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Trayers was second with 100. There
s wards, fY Ys,; oi pIedia yna g. p i5SdHenn Iss. john dd,
Archie N. Reid, idss.' SIX tied at ia for the
d. sad seg gEe P essss, S ]Snioo iss p sSlsns s sssSsn 81!
Md players. through with the rounds out
on the green. Parrish and Tom sherman
&c Is Is md Hsiso A. Tcn q Foyyns 3; S saae Sp . saa
being humkered. It was up to Johnstone
and Gee 70 play the second hole; the latter
fcnisn being a stroke higher He had
been past the pin on the 5l3 yard thirteenth
with two cleek shots, holing In two more
him Il Tie hunt S AZ match T play but uti for A TIE
vi luck OF the playof.
Dame Fortune-the Westerners, called
ksnIsth Edwards. together for the, irst
pisdiini and + r.. Fuller. Otherwise the
most formidable one as the majority OF
Il was a direrent Travis who set out with
@s seSi FOUND ar"S Trav Is pulled sds ef Sis drive. n but
ssccRd BE lifted after four losins! puts. When
Sawyer should have ha!ysd the third in I,
but he sliceS his second into the rough and
had too nau9h TO DO so Jrayis won 1t; On
awe with tW9 fine shots was well down
Midland youth now sliced into the rough
that Travis, who sliced his fourth and hit a
Tree. had the felicity of becoming 1 ny by a
win In 7 to 8.
Savers drive and approach left to him
q put of two feet or so for a 8 on the fifth,
Travis had an easy 4, and as Sawyer failed
to hole II was a half. Sawyer was / up
aftervard. but no more need be told of the
terrible details than to say that he won the
short twelfth In 1 to O. Travis being in the
hazard before the green.t taking two more to
Raf nuf and than fhTQa nIfS win nm fha
seeventeenth finally made Travis dormy one.
and as Sawyer splashed his ball into the
pond Travis had the match by 2 up. As a
ferelaf iop of the deceitfulness OF golf conf
-pgre 9Tayis,s card with the morning round.
Out. a.........4 7A6e As
half Champion Travers, after an early
lead did not draw away very easily again
from Upton. Jr.. yet won by 2 up and / TO
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new YORKS DRAWING AWAY
BEAT THE CARDINALS WHILE
THE CHICAGOS LOSE.

%FAiienders Not the Snap They Looked to
Be-Brooxlyns Shut Out by the Gin
cinnaus-Bostons Halt Culs-Pirates
Heat Quakers and Are Second.
The New York Nationals are drawing
away. They didn't have any snap with
the Cardinals yesterday desplte the fact
that the latter played poorly. but 1t was a
victory hone the less. 1t made their pen
nant aunt easier. for the Chlcagos lost to
the Bostons and fell back to third place.
The Pittsburgs passed them by beating the
Phillies. The Brooklyns were shut out by
the ~Cinclnnatis. the ninth straight defeat
for the former. The New Yorks have won
fourteen out Of fifteen games since they got
back East. The results:
New York, 3; 81 Louis. q.
Cincinnati. 2; brooklyn. o.
Boston, 3: chicago =.
Pittsburs, q: Philadelphia. 3.
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GOLFING BY TRAVIS
MAKES RECORDS IN MORNING.
BUT rs WEAK Nv HOLE PLAY.
Mason Phelps, Nelson whitney and r. n.
Fuller. All Champions Of little, lose
Matches-Ward Puts Douglas Out Of
the Running HerreshoT on Deck.

