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The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08
Glad ne Escaped.

II came very near being member OF
the Fourth Estate" said Vice Presi-
dent Winburn. of the Central Railroad
of Georgia. who was in Washington last
week, but ! must confess that I am
glad I escaped. have many friends
among newspaper men, some OF my
schoolboy chums being now engaged In
newspaper work in Washington. My
clearest recollection of my newspaper
experience is in connection with my
work on the North Georgia Argus at
Gainesville, and when I recall the mar
row margin of profit on the business. be-
yond grub and raiment, shudder at my
escape, and when / contemplate the
foreman drunk under the press. or the
pistol duels on the streets between I'm
Gle Pete Lawshe and Bin Findley, and
incidents OF like character, l am glad
that | was not gifted in that line of
work
II understand, of course. that notwith-
standing the competition of college boys,
the situation is very different IN Wash
ington. but l am glad that I obtained
such educational advantages as the ty-
biographical work afforded, although l
must confess that newspaper men seem
to have the happy faculty OF making the
best of everything and enjoying life to
its fullest"
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Failed to Get listers.

Representative Broussard, of the Pei
lean State. IS always loath to have his
boxes packed and HE himself home
ward. He is hard worker. looks
faithfully after the interests of his con-
stituents. but at the same time he finds
time 10 spin a good yarn and make
himself agreeable no matter how press
ing his duties. Mr.. Broussard' s parting
story is this:
Anyone who has ever eaten at one
of the French restaurants in New Or
leans will long for the time to come
when he can enjoy another such meal,
for these restaurants are famous for
their splendid cooking. Once upon a
time a fellow from one Of the rural dis
tricts dropped in at one of the first
class places and. dropping down into a
chair at one of the tables called to the
son of Ham who stood near:
Hi, there, stranger, have ye got
any listers
THE Ethiopian was silent and the fell
low yelled out, I say, stranger. have We
got any isters?'
Use no stranger round here, sab,
Indignantly answered the negro. an dis
amt no oyster cellar, but a first class
French restaurant, sab
"The ruralite didn't get his listers -
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Profits in Many Sales

Representative Babeock wanted to get
little actual experience with the police
court and one day since Congress ad-
Journed was the guest of Judge Scott
on the bench The Representative was
not very favorably impressed with the
foul and dirty surroundings OF both the
interior and exterior Of the old hulk
OF building which serves as a court
room, and has declared that he very
much wished a piece Of IImberger
cheese or bottle Of smelling salts.
told Judge Scott" says Mr.. Bah
cock, that 1 didn't see how he could
stand 1t day in and day out. and his
reply was that he once heard OF a mer-
chant who declared that he was selling
his goods at five per cent less than
cost When asked how he could afford
10 do that. he answered that he couldn't
but FOR the fact that he sold so many.
So Judge Scott said he felt that he could
not stand the surroundings but for the
fact that he saw and felt and sIneIt so
much of them"
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aid not know how 1t got its name or
what IL meant until a case was on trial
in one of the courts Of his State, when
witness was being examined TO show
the character of fence which incIosed
a farm the owner Of which was claim
ing damages for neighbours cattle break
ing in and destroying his growing crop.
. That fence is a Buncombe fence.
said the witness.
"A Buncombe fence? What is a Bun
combe fence. Mr.. Holmes?' asked the
judge.
-Lawd. sis.' answered the witness.
looking in establishment at his honor.
don't you know what d Buncombe fence
Tsp
I'm sorry 10 say that do not, said
the judge, a broad smile covering his
face.
Well. sir. a BuncOmbe fence is. horse
high and bull strong, an will stand for
a hundred years II a drove of cattle
don't charge agin it,"
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DOCTORS DO TASTE DRUGS.

