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NOTED IMPEACHMENT rRlALa
There Have Been Only Seven in He.
 tory of America.

There Have Been Only Seven in His
 tory of America.
 In the 115 years of our history un- der the constitution only seven i'm peachment cases have been tried, says the New York Tribune. In 1797 Will liam Blount, Senator from Tennes- see, was haled before the Senate charged with certain reasonable mis- demeanors. He was discharged be- cause the Senate properly held that he was not "civil officer of the Unit cd States" Between 1797 and 1867 the only persons against whom im- peachment proceedings were brought were United States judges. During Jefferson's first term partisan feeling ran high against the federal bench, packed, as 1t was held to be, with federalist appointees. In 1903 a dis. trict judge, John Pickering, of the district of New Hampshire, was tried for drunkenness and other unjudicial conduct, and was removed from office. In 1905 Republican Congress under took to discipline Samuel Chase, of Maryland, an Associate Justice of the Supreme Court. He was tried on charges of partisan and arbitrary con- duct but the animus behind the prose- cution was largely political. John Randolph conducted the case before the Senate and lost 1t, and blamed Jefferson thereafter for not exerting sufficient pressure to secure Chase's conviction. In 1880 a Missouri district judge was impeached and acquitted, and in 1862 Tennessee district judge, who had accepted office under the Con- federate government, was convicted of treason.
 The impeachment of President An. drew Johnson was another notable ef. fort to discipline "civil officer of the United States" on grounds almost wholly political. The failure of the case against Johnson greatly discred- ited this method of dealing with re- fractory executive. Johnson escaped removal by single vote. But only the extreme partisanship of that day made possible so fierce and so un- founded an assault on the presidential office. W. W. Belknap, Secretary of War under President Grant, was inl- peached in 1876. But he had resigned a few hours before the articles were preferred against him in the House of Representatives, and the fact that he was no longer federal official when accused operated in the Senate to se- cure his acquittal.
 Of seven impeachment cases tried, two only have been made out against the defendants-one against a judge whose relatives entered a plea of in- sanity in his behalf, and the other against judge who had taken a sec ond oath of office under the Confed. crate government. The power which t was imagined might become an in- strument of oppression has failed sig nally to drive executive or judicial of- hcers to political martyrdom. Nearly thirty years have elapsed since the last Impeachment miscarriage. Nor Is there any reason to anticipate further ap- peals to this obsolescent power except in cases where the procedure has be- come judicial not in name only, but in feeling and purpose.
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Applying Early Re medy.

"Why did you never marry"
 q became convinced in my youth that the prevalence of divorce was be. coming a menace to American inst- tutions."- ."-Brooklyn Life.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
Marriage Months.

June is the favorite marriage time
in Great Britain. where of 1900 mar
riages ia took place in that month.
January coming next with 100. De
cember with 30. July with I24. No
vember with IA, and so on down to
February with 70. which is less
thought of by prospective brides and
bridegrooms than any month except
May. which stands at the foot of the
list with only 40
April leads in Germany. and Octo-
Der comes second. February is first
in Hungary. November second. In
Greece October leads. January being
second. February is first in Italy
November second In Sweden No
vember and December. in that order
are the leading months March anl
December are the least favorits
months in Russia. February leading
with e7o out of 100: January, 23o
October. 1856; November. ia, Marcel
had only II to its credit when these
fignres were compiled. and December
only Q.
Similar figures have never beer
compiled for the United States SO fal
as the writer knows.
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sin. Paul knew this and was
ashamed. The baby realized that he
ought to feel pity for the woman rur
over by the train, hence the first. the
apologize, half of his remark. The
man at the game realized that his
words. which might fairly be taken as
indicating his actions, if he had been
IN a position to act, were detestable.
hence his blush of shame The re-
spectacle population realized the de-
grading nature of what they read and
wanted to read, hence their outspoken
approval of the condemnation of the
so-called yellow journalism" their
unwlllingness to subscribe for and
have such papers delivered at their
residences and the regularity with
which they advertised, purchased and
turtlvely read all about everything
nasty and bad.
Now, what are you going to do
about it? Are you going to chain the
brute in you or let him loose? Will
you be spiritual being made in the
Image of God, or beast of the field?
Which shall it be-, the law of God or
the law Of sin? You cannot dodge the
question or avoid the struggle. The
issue is made. How will you meet it?
There come to my mind few peril
nent words from the same brave old
Saints virile pen
| But | see another law in my mem
bers, warning against the law of my
mind and bringing me into captivity
to the law of sin which is in my mem
bers'
This indisputable conclusion he fol-
lows with question:
20 wretched man that | am! Who
shall deliver me from the body of this
death?" And to this question he gives
instant answer
Il thank God through Jesus Christ
our Lord"
1t is the story of Jekyll and HYDE
again. Will you be delivered from
that body of death which is the brute
in you7 VIII you be Jekyll or will
you be Hyde? Will you be man or
beast? The former, of course! Set
about it then. Begin early and keep
struggling to the end, or you will
never accomplish it.
Copyright, 1904, by Cyrus Townsend
Brady.)
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
A Practical Sermon for Everyday Readers
By Rev. DIR. Cy.us Townsend Brady

