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SUNDAY MORNING.
THE TWO
R--U*E
F'UEI?' By
A Vw-iw Wiliiirr)
Wallace CooK
< ■ , -rig ‘it. 19.11. I,) \V. W.e.Kik.
Andy Blakesly lutd settled it be
>wivn t. iii Mint tin- Dutchman was n
thief. A..J.v had inis-ihl a .silver watch,
ii: ns .1 I'nckethook with $S in ; t and
Baker a nugget valued at s2n which
he had kept in his mink.
Andy had wakened out of a sound
fde.-ji a few nightsxbefore and hud
seen Fritz siiii'.dnp through the hunk
house. When Andy failed to find Ids
watch next mi'riiiitg there was but one
Inference for him to draw.
There In the end of the “drift” he
and I!lak.esly !icured the mattqr all out.
In the afternoon l-'ritz Was not only to
be discharged, but also to see the In
side of the I’honix jail.
Blakesly sat reflectively on the han
dle of his wheelbarrow. \tidy threw
down his drill, unwound a two minute
length of fuse from the coil, scraped
the end and slipped on a cap. lie
pushc-d the cap down into the hole and
followed it with two sticks of dyna
mite, gently ramming them home and
tilling up the hole with dust.
“Great Scott!" exclaimed Blakesly.
• You’re putting in a charge for youi
life, Andy.”
“rip going to blow ont this horse and
uncover the vein,” returned tin- fore
man, “if it takes a leg." .lust then u
burst of childish laughter echoed to
them. “Is that A Hiehe asked.
AUic was ilia daughter, a motherless,
sunny faced child, who had been the
especial protege of Mrs. ilmsi, the
keeper of the hoarding house, ever
since tier father had brought her to tHe
PactohiH mine. Occasionally AUic was
allowed to come down into the work
ings, which was always a treat for her.
Slit- was it prime favorite, and every
one of the miners would have guarded
her as the apple of his eye.
“It must lie Allle.” said Blakesly.
getting up and starting off.
At that precise minute tin- noon whis
tle of the stamp mill sounded
“Take A!lie up with you.” Andy
called after Blakesly.
“All right.” returned Blakesly, halt
ing at the shaft.
The ladder was Oiled with climbing
miners, Fritz at tin- lower end of the
row.
“Wh -e's Allle, Fritz?” asked Blakes
ly.
“She van gone nop alretty,” answered
Fritz, looking down.
“Sure about that?”
“Yah, sure. Kingman carried her
oudt. I seen him meleselr."
All the miners’ ot the day shift ex
cept Kingman and Andy were now on
the ladder. Blakesly was satisfied and
started nimbly up the greasy rungs.
The foreman removed his tools to a
place of safety, applied the flame of
his eat.die to the end of the fuse,
watched the fuse splutter for a mo
incut and then made his way to the
ladder and started for the surface him
self.
“Where's AlUe?" asked Andy, spring
ing out of the shaft and hurrying after
Blakesly.
“She came up with Kingman,” re
plied Blakesly.
“Who told you?"
"Fritz.”
The miners were straggling out, sin
gly and in couples, on their way to
the boarding house. Kingman was in
the lead, walking alone. Fritz was
Just ahead of the foreman and. Blakes
ly.
“Hello. Kingman!” shouted Andy.
“Where's Allie?"
Kiutrmnn turned.
“Didn't she twite up with you?" he
asked.
Every miner in the straggling line
came !<> an abrupt halt The very
thought that A die might still he below
with a f mn- lighted ami-temping closer
and ek>.- i to a trnitic charge of dyn.i
mile was sufficient to set every heart
to pounding There were other charges
111 the level, to'-. Iml l bey wc re light
compared with the one in the breast of
the tunnel.
Andy went white iu n second.
“You infernal villain!" he roared,
springing upon Fritz and gripping him
by the throat.
Fritz tore himself loose and ran frau
Really back to the shaft.
“Kingman vent past der slope rnit
Aide ou bis shouiter.” he (lung at them
as he raced.
“) did." cried Kingman, joining the
rest as they flocked excitedly after#'
Fritz, “but she said she’d rather come
up with tier father, so I lowered her
down iiic ladder again, pido’t you see
her, Andy?"
“Oh, my God!" gasped the foreman
and threw his hands to Ids face.
“Hew many holes were loaded?” de
manded Blakesly.