do doctors know how their own medi-
cine tastes?' was a question put to
group of physicians.
ITO be sure" said one; but We have
hard work to convince our patients that
we do. IF you only knew how this
bsastly stun tastes, doctor. you wouldn't
ask me to take it'-that is what they
say And they are heaTd-headed peo-
ple. too, who say that-peOple who are by
no means raving in delirium- It's hard
ever to convince them that a doctor
has a tasting acquaintance with his
medicine.
How did you find out about it?' IS
one OF their trump questions. You have
never been laid up with all the diseases
IN the dictionary. How did you learn
what the different remedies taste lize?'
II never occurs to the average patient
that tasting drugs is a part OF the med
zeal students education, and that 10
man is qualified TO practice until he
has learned the flavor OF the medicines
he expects to prescribe
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08
Completed, 1t Will Have Cost More Than
$2O,OOO,OOO-Fo It's First Plans the
Architect Was Given $500 and
a Building Lot.
a Building Lot.
TQT.QTuTUH
The Capitol In 1870.

of the nineteenth century had arrived.
II became apparent that the buiIdiz 3
was not big enough. Thomas L. Wal
Ter, whose designs had been accepted,
was employed to build two greater
wings for House and Senate. ard on the
4th day of July. 1851. President Fill
more inaIgurated the project. an ora
ton Appropriate to the occasion being
delivered by Daniel Webster
In 1855 the old dome, which was too
"sGuatty'' to be beautiful. was removed.
and work on the new one was begun.
The wings (Which cost 5000 900 were
finished in 1851, and two years later the
statue of Freedom. % feet high and Is
feet above the ground, was placed on
the top of the dome
The statue was bronze, and cost $500.
The new dome. composed Of iron cast
ings bolted together, weighed 2,576 tons,
and cost $1,250,OOo.
Capitol Again Completed.
Thus was the Capitol again completed
at a total cost Of s1s. OOO. 600. reckoning
from the beginning. A superb marble
terrace, on the west front. was subse-
quently added, but this involved an ex-
penditure of only an additional 81. go. 900.
There was nothing more that remain
cd to be done. apparently. in the way Of
improvements. except to build out the
middle-that is TO say. the old-portion
to match the newer wings. and TO face
it with white marble.
This is now TO be accomplished. It
seems. on the east front. and-though
people say that the structure VIII then
be perfect-it is a safe guess that, be-
fore many more years have gone by, a
similar extension will be made on the
west front. Originally Of sandstone tho
building is destined to be. in its aspect.
wholly Of white marble.
AS for its completion. one may safe
ly say that IL will never arrive al that
condition 1t IS destined. apparently,
to remain forever unfinished, growing
with the growth Of the greatest repub-
lie that has developed in the history OF
mankind.
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United States. 1t has grown with the
growth OF the nation. More than once
1t has been considered as finished, but
events have subsequently, demanded al
terations and improvements.
When the extension now planned has
been made the edifice, including the
works Of art which it contains. will
have cost nearly $4,000, O00-more money
than Congress had ever imagined, in a
lump sum. when. in the early nineties
OF the century before last, it offered
$500 and building lot for the best de-
sign for house for the National I,egis-
lature.
The whole affair was put then into the
hands OF George Washington, who chose
the plan of William Thornton. The
cornerstone was laid September s, 1893.
with a speech by the Father OF His
Country, military procession, and a
barbecue.
The Government in It's Home.
In the year 800 the Federal Govern
ment came to Washington-the Presi-
dent, his Cabinet. and all the executive
departments IN a bunch. The old Senate
wing was by that time finished, the
foundations or the Rotunda were laid
and the basement OF the House wing
was in process Of construction
On November II both Senate and
House were called together in the new
buiiding-the former body by Vice Presi-
dent Thomas Jefferson, in the original
Senate chamber, the floor Of which was
that Of the present basement beneath
what IS now the room OF the United
States Supreme Court.
House Accommodations Poor.
Meanwhile the House, for lack Of bet
ter quarters, met in a long apartment
over the Senate committee rooms. which
now is cut up into Offices for the su-
preme Court The arrangement, quite
naturally. gave great dissatisfaction to
the Representatives.
For its accommodation a temporary
structure Of brick. in the shape Of an
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08
Going Home to Live.

What am ! going to 10 during re-
cess?' repeated Representative Adamson
Of Georgia. Il am going to work, fish,
hunt, eat, and rest In other words. I
am going to live. / am going TO get
things in ship-shape at home, and then
I'm going to spruce up and get ready
for the picnics and barbecues, and have
royal good time with the best people
on Gods earth
People who live in cities may think
they live and have a good time, but
they don't know anything about real
pleasure and happiness. One week with
the folks at home is worth a whole year
monkeying around Washington or any
other city"
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Cost Him Fifty Dollars.

