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VOL. 24, NO. 42. DEER LODGE, MONTANA, SATURDAY, APRIL 29, 1893. WHOLE NO. 1042.
Popular Choice.
What grander sight for gods and men to see
The people cho.ing rulersl How sublime
When, right or wrong, defeated millions be
As true as those who win! No senselesscrime
Is theirs. They stand by them the people chose,
If general welfare be the goal they seek,
And party be but means, and not, for those
Who won, the end. The people are not weak
Nor stupid rogues that vote at Mammon's beck.
Their voice, for us the voice of God: their
heart
Responsive beats when calls the right; for
wreck
Of nation never came unless by art
The people were betrayed-their fateful voice
Will bless, if right, will doom, if wrong, their
choicel
-Frank Leslie's Weekly.
The Maiden's Choice.
Two youths once lived in a country town,
And one was a giant fair,
With a Saxon viking's golden crown
And a blacksmith's muscles smooth and brown
When he made his right ;"rm bare.
The other youth was of dapper size.
So slender and short was ~4
That he found small favor in maidens' eyes,
And the giant boasted in merry wise,
"I could lay him across my knee."
These twain both courted the village belle,
But short was the race they run;
At the giant's feet tile maiden fell,
And the little man, though he pleaded well,
Naught more than her pity won.
They marched away to the wars one day,
In haste for the battle's van,
And the people cheered when the giant gay
Strode stoutly past for the distant fray,
And they smiled at the little man.
But the earliest ball by is foeman sped
One drop from the war black skies
Passed safely over the pygmy's head,
And the giant, who stood behind, fell dead,
With a bullet between his eyes.
Then the little mani swore, though hissightwas
dim,
And he bounded ahead of them all,
And the whole great army followed him
Till he leapt like a devil, little and slim,
First man o'er the battery wall.
And he ilanted the flag of his country then
While the routed army ran,
And the legions roared as it floated fair
On the dusky waves of sulphllurous air,
"Three cheers for the little man!"
Oh, I don't know, and I cannot say
What the giant might have done,
But I'm sure the nimiden will weep alway
For her lover shot in the first of the fray
And dead ere his fame was won.
For war is a field of chance, you know.
Let him dodge the bullets who can.
But love is a garden where fancies blow,
And the form of a giant makes larger show
Than the soul of a little manl
-George Horton.
The History of Jim Jones.
Jim Jones, he was an editor-that is, he tried
to be.
tie bought himself a hand press, an he started
in to see
Jes' what there was in editin, but when he'd
canvassed round
Some fifteen hundred editors in that same town
he found.
They all knew more about it than Jones could
hope to know.
They told him: "You must run her, Jones, Jes'
so an so an so!
Be sure an boom the Baptists-they're bound to
help you out
An give the good old Methodists a big salvation
shout!
"Give every man a notice. Be sure an putit
Sdown
Whenever Major Jinks is seen perambulatin
town.
Put in a few free locals for all the stores, an give
Each man a free subscription-if you want
your sheet to live!"
Well, Jones lie done jes' as they said, for fear
they'd mnake a row;
But the more lie tried to please'em all, the more
they tohl hlim how,
Until at last Iso took his book an laid it on the
shelf,
Then run the paper in thile ground an follered
it himselfI
-F. L. Stanton.
BPe Patient While We May.
The hands are such dear hands:
They are so full; they turn at our demands
So often; they reach out,
With t rifles scarcely thought about
So mnany titers; they do
So many lth Ags for me, for you
If their fond wills mistake,
We may uwell bend, not break,
They are such lond, frail lips
That speak to us. Pray, if love strips
Theni of discretion many times,
Or if they speak too slow or quick, such crimes
We may pass by; for we may see
Days not far off when those small words
may be
Held not as slow or quick or out of place, but
dear,
Because the lips are no more here.
They are such dear, familiar feet that go
Along the pawitwith ours-feet fast or slow,
And trying to keep pace-if they mistake
Or tread upon some flower that we would take
Upon our breast, or bruise some reed,
Or crush poor Hope until it bleed,
We may be mute,
Not turning quickly to impute
Grave fault, for they and we
Have such a little way to go-can be
Together such a little while along the way
We will be patient while we may.
