IMPEACHMENT CASES The Human Mind May Never Solve the THERE HAVE BEEN SEVEN SUCH IN THE UNITED STATES. The First Was Tn 1797 and the Latest In 1876—The Memorable Attempt at the Impeachment of President Jahnson-—Two Successful Cases. The removal of faderal officers by ¥im- peachraent proceedings, under section 4 has been of articls 2 of the constitution, - sttemptad seven times. The Blount case was. the first. Wil- fiam Blonnt, United States senator from Tennessre, ‘was charged in 1797 with oonspiring with British Offic ers to steal part of Louisiana from Spain for Eng land's benefit. The house prepared ar- ticles of impeachment. Tho senate. ex- pelled him, after putting him under : Ponds for trial. . Blonnt's defense was that a senator was not a civil officer liable to impeachment, and on the ques- tion of jurisdiction only be was ac- quitted. Judge Join Pickering of the federal district conrt for New Hampshire was impeached in 1908 for drunkenness and profanity on the bench. The defense was iuganity. - On trial before the sen- ate, Pickering was convicted by a party vote and removed from his fen. In 1804, Samuel Chase of Maryland, a justice of the supreme court of the United States and one the Declaration of Independence, was charged with improper conduct on the g other things, with having “highly indecent and extra npon the United in the course of a -perich; amon indnlged in judicial reil States government” chara to a Maryviand grand jury. impeachment proceadings, instigated and managed by Jom Ran iolph of Vir- ginia, were political in their origin and animus. cotions Judge Chase was acquitted through the failure of the prosecution to obtain a two-thirds vote against him in the senate cles of impeachment. He resumed his peat on the bench and held it as long as. he lived. About a qoarter of a century Inter, James H. Peck, a federal district judge in Missouri, was impeached for oppress- ive treatment of an attorney. The case was of Bo) importance. The judge was sequitted. : Thirty 1 years afterward, at the begin- ning of the war of the rebellion, Judge West H. Humphreyz of the federal dis trict conrt of Tennesses joined the Con- federacy ard accepted judicial office un- der it, without taking the trouble to send las resiznation to w ashington. He was impeached mainly in urder to vacate the office and convicted on June 28, 1863, One of the witnesses summoned to ap pear sgainst Judge “drew Johnson, then governor of Tennes- see, destined himeélf to ie the next sub- ject of impeachment proceedings be fore the senate. Ome of tors who voted not gailty on the article ‘charging Judge Hatuphreys with high treason William Pitt Fessenden, whose vote five years later drew Johnson, Andrew Johnson was ime ache a on March 4, 1568 the 11 artic aging ‘the president in various forms with vio- lation of the tenure of office act, with violation of the constitution, with ¢on- spiracy to prevent the execution of the tenure of office act, with condnet and ut- terances tending “to bring the high of- fice of president into contempt, ridicule and disgrace.” and with the public de- claration ia his speeches while swinging “around the circle that the Thirty-ninth Congres was no constitution . ture. It is not necessary to recite the history of the memorable trial, which was ies ch lasted for nearly three months and in which the hottest of political passions were enlisted. Thirty-six votes were needed to convict, No vote was ever ~ taken except om the three strongest ar- ticles—the second, third and eleventh— and on each of these the senate stood 85 for convigion to 19 for acquittal, peachmen failing by a single vote. Ome . of the counsel who defended President Johnson was the Hon. William M. Evarts of New York. The seventh and lat federal im wo, ment was that of Willismn W. Belknap, Grant'ssecretary of war. He was charge -d in 1876 with corruption in office, and the house voted unanimously to impeach him. before the passage of the impeachment resoluticn, and his resignation was promptly accepted by Grant. The trial proceeded nevertheless. Belknap's de- fense was a genial of jurisdiction, based on ths circumstance that when the imn- peachment resolution passed the house he had ceased to be a civil officer of the United States, The impeachment pro- ceedings failed by the lack of a two thirds majority in tha senate for convie- tion ; It will bo observed that eases have impeachment aginst a civil officer of the United States been prosecuted successfully be fore the scuate by the house of repre- sentatives, moval of a drunken and profane judge, whose presence upon the bench wasa public scandal. The other was a purely formal proceeding to vacate the office of a judge actually engaged in open rebel- Hon against the governmen nically still an incumbent of his office under the government. Of the five un- successful impeachment proceedings on record, two failed for want of juris diction. Of the whole seven cases, four concerned judicial officers. Only once has there been an attempt to punish by impeachment # cabinet officer. Ouly once has there been an attempt to pun- in only two proceedings ish and reinove by impeachment a presi- dent of the United States. —New York San. ae Swrereion. When a child dies in Greenland, the natives bury a live dog with it, the dog * to be used by the child as a guide to the other world. When questioned with re- gard 10 this peculiar superstition, they will only answer, ‘A dog can find his - "London Million. wag anvw here. Andrew ; pelled. of tha signers of The . on any ong of the eight arti- Hamphreys was An- the four seua- saved An- : “able tg rise after failnre. " whose campaign is al legisla- im-- He resigned hastily a few hours