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by coming down the stairs in great haste,
carrying in his hand a dead guinea pig.
May ask you to put this animal into
the furnace, or have 1t buried or thrown
away" he said, hurriedly. II see am al
ready five minutes late for my lecture"
He was gone ere had time to think, but,
as 1 sat with the guinea pig before me, I
began to wonder whether my master had
not acted with design. and intended either
to put me in the way Of suspecting, or
at least. to prepare me, in a measure. for
some coming announcement. Tire more I
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PART l.
And so you call this Professor Roent-
gems discovery wonderful" said the little
French doctor, who looks about twice as
old as he is. and seldom talks. Pardon
me, monsieur, but he is an infant in
science. There has been that discovered
beside which his photographs of skeletons
are nothing-things strange that the
world VIII hardly suffer them to be wfiis-
pere6f- Listen, and 1 Will tell you of an ad-
venture of my own-of truths which I alone
OIL living men know. You are discreet, and
1T is not well that such a secret should
6ie"
Professor Fourier was the leading au-
thority on pathology when 1 was q young
man. He lectured at the Ecole de Medecin
and vas one of the many students whose
privilege it was to profit by the enormous
fund of knowledge ne had accumulated
and the trenchant ciearness with which he
Could communicate it.
The youth who sat next to me was n
Germai. named Herman Toedt-a tall.
graceful boy, with a remarkably handsome
1ace and manners that were unexception-
able. There was not trace in him of that
rude coarseness which is often found in his
race-not shade of that aggressive con-
ceit which seems to characterize most Ger
mans since the Franco-Prussian war No
> Ioedt was always jolly, always pleasant
always deferentially, though never serviie-
ly, polite l think the other students liked
and looked up to him. not excepting certain
Americans. who had, after their fashion.
chr!stened him Toad" Even the profess
Sofs seemed to regard him with pride: more
tnan one had minated that he would bring
EiSh credit to the sc,iool, and / firmly he
iSNe there was not q person in the world
Who dlsllked him excepting Professor -Four
c.ier and myself.
Inc way / came to know that Fournier
ieit as GIG was one right at cafe
was slttlnS at a table with two friends
Nhiie Ioeit was the center of an adm;rinn
,ncie just beyond. II was them as il is TO-
Jay, the fashion among some of the youn O.
slers In Paris to take up all sorts of radical
iads, ana this party happened to lie ex.o,I-
ing anarchy.
w hat is human lifer' cried Toedt bis
handsome face flushed with boyish enthiI
siasm Nv ould any of us hesitate tn sacri
nee an animals, his own or another's tn
dus ance the cause of science Or h,Irna1,ity .
WY, then, should we cr:ticise n moor
Wretch who takes life which he corcejves
W stand in the path of human proyrcss 80
me puzz OF approval which greeted these
WORDS was suddenly broken in upon nv a
ciear' snarp voice, familiar to US all:
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surprised at the
others easy manner:
but can you oblige
ME further with the
name of the bacillus
which has been Gull
tivated in this YES
sel?"
The visitor &C
tually threw himself
back in the chair
and laughed.
Il beg your par
don, DOCTOR" he said
at last. CAS- for your
question, let me re-
mind you that l took
my degree at Paris
in the nineteenth
century, not at Sala-
manca in the thir-
teenth. I am a ply
stefan, not a NEGRO
mancer."
Il will tell you
something else YOU
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Htiltlt men. i am
sorry to hear you talk
Ing such criminal nom
sense"
As / glanced I'D /
saw Prof. Fournier
leaving the cafe. Pass
ing their table unob-
served, he had evil
IDENTIFY oV erh e ard
Toedt's speech, and
had shot this Parthian
shaft into the circle
of would-be social re-
formers.
/ looked at Toedt.
A peculiar expression
was just disappearing
from his face. to be
succeeded by a GRIM
son flush. Then he
j a IL g h e d scornfully.
and two or three of
his companions fol-
lowed his example,
though with more con-
straint in their tones.
"Ah, and so our wise
professor stands in the
road, Well, the char
lot may run over him"
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could be no other
reason for his not
leaving the animal
for a few hours, IN
til he could dispose
of it himself.
Convinced of this,
! ventured to make
a careful exam;na-
ton of the body. /
soon found, as I ex-
pected to find, that
its death had been
occasioned by no
wound, blow or 9TH
er external physical
cause: but 1 was
rather surprised to
discover that all
symptoms of death
through the medium
Of electricity were
also lacking. n o
theory seemed to re-
main but that of
poison, and fully
determined to ex
haust all the evi-
donca mhinh h n q
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Of his stern repressive measures.
AS he spoke, sudden light seemed to
flash through my brain; thought too
dreadful to be even put into words.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-28
FOR NERVOUS DEPRESSION
Use H0rsfOrd'a Acid Phosphate

