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The London Times seems TO have cutious no.
ton OF what elements GO to make up the character
OF perfect envoy when It says. as II by way OF
pralsei
l.. It. has ALWAYS been dlnsalt Tor ap 10 regard Mr.
MN as parting guest, And It Is Almost impossible 10
sspeed his parting. lie came among us as an old
trtendi ne na. made himself part of our life ana
iitetatnre; ana we still entitled TO claim him by
virtue OF his citizenship in that wider literature ma.
,lonany which includes both England and the
United States So completely has MIR. Lowell made
nimselt one OF ourselves that we have at times
almost forgotten that he is sdplomatically foreigner
the representative of foreign State. 1t might have
been well for the relations OF the two countries had
ir. M. Lowell been permitted permanently TO retain
MS post as United States Minister In England.
Ihe hrst sentences might pass, but when the
Times goes on by way of climax to declare that Mr.
Lowell has "made himself one OF ourselves and
Led the English 10 forget that ne was diplomatcay
=" foreigner and held an oticisl position in this
country as the representative OF foreign State -
IT puts most singular construction upon its mex,
remark, that Mr.. Loweii's permanent retention
Knight have been Well fof the relations of the two
"countrtes." Well Tor the English side it would
nave been no doubt, but the Times could scarcely
cast severer implied censure upon Mr. Lowell's
patriotism and fidelity to his duties. 1t is quite equal
10 the worst that has been said by the most violent
sh agitators In this country In fact when one con-
ders the succession of ENJOYS that have been sent
10 Great Britain by the Republican party during its
tenure Including such wholly impractical lit.
erary men as Motley and Lowell and wealthy sugar
retner like Mr.. Welch. all apparently sent for their
own social enjoyment, the attempt TO reaect upon
the choice of an able turst and thorough American
Ike Mr.. Phelps becomes worse than absurd. II is
true that the PaH Mar Gdiede has remarked that
"he is doubtless most respectable person, but
America will tty to survive even the unfathomable
depths Of scorn disclosed in this thoroughly British
snte.,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

of Nr. Henry Jamess recent article on Ge0rg,
Eliot, IN the AHdHiic Monthly, the Boston IrdHscrip
rays; In thlA article the compiler OF rules Of gOot
breeding taught by example crltlclses The grea
writer OF novels Of universal life; the worker ii
BLACK and white CTtclses the worker Ia colOrs Ills
cflticsma are therefore all the more Interesting fol
being the less sympathetic lie finds that 'thC
phosOphlc door IL always open on her stage, and We
ethical purpose draws across IT, This may be true
but her persoDages nevertheless are not cutpnper
representations OF the modes nullerng IN thl
dfaught.n
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26
IIas Two stIings 10 Ills Bow.

man by the name of McCoppln IL here from Call
fornia, who has papers IN for the Chinese hissior
and the Naval once AT san Francisco. Sothln,
mean about that man! Can such man get any
thing?
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

There is no reason to doubt that England
will be able TO command the united; power of
her great Indian Empire. There are no ma.
tional aspirations in Hindustan for Russian
emissaries to play upon. Her populations
have always been used to despotio rule and
generally to alien kings. India is cont.
nent both in area and population about
equal to Europe. excluding Russia, and its
people are composed of various races, Ian
guages, and religions, so that there is no
homogeneity or true national life. At least
five distinct languages are spoken, and these
are again broken up into various dialects.
Divided according to religion there are in
India about ls7 million Hindus, so million
Mohammedans, s million Aboriginals, 81
million Buddhists, and less than two million
each Of Christians, Sikhs, and Jains.
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NOTICE To SUBSCRIBERS.