“Three,” said Higgins.
“All two minute fuses?"
It was a useless question, for that
was the standard length for the noon
firing.
Andy staggered against the frame
work of the "whim." his face ashen
and his nerve completely gone. He
could do nothing.
"Perhaps she's coming up!" suggested
Blakesly.
Another useless remark, for Allie
could not have climbed the ladder if
she had tried. Blakesly leaped on the
platform to look down, lull Fritz had
already swung the ox bide ore bucket
over the shaft, had kicked the coil of
rope into the depths and had gripped
the strands convulsively.
It was a time for action, not for
wr rtrs. I row many sec-onus oi me pre
cious r’o had already slipped away!
(The climbing of the ladder, the walk
toward the boarding house, the collo
quy. the backward rush it seemed as
though all that must have consumed
the time to the uttermost second.
"She's i t coming nop!" cried Fritz,
and as he spoke lie sprung into the
bucket and dropped from sight.
One glimpse of his wild, terror strick
en face was all they caught, and then
came the swirl of the rope and the
shriek of the unoiled sheave. In a
breath there followed the bump of the
bucket at tlie hoi tom of the shaft, and
the rope leaped upward and hung limp
and shaking.
Boom! came from below, a puff of
bluish smoke curling upward above (lie
platform ffkiuus.
"One!" whispered Blakesly. drawing
away from the choking powder.
Boom!
“Two!" gasped Higgins, holding his
hat over Ids mouth and kneeling to
peer downward.
"Do you see anything—hear ally
ing:" demanded Kingman hoarsely.
Higgins turned a despairing face to
ward Kingman and shook Ids head.
Boom!
From under them came a sodden roar
wide seemed to rive the earth asun
der. Kingman was thrown f om his
feet, and tlx- others on the platform
flung out their hands In an attempt to
grasp something and support them
selves. Up from the blackness rolled a
billow of sulphurous fcg.
"Fritz was mad to go down there,”
said Kingman. “They're both lost.
What are you doing. Blakesly?”
Blakesly had jerked off Ids coat aud
who wrapping It about Ids head.
“If they're not both done for now,"
he replied !n mu tiled tones, “they soon
w ill be if we don’t get them up. Stand
ready to man the whim rope when I
shake it.”
He crawled gropingly to the ladder
and lowered himself. All watched the
rope breathlessly. Finally, after n wait
that seemed hours in duration, the slg
nal was given, .and stout hands drew
iiic bucket to Ihe surface.
A little head lay against the bucket’s
rim and a white childish face met the
eyes of the men. Allie! Kingman took
her out of the bucket. She was uncon
scious, but the miracle was that she
did not appear to be hurt. Not a stone
of all that flying debris had struck her.
She was given Into the eager, trem
bling anus of her fathei, who started
at a run for Hie boarding house.
Meanwhile the bucket had again
been lowered. The signal from Wakes
!y was longer in coming than the first
had been, and when the bucket was
draw ii up a second time It was found
1 > contain Fritz Fritz, bruised, torn
and blooding, his clothes all but
stripped from his body. Tender hands
lifted him to the platform and stretched,
his mangled limbs out on the rough
planks. They thought he was dead,
but his eyelids quivered unexpectedly
and partly opened.
"1 ves between Allie uml dor rocks.”
lie whispered weakly. "She vns In my
arms uml nodding touched her. It vns
m.v mistake, uml it's all right, all
right."
His spUit flickered uml went out
even as the "all right” faded from his
lips.
Blakesly had to be helped to the sur
face. for his work in the noisome va
por had told upon him. A few breaths
of fresh air were all he needed, and
when ho had revived suflicienlly he
told how he had groped his way along
the tunnel amt had found Fritz lying
among the splintered rocks, Allle
clasped in his rigid arms, her body pro
teeted by his own.
That afternoon Andy and Blakesly
found a battered sliver watch, an old
pocket bool; containing $5 and a gold
nugget, all on the floor of the fifty foot
level.
“That is exactly w here Fritz and Al
lie were lying,” said Blakesly.
“ 'Sir h h-b!” w Inspi red the foreman,
clipping the purse with its contents and
the watch and nugget Into bis pocket.
"Not a word about this, Blakesly. to
any living man. Leave me to deal with
; the matter."
