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Evening journal., 1896-11-25
Connolly Knocks out Causer.

BIRAINGHAM, England, Nov. 25.-Eddie
Connolly Of Boston was matched &c light
Causer here last night and knocked his
man out in the fifth round. Both weighed
1927 pounds, but Connolly had the advan-
tage in height and reach
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CHAMPION SHOT OF THE WORLD

Miss Annie Oakley writes: Myself an
many of the Buffalo Bin Wild West co
to shake into the shoes, a most thoroug
trial. and can honestly say that Il doe
all III not more than you claim IL IN
stantly takes the sting out of Corns an
Bunions. Aliens FoOt-Ease Is a certah
cure for swollen, smarting, ACHING, Dlis
tered or sweating feet Sold BY all drug
gists and shoe stores, 25c. Sample sen
FRED Address Allen S. Olmsted. l.
Roy N. Y.
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snip,. steward browns himself.

QUEENSTOWN, Nov. 25.-Saloon Stew
ard Creal of the White Star steamship
Majestic, which has just arrived here, COM
mitted suicide by jumping overheard on
Sunday
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Uprising of sepoys.

LONDON, Nov 25.-A special dispatch
from Bombay says that 200 Sepoys looted
the bazaar at Rawalpimdi. The police
we're powerless to control them, and two
persons were killed and several injured
in the struggle.
Evening journal., 1896-11-25

Blood is Life anc upon the purity and
vitality Of the biool depends the health
Of the whole system. Experience proves
purifier.
Hoods Pills act easily and promptly on
the liver and bowels. Cure SICK headache.
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New So Counterfeit.

WAsHINGToN, Nov 20. Tho secret serv-
ice bureau of the treasury department gives
notice Of new counterfeit s. national
bank note N the National Bank Of Com
merce, Ncoy York, series of 1852, check
letter G., charter No 533. bank No. as, 768,
portrait Of Garfield, Photographic produc-
tf,.,
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spaIn.s Grea. Loss In the Philippine.

LONDON. Nov. 25.-A Singapore dis
patch to The Times says that the Span
iards have been defeated by the Insurgents
in the Philippines with the loss of 300 oi
their men.
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pImlloo stables burned.

BALTIMORE, Nov. 25.-Twenty-four sta
bles and four feeding sheds were consumed
by fire at tho Pimlico race track rear this
city. The loss is about 81 200.
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IinoleumS good quality of Linoeum at 40 cents per
= - yard-not the best to be sure, but the quality
~ CenLS. that has been selling for 90 cents.
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oO oopt Another case of these 2ocent Blankets has
~ been opened. This possibly will be the last,
Blankets. as no more in sight Slightly imperfect.
but Slight you'll hardly detect it. Others
at SL15 S. so and So rs.
Cotton Quilts, occ. to IS CO.
Down Quilts So rs TO SIS So
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Sidehoards. very few of the $3.50 Sideboards we
w. advertised few days since remaining
and they are deserving of special attention of Sdeboad pu
chasers as indeed the whole assortment ranging from
IS 80 to 500 CO. great many of which represent reduction
of thirty per cent
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county, on the east by the East river
and on the west by the Hudson river,
is sorely puzzled these days.
All of the western hemisphere outside
of those limits he has been in the habit
OF looking upon as a deep and solid
wilderness. Ha wonders at the hardi-
hood of people living anywhere outside
of New York Brooklyn has always
been a sore problem to him. He I'M
derstands that a round million people
live there and that it is a fine place
to be buried in, for it contains twenty
two cemeteries, with an aggregate pop
ulation of a million and quarter, but
beyond that he knows nothing. He
goes to Europe oftener than he goes to
Brooklyn, and he says the journey is
easier. And this good mans wife
thinks the same.
But now all is changed. The New
York legislature has passed a bill
which the governor is certain to sign
and which carries the boundaries of the
city into districts which the easy go
ing Gothamite never heard of. 1t makes
New Workers out of thirteen hundred
thousand people whom the good people
of the metropolis have always regard
ed as jays.
To be a New Yorker is a sacred dis
tinction in his eyes, and to see this
high honor thrust at one swoop upon
more than mirlion people is a mis-
fortune too heavy~to bear. From now
on he knows that he will be claimed as
a fellow citizen by the clam digger of
Canarsie, the fisherman of Jamaica,
the Dutch farmer of New Lots, the
tough of Long Island City, the sand
digger of Flushing, the elephant of
Coney Island, the Yahoo of Staten Is
land, the rustic of Rockaway, the truck
farmer of Gravesend, to say nothing of
the inhabitants of Little Neck Bay, of
Creedmoor, of the Kill Won Kull, the
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VERY sHREwD RUsTIcs.