Ons of these was for the re “liam T. Bull, t, but tech- _ a sword on the shoulder. MYSTERIOUS ELECTRICITY. Problem of What It Is. To the metaphysical mind on the one band and to the confident ignoramus on the other the mysterious nature of elec- tricity offers a rrnitful subject of specn- lation. To the latter especially it secs p reproach that the true nature of slew tricity has not long before been made. manifest, and he is always prepared to dash off an explanation with much more confidence than Newton proposed his FA of gravitation. It seems inexpli- cable to the public at large that the mys- tery surrounding electricity is not dis- are impatient to have the “What is electricity?” those who great. (question, answered that we are in just as dense ignorapce as to ‘the mechanism of other phenomena. Gravitation, light, heat and chemical action are in the same - category of scientific mysteries and have had centuries more of thought bestowed on them than has been devoted to the new agent. we may be on the threshold of one of the greatest discoveries of the hnmean mind, yet it is possible, and even proba- ble, that the knowledge of man may never be permitted to extend to the en- tire solution of the problem, for it is the very problem of the nniverse itself, Assuymicg what seems to bo ungques- tioned, that électricity, electrical action or whatever we may call it, has its seat in the atoms or molecnles of matter or of the hypothetical matter, ether, we are brought face to face with the same conditions that confront the coamical philosopher. As the latter can never hope to have his material vision extend to the bounds of the universe, neither ean the molecular physicist hope to ma- terizlly appreciate the nitimate elemnants of matter, Lord Kalvin has shown that if a drop of water were magnified to the size of the earth ona of its constituent molecnles would only be magnified to approximately the »rize ‘of a cricket bail. | Bearing this in mind, the im- mensity of the prdblem which 1a so often flippantly referred to is evident. True, we may demonstrate the exact relation between electricity and magnetism and may satisfactorily connect these with other phenomena and even obiain a working hypothesis that will answer all scientific needs, but the ultimate soin- tion may forever evide the human mind. Whatever we do learn; however, will oot be through the speculations of meta- physi icians or the gneeses of tyros, but through the physical mmvestigations of Hertzes and Teslas. - While as a mental training metaphysical speculation may have its nse, the absolute lack of addi- tions th our real knowledge during the many centuries from Plato to Bacon, when metaphysics hald full sway, 1s con- cinsive that nothing can be erpected from this direction, and merely spocula- tive theories in regard to the nature of electricity deserve as little considera- tion as is now given to the metaphysical vagaries of the schoolméen of the middle ages. — Electrical World. The Secret of Success. To be truly successful, a man must be The gemeral commenced amid a but who, neverthe- less, by repairing his mistakes, conoen- trating his forces and waiching his op- portunities, carries triumph out of de- feat 18 the truly great captain. The statésman or orator wh maiden’ eof- fort was covered with confusion and ridicnie, but who resolves—in spite or rather because of this—that he will force hiz opponents to hear and to respect him shows that he is a great man. abilizy and the readiness to learn from failura is the secret of snccosa series of dizasters SH The ficulties will not succsed. When Howe was appointed commander in chief in the Mediterranean, 8 question concern- ing him: was asked mm parliament, to which Lord Hawke, then first lord of the admiralty, replied: “I advised his r-ajesty make the appointment. I have tried my Lord Howe on important occasions. He never asked me hdw he was to executa any service, but iways went and did it."--Soribuer’s Magazine. to Nitrbus Oxide Gas. Nitrous oxide gas is a combination of 3 pitrogdn and oxvgen, formerly called the Under or- temperature and pressure this substance is gaseons; it has a sweet taste and a faint soresable odor. When inhaled, it produces unce ness and insensi¥ility to pain, hence used ax an anges! etic duning short surgi- caloperations. When it is breathed dilut- ed with air, an exhilarating or intoxicat- ing effect 13° prod the infln- ence 6f which the inhaler is frresiutibly impelled to do ull kinds of silly and ex- travagant acts; hence the old name of langhing gas. The circumstances under which hitrous oxide shonld be anpiied as ananagstoetic must alwavs be de ‘termin- ed, just as with any T anasthetic, by meaiical authority. kiyn Eagle sven] tira bandd BAC FAE. dephlogisti aie BITOna gas dinary conditions neMIoNS- «i it 13 - x 1 ICI, Quer “Yeung Mra. Blaine.” . ‘Young Mrs. Blaine,” as she was ence called, but now the wife of Wil- has grown stout and handsomer since her divorce from James G. Blaipe, Jr.; and her marriage tc Dr. Bull. She has been abroad and re- tarned with many bewildering tri- umphs of the great Worth, She has taken a beantiful home and has ser- vants, horses and carriages ut her com- mand. Her busband stands near the head of Dis profession, with an income of §30,000 a year. New York Letter, Creation of a Knight, The ceremonies at the creation of a knight have been various; the principal were a box on the eur and a stroke with Joh in of Salis- bury telis us the blow with the naked fist was in ase among the ancient Normans; by this it was that William the Conqueror conferred the honor of knigithood on . his son Henry. It wus afterward changed into a blow with the flat of the sword on the. shoulder of the knight.