maln chain of complete evidence against the thief. Gustave realized | that here was a chance sent him by friendly fortune. Tomorrow it would be too late. In sccking his cousin’s murderer, the suthorities would as- ‘ertain that he was the one man who 1 to profit by the citizen repre- ttve's death, and, having dis- | covered that, they would compel him to render an account of his move- ments that night. They would cross- fon and confeund him, sceing he could give no such account y would demand was resolved. He would act at Not three minutes had | left that house, and as Impossible that in the m the thief could have done and taken his departure. «x ox % work ND =0 upon that fell resoive he flung out of his concealment and ran on up the street toward the Cordellers to meet the advanc patrol, shopting as he went | Thier:” Stoh thieet” He heard the patrol their steps response to his nd presently he found himself € to face with four men of the Natio Guard, whe chanced, we companted by an agent of the section In clvitian dress and a scarf of office. “Down there,” he cried, pointing back down the street, “a broken into the house of the Citizen Re Clatrvaux.” He gathered Impor he knew, from this proclamation nis relationship with one of great ones of the conventlon However, the agent of the section paused to question him. “Why did you not follow him, citizen? “I am without weapons, and I be- thought me he would probably be armed. Besides, 1 heard you ap- proaching in the distance, and I thought It best to run to summon you, and thus we may make sure of taking him.” 16 agent considered him, his white -—seen in the light of the lantern carried by the patrol—his shaking limbs and gasping speech, and con- cluded that he had to deal with an arrant coward, nor troudled to con# ceal his contempt “In the name of Jove!” he growled. “And meautime the citizen represent- ative may have been murdgred in his bed.” “I pray not! as it ¥ cousin- my cousin Oh, T pray not!” Gus. tave cried pantingly. “Quickly, eiti- zens, quickly! Terrible things may happen while we stand here.” They went down the street at a run to the house of Clairvaux, whose door they found open as Gustave had left it when he departed “Where did he one of the guara “By the door. had keys, 1 think. Oh, quick!” In the passage he perceived a faint £leam of light to assure him that the thief was still at work. He swung round to them, and ralsed a hand. “Quietly!” he whispered. “Quietly, so that we do not disturb him.” The patrol thrust forward, and en- tered the house in his wake. He led them straight toward the half-open door of the study, from which the light was issuing, as if to guide them. He flung wide the door and entered, while the men crowding after him came to a sudden halt upon the threshold in sheer amazement at what they beheld. * ¥ * ¥ break In?’ asked satd Gustave. “He AT thelr feet lay the body of the Citizen Representative Clalrvaux in a raiment that in itself seemed to proclaim how hastily he had risen from his bed to deal with this mid- night intruder; and there at the secretalre, now open, its drawers broken and their contents scattered all about the floor, sat Duroc, white- faced, his beady rat's cyes consid- ering them. Gustave broke into lamentations at sight of his cousin's body. “We are too late! Mon Dieu, we are too late! He is dead—dead. and look; here is the weapon with which he was slain! And there sits the murderer —caught in the very act. Seize him! AR, scoundrel!” he raged, shaking hig Ast in the thief's white, startled face. “You shall be made to pay for this!"” “Comedfan!” sald Duroc. eize him; selze him?" Gustave in a frenz The guards sprang across the room, and Jald hands upon Duroc to prevent his having recourse to'any weapons. Duroc looked up at them, blinking. cried suddenly he laughed. a fool a man Is who will not selze the chances that are offered him,” he . “After that villain had bludg coned his cousin to death, I bade him %o. He might have made good his escape, and I should have said n word to betray him. Instead, he thinks to make me his scapegoat. Duroc shrugged and rose under the hands of his captorf. Then he pulled his coat open, and displayed a round, leaden disc the size of a five-franc plece, bearing in relisf the arms of the republic. At sight o€ it the hands that had been holding him instantly feil away. The agent of the scction stepped forward, frownings “What does this mean?’ he asked, but in a tone that was almost of respect, realizing he stood in the presence of an officer of the secret service of the republic sped | "Stop, | quickening | of | the | Then his eyes shifted to Gustave, and | “Now see what | whom no man might detain save at his_peril. “I am Duroc of the committee of public safety,” was the quiet answer. “The ecutive had cause to think that the Citizen Representative Clairvaux was in correspondence with BY GENE THOMAS. OLD on, John. You ran't’ fend this letter from | Washington to George- | town for the same rate you | can send it to a Washing- | ton address. Georgetown is a sepa- rate post office, you know, just ke Philadelphia or New York, so you'll| {nced a 3 instead of a 2 cent stamp.” | Thuse did the post office clerk remind friend of the