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an intelligent report.
The general description which follows
will give the public an idea of the pro-
posed additions and alterations:
The main building will remain as it is,
forming the central feature as shown in
the cut The view shown in the cut is
taken from the northwest corner of the
Capitol Square, showing the north and
south wing additions, which will be 65x1G0
the rear or east wing is not shown in this
cut. The pure classic style of the old
building is to be carried out on the new
additions The extreme dimensions will be
30S feet north and south, and 202 east
and west. The main east wing will be
65x100. The main central feature will be
the new dome, which will be located over
the present rotunda This dome will be
$50 feet above the main first floor. An
open view can be had from the lower floor
to the dome above. Domes of less height
will surmount the north and south wines
forming an architectural feature oyer the
Senate and House. The basement of the
east wing, 65x100, will be used for boiler,
fuel and heating apparatus. Additional
space is provided for public toilets and for
the storage of old records. Space is also
provided for electric elevator machinery
The basement story of the new north and
south wings will be divided into storage
space to be used by the Governor. Treas
urer, Secretary of State and Auditor The
main first floor corridors will extend
through the new wings IS feet wide.
Four wide, easy tread stairways are pro
vided in addition to the two electric ele-
vators, which will run from the basement
to the gallery floor. They will be located
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lily church, or neighborhood, but there are
those who are constantly destroying these
great blessings. They are tale-bearers and
mischief makers. They delight in creating
and keeping up fuses They tell things;
not just as they are, but add little to
them. They take what is said and make
it mean something entirely different from
what the speaker intended. There are
those who do not know the sweet joy of
living in peace one single day. They al
ways have contentious with neighbors,
or churches, or law suits in court Their
constant thought is in some way to pun
ism those they do not like. Instead of
seeking to make and maintain peace,
they are destroyers of peace. This de-
plorable state of things is not local, but
universal.
What an awful failure life will be that
is spent in destroying good, any of the
ways above named, or in other ways that
might be named.
When God completed the creation of the
world, He pronounced all He had made
very good" But Adam and Eve dis
obeyed God and brought the blight of
sin on all God had made; Achan stoled
golden wedge, and fine Babylonist
garment and brought death, defeat and
shame on the armies of Israel.
Zone sinner destroyeth much good and
he that destroys good shall himself be de-
stroyed, unless he repents and forsakes
his wicked ways
J. A. STRADLEY.
Oxford NJ C.
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other stone for the building was taken,
and by the use of convicts.
We send with this report an elevation
or large size picture OF the Capitol as it
VIII appear with these additions, and dc
tailed floor plans, on a large scale. for
your examination. These have been pre-
pared and furnished by Mr. Milburn. the
architect without any charge therefor.
Should it be your will to make additions
to the building to meet the increased re-
quirements of public business, we do not
believe that a better or more economical
plan can be provided to meet the views
expressed in the resolution under which
we have acted
We have the honor to be, Gentlemen.
Your obedient servants,
CHAS. B. AYCOCK,
WALTER CLARK,
H. E. NORRIS,
A. w GRAHAM,
JOHN c. DREWRY.
DESCRIPTION OF THE BUILDING.
The above cut is a correct representa-
ton of the State Capitol building, as 1t
will appear when remodeled after the
plans and specifications prepared by Ar
chitect Frank P. Milburn.
The last Legislature passed a bill ap-
pointing a commission, composed Of Gov.
ernor Aycock, Chief Justice Clark John c.
Drewry, Judge A. w. Graham and Senator
Norris, to consider plans for additions and
alterations to the Capitol building, and
to report to the next General Assembly.
After comforting with several architects,
Mr.. Frank P. Milburn was selected to pre-
pare plans and estimates of cost which
will better enable the commission to make
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The discussion of General Miles as a
possible candidate for the Presidency has
inspired an attempt to renew the old
charge that he put miracles on the ankles
of jefferson Davis in order to insult and
torture his prisoner, and that the treat
ment undermined the health and shorten
ed the life of Mr.. Davis.
1t is interesting to read the exact facts,
which are all to be found in the written
and printed records.
President Lincoln was assassinated at
Washington on the night of April IA,
1865 five days after the surrender of Lee
at Appomattox. An almost simultaneous
attempt to murder Secretary OF State
Seward was made.
On May 2, just eighteen days after the
death of Lincoln, his successor, Preslden
johnson issued a proclamation beginning
as follows:
Whereas, 1t appears from evidence in
the Bureau of Military Justice that the
atrocious murder of the late President,
Abraham Lincoln, and the attempted as
sassination of the Hon. William II. Sew
ard, were melted, concerted and procured
by and between jefferson Davis, late OF
Richmond, Virginia, and Jacob Thomp-
son, Clement c. Clay, Beverly Tucker
George N. Saunders, William G.. Cleary
and other rebels and traitors against tho