! The following morning Baker was
surprised to discover that his twenty
dollar nugget was buck in his trunk,
and Higgins, when he put on Ids best
suit (o go in Fritz's funeral, found the
poi-i. (bool; with the s.l leeurely stowed
away in the breast of ids coat.
1 "Blamed if I didn’t Infill over every
thing in my trunk a dozen times look
ing for that chunk of gold,” remarked
j Baker. “If it had been aknake. it would
have bitten me.”
"I went through the pockets of all
the clothes I’ve got hunting for that
purse.’’ spoke tip Higgins. "And to
think that we ever suspected Fritz!”
"Think nothing but good of the dead,
boys,” said Andy, with feeling. "Come
ou! The minister is ready.”
Allied h> Lincoln.
When Joseph Jefferson, the famous
American actor, was a boy. be used to
tramp from town to town iu the Unit
ed States as a member of his father’s
traveling company. They once struck
tlie town of Springfield. 111., at a time
when a great religious revival was in
full swing. In the hope of preventing
any play acting at such a period the
town council demanded a heavy fee tor
permission. This was a serious matter
for the strollers, who had to earn their
.daily lirad, and a local lawyer took up
tli“ir case out of good will. So persua
sively did he plead that the fee was
not insisted on, and the performance
look place. The lawyer whose wit and
humor served tbe players so well after
ward became president of Ids native
country and is known to fame as Abra
ham Lincoln.
Opportunity.
"Wolk” remarked the optimist, “op
portunity knocks once nt every door.”
“Yes, there’s something very femi
nine about opportunity." replied the
pessimist. “She makes her call when
she's pretty ure you're out. and that’*
the enJ of it"—l’bilndelphls Brens,
A FLAG
RAISING
By JAMES BUCKHAM
Cop|/rfe/it, Mol, b'jjaiih nu-kham
The little white house of the Par
tridge “girls" lay basking in the sum
mer sunshine, it seemed the very em
bodiment of orderly thrift and domes
tic peace. The bit of green yard was
as clean and tidy as if it had been
swept and then every separate grass
blade dusted and set in orderly array.
The two glistening paths that led one
up to the front door and the other
along the side of the house to the
"kitchen stoop" wore inclosed by slen
der round posts, through which run a
single strand of wire. The po.-.ts and
their connecting wire were painted a
fresh, lustrous green. FTicre were also
six green posts along (lie sidewalk in
front of the house, strung 'together by
a green wire, and at each corner of
the two paths stood a large white
washed stone, so dazzling white that It
made the eyes ache like new fallen
snow. The entire premises. hud a look
of immaculate neatness that made
them sc< in sacred, like some fane or
little temple, and indeed they were
sacred to the Partridge sisters, who
had descended from a long line of old
fashioned New Hnginud worshipers at
the shrine of home.
Inside the place was as neat as out
side. Nobody ever found the Partridge
“girls” In a muss. Even when I hey
cleaned house they did it so stealthily
and with such amazing rapidity and
precision that no one room was suf
fered to be out of apple pic order for
more than ten consecutive niiumes.
It: was a marvelous little home Ibis
of the Partridge sisters. The minister
once said that it was a composite of
Puritan conscience and New .England
sentiment, aud that there w as only one
thing more impressive than its sever
ity, and that was its sweetness.
In such a home as this. It would
seem, one might retire and lie at rest
from all the cares and strifes and trou
bles of tlie uneasy world There were
not a few who envied the Partridge
sisters their little patrimony and their
little home, the one just equal to the
other, with an exactness beautiful to
contemplate in this world of exasper
ating misfits.
Yet there Is no corner of old earth,
however remote and peaceful, where
some trouble does not llud its way.
The skeleton iu this quiet closet was
chronic difference of opinion between
the sisters, a trouble that Is almost
sure to rise between two persons of
the same blood and sex who are com
pelled to spend most of their time in
one iiuotle r's company. With the Par
tridge slsten, ibis menial divergence
seemed to have no root in divergence
of principle. It made practically uo
difference what II pinion was. So
long as It was hold strongly by either
sister the other felt bound to disagree
-with it. .lane and Ellen could be of
one iniiid on but one matter, and tlint
was purely congenital tlie passion for
neatness.
The June sunshine rested like a ben
ediction on the Partridge cottage. The
roses in the front yard and the sweet
peas in tbe back yard were in bloom.
A golden robin was singing in an elm
across the street, and the Partridge
sisters’ canary was vying witli him
from Ids cage in tlie open window.
