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real duties are chiefly performed in con-
nection with committees. The daily routine
Of a Senator involves attendance on COM
mittee meetings, usually called to meet at
10 o'clock in the morning, and lasting until
nearly noon, when they are adjourned, and
the members take their seats in the Senate.
Each committee divides it's work among
subcommittee, consisting of one or more
Senators, and reports of facts bearing on
the particular bill under consideration, to-
gether with recommendations for it's dis
position, are made at meetings of the full
committee In nearly all minor matters
these recommendations are approved by
the committee, and In turn by the Senate.
1t Is only In the consideration of import
ant political measures that a general dis
cussion is carried on, and even in such cases
the subcommittee, being in accord with the
dominant party. Usually has it's work ap-
proved with little or no amendment. A re-
publican subcommittee is given a bill to
consider, its report is approved by a repub-
hcan committee and a solid republican vote
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ln the Senate is apt to pass the measure.
though just at present, as the balance of
power rests with the popu]ists It's pretty
difficult to pass any bill on a strict party
vote.
Besides the work in committee that is
looked for from Senator, he Is expected
to be within the call of the electric bells
announcing that q vote Is to be taken in
the Senate, unless paired with some one of
opposite political faith. For the Senators
whose committee rooms open on the cor
ridors encircling the Senate chamber this
requirement is not attended by any great
Inconvenience, but only a small contin-
gency are so favored. Senators who hap
pen to be engaged in committee rooms in
the Maltby building and in the terrace
don't enjoy the tramp to the Senate in or
der to answer to their names when called.
But even in the case of Senator who at
tends closely on the business Of the Senate
1t Is seldom necessary for him to spend
more than two hours at lis desk. From 12
to O'Clock Is what Is known as the morn
ing hour" and within that time commit
tee reports are received and often acted
on, and Senators frequently ask to have
their pet measures considered. At 2
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Up to the present time the committees,
with the exception of two or three of the
more important ones, have done little or
nothing. The democrats re alizing that their
lease of power was dra wing to a close did
not care to start the wheels CT legislation
which would shortly be under the control
of the republicans. 1t has often and truly
been asserted that the United States is
governed by committees, and with the
great mass of legislation to be enacted by
the national legislature, it must always be
so, but the only important act passed by
the Senate during the present Congress, the
resolution providing for the appointment of
the Venezuelan commission, was distinctly
legislation b. Congress. understood and ap-
proved by every member of the Senate and
House, rather than by a mere committee.
While the Importance of a Senator's work
Is popularity gauged by the part he takes
In debates on the floor of the Senate, his
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FUTURE WAR SURGERY,
A High Authority Writes About til,
Probabilities of Battles to Come.

Probabilities of Battles to Come.
Sir William aIacCormac in Nature.
1t would appear probable that in future
war many of the wounds produced by the
new projectile will be surgically less severe
and prove amenable to effective surgical
treatment. Probably, also, the number of
severe injuries will be very great, when we
consider the enormous range of the new
weapon and the penetrating power of the
projectile, which enables it to traverse the
bodies of two or three individuals in line,
including bones, and to inflict serious or
fatal wounds at a distance Of 5000 or 1900
yards. 1t is impossible to say what the pro-
portion between these two is likely to be-
At near ranges the explosive effects will be
much the same as before; but at long range
the narrow bullet track, the small external
wounds, which often approach the subcutan-
ecus in character, and the moderate degree
of communion and assuring of the bone
will be surgically advantageous. These will
form the bulk Of the gunshot injuries of the
future, for 1t would seem impossible with
magazine quick-firing rifles to maintain a
contest at close quarters without speedy
mutual annihilation.
We may take it for granted that the num-
ber of wounded in proportion to the numbers
engaged and actually under fire will be
greater than before. The supply of ammu-
nition will be larger, the facility for it's dis
charge greater and smokeless powder will
increase accuracy of aim.
think we are justified in believing, al
though there is high authority for a con-
trary opinion, that the next great war will
be more destructive to human life, "blood-
ier,'' in fact, than any of it's predecessors,
and that the number of injuries, and in
many cases the severity of the injury, will
be largely increased. But very many cases
will remain less severe in character, more
capable of successful treatment, and less
likely to entail future dIsablement, while
improved sanitation and antiseptic methods
will enormously increase the proportion Of
recoveries.
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The Happy Home.

