Democratic Sentinel, Volume 22, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1898 — Page 2

SljtJitniorrflticStntinel J. W. McEWEK, Publisher. RENSSELAER, - - • INDIANA

MOTHER LODE FOUND.

*TnE NEWS OF ITS DISCOVERY IS CONFIRMED. / Returned Klondikers Estimate the Winter’s Output of Gold at from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000— Eloping St. Louie Couple Arrested in Chicago. The Rich Klondike Fields. The news brought by the treasure-laden miners who arrived at Seattle, Wash., from the Klondike on the steamer Corona is important chiefly in that it is confirmatory of the discovery of the great mother lode. W. H. Welch, H. T. Coffin and H. L. Burt are authority for the statement that the original strike was made at the tipper end of claim No. 3, Eldorado, while two stringers, one at No. 27 and another yet lower down, were subsequently located. Throughout the district the discovery is accepted as assurance of the permanency of the district as a rich gold mining field. As to the placer diggings, they continue rich. Powder Creek, an affluent of Quartz Creek, has been having a boom, pans of $3.75 and $4 being a common thing. Of course the stream was located as soon as the first important discovery was made. All Gold Creek shows pans of $lO to SIOO, while the miners on Hunker creek, Henderson, Dominion, the Big Salmon and the Stewart all declare them-| selves satisfied with the prospect. Replying to a request for an estimate of this winter's gold dust of the camp, Joe Campbell, one of the returning miners, said: “We have done a great deal of figuring on that and it now appears that the output, notwithstanding the scarcity of food and light, will be from $12,000,000 to $15,000,000.” D. 11. H. Littlefield of Skagttay came in on the Corona. He has just closed a contract with the Canadian Government to pack provisions to Lake Bennett for 25 cents a pound. L. L. Grady, formerly a banker of Fairfax. Minn., paid S6OO for the privilege of walking from Dawson behind a brisk dog team. Muret Anderson, an elderly gentleman of St. Louis, made the trip after the same fashion.

DRY DOCK A SHAM. Government Determined to Locate the Blame for Faulty Construction. The scandal in the construction of the large timber dry dock at the navy yard, officially known as No. 3, continues to grow, and from present appearances there promises to be a lively and interesting time when the engineers are brought before the court to answer the many questions which are now being prepared. As the work of making the repairs continues, the weakness and faulty construction of the big structure is met with everywhere, and it is doubtful if the dock can be made serviceable again. The blame for the weak and faulty construction will not alone rest with the engineers. Both the contracting firms —John Gillis, who started the dock, and T. nnd A. Walsh, who completed it —will be brought before the court. Civil Engineer Meuocal, who represented the Government, is on his way home from Nicaragua, having been ordered by the Navy Department to return. The other engineers who will be brought before the court are U. 8. G. White, Franklin C. I‘riudle and Lieut. R. E. Peary of arctic fame. All are inspectors of the work and it is to determine where the responsibility is to be placed that they will l>e called before the court, * ELOPERS ARE ARRESTED. St. Louie Couple Flee from Home to a Cell in Chicago. The flight of an eloping couple from St. Louis was cut short through the efforts of the girl’s parents and the Chicago police department. Instead of wedded bliss which they expected would be theirs, Fannie Weiskopf, 16 years of age, and Max Posbalsky, who has not yet attained his majority, sighed for freedom from the confines of dingy cells in a Chicago ixtlice station. The girl, who is very pretty, is the daughter of highly respectable parents. She left her home at the request of Posolsky, who had been meeting her clandestinely for some months. The parents of Fannie would not allow Posolsky at their home. The girl cried bitterly when placed under arrest, and asked to be allowed to go home. Raced from Honolulu. Six sailing vessels which started from Honolulu sixteen days ago have all arrived in San Francisco within a few hours of each other. The trip across the Pacific became a raee after the first day out, and the contest was made exciting by the fact that the vessels were in sight of each other most of the way. Old shipmasters say that the performance of the six vessels is without precedent, and may be reckoned as one of' the things that occur once in a thousand years. Will Defy Federal Courts. Judge Wat Starr is out with a sensational manifesto at Chelsea. I. T., in which he declares he will resist the Federal courts and their right to suspend the Cherokee courts until he is arrested. He further says the Cherokee delegation will help him out and defend him $20,000 worth. Starr is a Cherokee and judge of the Circuit Court. He is the only tribal officer in the territory to make such a declaration, all the rest having submitted gracefully. Villers Goes to Prison. The jury in the Villers murder trial at Jamestown, N. D., returned a verdict finding Villers guilty of .murder and fixing the penalty at life imprisonment. Chicago Men Given a Verdict. A case of importance to grain men was settled in the Assize court at Ottawa, Ont W. Dunn & Co. of Chicago brought action for SIO,OOO damages against the Prescott Elevator Company for alleged improper care of grain belonging to Dunn. The jury returned a verdict for Dunn. 1 Pure Food Congress. A pure food and drug congress, in which all bodies interested are invited to send delegates, will be held March 20 in Wash-' ington to urge Congress to pass a pure sood and anti-adulteration pill. , Durrant’s Body Is Cremated. ! The body of murderer W. H. T. Durrant was cremated at the crematory of Reynolds & Van Nuys at Altadela, Cal. The ashes, when removed from the furnace, were delivered to the parents. No one saw the inside of the crematory exeei. t the employes and the Durrants.' I •' I New Fusion in Kansas, I Kansas free silver Republicans held a meeting in Topeka and resolved to support the Populists Ju the.coming campaign in Kansas. The resolutions indorsed the St. Louis silver convention pintform and recommended a closer union With the Democrats and .populists.

