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I,*.,' :'j >!,!' i DESOLATi SCENE, fin the Supreme pjurt JRsrt <ot the <#p(toI JiuildiuK. I'JIIB RESULT OF hJEiimOSlON r AND FIRE AUNPAY EVENING^ jfe THE QREA.TE8T- J}A*AOP WAS ft DONE IN THE MARSHAL'S OFFXpE ANP IN-THE STOJIAQP W BOOM. WHERE VALUABLE OLD " ?SBB -KEPT - M!AN'flORfPT .OPINIONS OF THE p EARLY JtiexiQPS OF THE 8U? PRJJJUB -COURT COMPLETELY " CON8UMJ3D ? THETEMPORAUY jj? QUARTERS FOR THE 8ITTINGS i? OF THE COURT. i WASJpNgTON. A C., Nov. v b||f capitol building \*jw the acene of ? wreck,#nd delation to-day, idloWin*. Sk Hm Avnlnalrtn nrul fire, which wrought j-if job. serious havoc last night The anginas-and flrscnwi had gone, sod Jo their; I: WMf .a-smajl jumy ^.workmen wa* carrying off the debris of brick and --'. mortar, oharred wood work, waked and half burned official papers and doct?um'?nts, which had been heaped Id eoo'i:fusion In the basement and sub-base-' > inept, under the quarters occupied by the United States supreme court. An Si eanUMHlan of the court room showed tfiat the a?mag<- was confined to flls-i ?. colored walls aud ceilings and soaked - caxpets. . No substantia! damage had ' /been done. The beooh oooupled by ttuj ' justices were uninjured, and as was briab.aid juqura left by some of the ; Justices under paper weights, remained unfwuruevi *?m ?w u* #j?? v; 4* do pro?T?ss here, smoke and water ;,' bad faft this chamber, which had been ' ao-lpAg regarded a model of classic beSjuy., in a sorry condition. Tie Window* and sashes or the One old colonial >. bullSIngflanking the bench are In ruins. > The frescoed ceilings, which recently 9 t?d been done over, are blurred and ,'f;sBatIed. th* carpets are soaked, while ? UM^rhoIe chandler has the damp, smok' 'e;f aspect usually following a Hi*. Th* personal effects of the Justices, robes, etc.. were found to be uninjured. The ; "jnjtlnloss of the court was In the marV. shaj'p office, and In the storage' room, l> where valuable old records (are kept. " The ?tent of this last loss Js not yet E exactly determined, but th* court ofll' .ctal* expect to moke a critical ?*amloallon during fie day. ; flenteant-st-Arms Bright, of the senate, was busy during the morning mak, liig temporary provisions for tie sessions ?fl the court. Senator McMillan's committee room on the District of Columbia was hastily prepared with ? c* bench and seats for the Justices, ana v * xloitn rowi'd HIU tor attorn*y? uaid . ?]f>te(?U>r>. Ths quarters *n rather ctpmped. however, and the chief Justice f and Ave justices will have to sit on one aide of the loner oak table. Architect Clark, of the capltol, Is ad' vanced in age; and very feeble, so that '( the active work of Investigating the ;' cause of the explosion and of clearing away t he'wreck Is'in the hands of the assistant architect of the capltol, Mr. Wood. "I b?ve made a preliminary examination," Mid Mr. Wood to-day, " and am 1 not yet' ready to say what caused the explosion, although the main attention Is being given to the gas supply. I find that the general damage sustained by the building la not as serious as at first supposed. The heavy foundation* to - the building do not appear to be dlsI turbed. and the walls blown down are . confined to the thin encircling walls, built to coyer ?le#m pipe*. None of the . ' heavy sljstaftilng'arches or pillars have given way so far as I can find. I will make a fuller examination, with belter . light, later on. to make certain on these points. For the present It.does^ot seem that a rebuilding of any part of the cap< ltol will be necssaary. The work will be that of repairing, and I hop* we can finish this by the time Congress comes. We have a small balance for this, and - In any .event the work will be done." An examination of the meter room, where the me supplied to tne capiim is V measured. showed that the big meter had been blown to pieces. This satisfied ; most of the.capltol officials that a gas explosion was responsible for the damage, but