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Itomhtg, Si, gccis Bast-psnaftfc, luln 5, 1898. in MUMEY FOES COUNTERFEITERS HELD FOR TRIAL. TOE GYUJIOER DflSTHID ID In the ways which lead, to their conviction and imprisonment." Messrs. McQuillan nd Martineau think their rlients have been more sinned against than they have, sinned. i "It was plain from the start," said Mr.

McQuillan, "that Ulrich was an expert counterfeiter, employelby Burns to induce others to embark in the counterfeiting business. From his own testimony it appears he induced Creese to engage in the business. He admits that he did most of ths work which is how charged against the defendants. "He has shown his dishonesty and un-worthiness by accepting $1,000 from Jem-mest at different times, and never reporting the same to the authorities." CURRENCY DECISIONS, tional runs to their credit, giving them a lead ot three. "Batter up!" brought to the plate for Fletcher's nine a player who was able to hit the ball all right, but whose habit of pausing between bases to figure out the distance of Jupiter from the center of the earth would have prevented his reaching second had not the player temporarily at that-post been teusy routing specters.

The spectral aggregation was responsible largely for the mathematician crossing the home plate before the ball, thereby reducing the lead of Parrish to one run The "Parishioners" could do nothing In their half of the sixth, and In the seventh the score was tied by Baumgartner. This aroused the "Parishioners" and they pounded Sands for five runs, all velvet, in. the seventh. Fletcher, Baumgartner and the Mathematician were the only ones at the bat for the "Ins" In the eighth, all three going down without a run being scored. The "Parishioners" all scored In their half except Oatman, Reagan and Belach, adding six runs to their velvet and giving them a total lead of 11 runs.

There was some verv vigorous roasting of the umpire in this inning by both sides. The Fletchers went to the bat determined to win if nossible. the Mathematician havins Thlt Cylinder fatlrrly mt it In at la tin tlnly tbe mo, basting (mb In MEATS rookml thl Bataral 8 or th notriiBca reBdrrtnc them healthful. l.Ntf COVERED placed Jn lb pa baatfd by the the top of th walch la only a at ly only prwwtltiit while with our rY JMKfVf; PAX Til THUOUUU THE INU. S5aJL r-tH-t jour rlaiitr the roast ti turned In revolrlns: CTilnder through onjaaT haw Juice, while cooking.

Bares meat bill. 1 "U.1 commlMlon on each order and make ywwZ.Tr "'InT sale, of the pan In our territory. male and female. JUn F. 1493 ARUN6T0N ST.

LOUIS, MO. And Will Wax W1E figured that if three or the nine score once, and six of them twice, it would give couldn't be done. They were re- tired without a run. Parrish was credited at the end of the game with 10 struck out i and Sands with 11- Th umpire was J. J.

Snyder, a spectator from Carondelet mutually agreed upon by the teams for what might have been thought a very perilous position. During the game the women patients were seated on one side of the ball grounds and the men on the other. The sympathies of the women and of the female attendants were chiefly with Dr. Parrish, while the men rooted for Fletcher's nine, though not vociferously. At critical points In the game the Interest among all the patients was intense, and the most reckless bets were made on the result, many of the wagers reaching millions of dollars.

"The King" wagered his kingdom on Fletcher, but toward the close of the game when he saw his sceptre slipping from his grasp, he called the bet off. VENEZUELA AGAIN. Englishmen Are Anxious to Be on Good Terms With TJs Before the Commission Beports. Special to the Post-Dispatch. LONDON, July 4.

Crown Surveyor Harrison's arrest in British Guiana has revived -the public impatience with the leis- urely diplomacy in the Venezuelan question Hotter and Hotter Every Week as the Campaign Progre Youil Want the YOU WILL WANT A RELIABLE 3EWSI A Paper, in Sympathy With You. Hence Subscribe for the Post-Dlspt which Mr. Curzon's statement in the House he planned with Creese and Dr. Walter of Commons last night in no way allays. fn her father.

W. H. Jemmett td manu- t. 00.M facture the spurious money. An ex-minister of the first rank assures Au tne Ule he wa communication me that he urgency of the question has with Secret Service Agent Burns and kept been again strongly urged in private on him posted on the events that led to the ministers by the leaders of the opposition.

