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The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
FOR THE coon OF rue SERVICE.
ResIgnation of Deputy Commissioner
of Pensions Smith Accepted.

ResIgnation of Deputy Commissioner
of Pensions Smith Accepted.
Hiram Smith, jr. the First Deputy
United States Commissioner of Pen
sions, was yesterday informed by Sec
retary Noble that his resignation, re-
ceiyed on January 81 last, had, by di-
rection OF the President, been accepted,
TO take effect March 5,
/ Mr.. Smith was appointed First Deputy
Commissioner Of Pensionsin June last.
Under decision of Commissioner Black
Mr. Smiths pension was. reratea, aud
increased by Commissioner Tanner
from sac to $T2 month. The ar
irearges received by him aggregated
i$6 6,035. He was not, however, at that
time an employe of the bureau, but he
soon thereafter received his appoint
ment. M
! When Congress convened Mr.. Smiths
name WAS not semitic the Senate, and so
he has never been confirmed. 1t is an
nounced that this change is made in
pursuance Of the policy announced
some time ago that rerated pension EN-
lployes would not be permitted to CON
tiDue in the public service.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
Marriage Licenses.

Marriage licenses have been issued TO
G. Wancke and Laura r. ALLEN, Boston,
Mass; Frank A, Clarvoe and Anna q.
Faucet, Washington; Louis d. Green and
Louisa N. Kaiser, Prescott, Ark; w. j..
Slater and Laura Meeker, Washington;
Thomas l.. Kidwell and Minnie L. White,
Washington; Arthur Brooks and Louis A.
JOY, Washington; Walter Sanders aud
Matte Smith, Washington: Harvey L. Bir-
mingham and Christina l.. Hosch. Wash
Dgton; j. Ridgeley Orndoff and Maud
Mclllhany, Baltimore; Harry ID. Nash aud
Efie NJ. Reese, Washington; James Childs
and Mary Hughes, Washington; Richard
l.. Brown and Mary s. Brown, Washington;
George E. Alvey and Clara Harper, Wash
inaton
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

MIR. MELVILLE E. Stone returns to
Europe next week, to reioin his family at
Geneva. Until Saturday he will remain in
Washington visiting friends. Though
he is extremely shy about indulging
in even SO much as an intima-
ton Of his plans, it is safe TO
say that he will come back in the fall to
make another newspaper great. Notwith-
standing the sacrifice of health the Chicago
Daily Neivs demanded of him, he is neither
discouraged nor permanently hurt In
fact, he is more vigorous than he has
been for years. Whether he decides
to re-enter journalism at New York
or Boston or Philadelphia, it matters not,
the city he adopts for his venture will be
fortunate, for Mr.. Stone is one of the very
few journalists in the United States big
enough to stand above parties and
strong enough to prefer right to riches.
He is at once Bennett in enterprise and
Childs in cleanliness of purpose. The
paper Mr.. Stone builded is a monument to
the honest principles and independe nee of
journalism, for no one else ever sto cd so
firmly for both against poverty. hardship
and temptation.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
NATIONAL BOARD OF TRADE.
IL Proposes to Hold Annual Meetings
In This CITY.

IL Proposes to Hold Annual Meetings
in This city.
The council Of the National Boarl OF
Trade held an important conference In
parlor 8 of Willard's Hotel to-day, un-
der the auspices of its general commit
tee on representation and extension of
membership.
The committee reported as already
existing 647 commercial associations in
the United States, with a membership Of
upwards Of 1876 900. Nineteen States were
represented in the conference which
formulated q system upon which,
IL is expected that there will be an aF
most universal response and identiiica-
ion with the commercial movement.
These commercial bodies are to be
organized into q commercial republic,
with well guarded legislation, pFopos-
ing that which is needed and opposing
that which may be detrimental 10
commerce, having in view the .obstrnc-
,ion of all tendency of national legisla-
tion for private ends.
1t contemplates the establishment Of
permanent offices at the Capital and the
holding of annual meetings here.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