Mason Phelps, Nelson whitney and T. n.
Fuller. All Champions Of Title. Lose
Matches-Ward Puts Douglas Out OF
the Running Herreshor On Deck.
Medal and match play had each a place
at the amateur championships yesterday
and there was both good aud bad Roling
over the course of the Garden City Coll
Club. Travis achieved one OF the best
scores ever made there. a competition
record OF ~, hat was n triumph OF sound
menfataDdmuscular work, but In the match
! play the veteran Unexpectedly shove
s the other sort OF golf and Chadwick Sawyer
! had NOR than Que opportunity 70 beat him,
{ The younester exhibited as unusual a streak
of missing and Travis pulled the match from
J the hrSby 2 up.
In combination with Travis's score OF
Monday he had 1853 as the low score In the
lthirty-six hole qualifying round Ito won
the silver salver given by the United states
4 Colt Association. and. besides new eighteen
/ and@ thirty-six hole competitive records.
4 Travis established the sequence of six wins
In the qualifying round since 1900. Two
of the~years he kept on and gained the
Title. q performance many think he will
repeat this time. To do so Travis will have
TO: pay Better than against Sawyer. Incl
dents were the defeat Of Findlay s. Doug
las, the is9s champion. by John N, Ward,
Who had au astounding three by hoilng
m approach on tho Sis yard thirteenth
Z holag..
The sixty-four leaders OF Mondays
ietRhteen holes were out early for the second
barrel OF the qualifying round which was TO
determine the thirty-two to survive for
the opening match play. Kenneth Ed
fwafde Of Chicago and Travis had each a
~ and were to play together, while Jerome
I'D. Travers and Findlay s.. Douglas at so
andhArohie nj Reid at 81, not to speak of
others. made a close finish imminent. But
there was nothing to 1t but Travis. He led
Edwards to the home green by eleven
strokes. and the next best OF the morning
TO bis ~ was Jerome Travers's 81.
This, mind you. In a northerly blow sc
rough and cold that II made Mondays
gale seem a spring zephyr. Edwards as
a contender dropped out Of sight at the rate
OF q. out stroke q hole He pulled his
ADO shots on the first. third. fourth and sixth
the furn. The, pulls always sent the ball
down the wind and. the strokes this cost
OBJECT his , on the fifth. 4 on the seventeenth.
and par on five other holes.
~ Travis used the WING effectively and at
nd time WAS he its victim. Three par holes
10 start with seemed as easy as breaking
sticks. The 500 yard fourth was In the face
5dfve and two brassy shots, hoiins In s.
Now came a ? on the fifth. the drive with
the wind leaving him only a running. up APP
nEoseh 70 make On the 40 yard sixth
reached the green on the next and six or
sever foot put safely holed enabled him to
beat par with az The one mistake going.
out was q sliced tee shot on tine eighth to the
NIne he lost two strokes on the eleventh.
The card OF "a and Mondays round follow:
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New YORK. ) Q o -
Runs-st. Louis Shaw. !; Charles, l; Bliss. l;
errors 81. Louis. ;; New York 5 Left on bases
On Saiiee, 8; on Mathewson. 1. Struck out-By
Saiiee, 2: by Ames. O. by Mathewson. 8. Two base
hits Charles. Dcvlin. Saerincc hits.ssymour
briawcll ~. Double plays-Konetchy tunes
sisted: shaw and , steen Bresnahan and Tcnney
Passed ball bliss. Hlts-on Sallee, 3 In seven
Innings: on Hlgginbotham. : In one inning; of
Ames, 10 In seven and one third innings; OF
MAthevyson, none In one and two thirds innings.
Umpire-O'Dsy Time hours and 8 minutes.
AttendAnce-4m. '
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81. LOUIS.
An, HI. 2. A.


