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Show SEPTEMBER 19, lflO. TI1IJ MORNING EXAMINER OODEN, UTAH, MONDAY MORNING, Entertainment and Instruction For the Young Folks ' must be carefully drawn from Its sheath. In getting out this slender thorn a thread slowly' unwinds of a strong liber which may he pulled out to a considerable length. Imagine how convenient It would be if a boy got a hole In bin trousers or a girl tore her dress on a prickly bush growing by tho roadside to reach up and find a needle and thread aU ready le repair tha damage! , The Spiny Ant Eater A Very Strange Creature jj j 'P"" By 'ALBERTA PLATT nouriililng them with her milk aa a of the queerest animals mother rat nouiiahea her kiltriia. And 'Mld li 111 echidna. ant eater. It in veiy there you hare the alory of the echidfound only in na. The word la pronounced Lein tlm .qunlkiu. Tin odd furl about nat The man that urn he laid of It la la tlat naiuai!Bta havo fce-- u bio to deride aherher to rl.iaa It perhapa that II la a connecting link tltal belween mammala and reptilee- - At tJ tiuimmal. liiWi i iroaturrI'lsr a leant that la what It aeema to be. no yojnf or aa a reptile. Out it Ita back la covered with spine or onako or Iwaid. Or. the on hand. Ito guilla anmew he I like Ihoae of a hedge-lin- g. MliiKled with three aplnea la a (worm kind of hair. If the echidna were a regular mammal It would bo rlaaoed with the burrowing an I mala oa It can dir hole In the ground and get out nf atflit almoat aa quickly ua you ran say Jack Kobinaon. If anything frlghtena It tho echidna JiW luma lla tiarp, powerful cluwa under lla body and acratchea the dirt away with them and la gore In a twinkling. Notice particularly tha ptrluro allowing Itia echidna with Ita hind feet turned backward. Oddly enough, they grow that way naturally, and the creature walko alwaya upon tha lop of'lia hind feet. Iridn't I tell you It waa the queereat animal In Ihe world? If you look, however, at tho pk lura Where It la climbing the bars of Ita cage you will aee it can uae the clawa of lla rear feel bath win pointed forward aa well aa backward, if It In auddenly aiar-tla- d and rannat burrow under tho ground It roll itaelf up like a hedgehog and preoenta tha appearance of a thorny ball. IN ITU CAGE. Now look at tha largar picture. Thera Internal organa ora Ilka tlmae of tha tha echidna la lapping egg and milk, leptlle. and K certainly lays agga Ilka which In captivity It la very load at Teu will aee that it haa a tongua very ana. On tha other hand. U taken then In a akin punch or long and allm. again Ilka a anake or them and puta cgia pyckel upon lla braaat and iliera keepa llurd. With thla loag. allm tongua tha them warm till they are hatched. Tlia echidna gala Its living In Ita natlva of an Inch long Australia and Naw Guinea. Tha food tgaa are end ahaiied like thane of a make. Afler H likea beat af all la young anta at 111 In the young erhMnaa are hatched out the the brva or egg state. Tha echldna'a mother holda them In tlila warm pocket tongue la Mlidty. It trota about with till they are large enough to run alone. lla long nose to tha ground till It cornea ni. m FROM EVERYWHERE. A candidate for mayor In one ef eur lergw cities made apeeehea during s re-ce- nt canipalgn in French, German, Ital- ian (lid English. The export trade In German machinery baa risen within the decade llfj-!tons. from HS.IIOO le Loedvlalms during the past year Is ligve lucl Cewsr murders and fewer burglaries than hi previous years Thais has also bass no csss of murder M . whfrh there was fa liars Is bring the perpetrator IS book. The secretary af tbs waiters1 bureau af London has Issued a not Ire that evesing classes will be held for the purpose ef Instructing Ktigllsh waiters is the French language. There era about IS.Mt English waiters employed hi iBndon. j Tho requirements of the authorities I from any man wishing te enter tha In ECHIDNA'S LONG TONGUE LAPS EGO AND MILK. to an anthill, which ft tears open In less than no time and devours hundreds of tha anta and their egga. It alao feeds on other small Insects. The under part nf the strange animal's body Is covered with soft brown