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Show r ' m ' . ,. I . . ! , .. i Mi Soring! '01 m the world Is so JSWral hot springs as Z many there are In lr-n exactly known, 'f .nrines and 155 cold 3 f sufficient importance f thpm Dossess i" several hot springs .Ifed near the prlnci- .. the mm of beautiful. nr river iSmatlc with medicinal r n;U Training ..M.shally parent who fJma responsibility or.deJ- MWl . u j tv, taut about as uu u. LCyone. Hut save jo r.,f for gomeunHs Q jour whole forceraj i per-:i,dfises per-:i,dfises Eleanor Hubbard r .tamnt to solve some ? !.,. nrnhlpniS of Child iUHygeia Magazine. Hit Straw I gf the straws used In the M of women's hats are Um the pandanus plant In J r,.. nUnsta In jinlla aemp, " ,u Mtinoines: Leghorn, Turin, wheat straw In iplit bamDOO, pauuiin, nviu j in Java ; i annum huuj . (looks like palm) In Co- Lud Ecuador; Porto Rlcan yaray pa'"1 lu tw- W Collected From Air ,bw method drinking water wed from the air in souin- . . ..llln. Mice. A large, ruuuu. yuiui thick outer casing or cement. Ld. The water Is produced k difference between day ana itmperatures forcing tne air nines In the pillar, where It Us and falls into a reservoir, Old Water Power Site oldest water power site In U is belleyeiLtoJje Jhaton aataqiia river at South Ber- stablisbed on the site of tne a blanket mills by Ferdi- Gorges, In 1G20. The water i not only the oldest, but 1 m in continuous use since inception. . Few Great Coloritti Urding to Ruskln, . "There tea enly-seven supreniecoL. b pong the true painters J works exist namely, Glorgl- Titian, Veronese, Tintoret, ijlo, Reynolds and Turner, but lines of great designers are Moons." From the Roman p word trivial comes , from m i Latin word meaning a a place of three streets, or a pads. From this original use the eitended meaning, per- &, ordinary, or petty. Uuttractive Proipect Mrt Leach says there are men over and above the to- Kw population of the United to make a state as largely m as Florida. But who f nut to live in such a -state? limes-union. Troubles is no doubt that the lent by Providence are 1- f beneficial if taken In a prop- ffiJffit ihe troubles Jirougbt m own or another's llldo- ot salutary at all Ellen Mer. ......... Mmatiim and Rain pSigatlon of l.ooo nf P"tai In Enirla Tf ha Q ravaoloil T disease usually Increased f rainfall , . , " UCIUIT UV1' "Mcreased in time of exces-Wopltatlon, exces-Wopltatlon, . f r.n.k N. I . When naval vessels are -launched In. France, the official ceremony subscribes In spirit to the older civilian practice, .but Is marked by considerably more pomp and church-ly church-ly parade. There Is a godfather and likewise a godmother; and should the ship be named after some outstanding national charac ter or a ramous officer, then at least one of the sponsors la a descendant of the person honored. Altar Made of Gold Considered a masterpiece of the German goldsmith's art, an altar-piece altar-piece of pure gold and silver, richly rich-ly enameled and decorated with precious stones, has been consecrated consecrat-ed In St Mary's, the Benedictine ab-bfey ab-bfey at Buckfast, England. It represents rep-resents the descent of the Holy Ghost and Is the work of M. Witte, the goldsmith of Aix la Chapelle cathedral. Adaptable Leaves Pinnate leaves have the power of turning to adjust themselves to the light; if the rays of the'sun are too powerful they turn upward; if gloomy weather, such as occurs before be-fore the rain, they sink again, and when the rains begin they at once assume the position In which they will offer the least resistance. Old Pbraie "King's English,", meaning the English language as it should be spoken, Is a very old phrase. Who originated It Is not known for certain. cer-tain. Shakespeare used it in the "Merry Wives, of Windsor," but It Is supposed that It was old already then. "Queen's English" Is used In the same sense. Heathen Emperor' Advice Be not ashamed to be helped, for It Is thy business to do thy duty like a soldier in the assault on a town. How, then, if, being lame, thou canst not mount up on the battlements alone, but with the help of another It is possfble? Marcus Aurellus. Not m Nonentity Henry Brewster Stanton, husband of Elizabeth Cady Stanton, was prominent In anti-slavery move ments and assisted in the reorganization reorgani-zation of the Republican party, 1858-60. He was for many years on the editorial staff of the New York Sun. American Heroines LOUISE M. COMSTOCK Josephine Davis POR many years the Davis family 1 of Gettysburg, Pa., preserved and proudly displayed a rusty little Iron stove of ancient make. It was over this stove that Josephine Davis did her heroic bit In the famous Battle Bat-tle of Gettysburg. It was on the first day of this decisive battle of the Civil war. when the Union army lost Its stronghold on Seminary ridge and was forced to evacuate the town to General Lee. It Is history that during dur-ing the entire engagement Only on citizen of the town was killed, the young woman, Jennie Wade, whose little cottage. now a museum, stiH shows the