St. Joseph County Independent, Volume 17, Number 35, Walkerton, St. Joseph County, 19 March 1892 — Page 2

THEY SHATTER SYNTAX. CONGRESSMEN VIOLATE GRAMMAR AND ITS RULES. How Some Speeches Are Corrected—Average Number of Letters Received Daily by a Member of the House—Rush of the Seed Season. Grammar in the House.

OUR Washington correspondent says: Grammatically the j House is not a

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But in the matter of diction, to the surprise of all mankind, the present House is far in advance of its immediate predecessor. Strangers in the galleries have watched with wonder the lightning-like speed of the stenographers taking down speeches which are being made for the benefit of the constituents of Buncombe County. They have listened to members whoso words lap like shingles on a roof and whose sentences are telescoped worse than a railroad collision, and have marveled at the skill of the stenographers who make such a speech appear verbatim in the ■Record of the following morning. But all this is as nothing compared with the skill, diplomacy, and discretion which has to be exercised by those same stenographers to get these speeches arranged in grammatical form. The supposition the counti y around may be that Congress, as it furnishes the laws and the precedents in all parliamentary matters, might be accepted as authority on grammatical construction, and that the standard diction as well as the law of the nation might be found in the House; but as a matter of fact civil service reform, sound currency and ethics of statesmanship (as badlv treat- I

ed as they are) are not as grossly assaulted as is the English language—the currency of speech. Every dialect that the nation knows is exemplified in some member of this assemblage of statesmen. As a general rule the intelligence of a Congress might be estimated by its speech. It this test were to be applied to the present Congress, I have the word of the stenographers for it, this is far above the average. Some of our ablest statesmen, however, have been very rugged in speech, and therefore it will not do^n every ease to let a Congress be judged by its grammar. The stenographers tell me that the Fifty- ( ! first Congress was conspicuous for poor I gtammar. freely translated, the short- ! hand reports of the Fifty-first Congress w°uld be a literary curiosity. It mav be that this Congress has not gone fat-

enough yet for a fair comparison, but up to the present point a very fair record h “s been produced in the construction of English sentences. The gift of gab besUw^d freely upon the gentlemon in whose

should a report of one day’s proceedings in Congress be printed in the very an- ‘ guage of the House it would make curious and very interesting reading. Comparatively few even of the most learned and intelligent men in Congress follow a perfect diction in debate. The • stenographers make a report of every . word and almost every sound that oc- ; curs upon the floor, though a gieat deal of editing is done before that copy is । sent to the printer. If in the morning’s । Record the grammatical construction is . accurate, it is due t > their careful supervision, and it is curious what tact and diplomacy has to bt exercised to bring this about. The report of a speech is generally submitted to the member delivering it for revision, if lie desires, l ut corrections of grammatical construction are seldom made by members themselves, and often it would be impossible to get the consent of a member for a correction of an obvious error. Usually the stenographer makes these corrections in transcribing his notes, and it is

not infrequent for a member to notice the correction and take exceptions to it, insisting upon being correctly reportA \ W v SHATTEHING SYNTAX.

cd as to his very language. In order to get good language into the report the stenographers often have to make a plea of inaccuracy on their part and take the blame for omissions and changes which they are compelled to make. There have been cases where members have corrected proof and restored their own inaccurate expressions for the corrected manuscript of the reporters, and it has been necessary to lose this revised proof and receive some slight censure for it in order to preserve the respectability of the Record. During this Congress the reporters have had comparatively little difficulty upon this score. The new members who have been doing a considerable

amount of talking have proven themselves not only speakers of considerable capacity in force and effectiveness, but . to be finished and capable constructors ' of English sentences. Bailey, the long- ; hsin cl young Texan, has astonished the stenographers by the delivery of free, off-hand speeches, which, while delivered with great rapidity, have been I smooth and well balanced and almost I entirely free from errors in construction. ; The : ane may be considered of Bryan of Nebraska, who came in with the upheaval which threw the Farmers’ Alliance into Congress. Uis speeches have been printed in the very language

