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RUFUS OH0ATE.

He stood Easily at the Head of All the
=: Forensic Speakers of His Day.
Again, Mr.. Choate was an orator-and
an orator with a range scarcely paralleled
in our country. lie stood easily at the head
of all forensic speakers against whom he
was 'pftted. lie held the breathless atten-
tion of a Senate where fingered the echoes
of Wepster's voice, and where Clay and
Calhoun were still to be heard; and he was
"a frst-rate favorite on the platform of the
convention and the lyceum at time when
both teemed with fascinating and instruc-
tive speakers. To occupy first-class rank
in three such highly specialized lines of ora
tory is rare indeed; yet no one ever dis
pured Mr.. Choate's right to that position.
Before Mr.. Webster had been dead nine
months Mr.. Oh cate delivered his eulogy
at Dartmouth College, and Mr.. Everett,
speaking of the Grafton in the next month,
called the orator "our matchless Choate,
who mas lust electrified the land with a
burst of eIoquence not easily to be par
afYeIed in the line of time" Founding
his oratory upon the solid base OF pro-
found learning, whether IN law, III govern
ment or IN literature, he Klnoieo Ine mass
of all these acquisitions by his rhetorical
genius into consuming neat anu uaz-
zling light all his own.
Mr.. Choate's oratory was distinguished
for an intense richness and exuberance OF
Language, caught in no slight measure
from his faverite Cicero. This sometimes
makes his speeches difficult to read; the
oyerfowing sentences are too long, the
teeming fancy, the bounteous illustration
Verges on the grotesque. But they were
meant for the hour, to be heard, not read !;
and two things carried off every vestige OF
tedium or incongruity. First, Mr.. Choate's
personal appearance on every occasion
was SO striking that it held the attention
of his auditors with an influence that was
magical. OF other distinguished orators,
William Pinkney was famous as was
Erskine in England for the extreme,
almost foppish, elegance and spIendor
OF his appearance; Henry Clay presented
d singular combination OF features.
tke most uncouth that could easily be
Imagined, with gallantry ofdellyery ana
magnetism of tone that generally cap
stivated any new hearers, but mingled Win
a great imperiousness and dehance that
made not a few enemies in the SENATE.
Sergeant s. Prentiss, second to no Ameri-
can. speaker in bis amazing power OF
arousing enthusiasm. offered at the outset
a presence as insignificant as st. Paufs.
Mr.'Webster's massive stature and deep
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union of wealth and culture in the same
persons-in all the large American cities,
except possibly Boston, is one of the
marked and remarkable features of our
time. Its, therefore, naturally what one
might expect, that we rarely hear of
Americans figuring in cultivated circles in
England. Those who go there with So
ciaI aspirations desire most to get into
what is called the Prince of Wales set in
Ahich their national peculiarities furnish
great amusement among a class OF people
to whom amusement is the main thing.
1t would b. easy enough to fill forty or
fifty rooms from Friday to Monday in a
house near New York or Boston. But
what kind of company would it be? How
many OF the guests would have anything
to say to each other? Suppose stocks to
be ruled ont, where would the topics OF
conversation be found? Would there be
much to talk about except the size of the
hosts fortune.and that of some other per-
sons present? How many of the men
would wish to sit with the ladies in the
evening and participate with them in
conversation? Would the host attempt
two such gat herings without abandoning
his efforts in disgust, selling out the whole
concern and going to Europe?
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was fully satisfied that all white cats are
naturally deaf until recently" said sci
entifc gentleman, who devotes consider
BILE OF his time to experimenting with the
lower ord err of animals Il was aware
that Professor Bell in his original expert
ments in connection with the telephone
had ascertained and stated that his expe-
rience with white cats were that they were
ali either deaf or very deficient in hear
ing, and that other experimenters in the
same direction had reached similar con-
clusions. To satisfy myself | recently Sc
cured in all twenty-three white cats and
experimental on all of them. one at a
time.
I'm every case found them stone deaf.
In carrying the experiment further I
found that white dogs and white horses
are deficient in hearing, and that many
of them are entirely deaf. So are white
rats and white mice. L am confident
do not overstate it in regard TO white
cats. though have only personally expe-
rimented with twenty-three, and, of
course, can only speak positively in regard
to them. l don't hazard much. however,
when make the bold statement that ali
white cats are deaf. Washington Star.
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BARONESS BURDETT- -OoUTTs.

