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Mcclellan

slight stature, boy Lead Them.
ish in appearance,
not more than five feet five IN helSht,
with a good, clean-cut face. fairly strong
md very intelligent, but not adorned
With the Tammany chin. Everyone
likes him. few before his election, VEN
ured to predict that he would be mayor
n fact as well as in name. A good many
men that voted for him would have
thought twice before doing so If they
lad anticipated firmness.
Mcclellan and Murphy. seemingly so
mike. are apparently close personal
friends as we'll as politically associated.
They toddle out to luncheon together
reuuently. as lovingly as if they were
wins. as democratically as if they were
cot arbiters of the destinies Of nearly
1000, 900 of people.
Is the easy-going. handsome McClel-
ian a stronger man than the square
.hinned Murphy? Is he the real mayor
Is Murphy himself the master, as most
zen expected, and a convert 10 the
Perkhurst policy of keeping THE Id
iown" upon New York's naughty side ?
Or is it the policy to keep the town
pretty decent until after election and
hen loosen up?"
Do you know the answer? II you Go
,ou can sell it for good money to any
)ne of several thousands of deeply dis
susted sports"
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There are several Greek churches In
New York now, and their congregations
are partly Greek fruit sellers and mer-
chants, partly Russians, partly Ar
meDians of the Russian communion,
partly mixed elements. A curious thing
is noted. The immigration is unusually
heavy just now. Those who know the
people and their language say that
among the newcomers are a consider
able number who have sneaked across,
the Swedish and German borders to take.
ship, without having performed their
military service.
Meanwhile every train that starts for
the far west carries japanese men going
home voluntarily to fight for emperor
and country. The Russian Jews 60 not
love Russia. The Russians themselves
such, at least, as we get as immigrants,
are Indifferent to her needs
There is not in all the list of European
immigrants a strain. so passionately
loyal to the home land. even after years
of separation. as the little Japs. Or is
it merely that they love fight on gem
eral principlesf
OWEN LAN0posx
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ing into the relations between members
of the house and the post Office depart
ment.
Whatever the Mccall committee re-
ports it is not likely to soften the feel
ing of members against Fourth Assist
ant Postmaster General Bristow, who
rightly or wrongly is held responsible
at the capitol for publication OF the
names of republican and democratic rep
resentatives whose chief offense was a
desire to look after the interests of their
districts. Bristow's name has figured
in the house debates persistently ever
since his report was published.
To add fuel to the fire some mischiev-
Gus member pinned up in the speakers
lobby where representatives do most
of their loafing during the session
picture of Bristow taken from maya
zine representing him as keen-eyed de-
tective Underneath was written in a
large, bold hand: THE Congressman's
Friend" with the following comment:
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General
Joseph L. Bristow-'Old Sleuth.' A new
and very good photograph of man who
means business from the word go, and who
like every one else mods occasionally, as
witness the recent charge that in the heat
of his pursuit of other men he absent-mind-
eddy appointed his own father and son to
lucrative posts in the department. He re-
torts that they were regularly appointed;
but nepotism is still questionable, and
the retort therefore loses something OF us
weight
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east and west, there are practically no
more avenues for other elevated roads
to run in, even if the city would per
nit the Disagreement. Not a single
street is left available for the surface
cars, even if the congestion of traffic
would permit of them. What can poor
Father Knickerbocker do but dig?
For early summer is now set the day
of the opening of the first section OF
the great subway that will whisk men
Is miles underground with no sight
of the sunlight except where erals
climb out to cross a deep depression.
across the upper city.
Another tunnel is just completed un-
der the Hudson. This is for trolley
cars. Another for railway cars has
just been contracted for. A similar
tunnel under the East river is to be
built by English contractors. Now it
is decided that the railway over the
new bridge will dive underground as
soon as it gets across and burrow to
the old bridge, there to recross to
Brooklyn.
1t is estimated that there will be,
within hye years as large an unoer-
ground city in New York as the en-
tire city of Newark. 1t will include
the toilers upon the many railroads.
the engineers of the big hotels, the
electric engineers, the BARRIERS, news
dealers and others who will drop to the
level where the greatest number of
passengers are found, and even the
greatly increased basement clerks in
department stores.
1 know of no more striking instance
of underground activity than the base
ment Of the new Times building. This
is called the "toothpick," being as tall
as the Flatiron and less than half as
large upon the ground. More than
half the space IN this building viii
be underground.
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The Yankee Scored.