I raid and capture. The latter hesitate to impede negotiations Ulrich's identity was scarcely hinted at in by any public action, but believe that the the proceedings before Commissioner Gray, mass of the English people think it hu- In the rigid cross-examination he under-miliating to their English-speaking race went at the hands of James M. Sutherland that England and America should not be and Messrs. McQuillan and Martineau, Ul-on terms of perfect accord. The govern- rich admitted that he was once in the peni-ment has been reminded of the unwisdom Ltentiary in Ohio far a felony, but-was par-of keeping open an inflammable question doned out.

during a Presidential campaign, when po- Ulrich has figured In some of the most Is the only metropolitan newspaper that has stood pat For Free Coinage at .4. 4. Best Afternoon THE HORSEHIDE. UNIQUE GAME OF BAIX AT THE INSANE ASYLUM. IDIOSYNCRASIES OF PLAYERS SParanoiacs Who Are Dangerous OTken the Moon Is Bight Help Swell the Tornado Belief Fund.

If all the money wagered at the Insane Asylum yesterday afternoon on a basebaaU game between the "Ins" and the "Outs-could have been paid by the losers, It would have amounted to sufficient almost to pay the National debt. Both ths "Ins" and the "Outs" had their Iriends among the spectators, and as a majority of the latter were patients at the Asylum there waa no limit to the amounts they wagered on their preferences. The names "Ins" and "Outs" had no reference to the relation of the teams to the asylum. There were patients as "Ins" on both teams, and both teams had their quota of attendants and physicians, ho might have been classed aa Outs. Tne names had reference to the teams first at the bat and in the field.

The entire affair was a celebration of the glorious Fourth for the benefit of the tornado sufferers. A large number of rank outsiders paid. 50 cents each to witness the They saw a verv enjoyable Introductory entertainment, besides the baseball game between teams partially composed of individuals whose controlling ideas ranged from the belief thc they were 01JverCrm-wells or Napoleon Bonapartes to the delusion that they were the Intimate friends of ghosts. The introductory entertainment opened ait 2 o'clock with a sketch from the "Lightning Sculotor." He is a Corsican who resides at the Insane Asylum partly because a tyrannical city government wishes it and partly because he believes that by remaining he can improve the aesthetic tastes of the physicians. The Corsican introduced his sketch with an oration that betrayed a remarkable familiarity with American history, and then, with a few twists and dabs, transformed The Father of His Country, whom he had manufactured out of turpentine soap, into a.

North American Indian. Then the Indian became an Irishman and next a Chinaman In afcout 15 seconds. Taking a. piece of white soap, the lightning sculptor then turned his back to the audience, and with the soap behind his back manufactured a puilet, and remarked: "How's that for an incubator?" Frank Ward, who will be remembered by many as the man who lost his reason while heroically rescuing victims at a fire in New Orleans many years ago, and whose chief amusement while at large In St. Louis waa the painting of huge balloons on walls, executed a clever hornpipe and several choruses were sung, the introductory entertainment concluding with a Punch and Judy chow by the lightning sculptor.

The base ball teams were already on the (diamond. The "Ins" were captained by Druggist Fletcher of the asylum and wore red suits. The "Outs" were under Dr. R. L.

Parrish and were arrayed in white. Four of the players under Fletcher were patients, one of them a colored man, and three under Parrish. The patients were of the class known as violent, but whose periods of violence were Intermittent and easily foretold by the attendants so that there was absolutely no danger. In fact, while the game progressed It was difficult to discern who were patients and who were not." Dr. R.

L. Parrish was several times mistaken for a patient by spectators ignorant of his identity when he was prancing up and down, the coach line. Drs. Louis J. Oatman and Charles J.

Baumgartner after the game frightened two spectators they approached, and who thought from their antics on the diamond that they were dangerous maniacs, almost into fits. The real maniacs showed such serious interest in the game and restrained themselves so admirably several times when they might have been expected to club the umpire that the spectators unacquainted with their delusions could hardly help believing them perfectly rational. It was only those familiar wit'h the hallucinations of the players who knew that certain peculiar plays were the. result of delusions. The two teams lined up as follows: Inns Sands, Wahle, cf.

Wilson, Kahler, Fletcher, Plow, Ban-xiington, McDonald, ss. Eisworth, If. Outs Manion, Durgin, Parrish, Shea, Murphy, Oatman, Rea-g-an, cf. Gallagher, Belach, lb. During the game the positions were changed.