.7;i■ i<‘ and Ellen were out in the yard
weeding their flower bods and roam
ing hither and thither after the milli
ner of liens to pick up infinitesimal
bits of litter between the grass Idiules.
Suddenly Miss Ellen straightened up
and gazed curiously at something that
was coining the village stieet.
It was an ordinary lumber wagon, with
the box removed, and far in tbe rear
an extra axle and pair of wheels.
Something long and white and taper
ing was stretched from the forward
aide of the wagon to the extra axle
and Wheels trailing behind.
' What in tlie world can that be com
ing?" ask. and Miss Ellen.
“1 presume ‘t’s our new flagpole.” re
plied Miss .Inne. the elder spinster.
"Our new flagpoleV” cried her sish r
shrilly. “What do you mean, June
Partridge? Who said we were going
to have a flagpole?”
"1 said so.” answered Jane. “1 or
dered it, and it's coining. I didn't say
anything to you about it because I
knew you would object beforehand,
and 1 thought you might as well'do
your objecting afterward; iwotdd save
time. I wanted to have the pole here
in time for the Pourtli of July, I’ve
been thinking for some time that we
ought to he more patriotic than we
are, and I couldn't think of any Tie:ter
way for two lone women to show their
patriotism than by owning n flag and
flagpole. We can't go to war, we can't
vote, we can't speak in town meeting
and we can’t fire a gun on Independ
ence day, hut a woman lias just us
much right to fly the stars and stripes
as a man, and you and 1 are going to
do it, and we are going to do it for tlie
first time on next Fourth of July.”
Miss Ellen Partridge listened to this
long explanation from her sister with
a set face. “Old maids have no call to
be patriotic!” she snapped when Miss
Jane concluded. “II ain't their prov
ince; it's no woman's province. 1 won't
have a flagpole in this yard. Jane Par
tridge. and you may as well under
stand that first as last. They shan't
bring that thing in here if I have to
fight 'em with a broom aud scalding
water. A flagpole’s a dangerous thing
to have around a house to begin with.
The first big wind it may s.iup off aud
smash ;he roof In, just as the coikge
flagpole broke oi? and smashed the
fountain over to Chester. IPs more
dangerous than a big tree, because it
hasn't nay roots. Patriotism.' Huh!
1 guess we/show patriotism enough,
consideringfctir privileges, by paying
our luxes! V
By this /time tbe long flagpole, at
tended I ~Ju crowd of boys and village
loafers, bad .arrived opposite the little
cottage. and\the four men who were
perched on its trunk dismounted and
proceeded toiunfuslen the chains that
bound it-to I the wagon. Miss Ellen
strode out Cos them. "You are not to
bring that! thing iu here.” she said
firmly.
The man in charge of the flagpole
turned within grin; but, seeing the ex
pression of, Miss Ellen s face. Ids grin
died uway/in a look of astonished per
plexity.
"What in tnnket am I to do with it.
thou?" he demanded. “I was told to
bring it lure.”
"1 don't care what you do witli it,"
retorted Miss Ellon, “All 1 know is
It isn't coming in here.”
“IPs paid for," protested the man as
a final shut.
At 1 his juncture Miss Jane Partridge
came stalking majestically down the
little side path. Sin 1 had borne with
lier sister's petulance even as she used
to when they were children- just long
enough to be assured that it was of the
inflexible sort. II was now time for the
older sister to act. She brushed Miss
Ellen aside and laid her hand on the
pole.
“1 ordered it,” she said. “I paid for
it, and I paid for its sol tin' up. You
may bring it in and set it where I show
you."
Miss Ellen turned abruptly and went
into tbe bouse. tSlio climbed to the gar
ret and got file large brown satchel
that her father had owned. Then she
gathered together n few articles of
clothing and tile dearest of her own
special treasures and keepsakes and
put them into the bag. This done, she
marched out of Hie front door, satchel
in hand, and started for the village
dcpol. Miss Jane was in Hie back
yard-superintending the erection of the
flagpole and did not notice her sister's
departure.
Miss Kllcn reached the depot and sat
down in tlie vacant ladies' waiting
room. She had not tbe slightest idea
whore she was going. There was no
relative to whom she could flee from
her sister’s tyranny. She thought that
she would take the first train in either
direction and travel uni Ii evening.
Then she would stop al some hotel and
spend tlie night. After a night's sleep
perhaps she would know what to do.