they would not express this view openly until an official inquiry had been made. - / Several supreme court Justices made a visit to the scene of tho catastrophe during the forenoon. Chief Justice Fuller and Justice Harlan walked through : the various departments, guided by a man -with lantern. While they looked at the scene of destruction with manifest ' Interest, they made no remarks. They spent ?omewhut mare time in the court room' than elsewhere There they fotind the upholstery ami the court's new 14,000 carpet greatly injured, but the .. two eourt cloche were ticking away as regularly and a* dignified as ever. The busts of the former chief Justices which ; Mne the wails of the old chamber were , also uninjured, and this appeared to be a source of much fratlflcntlon to the V chief Justice and his companion. $ "They found nothing but ruin and desolation in Marshal Wright's office. This room was completely gutted. No furnl ture escaped, and the walls of the room are as bJack a* night, the effect of ftnoke and Ore and water combined. "While this damage was regretted, It yas* not considered irreparable. The only damage that cannot be made food wan done In the flic room of the supreme court, In the basement, where were stored all the official records and the orlglnaJ cupleH of opinions frorp the foundation of the government. All these opinions have been printed, but the original manuscripts were highly valued. This room wan- almost over the scene fit the explosion, and It was one of the first compartments of the capital to be > attacked. The documents here were atored away In an orderly manner, in wooden cases, and none of them had any other/protection, except the records of the court from 17*j2 to 1832, which were encased In tin boxen. The flames appear to hafo? completely enveloped this room, but they were only sufficiently Irvtense to badly char all the wood, work and many of the documents. Comparatively few of the papers were absolutely ; destroyed, but those which suffered this fata were amonsr the most valuable In BRONCHITIS dmh^ihi <a vflrv nrevalont It gen* Wvuv?M??r r? . ?. . erally begins with a common oold, attended with congh, hoarseness, soreness of the Inngs, tightness of the chest and difficulty in breathing. If ' not cored, it becomes dangerous? thousands die from bronchitis annually. Dr. JohnW. Ball's Congh Syrap Is the best remedy for this disease; It j relieves the cough at onoc, eases oz' peotoration, and cures in a few days. | Dr.Bnlfe Cough Syrap Will promptly oure bronohltn. Do** arc null nuJplrawint la take. Doctor* recommend it. trlco 7} ctt. At all drufgJ?U. rr, | Wasting Treasure Health and happiness are treasures, Without them life is <i failure and wealth valueless. Nature it constantly imposed upon. . ond lrrit understood Women are evciy where sounding the ' praises of Pe-ru-nn for {heir peculiar ills. Mrs. Lucy Lee, Naples, Tex., Bays: ^ jPt-rwui itt die in e Co., Columbus, 0. t Bias Sir :?" I nm well now and am j enjoying good health, better than ever , before In my life. How happy I feci * that I can write and tell yon this. I j. cannot praise Pe-ru-na too much. lean n do all of my housework. 1 advised my j neighbor to use Pe-rn-nu and Man-*-' 1 iiu for catarrh an4 stomach trouble. C it i* tl>e greatest medicine then is in Kka irnrlfl n " ' "* 8 A?U your druRBlst for a free Pe-ru-n* Almanac for the year 1899. a the room. They Included the oriBlnol ? opinions of the court In the earl)' days of tJic republic, and among them' were I many manuscripts prepared In tht handwriting of the jurists _ of the dayfl $1 at Woitolngton, Jefferson and Adams. ? There Were In.the ll.?f many opinions In manuscript written by Martha:!. Smccjv Samuel.Omse, Bushrod, Washington and others of the Justices of the a period between 1790 and 1830, and therefore Priced relic? of the early day* of the oourt. They ware also occasionally ? referred to settle disputed poljjta, concerning words or punctuation mark?. 1 These papers were stored