of the fallen man to whose side he was
evidently opposed:
Jump on himl Stamp on himl
Jump on him! Tramp the life out of
him!'
Then his eye caught mine. He
blushed and was ashamed Says old
Young in his forgotten Might
Thoughts, The man that bushes is
not quite brute"
A third consideration Of the sub
ject, and this time a general one
There was a particularly atrocious
murder in certain city the other day,
after the appalling manner of that un-
fortunate being who made war, amino
furandi,' in the spirit of pirate
against a certain wretched class of
society, under the name Of Jack the
Ripper" The population Of the city
could not get enough OF the degrading
and shocking details All the papers
chronicled the event, some with d
decent reserve, others with more
frankness, and one or two with COM
pleteness of revelation and ampliica-
ton that left little or nothing to the
imagination.
These last were the papers that
sold! The public knew by past ex-
perience that the whole disgusting
story would be found there as nowhere
else, and they bought and read the
papers with an avidity that was ghoul-
ish Their discussions, which you
could not but overhear in the trains,
in the streets, even at the lunch
counters, were evidence that the
papers in question were only giving
them what they liked to read,
incidentally, but in line with what
has gone before, the papers of the sort
which are known as yellow journals
are decried with practical unanimity
by respectable people. The more
reputable press points its fingers OF
scorn at them everywhere--but they
sell! They get the advertisements
too. The most uprightly conducted
and highly moral business concerns
take daily page with them, while the
papers OF which all approve, though
few buy and fewer read them, have tc
be content with a column or less Of
the advertising by which the news.
!: papers live.
i Truly the brute is in all of us. Says
St. Paul to the Romans: so ther
with the mind | myself serve the law
l. of God but will, the flesh the law o.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
The Rule Of the Dutch
in Java

The Government clerks in Java arc
probably the best educated civil ser
wants in the world They are all
Dutch, of course, for Java is owned
and governed by Holland, and every
mothers son of them is and must by
law be graduate Of the university
at Delft.
Special courses are maintained there
for those who expect to go out to
Java in the Government service, and
none can crafty the ambition to do
so unless he has mastered French,
German, English, and at least two of
the four languages spoken in Java,
one of which must be Malay. The
higher officials and the Judges must
speak three of the native tongues.
1t is forbidden to native to speak
Dutch, or high" Javanese, to a supe-
rior, and no Superior would think OF
using anything but low" Javanese to
an inferior. Servants must always
appear before their masters with
covered heads Javanese, except Of
high rank, may not smoke in the pres
ence of any European The Dutch say
that if they did not insist on native
recognition of their superiority they
would not be able to attain their All
thority at all The etiquette of rank
as insisted upon among the Javanese
themselves is even more severe than
that imposed by the Dutch upon the
natives.
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William Maxwell,
War Correspondent