hair, and It Is to protect this part of Itaelf that It rolls op Into the thorny hall. When full grown It Is about eighteen Inches long and Is said to be rot to apeak? In TUB 1IIND FRET ARE TURNED BACKWARD. I'nlted H tales army are severs. A man must be between twenty and twenty-flv- e years aid, flve feel sight Inches or mors In height, able to run seven miles In an hour and able to lift 111 pounds te a level with his cheat. The balloon constructed by II. left Its shed at Faria, covered a distance of twelve miles and a half In fifteen minutes si a height of IN feet and relumed safely. The screws were said to revolve 1.1IS times a minute. Tho perf g f Havre eons late ef an out Ls-bau- a el oi'-e.- r. 1 s ! up-eta- te I p. pout-lun- I s er harbor fifty acres in extent; there are also ten docks, with a half tide basin and ten locks, having a surface ef 21b acres. There are 1S.GM yards ef quays and 141 acres of land for tho stewing of merchandise. A recent advertisement reads as follows: "For Rale Undertaker's business; Is a going concern: insanitary district : death rate 23.7b per cent above average; only one competitor." The heaviest train load ever hauled by one loco motive was one of eighty- nf tha moat corrupt ciUes, politically, a in the United tiisi.ee. Prominent trace the beginning of this stats power to levy taxes and disburse fundi lo open, close and widen streets ana nf affairs to David B. Hill. Whoa he career ths first began bis political Third Ward had a large floating population. It also had a very heavy negro vote. It was there he began to build up hla political power. There Is n common tradition that Hill want Into the Third 1 bllla. With Ward with fifty crisp these Mile he purchased fifty negro votes. That was in the early nlxtles. When Hill ran for mayor votes had gone np to flO. and when he was a candidate for governor the price was citl-sen- ke !. s queer lluie i wish I i.uid n,.j A j Kvl-rua- i y 1 29. The reeixmdble citizens of Elmirs have staled to n representative of Tha Evening Post that they have seen Mr. Hill hand money to voters. Tha statement of one of these men. n merchant, who haa lived in the Third Ward for thirty years, was as follows: T parse nelly saw Hill hand an enman who had the velope to on old palsy. The man waa unable to open It and handed It. to one of the clerks. I saw the clerk open It and taka out n 3 bill and hand It to the old man. Both nf these men ore willing to attest tbe forts, should Hill deny that he personally purchased votes. For has openly and boldly year Hill bought votes, and scores of bualnei men in Elmira will aitest to the fact. On Decemlier 28. 1882 he resigned the mayoralty to become lieutenant govFrom that ernor. time on he has never withdrawn from Elmira fights and factions. In person he has directed every fight. Invariably he appears in Elmira on the Sunday before election, ind all that day his ofire swarms with his workers, "heelers'' and friends. Hundreds go away with the envelopes that constitute the secret of his . power. Nearly all of his friends are the dreg of the community. He provides liberally for them. In July. 1870. Hill started The Gazette" with $20.tH0 capital, of which was contributed by William M. Tweed, then at the height of hie audacious career of crime in New oik Uity aud Mate. Hill's friends laier tried to show that this waa before Tweed's character had become known, but as early aa April of that yenr Samuel J. Tllden. whose disciple llill later pretended to be. had begun hfa attacks vn the Tammany boodlrr. On 0( tuber 31. 1871, The Gazett-- " Mr. Tweed or any other per- said: out of the city of Elmira e.in has not .lor never has had a dollars wonh of Mock nor any Interest whatever in this paptr." Yet three years ktior. when Mr, Hill was raudidafe for got . nor. hla intimate friend. Ilnrion full, in an affidavit In Hill's drfenre, achnow Iciisrd that Tweed had for half the stock of Hill's pa810-iHi- siib-s-rib- ed per In l ily. ISfo Vr. IHII auj bis paper gave, a fair return for this favor. After Tweed had been thoroughly exposed. The lefenled him vigorouely. On Aug'iet 4. ISTl. it deciured that this hue and cry sviudle was raised to divert the piibiic- ai'ention frtm tnrrop-tl- . n at '.VaahlL'Bicn. and on Sep:erol-- r J of .he same This grr.it it ssid: d Ga-4tt- e" - y-- '.u . rV-.eJ- 'l iticsi rT o rr.