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The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
Politics as a Business.
Views of New York's Famous Senator, Timothy DRY
Dollar Sullivan.

so faithfully for C%leveland's success
that his health gave way under the
strain, but almost Immediately after,
election he was confidentially informed
by one close to the administration
that Tammany could not hope for any
thing from Cleveland. That broke his
heart, and he died. Kelly was as hon.
est as the day was long, and never
turned a penny out of politics. In
trenched as he was In power for so
long a time, he could have made S1G,-
900, 900 in secret ways were he so dis
posed, but he died leaving an estate
of about $500, 900, every dollar of which
Richard Croker, leader of Tammany
hall after John Kelly, almost broke
down in health Immediately after the
labors of the campaign Of 1892. He
suffered from indigestion and insom-
MIA. He wisely, however, gave up all
work and took a trip abroad. where
he would be safe from political =
portunities. Later on. nv
advise, to the deep gr'H
ization. he resigned
Vas >, compelled +
health and powe
former. Mr.. c
having a lot
BILE on it
politics.
There are a2few men, very L,
know when 10 quit politics graceIl
time. Rather they are men who take u
politics as a means to an end and do noH
plunge into Its folIies-the struggle for mas
terry, the placing of patronage and the like.
Bourke Cochran. ev-Goy. George T.. Hoadiy,
Of Ohio and eX-Attorney General Russell are
examples Of this class, but they are lawyers,
and all politicians are not lawyers.
Let ne show you the reverse Of the medal.
A few years ago l saw two splendid looking
old gentlemen in a cigar box of a law Office
in Broadway munching at cakes and coffee.
They were in genteel, but absolute poverty.
1T the same time they were exceedingly proud.
like the Pemberly twins, and kept their pow
erty to themselves. They were Levi p.
Chatfeld and Amos X. Hadley, respectively
attorney general and speaker of the assem-
bly, away back in the ffties. Both had been
They are now dead.
Another case in point: John F. Smyth,
twenty years ago an opulent brewer at Ale
bany, chairman of the Republican state coIa-
mittee and the Republican boss of Albany,
postmaster Of that town and the bosom
sure of a happy future. But no. Five years
later he was shorn of power and of wealth,
and in another five years died in the most
abject poverty in the cottage Of a henchman
within a stones throw of his former mansion,
where a banquet was being held that night,
and from which the strains of music reached
his ears as he lay dying.
l could go on thus indefinitely but these
examples, l think, will suffice. Do you think
that men In any other walk of life-bankers,
merchants, lawyers or doctors-ever expert
ence vicissitudes like these? I guess not.
other vocation than that of politics. But,
then, politics is a passion, like gambling,
which it is hard to drop. I wish I could.
IT. D. Sullivan.
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
FIRE STORAGE.

