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library will have no dark places in il. On
the lowest shelf in the remotest corner of
any Of the book stacks 1t will be possible to
read readily on tho dullest or cloudiess
days. This will be due to the use of the
enamelled bricks in the courtyard construc-
tion. The reading room will be abundantly
lighted by the large hslf-moon windows in
the dome.
The reading room and the main entrance
will receive the most elaborate interior dec
Grafton. The main entrance or vestibule
will open up from the main floor to the sky
light. 1t will be . large, white marble
room, with heavy groined arches and col
umns, in which there will be inches for
busts and statuary. The columns, stair
case, panels and baIustrades will be Of white
marble, and the carvings will be rich, but
not sufficiently so to mar the solid appear
ance Of the design. Entering from this ves-
tibule Of glaring whiteness will be the read
ing room, which is to be trimmed with
panels and columns of colored marble, and
these will give 1t warm, soft effect, restful
to the eye of the reader and suggestive of
quiet and comfort The keystones of the 33-
window arches on the exterior will be
adorned with carved heads representing the
various types and races of mankind. Each
keystone is a head, designed BY an ethno-
logical artist.
Universal in Its Range:
The present or cold" library of Congress
now contains 675,000 books, go, 900 PAM
phlets, $4,000 bound volumes of newspa-
pers, 10, 900 maps and an immense array of
valuable manuscripts, engravings, photo
graphs, photographers, Autographs, chro-
mos, prints, drawings, musical compost
tions and periodicals of all descriptions. 1t
is universal in its range, and is especially
rich in scientific works, history, iurispru-
sort relating to America and Americans
The collection occupies the western projec-
tlon of the central Capitol building and was
commenced in 1900. In 1914 the little
neuclaus of q library then assembled was
burned by the British, but it was replen-
ished shortly afterward by the purchase of
Thomas Jefferson's private library of 1000
volumes. In 1851 the collection embraced
55, 900 volumes, but by an accidental fire in
that year 50, 200 of them were destroyed.
The loss was made good by Congress, how
ever, and since then the library has steadily
and rapidly increased to its present propor-
tions.
Congress annually donates about S11, 900
to the purchase of new books, and under
the operation of the old and new copyright
laws a bound copy of every copyrighted
publication issued in this country must be
deposited in the library. Further additions
are received ny exchanges, donations and
bequests, the total average increase being
about $4,000 volumes annually. Regular
donations of newspaper files are made from
the Secretary's office of the United States
Senate, from the State Department, Inte-
rior Department, Patent Office, Bureau of
Statistics and other departments and bu-
reaus of the Government.
Some Priceless Literary Works.
In this great aggregated collection are
of rare old volumes and
manuscripts of priceless worth. Among
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pillows, etc, so thst visitors may see ex-
actly under what circumstances the goods
are produced and how excellent a cause
they are assisting if they encourage the
work, tor on it depends the success and
future happiness of ireland to great ex-
tent. Mrs Hart, of the Donegal Industrial
Fund; Mr.. Peter White and myself are ap
pointed q special committee to undertake
the erection and management of the village.
1t will not be the model of any Irish village
in particular, though it will receive a good
deal of local color, from the fact that it will
nestle under the shadow of Donegal Castle,
which We also intend to reproduce at
Chicago.
A Realistic Irish Village,
''The castle ruins will form one end of
the village, and from it will extend the
tereet with cottages on either side of it,
The castle, like the cottages, is to be a
realistic reproduction. 1t will be of brick
ami mortar, instead of being painted like
stage decorations, and in order not to waste
valuable space our offices will be under the
ruins Through all the cottages there will
be passages rallied off so that the workers
NAV not be interfered with, and along these
visitors may pass. seeing the goods we ex-
hibit in the actual course of manufacture.
There will be shops in the village in which
all goods sent by order of the committee
will be sold. At the end of the exhibition
the goods exhibited in the Homen's and
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is finished, and they are all to be made
within the limits Of Washington. The
square tiles that sre to be used for flooring
will come from Western Massachusetts and
Vermont.
Bricks Imported From England.
The white enamelled bricks that line the
courts were brought from Leeds, England,
and cost $75 per thousand. No ensmelled
bricks of this kind were made in America
at the time the contracts we're entered into.
All the work on the building is done ON the
eight-hour system, in accordance with the
laws lately enacted by Congress. Over 900
men are employed at times
The site unites the requisites of close
vicinity to the Capitol, salubrity, desirable
surroundings and elevation, the latter in
suring dryness, which is cardinal point in
providing for a great national library that
is to last for centuries.
The building will have capacity for
5000, 900 volumes. The intention Is not to
ft up the whole interior at once with iron
shelving, but to introduce it gradually,
finishing off only the central portions,
rotunda and connecting rooms at the out
set. The building consists of high SUBJ
basement or cellar, rusticatedshigh base
ment, and main story, which is balustered
like the Capitol at the roof. The center and
corner pavilions have IN attic to give them
height. A magnificent enamelled skylight
is to be thrown over the great central pavil-
ion to light its double stairways, which
leave vast open space between them, pro-
ceeding up to the main rotunda of the
library. The portal OF this front consists of
several great arches, and outside of these is
a grand stairway of gentle ascent, to which
carriage-ways and winding paths will be
graded.
Temperature Gradations Required.
From the boiler rooms, under ground and
east of the building, the steam pipes are laid
into the cellar, where they will heat the
water which In its turn is to warm the in
terror atmosphere. Several different kinds
of temperature will be needed. The heat
which will be agreeable to occupants OF the
reading room would be decidedly too much
for the book stacks or for the museum.
There will be no fire in the building, al
though there might be with perfect safety.
There will be both stairways and eleva-
