The Republican journal. [volume] (Belfast, Me.) 1829-current, 1917-02-08

tlyeS " 1Or one week, The rash is COM
pletely gone. 1 am deeply thankful for
the relief and in the future, 1 will not be
without "Fruit-a -tives''.
NORAH WATSON.
SOC. box, for $3.50, trial size, 25c.
At dealers or sent by Fruit-a-tives
Limited, Ogdensburg, New York.
is considered ny many as beautiful. is par
italy concealed by trees, as the greater
part of the grounds lay ito the west.
This building is open to the public every
day. and couple of hours spent going
through is something to be remembered
all ones life.
First, the great Rotunda, opening
from which is the famous National Stat
uary hall, the House and its committee
rooms, the dignifed Supreme Court
room, the Senate chamber and its rooms,
the Senator'S reception room. called the
! Marble room, being entirely constructed
of Italian, Tennessee and Vermont mar
J oles, the Presidents room, which is
mostly conspicuous for its immense
crystal chandeliers, the room of the
| Vice President, who is President of the
| Senate, the richly furnished Public Re.
ception room. | can mention but few
of the beauties of the interior, for fear
of making this article too lengthy, but
the magnificent marble corridors and
stairways, the marble columns, the won
derful frescoing and sculpture, the tes-
salated floors, are worth coming long
distance to see. And looking from the
windows everywhere, one gets long
vistas, stretching over almost the en-
tire city. In studying the Capitol build
ing at different times, | have endeavor-
ed to see nearly every room it contains,
begging to be allowed to sit in the chair
or the dais occupied by our Speaker of
the House, Champ Clark, during sessions
of Congress; in the seat of the President
of the Senate, Vice President Marshall,
and in the high backed chair of the Chief
Justice in the Supreme Court room,
this chair being famed by the eight
chairs of the Associate Justices.
| presume many visitors from Maine
have asked for the same-what we call
privilege, and indeed l felt quite puff
ed up with pride on these occasions,
looking with considerable awe on the
mace in my hand, which so many not
ed personages welded with authority.
One clear, bright day last week l SAL
lied forth with my field glasses to make
the ascent to the dome, an experience l
had been looking forward to for some
time. The entrance to the narrow,
winding staircase is from the basement
floor, and l began briskly counting the
steps as l rose, winding around and
around, one hundred, two hundred-lag-
ging by this time-three hundred, then
clinging to the rail at landing, and
looking fearfully about at the gloomy
network of steel, the huge steel girders
for we are within the walls, the spiral
staircase hanging as it were, in web of
steel framework, and in many places be-
meath us the dusty plates of the dome
here misgivings seized me, common
sense said "enough," but after a short
breathing spell, ambition urged me on.
The last sixty five brought me the real
ization of the steps being equal to the
days in the year, which l might have
learned by asking guide in the Rotun-
da. At the last turn, nearly exhausted
and shaking, the welcome sunshine
greeted US, filtering between the fluted
columns supporting the statute of Free
dom. One .shuddering look over the
high balustrade in front of US, to the
floor of the Rotunda far below. where
the parties of tourists looked like flies
moving to and fro. quickly found my
self sitting fiat on the floor, the world
whirling about me, but after few
moments l was equal to admiring the
beautiful ceiling painting before US,
which is called the Rotunda Canopy,
and great work of art. Turning, we
stepped through onto the outer balcony,
where the panorama of Washington lay
spread out before US, the beauty of the
view fully repaying one for the toilsome
ascent. Looking down the long vistas
of the Mall to the Monument, pointing
skyward 555 feet, my former ambitions
to 60 to it's top rapidly oozed, until re-
membered that the Monument is fitted
with an elevator. Praises be! And the
lame, sore muscles for days afterward
showed that l was not in training as
when mountain climbing in the West.
On the first of December, just prior to
the opening session of Congress, calico
at the House Office building, situated
near the Capitol, and was shown to the