Indiana State Sentinel, Volume 30, Number 33, Indianapolis, Marion County, 17 September 1884 — Page 7

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THE INDIANA STATE SENTINEL WEDNESDAY, SEPTtiMBEIt 17, 1884.

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BLAINE'S PALACE.

A 3IasnUlceiit Heme Which Cost Over $100,000, Tilled with Luxurious Furniture Valued at S."0.00O A Comparison for Labor Ids Bleu to Consider. It bas frequently been stated and restated that James G. Blaine, although never receiyidjc more than $."0O0 per year as salary, excepting that short period when he was Secretary of State, daring which time his salary 'was at the rate of 3,000 per annum, has accnma'ated great wealth in vast coal mining interests. Here is a pen picture of the palace which Mr. Elaine erected, says a Washington special. It is given for the benetit of the poor coal miners who are now struggling for sustenance in tbe Ohio and other coal mining Tegion3. It will, serve to show the struggling laborer how the men who, it is alleged, ara lLeir employers are enabled to live. No man worth less than $1,000,000 could afford io build such a mansion, nor could nay other than a millionaire afford 2o live in such a house, as it is said that the Tunning erpenaesof the mansion which Mr. 2Jaine built for his Washington home can Hot be less than ?2,000 per month, or more than $00 per day more in one day thaa a coal miner makes in a month. The Blaine 3nansion is by far the largest private house ever erected'in Washington City, and has Suore rooms than the British Legation, xhougU not to much ground is covered as by the latter. The Elaine mansion goes up a pood deal higher in the air. The same architect built both of thera. The ground jlan measures about seventy by seventyjive ltet, and the hou3e stands on a tongue of lacd bounded by Twentieth street, P. Etreet and Massachusetts avenue, and faces cast. There are two main entrances, one for carriages on Massachusetts avenue, where there is a circular drive on the lot leading ihrough a rorte cochere to the fine stone staircase and one which gives the most pleasing interior riew on Twentieth street. This 23 approached by a fine stone staircase leading up to a broad platform of stone, from which the entrance door opens. Then one fees a hall fifteen feet wide and forty-five jeet in leu.jth, terminating in a hancteorne fireplace and mantel, above which is a plate pla?a mirror. The xtecio r. or the mansion 3s in striking constrast with all the neighboring houses. Built of plain pressed brick, the only ornamentation attempted is in variations of the eanie material in the form of black lines and terra cotta. The latter is displayed in original design about then entrance on Twentieth street. At the Massachusetts avenue entrance there is erected the elegant porte cochere mentioned above, of artistically wrought Iron work. The house is of three full stories, with basement and attic üoors. Entering by a substantial looking flight of brown stone steps, one -reaches a solid oak double door, carved elabIrately, yei with no superilaoos or showy ornamentation. The entrance hall is in ipepiüg with the promise of the portals. A floor of variegated wood cherry, walnut and Georgia pine supports magnificently proportioned oak pillars of Corinthian tmcdel, which in turn snppoTt a ceiling -panelled in the same substantial material, übe wails are also wainscoted in oak. To the right is the reception room, finished in Mack walnut, with elaborately carved mantel framing, an old-fashioned looking fireplace, furnished with andirons and artistically molded hearth. On the left is a conijanioa room, the parlor, leading to the drawing room and library all en suite finished in Honduras mahogany, the latter lined breast high with bookcases covered with carved work. A butler's pantry beyond tbo library opens to the dining room, with an intervening dumb waiter of the proportions of a moderate sized elevator, and running clear to the roof. The dining room, with capacity to seat but a select gathering, and obviously intended for no state occasion, is also finished in mahogany. Along the rear ot the bouse, overlooked "by the windows of the three last .named rooms, i3 a capacious veranda. Al tbe floors on this level are formed of the same wood3 as the hall. Tbe doors are made to slide into recesses in the wall, and respond to the touch of a child, so well balanced and adjusted are they. Warping and binding are guarded against in their construction; each "stile" of the frame is formed of four strips of pine, each alternate strip reversed, bo as to react and absorb within themselves any variation from the true line caused by further drying of the already well-seasoned timber. Outside of all is a thick veneering of the wood corresponding with the "fiuiali" of the respective looms. The windows are GLAZED WITH rLATE GLASS J the sashes are hung upon patent copper chains. Every door and window in the house is connected with an electric indicator 5a Mr. Blaine's room, forming a complete burglar-alarm. Electric bells and speakingtubes traverse the house in all directions. A magnificent oak-carved stairway leads by an easy ascent of seventeen steps, eight feet wide, to a landing with a divided short return of six steps. The upper hall is graced with oak pillars of as elegant, but less elaborate design as those below. The principal room on this floor is