—London Qtandard : ‘mals and Plants” “with It does not seem to occur to While it now seems that some . living, the rooster crows joyously. ‘sic 18 with ‘Bappiness, as with the - woman on'one of his be realized how ill it The. man who bar only an eya for dif- this beveraze ta ANIMALS AND Music. A Composer Thinks AlN Living Things Sen sitive to Musical Tones. “The Influence of Music on Man, Ani- was discnssed by Di- rector Asger Hamerik in a lecture at the Peabody conservatory, Of the second part of his snbject he said: “There is no doubt of music's power - animals. All singing birds are sub. ject to the influence.. The spider, the mouse and the snake can be charmed tunes. I'saw on St. Paul street one day a ranaway horse stop enddenly where a street. organ was being played and tremble all over. [ had once a Gor- don setter that wonld play with his paw - on the keyboard of my piane and, with - a kind of murmur, try to imitate the human voice, malnne an effect that, if not musical, showed at least that the dog's mind attempted something in that direction. -“T have had personal experience with the musical qualities of mice, for I once used to play. the piano in a room whera there were many mice. When 1 played for a little while, out would come troop ing a critical andienca of mice, which - seemed perfectly tame so long as the music lasted. I experimhented with them again and again and arrived at the cop clusion that they nndoubtedly were in way inflnenced by and very sus. ceptible to music, faithful anditors after awhile and closad tha doors of the conesrt hull to them by having atinner cover the holes and cracks in the floor. ““The song of the bird and the crowing of the rooster are not their conversation. They have a kind of chirping for that. What, then, do the sony and the crowing mean? Joy. contentment, exnltation—as with man. When a rooster has had a good dinner, or when the sun shines . brightly and warmly; or when any other canse makes it think that life is worth Muo- man also an expression of emotion, but with him it has been re duced to a science and is not, therefore, nsed naturally for every expression of nnadncated and unscientific rooster or songbird. “1 believe that everything created, like ourselves, with ears, is susceptible toanu- sical tones, and it is probable that, if we could material in all such animals that could be developed and cultivated in some way.” —Baltimore San. Thought They Were Worth In Billings was a traveling man, carry- ing a line of handkerchiefs and neck. wear. He met a rather atiractive young trij=, and befors comportad with his duties he had married her Nature had never intended jed him for a married man, and he was seldom at _ home, even when his duties wonid have permitted him. Finally be became ir reirular in the matter of remittarices, and his wife, neading soma pin money, tock down his romnte book and found a letter would reach him at Pern, Ind. So she wrote him there, asking for 810, was in the Bearss House lglliard room when he read the letter. Hs had no $10 to spare, He necded ail his money for his own follies : But the reqaest annoyed him. op. walked about the room f ment, and his eves at length rested on 8 Irving where some man Ap a an of solitaire The mn each pile was a nin spot. Billings looked at Abeni a moment, then pieked ap the Jour capds, inclosed thera in an envelope and s¢nt it tc his wife. At Crawfordsville he received an- other letter from her, demanding in in- digrant terms what he tm vant br sending her four nines. He gat down ing room of the Raohhins wrote the following reply: “You wanted $10. | sent ron four nines. Four nines aré worth $10 any time.” —Chicago Herald. He got cards, lotad H (mee. and . Hotel Life ™ New York At one of the up town hotels & delight fully homelike touch is given to 1 within ita walls by the privilege, when desired of having the coffee fol} Lin ing party into the In ene particular parlor, which is fall of acoks and embrasures, large ard small, to accommodate groups of various size, it is quite common to see the qaaint lit- tle table and dainty servic vat before several differsnt compan The toned lighta and nests.of luzuricms cushion: make 1t extremely easy to dawdle indefi- pitely over this final co and the ive slowiy and evident engage recepilo noreom, > apt IATRE, with groTITa - sao nD’ evening often s Yad 1m cura set in standards, it egy eupr, and the regu he piping ho TEAMY Boi missed Bove ~Ne Y tle oriental like tiny s of % $end of a ever smith, CRNeSn-——Al'e ry T ines, Gond Bath Ways. of he Ee of Edward El eng dey dining i: brated { Bishop Wilscn of viiose savings ased constantly to be quoted. The bishop went the former and said a great work on the +1 i I ap te “Your fat Fer wrote A poen I con- gratnlate you on being the danghter of - such a man!” Then turning to his other guest he said, “And vour father forbore to write about the Apocaivpso—a wise forbearance!” —London Gentlesroman. Dutiful For Once. Bav—My tooth aches, and mamma said I should come here and lat you look at it. Dentist—I see. It must come out Won't take but a min Now be a brave little man. and I'll—. Boy (hastily backing offy— Mamma didn't say 1 auld let you pul it; only said 1 should let vou look at it. — Good News, ute sho she ‘Depravity Tn High Life. “This conpon,” said Old Bn!lion, en- ergeticndly trying to elip from a government bond with a dul! pair of scissors, 18 what might be =alled a tear of for revenne.''—Chicugo Trib- mn one JOB OF WATSON, I grew tired of my. oniy find it out, ther is musical: He JT A Io. in the writ. The Wa iil wid THE ATTN LDR! NEAR THE PATTON HOTEL Ai! 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