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tractive in the fact OF public employment
TO large number OF people. What is that
something? Is II general impression that
the holding OF official position is a mark Of
superiority on the part of the favored few
over the many? There is reason TO be-
lieve that this is the case, since the ad-
miring friends OF the man who holds Off
cial position never fail to call attention
to IL or to refer to IL when he has been
returned TO the common crowd. He is never
the same man.
II would be more difficult to ascertain the
causes which have led to such false esti-
mate Of the value OF public employment
and the widespread mischief which has come
from it. There is reason to believe that
those excellent people whose vocation or
official position affords them an opportunity
to address the youth in the public schools
and in other places leave the impression
by their remarks that about the only real
success in this country worth striving for
is to get public position. They tell the
story OF Abraham Lincoln, dwelling upon
his successes in public position rather than
holding up for admiration the fact of the
matchless nobility of his character. They
leave hearers to conclude that the presi-
dency made Lincoln rather than the truth
that his rare manhood ennobled the Office
That high office has magnifed the littleness
Of some men, but it has only added renown
acter. The popular boys literature is
doubtless responsible for a part of this
tendency The poor boy working on the
farm or in the factory. is always landed
in some high office, which he reaches
through successive gradations. 1.-The Bob
bin Boy" "The Mill Boy of the Slashes,"
1.-THE Tow-path Boy" and scores of like
books. making official distinction the grand
reward for all their heroes. are really per-
nicous. Then, who does not read in the
newspapers, week after week, that this or
that man who has reached Office was "a
farmers SOM" Take up the Congressional
Directory, to which members of Congress
contribute their ographies-which can be
used as obituaries for all that nine-tenths
of them accomplishment half of them be-
gin with the statement that they were
raised on a farm" and that they are what
they are by their "own efforts''-as If be-
ing a fourth-rate Congressman could COM
pare in position and dignity with a good
farmer.
Thoughtful people who consider this mat
ter will soon conclude that the tendency
referred to is minor evil. Thousands
of men who could have been useful citizens
have failed in life because, when young,
they concluded that all there was worth
having was public position. Failing.
most must, they have become pessimists
and hangerson-seekiny petty places by hu-
initiating confession Of poverty.
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LITERARY NOTES.

Mr.. Howells has lately written farce
called "A Masterpiece OF Diplomacy" 1t
is to appear in the February Harper
Thomas Bailey Aldricl, has confded to
a friend that: he may pr blish a. book of
literary "reminiscences froy,l the many men,
oranda that he has kept.
Zola says that ideas only come to
him when. pen in hand he is writing
that he could never evolve a single idea
by sitting still in his chair and thinking.
Although the first of elizabeth Stuart
Phelps's books published. her Gates Ajar."
sells in larger numbers to-day than any
of her subsequent books, the story has now
been published just twenty-five years.
Henry James has turned aside from the
writing of novels for the past few months
and devoted himself TO the completion Of
the new comedy. written for Augustin DAILY
which that manager will produce at his
London theater next month.
Mr. Richard Harding Davis made his
first appearance as a ya5lic reader before
a New York literary society Uncut
Leaves" the other night He read with
great spirit and naturalness, an admirable
sketch of an oxford student prank.
Gen. Lew Wallace states that the para
graph now going the rounds of the press,
representing him as being engaged upon a
new novel, is entirely too premature -
He has simply given IL casual thought
not even written line OF it-and lit VIII
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calls.
THE PASSION FOR PUBLIC EMPLOY
MENT.