Government of the United States, harbor-
ed in Canada:
Now. therefore, to the end that justice
may be done, l, Andrew Johnson, Presi-
dent OF the United States, do offer and
promise for the arrest of said persons,
or either OF them, within the limits of
the United States so that they can be
brought to trial, the following awards
Z Zone hundred thousand dollars for the
arrest of Jefferson Davis.
Twenty-Five thousand dollars for the
arrest of Clement c.. Clay
Then followed various rewards for the
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arrest of the other persons named IN the
Presidents proclamation
1t must be remembered that Mr.. Davis
did not personally surrender with his
armies or when his capital fell, but, &C
cording to his own written account, at
tempted to escape into Canada He was
captured by soldiers near Irwinville
Georgia, and was sent to Fortress Monroe
as an accomplice of the murderer OF
Lincoln.
OF course, no one would now seriously
listen to such an accusation against Mr.
Davis; but at that time the passions and
prejudices engendered by the great wal
were intensified by the cowardly assassl-
nation of Mr.. Lincoln, and President
Jphnson's official declaration that the
charge against the leader of the Confed
eracy was based on evidence IN the Blu
reau of Military Justice" was decisive IN
its effect on public opinion. Mr.. Davis
was not sent to Fortress Monroe simply
as a political prisoner or prisoner of war
in the ordinary sense, but as person
charged with completely in the assassina-
ton of the President of the United States.
The charge may have been, and as a mat
ter of fact was, grossly untrue, but it was
a charge made publicly by President
johnson.
When Mr.. Davis was in Fortress
Monroe menacles were placed on his
ankles. He knocked down the black
smith who secured his limbs, and it took
four strong men to hold him while the
menacles were attached.
The late Charles A. Dana. then Assist
ant Secretary of War, explained the situa-
ton in letter written eight years ago
to Leslie J. Perry:
New York. Sept. 8, 1895.
Dear Sir:
when the War Department was ad,
vised that Jefferson Davis would be land
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ed at Fortress Monroe, Mr. Stanton ap-
pointed General Miles, then a colonel, to
the command of the fortress, and sent
General Halleck, then Chief of Staff to
the Army and myself to supervise the
landing and see that everything that could
look toward the safety of the prisoner
should be carefully attended to. :.
1.-THE disposition of his guards about
the casemate, and of the sentry who was
kept constantly within it, were under
the orders of General Halleck; while 1,
on my part, executed the instructions 1
had received from the Secretary by di-
recting Colonel Miles to see that the
prisoner was prevented from doing VIC
elnce to himself, or from forcing the guard
within the casemate to do violence to
him, by the application of handouts if he
Colonel Miles) should think the applica-
ton to be prudent. This order was of j.
purely precautionary nature, and was not
founded at all upon any wish to humiliate
the prisoner.
Il am, dear sir, very truly yours,
&C. A. DANA"
General Miles was then twenty-five
years old Here is the order of Mr. Dana,
Assistant Secretary of War, upon which
he acted
Fortress Monroe, May %, 1865.
'Brevet Major General Miles is hereby
authorized and directed to place manacles
and letters upon the hands and feet of
jefferson Davis and Clement c. Clay
whenever he may think it advisable in
order to render their Imprisonment more
secure.
by order of the Secretary of War.
sc. A. DANA.
Assistant Secretary of War"
AS to the statement that his treatment
while in Fortress Monroe FASTENED his
death, it may be said that Mr. Davis
wore manacles for only five days, while
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the wooden doors of his room were be-
ing changed for grated doors, and that
he lived for twenty-four years afterward,
dying at the age of eighty-one.
In 1866 Captain John S. McEwan de-
clared under oath that General Miles said
in his presence to Surgeon Craven IN
Fortress Monroe:
Il want you to take charge of the
health of the state prisoners jefferson
Davis and Clement c. Clay, Jr., being at
that time in prison in the fort. Il do
not wish they should suffer in health on
account of treatment or fare; l would not
for a great deal have either of them die
while at this post; l want you to make
any suggestions or recommendations that
you think will benefit their health. -
James Creelman in New York World.
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God has put good in the world, and the
devil has put evil God is benevolent and
intended all men to be blessed by the
good He placed in the world. The devil
is malevolent, and intends to lnjure all by
evil Men are intelligent, rational, respon-
hible free agents They from choice take
sides with God and right, or with the devil
and wrong. All sane men know right from
wrong. They know that to serve God is
for mans highest good, and that to serve
the devil results in mans eternal ruin.
And yet, with all these facts before them,
a majority of them put themselves on the
side of the devil, and spend their lives in
destroying that which is good. The Bible
declares: lone sinner destroyeth much
good One man can build up. The hu-
man heart is naturally corrupt, and there
fore more readily receives evil teaching
than good.
In the town of --- there lives an
influential, intelligent man OF leisure. He
was a fine talker. He spent his time IN
public places. He was an ATHEIST. He de-
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Much the Same

