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Caiik A CO :'.il -ti ai.uit.v.l liv 111 II- H. THOMAS, uruizsist. nils i ArEr rnavin. rotinrl on file at GX i. - i.,. T"K 1'-0'" !' Co s .Bpapet O'l.'-.o Sl.ni.v. n n iiuide for e ?tA where atlvortlslu. IN NEW VUKU TOlLVCCOCULTUItE THE PLANT BED AND HOW TO MAKE IT. Hxnerience of a Practical Farmer on the Subject How to Prepare the Plant lied Care and Attention Nec essary to Success Method by Which an Early and Abundant Supply May be Grown. v To the beginners in tobacco culture et it be remembered that it is necessary to have good land, well prepared, as paying cros grow on no other. Success can not follow if the soil is unsuitable, and the preparation, care and cultivation are not all they should be. This rule while applying to all crops is more especially true tobacco. of Next, procure good seed of the are most approved variety, for there many. J'nueavor to nave your plants come in good time, and sow tor a bountiful supply. The man who de pends on his neighbor for plants, so far as a crop is concerned, is between the devil and deep water. In locating the beds rather avoid porous or rocky soil, as it is readily affected by drouih. Select low lying lands, deep soil, full of plant food and moisture. Keep away from the timber, as you will need only the shadow of the canvas with plenty of sunshine. Such a location will sometimes produce plants ten days earlier than when swept by the west winds. A frequent mistake is made in using too much seed. It is better to err in using too little. In the latter case the plants will be large, healthy, low and stocky, and will withstand a very hot sun, and may be set with verv little moisture in the soil. When plants are rowded in the bed the stems are small, white and crisp. They have a weakness of constitution and hundreds of them perish after being transplanted, and even if they survive this shock, their vitality is so leeble that several weeks must elapse before they show a healthy growth. In the meantime they are preyed upon by cut-worms, grass hoppers, and other enemies, so that a good stand is almost impossible to be 1 - . 1 1 T secured wnn sucn plants, in conse quence the tobacco field is of uneven growth, which entails much unneces sary work upon the larmer, and seri ously impairs the value of his product. Whenever or however sown, the bed must at once be tramped over solidly with the teet, or whipped over with a brush, or rolled, in order to settle the seed well into the soil. The surface is then covered with brush or canvas I tm covering is a necessary protection against harsh changes of temperature, cold and drying winds, or such atmos pheric conditions as dissipate the moisture from the soil. When the seed first germinates, or the plant comes up, it is susceptible to cold and drying winds, and is easily destroyed. The canvas covering is in every re spect to be preferred. No simple de vice has ever effected much for the tobacco grower at such a small cost It is an absolute protection against the ravages of the flea-beetle ; it hastens the growth of the plants by keeping the bed moist and warm. The heat absorbed by the soil from the sun rays during ttie day is in the open air radiated and lost at night ; but under this covering is reflected back by the canvas to the soil again, and thus highly favorable uniformity of tempera ture is preserved. It protects the bed horn drifted leaves and trash, and given area will furnish at least a third more plants, its construction is very simple. A frame or box is mad around the bed, of plank or scantling from lour to ten inches high. A few wires may be stretched across the irame to support tne canvas, wnicn is drawn tightly over the frame and closely tacked on the edges. In place of wire a small quantity of light brush thrown over the bed will help to sustain the weight of the cloth. Instead of making the frame the full size of the bed, a more convenient plan would be to construct a number of smaller frames, eight or ten feel square, over which the cloth may be site .bed and neatly lastened, a suffic ient number of these Irames being pro vided to cover the bed. Such frames well braced with their covering could be removed when no longer needed and stored for future use. If the cloth is treated with a single coatine of white lead and oil, it will last for sev eral years. Sf.ll another method may be more economical. The frames may be made and properly braced with diagonal pieces inserted at the corners, flash with the upper edges of the plank. The cloth or canvas should be cut some three inches longer and wider than the frame and hemmed along the edges. Eyelet holes worked along the edges will serve to