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Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02
LiNcol N HELPED BLACKBURN
The Kentucky Ex.scnatOr's Story Of
One of His First Cases.


One of His First Cases.
Ex-senator Blackburn, of Kentucky,
greatly enjoys telling a story of how
Abraham Lincoln helped him when he
was struggling with his first case. zone
OF my first cases," says the ex-senator.
"was In the United states Court In Chi.
cagO. which was presided over by Jus.
tice Mclean of the Supreme Court and
Judge DrummOnd of the Illinois Cir.
cult Court. The opposing counsel was
Isaac N. Arnold, then mt the head of
the Chicago bar, subsequently a proml.
nent member of Congress and the au.
thor of the first biography Of Lincoln.
l had fled n demurrer to Mr.. Arnold's
pieadings In the case, and when the
case was reached on the calendar I
was quite nervous Mt having such a
formidable and experienced antagonist,
while the dignity Of the tribunal and
the presence Of large number Of law.
yers In the court all aided to Increase
my embarrassment. In fact, I was
willing that any disposition should be
made OF the case. SO I could get rid of
1t. l was ready to adopt any sugges.
ton OF the opposing counsel which
would relieve me Of the embarrassing
situation. I wanted to get away.
'Mr. Arnold made an argument II,
which he criticised my demurrer in n
manner that increased my confusion.
However. I had to make an effort. !
said but little and that In very bewil.
dercd manner. and was about to sit
| down and let the case 20 by default, as
II were. when n tall, hOmely, loose.
jOlnted man sitting In the bar, whom
had noticed as giving close attention
to the case. arose and addressed the
court In behalf Of the position had as.
sumed In my feeble argument. making
the points so clear that when lie closed
the court mt once sustained my demur.
rer. did not know who my volunteer
friend was. but when Mr.. Arnold got
up and attempted to rebuke him for In.
terferlng In the matter. then I for the
first time learned that he was Abe Lin.
coin Of Springfield. Mr.. Lincoln. In his
good.natured reply to Arnold's stric.
lures. snid that he claimed the privi.
lcgc Of giving n young lawyer n lift
when struggling with his first case. on.
pccIally II lie was pitted against nm ex.
perienced practitioner. or course,
thanked him and retired as proud as n
field marshal. never saw Lincoln
aguin,"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02
CONSUMPTION CURED,

An old physician, retired from practice,
had placed IN his hands by an East India
missionary the formula of Il simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy ana permanent cure
of Consunption, bronchitis, Cntarrh. Asth'
ma aud all Throat and Lung Affections, also
u positive and radical cure for Nervous De
bility and all Nervous Complaints. Having
tested Its wonderful curative powers In thou
suffering, ! viii send free OF charge to ali
who wish It, this recipe. In German. French
or English, with full directions for prcpar
Ing and using. Sent by mail, by addressing
Noyes, $40 Powers Block. Rochester, n. Y.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

Mayor IIarrison's mail Wednesday y
contained a letter from Hibbard. Spen.
Ger. Bartlett \ Co.. warmly praising
him for his attitude on street cleaning.
This firm. by the way. has shed IN
Wabash avenue. covering the sidewalk.
which the Mayor is thinking of having
removed.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02
A Curious Custom.

a curious custom Is In vogue at Rich.
mOnd, Yorkshire. TO the person who
first takes into the market there u sam.
pie OF newly-thrashed wheat the mayor
gives bottle of wine.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

An Atchison girl lives so far out that
she Is compelled to ask the young men
to take her home.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02
GUNNER Excursion

GUNNER Excursion
~ Tickets to the resorts
OF Wisconsin. Minnesota,
Michigan, Colorado, Cali.
fornia, Montana. Wash.
ington, Oregon and British
Columbia; also to Alaska.
Japan, China and all Trans.
Pacific Points, are now on
sale by the CHICAGO.
MILWAUKEE & ST.
PAUL RAILWAY. Full
and reliable information
can be had by applying to
Mr.. c. N. SOUTHER,
Ticket Agent, 9s Adams
Street, Chicago.
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

sary security to defeat the cracksman
aud render bank burglary impossible.
1--WE have met the enemy and they
are ours"
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

