Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 29, Number 3, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 16 July 1898 — Page 6

SUMMER LAWMAKING-

EVERY DEPARTMENT AT WASHINGTON WORKING ON FULL TIME.

Thousands of Visitors Enjoy the Sights at Camp AIg«r—Cool Places In the Great Government Building Honr Senators

Manage to Stand the Heat.

[Special Correspondence.]

WASHINGTON, July 11.—Although Washington is situated several degrees to the south of some other cities of the United States, it is not necessarily the hottest place in the conn try. This is sufficiently shown by the fact of so many great conventions and meetings being held here in the summer time. The great and highly successful meeting of the National Educational association, for instance, which has been with us for tho past five days, is a case in point. It was estimated that between 25,000 and 30,000 people would attend, and the committees in advance were scurrying all over the city to find accommodations for them, but we did not turn from the even tenor of our way on their account, and they all seemed to have had a good time.

We are the center and fount of inspiration of all the domestic war news, and yet no one would suspect it, wan-

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rloring through our streets or even penetrating to the inner recesses of the grfcat buildings devoted to army, navy and state or the White House itself. Some of tho most exciting things have transpired within tho walls of the capitol qui to recently, but today that building is ono of tho coolest retreats in tho city. It is hot getting there, and ono has to walksomo disfcanco in the sun, but once its pillared porticoes are gainod and its "^matfbto corridors tb§ coolness is delightful.

Cft!Tip Aiger continues to be a center of interest, and thousands of visitors enjoy its martial scenes. Our soldiers suffer somo discomfort from the heat, but Jhere may bo satisfaction to them in ^realizing that United States senators are also on duty. It cannot be truthfully said, howover, that the senators suffer much from the heat. In the first placo, tho senate chamber itself is as oool as any room for publio assemblage in tho country and far more comfortable than tho average oflloo, store, hall or theator. It is ventilated by moans of groat subterranean shafts whioh find exit far down tho slopos of tho oapitol terrnoo in ornamontal towers. Tho ceiling is high and the pure air is inflowing constantly, while the vitiatod air is expelled before it beoomes noxious. Again I noticod, at tho right of tho vieo president, tho last time I was there before the chamber was closed, an olectrio fan, tho refreshing breeze from whioh Mr. Hobart very evidently enjoyed.

Senators, like other men, are sensitive to changes of temperature and most of them are sensible enough to adapt their clothing' to the varying seasons. Somo aro so stereotyped in their ideas that they wear the same suit, or one that always seems the same, summer 'and winter, but most of them have shuffled pff their cold weather costumes Kpd aro reveling in straw hats and linon dusters. Senator Allison of Iowa, though well along in years and by no means a dude, has tho name of always being well dressed. His portly, substantial appearance gives one tho impression that he some time owned or ran a farm, but I never saw anybody yet who has caught him with his vest and coat off. During tho last hot days of tho session ho was "cool as a oucumter," tan coat and trousers of pepper and salt, with a vest of immaculate whiteness. Ho didn't talk so loud as some others and ho made very little fuss, but I noticed that the bills he had charge of generally got their appropriations.

The two Platts—Thomas Collier from Now York and Orvillo H. from Connecticut—present as great a contrast as any other two men iu tho senate, both in personal appearance and in their dress. I oould not see that the former had made any change in his generally sleek garb, and he seemed as haggard and as afraid of making a noise as ever, even opening his desk in a furtive sort of way, as if a mouse or something might leap out and get away before he had a whack at him. Piatt of Connecticut went about gingerly, as if treading on eggs, and always looked as though there Vas something wrong with his digestion. But, all the same, he treated himself to anew suit—or brought out last summer's for an airing—and though it was rather baggy he looked very well in that suit of "melton mix.1'

A Jolly contrast to thcae two is Senator Elkins of West Virginia, who, though you may not agree with him in politics, might win your favor by his bonhomie. 1 met him last week, one extremely hot day, crossing the capitol plasa in company with Senator Jones of Nevada and despite the terrible heat laughing fit to split on* mam

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storv or other Jouos was telling him. I didn't hmt story, of coum\ but the next time I meet either at

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I'm going to oak him what it was that oould make them boihla iso. I .ghtm is infectious. Weall or ought to—and when a man like Sea-

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ator Elkins, who is of fine physique and mentally well equipped, lets a smile irradiate his countenance it is catching.