hole by which the fatal shot entered, but throughout the whole three days' fighting soldiers of both armies, the blue and the gray, streamed through the streets, marching bravely Into the fray, re treating weary, wounded and dis appointed. Josephine, alone In the Davis home, watched these men go past. Although her own men folks were fighting with the Southern troops, her heart was torn with sympathy for both sides alike. There was not much an elghteen-year-old-glrl could do for them. But that little bit Josephine did. With the guns rumbling scarcely a mile away, Josephine Jo-sephine built a vigorous fire In the little Iron stove, gathered together all the flour In the house, about half a barrel, and set about baking It Into crusty, delicious bread. When the warm loaves were out of the oven she cut them Into generous slices, spread them with molasses, set them out In pans, and placed them before the house for the hungry hun-gry soldiers passing her door. Hawk Are Defended All but a very few species of hawks and owls are being vigor ously defended by Investigators of feeding habits of birds. The only outlaws are the Cooper's and sharp-shinned sharp-shinned hawks, the goshawk and the great horned owL Poor Dad An eminent educator says all his sympathy goes out to the youth of today who Is up against a stone wall, but a tet pf ours goes out to poor old dad, who will have to settle the garage repair bill Bos ton Herald. Intimate Receptions Toward the latter part of the Sev enteenth century it was the cus tom for ladies of fashion to receive their friends. Including the men, in their boudoirs while they primped at the dressing table. lareest poisonous snake In the world. It Is the largest, most yen omous and most aggressive of the ten species of cobra. ' Nature Ever Supreme . It is a great mortification to the vanity of man, that his utmost, art and Industry can never equal the meanest of nature's productions, either for beauty or value. Hume. h Hundred Universities least 500 universities d today, whereas there fj In Thirteenth century ' "1 Amerigo 4. vue uui VI "J0t the nnnnl!it; t x m Germany one out of rWODe nut r.f Tfin i E. w, IU J J lit- ofi.o,). But it seems 7 ea not envy America. ar" wundatlons of a uni-J uni-J n educationalist, are pnmary and secondare V sajs the nation with the m Schools la l!L-r,l porous imiWH.oi - .u iuk Most Jurymen are not drawn to hear a trial that is interesting; It's a suit for damages. HERE ST IS THE WORLD'S BEST Far ConghtColdt Bronchitu BRONCHI-LYPTUS for Coughs No Narootlo No Aloohol No Chloroform. Mads from the Bucalrptns. a woDder In Jot FBKE sample. iBONCHl-LTPTUS LAB., JS Cent Are., U Angeles, Call!. - SoM tearaMM er eioe beck- V MILLION BOTTLES SOLD LAST YEAR So few men could write in early times that none of the histories were disputed. . ' The news spread. Weary men, wounded, Bometimes dying, stumbled stum-bled up to her door for bread, and remained to be taken in, bandaged In torn Sheets and towels, with such first aid as Josephine could devise. All day she worked and part of the oighL. soothing, comforting. " -She converted into bandages every shred ofLlorlLJn.lhe bouse. Some of the Largest Venomous Snake The king cobra, which sometimes attains a length of 18 feet, Is theJthat ltwas wlth the First Michigan less seriously wounded, once they had been cared for. In turn aided her with the more serious ctses. When the guns were at last silent, si-lent, and victory secured for the Union troops, seventeen dead were carried out of that little house and twice as many- more wounded, well on their way to recovery, were taken away In ambulances to nearby near-by hospitals. . "Michigan Bridget" WOMEN have been led to take np the masculine pursuit of warfare by various reasons, patriotic patri-otic and sentimental But It ls-prob-able that few of them took up arms as did Bridget Devens, for the love of fighting. For Bridget, when the Civil war was over, chow not to return to the quiet routine of home and children, but with her husband re-enlisted in the regular army, went with her regiment to Texas and was for a time stationed near the Rocky mountains I Mrs. Devens Is known In history as "Michigan Bridget" from the fact fit Foi-w.J i'Toune man y daughter for six ! are yn going to do ), Weekly Telegraph mi ill 3 Point of Density Must where is the populatlor densest?" - , k -"Just above the eyes." We reeognize, the great mind aftei it has done its' work frequentlj long after. - raTl-I jK HILJ-J Buy from Your Nearest Chemist Know That You Are Getting The Besl in Toilet Preparations fhfeie. ,&oaP25c Ointment 2Sc and 50c Po"t Drag & Chemical Corp, Malilu kf Cttticnra Sharing Cnmm - - cavalry regiment. In which her hus band was a private, that she first went Into battle, and many and various va-rious are the tales of. her valor. A robust Irish woman, she rode horseback horse-back day and night, on one particular particu-lar march It Is said wearing out several horses, keeping up with the best of her fellow soldiers during Sheridan's famous marches. During one Ill-fated