So many little faults we find.
We see them, for not blind
Is love. We see them, but if you and I
Perhaps remember them some by and by
They will not be
Faults then-grave faults-to you and me,
But just odd ways-mistakes, or even less
Remembrat.ces to bless.
Days change so many things-yet, hours
We see so differently in suns and showers.
Mistaken words tonight
May be so cherished by tomorrow's light.
We may be patient, for we know
There's such a little way to go.
-New York Observer.
True Love Is Immortal.
He was old and grim and grizzled and gray,
With whiskers that looked like a forkful of
hay,
And he lived in poor style for a man of his
means,
While his costume ran mostly to flannel and
jeans.
His neighbors made a sort of a butt and a joke
of him
Called him "lazy old Bill" whenever they spoke
of him
And yet to mds wife-and who dares call her
silly?
He was never aught other than "darling" or
"Willie."
-Indianapolis Journal.
Let Me Believe.
Let me believe you, love, or let me diel
If on your faith I may not rest secure,
Beyond all chance of peradventure sure,
Trusting your half avowals sweet and shy.
As trusts the lark the pallid, dawnlit sky,
Then would I rather in some grave obscure
Repose forlorn, than, living on..endure
A question each dear transport to belie.
It is a pain to thirst and do without,
A pain to suffer what we deem unjust,
To win a joy and lay it in-the dust;
But there's a fiercer pain-the pain of doubt
From other griefs death sets the spirit free
Doubt steals the light from immortalityl.
-Florence E. Coates.
'Tis with our judgments as our watches-none
Go just alike, yet each believes his own.
-Pope.
Econony.
Not with a bondmaid's hand, but housewife's
care,
Who holds chaste plenty better thaui rich
waste. -Thomas Buchanan Read.
AN IMPENDING CRISIS
THE AUTHORITIES PREPARING FOR A
CONFLICT WITH CHOLERA.
Onur Entire Quarantine Service Strength
ened and Improved-The New Immigra
tion Law to Be Rigidly Enforced--How
Imported Citizens Run the Gantlet.
The question of the hour is cholera.
The question for the year is the Chicago
World's fair. And the great question
not only for this year, but for ten years
past and many to come, is the enormous
immigration pouring in upon us, due
greatly to peculiar conditions in Europe,
but much more to the cheapening of
rates and the labors of various agents
HERMAN STUMP.
among laboring foreigners. And these
three questions are connected in a most
intimate manner just now, for immigra
tion has already set in heavily for 1893,
the cholera is certainly reviving in east
ern Europe, and if it gets here it will, as
Sam Wilkinson said of the Beecher scan
dal and a certain religious book, "lmock
the World's fair higher than Gilderoy's
kite."
There is a touch of the comical in the
way public opinion suddenly shifted on
this question. Since 1844 the immigrants
have never been less than 100,000 a year,
and only in the "hard times" of 1876-9
did they fall below 200,000 a year. Then
the number suddenly went up beyond
precedent since Israel left Egypt, reach
ing 788,992 in 1882. The labor organiza
tions cried aloud and were laughed at.
In the decade of 1880-90 the newcomers
were far more than twice as many as in
any previous decade and almost doubled
the number of foreign born in the coun
try. "Cheap laborers" by the hundred
thousand came from Italy, Russia, Po
land and elsewhere. Still the labor organ
izations were scarcely listened to. All
at once the cholera threatened. An ele
gant vteamer loaded with the elite of the
"Four Hundred" had to suffer a miser
able quarantine, and, lo, as Samuel Gom
pers said,-"A shriek from swclldom to
shut out every demd immigrant, don't
yer knowl"
The net result has been a law which
on its face is ironclad, trick proof and
perjury tight. Previous laws secured
by the labor organizations were rather
stringent, but this one, which went into
effect at the close of the last congress, is
simply a "corker." By it the intruding
immigrant must under oath tell all about
his race, name, age, sex and condition;
where he came from, whither he is going
and what he is going to do when he gets
there; whether he has money, and, if so,
how much; whether he has ever been in
a prison, hospital or quarantine; whether
he is a polygamist or thinks of becoming
one; whether he is vaccinated or pock
marked, skilled or unskilled or under
contract; whether he is a thief, a pauper,
a fugitive, a cripple, an idiot or a habit
unal drunkard or is conscious of inclina
tions to become either of such.