while the auditorium was yet ringing
with plaudits and bravas for the de-
butante whose dancing had excited the
wild enthusiasm of the multitude, l,
o~verstrained, spent, and completely ex-
hausted, dropped like a dead thing in
the midst of the congratulating COM
pany, and was carried, colo and inert,
to the green room, where kindly hands
sought to relieve and restore me.
Once I anne to, I was hurried home
by Kate, who, tactful soul, left me to
silence and my own reflections. These
were not wholly the delightful rumi-
nations of gratified vanity, however.
for an incident occurred just as we were
getting into the carriage that gave me
cause in my exultation and wrought
frigidly upon my enthusiasm. The
carriage stood well beneath a street
lamp. I was about to enter it when
I heard a voice pronounce my name.
Turning quickly, I discovered standing
close beside me Deacon Rogers n his
son. who a left Sheraton to find en-
ployment in New York.
well, Pauline" said the younger
man, who had been my school COM
panion, Sin the name of all that's
mighty, how come you ever to do this.
Father don't believe it's you, ever
".
@Imade no reply. I had nothing ready
TO say. For one usually fertile i'll
falsehood I was wondering at naught.
My glance: fell on the old a His
face, unlike my husbands, was a ge-
NAL and gentle one.4Its look of hon.
est grief and distress moved me more
than the fact of my Identification had
MISUNDERSTANDING seriously en-
bafrassed and@shocked. +
"When~did you come up, Mrs. Ma
vis?" he asked; a M who be these
folks?"
MI. Greeley forestalled my answer.
He had seen how startled I was by
the meeting, and, having succeeded in
coaxing the fly into his parlor, a
no mind to allow her to escap through
his own negligence in guarding its ex-
its. He stepped boldly forward now, and
accosted Joe Rogers.
"You have made some singular mis-
take" he said. 1.-THE lady has no &C
quaintance with you. She is under en-
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ley sent a telegram to my husband, IN
forming him that I had lost the train,
but that 1 was with friends, whose
name, however, he did not give. "A
room was secured for me, and ! was
hidden lie down and rest till dinner
time. for Kate had promised that she
would take me in the evening to see
the Transcontinental company IN It's
professional capacity.
What a tumult my mind was in as l
lay in the strange chamber and sought
to compose myself! 1t seemed that
had lived a lifetime since morning.
Sheraton was a thousand miles away;
already it's inhabitants seemed Hire
membered phantaSmS of the dead. My
a~daptability must ave been very con-
siderable, for, while my initiation into
these new scenes was accompanied by
unwonted exhilaration and excitement,
L was in nc degree confused nor con-
founded. 1t may have been that my
vivaciouS nature had suddenly come
into it's own: that it's rightful inherit
lance had been unexpectedly bestowed
upon it hat all the straining ambitions
and aspirations within me which Cir
cumstances had discouraged from their
birth, had found the tension that had
SO long restrained them at last relaxed
and themselves congenially environed.
A duck, ever if during the major por-
ton of it's life it has been confined in
a coop, does not require experience to
accustom it to water. Suddenly i'm
mersed, the creature inds the element
so adapted to its instincts that for the
first time 1t feels ia It's blrthr1ght
has become realized. And so it was
with me.
1t was Byron, I think, who went to
bed one night obscure, and awoke to
find himself famous. Something of
the sort befel me. I went to the thea
ter that night absolutely unknown to
the world; the next day all New YORK
rang with my praises. l left the hotel
at half-past seven, a green, countrified
little Nine. la Cure; I returned to it
four hours later, the favorite danseuse
of the tickle public. Was ever trans
ition more rapid or more complete?
I need not relate minutely the details
of the transformation. The main points
are as follows:
The house was a brilliant one. The
Trans-continental Burlesque and Vari-
ETY. always called forth a
fashionable audience. It's methods ap-
pealed to that class which constantly
Graves novelty and excitement. We
sat through the first act in a box. The
sight of the gay and Ito my ~unsophlstl-
Gated eyes, gorgeous assemblage, the
charm and interest of the acting, the
exquisite melody from the full orches-
ira, the entire atmosphere of my sur
r%oundings, got into my head and
mounted to my brain. By degrees the
dull habit of my rural training fell
away from me. I glowed, thrilled,
throbbed with excitement. Involun-
tarily my feet kept time with the mu-
sic, my eyes burnt in their sockets, and
my heart actually ached with a wild
longing to be one of those tawdry beings
who's happiness it was to anus the
Idle hours of a jaded public. Oh, fool
ish moth! that could not see that the
flame consumed what entered within
it's lustre!
At the conclusion of the act and after
several recalls had been complied with,
in the midst Of a fresh burst of APP
plause, Greeley pushed aside the cur
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
Appointment Wasn't Kept.

Amusement was pictured on the sun-burned
face which he turned from side to side as
his eyes. devoured the luxuriousness of the
Planters hotel lobby. Walking to the clerks
desk he stroked his long beard and addressed
Manager Weaver, who happened to be stand
ing near:
BE you the boss?" he inquired.
The manager modestly admitted that he
was not In politics and could lay no claim to
such q title.
Perhaps you can tell me, though, where
III find Mr.. Morgan, Of Great Falls, Mont.
I'm to meet him here" -
Clerk Chidsey xamined the register and
found no such man was stopping at the
house.
well, I'll be durned,' - exclaimed the gen.
tleman from the rural districts. II guess
old Hiram Cole has been took in. I lived in
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09

inspiration which had suddenly. aWak-
ened new hope in his breast, when, al
ter a few kind words of reassurance
as to my predicament, Mr.. Greeley De-
came all attention to me and all alert
ness regarding my favorable impress
sion with my surroundings. When he
called his wife aside and held a short
eager colloquy with her; when he or
dered the gas men to turn on the ishts
and summoned what musicians yet re-
NAMED back to their places; When lie
insisted that Kate and 1 should lay
aside our wraps, lest we should eaten
cold on going out, ingenious little
country girl, never suspected that the
trouble he professed to be taking sole
ly for my pleasure was, in reafty' un-
dertaken purely in furtherance OF MS
new and wholly selfish design.
The leader of the orchestra had n
there was but a handful of musicians
left; but Greeley insisted tina l should
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
III.