fBaitcd for Graham In the eighth inning.
Detroit. Z o 0 o o Ia
Runs--St- Louis-Stone, I: Hsrtzei. 2; Hoffman.
8; Ferris, !. Observation-Disclosures. j Schaefcr. 3:
Crawford. Mcintyre. Three base midlothian
Sacrtnce hlts-Wallace ~. Rilifer. Schaefer.
MulIln. Schaefer and Rossman; Killlfer. Downs
and Rossman: Passed h~all-Smith; stolen bases
-By Howell, /; by Graham, 1: by Mullln. 4. First
base on bsils-Of Howell, j: of Mullln. 2. Struck
out--By Graham. ]; by mInc J: by Mullln. 2.
Left on bascs-St. Louis, 8: Detroit, S. Umpires-
Sheridan and Hurst. Time-i hour and so min
utes. AttendAnce-S,DQ.
CLEVELAND. 8: CHICAGO "a. LII. o.
CHICAGO. Sept. 15.-Walsh struck out nine
The ball hard. Lajoie's homo run practically
settled the game. Tho SCOTT.
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p. SynsnM i. nloeiS ymer. I: stleesi /; Johnson, 1.
washington. 4. Left on bsscs..washington, o;
Philsdelpnia. !: First Ssss on balisE as Gates, I;
johnson, :: by SchMtzer, 8. Two base hls-Frec-
man, Street Pickering, Nicholls. sacrifice hits
Ganiey. unglhub, Delehsnty, Clymer ~ .oldrinE,
ooombs. lap. Double -UnSls Dele.
Um~pire--Connolly. Time-i hour and s. minutes,
Attendance LOO.
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CINCINNATI, 2; BROOKLYN, O.

The C~incinnatis, literally enforced with
players who were strangers to the WASH
ington Parkers, came. saw and shut out the
Brooklyns yesterday. The Brooklyns could
do very little with Bob Spade. who pitched
ak innings and a fraction. and less with
Bob Ewing. who pitched the game out after
Spade had been hurt. Spade hurt himself
was done In the sixth inning. and the new
corners had a hand in it. Bayless singled
and Egan sacrificed. Lobert singled to
plate, and Bayless scored. Lobert scored
when Burch dropped Bescher's drive. Ihe
annra.
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II. N. sherman, Utica -, n.,,..O ~ ~
Unplsced Divlslon-H. r. .Johnstone. Boston
Warren Wood. Chicago. %. ss"iSs oliver Perrin
G Sos,Cn. e g. ss.i FL g. !. %A Aed 5cs,o Sst e, ssei .
smith, PhiiadiepSaia, SIS, q. as.-isS ". /. Thompson,
P phniaaa sal vi. i; % >. q: x Ander nen'oI Boston. 9
9l-iso a.. W. T1lllnghast. philadelphia, %
es.isi: I. Z, Bunn!ns Chicago, IS; ssIsis,; y: g
Boston. 30, SsGlss; j. D. Foot, apswsmis, 90
esE.ISs;w. W. S. Harlan. washington. %. es-1es
{; II; Brown 81 ss ssskjls,: o. f. al slmsG d =; r. PsiIss.l.
phia. 80, oe-is5:J j. II. Chllds. Pilsburg. 90 ee-i6o;
z e; Gle; pi;ssbq6g. e; ~ e q. + H hi Mo1 6Ss.
woodIs, o. iioSSieo G. II. Croker. Boston 80
w!tSdrew-Aden N; Robbins, Garden City
Hayden Dudley, Monicialr; Brice s. Evans, Bos-
ton: oscar Woodward. Moniclnlr; j, s. Jones
Match Piay-First round Edwards beat Phelps
I up t2i holesl: Travers beat Upton. z up and ! "a
play: fownes beat Allen. 8 up and 4 TO play: Seckel
TO play; Van Week beat Hamilton. 8 up and 2 q
play. Wilder beat Mcfarland, l up .t1e holes,
Travis bea. sawyer, up; HcTreshST beat VIII,
son. i up; Ward beat Douglas. j UP; Byers bea,
Refers. 9 up and 5 % play; Behr beat Nelson
vp' GlsSlin : Sss, H FSiiers T m asS &c 70 Sfsn' Rslt
beat Parrish. ? up.
Winners play In the order nsmed for the
second round to-day, which will be al
thirty-six holes.
In the exhibition at medal play Of the
quartet Of professionally. at the Hackenseck
Golf Club yesterday, which pleased @ large
attendance OF the members. AleGk smith
won first money with q. 72.i<s: The 2thei
Hunter. so. si-le4. and George Low. 81
sl-i65.
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Philadelphia ..........0 / o o o . o 0 20
Huns-PitsbuIg.,,olarke, .; Leach. Warner,
on errors-Phliadelphia. 4 Pitisburs. .. "
Three base hit-Leach. Sacrifice
pooln. Clement GU, Shannon, Cisrksfi ao pir y
Left on bas~es-PhiiadeIphia. I; Pittsbure.,7
Struck out-By Gordon. 3; BY Maddox. 2 stolen
bases-clArke, Wagner 80. pooin. Passed pail
1 hour and IS minutes Attendance-3.iSe.
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TURF.
JOCKEY CLUB