He-Do you suppose, after we are mar
ried, we'll get tired of each other?
She-Why not? We might.
but how do you know? You've never
been married.
s.No-but I've been engaged"
October Smart Set.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
MINISTER'S GET SMALL
PAY IN WINDY CITY
Salaries Out Of All Proportion to Incomes Of Ply
SicianS and Lawyers in Chicago.

And as compared with both these pro-
LESSONS the Chicago attorney OF the
first class and of promo:ional turn, oc-
casionaily may receive a check for $50 0OC
in a single case.
Speaking for the Methodist Episcopal
Church" said one of the authorities In
that denomination. Il think l may say
we average with almost any other OF
the churches in the city, yet, at the
same time, it must be said that the
Methodist minister is underpaid. Con
sidering the training necessary to his
work and his devotion to it, he has
little coming to him. He has little to
say whether his salary shall be large
or small. the board of stewards in mis-
church attending to that
Only a Few Can Save.
For a few Of the more prominent
preachers in the denomination there are
salaries making possible the saving for
the rainy day OF old age; but with the
thousands at large in the country and
In the smaller cities they have nothing
TO look To.
1T is hard to say why it is so. For
one thing. the preacher has little voice
in determining what salary he shall re-
CelNts naturally ne IeelS hcSttanCE In
this which does not appear 10 the doctor
or the lawyer at all: and, above all
the church in general is dependent upon
the gratuities of the congregations their
giving being regulated to a considerable
extent By the incomes of the men in
business
In the smaller cities the preacher
usually is paid % well as most other
men of his CONGREGATION. save the doc
tors, lawyers and merchants; in the
towns and country he takes what ne car
get. For these small pastorates the
times have changed for the worse since
the circuit rider lost place In Illinois.
Circuits Too Large.
with the abolition of the circuit a
small church decided that It wanted two
services each Sunday Its neighboring
church in the next town. not TO be out
done. asked for two services also. until
circuit that once employed one preach
er to five churches found itself trying
TO pay five preachers for the work.
with the passing OF the circuit rider
the old donation) party also has gone
into practical oblivion. Wherever 1t
still remains in one form or another IL
is at least lacking in the virtue that
once made it such a material help 70
the salary Of the pastor
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Count De Fradel.

Count Maurice De Pradel, French lit
terateur and lecturer, died on Saturday
at the Home for the Aged. In PrevT-
dence, r. ]. He was formerly minister
TO Turkey. from Roumania- he vas the
last OF his race, and shortly before his
death requested that all his papers
including the parchment giving him his
title TO nobility. be burned and his re-
quest was granted.
Count De Pradel died without giving
the place of his birth, but II Is known
that he spoke French with a Rouen &C
cent. He came TO this country about
three years ago. and visited ali the chief
cities, giving lectures on various sub
5ects- Shortly before he went TO Rhode
Island he delivered a critical lecture
on Victor Hugo's poems before a circle
OF Harvard professors.
The count was well known in Woon-
socket. where for a time he was on the
Tribune" He then went to Providence
ana wrote a series Of articles on lie
Jean Baptiste- About three months ago
he applied for assistance at the Home
COX the Aged. and was admitted to the
home.
Little is known Of his history, ex-
cept what he disclosed In a disconnected
way. His wife died young. leaving a
daughter. who died at the age Of nine
teen The count had been seriously III
for three weeks from a complication OF
diseases. but the immediate cause Of
his death was jaundice
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
BLIND BOY IN TRENTON
RECEIVERS HIS SIGHT
Veil of Blindness Is Suddenly Lifted
After Thrill of Pain.