Dr. W.. Z. PITMAN. Lynchburg. Va, says: Il
have used 1t In nervous depress ION and dyspeptc
Troubles, with good reELlts"
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Even Toedt, however, could not restore
assurance to the party, so demoralized
were they by Fournier's blow. y few min
utes later they broke up.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1896-03-28
PART II.

Gripping the arms Of my seat with both
hands and leaning forward with a face
from which I felt all the blood had vanish
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are" said Fourier. in low, clear voice.
You are the greatest villain the world has
ever seen. Sit still! If you stir hand or
foot will shoot you like mad dog"
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preston of a penetrating intensity. meal
'ulable and mysterious. In that light a
nan might have become a seer to when
he world and its secrets were IS trans
parent as crystal. All this 1 felt on the
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PART III,

Toedt made motion as II to spring from
his chair. but he settled back before the
nuZzle of the revolver, smiled, and said,
with nonchalance that fairly staggered
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
CALLS GROVER A TIN GOD.

Wichita, Kan, April Ex-senator B.
r. Tillman, of South Carolina, arrived in
Wichita yesterday afternoon. In the
afternoon in a circus tent erected for the
purpose he made an extended free silver
speech, talking to one of the largest audi
ences that ever gathered here.
In an interview Mr.. Tillman said in
answer to a question: eff Whitney of
New York is nominated at Chicago I
would walk out of the conventions; If
Morrison is nominated / would feel like
walking out, but would wait until l look
ed up his record. l do not know where
Morrison stands on the silver question
and l have not seen anybody in recent
year who does"
In his speech Senator Tillman said the
Republicans who had voted for Cleve-
land for a change jumped from the fry
ing pan into the fire and it was the hot
test fire that they ever saw. He said
Cleveland was a 'tin god" and an animal
with a cloven foot. He said that Carlisle
was 70 deep in infamy that he did not
want to speak about himself. The people
fairly went wild when he said that no
man could be appointed to the supreme
court, unless he was known to be friendly
to the corporations. He said that If the
Democratic party convention at Chicago
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
A TRUE DISCIPLE.
A GREAT BISHOP SPEAKS OUT
- s.s9a BOLDLY e
From Rev. Myron Reed.s SERMON

From Rev. Myron Reeds Sermon.
Let me read you another clipping: 1.-THE
growth Of wealth and luxury. wicked.
wasteful and wanton, as before God I de-
clare that luxury to be, has been matched
step by step by a deepening and deaden-
ing poverty which has left whole neigh
borhoods of people practically without
hope and without aspiration. At such
q time for the church Of God to sit stil
and be content with theories of it's dutv
outlawed by time and long ago demon
strated to be g~rotesquely inadequate to
the demand OF a living situation, this is
to deserve these orn of men and the curse
Of God. Take my word for it, men and
brethren, unless 0 and I and all those
who have any gift or Stewardship of tai
ents or means of whatever sort, are Willing
to get up out Of our sloth and ease
and selfish dilettant sin of service. and
get down among the people who are bat
Ting amid their poverty and ignorance.
old and young alike, for one clear ray of
the immortal h0pe-then verify the church
In Its stately splendor, its apostolic orders.
it's venerable ritual, it's decorous and digni-
fled conventions, is revealed as simply a
monstrous and insolent impertinence."
These words are not by Herr Most, not
by Senator Tillman, nor are they from
The Road. They are not spoken by some
"'demagogue- parson" resident In Corrupt
and unsafe territories" or undesirable
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22

