The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-04-17

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Special Efaactment-The Swedish
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Correspondence The st. Paul Globe.
WASHINGTON, April 14-The ca
reer of Hon. Frank M Eddy, member
Of congress from the Seventh district,
of Minnesota, exemplifies the elasticity
OF American. life. He has bounded
from one thing to another each time
getting little higher First he work.
ed in a brick yard, and thus procured
the money necessary for his education;
next he taught school, and then he be-
came a Cruiser" or land examiner,
for the Northern Pacific Railroad
company. In 1884 he entered politics
as clerk of the district court of Pope
county, and also as court reporter of
the Sixteenth Judicial district-which
positions he has held ever since. He
was elected to the Fifty-fourth, and
reelected to the Fffty-fifth congress,
and now snuffs the battle from afar
for another term, recalling with pride
the 1876 speeches he made during the
campaign of 1896, without turning a
hair whether he did or did not turn
a single vote.
Mr.. Eddy may also be called a
sci user" in politics. He is far delow
the ships of the line, yet more useful
than the ordinary gunboats that puff
and sputter without rendering much
service
Mr. Eddy's residence here is at Mount
ington. overlooking the city with the
capitol, the monument. and the silver
line of the Potomac far in the distance.
In the second story of this pleasant
home, which is filed with pretty little
children, he has a study, where, iolling
in an easy chair, he smokes his pipe
and twists his legs into Chnese-idol
shapes, as he talks for the edification
Of his visitor. On the walls of this
room hang two pictures, one the like
ness Of a maternal ancestor who was a
leader of the Boston Tea party; the
other the original drawing by Daven-
port of a caricature of Mr.. Eddy him
self, representing the Statesman with
his feet uplifted on his legislative desk
cigar. Mr.. Eddy seems proud of the
former, which he, slightly resembles;
but really delighted with the latter
which is gross and offensive in it's ac-
centuation of personal deficiencies
Some men welcome notoriety in any
form, if it only be notoriety. There
was the inspired idiot, for example,
who fired the Ephesian dome, and was
forthwith so effectually fired himself.
The Money of Sweden.
Mr. Eddy talks entertainingly as he
twists. and certain rough plates of
copper, on the mantelpiece, stamped
here and there with a coin-device, gave
trend to his conversation:
These are a set," he explained, "of
the half-dollar, dollar and two-dollar
pieces issued in Sweden. about the
middle of the eighteenth century, DUR
ing a desperate attempt for the free
coinage of copper. For years the dog
ma had been growing there that the
country should use for its coinage that
metal in which it was naturally rich,
without regard for the usages of ad-
jacent nations, and finally it prevailed.
These rough. clumsy slabs were sup
posed to contain the exact value
stamped upon them, and were made
legal tender to such an extent that
it was a crime, in some cases punisha-
BILE by death. to refuse to accept one
''The history Of this endeavor to
make money by special enactment"
continued Mr.. Eddy, as he lit his pipe
for the fourth time within two min
utes, sis significant fofi can take the
arguments advanced BY the advocates
of free copper in Sweden. and with a
few changes, simply Of detail. prove
them identical with, those of the free
silver men of today. There was the
same disregard for the rest OF the