A decided contrast to him is Senator Tillman of South Carolina, who stalks along gloomily beneath a big brown straw hat, and who though he wears a white vest outside in the senate chamber appears without it, probably having left it in the cloakroom. Now, Senator Tillman is not so gloomy or saturnine as he looks. He is a hard hitter, impulsive and dogged in debate, but socially is most charming. LiBemany another man in public life, he "pans out" socially much better than he promises seen at a distance. Senators Teller and Cullom still wear their suits of ministerial black. I suppose the former would not change his clothes without first ascertaining if his great prototype Abraham Lincoln, wore a similar costume. But if the pictures of his time are true "Old Abe" wore pretty much what fell in his way, being particular only to don a rusty old silk "tile" and considering himself well dressed if he didn't have on anything else.

The two senators from Kentucky— Deboe and Lindsay—still defy the heat in somber black, with long tailed coats and broad, expansive bosoms. Chilton of Texas sticks to his snuff brown suit much more perversely than, his friend, Representative Bailey, from the same state, who has at last doffed his black coat for a suit of crash. Perkins of California we~rs a black silk coat and white vest, while his colleague, White, who has given the Hawaiian annexationists so much trouble, was clad iD garb of Kentucky tow. So also was Caffery, another bitter antiannexationist from Louisiana, while the other member of this trio, Pettigrew of South Dakota, still clung to his rusty black.

Fairbanks and Turpie of Indiana wear black coats with long skirts, after the obsolete fashion of many years ago, as does Bate of Tennessee and Berry of Arkansas, the jolly, one legged senator who stumps around on crutches. Shoup of Idaho last wore an iron gray that nearly matched his fine mustache, and Faulkner of West Virginia a "Confederate gray" that set off his chin whiskers very well. The only members now in the senate with "cotton tail" beards are Carter of Montana and Pettus of Alabama, though neither of them conld "hold a candle" to the late Senator Georgo in this respect, and both also wear black.

Vice President Hobart is clad in black, but his portly figure is decked in an open front white vest. Greer, of Iowa wears black, but he would look calm and frigid with the tomperaturo at 150 in the shade. Spooner of Wisconsin yet wore his steel gray suit, but his colleague, Mjtobell, on the hottest days appeared in yellow flannels which had shrunken somewhat. It is believed, however, that he changes his clothes every time he goes home to lunch, as ho has been known, it is said, to wear three different^ suits in a single day. Davis of Minnesota, the chairman of foreign affairs, all through the. Hawaiian fight kept extremely cool in a suit of unbleached duck or crash. His colleague, Knute Nelson, woro the same old winter coat if not the same trousers as of yore.

Pascoe of Florida, as became a senator from 8emitropic Florida, wore a loose fitting seersucker Senator Hoar of Massachusetts, one of the most dignified of our public men, has condesoended to don a suit cf dusty miller gray, while Lodgo, notwithstanding his natural frigidity, yielded so far to climatic conditions as to wear a nankeen vest Ohio's two senators, Foraker and Hanna, have not made a striking departure from their winter costumes, the former wearing blask and the latter steel gray, With a white vest During some of the hottest days of the heated term Mark Hanna came up to the capitol in the electrio cars, but one day I noticed he Indulged in a hack. That he did not frequently patronize this sort of vehicle was manifest when he arrived at the senate entrance, for he asked the driver, "How much do I owe you?" which he wouldn't have done if it had been a regular thing pr he had known the driver very \Vell.

But enough has been given to show that our senators were sensible and came prepared for along siege, inclined to'mect the hot weather half way. If the war depi*rtmeut had been as considerate of our soldiers down in Cuba and had provided duck or linen suits iu pftice of the hot woolen uniforms, we should hear of fewer cases of prostration frtnn the heat. The only headgear suit-

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able for the tropics is the pith helmet, worfl by all soldiers in India and explorers in Africa, which is impenetrable by the sun and amply protects the neck, the most vulnerable part. There is little danger from sunstroke in Cuba, the'x^lative humidity being less there thairtiere, but it is the continuous heat that* kills* and many soldiers will be laicTW by that. A cargo erf helmets should be sent down by the next troopship." F. A. Obkr.

*. Tb# SsBkrw. HoVland—Well, my landlord called for his rent forth* third time this afternoon.

