Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1901 — Page 3

THE WHITE HOUSE TOO SMALL

The family of President Roosevelt Is the largest that has ever occupied the White House at Washington. As the house has only five bedrooms the Roosevelts with their six children and several servants are said to be suffering great inconvenience. How these people are going to be accommodated in a house which only contains five bedrooms, a sitting room, a dining room and a parlor, is one of the mysteries which confront Colonel Theodore Bingham, U. S. A. He, by the way, also acts as master of ceremonies at the President’s public receptions. The Whito House was the first.public building erected In Washington, and its first cost was paid by the states of Maryland and Virginia. President Washington selected the si'e. A prize of SSOO for the design was' awarded to a young Irish architect named James Hoban, who modeled his design after the castle of the duke of Leinster, near Dublin. The corner stone was laid on Oct IS, 1792, and although the mansion was not completed, President John Adams and his family took possession In 1800. In 1814 during the British invasion the White House was almost gutted by fire and was only saved front total destruction by a thunder storm. The work of restoration was not completed until 1818. The building is 170 feet long by 86 feet wide, and the private grounds contain 20 acres. It consists of a rustic basement, two stories and an attic. Having the peculiar characteristics of a public office, which is at the same time the home of a private fami'y, the wear and tear upon Its household belongings are almost incredible, and each year has brought some material change in the decorations. The government has spent nearly $2,500,000 in repairs on the building. At the present time the first of the state apartments is the east room—tte nation's parlor—which is decorated in white and gold. Fu’l length portraits of President and Mrs. Washington, Jefferson and Lincoln occupy the panels along the east side, and eight large mirrors, with three chandeliers of cut glass, add greatly to the magnificence of the room. From the ea3t room a wide corridor leads into the state parlors. The first of these, called the green room, is used as a music room, and is furnished tastefully- in pale green plush. Next the green room is the blue room, an ellip ical room in the center of the suite. The blue room is the official audience room, where the President receives foreign ministers on their presentation of credentials, and other distinguished guests; and on such occasions, at public reception and often at less formal gatherings, the presidential party stands in line at the upper end of the room. West of the blue room is the red room, Which, being the family drawing room, seems more home-like than the other parlors, with its flowering plants, ■haded lamps and bric-a-brac. Though red is the dominant color, it is used only In .subdued tones. Beyond a screen partition is the family stairway; on the right is the private dining room, handsomely furnished in carved mahogany, and at the end of the corridor is the entrance to the conservatories. On the left Is the state dining room, lately remodeled, where the decorations are in yellow* and harmonize with the lavishly-gild-ed table ornaments. The eastern portion of the upper floor is devoted to the executive of■ees. The end of the central corridor

forms the lobby, to the left of which are the telegraph room and a larger apartment where the rou.ine work is carried on. The small room in the southeast corner is used by the President's private secretary, while the large room adjoining is the office of the President. Adjoining the President's office is the room where cabinet meeting? are held, handsomely frescoed and furnished, and containing a number of private portraits. The private apartments, which are shut off from the official wing by a screen door at the light cf the public stairway, are reached by a long corridor. The first one is the library, a beautiful oval room, which serves as the family sitting room, and, with its books and pictures, is the cheeriest and most home-hke of all the apartments. Next is the President’s room, which still retains its old-fashioned grandeur of canopied bed and crimson satin hangings. The bedrooms on the north are usually set apart for guests, although the northwest room was occupied by President and Mrs. Cleveland during their first residence. It has long been seen that the present White House is entirely inadequate to the social, domestic and business necessities which are enjoined on the President, and it is not improbable that some changes will be effected during President Roosevelt’s administration.

Roosevelt and Wood.

Previous to his departure for Cuba, recently. Governor General Wood had a long interview with President Roosevelt. Not all of their conversation was official, but on the contrary there is authority for saying that the two distinguished men had a little heart to

Eccentric Mode of Burial of the Dead.