It was late in the forenoon when
Miss Klleii reached Hie depot. The sta
tion agent hail gone to dinner, and his
office was locked up. Noon came, then
half past 12, and still no train and no
Station agent. Miss Kllcn fastened her
{tlstmefed mind upon Ihe situation and
presently rciiieudieroil that no trail)
stopped at Lymlonviile between 11
.o'clock a. in. and half past o p. m.
What would flic slnlioii agent think
wlien lie came hack and found her
there?
Xho went to Hie window and looked
back up the Dill toward the village.
Between Putnam's blacksmith shop
and tlie store she could just see on the
other side of the village street the low
ly roof of tlie collage where she and
her sisier had dwelt for forty years.
Something white and slender was just
wavering up behind ii. It rose higher
ami higher and filially stood firm and
straight, and Miss Kllcn saw that it
was the top of the new flagpole. Jane,
then, was till busy with her triumph.
iSlie had not discolored her sisier's de
parture, or perhaps she did nol care.
Miss Kllcn went back to her seat
with tears in her eyes. From where
(die sat s|ie could look into tlie ticket
Office through the locked glass window,
and on Hie wall racing her she xs4t a
steel engraving of Abraham Lincoln.
Itow vividly it brought up the days of
the civil war, when her younger la-oth
er had marched away with the first
regiment of Vermont volunteers! The
tears rained faster down her cheeks
ns the flood of memory swept her far
tlicr and farther away from her own
petty grievance. Xlie remembered Hie
crushing news from the front; tbe
bringing home of her brother’s dear,
torn body; the picture of Abraham
Lincoln which they found hidden in
ids bosom; the funeral in the village
chili'll, with the picture of Lincoln,
wreathed in flowers, lying on the dead
soldier’s breast, and around him and
the martyr president were wrapped the
folds of the slurs and stripes!
Again Miss Ellen rose aud went to
the window. A cheer swept faintly
down the hill. There was a flag flying
from tlie new flagpole over the cot
tage. Patriotism had she none of it
in tier loyal heart, and she the sister
of such a patriot ns the soldier boy
who slept under the faded Memorial
day flag in the village cemetery?
With a sol) Miss Ellen caught up her
satchel and breasted Hie hill. “Jane
was right.” she whispered, "i am glad
she got tlie flagpole,and the flag. Dear
I tola'ii! It was my flag raising too.
If Imart's feeling counts for anything,
it was my flag raising too!”
hi Ja%a.
A book published in Ji va, called
“The West Java Travelers’ Guide,”
says of a certain sanitarium: “At the
establishment is a .physician. The sick
may invoke the physician for daily
tnatment, with use of medicaments.
Children below ten years pay for lodges
half of tlie price.”
Under “Addresses aud Announce
ments” is politely recommended "the
hotel pr .hi. wi-h occasion for warm
baths, where till now all reeonvales
<• ■!, . as well s M s I’ll; slcians and
particulars and officials, have found
l ack their health. Cures malarin.com
! luins In the chest and other fatnesses,
green sickness, cutaneous disease,”
etc., and we are assured that “this
healthy abode for reconvaleseents has
also occasion to many delightful idylic
excursions to which saddle horse aud
tand-es are stationed when before
timely ordered.”
THU BRUNSWICK DAILY NEWS.
The American
Fanthcon
At Washington
[Special Correspondence ]
WASHINGTON. Nov. \-He
inniing congressmen and in
tending visitors will find
some gratifying changes in
Hie histone old chamber once used as
Hie houseitf representatives and known
as the hall of statuary. This famous
chamber, which might with propriety
be eailed tlie American pantheon, has
sine:' tlie lasi session of congress been
completely renovated and subjected to
aiA.-.u' treatment which makes it in
point of beauty, dignity and impress
iveness one of the most attractive in
teriors in Washington. Besides Ibis it
Is prijinps the place of greatest historic
In ten st in tli" national capital.
From the year IXnT, when it was
first finished, until IXII, when it was
buried and defaced by the British in
an attempt to destroy it, this chamber
was occupied as the hall of repres aila
tivrs and again from 1S1I), when it
was restored, until IX.T7, when the
lower house of congress moved into
tlie chamber which it now occupies.