The Old Home Where Many Interest
ing Events Have Taken Place.
At the chief entrance to Holly Lodge,
Lady Burdett-Coutts' country home on
the northern heights of London, there is
a relic of Mrs. Coutts, its former owner,
whose fancy caused horseshoe to be
nailed on the threshold, says the London
Mail. In the wide entrance hall, now
thronged with well-dressed guests, hang
rare old portraits, engraved and in mezzo-
tint. Many of the Q are interesting,
historically, to the family.
Holly Lodge has been the scene of many
interesting festivities and entertainments.
It's close proximity to London makes it a
convenient rendezvous for the statesmen,
churchmen, artists, litterateurs, soldiers,
travellers and scholars who are proud to
call its owner friend.
What strange position for young girl
to find herself in. At the age of % the
richest woman in the land. not excepting
our own Queen, and the head of a great
banking house second only in importance
to the Bank Of England itself.
Many were the coniectures: "What will
she do with this vast wealth? Will it
minister to the selfish pleasure only OF its
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poss ssor or will it be held as precious
trust to be spent on the wants OF the
many?"
The query is best answered by the Baron
ess' many charitable schemes.
1t was mainly due to her unceasing de-
votion that the bill was passed in 1889
which so materially improved the condi-
ton of the little ones. Further efforts
were crowned by her work in establishing
the National Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty to Children, the first meeting TAX
ing place in the Baroness own pretty
drawing-room.
The name of this society reminds Us of
another which the "Good Baroness" was
mainly instrumental in founding, for the
prevention of cruelty to animals.
The Baroness is tall and thin and very
graceful. She has the sweetest voice and
most gracious manner of any society lady
living.
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THE OLD sQUIRE's SCHEME.

why His Projected =" Coup" on the
Racetrack Did Not Connect.
Old Squire Workem had been going
about several days buried in deep thought
and having as little as possible to say,
saws the Detroit Free Press. There had
been no profit in the grains, fruits or
stock that he had raised. He could get
nothing out of those who owed him, for
they had been squeezed dry. He had
plenty, but it had always been the pas
sion of his life to get more. Finally he
sent for Link Perkins, shiftless but
shifty Yankee, to whom the squire never
spoke.
Link" began the squire, 'do you read
the papers?"
"Jist the sportin' news mostly, sir.''
Precisely. Then you know what a
coup is. You must have read how few
fellows down in Mexico cleaned up $780,
600 and later how another gang found
$25. 900 at Chicago. all by working this
coup business, understand.
"Yes, heerd all about it. 'Twar slick
business"
"Well, Link, knowing thatyou can keep
your mouth shut propose that you and
work a coup. That brown filly OF mine
can outrun anything in this part of the
State. They all know her, but want you
to disguise her some way, take her down
into Hackaway County as new one and
back her for all the money you can get
against her. I'll furnish the money. but
must not be known in the matter. WHAT
do you think of itP'
"Thars fortune in it. squire. We kin
break the Hackaway crowd an they'll
never know how 'twar done"
The race came off and Link had a barrel
Of the squire's money on the filly that her
owner would not have known. She started
like a shot out of gun, but after few
Jumps bolted for home, took the fence
like a hunted stag, left her rider in tam
arack swamp and reached the station IN a
broKen-down condition.
Link never showed up, simply because
he had worked the coup so as to provide
literally for his own future. A IL the squire
did was to prepare bill for the next Leg
islature making it penal offense to even
attempt coup on racetrack.
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NEW YoRK's EGG TRADE.
Special Men Employed by the Big Deal
ers as Testers.