Itcwthuid—Of course you didn't have the money to pay him. Holland—Not a penny of It.

Rowland—Were you put out? Howland—Me! Oh, no, but be seemed a wfullyeo.—Boston Courier.

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Questioning Is Not Conversation. The man who imagines that the art of conversation consists in asking questions spoils conversation as much as the man who never asks any. People of this description will interrupt a speaker as frequently as they do in the French chamber, and run anxiously from subject to subject with their interrogatories, like a cackling hen that is going to lay an egg. Horace Walpole, when exiled at Houghton, bemoans the existence of such a pest in the person of an aunt Writing to his friend Sir Horace Mann, he says: "I have an aunt here, a family piece of goods, an old remnant of inquisitive hopnitality and economy. She wore me so down by day and night with interrogations that I dreamed all night she was at my ear with a who's why's, when's and what's, till at last in my very sleep I cried out, 'Fc~ heaven's sake, madam, ask me no more questions,'

Dr. Johnson's dislike of being questioned is well known, and he gives the classio refutation of the habit in h)~ own inimitable style: "Sir, questioning is not the mode of conversation among gentlemen.

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TERBJS HAUTE SATURDAY EY^KSTG MAIL, JULY 16, 1898.

1 Cot a Whole Lot For Nothing. The man who always wants something for nothing made a discovery last oreek in a Diamond street restaurant A waiter upset a glass on the marble topped lunch counter, breaking the edgeuof the glass. The waiter carelessly tossed it under the counter and got another with a smooth edge for the customer he was serving. "What do you do with glasses tins slightly damaged?" asked the customer of the restaurant proprietor, relating the circumstance. "Oh, we give them away have to get rid of them can't endanger the lips of customers by serving them in nicked

But why are you interested?"

"Why, I thought if you would give me a few of the old glasses my wife might use them for jellies." "Give me your address and I'll send you some," volunteered the restaurant keeper^M

The man witn a longing for articles without price went away gleefully, calculating mentally on how much he had saved on jelly glasses. Two days later, when he went home from business, he found 18 barrels in his back yard. His wife said she supposed he had sent them, and she paid the man $4.75 for delivering them. When opened, the barrels were found to contain broken glassware and chind of all sorts. None of it could be used, not even for jelly glasses. An ash hauler charged $2 for taking away the rubbish. The man who wants things for nothing has withdrawn his patronage from a particular restaurant in Diamond street.—Pittsburg Chronicle-Tele-graph. v* VJ

is assuming a superiority,

and it is particularly wrong to question a man concerning himself."—Chambers' Journal

Hope Came to film,

A number of persons were talking about coincidences, when a clergyman gave an instance in his own experience "When I was a very young man, before I entered the ministry," said he, "I me' with a sories of misfortunes and wa. nearly discouraged. One day I was seated on a bench in the park of a foreign city. My head was sunk upon my hands and black despair covered me like a cloud. I had about concluded to struggle no longer when a slight noise attracted my attention, and I glanced up to see standing before me and contemplating me with big, solemn eyes the most beautiful little girl I have ever beheld. 'What is your name, my pretty child?' was my natural inquiry. Hope,' she answered in a clear, sweet voice. Then she turned and ran away, and the little earthly form whose lips had brought me a message of comfort disap peared forever, but the white spirit of her name she had left in my heart, and from that day I prospered. My eldest daughter is called Hope."—Exchange..

Corkers.

At a London club there is the mos* unique pair of curtains in existence. This portiere is formed of hundreds of champagne corks, taken from every known brand of champagne, each of which bears the tin top which adornec it when the cork was in its parent bottle. The corks are made into strings, there being l0 of them to each string. Between every cork there are three big Chinese beads of turquoise blue. Altogether there are 24 strings, and at from 12B. to 16s. a oork, the portiere represents a total expenditure of about £1,000. The corks are tied to a white enameled pole, with fancy ends, and bif sash68 of blue ribbon adorn the brass knobs. The total effect is distinctly pretty. What makes %his unique por tiere doubly valuable is the fact that each oork bears the autograph of a famous actor or actress of the present day —London Standard. a»

Nothing Plebeian About I*. She was an honored member of one of the hereditary societies and was astonished to learn that she was accused of wire pulling in connection with an election of officers. "Wire pulling!" she exclaimed. "Such an insult 1 Why, it is common, positively common. People do that in politics." "Very true," returned her husband consolingly, "but in politics it is probably Just common, ordinary wire, while I have no doubt in your case the reference was to the very highest grade of insulated copper wire." 4

Naturally that made It iewn different—Chicago Post

How

They Do In Dswmm.