TRENTON. y. J., Dec. S.-Edward
Tremple. Of IS Pennington Avenue
twelve years old, who has been blind
for four months as the result Of an at
tack OF scarlet fever. has suddenly re-
covered his sight. An Oculist from
Philadelphia has been treating the boy.
but little hope had been expressed for
the recovery Of the sight.
After dinner yesterday the blind lad
suddenly cried out, II can see!" and
then told his Parents that he had ex-
perienced a pain in his eyes. after
which the tight was let in. He said
he could distinguish objects. which he
named, and every hour his vision be
come clearer. The boy will be taken tC
Philadelphia today that the oculist may
further study the case.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Oscar A. Stevens.

Funeral services over the remains of
Oscar A. Stevens were held this morn
ing at II o'clock at 1884 Thirty-hrst
Street. the residence OF Van II.
Manning, sOn-in-law Of the deceased.
The services were conducted by the Rev.
Frederick B. Howden, pastor Of St.
Johns Episcopal Church. corner Poto,
mac and o Streets northwest. Inter
inert was made in Oak Hill Cemetery.
The services were attended only by the
Immediate members Of the family OF
the deceased.
Mr.. Stevens was one of the oldest
and best known citizens Of the Wesc
End. having taken up his residence here
about forty years ago. His widow was
Miss Stevens, daughter of Gen. Hes.
ter Stevens. a former member Of tho
House OF Representatives from Nichi-
gan.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
BISHOP JAMES INGLE
MEETS DEATH IN CHINA
Was a Missionary Working
at HankOW.
RELATIVES IN WASHINGTON
Youngest Member of Ameucan Epis-
copal Church to Hold Rank as
Leader-Loss to Denomination.
RELATIVES IN WASHINGTON

Bishop James Addison Ingle, of the
Protestant Episcopal Church, and re-
lated to several prominent District of
Columbia AMI Maryland families, IS
dead at Hankow, China, the field Of his
latest work.
Although only thirty-six years cid,
Bishop Ingle was a widely-lnown
churchman. whose work in the Orient
had gained him high place in the ranks
of missionary bishops Of the Episcopal
Church. He was the youngest bishop
in the American church, and had been
in China for several years.
Bishop Ingle was the brother of Mrs.
Henry Randall Webb of Washington.
His mother was a Miss Addison. through
whom he was related TO Arthur d. Ad-
olson and other members Of that family
living in Washington. HIS father. the
Rev. DR.. Ingle, IS a minister of the
church, being rector of the Episcopal
parish in Frederick. Nd. DR.. Ingle has
lately been in Johns Hopkins Hospital,
Baltimore, undergoing AN operation, and
the news of his sons death has been
kept from him.
Bishop Ingle was last in this country
two years ago, when he visited Fred
erick. Three years ago he attended the
Pan-American Conference o. Bishops in
Washington. when he became known to
the church dignitaries as f1vorably as
10 the large number of Neutrality-suspicious.
who had known him and the members
Of his family previously.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Henry Coleman.

Henry Coleman. president Of the Cole
man Business College. OF Newark. died
IT. mis- home, at % Homestead Park. that
city. lie was born sixty-five years
ago IN Ireland He served throughout
the ~re-Cer part of the civil war as a
musi n in Company G, Ninety-sixth
New \ ork Volunteers. Later he became
connected with the Eastman Business
College, at Poughkeepsie. where he was
superintendent for long period. In
1880 ne went to Newark. He was a
member of Lincoln Post, G. A r.. the
Newark Board Of Trade, Northern
Post, +. and A. M, ard of many other
organizations. He leaves a widow and
three daughters
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Francis B. Peckham.