Mr. Elaine's chamber. From the windows a view of Arlington, Fort Myer and Georgetown College is obtained. Here, as mentioned before, center the electric wires which vill give unerring information of any improper attempt to enter. Leading trom this chamber, which, as are all on the floor, is ünished in poplar wood, is a bathroom, which, if it does not excel in elegance those of the Komans, certainly equals anything ot modern model. Besides the most coanplete appurtenances of sanitary science, made Eafe from any possibility of sewer contagion, there is a hot-air or Turkish bath-chamber. Ziere are also the ubiquitous electric buttons, to insure the solitary bather the safety of a prompt call in cae of sudden illness or other necessity for assistance. Other rooms on this floor are in more or les3 exclusive connection with ba'h-rooros, but no drain attachments lead directly into any sleeping chamber. Five tine large rooms comprise the family and guest chambers on this lloor. In the rear are other rooms, separated by a shut-off door, ard rached by a tmaller stairway, inlanded for the use of servants. On the floor above are a number of well appointed bedroom.", together with a larcre cedar closet for iuis, etc., and in tbe attic tier is still another get of roc.ms. less in number than on either of the other Coors, bat all finely fitted up. In the basement, reached by a broad stair ay under THS GKAXn OAK Mr.CCTCf.lt used for reaching the upper chamber, is lound a fine. large billiard room under the library, and of the same size about 20 by 2 Jeet. is ar to this, under tue parlor, is tne amoking room. Across the spacious hall are ihe kitchen, laundry and other domestic cilices, all fitted up with the latest modern appliances. The heating arrangements of the bouse, apart from the open fire-places whiab. ventilate and cheer nearly every room, are worthy of particular notice. The furnace or boller t hamber ia between the billiard and smokies rooms. It is furnished with aa im xnense boiler, which does double duty, suprlyiDg both radiated heat and clean, hot atr. Hue former Is transmitted through tne me liurn of improved eteam heaters in every Toom. The latter is, with the outer air or that of the various baement rooms, at will "passed over an infinite number of convolu lions of steam pines, arranged in cases. erected in different spots about the lower lloor. The air is not rcorched. nor even ua dnlr dried, the moisture which the heated surface of the pipes may deprive it of being restored by an ingenious contrivance. Altoeether there are but twenty-five rooms. exclusive of the minor offices, in the man sion. Tbe cost was at first, it is said, est I mated at $00,000, but it ia said probably

reached mow than ? 100, OOO before it was completed. Tbe furniture, it is said, cost at least 0,000. In the rear of the hoase are a cistern and a filtering apparatus, the rain water from the roof passing through the latter before entering the c' t:rn. The water is used tor drinking. It was said that during the construction of the house Mr. Blaina summoned his architect or builder to New York to see Mr. Tilden's new dining-room, desiring to have it reproduced in his own house, but was deterred by the expense. There, Mr. Laborer, Is the picture of Jamei G. Blaine's Wathington home. How does it compare with your own humble abode? PAMXINU THK WORKIKGMEN. It is said that when this magnificent residence waa in course of construction Mr. Biaine complained on several occasions of what he termed the exorbitant demands of the trades unionists employed on the building, and on one occasion became so enraged because he was compelled to pay the rate of wages demanded by the Carpenters' Union, that he declared in very lorcible language, in the presence of many of the workincmen, that "it was a d d outrage that people were forced to submit to the demands of a trades union," and that '$- a day was enough for any mechanic.'' DISCE5DED FROM KlOi. Blaine's toadying friends and toft hunters have worked it out that his lineage "can be traced back to Grillith ap Tynam, King of North Wales, A. D. 10:'7: derived from Anarawd, King of North Wales, eldest son of Rodri Mawr, King of Wales, A. I. 813, founder of the First lloyal Tribe; arms, three red lions, passant (standing); from this house descended Owen Gwynnedd, eldest son of Griflitn, who bore on his shield three eagles; his eon, Owen Gwynnedd A. L. IS7L', I'rince of North Wales, had his shield quartered and bore four lions; the second son of Kodri Mawr. King of South Wales, founded the Second lloyal Tribe, and bore a lion rampant, within a bordure; the descendants of the third son of Rodri Mawr, A. I. 101 founded the Third lloyal Tribe, lrom whom descended lladoc. Tri ace of l'owys, Fadog; tbe eldest son of Madoc was the progenitor of Owen Glendower, whose progeny was I'rince of Ferlys. the country between the Wye and the fcevern ; this house founded the Fourth Koyol Tribe, and hal three boars' heads quartered with two lions, on his shield. It is from this house that the Blaynes derive their arms, which are three boars' heads, quartered with lions, rampanant and regardant; crest, a foi, rasant; motto, MNon Nobis Solum." OCK YOUXrj FOLKS,