WOOED AND MARRIED

BY CHARLOTTEM BRAEME.

CHAPTER I. The time was noon of a brilliant June day, the place a gloomy office in a Loudon court, which belonged to Arley Ransome—a square room that contained tables covered with deeds and papers, iron safes securely fastened, shelves filled with works on the British law and constitution, bill-files that could literally hold no more, maps of different estates lying carelessly open, large inkstands, pens and sheets of blotting paper. Pen in hand, his keen, shrewd face full of deep thought, the owner and occupier, Arley Ransome, sat at the square table, a large parchment deed spread open before him. He read on and on, the lines of his face relaxing until a cold, satirical smile curled his lips. He started as though half alarmed when his clerk, opening the door of the room, suddenly announced: “The Earl of Caraven, sir.” “I am ready to see him,” was the reply. But before the earl entered the lawyer quickly folded up and put away the deed that had engrossed his attention. “Am I too soon?” asked a mellow, indolent voice. Arley Ransome looked up with a smile at the speaker. “No, my lord; I was expecting you.” “It is something after the fashion in which a spider expects a fly,” said the young nobleman. "There is one thing to be said, lam a perfectly resigned fly. I know that evil hours await me, and I am prepared for them. I suppose that 1 should furnish an excellent moral as a lesson for all bad boys.” “You would form an excellent warning, my lord,” was the grave reply. “It is the same thing. And now lam prepared for the worst. What is it?” “'I he worst, my lord, is utter, irretrievable ruin—ruin so complete and so entire that I do not see a chance of saving even one shilling from the wreck.” The earl listened quite calmly; his lips, half-hidden by the fair mustache, grew a trifle paler—but there was no flinching in the handsome, haggard face. “Utter ruin,” he repeated. “Well, as they say in bonny Scotland, ‘you cannot both eat your cake and have it.’ ” 1 rue, my lord,” assented the lawyer. Arley Ransome, lawyer and money lender, the calm, inscrutable man of business, looked at the young earl—perhaps he wondered at his perfect calmness, then he glanced at a sheet of paper lying on the desk.

“It will not be pleasant to hear, Lord Caraven,” he said, slowly. “To begin. At the age of twenty-one you succeeded to the Ravensmere estates and title; the estates were clear of all debts and incumbrances; the rent roll was thirty thousand per annum; there was, besides, a sum of fifty thousand pounds in the Funds, the savings of the lute earl—that is correct, I believe?” 'Quite so,” was the curt reply. “You are now twenty-eight years of age, my lord, and in seven years you have run through a fortune.” » “Keep to facts, po comments—plain facts,” said the earl. The ‘plain facts’ are these,” continued the lawyer—“thA fifty thousand went, I believe, to pay the first year’s losses on the Derby.” “Yet my horse won,” interrupted Lord Caraven. “The winning of that Derby was your ruin, my lord. After that you continually forestalled your income by borrowing money; then your losses on the tqrf and the gaming table were so great that you were compelled to raise a heavy mortgage on the estate; then you borrowed money on the pictures, the plate and the furniture at Ravensmere. In fact, my lord, briefly told, your situation is this you are hopelessly, helplessly ruined. You owe sixty thousand pounds mortgage money, and owe forty thousand pounds borrowed money—and you have nothing to pay it with. You received notice from me six months since that the mortgage money was called in. Unless it is paid in six weeks from now the estate—Ravensmere Castle, with all its belongings—passes from you; it will be seized with all it contains. May I ask what you think of doing?”