"of with their heads" should be the
motto for the great army of Republican Of
fce.holders who have been active partisans.
There is feeling of surprise passing rapidly
into amazement that such creatures as the
horde of Malone strikers in Virginia, and
several hundreds, if not thousands, more
of the same kind can continue to hold
office for even two months under Demo-
cratic Administration The difficulties which
confront the new regime, after twenty
years in the opposition, are easy to under
stand, and every good citizen is willing TO
see President Cleveland make haste slowly.
But the people of the country will not under
stand why they have made an issue of ad-
ministrative reform year after year unless
after while they see some visible sign of
the long-desired reform. And the only
unmistakable sign TO them that the reform
lis in progress is the turning of Republican
rascals out 10 put honest Democrats in their
places.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Russia apparently is in position to score
the first point in the game, for it looks as if
komaroff would have little difficulty in seit :
ing Herat. This would give its conqueror
great prestige amongst the Asia,ics, and with
the Dardanelles closed against her navy tits
difficult TO see where England could very
speedily deal blow that would serve as an
adequate counterpoise to the loss of the
Key of India" The war once begun
will be long and costly, and the effort of the
other powers to preserve neutrality may
prove unavailing. Any initial success which
might be gained by the Russians in north
eastern Afghanistan would very likely in the
endprove delusive. If the Afghans accept in
good faith the English alliance, the combined
force of English, Indians, and Afghans would
be irresistible.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Ofthe 253 million OF habitants l9s million
are directly governed by the English Grow n
and the native feudatory States have 55 mil
lion. The latter have urged the viceroy to
employ their armies, and there is no reason
to doubt their loyalty, which is clearly die
tated by their interests. The rest of Hin
dustan is SO we'll governed and so thoroughly
organized that in the absence of any united
national feeling or any centre of disaffecton
there would seem to be no reason to doubt
that the whole of its vast resources could be
made available for war against Russia.
The tone of the native press as well as all
the information obtainable from other native
sources indicates that the people of India
have no desire to exchange their English for
Russian masters.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Many of those who put forth moderate
views as governing aud restraining Russian
expansion are doubtless sincere. No distinct
aims have ever been formulated by the
Czars, and Russian policy must be Judged as
a whole from It's siugularly uniform mani
iestations aud from the forces known TO be
at work within tie Empire. Undoubtedly
the only public opinion tangible to the Czar's 3
mind Is that OF the military class. Russian
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

England and Russia still appear to be ire
sistibly drifting toward war. Indeed it looks
as If Russiawere determined to force conflict
unless England avoids it by the most abieut
surrender. While negotiations to determine
the boundary between Afshanistan and Rus
sian Turkomania were in progress General
Komaroff not only marched into the disputed
territory and seized its best strategic posi-
tions, but he wantonly attacked the Afghan
garrison at Penjdeh. The British Ministry
appear to have been making every effort to
secure peace, but thus far the conduct of
Russia has been marked by degree of
aggressiveness TO which no self-respec,ips
power could tamely submit.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

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officers are numerous and poor, and war and
annexation afford their only opportunities
for wealth and Advancement. The relative
power of this class does not diminish but
rather increases with the expansion of the
oyergrown Empire by It's successive con-
quests. Its ambition is best held in cheek
by defeats like those of the CriwuaN war,
which show how exaggerated are those no.
uons OF national prowess derived from the
enormous size of the country aud the nu-
perical vastness Of its armies. So England,
sooer or later, will have to fight for her In
dian Empire, and it looks as if ,h-, ~sS
were now close at haud,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

CARELESS writers and speakers too often derive
eountenance from those who ouyN, TO set a good
example, The addresses At the unveiiug of the
statue oil Professor Henry have lately enteprnted
lof general circulation and here we have President
toftef 81 Yale College, in most formal Grafton de-
csrng IN reference 10 his subject that His ueral
"ooSequies were attended by the President ofthe
" United States and other oficia's OF me uoSern-
"ment." This is ghite as ttt AZ the "present in
"cumben, . that nesNlt Al the newspapers have
oeen talSine eecn' lately, but the newspapers are
not 'rrrosea 10 deal in very elegant English at best
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