under the a arch ,of the room, /pdseem to have been preserved, and probably In-' good condition. They were encased In tin * boxes, and these In turn placed within 1< wooden case's. The debris Is fn snehdlsorder as to have rendered It Impossible ^ to open the wooden doorsi up to to-day, " but these doors were ndt'penetrated. at b anv nlaee: hence the belief that- the o records themselves are Intact. < Many of the mere modern documents. Including letters and opinions of recent date were also badly burned that It will w be Impossible to restore them, but none n of these appear to have sultereS such , complete demolition as befell the early oplndom. No documents affecting the a present (locket were Injured v The Are at one time threatened to p Invade the senate document;ioo.m, ,, reichin* to wlth|n fbur orflre feet'of It. " Mr. Ami 6mlth. the superintendent of P the room, was on hand, prepared to e contest Its progress with the aid of the Are department, but the chances are a that if it had galnfd headway in this J department the damage would have * been far more serious, as the apart- a ment Is extensive, and contains much exposed paper. " " 6ergeaJ?-a.t-Arm* Bright has tele- o graphed Senator McMillan concerning * the use of the senator's committee b room for the supreme court. If It In not ? ^nrv??n(pnt to continue Its use. -another " commltlec room, or If need be, the sen- n ate chamber, *111 be .utilised as a court * room. . n DRKTFU8' DAttTXITi tl E DessripMoia by a tailor whonwHlmon t Devil's lalaad. Memphis Commercial Appeal: In arecent lisua of Kucb and Keller Karl Weinljfber. cook of (be Netherland steamship Andalusia. (Ives this account of a visit to Devil's Island: "Our ship Netherland steamship Andalusia, was anchored off Devil's Island, and on April 1, after a visit to Cayenne, where we were hailed from the shore. At the same time a small boat put off, manned by soldiers. "They came Alongside to ask the captain for the Joan of a cook. The cook of the little garrison had broken his arm, they said, and our cook was to teach one of their men, so that he might be able to attend to the kitchen until another one was aent by the commander. "Xho captain sent me to the Island, and while busy In the little kitchen instructing a soldier In the mysteries of broiling Iamb chops and cooking pork, X had plenty of opportunity to question Captain Dreyfus* guards. The men who had.at first seemed disinclined to apeak, became quite loquacious after awhile. "He was not so Ill-trnated as those In tl\e world *eemed to think; he la not confined; he can so everywhere on the Island. Of course, iwo men are always at hit hfu*|s. gets up between fl end 7 In the morning and his first breakfast consists of a cut) of1 chocolate. If the ...am I u trnirl tin ?A..u ? n'U t L- i.mn afterward and \v!ntfa up his promenade wjth a bath.' ' 'But you are not afraid )ie might swim away or commit suicide?' I asked. " "Not at all.' nald the soldltrs, 'far a rope Is fastened In both of his wrists alr.rt the ends of the rope nre In the hands of the guard. After the bath he takes his second break fnst?butter, bread, ham and eggs and a bottle of beer. Then |io goes In fof study. Ha write* and reads for several hours.' "'What kind of books has hi* got? The soldiers looked at each nther. After awhile one of them said: 'He Is only allowed to read technical works. But he can writ*' whatever he pleases. He Is now writing an account of his Ilk.' " 'Must he show you what he writes?' " 'So. we r?'ad only the letters he doaites to have forwarded. These nro " 'And (low the commander send them off u? received?' " 'No. the** tire copied, and the orlglnnl?