Trains rom \. J. sae Of Brcosiyn bidi. Vi.
sch ave. Culver Il Road. subway passenger
tranefef 81 Atlentio Ave, station for ~. Hoad.
special train Yit Culver Line meets 1 Pm. Boat
from Whitehall et.
ADMISSION "a. LADIN3 81
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New York state League.

Al UticA-Uuca. e. Syracuse, o.
At AIbany-WiikesbArre.6 q; Albany. 3.
Al Elmirs-Rlmira- 2: Binghamton, l.
Al Troy-Troy. 7; Scranton, 5.
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q n. Brooklyn va 6inclnnst.. Adm. Joc.-Adr
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New England League.

Al Lawrence-LAwrencc, I; Hayerhiil. I.
Al Fall Riyer-Broekton. 8: Fall River. Q.
AZ Lynn-Lowell. 9; Lynn, 0
AZ Worcester-Worcester. 5: New Bedford, I.
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Baseball Pole Grounds, To-day S,1S p. u
Giants vs.. s. Louis. Adm SOC. Ads.
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EASTERN LEAGUE.
STANDING or THE CLUB


Jersey City made Il two straight over Provi-
dence, winning yesterdays game on the home
o,tnh The scare.
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Totals. SO 10 "A IL o
.Batted for SalIee In the eighth Inning,
Halted for H~tgginbotham In the ninth inning
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For maidens. three years old and upward; $500
added: TO carry los pounds: ono mile aud n fur.
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P.ttsburg. ,..........3 o 0 o Q %
Philadelphia. ..........0 1 o o Q 0 0 20
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,.rips. sor thrso-ysar.olds ana upward: ~

Good start; won easily; Bedouin. b. g..ne, by
Meddier-Lshe Moptrose; owned and trained
nv John Huefins.
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=, 70 conclude with the matches OF the top
bali Champion Travers, after an early
lead did not draw away very easily again
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Totals. - D ~ 10 !
,p.tsed for Cirntte IN the ninth innIne
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Good start. won easily; Bosom, br. FL By
Ben Brush-NoondAy; owned ~ the Southwe
Stable: trained by W. H. Spence.
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Odd Use For Bread.

Perhaps the most novel use to which
bread is put may be seen in one Of our
great watch factories, where more than
forty loaves of fresh bread are required
each day. An official of the watch fac
tory Is quoted as saying
There is no secret regarding the use
of bread In this factory, and am will
ing to tell all I can concerning it. From
the earliest times in the history of
matchmaking it has been the custom of
Watchmakers to reduce fresh bread to
the form of dough. This is done by
steaming and kneading. They then use
this dough for removing oil and chips
that naturally adhere in course Of
manufacture to pieces as small as a
part Of watch. There are many
parts of watch, by the way. that are
80 small as to be barely visible to the
naked eye. The oil is absorbed by this
dough and the chips stick to it, and
there Is no other known substance
which can be used as wiper without
leaving some of it's particles attached
to the thing wiped. This accounts for
the continued use Of bread dough in
the matchmaking industry. American
Food Journal.
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Ink Eroze on the Pen,