Of course this is only a summary, but
it is really no exaggeration. In addition
to all this, nine experienced surgeons of
the marine hospital service, appointed by
the president, have gone to the principal
foreign ports with almost despotic pow
ers of inspection of immigrant vessels.
These are: Surgeon George Purviance of
Philadelphia, assigned to Liverpool;
Passed Assistant Surgeon W. J. Pettis of
Buffalo to Southampton; Assistant Sur
geon M. J. Rosenan to Antwerp; Passed
Assistant Surgeon J. H. White of Savan
nah to Hamburg; Passed Assistant Sur
geon R. M. Woodward, now located at
Cairo, to Rotterdam; Assistant Sur
geon E. R. Houghton of Vineyard
Haven, Mass., to Havre; Surgeon Fair
fax Irwin of Boston to Marseilles; As
sistant Surgeon R. W. Brown of San
Francisco to Genoa; Assistant Surgeon
G. B. Young of Pittsburg to Naples.
When all this is got over, the burden
is next laid on the immigrant vessels.
They must not sail from any infected
port or any that has been infected for
some time. If cholera appears on board
a few days after they sail, they must
turn back; butif they arrive on this side
with cases or suspected cases on board,
then their real trouble begins. To the
eight quarantine stations previously in
use three have been added, the larger
ones with disinfecting apparatus, elab
orate baths and quarters for "suspects"
capable of accommodating from 400 to
1,000 each. And they are very comfort
able places too. The government does
not miencl to maize the "*suspect" miser
able, but it does intend to make him
mighty clean and safe.
In addition to all this, 13 vessels have
been designated to serve, if there is need,
as floating quarantine stations, and all
the officials have been granted extraor
dinary powers. Of course the men in
trusted with such powers-powers in
their very nature arbitrary to the verge
of despotism-should be above suspicion,
and the. new appointments have there
fore been most vigilantly scanned. Su
pervising Surgeon General Wyman's rec
ord and experience are too well known
to need detail. He has recently prepared
an elaborate code of. instructions for all
quarantine officials on our own and for
eign coasts, and in consultation with
physicians from various cities is prepar
ing another for inland application, for
there is to be also an inland quarantine,
mixed state and federal.
Ex-Congressman Herman Stump, re
cently appointed superintendent of im
migration, vice William D. Owen, rg
signed, was chairman of the house com
mittee on immigration in the last con
gress and is the author of the bill he is to
administer. He lives at Bel Air, Md.,
and was born in 1837 on Oakington
farm, the ancestral estate on Chesapeake
bay. He was admitted to the bar in
1856, has been president of the state
senate and represented the Second Mary
land district in the Fifty-first and Fifty
second congresses.
Dr. Joseph H. Senner, appointed com
missioner of immigration at New York
in place of John R. Weber, resigned, was
born in Moravia, Austria, in 1846, was
graduated from the University of Vien
na as a LL. B., practiced law in Aus
tria seven years, came to the United
States in 1880 and has attained high
standing as a German editor, orator and
lawyer. When appointed, he was on the
editorial force of the New York Staats
Zeitung and was recommended for his
present place by Oswald Ottendorfer.
The immigrants landing at New York
average about 1,000 a.day for the year,
though much the greater numbers come
in summer and autumn. In 1879, as
aforesaid, there was a sudden and tre
mendous increase. The number coming
in through registry ports was 669,431 in
1881 and 788,992 in 1892-the maximum.
For the rest of that decade it only twice
fell below 400,000, so the total registered
for the decade exceeded 5,000,000. How
many came in from Canada is not defi
nitely known,but there are now very near
ly 1,000,000 native Canadians in this coun
try, and the French from the province of
Quebec are pouring into New England
at a rate which some labor leaders call
DR. JOSEPH H. SE'NER.
"appalling." When the English acquired
Canada, they estimated the French there
at less than 65,000. There and in the
United States they now number about
2,400,000. No other race in modern
times has been so prolific.