The desire Of large part Of American
citizens for public employment rises to
passion. They seek public position with an
increasing intensity of purpose. Defeat.
like failure at gambling, seems TO make
them desperate. This fact recently the
subject Of conversation in room where
there were several men who had experience
in the matter A federal officer said that
recently a new place was made by a change
in the official force which it was necessary
TO fill from those who had been certified
by the civi-service board. AS the COM
pensation was only $500 a year it was
thought by the head of the service that
none of those who had passed the exam
ination would accept II. 1t was. however,
offered TO the man whose name was first on
the certified list. ard he eagerly accepted
IT, leaving an employment worth s. week
to do so. Another man said that some
time since a man pers!stently sought and
obtained a place in OF the county's in
stitutions, worth $25 month abandoning
a private employment in which he was
getting $40 a MONTH and in which there
was a pros spect OF better things. Scores OF
cases like these might be found. all going
to show that there is something very at
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troll his own temper. but IL is not conducive
TO good temper i'm others. IL must be very
aggravating to n woman who has stutter-
ing husband TO have to walt from a minute
and half 10 two minutes for his reply 10
a question II he will have n piece OF pie. IL
Is not only the loss OF time but the sus-
pense. and the mental wear and tear. Sup
pose she says. my dear. VIII you have
piece OF pie?" He begins: 81 d-d-d-d-d-don't
c-c-c-c-ca-ca-care f-f-f-f," at this point the
wife thinks he is going TO say he doesn't
care for any. and she passes the pie TO one
Of the children. But the husband concludes
with II don't care ff-f-if ah-ah-ah-I d-d-d-d-
do" This would be very exasperatinS TN
der any circumstances. and If II should
happen that the pie all gone before he
got through 1t would probably lead 10 dis
agreeable scene. Things like this happening
very often might lead woman TO wish that
her husband possessed a greater flow OF
language, but IL ought not TO make her
hate him. No man stutters Intentionally
and It cannot be said that such irnped-
iment of speech implies bad motives. Any
how. the Journal does not believe It is legal
cause for divorce.
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MRS. LEASES SUCCESSOR.
A Straightout Populist Appointed by
Governor Lewelling.

TOPEKA. Kan. Dec. 3o-At noon to-
day Governor Lewelling appointed j. W.
Freeborn. sheriff OF Mcpherson county.
member OF the board OF trustees OF the
State charitable institutions. 10 succeed
Mrs. Mary T.. Lease.
Mrs. Lease says she has called a meet
ing OF the board TO be held at Winfield
next week II will remain here till then"
she said. My successor and 1 will prob
ably travel together. but 1 want you 10
understand that 1 expect TO preside over
the meeting"
Freeborn is said TO be a straight P0pu-
list. Al least he is the present chairman
OF the Mcpherson county central commit
TEE or that party. His term sheriff eN-
pres In January. He was formerly chair
man or the county committee OF the United
LABOR party. The Governor gives IL out
that he means TO appoint a woman on the
board OF charities i'm April. when the term
expires. IL is generally believed that this
means Mrs. Il. NJ. Clarke, OF Beloit.
who was secretary OF the Kansas worlds
fair commissioners. An effort is being
made 10 patch up peace between the Gov
ernor and Mrs. Lease.
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are TO be placed in a box, shaken up and
name drawn for each OF the sections in turn
until all are drawn out. Regardless OF loca-
ton in the ward. the voters must vote in
the section for which their names have been
drawn. Each section. thus made up. must
meet and choose one representative cleo
tor" and the four representative electors"
shall select all the officers now elected by
wards, and the representative electors Of all
the wards shall assemble and elect Mayor
and other general city officers. II seems
to be scheme to prevent the people from
electing inferior men by their own action.
and compelling them to participate in
game of chance TO overreach themselves.
1t is hoped the New York Legislature viii
authorize the city of Oswego to try its
truly original device.
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1t Was a Hit.
Detroit Free Press.

Il
A boy sat on one of the window seats
in the postoffice corridor yesterday read
ing a novel, while his boot-blacking outfit
furnished rest for his feet. BY ana by
a severe-looking man who was strolling
about noticed him and halted TO ask:
boy, are you reading a 1ovel?'
''Yes, sir"
81 thought So Getting yourself ready
enter career of crime?
mo, sir
"But that will be the inevitable result
It's an Indian story. L suppose2"
NO, SIR.
"Then there's boy In Il who runs away
from home and performs heroic and un-
heard of deeds?
mo sir. It's about bootblack right In
this town. He got his start i'm life by a
gentleman coming uD to him in this very
place and giving him 50 cents TO black his
shoes"
"Ah-um! Man was fool!' growled the
philanthropist as he trotted along ana leit
the lad TO take the broad and narrow path
to the gallowS.
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a sense. yet what Is we'll memorized in
childhood remains with one forever. 1t
stays as a permanent reserve fund TO be
the children OF church members were re-
quired to attend Sunday school until they
were big boys and girls. One of their duties
scripture. Perhs ps they did not understand
them then, but they did later. Even If
they did not in later life practice what they
thing to have learned It. The literature OF
the Bible is eminently worth knowing aside
from It's morals
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