tors, and an admirable system of communi-
cation with the reading room that will
avoid all delay and confusion, The super
intendent of the reading room will occupy
a raised circular desk or dais in the middle
of the octagonal room. From there to
every part of the book stacks close commu-
nication will be had by telephone or some
system of electric signals, and there will be
an 'endless chain" system of book eleya-
tors or dumb-waiters to every story of the
stacks.
The visitor selecting the book he wants,
after looking over the catalogue at the GEN.
trail desk, will write the title or number of
the volume on slip. His desire will at
once be sent to that part of the repository
where the book is located, and the book,
being placed by an attendant in one of the
carriages of the endless chain, will be laid
before him in the twlnkling OF an eye.
Not a Gloomy Spot In 1t.
Unlike other big buildings, the new
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served tea from Irish ware, the dainty and
rare IRISH Bleek, and she wore china silk
that was almost covered with lace which
she told me had been made by q
very old woman living in a most secluded
part of Ireland who had never been off the
mountain upon which she then lived. Her
Ladyship urged me to visit this very old
woman as curiosity, since was going in
that part of Ireland, and it was arranged
that after left the railroad the Secretary
of the association, Mr.. Hatfield, should
take me as far as possible in carriage, but
that there would remain several miles up
the mountain to the cottage that must be
walked, but she thought "would not mind
that" How little she knew OF American
laziness! I had never, to my knowledge,
walked as many miles on level ground, so
needless to say, neither my zeal nor my
curiosity led me to undertake that climb.
Instead, contented myself with visiting
cottages more accessible and converts where
special work for the Exposition was being
done after unique patterns selected and
sent in by order of the Countess
Lace Delicate as Sea Foam.
In the Industrial School at Mercy Con-
vent in Newry, County Down, where q
sister of Sir Charles Russell is Mother Su-
perior, was shown laces being made for
the Fair collection that were as fine as gos-
samer and from patterns as beautiful as
those formed by the foam of the waves as
they break on the shore, and against the at
traction of which no woman's heart at the
Worlds Fair is expected to hold out. In
cottages I saw being woven the stout
tweeds and homespuns whose only fault
seems to be that they never can be wore
out, and learned that the revival of this in
dustry in ireland was due more to the
Countess of Aberdeen than to any other one
person, and that market for this handi-
work and that of the lace being made in
cottages meant the whole difference be-
tween life on the brink of starvation or
one of comparative ease.
In reviewing the good work for down.
trodden humanity that has been accom-
plished by this energetic, large-hesrted,
noble woman we at first wonder how it has
been possible for one woman to do so much
But let us remember that political gather
ings, committee meetings and the various
labors of philanthropic organizations mean
one thing to the lady of rank who drives to
them in her carriage, is REINFORCED by her
secretary and is companion only and not
nurse or upper servant to her husband or
nurse to her children, and quite another
thing to the middle-cass woman with the
cares of house and household on heart and
hands, and who in going forth to take part
in public affairs can only do SO by leaving
incompetent servants in charge. Ten to
one this woman returns to find everything
gone wrong in her absence and SO falls into
a state too peevish to furnish the little at
tentions that make home happy place to
those nearest her.
If we have any notion of emulating the
example of the admirable Countess of Aber-
deem 1 would suggest that We do not do as
much as she does, but as much as we believe
such good and sensible woman would do
in our place. MARY TEMPLE BAYARD.
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hey be little bit condescending, atfsble,
thoughtful, kind?
In brief, why cannot all good and great
Aberdeen, who, while she is one of the
busiest women imaginable, yet can take
time not only to receive with cultured
sympathy and in a friendly, unaffected
manner, engendered by her own sweet
nature, all those whose work in life brings
them in contact with her, but in addition,
and as an earnest of her share of pleasure
In the visit, will make her guest cup of the
best English tea ever drank.
For just one brief afternoon during this
summer abroad 1 had the honor to be the
guest of her ladyship. This honor was ac-
corded out of compliment to our common
cause, the Worlds Fair, and in no other
presence do remember to have passed the
hours SO pleasantly and proftably.
She Does Not Court Homage.
The Countess of Aberdeen, wife, mother,
Christian philanthropist, social queen and
politician, is a woman at whose feet the
rest Of US could sit indefinitely and learn
lessons relating to the good, the true and
the beautiful in womanhood. But she does
not court homage, she would not have us at
her feet, rather by her side assisting in her
many schemes Of benevolence. She is a
great organizer and understands well how
10 provide work for willing hands.
The Countess is many sided. Though
leader in society as her rank implies, and
fond of the pleasure such position brings
her, a thorough woman in her delicate sus-
capabilities, wifely and motherly instincts,
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are to be products OF the Irish home in
dustries. And again in the general section
we will exhibit the work of small Irish
manufacturers for which it is most difficult
to find market, and we hope that when
you generous Americans see what Ireland
can do you will, with your ready sympathy
for Ireland, not be slow to support the
movement to help the most needy of Irish
men and women to help themselves by
honest work"
Practices What She breaches.
The cottagers of Ireland could not have
found better or more practical friend than
the Countess Of Aberdeen. Some thousands
of pounds have gone into the cabins of the
poor Irish peasants in return for the knit
ting, lace, crochet work, embroideries,
homespuns and other goods made by them
and disposed of at the several shops estab-
lished by her in Dublin, London and else
where. Literally she practices what she
breaches in the way of fostering Irish in
dustries The day she received me she
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In this great aggregated collection are
thousands of rare old volumes and
manuscripts of priceless worth. Among
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13