The ESTEEMED DENVER Nelos says: .'The
attempt made in the House of Representa-
tives to report contest cases in advance of
the adoption OF rules was properly resisted
by the Democratic minority" This re.
minds one of the cowboy who lassoed the
locomotive. When they picked him aud
his horse up few rods down the track he
gathered, his scattered senses and said;
i"Waal, ] own up, didn't stop her; but
/ can lick any man that saysI didn't d o
my best" t
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

IT Is STATED THAT Miss Margaret Mather
has purchased the American rights to Joan
of Arc" the new play in which Nine. Bern
hardt has just appeared in Paris. Probably
the author would have some difficulty in
recognizing his chief character in the hands
of Its new interpreter. Boston Post
A few days ago Bernhardt, through the
correspondent of the New York Herald,
paid Margaret Mather very high compli-
ment. "Her Juliet' said Bernhardt, sis
one of the best have ever SEEM
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

AF. iHAwLEy MUST have been in pc
cilliar mental condition in the Senate
yesterday, when he introduced a reso-
luton requesting the District of Colam-
bia Committee to inquire into the con
ditjop of tbe Washington Fire Depart
nsent He took the pains to say that,
although the fire at Secretary Tracy's
house had suggested the inquiry, he
did not mean his resolution to inn
ply. any censnre whatever. II Mr..
Hawley knew nothing about the Fire
Department, why did he ask forits in
vestigation? and If he did not feel
called upon to censure the Department,
in fact, why did he censure it by impli,
cation He could have ascertained
the comparatively excellent condition
ofthe Washington Fire Department
by the expenditure of very little per-
sOnal effort.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

."FoR NEARLY a month past" says a
Wild West item, "the Union Pacific has
been expending $4,000 per day shovel
ing snow" What sort of climate can
road expect under the administration
of Charles Francis Adams2
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

In is PREposrERoUs to suppose that
such man as Mr.. Parnell would really
desert his mother. There is undoubt-
edly something in this family affair
which the reporters cannot get at. 1t
ispretty safe for reporters to keep out
Of family affairs, anyway, so long as
family affairs keep out of the courts.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

Thirty schonI boys above the age of
l2 can learn how to make some money
without interfering with their school
work BY, y,callhig at The CRITIC Office at
o'clock 10 morrow afternoon.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

eCHARhEs EMORY SMITH, editor of
the Philadelphia Press is said to have
a pretty sure thing on the Russian
mission. Smith win be good name to
send to Russia. 1t will give the
Tzcherikoffs and Kaffertzchekeffs an
object lesson in democratic simplicity.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
MR.. HUBBARD's POSITION.

n
The prospects of securing the passage Of
the International Copyright bill have sen
sibly improved since Mr. Gardiner G. Hub
bard presented himself as its chief oppo-
nent. For Mr.. Hubbard is not only OPP
posed to international copyright, but has
serious doubts about the justice Of copy
right at all. When a gentleman who has
made quite a number of millions of dollars
from the usufruct Of telephone patents de
MES the right of an author to claim as prop
erty the products of his own brain there is
something so exquisitely absurd about 1t as
to make any arguments he may present of
very little account. The House judiciary
Committee would be men of muchle in
telligence than they are II they failed to see
that the most charitable construction to be
put on Mr. Hnbbard's course is to assume
that he belongs to the great army Of eranks.
When he is disposed OF, the vendors of bor-
rowed literature, In the form of stereotyped
plates, win probably be heard from, but as
they remain discreetly anonymous aud are
only audible through counsel who refuse to
disclose the names Of their clients, their in
nuenee is not likely to be great. The real
danger TO the bill is that OF delay and of
being left in place on the calendar where
1t cannot possibly be reached. No member
feels that he has any special interest IN
watching over the fortunes Of such meas
ure and, falling the presence In Washington
Of some friend of the bill familiar with the
methods by which time Is gained IN both
Houses, there may be another failure, to Sc
cure the passage this session. The Epoch.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
The tomatoes Rise from Low Estate