The enlargement of the police depart
ments and fire departments, the carry
ing on of improvements in the far-off
suburbs and giving the clam diggers
and farmers the luxurious conveniences
of metropolitan life will wiring the
hearts of the heavy taxpayers with an
guish, for the brunt of the expense will
fall Upon the big property owners of
the old New York. In fact, the shrewd
rustics in the out-of-the-way places
have already authorized the local Off
GERS to make unheard-of Improvements
in the little villages, knowing that when
the bills fall due they will be part of
the big city of New York, and that the
latter will have to foot the biggest part
of the expense. In this way the rus
tics are buncoing the city folks, thus
reversing the general order of things.
There is little to wonder at in the old
Gothamite feeling troubled about the
new New York, nor is there in the SUI
burbanites shouting with joy at the
idea of being entitled to the rank of
New Workers. Already loud and deep
are the curses flung in the direction
of Thomas Collier Plat, the G. o. P.
boss who cracked his whip as a signal
for his legislators to rush the bill
through. If anything should happen
to prevent it becoming a law there will
be quite as much joy as grief among
those concerned.
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New Drop, where the vanderbilts were
great people hundred years ago, and
the sand flats of Jamaica Bay.
All these are now, or shortly will be,
official New Workers. They are entitled
to friendly feeling for the swells of
Fifth avenue, the sports of the Tender
loin, the mugs of the Bowery, the
millionaires of Wall street and the poll
ticians of Madison Square. They live
in the same town as the Astors, the
Vanderbilts, the Goulds and the Rock
efeflers, and may one day belong to the
-Four Hundred They can take a met
ropolitan interest in Teddy Roosevelt,
Tom Plat, Tammany hall, DR.. Park
hurst, Steve Brodie and other celebri-
ties They can swear at the 81" road,
ridicule the reform movement, part
their hair in the middle and shout for
the Giants when they win at base ball
with all the fervor of the native New
Yorker.
Moreover, they can feel that they. live
in the second biggest city of the world,
for with its new population of some
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steps the local political managers
from all over this immense state of
New York. They bring grist TO the
P5att mill, which grinds low but sure.
Here, perhaps, the secret or one
secret, OF his power begins to be yisi-
Die. He is in touch with every con-
stituency in the state. He has in every
electoral district his own n1anager-a
pohtcal boss, or several of them, each
controlling his own section of the
party, each reporting direct to Mr..
Platt, taking his orders from him,
loyal to him personally and looking to
MN as his true chief. How is such an
organization as that to be disturbed
or overthrown, unless you first break
up the relations between the leader and
his followers, and how are you going
10 do that so long as the tie is per-
sonal one?"
Regarding the last annual struggle
OF the Republican party to rid itself of
PIatt, Mr.. Smalley wrote: He has
'peen Tor many years the boss of that
party. 1t is & poor and vulgar word
to describe a man of pre-eminent 20
llrlcal ability, but there is no other
Wnch expresses quite all that is meant
py II, and l suppose we must be con-
tent TO go on using it until a new term
IS invented. The effort TO get rid of
MI. Platt bore no resemblance to the
ciAOAl against Iammany, nor was there
any reason why it should. Mr.. Plat,
indeed is more absolute autoorat
throughout the state than ever Tam
many was. But his sway over the Re-
publican party, though it may have
peen corrupting, has never been cor
rupt in the sense that he sought or OBJ
tanned any money reward for himself.
His one aim has been to win Repub-
hcan victories. There were other Re
publicans who thought they could pro-
mote this laudable end better than he.