Os their delivery without violation of the canons of good aste. AVatson, of Georgia, who was the . armors Alliance candidate for Speaker, is not an educated man, though an exceedingly fluent talker, yet his speeches lequiio very little editing. The young members from Massachusetts write better than they speak, but the English language does not suffer distortion upon their tongues even while they are embarrassed in their speech before this

new and august assemblage. A number J of the members have been raised in ignor- • anise up to manhood and have acquired ! । their information in later years, and it is ' | curious how their earlier training or ! lack of training exhibits itself in the heat of debate. Jerry Simpson and 1 I armor Davis, who are the great literary ' 1 men of the Alliance party, are very ; accurate and strong writers. Davis in t particular prides himself upon his liter- i ary attainments, yet in their speeches j they both fly off the track entirely and ' shatter syntax in every sentence. A Congressman s Mail. One day’s mail of a Congressman, if well selected, would furnish material for a romance. One might naturally conclude that the thousands of letters disi i

failure; that is to say, the grammar of the Fif t y-s e c on d Congress is not as bad as might be expected. The House, as a rule, is a curious constructor of j false syntax, and it 1 is only a question = of degree as to how r s a r the rules of of grammar are to 5: be violated and all order and precedents shattered.

tributed among members each day dealt only with claims against the Government—pension cases and the dry details of legislation, with here and there a pathetic appeal flora poverty for assistance, but there is a great deal more than this in a Congressman’s mail. An average of about eighty thousand letters per month pass through the House Postoftico into tiio hands of the Representatives to be read^ and answered. During last month 77,770 letters were received, and nearly as many sent out. One could hardly imagine the curious subjects with relation to which people write to their Representatives in Congiess and the confidence which is shown in these letters. A member from the South showed a letter the other day written to him by a, woman living in the country, the simplicity of which proves its sincerity, ami the object of which was to seek his aid and advice in a matter of virtue and morality personal to the writer. It is not an uncommon thing for arents who cannot agree upon a suitable name for their young offspring i to refer the matter to their member for j advice. Some of the West Virginia members get a good many letters of this 1 i sort. One member got a letter the other 1

j day from the mother of a presumably

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Drarxo the sf.eo seaso.v. buxom ami beautiful country lass just budding into womanhoo I asking his opinion as to the advisability <.f

Tit♦ * sllf ii in order to enable the member the more j readily to come to a conclusion. An- ■ other letter came from a young lady j whoso true love course was running the , usual rugged way and u1 o sought the member’s wisdom for the solution of problems which she and In r lover could not set He. These are but examples of a great many such letters whic i uro received by members who repre nt re- ' mote districts, where the -implieitj of uncultured nature pr. vails. Some of I ] the questions propounded by these sim- ' pie people would puzzle a Solomon, ; ml i a member experiences n > little embarrassment in answering them, though Im I who has ' the wisdom to sj cat like a ' Delphic oracle is in a fairway to n ake himself solid with his people, getting I credit for it wher • his advice j roves good i and not running much risk of censure in ' any event. i The number of letters received by | members in the House vary from five or ■ ten a day, which is al on: the extent of the mail of Mr. Gcissenheimer of New

Jersey, to 250 each day, which is a’out the average number of letters recoin d each day by Mr. Harter of Ohio. Mr, Harter having sent anti-silver circulars all over the country, is receiving replies which swell his daily nul ls to the highest notch. But about <ne other member of the House equals him. That other member is O’Donnell of Michigan, who being an avowed candidate for the nomination as Governor of Michigan. is writing to and receiving letters from people throughout the State. Dalzell who is laying his wires to sue e< >1 Mr. Quay in the Senate, receives an average of about 200 letters a day. Representatives Huff and Enochs have been getting about 200 letters a day during the session. Lodge of Massachusetts has a steady run during each session of Congress of about 150 every day, while Wilson of Kentucky, Peel of Arkansas, Pendleton of West Virginia, and Houk of Tennessee run close up to him in their average. As a rule members representing city districts receive less mail