“You may ask —I know no answer. In six weeks I lose Ravensmere, and with it all sources of income, and, besides that, I am forty thousand pounds in debt, and I have not forty shillings to pay it with. It seems to me there is but one thing to be done.” Arley Ransome looked up anxiously. “What is that?” he asked. “I had better invest the trifle I have remaining in the purchase of a revolver —you can imagine for what purpose; it will be but a fitting end to such a career as mine. I really do not think, Ransome, that I have had a hundred thousand pounds' worth of pleasure. What comments the newspapers will make upon me! They will head their paragraphs, ‘Suicide of a Spendthrift Earl’—they will draw excellent morals and warnings from my fate. Men of my age will read it and think what a dupe I must have been; it will not be a noble ending for the last of the Caravens.” He spoke calmly, as though he were arranging some plan of travel. Arley Ransome looked admiringly at him. “How this blue blood tells!” thought the lawyer. “Some men would have cried and moaned, would have asked for time and for pity. He faces ruin much as his ancestors faced death on the battlefield.” Then, seeing the earl’s eyes fixed on him, he said, “It is a sorry ending, my lord.” “Yes, a sorry ending for the last of the Caravens. My poor father called me Ulric, after one of our ancestors' who saved a king’s life by his bravery. I have not been a worthy descendant of the Ulric Caraven who received in his own breast the sword meant for his liege lord.” Arley Ransome looked at the calm, handsome face. “Will you listen to me, Lord Caraven — listen in patience? I have something to say. I have worked hard all my life — worked as few men have ever done before —from sunrise to sunset, and often through the long, silent night. I have worked because I love money—because I am ambitious; because I have had an end in view. You know, my IoM, that, besides practicing as a lawyer, I have 'been, and am now, a money lender; it is no news to you that I advanced the mortgage money on Ravensmere, and that, unless you can pay it, the estate becomes mine.” The earl’s pale, handsome face flushed 'hotly. It war hard to picture his-grand

ancestral home in the plebeian hands of a money lender. “I have a daughter, and she must take the place I would fain have given to my ' boy. My lord, I make you this offer. You are a ruined man —you tell me there remains for you no hope, nothing but death. Now, I will give you life, liberty, wealth. I will make you greater than any of the Earls of Caraven hare been yet. I will give my daughter a dowry of two hundred thousand pounds if you will marry her.” Lord Caraven lost his self-possession for half a minute; then he proudly said: “I have been a spendthrift and a prodigal, but I have not fallen so low as that, Mr. Ransome. I do not think that I shall purchase my life, my safety, my fortune with a woman’s gold.” “It is not a woman’s gold; it is mine, my lord,” said the lawyer. “Mnrry my daughter, and you will not have another care in the world. She will be happy; you will be free and wealthy, I shall be content.” “I have known the time,” remarked Lord Caraven, “when I should have horsewhipped any man who dared to make such I a proposition to me. I imagine all fine ['feeling has become extinct in me. Can | you not manage all this for me without I asking me to marry your daughter?” "No,” replied the lawyer, quietly. “As I have told you, if I had a son, he should have been muster of Ravensmere; failing that, my daughter must be its mistress.”