engagement the captain of Bridget's regiment was killed and a colonel badly wounded. It was Bridget who'ac-companled who'ac-companled the wounded man to City Point hospital and tended him four days and nights without sleep, until he was well on his way to recovery. re-covery. Then, indignant that her captain's body had been left on "rebel soil," after a single night's sleep and accompanied only by an orderly, Bhe again took to horse to go after It It was a "hard ride of fifteen miles. Once at the battlefield, battle-field, however, the tireless woman found the body, strapped It to her horse and continued on her way. riding seven miles to City Point, where she had the body embalmed and saw that it was properly shipped home. But Bridget was not yet finished. On the field of battle she had seen a number of wounded soldiers left without care. Once more she returned. re-turned. With prodigious effort she got eight of the wounded men into wagon, and with her sorry load started once more for City Point Half way there she ran into a de-. tacbment of Southern scouts. They ordered her to halt that they might Investigate. Lashing her horses, Bridget kept on her way. The Confederate Con-federate leader shouted to her,, then ordered his men to fire. But for the timely intervention of a small body of Northern troops, this escapade es-capade might have put an end to Bridget's military career, and to her life as well. As It was. she got, her wounded to the hospital, and was able to save the Hves of a number of tbem, , . - tJt IMS. Westara Newspaper ttaSea. When Confess First Met 0 W AJ J ' ,:-tv. . v-J j'i L W ( - 1' v)1 --IS -V , ' ' ml 4 V': y-: .-mmr . The Capitol in 1800 - By ELMO SCOTT WATSON S THE time draws near for the final I session of the Seventy-second con-X. con-X. 1 Kress ' tDe United States to con- rana .In Waehlnrrfitn ff la ItVf AVADflniv weee-ppajiaaBB v u ti uuutuLvUf lb W luvUMUUfj Jl to recall that the American congress UJd. AVI U1C xiujo uu liiw prcseui National Capital Just 132 years ago and there can be no more striking evidence of the growth and progress of this nation than a comparison of present-day Washington and the present magnificent structure which houses the legislative part of our government with the "new settlement" of Washington and the uncompleted structure which was the beginning be-ginning of our National CapItoL it will-be Temembered-that-the-flrsbapital of the new nation,' which came into being as the result of the Revolution, was New York city. There It was on April 16, 1789, that the 'first congress convened and the two houses, after completing their organization by electing John Langdon Of New Hampshire as temporary president pres-ident of the senate and Frederick A. Muhlenberg Muhlen-berg of Pennsylvania as speaker of the house, met in joint session to count the electoral votes cast in the several states a few weeks before and to proclaim officially the eleetlon of George Washington as President and John Adams as Vice President. On July 9, 1790; congress passed an act for establishing a permanent seat of the federal government and this act provided for the selection selec-tion by the President of "a district of territory," ten miles square, somewhere oh the Potomac river, in the region beginning at the mouth of the eastern branch or Anacostla river and extending ex-tending many miles to the northwest The President Pres-ident was authorized to appoint three commissioners commis-sioners to "survey, define and limit'! the district dis-trict selected and, prior to December, '1800, they were required to provide In this district "suitable "suit-able buildings for the accommodation of congress con-gress and of the President, and for the public offices of the government of the United States." For the purpose of defraying the expenses of the purchase of the land and the erection of the buildings, the President was "authorized and requested to aecept grants of money." It was farther provided that on the firsts Monday of December, 1790, the seat of government should be removed from New York to Philadelphia, where it was to remain until December, 1800, when it was to be transferred to the new Potomac Po-tomac district In accordance with this act President Washington Wash-ington In 1791 chose one county In Maryland andrOne In Virgin!a,wlth the Potomac river flowing between, for the site of the new National Na-tional Capital which was to be known as the District of Columbia. At first this district wa? ten miles square or one hundred square miles and contained 64,000 acroes of land, which was ceded to the federal government by the two states of Virginia and Maryland. But In 1846 all the land on the western side of the Potomac was ceded back to Virginia and as a result the District of Columbia since that time contains only 64 square miles. " As commissioners to "survey, define andVUm-ItB andVUm-ItB the district and to erect the "suitable buildings," build-ings," Washington named (Ten. Thomas John, son, who had been his Intimate friend during the Revolution, Dr. David Stuart of Virginia