A more eccentric mode of burial than that adopted by the Turks for their honored dead could hardly be found; and one of the moat curious sights in Constantinople is the interior of the Royal mausoleum within the precincts of the Valide’a mosque at StambouL. In the outer chamber are about three dozen coffins, all inclosed la oblong wooden receptacles higher and broader at one end than at the

heart talk regarding the changes which five years have wrought in their careers. Five years ago President Rocsevelt was out of business, both as civil service commissioner and as a member of the police board of New York. \ , Leonard Wood was then only an assistant surgeon in the regular army with the rank of captain. The advent of the McKinley administration worked wonders for both men. Dr. Wood was selected as the president's physician, and this gave him a prominence he might not have secured after years of faithful service in an obscure position. Theodore Roosevelt, after considerable of a campaign, was appointed assistant secretary of the navy. When the war broke out Roosevelt himself conceived the idea of organizing a Rough Rider regiment, but chops Wood as the colonel instead of taking the place himself. Today Wood is a brigadier general in the regular army and governor'general of Cuba. He is so young that in the ordinary course he is destined to become lieutenant general in command of the army of the United States. His former lieutenant colonel is now president of the United States, and it was perfectly natural that the two men should in a little time in solemn contemplation of the swiftness with which Providence works at times. "*

Tokyo is City of Pleasure.

Of all the lands in the world, none exerts the peculiar fascination of Japan. Others have equal beauty of scenery, greater grandeur, more noble works of art, more interesting problems of society. But none possess an

other, and rising to a roof-like ridge at the top. These boxes are draped with costly shawls and rich brocaded stuffs, the coffins of the princes being distinguished from those of the princesses by the white turban fixed at the head. The last resting place of a sultan is enclosed by a balustrade of walnut wood, ornamented with inlaid work in mother-of-pearl.—Constanti-nople Correspondence.

equal fascination. No one who has been in the real Japan which lies outside the treaty ports and the foreign hotels and railways, ever could or ever would forget his experience. No one, If he could, would ever fail to return. The gteat secret of this charm lies with the people themselves. They have made a fine art of personal relations. Their acts are those of good taste and good humor. Two cities of about the same s'zs and relative importance are Paris and Tokyo. No two could show a greater contrast in spirit, says David Stan Jordan in Humanitarian. Both are, in a sense, cities of pleasure. Tokyo is a city of continuous joyousness, little pleasures drawn from simple things, which leave no sting and draw nothing from future happlnrs?. Paris is feverish and feels the “difference in the morning" and the “hard, fierce lust and cruel deed” which go with the search for pleasure that draws on the future for the joys of the present No one who catches the spirit of Paris can fail to miss the underlying sadness, the pity of it all. The spirit of Tokyo—not of all Tokyo, but of its life as a whole—is as fresh as the song of birds, as “sweet as children’s prattle is," and It is good to be under its spell.

Present Ruler of China.

Kwang-Su, formerly known as TsaiTien, is the ninth Emperor of China of the Manchu dynasty of Tsing, which overthrew the native dynasty of Ming In 1644. He was bom in 1871, and at that time nobody supposed that there was the slightest chance of his succeeding to the throne. His predecessor, Tung-Che, died in 1876, and the empress dowager and the Manchurian Princess held a meeting and selected Tsai-Tien, son of Prince Chung, as successor to the throne. Prince Chung was the seventh brother of the Emperor Hlen Fung. There Is no doubt that Tsai-Tien was made Emperor because of his extreme youth, and the consequent fact that there would be a long minority during which the dowager empress would be nominal as well as actual ruler. However, he was chosen, and the name Kwang-Su, or “Glorious Successor," was given to him. His education was conducted by the supposedly wisest man of the empire and when he was fifteen years old he was married to a bride chosen by the dowager empress. Immediately after his marriage Kwang-Su formally ascended the throne with much ceremony, but he has been a cipher In the affairs of the nation ever since, and on only very rare occasions has ever been allowed to receive the foreign ministers. The dowager empress is the real ruler. —Indianapolis News. The Duke d'Abruzzl, who has won fame as an arctic explorer, will be in this country next winter, as he has been appointed second in command of the Italian cruiser Olovannl Bausan, which will cruise in American waters. Verestchagin, the Russian painter of war scenes, has returned from China, whither be went for new material. He will paint a Series of pictures, which will be exhibited in various capitals. Prof. Edward Buess, who has been professor of geology in the University of Vienna for .forty years, celebrated his seventieth birthday on- Au r gust 20. Abner McKinley’s resemblance to the late president is so striking that It la a shock to anyone who now sees him flar the first time.

BEAUTIFYING A PALACE.