In the ninth. Sands retired from the pitcher's box to second base, Baumgartner taking his place. Other changes were made in both nines, so that batting order was not preserved. Parrish started by striking Sands out. Then a gentleman of inoffensive appearance stepped to the bat and began making passes with- the stick which in a regular league (fame would have indicated that he was trying to bluff the pitcher.

While he was swinging the bat around he made a two-base hit that surprised Parrish so that he let the next batsman repeat Ihe dose, and both got home on errors. Kahler sawed out, and Fletcher was left at third by Plow imitating Kahler. Manion stepped to the bat for the "Outs," but fell before Sands' skill as a pitcher. Durgin went down like Manion, but Parrish pot a base on balls, and a passed ball let him get home. Shea struck out.

Dr. Baumgartner connected with the ball for one base, and while he was hugging lirst a muscular paranoiac stepped to the plate and made wild drives Into the atmosphere with Mie stick, accompanying-the performance with vigorous shakes of the head. As yet no ball had been delivered by the pitcher. The latter's maneuvers "were eomewhat startling, until it transpired that lie was making a vigorous on a swarm of spirits who insisted upon telling him their troubles. At last tangible spirit came sailirg ver the plate in the shape of the ball and the gentleman dealt it a blow that sent a hot lir.er right through Parrish's finger--.

Closely pursued by the spirits, the batter Wind a bee line for first and his predecessor moved up a pejt. The next at the bat sawed out. but the side was' not retired until the spirits had pursued their victim all around the diamond and six runs had been by Fletcher's nine. Then there stepped to the bat a gentleman who like "Mr. Dick." has been having trouble with the head of Charles I ever Since he became a guest of Supt, Carl Runge of the asylum.

vThe, 'Ina" Pitcher sent a hot shot over the plate and Oliver Cromwell the Second made a dive at It that would have hit it amidships had it been the head of Charles as Mr. Cromwell evidentlv eunnosed A it was. It stung the hands of Catcher Fletcher terribly. Cromwell's propensity for sawlrg the air robbed him of -e opportunity to rid himself of h's h's-toiic enemy. Napoleon Bonaparte also had a go at th bat.

but Wellington was in the box an! NapoHon ro-t his Waterloo. When he returned to the players' bench he seemed BHeTena1 flnd'n" TrlIVn Jn the fourth Inning after Fletcher's nine had been rtired one two three an Individual whose peculiarity- f-lSt3 the "Outs" to two run, Permitted Capt. Parrish of the "ins" defrln. increase hi lead, then resorted Iff With throe men on bae, and ter's base hit corralled bv bat" who is under hi, particular lV sj lum. Parrish yelled at him the jecond when he should hav.Thr2-tr2w t0 The ball accordingly wen? tJ.

of Dr. ParrlsV. men peered n1 CRAZY MEN 1 NO CUBE-DO PAY. The AbQYS Art the Only Conditions Upon Which the Phslclans of tbe Missouri Medical Institute Accept Patients for Treatment. NO CHARGE UNLESS CURED, either for merHeinfta nr services, IS our motto.

Other physicians want you to pay them whether they' cure you or not, or whether they benefit you or not we want pay for a cure. If we cannot cure you, we will frankly tell you ati, Twenty-second street has to saytjr treatment. Then call upon or write to Wra and learn from his own hps what we er or not same is true Tht we publish these testimonials from day to day for. MR. EMIL HEROLD.

"'For vears I Buffered severely from ca tarrh of the nose, throat, lunirs, stomach and bowels. There was a cpnstant dropping of phlegm into my throat, which kept me hawking- and splttiny almost constantly, waS also troubled greatly with shortness of breath, and pain in my chest, extending- back under my shoulder blades. At times my stomach would be so sore and tender that the smallest particle of food would Cause me jrreat distress. I had diarrhoea in its worst form, having from six to twelve operations ea-h day. I naturally became very thin and pale, lost nesn and strength gradually, and had I not taken treatment from the able physicians of the Missouri Medical Institute Just when I did I sincerely have died In a very short time, for I was grettlng- weaker and weaker every day under the treatment of other physicians, who always diagnosed my disease as consumption and said there was no cure for me.

"Under the treatment furnished me by the physieians of the Missouri Medical Institute I have been fully and permanently restored to perfect health, strength and vigor. The hawking and spitting is all gone, no more pain in chest, no more short ness of breath, no more pain In stomach, no more diarrhoea. In fact, I feel perfectly sound and well in every respect, and the credit is all due to the talented physicians or tne jvieaicai institute. "EMIL HEROLD, "80S South street, "St. Louis.

