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Show Beautiful Washington. If no great calamity overtakes the city ol Washington', what a splendid capitol it will be fifty years hence. Congress has just appropri-ated appropri-ated another $3,000,000 with which to buy grounds on which to erect public buildings. It is; so every year. One monument of beauty rises after another, an-other, and now the very rich of the country are building palaces there, to occupy while Congress is in session. It will soon be a city of palaces. It is a half-way station between the North and South, and is growing every year in business as well as in splendor. Every year great and beau- tiful structures are built; new statues appear in jH the public parks; the imprcssiveness of age is beginning to add its charm to the place. Go Into the supremo court room and listen. The voices of 'H the great jurists of the last century still linger there; it is not hard to imagine that the outlines of stately forms are seen dimly in the 'jfl hush that pervades the hall. Go into the Senate jl chamber when it is empty and listen. The voices H of the deathless ones seem still sounding there; the great array that gave form and direction to our government and steadied it through the first ll century of its career. Those giants, their feet trod those streets and hallowed them, and now 99 every year a lavish expenditure is giving new graces to the whole city, and swiftly making one il of the grand capitals of the earth. And that is the way the nation wants it to be. Washington's monument stands high and cold there, but the city itself will soon be a nobler il monument. The monument itself will be but one ' among a thousand, but the city well, that will be one among ten thousand. |