The winter Of 1884 in Europe still
holds it's place as one of the most Sc
we're and remarkab BILE on record. So
tremendous was the cold that trees
split asunder with deafening reports
The strangest sight of all was on the
Thames. Here on more than a foot
thickness of ice thoroughgoing town
of streets was erected. There were
tailors' shops, butchers shops, tobac-
conists, printers and, indeed, many 9th.
er businesses all being carried on as If
they had stood there for years.
Writing anywhere but near a large
fire was impossible, as the ink froze in
pot and on the pen, whole barrels of
liquids were frozen solid and wine was
sold in one pound blocks New bread
on being taken out of the oven would
Immediately stiffen and become solid
There were hundreds of deaths from
the cold, and throughout the frost the
poor suffered miserably. - Pearson's
Weekly.
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'tMr. B. F. Campbell, of 1924 West
Washington Street, had this to say Of
his experience with Cooper: Z have
been a victim of stomach trouble for
the past five years sick and suffering
pain all the time. Everything I ate
distressed me. I have been under the
treatment of many physicians, and
have taken all kinds of medicine, none
OF which afforded me relief. I was
greatly discouraged, and was about
ready to give up, when Mr.. Cooper
came to this city to introduce his
preparations.
81 was skeptical, of course, after
spending so much money and taking
such a large quantity of medicine, but,
like the drowning man, I was ready
to grab at a straw, so I secured some
of Mr.. Cooper's New Discovery medi-
cine and began taking it. It seemed
to help right from the first dose. I
have been taking it for several weeks,
and can now eat heartily and enjoy
my meals for the first time in five
years eat anything, without pain or
distress of any kind. feel like new
being-life is worth living now"
Let us explain Mr.. Cooper's remark
able medicine to you If your general
health is not all that it should be.
|-E. N. French & Co.
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Little Great Men.

A Chinese who had long studied the
works of Confucius, who knew the
characters of $4,000 words and could
read great part of every book that
came in his way once took it into his
head to travel into Europe. Upon his
arrival at Amsterdam his passion for
letters naturally led him TO a hook
sellers shop, and as he could speak a
little Dutch he civilly asked the book
seller for the works of the immortal
Xi1ofou. The bookseller assured him
he had never heard the book mention
ed before. Alas,' cried our traveller
Ito what purpose, then, has he tasted
to death to gain renown which has
never Travelled beyond the precincts OF
China" There is scarce village in
Europe and not one university that is
not thus furnished with it's little great
men.-Oliver Goldsmith.
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Philosophy Of pescartes.

Turning the mental vision inward, as
Bacon turned it outward, Descartes
watched the operations of the soul as
an object in microscope. Resolved
to believe nothing but upon evidence
so convincing that he could not by
any effort refuse his ascent, he found
as he inspected his beliefs that he
could plausibly doubt everything but
his own existence. Here at last was
the everlasting rock, and this was re-
vealed in his own consciousness; hence
his famous "Cogito ergo sum- q think,
therefore l ann. Consciousness, said
he, is the basis of gertrude. Interro-
gate it and it's clear replies will be
science, for all clear ideas are true.
Down in the depths of the mind is the
idea Of the infinite perfection-the
mark of the workman impressed upon
his work Therefore God exists.-New
York American
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new THEORY SUCCESSFUL
IN INDIANAPOLIS
L. T. Cooper Makes Many Converts During
STAY i'm That CITY.

The new theory (backed up by his
preparatory advanced by L. T.
Cooper with regard to the cause of
most i'll health of the present genera
tion is being soWn broadcast by this
young man.
Cooper believes that the human
stomach has become degenerate in
civilized races and claims that good
health is impossible unless the stom-
ach is re-vitalized. This he claims to
do with his preparation.
An article from the Indianapolis
Star during Cooper's stay in that city
has this to say Of Cooper and his prep
aration: Residents of this city are
being astounded by L. T. Cooper and
his new preparation.
Reports that preceded Mr.. Cooper's
visit here told of his success in other
localities, but the immense success of
his medicine and the general belief
in his theory was wholly unprece-
denied.
$50 great is the rush of the public
to this young man that people stand
In line waiting their turn for hours in
an effort to see him. The most inter-
esting feature of this is statements
made by reliable citizens as to the
actual accomplishments of Cooper's
medicine. Among recent statements of
this character the following is a fair
example:
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CALL FOR IMMENSE SUM.
Bills to Place Volunteer Officers and
Men on Retired List.