lho lomato's hlse from Low Esthte
Some paper, speaking of the tomato crop,
says that 72,0O0,0O0 cans 'were put up this
year past, - and refers to the old times when
the tomato was called the ''love apple,n
and held about as fair match for "ground
cherriesh as food for man or beast. Mr.. b.
r. Sulgrove, the oldest newspaper man in
the city, says he remembers seeing, when
boy, In 1895 or thereabouts, several stocks
or bushes of 'loye apples'' growing on the
north side of Market street, near Delaware,
In the garden Of John Wilkins or 'Archien
Jlngenfelter. They We're not called "to-
matoes," and nobody thought Of eating
them more than 'jimson burs." They were
not commonly grown even for garden orna-
ment, and II was halfscore of years later
before they came into even occasionalitable
use. But he remembers that some OF the
doctors of that day commended them as a
healthful thing to eat, and the new name
"tomato" became familiar. -Iadidadpoiis
Ne,rs.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
4 LoYER,S nLSr4KE

: Mr. Charles Bosky of Washington
committed suicide on Monday night
last and left addressed to his landlord
note, in which he said: II feel sorry
to give you any trouble, but things don't
always go as we expect" He also left
note addressed to young lady of this
city, and among his papers was found a
letter from the same person, in which
she said that she cared nothing for him,
and wished that he would cease his at
tentions to her. Mr.. Bosky obeyed the
request speedily and with an infinite
emphasis.
T A great many suicides are committed
every year for love by people who do
not understand the passion, and the
chief reason why they do not under
stand it is that it is seldom treated
nationally in literature. There are two
things true of lovc--frst, that 1t is a
delirium, and secondly, that it is tran
sient. There is love Of married people
which is not delirious and. which en-
dures, but that is quite different affair
from the romantic passion.
If Mr.. Bosky had understood him
self and the emotion with which he
was suffering he would have summoned
resolution to his aid and waited with
all confidence for the changes of time
to cure him. That would have been
brave aud sensible. Anybody who is
tempted to commit suicide for love
ought to put it Off six months, and in
the meantime avoid the object of his
affections in every possible way. Ten
chances to one, when the period is
past, he will be in a condition to
smile at his folly, and to go on living
| like other comm on sense human beings
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

tPoI1Ics CUTS NO figure at all in the
effort of Chicago TO secure the Worlds
Fair. BY this it is inferred that the en-
deavor Of New York is purely patriotic.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

CHICAGO HAS AN advantage over her ad-
versaries IN the Worlds Fair contest.
There is no inducement in the way OF Sc
curing the national show that she cannot
offer with her mouth
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
sHERMAN's WAR MAPS.
They Occupy the Attention of the
Grizsied War Veteran.
New York Sun1

New York SUM-
Persons who daily pass General vii.
liam Tecumseh Sherman's home, at 70
West Seventy first street, right around
the corner from the Ninth Avenue Ele-
waited Railway, have grown accustomed
to see the tall and grizzled war veteran
sitting at broad desk in his cosy Office
in the front basement, turning the leaves
of huge scrap-books and studying the
details of the maps that are pasted in
these big books.
The General wears at such times
curious pair of tortoise shell spcctaclcs
with great broad rims, and puffs away
contentedly at the mild brand of cigars,
letters lie ON the desk beside him, and
his private clerk, Mr.. Barrett, seated at
another desk in the corner, busies him
self arranging other correspondence.
The maps in the huge book on the
table are the identical ones used by the
General in his operations in the South
during the rebellion. Many of them are
pencil sketches, which were made by
officers under his command in battle
days, and all are marked with crosses
and lined with red ink, and have
marginal comments. Part of every
weekday morning is regularly given up
by the General to the study OF these old
maps He knew them all so we'll that,
with eyes shut, he can lay his finger
upon points that mark the location of
battles or strategic marches, and he
chattily tells over again good naturedly,
and with no trace of the old.tim bitter
ness of rebellion days, the story of the
battle or the marches as he traces them
with his fingers.
He was busy tracing in this way a
large map Of North and South Carolina
one morning week ago, when Wis
itor who dropped into the office asked
him why he made it a custom to go
over the maps so often.
"To oblige my correspondents" the
General replied, cheerfully. Hardly
| day passes that do not receive one
| or more letters asking me questions
| about these old war operations. The
| letters come from all parts of the conn-
try, and contain all sorts of inquiries.
Some of them are impertinent, more
\ arc; amusing and some are decidedly
novel and interesting.
"a great many points are referred to
me by letter for decision, because
friendly wagers have been made upon
| the subject. Such bets are usually
made in disputes about the location OF
corps during march, or about events
that preceded or followed battle.
am always glad to answer inquiries
sent to me in proper spirit, because il
affords me entertainment, and ] like te
oblige my friends"
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