than any others in Congress and alto- i I gether are very much less troubled by i ; their correspondence. j The seed season is just now beginning i i and the members from rural districts I are overwhelmed with letters from constituents asking for seeds, which are given out by the Agricultural Department, a certain proportion to each district. Each member has about 8,800 packages of seed and 800 agricu tural reports to distribute, and most of I the country members have already ali exhausted their stock. Meredith, <>f > I Virginia, whose ct nstituents appear to be ' ! breaking a great deal of ground for the ’ spring planting, lias for several weeks * been getting an average of fifty requests

each for seed, and Holm: n has already 1 responded to*letters exhausting his lull 1 8,800 packages. Besides all the letters 1 which members of the House receive, I i each gets daily a copy of five papers, which are sent free by the publishers, and an average of fifty country weeklies i are received by each member whose district lies outside of the large cities. I The great burden of this correspondence lies in the fact that those men who get. the most letters are usually the repre- ; sentatives of a class of people who in- ; sist that replies must be written by the i members themselves and not by the sec- j [ retaries.

’ SARATOGA CO. MIRACLE I helpless for years and ex- | cluded from hospitals AS INCURABLE. The Remarkable Experience of Chas. | Quant sis Invesligated by an Albany (N. Y.) Journal Reporter—A Story of Surpassing Interest. (Albany, N. Y., Journal, March 4.] Saratoga, March 4. —For some time I past there have been reports here and | elsewhere in Saratoga County of a most ren arkable—indeed, so remarkable as I to be miraculous—cure of a most severe i case of locomotor ataxia, or creeping paralysis, simply by th * use of a popu- . lar remedy known as “Bink Pills for i Palo People,” prepared and put up by the Dr. AV illiams Medicine Company, ! Morristown, N. Y. and Brookville, Ont. ! The story was to the effect that Mr.» Charles A. Quant, of Galway, who for the last six or eight years has been a great sufferer from creeping paralysis and its aTtondant ills, and who had become utterly powerless of all self-help, had, by the use of a few boxes of the Pink Pills for Palo People, been sb fully restored to health as to be able to walk about the street without the aid of crutches. The fame of this wonderful, miraculous cure was so great that the Evening Journal reporter thought it worth his while to go to Galway to call on Mr. Quant, to learn from his lips, and from the observation and testimony of his neighbors, if his alleged cure was a fact or only an unfounded rumor. And so he drove to Galway ami 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 village of 100 people, delightfully located near the center of the town of Galvay, in Saratoga County, and about 17 miles from Saratoga Springs. Upon inquiry, the residence of Mr. Charles A. Quant ;

was easily found, for everybody seeme 1 to know him, speak well of him, and to be overflowing with Fnrprise and satisfaction at his wonderful cure nml restoration to the activities of enter- i prising citizenship, for Mr. Quant was born in Galway ami had spent most of his life there. Mr. Quant was found at his pretty home, on a pleasant str» et nearly opposite the academy. In response to a knock at. the door it was opened by man who, in reply to an inquiry if Mr. Quant lived there and was at home, said: "I am Mr. Quant. Will ■ you come in?” Aft<-r a little general , nml preliminary conversation, nml after I ho had boon apprised of the objeof for I which the Journal rep >rter hml called ' upon him, he, at request. told the story > of himself and of hissickn hs ami terri- • bio sufferings, and of the ineffectual treatment he had had, and of hm final cure by the use of Dr. Williams' pj n k • Fills for Pale People, nnd cheerfully । Üblje |

Ing while traveling < n bu-dm nM<} n r little while in Am< rdam, hay “pent my whole life here. My wife is t native ! of Ontario. Ip to about eight years ago ' I had never been sick and was Hu n in perfect health. I wa- fully six '• et tall, weighed 18) pounds ami was very , strong, lor twelve years I w.m a travMing salesman for a piano and organ jompany and 1 a l to do, or at b i-t -..u 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 m m to death, or nt least give him th rhe nnatism. About I eight years ag > I began to £ distress In mv stomach ami consulted several doctors about it. They all s lid it was, । dyspepsia, ami for dyspepsia I was treated by various doctors in different plact s, and took all the patent m divines 1 could hear of that claimed to boa cure I for dvspepsin. But I continued to grow