Work of Remodeling King Edward*. Naw Home la London.” Between now and the coronation iver 600 British laborers will hare possession of Buckingham Palace, says the London Express. Already signs are not wanting that the British workman la ruthlessly demolishing portions of the royal residence. Mosses of wood rafters, mortar and other attendant evils of the housebreaker heap up the courts and yards; huts, wheelbarrows and workmen’s tools are scattered around, and above all towors the prosale scaffold pole. Preparations for the reception of a monarch are not undertaken lightly, and the alterations now being made will lie heavy on the office of works for some time to come. It Is at the rear of the palace that improvements are being conducted on the largest scale. Already one huge wing Is in course of entire remodeling, its apartments making room for more modern and therefore more useful galleries. Interior decoration will be no small item In the expense. For months decorative artists will hang like spiders from the roofing of the king’s private apartments, chipping and painting away for dear life In order to captivate the royal eye. Buckingham Palace may have been ‘‘the ugliest house In Europe," as it was once called, but certainly after everything Is completed that judgment ought to be reversed. Surroundings are everything, and the king Intends not only to have fine surroundings, but also more light than other monarchs were content with to view them. Consequently electric light will be installed throughout the building. Among other Improvements lifts will form no small part, and several of them are to be erected when the new wing Is up.

GREAT BRITAIN’S NEW DEBT.

Enormous Figure of Notional Obligation at High-Water Mark. At the end of that gigantic war. tfee last great struggle between England and France, the united debts of Great Britain and Ireland stood at the enormous figure of £902,000,000, involving an annual charge of £32,046,000, Writes Harold Cox in the North American Review That Is the high-water mark of the British national debt. From 181$ down to the time when the heavy expenditure upon the South African war began, there was a fairly steady reduction—the only important exceptions being, first, in the years 1886 and 1837, when £20,000,000 was borrowed to compensate the owners of slaves in British colonies, and, secondly, In the years 1866 and 1866, when the debt was increased by £36,000,000 on account of the Crimean war. At the close of the Crimean war the debt stood at £842,000,000, involving an annual charge of £26,942,000 for interest and management. By the year 1900 the capital had been reduced to £689,000,000 and the corresponding annual charge to £17,600,000. A year later, in consequence of the South African war, the capital had risen to £703,000,000,

Preventing One Stove Waste.

A friend devised a successful plan for preventing waste in a gas stove. Her house was lighted by electricity, but she had it piped one spring for gas cooking. The meter man assured her that with washing, ironing and all the cooking required by a family of six, her bill ought never to exceed 94. The first month brought her a bill of |6.26. She discovered that it was caused by carelessness in the kitchen; by such event as her cook’s going to bed and forgetting till morning that she had left both burners going all night. The cook was a good servant, but careless, so the mistress had a heart-to-heart talk with her. The gas man gave the cook a demonstration lesson on running the stove economically. The mistress made the proposition that she would allow |4 a month for gas, no more, no less. If the bill amounted to more than 94 the difference would be deducted from the cook’s wages. If less, she would receive the difference The next bill amounted to 98.20, and yet It Included weeks when considerable preserving of fruit had been done and more gas honestly burned than the month before. As the girl became familiar with the art of baking by one burner and cooking slowly over the simmerer the bills dropped still lower, till now there is scarcely a month when a dollar of the gas money does not go into the cook’s purse. She has never had a dime deducted from her wages.—* Minneapolis Journal

Nine Tailors Makes a Man.

“Nine tailors make a man” grew out of the old clustom of bell-ringing. The ringing of bells was formerly practiced from a belief in their efficacy to drive away evil spirits. The “tailors” in the above phrase is a corruption of the word “tellers,” ot strokes tolled at the end of a knell. In some places the departure of an adult was announced by nine strokes in succession. Six were rung for a woman and three for a child. Hence it came to be said by those listening foi the announcement, "Nine tellers mak« a man.” As the custom became less general and the allusion less generally understood there was an easy transition from the word “tellers” to th« more familiar one “tailors,”

Wheat as Animal Food.

Elaborate experiments in feeding wheat to farm animals and swine have been made this year at the Kansas experiment station, and also in other states of the corn belt. The experts conclude that wheat has greater nutritive value than corn, and may be used either crushed, mixed with oats 01 corn, or in connection with straw fa time of extreme scarcity.