. The appointment Of Judge Stafford
of Vermont, to the district bench 10
succeed Judge Pritchard. who has been
named as circuit judge. calls forth this
story from Representative Foster, OF
that State:
when Chief Justice Chase, a man of
great abilities and marked characteris-
tics, was presiding in one of the county
courts Of Vermont, an appeal case from
one OF the Justices courts came up be-
fore him. so small and contemplate in
it's origin that he ordered Il stricken
from the Jacket. The case was where a
turkey had trespassed upon the garden
Of a neighbor and got shot for his
depredations. The owner brought suit
10 recover damages. and failing before
the justice. had appealed the case.
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have done. In the midst Of the argu-
ments the offending brother asked DR..
Cameron If he had not himself IN Shell
by county united in marriage a couple
within the prohibited degrees he was
now condemning.
% That, my brother, was a far diff
ferent case answered the doctor.
- How different-the same relation
ship existed?' continued Rev. Hubert.
Different, sir, >" replied DR., Cameron,
because she was an old gal, and I
had the right to believe that il was
her last chance. ana I didn't want her
to miss it -
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"E Pluribus Unum."

e Pluribus Unum.' who has figured
in newspaper articles in almost every
publication in the United States, and
especially about election times. died
many years ago in North Carolina, a"
says a Representative from the Tar
Heel State. That a little boy bearing
the name OF e Pluribus Unum' actual
~ lived and died in North Carolina Is
an absolute fact. and there is a tomb
stone in a country churchyard in Macon
county which was erected in his mem
DRY. Z Pluribus Unum was the son of
John 7. ana Catherine Oliver. and died
on the Goth of December. 1860. These
lines tell the story:
Pluribus Unum IS an angel now
Farewell, thou charming little son,
We never shall hear thy voice again;
Farewell little Pluribus Unum,
May We together in heaven rich blessings share
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Her Last Chance.

There are ministers who balk AT
performing the marriage ceremony for
runaway couples and those who are re-
lated" says Senator Blackburn of Ken
lucky, and I have heard this good
story about the Rev. Albert Cameron.
who was an eloquent Presbyterian min
lister OF Shelby county. Ky. 1t was a
session OF the synod. and another min
lister named Hubert was being tried for
having married the sister Of his deceas-
ed wife. DR. Cameron was vigorous in
his prosecution Of the minister, saying
that he had not acted as he should
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completed, was first occupied IN October.
1907. At the outbreak of the war OF 1872
II was still connected with the Senate
wing by the shed above described
When the British troops captured
Washington in 1914. they pulled TO pieces
a portion of the covered way, in order
TO obtain fuel for the burning of the
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Judge Chase was angry. and when he
ordered the case from the docket said:
The lawyer who consented 20 APP
peal this case ought to be thrown from
the window OF the court room. Why
didn't he have the case referred TO some
Of the honest neighbOrs for settlement p
% Because. your honor retorted the
attorney. getting hot under the collar,
it was our intention not TO let honest
people have anything 10 do with it
True this was a neat retort but it
cost the lawyer just an even soc FOR con-
tempt of court"
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coffee making facilities at the Govern
ment Printing Office has brought 10 me
a letter from one of my constituents
employed there, and she says: It's an
outrage, and this streak OF reform is
something l have never heard of dur
ing my twenty-three years service in
this Office. Can't you get TO work and
have an addition made 10 the building
so that we can have a lunch room. for
we will simply ruin our health If we are
forced to do without our tear
''HOw's that? But. my. my; just such
complaints reach US from all depart
ments and all classes Of Government en-
pioyes"
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STOKES TOLD OF AND BY MEMBERS OF TIKI SENATE AND HOUSE