Mo." We publish testimonials only with the written consent of the party giving the same. The Missouri Medical Institute is a medical and surgical institute, founded with a complete staff of EXPERIENCED and EMINENT SPECIALISTS, for the successful treatment and cure of all Chronic, Nervous, Blood, Skin, Private and Special Dis eases and Deformities. Therefore, no mat ter your disease or complication of disease be, do not-hesitate to call upon or write to us regarding same. We will, give you our candid and honest opin ion tree of charge. Young, middle-aged or old men suffering from the effects of lomes or excesses, caus.

ing premature decay of the vital forces. loss of youthful vitality and power, evil dreams, unnatural losses, poor memory. aversion to society, quickly and permanently restored to perfect health, man. hood and vigor. Remember the address, issoM laical institute 610 Olive St.

Louis, Mo. P. S. Out-of-town patients treated with UNPRECEDENTED SUCCESS through correspondence. One visit desirable, but not necessary.

Medicines sent safely and tree Irom observation to all parts of the country, Dut never J. x. unless so ordered. If you cannot call send for symptom blank to fill out. and a letter explain ing your disease, giving advice, will oe returned free of charge.

uany ortlce Hours 9 a. m. to 4 p. m. 6 to 8.

-Sunday Hours 10 a. m. to 2 p. m. 1 i 1L.1 CUBAN CARNIVAL.

Prof. Myers Will Show How to Take Havana From the Clouds. Special to the Post-Dispatch. NEW YORK, July 4. The Cuban-American Carnival that began at Waverly, N.

to-day Is the most Important celebration of the Fourth of July in that State. It is to run five days on the State Fair Grounds. The committee In charge and the Cuban delegation have had many evidences forced upon them of the opposition of the Spanish residents of the United States. This has been manifested in several ways. It is known that the Spanish J-egation ait Washington has received protests from Spaniards in New York and New-ara againsit the carnival.

A special matter 2L.com,2,arnt was that the committee had accepted subscriptions to buy a Hotchklss UJL to Maximo Gomez. The Spanish WVLi Mdrid and Havana will probably carnival to make upon this tilk Myprs. the aeronaut of fci'-'S bnaJ 'Uh hs preparations to is aPirtSi hJdren gas war balloon. Ill VI nest advocate of aerial warfare. uhW? frSari8uiIary views the sandnolnr tilnvab8tract anrt scientific Cuban dvulged plans to the Slth nwnnf wllllnf to talk free- He savs a ti from clouds.

oVufaak Cabanfal Ine I S2e iSVeVty0 8Ud WalU of brlck -teltnfa ShTa enoff PhWrSh 7 A fierce bkttle is predicted ary-of this form of flghtZ hSrJhe admirers with the merits of the rn acquanted WHISKY ANDPARISGBEEN. George Escher Tried First One and Then the Other, But Still Lives. George Escher swallowed a big dose of parls green at his home. 1817 Mr ket street at 6:30 o-elock last night 111 had been on a. protracted spree At hf Dispensary he was pumped out tne sent -to the- City Hospital.

He win 1 IWXV-t' -d Senatorial EpeHal to the Post-Dispatch. ORAYV1LLE, 111.. July 4.1-The Senatorial Convention of the Forty-fourth? Kn torlal District for the purpose aoDtl. nating a candidate for Senator and two Representatives, has been called to be held In this city on July 16. nela shell crabsahe first of tbe season.SOo portion.

Miltsra auth street, near Olive. In the United States. CHEESE-WALTER GANG BEPOBE THE COURT COMMISSIONER. PART OF AN EX-CONVICT SPY. "Adam Miller," Once a Counterfeiter in the Brockwery Gang Helped the Officers Make Their Case.

The gang of would-be counterfeiters captured in St. Louis Wednesday by the Gov- ernment officials were given a preliminary ffrTL James Gray- Mrs. Dr. Matilda Adella Walter, her father. W.

H. Jemmett, and Ralph Creese wera held to the Federal Grand Jury in a $7,500 bond each. Walter Creese's bond was fixed at $1,500. They could not give security and all are now confined in Jail, Messrs. Burns and Clopton say when the case comes to trial they will have soma further surprises to spring, but they do not think it necessary to show their full hand now.