Ii WOULD BE in bad taste to intimate
that anything like Presidential boom
could be connected with so dignifed an
affair as the centennial celebration of
the birth of the Supreme Court of the
Uniied States, but it may at least be
faJkly limited that the Grafton of Gro
ver Cleveland yesterday was no feather
in the cap of Governor Hill.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

Mn. LEONARD BACON inquiries: (which
isthe party Of moral ideasY'
Ours
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
WASHINGTON, FEBRUARY ., 1890.

TIE PROTECTIVE TARIFF is Repub-
licap trust.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
a MlnIster Derapged by erlp.

Rev.s. II, Frazier, pastor of the First
United Presbyterian Church at Youngs-
town, Ohio, has become deranged. The
difficulty was brought about by an attack of
the grip. The other day, while on his way
to CORTLAND, Ohio. TO I'LL brother minis
ter's pulpit, he became bewildered, and
when he reached the altar to preach he be-
gan TO talkto the congregation at random.
He was assisted to his home by two gentle
men. Here he ,astonished his friends by in-
sistlng that his daughter play the piano
while he danced She at first declined, but
he insisted, and the reverend gentleman
danced until he fell exhausted to the floor,
and was put to bed. 1t appears that Mr..
Frazier suffered very severe attack of the
grip, was unconscious for two days, and IL
was feared would not survive, The disease
affected his brain, and he yentured out be-
fore he had fully recovered. Mr.. Frazier is
one OF the most widely-known clergymen
in Ohio. By his first marriage he became
the son-in-law OF Hon. John A. bingham of
Maryland aud was private secretary for Mr..
Bingham when the latter became Minister
to Japan. Upon his return to America Mr..
Frazier leetured throughout the country
upon "a Yankee in Japan, and also wrote
extensively upon Japanese topics He took
a front rank among Presbyterian clergy
men.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

Mr.. JAKE ,Kn,RAIS seems to be very
good fighter when he has a very poor man
in front of him.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

THE PA PERs ARE INQumlNe: ''What
shall we do with Most?'' Herr Most and
the rest of that tribe are good deal like
the sheep of Little Bo-Peep them
alone, and the result will be in all ways
satisfQctOry
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

New YoRK may probably get the
next worlds fair, but IL will never get
oBe In this.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

II is AeREEABLE 10 reflect that,
While MIR. Plat is alarmed lest the To-
catiom of the Worlds Fair in New
York give Tammany a great advantage
in the approaching campaign, the
County Democracy of Chicago are not
the least exercised over the political
distributions that would follow Mr..
Davis success as the Congressional
Napoleon of the situation.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

~ WILL TAKE five scent cigar" said a
man who knew what he was talking about.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

PROFESSOR NELSON ASKS: "Why are we
right-handedY' It's perfectly plain-we
don't want to get left.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

PROBABLY THE MOST melancholy sight
in the United States this winter is wild
goose looking for cold weather.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

WHAT IS THE SENSE in calling thing a
trust when it doesnt'
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
AMELIE RIvEs' latest. gem;
a :" iLih% ~ ' Id iaA'e4so 1Sh'
The wall-fowers To the -frolic wind

The wall fOwers % tbefroIic Wind
Do dance their golden aigelets,
And elfmaids steal the Hawthorne beads
To wear for fairy amulets.
Is that the sort of poetry the magazines
want? Wen, here goes;
The suniowers to the deep blue sea
Do nod their golden amulets ,ri
Ana brownies steal the stamens for
Touse as fairy vinaigrettes.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
To-NIenr's AMUsEMnNrs.