“Not with my consent,” said the earl, haughtily. “Your refusal to marry her makes her more certainly so. If you refuse —if you prefer ruin, disgrace, dishonor, shame and death to marrying an innocent girl, whose fortune would set you straight in the world—it is at your own option.” “You cannot care much for your daughter, to be willing to sacrifice her to a spendthrift,” said the earl. “My lord, each one among us has his price. I want title, rank, and position for my daughter. You can give them to her. You want wealth—she will bring that to you. Will you give me an answer?” “I should not purchase a picture without looking at it,” said the earl. “I cannot promise to marry a lady whom I have never seen.” “You,shall see her, my lord—at once, if you will.” “Where?” “At the Hollies, near Kew, my lord. If you please, we will drive down there.” "I do not know—it is not right—l do not care to save myself in such a fashion. Even if I married your daughter, I am quite sure that I should not like her.” “Every one likes Hildred,” said Mr. Ransome.

“Hildred! That i« a pretty, quaint name,” said the earl. “I do not mind going to the Hollies with you, but I make no promise. If I should not like your daughter, she would be very miserable. My cab is at the door. We can go in that.” Without another word they started, Lord Caraven feeling more decidedly ashamed of himself.than he had felt yet. It was one thing to be considered the “fastest” man, the greatest spendthrift of the day, and another to purpose his safety by such a marriage is this. “A money-lender's daughter! I cannot do it,” be said to h’msejf more than once. “She's sure to be vulgar; she will have red hair, and will be highly delighted at the idea of being a countess. What should I do with such a wife—l who have worshiped a hundred beautiful women?”

CHAPTER 11. The Earl of Caraven was on the whole rather surprised when the cab stopped. The Hollies was of far greater extent than he had thought—a pretty villa standing in its own grounds, those same grounds beautifully laid out. On this bright June morning he saw flowers and trees, the silver spray of a fountain, the drooping branches of a grand old cedar; and he owned to himself that it was a far better style of place than he had expected to see. When they entered the drawing room, Lord Curaven was agreeably surprised. Whatever else it might be, it was not a vulgar room; there was no new gilding, no tawdry coloring; it was all harmony —a room filled with soft rose-light and the odor of fragrant flowers—a room that gave one the impression that a lady used it; no vulgar woman, no would-be fine lady would have given so refined a character to a room. There was a sound of footsteps. Mr. Ransome rose hurriedly. “Here is my daughter,” he said. Lord Caraven looked up with some faint gleam of curiosity. He had expected a vulgar school girl, a pert affected “miss,” who would smile and blush and exercise all the little arts of coquetry that she had learned at some third-rate boarding school. He wns quite wrong. He saw before him a tall, slender girl, with beautiful dark eyes and a pale face; a girl graceful and self-possessed, grave and earnest —not beautiful yet, although there was the promise of a magnificent womanhood. “She is not vulgar at least,” he said to himself, as the grave, dark eyes met his own. “I should really have run away had she been what my fancy painted her. Unformed, shy, inexperienced, half-fright-ened, what a wife for me—what a mistress for Ravensmere! I have no fault to find with her, but I shall never like her.”

So he thought, as in few brief words the money lender introduced his client to his daughter. There was nothing awkward ‘in her manner, but she was shy—frightened. She answered the few questions he asked —her voice was sweet and clear, with a true ring about it that he liked—and then relapsed into silence. Her father asked her for a set of engravings, and, as she crossed the room, Lord Caraveu saw that she had a queenly head, crowned with a profusion of beautiful dark hair; she also had a pleasant grace of movement that for an unformed school girl was rare. “Is it to be ‘Yes’ or ‘No?’ ” asked Arley Ransome, as his daughter passed for a minute or two out of sight. “You have seen Hildred now—you can judge for yourself; give me your answer.” With a sudden smile —and it was wonderful how that smile changed his face— Lord Caraven turned to his host. “I really think,” he said, “that she is emphatically a niee girl—too nice to be sacrificed.” “It is no sacrifice —she will be happy,” replied her father. “Do you say ‘Yes’ or ‘No,’ my lord? Time is money to me.” “You give me less time for consideration than you would give to a man buying a picture,” he replied. “I see no hope in any other way; if I did, I should refuse. ■I tell you frankly that I shall never like