Bids for building steel cells in the
John Worthy School In the bridewell
were opened Wednesday. They were:
j. q. Wagner \ Co. .$t3,t,Sg
Champion Iron Works. ........ 12.OOO
rauly Jail Building Company. 1900
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

Perhaps the strongest argument
against unions among street car men,
In the eyes Of the magnates, II that or
ganized wOrkingmen are not prone to
bc so dOcile aud subservicnt rs Others.
Therefore they are less serviceable for
use In influencing legislative bodies
when the companies are asking for
privileges. II Is n cardinal principle of
organized labor that u wOrkingman's
vote and political influence are not the
property of the employer, ana are not
transferred to the latter's possession
with the labor service that he buys. II
II street railway boss like Rabbit Ear
Wheeler, wants the employees under
him to 60 to the Council chamber and
howl down IN ordinance for the prOtec-
tiOn of the people against corporate
greed, unOrganized men are much more
likely to do his bidding than those be-
longing to n union and claiming its pro-
lection In the exercise Of the rights Of
American citizenship.
The public now looks with favor upon
the efforts of street railway men to Or
ganize, and wishes them success In
their undertaking. The public has d.
rect, selfish interest In this matter as
well, for Rabbit Ear Wheeler ana his
gang with wOrkingmen In their employ
with sufficient independence and self
assertion to insist on the right of or
ganlzatlOn will not WELD so much pow
or for evil when seeking to take ad-
vantage Of the citizens. Their working
men then cannot so easily be made tools
In the hands of INSCRIPTIONS wealth
Chicago eagle. [volume] (Chicago, Ill.) 1889-19??, 1897-10-02

\ letter signed with the name of
William \. Clark. general manager of
the General Electric Company. has
been sent to u number Of persons In at.
tendance mt the meeting Of city officials
In Columbus. Ohio. 1t calls attention
to the proposed discussion Of municipal
ownership of street railways. and
warns the friends of street railways to
oppose any such discussion. The letter
, was denounced by Mayor Harrison and
Others who received copies.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
Genuine Prosperity.

Under the above caption theMercan-
tile and Financial Times makes the fol-
lowing observations, which are worthy
of careful reading and consideration, in
these days when the thought OF better
times already here and to come is up
permost in all minds:
"Evory body is using the word pros
perity in these days, but many persons
carry in their minds distinctly mis-
taken idea of its meaning. To the
speculator in stocks it means rise in
the particular thing he fancies, when
the one change most hurtful to public
prosperity may possibly be an advance
in stocks which have only speculative
value.
''To many thousand worlsingmen
there comes prosperity, according to
their conception, when their wages
rise in harmony or the general cost of
living increases more than earnings.
There is great army of farmers to
whom prosperity means the accidental
concurrence of bounteous crops and eX-
ceptionally high prices, and they do
not stop to think that general pros
perity can only be based upon fair re-
turns for regular and constant indus
try.
MANY merchants count it prosperity
if large tocks of goods rise in value on
their hands In general, the tendency
is to take quite too narrow and indi-
vidual view of the conditions which
are called prosperous.
prosperity is not real if it is not
general. Gains by one set of men at
the expense of another do not improve
the condition of the country in the
least. If the higher wages, the excep'
tional cost of food, the advanced prices
of goods take from part of the people
in order to give to another part, there
is not step toward general improve
ment."
The interdependence of all lines o.
trade and of people in every walk OF
life is clearly emphasized by the exist
ing conditions. 1t is something which
should never be forgotten, something
which should make us more consider
ate one of the other, and something
which should keep one man or one ele-
ment of society from ever seeking to
advance unless by so doing another
loses
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
Givesths Almighty Credit.