ITS bad enough 20 tefeated for
reelection" said RepAative Tate.
Of Georgia TO a partyfrlends who
had called 70 bid him by. but 1t
is spreading it on too q 10 have the
press say that my bro h-law beat
me 20 the fodder rack Bell is not
my wife's brother arg he is not
any nearer kin than a Il cousin by
marriage, for have II out that
If il had been questloe tinship IN
controlling the votes. ha4 Bell been
my brother-in-law. l Woua have re
.ceived enough votes toe let my
friends knox that I wathe race
] would have been left a post, and
! was left bad enough was. No.
gentlemen, It was not e of too
much brother-in-laW.
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into the basket One who has been
rather prominent in the years agone IN
Politics in the South has made frequent
small borrows of the Register. and the
otner day the official asked him:
How is IL, Mr. -, that you always
come 20 me in your straits and all
the time you have opposed me in every
fight 1 have made? I appear to be a
first-class man when you want money"
The truth is. Captain Lyons re-
piled the erstwhile influential fellow,
politically 1 am opposed TO you. but
financially I am your friend
His nerve secured the five-spot, and
the Register says that henceforth he
will not attempt TO show his callers the
errors of their inconsistent friendship.
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More Tan Once Called Finished, Increas-
ing I mand for Room, Has Compelled
Its Enlargement, and Now Again
Extension IS Proposed.

The Capitol which somebody has
Said it is not afeation, but a growth
IS to be finished last.
A veritable lchwork, put together
tn piecemeal falon, It is today one OF
Ethe most beauti4 buildings in the world
"a miracle oflrchitecture. But it
/ needed the nowlntemplated extension
OF the east fronp render it perfect.
Modem Exhibit.
A model Of extended building
eighteen feet in hgth, and made at a
cost OF 5000, isn exhibition in the
Rotunda OF the Qtol 1t gives, in con
crete shape. an ID Of the great marble
portico which, maing the noble wings,
IS to mask the esent white-painted
sandstone face off middle part Of the
edifice on the ca.
On either side ole portico are to be
thrown out 'aproi greatly increasing
the available intF space.
As shown by thiodel a person en-
tering the completCapitol by the new
entrance will pass4 er ascending a su-
perb flight of steTthrough a pillared
pylon into a maacent Yestibule los
feet long, which on into the Rotunda.
Size Of tCapitol.
The Capitol todaontains 40 rooms !;
with the contempt addition it viii
have 49e rooms-tf-three more for
the Senate and an d number for the
House OF RepreseItves. Two years
will be required 70 anplish the altera-
lions, and the expeiinvolved viii be
Fabou , s., 800, 900.
Every care will bten to avoid in
terfering unnecessarwith the integ-
lrity OF the historic Sture. The plan
of the model is actg one drawn in
the middle of the century by
Architect Thomas Qalter. who de-
signed the House dSenate wings.
The area covered Dyl extension will
be IS, 900 square feet.
Most Importahilding.
Historically speaAIrthe CapitoI is
the most important ding in the
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elhpse. 20 by 80 feet. was erected before
the next winter within the rising walls
Of the south wing. It was connected
with the Senate wing by a covered way
las feet IN length, built Of pine boards.
On account OF its lack Of ventilation. II
came TO be known as the owen"
The hall Of the House. when finally
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Capitol To the material thus secured
they added many valuable books from
the Library Of Congress. Having ig-
nited these combustibles and shot q few
war rockets through the roof. they left
the building TO burn.
Fortunately. pouring rain put out
the fire before 1t completed the work CT
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08
Runcombe Fence"

Judge Pritchard has given definition
Of "Buncombe fence"-a fence which
Is well known in North Carolina, being
made of ten-foot rails and 'staked and
ridered." as the natives say. The fence
is Of substantial build. difficult TO knock
or blow dow md 1t takes a nigh jump
ing horse TO clear q.
Judge Pritchard says that he had Of
ten heard OF a Buncombe fence. but
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1904-05-08
Want a Tea Room.

When old man Spinner introduced fe-
male clerks into the Treasury Depart
ment," says a Representative from New
York. they brought with them their
teapots, cups. saucers, and looking
glasses, and you can just put it down
that so long as. the gentler sex is en-
ployed by the Government, just so long
will Uncle Sam have to put up with
their little whims. Women will have
tea, and they will make frequent in
spections of themselves in mirrors.
The shutting down OF the tea and
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System in Drinking.

