who advised Congress that it could pass the Railroad Rate Bill, and he was the President's constant adviser in the matter. The Postal and Land Fraud cases were conducted under his direction. He has been the first Attorney General to employ criminal law in the prosecution of violations against the anti-trust laws.

How has he been able to accomplish this tremendous amount of work? Simply by keeping at it all the time. No Government official is more tireless in his labors. He drives to his office, and plans his day's campaign on the way. Mr. Moody has made it a point to know all the evidence that is gathered in the big cases. Frequently there are visitors. Out of some of these visits have come some important cases. A Tennessee lawyer, for example, who represented a farmer, gave him the first facts that resulted in the prosecution of the Fertilizer Trust. A reporter for a New York newspaper brought the first evidence of alleged rebate-taking by the Sugar Trust.

In the afternoon he generally takes a horseback ride, often with the President, for whom he is frequently mistaken, and with Judge Taft. In Washington, this is his only exercise. At home he walks a great deal. When he is preparing a case, he works at his bachelor apartment where he keeps house with General Crozier, of the Ordnance Bureau, and Representative Gillette of Massachusetts.

On one of his horse-back rides about Washington occured an incident which shows the Attorney-General's sense of humor. He was riding alone when a man galloped up alongside and engaged him in conversation. proved to be a newspaper correspondent who had not been in the city very long, and who began to talk in a very light vein.

"I suppose you meet most of the Government officials," said Mr. Moody.

"Oh yes,"

replied the correspondent. "Take those Cabinet officers for example. They are very ordinary people-like you and me, only some of them are industrious. There's Postmaster-General Payne. He works from early till late. Judge Taft is a worker, too." "How about Secretary Moody," asked his companion, falling in with the spirit of the

conversation.

"He's a big man-but he is the laziest fellow in the Cabinet." By this time they reached a drug-store and stopped to have a drink of soda water. When they were about to separate, Mr. Moody said:

"I've had a very pleasant ride with you. I hope we shall meet again."

The newspaper man took out a card and handed it to Mr. Moody, who in turn handed him one of his. But he did not wait to witness the correspondent's embarrassment.

MOODY THE MAN

What kind of man, then, is this energetic Attorney-General whose activities extend to nearly every branch of the Government? Go to Haverhill, Mass., in the summer and you will probably meet him swinging down one of the elm-shaded streets or tramping across the pleasant Essex country-a stocky, sturdy, broad-shouldered figure, with a face tanned by the sun. You will hear a neighbor greet him as "Bill," stop him, and ask him how he is getting along. For he is still their friend and counsellor. They come to him with their troubles: the local butcher who sells meat across the line in New Hampshire and who doesn't quite understand the new inspection laws, or an old Gloucester sea-captain whose ship was seized by the British twenty years ago, and who has a claim for damages pending. His old neighbors are very proud of him, too, and they will tell you that, "Bill Moody is a big man.'

His home is a large yellow and white colonial house. His favorite room is the long, lowceiled library, with its solid rows of books, set in heavy mahogany shelves. It is a room in which one would like to read. You will find that the Attorney-General knows his Kipling, Stevenson, Balzac, and Thackeray as well as his law, and he can discuss history and biography with the familiarity that comes of long and close kinship. "I never buy a book until I have read it," he says. He smokes cigars constantly and walks up and down as he talks. He talks as he works and lives-with snap, vigor, and directness. He not only bears a strong physical resemblance to President Roosevelt, but has very much the same strenuous

manner.

Over one of his book shelves hangs the blue ensign of the Secretary of the Navy. It was made by the enlisted men of the Dolphin and presented to him on his retirement as Secretary of the Navy. "I am very proud of that," he said. "It came from men in the ranks."

This, then, is "the man who," in the words of his predecessor, "has more than any one else, put into practice the theory that the law of the land is for the poor and rich alike."