and J2flaft-arrolL a member of that illustrious Maryland family. The commissioners decided that the federal city should be 'named the "City of Washington" In honor of the first President and the plan of the city was to be made by Mai Pierre Charles L'Enfant the young French engineer and architect who had reconstructed the buildings in New York and Philadelphia nsed by congress. "In March,' 1792, the commissioners advertised In the newspapers of Philadelphia, Boston and New York that they would give a lot In the city of Washington and $500 to the person who should "produce to them the most approved plan for a capitol to be erected In the city of Washington." Sixteen plans were submitted In resoonse to these advertisements but all were rejected because they did not meet the require ments. Then Stephen liallate, a trencn arcni-tact arcni-tact of New York, submitted a plan which met with great faror and it seemed that he was. about to be awarded the -work. But in the meantime William Thornton, a talented tal-ented Englishman living in -New . York, who had a powerful friend in the person of Thomas Jefferson, then secretary ( state, drew up an elaborate plan'for the Capitol and submitted it to Jefferson, who laid it before Washington i - ' llWi Thomas Jeferson.. with an enthusiastic endorsement The President Presi-dent thought It admirable and said it combined "grandeur, simplicity and convenience." He wrote to the commissioners, requesting them to adopt Thornton's plan In preference to Hallate's, but charged them to do it "with delicacy." Immediately' Im-mediately' the commissioners Informed Hallate of the change and upon bis examination of Thornton's plan, the Frenchman declared that Thornton had stolen the idea from his (Hallate's) (Hal-late's) original designs. The result was an acrimonious dispute between be-tween the two men which .lasted for several months but In the end the commissioners accepted ac-cepted Thornton's plan and awarded him the first premium. As a sort of consolation prize, they gave Hallate a premium of $250 and appointed ap-pointed him. as one of the architects of the Capitol Cap-itol with an annual salary pf $2,000. As supervising architect for the Capitol a talented tal-ented young Irishman named James Hoban, whose plan for the "President's house" bad already al-ready been accepted, was appointed and It was decided to construct the Capitol of Virginia sandstone, InsteaoT ortJrtck-Twwaa-flrst pro posed, and the stone was obtained from a quarry quar-ry on Aquia creek. On September 18, 1793, the cornerstone j)f the Capitol was laid and from that time on the work of construction was carried car-ried on energetically. In the meantime congress was meeting in Philadelphia and had made an appropriation of $46,923 "for the necessary expense of the removal" of the government to Washington. In June, 1800, all the records, papers, office furniture, furni-ture, etc., of the various federal departments were loaded on packet sloops at Philadelphia and despatched for the newcity on the banks of the Potomac. The officials and clerks, numbering num-bering In all not more than two hundred, went to Washington in lumbering stage coaches, arriving ar-riving after a long, tiring Journey of nearly a week. Mrs. Adams, the wife of the Vice President, has left us a record of her adventures on that trip. She says: "After leavIng Baltlmore we wandered about for two hours without finding a guide or a path, Woods are all you can see from the time you leave. Baltimore until you reach the city, which Is so only in name. Here and there Is a small hut without a glass window, win-dow, interspersed among the forests, through which you travel for miles without seeing a human being." After enjoying the luxury of life In New York and Philadelphia ptof the government officials offi-cials looked with ulmay upon this "wilderness city set in a mudhole almost equal'to the great Serbonian bog," as one of them described the new Capital It was In such an environment as this that the Sixth congress began Its second session on November 17, 1800. the first session held In the new Capital The north wing of the Capitol, in which the session was held, was In a very in complete condition, and both houses were crowded Into narrow, badly arranged quarters. On the opening' day President John Adams appeared before a Joint session of the two houses and made the following impressive ad dress : "I congratulate the people of the United States en the assembling of congress at the l.ermanent seat of their government; and I con fc-ratulate you, gentlemen, on the prospect of a residence not to be changed. Although there Is cause to apprehend that accommodations are not now so complete as might be wished, yel there Is great reason to believe that this Incon Tenience will cease with the present session. A Jecerit Opening o Congress "It would be unbecoming the representative of this nation to assemble for the first time, in this solemn temple, without looking up to the Supreme Ruler of the universe, and Imploring his blessing. "May this