Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1907-04-12
BITS OF WASHINGTON LIFE.
Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketcheil
on the spot.

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Minor Scenes and Incidents Sketcheu
on the spot.
The world is dark and dreary at Peoria
and other points where makers and mixers
of whisky blends have their habitat. After
much consideration and coRitRton over
certain features of the national pure food
law the last word has been spoken by the
authorities at Washington and II is strong
enough to blow the corks out of the bottles
Whisky must be the real thing, the
original SimonpuGe stun obtained by age
ing the product of the still worm for four
years IN e charred barrel" The modern
mixture or blend obtained by combination
of neutral and cologne spirits with color
ing and havOring ingredients, is not whisky
but an imitation and must be so labeled
This decision will be OF far-reachinR i'm
portance to the whisky business 1t will
mean much TO the dlstllers in Illinois,
where. conferred at Peoria are the largest
manufacturers in the United States Of
what has been known to the trade as
blended whisky. An idea OF the extent of
the industry can be gathered from the
statement that the Peoria district alone
pays into the federal treasury each year.
as internal revenue taxes. more money
than any other internal revenue district
and more than most states.
Statuary hall in the national capitol has
been in process Of restoration for some
time and the work will be completed by
May l. so that the visitors who will take
in Washington on their way to or from the
jamestown exposition can see this famous
room in almost its original beauty. Prsvi-
GUS to 1857, when the present chamber OF
the House OF Representatives was occupied,
Statuary hall, II IL now known, was
the meeting place of that body, and was
generally conceded to be the most beauti-
full legislative hall in the world, 1t is
purely Grecian in designs and It's splendid
columns of variegated Brecca marble
quarried on the banks OF the Potomac 100
miles above Washington and polished by
hand by slave labor, make It vivid con-
trast to the present more. commonplace
chambers Of the two houses, The work OF
restoration consists largely in scraping of
every vestige of the paint which was put
upon the sandstone walls of the hall II
the inartistic attempt to make them look
like Italian marble. The rose-tlnted sand
stone itself is infinitely preferable In
addition to this two OF the old stairways
which run from Statuary hall to what were
the mems gallery and the womens gal
leTY SO long as tut nan was ASNb ~ 'AiN
House Of Representatives, have been dis
covered and reopened, and the mems gal
Iery will be restored to its original cOndi-
ton.
Ofcial Washington is agog because
Justice oliver Wendell Holmes does not
keep a carriage. The supreme judge makes
his way to business by grace Of the
Metropolitan Traction company. Some
times, perhaps, he hangs on a strap. And
Mrs. Justice Holmes when she goes TO
make her social calls drives in hired
hanson cab. Capital society rather fancles
that a man of that name and position,
man so closely related TO the author OF
1.-THE Wonderful One-Horse Shay" should
keep some sort OF vehicle for sentiments
sake.
The law division Of the Agricultural de-
paTtment is working overtime these days
preparing cases against railroads for viola
tions Of the twenty-eight hour law in
transporting live stock. So far there have
been about four hundred cases sent to the
Department OF Justice and the estimate CT
twenty additional cases a day Is by no
means an over-statement, the number fire.
auently reaching twenty-five The Depart
ment Of Agriculture has been careful to
select only such cases as are practically
certain of a conviction and the Department
Of Justice has been cautioned not to &C
cept any compromise for less than the
maximum fine This is $500 and convictions
at $500 a throw mount up rapidly when
they are kept up day after day.
The most widely published and best
known photograph in existence is said to
be that OF President Roosevelt taking
fence on his favorite hunter THIS has
been printed in almost every paper and
magazine iu the world which uses half
tones, and the sales from 1t have already
amounted to more than $4,000, making II
the most profitable photograph ever taken.
Nearly 5000 copies have been signed by
the president to he used special Gifts
and the demand for II Wherever II has been
placed on sale has been steady during the
three and a half years since IL was made
It was made with a shutter that opened