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Show ' CONGRESSMAN ROWELL'S COTTAGE. It Must Give Way Soon to a More Pre. teiitloim Structure. The little frame cottage of which a picture is here given is the home of Representative Jonathan H. Howell, of Blooniington, Ills., the chairman of the house committee on elections. It was built by him seventeen years ago, when the Evergreen city, as Bloomington is called on account of the forest of planted trees in which it stands, was still young. It is now right in the heart of the fash- WHERE UEPRE6EfTATTVE EOWEIX LIVES, ionable part of the town and handsome residences surround it on each eii It is, therefore, somewhat, lone!;.' in its simplicity, for it is itself noihing but a two story clapboard house with a porch mnning across the front. There are ten rooms in it. A row of fine maple trees surrounds the lot in the middle of which the house stands. The renidence is so modest in its appearance that Mr. Bowell is not at all proud of it. He got ready to bnild a new houso right in front of tho present structure and adjoining it some years ago, but just then he was fent to congress, con-gress, and a he has been living in Wash- ington the greater part of each year j since this little frame building has been i large enough for use as a summer residence. resi-dence. IJis daughter was, however, recently graduated from school, and the new home lias got to go up without more delay, for, as Hr. Rowc-U says, "Young ladies will receive company you can't help it and they like to have a nice home to do it in." Consequently when he goes back to Bloomington Mr. , Eowell is going to put np a more pre- j tenrious establishment, with library, ' parlors and reception rooms, retaining tho old house for sleeping apartment, , etc. I |