It is not, however, the increasehbut the
character of the immigration which has
excited the labor leaders and alarmed
the health authorities. England, Ireland
and Germany seemed for a time to have
gotten rid of their surplus population
and ceased to send us any, and just at
this time Italy, Hungary and Russia be
gan to pour forth their swarms. In 1870
there were in this country but 4,644 per
sons of Russian birth; in 1890 there were
182,644. In the same time Hungarians
increased from 3,737 to 62,435, Poles from
14,436 to 147,440, Italians from 17,157 to
182,580 and Canadians (chiefly French)
from 493,464 to 980,938. On the other
hand, the Irish scarcely increased at all,
and the Welsh and English increased
comparatively little. From 1870 to 1880
there was an actual decrease of Irish,
and from 1880 to 1890 their increase was
but 16,938, or less than 1 per cent. In
fact, the vastly improved conditions of
life in Ireland have reduced emigration
to a minimum.
Of all the recent immigrants the Poles
seem the least amenable to sanitary dis
cipline or indeed to regulations of any
kind. Reared under a despotism, the
Polish laborer habitually looks upon gov
ernment as the natural enemy of the
poor man, and his whole life has been a
long schooling in evasion and various
artifices to beat the officials, Even the
census enumerators had to have police
protection in some quarters of New York
city, for when one entered and began to
ask for names, etc., the Pole, sometimes
the man of other race, at once concluded
it was for a draft or a tax. From a san
itary standpoint the greatest improve
ment has been among the Irish. Forty
years ago, it is said, every third Irish
man landing at New York was pock
marked. Now a pitted face is rare
among them. Sullivan, in his "New Ire
land," says that, of the great emigration
of 1849-50, 15 per cent died on the ocean
or soon after launding. The cholera of
1832 was brought to Quebec by Irish im
migrants, that of 1849 to New Orleans
by Germans and that of 1866 to New
York by Frenchmen.
It may surprise some readers to learn
that despite the immense immigration
the original Americans (meaning those
whose ancestors on both sides were here
July 4, 1776) are still in a large majoricy.
For this we are much indebted to the
south, in which over 90 per cent of the
people are original Americans.
.T. H. BEADLE.
SOLDIER ANd' JURIST.
Judge Lcehren of Minnesota the Commis
sloner of Pensions.
While he was looking for a pension
commissioner President Cleveland an
nounced what he considered to be the
proper kind of man for that important
office. He should have seen military
service, so that
there might be
no question as to
his sympathy
with the veter
ans; he should
be a good lawyer,
so that the pen
sion laws might
be properly inter
preted, and he
4 should be a man
" of executive abil
ity and strong
w.LIAMn LOOHPREN. character, so as
to properly direct and insure the ef
ficiency of the small army of employees
of the pension office. When the pres
ident thought he had "found the man he
was looking for, he offered him the posi
tion without reference to the fact that
the man was not seeking the office nor
indeed any office. He just selected
Judge William Lochren of Minnesota as
the proper man and sent his name to
the senate.
That Judge Loohren is just the kind of
man the president was looking for there
seems no room to doubt. The Republic
an legislature of Minnesota unanimously
indorsed him as soon as his name was
first mentioned, and whatever dissatis
faction may arise later on his assump
tion of the office was certainly happy in
its auspices. He is a jurist of long expe
rience, having been appointed to the Min
nesota circuit bench by a Republican
governor in 1882 and twice re-elected to
the position as a Democrat. His war rec
ord is all right, for he was one of the 800
men of the First Minnesota regiment
who made the famous charge that stopped
Pickett's onslaught at Gettysburg. Of
those 800 men only 40 came out alive and
unwounded, and First Lieutenant Loch
ren was in command, every officer above
his rank having been killed or disabled.
Judge Lochren went to Minnesota
from Vermont in 1857, when he had just
attained his majority and been admitted
to practice at the bar. He has never
been an office seeker, but his popularity
with his own party is attested by the
fact that on two occasions he was the
Democratic caucus nominee for United
States senator.
THE LIVERPOOL CONSULATE.
The Second Best Consular Position and
the SMan Who Got It.