Francis Barring Feckham. one of the
best-known lawyers in Rhode Island.
died at his home in Newport He was
about sixty-eight years old. He was
graduated from Brown University. at
tending that college at the same time
as did John Hay. Secretary OF State.
and Richard Olney, forr~er Secretary Of
State. He served the city OF Newport
for twenty-five years in the capacity Of
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Capt. william Fowle.

The funeral OF Capt. William Holmes
Fowle was held this morning from his
home, 2f91 Pennsylvania Avenue north
west. The Rev. Mr.. Tucker, r-stor OF
St MichaeEg and-AH angels Episcopal
Church, Ofhciated. Interment was at
Ivy Hnl Cemetery, Alexandria, Va.
The pallbearers were Salmon and
Such. Of the Paymaster Generals Office;
Ashe Woodward. George d. Brooks.
John a. c. Brooks, and Charles S. Tay-
lOr.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
James E. Miller.

James E. Miller died at his residence.
1872 Oregon Avenue. He was a retired
merchant He was stricken with par
alysis a year ago and died from the
ma lady He was a native OF Baltimore,
bun had lived in Washington most Of his
life. lie is survived by a widow and two
daughters. The funeral was held at 2
o'clock this afternoon from tae family
residence.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Jonathan w. Potter.

Jonathan W. Potter, a well-knOwn
sculptor. died yesterday. in his seven
tieth year. at the home of his daughter.
Mrs. c. p. Sherwood. of Port Chester
He was born in Norwich, England
Since the death Of his wife from burns
The Washington times., 1903-12-08

city solicitor. from 1865 until 1890, and.
although asked to accept other Offices
in the gift of the people. declined to do
so His wife died five years ago. They
had no children He was a man OF
great wealth. His brother, Orville Peck
ham, a lawyer of Chicago, and two sis
tiers. both residing in Providence. sur
NiVc hin
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
William B. Williams.

Word has been received here of the
death Of William 3. Williams. formerly
of Washington, at Bellevue Hospital
New York Edr. Williams resided here
until two years ago, when he departed
| for New York. There he engaged in
mechanical engineering with Walter T.
/ Freeman.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08

received at a fire in his house In Jersey
City he had lived with his married
daughters. Four daughters survive him.
They are Mrs. William c. Reed. of
Stamford; Mrs Mason Hargen, Of Jer-
sey City; Mrs. Charles p. Sherwood. OF
Port Chester. and Mrs. Julian Booth
will, of Bridgeport.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Poyntop hTusson.

The funerl Of Poynton Musson. who
died suddenly at his home. 1927 w Street
northwest. will be held from the First
Baptist Church on Thursday morning
The Rev. c. w. Winbigler viii officiate.
Interment will be at Oak Hill Cemetery.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Alice M. L. Lind.

Alice N. I. Lind. daughter Of 2. G.
Lind, OF Nashville, Tenn, died at the
Alexandria Hospital Sunday. Miss
Lind was formerly employed as a school
teacher in Alexandria county.
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
DR.. Horace M. Paine.

DR.. Horace NJ. Paine. who died IN
Atlanta, Ga, was one of the best
known homeopathic physicians in New
York State He was born in Paris,
Oneida county. on November 70. 1927
He was graduated from the University
OF the City of New York in 1919. He
practsed his profession in Clinton and
Albany, in the latter city thirty-one
years, and relinquished active work in
1895. since which time he had lived in
West Newton, Mass. and in Georgia
with his sons He was one of the
founders of the Homeopathic Medical
Society OF the State in 1850 and served
Il later as secretary and president He
leaves a wife. to whom he was welded
fifty-one years ago; three sons, DIR.
Howard s Paine. of Gems Falls: Dr. n
Emmons Paine. Of West Newton, Mass
and DR.. Clarence NJ. EAine. Of Atlanta.
Ga, and one daughter. Miss Emily F
Paine, OF New York. Dr. John NJ
Paine, curator of the Metropolitan
Museum Of Art, is an only brother
The Washington times., 1903-12-08
Hiram Bayliss.

Hiram Bayliss. wei known railroad
man. died at his home. in Alexandria,
Sunday morning He tsd been suffering
with pneumonia for some time