The Rev. DR.. Ouyisr n the New York Ledger
Where lies the sorest sorrow that disturbs
the heart-peace and spoils all the luster OF
worldly gains or honors? 1t is in the worm
that lies at the root OF the home-life 1t Is
of little account to a man to be prosperous
in his store or his Office or his pulpit if he be
wretched at his own hearthstone. On the
other hand, a wife can bear any social neg
lect, any stroke of adversely, and even to be
ignored by society" IL her husband is
loving and her chiloren affectionate and
obedient. But husbands unkindness is e
dry sorrow that drinks her hearts blood.
Our severest and most cruel wounds are
those inflicted by the hands that ought to
clasp our own most closely. Wedlock, as
many Of us can testify, means the sweetest
Joy that earth can know; but woe be to that
home whose worst enemies are they Of ones
own household Good Philip Henry said
that he and his wife adopted rule that only
one of them would get angry at the same
time. That "scotched" the serpent of con-
jugal quarrels Another equally good rule
is to allow fifteen minutes before any reply
is made to an irritating utterance. All this
sort of little vipers in the home-nest that
are fatal to domestic happiness can only be
exterminated by persistent, devoted. unself-
ish, forbearing, all-conquering love.
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A NEW IDEA FOR YACHTS.
An American Inventor Comes to tn,
Front With n Novel Device. i.

An American Inventor Comes to the
Front With II Novel Device. ..
From the Rochester Post Express.
A resident of this city is confident that
ne has invented an appliance for yachts
which will enable shipbuilders to construct
a boat that other things being equal, will
run away from the best yachts now in ex-
istence sailing in ary direction, in light OF
high winds.
The Invention is designed to impart sta
bility and sail-carrying power to a yacht
without the employment of the centerboard
or fin keel. The principle involved in the
apparatus is simply the use of water in q
suitable receptacle, acting on a lever to re-
sist the tendency of the craft when the
wind rises to either careen or run it's bow
under water
If boat can be made by it to sail on
even keel under all conditions Of wind and
water 1t will have little tendency to fall OF
Its course, thus removing the only reason
for the employment Of, the, ,centerboard
And if the stability impaired by the fin and
it's leaden bulb is secured without the bot
tom-seraping protection superior boat
should be the result. NJ
In the new invention "a tubular arm is
provided to extend from the middle of the
deck out over the rail, being adjustable on
either side. The deck end ofa the tube is
attached by joint to pump from which
water can be sent through a tube to a
tank or sack on the outer end of the tube
The tube is under control of guys, by which
1t can be hauled fore or aft and fixed al
any point. The tank is provided with q
valve by which the, water can be let out. :.
1t is claimed that the tube,~ acting as a
lever, will, with a few hundred pounds of
water in the tank, exert a leverage, on
whichever side of the vessel It may be ex-
tended, equal to many tons of weight sus-
pended from the keel, for the tube-lever
may be as long as a boom. AS the tank
does not touch the water in which the boat
is sailing it offers no resistance to the
progress of the craft, a very palpable ad-
vantage over the fiji. keel, which has to be
driven through the water at depth vary
ing with the draught Of the craft and OF
course retards its progress.
Yachtsmen who have seen the apparatus
say that, apart from the question Of Its
utility, which has stfll to be proved, it would
not be allowed on yacht in a race con
Quoted under the rules now generally pr&-
vailing. which prohibit shifting of ballast
The objection may be good, but as the rule
was made with reference to solid ballast
and when no such idea as this was known
to adopts in. nautical affairs, it is thought
that If the contrivance proves in practice
to be of value, paper rules will have given
way to its introduction.
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The Length OF COats.
from the Clothier and Furnisher.