-- i'muii g i In New York was si;u kept up. sola'y for " however. If 'll f'.O- m re '! for Tw.-d'hi. in the ey:;in of 1871 1:1 w roie rodjihr.thave defeated the Twed e were taking away from ,v'i-is '''rk I'liy almost ihe last of ixipular governmeut. but hi vole was iset for (he ring When Tweed lost bia majority in (be legis ,n e l.'g'.fii I'-- m iijM, n-- s ije-iir- reru-nsu- fat little worm Said the next With an odd - ' ilnr lm -- I wtah I Hi.d imd A fat little ' u.r - . aieg Said he third till , , j,,,., e With a elmi-- lltii I wish I could turn Susie nice yriUiv meal Said the fourth hill With a small rj-- h ofchi.W ' eruir 1 wleh I could hull f A green little haf." v BaM the firm lit With a faint im'.fc l wish 1 could imd A wee gravel eiurw.' v Now. see here. said t Frost the green s,,rd.n If you want miy lnvekurt S Just eumr bere and acraith p . 1.- ticular hurry, decided that they might make uae of the little craft to effect a crossing. They therefore shouted to the boys to lend them the boat for' thla purpose. The punsle la to discover just how many crossings of tho river were necessary to take all the Japanese over and leave the boat in tha possession of To Keep the Bicycle Bright. tho two boys. The boat would carry Boys and girls who own handsome bi- two boys or one man alone. Of course cycles may keep them bright and new no tricks, inch as a rope or swimming looking if about onca in two weeks they or the use of a current to take across wipe of the dust and clean the machine the empty boat, are allowed. with a good furniture polish. The Origin ( Knives. A Cereleaa Friend. Professor W. J. IfcOee haa lately un' dertaken te trace back to its origin that vv- - r , 3? VV' useful Invention, the knife, Tho first ( knives, he believes, wore flectured C 5.vV J stones that happened to havo a sharp cutting edge. But the vegetable kingdom also furnishes very keen cutting edges In the leaves and stalks of certain plants which might have bean used before artificial knives wars mads. Tho fractured stone knife easily suggested the shaping of flaked stones, like flint. Into the form of blades. Among tha Seri Indians on Tlburon Island, In the , the primitive custom gulf of Cullfoi-niaof utilising fractured and water worn atones for knives still exists. chli-k- Use Hosdred F.ira la Oae. The eye of a beetle is nut tl' formation as that of a human heiag a is compound tluvt is to say, it la ed not of one lens, but of several dred, side by side, like cella n a i,. comb. The sketch show n here rpr! sents a beetle's eye. To get a pictura of it the corner of the eye of toy, i . ' A Curlews Mcmieaa Tree, In Mexico there Is a curious tree callFmsk sad Mis lhae. Papa Elephant Well, Jumbo, what ed tha maguey which furnishes a nee- are you crying about? Frank slid his foot hastily Into his Son and Heir (teerfully) I lent my button boot and shouted: dle and thread all ready for uae. A thorn grows on the Up ef each green air ball to Hr. Porcupine, and he's "Quick, mamma, hand me the shoe leaf of tho tree that Just before using broken It. key! I went to lock my shoe!" mittes." With Parker's career thus watched over and guided by Hill, il la not difficult to see why the ill repute of Mr. llill, bia piitlial creator, should be n matter of concern to those deTha report that David B. Hill will Ulster county la a part. Governor Hill sirous of placing Mr. H.ll'a crealura In retire from politics at I be end of this waa potential In lining Mr. Parker to Ihe seat uf ITesidoit of Ihe United year ia not accepted seriously any- Ihe supreme conrt bench. When a sec- States. A brief summary of (he salient points uf David Bennett Hlll'a where. Tha common talk la that ha ond part of lbs court of appeals was Inearlier political activity waa made by can't help dabbling In political mat- stituted by appointment of tho govThe Evening Dual in an editorial ters. Aa for hla word, men reason ernor, from among supreme rourt that, like tha hero of tha play, when he Jnatfcea Parker waa selected by Gov- published on February 6. 