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Where Congressmen and Sena tors Will na /e Offices. FINE ANNEXES OF CAPITOL Eacn Beautiful Structure Cost $2,500, OOC and Occupies an Entire Block. Finely Furnished Apartments—Su perbly Equipped Dining Saloon. Our senators and representatives In eotijiTess " ill soon have their offices In sph iidid palaces, says IJene Baehe in Harper’s Weekly. Within a few weeks fift« r congress meets in Oeceiuber the tw e new wliite marble palaces which are to he kmfwn simply as annexes to the house and the senate will lie ready for occupation. Each is a beautiful structure, costing $2,r>0<l,000 and occu py ng an entire block, and has a total frontage on its four sides of 1,747 feet, or about n third of a mile. These palaces are in effect detached wings of the capitol. They are gigan tic office buildings, each of them oc cupy ing more ground than the Wal dorf \storiu in New York The h■.>li^e an..i x. \v 1.i !i is not far from comple- Uor. w ill , oniain 41b rooms, one bn ea< b represeni.itive in congress, with a t< " left over to provide for future increase in the membership of the grout legislative body. The senate tin nex is divided into ninetynine suits, each comprising a private room for thf senator, a room for his secretary and a bathroom. In both palaces will be employed a multitude of uniformed meiiit.ls to wait upon the luxurious statesmen and to make life as easy and comfortable for them its possible. Servants' wages, rent, fuel, lights anil t.ll incidentals tire paid by the gov eminent. The apartments are beauti fully furnished and deiwated at I'ncle Sam's expense. Meals will be served in the rooms If desired. But in each pa la is a \a-t and superbly cijiiippcd dining saloon exclusively for legisla tors and their guests. The .MllilO* » *s v*'!l! be connected bv underground * !*'<•'rie railways with tli* rapid d. In * •aeh paliive one will lind n sr.f way station at th** base of the ro- tund:. .. the m o-t striking airhiteetural fetvtitre of the p.datlal annex. It is f»r< < I: ty-four f****t In diameter and <*x- tend' ttl< war* 1 dear through the four storie s of the building, terminating in a superb don K* under Mie roof. All of the : spar** im<l**rground Ivcncath it*; flor r is oeeu[*it**l by the subway sta- tin. Ilk**" ise • circular, into which tin* tr; in* COlIH* f font lb** capitol. /Ah< trains on this newest American sul '' ay are v* . oft h attention. Th* ca vy em h **1 then* only sixteen feet loTjjr umP*!* ( hang** of a motormnn and •! c ictor, in >tli of whom are In the lit :.fe i*»n nt f .ill 1 »i i he T'niteil '■hate-, g >vt*rn- m*. t K( 'T . ators. representativ *>s and those have Ini' -ine- s with them will ride tc ..! a! fro i i t!ie trains, which seem '"■r 1 run < ys in *•* above g mil rNnn w ith th<i®*» that round. All tue cars are 0\*< T. nil o!U* side, the missing si*U* In*- l! g < placed merely by a safety rail. * h : t then* is only one bench running !• • :■ hvv is**. i‘assengers, entering at oi! i i ( •• end. - "it themselves upon this betc 1 ti and !' ■ 1; out through the open p1<1* < ■f the ea J* Th* • t rai ? i runs through a tunnel W hi’ !i r.-niit* •s tli** annex with the s . ' 1 . end of the capitol. This subway is 7r< (1 feet 1; r<!!'.: 22 feet wide and 1 I H' r h ! t tuts a curved roof, ami «l. t f. '■* of it runs a walk six :t n < i * • * i r j ‘ • *t it width, paved with f'f u- vie. Be i!i£ witli whiti* vitri ,T •' 1 • • -, i *• ,1 l.i vi -i ♦» 11 <» t 1 1 * '* ! 1 < 1 ’hi :g!i w ithou’ anv skv t as light a TREASURE OF THE DESERT. In the Sahara All Property Is Ex pressed by Camels. Primitive peoples who have no mon ey measure ail values by that posses sion which is most desired and most easily transferred. Tims among most of the inhabitants of the Sahara the camel is the measure of all values. Property, riches and camels are sy nonymous terms among most of the dwellers in the Sahara. I>r. <loldsteln of Cermany wrote awhile ago that if a Tuareg were set down in the streets of Berlin the business blocks and resi dences would convey to him no idea of property. He would simply ask the greatest real estate landlord in the city how nffn.