* are retained at Cayenne.' " 'What doe* he do befddts rending and writing?' "'Two week* ago we received permUalon from the cnmmandi r to. play card* with the prisoner, andf he ha* become an Inveterate gambler wince. After dlnni?r-*ho hjn alwny* roup, n roa*t and dw*ert?about 2 o'clock In the afternoon we nhvnyn play baccarat together.' " 'What ore the stake*?' "The roldb-r laUKhed. Tie has not got. n |OU and there ore probably not three franc* .?n the whole laland. We play for shell*. The prlftoner get* hi* Mipper r'1,1 tho evening -roa?t or ham and a bottle h?er. .Soon afterward be to bed. Ho I* not allowed to Jjive any H?ht. you know, only tho guard ,l,? t,oor keops ui' u wood lire. He nays the bourn from k to 10 are hl? tvotft. He cannot go to Bleep before 10 o'clock and tho guard la not allowed to injwpr any queittQA bf roar Put. In be daytime we may talk to .him, but inly an m?*t trifling subject*. the r either, hi* hearth, etc Our own ountryMs not to be mentioaed.' " il?jr I twve gone eiftn. lot UUn? "The uldler' did not answer. I empled my toBacco pooth and my c'.ht a?e on. the table. I hope he got what I eft tortllm. "As I ?aa about tojaturn to my ship ! saiv a man followed by t*vo solilk-rs, ipproaehlncr from -the strand. Dreyfus! it seemed to have heard of rar prince and measured me with questlonlss oofce. Bit ilpa moved, but he did not ipealts. He Is r? mlddle-sliedman, cnlaveroon and -of a yellow complexion. Jt. nfu ilaon In <h?lr tnrbolN ho vaila with a.atoop anil !)l? forehead is urrowed.. Ho it ylo'vln^ old fait, so lotibt. "Drt'yfv* whispsred wlih Ms gusrj, tad when th? Utter itnldurt nwit, valktt! 11 j In nv a- ' r'. *>? "c "<t land. 'Briar my good RishM to !h? ride world/ b* uM, If- r vo:>-e iiulv?rbs with emotion. Th-u he tvalkeri *lo?y toward tils hut. ?h.-rc !ie r.-miln<"l Handing at tii* <loor. waving his hand M my boat datlwi into the billows. Hul! in hour later ive were on uur >wy tome.'' MH<U(ttCoai|??r Chtrlirrf. Ipecial Dlsppt^i to the Tprelllacncpr. CHARLESTON," W. Va.. Nov. 7. ? A barter baa been Issued by the secretary t atate here to the Harper's Ferry Eiecrie LHlht and Power Company, of Harems Ferry, W. Va. The purpose of the oinpany is to carry on the electric light Ad power business In the said town, 'he capital subscribed la Ht,000, with he privilege of Increasing the same to 160.000, the? maximum. The abarea are BO each, and are held by Jnhn A. Livra. of Gettyoburr Pa. ; H. a Rtllly, of Janover, Pa.: G. R. Brady, T. M. Coaler. W. A. Winters. G. R. Marquelt, . Garland Hurat, Charlen It. Trail, of larper'a Ferry, and D. D. Gibson, of Ih&rlea Town. W. Va. IV rat Vlrc>vl? PtMloHi. pecUJ Dispatch to tho Tntetll?tncer. WASHINGTON, D. C.. Nov. 7.?Pen!___ nnnllxonta hatfa iuiip iu ?? toi r ii (tiu? nvcuwuw uw>v. een granted on foliowb: Renewal?Jantcs M. Baker, Cox'i landing, 16. Increase?John B. O'Neal, Wheeling, I to 18. William Lewis, Emma. $8 to tl2. Widows?Matilda J. Kelly, Piedmont, i. tmiQUE CUBE FOB DIPBOXABU Inr John DM hh FrUnd Tom flood Torn WHhont MUnff him Know. Chicago Times-Herald: "John" and Tom" are room-mates and chums, 'bey are employed In an office In La aile street. If John passes round the orner it la probable that Tom, If not aeplng step alongside, will sorely folwln? few minutes. The former Is ill, white-faced and abstemious. Tom i low, atout. phlegmatic and Inclined' to e ruddy. Until very recently he was ne of those who delighted la baring a good time." A day or two before Christmas Tom raa presented by a friend In a wholesale rhlsky establishment with a two-gallon iff of the best, fcrand of rye. Tom took "nip" on Christmas morning and InIfeA a nf frlpnds to flam le It In the evening. They sing "Here's 5 good old whisky, drink It dawn," and renounced1 it the best that ever happend. By and by Tom took kindly to the jug ad drank It at all houra of ihe day. ohn realized that his friend's position . as In peril and determined on prompt ctlon. One afternoon while Tom's rubicund ose was chasing up and down a column f figure* John hastened -to the mom. J?ut half the content* of the Jug had : een consumed. He added about a pint I f water. That evening the old circle of I good feHowa" assembled, but they did tit sing the same song. The former ulogy of the chief article of entertalnwnt was lacking. Tom did not detect be dilution