London paper, speaking of the
American invasion" relates that an
entcrprising Yankee came over to Eng
land and decided to open shop in Bir-
mingham- He obtained premises nexI
door to man who also kept a shop
Of the same description, but was moi
very pushing in his business methods
The methods of the Ya4kee, however
caused the older trader to wake up
and. with the spirit Of originality
strong upon him. he affixed notice
over his shop with the words: ''Estab-
lished so years." painted in large let
tiers. Next day the Yankee replied tc
this, with a notice over his own store
to this effect: Established yesterday;
no old stock"
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lawyer when he came here with
little experience in politics and
hardly any acquaintance among the
people with whom he was called upon to
maintain close relations during four
years; but he contrived in that time to
make many warm friends who still hold
him in pleasant remembrance.
Thurber will not take rank with Cor
telyou and Lamont among the 'ideaR
private secretaries; but Cortelyou and
Lamont are in class by themselves to
which it is doubtful whether any others
will ever be admitted. How much Of
Mr.. Cleveland's success in his first ad-
ministration was due to the tact and
discretion of SECRETARY Lamont will
probably never be known, but Lamont
had way Of smoothing off the rough
edges and of bringing disgruntled poll
ticians into line the value Of which 10 a
decidedly brusQue superior can hardly
be exaggerated. He had been schcoled
among the newspaper men and poll
ticiaEs of Albany and he fitted perfectly
into his new surroundings.
Cortelyou had all his training in the
4 w dSHlHSlOn OCpdA anu LIZ llllfc
portion of the political skill he developed
| was undoubtedly due TO his close asso-
citation with President Mckinley. who
was a past master of politics and to be
attached to whom was liberal educa-
| ton in its self.
Several of the secretaries of presidents
have made distinguished records in aft
er life. Every body knows about John
Hay John G. Nicolay, who were with
Lincoln. Horace Porter. who was with
| Grant, is now ambassador to France. C.
c. Sniffen, who succeeded Porter as
Grants secretary, is the ranking pay
master of the army and will be paymas-
ter general upon the retirement of Gen.
Dodge. Stanley Brown. whose name be-
came familiar during the last illness of
| Garfield, afterwards married Molly Gar
field and is professional man of stand
ing in Washington. Dan Lamont is ole
of the big financial magnates Of New
York. E. W. Halford, Harrison's score
tary, is a paymaster in the army, aud
Cortelyou is in the cabinet.
LOUIS ~ COOLIDGE
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Tic DlSlIlCH near
ing there is the
trial of Reed Smoot
before the commit
tee on privileges
and elections to de-
termine whether a
M o r m on apostle
can properly hold a
seat in the senate,
while in the house
of representatives
Mr.. McCall's COM
mittee is busily
engaged in inquir-
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vention until that
convention h a S
come off,"
The New York
democratic dele
gates meet on April
16. An instructed
delegation at st.
Louis would carry
great weight with
t h e convention,
since the electoral
vote of New York
generally comes in
pretty handy to
any party in a close
election.
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constitutes an interesting exhibit in an
Interesting case. The postmaster's
memorandum reads as follows:


Conversation held between Leopold HahI
and Jacob Fischer in regard to the post
master, wisch Mr.. Dietrich will halve &c
APPOINT or for sale as you migth call it to
the higesd biGer. here is Dietrich pre-
posel to Fischer first, to pay for the new
fuhnitcher in the new room called the
Dietrich Bilding, wisch will cost abougth
s.. 00H 10 to 2,500O0 second to pay for all coal
drring the four years for heating such a
room, also pay part of CANTOR work
wisck will amount to abought - take this
of the salery OF postmaster and give to
Dietrich. besides this the government will
pay Dietrich s1,S0O.OO per year rent for fur
nisching and heating the said Dietrich Bid
ing, wath kind of senator halve the peo-
pies got of Nebraska.
Mr. Adam Breed is willing too saddice-
fies himself as postmaster and take the
Office for $4,000 per year, and pay
Dietrich $4,000 per year out of his sa;ery
on S2,S00.00 for the term of four years
this is wath took place at Fischers Back
cry in~the hall leading to the hacker schop
at the hour between $40 A. NJ. and $50
A. NJ. This is wath Jackob Fischer told
me so help me Cord every word of this is
the truth the hole truth and nothing but
the truth so help me God this 18th day Of
April 1901, ana the hour given above
LEOPOLD HAHN.
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Will SldI6SmcA OA
Capitol hill by the
ruling he has just
made which liber-
alizes the pension
laws. Had some
thing of this sort
not been done con-
gress would prob
ably have taken
things into its own
hands and passed
a bill for a service
pension that would
have meant the ex-
penditure of mil
lions of dollars on
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mas made he will
be in a class almost
by himself. 1t has
been notorious that
commissioners of
pensions have lost
popularity or pres
tige by their con-
duct of the bureau
and some of them
have lost both.
Co m i S S Toner
Evans, who tried
to administer the
bureau honestly,
l.
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DrOaQ culture re-
lnforced by Euro
Pean travel, allied
Oy birth and by
marriage to the So
cial leaders of the
city. He is the
author of a new
volume upon the
olisarchy of Ven
ice that is highly
spoken of by fasti-
licious critics.
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W Hull IhO NSANA
able Mr.. HOar is
chairman, an inter-
esting entertain
ment in the form
of the investiga-
ton he has de-
manded into ths
charges preferred
against him by
some of his local
opponents.
Out in Nebraska
the German pOpu-
latiOn with which
the senator is af-
fIiatpd D1ayS an
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udu Sccn LuCut
fairly mobbing
the good bishops
who gathered to
consecrate and in
stall the new
Greek bishop of
New York.
There were 1000
people in the room
Syrians, Greeks,
native Russians.
Politically, many
immigrants are
classed as Russians
but are really Rus
sian Jews. None
of these attended
1t was a pure
G1oxio andionoo
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which. shall have
it's own clubhouse.
shall limit it's
membership TO the
most exclusive cir
cles of New York
society and shall
have every con-
venience of the
real thing" in
GLIDING a room for
pet dogs.
New York has
been rather slow in
the matter Of wom-
ems clubhouses. in
spite of all that is
said. The WCm-
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Cleveland S second
term in the white
house, has just died
at Detroit, Mich.
Thurber was a
very lovable man
who was devoted to
his chief and who,
in spite of his own
attractive qualities,
sometimes made
enemineS among
public m e n i n
w a S h i n g t o n
through what some
of them regarded
as an excess of
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L he underground
city is not far off.
The e / va t e d
railroads, at first
supposed to be
temporary and ex-
perimental, have
stuck by us well.
New York likes
them. There are
four parallel lines,
but they have long
outgrown t h e | +
adequacy. AS the
lI1
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Proverb Defined.