Heven Koiuta tor Kaji, Be bouest, my boy, bo honest, I say; Be bouest at work, be bonest at p'.ay; The same in the dam as when in the light. Your devils need not then be kept out of sifeht. Tne next thing you need Is knowledge, my boy; Tuet. virtue, indeed, your time thould employ; Let knowledge display integrity, too. Ana you'll seldom say, "I've nothing ti do." But work calls for action, muscle and will: j;ojsmut 'itt up auUgt-t," their fetation to tiil; And boys should be active as ever they ran A dull, "stupid boy grows to a dull, stupid man. But simple activity will not utlice: Some shrewd, acute boys are shirks in dieuise; They rcark all the moves the industrious do, but dou't care a üg to push business txrough. Tl enext thing in order avoiding displayis boys should be carefnl to hear and obey. Not even presuming to make a reply, .Nor, muttering, say: "I'll to by and by," But promptly obey with a hearty pood will, Attempting, at least, tne whols order to fill. Acain : Be not fitful, but stick to your work ; Never let It be said that you're a siiirk ; Put when any task is fairly l-ecun. Keep "pegging awiy" until it is done. T-e honest, te wise and Industrious too ; Be active, obedient, obliging and true; lie faithful in all things, be clean as you can, I'olite in your manners, and you'll b a, mau. The Sense of Donor la Loj. Wide Awake.? There is a great confusion in boy's notions oi honor. You should not go to your teach er with tales of your BChooimate3, but when Questioned by those in authority over you. parents, guardians or teachers, it is your duty to tell who did the mischief or broke a rule, no matter what result to yourself or how unpopular you become. Boys have a alse horror which hides mean and ssuiking actions in each other, which ought to be rid iculed out of them. The most cowardly in juries and injustice among boys go uncbf eked, and the weaaer are abused and bullied in a way every decent boy should resent, because his false notions of companionship leads them to lie, prevaricate, or keep silence to screen the guilty. Teachers and friends ought to put down this ignorant, petty "sense of honor," for somethinj; more intelligent and upright. When you know of a wrong and keep silence about it when asked, yoa become a partner in the wrong, and responsible for us original meanness. It is a pity that boys and grown people did rot carry the same strictness ot principle they show in screening bullies and frauds into points ot genuine honor and courage. A First Lesson In Handling a (i un. Maurice Thompson, In Et Nicholas for June.J The first thin? thins to be learned is to stand properly. I'lant your feet naturally and hrmly on the ground, so that the joint3 of your legs are neither stiff nor bent; then lean the upper part of your body slightly forward. Unp the eunstocs inst behind the guard with the right hand, the forefinger lightly touching the foremost trigger, that is, the trisper of the right-hand barrel. The stock of the gun, a few inches in front of tbe guard, must res; easily in the hollow of the lelt band. Hold the muzzle of the gun up and slanting away from you, so that the lower end ot the butt is just lower than your right elbow. .'ow, if both hammers have been cocked, and you gently and swiftly draw tbe butt of tbe gun np to and against the hollow of the right shoulder, you will f.nd yourself in good position for takingaim. which is best done by keeping both eyes wide open and looking straight over the rib between the barrels with the right eye. You will son discover the trick ot doing this, by fixing youraim with both eyes open, and then, holding it perfectly steady, clewing the left eye; if the line ot sight now changes, you have not sighted correctly; if It remains tiaed, the aim has been taken with the right eye. Le careful after firing never to set your gun down with a hammer np. That is the cause of many deplorable accidents. To avoid accident you must be constantly on the alert and cautious, not overlooking even the slightest precaution. In Passing Through Some Fertile Valley, Or iidJng along the tanks of some beautiful river. wboe shores wera rich in evidences of luxuriant Testation, did you ever in the early morulu; or the evening, notice a mUt hanging lilte a pall over the circumjacent land, and then were you cur prised to learn that malaria was rife la that local ity? If so, you were wofnllv Ignorant of tn na ture and effects of miasma. Agtinst the eoct of that fever-brecdlne vapor there is safety, however. Hostetter's Stomach Litters furnishes that safety, as the dwellers of inch reio'j know by experience. Not only on this continent, bat in the fevei plagued reeions of tbe tropics, this sterling safe guard atlords exemption Iron malarial disease to thousands. Kor is it less successful in remedying and preventlns disorder ot tbe stomach, lirer and bowels, specially virulent wherever the can's ravs l-osj.es greatest power. Disorders of the bladder and kidney, rheumatic ailments, nervousness and want of viiior. are also among the troubles to the reucf of which it is adapted. Stabbed In the Back. New Yopk. Fept. 13. Deputy Tnlted Stales Mar sha) Be rnhardt was staboed ia the back this morn inz by bis demented wife, who thea ran away and has not yet been iounu. i.ie wounatsnot UUL Despise Not the Day of Smtll Thiug. Little thisgs may help a man to rise a bent pin in an easy chair for Instance. Ir, Pierce's "Pleasant Purgative Pellets" are small things, pleasant to take, and they cure sick-headaches, relieve torpid livers and do wonders. Being purely vegetable they can notnarm any one. au druggists.