James E. Neal of Ohio, who was ap
pointed by the president to the consulate
at Liverpool, secured one of the best
posts in the consular service of the Unit
ed States. The
salary is $6,000 a
year, and the fees
the consul retains
amount to about
$15,000 more,
making the posi
tion worth be
tween $20,000 and
$21,000 yearly.
The post at Lon
don, to which Pat
Collins of Massa
chusetts was ap
pointed, outranks
that at Liverpool JAMES E. NEAL.
unas at Liverpol AoMi a. AL.
in that the incumbent is consul general,
and the fees are probably larger, though
the salary is the same, but there is noth
ing else in the consular service that is
near as profitable.
Mr. Neal has long been prominent in
Ohio pohtics. He was speaker of the
state house of representatives in 1878
and before that had been the leader of
the Democratic party on the floor when
it was in the minority. He has always
been active cnd aggressive in the service
of his party and has several times hold
the chairmanship of the state executive
committee during critical campaigns.
He held that position during the cam
paign of 1889, which resulted in the de
feat of Governor Foraker and the elec
tion of Governor Campbell, a result quite
generally accredited to his management.
He and Mr. Campbell are fast personal
and political friends. Mr. Neal is a resi
dent of Hamilton, the ex-governor's
home town, and is very influential
among his fellow townsmen. He has
never before held any federal office.
New Formn of Danger From Germs.
The germ theory seems to have broken
out in a new phase. It is now suggested
from- a continental source that danger
of disease may be incurred by bathing
in polluted water. It seems that typhoid
fever associated with jaundice broke out
in the garrison stationed at Altona, and
the epidemic was attributed to the prac
tice of bathing in the Elbe.
At the period in question (1888) the
Elbe was in a high state of pollution.
Recently a similar study has been under
taken at Ulm among the soldiers. The
military bathing place is situated below
the point where the Danube is contam
inated with sewage matters; a village
called Soflingen sending its waste into
the stream. Fowls dying of a mysteri
ous disease at Soflingen were thrown into
the river, and on examining the dead
bodies of these birds a germ was con
stantly found which resembled in all es
sential particulars the microbe found in,
the jaundiced and typhoid stricken sol
diery of Ulm.
In a special experiment some of the
water of the Blau mixed with sterilize l
broth was used to inoculate mice. The
mice died in 16 hours, and in their bodies
was found the microbe which had been
discovered in the cases of jaundice and in
the diseased fowls which had been dis
posed of in the river.
STAGE GLINTS.
Manager Charles Abbott has high
hopes of Henry Guy Carleton's new
play, "A Bit of Scandal."
Mrs. Osmond Tearle (Minnie Conway)
has been seriously ill in England for sev
eral weeks. She is convalescing.
A. Y. Pearson has engaged Laura Lor
raine G(aden for the rest of the season to
play Sweeter in the "Police Patrol."
J. T. Smith has been engaged as acting
manager of "A Scandal in High Life,"
and Joseph Barrett will go in advance.
Grace Huntington, whose last engage
ment was with Mrs. Bernard-Beere as
leading lady, is now residing in New
York.
Frederick Solomon has been engaged
by students of Yale college to direct re
hearsals of some forthcoming amateur
performances.
The son of A. W. Pinero, the English
dramatist, is a staff writer for the New
York Sun and has become a permanent
resident of Paterson, N. J.
Among the many promising attrac
tions for next season will be Lydia Yea
mans-Titus in a romantic musical com
edy entitled "Ups and Downs."
Charlotte M. Stanley, the well known
author and actress, has been obliged to
abandon her contemplated tour with
"Only a Pauper," owing to illness.
"The Chamois Hunter." a German
comedy drama, said to have considera
ble merit, with Paul Barnes in the lead
ing role, is one of the spring attractions.
A NEGLECTED TOMB.
PHE LINCOLN MONUMENTAT SPRING
FIELD FALLING INTO DECAY.
It Was Badly Built and Is Becoming a Pie
turesque Ruin-The Prevailing Discon
tent MIay Induce the State to Take Charge
of the MIonsrnent.
To say that the great state of Illinois
has made a "cheap John" show of Abra
ham Lincoln's tomb, and a rather poor
show at that, and that the management
is discouraging, would be perhaps an ex
aggeration. It is certain, however-for
many witnesses declare it, and the Illi
nois legislature recently admitted it
that the monument is in a wretched con
dition and that a high board fence has
been put around it to hide it from view,
while visitors are compelled to pay 25
cents each for a view and a lecture by
the custodian.