your daughter; you thrust her upas me; you make her the only plank between my miserable self and the dark waters of death. I shall never like her —first of all, because she is your daughter, secondly, because she is not at all the style of girl that I do admire.” “You are very frank, my lord. Will you answer me one question? Do you love any one else?” The young earl looked puzzled. ‘The fact is,” he said, “that I have loved so many, I really ” “What I mean is, you are not betrothed —you have never made an offer of marriage to any one else?” “I have not had time even to think of marriage—that is why I dislike the idea of it now.” “Then that settles the matter. Yon say ‘Yes,’ and I say ‘Yes;’ Hildred will be' willing—girls love position, and she is very proud.” Something akin to pity stirred the earl’s heart. “What is Miss Ransome’s age?” he asked. “She will soon be eighteen,” replied the lawyer. “And,” said Lord Caraven, “so young as that, do you feel no reluctance at giving her to a man who tells you honestly that he will never like her?” "You will like her well enough in time,” replied the lawyer. “Some of the happiest marriages in the world have begun with a little aversion.” “Your daughter shall be Countess of Caraven; she shall go to court; she shall be the leading lady of the county; she xyill have the family diamonds and all that vain women most desire—but I shall never love her, and, what is more, I shall never even pretend to do so.” Arley Ransome laughed. “Hildred will do very well without that,” he replied. “Then the bargain is struck, my lord. We will say nothing to my daughter to-day; to-morrow I will speak to her myself. Allow me to congratulate you; you are a free man now, Lord Caraven, and a wealthy one.” (Td be continued.)

INFLUENCE OF THE VOICE.

Soft and Musical Speech Is One of Woman’s Greatest Charms. Eleanor Morton Parker, writing of “The Voice,” in the Woman’s Home Companion, says: "It has long been conceded that a pleasant voice is one of woman’s greatest charms. And many of us can verify this truth for ourselves by recalling the sweet influence of some woman, who, like the lovely Cordelia, spake in accents soft and low. A pretty face and a musical voice go well together, but of the two the latter Is preferable. The I>ower of a truly good woman possessing such a gift cannot be overestimated, especially if she Is refined and intellectual. Her harmonious tones fall with a restful cadence upon the ear of the invalid. They are peace for the weary, balm for the sorrowful, and are frequently more efficacious than a sermon in touching the obdurate hearts of the wayward. “On the contrary, we sometimes find rare beauty of feature seriously marred by the Incongruity of a disagreeable voice. It is said of the Empress Eugenie that the stranger was enraptured with her wonderful beauty, but the moment she all admiration was forgotten in the unpleasant sensation caused by her harsh Spanish voice. American women as a rule are not blessed with particularly musical voices. The colds, catarrh and bronchial trouble to which the sudden changes of our climate subject us more or less affect the vocal organs. In fact, soft, rippling utterance seems to belong more generally to lands of eternal summer. Yet any woman, no matter how great her natural defects may be, can, with few exceptions, bring her voice within a becoming key, and by proper care and exercise cultivate distinct, well-modulated tones. And it Is her duty to do so, since nothing will more certainly bring upon her social ostracism than neglect in this regard. “We are tired of being taunted by foreigners with our boisterous, loudtalking girls and women, when we know that many of those who make such unfavorable impressions upon strangers are at heart kind, gentle and refined. Let us hope that with the present movement for physical culture and voice culture and every other kind of culture the noisy, garrulous woman of street car and watering place fame will have soon passed away, and in her stead come a being who will not converse as though every one within hearing were deaf, and she were bound to finish the sentence she is bent on uttering that very moment or never. There is no greater assurance of a happy home than a calm, well-regulated voice, and the woman who possesses it has won half the victory toward social and domestic success.”

Natural Coke.

In works of mineralogy It is learned that there is such a product as natural coke, but so far as known there has but one deiwsit of this commodity been found in the United States, and this was in the vicinity of Richmond, Va. Although the deposits of coal in Utah are immense in their proportions, it was never dreamed that among its commodities of trade and commerce the State could Mast of beds of this natural coke, but such is the case, however, and a short time ago a vein of this coke had been discovered in Utah and withing fifteen miles of a railroad. This deposit crops out on the surface for some distance, and a twenty-five to thirty-foot tunnel has disclosed a body of coke that is all of five feet in width, and there is every reason to believe that with depth the size of this deposit will increase. In quality the coke is all that could be desired, and at the assay offices at which it has been tested the statement is made that it is a pure article, and that it is even superior to the manufactured coke, as it is entirely free from sulphur, bitumen,and that it gives out no smoke when burned, and makes less ash than the manufactured article. The new find, which is considered as being among the most valuable that has been made in the State, is owned and controlled by ex-Mayor R. N. Baskin and several other Salt Lake gentlemen, who have located six hundred and forty acres In the immediate vicinity of the discovery.