What stirring scenes were enacted
here during these important years of
our national history! It was here that
Madison was inauguralcd president In
lx;lb and again in ixi.'i. Hare Monroe
was inaugurated for his second tiian In
IX2I. and lu re Fillmore took the oath
of otliee on July 10. IX.TO, following the
death of President Tyler. Here John
•.Muncy Adams was chosen president
over Andrew Jackson in 1X25, when
the election was thrown into the house
of representatives, and lu re us an aged
veteran he was stricken with his mor
tal illness in IX-tK. Here Henry Clay
presided with marked distinction as
speaker of the house of representatives
In the Fourteenth, Fifteenth. Sixteenth
and Eighteenth congresses. Here Dan
iel Webster and Ii: r Abraham Lin
coln sat in turn as *,.! - a - e representa
tives, each before l u ;ay of his meri
dian fame. Here occurred the stormy
debates Incident to the war of IXI2 and
Hie war vl'h Mexico and tlie prelimi
nary Hiru.egje over til" questions of
slavery anl slate rights which led up
t i our i A ii w ar.
II wr.a of lids chamber that Charles
1 del ens wrote in his “American
Notes” 111 1> "2: “Ii is a !•• ••nllffll aid
-pacious ball <'f sende’zeal'M' shir",
supported by hs 'ids-ime p bars. One
part of tile :- 1' r.v is appropriated b>
the ladiqs, and there they sil in front
rows and ionic in and go ...ul as m a
play or '-o.u -■!. Th ■ . inn is i . p !
and r.: si and e -'.is! '.ri.r 'y a . a
of (lie bouse, aid every lr. id r has a a
easy eha’r and a v. i rtT di O I> h i
self, winch is dell , 'l:o-i! be M" jr |M
pie mil of ilooi : as a in ■. ; uui'oriiiiintr
end injudicious ;:i • :n .an i Ii i.due.;
to long silt"! . and |a s i.r p .. ii -
It is mi 1 1 :at < ' -i 'ii,....;
a sim el -i I bad on • I all ;.n p
of lie.avl: ."
11. Ugh << i-;'-!' ' In t!
eoivill \lt la hr t'l r• as I' I s.ke 'l
iu oil of this eh i ibi r p Inb 1 in I
by s.iinm i r. i, \; . " 1.0 ,
plot me and Hi and si •j Ia
fully ci it •iior.de i cli o. 'i and !
was wil ii li e \ I li. .;•> ihe
ohambi r in elf • :i r .bo : tii ■ ;
ing til'd pen pad u :■ Hi; | ii ( ,i
restoixilive wqj v -u and .; \
Work on Hie presciil resb : alien of
statuary hall, which iu, Incidental to
Ihe radical • n, tunes and qiqn a,a incuts
I aide ill Ine c. pit i dm u . Ilf' | l
yi r. was Ira.:.uu i, im and . i.jy ai'nr the
adjournment of roirn.w in July last
and lias progri used without Inie i up
tion until now, employing Hi" skill of
fifty arils:s under the direction of Jo
seph I’al.'i'inauu of Wa-liinglon, who
forty years ago nssisled the famous
Italian painter. Constantine Brumidi,
in the decoration of Hie rotunda and
the .senate corridors and committee
rooms. Following similar work done
last year in the supreme court chnni-
AaOttl JW!s .Ijll'lLnniUlO'lll'lll'lMllll'll'lU'
gtgn
iisi!
STATU All Y HALL SEES THItOCGH HOUSE
COUKIDOU.
tier, an entire new fireproof steel ceil
ing was constructed, the contour of the
eld ornamental plaster ceiling being
exactly duplicated, except that real
ribs 1l relief and Indented panels were
substituted for painted ribs and panels
on a smooth surface. In addition to
tlie plaster relief work set against a
mauve ground the chamber has been
•plendidly enriched with pure gold
leaf ornamentation, which serves to
emphasize the lines of the massive ribs,
panels and rosetted coffers. The inte
rior wails also are renewed in soft
tones of sienna marble, a handsome
new skylight takes the place of the old
at the apex of the concave ceiling, and
the apparent size of the chamber Is
materially increased by the removal of
vust accumulations of old books from
the galleries. The ball will rhQmhted
at, night by 300 incandescent eTeTtvic
lamps placed above the white comics.
Mauve, is Hie prevailing color of the
coiling and buff of Cue corridors lend
ing from tli" hail to the present house
of representatives. The paneling* are
colored most!y in olive and maroon,
riehl.v loaded with go'd in line a went,
fretwork aud filigree embroidery.