1892, which swore he would die a bachelor, he did ernor Hill. When a vacancy oernrred amid In part: The simple facia about Mr. lllll are not dream be mould live lo be married. in the chief Judgeship of tha court of oppeele. Realtor Hill never ceased hie that he learned his first leaauna In poliAmong Republicans and Democrats it is believed that the retirement labors until he saw Judge Parker Ihe tical methods from a man dismisaed notice was seal out for publication to nominee and personally directed ihe from lha United Stales army, and afterward n convict; that hla chief bead off tha damage being dona to campaign that ended with such a brilweapons in political warfare have alHlll'a liant victory. Judge Farker'a prospects with At tho tint of hla aptminl meut lo the ways been bribery, trickery and party prominence iu the campaign and (ha prevailing Idea that Parkera aucceas supremo court bench. Mr, Farkera ele- treachery; that he has habitually meant g cabinet office for the former vation was unlvoraally accepted aa formed hie political alliances with the governor probably that of ererctary simply tho reword from lllll for hla worst elements of society; that he has of state (o succeed John llsy. part In the deala of the campaign Just from his earliest manhood to the present rtoment never associated with tha Mr, Hill would undoubtedly go A rinsed. The Run, foreshadowing the elements of society, but long way lo help elect Judge Parker, form Hill's gratitude would take, reapectalde It is hardly to be supposed with the base and depraved; that ha whose nomination for tha presidency declared; he accomplished. Other aim helped, that ha will desira to have services so has conferred the offices within his gift upon the men who were most became accessories slier the fact, as it distinctly political recognised by apdirected pointment lo Ihe bench of the supreme willing and unscrupulous in doing hla were, but II 111 plasnrd and political work, and that the theft nf The Times." on November the preliminary cainiMtign in this and court.'' the control of the State Benate with other stales. Chat Hill should take so II. IMS, reported 1arker's appointmuch Interest in Judge Parker's B- ment. under the caption Rewarding which lahe bee ended hla career aa Governor tho logical and fitting culminilans is not wonderful when one con- the Workers. in these words; The work of rewarding the faithful ation of a busy lifetime of political siders how clow I hey have been to eat b other for nearly a quarter of a Democrats and carrying out lha denis crime. Ths same Ismic of The 1OBt'' conteuluiy. There has been a strong bond made in the last campaign haa begun. tains (or its leading article a sketch uf of sympathy between them and 11 la (o Today Governor Hill appointed Surroihe public, career of David Dennett Mr. Hill Ihut Juiiae Parker owns bia gate Alloa B. Parker, of Kingston. JusHill that would make imeretding readplace uu the tenth. In taae of the tice of Ihe supreme court to fill the reused by Ihe death of Judge ing lo any one engaged iu n conscienlater's election lo tho preaideiicy It is tious attempt to support for the nffire laemlibie dial he ahoubl onstrurt a Westbrook. uf president one of Hill's former apMr. Parker ie chairman of the prescabinet list did not InHinl the man to whom he owes everything political-- v ent Jietr oc relic state committee. U is point (tea- - appointees who were men most willing and unscrupulous in tlo--I unless be reserved him for the generally understood that his promohis political work.' The manner ih'vf jusiii'CvMp of the supreme court tion ia a reward for Biirreeafully man- ins Hill's entrance into politics at wliti-is reasonably sure io become aging Ihe Democratic machine this of is frankly exposed, aa is his confoil. v scant during the next administration. nection with William M. Tweed and The Herald." on November 13. Finding li Impi siM In win Ihepree-lisni'- had this his work in the Slam Legislature as comment on the aisle chairt.iiiiinailoii (or himself. David man's Tweed's representative. reward; llenoeit Hill determined o secure that It was in Elmi's that llill It Is noteworthy that Ihe first Imgot his t.ou'u' for his nri'iPi-i'- , Judge Alton H. on state politics. He was admitted grip official act of Hill portant (invrnuir her. flnviiiR aihieied that, Mr. iSi the to in bar 1M4. was a his election is a conspicuous apmember of fliil Is r I'li-.