develepment % to bring to our country
from German writer's the flattering cog
nomen of "Des Wonderland"
Would it not bs better to get back to
that system OF currency than to bond the
country for the enormous amount of gov
currency and give to the banks
exclusively the issue Of paper?
Is 1t not about time to stop the flatter-
ing prophecies Of prosperity to follow the
final success OF gold standard advocates,
when similar prophecies OF prosperity.
preceding each OF the steps already adopt
ed have met with such signal and to the
prophets such d!sgraceful failures? They
had better give that branch of the BUSH
ress up and hand it over to the Signal.
service.
The great masses, East and West, are
equally interested in the just settlement
of financial problems, and we of the West
believe that no fair settlement can be
reached so long as leading magazines and
cosmopolitan papers combine to suppress
and .ridfcule opinions in opposition to
Cleveland's plan, fully adopted by the
honest money league.
In the settlement of the two great is
sues now dividing our people into fac
tions, We should weigh well the reasons
that influence the statesmen of Great
Britain In urging, so persistently as she
does. upon other countries, our own par
ticularly, the policies Of a gold standard
for finance and free trade for commerce.
Is 1t notafor the purpose Of maintaining
the supremacy she now holds in the
finance and commerce Of the world
against all competitors?
And is it mot the height of supreme fol-
~. for this, the only nation able to enter
into competition with her for this SUI
premacy, to listen for one moment to her
selfish councils?
Respectfully yours,
~ s H. CLARKE MOORE.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22

The coming week at E he Bijou will
witness the advent Of Gus HIPS
Novelties. This is the first time Mr..
Hill has ever appeared in the West.
He is a Premier producer of vaude-
vile and aside from his talent as a
club swinger, possesses that rare
faculty Of engaging and arranging a
vaudeville company that pleases in
all its features. Mr.. Hill has spared
no expense to make complete in every
manner. his contingent OF artists for
this occasion. He has selected them
of a different class, so as to make the
ensemble entertainment they present
varied and interesting. He heads the
roster himself with his famous club
swinging exhibition. He has long
been the champion Of the world at
this art and his performance is de-
described as truly wonderful. Secure
your seats early.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
WHAT THE FARMERS FAVOR.
(Meorohad Daily News.)

(Meorohad Daily News.)
The Fargo Argus says the farmers of
North Dakota are in favor of Sound"
money. If SO they are bigger fools than
we estimated them to be. They are then
in favor Of paying two dollars in value
where they borrow ones They are in IA
vor of Al cent wheat; 10 cent oats; Is bar
ley and so on down the line of agricul-
tural products, and high taxation to pay
interest ON bonded debt contracted in Dor
rowing in time of peace to maintain the
so-called sound money standard, which
is in direct opposition to their interests.
They are in favor of working 365 days in
a year in order to raise the interest
charges and taxes. They are in favor of
paying extortionate railroad %freights, of
buying trust protected coal and oil and
steel and iron and sugar and whisky.
They are in favor Of sending the agents
OF corporations, trusts and moneyed COM
Dimes to represent them in congress and
in the state legislatures, and to sit on
judicial benches. In brief they are in
favor of surrendering the dear, blood
bought liberties won for them by a brave,
just, liberty-loving and invincible a1ces-
try, to combinations of wicked and avar-
icious men who seek their own aggrand-
isement at their expense or who work
as the hirelings of monopolies and trusts
that have grown to be more powerful in
this country than the government itself,
because they are the controlling force in
the government. The municipal election
In Fargo Monday hardly bears out the
claims Of the Argus and the results give
pretty good indications that the people
are aroused. 1t is a forerunner of what
is to come on the larger national field.
The people are stirred; they mean to
maintain their liberties, equal rights and
privileges and to check the greed, the
expressions and the dangerous tendencies
Of cooperative power in this country.
Free silver, national currency, d~estruc-
ton to monopoly, a true American policy,
and the people in charge of a free govern
ment are to be the watchwords that will
carry human rights to the front and send
the heretofore almighty gold dollar to
the rear next November.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
a CALL @ FUNDS.
The Peoples Party State League
Issues q Call for Campaign
Subscriptions.