NJ greater or more pernicious misconcep-
tion is possible than that "the spirit OF
the civil service law requires that nearly all
of those office holders not included in its pro-
visions should be retained permanently, or
until their terms expire. There is no phan.
tom so evasive as the spirit of such a statute.
He who believes he sees the spirit of the
civil service act in retaining postmasters,
marshals, attorneys, and chiefs of depart
mental divisions will find no line of demar-
cation short of the highest places in the
Government If this esprit" or "princi-
"ple - of civil service commands that any
one of these classes of Republican otice-hold-
ers must be kept by Democratic admins
tration no man can show where its opera.
tion does stop. In other words, the spirit or
principle thus invoked, if it really exists,
can only mean that all civil officers should
hold for life or during good behavior.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Washington views ON the rules which
should govern appointments TO Office are of
interest at this tune. During his second
term, after a party in opposition to his policy
had grown up, in letter to the then secre-
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Thomas Jefferson was a great and wise
man, yet the experiment of a government
by parties, without any final repository of
the Executive or appointing power, such as
the Crown in monarchies, was virtually a
new one. No one can fairly presume that
Jefferson would not have modified his views
relative to appointments after eighty-flye
years of experience. In his time there was
no four years term, and the principle he an
nounced was that of producing something
like equality between Republicans and
Federalists in the public Offices. In letter
10 the merchants OF New Haven relative to
the removal OF Elizur Goodrich as collector
of the port, Mr.. Goodrich having been ap.
pointed by Mr.. Adams after the result of
the Presidential election was known, and
having resigned seat in Congress in order
TO take the office, Mr.. Jefferson said;
lament sincerely that essential differences Oi
opinion should ever have been deemed sutiiclen 10
inieTdlct half the society from the rights and bless
ings OF self-goyeTnment 10 prescribe them as un-
worthy OF every trust II would have been 10 me a
circumstance Of great relief had found moderate
participation OF oniCe In the hands OF the majority
would gladly have left 10 time accident 10 Tase
them 10 their just share. But their total exclusion
calls for pTompter corrections. l shall correct the
procedure; but that done, shall return with Joy ID
that Htate OF things when the only questions con
eerning o candidate shall be; Is he honest? Is he
oapablef IL he faithful 70 the Constitution?
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The dangerously delusiye notion is enter
tanned by some Englishmen that IL would be
we'll to let Russia have Constantinople, on
the ground that she would then be contented
with her boundaries, and, her now ceaseless
ambition satisfied, would no longer be troub-
ling the peace ofthe nations. This was the
idea put forth by Mr.. Goodwin Smith in his
speech at the 81. Georges banquet Thurs
day evening, but it is altogether vision
airy. The ambitions Of dynastes and
military oastes grow with what they feed
upon. Give European Turkey over to Rus
sia, aud she would not have completed the
assimilation of that acquisition before she
would he intriguing for the Valley of the
Euphrates. Give her that, and she would
want Persia. And when she had swallowed
everything else her hunger Tor India would
he stronger than ever.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The President and heads OF Departments
will lind plenty of influences, and very potent
ones too, at work to keep Republicans in
office, and the strongest influence will often
be at work to protect the least worthy.
What is most needed just at present is some
influence strong enough to compel the reform
Administration to turn out the spoilsmep,
instead of keeping them in.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

AN Instance Ct r6re prolonged continuous service
ID Congvss than that Of MIR. Morrill, was that Of SEN.
sot Macon, of North Carolina, who served continu-
ously In the two Houses from 1891 to lSgs, making
thlr'y-seven wears in all. lie for scveral years
Speaker of the House, and was repestedly elected
President pro tempotp " the Senate
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The reform aimed at and secured by the
civil service agitation, so far as it was taken
up and carried forward by practical men,
was simple and easily understood one
The abuse Of constant and unnecessary
changes for personal and not public reasons
in the subordinate clerical service of the
Government was crying evil. The claim
of right by Congressman to interfere in the
making and unmaking of clerks to the detri.
ment and arrangement of departmental rou.
tine work was also serious abuse. These
twin evils of patronage were measurably
remedied by the civil service law. 1t is
true that spoilsmen of the John A. Logan
class continued to contemn the reform and to
procure the appointment and promotion of
their henchmen up to the very last day of
Republican rule. And these creatures of in.
Auence will be found thickly scattered
through the Departments here whenever the
reform axe gets fairly at work, il it ever
does.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The confusion of ideas about civil service
reform is worse than the confusion of
tongues at Babel. The Republicans have
simply changed front on the whole question,
and whereas while they were in power they
unwillingly observed the base letter of the law
only when obliged 20, and evaded it at every
opportunity, as all who are familiar with
the Departmental service well know, now
they are boldly claiming that civil service
reform means the keeping in of all Republi
cans against whom charges of misbehavior
cannot be brought. The new Adminstra-
ton should beware of the interested advice
and insidious praise of its enemies. Its
success must in the end depend upon the
approval of the party which placed it in
power.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Lieutenant Governor Chauncey F. Black,
of Pennsylvania, in an address before the
JetIersonian Association of York, at its an
nual meeting last Monday, made a reference
to the views and practice of the founder of
the Democracy with relation to the dis.iibu-
ton of patronage. Mr.. Black said
The situation of Mr.. Jefferson, when he came in
after Mr.. Adams in 1901, was very like that of MI.
Cleveland to-day. The orices were ned from the
highest 10 the lowest with malignant federalisis,
who had for years prosttuted them TO the basest
partisan uses, Just as they were when Governor
Cleveland succeeded Arthur. How did Mr.. Jener-
son deal with the pacemen of the Infamous Hamil-
tonian spoils party? Let the Democracy ascertain
that, and they will have learned how Grover Cleye-
land should, and how we are bound TO presume he
will, deal with the oilcial representatives Of the
spols party SO sgnally repudiated by the people in
November last,
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