- p that should cls'm aim's of the principle to (he vic- the State Assembly in 1371 and 1ST- -', part or all of the iredit, because Mime plication was of chairman the Democratic uai'1 tors belong the spoils." Judge West-limo- k id .bulge Pi.rWg tety new friends died mure iltau a month ago. convention In 1877. and was do ted balk at Mr. Hill's cinipany. They point or Elmira in Wi The same to hie record, shudder, and say that if As ihe vacancy u.i ihn Supreme court mayorbe waa cbvlot lieutenant governat Ihe beginning of year he 'a allowed io he loo conspicuous Mt. bpurli occurred I Hie 'can year and si a time when the or on the ticket wiih Grover Cleveland, t Is iioin'ed Darker will lose vole- -. with luiHincss. I be suri ceding him as governor when he out that lu this campaign Mr. Hill's (inns were public inicicsis required lhai II should lava me president. record bear an nniisunliy itrportan: Mr. Hill's be IiiIim In ihe h filled, tim enter Mill, howgame of pert, for the reason ihai, according 1 ever,prompt deferred the appointment itjitl vote and men as Edward E Pm rick pap rs now H'rongst in srter the ''h notorious iharsiier. ' The F.ven-- i and then csve it their support of Mr. Parker, !u to the tnqn whp 1 ad beep foremost Mg Tost" term him. Patrick was di- ihe court of sppe:i's bis political workers, and who. missed from Ihe I nion army. After a advanremenl from hr juitinn of rn among wh'le holding the position of Surro- brief rareer in ths Assemble, wbeic n in lurt" messur. gate. wbn?e dutlna are urrogte, essentially ju- I be ws4 of mmh service n Hill vnj to the frlepdship of David Renn-- n his dicial. he friends, berime a pension agent, drie'ed himself throughout the hill This he won, enording to thie and. according o The Post" c same papers, by his xurcesstul n.l(i: t campaign to politics! work. l that busbies lu vm h a So Mr. Parker obtained hi real ma.uicr or Hill's campaign for tfce goveinor-snlstart as a Jurist beraiMP he hnd proved that was charged with ilnsuig a hin'cclf man after Hill's own heart, for perMUts who wer-- dead, 'Tbs nrooltlyn Kaele." on of the Democratic randidatr's sirnnpiH sup- - aud Dili apparently has never changed aud was s.uiiem ed to the fur. opinion ol his protege. That hit power In Eniira 'vii svidf i As for ihe porters, in an articie rn the rarrer a':d kind of service tho chairman did for by Ihe use of money in i..r.g vn'es conduct of Mr. Hill, prin ed on May v me s thus declare! in ,Le "Tho Post s ' ruuiililsre in that campa.gn of , JfM. gives D.e foll.'is ;; i fie a:ti--- ' The nf lie p. 1osl'' Evening may relation of HIM ard Lis a aie c' rhiiir- Mill to tipHi. l):i October Sd. ISM. Mv v.i in tbe mas: ii cl, si set erl zed Parker's appeal to ths Tiilrl Ward of Ebnirn. '.he From that lime Mr. Hill made tho of hlv IoIurs in tbrt fortunes of Mr Parser r.ia concern. virtcr of ihe alatv la thee wards: ward is 'Vf have ssldow met with anything in the nf U:e The amlMlon of (he Istier lav in a way lu wlilih the s'oty the realm of literature m unbridled as politics of the whole rliy ws I Judicial imevr tVbaa a va.an :y gradually .iccur- ad In ihe judi. isi Giv ri. t of wLi. a J th address signed by Mr Altn B. delmuthed Democrats and Republican Parker for the Democratic Ft ate Com- - alike confess that Elmira today I one - tha strongest known animal of Ita alia. Finally, I lie echidna haa not a tooth of any kind In Its Jaws To make up for Ihla lack, however, both Ita tongue and the back part of the Inalde of Its mouth are dotted over with Uny spines, hard and sharp, and theaa crush Ita foad. The flesh of thla creature la good eating and la wild to Urate Ilka young pig. Xu New Guinea the native! hunt (t with dogs. When la a cow not a cow? When ana la turned Into a Held. Where la happiness always te be found? In tha dictionary. In what eort of syllables ought a par- Startling