British section will be sold. The village ID
to be called the Irish Industrial Village.
We of the Irish Industrial Association
have pledged ourselves to provide $4,000,
or $40, 900 of your money, for the erection of
this village, and also to furnish all moneys
required for carrying out the several plans.
"We are to have two other exhibits be-
sides this. In the woman's section we are
to have a room in which we will exhibit a
wedding party. Everything in that room
the furniture, the bridal dress and veil, the
dresses of the guests and even the presents
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1892-11-13
AN IRISH VILLAGE.
Unique Exhibit the Countess
Of Aberdeen Is Prepar.
ing for the Fair.
A BIT OF THE GREEN ISLE
To Be Transported and Set Down in
Chicago's Big Show.
WORK OF A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
Fer Efforts to Give the Down-Trodden o
Living and Future.
A BIT OF THE GREEN ISLE
WORK OF A WONDERFUL WOMAN.
Ber Efforts to Give the Down-Trodden o
Living and Future.
ACLOsE FRIEND OF THE GRAND OLD MAN
rwRrrrrS FOR THE prsPArcuI

WONDER why it is
that as soon IS people,
women people in par
ticular, become of
enough consequence
through their good
deeds TO reach that
stage in public inter-
est when we want to
'know all about
them," =" they feel it to
be in keeping with
their greatness to af-
feet an air of reserve
and q hatred of
>"newspaper notorie-
ty." Why cannot
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21
FIFTY BELOW.
The Weather Somewhat Chilly at
White River, Can,
Below Zero Weather at Many Points
in the Northwest and South
Some Remarkable Changes.
THE COLD SNAP.