The trustees say it is absolutely neces
sary to charge an admission fee, as it
costs at least $2,500 per year to keep the
grounds in order and afford a bare living
for the aged John.Carroll Power, the
custodian. Recent examination has
shown that the east side of the monu
ment has no foundation to speak of, and
the west side barely enough to hold it in
place for the present. While the monu
ment when finished seemed to be of
granite, it is really nothing but a brick
T L O
TiHE LINCOLN MLONUMENT.
structure veneered with granite blocks
6 inches in thickness. And yet it cost
$250,000.
The result is that all the east side is
out of line. The granite blocks have so
far separated that the brick interior can
be seen to be cracked and split. The
pointing between the granite blocks on
that side has come out, and water, filter
ing in and freezing in winter, is helping
on the destruction. Experts declare
that the monument will not fall down,
but that the granite will come off here
and there and leave the structure a pic
turesque ruin. The stone balustrade
leading to the platform is also falling to
pieces, and the stone steps are separated
by an inch in places. And to see this
hastening ruin the patriotic pilgrim pays
25 cents.
So much ill feeling has been excited
that some skeptical people in Springfield
now give it as their opinion that there
never was any attempt to steal the body
of the great liberator; that the whole af
fair detailed by the aged custodian, his
own remarkable vigilance included, was
a phantasm of his brain, and that two
men were railroaded to the penitentiary
for a year simply on their bad character
and to get up a sensation. This, how
ever, is going quite too far, and their
talk is only mentioned here as a symp
tom of the prevalent discontent. Some
men will say anything when angry.
Several bills have been brought into
the legislature recently, and the general
proposition of the discontented is that
the state 'shall expend $25,000 in repair
ing the monument and $2,500 a year to
have it cared for; that the fence be re
moved, and that the monument be like
that of Washington and other heroes,
free to all pilgrims. There are experts,
however, who declare that the whole
monument will have to be taken down
and reconstructed on a better plan and
with a proper foundation. It never has
been what its projectors intended or
hoped for, and strictly speaking it is not
yet completed.
Several pieces of statuary are yet to go
in place and are in fact not yet pur
chased. The famed sarcophagus is emp
ty, and the remains of Mr. and Mrs. Lin
coln lie in the ground under it, with, it is
said, six feet of cement and brick abovr
them. In the crypt are niches for the
members of the family, one for Robert
Lincoln, still living, and one for his
mother, who, as aforesaid, lies below.
But niche No. 2 holds the remains of Tad
Lincoln and niche No. 1 those of Willie
and the infant that died before Mr. Lin
CUSTODIAN POWER.
coln was elected president. An addition
al and very painful interest is added by
the fact that the only son of Minister Rob
ert Lincoln died three years ago, and so
the time must come in all probability
when the great liberator, like Washing
ton, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe and
Jackson, will have no descendant bear
inr his name.
The first section of the Oceanic rail
way, to connect the Atlantic and Pacific
coasts of the republic of Guatemala,
from Port Barrios eastward, is approach
ing completion. The second section is
now under survey, and the government
intends to shortly commence construct
ing a section starting from the capital.
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A PALACE OF STEEL.
Onique Architectural Plans For a Callfor
nia Millionaire's Home.
California has acquired another multi
millionaire Like most of the others, he
will put up a big house' costing a pile of
money and intended to surpass anything
of. the kind in the state, and his heirs will
one day find themselveswithia white ele
phant on their hands which they cannot
afford to keep and cannot dispose of for
anything like its intrinsic value. How
ever, if his plans are carried out as he
has conceived them, the present million
THE METAL PALACE.
afre's palace will be a decided innovation
and will afford architects and builders
some new and valuable hints for future
reference. The house, according to the
unique plans of Colonel Nonesuch, is
to be erected in the foothills back of
Temescal, across the bay from San
Francisco. It will cost about $1,500,
000 and be built of iron, steel, copper,
bronze, brass, aluminium, nickel, plati
num and silver, stone, cement and glass.