Special Men Employed by the Big Deal
ers as Testers.
The egg industry, while very extensive
one, is not a very lucrative one, at least
here in this CITY. The commission mer-
chants say that there is little profit to the
shipper and very often the investment re-
suits in an actual loss.
However flimsy the pretext may be, the
commission merchants maintain that eggs
in themselves are not profitable, but that
it behooves them as dealers in country
produce to sell them. They say that their
largest source of revenue is from other
food stuffs.
On April % there were received in New
York city 975S thirty dozen cases of eggs.
For the six days prior to and inclusive OF
that GATE IL, 1873 thirty-dozen cases of eggs
were received. Twelve days previous to
April %, for period of SIX days, Sc, ,321
cases of eggs were received.
The quality of the eggs is irregular. The
largest dealer of eggs in the world, in this
city, estimated that between 5000 and
10000 30-dozen cases of eggs were used
daily by New Workers IN the spring.
These 5000 80 dozen cases OF eggs repre-
sent ,240. COO eggs, an average of less than
one egg to each inhabitant. In the sum-
mer the eggs are harder to keep fresh and
are not used to so great an extent.
The greatest sources of supply for the
New York market are New Jersey East
Pennsylvania and New York. The Easter
trade in eggs is always good in New York
and the eggs command fancy prices.
A small ader on the east side who
deals exclusively in prime to middlings"
and seconds" has a very misleading
sign in front of the store in the spring. It
reads:
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FRESH LAID EGGS
"a FOR 25 CENTS.
ORDERS FILLED
WHILE YOU WAIT.

There is no hennery attached to the
store, and it is doubtful if even coop can
be found.
The testing of eggs is very interesting.
One firm on Dey street employs forty men
whose sole occupation is to test eggs.
The rooms are darkened, and the men,
seated by their baskets of eggs and recep-
tacles for bad eggs, test the eggs by means
OF lighted candles.
The experts nimbly take up a half
dozen OF eggs at time and hold them
to the light. If the egg is clear, it
is all right; if dark or cloudy. it is
spoiled. In the summer season some ex-
pert "handlers" or ''testers" asseverate
that they have seen fall grown chickens,
and they do not believe in Rontgen rays
either.-New York Evening Sun.
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STABLE
WILL NOW HAVE TO RESIGN
IRe Board of Health Has So Said and Gum Has
=* Also Been Suspended for Playing Wheel
=%="*: barrow at Midnight

set eyes are familiar to all, though the
slow manner and ponderous diction OF
later years belonged to the days OF his
greatest triumphs. But the power OF Mr..
Choate's look and manner was something
of different order. His shock OF raven
hair, his wildly flashing eye, his gaunt
frame, his sallow cheek, his restless action
and, above all, his strangely musical voice
and rhythmical delivery. arrested and held
attention in an uncauny, Wltchllke
manner. uaearthlv in every note, look and
movement.-New England Magazine.
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AMERICAN SOCIETY.

Mr.. f. L. Godkin Says That We Have
Very Little of 1t.
We have no great landholders and there
is no popular recognition of the fact that
great landowner or great man of any
sort needs great house, says E. L. God
kin in Scribner's. In the second place,
We have no capital to draw on for large
company of men and women who will
amuse each other in social way, even
from Friday to Monday. The absence OF
anything we can call society-that is, the
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FOR No SECT, But
FOR ALL IN NEED
Rev. C. w. Henning to
Start a Novel Institu-
tional Church.
He Disclaims Any Formal In
novation and Declares for a
Basis of Union.
Something About the Gentleman Who
Will Next Week Start His Re.
ligious Movement.

Rev. c. w. Henning, who is we'll known
throughout the State in Methodist and
Congregational circles, has decided to
start what is tantamount to an institu-
tional church. The main objects of the
movement are embodied in the following
card:
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RAsrs OF LINTON.