William Maxwell, now in the Far
East as war correspondent for one of
the big London dailies, is, perhaps, the
best all around journalist that London
possesses to-day.
Maxwell was with Kitchener to
Khartoum and has the medal with
clasp for Omdurman. He went to
South Africa and was present at all
the preliminary fighting, including
Elardslaagte and Lombard's Kop. He
was in Ladysmith during the siege.
When Maxwell was free of Lady
smith he went by way of Durham,
Port Elizabeth and Kimberley to
Bloomfontein, where he joined Lord
Roberts, who was with the main army.
He was present at all engagements up
to the Portuguese frontier He crossed
Delagoa Bay and interviewed Kruger.
Retiring to Durham and Pretoria, he
went out after DeWet, and doubtless
would have been present at his cap
ture had not the Boer leader left
earlier in the day and continued to do
SO with a regularity that became habi-
tual In all this travelling Maxwell
had more excitement than falls to the
usual lot of even the war corresponds
| ent. More times than did Job he es-
capped by the skin of his teeth
Among Maxwell's American friends
one of the warmest is Major Burn
| ham, the famous scout, to whom Lord
Roberts wrote, Il believe there is not
another man in the British army able
to do what you have done" Accidents
somewhat similar in nature brought
the men into more intimate relations
than might have been the case other
wise
The Major had fallen with horse
which the Beers had shot under him.
He had been badly crushed, blood
vessels in his stomach had burst. he
had laid insensib1e for day and had
gone on with his work the next night
though he had to crawl several miles
to do it. He had blown up railway
and fainting from exhaustion was
found quite by chance by British
/ scouting party Maxwell, on one oc-
casion when he had narrow escape
from the Beers, rode into prospect
ing pit and Jared no better than the
Major. Tn time he got out, though he
does not recall how. and rode for two
days with two broken ribs and a leg
swollen almost to the size of his body
After that a surgeon put him in q
plaster cast and he continued his
work
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sick-room work, and, Incidentally. III
the sick room she should reign SUI
preme, accounting for what she does
only to the physician in charge OF
the case
The Family Nurse has "a domain
sacred to. her work and her supplies.
1t should be large, roomy closet,
well lighted and ventilated, and, if pos
sible. located near stationary wash
stand
On this door, in plain writing, or,
better still, in type writing, she has
an important list to which the family
applies for advice when the Family
Nurse is not at hand The first sec
ton reads:
Nearest Doctor
Nearest Hospital
Nearest Police Station
In notifying doctor or hospital of
accident, state. the nature of the acct
dent or illness distinctly"
Many life has been lost in case
of accident because the physician was
carelessly summoned and came un-
prepared to cope with the emergency.
Next come a few simple instruc-
tons for action in case of poison, a
frequent emergency in the family cir
Gle, particularly during the summer
or in country homes the year around
For narcotic. poison, or poisons
which cause immediate drowsiness
and torpor, such as eating poisonous
mushrooms, toadstools, turpentine,
opium, morphine or chlorals of anv
sort, administer an emetic such as
warm mustard water, then a powerful
purgative and wind UP with stimu-
liant, coffee or whiskey, to stimulate
the heart action.
For carbolic acid give sweet oil or
milk. Let the patient rest, keep the
body warm and finally administer a
stimulant
For arsenic or paris green, mix
half an ounce of dialyzed iron with
half an ounce of magnesia and admin
lister this quantity every ten minutes.
For corrosive sublimate (kept in
solution in many homes to destroy
vermin and insects) give Immediately
white of egg unbeaten, or plain flour
Cruel
For poisonous fish, particularly in
case of poison from canned goods,
give warm mustard water to cause
vomiting, a quick purgative such as
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
/fT7HE Lord writes Tennyson