1t is quite remarkable fact that by the
rule Of contraries the fashions in length OF
coats vary inverscly, according to the condi-
ton of times. In other words, when times
are worse the stern rulers of fashion have
insisted upon long coats. which take most
cloth and cost most whereas when times
are good and people can better afford ex-
pense, the shortest coats have. been stylish.
AS times are gradually recovering, the
length of coats seem to be diminishing, and
when we see twenty -nine-inch sacks worn
again we will know that prosperity has re-
turned to the land. A wag has suggested
that the desire to cover up patches in the
seat of pantaloons has made long coats pop
ular in hard times, but we can hardly be-
lieve the fashion kings to be so considerate.
Suffice it to say for the present that We ex-
pect moderately prosperous times and mod
erately shorter coats.
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westerner, with voice like the proverbial
Bull Of Bashan, when fired by a sense of
injustice to his soldier proteges, and when
he would come thrashing down the aisle,
seemingly on the pqint, of annihilating his
adversary, there waSIa resemblance to the
gentle zephyr of the plains in his manner
spects, however, May Pidkler is one of the
gentlest of men, andnhasfan attentive ear
for any tale of woe. lTie is quick in debate,
anRed Of in Pe has baao
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invariably the same whatever the income
4th. That as the income increases in
amount the percentage of outlay for SUM-
dries becomes greater
DIR. Ergel illustrated his law by the fol-
lowing statistical exhibit derived from the
consideration of expenditures in Prussian
families:
Percentages Of Expenditure I'm Prus-
STA.
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O'clock ''the regular order" is demanded,
and, as a rule, that means that speeches
are continued on the measure before the
Senate, and unless the afternoon promises
something of interest Senators retire to
their committee rooms or go home.
Much of a Senator's time is taken ND in
attendance callers. Nearly every one
who comes to Washington on sight-see-
ing journey wants to meet the Senators
from his state. especially If the visitor
n of the same political party as the men,
Der af the upper house. There is a stand
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Cremation Growing in Favor.
From the Westminster Gazette.

The movement in favor of cremation as
against earth burial is growing in England.
The other day Mr.. William Rathbone, ex-
M. P, stated in public that he had made
precision for cremation in his own case on
principle and with view to promoting the
reform. At this moment a new crema-
torium is almost ready for use at Liver pool
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Something Else to Do Than to Look
Dignifed.
A LABORIOUO and EIACTING ROUND
Duties to Constituents and to the
General Public.
THE PRIVATE SECRETARY

H E U N / T E D
States Senate is now
entering upon its
busy season. All the
committees having
been recrganized the
work to come before
them is being refer
red to special COM
mittees, and shortly
there will be a deluge
of reports for the
full committees to
Consider and pass
upon.
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Duties Of the Committee to Con-
slider Those Cases.
CHAIR MAN PICKLER'S TALK
Evils Complained Of and Bills to
Remedy Them.
A FRIEND OF THE VETERANS

1t will require more than 1,O0O,OOO to
pay the pensioners of this government for
the coming fiscal year. This immense sum
will be disbursed under laws passed by
Congress from time to time, the majority
Of which originated in the committee on
invalid pensions. This committee is one of
the most important committees of the
House. one having much work before it
a: this session, and there is present pros
pect of great increase Of the work over
the last Congress.
This committee has jurisdiction over
al! pension matters growing out of the
civil war" said Major Pickler, the chair
man, to a Star reporter, in answer to a
request for a statement Of the committees 8
duties. "It also has jurisdiction over gen
eral laws concerning pension legislation of
that war, changes in the same, addition of
new pensions to the roll changes of rate
allowed, and all matters Of general lcgis-
lation which in any way conc.rn the>sol-
diers or sailors of the Union in the war of
the rebellion. In addition to this the COM
mittee has jurisdiction of all special bills
for allowance of pension to soldiers of that
war, their widows and dependent relatives
when they are deserving, and when they
seem justly entitled to pension, but which
cannot. by reason of the law or some rul-
ing of the department, be allowed by the
pension Office
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Pauline Pry's Plan for the Elevation
Of Mary Ann in Her Sphere.
THE SCIENCE OF TEE KITCHEN
A Housewives Diary Of Work and
Expenses.
OFFICIAL INVESTIGATIONS
n" A R A D o x &c A L
D though 1t may seem

though 1t may seem
70 some. yet per-
fectly plain to me,
I have discovered a
new cook-a cook in
the generic sense of
the word, who has
put off the corrup-
ton of the old hired
girl, and is rising in
our midst clothed in
the Immortality Of
truth as revealed by
science and applied
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Private Pension Bills.