\ camels he owned. When Hichardson met the Tuaregs and was entertained by one of their chiefs the traveler was told by ids host that he wished to make Queen Victoria the tinest present that any one could give her. and so he asked his guest to take back to her a mehari, which is a camel trained to fleetness and the most costly of the Saharan camels.. While Barth was sojourning in Tim buktu there was danger for a few days t!mt the street mob would attack his hnn-u*. One of the women serv ants advised him to remove his hai- vau to a place of safety. This word mean® live ; Hr-l<. such as cattle or camels, and Barth told the woman that he had only Ids horse with him. It was some time before he learned that the servant did not mean to refer par ticularly to his horse, but to all his possessions. When the Frenchman ilourst suc ceeded in navigating the Niger from its month t<> Timbuktu south years ago a desert dweller, desiring to learn if lie came of a family of substance, asked him how many camels his fa ther owned. and w hen Foureatt crossed the desert with tlie largest exploring party that ever entered the Sahara he received from a wealthy native of As- ger a present of a white camel and was told that if was tin* most expen sive present that the residents of that region could give to any one. As a ruli. however, tin* number of camels in the yossession of one indi vidual is not large. The average man considers himself well to do if he owns two or three* animals, the important chief is really wealthy if he possesses a herd of lifty or sixiy, and tin* ri< best chief whom Nachtigal met in his sev en years’ wanderings was said to own about loo camels No one will part with hi> eatnels exeepting at an exor bitant price Foureau found it impos sible to buy tli**m in the* heart of the desert for less than about 2oO francs, which was doiibie their value in Al geria. The grazing grounds are common to all, and there is no property in land. The richest man lives in it tent, and why should In* ell '-ame.s to acquire the means to hair! a more commodious and substantial dwelling when he ex pects to move to some other piaee in a few weeks or month : lie simply ac quires :il! the camels lie ean get for the mere fun of having them To he sure, he buys wives with his camels, jusi as the near*) does with his cattle, and wives route very high in the .Sahara, tin* daughter of the ordi nary man bein'.: worth as much its four ramels. vvhbi the pri*-eof it ehiof’s daughter <;iii In* oniiuaiided only by the wealthy. Some explorers believe that very fat young women art* most popular in the desert simply because camel's milk is fattening, and if a girl is fleshy it sliov.s hat Iter father hits given her ail the ranie s milk she can drink Such a father must have it number c eainei- is therefore a Wealthy in.ii and it will bt; u good thiug t rry into his family .—Wash ington Fost BU V, It - lit t T a ,i, [jrrp pc ltd OWN HOME. * W Baby He rs, hat sutiuis* Check Progress. i s im . ' 'a id the west- ■r. Tei rc c. Bie, ak Hillside arc: ern t or t man. "is the wit sti ry lu nun 1 > i!iv‘' il.'-. "f one story you ithout Help. have V, • vv '’n rk. ( mi s um* <>t' your * Mrs. Laura F. most prominent si rut m < n ev**n the built bersclf a most important pail "! Br<>:i*lvvay - <;! 7 , 1 J OS V II ig*-i*'s (('a!.* <• )f- insig ;j;itjc.; ;|[ |i;l ;"ps 'retell for n!e!; r of tin* V(*w York .' uu. Wit' *1 e hlo.'ks bet usignitii i tit sky- iioatbH Mi’s. (ill) f , m '; . ; senq let -. 1 dm nid i hi:.! the ground '•* o 1.000 iiji ;i ! lira!: hUMdr i:i WOtll i ' ! *' j , . .ICO It'' utsfenvd it into mot* » r* id t hau t h Iii '*• Imps com- ’*i! v stM 't with a terraced garden. mam d. to say n< « : tin* apiiear ntn** of your eity i'laniii ! tin* hoii; '**. Sold tin* fuun 1 admitte*! th** ; :nj,l thi* It* ^( * t ‘ i i! 1 I i 1 L r ' ' 1 ' I N**vv Yorker fra fi!v 1' . "lint often the !a*> and put n i!ir ^llin^*«»s. COl 1 ( ; V<*lit if ion is not. ed. Fstially i 'Ui i th<> v.. i belong •» a< i* ^I) >\\> \' r!!mt workman to n ii'operty is not in Mid sho lia^ Imm •n offcivd ^A.OOf sneli shape that moil •'h iiioii<*v can be but v. Ml not sol! ....! n . 1 j . - j j m* m lardiaus or trus- ew C n'e on the Rio Grand*?. t *** * ■ n*‘ss to put up !ai building- 'fhc llice or *dher Imsi- r**nt from those ■y ha ■. *• i »|>i .