Indiana State News

More carelessness of the federal cen-sus-takers is manifest. This week Daleville, a populous town of Delaware county, reported that no one had taken the census there. A dispatch comes from Kemplon that that town was missed. No satisfactory explanation has ever been heard. ICentptoii has nearly 1,000 population. Many new buildings and two miles of brick sidewalks are a part of this year’s improvements. The town has a bank and two newspapers and much building is in prospect. George Hamerlein, aged 83, probably the oldest Justice of the peace in Indiana, committed suicide at Evansville by hanging himself at his home near Jasper. He was wealthy. Two boys, aged 7 and 9 years, respectively, sons of Jacob Good wine, living near Kokomo, proved themselves heroes by capturing a gang or six tramps and saving a burning schoolhouse to which the men had set fire. With buckets the boys carried water from the pump, and after saving the structure one mounted a horse without saddle or bridle and rode into town for officers, while the other stood guard with an air gun over the gang. When re-enforcements came the tramps were locked up. In a rear end collision of freighttrains on the Panhandle Railroad at Onward, fourteen miles southeast of Logansport, four trainmen lost their lives, three bodies being recovered badly mutilated, while the fourth had been almost consumed before the wrecking crew could subdue the flames. The dead are: Thomas H. Broslus flagman; 8., A. Galbreath, brakeman; Elbert Greeley, conductor; John Hutchinson. fireman. The Injured: Frank Patterson. The wreckage promptly caught fire and the flames kept at bay the uninjured trainmen and the men gathered from near by farmhouses. A special train conveyed a part of the Logansport 'lire department to the scene. The wreck was the most disastrous the panhandle has had for years near there. Six cars were burned from the third section, which, with the two cabooses and the ruined engines, makes the loss quite large. The prise drill contest which the Uniform Rank, Knights of Pythias, was advertised to hold at Anderson on Sunday was called off. General Carnahan of Indianapolis, who Is at the head of the Uniform Rank in the United States, informed the Anderson lodge that the proposed contest on Sunday was absolutely in violation of the organic law of Knights of Pythias and must be abandoned. Subsequently a general order from Grand Chancellor Bookwalter was received to the same effect. A large number of the members at Anderson opposed the enterprise. Irving Neller of Washington township, Whitley county while assisting in thrashing oats Saturday fell into the separator. His right arm and shoulder were exposing his lungs. He died soon afterward. South Bend's new Epworth hospital, erected at a cost of about 170,000, has Just been opened. It is probably the finest hospital of its size In America, being provided throughout with the latest equipment. It Is a red brick, stone-trimmed structure of three stories and basement and is fireproof, it is situated at Main and Navarre streets, not far from the business center. The hospital Is In charge of Miss Margaret Brennan as superintendent. Miss Clara Carr has charge of the nurses. A portion of the money used In the construction of the hospital was raised by public subscription. The heaviest Individual subscriber was Clem Btudebaker, the manufacturer, who gave |5,000. Members of his family contributed SB,OOO more. Len Byers, the famous Purdue back, has gone to Montana to accept a position with a drug company. While at Purdue he took a course in pharmacy, and last year was assistant professor in tue chemical laboratory. He has been at his home in this county since June. The large drainage canal, known as the Yellow river ditch, is now undei contract to a rellnVle dfsdge company, and it will extend from the east '/ ie of Starks county to the Kukee river, eighteen miles, thus straightening Yellow river and reclaiming many hundred acres or land. There Is a belief at Bedford that Hale Roberts, who died of morphine poisoning, had the drtig administered to him in whisky by an enemy. Recently, while working In a coal chute, a would-be assassin shot at him. The Rev. A. C. Ormond of Charlton, la., has accepted a call to the pastorate of the Presbyterian church In Kendallvllle, and will begin the discharge of his new duties In two weeks. Columbuß C. Cain, a well-known farmer, residing near Kendallvllle, has filed a petition in bankruptcy. Liabilities are over 34,000, and assets S3O. While sinking a well near Topeka, La Grange county, shale gas was struck at a depth of 200 feet. A company has been formed to sink the well to trenton rock. The American Tin Plate company announces that, while it cannot recognize the Amalgamated Association, it will allow no discrimination against the old men when they return to work. James Case, accused of entering the post office at Deep River and escaping with S3OO cash, has been arrested. There was still considerable money in his possession. Judge Fox at Richmond sustained a motion to quash the indictment against Wilbur Wood of Knlghtstown tor alleged blackmailing, • holding it was not sufficiently spee fle.

