THE COLUMBIAN, BLOOMSBUROPA. 8 " i - THE COLUMBIAN. BLOOMS ISURO, PA. TUL7JfI)AY, M-'l'TKM IlKIt 24, IMS. WASHINGTON IDrom our Regular Correspondent. Washington, D. C, Sept. at, 1908. When Congress convenes in De cember the two magnificent office buildings designed for the use cf the members will have been com pleted. The oices of the Repre sentatives were in fact used last Spring but the Senate offices begun a year later were not ready for oc cupancy, and the Senators will have their fir t e xperience in them this winter. The latter office build ing lies to the North of the Capitol and is connected with it by an un derground passage. It is a beautiful white marble building which will cost the Government four millions of dollars. It will have every mod ern convenience ol an office build ing. The interior is finished in marble and mahogany and while the offices wi'l be elegantly furnish ed, the general effect will be severe, rather than luxurious. For many years there has betn much com plaint about the crowded quarters allowed the Senators in the Capitol. Senator Guggenheim of Colorado who is rich enough to buy the Cap itol if it were on the market had two little dark rooms in the base ment last winter. They were the ones vacated by Senator Clark of Montana who was the richest man who ever sat i:i the Senate. Of course older and abler Senators far ed better and among these there are not a few who are grumbling about leaving the old and convenient quarters in the Capitol. They pro test that they will be farther from their work and more inaccessible to their constituents. Others who have been housed in an old brick building originally erected for a hotel, across the street from the Capitol are delighted at the pros pect of a change. The Senate as a whole, often spoken of as the '"mil lionaires club" is not such a pam pered, luxury loving body as it is often represented to be. The ma jority of the men are there for work and about all they demand in an office is liglrt and air and a desk. It would not do to furnish them common oak furniture but i." a vote were taken it would probably de velop an agreement of opinion that it is as hard to write a speech on a mahogany desk as on a pine table As for that the offices are plain in spite of theh richness and it is only in the rotunda and some of the au dience rooms that there is any con spicuous decoration. The House of Representatives offices on the opposite of the square in front oi the Capitol are also grouped in a splendid white marble building and as that body is so much larger than (he Senate the building is erected on all four sides of a court instead oi on three sides only as is the case with the Senate offices. Some of the readers of this letter perhaps had occasion ten or twelve years ago to look up the member from his district. If so he will remem ber the small corner set aside in the reception hall for this purpose. It was marked oil from the rest of the chamber simply by .the backs of the sofas which furnished it. There were two or three tables in it. When a Member of the House re ceived a card he came to this corner and the visitor stood in the pres ence of all the other visitors arxl related why he had come. The contrast between this end the new juarters, though it has been modi iied by some years occupancy, 0? reception rooms in the Capitol build ing, is nevertheless very conspicu ous both to Members of Congress1 ind to their visitors. During the last week of .Septem ber and the first week in October .our conventions of national and Jiternational importance will be teld in Washington. As an im- State of Ohio, City of.Tokdo, "I Lucas Countv. f ss. Frank J. Cheney makes oath that he is senior partner of the firm of P. J. Cheney & Co. , doing business in the City of Toledo, County utid itate aforesaid, and that said firm vill pay the sum of one hundred dollars for each and every case of Catarrh that cannot be cured by the use of Hall's Catarrh Cure. Frank J. Cheney. Sworn to before me and subscrib ed in my presence, this 6th day of December, A. D. 1886. . A. W. Gleason. JSel Notary Public. Hall's Catarrh Cure is taken in ternally, and acts directly on the blood and mucous surfaces of the system, ' Send for testimonials free. . F. J. Chsney & Co., Toledo, O. Sold by all Druggists, 75c. Take HalJ' Family Pill for con- portant convention here is the occas ion for not only convention work but for much Mglit seeing and ex tensive entertaining it will be real ized what a busy fortnight the Cap itol will have. Already and for many weeks past preparations have been in progress for the Interna tional Congress on Tuberculosis whose sessions begin September 28 and last until October 5. Distin guished physicians from many parts of Europe will attend as well as prominent men of science from ev ery section of this country. The Congress will be opened by Secre tary Cortelyou who will address the delegates on behalf of the Pres ident. The meetings are to be held in the National Museum and a large reception for the delegates will be given by the President who has hastened his return to the city on account of the meeting of this con vention. If the weather permits the entertainment will be in the form of a garden party and the del egates and invited guests will be received on the extensive lawns back of the White House, where the Marine band in scarlet uniforms and the ladies in afternoon gowns will make a gorgeous contrast to the velvety well kept lawns and the fine old trees. There will be many luncheons, receptions and dinners, semi-public, and much private en tertaining. The International