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-.. sfe&T . "1 ..•?,v >•*,/ * ' % : . ' • ' * %v '.- , " IJ,W "•!* ., » '5"*." r "i ralcr :J?r l Vtt W.YXE, Editor m* Publisher. JilcHKIIlfT, - ILLINOIS. I IDEALS OF LlliEl'TY. OLD DEFINITIONS DEFECTIVE W' ' "4,. AT PRESENT*. „ 7^*" ' '|B f •/ ̂ i i ' " •• ̂ ' Tltm Mates Tjrptr--KwroUnd tb« DtltlM or K«i»»-0«ir I m r <;ocM«M Bm Graced thu Com fur * C«nl#rji •/*' * 4 M»«t K«wrtM»«* v,. *>. * ^TnterwoVcn is thc loveof i; said Washington, "with every liga- f - , inent of the human heart." From P? the time of Moses, the great law- ? giver, down through tl?e days of J)raco, Lycuwis, and -Solon, liberty ft:*'* has been a theoretical theme of , thought, discussion, and panegyric C tvith philosopher, philantUrouhist, Ul |>oet, sage, and statesman; but it was sW destined to be bom in a new world in its grandest form a little over a ccn- tury ago i n the fo.ii nd i ng of a re pub! ic, k/> - 'writes Chides E. Kisou in tlw Chi­ ll- ^fago Inter-Ocean. Blackstoife's dell ni* tion of civil liberty iu, this new light, , lacks essential MIU GOIil> PIECE (1195.) would argue against this mmtargua without an adversary. * * * The whole system is arranged so as to produce as far as unequal industry and enterprise render it possible, a universal equality among men; an equality of rights absolutely, and an equality of condition, to far as the different characters of individuals will allow such, equality to be pro­ duced." Civil and religious liberty have an TWENTY-DOLLAR GOLD PIECE (1827). ^^constitution or form of government, t system"of law, is alone calcutated .j. " to maintain civil liberty, which leaves ^ the subject entire master of his own ^^..jconrtnct, except in those points in M ^ which public good requires some di- f l-ectioa or restraint." While the Urorld of thought would cordially agree that the public good is the great ^,rr j end to be conserved; it would differ Widely as to the things constituting !' the public good, particularly the kind ©f government best suited to secure ^ ••-•4t. He does not define ,the political X x structure, but to his mind it was con- lf%fMBtitutional monarchy. The larger .-Tidea of political liberty, ••which can «ot brook a king,"is bardjy embraced i-' ^in the expression of the great En- ^ . glish law authority. |r; William Bean's deflation, Vhich A' adorns the walls of Independence fe^Hall. has been regarded as a classical definition of free government;" *rAny amicable adjustment; but the per­ plexing question of the day is indus­ trial liberty. John M. Bonhain, in his comprehensive book under this title, conservatively remarks: "TMf JBanncr in which the American Cen«~ stitution has remained in substantial (fcongruity with our subsequent de­ velopment; in which it has restrained^ where restraint was necessary, and enlarged where freedom grew; the manner in which it has borne the Nation through the crisis of a civil war, has not only proven the sum of the great wisdom thus exercised, but it also affords a warrant for the belief that we shall be enabled, with moder­ ate structural changes, to adjust and assimilate to it the phenomenal ac­ tivities of this and coining genera­ tions." The tributes of a more precious ^f pean tolibert? writ^e|HJr the w<t/ust and lives of Theotra^f^arker, John Brown, Francis Jackson, William Lloyd Garrison, Harriet Martineau^, Abraham Lincoln, and the silver- tongued Wendell Phillips; the many pillars of state, the thousand patriots and the unnumbered multitude of iiV . t; * K r̂ •* ff- K *j& - ' " "M"s" m « • i k OKE POIST FOB 8 MIRACLE ill restraint, Tho Ilbortj oap bof Phmrian orlRln. men this •gfrrcus- ive people conquered and took posses­ sion of the entire eastern part or As!a Minor, they wore a close-tltting cap to distinguish themselves from tie natives and had it stamped upon their coins. The Eomans adopted this cap fashion, but they were only worn by freedmen. When a slave was set free he donned the red cap, called pilous, as a token of his manumis­ sion. When Saturnius took posses­ sion of the capital In the year 2«3, he set a cap on a spear as a promise of liberty to all slaves who would join him. Marius used tho same expedi­ ent to incite the siaves to take arms against Sylla. The conspirators that slew Ca?sflr carried capped spears as a symbol of new liberty for Rome and tho "medal bearing the same device struck to commemorate the