At the recent meeting OF the ways and
means committee of the State Peoples
Party League-consisting of S. NJ. Owen,
chairman, E. r. Lynch, vice chairman, E.
w. Bonham, N. S. Beards,ey, VIM. Smell,
secretary call was drawn up for a popu-
,ar campaign subscription. The cardinal
points OF the call are gwen below. The
document starts out as follows:
1T IS evident to. every Intelligent,
thoughtful citizen, that the American peo-
pie are about to enter upon the most i'm
portant and exciting political contest in
their history; and it will be more memoir
able than the great political strife that pre-
coded the war Of the rebellion.
"In the gigantic contest hat now i'm
ponds, two opposing forces are arrayed. The
one is clothed in the strength that comes
from the possession Of great wealth, that
can and does buy and substitute the press,
and intimidates every voter who is COM
PEELED to work for a human or a mortgage
master, but which is pit.fully poor in pr.n-
ciple, N virtue and IN patriotism. The
other is poor in that which now buys polit-
ical success, that makes merchandise OF
public offices and chattels of American yo-
tiers, but IS rich in those principles which
stand for clarifying man by guaranteeing
him the just reward for his labor and ele-
waiting him to a plane of life in harmony
with our country's institutions and resour-
ces.
"In such a contest and between such
contestants, there is one prime factor want
ing by one of the forces, and it must be
supplied, to a limited extent, at least, and
that factor IS money! A campaign fund"
Referring to the subscriptions OF the
banks, railroads. breweries, factories, trusts
and corporate interests generally, to the old
party campaigns for corruption purposes.
the call states:
'"The motto of the Peoples Party is:
Thousands. for education, not one cent for
corruption! -.
1.-The Peoples Party has no special-pr.v-
ileged classes to call upon for money. It
must appeal to the great mass of the com
mon people, whose party it IS, and in whose
behalf it wal raised up, and is now laboring
with patriotic manliness.
"a popular loan is the demand of the
hour, not to plunge a suffering country
deeper into the vortex of gold bondage, but
to lift It out of the industrial and CONNER
cial bondage in which it now writhes! A
small sum from each one Of many will Gre
ate a fund that will work for the prosperity
of the many; while the large sums contrib
uted by the few of our opponents work for
the enrichment Of the few"
The announcement is made that the Sec
rotary and treasurer of the league are
placed under bonds to guarantee the safety
Of the fund, and that the use shall be for
purely educational purposes for the ad-
vancement of the principles of the party.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
FAILED TO

Baltimore, Nd. April 1s.-The Populist
state convention Of Maryland has select
ed the following delegates to their national
convention at st. Louis: At large, S. 8.
Field, Baltimore City; Walter Vrooman,
Dorchester county; w s. Branson. Prince
Georges First district; Ira L. Guilford,
Calvert county: Second district, Enoch
Noyes, Cecil county: Third, c.. M. Kemp,
Baltimore City; Fourth, Hiram Vrooman,
Baltimore City; Fifth, T. Garfield Jenkins,
Chester county; Sixth district. Singleton
Dieffenbaugh. Allegheny county. The plat
form adopted reaf1rms the Omaha ma
tional platform of 1892. The delegates to
the ST. Louis convention are instructed
"to use all honorable means to effect a
union Of all opposed to the rule Of money
bugs; if not under the same NAME, at
least under the same leaders"
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
: ON THE WAR PATH.
Let Every. One Take Hold and Help,