WASHINGTON GOSSIP.

Our Weekly Budget From the National Capital. The Late Senator Anthony, of Rhode Is land. Senator Dawes and Representative Keller. Washington, Sept. 12. The re ent death of Senator Anthony, who had been for a full quarter of a century a member of the Senate, calls attention to the few men who have served that length of time in Congress. He was the only member of the Senate who had served a quarter of a century in that body. Governor of Phode Island in 1319 and 180 he declined a re-election, and in 1S.X was elected to the United States Senate as a "Union Pepublican" to succeed Philip Allen, Democrat, taking his seat in lsö: twenty-five years ago the 4th of last March. From that time he had served continuously in the Senate; having been twice elected as Iresident pro-tempore. Although Mr. Anthony was a longer time in the Senate than any other present member of that body, his term of service did not rank wltn that of one man who preceded him Thomas Benton, of Missouri. Mr. Benton was thirty years in the Senate, having been live times elected for the full term of bix years, and served each of those terms to their close. He was a candidate for a sixth term, but defeated by his own party. "He had become old and cranky." said a Senate attache who knew him, while talk ing to your correspondent of him. He had been so long in the service that he was not as careful of the feelings of his party friends as jounger men would have been. The result was he often said things which offended certain of his supporters. Pretty sron he would do something else which would oil'end another class of his sup porters, and. by-and-by, would commit some acticn ollending both of them. The result was, that at the end of his fifth term he was defeated by his own friends and his own party. He was here in the Senate from 1821 to 1?51. Defeated for a re-election to the Senate, he Btood for the Lower Horse, and was elected, being a member of the Thirtythird Congress from to IS'k). Another man who has been continuously a member of Congress for over a Quarter of a century is Senator JJawes. of Massachusetts, whose portrait is given herewith. Although more than a quarter of a century in Congress, he la not yet, as will be seen by the face, an old man. He was a member of a Massachu setts Legislature in ISIS, lSt:, and a member of the Senate in that State in ISoO, District Attorney in the Western District of the State from 1833 to isr7, when he was elected as a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress. He came to the House in 17, and was a member of the Thirty-filth, Thirtysixth, Thirty-seventh, Thirty eighth, Thirtyninth, Fortieth, Forty-first, Forty-second Congresses, declining the election to the r orty -fourth, and being immediately elected to the Senate to succeed Charles Sumner, whese unexpired term had been filled by V uiiam 15. ash burn. He toos his seat in the Senate in March, 1S73, and was rexH ( i .jr. NY ;. .Vri' .-.." f-ENATOE DAWIn elected In 131, having thus served continuously in the House and Senate twenty-seven years. Charles bumner, whom he succeeded, served almost a quarter of a century in tbe Senate; coming in 1S51 and being continuously a member of that body until the date of his death, in 187-1. Henry Wilson, who was a co-laborer with Sumner, came in 18Ö3 as a member of the Senate and was continuously a member there either by election as a Senator or Vice President until the date of his death 1S73. Senator Morrill, of Vermont, came in 1355 as a member of the HouFe, and has been continuously a member of one or the other of these bodies since, having been elected to the Senate in lsGT and remaining there continuously since that time. His colleague, Senator Edmunds, has not been a member, as might be supposed, having come in ISW as successor to holomon Foote, deceased, and remaining there continuously since that time. Senator Sherman, of Ohio, was one of the earliest of the present Senators to become a member of ConzreEb, having been elected in lviö as a member of the House. He bas been constantly a member since tben. excepting the four yesrs in which he was Secretary of the Treasury. Turning attention to the popular branch of Cocgress the Houw-IIon. William D. Kelley, of Pennsylvania, is found to be the oldest member of that body. Here is his portrait. Nobody will claim that be is a handsome man : "indeed, he does not lay any claiis to personal beauty himself. He has been continuously a member of the Hou;e since the beginning of the Thirty-seventh Congress. The close of the present Congress will make for Mr. Kelley twenty years of continuous service Althowb seventy years of ae on April 12 of the present year, he is still a vigorous, hale man. He has just! returned from a trip to Europe in excellent health and spirits, his mind still as active as that of any man in the Houe. He comes back filled with new information on his pet theory the tariff. He makes these trips to Europe nearly every year, making special studv in each, trip of certain sections of the laboring element of Europe. This year his Btudy bas been in Switzerland among tbe laboring classes there. The condition of the laboring elates ot England and France and

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Germany have been a stndy with him for years, and the man who "tackles" him on