crime is still extant. Britannia was first struck In coins by the Romans. In the year 1667 Charles II. revived the device, and the uaw Britannia was a fac simile of his chere amie. Barbara Yilliers, created by him Dt^hess of Clevelaud. The figure was bv Evelyn, engraved by Euetier, and was pictured carrying the cap on a spear. The liberty cap was first used in this country as the device on the ilag of the XTiirad^pliia Light Guards, a militia organized some time prior to the revolution. The committee of public safety in Philadelphia Aug. 13, 1775, pasaa^a^r«polution adopting as the seal of the Board the cap of liberty with the mmto: "This is my right, and I wmdefend it." It was first placed upon American coins in 1783. During the French revolution the emblem of the liberty cap was ex­ tensively utilized by the Jacobins. There is an erroneous impression that America adopted the device from France; whereas America used it much earlier than 1790. Ours was really the adoption of the classic symbol. * The French device would hardly have Ween tolerated in this country at that' time, as the drift of the French revolution and its outgrftWth- v,as quite distinct from the magic movement of the pure and lofty spirit which created these United States. Their Goddess of Liberty was really an unholy type of reason and her cap was the blood-red symbol tinted by the^fceifror of the guillotine. "Reason considered as an impersonation o£ail r^'-„ | > SILVER DOLLAR (1795.). government is free to the people nn- der it when the laws rule and the peo­ ple are a party to those laws: and more than this is tyranny, oligarchy and confusion." The writer as a Royalist while framing a govern­ ment for the colonies, can hardly be regarded as picturing the adequate idea of liberty; whereby each and every citizen of the commonwealth he established was to be a free man, guardian not only of himself but the associated rights of others; in fact a sovereign in his own capacity, op­ posing the idea of dominion by birth. Passing these distinguished pre- . cepts of liberty, acknowledging the FIVE-DOLLAR GOLD PIECE (1835) citizens and soldiers that lie in un­ known graves, all speak as a mighty voice from the dead for liberty--for its perpetuation. Looking backward we may see lib­ erty as an infantile blaze warning the soul of the Greek. Efcutheria was a festival celebrated at Platea in honor of Jupiter Eleutherius, tfr the asserter of liberty. After the Victory of the Greeks uniler Pausanias over Mar- donius, the Persian Geneial, in the vicinity of Platea, ap altar and statue were erected to Jupiter Eleutherius, who had freed the Greeks from the tyranny of the barbarians. Aristides, the Athenian, in the General Assem­ bly advised that deputies should be sent every fifth year to celebrate Eleutheria, or the festival of liberty. At break of day the procession, led by a trumpeter sounding the signal for battle, was formed Following® those mental powers came chariots loaded with garlands ^Uish mankind from (1T8&) $hows the goddess, the proto* type, with Samsonian promise of strength in wealth of hair, flowing from beneath her jaunty cap, and a delightfully saucy bang. The silver dollar of that year presents a more womanly type, with impressive height of brow, and represents tho historio features of Martha Washington. If nationality affects art the de­ signer of the dollar in 1815 possibly tried to harmonize the Greek line of brow with his own Ideal in the heavy jaw of Germania. This face has a very determined, perhaps shrewish, expression, but she is not good look­ ing. The gold coin, of 1827 shows ' LIBERTY HEAD ON FREHCH COUff. some improvement in feature, buther lips are swollen and have a prunes and prisms expression. Her head- ge£fr resembles the old-fashioned nicht-cap. The artist who fashioned the figure on the dollar Of 1836 was probably an Englishman, at any rate he has duplicated the figure of Bri­ tannia, and furnished her with a shield blazoned "liberty," instead of with a scepter. The five dollar gold piece of 1835 shows a good strong type that might be cliajmed as American. The simple fillet that binds the ringlets abouf her brow is quite witching; and hei pretty mouth' has a kissable look worth more than moneys The ideals of the past are very tenacious in their grasp upon art The designer of the gold piece of 1870 was evidently a student of Flaxman and has given one of