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sense on earth. But New York has
outstripped it. To keep up the pace
the ambitious citizens of Gotham have
oyerdone the matter. 1t is true the
business hours are shorter in New
York than in Chicago, and it is because
of this that an effort is made to crowd
as much work as possible into short
space of time.
Although New York business men
are great readers of newspapers they
find it difficult to get the time to keep
informed on current events. They
can read but little at home as the So
cial demands are too strenuous. They
cannot read insthe office, asst is all they
can do to get through the work in the
short business hours. The result is
they read the papers on the street
cars, on the elevated trains and on the
ferry boats and the steam cars. Only
about half of them get seats. The 9TH
er half read standing up.
Three hundred thousand men may
be seen every business morning hang
ing on to straps reading newspapers.
And many thousand women, jammed
seats, are reading newspapers, too. Is
it any wonder that the afternoon pa
pers prints so many editions?
But the busy side is only one feature
of the New Yorker. He has many char
acteristics that are different from any
thing that can be found outside of New
York city. He talks New York, he
walks New York, and he looks New
York. And he doesn't care for any
thing besides New York. If something
happes over in Broolllyn-well, if it is
especially interesting, he tolerates a
brief recital of it. Although Brooklyn
is in Greater New York he doesn't rec
ognize it because it is not Manhattan.
If there IS something stirring in Jer-
sey City he passes it by unless it is an
astounding sensation. Nothing short
of an earthquake reported from Chi
cago can make him move hair.
Not long ago | asked typical New
York woman Why New Workers were
not interested in anything outside of
New York. She seemed surprised at
my question and asked me in turn,
in tone that closed the conversa-
ton:
''Why should they be?"
The New Yorker is thoroughly
wrapped up in his 1ittle Old New
York" as he is pleased to call it. He
admits there are some .ather fine cit
les on the Other side .t the Atlantic,
but he insists that all the greatness and
goodness and beauty of America are
in New York.
The tall. of the native New Yorker is
cross between the down-east Yankee
and the westerner, with mixture of
the south The New Yorker does not
recognize the right of the latter to
have space in the alphabet. He chops
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up his sentences and is not always
strictly correct in his speech. Although
usually very proper and formal be-
fore strangers, he becomes quite IA
miliar with his acquaintance, and ad-
dresses his friends affectionately as
Billy" and Jimmie" and "Tommie."
He loves nicknames, not only for peo-
pie, but for localities. AS a result Of
this, nearly every place in the city has
two or more names, such as Harlem,
Washington Heights, Little Italy, Co.
lumbia Heights, CathedralHeights, the
Manhattan valley, the Ghetto and a
dozen others.
And these different localities also
have residents with eir own peculiar
tiles. You can tell woman who lives
in Washington Heights by her walk.
She is SO used to climbing the hills that
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she swings her right arm, which is held
stiff as pump handle, and is used as
sort of piston rod in mounting the
high places, even when she is on Broad
way or the Sixth avenue shopping dis
trict.
Another type is the business woman
of New York, and she is rapidly becom-
ing distinct species. Her face has
taken on the care-worn look of the
man. She is not the new woman, but
she is the masculine business woman.
Her chin is getting square and her
mouth is set like mans. Darwin says
all creatures are governed by natural
selection. Time and circumstances
bring about great changes in our phys
ical appearance. According to this
theory the business woman of New
will be broad shouldered and have
whiskers.
The New Yorker has the reputation
of being chilly and cod. This is par
tally a libel. He is only on the face
of it. His formality is the thing that
holds him back from being free and
open-hearted with everybody. If you
ask a New Yorker question he will
go out of his way to tell you all he
knows about it. And if there is the
least excuse for talking on street cars
or other public places, he will enter
into the liveliest kind of a gossiping
match with whoever is near him. This
applies equally to men and women.
One thing of which the New Yorker
boasts: Women, generally speaking,
are perfectly safe on the streets at all
hours of the night. A New Yorker may
ogle woman on the cars, but she is
always safe when out alone
Another point that is noticeable is
the patience of the natives of New
York. They live all winter in cold
apartments rather than complain. A
Chicago man would go down in the
basement and have a catch-as-catch-
can wrestling match with the janitor,
but the New Yorker will bide his time
till his lease runs out and then quietly
move away.
| y Next to his love of dress and a
promenade on upper Broadway or a
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THEY'RE ALL RIGHT.