f fA&FN AZ - - pr ~
Editor Representative: il.
Will 0 please inform your readers of
the Second congressional district that I
will move along the following route with
my campaign tent outfit, and would like
the names Of parties from the following
towns, which I intend to visit: Lac uui
Parle Village, Dawson and Boyd, of Lac
qui Parle county; Clarified and Halle
run and Hanley Falls in Yellow Medicine
county; Cottonwood, Green Valley, Mar
shall, Lynd Station, Leo, Russell, Florence
and Buchard, in Lyon county. Ruthton
Station, Tresky, Edgerton. in Pipestone
county; Hardwick, Luverne, Warner and
Magnolia, Of Rock county.
Partise living nea the above towns
who wish to arrange Peoples Party pic
mics and wish my services with large tent
will please correspond with me, so I can
arrange dates. I shall start about the
18th Of May and put in IS days in the
Second District n the balance Of the
campaign In the Seventh district. The
people will be entertained by lectures and
campaign %sceneries under a large tent
Yours respectfully,
So, IF. E. Davidson.
Appleton, MINI.
NE. I shall sell literature and get SUBJ
scribers for The Representative when I
get ready to start.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
SYMPATHY.

From the Minneapolis Penny Press.
The Minneapolis Times, in discussing
the silver question, falls back on the old
stock argument that s30 per cent Of the
total Indebtedness Of the country Is owed
by large c0rporations-railroad insur-
ance and trust and loan companies in
whose securities the savings of the poor
people are invested" This argument
has been used, probably. not less than a
million times, but as applied to this re-
gion 1t is wholly untrue. How many
poor people In Minneapolis, for instance,
own stock in railroads, insurance and
loan and trust companies? Very few, in
deed, and they have not been made poor
by the remonetization of silver, but by the
fact that they owned those stocks and
were robbed OF their money by men who
are among the loudest shOuters that the
reconciliation of silver will ruin the
country. What money the poor people of
this city has is mostly in the Farmers
and Mechanics and Hennepin County
Savings banks, neither one of which, we
venture to say, holds a dollar of such
stocks. 1t is invested in municipal
bonds of the first class and in real es-
tate mortgages, the value of. the last
named securities having been vastly re-
duced by the goldbug policy.
True, a large number of poor people
hold life insurance policies and the COM
panies -insuring them hold railroad
stocks as investments. These, however,
r only of the gilt edged character like
the New York & New Haven, Boston &
Maine, New York Central, ETC., but as
was clearly shown by an interview with
q great Republican manufacturer of Phil
adelphia, in the Penny Press, a day or
two since, the railroads are also being
rapidly ruined and thrown into bank
ruptcy by the single-staudard policy. 1t
is only a question of a short time when
most, If not all of them will be in the
same condition unless that policy is
changed. Where will the poor mans Sc
curity be then?
There is, however, another aspect of
this case worth looking at. The goldbug
organs have great sympathy for the poor.
Probably some people read their articles
and go away to weep in silence and secret
over the diabolical wickedness of the sill
verites. If these organs have so much
sympathy for the poor why don't they de-
vote a portion of it to calling for justice
for those who have been already robbed
by such swindling institutions as guar
anty and loan companies, etc? They need
not look far for instances. We had one
in the city some of whose victims, in
Eastern states, by reason of the robbery,
have been rudely torn from happy homes
earned by frugality and honest toll, and
thrust into hell on earth in the shape of
county poor-houses! No man has been
punished for that awful crime though
years have elapsed since it's commission,
but probably within a short time the in
strument in it's preparation will be
brought back, to be arraigned and given,
what? A reformatory sentence, per-
haps, as has been suggested by a local
goldbug organ, while the directors escape
because they have been mayors, congress-
men, or perhaps United States senator's.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22

did not declare for free silver he would
pick up his hat and leave the party. He
was especially bitter against the lawyers
in congress and did not hesitate to say
that while many of them were paid by
the people they were paid better by the
corporations and worked for those who
paid them best. He appealed to the Pop
ulists to vote for the Democratic party II
1t declared for free silver and succeeded
in driving Carlisle and Cleveland into the
Republican party where they belonged.
He made a bitter speech and appaauded
vociferously. At the end Of his speech
every man in the audience raised his
right hand to indicate that he was for
free silver at the ratio Of 16 to 1.
The representative. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1893-1901, 1896-04-22
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