In the selection of a piano, Mrs. Gree
fey-Kate. as L came to call her later
was of infinite value to me. She was
a natural musician, with an accurate
ear and that experience in Weighing
the merits of an instrument in whlch
I was wholly deficinet. Besides Whlcn,
she was used to business dealings ana
to securing the full value of her money.
But it took longer to conclude ire
transaction han we had anticipated.
BY the time the piano was paid for
the address carefully written out al q
we had fairly quilted the estanllsh-
ment, it was well on towards 4 ociock'
And my train went at 8!
AS we were about to step INTO tEe
cab which had been waiting for us,Mrs
Greeley, to whom I had already con-
ceived an attachment, turned doubt
fully and interrogatively TO me.
Mr.. Greeley is expecting u.s. n
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09

gagement to me, and I am the manager
Of the company that is now playing at
this theater." He turned to me. al
low me Nine. Cleo" he continued, and
offered his hand to assist me into the
vehicle.
I had spoken no word during this
brief interview, nor did I contradict
this false statement. Bold as it was,
however. it did not prevail with either
of the men, who had known me from
my birth. Joe gave a scornfu1 little
laugh.
"Au revoir, Mademoiselle Cleo" he
said ironically. IF I won't be let
speak to you. / can see you all the
same, any time L care to spend the
money. Wish I could realize on all the
times I have seen you in my life" He
turned scoffingly away. But the dear
old deacon, in whose genuine solicitude
self-consideration had no part, pressed
forward and thrust his head into the
carriage window.
MRS. Mavis, air o comm home
with me tomorrer morning" ne
Il hope yer be, Polly, nope yer be.
Where'll I come to fetch yer-hey,
what say?"
But the straining anxiety and ur-
gency of his quavering voice were
rudely broken in o by the driver.
who at the moment started up his
horses. I gave a little cry. I had
suddenly awakened from my long 81
lence.
ooh. waltz I said, laying a restrain
ing hand on Greeley's arm. wait a
moment. I am going home with him
tomorrow. OF course I am going.
Who dreams for a moment that I am
not?"
I glared defantly from one to the
ether of my companions, as If I held
them responsible as would-be agents
Of my destiny. Kate placed a gentle,
coaxing arm about me.
"Of course, dear, of course you are
going. But there is no need to call
back that good old soul. Geoff and 1
will see you to the train tomorrow.
You can meet him there"
ITO be continued.)
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money, say 5000, 900, he has. He never
made a dollar out of politics. The
game is his recreation. He meant to
quit it away back in the eighties, but
when he and Roscoe Conkling were
forced out Of the senate and out of
power by James G. Blaine in June.
1881, he resolved to stay in, play his
hand through and get even with State
Senator William H. Robertson, Speak
er James w. Hustled and others who
downed him. He did too.
The late John Kelly, the great leader
of Tammany hall before Richard.
Croker, broke down after the election
of Cleveland in 1884. He had labored
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09

New Hampshire forty years, and have been
wonder what Mirandy'l say when I get
Inc old gentleman gave his name as Hiram
ooie, ana toid Clerk Chidsey that he had met
q s'famger IN the union station and loaned
him $50, and had an appointment to meet
MN at the hotel and take dinner with him.
ne was ADVISED to confer with the police.-f
ST. Louis Globe-Democrat. 7
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09

bulent a~ristocrats Of the Union League
club, who supply the "sinews Of war;
in election times. Senator Plat could
not solve the problem; hence his irasci-
BILE remark. He had been ailing, too
dt was right after Harrison's election
in 1889, suffering from dyspepsia and
insomnia. Everybody thinks Senator
Platt is a stole, ~impervious to all at
tacks, SO I quote o that expression
to show that he is human. Mr.. Platt
is a business man of enormous ability.
and out of business he made the little
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
Fishing Resort on st. Pau & Du.
luth n. r..

Moose Lake, Sturgeon Lake, Lake
Pokegama, Rush Lake, Cross Lake and
Chisago Lakes are some of the famous
fishing resorts along the Saint Paul &
Duluth Railroad to which cheap ex-
cursion tickets are now on sale.
Offices 1896 Robert Street and Union
Depot. s
The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-05-09
Wars Cost.