receive strings with which to fasten the canvas to hooks, pegs or nails driven in the outer faces of the frame four inches below the up 1 er edge. Constructed in this manner the canvas may be rolled up to air and harden the plants. Such cover ings for bed amount to a positive in surance of the plants at a very small expense. When the plants are nearly large enough to le transplanted, they should be aired and exposed to the sun daily, by lifting the frame or rolling u the canvas. This will harden the plants and give strength of constitution to withstand transplanting to the fields. It not unfrequently happens that a dry season supervenes after the first drawing of plants from the bed, and those that remain cease to grow, turn yellow and often dry up. This is due more to the tramping of the bed, which is generally wet when the plants are drawn, than to dry weather. To pro vide against this danger it is necessary to keep the feet from coming in con tact with the bed. This can be done by laying down blocks or sticks ot wood and resting a plank on them. Upon this bench the person drawing plants should stand. Thousands of young plants are destroyed by tramp ing over the bed, and the soil is so compacted that those that remain cannot grow. Another important feature is, that the plants should be drawn from the bed one by one, and only such as are large enough to transplant. This thinning out ot the bed by carefully pulling out the larger plants, will ac celerate the growth of those that re main, provided the bed is not walked over. A remedy is sometimes found for stunted, delicate plants, in building an arbor covered with green boughs over the bed, and watering copiously. This will rarely fail to give renewed vitality to the enfeebled plants. A precautionary practice with many excellent tobacco growers is to resow the bed with about half the seed first used, when the first plants begin to make there appearance, so that in event the first seed should meet with disas ter, those last sown may be under going the process of germination. In many districts where wood and brush are scarce, good plants are grown without burning, by planting to a clean plot of virgin, or even old, rich land, about forty pounds of guano to ioo square yards. This is sprink led over the surface after the ground has been well pulverized, and raked in. Others select a place where a standing bed is made and used from year to year. After the planting sea- t r .1 1 son is over ana ueiore me grass ana weeds have grown to seed, it is coult- ered and then covered with straw, leaves, or brush with leaves on, to pre vent vegetable growth. The trash and brush are burned off at some dry time in November or later. Such standing beds, if well manured are said to be come belter each succeeding year. They are heavily manured by fresh loam from the woodlands, by com posts of stable manure, thoroughly rotted, care being taken to handle it so as to destroy all foreign seeds, and by frequent top-dressing of good com mercial fertilizer. The manure mostly used for such purposes is taken from the hog pen, not only because it is thought to be the richest but because it is freer from any noxious seeds. Guano or well rotted stable mauure are used to ad vantage also, in addition to many of the commercial superphosphates. MY CREED. CLARKE BEATRICE ST. GEORGE. This is my creed : Who strives in all things to live firmly true And lift unshrinking eyes upon the day, Granting soft words ot hope and comfort to The fainting souls on life's dusty way ; Who sees no burning wrath nor torments dire, And calmly trusts God's mercy in his need ; Such shall attain the heaven of his desire. This is my creed. This is my creed : Never to doubt II is love who made tbe world , Nor deem one soul, however frail and weak, Can stray beyond his sheltering hand, tho' hurled Through desperate doubts. To know His love will seek And claim the souls His mighty will gave birth ; To know each true cry He will truly heed. And lose no soul from all this teeming earth. This is my creed. NORTH CAROLINA IN BRIEF. The house indiciary committee con sidered the per cent, interest bill. Advocates of the bill say they propose to pass the bill without fail. It is said by some of the "non-partisan fusionists" that they want a na tional ticket composed of Teller for President and Crisp for Vice President. The resignation of Robert W. Win ston as superior Court judge was re ceived by the Governor Tuesd3, and was at once accepted. A. W. Graham of Oxford, was appointed, Deputy collector Causey reports the seizure in Rockingham county of the illicit still of George Nash. It was of 90 gallons capacity, and was destroyed, as was also 1,000 gallons of