th subiect of labor abroad or at home finds hin pretty well posted. Mr. Kelley realizes, nowever, mat, ma seventy years oi tiara r.EPP.EEXTlTIV KELLT. work have told upon him physically, and in the past year or two he has been incliced t leave the burden of labor in the House to younger men. in bis labt great speech on the tariff he closed earlier thaa he had intended, say ing that Le found himself unable to speak for so long a time as in earlier years, and ak:ng permission to "print" the remainder cf his remarks, which, of course, was granted to him. Althongh Mr. Kelley is the oldest member of the House in point of service he is not the oldest in years. Mr. Wait, of Connecticut, "ranks" him by nearly three years, having been born in 1811. being seventy-three years of age cn August 27, of this year. He has teu a member of the House for eight years. The next in rank to Mr. Kelley in the num ber of years cf continuous service in the House is Mr. Randall, who came one Congress later than Mr. Kelley, and has been, therefore, twenty-two years continuously member of that body. Mr. Cox, of New York, ranks both Mr. Kelley Mr. Randall in point of early service, having been a member of the Thirty-fifth Congress twenty-seven years ago. He represented in that Congress and in three that followed it, the Columbus, Ohio, District. L movinr to .New ork City, however, he dropped out of CongTess from the close of the lhirty-eighth until tne beginning of the Forty-first Congress. He again disappeared from Congress at tbe close of the Fortysecond, having been defeated as candidate for llepresentative-at large in the Fortythird Congress. However, he was subse quently elected to succeed James Brooks, deceased, since which time he has been consiantly a member. It does not follow that a long term in Con gress makes men noted or prominent. The researches necessary to gather data for this article brought to the surface the curious fact that one man had been a longer time in the Houte than was Thomas lenton in the Senate, but that not even the best posted men in matters of that sort were able to remember his name or the State from which he came. He was a member from one of the Southern States, and is entitled to the distinction of having served loDger in Congress thaa any other man living or dead. Yet no one here in Washington Is able to recall his name or any circumstances which lead to its discovery. Such U fame. it does not follow that because a man is prominent as a member of Congress be has been long in that body, hverybody listens when Abram S. Hewitt, of New York, rises in his place to speak upon almost every sub ject, yet he has been a member of only three Congresses before the presentone the iortyfifth. Forty-sixth and Forty-seventh. William Dorsheimer, of New York, is counted very prominent as a member of the House, yet this is his first term in Congress. Mr. William Walter I'helps is counted one of the most prominent on the Kepublican side of the House, yet he has been a member of only one Congress. Mr. Ingalls, of Kansas, is counted one of the prominent men m the Senate, and is more carefully listened to, perhaps, than any otiier on tbe llepmblican side, yet he is only on his second term. Ben Harrison, who commands attention on the Kepublican side of the Senate, is on his first term in that body and in Congress. Finerty, of Illinois, who attracts more attention on the floor than any other member from" that State, net excepting Mr. Springer, is on his first term. while the ereat Morrison has onlv been in Confess a few years. Senator Anthony's death removed the only man wVirt rknlr1 flnm 4 Vi a Vi rr rtf Yiavin r teen continuously a member of one branch ol Congress for more than a quarter of a cent ury, yet tnere are lour men, tue total ot whose terms of Eervice in Congress aggregate more than a century. They are Senators Dawes and Morrill and l.ep-esentatlves Kelley and Cox, of New York. LITTLE FOLKS. A smart boy in a Sunday-school savs Taul did tot live In clover, but he cultivated Timothy with pood success. A little school-girl's definition of scandal was: "Nobody does nothing an d everybody goes on telling it everywhere." "Oh, mamma, mamma!" said a little girl the other day, as she saw a chicken without any feathers in' its tail, "tee the old hen! She Las lost the ribbons out of her polonaise." "Yes," said the level-headed school-boy, "Pm at the foot o' my classes, and calculate to stay there. Then I don't have to stand the wear and tear of anxiety for fear I'll lose myplace." "Geoise," asked the teacher of a Sundayfchcol class, "who, above all others.shall yoa wish to see when yoa get to heaveu?" With a lace brightening up with anticipation, the little fellow shouted, "Gerliah!" Polly is not yet quite perfect in her catechism. "Who was the first man?" asked her mother recently. "Adam." "Ye. Who was the first woman?" "Mrs. Adam." Little Nell Ma, are those ladies going up o Heaven ? IIa Oh, no, pet. Te balloon is tied and will be pulled down again in a few moments. Little Nell Well, wouldn't they get to Heaven if they'd keep right on? Ma I suppose so. Little Nell But they wouldn't be 'lowed to go in, I know. Ma Why not? Little Nell Tause they got too much clcttea on. Young Jarphley'a Ioqulfiltlvenesa. "Pah," remarked young Johnnie Jarphley, "was Jonah a great manf ' "I do not know that he was a ereat man my son," cautiously remarked Mr. Jarphley, "but he certainly was a very remarkable one." "He lived in a whale's belly for forty days, didn't he, pah?" "Something of the sort is recorded, I be' lieve." "Could vou do It?" "I do not know. I am reading. Djn't bother me.". "But Bay, rah, I believe you could. heard man say vou was a regular Jonah at everythine you undertook, and Ouch! oh! oh! oh! I won't do so no more." "One hundred doses $1" is true only of Hood s Sarsaparilla, and it is an unanswera ble argument as to strength and economy.