CHICAGO, Jan. 2O.-One of the Sc
verest northerS of the season was blow
ing in Texas Monday night The storm
on the plains was terrific. The snow
had fallen to the depth of an inch and
was on the increase. The wind was
blowing at the rate of 80 miles an hour.
The snow vas flying in binding sheets
and the damage to the cattle interests
are likely to be large. The thermome-
ter registered Is degrees above zero at
Abilene. Tex. The snowstorm fol-
lowed a line extending from Texas
northeast through Chicago Rain was
falling in the southern states east of
the Mississippi The temperature is
below zero as far south as southern
Kansas. St Louis had a temperature
of s degrees above zero and snow
fell to the depth of 5 inches. The av-
erage was 30 degrees below zero from
North Dakota north, and western Iowa
and Nebraska fifteen degrees below.
Fifty Below in Canada.
Kansas City is having the coolest
weather she has experienced in years.
1t was 16 below there at o'clock,
and in Iowa it was worse. At
Des Moines il was "a below and
at Davenport 10. At Oklahoma
City it was 10 below and Concordia,
Kan, it was %, The mercury has even
sunk below zero in Arkansas, which is
unusual for that warm state. The
coolest point is White River, Canada,
where it is SO below zero.
Remarkable Changes.
In the northwestern part of the coun-
try a most remarkable change in the
temperature is noted. At Miles City,
in eastern Montana, Monday it was 40
degrees below, and to-day it was IL
above, a difference of 50 degrees in
twenty-four hours. At Helena change
of 40 degrees occurred. On the Allan
tic coast it is warmer, and in the east
ern states heavy rainfalls are reported.
Bad for Man and Beast.
ST. LOUIS. Jan. 20.-Reports from
many points in Missouri Illinois and
Arksnsas state a binding snowstorm
has ragged for the last twenty-four
hours and that all business is at a
standstill.
dispatches from texas say IndJ the
rainstorm of Monday morning turned
into sleet during the day, and that live
stock are suffering terribly from the ex-
tremely cold weather now prevailing.
everything being coated with ice.
Private advices from the Cherokee
Nation say the streams and pools are
frozen over. Cattle are drowning by
venturing too far on the ice in search
of water Winfield Scott having lost
forty-seven in the Arkansas river in
this way
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21
BLAINE A SICK MAN.

Stricken at the Cabinet Meeting-An-
other Attack of Nnusea-His Friends
Greatly Alarmed Removed to His
Home in Carriage and Physician
Summoned.
WASHINGTON, Jan. 20.-Seeretary
Blaine is again very sick man. He
was taken suddenly i'll ut the cabinet
council about II o'clock, and the i'm
portant business on hand was brought
to a standstill forthwith. The impression
was that the necessity of declaring
war on Chill before the end of the
week was under discussion. The great
state secretary was assisted TO his car
riage by Secretary Elkins and driven to
his home. The family physician was
summoned at once and the report given
out was that Mr.. Blaine's illess was
recurrence of the attack of nausea
from which he suffered on January 6,
when he was taken home in a critical
condition from the state department
The physician who was summoned
to take care of the secretary pro-
nounced the attack of little moment
1t was, he said due to the same cause
as the first-iuprcper diet and lack of
outdoor exercise. Assistant Secretary
of State Wharton said that Mr.. Blaine's
prostration was not at all serious and
that were the weather better the secre-
tary would doubtless come TO the de-
partment
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21
THE WORLDS SYMPATHY.
The Prince and Princess of Wales Receive
Condolences from all Over the World.