Congressman L, r. Ridgely, of Pitts.
burg, who is one of the Labor day ora
tors this afternoon, said to a Journal
reporter:
"Financially the Third district is in
the very pink of condition. God boun-
tifully blessed our people this year, and
TO say that Mark Hanna, Mckinley OF
the Dingley bill did it, is not only rot,
but blasphemy. The will of God and
the sweat and toll Of men brought
about the prosperity which, in a meas
ure, we are enjoying"
OF the issues of the future, Mr.. Ridg-
ley said;
1.-THE people ofmy district-populists
as well as their allies-will, l believe,
stick to the issue of monetary reform.
In fact, know they will. That's one
question that must be settled as speed
lily as possible in the interest of all the
people and in the interest of the gov
eminent itself. There is another great
question which l think, will become a
leading issue, and that is the principle
of the referendum. Outside Of the mon
ey question, IJhink that is the greatest
question before the American people
today. 1t is the most important with
the exception l have stated. Doodle
is the great stumbling block to sound
legislation, and the boodling practice
would cease when corporations would
know that all laws of Importance must
be referred to the people. The Jeffer-
sonian idea was that the people should
have voice in everything. The people
delegated their power TO congress. Con-
gress Is divided between the political
parties, the majority controlling. The
majority delegates its power TO a eau
Gus, and a majority of the caucus gov.
ems, so that only about one-fourth Of
that body controls-or, in other words
about 100 men dictate the legislation for
about 65, 900, 900 of people. This caucus
majority elects aspeaker and delegates
TO him the power of making the rules
governing the body. The result is that
we have actually one.man power di-
recting and shaping the legislation Of
this great country. That must be stop
ped before popular government is
crushed forever out of existence. All
laws of great Importance to the people
must be referred to the people for eth
er their approval or veto"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

900 year less in taxes than he should
do upon the basis employed for the cal
culation of the poor mans taxes! Mr..
Holbrook went fishing and caught a
whale
And still people wonder at the dis
content of the plain people when such
determinations in favor of the excess
lively rich are going on all the tine-in
the 'treasurer's Office, in the assessors
office, in the courts, by sulreptitious
inclusion Of class Legislation in the tar
if bill already given over 20 the trusts.
Will this discovery (Which everybody
has known for years. of the Taxpayers
league cause the taxes of Mr.. Pullman
and his monopolistic corporation to be
raised to their just limit? Not at all.
By means known to Mr.. Pullman and
Others of his kind they will 60 on year
after year swindling the state and the
city, and throwing the burdens they
should gladly bear upon the shoulders
of the men whose wages they never
tire Of cutting down How can it be
stopped? Only by the people rising as
one man and insisting upon a system
of taxation that shall admit of no dis
elimination, and under which each
man will pay for exactly what he gets,
no more no ess.-Farmers Voice.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
Caughta Whale.

In the Farmers Voice of January o,
appeared an editorial under the title,
"Who Doesn't Pay His Taxes?" Since
that time the Chicago Taxpayers lea
que has been trying to answer that
question, and judging from q letter
written by the president of that asso-
citation they are getting hold Of the
necessary data.
The letter was an open one, and ad-
dressed to George NJ. Pullman, the
sleeping car magnate and count by the
grace of his majesty, the king of Italy.
President HolbroolS of the league show
beyond shadow of doubt, and takes
Mr.. Pullman's own statement to the
stockholders of his big company to
prove it, that the corporation of which
Count Pullman is the head pays $780,
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

ness, and managed as such. Now there
is growing conviction that the best
interests of the people will be subserv-
ed by changing it from business to a
system. l say experimental or transit
tional, for experience may satisfy that
the change is not wise, and that it is
better to continue transportation as a
business, leaving to the interest OF
those engaged therein to determine how
it shall be managed, and giving them
the power to build up, as counsel has
suggested industries and towns here
and there.
"Or it may be that experience will
only make more imperative the present
demand that transportation shall be a
system, with absolute certainty and
uniformity of rates, in which case the
change will be made, and this will be
regarded as the transitional era. The
transition may be accomplished by the
government taking possession of trans
portation, and itself discharging that
public duty. Certainly that would be
the simplest, and-for the courts, at
least-the easiest solution of the prob
lem which now impends; for by the
purchase or condemnation, and in a
single transaction, the state, paying
simply the actual value of the property
invested in transportation, would have
the same control over that the national
government has over the postoffice sys-
tenn, and could prescribe such rates as
it saw fit, making good by general tax
alton any loss. But, as $40, 900, 900
are invested in the business of railroad
transportation, the public may be re-
luctant to incur such Indebtedness, and
seek to accomplish the same result of
uniformity of rates by means of legis-
lation similar to that before u.s..
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
$500 To ANY Man.
WILL PAY 500 FOR ANY CASE
OF Weakness in Men They Treat and
Fail to Cure.