Expose ef the Political Record of David Bennett Hill, Whose Protege Is Judge Parker, Democratic Candidate for President Hill Appointed Parker Judge In Reward far tha Lattar'a Managamant af Hlll'a Gubernatorial Candidacy. I. Talu at a certain point where they were not opposed by the enemy. On the opposite side they naw two Korean boys In a bust and, aa they were in no par Realistic. PROMINENCE OF PARKER SECURED BY CORRUPT USE OF MONEY ' Said the Aral llul- - small body of Japanese soldiers couaiatiug of 157 men in the early days of the war wished to croee the river A How did you break your slate. Jack?" asked his mamma. 1 don't know," said Jack. "I drew a picture on It of a boy throwing a tone at a bird, aud I guess maybe the atone hit the slate instead of tho bird." tliree-fourt- ITEMS THE CHICKENS. THE YALU. IJule Ben's Beqaeet. Little Hen Uvea in a new house, one of the most modern af modern houses, where light, water, beat and other thinga are all to be had by turning a knob or touching a brlL He Uvea In a state of perpetual marvel over these things, and the other night when suffering from a headache the little fellow said to his mother, who sat beside him: TTeaae turn on the dark, mother, liy eyes hurt me. in wr ONE CROSSING four loaded cars, weighing In the aggregate 4.I0S tons. It was hauled a miles at the rate distance of sixty-thre- e of thirteen miles an hour. The engineers in the British navy have a very effective way of killing sharks. They seal up a dynamite cartridge In an empty enn and put the can Inside A largo piece of pork. The pork Is thrown overboard on a wire which has been connected with an electric battery. When the shark takes tbs bait the engineer presses a button. When Is Port Arthur like s put When It Is being shelled. which explodes the cartridge and kills tha most certain of all pod-mWwltbj Mohammedans always keep s supply fish. In Chins strangulation la reserved for for use as a bud rerouroe. A belief h offenders of high rank. It being con- the pofsonoua character of the dianwuf sidered a privilege to pass out of lift also existed In Italy lu tbs lixlrrul with the body Intact. When leave to century. The claim la put forward by Altai dla in thla way has been granted to a criminal a silken cord Is sent te him in Angrll of New Jersey that he hu a process of converting sSbrsus prison, and be Is left to accomplish his own doom. rook into a silky fiber capable ef being According to tho Ifehammedina of spun Into flue cloth, thus msUng ps southern India, pulverised diamond is Bible fireproof clothing wholly sf Big. tfie least painful, the oust active and oral composition, t i ed So did Assemblyman O. S. Wlnsus, oa a member of the committee on privileges and elections, the Republican member from Chaugave It bark to him by unseating a tauqua, for whose vote Tweed paid, or Tweed is not man honest ly elected and putting one promised, $100,01)0. of Tweed's followers In his place. Hill's known to have paid Hill in ready cash vote gava Tweed and his ring all tha for hla vote; he secured ihe Chemung io manipulate registry lists end ballot assemblyman's services by becoming his partner In The Elmira Gazette" boxes at wllL When the people of the ntate rose to the previous summer and putting $10y drive from the bench the corrupt 000 of his stolen money Into that concern. The tax levy bill placed $15,300,-00- 0 Judge who hnd made the Justice they in the hands of the Tweed ring administered the laughing stock of the for ita own purposes, and of course adwill. Hill the opposed people's xnintry. He voted agslnet a resolution calling ded It to the debt of the city. Even when public clamor was finally for the Impeachment of Judgea Barnroused against Tweed, ,Mr. Hill still reconvoted and to and Cardoso, ard any unpleasant reference to sider tha impeachment resolution as avoided soon as it wss passed. Though Judge tbe man who still owned 2u0 shares of He sneered at Barnard was finally Impeached and stock in hisof paper. fraud, charges soon aftfound guilty, Hill managed to find a the charges er proven. way of escape for Cardoso by slipping in hla resignation on a question of of I dont propose toto