Tobacco experts say that the cheapest. cigar that J. Pierpont Morgan siuokes costs him not less than $1.25. His cigars are made in Havana, of tobacco selected especially for him by an expert whom he sends to Cuba every year, and made up without regard tv cost

SAM’S BIG KITCHEN.

THERE IS NO FINER COOK-SHOP IN THE LAND. In It Is Prepared Food to Believe Senatorial Hunger—lt Coat a Lot of Money and Its Product* Are the Best. Where Statesmen Eat.

JNCLE SAM owns the costliest kitchen in the world, probably. It is not the largest. There is at least one hotel kitchk* en in the United m States which surK passes it in size. But B it is fittted out with B. every improvement SLAthat money can buy, WSand no show place at the capital is more ELI, interesting or less known. The public ptrcinever gets a chance Il I. 0 Bee G> e Senate kit--11 • chen, the marble bath

rooms of the House, or any of the other luxuries provided for the members of Congress. The Senate restaurant keeper occupies a peculiar position. It looks at first glance like a very enviable position; but if one can believe the statement of the man who has held the privilege for a dozen years, that idea is incorrect. T. L. Page of Maine has been the purveyor to the Senate under both Republican and Democratic rule, and he declares that the job is not profitable—this, too, in the face of the fact that he pays no rent for his

HOBART LUNCHES IN HIS PRIVATE ROOM.

kitchens or his dining rooms, and gets his light and fuel free. The Senate kitchen is in the basement of the capitol. The only way in which a visitor could reach it would be by the elevators—and the elevator men are not encouraged to take people down stairs. That is because the engine rooms are in the basement, and the chief engineer does not want visitors fooling around the machinery. It takes a great deal of machin-

CHARACTERISTIC SCENES IN THE SENATE LUNCH ROOM.

ery to run the Senate—more than one would think. Much of it is used in running the electric light plant and the elevators, and much more in the ventilation of the building. Huge fans pump fresh air into the Senate chamber and the committee rooms and other fans pump the foul air out. One of these is in the Senate kitchen, and the room is so perfectly ventilated that no suggestion of the odor of the cooking reaches any of the floors above. The main room of the kitchen is 100 feet long and 15 feet widft. It was remodeled three years ago at a cost of more than $50,000. It is white-tiled, above and below, and on all four sides, so that its cleanness forces itself on one’s attention. Opening- out from it are store rooms and refrigerating rooms and bakeries. One of these is the oyster room, where a man does nothing but open oysters all day long. The storeroom is about 15 feet square. It is filled with the non-perisha-bles—crackers and spices and potatoes, and all the other grocery goods which will stand an ordinary temperature for a reasonable length of time. There is fruit in this room, too—a lot of it; and the wine is kept here, because the Senators would not relish a wine room in the face of the regulation which prohibits the sale of intoxicating beverages in the capitol. There is no difficulty, however, about getting a supply of wine or of bottled beer. In the kitchen proper there are two big ranges. An ox could be roasted in either of them; the larger is 12 feet long.

MORRILL TAKES BREAD AND MILK.

There is a big soup kettle in one cornerone of the largest kettles in the worldused for keeping the beef stock, with which every restaurant kitchen is provided. Metal steam pipes run through this fettle and keep the stock warm. In another kettle are kept the sauces to be eaten with meats—apple sauce and cranberry sauce. They, too, are kept warm

by ate«jD. There is a steambox for steaming oysters; a grill big enough to Kroll a pig or a lamb, under which glows a fire of red-hot charcoal; and a patent turkey roaster, which performs mechanically the turning and basting of the bird, which, in the old days, absorbed the time and attention of two or three persons. There are steam tables in the kitchen, as well as in the steam room. It takes thirty servants to run the kitchen and its appurtenances. _ “Noon to 3 o'clock” explains the peculiarity which is probably responsible for the alleged unprofitableness of the Senate restaurant. There is no breakfast hour worth speaking of, and no dinner hour. Very few persons eat anything but luncheon at the capitol. The Senators breakfast at home and dine at home; and, besides, they are not the best patrons of the restaurant. The public breakfasts at a hotel and dines at a hotel or a res-