*.! t Ul’t». j.’Olvrr. 1 l»p •* littl* * buildings i: j : about enougll t.. p a\ tilt* tnxr.* im *urane*'. etc . and - tlow n on t tie bu rder/’ said < Urns Jnvvrnt tIk. • ost; :tt*' from running W ! )o\vo. co!h *rtor of vusloin in *] !t bt. but ?h< * j i!*< ipert.v cannot he i o a i -1", i I! nioiv* ii nor fuiuhor in pi ived until all th** i< «1 Ii 1 : Jd)1 i(U‘, * but tilt* 'i r\;”. “It ■> a:r of a m u. dug. but not al ways of ♦akiinr way s rllt 1 frI \ p luasii ii g. to 111ink 11 sit < *i* w*11 u t * n *i r * m ijin, (nh* of 111 * SO i i H i * 11 a!) v i nil 1 (•( i|iS< •iotisly <■ uitrolling * Mi 1 ’ ] * the ; u f whole New Y< rk A ro 'o of ;■ i n omitcr ol a bloc 1 ' Ne Yo r! I* rt*'s. : of whitr 1 stolidlv i.pfut*.. Newport’s r- ♦*»■> ous Church. N. •w port is to lOSO it- “Litt! * < 'hurelt t 1. it it*. Ml; Aroi 111 1 the •< 'or i m w ore Julia Dent vo 1. but ^.iz. •; ; on t hrii rt-spi ' ( ) p;u tit was mail l* j , . ; aid where many the fate i»f ha 1 Ml .* \\ t K ’ othe r f. shioiiabl <* W( dine have tak 1 . ’ ’ ' • iili.I’ I - ' en i »la*** Tile cl HIP'! i is to he sold foi lack ol S J J p ' > 1 - ‘ The intention is. says | •.'•j , r t • i t hr <jH*r an\ sum the I’roviqene*' .1 • uirn al. to use the pro 1 e wi.u.s pa'in^ ftr cee*J Is in proem ing eminent scholars i, _ ! ! writers and mini .pts of tin* Protcs- ,, ■ tnnt Fpi otial taith in lh<* T'nited : t OOKS r ut lolls . U | ( | ,. Mates of America to deliver lectures |, ,| 1( . au< l sermons nut] to disseminate and ninth-, and even th <•»* gospel, doctrines and 1m- . , Itef of the Protestant Episcopal church • . .# In Newport ctiurcheH. THE LUSITANIA'S TRIP Life Aboard Cunard Liner on Her Maiden Voyage. WIRELESS MAN KEPT BUSY. Passengers Sent and Received 1,000 Words by Marconi System Daily. Ladies Dined In Gorgeous Toilets, Escorted by Men In Evening Dress. When tin* steamship Lusitania, the Cunard line’s turbine giantess, hove up her anchor ami steamed out of Queenstown harbor shortly after noon on Sunday. Sept. 8, all hands fondly hoped we were beginning a record breaking voyage across the Atlantic, pays it New York Times representative who was aboard the Lusitania. The I Lucania hud left half an hour before us and was completely lost in the fog when we g<»t outside the harbor. Looking around on the crowded decks fore ami aft, it w as easy to real ize that we were on the largest ship in the world, w ith it floating population of fl.OOO, including the crew, men and women gathered from all parts of Europe, all bound for the land of the west. The steamer was under command of Captain .1. B. Watt, and the engines i were in charge of Alexander Duncan, a Scotsman of tin* old fashioned Clyde bred type, who are all broiifffit up to believe that words are not necessary for engineers: that it is action that tells. W. .1. Luke, the designer of the Lusitania, was on board in company with E. H. Cunard, one of the direct-: ors of the line, whose famous motto used to be “We never lost a life.” With the foghorn blowing at three minute intervals the liner picked iter way cautiously out into the Atlantic In the wake of the Lucania. At 3 p. m. we were told that she was twen ty miles a!n*ad of us. The passengers In the first cabin did not appear to Is* a very lively lot, the fog seeming to til! them with gloom, j The fact that vve had to slow down dl- : rectly after starting was looked upon | as a had omen by some of the croak- i ers. One tall S. oiohmau, who still | wore his kilts and had a voice that suggested a steady diet of porridge and haggis, '-aid to me: “Hoot, mo:i. It’s it raw nicht the noo. I’m thinking. 1 wish I could see my bonny bairns again.” When the fog lifted in 1h<* night the I liner was put at full speed and bowled j along at tin* rate of twenty-three knots. Wireless messages were receiv- i ed from the l.ucania all through the night, but <air officers professed to have no Idea of her position. Ques tioned do dy by painstaking p.assen- ' gers, they did not even remember the name of the!* old greyhound Some time, when v>e wen* all tucked away in our bunl.s sleeping peacefully, the j Lusitania passed her paeer. and by i noon on Monday the Lucania was j sixty one miles astern, but the major!