"Also of bills which for some particular
ly deserving reason seek to increase the
rate of the pensioner above that which is
allowed by the general law. All bills ask
ing an increase of pension in excess Of the
allowance of the general law to the widows
of officers of the army and navy of the
late war likewise go to this committee.
This committee has before it bills from
every state in the Union, and every men,
Der of the House has greater or less num-
ton of the committee. There has been a
strong feeling among many of the veterans
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of the country. that the pension Office for
the past two years has been too technical
in the ruling and the administration of
the pension laws. that many pensioners
have had their pensions reduced under a
too narrow construction, and many have
been dropped from the rolls unjustly and
without proper cause, and the feeling is
widespread that a more liberal construc-
ton should be given to the laws in the al
lowance of pensions, and applications for
increase should have more speedy consider
alton and broader treatment
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'"The seventh annual report of the depart
ment of labor, dealing with facts of the
cost of living obtained from 1852 families
in the United States and 703 families in
Europe, as they relate to expenditures Of
incomes grading from $500 to $1,200, con-
firms the rule Of percentages laid down by
Dr. Eagel"
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8. Education. p1b-
lie worship,
etc. ........
q. Legal protec-
tion ........
z. Care Of health
8. Comfort. men,
tai and bodily
recreation -.
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And the Gentleman Got an Advance
View of n Fine Piece of Statunry.
From the New York Tribune
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An imposing heraldic device, shield
on which are quartered ancient arms, sup
ported by eagles and with ademi-eagle ris-
ing from an ornate crest, remind Allan st.
J. Bowie of the prowess of his sires. Cen
turtles ago a clan of the warlike Campbeils
left their native Highland Businesses and
crossed the stormy Firth of Forth on rude
RATS of their own construction. For this
heretofore unparalleled feat the neighbor-
ing clans gave the venturesome spirits the
sooriquet of Buoys, which has been mod
ernized to Bowie and has long been the &C.
cepted name of the whilom Campbells.
Dr. r. Beverly Cole is direct descendant
OF an English progenitor of that name
who was contemporary of Lord Bacon
my Americanism is of so sturdy kind
that 1 have not changed my mind even
with the motto of the English gentry from
which Isprung," said the veteran physi-
clan. "My father adopted, and l have
used for my own inspiration and that of
my family the motto, hut nunquan tentes
dm perfce Never begin what you cannot
perfect. 1t suits my purpose quite
as well as the forgotten one on the
family coat-of-arms could possibly do.
Besides" continued DR.. Cole, "this is
serious business, going back too far in the
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Armistead family of Virginia, one OF
whose members, Colonel George ARMS
tead, was commander of Fort McHenry.
over which fioated the flag that inspired
Francis Scott Key to write ''The Star
spangled Banner" She can also trace her
descent from John Wright Stanley, Judge
of Admiralty OF North Carolina By
interlnarriage her family is also connected
with the Newtons, who, generation after
generation, have dwelt in Norfolk Va,
since 1852.
The surviving relatives of Governor
Henry Huntley Haight have claims to
English as well as German coats of arms
The English line can be traced back as far
as the fourteenth century. There is a fam
lily tradition of previous Teutonic origin,
however, and in the Heralds' College OF
London an authority on German her
aldry has been found that cites the arms
OF the Westphalian family of Won Hoyte,
which was modified to Haight. Simon
Hoyt was the first man who enjoyed the
distinction of being the emigrant-in-chief
of the family. He came to Salem. Mass.
in 1923. The archives of pioneer Charles
town, Mass, contain the record that 1.-THE
family of one Simon Hoyt, with the ap-
proval of his Excellency, Governor Endi.
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Dutch arms appear on the De la Montanya
carriages and the unique designs are re-
peated in their silver, stationery and bed
linen.
The arms of the family of the late George
w. Gibbs consist of an old English design
surmounted by three broken fitting spears,
unsigned with a wreath. an effective con-
ceit, carried out in gold.
The Hubbard arms are quartered, with
three lions PEASANT, and the crest a boar's
head couped, collared and ringed, and in
its mouth spear. The insignia was given
by Burke to the ancestral Hubbards of
Inc same arms are to be found on the
tombstone of one of the family at Copp's
Hill Burial Ground, Boston.
Another ancient English design is that
OF ttfe Wright family represented in this
City by Mrs. Selden S. Wright-a chev-
ron engrailed between two spearheads,
with crest consisting of dragons head.
couped and ornamental
Two scythes and the motto, Stat 1,on,iuis
tntbrG, form the crest of the coat-of-arms
of the Hungerford family, whose scion in
San Francisco is Austin S. Hungerford.
/ Mrs. William Alvord uses the family
arms OF her ancestors, the Mackintoshes
of lnvernesshirc, Scotland, a race of sol
diers, statesmen and scholars
Two coats-of-arms ornament the stained
glass windows in Henry J. Crocker's man
sion on Washington street, a stag's head,
the crest of the armorial bearings of his
English ancestry, being the central figure
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qatrtlly 1At11utS
Of Eau 9ra11etscp Qeoplt.