They proposed to obtain it, however,
by very much the same means that Mr..
Plat employed. There was no upris-
ing against boss or against the meth
DDS of the boss. There was an attempt
to substitute one boss for another, or,
since no man was named as a possible
successor to Mr.. Platt or as his equal
IN the art of party mana cement, it
might be more accurate to say that Mr..
Platt's opponents tried to turn him out,
and were ready to trust to luck for q
substitute. That the Republican party
should be allowed to manage it's own
affairs seems to have occurred to no.
body. Well, this effort came to moth
ing. Mr.. Plat remains master"
Mr.. Plat is we'll into the sixties now,
but he takes good care of himself, and
if he should live ten years longer peo-
pie who write about the efforts to dis
lodge him will probably close their
stories with the same four words used
by Mr. Smalley.
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came nearer 10 the mark in .Centarihi
Fleming when he said that patience
is a necessary ingredient of genius.
dent of an express company, with bus
mess interests which are supposed to
engross his time during the day Hav-
ing done full days work before din
ner. with more or less politics inter-
spersed, he devotes his evenings to
governing the Republican party. His
headquarters are in well-known ho-
tel in Broadway, with a large en-
trance hall on The ground floor, wflN0h
the architect seems to have desigs. 9
especially for the practice of politics.
IT is a political rendezvous. almost a
political shrine. Thither bend their
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broken and iron-clad leadership. Even
men who hate him-and their name is
Iegion-do not attribute sinister mean
ings to his political power. What he
is after is only one of the many mys-
reries connected with Tom Plat. 1t is
an old story that he expected to be
made secretary of the treasury when
Harrison was elected in 1883, and that
rvhen Harrison refused, a never-enGing
war broke out between them.
Platt has never aspired to any cleo
tive Office. for the reason that he would
he the most numerically beaten man
who ever gre ed a ticket. He knows
this better than anyone else, but it
don't worry him. He has never court
ed favor with the people. All OF his
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dealings are with politicians. He con-
trolls the politicians, big and little, and
they attend TO the voters Like Won
Moltke, the German general in the
Franco-Prussian war, who sat miles
away from the front and with the aid
Of the telegraph, kept track of all the
changes in line of battle, moving regi-
ments and brigades here and there as
If he were playing checkers, Plat does
not mingle in the actual strife. He
never makes a political speech. The
last one he made was something over
fourteen years ago, when he shared
Roscoe Conklin's defeat by resigning
from the United States senate. By
this he earned the sobriquet of Me
Too" Plat.
A NEGATIVE FIGHTER.
One OF the strange things about
Platt is that he is rarely successful in
any campaign. He has led his party to
defeat in the city and state time after
time; but notwithstanding this no
combination strong enough has ever
been made to force him out of power.
1t is not due to lack of genius that he
loses; it is because he is negative
fighter instead of an affirmative one.
His hatreds are stronger than his lik-
ings, and he would rather pull down
an enemy than build up a friend. 1t
is his very vindictiYenesS in this re-
gard that has made him the terror
of so many small fry leaders. Platt
may ioe sincere in his promise Of SUD-
port to a friend. but the friend must
wait until he has taken a shy at some
enemy. In this way he makes more
enemies, and they keep piling up, year
after year. like the riches Of a hundred
times millionaire who is only able to
spend a tiny fraction of his income.
THRIVES ON POLITICS.
One of the curious things about Mr..
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PLENTY OF ROOM.