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'-' f i: f- -r3,-...VV ?,-.v.-.-J-:::.:i!'::tV-V- : : ..--:-.- .-.-. -v-. ;.i,-."5 CHARLES EDWARD COON, ACTIXG SECEETA.RY OF THE THEASl "BY. Should President Arthur not appoint a Secretary of the Treasuary within tan days from the death, on the 4th inst, of Charles J. Folger, the late incumbent of the office, Charles Edward Coon, the Assistant Secre tary at present in Washington, will discharge its duties during the time indicated. This arrangement, which is prescribed by the law. brings Mr. Coon's came into great prominence. He succeeded Assistant Secretary Jehn C. New, of Indiana, in the spring of tne present year. Charles Edward Coon was born at Friend ship, Allegany County, New York, in the year 1342. He was about to begin business when the war broke out, but patriotically abandoned his plans and enlisted in the Twenty-third New York Volunteers. He served two years with his regiment, and was then for a year Chief Clerk and Deputv Provost Marshal of his Congressional District, with headquarters at Flniira. His services in the I nited States Treasury Department date back twenty years, from 1SC4, when he was appointed to a ciertstiip by oeneral Spinner. This was the beginning of a course of departmental duty in which Mr. Coon has advanced step by step to his present posi tion. At the time of his appointment to it he v. as Assistant Chief of the Loan Division, and rot the nearest in the line of promotion. Others were passed by, however, on account of his being the best qualified for the vacant position. Mr. Coon s extraordinary ability in finance is LeartiJy recognized in banking circles both in the Uüited States and in E a rope. He has represented the Treasury Department twice in the city of London, the first time as lone ago S3 1871, in company with Assistant Secretary Richardson. The first 5 per cent, loan was placed on that occasion. On Mr. Coon's second visit to the British metropolis he had charge 01 the funding negotiations lne magnitude of the interests involved in the operations entrusted to him in London ap pears in the lact that these involved tne passing through Mr. Coon's hands of United States Securities amounting in value to $ 1,000, 000. C00. Not a dollar was lost in the process. Intelligent public opinion re gards Mr. Coon as a man eminently fit to be entrusted to the highest position in the cepartment in which he has so long served. II X BY CLAY. Recollections of John II. Harmon Bis Life and Death. Detroit Free Press. "It was Henry Clay's purpose," said John II, Harmon, continuing the story of his recol lections of the famous orator and statesman. "to leave Washington Immediately after his speech. The early fall weather was really the Indian summer season, and most favorable to such a journey as he had in mind. His speech in the Senate chamber on his farewell quite overcome him. Though he held up to the end under strong mental influences, the orator never rallieu again. Very much exhauted4CIay:was taken to his rooms In the Id National Hotel, at Washington, and I believe never afterwards left them. I he winter came and went; the session con tinued with it Every day right after prayer in the Senat the Chair announced the state of his health. The announcements directly became rather sterotyped. It was usually 'Mr. Clay is gradually tailing, altera time it became "Mr. Clay is failing rapidly; next we hear Mr. Clay is sinking, but his mind is very clear.' Finally it came to be under stood that if he 6hould die during the hours of the session the bells should toll in announcement of it. lIANNEGAN HAS THE FLOOR. "It was upon -a morning in the early part of May, 1852, a season beyond all otherj most delightfully beautiful in Washington. The trees and shrubs in the Capitol grounds and the nower-beds were fresh and pleasant to look upon. "Hannegan, of Indiana, an Irishman, bright as silver, witty, eloquent and always interesting, had the floor of the Senate, maiing a eet speech on our policy with regard to foreign affairs. His seat was well np toward the rear. Being of a quick and nervous temperament, he took the main aisle, aud while declaiming would work himiself forward almost to the Clerk's desk, noticing which be would bound way back, going through these motions continuously until he tad finished. Setator Frye, of Maine, has very much the same method. A son of Sanator Hannegan, a fine-appearing, grayheaded man, is one of the messengers of tae Senate now. He frequently asks me about his father. Hannegtin was speaking in his quick, impulsive manner, Laif way down the aisle, and progressing with an enthusiastic sentence, when a single toll of a bell quivered tbrongh the air. Hannegan ceased speaking in a fitish, bounded back to the rear, turned pale, and in a tremulous word, said: Mr. l'resident, the probabilities are that the greatest statesman in America is now no more; I move