Those representing the administration as
sert that the President will remove the
recently appointed Governor Hughes, OF
Arizona because he is a corrupt and other
wise a very bad man, but the friends OF
moved because his wife, who travels about
Arizona lecturing on temperance and wom-
an suffrage, came across the ex-confederate
Consul Hoge when he having his con-
tinental lag" the report Of which was re-
>garded as discreditabIe to the administra-
fton
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

Mr.. Straus, wealthy and philanthropic
Hebrew of New York city, who for sew
eral years has arranged for the sale of
pure milk to the poor at cost, Is prepar-
ing to have bread sold to them at the low
est possible price. AS there is large per-
centage of profit in the bread sold by
bakers, the reduction will be sufficient to
be a great help TO purchasers whose every
penny must be made to count. By this
plan the persons benefited will not be
robbed of their independence, and as a
measure of philanthropy it has many adj
vantages over direct charity for persons
who are able to help themselves at all. If
the bread scheme is a success other neces-
saries of life will be added to the list and
sold at cost.
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HEROISM OF A BRAKEMAN.
Though Terribly Injured He Ran 900
Yards and Flagged Train.

PITTSBURG, Dec. 3o-The Hastings &C.
commodation on the Cambria & Ciearfield
railroad, collided with a local freight train
seven miles from Ebensburg last evening.
demolishing both engines and delaying the
passenger train. A number OF persons
were injured. but none killed. Those most
seriously hurt were: Miss Mcmahon, in
ternally injured: Blair Currey. brakeman
passenger train. two ribs broken and
head and face badly cut and bruised; con-
ductor Montgomery, badly bruised about
head and body. Currey was thrown twen-
ty feet over an embankment but, regard
less OF his injuries, he picked himself up
and ran back five hundred yards TO flag
the Ebensburg accommodation. which was
coming toward the wreck at terrific
speed. The accident was caused, IL is said,
by faiure to obey orders.
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PARKHURsTs LIFE THREATENED.
Warming Letter from a Woman Re-
ceived by Mayor Gilroy.

NEW YORK. Dec. 30.-Mayor Gilroy has
received the following letter, written in
French:
'Mr. Mayor-Do not let anyone go into
a church or court where DIR. Parkhurst
finds himself. You Will prevent a great dis
aster. because there are those who wish 20
make him sump I'm the air. They contem-
plate relieving the town OF this monster,
who disgraces and dirties New York and
who does so much harm to the unfortunate
women. Do not attempt TO discover me.
/ depart"
The letter was evidently written by "a
woman. II was mailed from a station situ-
ated in the heart of the "Tenderloin'' dis
trict, where so many unfortunate women
were thrown upon the streets by the clos
ing of their houses. The police are
deayoring to find the writer
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a Sure Winner.

"Eureka! shouted the young inventor.
'I have got it at last"
Got what?' asked his friend.
1.-THE invention of the age; fountain
pen that will not write at ALL
What in the name Of common sense"
It's the certainty of the thing that will
make 1t a success. Most of these fountain
pens are so uncertain-liable to write, or
not write, as the mood takes them AS
this one will not write at all, the owner
will know right where he is at, see?''
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II has been proposed to impose a tax OF
try. OF the six million. the estimated num-
ber. IT is assumed that four million are able
70 pay the tax. thus yielding the treasury
100000 This might be just tax IL re-
stricted to bachelors who could marry If
they would. but it would add insult to in
jury TO impose such a tax upon a man who
has been rejected by woman after woman
1t is doubtful IL there are six millions of
men OF the assumed marriageable age who
are bachelors.
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BULLS AND BEARS AT PLAY.
How Chicago Spectators Kicked tho
Old Year Out.