When one meets the tipping problem
face to face. says the New Orleans
Times-Democrat. he understands what
is meant by the saw: "All things como
to him who waits"
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Senator Dietrich's Case.

Senator Dietrich, of Nebraska, is af-
fording the judiciary committee, OF
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OFFICIAL TROUBLES
DIFFICULTIES OF PUBLIC SERV-
ANTS AT THE CAPITOL.
PENSION COMMISSIONERS
Theirs Position Hard to Fill Salts
factorily to All Conservative
Investigation of Senator
Dietrich.

ashington.-Pension Commissioner
Ware has gone far to establish himself
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Russians in New York.

You wouldn't doubt that there were
plenty of Russians in New York If you
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Hard to Please.

Should Commissioner Ware reap in
popularity fruits of this new order he
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POLITICS IN GOTHAM
PRESENT SITUATION Is BoTF IN
TERESTING AND PULLING.
A NEW TAMMANY IN POWER
The City to Have an Athletic Club for
Women of the Four Hundred
Dimensions of Under
ground New York.

New York-It is not always so easy |
10 tell what will happen at state con-
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Order of the Day.

Investigations are very much in or
Ger at the capitol just now. Besides
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Mcclellan, the Enigma.

Of different type is Mcclellan He
IS a graduate of Princeton, a man CT
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The Underground City.

The type of the future New Yorker
will not be the Tiger but the Mole
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his University club, modestly housed
B q private residence in Gramercy
euare. where practically no club con-
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Death of Henry r. Thurber.

Henry T. Thurber, who was private
secretary to the president during Mr..
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The Woman's Athletic Club.
At last the project seems 10 have
AIKEN shape for a woman's athletic club
The new enterprise., 1904-12-08

n was much afflicted with sciatica,
writes Ed G Mud. Iowaville, Sedgwick
Co.. Kan, going about on crutches
and suffering a deal Of pain. was In
duced to try Ballard's Snow Liniment
which relieved me- l used three SOC
bottles, 1t is the greatest liniment /
ever used; have recommended 1t to a
number Of persons; all express them
selves as teing benefited by it.
| now walk without crutches able t
perform a great deal Of light labor on
the farm" 25c, 5Oc, s1O0. W. B. Da.
Wis.
The new enterprise., 1904-12-08
Santa Claus has Left
Startling Evidence

fresh testimony in great quantity is
lstantly coming IN declaring DR..
ng's New Discovery for consumption,
Ighs and colds to he unequaled. A
ent expression from t, J.McFarland,
pteryille, Va, serves as an example.
writes: 81 had bronchitis for three
lrs and doctored all the time without
pc benefited. Then 4 began taking
Kings New Discovery and few
Ties wholly cured me-" Equally ef-
live in curing all lung and throat
nhles, consumption, pneumonia and
b, Guaranteed by B. f. Mosely,
ggist. Trial bottles free; regular
b, 50 cents and sl.OO.
The new enterprise., 1904-12-08
RUN-OVER LOCALS