NOTHING TOO GOOD FOR WOLCOTT.

taurant down town. Yet the Senate restaurant has to keep as large a force of cooks and scullions and waiters as though business continued brisk through the whole day. There are many frequenters of the pie counter among the Senators. This counter surrounds the dumb-waiters, and is deoorated with cold turkeys, cold roasts of beef and salads, as well as many kinds of pie. There are no seats of any kind. It is a common sight for two or three Senators to be standing at this counter, with Senate pages and committee clerks and messengers and Washington correspondents on each side of them, drinking big tumblers of milk and eating pie. This and the oyster counter are in the public restaurant—a room divided into two parts by large columns. Two small doorways, one at each end of the pie counter, lead to the rooms which are sacred to “Senators only.” These rooms were once open to members of the House, but Senators complained of the lack of privacy, and now if one enters the inner sanctum it must be as a guest of a member of the Senate. The writer has eaten there, and he can assure the reader that the food is no better and the surroundings no more attractive than in the outer rooms. There is only this difference—that they serve a more liberal allowance of bread in the Senators’ rooms than they do in the public restaurant, and frugal Senators have been known to order a 15cent plate of soup and eat a whole loaf of bread with it. Sometimes there is a feast in the Senate restaurant, when a member from the

Northwest receives a huge salmon from Oregon, or one of the New England Senators has a shipment of game from his home. Then Caterer Page personally supervises the preparation of the viands, and there is a jolly dinner party, at which a dozen members of the Senate sit down. Occasionally the Senate gets into a snarl, which makes the presence of all the members a necessity, and the dinner party has to be postponed; but it is very unusual for any public business to interfere with the good times that the Senators have in the Senate restaurant.

WASHINCTON COSSIP

J. W. Shragiie of Cincinnati has addressed a memorial to Congress asking the enactment of a law to provide the death penalty for the crimes of train wrecking and robbing. » » » The thirty days of mourning that have interrupted the social gayety of Washington will compel the administration to hustle in order to fulfill all of the formal engagements that have been made before the beginning of Lent. • • « The discipline at the naval academy was never so severe as at present. Capt. Cooper, the superintendent, is making a new and higher standard/ both in conduct and scholarship, and has adopted some severe measures to test class honor among the cadets. » • » When President Lincoln appointed Mr. Hassurek of Cincinnati as minister to Ecuador he told him it was the highest office in the gift of the nation, Quito, the capital, being nearly 12,000 feet above the level of the sea. Archibald J. Samson of Arizona now enjoys that honor. • » • Representative Broussard of Louisiana has followed the example of Representatives Belknap of Illinois and Beach of Ohio in getting married, and it is hoped that the epidemic will spread in alphabetical order through the entire House of Representatives. Robert Adams of Phi.adelphia, Joseph W. Bailey of Texas and William Edward Barrett of Massachusetts are three young and handsome Representatives whose names at the top of the list in the congressional directory do not have the asterisk that indicates the matrimonial state, but there is still time for them to reform. When the “Os” are reached Mr. Cousins of lowa will be the first to fall.