ran CuEes
An Omaha Company places for the first
time before the public MAGICAL TREAT
MBNT for the cure Of Lost Vitality, Nervous
and Sexual Weakness, and Restoration Of
Life Force in old and young men. No
WORKOUT French remedy; contains no
Phosphorus or other harmful drugs. It Is
a WONDERFUL TREATAENT-magical in its
effects positive in its cure, All readers,
who are suffering from a weakness that
blights their life, causing that mental and
physical suffering peculiar to Lost Man
hood should write to the STATE MEDICAL
COMPANY, Omaha, Neb, and they will
send you absolutely FREE, a valuable
paper on these diseases, and positive proofs
OF their truly MAsICAL TREATMENT. Thous
ands Of men, who have lost all hope Of .
cure, are being restored by them to PSF
feet condition.
This MAGICAL TREATMENT may be taken
at home under their directions, or they will
pay railroad fare and hotel bills to all who
prefer to go there for treatment, II they
fail to cure. They are perfectly reliable;
have no Free Prescriptions, Free Cure,
Free Sample, or c. D. b. fake. They have
S250,0O capital, and guarantee to cure
every case they treat or refund every dol
lar; or their charges may be deposited In q
bank to be paid to them when q cure IL
effected. Write them today.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
THE MARKETS
KAMA, CItv Grnln and LIve stoo


Hard Wheat-No /. esXc; No 2, Sc; No
8. 96c; No. 4, s3c; rejected, 76c
Soft Wheat-No. 2, 94c; No 8, csc; No
$50.
Spring Wheat-No. 2, s5c; No. 8, CSC.
Corn - No. 2 26H-; No 8. 26c; No
4, Csc; no grade, 22323c. White corn-No.
2 27c; No 3. 26c; No 4. 25hc
oats-No ? 1910; No s. 1701sc; No 1
Ice. No 2 white. 2lc; No ), 1870; No
& tic
Rye-No ?, 45hci No 8, 4she; No 4 40
GAG
Bran-45c in 10O-lb sacks
Hay - Choice prairie, IS so; No 1,
e6OOG625; No 2 $3.50; No 8, 1893 so;
choice timothy $50. No /. &c 500s;
clover mixed 1907
Cattle-Receipts 76; calves I'LL shipped,
6,4S7 cattle. $40 calves
Hogs - Receipts. 4,049; shipped, 149
The market was 20 10 cents lower
Sheep-Recelpts, go. shipped, l,244 The
market was nominaliy steady.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
HOW JAPAN DID IT.
silence Over the Dishonest" Feature o,
the Gold st 'ndard.

SAouee OVor tue DlbnOneBg HeaLuEO "a
the Gold st 'ndard.
There is profound silence among the
goldbugs all the way from London to
Colorado Springs, over the dishonest"
feature of Japan's gold standard.
Japan has not said, as we have, that
debtors shall pay dollars, in pur-
chasing power for each dollar they
borrowed. On the contrary, all debts
are payable in silver as before. But if
debtor prefers to pay in gold he is
allowed to do so at the rate of so cents
on the dollar.
Japan's gold standard, so far as it
affects debtors, which is everywhere
the main point, is precisely the same as
if congress should establish the gold
standard and declare that all existing
debts are payable in either silver dol
lars coined free or in gold at so cents
on the dollar.
Japan was on the silver basis. In GO
ing to the gold standard she did not
rob her debtors as we did.
Technically this country went to the
gold standard in 1873 Really it was
done in 1893 bp the closing of the India
minis and the repeal of the Sherman
silver purchase act. BY the closing of
the India minis june 20, 1893, every
debtin this country contracted before
that day was practically doubled and
the doubling was robbery.
Times Sun.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

Justice Kennedy of England has just
lecided that wife may sue her hus-
oand for libel. The parties were liy-
ng apart under separation order, the
wife earning her own Lying and the
husband Kept sending defamatory tel
egrams to her.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16
How They Fool the Public.

