| Show bING I 1 stalwart leader u to aly 7 roy bodga tile tit mends of roscoe say that as he grows old ile Is gradually losing that acerbity of temper and imperiousness of manner in the past droeg so many men frona his side and lost him the tion of one of the foremost holtti ell t leaders af pf tile c auntry ou when in N ew york city and having to all I 1 11 teresta and purposes g i ven up his utica home li is never absent from pt when the demands of his pro fesce lon call film t tile supreme court at washington or the court of appeals at albany ho is a steady patron of the pers and of the theatre where oe loves to go behind the scene a of the parlors of tile club and a visitor on odd nights at the hoffman house care lie is load of walking on broadway when the weather is fine and eyes are frequently turned after him as he talks along erect dignified stately as lie was soven years ago this coining slay when lie resigned his scat in ninety days after arthur became president conkling and be parted never to speak again never to meet in ten came to be of the wounds that had been so long open grant was vr haps the only man whom contain ever admired and loved and lie diet ills to the conqueror of the rebellion was not eel fish during the years of grants presidency every vt ish of Con klings in thea ay of appointments and policy were agrati tied in return for he gave the most quarreling with every one in pu lie life who did not place the hero of on he same lofty pinnacle to lie himself t had elevated bian defeat came to lie still bore aloft the standard of his fallon leader and a it were swore eternal hat re d to those vi ito bad compassed h a over throw old simon cameron was next to grant Con klings ideal of a cat leader and at tha pr e sent time gen sheridan lip his te it is now nearly forty years since C conkling on kling at the age of twenty four years or no was appointed district attorney of his native city atlea ife was elected its alador alayor in 1838 and there being no election in 1859 he held over lit the same office until no vember of that year when he resigned his first in washington was as a me of the thirty sixth congress in 1857 among his collea u es from the empire state in that oy were general sickles john cochrane john B fl askin still leading member of tammany 1 all 11 van wyck who years out to nebraska and came maent as senator from the thriving you g st francis E spinner wh curious signatures on the national currency curren cv as united states treasurer puzzled half his countrymen to decipher and reuben F fenton wh coniing in 1867 joined in the bonate as the representative of the empire state before conkling left tile alonse of representatives there oc curre d that memorable batt io between himself and mr blaine chich ills made both men foes ever since and which their parties n have carried into every state of the anion it were idle now to who was was wrong they were both young men at the time haughtye domineering impetuous easily pro to anger full of personal courage and intrepidity and ambitious of lead enship in their party nearly thirty years have passed and the old feud exists deeper and bitterer today to day than perhaps it eve wa a shadow aad a blight av er casting lives of both of them in all these years ther 6 has not been a truce for a week or even a day between them the I 1 I 1 av 0 fought one another in dial ant orida the virgin soil of young terri lea vi aich are now in the sisterhood of the states no man known to be an adherent of blaine could while grant was president obtain A t in any comer of the 11 ted states sir conkling Is now becoming comparatively rich never made any money in poll bics tics and when he left the senate it 8 found himself responsible to the ex tent of some for the debts of a friend whose security lie biad gone during tile past five years lie has been in nearly all ther important cases which have claimed tile attention of the courts in this city ire ilas feared against gould and for liv ra stilts involving millions of dollars his industry is untiring and when hid number on the calendar is called the court always finds him ready ills income Is put as high an lo oooo 4 year but it is not probably two thirds of that sum conkling Is not it min of bety ex alveo reading ills life has been olA political war fare leaving him I 1 atle time for bloks except those of hie law library I 1 Is Is is man of many moods and even his beat friends site very often afraid to go near him the very mention of his name sometimes provoker an out burst of passion I 1 is the name of a new perfume that has suddenly become paris made cArrot as what may bb termed a smell af that vegetable out in kansas twenty sir new gilf have been organized since list october it is b ellered that the bouhl not be half as happy with the ro talking about getting it the birthplace of horace greeley P little two story farmhouse surrounded by of rather poor land at amherst N H has bion sold for taxes the birthplace of general sheridan has apparently been lost or stolen several swindling individuals to bently took a lo 10 of confederate mon OY to merico and succeeded succeed od in disposing 0 f it in guadalajara at all the wa froin par to 30 percent premium tf mexico will keep on until it bits kindla richt bald 0 the who e con debt it will relieve the friesl 4 1461 amyr jn this of 0 of t tiMble flome 11 |