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HE new Capitol of Pennsylvania, which was dedicated on October 4th, takes rank with the most monumental buildings in the country. In size it is surpassed by few; and while size itself is not a virtue it becomes, when allied with dignity of whole and beauty of parts, a very important ingredient of the monumental quality.

The building is attractively situated on Capitol Hill, a gentle eminence comprising some fifteen acres, studded with trees. The latter, while allowing a number of beautiful fragmentary views, interfere with a sight of the façade as a whole, but one may find an excellent view-point about half-way across the carriage-bridge over the Susquehanna River.

Then Then a delightful picture presents itself-the Susquehanna in the foreground; a middle distance of leafy boulevard and piled-up roofs; and then the Capitol, reared impressively against the sky, its whiteness tinged, if you choose your time, with the soft flush of the sunset-a monumental mass, dominating not only the city but the whole hill-girt hollow of the landscape.

The length of the Capitol is 520 feet, the breadth through the centre line 254 feet, and through each of its side wings 212 feet. Its area is 86,178 square feet, an excess of a little more than 2,000 square feet over that of St. Paul's, London. Perhaps the significance of these dimensions will be the better appreciated

The design of the dome is modeled after that of St. Peter's at Rome, and the whole structure follows the Renaissance use of the Greek classic, the order of the columns that adorn the façade being Corinthian. They lend the emphasis of their decoration to the bel étage, which occupies the second and third floors. In the three projecting wings the columns are arranged in four pairs, supporting porticoes; in the connecting wings where they are disposed singly between each of the windows and are attached to the walls by a quarter of their circumference their use is

THE MAIN ENTRANCE Including a view of the bronze doors

purely decorative. The entablature is of the simplest Greek design: an architrave of three bands, an undecorated frieze, and a cornice. In the connecting wings it is surmounted by a balustrade, which in those that project is replaced by an attic. This in the right and left wings is faced with a pediment, whereas the central attic is left plain, the intention being that its panels shall eventually be embellished with inscriptions and the whole crowned with a quadriga. For this, as for the sculpture that is to adorn the pediments and certain other parts of the exterior, no appropriation has yet been made. They exist, at present, only as

essential features of the architect's original scheme.

On the other hand, for the large groups destined to flank the entrance a commission has been given to Mr. George Grey Barnard, and the work is within a measurable distance of being completed. The conception to which he has undertaken to give ideal expression is Life-the joy of life and the labor thereof. From photographs of portions of the work it seems safe to predict that they will be at once the most complete and the most impressive creations of this sculptor, a product not only of his profound knowledge of form but also of his high gift of poetic imagination.

The construction of the dome is of particular interest. Seen from the outside, it rises from a squared base which supports a circular foundation for the cylinder or drum. The drum is composed of sixteen pairs of Corinthian columns (some day to be topped with eagles), alternating with sixteen windows. These are crowned with a cornice, and it is up to the line of the egg-and-dart moulding in the latter that the granite masonry is carried; thence forward, as far as the gilded bronze ball and statue, the structure is of terra-cotta. The dome proper is composed of an inner and an outer shell of concrete, to the latter of which the terra-cotta is cemented. The skeleton consists of sixteen steel trusses anchored into the masonry of the drum and further secured by concentric circles of lateral trusses. The underbeams of all these trusses are imbedded in the inner shell of concrete, and the upper in the outer, leaving a space between by which every part of the dome may be reached. Here, too, is a ladder by which the adventurous visitor may climb to the gallery that surrounds the cupola, gaining thence a panoramic view of the Susquehanna and the adjacent hills that will well repay him.

Seen from within, the construction of the dome is that known as pendentive vaulting. The continuous circle of the drum is drawn. down into four triangular supports, whose surfaces curve inward until each of their spreading edges meets that of its neighbor, forming four arches between the four pendentives. The weight of the superstructure having thus been distributed among the latter, they in turn are supported upon four huge piers. The total weight of the whole structure is 26,000 tons. To withstand this enormous downward pressure, nature had provided a bed of slate rock,