I gradually wo-.se for four y. ars. i hen J began to'have pain in my back and legs । and became conscious that my legs were i getting weak and my step unsteady, and •dien 1 staggered when 1 walked. Having received no benefit from the use of pat- : ?nt medicines, and feeling that 1 was constantly growing worse, I then, upon advice, began the use of electric belts, pads and all the many different kinds of electric appliances I could hear of, and spent hundreds of dollars tor them, but they did me no good.” (Here Mr. Quant showed I the Journal reporter an electric suit of mderw< ar for which ho pa d $121.) In the fall of 1888 the doctors advised a change of climate, so I went to Atlanta, Ga., and acted as agent for the Estey Organ Company. AV Idle there 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 morphine. The pain was so intense at times thata it seemed as though I could not I , . . i T .. I 1 . I*4 Wrl infli i

stand it, and I almost longed lor death as the only certain relief. In Septem- i berof 1888 my legs gave out entirely, I ami my'left eve was drawn to one side, so that I had double sight ami was"nizzy. My trouble so affected my whole nervous system th it I had to give up business. Then I returned to New York and went to the Roosevelt Hospital, where for four months I was treated by specialists and th-ey pronounced my case locomotor ataxia and incurable. After I had been ui\der treatment of Prof. Starr and Dr. Ware for four months, they told me they had done afll they c< uld for me. Then I went to th'e New York hosjdtal on l ifteenth 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, where Prof. H. H. Hun frankly told my wife my case was hopeless; that he could do nothing for me, and that she had bettei take me back home and save my money. 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 I my waist down and had partly lost cou-

trol of my hands. The pain was terrible} piy legs felt as though they were freezing and my ^tomaoh would not retain food, and I fell away to 120 pounds. In the Albany hospital they put seventeen big bums on my back one day with redhot irons, and after a few days they put fourteen more burns’on and treated me with electricity, but I got worse rather tha: better; lost control of my bowels ano bv r, and upon advice of the doctor .io paid there was no hope for me, I was brought home, where it was thought that death would soon come to relieve me of my sufferings.' Last September, while in this helpless and suffering condition,^ friend of mine in Ham»ilton, Ont., called ray attention to the statement of one John Marshall, whose case had been similar to my own, and ^ho had been cured by the use of Dr. AV Hliams’ Pink Pills for Pale I’eople. In tliis case Mr. Marshall, who is a prominent, member of the Royal Templars of Temperance, had after four years of constant treatment by the mo'st eminent Canadian physicians been pronounced incurable, and was paid (he SI,OOO total disability claim allowed by the order in such cases. Some months alter Air. Alarshall began a cdurso of treatment with Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills, and after taking some 15 boxes was fully restored to health. 1 thought I would try them, and my wife sent for two boxes of tlib pills and I took them according to the directions given on the wrapper'll! each box. For ■ the Hist few days the cold baths were 1 pretty severe, as I was so very weak, but ! I continued to follow instructions as to taking the pills and treatment, and even ; before I had used *up the two boxes of 1 pills I began to feel beneficial effects from them. Aly pains were not so bad; I felt warmer; my head felt bettor; my food began,to relish and agree with me; I could straighten up; the feeling began to conic back int > my limbs; I began, to be able to get about on crutches; inyeye camo back again as good as ever, and now, after the use of eight Loxes of the pills at a cOst of $4 —see!—l can with the help of a cane only, walk all about the house and yard, can saw wood, and on pleasant days I walk down town. Aly stomach trouble is gone; I have gained ten pounds; 1 feel like a new man, and when th^ spring opens I expect to be able to renew my orghn and pl u o agency. I cannot speak in too high terms of Dr. Williams’ Pink. Pills for Pale People, as 1 know they saved