"Sit VII ihSti' w -'SS'
Washington, March Estimates of
the probable cost of the pending bills
to place volunteer officers and pri-
Yates of the Civil war on retired list
with pay were sent to the house COM
mittee on military affairs. The war
department estimate is that the bill
for officers alone would cost $11,OOO,-
900 annually and that for Off GERS and
men together would cost $S2,000,000
annually. The estimate by the pen
sion bureau Is that the cost for both
officers and men would be about &c.,
000,0 annually. The volunteer bill
proposes to place all officers of the
Civil war on half pay, according to
the grades they held at the time they
were mustered out of the service, and
for privates a fiat rate of $50 month
to all soldiers who served eighteen
months or more.
These figures are startling to the
committee and are certain to create
CONSERVATION among the Republican
leaders of the house, who are trying
to hold down expenses. The claim is
made among the members of the mill
tary committee that If both houses
shall agree to the pending PROPOSE
ton for paying increased pensions to
widows of the Civil war, at net cost
Of more than s15,OO0,OO0 a year, the
military committee will be justified in
reporting and voting for the proposed
increases for officers and men.
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Natures venaeancs.

Pliny Informs us that twelve cities
In Asia Minor were swallowed up in
one night. In the year l15 the city OF
Antioch and great part of the ada
cent country We're buried by an earth
quake. About 800 years after it was
again destroyed, along with 10000 in
habitants, and after an interval Of six
ty years was third time overturned,
with the loss Of not less than 10000
souls. In 1899 the city of Port Royal,
in Jamaica, was destroyed by an earth
quake, and the houses sank into gulf
forty fathoms deep. In 1893 an earth
quake occurred in Sicily which either
destroyed or greatly damaged fifty
four cities. The city of Catalonia was
utterly overthrown, 10000 inhabitants
Of the city perishing in the ruins. In
1855 Lisbon was destroyed by an
earthquake, and it buried under its
ruins above $4,000 Inhabitants. In Au-
gust, 1922, two-thirds of the city of
Aleppo, containing a population of 2OO,-
900, were destroyed by an earthquake
Thirty thousand Of it's inha bitants were
buried in the ruins.
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A Quaint Compliment,

On Mark Twains seventy-second
birthday Hartford clergyman said of
him:
mo wonder he finds happiness in old
age. All the aged would be happy if
they were as sympathetic and as kind
as he. He is continually going out of
his way to please others. and the result
is that he is continually pleasing him
self. Listen, for instance, to the quaint
compliment he paid me the last time
he came to hear me preach. He waited
for me at the church door at the serv-
ices end and. shaking me by the hand,
said gravely:
I mean no offense, but feel oblig-
ed to tell you that the preaching this
morning has been of a kind that l can
spare. 60 to church. sir, to pursue
my own train Of thought, but today
couldn't do it You interfered with
me. You forced me to attend to you
and lost me full half hour I beg
that this may not occur again."
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Held Down the Speaker.

The sanctity Of the speaker is an in
violable law of parliamentary England,
yet once the necessities Of the nation
were so great that al assault and bat
terry had to be made upon his sacred
person. 1t was in the third parliament
of Charles l. that the angry commons
framed their petition Of rights. This
cut at the very root Of the kings pre-,
rogative, and among those in the house
who opposed it was Mr. Speaker. Upon
Sir John Elliott moving it's acceptance
the speaker essayed to leave the chair,
which would, of course, have proved
fatal to the BILL But they were ready
for him, and Hollis and Valentine seiz-
ed him, one on each side, and literally
held him in the chair until the for
mality of the reading was over. So
vital was the petition considered that
Cromwell said in the lobby afterward,
HAD we been defeated should have
left England tonight" -London Chroni-
Gle.