In Their Own Estimation New
Workers Are Perfect.
And, According to the Same Author
ity, There Is No Other City in
the Wide World Like
Their Own.
Especial New York Letter.
IS n BRACE of English mute
~ 1,,o11 Iona n o,,,

Is n BRACE of English mutton
~ chops we'll done, cup Of"
The telephone on the res
taurant table at. the side of the man
who was getting ready to dine jingled
yiciously.
Hello, hello there!" he screamed
into the mouthpiece.
Then his face gradually changed. At
the first tinkle of the bell the lines of
his mouth were drawn hard and deep
and as he put the receiver to his ear the
skin on his forehead was creased with
wrinkles. Distincly the words came to
him:
Jones has ordered his U. P. stock
closed-1ooh; Smith places 1000
shares Steel-41A."
The deep lines broaden into suspi-
cion of a smile. The waiter was at the
side of the table, napkin in hand, silent
and respectful.
"a brace of mutton chops we'll done,
cup of coffee and piece of apple pie, J"
said the diner, and as the obedient one
was departing on run the broker
yelled after him: Crush it!''
He is one of the million who eat on
the jump every day-or rather who
do not eat, but bolt their food between
spasms of nervous prostration while
in search of the ever nimble dollar
in the jungle of commerce and specula-
tion of New York.
New York business men take time
to eat? They certainly do not. That
is why you may see the telephone
stands on the tables in many res
taurants near Wall street which are
patronized by those who have not
time to eat-who have barely time to
live. They are products of city
which has within the last few years
become the most hustling, driving,
nervous metropolis in the world.
Not long ago Chicago was accounted
the most busting city in business
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COUNsELORs OF AGE.
Young Men Are Good Takers Butr
Political Wisdom Comes Only
with Years and Experiences.

A number of democratic papers
seem well pleased with Senator Doll
liver's declarations in favor of re-
vision of the tariff, but they forget
that the senator is so young that he
has had but one experience with free
trade, and appears to have nearly
forgotten the unequaled losses forced
upon the people of the United States,
by the free trade agitation from 1896
to 1896 and the free trade tariff tin
kering that resulted in the enactment
of the Wilson tariff bill of 1884, The
men who remember the disasters and
losses of other free trade eras arr
opposed to any tinkering with the
tariff at the present time, and there
is no doubt that their counsel VIII
be needed. The younger men lack
the experience by which the future
should be guided, but they are learn
ing and they will yield to the counsel
of the republican leaders who have
aided in making the United States
the greatest nation on the earth dur
ing the past so years. The Iowa State
Register comedies with the opinions
l
stated in the following extract from
his reply to a petition, signed by 10.
republican business men of Waterloo
and Cedar Falls, requesting him to-
favor revision of the tariff by the
present congress:
my judgment is that 1t is more i'm
portant at this time, in the interest of this
| country, to reduce taxa ton upon ourselves
| n q mr. n fhl inf rf
| the peoples money into the public treas
! ury. With the country in an unparalleled
| prosperous condition, I cannot believe it
wise to begin reduction which
inevitably will open up the whole
field of revision and thus put a serf-
Gus check upon the business of the cou,,-
try. The moment the country understands
| there is to be revision of the tariff. job
ners viii suspend large purchases, hoping
TO- to buy W. at lower prices This will compel
| and this will compel a reduction of the pay
rolls, and serious business calamity might
| enSue.'
That briefly states the exact situa-
ton; it is the position favored by
nearly all the republicans of the
United States; and it is the only pol
icy by which the general prosperity
of the people can be maintained
Urging revision of the tariff is pleas
ing to all the free traders, but it is
a danger which should be avoided at
all hazards. The over abundant rev
enues can be decreased by repeating
the war taxes, and there is no rea-
son why the people of this country,
should be paying war taxes wheL
the only warfare the government Is,
engaged in is with few squads of
Filipinos. Speaker Henderson is
right, as will be proved by the rec
ords when the present term of CON-
gress has adjourned. The young men
are good takers, but it is the coun-
sci of the old men chat will assure
the safety of the government and
the continued prosperity OF all tbs
people who are willing to work for
laborS rewards.