that the Senate adjourn.' "There; was no chance to note upon it. Instantly every man took his bat and coat, and before the second toll of the bell came all were away. The same sort of proceedings must have dispersed the House, for I remember as we passed through the rotunda that it was full of members issuing therefrom. "The rapidity with which the city was thrown into mourning has always caused me to wonder. Walking directly from the Capitol, when we reached the edge of the grounds where the peace monument now is, Pennsylvania avenue was seen to be filled with streamers of black, hanging from windows, fastened to balconies, wound round columns and awning poles, and stretched accro3S the stieet It was a solemn sight. "The Nat ional Hotel was thick with crape, and to was Morrison's bookstore, adjoining it. It is the same store still, now kept by Morrison's son, and formerly the resort and lounging place of both Clay and Webster. Here, when they had leisure, both would always be found reading and studying, or discussing literature, new and old, but very seldom politics, with friends and admirers who came to seek them out. Clay passed more time at Morrison's than Webster. The little rooms did not communicate, and neither statesman could be seen by the other. THE CAPITAL SHOCKED. "The event, though long expected.shocke 1 people to the extent that all business was suspended. Many bar-rooms, even, were closed, acd in others men lowered their vo'.ces and conversed in quiet tones, as it in tbe presence of the dead. 1 was in wash intrton at the time of the assassination of Lincoln and again at that of Garfield, but neither eieat appeared to Unöw fiueU gloom.

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vnia lnuiguauon or anger, sucn as was ieu at the deeds which led to the murder of the Presidents. On those occasions men were boisterous with threats and brief, but silence and gloom overspread the city where lay the dead body of the mnch-loved orator and statesman. It was in time of peace, and the Capital was unused to such shocks, and therefore men talked in whispers when all was over witn nnry Clay. he was buried in the Congressional cem etery, and a monument was placed upon the spot, but there is nothingunder it Strangely enough, for all the many years that Clay had passeu in w asnmgton, nis wiienaa never visited that city. Once he had started to take his daughter to reside there during the session, but Ehe died on the way. Mrs. Clay always remained at their Kentucky plantation of Ashland, and managed the estate whue ber husband devoted himself to cations lafTalrs. "His body was disinterred from the Con gressional Cemetery and taken back to his old Kentucky home. It was taken by the Laltimore and Ohio to Cumberland, as far as the railroad was then completed, and from thence in a hearse by the old National road to the Ohio lliver. Ceremonial obsequies were held for Henry Clay in all the cities of the country. A magnificent funeral arch was erected In Detroit at the corner of Wocdward and Jefferson avenuea. A. C. MtGraw, who had his store at that point then, and John Owen and Alanson Sheley. who were prominent among the local committee, will remember more particularly about the feeling of mourning that existed here at the time." ENOTTT PlIOBLEMS. Our readers are Invited to furnish orlrlasl en!r mas, charades, riddles, rebuses and otner "knotty problems." addressing all communications relative to tn'j acp&rtncnt to . B. Chad bourn, Lewlitaa, Maine. No. 918. A. Politician's Palindrome. Toliticiens can be found Spei ilyins all aronud; Each one tells wberefore and why, All the hubbub and the cry; W hy the men are running so; How election's snre to go; NVhat wtil pave the country sure ; hat will keep our rulers pare. Other things as rai?hty, true, lney're inviting us to view. All the reasons they have toM, To the readers are quite old. One I will repeat-no more; All the rest 1 will ignore. What excites ihe ieopie so? Is it principles or noi" Tfcen our politician cries Vith Iiis band raised to the sties. Not il 1 emulation That so deeply stirs this nation '." And rather think 'tis true; litader dear, what thfuketh you? ANDERSOX. No. 919 A Charade. A little first hopped across the walk in front of baby Nell's second and disappeared under a large whole, much to the disappointment of our pet, who had eagerly watched the creature's motions. Uxclk Bex. No. 950. A Lady's Bing. Whirls within this macic ring Life's most precious, sacred thin?. While you watch its mazy motion. Forth o. e pprines whose true devotion, Iiolding for you this good treasure. With it waits tor your good pleasure. This a leap-year spell must be; Lassies, read the mystery. S. E. A. No. 931. A Geographical Family, A family upon which I have often called consists of bix persons tbe father and mother, two eons, and two daughters. Iheir surname is the name of an important river of New