- j ty of the passengers did not know what had '■ tune of her until they ' readied N -w York. By noon on Tues day the dis :iii i* between the two Ctt- narders had been Increased to 12b miles One of the features of the daily life on shipboard was furnished by the two devaior- amidships, which car ried the passeng* rs op and down to tin* various decks, five in a;!, which are designated as A, B. !» and K. Two 1 hoys in g 'd !a ,- ed uniforms were in charge md *:*e kepi h :sy day and night, e: eoiaky at dimer time, when the ladies a|e e, n-d in gorgeous toi lets. escorted by their husbands In solemn even. - dii.-s. Sitting in the splend.- ■ ■ .:ng room, decorated In white a<hi a I. with its lofty balcony, am 1 listed'.■■ :• die of' hestra. It was difficult t" .*'i *ve oneself at sea. Th > tde*. , v w hid> are connected v ’ h e bin. :*'">rd:*d groat to t 1 • passengers at first, •" found of great onveu- len-e in a: king om*' . friends if they were <* tali, b hmuer ' r for a prom enade on , .a* ship v.: s so large hat it v* as i u a ,vays [>•■.- idle to lo cal. vour frcnils wilboii the aid of tin* telephones xud tla central offices <u < •’ !> do* F ’ o< :, : jj the London ct<s*ot.| tie* p: a rs a!' -aid, "Are you there''’ In . id of the American ' *r di:.nei on tine even- in - we a. out on the paciotts veran (la of the p: . . aa '•* dee!: and listen ed to mn i < in* of the ! isiost Uieii on the snip was the Man <mi operator, who was besieged al hours by rus-engors anxious to re"i-' e news and by those* wh<* w * a* *d • cel <l'spat< lies to Utl. 1 i ile lait la.i'r it n* frb a 11. wen wife throi gl and thi •r > eg had got h solin' hiug ■; board tl “Suffering Samuel Johnson!” be yell ed. “What's this cryptic sentence tnea n ?” The airret p'uub'nt explained that if w a ; om* *if hi-i own code words, meu:'. Ing that tin I i sit inia war going ahoid ut hlgii spied, i’he word “full” after “tank," he said, would mean that she was going at iier top speed of twenty- five knois. The weakest pail of the great liner was the rure*rd Daily Bulletin, which was so feeble that the printer used to I go to sleep setting it up. It struck the ) crowd of newspaper men on board that i it would 1m* a kindness to the purser, j who was editor as well as press ecu- j sor. If we took the labor off his hands | and brought out a real live paper tilled j with tin* little incidents and romances ! that were happening every minute ! around us. When the proposition was : put to him Mr. Lancaster stepped hack at least four feet, with alarm depicted I on Ids cherub like countenance, and said: "Oh, no! One would never know j what would happen to one If one it I lowed one’s work to he taken out of 1 one’s hands, would one?” “We thought that it was possible j “one would not,” Judging by the re- | marks the owner of the amateur code i made daily about the censor. By noon on Tuesday we had made a | run of r»r. miles. 1,121 miles from ' Queenstown, and all on hoard felt hap py with the Idea that the British flag would once more fly In the van and the colors of the famous Deutschland j would he hauled down. Alas. It was | not to Ik*; That night we hud a rough j sea and a strong north-northeast wind ! w hich whistled around the promenade j deck, but did not rock the ship a little j ML The pools were auctioned off each night in the smoking room, which j teemed to arouse some of the meu on j board from their lethargy in the ho]K* of winning money from their fellow passengers. The highest pool was S 1.000 and was won by a man who paid $2t>0 for the nuint*er. About midday on Wednesday, after the run of JV70 miles had been put up ; on the notice hoard, the w histle was i blown, and as the weather was dear | vve all rushed out on deck to discover the cause. By the aid of powerful glasses we saw a s nail steamer about twenty miles ahead right in our track. Tin* vessel looked so near to the ofli cer from the altitude of eighty feet on the bridge that he was afraid the Lusi tania would run her down, and a braw ny chief from Scotland’s shores shout ed out over ;!ie how. "Ship ahoy, get out of the road or vvo’ll sink you!” Al most before the excitement had