my life aiterall the doctors’had given mo up as incurable." OGi t citizens of Galway, seeing the wonderful cure of Mr. Quant, by the 1 ink Pills lor Pale People, are using . them. ! rederick Sexton, a sufferer from rheumatism, sal I he was finding great benefit from'their use, and Mr. Schultz, who had suffered from chronic.dysentery for years, said ho had taken two boxes of tlie pills and was already cured. Mr. Quant had also tried faith euro, with exp. rts of that treatment in Albany and Greenville, S. C., but with no beneficial results. A numb j-of the m >re prominent, citizons of Galway, as-Kov. C. E. Herbert, : of the Presbyterian Church; Prof. Jas. 1.. kelly, prmc.pal of the umidomy: John P. ami Harvey Crouch, nnd Frank and Edward Willard, merchants, and ipany others to whom Mr. Qunnt nnd his so mimieulous cure by the us «of Dr. Williams’ Pink Pills'for Pale People urn well known, wore pleased to have the opt ortuuity of bearing testimony to the big i character o. Mr. Quant, and of verifying the stoiy of hie recovery from the terrible nflhetfon frnra ’ ••

ur. Williams’ Pink PHte tn the cns« of I । Mr. Quant, induced tin- reporter to make ; further Inquiries eonccrnii g them, and hi- i< c. rtamed t! st they are not a pat- ; ci. - . n.< m t’v’ v: -,e in win h that term is gvi orally m l. but a lughly ; Bclentitlc preparation, the result of years ' of study an I carefui experiment. They | ■ have no rival as a bi< <>d builder and i m-rve restorer, ami have met with imSpnrn’ib b d ace. ■ .-< in the treatment of such discus's as paraly sis, rheufi ati-sin, sciatica, St. A it is' cam-e, palpitation of I the heart, that tired fc ling v.hn h affects i so many, and all di s uep tiding up--1 on a watery rendition of t:.e blood or ; shattered nerves. Dr. Will ams’ Pink Fills are also a j specific f'-r troubles uliar to females, ' such as suppressions, irregularities, ami j all forms ot'weakness. They build up j the bl ">d and restore the glow of health Ito pale or sahow cheeks. In the case of I men they effect a radical cure in all । cases arising from mental worry, over-

w rk, or ex. e-~cs of whatever nature. On further inquiry the writer found th.it these pills are manufactured by the l r. Williams Medici, e ( ompany, Broekville, Ont., and Morristown, N. Y., and are sold in boxes never in bulk by tho hundred) at 50 cents a box, or six boxes for $2.50, and may Lo had of all druggists or direct by mail from Dr. M illiams’ Mediaine Company, from either addresses. The price,,, which these pills are sold makes a course of treatment comparativeb'’ inexpensive as compared with other remedies or medical treatment. _ How Do You Froliounco Them, Naiad—nay^yad. Naif (masculine) —nah-eef. Naive (feminine- —nah-eve. Naivete —nah-eve-tay. Naively —nah-eve-ly. Nape. The ais long.

Nas*cent, not nay-sent. Nas-ty. Broaden the a. ; Na-ta-tory. National-^-nash-un-al, not nay-shun- > j al. The first marking is that of all the or- ' I thoepists except W ebster, and his mode • of pronouncing the word is not even permitted in the later editions of his dictionary. Nationality—n ash-un- al -i - ty. Nature —nate-yer. ’ Nausea —naw-she-ah, not se-ah. Nauseoiis—naw-shus. Na-vic-u-lar. Near-est, not ist. Neurologic —nek-ro-loj-ik. Necrology —ne-krol-o-jy. Nectarine —nek-tar in. G. P. should make only two syllables of microbe; accent the first and sound . ’ both the i and tho o long—Boston

Globe. No Husiness 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, amHvill have them. r For this the censor was suspended tor ' three months and the editor fined s.>9o. i An Utter Slave. t “Goodness, John, how queer baby . looks. I believe ho is going to have a fit.” “By George, I believe you are a right. Where’s my camera?”—lndian- - apolis Journal.