beer. Dr. J. L. M. Curry, agent of the Pea body fund, sends state supe: i-teudent Jobn C. Scarborough $450 mo. for the Normal i Industrial school at Greens boro, making S1.200 sent it this year. MINISTER ISAAC GRAY DEAD. The United States Diplomat Arrived la the City of Mexico While Dying. City or Mexico, February 15. United States Minister Isaac Gray arrived here from the United States yesterday. He was insensible, having been at tacked with double pneumonia. He was immediately removed to the Amer ican hospital and Doctors Lyceaga and Dray examined him and held a consul tation. At 5 o'clock they pronounced his case hopeless. The minister died at 7 o'clock. Charleston, Sumpter and Northern Sold. Charleston. S. C, February 16. The Charleston, Sumpter and Northern railroad was sold at Sumpter yesterday for $450,000, Colonel W. C. Elliott be ing the bidder. Colonel Elliott is pres ident of the Wilmington and Weldon railroad and it is generally known tht in this purchase he repreaented the At lantic Coast Line system- Its a eculiar fact that dollars some men have, the they have. the less more sense Come to see us and we will please you in price nnd quality. DAVIS & ROSE. IN NORTH CAROLINA DOINGS OF A WEEK IN THE OLD NORTH STATE. Brief Synopsis of the Work of the Legislature A Son of the Late Bishop Lyman in Trouble His Friends do Not Believe He Inten tionally Defrauded Anyone Other State News. NORTH CAROLINA LEGISLATURE An Outline' of the Week'a Work in ISota Senate and House. The following is a condensed synop sis of the proceedings of both branches of the general avsaembly for the past week : 25th Dat. Resolution was Introduced to in vestigate the conduct of Senator Brown charg ed with excessive drunk and down. Bills in troduced in senate aa follows: To incorporate the Carolina Christian col lege; to restore Mitchell county to the ninth congressional district; to prohibit the sale of cigarettes at Wake Forebt college: to repeal chap. 121, laws of 1893, in regard to the appro priation to Cullowhee High School; to incor porate the Pilot Banking and Trust company, of Pilot Mountain; to incorporate the Eastern Carolina Christain conference. A "woman's right" bill was inroduced in the house by Mr. McCall. The anti-University appropriation bill was tabled. Spirited dis cussion was precipitated by democrats resent ing the charges made by the Caucassian. 26th Dat. Day of local bills and resolutions. In the senate the most important matter was the passage of the bill to work convicts on pub lic roads. This resulted after a lively discus sion. The railway penalty bill was passed. Resolution was offered instructing the repre sentatives and senators accredited to North Carolina in Washington to vote for the Nica raguan bill. A bill amending tbe charter of Mt. Airy by requiring four instead of two wards and providing for the election of mayor by the people and also for local option passed its readings. 27th Day. Two democrats left the house today, Payne and Carlyle, of Robeson. They made no fight against ths contest by Normcnt and Smith. Bill introduced in the house by Young, of Wake, to remove the present board of trustees of the blind, deaf and dumb institu tions and replace it by a board of directors. It makes the number 11 instead of 7. The stoc k law debate resumed in the senate with no ac tion. The six per cent, interest bill was re ported from the hcust, finance committee. The bill to prohibit free passes was tabled. The committees to nominate trustees of the agri cultural and mechanical colleges were appoint ed in the house, Lineback and Young, chair men. 28th DAT. The president of the senate an nounced the ratification of several important measures one of which was a bill to prevent prize fighting ia the state. Senator Hoover In troduced a bill to provide for an insurance law for the state. The resolution instructing our senators and congressmen to use every effort to prevent the issue of bonds to be redeemed in gold was passed. In the house Mr. Hillman's motion to cause the judiciary committee to re port on the 6 per eemt interest bill created a spirited debate. The motion carried. 