Weekly hawk-eye and telegraph. [volume] (Burlington, Iowa) 1855-1857, 1857-04-08

mon nuisance of lie National Hosel IS il,e 6 M d.
cUnuvUu one Of TIE National pa1ate. The hot
and eager breaths Of his beMeging ofac9 kkrs,
one would think, must have made the lattef
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Ltanlefs - Ases, hps1uu xoarassa quidtss.:
sssee 81 tho sonssssn ea1sofs WnsiaAgtoss
NJ - 1Ots af5s~ts tAAA it aaAssayrpastpo IthAI
ssiaeds Hsspcee ~ sShs &pas0se0lls crowd
to make way for Mr.. Breck enriA9e hysshe Hos-
Eyisg ~ death Of M. Bnehananp - pe0r Gen.s
MAsris0u gae tofrnenteG into IN gnAxs lbgStheir
esxdeeeaeoFs--Sns they coAld fan1ly hsve taken
essheties ne1ns - thsir4 edd n BOD 1eea..
The psssipg swAy, Sfsshe sctend iAE lasusts Of
this city.-whics haas bn6lamS on yoer heads in
lheas btensings a. is1iah sJtxndess sands Ans0a
3terfiEk -spaaa have reii. sed hia aniDsta argent
dapgsrs butsuAraas more are hovefing around
him wsrping oasthes wind from rsha uttaruost
EcssueM Of the land. adj 7saa Yestssa 81 81 sgl
q Sonething mass be- d0ne. Il But what - We
think ne sdiscesn Aep0infing in the right direo.
ton, which we hope viii nos be neglected,
thOnghss ID y in iEnglapd that We Ii. The
jast complaints which had been raised against
The way inlwhich, pIaces9 under Government
there were given awsyaby mere fssortism. and
against the perfectioa TO which the Circumlocu-
AonseGcs had consequence of thiss carried
tha arr efi not doing it, gave rise tOa plan OF
|epsning alfsacaneS es 70 public compesitiDn, the
candidates gbeing required to submit to an ex-
animation befoe Commissioners apponteador
thu purposes as to- test their fitness forsthe
pastscdiars ps CO Sought sind also their general
ninseliigsses and educaton.a This System &ent
Einto eject last yeaF, Rands the Commissioners
.tSa 70 bjuss made THERE second Beport About
a,5l,0s candidates actually submitted themselves
| 10 this ordeal, and 1887 obtained certificates
Of qualification The rejecfionsiwer little
more than thirty. fue per cent of the whole
Inumber. sOfthe $50 that were rejected, NEARLY
one. half received their doom for sbad spelling,
Asl47 for arithmetic, 233 for spelling and asith-
iInetic oe We think this result proves the arnth
OF theory Of ours, that, whether or not read
fidg aud writing come by NATURE as DogDerry
hsass Of them2 spelling certainly does.sE e9sis
tib Now We conceive that the terror of such an
tEexanination ifevcry applicant for office slsoold
be sabjectedio it, would very msteriatly dimin-
tisbt,e numerical force of that noble army, while
1.-The examination itself, if conducted With impair
tltial severity,s would limits ranksdown to h. very
manageable remainder. tBhtweg conceive chat
1.-THE ssstem should not be confined by any means
10 tie aelerkshps and subordinate places aunder
Government. Alcandidates for Cabinet Offices
Eshouldo undergo strict scrutiny as to their fit.
mess for lth6Ipost to which they aspire. When
we 9should not have Secretaries Of the Navy who
bh8i Never seen ship aud1 Secretaries of the
Treasury Who could scarcely pass 'mustersifor a
country school in simple arithmetic. iSuehaa
fsehene would work terrible revolution infsll
tour ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. lConceiSe OF the
CONSERVATION Of Mr. Mason, should his contin-
ouanee in his comfortable quarters at Paris be
made to depend on his passing creditabeae1-
Examination in French grammar! or of Mr.. Dodge,
we're he required etoawrite grammatical letter
in Enslishl-for we will put Spanish entirely aoat
kof the duestion--as the condition of.his holding
on TO his poss at the Court OF thel virtuous lisa.
Ebeila!s Now ttmust be obvious to every inteili
gent mind how 1nuch'a rule requiring every
| candidate for a foreign mission to speak and
write French and at least one other European
/ language would narrow the numerical eonpeti
| ton for those posts And certainly nothing
! fconld be more entirely reasonable than such an
arrangement. ,>Rasf7 urges sa5sw@l ,ssf}s
! The 'sthree Rs" of Sir William Curtis--Read
! ing Riting and Rithme tic might behall that
/ tit would be necessary to demand Of postrnasters
! tide walters, 9excsemen,5 inspectors and clerks
/ GENERALLY; bat we apprel,end that a rigid exam
! Isination would reduce the multitude of coinpeti
Istors within much less than their present eSor
/ Ibitancy Of competitions The PostMaster Gen
l|.eraF should be put to the severest question O
! trall, SO AS to seegwhetherd Soionons maxim be
j true or; not, that, though2a foolbe prayed in q
mortar, vet will not his folly depart from him
+ Mental ineapacity has seemed too generally re
! garded ASIAN Observation-Disclosures for this Offee
which comes SO home to the business of all ofu.
land to the bosoms too,3 for that matter
ltaiiy severity OF examination could be devised
which should ascertain whetherit we're possible
iifor an aspiran5 to this pose to understand tina
his business isto facilitate and1hot to hinder The
business of the country, and that his main duty
/ is not so much to save trouble to himself anC
his deputies as to the people generally, it woulc
he an invention second only to that Of the steam
!, itenpine8 in importance We should not insis
> upon an examination of the Presidential can
didates in their accidence and orthography,, a.
a preliminary inaug uration. 1T should BIZ AZ
jaxio,i, of our poli;y that the President can 'dt
no wrong of this kind, and, since the Private
Secretary Of the President has been erected into
al, institutions it can be of but little prsctica
Importance We do not ciaiin any public re
Ilward for this suggestion, though we think tina
many less valuable ones have been sgnaly re
J coYnpcnseda We shall be content if this hreat
ii or ours, thus cast upon the waters, be found By
/ the world soon enough toibe the lhesnsof say
ing a single Giiicf Magistrate from an un,imelJ
grave: sSAth1 .l-'o Aa's ''s'ss~'"t pr -
Il sDEaTH,, FROM TIGHT Doors IN gFoRTy5ElGH1
HoURs,-Verya pleasant things are journals de
4 voted to the enlightenment Of the public hint
1 on matters OF health. The unsophisticated NOR
4 tai who reads them finds that he is walking in d
path beset by perifs g There is death in the pot
4 in the frying pan, in the coffee pot and tea ket
tlei in tile cellar, outdoors indoors, everywhere
4 All the little Injuries Of lite are slow poisons
4 an easy chair is the parent Of spinal disease.
towering plants ID a bed room are as deadly as
/ the, Bohon Upas, every draft of air is blast oil
4 death. while, il-sentilated rooms are poisonous
4 tight gloves are suicidal, s,lspenders weaken the
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