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PRINCIPLES LACKING.
Cowardly Evasion by Democrats OF
the House of Any Open Declnra-
ton of Party Faith.
abor's rewards.

The failure of the democrats of the
house to make any declaration regard
ing the nature of democratic principles
very naturally attracts attention be-
cause, whatever may be the cause as
signed for such failure, everybody, or
nearly everybody who gives attention.
to political affairs know that it is due .
to the inability of the minority to,
agree upon any definite declaration of.
party faith. The resolutions of Mr.. Nc
Clellan, OF New York, written by Tam
many's candidate for mayor and APP
proved by Mr.. Croker, were entirelEs
lost sight of in the performance,
which may be accepted as evidence that
Tammany's leadership is not accepta-
BILE to any other democrats than thoss
who are elected from New York city
The resolutions presented by south
ern democrat, which reaffirmed the
Kansas City platform with an anti-ex-
pansion and anti-Philippine attach
ment, would doubtless have suited the.
majority of the members of the minor.
ity. but only 10 members of the caucus
went on record in favor of them. This
means that the democrats in the house
did not care to come to square vote
on the question OF declaring the Kan
sas City platform thelatest expression
of democratic faith. The large major
| ity of the caucus thoughtit expedient to.
dodge the whole question by declaring
| that the democrats in the house have
no right to assume the possibility of
declaring the party principles, and
would not assume function which did
not belong to them, says the Indianap-
| oils Journal.
This is cowardly evasion The dem
ocratic party in the house has time and
again declared the party views upon
public question with the emphasis of
the dogmatic law-giver. While Mr..
Cleveland was president the last time.
the democrats, by resolution and vote.
declared in favor of the unlimited freel.
coinage of silver, which was kept out of
the platform of 1892 upon which Mr..
! Cleveland was nominated. Before the
meeting of the Chicago convention in
1896, the democratic party in the house
declared by decided majority the.
party faith in the silver issue, as effec Ct
lively as if it had been proclaimed by
! resolution. In the fear that the party
in the house would appear to be hope
lessly divided, the managers did not
even dare to declare that the Kansas
City platform stands as the latest ex-
preston of democratic principles
| While one-ffth of the caucus voted to
reatfirm or indorse Mr.. Bryan's plat.
form, four-fifths declined to go as far,
DIS that. They preferred to stand he
fore the country without an attempts
to present a declaration of principles
| lest it should be discovered that there.
is now greater variety of opinions
held by democrats than at any Other:
period in>the history of the country. y
The Hocking sentinel. [volume] (Logan, Ohio) 1871-1906, 1902-02-20
SOUTHERN.

Fire destroyed the International Com
pany's grist mill at Selma, Ala. causing
u loss of $4,000.
Frank Armstrong and his son Austin.
while coon hunting near Madisonville.
| Ky. broke through the ice and were
drowned.
Rev. I. Dewitt Taimage was among
the passengers who had a narrow escape
| from death in Il train smashup on the
Plant system near Dupont. Ga.
In order TO escape a threatened lynch
ing Willis Cooper, who killed William
Perry and Mrs. Faraba Russell ut Amitc
City. La. has been taken to the New
Orleans Jail
Fifteen men were injured by q dust
explosion in the main entry of mine 5 N
Bon Air. Texas. All We're rescued and
probably will recover. Five of the miners
We're seriously burned.
The Atlantic Coast Line freight depot.
fire stores. two offices and two bar rooms
We're destroyed by fire at Washington.
y. c. The loss is $4,000. \ falling
wall killed Ell Peed. a negro fireman.
Joe Weaver. not Yet 16 years old, shot
and killed two men and caused third
to throw up his hands and beg for life ut
J. Plowman's blind tiger in Georgia,
near the Tennessee line and Ducktown.
Col Jack Chinn's foxhounds killed
number of sheep belonging to woman
neighbor near Harrodsburg. Ky. but the
colonel paid her twice the amount of
damage and killed the seven young dogs
that had cost him over 500 each.
Clad in rich, red robes, the skeletons
Of st. Magnus and st. Bonosa, two
Catholic saints who were slain at the
command of a Roman emperor nearly
LOCO years ago on account of their re-
ligious beliefs. were buried in st. Mar
tins Church in Louisville. The bones
were found in the catacombs of Rome in
100.