' CLEVELAND IS IN IT. , 1 i HE W*,TES A LETTER WHICH ‘ SAYS AS MUCH. . ) Any Doubt us to Whether Mr. Cleveland Will Re a Candidate or Not Is Now Set I Aside— Senator Morrill’s Illness — Mob Luw in .Missouri. I In the Race. 1 letter is published frern Grover Cleveland which is construed as being a formal declarati n that he is a candi- ’

date for the Democratic nomination for President. The lett r was addressed to Gen. E. S. Bragg, the commander of the famous old “Iron” ^-brigade, who wrote to the ex-President- un- ' der dale of Alarch 5, !

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grovek crravEt.Axn. from Fond du Lac, । ' is., asking ( leveland to state whether or not he was a candidat \ I AL. Cleveland’s letter was wiitten i from Lakewoed, N. J., on March 9, and sets at rest the rumors that he intended to announce that he was not a candidate. Che letter is as follows: rrn L uiEwooii, k .... Alurch9. G!)2. Ino Hon. Edward S. Bragg: Mv Hear Siu —Your Inter of the 5 h ' 1 S roeelvet C । have th. light until now j that I might ecn imie silent on the subjects which, under the high sanction your positfi n as my “follow-Dunocrat and I follow-citizen,” and hi your relation as a i true and trusted fiien 1, you present- to nte. I i If. in answering your qties In, I m ght i , onlyco islder my petsonal desires and my i individual ease and comfort, my response j would be promptly made and witl out to, least reservation or ditllcul.y lutif yo i ' are right in suppistng that the subject is . telatod to a duty 1 owe to the country aiid to my part.', a co dit ion exists which makes such : rivate an 1 petsonal ci n.-dth rations entiiely irrelevant. 1 cannot, hurt - ci er, refrain from de 'hiring to you that my 1 experience in the great otl.ee < f Presid ut I of the I nit>(l Hates huoo impressed me I with tl e solemn It tof the timt and it- aw- | ful responsibi It es that 1 cannot nr ng my- 1 self to regard a e.:n tidacy for the place as i something to be won by ] e sonal sttife and active self-assertion ! I have also an idea that th • Prrsi h nev ! is pre-eminently the people’s ofl'e?: an 1 I 1 have been sincere in my constant adv, ciey 1 of the effective partteij ation in lolitiial ! affairs on the p rt of all our > itizens. con- i sequentiv 1 I clieve the p mple -ho idle ,

heard in the choice of their natty can 1dates, and that the -t! emseive- should make nominations, as utrectly as is co .- sistent with . pen, fair and f't:i pattv organization and method-, I speak of th -e things so’elv for the purpose of advising you that m z conet ption of the nature of the Presidential office, and my conviction that the voters of our p irt v should be free in the so e 'thin of U.e r candidates, preclude the pos-ibiltty of n ■ leading and pushing a so f-seeking canva-s | for the Presidential noniination. even if 1 had a desire to be agai i a candidate Believing that the complete snpri'mncz of Hem u-ratie prlneit les means In-re i-ed national prosperity and the increa-od rap-plne-s of our people. 1 am earnestly anxious tor the S.;ece-s of my party. I am | confident that sue ess 1. -till within oi r | r> ieh. bill ! lolicve this >- a time for Democratic thoughtfulness and deliberation. I rot only os to eandfdaio-. bin conecrulug I party a tl n upon quest ons < f lmni"nse hiI t. rest to the patriotle and Intoillge it voters I of th*' l:i'i*l. wh * wntc’i for an a-suranee of I -afety a. th*' pri ’»• * f their eontldvtice and I sttpp rt. Yours very truly. Gi; >v r.:t ( i. :i i:i. \xi>. SENATOR MORRILL VIUIK ALIA IH.. I He Is SufTcrlng from Pneumonia nml ! J - • -> ' '

| Hi* phy«iI eian stated th a t I there was little imI rm-dime danger of • out scant hope of reI eox, ry. 8- n itor Vim i r b : I be W y. nr ! old \pi .1 b». At each i succei ding sion of j t otigr -- he ha- b und . it i . et --.try to remain