This enables the New Yorker to do
considerable wandering without leav-
ing his native fireside. 1t is a six-hour
journey to get from the northernmost
tip to. the southernmost tip of the new
city, and to go from the easternmost
end to the extreme western point it
takes five hours. Both journeys must
be made in roundabout way, with a
good part of the distance by water. IT
the tourist should happen to be unfor-
tunate and miss trains and boats, or if
there were heavy fog in the bay the
journey would take endless hours.
Men who have undertaken to think
about the task of forming this great
mixture of humanity into one munich
pality have given up the job as hope
less puzzle. How to form local laws
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FOLKS OF AL SORTS.
EVERY VARIETY OF THE YAHOO In
GREATER NEW YORK.
metropolitan Oddities-The Big City
of 40 Miles in Length Contains
Many Freaks-Woes of the Old
knickerbocker.

NEW YORK, April 1O.-The good old
Gothamite, the conservative, old-fash
Toned Knickerbocker, the man who hon
estly believes that the United States is
bounded on the south by the Battery
sea wall. on the north by Westchester
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NEW YORK, April "a man with
stooring shoulders and bent head,
with thin, cold face, calm gray eyes,
a beard more white than gray, man
who might be a minister or an ex-
ceedingly clever bunco steerer, a man
who walks very quietly and laughs
noiselessly, this is Thomas Collier
Platt, the Gar of Gotham, the man Of
the icy eye.
Tom Piatt is thorn in the side Of
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sufficient money to buy bread, for it
is in evidence that he did not take the
pocket-book containing $500 that was
in the same bureau drawer" rhe eio-
quent attorney for the accused was in
terrupted by the convulsive sobs Of his
client why do you weep?" asked
Judge Cowling of the doomed man.
"Becors I didn't see der pocket-book
in de drawer" Everybody laughed ex-
cept Howe, the attorney for the care
less burglar-Texas Siftings.
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Plat is that When the political times
are dull he seems to wilt and wither
UP, but when politics are lively with
plenty of internal rows and discords
to be harmonized, he blooms and fat
tens, and the funereal look which per-
petually adorns his face can scarcely
be detected. Just now he is at his
best. A determined effort is on foot,
engineered by powerful leaders in his
party, to drive him to the wall and
break up the Plat machine. Wires
are being worked on all sides Of him
to cause his downfall; hundreds Of able
men are plotting against him, but he
seems happier than for a long time
past. This does not mean that he is
merry No one ever saw Tom Platt
in a merry mood. But the hard lines
in his face are a trtifle less distinct and
he is more apprCachable-both sure
signs of incipient good humor.
The man that Tom Plat goes to the
convention to get the nomination for
will probably get left, because the ex-
senator win be too busy tearing down
the fences of other people to give
much time to building some of his own.
But he can always be counted upon
to make the cleverest kind of a fight,
and the men who oppose him will
know that they are in politics.
AN ENGLISH VIEW.
Mr. Smalley, the American CORE
spondent of the London Times, made
study of Mr.. Plat some time ago for
the benefit of the English people, and
among other things he wrote: 'He
has been described as a man who at
tends to politics every day in the year
This is but an adaptation of the re-
mark attrfbuted-erroneous per-
haps, in both cases to Buffoh and to
Goethe, that genius is nothing but the
capacity of taking pains. Disraeli
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HERALD SUNDAY

thing over 100000 New York leaves
far in the rear the 2.447, 957 people who
compose the great city of Paris. They
can cast envious eyes at London. their
only superior, which has 4,2S1, 4S1 peo-
pie living in the 66S square miles COM
posing that wonderful city. And they
can take satisfaction in the thought
that the population of New York is
increasing twice as rapidly as that of
London, and that in a few years more
they will be living in the biggest city
in the world, and at the same time
in a farm house. where the nearest
neighbor is a mile away
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HE WORRIES
THE C. 0. P'S.
Odd Traits of the rIan With the
Icy Eye.
AS HE REALLY LOOKS.
ALSO AS HE is USUALLY PIC
TURED.

STOPPING Shoulders and Bent Head,
With n Thin, Cold Face, and
Calm, Grey Eyes-Tom Platt n
Thorn in the Side of Many Men of
Note Just Now.
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GOLD BRICK MAN REJOICES.