A new 81 pply of choice holiday goods
received vt ioseley's this week. Ladies
especially invited to see them.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. w. Williams Of Macon
are the guests Of Capt, and Mrs. Skip
per and will remain until after Christ
mas.
Tom Vann, the jeweler, has a unique
present TO give away. Old Santa Claus
In donkey cart. See It in bis window
and then ask him about 1t,
Miss Maggie May Skipper had for
few days this week three charming
guests in the Misses Brogden and Miss
Belote Of ValJosta.
We are requested to announce that on
next Sunday morning az 10 o'clock, in
the court house Mass will be celebrated
by Catholic Father Bresnahan, The
public is cordially invited TO attend this
service.
In honor of her guest, Miss Jane Vann
Of Bosten, Ca, Mrs. W. II. Dial, IT, re-
ceived her lady friends at her cosy home
"Vagabondia," last Thursday afternoon.
"A cup of tea" and other refreshments
were served.
Hon. Charles H. Dickinson, the pop
ular private secretary to the Governor,
had the good fortune to find large
pearl of considerable value In plate Of
oysters served at the Baptist Bazaal
Wednesday. He will have it polished
and et.-Dally Capital.
The many friends Of Mr. and Mrs,
Abraham II West Will be pleased TO
learn that there Is some improvement in
the lady's condition. Mrs. West hae
been seriously III at the home Of her pa
rents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hudnal, Of
South Jacksonville, for the past two
weeks. Metropolis, 5th.
Rev. Father Bresnahan. a Catholic
missionary from St. Augustine, IS deliv'
erng course of lectures in the court
house every night this week at 7:30
o'clock, The public is cordially invited
to attend these lectures. All questions
concerning the Catholic church and
faith will be cheerfully answered.
Boy, il you want that shotgun or foot
ball or baseball outfit you'd better 20 to
hustlipg for new subscribers to this pa
per. Only l6 days remain to you in
which to work for the prize, but IL you
are in earnest about it you can accom-
pllsh great deal IN that time. Get to
work now and see what you can do.
The new enterprise., 1904-12-08

tions that we couldn't even make
charge for wear and tear to the cutting
machine,
Miles Orton's Southern Shows gave
two performances here yesterday, after
noon and evening While this show Is
not as big as some others on the road
the character of its performances suffer
nothing by comparison. Some OF its
features are the Orion children, aged 8
and 10 years, the smallest gynluasls in
the world whose work S really remark
able. Jacobs and McCue, barrel Jumpers
and hand balancers, the musical Bren-
nans in pleasing stunt, Ed johnson,
sure enough funny clown with a host Of
other phunny phellows, the Orton broth
ers, aerial artists and wire walkers, and
a great many more very excellent at
fractions. 8.
1t was well.pleased assemblape of
people that gathered Tuesday night at
the residence of Mrs. d. G. smith to
be entertained with music and recita-
tions. The affair was gotten up for the
! benefit Of the Presbyterian church end
judging by the large number present It
must have proved as much Of a success
/ financially as otherwise. The program
contained sixteen numbers ranging from
songs and recitations by the wee little
folk TO choruses, instrumental and vocal
solos, rectations and readings by those
OF more mature years. The scarcity Of
space precludes us from entering into a
detailed write lp Of the excellence of
each number but must content ourself
with the simple statement that each par.
ticipant rendered bis or her particular
part 10 such a manner as to merit and
receive generous applause from the au-
dlence.
Died at her home on Ash street, We'd
nesday, Nov. Both, Mrs Arabella Grace
Nc MAR, aged SO years, 2 months and l3
days, Deceased was born in Edgeield,
S. c., and was married in 1899 to Mr..
John A. McNair, but has been a widow
for many years. She leaves four devo-
ted children, Messrs. c. B., r. D. and 4.
Il, McNair and Mrs. Elizabeth Speight,
also seven grandchildren, to mourn her
loss, while host of friends will long re-
member the beautiful christian charac-
ter that has passed on before. Her
health had been failing for many months
but the pathway to the Dark valley has
been smoothed constantly by the tender
ninistrstlons Of loving children, con-
spicuous among them for complete de-
votlon being her daughter, who has
countedit her highest privilege to cast
aside all else and remain her mothers
constant attendant. She suffered little
appsFently, and little after noon We'd
nesday passed out from all suffering.
The funeral was held from the Metho-
dist church at ESQ this afternoon and
tntermsnt in Bosque Bello cemetery,
undertaken Henderson in charge. "Bles-
sed are the dead who die in the Lord"
Fernandina Star, Dec. lSt. Mrs. NO
Nsir resided for many years in this
county and the many frIsads Of the
family will be grisved 70 learn u sAalr
J sad bsreavsmsRt.