Morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven [Conn.]) 1848-1894, 1884-03-24

ernor Ia required to appoint three civil SER
vice commissioners for the city of Balti-
1 more, who are to serve without pay them
selves. but they are to employ an examiner
| at 81. 500 a year and counselor at 81 900.
The bill defines the class of city employees
who are to be brought within It's scope, and
tional civil service law.
The New York Brewers and Maltsters' as
ISOLATION doesn't intend to let the temperance
people have things all their own way. At
the meeting of the association the other day
there were two hundred persons in attend
ance, and they claimed to control 35. 600
votes, citing as proof of the assertion that
they defeated the temperance candidate for
Secretary of State last fall by $1,000 votes.
They propose hereafter to inquire into the
temperance sentiments of every candidate
for Office and if he is found to favor prohibi-
tion or high license, they will combine TO
defeat him. On high license their feelings
are especially sensitive. They say such
bill as that proposed by Mr.. Roosevelt would
increase the nuInbsr of ''gin> mills, - and de-
crease the number of beer saloons, thus
obstructiag the srfead of temperance by
driving thirsty persons who would be content
with beer into drinking whiskey. Unless
New York oity has gone entirely Ito the
dogs'' it will not be wise for the Brewers and
Maltsters association to be too fierce. They may
find an association against them which will
be too strong for them.
In wit ha
to make them less capable of self-help is one
of the great problems with which charitable
societies and charitable persons have to deal.
writer in one of the religious papers thinks
he can throw some light on the problem by
giving an account of the experience of one OF
1.-THE cattle men" of the West. He says: A
friend of mine in Nevada who had stock
ranch told me that once in the severity of a
hard winter he bought a stack of hay to tide
his weakly cattle through cold snap. His
supply of hay was not at all adequate to the
length of the winter season, but would sus-
tain life till the snow should pass away and
allow the cattle access to the grass; but, to
his great disappointment, all the cattle ad-
mitsed to the hay-stack lay down by it as
soon as they filled themselves. Then when
hunger returned they would walk to the
water-trough and drink, and return to the
stack and eas. Thus they spent their days
till the hay was all devoured, and there, one
by one, they laid down and died.
The next winter was also very severe, and
my friend saw that he was likely again to lose
a large number of CATTLE but, having learned
q lesson of wisdom on the distribution of
charity. he determinined to adopt different
method; so he procured supply of hay, but
kept it entirely out of sight of the herd. and
during the very severe weather, he had each
t'cow-boy" sling two bundles of hay across
his shoulder, and have them hang down fore
and aft of his body, so as to net attract the
attention of the cattle, and pass quietly |
among them as they were scattered widely |
over the plains and when they found one in
Q starving condition, just to lay down little |
hay and pass on. In that way he did not
but he did vitalize. and keep his
needy cattle to work on the line of self sup |
port He did not Lose one that winter.