The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-07-13

DIR. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets cure dir
illness and sick headache.
Tawney, Sunset" Cox and Garfield,
to the eminent statesmen of to-day.
Freshmen Senators need a guide in
their first visit to this library; but it's
inaccesibility makes it all the better
as a place in which to read and write.
Its great, dingy windows look out
over the west lawn, and the view ex-
tends down the Mall across to the Vir-
ginia hills, with Arlington and the
Washington monument and historic
Pennsylvania avenue as special tar
gets of the eye. The quaintness and
old-timey look of the rooms is their
chief attraction. One of the windows
is round-the exact shape and about
the size of a carriage wheel. 1t swings
on a pivot, and the semi-circular view
of the vista through the foliage, as
seen from this window, is picturesque
in the extreme. The accumulations of
the library have filled UP one room af-
ter another, until they have spread to
the spaces under the arched roof of
that part of the building which used
to be known as 1.-The North Wing
long ago, before the Senate and House
wings were added and the great dome
erected. Until recently the library
shelves have contained comparatively
little beyond the records of Congress,
including Senate and House reports
and all papers published as Senate and
House documents. These accumulated
so fast, and in such hap-haZzard fash
ion, that they spread all over the up
stairs part of this portion of the cap
ital, and were not only badly arranged,
but incompletely indexed-so that
searching for a given subject was like
looking for the typical needle in a
haymow. Until within the last five
years, the active man in charge of the
place was colored messenger, who
had been there so long that he prac-
tically carried the library around in
his head and could put his finger on
almost any book or document at call.
Later, several competent clerks were
set to do the work which one solitary
messenger had attempted; and it took
them four years to arrange, systema-
tie, index and complete the records
and make the Senate library what it is
ncw-one of the most valuable institu-
tons in Washington. To the present
Secretary of the Senate, ex-Represent-
alive Charles G.. Bennett, is due the
credit of having made the musty old
library a model of it's kind. The whole
place was cleaned out and arranged,
the latest improved steel shelving con-
structed, every set of books and docu-
ments completed from A to 2, and full
and reliable catalogues and indexes
made. Book binders from the govern
ment printing office were set to work
to repair every damaged volume: and
in addition to all this, Mr.. Bennett in
creased the scope of the library by
adding large number of volumes on
general subjects, such as classic liter
azure, the worlds orations, and other
works of that kind, Of interest and
value to the senators. New floors were
laid, the ceilings and walls redecorat-
ed; the famous old marble mantels
that were put in when the Capitol was
first erected, cleaned and polished, and
the immense gilt mirrors restored on
the original antique lines. The ubiqui-
tous guides, who know all the out-of-
the-way hooks and corners of the col
ossal building, may perhaps tell visi-
tors about the half-forgotten, ha;f-un-
known Senate library; but they will
not be likely to take them there, be-
cause of the tedious trip up the time
worn, windingstairs. There is conso-
lation for this in the fact that one of
the greatest charms of the historic
nook is it's seclusion.
Last week ex-Queen Liiiioukaiani
left Washington with her small suite
for San Francisco, from which place
they will sail for Honolulu The for
mer Queen has a house here, in an
questionable quarter, where she lived
very quietly all last winter, mingling
not all in society. She will pass
the summer in her native land re-
turning to her Washington home in
October. Though ignored by capital
society, Lilioukalani maintains all her
former state in private, and is always
addressed by her dependents as Your
Majesty"
The announcement of Miss Mary
BARRIERS engagement to Mai. Ralph
Hartzel is received with pleasure by
her many friends in Washington. Miss
Barber was the favorite niece of her
uncle, the late President Mckinley, and
the constant companion of her aunt.
Mrs. Mckinley, during that gentle
lady's residence in the White House.
President Mckinley gave Maj. Hartzel
his commission as paymaster in the
navy, with the rank of major.
Mr.. Loeb, secretary to the President,
accompanied by Mrs. Loeb, left
Washington Saturday for Oyster Bay.
where they have rented a cottage for
the summer Mrs. Loeb came to
Washington a bride just after Presi-
dent Roosevelt's Inauguration. Mrs.
John A Logan. with her daughter. Mrs.
Tucker, and the latter's children, is
passing the summer at her country
place, Hills Farm" in Maryland, near
Avenel. Admiral and Mrs. Dewey are
still at their country place in the SUI
hurbs of Washington, and have made
no definite plans for the summer, ex-
cept a half promise to join Mr.. and
Mrs. John r. Mclean at Newport in
August.
Macon's Team Badly Licked.
Macon, Ca, July 12.-The Eastman
baseball team wiped up the earth with