The Idaho world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1864-1918, 1874-03-05

llirium tremenS OF ar!
The Capitol is very noble and a
very beautiful building, both within
and without, but you need not examine
lit now. Still, if you greatly prefer
going into the dome, go. Now your
general glance gives you picturesque
sketches of cleaning water on your
left, with sail here and there and a
(lunatic asylum on shore; over beyond
the water, on the distant elevation, you
see squat yellow temple which your
eve dwells upon lovingly through a
blur of unmanly moisture, for it re-
calls your lost boyhood and the Par,
thenons done in molasses-candy which
made it blest and beautiful. Still in the
distance but on this side of the water
and close to its edge the monument OF
the Father of his Country towers out
of the sacred soil is the custom
ary term. 1t has the aspect of fac
tory chimney with the top broken OFT.
The skeleton of decaying scaffold lin
GERS about its summit, and tradition
says that the spirit of Washington Of
ten comes down and sits on those raft
ers to enjoy this tribute Of respect
which the nation has reared as the
symbol of its unappeasable gratitude.
The monument is to be finished, some
dav. and at time our Washington will
have risen still higher in the nations
veneration, and will be known as the
Great at-Grandfather of his country.
The memorial chimney stands in a quiet
pastoral locality that is full of rcpose-
ful expression. With a glass you can
see the cow-sheds about the base and
the contented sheep nibbling pebbles in
the desert solitude that surround II,
and the tired pigs doing in the holy
calm Of its protecting shadow.
Now YOU wrench your gaze loose
and YOU look down in front Of You and
see the broad Pennsylvania avenue
stretching ahead for mile or more til
it brings up against the iron fence In
front Of a pilIared granite pile, the
Treasury building-an ediiice that
would command respect in any capital.
The stores and hotels that wall in this
broad avenue are mean and cheap and
diugv. and better left without comment.
Beyond the treasury is a fine large white
barn. with wide unhandsomc grounds
about it. The President lives there.
Ii is ugly enough outside. but that il
nothing t. what il is inside Dreari-
ness. himsincss bad taste reduced 10
mathematical completeness is what the
inside offers to the eye. if il remains yet
what ii always las been.
The front and right hand views
gives YOU the city at large. 1t is a
wide stretch of cheap little brick houses.
with here and there noble architectural
pile lifting itself ont of the midst
buildings these If the
thaw is still going on when YOU come
down and 70 about town, You will won
der at the short-sightcdncss Of the city
when you come 10 inspect the
streets, in that they do not dilute the
mud little more and use them for
canals.
If You inquire around little, Won
will find there are more boarding-houscs |
to the square acre in Washington than |
there are in any other city in the land, |
perhaps. II You apply Tor home in
one of them it will seem odd to you TO
have the landlady inspect you with a
severe eye and then ask if you are a
of Congress. Perhaps, just as
a pleasantly, you will say yes. And
then she will tell you she is full"
Then you show her her advertisement
in the morning paper, and there she
stands, convicted and ashamed She
will try to blush. and it will be only
polite for you to take the effort for the
Iced. She shows you her rooms, now,
and lets you take one-but she makes
you pay in advance for it. That is
what you will get for pretending to be
1 member of Congress. If you had
been content to be merely private cit
zen, your trunk would have been suf-
icient security for your board. If YOU
ire curious and inquire into this thing,
he chances are that your landlady will
,e il-natured enough to say that the
'erson and property OF Congressman
re exempt from arrest or detention.
nd that with the tears in her ewes she
las seen several OF the Deople's repre.