allow tho Issue be overshadowed this campaign privilege before the re pert of the imby partisan claims of the opposition peachment committee was presented. Of this close relation between Hill over the alleged discoveries of fraud government of New and Tweed the artlide in The Poet' In tho municipal ke declared at Horaekeada, OcYork," says; already quoted In a speech recalling To aid himself In hla canvass for the tober 21, 1871, certain of hia utterances during tha Hill Mr. conceived la 1870, assembly campaign. Subsequently the the idea of owning or controlling tha present printed a facsimile of the transElmirs Gazette." He got as option Times 200 ahoren In Hlll'a Elmira on it. and formed a slock company fer of the signed by Tweed and by 4UU. with a capital of $40,000, half of which paper, thla damaging document was to be paid up. Hill and two oth- WhenInhehlahad safe Mr. Hill at last Joined er Elmira men took 810.UUU of the bock In of Tweed, who hod lost stock, and Edward ti. Patrick took $10,-00-0 all the pursuit power to reward hla friends or for some person not named. Boon hla enemies. afterward, however, this same per- punish The familiar title of peanut polison" turned out lo be William H. n Tweed, the great thief. To him Pat- tician" hu pursued Hill through long rick transferred his 110,000 certificate career. On October 17. 1885, the Elof ownership In tbe paper. Mr. Hill mira correspondent of the New York was elected to the assembly, where Times set forth In the columns of his he wasoned and cont rolled by Tweed. paper the following picture of Mr. Hill He voted for the bills that enabled tho and tha rural afmplicltlea of Chemung in Ihe days when he Tweed ring to consummate their plot county elections resided In Elmira, lie wrott: against the city. He opposed the Im"Mr. Hill always on election day peachment of Judge Cardoso, and on of ballots in oae coat the floor of the assembly undertook to ; carried a bundle and a wad of $1 and $2 bills In spologixe for that other corrupt Judge, j pocket the other, aud he had acquired the George G. Barnard. to ; reputation of being one of the most Tweed's legislature was good Hill. He was attorney in suits brought persuasive talkers and successful pro-- , votes in the county of Che-- j against the state for damages sustain- curera of When the business had been ed In a freshet in the Chemung valley : mung. twelve years before. Appropriations brisk enough to keep him at his wln- to pay these claims were put through dow he has been repeatedly heard to the legislature with Tweeds help, Ute about hia ordera to bia heelers: Here. Tom: Here, 8am; Here, last ones while Hill wss himself a I member. More than $80,(WO was thus j Bob;" Hera Charley, go aud get so of It and so trailing the man by name), and taken from tbe treasury, one-hal-f j him here to vote." The order bring for interest, and not a word of bring always obeyed. The man was testimony was taken in behalf of the was state. When these cases were after- fished out from the coal yard or the ward investigated it was admitted by liquor saloon, placed In position iu claimants that they did mil knuw that line, and vigilantly watched by th heeler until he was abreast the wln-- J they had claims until they were Thera be encountered Mr. Hill, by Hill and his law partner, and dow. It was further admitted that tbe at- received from him '. bailor and duly torneys were to pay all tho expenses i deposited It In the box. If the whole or proceeding,. np to this point, had given of the suits and receive une-bathe award, with no pay in Mutual saUsfociion the votrr sought the heeler and either received bU case of failure. ' Concerning thla legal activity of money from him or from another Mr. Hiil. the same article of The I hooter on tbs manure heap, or from a third at tbe settling place ou the r- -I Post" says: One of the awards waa for $11,445 ner." Hill's connection with tbe aqueduct to Jamea A. Locke, whose whole estate was not worth that amount, in scandal haa long been cited aa one of 1875 Governor Tilden's canal commis- the most repielienEtbie ruing : iai.i at Said the Commercial Adsion of these hla door. posed the nature claims. Locke testified that he first vertiser of this city in 1894, regarding learned from the lawyers that he had it: When Mr. Cleveland rrsivmvj i ; been damaged by the atate. Tell us," slid the questioner uf the commission, I pnveraorshin and Sorntor Hill si creed . I to the office on January 1. 