territory be the residence of vlr-ture vlr-ture and happiness I In this city may that piety and virtue, that wisdom and magnanimity, that constancy and self-government which adorned the great character whose name It .bears be forever held in veneration I Here, and through-1 out our country, may simple manners, pure mnrnla anil triiA ralfplnn flnnrlnh fnreverf "It Is with you, gentlemen, to consider whether wheth-er the local powers over the District or Columbia, Colum-bia, vested by the Constitution in the congress of the United States, shall be Immediately ex- CI LI. JLL, - 111 VUI UJJlllilsu, iuts iiujiv. wu, trust ought now be exeouted, you cannot fail, while performing it to take Into view the future fu-ture probable situation of the territory for the happiness of which you are about to provfde.' You will consider it as the capital of a great nation, advancing with unexampled rapidity in arts, in commerce, In wealth, and in population; popula-tion; and possessing within Itself those energies ener-gies and resources which, If not thrown away, or lamentably misdirected, will secure to It a long course of-prosperity and self-government' Hot via rioHtlnod rn witness lomi of the most exciting scenes in the history of the nation. Although Al-though the Federalists had a small majority in congress, it was evident that the political con trol OI uie cuuiury wiucu mej uau uav biiu;v constitutional government went Into effect was fast slipping 'away from them. Adams' rigorous rigor-ous enforcement of the alien and sedition laws naa driven many ioreign-Dorn cuizeus miu ui rising Democratic-Republican party. Then, too, there were other causes for bitterness which marked the doom of the once all-powerful Federalists, Fed-eralists, who had been In control of the government govern-ment of the new nation continuously for eleven years. The Presidential campaign of 1800 was an exciting one with John Adams as the Federalist Federal-ist candidate for re-election, running with Charles Cotesworth Pinckney as Vice President . i .1 .. Tv Tl ..l.ltnn. upposeu lu uieiu uu uie ieuiuLiaii:-xvcyuuiii:au ticket was Thomas Jefferson (then Vice President) Pres-ident) for President and Aaron Burr for Vice President . The election resulted In a victory for the Democratic-Republicans, who received 72 electoral elec-toral votes to the Federalists' 65. The Constitution Consti-tution at that time provided for each Presidential Presiden-tial elector to vote for two persons Without designating which was to be President and WUllll W UU I1VO 1 1COIUCUI, AUU VCIOUU 1 T7 celvlng the highest number of votes was to be President and the next highest Vice President By an amendmentio the Constitution ia 1804, the electors are now required to vote separately separate-ly for President and Vice President) When the electoral votes were cast It was found that the crafty political manipulation of 1 T Kot wumHiul In m Ma waa a. 1,1m Auruu DUir uuu icountru lu a no tviq xui uiiu- self and Jefferson, both being higher than the vote for Adams. So the election was thrown Into the house of representatives. Amid the greatest excitement, the. house began to ballot for a President on February 11, 1801. There were 100 members from 16 states and each state had one vote with the majority of the states necessary neces-sary for a choice. The bouse sat with closed doors and balloting went on continuously day and night 0n4the first ballot eight states voted for Jef-, ierson ana six lor uurr. xwo suites, ermom and Maryland, were divided and could not cast a vote. Ballot after ballot was taken with no change in the result Finally on February 17 a break came and Jefferson was elected President Pres-ident by- the votes of ten states. ... During the balloting the - excitement In the country was Intense. Charges of all kinds flew thick and fast It was charged by the Democratic-Republicans that .the Federalists were voting for Burr to prevent an election until after March 4 when they would usurp the office of-fice of President by making Chief Justice Marshall Mar-shall of the Supreme court. President thus establishing es-tablishing a Federalist limited monarchy. On the ether hand the Federalists charged Jeffer- son with every sort of crime, asserted he was an Infidel and spread the report that if he were elected the Bibles would be taken away from the people. ' Finally the Federalist leader in the hnnsp James A. Bayard of Delaware, got control of enough votes to be able to elect Jefferson or prolong the contest So he made a dal with Jefferson, receiving from him the assurance that he would support the public credit maintain main-tain -the naval system and would not remove from public office certain minor officials on po litical grounds.. In return for this. Bayard arranged ar-ranged for Vermont and Maryland to cast a unanimous vote and give the two necessary votes to Jefferson. Thus he was finally declared ejected and his Inauguration took place March , ISM. the first President to be Inaugurated In the new Capital of the United States," (C 7 Westera Newspaper Union.) |