Eva Gilbert. trapeze athlete at the
Powhattan Theater. Newport News. Va.
broke her neck during the performance.
In her aerial act she swung from ira
peze. catching her foot in a loop about
thirtytve feet from the floor. On this
occasion her foot slipped from the loop
and she fell headlons TO the floor among
the Mortified audience. She died in ten
minutes.
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In governments Of monarchical cast
patriotism may look with indulgence, il
not with favor, upon the spirit of party.
But IN those of the popular character. in
governments purely elective. it is a spirit
not to be encouraged. And, there being
constant danger of excess, the effort
ought to be, by force Of public opinion,
to mitigate and assuage it.
1T is important likewise that the hab-
Its OF thinking in a free country should
inspire caution. in those intrusted with
its administration, to confine themselves
within their respective constitutional
spheres. avoiding in the exercise of the
powers Of one department to encroach
upon another. The spirit of encroach-
ment tends TO consolidate the powers OF
all the departments in one. and thus to
create, whatever the form of government,
real despotism.
promote, then, as an object of pri-
mary Importance. institutions for the gen.
eral diffusion of knowledge. In proper
tion as the structure of government
gives force to public opinion it is essen
tial that public opinion should be enligh,-
ened.
all nations: cultivate peace and harmony
with all. Religion and morality enjoins
this conduct. and can it be that good pol
icy does not equally enjoin it? 1t will
be worthy of free. enlightened. and at
no distant period great nation to give
mankind the magnanimOus and too novel
example of people always guided by an
exalted justice and benevolence.
The nation which INDUCES towards
another an habitual hatred or an habitual
fondness is in some degree q slave. 1t
is slave to its animosity or to its affec-
tion. either of which is sufficient to lead
it astray from its duty. and its interest.
''The great rule for us in regard to for
eign nations is in extending our CONNER
cial relations to have with them as little
political connection as possible.
1T is folly in one nation to look for
favors from another; it
must pay with portion of its indepen-
lence for whatever it may accept under
that character"
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FOREIGN.


Several foreign insurance companies
will withdraw from America. and a num-
ber of local companies will go out of busi-
ness as result of the Paterson fire.
The Marquis of Dufferin, former Gov
ernor General of Canada and former
Niceroy of India, is dead.
\ dispatch from Canton announces that
the Berlin Missionary Society's buildings
at Fayon. near Canton. China. have been
burned by an anti-Christian mob. The
missionaries escaped.
The United States transport Wright,
which was wrecked Nov. % last by strik-
ing an uncharted rock at the entrance of
San Jacinto harbor, r. J., and sinking in
fifteen feet of water. has been successful
ly raised.
The discussion in the English Parlia-
ment of the Anglo-Japanese alliance con-
WINGED diplomats generally that the agree
ment is triple instead of a dual alli-
ance. the United States being the third,
but silent, party.
At cabinet council the Spanish min
lister of foreign affairs. the Duke of Al
modOvar. has been authorized to sign 4
treaty of friendship with the United
States after the Council of State shall
have deliberated thereon.
The most important defensive and
offensive agreement of recent years be-
tween nations has just been made public
by the London foreign office. Great Brit
ain and Japan have formed an alliance
which aims to preserve the integrity Of
the Chinese empire and of Corea.
Die Information "a Vienna newspaper
reports that two bands of brisands are ct
war for the possession of Miss Stone one
being that which originally captured her.
the other desiring TO seize her now so as
10 claim the ransom. In an engagement
between the two bands on the border be-
tween Turkey and Bulgaria the total
casualties were twenty killed and twenty
wounded.
At a meeting of the Pacific Exploration
Company, which recently sent an expedi-
ton to Cocos Island to search for buried
treasure. the president reported that
letter had been received from Admiral
Palliser, formerly III command OF ihe
British Pacific squadron. stating that if
the expedition was failure he would
divulge the hiding place of the treasure
if ,:iyen a fourth of what was found.