The new New York will certainly be
strange place. Some of its own citizens
can be counted upon to blow out the
gas with all the innocent enthusiasm
of the visitor from Way Back. Gold
Brick dealers and purveyors of green
goods will not have to go outside the
city limits for victims. There are
plenty of men and women in the new
New York who have not visited the old
New York more than half dozen
times in their lives. Down in the CEN
ter of Staten Island they have never
heard of the new woman, and if one
of the latter should appear among them
astride her bicycle and clad in bloom
ers she would throw the worthy popu-
lace into a fever of excitement. Yet
they are all New Workers.
From the northeastern corner of the
big New York down to the southwest
ern corner it is forty-five miles as the
crow flies. This is the distance from
Mount Vernon to Tottenville at the
end of Staten Island. Across the new
city at the widest point from the west
erly end of Staten Island to the east
ernmost tip of Rockaway Beach it is
twenty-five miles in a straight line.
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strength in Hewlett Bros high
grade Three Crown Baking Powder.
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THE TALK OF THE DAY.

adam may have been the author of
original sin " says a Nebraska clergy
man, but at least he was not guilty of
inventing the mother-in-law joke
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which will equally serve all the ex-
tremes, the millionaire of Fifth ave
nue. and the clam fishermen of Little
Neck Bay; the bloods of the Tender
loin and the farmers of Hampstead;
the merchant prince of the dry goods
district and the general store keeper
of Bayside; the financial king of Wall
street and tina hired man of New Lots
will make things lively for years to
come.
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Hoods Sarsaparilia. acllng through
eAe blood. reaches every part of the
system, and in this way positively
cures catarrh.
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For the crime of whispering in
church a little girl of Portsmouth, o..
was recently sent to Jail for ten days
and fined $3.50. The sheriff, however,
refused to put her in Jail, and took her
TO his own home for the period of the
sentence.
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many men of note just now. Plat al
ways has a knife hand5, and he is not
afraid to use it. There are many ru-
mors af1o9t that Platt's sun has set:
that he has gor= the way of all wicked
bosses. and that the people have at
last risen in arms to crush him. But
the man who governs the legislature
OF New York state with an iron hand
and who is as much Of a king of the
metropolis as Richard Croker ever was,
is not an easy man to down.
If some OF the presidential candi-
dates could turn an Y ray on the heart
Of this leader and read the actual truth
they would be more happy. There is
Lev; p. Morton, for instance, who is
towering between the devil and the
deep sea, simply because Tom Plat
has promised to move heaven and
earth to get the nomina ton for him
az the st. Louis convention. The fact
that Mr.. Dlatt has made this promise,
has made Mr.. Morton dubious His
friends openly tell him that Plat will
give him the double cross" the mar
bic heart" the glad hand and the con
smile" 10 say nothing of the stony
stare from the icy eye" when conven-
ton time comes round. There is Ma
sor Mckinley also who would like to
know where and how the Easy Boss
wsll knife him. Even Big Tom Reed is
nervous, although it has been under
stood for couple Of years that Plat
would work honestly for him, and him
only in the campaign Of 1896.
A UNIQUE BOSS.
But no matter what Tom Plat does,
a1e stands today the unique boss in the
political arena of the nation. When he
makes out of politics no one has ever
ibeen able to discover. 1t is said that
he makes nothing, and the people who
say so give it as the reason Of his I'M
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What Did He Expect?-"Miss Jay
smith, have you done any Lenten pen
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why, Mr. Cassock, I've heard you
preach every day for weeks and
weeks. ''-Chicago Record.
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A Coming Prophet-AIrs. Wabash
shall not be in the least astonished if
Johnny develops clairvoyant powers.
Mrs. Jackson arke-Indeed?
Yes. He is the son of a seventh
husband, yon KnoW.-Indiauapo
Journal.
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Darnley Beaufort, who is in Jail in
Bardstown, KY, charged with certain
offenses when principal of the Trappist
college at Gethsemane Abbey, is said
by Louisville journal to be one of the
band which assassinated Alexander II.
of Russia