At the hearing before Commissioner Gray the sensational feature was the Introduction by the Government of Charles F. TJlrich, alias Adam Miller, who was arrested with the would-be counterfeiters, and was at first supposed to be one of them. Secret Service Agent Burns and United States District Attorney Clopton say the Government did not produce all the evidence in their possession at the preliminary hearing before the Commissioner. They did not caFe to spring sensations, and only desired to present sufficient evidence to warrant the Commissioner in holding the accused to await the action of the Grand Jury. Ulrich testified that he had met Ralph Creese first at Dayton, nine months ago, whfen he was introduced by Mrs.

Gertrude Driggs, a famous counterfeiter. Ulrich was introduced to Creese as an expert engraver and counterfeiter, and it was planned that he was to finish the copper plates for printing that Creese had photographed. Ulrich came to St. Louis a little over a month ago and went to the home of Mrs. Er.

Walter, at 1521 Pendleton avenue, where famous counterfeiting trials of the country. and is said by Secret Service Agent Burns to be the most expert bank note engraver wno ever made a counterteit plate in America. VVr hen Mr. Burns was a boy and lived in Columbus. more than twenty-five years ago, Ulrich was an inmate of the penitentiary there.

Burns has ever since kept close watch on Ulrich's movements. After Ulrich was pardoned from the Ohio Penitentiary he went to N. where he went into business as a decorator in earthenware. He made plates to impress odd devices on the ware and so became a cunning engraver. Then he became a counterfeiter and got into trouble.

He disappeared and turned up in Europe, acquired a title and no end of money, and it became neeessary for him to disappear again. He returned to America, went West, joined old associates and soon fell under the surveillance of the secret service men. Among the officers-was Burns, who remembered Ulrich as the ex-penitentiary bird from Ohio. About the time Ulrich returned from Europe the famous Brockway gang was preparing to flood the country with bad money. Wm.

E. Brockway, the leader of the gang, and one oT the shrewdest counterfeiters who ever operated in America, learned of Ulrich's arrival in this country. Brockway at once made overtures to Ulrich, and he again consented to embark in the counterfeiting business. Ulrich joined the Brockway gang and worked with them for a But Burns had kept close watch on Ulrich ever since his return to America, and knew of his movements. The case against the Brockway gang was not at that time sufficient to convict them.

But Burns knew enough of Ulrich's movements to warrant his arrest. This was accomplished dn New York in 1894. Ulrich, in order to save himself, consent-; ed to turn informer and to betray his as-i sociates. He at once entered the employ of the Government, and has" ever since been working under the supervision of Secret Service Agent Burns. Ulrich never let on to the gang that he had forsaken them and had their confidence.

in lhao the famous Brockway gang was Ulrich was arrested with them same manner. Ulrich said that Mrs. Driggs, had written him to come to Dayton. Mrs. Driggs thought Ulrich was still a counterfeiter and had turned State's evidence in the Brockaway case to Bave himself.

She introduced Creese to Ulrich, and the plans were pursued until Wednesday when the capture was made. Mrs. Driggs knew of Ulrich's testimony in the Brockway case, ut thought he had merely turned State's evidence to save himself and that in a new deal he could be trusted. The Mrs. Driggs who Introduced Ulrich to Ralph Creese as an expert counterfeiter was the wife of old Nelson Drieers.

one of was the wife of old 'Nelson Driggs, one of the most famous of all counterfeiters. He died last winter. Nelson Driggs was the moneyed man or backer of the noted counterfeiting gang whose headquarters were on a small island in the Mississippi River, twenty-five miles below St. Paul in 1SS3. Driggs superintended the entire business.

In the gang were such notorious counterfeiters as Jim Hanford, Jim Rittenhouse, Harry Brown, Bill Gordon, Charles Freeman, J. A. Price, Charles Stadfeldt, Ben Boyd, Nelse Horn, Ned Nevens, George Manning and others of lesser note. They were doing an enormous business in mking fifty-dollar bank notes and five-dollar notes of the Tradesman's Bank of Chicago. They made and succeeded in floating: over $200,000 of this, money before they were captured by the Secret Service of-4 fleers.

urlggs was given a nrteen years sentence to the penitentiary at Jollet, 111. His wife, although she was known to have been one of her husband's most valuable assistants, was not convicted. Since her husband's death she has resided In Dayton, and until the Creese-Walter affair arose was supposed to have abandoned the counterfeiting business for good. The attorneys for the defense are indignant at the "methods adopted by the Government. James M.