In less than 300 years Great Britain alone
has spent Fl, $50, 900, 0oO in war. Our wal with
Mexico cost $3.50 00, 600. During the last 200
years France has spent 1895, 600, Oo0 in war.
The San Francisco call., 1897-06-22
PROPOSALS,


TTNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA, BEEKE-
~ ley-N office 10 contractors builders and mate
rial men. Notice Is hereby given to all concerned
forming The labor and furnishing he materials
necessary 10 the erection of building for the de-
paument of philosophy. on the grounds OF the
University of California, at Berkeley, Alameda
County, and said bids or proposals will be re-
ceived at the office of the asslstan: secretary
Hall, Berkeley, Cal, at or before 12 o'clock NJ.
OF the 24th cay of June. 1897. And
notice Is hereby further given that the plans
and specifications of said building have been made
and adopted, and are placed in the office Of Mr..
Clinton Day, architect, 222 Sansome St., San
frarciseo. room 4, where the same may be seen
and examined during each day from 10 o'clock
A.. until o'clock p. NJ from shis date until said
gath day OF June, 1897.
No bids or proposals wi be considered un ess
the same are accompanied by a certified cheek or
q bond of said prcposer equal to ten (l0) per cent
of his proposal, with sufficient sureties. condi-
toned that If said bid or proposal shall be Ac-
proper contract 10 faithfully perform the duty and
bigations in accordance with said proposal, and
plans and specifications, which shall be aud
hereby required to be part of such contract The
right to re iect any and all bids is hereby reserved
This notice is given pursuant TO act entitled can
and organize the University of California; ap-
proved NJ March %. 1858. Ana Act amendatory
of section rs there of, approved March %, 1871
relating TO the construction Of buildings" ap-
proved nj arch g. 1897.
BY order Of the Committee on Grounds and
Buildings OF the Board of Regents
Dated June u, 1897. J. WEST MARTIN,
Chairman.
w. a. NCKOWEN,
Assistant Secretary.
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DIDS WANTED - NOTICE Is HEREBY
ID given that st aed proposals will be received by
the board of directors of the Veterans Home s.
ISOLATION at lis office, room 13, $50 Sansome ST..
san francisco, Cal, mp TO 10 O'Clock A NJ,
Wednesday, June 30, 1897 and opened i'm med-
atey thereafter In the presence of bidders for fur
nishing and delivering quartermAster and COM
missary supplies for the Veterans Home, Napa
County, Cal. railroad station iountvillel, for the
six months commencing July ], 1897, and ending
Decem oer 81, 1897. schedules with information
and instructions for submitting bids will be
nished upon app cation by the undersigned. Bid
ders will carefully follow the conditions of the
schedu and no bid will be considered unless it
Is In accordance with such schedules. ESch bid
der must accompany his bid with a certified check
upon some well-known and responsib banking
house for at least 10 per OF the of his
bid, payable to J. C. CURRIEk, treasurer, con-
ditioned that the bidde er Will enter into a good and
va. id contract upon notice Of accordance as re-
qured by law. he board reserves the right to re-
5ec. auy all bids and order any quantity
over or under the amount specified
Address J. ]. SCOVILLE, secretary Veterans
Home Association, room 13, 800 Sansome st San
Francisco, Cal BY order OF the Board of Dll ect
ors- J. ]. SCoVILLE, secretary.
IT s ENGINEER OFFICE, BURKE BUILD
- ing. Seattle Wash, May 70, lS97.--Sealed
proposals for constructing gun emplacements on
Marrowstone Point. WASH, Will be received here
until June 80 1897, and then publicly opened
Information furnished on application.
HARRY TAYLOR. Captain Engineers.
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MARRIAGE LICENSES.

The following marriage licenses hava baAa
Issued by the County Clerks office:
Frank j. Climm and Emily +. Dentz, 2l-Ia
35.
Thomas A. Kane and Sadie A. Davis, 2e-2e
"a
Ira f. Stores and LidIs E. Chandler, 43-2s
William H. Maize and Margaret E Broder So
Emil Greenebaum and Caroline Koshland, ST
Washington A. Connolly and Bernardine ]. Hen
trich. 23-2O
Frederick A. Chester and Mary A. Hanley,
30-21.
edward ]. Mitchell and Mary A. McDermost,
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MARkIEn.

KoBICKE-FANCHER- Rim this city, June IL
1897, BY the kew. Edgar uon Robert G.
kobcke and Mary (. Fancher
KONIGSTEIN-COHRN- this c!tv June 90
1897. by the Rev. Dr.. ]. Nieto. Gabor KONG.
stein aud Flora Iohrn.
LEDERER-MEYER-In this city, June 20,
1897, by the Rev. DR. j. Nieto Gustav Q Led erer
and Annie ". Never
McDoNALD-W WAER-In this city, June 1s.
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1897 by Judge G. W. F. Cook Edwin G. Nc.
Donald OF Suisun Valley and Mabel E. Waer Of
Napa.
WHITE-SEVERAN NCE-In this city, June l6.
1897 at the First United Presbyterian Church,
by the Rev. ]. II. ElliJtt David r. White and
Alice T. Severance both of an Francisco
WoLF-GOLDSTEIN-In this city, June 20.
1897, nv the Rev. DR.. ]. Nieto, Isaac Wolf and
CxoTd
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FRUIrvALE REAL ESTATE.