postal regulations of | and John pald another penny | | for the privilege of mailing his letter. | That regulation, no longer in force, lis one of many items which were | printed in the Congressional Direc-| | tory of 50 vears ago, and which re- | veal intereating phases of life in the | National Capital at that time. | Happy was the man who possessed a Congre onal Directory In 1875. Be- sides tel & him how much it cost to send a letter to his sweetheart, it told (13 where he might find & minister to marry them, and what time they could board a train to start on their honey- moon. Those were the days when a Congressional Directory was almost as great an asset to a household as a cook book or an almanac. Evidently there were many “Johns” who forgot to put 3-cent stamps on letters which were to cross Rock Creek, for the directory state: ‘An impression seems to prevail that let- ters for Georgetown require only 2 cents, or local rate of postage. Georgetown, being & separate office, full prepayment by 3-cent stamp ie required.” It took longer to send a letter to Georgetown than to Alexandria, ac- cording to a table showing ‘Time of Arrival and Closing of the Mails.” Letters intended to reach Georgetown at 4 p.m. had to be mailed two hours and 15 minutes before that time, while mall due to arrive in Alexan- dria at 7 p.m. needed to ba mailed only one hour and thirty minutes be- fore that how Ten pages ahead of the mail table is a list of Washington's “Places of Amusement,” only two of which to- day have the same name and location they had then. The places listed are: National Theater—E street, between Thirteenth and Fourteenth streets. Ford's Opera House—Ninth street, below Pennsylvania avenue. Metropolitan Variety Theater—D street, between Eleventh and Twelfth streets. Washington Theater Comique— Eleventh street west and C street north. Odd_Follows' Hall—Seventh street west between D and E streets north. 0dd Fellows' Hall—Navy Yard, Elghth street east. Masonic Hall—Corner F street north and Ninth street west. Lincoln Hall—Northeast corner D street north and Ninth street west. Willard Hall—F street, rear Willard Hotel. ey ¢PLACES OF DIVINE WORSHIP" is the heading of another section of the directory. It catalogs Wash- ington’s churches, locates them and gives the names of clergymen In charge of them. Washington's places of worship then totaled 75, less than one-fifth the present number, and were as fol- lows: Methodist Episcopal, 13; Epis- copal, 12; Baptist, 11; Presbyterian, 11; Catholle, 10; Lutheran, 7; Metho- dtst Protestant, 2, and Christilan, Congregational, Friends, Hebrew, Methodist Episcopal South, New Jersusalem, Reformed, Unitarian and Universalist, 1 each. If the Washingtonian of a half- century ago wished to travel, he could turn to pages 134 and 135 of his Con- gressional Directory and there find rallroad time tables and steamboat schedules. Steamers for New York left the wharf at the foot of IHigh street, Georgetown, every Friday at 7 am., ana Baltimore-bound boats left Wash- ington every Monday at 12:30 p.m., the directory stated, There was no Union_Station then, the Baltimore and Ohio depot being located at New Jersey avenue and C street, and the Baltimore and Potomac Railroad ter- minal at Sixth and B streets north- west. Recognizing the needs of visitors who come to the National Caplital, | the directory included a guide to the city's points of interest and hotel Scanning that list, the present-day | render realizes how much Washington | has changed, for that time-yellowed guide states that the City Hall was on Four-and-a-half street; the De- artment of Agriculture, “on the is- | land, opposite Thirteenth street;” the { Post’ Office Department, on E street | between Seventh and Eighth streets | northwest, _and that the Young fen's Chrisflan Assocation building |and the Grand Army of the Republic Hall stood on opposite corners of Ninth and D streets northwest. Besides mall, train and hoat sched- ules, guides to churches, publio build- {ings and theaters, the 1875 Congres- sional Directory also contained loca- tions of fire engine houses—and yet it is only one-third as thick as its present-day successor which lacks all. that information, of X \| I\ ? HOWEVER, THE AGENT PAUSED TO QUESTION HIM. the enemies of France. I came secretly to examine his papers and to discover who are his correspond- ents. Here is what I sought” And he held up a little sheaf of docu- ments, which he had separated from the rest. “I will w'sh you good night, ISPIECE OF THE citizens. I _must report at once to the Citizen Deputy Robesplerre. Since that fellow has come back, take him |him, and held to the Luxembourg. tee of the section deal I shall forward my Gustave shook himself out of his| Congress Directory Contained Guide to Theaters Fifty Years Ago morrow. Let the commit- with him to- report. eudden paralysis to make a dash for the door. But the guards closed wit him fast, while Durc of the « put safe passed ou ¥ his to ,mmit wit eeche (Copy: CONGRESSIONAL DIRECTORY OF 1874, THE CAPITOL AND GROUNDS A~ THEY APPEARED IN THAT YEAR. shington, D. C. had ularly chosen delegate House of Representatives ago. He was Norton P. Chipman, who lived on the southwest corner of