Sutherland said to a reporter: "It looks as though the "United States Government had gone into the business of manufacturing criminals rather than pursuing the legitimate methods of protecting the public. "Why everything upon which the dffend-ants have been held has been done by this Government employe Ulrich. He admits he drew the plans for the press to be used by them. He admits he received money from the defendants and that he never made any report to the Government officials about it. "Ulrich admits he was introduced to Creese by a womn who Is a notorious counterfeiter.

He represented te Creese that he was an expert counterfeiter and he came here to show Creese bow to become, one. "It now appears that the Government Js lending itself to the despicable scheme of employing old violators of-the law to take others not steeped in crime and train them litlcal pressure may make it difficult to re sist the issue. A hostile message would be even more harmful to commerce and political good will than the last message. It Is recalled that the United States government is pledged to resist as willful aggression any claim contrary to the report of the Venezuelan Commission: therefore it is Incumbent to make every effort consistent with National honor to start arbitration before the commission embarrass the situation by a report. The ministers say they appreciate the situation and that there is no reason to expect a serious hitch, but that negotiations must follow the diplomatic course.

In expressing the hope for an early and friendly solution in the New Review, Dr. Emil Reich declares that the question offers no real ground for arbitration. The article is Important because Dr. Reich has been called upon by the government for confidential reports on the records here, in Holland and at Caracas. He contends that both law and history prove to the hilt England's claim on the basis of effective occupation.

Venezuela, he rays, has no serious case, and England would never arbitrate but for the intervention of the United States, and the supreme English popular desire to remove all obstacles to Anglo-American friendship. SOLDIER BOYS IN CAMP. They Have a Sham Battle, Bicycle Baces and Society Entertainment. Special to The Post-Dispatch. SPRINGFIELD, Mo.

July 4. The First Regiment, N. G. of St. Louis, went into camp near this city this morning for a ten days' outing on a beautiful spot close to a large grove and the Zoo Park lake.

A sham batMe, bicycle races and battalion parade were the features to-day. An admittance fee was charged at the sham battle, which was attended by 5,000 people, and if so applied the receipts will nearly pay the enure expenses oi encampment. 1 .1 i Ing several men were oirernma th Best Sunday Pi By Far Published In IT IS THE Supreme Court Bulings on the Legal Standing of "Depreciated" Money in Bepayment of Debts. A number of readers of the Post-Dispatch having Inquired what would probably be the decision of the courts as to paying debt-s in silver when the creditor demanded gold, after the triumph of free coinage, the following letter from a local lawyer, quoting from decisions heretofore made bearing upon this question, will be interesting: To the Editor of the Post-Dispatch: In the course of my examination for a client, of the question of payment, I had occasion to read an opinion rendered by one of our ablest jurists, now deceased, the Hon. John D.

S. Dryden, that seems very pertinent to the discussion now TgO-ing on. Judge Dryden was recognized as faci'e princeps as a judge of law, and in hJs l-fe- Mme one of the most upright and incorruptible of our fellow-citizens. Though dead, he yet speaks to us in the able decisions he left in our Supreme Court reports, and I therefore ask space to quote him. In the case of Henderson vs.

McPike, Sj p. 259, Judge Dryden says: The theory upon which the Oircuit Court proceeded in this case was that it was not only the right of the defendant to discharge the judgment to be rendered against him by the payment of Treasury notes, but that he would avail himself of that right: and that as Treasury notes were depreciated in the market below the value of gold coin, the plaintiff was entitled to such sum in the depreciated currency as would procure the amount of gold the defendant, by his contract, promised to pay. The theory has a fair look, but is -without any legal support. The error consists in attributing to money a marketable or commercial value, and a liability to the fluctuation in price to which other property by the accident of trade is subject: and in supposing that instead of the value of money being a thing fixed and established by law, it was an open question to be determined by the courts in every case on the- testimony of witnesses. "Money is the universal medium or common standard, by a comparison with which he value of all merchandise may be ascertained, or it is a sign which represents the respective values of all commodities.