29th Day. The calendar was then taken up in the house and the following bills disposed of: To have compulsory education for the blind. The bill wai discussed at length then tabled. To require railroads to redeem unused tickets and abolish railroad ticket scalping; amended and passed. The day in the senate was taken up by the members replying to an editorial attack in the Caucasian in reference to several members and the six per cent inter est bilL MISAPPROPRIATED THE FUNDS. A. J. Lyman, North Carolina Lawyer, Ar rested on a gerioua CUarge. New York, February 13. A. J. Ly man, a lawyer, of Asheville, N. C, was arrested to day and held in $5,000 bail. He was arrested in a suit brought by the administrators of Katherine L. Youmans, widow of the late professor Yeomans, editor of the Popular Science monthly. Mr. Yeomans died on Aug ust 27th., 1804, at Ridgefield, Conn., leaving a large estate. The suit is to recover S84.434, which, it is asserted, Lyman has appropriated to his own use- It is alleged in the complaint that prior to June 1888, Mrs. Youmans retained Lyman to invest money for her in bonds and mortgages in and about Asheville. LAWYER LYMAN AT HIS HOME. Successful lluniness Man and a Prominent. North Carolina Citizen. Asheville, N. C, February 13 A. J. Lyman arrested in New York yester day, is a well and favorably known citizen of this city where he has lived for the last twelve or fifteen years. He has been socially prominent as well as in business, and hold a large amount of property here. The community will be very loath to believe Mr. Lyman has intentionally defrauded or deceived anyone. That his judgement in mat ters of makincr loans has not been of the best is thought here quite possible, j He is a son of the late Bishop Lyman j of the diocese of North Carolina, and has a family. . AND BY A SOUTHERN AUTHOR, j North Carolina College Professors Will Pnbllch a French Text Book. Wake Forest, N. C, February 15,- Professor B. F. Sledd and Dr. J. H. Correll are preparing to publish "Mme de la Favette's Princess de Cleves," a French text book. Professor Sledd held the chair of modern languages for eight years, but resigned last June to accept the chair of English. Professor Corroll is a Ph. D. of John Hopkins and succeeded Professor Sledd. It is inti mated that other books on various sub jects will follow if this one is success ful. North Carolina School Book War. Raleigh, N. C, February 15. The "school book war"' in progress here is quite lively. The counsel for Ginn fe Co. disdain anything personal to S. M. Finger and John C. Scarborough, in their attacks on the "book trust." Their claim is that the book trust has eighty per cent of the business for this State. Unknown Schooner Goes Down. Beavtoht, N. C, February 15- An unknown schooner is sunk on Lookout shoals. There areo signs of life on j board. Tbe life saving crew could not j get to her. ! AU Buoys Oat of Poolttoa. Be a.ufobt, N. C, February 15. Pi lots report all buoys on this bar out of position. Vessels coming in will have to take pilots as the buoys are from fifty to seventy-five yards out of place. Alabama Lady Commits Suicide. Axxiptox, Ala., Febmary 1. Mra. S. J. Cole, of Calhoun county, commit ted suicide by drowning yesterday. No caase can be assigned for the deed. Any kind of milk, mixed with bran and corn meal makes a good chicken feed. Wagons f 25.00 each at Crow & Mars ton"p, Henderson, N. C THE SOUTH NOT SUNNY. Tbe Story of Suffering In Blanr of tha Southern State. Memphis, Tenn., February 16. Ten nessee, Alabama, Mississippi and Ar kansas are now experiencing the most severe and protracted season of cold weather ever known in this part of the country. Suffering with man and beast is widespread. During the last forty eight hours snow has fallen almost con tinuously. At Canton, Miss., there is five inches of snow. At Birmingham, Ala., it is two feet. In the latter city seventy families suffering " from the extreme cold have been located by the associa ted charities, and in the country dis tricts cattle are dying in droves. From Arkansas City, Ark., comes the report of the river being blocked with ice and many steamers, tugs and tows frozen fast. From Winona, Miss., it is reported that a farmer named Gus Thompson was frozen to death. lie and a party of friends were riding in a wagon from Winona to Poplar Creek yesterday and Thompson got out to go to a neighboring farm house to get warm, saying he. would catch up with the wagon, which continued with the others. He warmed himself and started out but was unable from the cold to reach the wagon. His companions growing alarmed began to search for him and after an hour's search found him frozen to death by the side of the road. A special from Aberdeen, Miss., says a section hand on the Mobile and Ohio railroad was frozen to death yesterday. THE KNIGHTS OF LABOR SPLIT. Kew Organization Formed as a Result of the Miner' Conference. Columbus, O., February 14. From the best information obtainable it seems almost certain that the commit tee of Knights of Labor miners will be unable to reach any agreement in the formation of plans to be submitted to the convention regarding their future attitude toward the general assembly of the Knights of Labor, and that after alVthe convention will