First and B streets southeast, and hie biography, as published In the Congressional Direc- tory of 1875, is: “Norton P. Chipman of Washington, whose parents were from Vermont, was born at Milford Centre, Ohto, March 7, 1834 ; removed to Iowa in 1845 ; attend- ed public school in Ohio and Iowa; en- tered Washington College, Towa, but left to attend the law school at Cincin- nati, where he graduated; returned to Washington, Towa, and commenced the practice of law. “Entered the Union Army as private, and was enrolled as second lleutenant in the 2d Towa Infantry, the firt three- year regiment sent from that Stat was adjutant and major of that r ment; was appointed colonel and addi- tional alde-de-camp in the Regular Army, and at the close of the war was brevetted brigadier general. “Settlod at Washington City, where he had previously been on duty two years; was appointed Secretary of the territorial government of the District of Columbia at its organization; was elected to the Forty-second Congress, and was re-elected to the Forty-third Congress as a Repubiican, receiving 12,443 votes against 7,042 votes for L. G. Hine, Democrat. Delegate Chipman was chairman of the House felect committee on the Washington National Monument, the ‘Washington Monument being under con- a pop- the years in 50 NLY is Brig. Ohio, th many too. Other Maine, tor | the A L erans. directory Democra While voted ov. acoomplishments, 23-word sentence this “John sentative then sat in ‘the ward became Speaker of was Uncle James A. Garfleld of Ohio w As chairman House committee Congress mander of public and sponsor legislation benefiting Civil | struction at that time, ‘member of the House District o Columbia one gress in 1 Gen. en tributed to his dency of the N influenti, were John Sherman, anti-trust law, an, Illinois One of the s bl Representative Clarksburg, tic er 3 man who was serving terms in the Hou s. Another Joe Canuon of on appropriations, he was making the record which con- tion to the Presi- tlon six years later. members of that James Speaker of the and Maj. Gen first national com- he Grand Army of the Re- in_the most modest of that time, judging by the length of the personal history he placed in the sTaphy John J. = party’s the Presidency. some ‘of 300 words to citing thelr he 1924 his and was also a ommittee on the in Con- s still there. He R. Sherwood of tha first of his e of Repre- newcomer, who row, but after- the House, of Illinots. there, the powerful G. Blaine of House: Sena- Ohio, author of John Senate of War vet- members section Davis father of nominee was of the for colleaguas de- simply gave of Clarksburg was elected to the Forty-third Con- “*UNCLE JOE” CANNON, WHEN 38 YEARS OLD, AND SERV- (ING_HIS FIRST TERM IN CONGRESS. IN THE BACK ROW OF THE HOUSE. . HE OCCUPIED A SEAT I3 | erease gress Av 61 votes ag Wilson One striking of yesterd are ma more congre: in Weas ington now t e The currer shows four-fifths present membe ship have es or daughters both here the shows that than half members of that Congress companied. Some of that panied 60 per cent left the at home, and then. too relatively large number congressmen. Perhaps that's one reason why 1875 Congressional Directory ir a guide to theaters, minis other aids to cupid receiving votes 1 bety director of t were a unaccon familie there was of bachelc less The Biggest Bird. 'HE moa, a specles peculiar to N Zealand, is supposed to have beer the biggest bird that ever earth. Probably it was n the giant ostrich of Mada 1 its legs & enarm vy and bulky. Not only was it i able of flight, but it could no n run at a rapid gaft Apparently es was wiped out about 500 vears a extraordinarily cold Winter. birds gathered about hot springs in flocks for warmth, but perished ir great numbers—the rexult being the at the present time their bor dug up by the ton in some especlally swamps. A few of the eggs of this remar! able bird—not mors than half a doze —exist today. One of them, in tf Museum of Natural History in Nev York, actually contains the bones an unhatched moa. It is as big as ostrich eggs, and & silk hat slow @ its very ments, he ev wholl © by ar The e spe si wou | just about contain It Concerning Lithography. PRL\'TL\'G from prepared stones ha been known since 1796, when ti art was Invented by Senefelder. T& stone employed is called a lithog stone, and fine-grained stone of @ very porous nature Before the war practically all lith ographic stone came from Bavaria, #s the variety quarried there is of the best quality and of the mos practical color—a lght gray These limestones absorb grease and water rapidly: therefore, if a line f¥ drawn on a prepared stone with ar ink contalning grease, this line car be taken away only by removing t surface to the depth to which h has penetrated. If w now placed on t stone, it w main only on those parts not ered by the gre: When a roller carrying a greasy ink is passed ov the stone the ink will cover only the greased portions, and the parts tha are wet will not take up the Ink Therefore, a Diece of paper pressed upon the stone will receive an im pression in ink from the lines drawn is a lime only. On these principles depend lithography. the process being ex tremely valuable in the print A