AlBAusH's OrERA lIopsE-- Charles Wynd-
ham.
NATIONAL TnBATRE-"A Brass Monkey
BAnnIs' BiJoU THEArRB-'A Royal Pass"
ktTNAN's TirEATRE-"H "Hyde's Speciality Com
ptny."
wrLrARD HALL-Professor Carpenters Mes
merism.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

The CENTENNIAL CELEBRATION Of
the formation of the United States Su-
preme Court, which occurred yesterday
in New York. seems to have. been an
imposing and adequate affair. The
Supreme Court of the United States is
the unique element of our anatomy
the element which the students OF
government in every civilized country
have watched. with especial interest.
This court has endured for one hun
dred years, and has been at once the
most powerful and the most conserva-
tive factor of the success of the repub-
lie, its characteristics have been
purity, intellectual ability and patriot
ism
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05
STANDING BY VANDERBILT.


A Washington man who recently went o
New York gives this report Of one OF
his conversations with the sleeping-car
porter:
Passenger Is feet 6 inches) Porter, will
yon take these satchels?
Porter (6 feet 5 inches s)-7Just set em in-
side.
,~But the berths are all made up and
there is no room, except in the aisle.n
"Can't help it,"
s'Gan I smoke cigar9"
"No; can't open smoking-room till the
train starts.'
"Well, can't ] sit down anywheres"
"a suppose So"
'.Where?n
"Dunno.n
"What do passengers do in waiting for
the trainY"
platform" b
"Can you open the buffets"
"Nop.'
'.When do we get to New York?'
''For dinner.n
'tDon't We stop for breakfast anywhere?'
s'Nop."
"Who runs this roadgr
ssAIr. Vanderbilt, sah."
"Well, know now what he meant when
he said the public be DID,"
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

THERE is AN awful ponderosity in the
style of Grover Cleveland, but some
times it is effective This sentence
from his New York Grafton of vester-
day is almost Gladstonian:
Though bitter experience had taught
them that the instrumentalities of govern
raept might trespass upon freedom, and
though they had learned in hard school
the cost of the struggle to wrest liberty
from the grasp of power, they refused, in
the solemn work they had in hand, to take
counsel of undue fear or distracting per-
turbation; and they calmly and deliberately
established as function of their govern
Bsent a check upon unauthorized freedom
ana asrestrant upon dangerous liberty.
The Washington critic., 1890-02-05

Youean order THE CHIrIc by postal card.
It will be sent to your address every even
ing for 50 cents.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-06
SAINT PAUL.
FOUGHT OVER THE ELECTION.
The Shrievalty Contest Leads to
Bloody Fight.

The election of Ed Bean for sheriff
fed to a very serious fight last evening
between George Hart and Oscar Best.
railroad men, IN which Best was very
badly used up. The two men were in
John Heler'S saloon, on the corner OF
East Seventh and Willis streets, little
before in the evening. Hart was adj
vocating the claims of Capt. Hanft,
while Best maintained that Ed Bean
was the better man. Political argument
led to personal abuse, and Hart sud
denly felled Best with blow of his list.
y rough and tumble fight ensued. in
which the heavy boots of Hart
left terrible impress upon
Best's features. Officer Perro was
notified OF the fisht, and proceeded TO
the saloon, where Best lay on the floor
weltering in blood. His assailant had
decamped. The patrol wagon conveyed
the injured man TO the Central police
station, where DR.. Ancker was called TO
dress his wounds. The fellow presented
Il horrible appearance, having a long
scalp wound, his lower lip was split i'll
two places, and his face was battered to
4 pulp. Over q dozen stitches were
necessary to close the wounds, and a
quantity of lint and bandages was used
TO relieve the inflammation. Best was
held at the station on charge of
drunkenness. Two hours later Hart
was arrested on lower Seventh street by
Officers Lynch and Perro and placed in
durance vile at police headquarters.
The duo will make their appearance i'll
Ee municipal court this morning.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1890-11-06
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