CHICAGO. Dec. 80. = The years closing
racket" which has heen such a feature OF
the Board Of Trade for the last quarter OF
a century, was exceedingly tame to-day.
The directors announced that all members
engaged in the boisterous play would be sus-
pended for thirty days. After the board ad-
journed crowd of roisterers took possess
sion of the floor, with half dozen footballs.
but not a single bag of -four or grain was
thrown nor a torpedo or cracker exploded.
The gallery was crowded i'm anticipation of
the usual wild racket, but the visitors went
aWay QiSapDOinted.
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COURTS NOT MASS MEETINGS.

If what the papers have stated from time
to time regarding the conduct of the spec
tators attending the Wagner trial. and their
descriptions OF the scenes about the court
room when the jury came in and directly
after the verdict are true. and there Is no
reason to believe otherwise, 1t Is high time
that a movement should be made TO rescue
the temple Of justice from mobs and to pre-.
generating into public meetings to express
by applause the public sentiment and thus
to influence bench and panel. The court
where causes are tried should be the NEST
orderly assemblage in the world, to the end
that its decisions may be respected. The
court should be tribunal composed of
judge and jury. and the attorneys repre-
senting the contestants should be the only
persons who should appeal to the jurors.
When spectators applaud statements of
counsel or the testimony of witnesses. and
strive to show, by every means available,
their opinion regarding the cause which is
before the court, the officers who permit
such demonstrations seem to have forgot
ten the functions of an impartial tribunal
and the proper methods OF trying causes.
If this sort of thing goes on there is danger
that the suitor in court who is able to en-
ploy them will fill the spectators seats with
his claquers in order to make it appear to
the jury that popular opinion is on his side.
This evil appears TO be on the increase
and it should be stopped. The spectators
at trials should be taught that they must
be passive listeners and that every attempt
to express a sentiment is a misdemeanor
which will be punished as a contempt of
court. If a judge whose court is interrupted
by outside demonstrations should arraign a
half dozen of the offenders and reprove
them he would end it. If any should per-
sist, few hours in the Jail for contempt
of court would surely suppress the enthusi-
asm of those who would turn what should
be a dignified tribunal into a mass meeting
1t appears from the reports that the noise
and confusion in the court in which the
Wagner girl was tried were so great that
when Judge Cox rose to charge the Jury
he called for order that the jury might hear
his words. There should be no such confu-
sion in court as such demand implies Fur
thermore, court should have such an en-
vfronment that an eager crowd would not
burst doors open TO get into it's presence.
as was the case when it was announced that
have dared such violence upon a legislative
body in the Statehouse; but forum where
measures are discussed is a far less sacred
precinct than the tribunal where iudea and
jury sit to mete out impartial Justice.
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The decision of the pension authorities
relative to the amendments attached TO the
immediate deficiency bill, declaring pen
sion vested right, is as follows:
No suspensions will be made for anv
cause Whatever until the pensioner has had
the required thirty days notice In all
cases, however where the claimants right
TO any pension based on evidence on file. is
IN serious doubt, or where the rate of pen
sion being paid is deemed manifeStly too
high, the record will be examined by the
mary examiner, critically and thorough
ly as is done on original applications. II
1t then be found that the pensioner is not
notified that he has thirty days within
which TO substantiate his claim. failing In
which he will be either dropped from the
rolls at the end of that period, or his rate
Of pension will be reduced With this
thirty days notice the pensioner will be in
formed of the exact status of his case, and
in what particulars il fails to meet the re-
quirementS of the law.
But the more important point-that the
granting of a pension at a certain rate per
month upon testimony presented, cannot
be legally set aside until the government
presents testimony to prove that it is
fraudulent or excessive, is not met. Sec
retary Smith and Commissioner Lochren
that which they constitute, and, with no
other testimony than they have, annul its
decree. If that is good law. Supreme
Court may call up and amend or revoke
the most important decisions of it's prede-
cessors.
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The fact that the management Of cities is
the weak feature in our form OF govern
ment has stimulated the theoretical to pro-
braces SO many novel features as the plan
of Dr. Clark. which the people OF oswego.
n. u. have petitioned the Legislature OF
that State TO permit them TO try. II starts
out with the dividing of the voters of ward
into sections. That is. IL a ward contains
100 voters. they shall be divided into four
equal sections. To that end. the LOO names
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

New York World.