have to settle the matter for itself. The standing of the several members of the committee have been given and they still main tain their respective positions. There is a strong impression, however, that the secessionists will finally carry their point and a new organization will be formed. Later: At a meeting which lasted un til 1 o'clock this morning the Knights of Labor miners decided to secede from the general assembly and form a new organization. MORE CORN BUT LESS COTTON. Alabama Farmers Will Adopt Protective Measures. Birmingham, Ala., February 15. President N. N. Clements, of the Ala bama Cotton Growers Protective asso ciation, has issued an address to the cotton growers of Alabama, urging decreased acreage ia accordance with the general plan adopted at the conven tion at Jackson, Miss., as the only -way by which to raise the price of cotton. He has appointed county presidents in every county in Alabama and ap peals to them to call meetings and or ganize. A reduction of 30 per cent, if possible 50 per cent in acreage in cotton and a general increase in the acreage of cereals is recommended. The move ment, which is general throughout the south, promises to be adhered to in Alabama. WELCOME THE DISCOVERY. Popnllsts' Intention of Inquiring Into Elec tion Methods In the Sooth. Washington, February 15. Proba- V r,r,c imrrfanf fpntlirA nf Sin Tl - aii. ntmn ,-rrinn- th late election in Alabama is the disposi- Senator's crest. Here are subscrip tion it discloses on the part of the pop- tions to magazines and newspapers, ulist senators to go into the question of At Christmas time the stationery election methods in the south. The re-; rooms always keep on hand a heavy discover- -"" ItTanart of their program to have the next congress enter upon an inves - ligation of that subject, and they are sure now of the success of their scheme. MEET IN ST. LOUIS NEXT. Adlournment of the Convention of the Southeastern DrnEKlsts Association. I Atlanta, February 14. Ihe South- eastern urugK'w a33W.iaUUu c.cvu the following officers : President, D. D. Phelps. Nashville ; 1st vice-president, H. W. Williams, Fort Worth ; 2d vice- president, Theo. Meyer, St. Louis; 3rd vice-president, T. C. Peek, Maoou ; sec - retary, A. G. Cassell, Vicksburg ; treas - Ur' F&1, ntalnw,irn t The delegates were entertained at lunch yesterday at the Piedmont drive club. The convention has adjourned to ineetan St. Louis in May, 1890. THE ST. AUGUSTINE IS SAFE. The Belated Steamer Arrives at New York Mnch Worsted by the Storm. Jacksonville, Fla., February 14. lhe missing steamsnip ot. augusuue, t T-1 4 V-,., V,.,.b- ber laden, about which some uneasi- ness has existed awing to her being five days over due, arrived at her destina: tion yesterday. Foster, Marvin & Haynes, her agents, in this city, have roceiveu a teiegram J'um -o announcing her arrival ana staung Axv waa due to the rouah weather which has prevailed. WILL APPOINT MATT RANSOM. The Plstlnzuiahed North Carolina Senator May Succeed Minister Gray. Washington, February 18. It is ru mored about the capitol that the presi dent will be urged to appoint Senator Ransom to be minister to Mexico to succeed the late Minister Gray, of Indi ana, whose death was announced yes terday morning Mr. Ransom's term of office as a senator expires with this congress and it is said that the presi dent would be rery glad to tender him this appointment. . - - The Cheaapeake Bay Froieo. Capk Charles. Va.. February 15. Chesapeake Bay is frozen from shore to shore. Pure rich blood is essential to eofd health, because the blood is the vital fluid which supplies all the organs with life. Hood's Sarsaparilla is the great blood purifier. Hood's Pills are purely vegetable, harmless, eftective, do not pain or gripe. TAX RIDDEN PEOPLE SOME OF THE CAUSES WHICH LEAD UP TO IT. Extravagance in High Places Some of the Good Things Congressmen Enjoy at the Public Expense" Sta tionery" an Item That Can be Ex panded Into Almost Anything Liq uor and Cigars on Funeral Excursions 1 Louisville Courier-Jonrnal. Washington, Feb. i. Members of the House are catching up. Having reached out their hands and taken possession of the postal service, the next thing the House will do probably will be to demand that the Government supply private offices to all of them as it does to the mem bers of the United States Senate. A midday luncheon to be paid for out of the contingent fund will probably be the next privilege taken; and then an appropriation will be proposed for the purpose of supplying private car riages to every one in Congress for the transaction of " official business." It is purely for the transaction of " official business" that the " franking" privilege is