War now seems to be certain. As her
preparations for the initial campaign near
completion Russia exchanges her attitude of
duplicity for one of open defiance. She has
apparently been negotiating only to gain
time, and in this respect has effectually out
generated Gladstone. While she was COM
planning that the Afghan lamb had bitten
the Russian wolf and amusing English dip.
lomats with delusive professions of desire
for peace reinforcements have been approach
ing General Komaroff by forced marches
while there has been no corresponding ad.
vance on the British side. As time il of the
utmost importance in the operations of war
the Russian troops have enormously improved
their position during this period of Glad
stonan futile dallianoe. An energetic min
lister in England would by this time, war or
no war, have had reinforcing force half
way from Quetta to Herat. Less indecision
than Mr.. Gladstone has shown has more
than once lost the empire of the world.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

CARL ScuvRiS lecture On Abraham Lincoln is
wen received everywhere. M srhurz is one of inc
rev living orators csrartc of treating noble sub.
teot in The lofttes' manner. In this case the theme
IS worthy of ,he man and the man OF the theme
Like Schurz's Grafton on sumner, this on Lincoln
derives peculiar interest from the personal particps
ton OF the orator in the great events he speaks Of
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The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

Such doctrine is simply incomprehensi.
BILE except to novices who have no sort OF
conception of our executive machinery. Life
tenure of Office has its place in monarchies,
where it is natural adj junct of the continu-
GUS power of the Crown. In republics, where
there is no Executive by inheritance, the
life tenure is monstrosity. Government
by parties would simply be unavoidable II
the elected Executive were forbidden to act
through officers of his own political faith
The Editor of this journal has followed the
discussion of the civil service legislation
from the beginning, when that forgotten
apostle of this reform, Lyman Trumbull,
used to expound it in the Senate with rare
force and lucidity. He has advocated reform
of the civil service to the best of his ability.
But he has no hesitation in asserting that
had it been sought to enact into law such a
preposterous theory as that which is now
propounded-as we believe with the design
of keeping in Office Republicans who ought
to be turned out-such a law could never
have received favorable report from any
committee, or have obtained a corporal's
guard of votes in either house of Congress.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The Russian Foreign Office understands
the value of the press, and it is easy to dis.
cern from time to time, both in English and
Continental journals, articles adroitly in.
tended to lull suspicion as to the real ulte-
rior designs of the Northern Colossus. For
example, the theory has lately been care
fully put out in Vienna and London that
what Russia really wants is not India nor
Constantinople, but an cutie, to the sea by
way of the Persian Gulf. This idea is use
ful in Austria, which is naturally antago.
nistic to Russian designs on the Bosphorus.
1t is also useful to the peace party in Eng.
land because, looking at the map, il would
seem that the mouth Of the Euphrates would
next to the Dardanelles, be Russia's best
outlet TO the sea. But such theories, how.
ever cleverly they may be put forward, are
essentially deceptive. The greatest prize OF
Russian ambition must always be Constant.
nople, the next to the greatest, India.
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tary Of War, Col Timothy Pickering, Wash

tary Of War, Col Timothy Pickering, Wash
ington wrote:
shall not, while have the honor TO administer
the Government, bring man into any once of
consequence knowingly whose polite tenets are
adverse TO the measures which the General Govern
ment are pursuing; for this, in my opinion, would be
sort f.potical suicide. That II would embarrass
its movements is most certain. But OF two men
equally well affected to the true interests Of their
country, OF equal abilities, and equally disposed to
lend their support It Is the part OF prudence to give
the preference TO him against whom the least clamor
can be excited.
This is distinct declaration that the
Executives agents should be in harmony
with and not hostile to its policy, and is all
that Democrats ask to-day.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

This is the season of the year when the para
graphs about the feats and adventures. the docty
and ferocity Of elephants begin to go the rounds OF
the press. OF course they have no connection with
the opening OF the circus season, but it is singular
coincidence that more elephant paragraphs appear
about now than at any other time of year.
The Sunday herald. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1866-1887, 1885-04-26

The small boy is in dlsconsolate state this sum-
mer, and with good reason. There is only one park
at which base ball is going and that is surrounded
by railing for the sole purpose of preventing him
from looking through the cracks in the fence at the
game within. This is the most tagrant case of op-
preston and wrong the boys know Of taken in con-
nection with the hardships inflicted by the circus
tents being pitched inside high fence, SO there is
not the barest possibility of crawling under the can.
vas. 1t renders boyhool scarcely the charming
state IL was formerly