We whose names are attached hereto, de-
sirous of uniting ali the forces that make for
righteousness, and recognizing in the teach
ing of Jesus of Nazareth a sufficient guide in
the regeneration of the individual, OF society
and OF the state, do agree upon this simple
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Japanese houses in the larger cities are
of one general shape, two stories high,
and are put together by curious method
of mortising. m at which these people are
adopts, not one nail being used through
out the construction of the building.
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Piercing the flesh with even the finest
needle hurts, because the nerves are SC
thickly matted just under the skin that
not even the finest point can be introduced
without woundlng one or more.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1896-10-14

1t was due almost solely to the act
witty of Mr.. Chiids that the interpreta-
ton of the constitutional prohibition
against the holding of state office by
any member Of the legislature was
brought before the supreme court,
and a precedent was established
which, it is universally admitted, will
accomplish one of the greatest and
most needed reforms of the present
day.
Other cases which were tried were
followed up by Mr.. Childs with such
distinguished ability as to evoke APP
plause from the whole Northwest,
were his handling of the Holden MUIR
der case; the Great Northern-NOrthern
Pacific consolidation case and that in
which the city of Duluth is now q
party. Though ne has served two
terms, and though several of the
ablest and most distinguished lawyers
Of the state were candidates for the
nomination in the state convention.
Mr.. Childs was nominated by an
easy majority, and so general was the
belief that he would be elected that,
had he chosen to go out of his way
for the purpose, the Democrats, of the
state would have given him their en-
dorsement. He did not want it, for
the reason that he is consistent and
conscientious Republican, who has
done his whole duty by the people. who
elected him, and he felt confident of
the result when it was placed in the
hands of the people whom he had
served.
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JOHN l.. GIBBS.
Republican Candidate for Lieuten-
ant Governor,

Republican Candidate for Lieuten.
ant Governor.
John L. Gibbs was born in Bradford
county, Pa, May 3, 1888. He received
an academic education; graduated
from Ann Arbor law school in 1861.
and admitted to the bar; was elected
county attorney of Freedom county in
1862. His occupation outside of his
state duties is that Of a farmer. He
served five terms in the legislature of
Minnesota, beginning with the session
of 1854. He was speaker of the house
of representatives in 1877 and also in
1885. Jan. 10, 1887, he was appointed
by Gov. A. r. McGill railroad and
warehouse commissioner, and was re-
appointed by Gov. Merriam. He is
married and his present residence is in
FreebOrn county. He was prominent
member for speakership honors before
the last session of the legislature.
Like Gov. Clough, John l.. Gibbs is
self-made man; from boyhood working
his way on a farm, earning money to
pay for an education, and ever since a
tOiler with hands and brain. Mr. Gibbs
is practical farmer, not of the prolix
or fancy sort, but one who to-day holds
the pillow and milks the cows of his
famous herd. When mere lad he
lost his father, and thenceforth he was
a hardworlxing farmer boy. He paid
his way through the common schools
and SusQuehanna college, and gradu-
ated from Ann Arbor law school. He
came West upon Greeley's famous ad-
vice, in 1860, leaving the railroad in
Illinois, where his money gave out,
INV of osr hn
walked through Iowa and into Mime
sofa as far as Albert Lea. There he
taught school for one year, and then
settled in Geneva, FreebOrn county,
where he has been engaged in practi-
cal, everyday farm labor to the pres
ent time, a period of thirty-four years.
Few men in the Northwest have done
more for the agricultural interests of
Minnesota than John L. Gibbs. He
has conducted his agricultural efforts
in a progressive and successful man.
ner. With the welfare Of his farmer
friends at heart, he has ever been at
the front in giving them the benefit Of
his own study. With voice and pen he
has done more for the farmers of Min
nesOta than any other man in the state,
and his work in this line has been en-
tirely unselish, and solely to improve
the condition of his associate agricult
wrists. Twice he has been put forward
by the farming interests as a guberna-
torial candidate, and as the coming
lieutenant governor and presiding Off
Ger Of the senate, he will have rare
opportunity, that he will not be slow to
embrace, in the appointment of COM
mittees in the interests of public and
private agricultural welfare.
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indiscriminately In the path Of the
current pressing above; lines fitted to
block and tackle, with a wicked looking
swamp hook" to catch the key log Of
the rOllway, are worked by horses on
the shore and a start Is thus made
toward moving the great body Of logs
from its bearings. But it is essential
that few men, ready with cant7hook
or peavey, should be out upon the
logs in order to operate the lines so
that the key logs may be set In motion.
All this tine the volume Of water above
is swelling in volume and pressing
against the obstruction to force it's
way into the natural channel. After
great exertion Of man and beast, an
an opening is finally effected, and the
stream of water begins to seethe and
boil and roar like tempest. 1t Is no
uncommon occurrence to see logs two
or three feet in diameter broken and
shivered by the pressure above, and as
the great mass begins to totter and
move, the driver realizes that he has
no time to wait for an invitation, but
must ''pull for the shore" in veritable
prose fact, if he ever escapes with his
life. There are probably no statistics
in existence to show the number of
men who have lost their lives in the
course Of such work as that above out
lined, but a hundred would certainly
not 90 above the mark for the upper
Mississippi alone.
1t not infrequently happens that when
the break occurs the men are not all
able to reach the shore, and when this
occurs, the man who is left on the logs
has to take his chances of life in bat
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HENRY w. CHILDS.
Republican Candidate for Attorney
General