York State. The father's first name is that of a county of New Jersey; the moth er's that of the capital of an Eastern State; the elder eon's tnat 01 a tort in .New Mexico; the younger eon's that of a cape on the coast of Yirg'nia; the elder daughter's that of on,e of tbe United States; the younger daugnter s that ot a country 01 Australia, wnatare the names of the members of this family? B. L. Ifo 05? An Enigma. A thou&and sure -not less nor more Once came and stood before us, CrjinK, you will oje your door ve'll give you one grand cborug." Eut of voices they had not enough, And together thundered Oh ! we want friends to help us outFirst one aLil then a hundred." J. G. Ko, 953. A. Nomcrlcal Enigma. "May I 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, G, 7 you for 8, 9, 10, 11 of thoie llowers?" asked Augustus Brown one day. As I had found him a very 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, t, i, 8, O, 10, 11 youth 1 declined rather crossly, and he never speaks to me now. L NCLE liZX. No. 954 A Charade. FIRT. I am the sweetest little blossom, that sheds its rare perfume. SECOND. rm the laby ol this blossom, Who gladdens yoa in June. . WHOLE. Will you nsrr.e this little infant, And finish up tbe tune'.' Anime. No. 935. a. Pr.r TJead. I am a member of the animal and vegetable kingdoms: and am sometimes manu factured from the mineral kingdom. I am a useful and ornamental adjunct ot your dinner table, and a serviceable addition to your bureau or tewing machine. I am a mythological personage, also a constellation. Vv most valnable form, however, is without my head, for then I am worth millions. ZLl-.B. Ia. ii. UILLETT. A New Word Hunt For the largest list of words formed from the letters of "pirate" a fine gold pen with holder will be presented. No letter Is to be UBed more than once in any word, and only such words as are defined in Webster's Unabridged Dictionary will be allowed. Foreign and obsolete words, localisms, proper names, abbreviations, contractions, and musical syllables will be excluded; and a single combination of letters will be counted but once, although it may have several definitions. All lists must be arranged alphabetically and numbered, and must be sent in before October 1st. In case of a tie preierencc will be given that one of the largest lists from which fewest words are rejected for non-observance of these conditions. Answers. f!..! S Shelley; Cowper; Otway; Tennyson ; Thompson. Box-wood wood-box. 11 plus 1 plus 3 plus 5 equal 20. 933. 934. 03.). Talking S3G. 1. Pine-apple. 2. A peach. 3. A pear 4. A plum. (pair.) 937.A riddle. Kat-able. Ever-more. 938. 939.Loafing. Does the young man who persists in being a loafer ever reflect how much less it would cost to be a decent, respectable man? Does he immagine that loaferiam is more economical than gentility? Anybody can be a gentleman, if lie chooses to be, without much cost, but it is mighty expensive being a loafer. It costs time, in the first place,days. weeks and months of it; in fact, about all the time he has, for no man can be a firstclass loafer without devoting hia whole time to it The occupation, well followed, hardly affords time for eating, sleeping, dri we had almost said drinking, but on reflection, we will except that. The loafer finds time to drink whenever invited at the coat of friends. Once fully embarked ou thejsea of Jo&ferdoa aast yoa bid frreweU q every,

friendly sail that wails under an honest anf ' legitimate flag. Your contorts will only tm the buccaness of society. It cosis money, tor, though the loafer may not earn a ceit or have one for months, the time lost might have procured him much money, if devoted to industry instead of sloth. It costs healt'j, vigor, corrfort, all the true pleasures of living, honor, dignity, self-respect, and tbe rtpect of the world when living, and finally, all rsght of consideration when dead. Be a gentleman, then: it is far cheaper. Keep Looking Young. This Is the asre of young men. Orher things being equal, they are everywhere preferred. Save your yourg looks. It means positio and money. Is your hair faliine o'J dry or lustreless? Preserve and beautify it by" using Parker's Hair Balsam. Not an oil, not a dye,' sure to work, clean, harmlesa. Restores color. Stubborn Facts. Id org an'8 Glad W. Yaw, Sept. 25, l&St, K. K. Belphensline: Sib our luvor cf 16th lust, to hand. In reply, would say that I have used Lrarang'a Eheumatic Remedy in my family with great success. I had tried many other remeaiee, but all failed. It is certainly the best Rheumatic Remedy ever introduced in our neighborhood. You can make use cf this letter as yon see fit. Your Remedy possesses merit that belong to no other cure known in this section. Yours truly, Joeira N. UrLLiB, Postmaster. Eold by e7ery druggist, Write for frt pamphlet to R. K. Helphenstine, Washington. I). O

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