The Prince and Princess of Wales Receive
Condolences from all Over the World.
LONDON, Jan 2o.-The Court Circu-
lar says that the Queen had intended
to attend the funeral of the duke of
Clarence, but yielded most unwillingly
to the reiterated entreaties of the
prince and princess of Wales not to ex-
pose herself to the risk of taking cold.
Replying to a message of sympathy
from the chapter of Westminster, the
queen expressed her gratitude and con-
veyed her sincere coincidence on the
death Of Cardinal Manning, which she
deeply deplores. The prince of Wales,
in message to the chapter of West
minister, says:
THE princess Of Wales and deeply appre-
ciate and are grateful for the chapters warm
sympathy. had the pleasure OF close ac-
quaintance with Cardinal Manning and found
him always a most loyal and steady friend and
supporter Of the royal family. / greatly regret
his loss and am deeply tonched by the kind
words he used about my son"
The prince and princess of Wales de-
sire it TO be known as widely as posi-
bic how grateful they are for the uni
versal sympathy which has been so
kindly extended to them in their hour
of affiiction
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21
A Fatal sLEleH Ride.
Pleasure Seekers Go over Precipice Near
Zelienople, Pa.

Pleasure Seekers Go over Precipice Near
ZeIienople, Pa.
ZELIENoPLE, Pa, Jan. 20.-A sleigh
load of pleasure seekers, consisting OF
twelve young people, sons and daugh-
tiers of prominent farmers in this sec
ton. met with terrible accident sun
day night. They were returning from
a long sleigh ride. To lessen the
distance the driver took an un-
used road that wound along the
top of a steep hill close to a preei-
pice. Everything was coated with
an inch of ice and the road was as slip
perry as glass. When near the edge
the sled slipped ominously and the
driver tried to turn the horses. They
lost their foothold and everything
slipped over the edge. The young PEG
pie We're packed in the bottom of the
box and couldn't escape. The driver
jumped. The others, amid the screams
of the ladies and the struggles of the
horses, went down. The fall was almost
perpendicular for 500 feet and thence
on gentle slope for 200 more. Miss
Elizab beth Martin had her spine so bad
ly injured that if she lives she will be
crippled for life. A young farmer
named Berry had his skull fractured
and will probably die. Miss Long re-
ceived fearful cash on the head. The
first two may not recover. The others
all suffered severe injuries, but not
Sa,.so,,r
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21
SHOT HIS YOUNG WIFE.

Double Tragedy at Peoria, III. - Harry
johnson, After Numbering His Wife,
Blows His Own Brains Out.
PEORIA, Ill, Jan. 20. -Four months
ago Harry Johnson, of Chicago, and
Lizzie Laforce, of this city, were mar
ried in Chicago Shortly afterward the
husband became so abusive that the
wife returned to her mothers home in
this city. She was followed a week
later by her husband, who desired to
renew their marital relations. This
she declined to do. Johnson has been
kept away from the Laforce home un-
til Monday evening. when he came into
the house and, during the mothers alb
sence, shot his wife twice. He then
turned the pistol upon himself and
completed the bloody work, 1t is sup
posed johnson repeated his request for
his wife to live with him, and did the
shooting upon her refusal Both are
dead
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21

foreign affairs a dispatch of several
hundred words, advising Perira of the
determination of the United States
and the warlike feeling which per-
vades every department of the govern
ment and congress, and strongly urging
him TO make some definite advances
which might serve to allay the bitter
feeling at Washington. The minister
has not until now realized the full ex-
tent of the war feeling at Washing
ton, and forcibly tells Perira that the
fuilness Of our preparations is mat
ter of surprise to him.
Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1892-01-21

GRAND RAPIDS, Mich, Jan. 20. Bust.
ness in this city is practically para.
lyzed by the burning out of the tele-
phone exchange Early in the morn
ing telephone wire crossed the cleo
trio railroad trolley wire when only two
girls and boy were in charge and in
an instant the entire exchange was
ablaze. Before assistance came every
one of the 1900 wires were burned.
Damage to the exchange will amount
to from $40, 000 to SIS, 600.