1885, he in what Manner, aud by shout, wa this quiTriun first presented to vou I gun at o.. i to ... 1 tiii-i- k t It was by Smith Hill, .ml)1 I r- . I!-- ; . 'J. f You l;o i Loc!;e. .. ju.l ?t your inf ,T.:.a-t1 a ia tome say? . t -- k pot it from ' ne-.'them. replied (he wf ; E:,u f.e X. The New York Times'' of October ioni, were to be ; ent ia the work, an 1 7 thus discusses the relations existhe knew tba patronage meant a guo.i Tweed and Assee.blymaix deal. ing beta-peDot id B. Hill. It says: The three aqueduct commissioners Assemblyman David B. Hill voied were men of known Integrity and innra for Tseed's lufamoiis 2 per cent tax ; than ordinary ability. RnllinM. Squire, levy iteal in the legislature uf 1871. i who was cunMderad an adventurer, wa- ! f ! ode-thir- d I a n behind It. A photographic dry yhu waa then expneed lu the beetle's rri and the outline of the head and developed In the uauul munner, silk the suit as shown here, ('hlldren who hut cameras will undcraiand tue peseta perfectly. the lature Hill, ri was employed In a camera in the pkq of tlia usual photographic lew. b outline of a head waa pasted mi s piece of ground glass, and a lump wot pit - commissioner of public works Mr. Hill saw In Squire ihe mesa to control the patronage uf the office. the article Hill, continues, plied himself In comL.unlcation with Bqtirt, and the latter worked hard for Hill) and lati-- frankly coof coed to the governor that to be appaiii' ed commissioner of public works hi had signed a pledge to conduct the office under tbe direction of Haute & Flynn, n well known contractor of th city. The nrtlcle goes on lo mj: The governor, knowing of the eii" tence of the pledge, began to deal sad dicker with tbe leaders in the in order to hnvc n Mil pusM reorganizing t he Aqueduct rnuniMsa and praKlcally placing Mr. Squire absolute control of the great vort The Democrats who were involved hA the deal were Governor Hill, Juki O'Brien, aqueduct contractor and tin chairman of the Democratic tuu William L Nulla commlti" and who had once been a law parties the governor. it did not take them long to a kill passed which auihorirAj appointment of three new aqJj commissioners, at a salary of m n year each, and the removal F mayor and controller aa r ben. The plot thickens in the shanel record of the governor relatil is comma aqueduct acandnl. The and op went ahead, reorganised, bida for the work of constnietlsi large section of the aqueduct h" cornea the acandoloua and outt$j port. The firm of O'Brien put in a bid which waa er than the lowest bid. and, suxss say. It obtained the Jnb. u. The friend of Governor HUI, membatt Muller, went to the commission, at the Instance of ." crnor, and asked them to bid of Messrs. OBrien A Cltrt chief personal favor to lha The commissioners were very R men; they all knew ths Srnofto. ns n result n mnjoritv of to accept the bid. O'Brien chairman of tha Democratic mittee. Now, in open law. O'Brien A Clark soldo" ,ki contract and cleared 8o.y0 Comm Tbe same article in "The cinl Advertiser tells of tho notes, on for $10.U00 sod jj, for $5,000, which, tccordingw oe Grace testimony of Major Fassett committee. Governor JK discounted for bin politic" M "Did he nav whether csnipsiP (Jhe money! for the Reuses of the Democratic 0 mittee or for his own perPj pensesT Mayor Grace not rf No. he said. his the governor put. out for campaign. waa IttorepU-Ye- l out Hill afterward gave planatory statement : Near the close of fSoSw 18S5 the Democrats ,ul tTm m np?e and funds was short of tc aid them. I consented to my credit the avails In the of the campslcn. m k! Thera could have xlri toward irrto esp'-nsee"i?.' 1, i ' "o-- it r cf "a: i m.'al ' A-- v; - ,'e nf & ' violated rer of this staie. c, tto iy nendlr lnw with recard to money in elections. The fact that the and shamelessly vol (Continued on jr1trf of ed ( ie |