Fisheries Con gress which convened September 22nd was another important con vention that was atteuded by emi nent men. There was a Diplomatic reception for the delegates at the Department of State and a large re ception in their honor by Secretary Strauss, of the Department of Com merce and Labor. This Congress was also received by the President. Other conventions in session about the same time will be those of the Eastern Public association and the National association of Railway Commissions the delegates to which will find their time fully occupied by sightseeing and enter tainment when they are not engag ed in convention work. To Make Chutney Sauce. The materials for this sauce are seven large apples, seven tomatoes, three onions, six ounces of seedless raisins, one dessertspoonful of salt, the same quantity of ground gin ger, one eighth of a teaspoouful of red pepper, one dessertspoonful of anchovy essence, one tablespoonful of salafl oil and one half pint of vin egar. Peel and chop the apples and onions. Pick off all the little stems from the raisins and cut each one across. Place all the ingredi ents except thct-inegar into a mor tar, and pound them well together. The vinegar is to be boiled and cooled and then added by slow de grees to the pounded mass. Stir well, and when all are thoroughly blended, put the chutney into small, wide-mouthed bottles, and cork down close. This is an appe tizing Indian relish for cold meat. August Farm and Fireside. . Potatoes Grow on Bushes. Farmers in the vicinity of Water bury, Conn., are much interested in the growth by Samuel Wilson of Wolcott of a hybrid potato on bush es like gooseberries. Wilson has kept his methods secret, but the product is a cross of the yellow to mato on the sweet potato. Food experts have already re ported the product to be far more nutrious than the Irish or sweet potato and more easily grown. They boil in five minutes, bake in eight and will keep in any form in hot weather. Stiles Wheeler was experiment ing with the vine grown hybrids this summer when Wilson, seeing his progress, took up the work with great success. The Waterbury grange was invited in a body to see Wheeler's beds of new-fangled bush grown potatoes. To Freshen Bread. When a large quantity of home made bread has been baked at one time, some of it, if kept long, is sure jo become nardand unappetiz ing. This can be made as good as new by a very simple method. Dip tee loat in com water, put it in a Dan in ithe oven, and bake until it is heated throuzh. After it has been taken out, wrap it in a damp cloth, and when cold it will be quite as good as ivncn farst baked. If hot bread is desired for break fast, the above method mav he merl for reheating. Bread, muffins and roue reneatea in tnis way are just as appetizing and are said to be more healthful than freshly baked hot breads. ' Certainly less time and trouble are necessary to serve nor. Dreaa oy tni metnod than to mix and baice it fresh. August Farm and Fireside. (tenth m mm ton nan Always of Here and Them Tamnqua has a new daily paper. It is called The lamaqua Register, and is published by W. S. O niter man, a former editor of The Sha mo kin Daily Dispatch. Another old toll turnpike is to go. It runs from Shickshinny to Hunt ingdon township, Luzerne county, and has been appraised at $25,000 by the viewers appointed by the Luzerne Court to condemn it. The oldest twins in the State are believed to be residing in Bradford county. They are Mrs. Kliza E. Irvine, Liberty Corners, and L. O. Holland, of Monrocton, who are in their 87th year. The homes of 500 persons are endangered by fire burning in a Carbondale coal mine, which was started in 1901 by the burning of refuse on the sutface of the work ings. A vast amount of money will be required to put out this fire, which is likely to cause the entire destruction of the street in Carbon dale under which it is raging. When James Wolfe, of Plymouth went to work the otuer morning in his mine chamber in the Delaware and Hudson colliery he was sur prised to find a cow already in pos session. The cow was as much surprised as Wolfe. The field in which she had been pasturing had caved into the mine. The cow was brought to the surface none the worse for her strange adventure. The publication of the Hughes ville Independent is to be resumed shortly by Messrs. Bixlerand Blake. The latter has been for some time conducting the job department of the former Independent office. The newspaper end of the business js to be in the hauds of and under the direction of John R. Bixler, now editor of the Williamsport Evening News, formerly editor of the Wil liamsport Sun, and one of the best known newspaper men in Central Pennsylvania. Halt a dozen men passed by a fat looking wallet lying on the side walk, in Monongahela, each chuck ling as he thought he was too smart to be fooled. Then Ernest Milward, a businessman, came along, picked it up and found it contained $237 in bank notes. He left it with a trust company and two hours later the owner came and identified it and left $37 as a reward for Mil ward. Initiative steps toward the proper celebration of the fiftieth anniversa ry of the Battle of Gettysburg, on July 1, 2 and 3, 1913, were taken by a meeting of citizens in the Court House at Gettysburg. It was decided that the movement shall be headed by the State of Pennsylvania and be of national importance and scope. One of the features will be to have all the veterans who partici pated in this fight transported and furnished subsistence by the State to which they belong. The Woman's Home Companion for October. An