the finest faces that appear in monetary illustration. A decade later we revert to a rather common­ place personage, with allegorical ao< HBLPLBS8 FOR YEARS AND EXi- OkUDBD PROM HOSPITALS • t:.r. AS INCURABLE. LiB- of jbe NtfWh, V. Wf- , *SL«4 • SILVER DOLLAR (1815) benefits derived from Magna Charta, antl the common law of England, in America, largely by reason of the traditions and tenures associated with the latter, political liberty re- cqived a more practical and loader interpretation than it ever had be­ fore, embodied as a universal prin­ ciple in the declaration and taw of the people. The limited con eeption of liberty that pre­ vailed during the reign . of King Johu, and the broad and com? prebensive idea that marked it dur­ ing the American Revolutionary period, show the wonderous growth politically that reached its full frui­ tion in the close of the great Ameri- ' can Conflict and the freedom of the llave. Daniel Webster said: "First and Chief, no man makes question, that the people are the source of all politic eal power, Govermeofc is instituted ff»r their good, and its members are fteir agents and sen anta lie wh SILVER DOLLAR (1836). . and myrrh; a black bull?and a line of freeman carrying libations of wine and milk. Last came the chief mag­ istrate with sword in hand, moving toward the sepulchers of the city. After sacrificing the bull he invoked Jupiter and Mercury and invited to the feast the souls of happy he roes who had perished in defense of their country. After this he filled a bowl with wine saying, "I drink to those who lost their lives in defense of the liberties of Greece. The Romans paid deference to Libertas, yie goddess of pardon, the same as the Eleutheria of the Greeks. She was the daughter of Jupiter and Juno. Tiberius Gracchus erected the first temple to her at Rome on Aven tine hill, and it was here that the archives of the state were deposited. The goddess was represented as a Roman matron, arrayed in white, holding in one hand a broken scepter SILVER DOLLAR (1878). which distln- the brute cre­ ation was decreed to be worshiped as goddess by the French Republicans Nov. 10, 1793, when a festival was held in honor of the new faith. The Church of Notre Dame was converted into a temple of reason, and every tenth day was appointed to supersede the Christian Sabbath." Americans have the right to be­ lieve that the system of liberty upon which their Government is based is the greatest and grandest that has been' vouchsafed to man. They have an equal right to be proud of the symbol that represents her upoift their coin.. There is no small inter­ est in facing the changcs that her MISS ANHA L. WILLIAM^ (M] ERTY, 1890.) cessories. The cotton bale South, th<r wheat sheaf of »the appeal potently to the agricultural element, the salt of the earth. The dollar of the current year is the most perfect type of \he pure Greek classic face that has evcV graced our coins. % FraTOe and the Argentine Repub­ lic have a few types of liberty on their coins, but in time past the mutations of politics have made them variable and fickle creatures. The other na­ tions of the earth have their kings and queens, their arms, their eagles, their doubte eagles, and their sun­ bursts; but America still retains the proud and glorious features of a wo­ man. The dollar of 1880 shows the features of a beautiful American wo­ man and has behind it a touching, ro« wt ' ARGENTINE and in the other a by a piJeu»or cap; at her cat, an animal that Is ad REPUBLIC pike surmounted feet lay a enemy to •\ ... SILVER DOLLAR (1886). features have undergone in the cen­ tury that has almost rounded out, before - she first figured as a palpable feature in the Republic. Having followed Mr. Ruskin's icea of distinguishing the theoretical fac­ ulty from the moral perception, we may concern (Jurselves with the aesthetic idea in the imaginative re­ sults. Some of her forms of typical beauty that may enter such consider­ ation are; Unity, the type of divine comprehensiveness; repose, the type of^divme permanence; symmetry, the type of divine iustice; purity, the type of divine, energy; and, modera­ tion, the type of government by law. Our Goddess of Liberty may be con­ sidered to have fulfilled these ideas. First, she stands in proud pre-eml- nence on the dome of our Capitol at Washington; and still more perfectly, as she came the gift of France, the monument of our