EAUTIFUL LOTS. ALL SIZES CHEAP 8
ocks from Fruitvale station: Sc wers; water:
street worS done; church and school near: half a
block from San Leandro e ectric road. lnouira of
owner. ]. TOBf.Ek, 1888 RraY ave.
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NOTICE.-THE BUSIN ESs OF MeAVOY
4 GALLAGHER will be conducted a. ths
old stand No. 20 Fifth street. for the benefit
Of the widow of the late HENRY j. GALLAJj-
HER and his lister, MISS ANNIE i. GALLACs
HER. MRS. H. J. GALLAGHER.
ANNIE 3. GALLAGHER.
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PROFESSIONAL CARDS.

John E RICHARDS, LAW OFFICES. ROOMS
q 26 and 27, Crocker building; telephone Main
Is, san Francisco, Cal.
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-llARRlAGkS DEATHS.

BORN.
SPAULDING-In this city, June 90 1897, to the
wife of F. D. Spaulding, son.
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ALAMEDA ADVERTISEMENTS
ALAMEDA REAL ESTATE.

ALAMEDA REAL ESTATE.
TOR SALE-S25OO CASH; HOUSE IL ROOMS.
IL lot 60x14O; all furnished and permanently
rented at $50 per mouth; $4,000 mortgage at S1A
per cent; choice residence portion OF Alameda
owner nonresident object Of sale. J. s. HANLEY,
1851 Park st.. Alameda.
WE ARE HEAVILY ovERSToCKED WITH
" real estate: new and modern homes in all
parts OF Alameda, ranging in price from $500 to
$4,000; mast be sold regardless Of prices; il we
have what you want no reasonable offer will be
declined; those wanting homes should take advan-
tage of our necessity TO reduce holdings JOSEPH
a. LEON ARD CO. 1854 Park ST., Alameda.
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OAKLAND COTTAGES TO LET.

no RENTS. AND ROOM COTTAGES TO
1 rent; s. so and upward per month. R. J.
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OAKLAND REAL ESTATE.

n EFT A CHOICE, hEALIHFUL home SITE
u while prices low; lots 500 10 $3.50 at
Fitchburg, beyond FruitvaIe; the best property
for investment now offered: local trains ana
electric cars: 10 minutes 10 Oakland and 46 to
San Francisco; splendid climate out OF damp
belt; soil excellent for gardening very best water
facilities; good school; terms 70 suit Before buy
ing in this locality the OF this property
{. NJ. RUNKLE elb1a asningIon 81, pps:airS
room %, Oakland Cal
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DIED

Adams. James Higgins Edward
Anderson, Alexander Imhom. Antoine
Allen, Augusta Johnson. Hannah
Bourquard, Louise Lazarus, Leopold
Coileary, John McConnSn. Thomas
Google, Florenca Meller. Jacob NJ.
Dwyer. Mary C. Mi ne. harry
Eva, James O'ROurSe e, Thomas
urey, Catherine Rodden, Amanda n
Fleming. Bartholomew Regan. John r.
Fleishman. Maurice B. strong, Mary f.
Garick, Faubian Sullivan. Hannah
Harlan, Laura NJ. Slattery. Mary c.
Spaulding (infant)
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A T FRUITVALE. 2 AND BLOCKS FROM
"a station; choice building los on easy terms;
$25 cash; streets graded and macadamized; sew
eTs, water and gas in delightful china e.; As mir
utes from san Francisco; fare So per month or s
cents per trip; these lots bargain at $3.50
Syndicate Investment Company, 90 Chronicle
building, or LOWRY, OWEN 4 CO, Fruitvale
station.
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EOR SALE CHEAP-7-ROoM MODERN cor
Il tsge, only $500; also 4-room cottage: lots OF
flowers and barn: only $500. NJ l. WURTS,
DwightNaY station, Berkeley.
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MODERN FLATS.
WESTERN ADDITION.
G eSOO TWO GOOD FLATS OF AND
tDOOOO. rooms and path: brick foundati
sub ,tRntiaIly buit: cement sidewalk: rents $50.
EASTUN, ELDRIDGE r & CO.,
6SS Market st.
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G11OO LODGING-HOUSE; ~ VEL L
% fOO. furnished rooms; centrally located;
hrst-class custom; paying busness ACCIDENT
cause Of selling. Address YERS & CO., 465
Ninth St, Oakland.