extended to Congressmen. When the law granting the "frank ing" privilege to Congressmen was re pealed in 1872, Congress appropriated $125 a year for each member of Con gress to pay for "stationery," and it was distinctly understood when this was done that the amount appropria ted was to pay the cost of correspon dence on official business. In other words, it was estimated that the use of the franking privilege would save a Congressman not more than $ 125 a year, and, rather than to trust Con gressmen to use that privilege legiti mately, the Government gave each of them the maximum amount which official correspondence would cost. Instead of being used directly for this purpose, the stationery money is spent for many other things, and the mem bers of Congress complain that the money paid for stamps to carry on official correspondence was paid out of their own pockets. Thus the sta tionery money has become merely one of the perquisities of a Congressman. He draws his $125 a year or spends it in the stationery room for supplies or trinkets at his pleasure. Some of it goes for corkscrews, some for pocket knives. It is a pleasant thing for a Congressman to step into the stationery room of the House with a constituent and tell the visitor to pick out the finest knife in sight. The Govern ment pays for it ; but it helps to make votes. Now that the postage of official letters is to be paid by the Govern ment direct, the Congressman may think still more securely that the sta tionery money is his to spend as he pleases. It costs the Government $44,500 to supply the members of the House alone with so-called "sta tionery." A glance through one of the annual reports of the Secretary of tne senate win snow lor what purpose much of this money is used. Here are ten dozen corkscrews purchased for the Senate stationery room at one time. Here are forty-two dozen pen knives and half as many pairs of scissors. Here are dies engraved and v&Yer stamped doubtless with some stock of fine goods for Christmas ' Psents, and many of them are bought : by benators out of their " stationery" allowance. Many of the members of both House and Senate " commute their stationery money that is, they draw it in cash and spend it as they please. One Congressman from a Southern i State who came to Washington a few ,u, l 1 j u.ji.. J -6" wu.u ..a.u.y j Pay hls railroad fare to the Capitol j boasted before he returned home at the end of his term that he had lived ; on the I250 of stationery allowance ; which lhe Government gave him, 1 added to his mileage allowance. His 1 salary of ?5 ,000 a year for the two years he saved. He lived during the j session of Congress in a cheap board ing house and walked to and from the Capitol every day. At the end of his term he bought at a bargain one of I the finest properties in his State, and , he is living on it to-day a compara- ; . . ' v v well-to-do man. He was a Paulr flmosl wen he came to Congress. : This mileage is another perquisite which members of Congress enjoy. It ; costs the Government Sno.ooo a members of the House , - wtPnsihlv i alne OSienSlDlV for railroad fare j Very little of the amount goes to the ! railroads, however. will John M, Thurston, the newly elected Senator from Nebraska, pay his fare to Wash ington ? He will not. His pocket is full of railroad annuals? Will Mr. Thurston then return to the Govern ment the amount appropriated to pay his railroad expenses to and from the Capitol? Not if he is like other Senators and members of the lower House. The rate of mileage paid to mem ber s ol Congress i absurd. It is not as great as it used to be, for before the days of railroads each Congress man rtrcived a full day's pay ($8) for each tenty miles traveled in going ;j War.hii.gton and returning to his home. Now ihe mileage is ten cents a mile each way, figuring the distance according to ihe nearest route usu ally traveled." Railroad rates lor long distances now-a-days are more nearly two cents a mile than ten cents. It could not cost a California mem ber more than $175 for the round trip from San Francisco to Washington, yet the California member receives $600 mileage to add to his salary. Under the old system, though, he would have received a great deal more. It took a member six weeks to reach Washington from Providence, R. I., at the beginning of the century, and all of that time he was receiving $$ a day for traveling expenses. At this rate the mileage of a California member would have been nearly $4. OOO. Senators have always been a little ahead of the members of the House in obtaining perquisites. The average member does not stay in Washington long enough to know what he wants. The average Senator is here lor six years