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Friends and Fellow Citizens: The pc
riod for a new election of citizen to ad-
minister the executive government of the
United States being not far distant, and
the time actually arrived when yonr
thoughts must be employed in designating
the person who is to be clothed with that
important trust, it appears to me proper.
especially as it may conduce to a more
distinct expression of the public voice.
that | should now apprise you of the
resolution | have formed to decline bein:
considered among the number of those
out Of whom eho;ce is to be made.
ut is of Infinite moment that You
should properly estimate the immense
value of your national union to You. col
lectire and individual happiness. i.
accustomins yourselves TO think and
speak of il as the palladium of you. po-
htical safety and prosperity. =.
Citizens. by birth or choice, Of G COM
mon country, that country has sight
TO concentrate your affections. The name
of American, which belongs TO You in
your national capacity, must always ex-
alt the just pride of patriotism more
than any appcllation derived from local
Determinations.
The basis OF our political systems is
the right of the people to make and to
alter their constitutions Of government.
-. The very idea OF the power and
the right of the people to establish gov
ernment presappo>es the duty OF every
individual to obey the established govern
men..
In all the changes to which you may
be invited remember that time and habit
are n least as necessary TO fix the true
character of governments as of other hu-
man institutions; that experience is the
surest standard by which to test the real
tendency of the existing constitution of
a country. Remember especially
that for the efficient management of your
interests in country so exten-
sive rs ours 4 government of as much
vigor as is consistent with the perfect
security of liberty is indispensable. Lib
erty itself will find in such government.
with powers properly distributed and ad-
iusted, its surest guardian.
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shops in Springfield Ohio The ag.re-
gate loss is 100000.

shops in Springfield. Ohio. The ag.re
gate loss is SI00.O0O.
Charles L. Davis and Benjamin Iyin:
and their wives, accused OF counterfeit
ing, were arrested in St. Louis by United
States secret service agents. who alsC
secured dies and metal used in mannfac
turing spurious coin.
Two daughters OF Farmer Nye. Real
Schuyler. Neb.. armed width shotguns
attacked three men who were stealing
corn from their fathers crib. Both girls
| opened fire at once and one of the men
fell. wounded in the leg.
Seventeen-year-old Frank Benedict OF
Chicago swallowed vial of carbolic acid
and lay down in the snow of i vacant LOT
and died. Opinion is divided as to wheth.
er a love affair or a business disappoint-
ment prompted the suicide.
Andrew Brilliant. charged with the
murder OF David Davidson, AT Bridges.
Mont, last Thanksgiving night, is said
TO be making a desperate effort 10 starve
himself to death. For eight days Bril-
liant has refused to touch food.
In rcar-end collision between Balti-
more and Ohio trains at Indiana Harbor.
Ind. Conductor Huntley and Brakeman
Brice, both of Garrett. Were killed. Two
other trainmen We're injured. The re-
sponsibility for the accident has not been
fixed.
Fire burned row of frame dwellings
in South Chicago. ILL.,. and rendered
eighteen families homeless. The suffer-
ers were forced into the street in scanty
attire and lost nearly all their personal
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Knocked Washington Down.

Washington was an eminently fair
man. He had a quick temper, but as
rule he kept it under control. Some
times. however, it got the best of him.
This was the case once in Alexandria.
One of the county officers told me the
story as We stood on the second floor
of the market house in Alexandria and
looked down at the open court within it.
which is now filed with hundreds of
booths where the farmers bring their
products for sale on market days. 1T
was on that spot" said the officer,
'Washinston was knocked down by
Lieut.. Payne. Payne was candidate
for the Legislature against Fairfax of
Alexandria. Washington supported Fair
fax. and when he met Payne here he
made remark that Payne considered an
insult, and Payne knocked him down.
The story went like lightning through
the town that Col. Washington was kill.
ed. ani some of his troops who were sta
toned at Alexandria rushed in and would
have made short work of Payne had
Washington not prevented them. He
pointed to his black eye and told them
that this was 4 personal matter and
that he knew how to handle it. Every
one thought that this meant n duel.
The next day Payne got Il note from
Washington asking him to come 10 the
hotel. He expected duel. but went.
Washington, however, was in an amia-
BILE mood. He felt that he had been in
the wrong, and said. Mr.. Payne. wa,
wrong yesterday, but if you have had
sufficient satisfaction. let us be friends.
\