~ (j <in e -au^,, su x\i ■ n Mimau.n. ■<d i,|e. y. : Hieo are probably not a 1 do/.eu Sen Hors whose absence aggro- . 1 p-i'es :,ttk;|. his. | his sessi, nho has | i b on m..re tiiae usual, b it it w.is i i) .■ us,, of the illm-<s of Mis. .dorrill. | 1 ast Friday St nc'.or Morrill was at the < .mit.d. He < " 'ip .Imd of a cold, but i did not. look up nit as serious. Satur- ; day mtening he remaired in led. Dr. , i Bussy was sent Dr and ho at once dis- j ' covered tlmt pneumonia had set in. . Throughout tl o day on rything possible , t.. teulTur< r and re- i

I was won*' relieve Ilie suurn i unu jvn ovo dangoi-. The Senator is now somewhat ea-ier, but there is no marked impioveinent ill Ids condition. Dis eonri tation, it is tear I, is not ^u^.i iently । ■ nything like a protracted struggle with pneumonir. lAM HEKS AH KDEK A GUARD. Tano (’onntv. 'llssouri, XV Hil n >ll. ExclteI meat Over a Tragedy. ' S- v. ntv armed and masked men rode into the little town of Forsythe, Mo., ’ went to the jail and den anded the bo ly of John Br’ght, the man who murdered his wife in l’aney County. All of the guards ran except James Williams, a deputy di -riff, who refused to let them come near the jail, and said he would kill the first man that made any attempt to take his prisoner out. One man from behind AVilliams drew his piso.i ~,,,1 Williams thtomrh the In a l.

tot and snot w imams imougu iuv m « >, killing him instantly. At the firing of the shot the rest of the mob eame running and. trampling over M illiams’ dead body, went to the jail with a sledge hammer, broke the doors down, and took Bright out. They threw a rope around his neck, placed him on a hors -. and started out of town xvith him. A half mile from Forsythe they hanged him to a tree, and rode off at once, leaving him dangling until daylight, when he was cut down and taken back to Forsythe. ' Tanev County is wild with < xcitement over the killing of Williams. A large posse of men start cd out o Ozark, under the guidance of Sht ritl < ook to arrest tlie men who w> re identified in the mob. Cheap Human Life.

It is a lonesome d iv in Chicag > when a street car is not ri n down by a railload train. —Buffalo ( ommereial. Collisions betwei n street ears and ' railroad trains are getting to be in tho nature of an every-day occurrence in tin' AVorld’s Fair city.—Des Moines Leader. A street ear filled with passengers was run down -in Chicago the other day 1 and several more victims addo I to the • list of those who have fallen on the ' grade crossing. The grade crossing must go.—Kansas City Journal.

. WILD WINDS LET LOOSE , 'TWAS THE WORST BLIZZARD IN FOUR YEARS. The Entire Northwest Given a Lively 1 'shaking Up-Railroad Trains Delayed, and Business Almost at a Stands illStreet Cars Stopped—Distress Will Follow. Lives Were Lost. , The worst blizzard known since Jan. 12, 1888, set in through the Northwest Vv ednesday. Reports received indicate tb.at much damage to property has been inflicted, great suffering caused, and a considerable loss of life experienced, while later and fuller reports may make the situation so much worse that its honors will exceed that of the terrible storm of four years ago. Minnesota and . North Dakota seem to have been the worst sufferers from the blizzard, while hi avy snow, accompanied by high winds, fe’A. in AVisconsin, and lowa felt the effect of a severe blow. Kansas, Nebraska, Illinois and Michigan were also affecte Ito a greater or less degree. A dispatch sent out from St. Paul says: Minnesota is the center of a blizzard x^hich has riot been equaled in years. A furious storm of snow and wind traveled from the region of Calgary, a distance of over twelve hundred miles, reaching Minnesota in the night. The storm extends over a vast stretch of country, and came upon Minnesota t o unexpectedly and with such terrific force that it has fairly stunned tha State, and business pertaining to outdoors is absolutely suspended. For ten days the weather had Leon balmy and springlike. Not a vestige of snow was on Alinnesota soil, and everywhere farmers were preparing for spring seeding. In the c.ties storm-sash had been taken down, furnaces were banked, and spring house-cleaning was in progress. A warm rain began falling during the night, and toward midnight a strong breeze sprang up that had increased to a galV by daylight. It changed the rain to snow and sleet and drove it furiously before it at an increasing velocity. By the time day ha l dawned a full-fledged blizzard extend d from the western limits of the State over into AVisconsin and south through lowa. The mercury fell rapidly,