1t is told Of a certain bibulous Senator
that somebody ventured to ask him II
he adopted any system in the regula-
ton of his drinking. Decidedly So"
he replied. when I get up in the
morning 1 put down a layer OF whisky.
ana TO that 1 add a layer of water.
Then 1 superpose a layer OF breakfast"
But how about the rest OF the dayT"
he was asked. Just a series of layers
of whisky. Two or three more meals
.nterspersed. but no water-not bit.
L get along very we'll"
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frequent thing that white men would
give a practical demonstration IN social
equality by taking hand in a game
with him. Once there was big game
n progress. and the stakes were In the
hundreds, when a fellow whom we will
call Smith, foreigner, of course. called
Nigger Brown When each had bet his
pile Niger Brown turned up four aces
on the table, but these were met with
I'VE aces by Smith. Brown looked around
at the card-handlers. and addressing
Smith. said
Mr.. Smith, dat money am yourn.
sab Nine aces in twenty-card poker.
sab! Take de money, sab, fer dat
would beat de oldest man in de world 9"
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~Angeln to Democrats

LEICESTER of the Treasury Lyons, al
though negro and a Republican. fire.
quently, almost daily, goes out of his
way TO do a kindness for some South
err Democrat IN Washington. The Reg
lister has saved the scalps OF a number
Of his political opponents from falling
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destruction, though the House wing was
Quilted. and much. other damage was
done.
Capitol Rebuilt.
In the following year, President Mad
ison was authorized by Congress to Dor
row $500, 900. TO rebuild the Capitol. and
Benjamin II. Latrobe was appointed to
undertake it's restoration. The Rotunda,
dome. and both wings were finished IN
1877. at a total cost of g. 450. 600 eof which
500 900 was for rebuilding. and thus
the ediflce was at length completed in
accordance with the original plans.
The floor of the Senate chamber was
elevated to the main floor (the Supreme
Court moving into the basement De-
neath). and the hall of the House (now
Statuary HalD assumed a form which
was meant to resemble that OF an an
cient Greek theater.
It's acoustic properties were marvel
ous-rather too much so, in fact, mas
much as a whisper between party con-
federates was liable Of accident served
TO be distinctly audible TO an adversary
100 feet or more away. These echoes
are among the curiosities of the Capt.
tol. exhibited by guides TO strangers at
the present time.
The Washington Crypt.
The Rotunda- connecting the north ard
south wings was surmounted by a low
dome of brick. stone, and wood.
sheathed with copper. Beneath The
center of the Rotunda was built a SUBJ
terranean chamber. called the Crypt. in
which It was understood that the re-
mains of Washington were to lie, ia a
stone sarcophagus. exposed to the rev.
eTent view of the multitude.
His widow was not averse to the
plan, but his heirs objected TO the re-
ruoval Of the coffin from Mount Yer
non, and so the project was abandoned
Nevertheless, a watcher, called the
keeper of the Crypt, was employed by
Congress UP to the civil war, and a
Eight kept there was not extinguished.
it is said. for fifty years.
Building Inadequate.
Il had been understood that the Capt.
tol was finished, but, when the middle
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Seven witnes,

Representative Smith ofwylvania
did not tear himself avian Wash
ington as soon as Speakeanon let
the gavel fall. but rema 10 look
after a few matters befor sdepart-
ments. Still here. Mr.. Sa SCI? ?"
said a newspaper man to ennsyl-
vanian.
Yes, still here. \ few o,resent.
AND this reminds me Of an nation
of & witness in one OF the of my
State. The witness was as1 state
how many others were presea fight
In which one Of the scrapIad his
lower jaw knocked IN.
Well" said the witnessen OF
US saw the fight
Name them con, ? led tiver.
There was me, T. 2eyndonzo
Ellis, Jack Rodgers I I'M II two
dogs. We all seed q light, uerv-
one Of US will sWet 4 at Jimts hit
the hrss1BeSSr Their
zine Aces IN Pack
Uncle Joe loves nis gra aren
and a stin game Of poker, a s,Ild
he receive the nomination fonI
place on the ticket would ave
an attack Of GO set,'" sa of
- - ers. "MaaFs
IS had aoiis
poker ND l,VSSly player Of III
can persuasion. He was K As
Niger Brown. and It was mn
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Building Inadequat

II had been understood that the Capt.
toll was finished, but, when the middle
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lost Imperial hiding.

Historically spea4l1he Capitol is
The most important ding in the