The directors of the People’s Nat ional Bank at Washington, Ind., issued a statement today showing that Richard C. Davis, the defaulting cashier, had appropriated $71,946 to his own use. To meet this shortage property haa been transferred to the bank ana money paid in aggregating $76,244. Pittsfield defeated Winchester at football in a : tone-sided game. Score: Pittsfield, 24; Winchester, 0. ' * The city council of Logansport passed an anti-spfttfng ordinance, and the same will bq enforced on the streets of Logansport. The ordinance prohibits expectorating on the didewalks of the city and the movement is backed by the W. C. T- fr itod the Cass County Medical Society. Numerous arresta are expected until the new ordinance! is thoroughly published. Maj. George W. Steele, secretary of the board of managers of the National Soldiers’ Home at Marion, who has returned home from a tour of inspection with the board, says that a wrong interpretation was given to the interview with President McMahon at Milwaukee concerning canteens. That Interview Implied that canteens would be established In all branches. Thin Is wrong, for. they will be maintained In the homes where they are now conducted pnlv. The Central States Waterworks’ Association held the first session of the fifth annual convention at the Business Men's Association hall in Evansville, with nearly one hundred delegates In attendance. The convention, was called to order by President Harvey Cockrell, of Columbus, O. After the address of welcome by Mayor Covert, which was responded to by the president of the assocla' ion, the general business was taktn up. Much time was given up to a r uefully prepared paper on eleetro:yslj, which has created so much concern. The discussion pertained paticu'arty to ths electrolysis of water and gss mains in cities, traced in large degree to ths electrical waste from the electric street car service. Danville, Ind.. was chosen as the next meeting place by the Indiana synod of the Cumberland Presbyterian church before the close of the synodical meeting at Vincennes. The date was fixed on the first Tuesday in October, 1902. The committee on education submitted a report on the proposed Milliken university at Decatur, 111. This university and Lincoln university will be combined under one management and will be superlntetoded by the Indiana, Illllnois and lowa synods. James Milliken, the millionaire banker of Decatur, has pledged over $600,000 for the estab Dbroent of the university at Decatur, which is to be an lndustral institute, Christian, but not sectarian, but will give complete instruction in any trade or profession. The endowment will be ovdr $1,000.000 and will be increased by the annual income of $66,000 from the Milliken estate. The university Is to be completed by September, 1902. Professor 8. R. Taylor, late president of the Kansas state normal, will be president. Gov. Durbin’s mall Is burdened with letters bearing on the Taylor and Finley requisitions. The governor also has received numerous telegrams from all parts of the state, and even from other states, asking him not to honor the requisitions. It is thought probable, Secretary Wilson says, that the governor will reach a decision on the requisitions this w:ek. At the governor’s office talk of the possibility of kidnaping either Taylor or Finley ia scouted. The first snow of the season fell at Wabash, Thursday, the flakes melting as they fell. The board of county commissioners of Allen county received the resignation of the defaulting county auditor, William Meyer. The bondsmen were allowed to draw the salary due Meyer for the last quarter, and paid over to the county the net amount of the shortage, $4,984.04. George Ortlelb, acting chief deputy auditor, was appointed county Biidl-or. The Rev. T. C, Bmtth, Baptist minister at Windfall has tendered his resignation, to take effect at once. He will remove within a few days to Carroll, where he has been called in his pastoral work. It Is probable that he will be succeeded at Windfall by the Rev. Mr. Morgan of Idavllle. William Peed, Philip Bullen, Job j James, Joe Griffin, Isaac Pate, Edward Payne, Chales MOore, Eugene Moore. William Brown, Harvey Hodson, Spotford Clark, Charles McDorman, George Armstrong, Fred Renby, Daniel Gilbert, O. W. Wiggins, O. F. Lamb and O. H. Williams made up a hunting party and left New Castle for Elkmont. Ala, to spend two weeks fishing and hunting. The board of trustees of the Meth-o-Ust church at Bunker Hill, is receiving bids for wrecking and rebuilding the church. The place of worship now in use was built thirtyfive years ago. It is the intention to build a church, modern In every particular. The Rev. Mr. Canse is pastor. Frank Martin, deruty auditor of state, has been selected warden of the Michigan City prison to fl 1 the vacancy caused by the resignation several weeks ago of Warden Shideler. Mr. Martin has been in the state auditor’s office a number of years. Hia selection was whol y unexpected, and, it is said, he will not accept the position. Dr. Horn, of B uffion, has been selected as prison physician. As a result of family differences, James Church stabbed Charles Lambert, his brother-in-law, at SvUlvan, cutting him in the face and side.