<Hv1E LORD, writes lennySOn,
let the house of brute to
4 the soul of man. Let
me weave brief but perth
nent interrogation for you on that
theme
Last summer poor old woman was
run over and mangled in frightful
manner by railroad train near my
house. One of the servants happened
TO see the accident. Excited beyond
measure, she suddenly burst upon us
sitting on the porch in the cool of the
evening and, without Guessing over the
facts, bluntly told the tale. My son,
aged three and half, listened breath
lessly to the horrible recital. AS soon
as he had chance to slip in a word,
he remarked:
1T makes me feel awful sad that
lady was beaded but''-here was the
point-"I would like to see her all
shubbled up in bucket!''
1t was one of those speeches which
you know not whether to laugh at or
to weep over may say, in passing,
that he is by no means ruthless
youngster. | have even brought him
to tears by discussing gravely on the
fact that the mutton he was eating
was once gambolling little lamb!
Another instance in point. This
time it is OF a grown man of my &C
quaintance, church member, re-
spectacle citizen, altogether worthy
member of society | happened to sit
near him at football game not long
since. The teams were we'll matched
the score was close, and the game was
intensely exciting The spectators
were on their feet most of the time
and the field rang with cheers and
cries At one critical moment long
haired youth shot out of the bunch
and, with the ball clasped close to his
breast, started for the opposing goa
line Alas for the hopes of his side
halfway the distance, he stumbled anc
Tell An enemy was upon him in {
moment.
The man at my side was in frenzy
Of excitement. His eyes seemed abou
to burst from their sockets, his face
was engorged with blood as, with ter
rible earnestness, he shrieked at TIL,
top of his voice at the nearest pursue
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away knowing that the blame does
not lie at our door; and more than
likely we have made friend and not
an enemy, as we surely would have
done had we not insisted on that one
modern room
But our strangest customer is the
Italian. No bed for me- she says in
effect j want mattress only.
sleep better when IN on the floor.
And give me one costing about four
ninety-nine.
You'd be surprised at the number
of educated Italians who sleep in this
fashion. Indeed, our Italian trade
comprises largely only those Italians
who have been over here for the
second generation"
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citrate of magnesia or a seidlitz pow
der and then stimulant.'
Beside the above list hangs a third.
which is designed to meet the COM
monest of domestic emergencies.
For collie or cholera morbus, apply
heat to the affected parts, either in
the form Of hot water bag. hot
plates or a bottle filed with scalding
hot water Mustard plasters should
also be used. In case of collie, warm
enema will sometimes give immedi-
ate relief.
For dysentery or diarrhea, ginger
tea, peppermint or hot blackberry
cordial. Keep the patient quiet and
warm.
For Group, keep the room warm
and apply mild mustard plasters for a
few moments to the soles of the feet
and the chest In the meantime, heat
fiannels IN the oven and apply to the
throat. If you use fannels dipped in
hot water, cover these carefully with
oiled silk, or chilled condition may
follow on the trail of the hot mois-
ture. Put water to boil fast on the
stove to raise a vapor, and turpentine
may be added to the water
ssFor severe vomiting, if it is pure
nausea, not poison, make the patient
lie flat on the back and drink quanti-
ties Of very hot water. Or feed him
with finely chopped ice. Do not use
luke-warm water, as this increases
nausea. A lump Of ice or a mustard
plaster laid on the pit of the stomach
is good.
For severe hiccough, apply mus
tard plaster on the pit of the stomach.
For earache, wiring cloths in hot
water and lay over the ear. Or
molsten bit of cotton with lauda-
mum and sweet oil, fit it into the ear
and administer very hot drinks"
In this closet, clearly marked, the
Family Nurse keeps supply of simple
household remedies, ready-to-use
mustard plasters, hot-water bag.
wooden cloths, syringes of various
sorts, measuring glass. a medicine
dropper, an agate bed pan, porcelain
or agate pitcher and basin, medicated
or sterilized towels, disinfectants,
bandages, safety pins and two fat
boards, one two feet long and
shorter one, to be used as splints in
case of broken limb If she can al
ford it AID there are boys, active, ven-
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retail furniture business,
conhded the head salesman of the
furniture department of big depart
ment store.
wv enever a woman of certain
nationality walks in | know she will
buy a seventy-6ve dollar brass bed
and three dollar mattress to put on
it before she leaves. The German
housewife goes to the other extreme
five dollar iron beu and the costliest
of box springs and mattress; while
the American of the name of Smith
or Brown or Jones is pretty certain
to put two-thirds of the money in
the bed and the rest i'll its hxings.
when | get hold of bride and
bridegroom bearing the rural stamp
L Immediately pilot them over to
where the parlor suits at twenty and
fifty dollars a suit are Fept, and they
generally take two--a fifty dollar one
for the parlor and a twenty dollar
one for the sitting-room. Next, |
lead them to the kitchen furniture,
and when they get done there they
haven't much left to spend on the
rest of the house.
'Let man with heavy gold chain
dividing his ample waistcoat appear
before me. accompanied by his wife
bedecked in diamonds, and | do not
hesitate to lead them to the antique
designs The passion is strong in
the newly rich to fit up strictly mod
ern houses with the most ancient ap-
pearing furniture obtainable. Say
what we may against it, we cannot
prevent the atrocity being committed.
Sometimes, however, we do man
age to induce the customer to fit up
one room in modern style, and then
we feel that when visitors to the house
pass judgment on its fittings we will
escape a scathing arraignment. For
when the lady of the house shows her
guests the modern room she will
undoubtedly apologize for it, saying
this is the only furniture she did not
select herself, but was talked into
buying it by So-and-So's salesman.
That clears us, and the guests go
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+ ALL the guises in which the
Girl Feminine has come into
her own, unquestionably as
the Family Nurse she is most