While tlie mural borons are gem ruliy
of potnpeiiun red, and the panel bor
ders, of classical desk;ns in laurel and
?vy leaves, are chiefly of olive green.
Along the main corridors n( frequent
ittfcrvals there have been painted ad
Eihnbie color sketch . . portraits and
symbolicsi designs in medallions and
vignettes suggestive of patriotic memo
ries and Interesting events of American
history. Among those are sketches of
Mount Yi riioii. Washington's tomb.
Arlington Horse and the Washington
monument, portraits of Coinin' as and
Vespucci and Indian heads, weapons
and armorial bearings.
All the decorations harmonize with
tlie distinctive si.vle of nrchitoelurc
wliieli belongs to lho pei-eid repn seul-
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THE KEBTOHED STATUARY HALL.
od by the beginning of (lie last century.
Hie decorative scheme following faith
fully the ideas of tlie original archi
tects. For years statuary hall, with its
famous whispering gallery, lias been
one of the principal show places of
Washington. It will now more than
ever be a source of interest and delight
to visitors at the national capital.
The chamber was officially designut
cd as the national statuary hall l>y an
act of congress approved by President
Lincoln July 2, lSlit.
Twenty-seven statues iu bonze and
marble have thus far been grouped
within the chamber, being contributed
by sixteen states. While some of the
figures are not as representative as
they might lie, the collection is valua
ble and interesting. There are quite a
number of statues that may justly lie
pronounced masterpieces of tile sculp
tor’s arl. Tlie states of New Turk, New
Jersey, Pennsylvania, Massaclmsotls,
Itliodc Island, Connecticut, Vermont.
Ohio. New Hampshire and Missouri
have tilted their quota, each placing
bwo stiitiles of distinguished sons in
lids hall of faun
New York lias furnished statues In
bronze of Itobert It Livingston, mem
ber of Ihe Continental congress and
United States niinisler to Fiaiici', who
ii'goHated the Louisiana purchase
irmly, bv E. I>. Palmer, and George
Clinton, first governor of the state, by
11. ii. Brown.
New Jersey has sent up Itichard
Slcekton, a signer of the Declaration
of Independence, in marble, and Philip
Kearny t"Fighting Pliil'T, a gallant
cavalry gcncrul in the civil war, in
bronze, both by If. K. Brown.
Pennsylvania lias furnished iu mar
bio Robert Pulton, the inventor of Hie
steamboat, by Howard Roberts, and
J■di ii P. Muhlenberg of Revolutionary
fame, by Blanche Nevin.
Massachusetts is represented by John
Winthrup. first c, lonia 1 governor, by
Richard S. Greenottgli. and Samuel
Adams, the Revolutionary organizer,
by Anne Whitney, both in marble.
Rhode Island's contributions are
beautiful works in marble representing
Roger Williams, by Franklin Simmons,
and Nathanael Greene, famous general
of the Revolution, by li. K. Brown.
Connecticut lias sent statues in mar
ble of Jonathan Trumbull, the first
governor, Washington's "Brother Jona
than,” and Roger Sherman, one of the
committo' which drafted tlie Declara
tion of Independence, both by C. B.
Ives.
Vermont lias supplied in marble
Ethan Allen, the Green Mountain Rev
olutionary hero, by Larkin C. Mead,
and Jacob Collumer, an early senator,
by Preston Powers.
New Hampshire has contributed in
marble two of the most notable statues
of the collection- Daniel Webster, born
in tlie Granite State, and John Stiu'k
of Bennington fame. They were mod
eled by Call Conrads after statues in
bronze in tbe statohouse park at Con
cord. Tlie original Webster statue was
by Ball; that of tlie Stark figure was
by Conrads himself.
Ohio has furnished marble statues of
James A. Garfield, the martyred presi
dent, and William Allen, a Buckeye
governor, both tlie work of Nieiiaus.
Missouri has furnished statues in
marble of her worthiest sons. Thomas
H. Benton and Francis P. Blair, both
by Alexander Doyle.
The remaining six of the sixteen
states thus far represented In statuary
hall have each supplied one statue of
a favorite son.
Now that this historic old chamber
lias been restored aud beautified it is
expected that other states of the Un
ion will hasten to have themselves fit
tingly represented in this American
pantheon. SAMUEL HUBBARD.
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