centennial, tower­ ing grandly against the sky, blessing the land, lighting the . Tbe first twenty NEW MINT (189A) mance of the dead artist who made the object of his love immortal. It seems to portray peace and power, gentleness and fidelity, and has woven the legend of love Into the emblfem of libei ty. Curlosltln* of tha Peualon Roll*. Here are some remarkably impres­ sive pension figures: Minnesota fur­ nished 18,554 three years' men in the war, and she has 10,873 men on the pension roll. The District of Colum­ bia beats this record, in that she furnished only 6,543 three years' men and has 5,132 men on the pension rolls. Oregon furnished 1,773 three years' men, and 2,263 soldiers from that State draw a pension. This re cprd is surpassed in Kansas, which supplied 16,624 three years' men, and has on the penjiteuj rolls 20,421. Cali­ fornia leads all-^roe other States in this direction, however; she furn­ ished 3,697 three years' men, and has 8,004 drawing a pension. The only explanation of this excess of pen­ sioners over the number of three years' men enlisted is that a vast number of men enlisted just before the* close pt the war and saw but lit­ tle service.--Boston Herald. Tliln at a Church Sotfull Mrs. J. W. Hummer of High Bridge, New York attended an oyster sup­ per for th^ benefit of the Methodist Episcopal (?hurch. While eating the bivalves from the half-shell her teeth suddenly struck a hard substance. Thinking she had bitten a piece of oyster shell, Mr®. Hummer removed the substance from her month. It Droved to be an extraordinarily large pearl. A Philadelphia jeweler, who chanced to be present, pronounced it of perfect formation and exquisite color and said it was worth at least 92,500; /, { . " . ^ Th» Item nrktkte^Kx^frlene* of Qunt m bjr an Alb tajr (N. T.) rf•>««mttl/R'?»•;--A Storjr of 8ur- , pMMlBff JpCwmt. (Albany, N. V.Jw^Naniij} SARATOGA, March 4.--For some time past thero have been reports here and elsewhere in Saratoga Countv of a most remarkable--indeed, so remarkable as to be miraculous--cure of a most severe case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by the uao of a popu­ lar remedy known as "Pink Pills for Pale People," prepared and put up by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Morristown, N. Y. and Brock villa, Ont. The story was to the effect that Mr. Charlies A. Quant, of Galway, who for the last si* or eight years has been a great sufferer from creeping paralysis and Its attendant ills, and who had be­ come utterly powerless of all self-help, had, by the use. of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Pale People, beon so fully restored to health as to bo able to walk about the street without the aid of crutches. The |ame of this wonderful, miraculous cute was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought It worth his while to go to Gal- way te call en Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips, and from the obser­ vation and testimony of his neighbors, If his alleged cure was a fact or only an unfounded rumor. And so he drove to Galway and spent a day and a night there in visiting Mr. Quant, getting.his story, and interviewing his neighbors and fellow-townsmen^ It may be proper to say that Galway is a pretty little vil­ lage of 400 people, delightfully located near the center of the toWh of Galway, in Saratoga County, and about f7 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon gpquiry, the residence of Mr. Charles A. Quant was easily found, for everybody seemed to know him, speak well of him, and to be overflowing with surprise and satisfaction at his wonderful cure and restoration to the - activities of enter­ prising citizenship, for Mr. Quant .was born in Galway and had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty* home, on a pleasant street nearly opposite the academy. In re­ sponse to a knock at the door it was opened by man who, in reply to an in­ quiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was at home, s&id: "I am Mr. Quant. Will you come in?" After a little general and preliminary conversation, and after he had been apprised of the object for which the Journal reporter had called upon him, he, at request, told the story of himself and of his sickness and terri­ ble sufferings, and of the ineffectual^ treatment he had had, and of Ixis final cure by the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills for Pale People, and cheerfully gave assent to its use for publication. He said: "My name is Charles A. Quant. I am 37 years old. I was born in the village of Galway, and, except­ ing while traveling on business and a little while in Amsterdam, have spent my whole life here. My wife is a native of Ontario. Up to about eight years ago I had never been sick and was then in perfect health. I was fuily six feet tall, weighed 180 pounds and was very strong. For twelve years I was a trav­ eling salesman for a piano and organ company and had to do, or at least did do, a great deal of heavy lifting, got my meals very irregularly and slept in enough 'spare beds' in country houses to freeze any ordinary man to death, or* at least give him the rheumatism. About eight years ago I began to feel distress in my stomach and consulted several doctorsjdjjjut it. They all said it was dyspepsia, and for dyspepsia I was treatdniay various doctors in different places, aijd took all the patent medicines I could hear of that claimed to be a cure for dyspepsia. But I continued to grow gradually worse for four years. Then I began to have pain in my back and legs and became conscious that my legs were getting weak and my step unsteady, and then I staggered when I walked. Having received no benefit from the use of pat­ ent medicines, ami feeling that I was constantly growing worse, I then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the many different kinds of electric appli­ ances I could hear of, an<f spent hun­ dreds of dollars for them, but they did me no good." (Here Mr. Quant showed the Journal reporter an electric suit of underwear for which he pa'd $124.) "In the lall of 1888 the doctors advised a change of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted as agent for the Estey Organ Company. While thero I took a thorough electric treatment, but it only seemed to aggravate my disease, and the only relief I could get from the sharp and distressing pains was to take mor­ phine. The pain was solntense at times that it seemed as though I could not stand it, and I almost longed t(k death as the only certain relief. In Septem­ ber of 1888 my legs gave out entirely, and my left eye was drawn to one side, so that I had double sight and%was dizzy? My trouble so affected my whole nervous system that I had to give up business. Tnen I returned to New York and went to the Hoosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was'treated by specialists and they pronounced my •' case locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I had been under treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr. Ware for four months, they told me they had done all they could for me. Then I went to tho New York hospital on Fif­ teenth street, where, upon examination, they said I was incurable and would not take me in, Atthe Presbyterian hospital they examined me and told me the same thing. In March, 1890, I was taken to St. Peter's hospital in Albany,*whore Prof. H. H. Hun frankly told my wife my case was hopeless; that he could do nothing1 for me, and that she had better take me back home and save my mon^y. But I wanted to make a trial of Prof. Hun's famous skill, and I remained under his treatment for nine weeks, but secured no benefit. All this time I had,been growing worse. I had become entirely paralyzed from my waist down and had partly lost con­ trol of my hands. The pain was terrible; my legs felt as though they were freez­ ing and my stomach would not retain food, and I fell away to 120 pounds. In the Albany hospital they put seventeen big burns on my back one day with red- hot irons, and after a few days they put fourteen more burns on and treated me with electricity, but I got worse rather than bettor; lost control of my bowels and water, and upon advlco of tho doc­ tor, who eaid thero was no hope for me, statement of one John Marshall, wfco«» oape hatt bees similar to my own, mm trip had bee* eured by tjbe use of Dr. Williams' Pirtk PiliH for Pale People. •In this ease Mr. Marshall, who Is a prominent member of the Royal Tem­ plars of Temperance, had after four years of constant treatment by the most eminent Canadian physicians been pro­ nounced incurable, and was paid the $1,000 total disability claim allowed by the order in such cases. Some months Mr. M:.u-«Si!s!i brgan a course of treatment with Dr. Williams' Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully restored to health. "I thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of the pills and I took them according to the directions given on the wrapper in each. box. For the first few days the cold baths were pretty severe, as I was so very weak, but I continued to fo'low instructions as to taking the pills and treatment, and even before I had used up the two boxes of pills I began to feel beneficial effects from them. My pains were not so bad; I felt warmer; my head felt better; my food began to relish and agree with me; I could straighten up; the feeling began to come back into my limbs; I began to be able to get about on crutches came back again as good as e' now, after the use of eight boxes of the pills--at a cost of $4--see!--I can with the hefp of a cans only, walk ali about the house and vard, can saw wood, and on pleasant nays T walk down town. My stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; I feel like, a new man, and when the spring opens I ex­ pect to be able to renew my organ and piano agency. I cannot speak in too high terms or Dr. Williams" Pick Fii'm for Pale People, as I know they saved my life after all thedoctors had given me up as incurable." Other citizens of Galway, seeing the wonderful cure of Mr. Quant by the Pink Pills for Pale People, are using them. Frederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, said he was finding great benelit from their use, and Mr. Schultz, who had suffered from chronic dysentery for years, said he had taken two boxes of the pills and was already cured. Mr. Quant had also tried faith cure, with experts of that treatment in Albany and Greenville, S. X)., but with no bene­ ficial results. A number of the more prominent citi­ zens of Galway, as Bev. C. E. Herbert, of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas. £. Kellv. principal of the academy; John P. and Harvey Crouch, and Frank and Edward Willard, merchants, and many others to whom Mr. Quant and his so miraculous cure by the use of Dr. Will­ iams' Pink-Pills for Pale People are well known, were pleased to have the opportunity Of bearing testimony to the high character of Mr. Quant, and of verifying the story of his recovery from the terrible affliction from which he had for so long a time been a sufferer. Truly, the duty of the physician is not to save life, but to heal disease. The remarkable result from the use of Dr. Williams' Pink Pills in the case of Mr. Quant, induced the reporter to make further inquiries conoerning them, and standard Uroceries Teas. daStb set for TAKlrtO BLAND'S B!*.!-. TMMpMtuoo* S«Mloa « , th« Houm Ot lHoldu by » Vote «f l8» to 80 to Co*. 0td<*rltoi> March 3*. ! *tlver » Winner. jg„; Sttver fcad the Hmieein * lurfciotl wr more than four hours the other after­ noon. The report of the Committee 00 Rules, setting apart three days, eftdihg with March 25, for consideration of the Bland bill, was the bone of contention. It was finally adopted by a vote of lffr to 85, all the Republicans but thirteen voting for it, in order, as they frankly Baid, to embarass the Democrats. It was a very enjoyable day for the Repub­ licans, who lor the most part kept quiet, while the Democrats fought it out. Thp afternoon was marked by several excite Ing incidents, among which were a Warmly discussed question of veracity between Bland and Bourke Cockran, t^o arbitrary rulings bv Speaker Crisp, 'i eJf I who, also on one adcasfoh lost his tem- •ver, and , ^ & warning by George Fred Williams that the Democratic party was throwing ecn •M ".j 'V: ii OFFEL. IWlHg." S Dr. Williams' Pink Pills are _ specific for tioubles peculiar to females, such as suppressions, irregularities, and all forms of weakness, jhey build up the blood and restore the glow of health to pale or sallow cheeks. In the case of men they effect a radical cure in all cases arising from mental worry, over­ work, or excesses of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found that these pills are manufactured by the Dr. Williams Medicine Company, Brock- ville, Ont., and Morristown, N. Y., and are sold in boxes (never in bulk by the hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may be had of all drug­ gists or direct by mail from Dr. Williams' Medicine Company, frpm either ad­ dresses. The price at which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparatively inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treat- ment. . , , •. IN A CHICAGO HOTEL. away the Presidency, and a short speec in which, the Democrats say, Reed hibited more feeling and eloquence than be has ever before displayed iu tha House. { While the silver bill will be taken up for debate later in the month there ls aa pet no certainty of its passage. The coting that there are eighty- Ive Democrats ready to vote against ihe Bland bill. Seventy-two Democrat® roted against the resolution, and, with pairs and absentees, the number of anti- jilver votes from the Democratic side Is swelled to a ceftaintv of eighty-seven. Of the eighty-seven Republicans in the House only ten will vote for the bill, eaving seventy-seven opposed. These added to the eighty-five Democrats give i total of 162, or within five of a major­ ity of a full House. It is claimed by anti-silver Democrats that before a vote ls4aken on the passage of the bill they will secure enough recruits to turn the balance in their tavor. An accession "Of ;hree or four men to the anti-silver ranks will do the business, uuu, with tome of the most influential De»ocratlo Senators endeavoring to defeat the' Mil in the House, it would be strange if the required number of converts could not ae secured. • The battle of the day began the mb- nent the blind Chaplain had concluded lis prayer, and it required three hours and a half of hard woik for the Speaker, che Committee on Rules and the big army of silver men behind him to drive back Tracy and his handful of edMiers. Step by step tbey were beaten and dis­ persed, however, until at 3:30 the flcor was cleared for the thirty minutes'de­ bate, and then the mo3t exciting and Important part of the day's scenes was enacted. Seven orators were put ior- ward, four on the side of silver and ithree against it. Mr. Reed was given "glie privilege of dividing the time for the •ny Republican side and Mr. Catchings for "he Democrats. ]s. Representative Tracey, of New York; lad been selected by the group of antt- "ree-silver Democrats to lead the oppo- •iAdtion, and he performed his task as . Wlu-k-ntly as one could, knowing that he ^>d a forlorn hope. The freei-silver men, " aring filibustering by means of amend- ents to the journal, an ancient, and ap- oved method by which countless hours ay be slaughtered, thwaitad this move- ent at the very outset when Mr. Catch­ ings called up his resolution before the reading of the journal. This was the J I -41 tal ar gola coin vmmi. I was brought home, where it was ( thought that death would soon come to : relieve me of my sufferings. Last Sep­ tember while in this helpless and «uffer- jxitr condition, a friend of mine in Ham­ ilton, Ont., called my attention to It Was Full of Magnificent Distances to ^Bother Country Guest*. He was from a country town and stopped at the Grand Pacific Hotel, and 1 was assigned to a commodious inside room in the northwest corner of the i house, near La Salle street. He was not satisfied. The noise and rattle and tumult of ti e streets reached him and made him yearn to look out on the busy scene whence they came. The strokes , of tho big Board of Trade clock re- , sounded through the corridors, and this ; young man desired to gaze on the tower where the clanging belt hangp. So he went to the office, sought Sam Parker and spoke thus: | "Say, mister, I don't like that room you gave me. I can't see anything but the wails of a big building and some sort of a place with a (glass floor." He meant the court in the center of the hotel. i "Why, cert'nly," said the obliging, < accomiuodating Parker. "What kind of a room would you like?" "Oh, I'm not particular. Anything wheVe I can see something outdoors." "Want a bath with it?" "Weil, I dunno. I had a good wash just before leaving St. Louis, and- " "I mean do you wish a room with a bath-room attached?" "Oh, I don't care if it's next to a bath­ room. I won't kick about that, so's there don't too many people have to go through my room to the bath-room." "How would a nice room around here on the Clark street front suit you?" "First-rate." ' "Front, change the gentleman from 203 to 276." * "How far apart are these rooms? qnirled the St. Louis man anxiously. "About two doilars and a hall, re­ plied Sam. ^ „ _ "I mean how far in distance. ^ How far will I have to carry my valise? "Just about two blocks, said Sam, making a mental survey and topograph­ ical plat of the second floor of the Grand Pacific. "Great gosh all hemlock! I want to stay in the hotel," protested the man from the bridge. • "Oh, you can walk two blocks without getting out of this house," said Mr. Parker. "If you get lost tell your troubles to a policeman.