(1 Bl. 276.) And as such medium, has no marketable value, but possesses such standard value as the law-making power has assigned to It. The Congress of the United States possesses the exclusive power under the Constitution of coining money and of regulating the value thereof; and if it be conceded that the act of the 25th of February, 1862, declaring Treasury notes money and making them a legal tender In payment of debts is within the constitutional power conferred upon Congress" and a. Republican Supreme Court has decided it was "then Treasury notes stand upon the same footing as gold coin; each is a legal tender, and one no more than the other. Before the law they are "equals in value, and the courts can suffer, no averment or hear any proof to the contrary.

The two media Of payment being in legal contemplation of the same value, the law, to be consistent with itself, must hold that no injury results from the breach of a contract to pay in the one medium, if payment be offeredij the other. Such" breach is damnum absque" Injuria." The above, isr.ybout. as clear, a declaration and a- defl action' of what constitutes money under our system of government as can be If the Republican party can -succeed in its present campaign, gold and gold only will be money of this country, and with the limited supply of gold in the world it will be forced to a premium the advantage of the creditor and the detriment of the debtor. If," however, the Democratic party restores silver to its proper position, as- a standard of values, silver-will again become money and cease to have "a marketable or commercial value and a liability to the fluctuation in price to which" other property by the accidents of trade is subject." The above case was discussed In Mc-Cune vs. Erfort et 43 Mo.

Sup, 137 and the Court, Judge Baker, says: "In that case it was sought to recover the difference between the value of gold coin and legal tender Treasury notes in the market. The value of both Is fixed by law and Is identical. In fact they are each made a standard of values. The Court was very properly governed by the law. Gold dust has no established value and is not a legal tender.

It Is an article of enm- merce just as silver is now. like other property, ana its value must be estimated In the lawful money of the country or. can only be ascertained by evidence of value in sucn money. The decision last quo'ted was rendered by a Republican Supreme Court In lRfW and yet in the face of it. we Democrats are now taunted bv the Renuh1ian era to Eastern interests.

-with the crv of muiit-y ueii ve wen to restore silver to Its proper positlrm. Comment unneees- St. Louis, July 4. Since the Major Got the Plum. From the San Francisco Examiner.

The mob has called at Canton; It bas trampled down the grass; It has plucked the blooming posies and has wrecked the fi-arden sass: It has snatched the front lenee pickets wnere tne gate was now gapes wide-Wiped its feet upon the doormat and then boldly stalked Inside; It has yelled so for McKinley that its every throat erew hoarse. And the Major was delighted; as In duty Donna, oi course. Oh, this mob of patriots gladsome how it clasped the Major's hand! Told the Major that the country. If he faltered, couldn't stand; Told him that the blood within him was of statesmanship the sap. Giving him a hint that later It would make demand ror pap; Then it spat upon the.

carpet, threw Its quid upon the floor. Disappeared, and left the homestead as if a cyclone had swept o'er. Meanwhile Piatt had "hied him eastward with a blade still out of sheath; Reed was sore as any statesman from whom fame had snatched her wreath: Morton' heart was aching sharply and a tear marked either lid; Teller'd found in Colorado loudest praise for'what he did; And in Iowa they wondered that Allison he'd got left From Atlantic to Pacific many moaned, as those bereft. Hanna sat in proud epthronement on the glory of his coup. Saying to his mortgaged Major: "Told you, Mac, what I could do." But the Major thought of bosses who are on his trail with knives.

And he knew he'd have occasion for 'bout nine and forty lives; So he answered, Mr. Hanna, In an accent dripping woe: "Will you kindly wait November? We're a bit too new to crow." Printer Bell's Accident. W. H. Bei.

a printer, SS years of age. accidentally f-Ml on the street yesterday afternoon and broke his left ankle. He is at the City Hospital. His family reside at 522A North Twenty-second street. THE BATTUE IS ON And will wax hotter and hotter every week a the campaign progresses.

You'll want a reliable newspaper one in sympathy with you. Subscribe now tor (he Pot5 Dispatch. Only St. Louis i That Hm Not Favored th Wall Street mod ihm Oold i THE ONLY ST. LOUIS That Stands for Western Men and Measi For the People Against the Political Plutocrats, Combines and DO YOU STAND FOR THIS AND PATF COLD OTANDARD NEVGPAPEI .4.

4. 4. 4 Hon. Sol. P.