at least and he makes the most of his time. Senators have had pri vate secretaries for many years, while members of the House have had them but a short time. In fact there was a fight year after year in the Appropria tion Committee of the House over the item inserted by the Senate in the Appropriation bill providing salaries for secretaries. Members kicked stub bornly against the "extravagance." Now they can not afford to criticise the Senators for they have gone into a similar extravagance on their own account. Just now the private secre taries of members are employed for the session of Congress only. So ostensibly are the secretaries of Sena tors. But just at the end of the ses sion of Congress one Senator after another pops up in tne Senate with a propositien to " investigate" something (luring the recess and the Senators solemnly vote for the investigation by that particular Senator's committee. The committee never meets during the recess and the " investigation" is merely an excuse to continue the salary of the committee clerk who is the Senator's private secretary. Usually the private secretary is the Senator's on anu so me salary 01 tne ouice is kept in the family. There is another ierquisite of Sena tors with which the members ol the House have not caught up yet. The Senators some time ago voted them selves private offices. Theretofore only the chairman of committees had had omces. iney used the committee rooms. Other Senators concluded thi' they were entitled to offices, too. S the Senate tacked on an appropriation bill an item for the purchase ot the Maltby building, a brick apartment house opposite the Capitol grounds. Ihe building cost $138,000. The members of the House expected that they would have a part ot the Maltby building, but the Senators quietly took possession of it, and now each Senator has an, apartment or a suite of apartments for his individual use. . r r-i r . many 01 mem are lurnisnea very Handsomely, bo are the committee rooms in the Capitol. When Mr. Hiscock, of New York, was Chairman of the Committee on the Executive Departments, and Mr. Aid rich was Chairman of the Rules Committee, they had two rooms fitted up for themselves in the Capitol terrace with such elegance that they spent all of the appropriation intended for the entire terrace on the Senate side There is a building opposite the House wing of the Capitol the gray stone building once owned by Gen. liutler which belongs to the Government, in which the House will some day estab lish private offices for its members. It will take more space than this building win anoru, however, to make separate business apartments for all of the 356 members of the House. The habit of " throwing bouquets at themselves, to use a stage phrase, is by no means new to members and Senators. Spending the public funds for their jersonal comfort and con venience is quite an old habit with them. 1 hey have their own barber shops supported at public expense and there are very handsome marble bath rooms at each end ol the Capitol for the use of Senators and members of the House. The restaurants are not yet free to members, and perhaps that is the reason Mr. Aldrich made so vicious an attack on the Senate restau rant not long ago, But if the Senators dq not make the Government pay for their food, they get at one time their supply of whiskey for use during the sessions of the Senate sa the public expense. U was never charged as whiskey in the accounts. In those days they did occasionally call a spade a spade, however, and on one of the funeral excursions taken at the public expense tuty years ago there is a record of wines and liquors bought in great profusson on the journey. Re freshments of this character are not lacking when a Congressional com mittee attends a funeral to-day. During the summer season, the Senate is supplied with Apollinaris lemonade at the public expense ; and a great many barrels of mineral water and a great many hundred pounds of sugar are used at each summer session in the effort to make life in the hot Senate chamber endurable. The House has not ventured on this ex travagance yet. But gradually the feeling on the Question of expending public lands lor personal benefit is growing less aggressive in the House. ! And it may not be many years before the Representatives of the people de mand that the Government furnish) each of them a house and stable, and j possibly a carriage, at public expense, j George Grantham Lain. ' K-pjrao M-j..) Mr, r- A. Itatney North Danville. Va. Nerves Unstrung Week, No Appetite-Hood's Sarsa- parllla Restored Health. "Three years bro 1 had the grip, which settled in my head. 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