lllS dlili ~ III &C SHC 10 llOSl
practical
a generation back, or even two, she
was known as the village or neighbor-
hood nurse. In her black bombazine
gown and with her face drawn to an
appropriately lugubrious length, she
appeared on the scene when illness in
vaded the home. She was famous for
the bitter herb teas she could concoct
and the gruesome tales of past pa
tientS she could relate She had a gift
for nursing and for gossip.
Quite different figure is the Family
Nurse of 1904 She. too. has the gilt
of alternating suffering. Perhaps she
had once INDUCED in the dream of be-
coming physician or trained nurse,
but was prevented from taking the
course of study through lack of funds,
or because home duties held her in
side the family circle What more
natural than that she should follow
her inclination at home-even as her
younger sister collects souvenir
spoons or her brother goes in for
athletics.
If the family is large, with younger
brothers and sisters in plenty. the Fam
lily Nurse is by no means an idle per-
SON 1t is to her that they all look for
simple remedies and first aid to the
injured. And to her the family ply
sician looks for support and assistance
when serious illness invades the
home
To meet the latter emergency, the
Family Nurse will have on hand three
or four simple gowns made from
striped gingham or zephyr cloth in
grayish blue and white Graduate
nurses prefer all-white gowns, but
these make extra laundry, and, in the
family, add to the extra work AMI
expense which illness brings. White
aprons in a good quality of long cloth
launder easily, and white lawn turn
over collars and deep cuffs add to the
neat appearance of nurse. These
articles of clothing she dons for real
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-09-18
The Best Paying Railroad in the
World.

The best paying railroad in the
world is probably the State Railway
of Se1angor, one of the Federated
Malay States under British protection.
1t rs only twenty-four miles long.
running from some valuable tin mines
down to the coast, but it pays the
State dividend of nearly 50 per cent.
every year.
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Roses for Directoire Hats.

For wear on the new directore pic
ture hat come roses six inches or more
in diameter Full bloom American
beauties are used on white hats, and
queer, impossible orange roses, with
bird of paradise aigrettes, are used on
brown velvet hats.
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from long usage. Every invalid knows
the added discomfort of new and irri-
tating bed linen.
A clever physician has said that the
most important Characteristic of the
up-to-date nurse is her knowledge of
what not to- dos In other words, she
does not lose her head and act rashly
but administers alleviating treatment
and summon a physician promptly
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turesome spirits, in the family circle.
she has at hand one of those con
venient packages. First Aid Packets, =
which contain sterilized dressings for
wounds and explicit directions for APP
plying them
A privilege of the Family Nurse is
the right to select from the linen closet
the sheets, pillow cases and towels
which have become soft, but not torn,
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Another faculty which the Family
Nurse possesses is her appreciation of
the Importance of Immaculate cleanli-
ness. Sterilizing she understands
thoroughly, and the various methods
of disinfecting rooms and household
articles. In isolating an infectious
case, all articles of no particular value
which have been employed in the
sick room are burned Articles which
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Russia,s Military Surgeons.

The Russian military surgeons are
said to be the most experienced in the
world, because in time of peace they
do the work of nearly all the civil
hospitals.