Clark of Little Rock, sayst "All the BepubUoan periodicals west ot the Mississippi River not doln as muoh to-day to aid ths Republican cause as the fls. Lc The Democratic County Conventions recently held throughout nounced THE REPUBLIC In unmeasured terms and declared it unw support and patron ot Western Democrats. Of late since the Free Silver Tidal Wava has swept th Western 001 mad a pretens ot turnUur away from th Golden Oalt and its Ooldb hut th popl will not foold by this shift In its rtitht. TTT heat and fainted and were carried from Bnd not until he appeared on the witness the field by the hospital corps. The heat stand against them did they suspect they did not so seriously affect any of the sol- had been betrayed.

idlers that ihey will not be able for fur- I The entire gang was convicted. Ever since ther duty during the week. then Ulrich has been in the Government's. Both the bicycle races, two miles and five Py. resulted cwlth Lieut Kreidler Com-i lrlch.

told a Post-Dispatch reporter Satur-pany D. first, and Private Brady Com-i day that the Creese, Jemmett and Walter pany second. The races were paced in case Is identical with the Brockway case, 14:15 and 5:09. Theorizes were eold medal, land the capture was brought about in the The Democratic Convention at Chi WILL BE THE HOTTEST SINCE IHOO. And tbe Pont-Dlspmtch la tbe only paptr tbmt will give you repo biased by the lallmeahe ef tba Oold Staadard Plutocrat 1IVE YOUR ORDER FOR THE POST-DISPATCH TO V( NbVVS AGENT OR IfAVE IT SENT DIRECT BY After battalion parade she officers and i men were Introduced to the chaperones.

maids of honor and sponsors. The visit of the soldiers will be made a big event by local society people. HE HAS A MASSIVFbRAIN. Disastrous Besults Might Have Followed Such Folly. One of the clerks In Alexander's drug store amused himself last night by shooting Roman candles at a ventilator near the roof of the Post-Dispatch building, across the street.

i His aim was good and he ultimately succeeded- In setting fire to a quantity of material Inside the building. The smouldering fire was extinguished without much difficulty, but the outlook Jrt a disastrous conflagration was excel- i Patrolman J. J. Hurley warned the young I ltin, to be more careful, but after the officer departure, in spite of his threatened arrest, he found diversion for his massive biain by trying to shoot the instdes out of xiecKer Aal's establishment, the next door west of the Post-Dispatch. That Same Old Peel.

Lottie Sloan, colored, of 1500 North Broad way, started to carry her husband his supper, but slipped on a banana peel and broke her left arm. She was sent to the Cily Hospital. En Boute to Chicago. J. H.

Edwards, editor of the Jefferson City Tribune, and W. D. Fisher, prominent in State politics, passed through the city last evening en route for Chicago, where they will remain until the nominations are made. They are hopeful that Bland will be the winner. Wanted to See the Dispatches.

Sir Robert Low, telling of the difficulties ne had with the field telegraph in the Chit-ral campaign, says the native chiefs were at first very distrustful of the wire, as they thought it was a mark for parceling out the country among the soldiers; but on being told it was to send messages to the seat of government In India they agreed to guard it. After Feveral days' close watching they saw no signs of any dispatches passing along, so they cut off a cfcuple of miles of wire and took it away to watch the messages more at their ease. Their investigations were interrupted by the return of the engineers to se what had happened to cut off communication. By Mail In Advance. Daily Bunday-Pr Annum a OO Daily Jbd Bunday-O Months 3 OO Sunday-Per 60 Cents 8uriy-Fr Annum 3 OO day-e Months OO It may be fairly re of mora recn A-orou animals therefore, lappln more hlrhly dr than sucking.

Cumberlao Special tba Poat OREEXLT, annual reun- -Veteran reunion 13.1 to-d ttr mf They Lnp. The realtor1 cert'n nls! lap fn- ne reawor BW.ms to be an ercaa or ori revent carnivorous animaln. dacha are comparatively small. whose "intending themselves with water. from ove- anlmal that suck while drink.

Alost o'arblvorous and have large stom- mg ar more than on, with a paunch or for unchewed food, and with tion glow ppoo. thre if any, danger of overditenlon. li.i'agh such thing not unknown some domestic herbivorous sni-I-C UUeatlon bui much mors rapid with th tLfnlvora, and It Is m-fT'jtant that It ahouR not be delayed by Ut tratton jot large c.L4ntltt cold water, lapping the moi th and throat are thor-Uy rhiia th wslor is sup. to the slom In small quantities if warmed 1 nd mlxad wiia aUiv4.