Show r 7 U I d Much More tl I Then Than Politics I tS Special Correspondence Corres I W D DC C Jan U Tou re I r the tile extreme apathy that pre pie ratted during the recent election sate said Representative Lacey of Iowa with a characteristic twinkle that always fore foreshadows foreshadows foreshadows shadows an anecdote E Every ery stump Speaker in the country felt f lt and com corn commented commented on it at the time and every one had some theory in trying to account for It IL I 1 felt it wherever I spoke but 1 t tIt It did dd not alarm me greatly My the thee theory ory orr was that tha the people were and apparently Indifferent rent tae e Be Because I cause they were satisfied with the I condition ot or the country Still it an annoyed n noyed nyu n l me pIe to address an audience and aDd I fall t to te awaken waken a atile en m Ater I Iry every eiry ry meeting the audience audane woud dill dis disperse 1 perse quietly and an go home without any anything anything i thing to 10 remind you of the spirit of oft 1 t tM 6 Then people would gather in I groups and wave their arms and talk taUt it If all au over o er after fter the meeting more or orless orless less excitedly Now all was decent de ent and I decorous as a church sociable 1 I finally determined to learn vv whether nether there ther was any way by which I 1 could i arouse aroue a k s little enthusiasm One day dIP I when I had to make a speech i 1 gath gathered gathered ered myself together lo ether for a supreme ef effort effort effort fort It was in a small town and I said to w myself said I Ill stir em up this time or admit Im no good on the stump forever after Well V ell I fairly outdid I myself my el in eloquence and when the aud audience audience lenee left I determined d ed to see what ef effect feet r t my had produced Going down the street toward the station behold a group of ot men who had heard me engaged In an exciting street eJmer cirner discussion indulging m iu energetic Uc motions of their arms and anil re 11 recalling recalling calling visions of the exciting ex earn cam campaign of 1506 to the smallest detail t At last Jast said I I 1 have struck a responsive chord So 50 circling around the group by the route that would bring the station be between between between tween me inc and them I approached from the om direction and sidled up near enough to t be in earshot with the dae expectation of learning at Ors firs hand what hat impression impre n my 8 h had n made ade adeon on these L se sturdy S farmers Well I heard every eve word without intruding r myself It the thing to do but I was as bound to know how my speech had struck them What do you tancy they were W l say inn inc n And Lacey looked quizzically around on a circle of solemn laces faces No one line ne yen ven ventured en a uess It seems he resumed that they had bet a dollar on the weight of a hog and well the use u They time to think about imperialism Im and free silver alongside of an Issue like that and I got on the train nest ant pulled my hat down over my eyes e es and thought thou ht hard Deaf Mutes Have Bave Service Without the sound of a voice and unaccompanied by the familiar strains of the organ Rev Rey O 0 T J con conducted conducted conducted ducted the Episcopal service Sunday evening in the chapel of Trinity church I The Thu lt pastor of this unique of wor worship worship ship shiT as well as his con congregation are ared deaf d af mutes but from the opening prayer to the closing clo lne benediction on the services were the same annie a as those Ul con conducted conducted ducted in other places of f worship of the seine sume denomination Rev toek took for his text the second chapter of the gospel according to St SL Matthew and the lI Our was as delivered with as much spirit and em mu emphasis emph ph as though spoken with the voice lr Js sad of the hands These The e services are conducted every Sunday night and so are both the pastor and his flock n the Ute sign alga lan Ian language guage that the movements of the th preachers pt hands are almost tio do last 1 for the untrained eye U t follow T time taken for the entire service ivlee Ts orb a little over an hour this m in chaes the reading of the psalms psalm Bill Eil for Washington Statue A bill fer fee the purchase of a bronze portrait statue of George Washington tun at a tI cot cost of f to be placed in I Statuary Sta uary hall hail of or the capital now on n the calendar calen ar of or the house hou will probably be called up before long Ions lon by Representative McCeary ary of ot Minnesota chairman of the library committee The bronze portrait statue in question is regarded by experts as something som of f Interest The original of this I bronze is the marble statue which has stood in the quadrangle or rotunda of the state house in Richmond Va since 17 1716 Soon after the close of I the revolutionary war the state of Vir Virginia Virginia ginia decreed a statue Matue of Washington and Mr Jefferson then resident in I Paris secured the services of who came across the ocean In company I with Franklin and visited Mount Ver Vernon Vernon Vernon non where here he executed his model It Is said to be bethe the most moot realistic r and lifelike J representation lon of Washington extant bronzes of this statue are in I existence the original In the state statehouse statehouse house of Virginia one in Lafayette f park St 51 Louis and an one in the library latter building at Cincinnati It is the which Mr McCleary seeks to acquire for congress to replace the old plaster east cast model of the statue which stands In Statuary hall hail in the capitol New Yorks Sons Lead Leod in Congress Accord ng to an interesting Int table com corn complied compiled piled plied by b Representative Lacey of Iowa and used in connection with his Ms speech on the apportionment in the tV house the past week there are ace more Ore members In Inthe Inthe Inthe the house hoWle of representatives es TS who 10 IO were born In New York than any AllY other state The number is next to which comes Ohio with a R total of and Pennsylvania with sons of the state of Massachusetts are now representing seating In various see sec sections or f the th but this number Is if West Vest Vir Virginia s l by bv Virginia ginia mlA which Was va formerly a part of the parent paret state is included The sum num number her ber te Is twentysix after which comes which has furnished bed twenty I one rone members of the house hou Kentucky I is represented by an equal number after at which comes Indiana with seven eYell seventeen seventeen I teen North Carolina with fifteen which includes Representative Cannon of Illi Illinois I nois nois chairman of the hou bou house e committee I on appropriations and what is more striking still Senator Hawley of Con Connecticut who v a born in Richmond county North Carolina in Be F was a a delegate to the Free Soil Sell national convention of lS 1852 and a Union soldier entering the army as u a captain and m graduating to the position po of ma major majar major jor jar general nell by brevet The state of Mississippi has furnished twelve elve of the present house of representatives Flor Fior Florida I ida fourteen Maine ten Vermont ten Alabama fourteen Arkansas is represented represented muted by five Kansas Kana by only one Missouri Us by nine while New Jersey Jery has haa four of her sons song representing various constituencies South Carolina nine Wisconsin n seven eyen Rhode Island six Texas six and Iowa eight The states which have hae not in this congress fur furnished furnished furnished any members to either branch of congress are Califor California nia mis Colorado Idaho Montana MORtana Ne Nebraska Nebraska Nebraska braska Nevada North Dakota Ore Oregon Oregon Oregon gon South Dakota Washington Wa and Wyoming all al of which are ace practically new states with the exception of Cali Call California fornia fonda Kansas furnished only one na member as also ha has Minne Minnesota sota Delaware Florida and Utah have each furnished two and Louisiana and New Hampshire four each The total born membership of the two houses of oC congress is W J S 5 VAN ANTWERP i |