family of Holland, one of whose earliest
ancestors, Rudolph Waldron, won a
baronetcy on the plains of Palestine i'll
115O, during the Second Crusade.
Nee beneficial in,mcnaor nee a,,juria was
the motto of the family which was allied
to the De la NJ ontanyas through the mar
rage OF John de la Montanya and Anetz
Waldron of Amsterdam. The English
arms come INTO the family archives and
honors through Michael de la Montanya
DR.. Johannes de Ia Montanya, who was
distinguished in the fine arts as well as the
camp, and was known as the poet soldier,
came to New Amsterdam in 1887 on the
ship Seven Stars, with the De Forests, the
Cartwrights, Studebacks and Kypes.
William James de la Montanya, who re-
sides in this City, married Miss Sarah Jane
Horn, whose mother was Lydia NJ. Comp
ton, daughter of an English family resid-
ing at Hampton Court. This family is
also said to be entitled to such a crest as is
granted to the gentry. The French and
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colt, travelled through the woods from
Salem to explore and settle Charlestown,
where they found only one English house,
the palisaded and matched house of a
smith
A few years later Simon Hoyt was one
of the earliest settlers of Dorchester, Mass.
He was one of the first to take the oath of
freemen in Massachusetts, May Is, 1851.
An unbroken line of descent connects this
energetic pioneer with New England men
of local note, whose records for integrity
and enterprise reflected luster upon the
good old name. Governor Haight's grand
father was born in Athens, N. Y, in 1778.
He was equally distinguished as lawyer
and soldier and was made major general
of the New York militia at the close of the
war of 1912.
Baron Won Schroeder's noble lineage is
recorded in all German heraldic works,
and boasts men of distinction in more
than one line of merit.
The late Leland Stanford came from a
line of English gentry. This is also true
of Timothy Hopkins.
The Babcock family has a line of titled
progenitors. The name has been modified
from Badcock, and the family is of Saxon
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origin. the home of the direct ancestors

origin, the home of the direct ancestors
being in Essex County, England.
Among the representatives. of the HUI
guenot families, which early found home
in this country, are the Merrills. Peter
Merrill escaped from France during the
reign of Queen Elizabeth, and served the
Virgin Queen with such heroism in the
field that she rewarded him by bestowing
knighthood upon him. He emigrated to
America and settled at Newberry, Mass,
whence the San Francisco branch of the
family come.
The Wing6eld family, of which the
Bishop is the head, is Of ancient origin.
The village of Wingfield, in Suffolk County,
England, is the ancestral seat. 1t derived
its name from the possession of the castle
at that point before the Norman conquest.
1t is not generally known that De la
Fontaine, whose fables are a classic, was
endowed with the distinction of being
made marquis to compensate him In
part for the pleasure he gave the people OF
his mother country by his literary produc-
tons. The acquisition OF a coat-of-arms
and frequent association with other noble
men made no material change in his gen.
eral habits, and he continued to write
fables and stories just as though he had