and could not understand lie strange ap&tby of his guests. Next lorning and the next he took his cusomary drinks before eating. John al. I i a H 13 Pari* In In more danger nt 1jmne tlm: marching up nn.l down tho city, while t several of their number were Injured a proarnt Government will be overthr,own ft ? . ^ . rS "-vj, 'V ^SS29 jm isSHf' 'SBWi s m | DENMARK'S Holger Drachmaho Says That One of tli Manha Helger Henrik Herhol&t Drachmann. Denmark's great artist-poet, lias come to the new world to admire it* wonderj, paint its scenery, and write of it as it seems to him. Unlike*Israel Zangwill, who has ereated such a sensation in theatrical circles by his criticism of modern drama. Drachmann doeu not intend to lecture during: his stay, tut, to quote his own words, ho is going "to live in this country, where the skies and trees arc new and all nature is a hymn of independence." This idol of Ills countrymen is tall, handsome, lithe, and strong; his youthful eyes are deep "blue and his hair and beard are silvery white. He has the romanticism ot Byron and the philosophy of Shelley. During his youth Draehmann employways surreptitiously pouring in a modicum of water immediately afterwards. Tom's vishs to the bar during working hours began to grow less frequent and his collars and cuffs were not changed at mid-day witn tneir iormer reguiumy. One morning he ate the eggs and drank the coffee minus the customary "botv 1." He took to reading in hip room o* nights. Interviewing the jug at very rare Interval**. The amount drunk was always replaced by water In a nowise mysterious manner. It was not long before his eyes -became clear, his hand steady and nerve as firm ae that of a lion tam?*r. "John," said he one night when they met In tho room. "I have determine.! to quit bothering with that stuff." pointing imm TUB MOTH IN PARIS :i tilm>a<J; there have been the dnullleet r ho people aro jihoutlnjr "Vive rarmtf t" T few dny* a?ro In a riot, and It (a feared1 th and a now one net up. aa In tho time of L , i. ,: : V I ' I GREAT POET. e Many Nice Things in Anierlca Is Its itan Cocktail. , ed the greater part of his tinw in cultl- ' rating the artistic talents, which seemed J in him more pronounced. He also had a leaning toward poetry, and would occasionally scribble a few verses on envel . nr opes, on tne margin? 01 ?, ? on the leaves of cigarette paper, bat [ these he only showed or recited to a tew friends, while his paintings went before the public. . So charming were his. poems that the friend9 of Drachmann persuaded him to ? publish a few of the compositions, and the first effort that found its way in print was "Youth in Poetry and In Song," followed by "Young Blood" and | others. "Krig Og Rus," bis latest work, is described with the use of many adjectives by his admirers, and its success can be imagined from<h* r,ct that a snug fortune has already-been reaped by the sale. ^ C to the closet "Somehow whisky don't 1 taste 'to me as it used to. I have no more desire for the stuff." 1 "I haven't much desire for it myBeif," r said John; J "I haven't a 'bit of use for it at all," i said Tom. c John and Tom's friends in the office r have decided that a trip to a dipsomania i cure Institution is a needless expense. 1 and the same results can be obtained , under any ordinary conditions right here i In Chicago and without a "shot" In the : forearm. . CHAMPAGNE Is t\ip most delicious drink known. Cook's Imperial Extra " Dry is tho acme of Champagnes. j 1 ? f 1 \ ^ 1/A A" -f. ? ^ ' ( \f 8 \ \ iy^koAoiO A 9 1 V 'lot* In the city, and the ?*ildlrra arc ri ho police are afraid to unr force, aa at It* one of them*' strcnt scene* the u ouia and KHxahoi'li, / ? oo. Oar Pojicy Bonsst Wees MB uwm ^ """f Finest Pianos. r:io KNABE. Ibe trtiHk aUal vd of It* vnrii sroitzs urn Tk? mem. r"*x*r 1 cum 'i j *; CiBfRON. Noted for qacfity Md beauty. \!-ic \ ' '> " Ml mi ?e# U?* Md a?t omt pricej ed ItfM. Milligan, Wilkin & Co. 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