New 1Orh WNIIu.
Is there any just occasion for sending the
mentor Miantonomoh to Rio? She Is a
ship intended solely for harbor defense and
fit only for that. She has no adequate coal
capacity for long journey. She is not con-
structed to brave the perils Of winter
voyage around Hatteras. To send her on
such a voyage is to risk the lives OF her
officers and crew, and the loss or a costly
and very necessary c0ast-defense ship IL
we were at war and her presence In Brazil
were necessary for the defense OF the flag,
these considerations would not count IN
mems minds- But are not at war and
not likely TO be. our naval force at Rio.
without this ship, will be stronger than that
of any other country. and amply able 10
deal with any emergency that can arise.
Is IL not a piece OF mere vainglory TO send
a moniter on such a mission?
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

The looseaess of American divorce laws
has developed many cases for dissolving
the marriage tie. 'Incompatibility of tenn
per- has been stretched by the courts till
1t covers a multitude of sins, but even that
could hardly be made TO include suffering
as legal ground for divorce A New York
woman who has sued for separation from
her husband on the ground of cruelty is
challenged by his counsel 10 cite any act
of cruelty on his part and the lawyer adds:
THE fact is. my client suffers worse than
any man 1 ever knew. The woman is sim
ply tired OF his suffering and wants TO be
rid of him" -'ow, suffering is not a thing
to be desired. 1t may give a man time TO
collect his thoughts. but it retards his ex-
preston OF them. 1t may help him TO con-
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A woman has been refused admission to
the bar at Carlisle, Pa, not on legal
grounds or the plea of individual unftness,
but because the committee considering her
case is opposed to women lawyers on gen.
eral principles. The spokesman of the COM
mittee says: "While can see that women
may be physicians, journalists, ministers,
telegraph operators, clerks and typewriters,
it does not follow that they can compete
with men in the profession of law, where
the ablest men are found and pitted one
against another. l don't believe women are
qualified, and / know the Carlisle bar is
opposed to their admission" This is a calm
assumption that lawyers are Intellectually
superior to the members of all other pro-
fessions. which will hardly be accepted by
doctors. ministers and the rest But if
the Carlisle lawyers are so sure OF their
superiority they should not show so much
fear of a woman that they will not even
permit her to measure her feeble ability
by their giant minds. IL the difference is
as wide as they profess to think, they
ought to know that the presuming woman
and all her friends would find actual COM
parison a more convincing argument than
mere assertion
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

CHICAGO, Dec. 30.-David w. Hart, OF
Dodge City. Kan. railroad man. is busily
engaged in collecting the insurance on a
$4,000 foot that he lost under a Chicago
street-car wheel last summer Mr. Hart
had insured against the loss OF leg. in "A
long list of companies, to the sum total OF
$4,000 lie Il now reaping the benefit OF
his foresight. some OF the money having al
ready been paid, with the indications in
favor of a speedy collection OF II all.
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Miss Lavery. of Philadelphia, aged thirty.
went one day last week to call upon her
friend, Mrs. Sloan, a widow of sixty, who
kept lodging house in another part of the
city Not returning when expected rela-
tive went IN search of her in day or two
and found both women lying dead in Mrs.
Sloans parlor. 1t was assumed at once
that they had been murdered, but there
were no marks of violence, and an autopsy
disclosed the remarkable fact that both had
died from heart disease superinduced by
dropsy. 1t would be easy to imagine a
combination of circumstances which would
have brought a charge of murder against
some one associated with them. Circum-
stances pointed to Annie Wagner the
murderer of three persons, and IL the
autopsy had been delayed in the Philadel
phia case as long as in that of the Koesters
traces of poison might have been disclosed
from the same causes said to have pro-
duced them in the latter instance and a
victim have been found against whom to
direct suspicion. That circumstantial evil
dence involved no one in the. Philadelphia
case before the truth known is rather
curious, and the immediate associates of
the dead women may congratulate them
selves that fate was kind.
The Indianapolis journal., 1893-12-31

Milwaukee has telephone war on hand
growing out of the action of the company
refusing to allow any but a subscriber to
use telephone. Many OF the annual sub
scribers, specially druggists, whose instru-
ments are quite a source of revenue to
them, are making a vigorous fight against
the order If the company wants to ex-
clude any but subscribers from using it's
instruments it should so stipulate in it's
contracts