%-- Chicago Post. No Business to Think at All. A Russian press censor permitted the following item to appear in a Moscow paper: "It is our opinion that Russia needs new railroads, and will have them." For this the censor was suspended for three months and the editor fined $300. An Utter Slave. "Goodness, John, how queer baby looks. I believe he is going to have a fit." "By George, I believe you are Where's my camera?"-^-Indian­ apolis Journal. If you want to find out how much clear dog there is in a man, find out how he treats his wife. first stage of the fight, Mr. Tracey protested that the journal must be read before any business could be donp. The Speaker ruled that the point was not well taken, and upon Mr.. Tracey's appeal from this decision there occurred the most exciting passage of the battle. Mr. Tracey made a warm speech in support of his appeal, but in­ cautiously ldst the floor by yielding it to Mr. Fitch of New York, who also favored the appeal. When Mr. Tracey tried to resume his unfinished argument Speaker Crisp deeided that Tracey had spoken . ̂ once on his appeal, and that Under the rules he oould not speak again. "I have the floor," said Mr. Tracey. "You haven't the floor,'•retorted the Speaker. "If you mean to say that I want to know it," shrieked Mr. Tracey. "You must address the Chair respect­ fully." "I don't want to be looked at in that tone of voice," cried Mr. Tracey. The momentary excitement culminat­ ed In a laugh, and then there followed a colloquy between Mr. Coekran and Mr. Bland as to whether there had been a private agreement- between friends and opponents of the free-silver bill that there should be no filibustering on the journal. Mr. Bland claimed that there had, but Mr. Coakran's memory oould not recall such an agreement. ^ After some further discussion, during which Mr. Cleveland's former law part­ ner, Daniel Lockwood, of Buffalo, de­ clared that the rules of this House "are more arbitrary than the rules of the Fifty-first Congress as applied by Speaker Reed," Mr. Tracey's appeal was tabled by a vote of 193 to 93. Tracy made a second appeal from Speaker Crisp's decision and again the^ Speaker . was sustained. i During this skirmish the Speaker sus­ tained his position by quoting the rules. I "The intention of the House," said he,* "is, as tho Chair understands It, justr j what the rule itself proposes. Under the rules of the last Congress 1 Mr. Reed--Does the Chair indorse the i motion of procedure in the last Con­ gress? [Laughter on the Republican i ihe Chair--Part of it doubtless is ! worthy of indorsement; the course of j the Speaker »f the last Congress does not meet with the indorsement of the ' present occupant of the chair. [Laugh­ ter on the Democratic side. j Mr. Reed (with much impressiveness) , --I may say I neither expected nor de­ sired the indorsement. "Quite right," commented Speaker Crisp, laconically. "I was just going to say when interrupted that the gen- ' tlefhan from Maine, the Speaker of the ! last Congress, held that the question of | consideration could not be raised ' against the order of business." j ••Well, I don't want to have anything • to do with the rules of the Fifty-first | Congress," said Mr. Tracey, emphat- ! Ically. [Great laughter.] "The rules of the Fifty-first Congress should not j be alluded to in thiB House, excepting, I possibly, by the gentleman from Maine." § ; [Renewed laughter.] - i i The Speaker--The Chair won't quar- j rel with the gentleman a!out that. | Mr. Tracey's last move was to recom­ mit the resolution, with instructions to the Committee on Rules to postpone thj ^ date for consideration of the silver bill " ... to Dec. 12. As soon as this motion was Z defeated the anti-silver men gave up the fight, and the question came directly before the House upon the adoption of Hr. Catchings' resolution. An Arkansas Tra*e4* ^I\ 4 ^ THE burning at the stake of the negro V 31 Arkansas puts that State at the bot- O . com of the list as far as civilization is •oncerned. It would be a good idea to withdraw some of our missionaries from | ihe Cannibal Islands and send them Ln- [lp Arkansaw.--Indianapolis News. .. '..y 1 V i