"Up at Dawson City," said a returned Rlondiker, "the people seem strange to you. Now, while I was at a hotel up there burglars entered and swiped nearly f6M o00 in gold nuggets." 4* "What did the boarders do during all this excitement?" asked the clerk. "Kept perfectly cool," was the quiet reply.—Denver Times.

Color Blind.

Not long ago I was in the crowded office of a celebrated specialist for the eye and ear, and I happened to notice a man sitting at one of the tables with a most bewildered expression on his face and a pile of bright colored worsteds in fjrout of him. After a desperate struggle he succeeded in assorting them, but, alas, not according to shade or color. Dr. C. came in then and said: "Is that the best yon can do? Try again and put the colors in five piles."

Once more the unfortunate man began his hopeless task. There were pink, blue, lavender, yellow and red worsteds to be piled, each color by itself. The man began. Yellow was comparatively easy, red not so bad, but pink, blue and lavender conveyed no idea of difference. The perspiration rolled down the man's face, his features became fairly distorted, and finally we heard him murmur, "This is a corker!" I became desperate myself, and when he finally gravely separated the blue shades, putting some with the lavender and others with the pink, I felt like screaming. As soon as I could see the doctor I expressed my sympathy, and he replied: "Yes, sympathy is very well, but if you were riding on a railway train you would like to be sure that the engineer knew the primary colors! This man has passed a series of examinations and is qualified to assume a responsible position, but he has this serious defect in eyesight'J Louisville Courier-Jour-

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Rained the Sale.

A young lady from, the city was trying her hand as an amateur saleswoman in a plantation store one morning last week when an old colored woman, gorgeously arrayed in her Sunday clothes, entered tho store and, pointing to a bottle of German cologne on one of the highest shelves, asked: "What dat?" "That's cologne, auntie." "Well, I'll take it."

Delighted at having made a sale in such a short time the young lady busied herself in getting down tho bottle and dusting it for the customer's inspection, at the same time commenting upon its excellencies with the volubility of an experienced auctioneer. "I believe, auntie,"she continued, "that this is the finest perfume ever manufactured"—

She was brought to a sudden pause, for the old negress had thrown up both hands in horrified protest. "Stop right dar! Youso done gib youself away. Fust you said cologne, but now you done let out dat it's puffume, an I don't want it, for puffume nebber holds its scent. I wanted cologne."—New Orleans Times-Demo-crat.

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"I was once speaking at a temperance meeting in Green Bay, says ex-Gov-ernor Peck of Milwaukee, "and in the course of my remarks I looked about for some water. A mug had been placed beside me, and how it could have happened at a temperance convention I do not know, but it was a beer mug filled with water. Well, it was a warm day and where there is convention food spread out on a warm day there are likely to be flies. "There were flies, and one had lighted trustingly on the surface of the wa ter in that mug. I saw him as I lifte'' it, and I did the most natural and humane thing I could think of—blew him off the water. Well, they cheered for five minutes. And to this day I suppose you can't persuade a Green Bay man that anybody from Milwaukee can drink a glass of water, even at a temperance convention, without first blowing off the foam."

One whale will furnish from 1,000 to 8,000 pounds of bone. At San Francisco the bone is split sorted as to color and tied in bundlea These split pieces are called slabs and are three to eight feet long, and weigh from three to seven pounds

It rarely if ever happens that a woman actually falls in love with the man the test of the world thinks she should. /,

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Mr* Harrington is a veteran of the late war. Like many another brave soldier, he suffered not only during that service, but for years afterwards from diseases contracted then.

For years his health was shattered his sufferings increased. He was unable to gain relief, but now he tells a story which is of profit to many: "I served three years in the 124th Illinois, enlisting at Kewanee, HL," said he. "I was in Libby Prison and suffered like many another Northern soldier.

The strain of army life did its work in undermining my health, although the collapse did not come for sometime after.

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For two years I was unfitted for business. I was just able to creep around during part of this time, and there were many tunes when I could not get up. "My brother is a doctor, but all his efforts to help me failed to give any relief.

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