The Savannah morning news., 1902-01-26


thing is to be brought within the Ionic
conception. Broad avenues leading
from four streets to the building will
ne lined with short shrubbery, which
will permit a bold relief view of the
pure white structure from all angles
or visions; white fountains and stat
ues will find appropriate hooks under
the nne trees of the park that have
already nearly a century of growth.
The main purpose of the Carnegie Ii
brary is the education and development
of classes that ordinarily are not
reached by the splendid congressional
library and other special institutions
OF the national capital. 1t will be
open to all who are inclined to litera-
ture as place OF reference and study,
as we'll as convenient spot of delight
and mental refreshment.
One morning last week a cookbook
ing young lady tripped into the Hall
of Representatives and, handing her
card to one of the assistant doorkeep-
ers, asked him to take it to Congress-
man Mudd. The messenger did as d.
rected; Mr.. Mudd glanced at the card
only long enough to notice the prefix,
MISS, without reading the name, and
supposing, of course, that it was an
other needy applicant for govern
position, said curtly: go and tell the
young woman that have not single
vacant place at my disposal"
The doorkeeper returned to the
waiting lady and informed her of what
Mr.. Mudd had said. There must be
be some mistake said she. GO back
and tell him that l want to see him
personally" Again the doorkeeper re-
luctantly performed his mission, ex-
pecting just what he got from the gen.
tleman whose name is Mudd, a surly
Tell her l am not in the House, and
don't bother me again." BY this time
the visitor was thoroughly angry, and
with flash in her eye that was not
to be disregarded, said to the aston
ished messenger: you tell my father
that his daughter desires to see him"
Upon receiving this news, Mr. Mudd
hastily secured his hat and took his
indignant daughter down to the House
restaurant where he gave her a IS
luncheon and asked lher to forget all
about it,
Senator Mason, has just introduced
bill to grant Miss Clara Barton a
pension, of five thousand dollars a year
for the remainder of her life. There
is no doubt that the measure will
pass-when both Houses of Congress
are full of ex-soldiers who gratefully
remember the services of the Angel
of the Battlefield" both in the Civil
and Spanish wars. Tardy justice is
better than none at all. Miss Barton
has devoted her whole life to the Red
Cross cause: to her it has taken the
place of parents and husband and
children and homeland she is now in
fba evening fnf icI1 Of hnv% off
when young an orphan with an ample
fortune, she has devoted her money as
well as her time and talents freely to
her chosen work, with no recompense
whatever. except in the love of her
countrymen. Though generosity and
hospitality personified, she has always
lived the abstemious life of hermit
or of the true soldier that she is. Her
personal wants are few and simple,
but she is frequently obliged to deny
herself certain much-desired things
(such, for example, as a permanent
secretary, to assist in answering the
thousands of letters she annually re-
ceives); because the private means
which would have afforded her every
luxury, have gone for the public good.
The genial and rotund Senator from
calls it "the Washington face" in
contradistinction to the bicycle face,
the gum-chewing face, etc. Says Mr..
Mason: You know there are more
miles of asphalt here than in any other
city of it's size in the world. In the
summer this asphalt reflects the heat
of the sun with appalling energy, and
the continual glare causes all residents
of the Capital to squint their eyes so
constantly that in a short time it
changes their entire physiognomy So
it has come to pass that the average
Washingtonian has an expression en-
tirely unlike that of the inhabitants of
any other town on the globe. You
can tell the Washington face any
where. at a glance-if you are famil-
lar with it. Talking about it the other
day in Chicago, / bet a friend that I
could pick out every man from WASH
ington in a crowd of thirty persons in
a certain hotel lobby. I selected six
and every one admitted that he was a
Washingtonian."
Representative Gordon of Ohio is
now known among his colleagues as
the Junk man. and "Old Curiosity
Shop" When the new furniture was
installed in the House, Mr.. Gordon
purchased much of the stuff that was
removed. He owns the sofa upon
which Samuel J. Randall was wont to
recline, Garfeld's chair in the lower
House, the desk that Mckinley left
when his contested election was de-
cided against him, and equally strik-
ing mementoes of Benjamin F. But
Ter, Sunset Cox, Proctor, Knott, Butter
worth, Conger; and many others whose
once familiar faces have disappeared
into the Land of Shadows.
Representative Green of Pennsyl-
vania is the proud possessor of ring
which is the envy of every member of
the House. The Pennsylvania states
man bought it from a Chinaman, at
Singapore, while in his recent tour of
the Orient. 1t is a plain band of gold,
with a catseye setting. The stone Is
most peculiar. At first at certain an
giles, a perfect catseye appears in it
an eye full of fire, with pupil dilated.
OF course it is a charmed circlet, but
so far from being potent for evil, it is
claimed that the constant wearer of it
will have uninterrupted good luck and
never be i'll. The ring was once the
proprty of Tu Foo Chow. direct de-
scendant of the most ancient house in
China; and its former owners believe
that the present poverty and misfor
tune i'm which the house of Foo Chow
is plunged is due to their folly in part
ing with the sacred amulet. Mr.. Green
wants to test the marvellous powers Of
his ring and so he will never take 1t
off his finger, even to let his friends
examine It. We are a bit superstitious
oh, no--but every day good things
are happening to Mr.. Green which
,,oight he attributed to his Chinese