Thomas l., Greene, auditor of the
Manhattan Trust company, has just
written book on Corporation Finan-
ce, which was published early in the
month of June. The book deals with
the finance of corporations and treats
of the subject very thoroughly. AS it
will not have much of sale among the
masses" it may be worth while to
call attention to some of the principles
laid down by Mr.. Greene.
He frankly confesses as has long been
the belief of political economists, that
stock watering, or the over capitaliza-
ton of corporations operating public
franchises, is merely a device to cover
profits in excess of the usual rate of in
terest, and he justifies it on the ground
that many of the public believe that
any profits beyond the legal rate of in
terest are excessive.
This, according to Mr.. Greene, is the
reason for stock watering: If success
full companies declare dividends of ~
per cent the newspapers will cry for
legislative action. But when thew dou-
BILE their shares, and declare per cent
dividends, although there will be tenn
porary cry over ''stock watering" the
thing will blow over, and, if any cutlery
is afterward made over large profits,
the answer will be that they are not
greater than the legal rate of interest.
Almost every person can recall score
of cases of the type mentioned by Mr.
Greene. The auditor of the Manhattan
Trust company is frank enough to adj
nit the evil effect upon the public of
this stock watering. If company's
capital stock has been doubled and the
corporation which formerly paid II per
cent sells its shares on basis of a G per
cent return, when for any reason there
is reduction of the rate of dividens to
per cent, the "innocent holders" pro-
test.
"Then," says Mr.. Greene, "the man
ayers, knowing that reduction in the
dividend rate will be very unpopular,
strive in every way, legitimately and
illegitimately, to continue the old pay
ments. They will withdraw trains,
will discharge employees, will buy less
supplies, and, in every, way will try to
increase their net earnings up to the
former amount, with the result that
the public are deprived of facilities to
which they are entitled, and which they
might otherwise obtain, while at the
same time the industrial depression is
aggravated by the large number of men
thrown out of work directly throug the
action of the company in their discharge
and indirectly in the refusal to purchase
the usual amount of materials and sup
plies
MIR. Greene does not call attention to
the fact that, in many cases, such as gas
works, railroads or telegraphs, there is
a greater over capitalization than ap.
pears from comparison between the
value of the plant and the amount of
stock; for often the stock really repre-
seuts nothing, and cost the original
sellers nothing, the whole expenses of
being more than paid for
by the issuance of bonds. New Time.
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

When people begin to show the
marks Of time on their faces, they be-
gin also to place great value on q
''sweet expression"
Hutchinson gazette. [volume] (Hutchinson, Kan.) 1895-1902, 1897-09-16

What lot of courage it must have
required in the man who was the first
to eat an oyster
The record-union., 1897-02-03
OREGON DEADLOCK.
The Senate Refuses to Vote for Sem
ator Until the House Organizes.

SALEM. Feb. 2.-The State Senate
to-day. by vote of is to II. refused to
proceed to the election of a United
states senator. The Benson House
with ~ members present, at noon took
a ballot and cast 20 votes for John III
Mitchell and one for George H. Will
Jams.
The Senate had long discussion over
resolution introduced by Browneu of
Clackamas that it should proceed upon
viva voce vote to name a United States
Senator. The resolution was ruled out
of order by President Simon. on the
ground that 1t proposed to act contrary
to law. in that the House was not or
ganized, and no vote for Senator could
be taken until the Second Tuesday after
the organization of the House An ap-
peal was Immediately taken from this
decision, and a long and somewhat acri-
monious discussion followed, in which
Senator Driver, referring to legislative
obstructionists. said he would Just as
soon be one of the men who held up the
train in Southern Oregon as the men
who held up this Legislature. When
nearly every Senator had expressed
The record-union., 1897-02-03
McKENNAs PLACE IN CABINET
May be Changed From Attorney-Gen-
eral to Secretary of the Interior.

WASHINGTON, Feb 1T is under
stood here that the position for which
Judge Joseph McKenua of California is
slated in McKinley's Cabinet is that of
Attorney General. but there are possi-
bilities which may make 1t necessary
to name him for Secretary of the In
terror in the final arrangements
The difficulty appears to be in the
way of securing an adjustment of the
different portfolios SO that the wishes
of Major Mckinley may not only be
complied with, but the desires and pc
culiar fitness of the gentlemen selected
may at the same time be recognized.
The belief exists here that ii was the
original intention of Major Mckinley
to give Judge McKenna the Attorney
Generalship. not few people looking
upon this as a step taken to place him
in a position where he might in a
measure at least familiarize himself
with the work of the Supreme Bench.
But some of the arrangements have
failed, and the selection of new men has
necessitated rearrangement of forces.
That Judge McKenna will be a member
of the Cabinet is generally accepted here
now as an assured fact.