ana the snaw was frozen into particles like sand, which were driven at a velocity of fifty miles an hour. Owing to the suddenness of the storm it is feared that many lives have been lest in North Dakota, as the conditions were the same as those which preceded the great blizzard of a few years ago, when so many people perished. The ext* nt and damage of the storm : are impossible tb learn at this time, as wires are down on every line to the west and the balance of the State shut out entirely. All westward railroads report that station houses were unroofed along their lines and thus the wires were thrown down. Not a single western or southwestern road is attempting to keep up a schedule, ami vn most of them not a wheel is turning. Previous blizzards in Alinnesota have been confined to the prairie districts and have giv. n St. Paul a wide birth, but this hurricane fell upon the capital with unexampled fury. Great drifts of snow i were piled upon the streets and about i doorways, blocking up traffic and making pedestrianism nearly impossible. » The . J war- nelvhvfon-

• ■ ■ • • • ■ ■ .. i r clean. Every public school was closed, i the first tin. for such a cause in fifteen years. The telephone and tiro alarm i wires were in constant difficulty and the I telegraph companies accepted western bimini ss subject to indefinite delay. ! At Grand Forks the storm was so severe that the ha-kmen refused busii < ai d the large audien ?e at the Me- - ti<>p Jitan Theater was forced to remain until almost daylight before the storm ' abated sufficiently. Fergus Fafis, Minn., reports great damage done to roofs and glass, and that it is dangerous for men to cross the stn et. | At Winnipeg two houses were thrown down. Tfio thermometer fell 60 degrees at Northfield in a few hours. : At Crookston several thousand dollars’ worth of j ropertj’ was destroyed by the high winds. Flate-glass windows were mid foods ruined bv snow and

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S’jiasiieu aua govub luinwi cmv* ca lied awsy by the wind. Resilences . all over the city were unroofed. Limbs of trees six inches in diameter were snapped off. All city and county offices and s 'hools were closed, und all trains i have been abandoned. Other places in | the State report terrific winds and low > temperature. At AVaterloo, lowa, the storm reached > its height at noon, tearing off many roofs, breaking plate-glass windows, and overturning carriages. Two ha ks ■ were overturned on the bridges and one man was seriously injured. No covered vehicles attempted to cross the river. Telegraph xvires are down, and all trains are late. The mercury fell over 70 deI grt es in twenty-four hours. . । In the vicinity of Cedar Rapids ths > ' storm was extremely severe, and the mercury dropped 50 degrees in a few . . hours.

At Chicago the thermometer marked 41 degrees at noon and at midnight regi istered but 6 degrees above zeio. A ! three-story frame building, in process of ' construction, wts blown down and two persons were so badly injured that it is 1 thought they will die. An Aurora, 111., dispatch says: Al out noon a heavy snowstorm struck this city. It gradually grew worse and finally developed into a terrific blizzard, which raged with considerable fury. The mercury fell 30 degrees in a few hours. The streets ever, deserted and business practically suspended. It is thought tho reporte I damage ana loss of life will bo greatly augmented when reliable telegraphic communication is again established. It now turns out that the Atlantic and not the Pacific is the higher of the two oceans, and that in place of the difference in level being hundreds of feet as ' has been affirmed, the surface ol tho ’■ water on the east side of tho Isthmus is exactly six and one-half feet higher than it is on the western side. A new parasite has been discovered . rhich infects paper money and is teuml nowhere else. It is invisible to the tin ; assisted eye, does not attach Bseh to ’ persons, but multiplies at a rapid rate.