Republican Candidate for Attorney
General
The Republican candidate for attor-
ney general was born in Onandaga
county, New York, in 1913, was educat-
ed primarily in the public schools Of
that county and finished his education
in a course at the seminary of the
central conference of New York; sub
sequently taking up the study Of law
while engaged in educational work as
a teacher in one of the high schools
of that section. He opened an office
and practiced law in the city of SYRIA
cuse until 1888, when he removed to
Minnesota and here resumed his pro-
fessional work in Fergus Falls, Otter
Tail county. In 1887 he was chosen
as the assistant of Attorney General
Clapp, and held that position during
the six years of his ncumbency of the
Office. In 1892 and 1894 Mr.. Childs
ran as the Republican candidate for
attorney general, and in each case. was
elected by a majority which was a
f1attering testimonial to the esteem in
which he was held by the party and the
people Of the state at large.
While acting as the assistant of Gen.
Clapp Mr.. Childs displayed great abil-
ity in the handling of the difficult cases
which were intrusted to him, and some
Of the hardest fought cases which ever
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HON. ALBERT BERG.
Candidate for Secretary of State
Republican Ticket

Candidate for Secretary of State.
Republican Ticket.
The portrait of Secretary of State
Albert Berg is an excellent likeness,
and bespeaks the vigorous young man.
bood and genial and jovial disposition
so we'll known to all his acquaint-
ances. Secretary Berg has performed
his official duties during the present
term in an able manner, and will be
reelected by a rousing majority. In
the election of 1894 he erceived 4,75S
votes more than Nelson for governor,
and ran ahead of the highest vote for
any state officer by 1,721, while his
majority was 1,720 more than that Of
any other state officer.
Albert came from hardy and patri-
otto stock, his father, Jonas Berg, Law
ing laid down his life for his newly
adopted country, as a Union soldier in
Company d of the Third Minnesota
regiment On Oct 2, 1861, he left his
young wife-with their only child. al.
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went up to the supreme court OF the
United States were won by Mr.. ChlldS
in contests where the best legal tai
ent in the nation was arrayed against
him.
The cases Of the counties of Brown
and Redwood, against the WInona "
st. Peter Land company, in which
those counties were saved thousands
of dollars of back taxes and penalties,
were successfully conducted by MI.
Childs, the cases being carried to the
highest judicial tribunal of the land
and there fought out on their merits
and by the invocation of all the tao
tics of the legal profession.
In the discharge of his duties Mr..
Childs had in his care the celebrated
cases of the treasulers of Meeker and
Hennepin counties, respectively, the
cases attracting much attention and
Mr.. Childs receiving great credit for
his able and fearless conduct of them.
When the state found itself unable to
bring the oil companies doing business
in Minnesota under the operations Of
an effective inspection law, Mr..
ChildS' aid was invoked, and through
him an arrangement was made by
which Minnesota has one of the best
and most effective oil inspection laws
N force in any state in the Union.