There will not be a bit of wood used
in its construction, and the only stone
used will be sculptured frieze on the ex
terior and various marbles and onyxes
for stairs, balustrades, bathrooms and
the like. The foundations will be of
concrete, the walls of steel, the roof of
steel, glass and copper, and the floors of
cement laid with brass and other metals.
The building will be 230 feet long and
have two towers, the main one 115 feet
in height. In the smaller tower over
the main entrance will be a chime of 14
bells, fitted with electric ringing devices
and a keyboard as delicate as a piano's.
The house is to be encircled by a broad
moat or artificial lake, which will be
crossed opposite the main entrance by a
drawbridge in the ancient style. The
moat will be put to practical as well as
ornamental use, for its waters will be
used to furnish power for the electric
plant which will light the house and
furnish heat for the cooking as well as
for warming the rooms.
The grand stairway will be of white
marble and onyx and will lead to a cor
ridor running the entire length of the
building, from which will open eight
suites of rooms, each suit containing a
sleeping chamber, a bathroom, a dressing
room and a study. The corridor will
lead to a gallery on the second floor of
the main tower, which will be devoted
to an art gallery, the ground floor form
ing a circular ballroom 120 feet in diam
eter.. The flooring of the ballroom is to
be of hammered aluminium, which is said
to furnish the best possible surface for
dancing. The furniture throughout the
house will be of the most artistic de
scription, and the entire place will be a
museum of costly curios.
PFFFFR MA.KFa a DRoecrncMr
His Daughter Is the First Female Clerk of
a Senate Committee.
Mliss Nellie M. Peffer, daughter of Sen
ator Peffer of Kansas, who was appoint
ed by her father to the clerkship of the
committee for the examination of the
different branch
es of the civil
service, is enti
tled to the dis
tinction of being
the first female
clerk to a con- ,.,
gressional conm
mittee ever ap
pointed. Miss
Nellie should be
admirably equip- /
ped for the du- "~" , '
ties of her posi- .
tion, and nmay in
fact be said to nISS NELLIE I. PEFIFER.
have performed them for a long time be
fore she received the appointment, for it
is a well known fact that the clerk of
any of the minor senate committees is
virtually but the secretary of the chair
man of the committee, and Miss Peffer
has assisted her father in that capacity
ever since the beginning of the last ses
sion of congress. Previous to that she
was a stenographer and bookkeeper in
the business office of the Kansas Farmer,
with which paper her father has been
connected for many years.
Miss Peffer is extremely businesslike
in her treatment of her father's corre
spondence, opening and reading all his
letters and making brief notes of their
contents on the outer fold, with the
writer's name and address and the date.
Her briefing is said to be so well and ad
curately done that the senator never has
to read any of his letters except from
choice. In addition to taking care of
her father's correspondence with his con
stituents and others she writes from dic
tation letters to the heads of departments
and bureaus of the government, looks
after requests for seeds, directs and
franks public documents and keeps a
record of books sent and classifies and
files letters requiring to be preserved for
future reference.
BMiss Peffer is a native of Fredonia,
Wilson county, Kan., and was educated
in the public schools of that state. She
graduated from the Topeka high school
and subsequently took a course in a busi
ness college. She is of a very sympa
thetic disposition and thoroughly enjoys
her life at the national capital.
Through a Pipe to Europe.
General F. M. Clarke of Fort Worth,
Tex., thinks he can shoot people across
to Europe through a pneumatic tube
under the ocean at the rate of 1,000 miles
an hour. He says he has discovered that
rubber can be made so as to retain its
elasticity in the air and become harder
when immersed in sea water. He pro
poses to sink tubes of this rubber and
when they get good and hard to use
them for all sorts of transportation. He
has the usual hazy notions about the pos
sibility and.rreventionn of accident.
The .northwest is sendiing immense
quantities of shingles to the east just
now. Fifteen to 20 carloads a day was
the average freightage of this commod
ity passing through Seattle in the first
half of the month, and one day a solid
train of 80 carloads of shingles left that
point for the east.
John W. Bookwalter, the Ohio mil
lionaire, said the other day, "I cannot
tell you how much money I have spent
trying to build a machine which will fly,
but I think that I have a model under
way now that will solve the problem."