CONGRESS

On Thursday in the House consideration of the agricultural appropriation bill was completed in committee of the whole, and then the House adjourned upon the motion of those opposed to the printing of another edition of the famous “horse book.” There was the annual fight over the question of free seed distribution to the farmers, but the effort to strike out the appropriation ($130,000) failed as usual, the majority against it Thursday being 136. One of the important amendments adopted provided for the inspection of horse meat for export purposes in the same way that the meat of eattle and other animals is now inspected. Among the measures reported in the Senate was the pension appropriation bill. It was placed on the calendar at the conclusion of the morning business. The immigration bill was then taken up, and Mr. Caffery was recognized for a speech in opposition to the measure. The eulogies in memory of the late Senator Isham G. Harris of Tennessee, which were to have been presented, were postponed at the request of Senator Bate on account of the absence of his colleague, Senator Turley. They will not be offered until after the election of a Senator by the Legislature of Tennessee. At the conclusion of Mr. Caffrey’s speech the Senate went into executive session. In the House on Friday, it was the intention of the managers to proceed with the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill, but they relinquished the day to the Committee on Claims. Before this order was entered upon the agricultural bill was passed. When the House adjourned the night before the amendment to the bill providing for the publication of another edition of the “horse, book” was pending. On I riday the friends of the amendment compromised with the Appropriations Committee by agreeing to a reduction of the number to be printed from 150,000 to 75,000. As amended the amendment was adopted. Most of the day was consumed in a filibuster against a bill to pay the publishing house of the Methodist Episcopal Church South at Nashville, Tenn., $288,000 for the seizure and use of the property of that corporation during the war.. In the Senate Mr. Hoar offered a joint resolution proposing an amendment to the constitution extending the term of office of the President and Senators to April 30, 1901, at noon, and making that day instead of March 4 the commencement and termination of official terms in future. It was referred to the Committee on Privileges and Elections. Mr. Lo',’- offered a resolution, which was agreed to, calling upon the Secretary of Agriculture to supply the Senate with information as to the amount of sugar imported into the United States; the amount of beet sugar produced in the united States; with what sugar, imported or domestic, the beet sugar comes into competition, and what effect the Hawaiian sugar has or can have upon beet sugar production in the United States.

Monday was District of Columbia day in the House, but only three bills of local importance were passed. The remainder of the session was devoted to further consideration of the army appropriation bill. The debate was particularly notable for a vigorous speech by Mr. McClellan of New York, a son of Gen. George B. McClellan, attacking the present army organization as obsolete and inefficient. Mr. Lewis of Washington also made a speech that attracted attention, in denunciation of trusts, which, he declared, were threatening the liberties of the' country. The consideration of the army appropriation tyll was not completed. Quite unexpectedly Senator Hanna appeared at the opening session in the Senate. Mr. Foraker, the senior Senator from Ohio, presented’ Mr. Hanna's credentials for the remainder of Mr. Sherman’s term, which will expire March 4, 1899, and asked that the oath of office be administered to him. Mr. Foraker escorted his colleague to the desk, where Vice-President Hobart administered the oath. Senator Wolcott delivered a speech explaining the work of the bimetallic commission. By a vote of 45 to 28 the immigration bill was passed. The rest of the day was devoted to consideration of bills on the calendar.

Cuba had a hearing in the House on •Tuesday, and for a time it looked as if parliamentary precedents would be set aside and the Senate resolution recognizing the insurgents as belligerents would be attached as a rider to the diplomatic and consular appropriation bill. Mr. De Armond, a Missouri Democrat, precipitated the issue by offering the resolution as an amendment, but a point of order against it was sustained. Mr. De Armond appealed, urging the, Republicans who had professed friendship for the struggling Cubans to override yje decision of the chair as the only chance of securing action on the proposition. Mr. Bailey, the leader of the minority, and other Democrats joined in the appeal. The excitement became intense, but the appeals of Mr. Dingley, the floor leader of the majority, as well as other Republican leaders, to their associates not to join in the program, succeeded. Before the diplomatic bill came up the army bill was passed. In the Senate practically the only business accomplished was the passing of the urgent deficiency appropriation bill. The measure as finally passed by the Senate carries $1,013,810. The Teller resolution providing that bonds of the United States may be paid in standard silver dollars was favorably reported by a majority of the Finance Committee, and notice was given that it would be called up at an early date. An effort was made to fix a time for the final vote on the pending census bill, but was abandoned.

A Self-Supporting City.

The citizens of Glasgow, Scotland, pay no taxes, for the reaSbn that the municipality owns its lighting plant, water works and street car lines, the revenues from which pay all the expense of governing and policing the city.

The Usual Way.

Mrs. Wabash—Do you keep a serv-. ant? Mrs. Dearborn—Yes, and several of her relatives.

This and That.

Never affect to be witty, or jest so as to wound the feelings of another. The Salvation Army has at present five principal stations in Germany— at Berlin, Hamburg, Stuttgart, Essen and Konigtfburg. One lone, unassisted fly in a bed-room in the morning will do more towards making a man get up than all the alarm clocks in the world. A Hungarian farmer of Beeville, La., has invented a machine which, it Is said, will brush away all kinds of insects from cotton plants.