important article in the Octo ber Woman's Home Companion is entitled "Seeking Shelter in New York. ' Five dollars in my purse, a few plain clothes in my bag, an ordinary school education behind me, and New York, with its bound less opportunities, ahead of me," that is the beginning of the adven tures in .New York ot Lucy Green. They are real adventures of a real girl, who tells her story to readers of the Companion. This October issue is particularly rich in fiction, having stories by Elizabeth Stuart Phelps, Harrison Rhodes, Octave Thanet, Nellie Mc Clung, Margaret Sutton Briscoe, and especially good stories by Ir ving Uacheller and Juliet Wilbor Tompkins. There is perhaps no more impor tant question to the average Amer ican than the one of owning or renting a home. The results of the most carefnl investigation and the experiences of thousands of Ameri cans are given in a series of articles on this subject, which begins in the October number. Of special interest are Kellogg Durland's intimate picture of the life of the Tsaritsa of Russia, and Dr. Woods Hutchinson's article, "Are Babies Moral?" The fashion department with the Latest Fall Fashions is full of val uable suggestions. Railroad Stops Rice Throwing. Officers of the police department of the Delaware, Lackawanna and Western Railroad have received orders to stop the throwing of rice by bridal parties at the stations and in the train? in the future, and are now puzzled how they are going to do it without offending patrons of the line. They cannot think of making arrests of the exuberant wedding guests who throw the rice and are planmug a campaign of ; educatiou. Spending $31,000 at Neseopeck. , That Neseopeck is becoming even more of a railroad center realized when the Pennsylvania Railroad is expending $31,000 on the new sig nal tower anil block system which is being installed and will be ready for operation by October 1. From the signal tower, situated about soo yards above the station all the switches in the yard will be operat ed. The second floor is enclosed in glass and commands a view of the yards from east to west. It is here that the 44 levers, which operate the 22 switches in the yards are placed. Each lever is numbered, there being two for each switch, one to lock it, while the other re leases it. Eight telegraph instruments are installed on this floor which will be operated by two men who will re ceive the movement of the different trains from the train despatcher at Sunbury and who will in turn in struct the man who operates the levers, the track upon which the train shall approach. In order that the man operating the levers may be in close touch with the approaching trains with out looking from the tower thus keeping him from his duty at the levers six indicators are placed di rectly in front of him which give him the exact position of the sema phore signal towers are to warn any approaching trains as to the condition of the yard at that time and are placed, one at the extreme end of the yard on the division to Wilkes-Barre, one around the curve at the division to Sunbury and one around the curve on the division to Hazleton, while the other three are in the center of the yard. Thus an engineer can take heed from the position of the arms of the tower whether to stop, approach cautiously or to come in without any danger. The main track from east to west is charged by means of storage bat teries and is divided into several blocks. The system is one that will add much to the safety of the road at this point, doing away with the many wrecks which occur in a yard. Upwards of 30 men are at work on the system and by working Sun days and with the addition of a night force it is hoped to complete the work for operation October 1st. $1.50 to Mauch Chunk and Return Sunday, September 27th, via "The Reading." Special train leaves Eloonisburtr at 7:18 a. m. Return ing leaves Mauch Chunk at 5:30 p. m. Q-io-3t. - em Wise and Otherwise. "See here," said the tailor, as he headed the young man off, "do you cross the street every time you see me to keep from paying that bill you owe me?" . "I should say not," said the y. m. "Then why do you do it?" asked .the knight of the tape. "To keep you from ask ing for it," answered the other. Chicago News. "Pa, what's the difference be tween the drama and melodrama?" "The seats my son. You will never find any empty ones at the melo drama." Chicago Record-Herald. People sometimes complain that the sense of humor is dying out in Ireland. We are therefore specially glad to record a proof to the con trary. An Irish tenant, who had just bought under the purchase act, boasted to the agent that his land lord was now "God Almighty," and that he need fear nothing. "Don't you be too sure, Pat," was the reply; "remember God Al mighty evicted his first two ten ants." London Spectator, The victim "Help! Help! I'm drowning." Would-be Hero "Courage, my brave man! Just wait until I get a rope, a measuring rod, a Carnegie application blank, two witnesses and a notary public." Bohemian Magazine. Louis "Uncle, what's chagrin?'' Uncle "Well, it's what a stout man feels when he runs and jumps on a cat tnat doesn t start for half an hour," Chicagj News. Fred "Some stills are awfully conceited." Jack "Why?" Fred "They'll brag about making a tool of a man that was never any thing else." Boston Record. "Jack's so mean; he won't play bridge with Ethel any more!" "Why not ?" "He asked her what her long suit was the other day and she said her black velvet." New York Telegram, e . INSTRUCTION IN MUSIC. Chas. P. 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