died I away we passed her. On Wednesday night we had a con cert in the lounge, with a couple of spooehe c , in one of which Senato" Sutherland declared that the Lusitania v ns mo • * beautiful th'an Solomon’s temple and large enough to hold nil his w iv es and motliers-in-law. while Rob ert Balfour, M. Ik, spoke of the ship | as another link of friendship between ■ Aiiieriea amt England. Senator Suth ! erlnnd caused the lirst laugh that had ! been raised on tin* ship since leaving ! Queenstown by his speech because he | came from Ftnh, though not a Mor ! mon. Late ou Wedne day night we noticed j that the :peed had increased very iow h, and the steamer was slipping! through the water at a great rate, i Then at 11 MO p. m. a fog came on and | dashed our hopes once more. We could 1 not make out where the had link came from, as there were no Jonahs on board and all hands were kind to ' Rill, the ship’:- big black cat. which I always walked the rounds with the | master at arms w hen he went through ! tin* ship at night. Then some one i,i covered that vve were to laud in New ! York on Friday', the Rith. and lie ai j tin* foot of l hirtoenth street. Then ! we knew that tin* record held by tin Deutschland for so many years would j not in* lowei'ed this trip N< xt day at noon the run of .o!t3 wa- n hi ii v. as the best sine* >ul it was to ' late to savf * ><*d Nantucket lightship I said le* was pleased with ii satisfied that she had was expected from her I not speak of what the :ht do in the future, s ot who had charge of -aid In an off moment. censor was not stand we had .'oi timed about coal a day; but, judging ip v. lien she used up for air. there Is a llkeli nearer LB hi to a imotinccd, wo started. Its. As vve i aptaln Wa the shin a done .'ill that but he would Lusitania mi; The eaiiny the engines when th'* pn ing' by, that 1,000 tons of of the trial t: iy-five tons a hood that It < All hands on board enjoyed the trip but there was a general though tin- ling of disappointment •r v.as not driven a lit DCLEMTES WELCOME! a . m b*aniers that One man’® the l.ucania Qoccnstown. I to him by tin* operator .'d- were re r m si >n:>. I that the* tie more rev orils. steame to beat the <Jermiin steamer't (Svlreiess made e on \. Wince. Abo;;! l.t, :t) u or celv ed a11 1 •! : - p,tidied daily . When I went to • end off my first inos-am* ' - the Times I di- 'overevl that we had a pie-- censor i n hoard in the personof.li nh Liineasier. the purser. Whet I took i* i" him he giutieed at It severely and. pointing out an olt* scure vvoia!. a* I<m1. “What’s this?” I explained, ami fhen h<* ■-■ e<! the of fending vv< i < ut and vide it afresh. “Are you r< ; lly the press censor?" 1 asked. Drawing himself dramatically up to his full height of fl' i* fe-*t and one inch the purser replied, “I am.” Tin.* next, day Tuesday one of the correspondents on board gave the press censor a severe shock by suddenly an nonliving that he was going to send a message to Ills paper in code. When the message was handed in tin* pur ser examined it very carefully and pounced on the words “W# tank.” Tooth In a Pow .tc. Isaac Hildebrand of .Mount Etna Huntington eoimty. Ind.. grew a pota to this year ihat contains a lium.i: tooth, says a F**ru (Ind.i dispatch tv the Indianapolis News. The potat patch " a® formerly an Indian burying ground, and fr <ni It have been taken nan skulls and hone- When Mi Hildebrand dug his potatoes recently In* found one from which protruded .< human tooth. Tin* freak Is on cxhlb 1 Mon In a store window at Mount Etna At the Raw Box. Hern comes thv- oyster! Alt hull to tli« oyster, The Chesapeake oyster, beyond all com par*-! Thn-'" cheers for He oyster, the beauttf oyster, That gem of our waters, rich, luselou* and rare' We’ll fry him and stv-w him. we'll pay tribute to him; fieptcinli* r l'« h ascH him iindi-r th 1 v All hall to tie oyster, the in irvelvju.** <.y.. ter. A lewe! vv'ven he’s moved and a *!r. in wheii tie's raw! l While in the city and not otherwise engaged dele gates are invited to make The Ledger their home. Here you will find writ ing material, desk room, water and | tooth picks and a warm welcome. COME IN AND CHAT THE LE TV i * | * <•* ■ J £ ^ —Baltimore San.