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The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

THE management of the building of
the new Postofiice in Washington, ID. c.,
is an illustration of the way public affairs
are being conducted. A new Postoffice
building is one of the crying wants of the
city; everybody is suffering much dis
advantage for lack Of it. There are
thousands Of idle men in the city des-
perately in need of employment to sup
port themselves and their families. Yet
there are only SO men at work on the
new building, where 100 times that
many should have been employed for
over year now. The work is allowed
to drag along in this aggravating way in
order 10 make a false showing of economy
Everybody knows that it will really cost
much more to dawdle over the work for
10 or 10 years than it will to finish il
up inside Of two or three, to say nothing
Of the annoyance and loss to the patrons
of the office. But to push the work in a
business-like way would make a big show
of money expended during the year, and
embarrass the claim of greater economy
in the conduct of public affairs"
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DID you EVER?

DID YOU EvERP
Did you ever sec cowslip on an ora
Or house-hy a kite?
Or a monkey-wrench an ankle7
Or a buttercup leech?
Or a million air break train7
Or horseshoe a mule?
Or music-box the compass2
Or yard-arm our army?
Or jib- boom the stocks?
Or mainsail without rudderf
Or an avalanche a yacht2
Or dogstar in the opera?
Or a cork arena?
Or sealskin au eel?
Or aB ant-eater uncle7
Or shoe-black its eyer
Or shirt collar theft
Or shoestring a fiddle?
Or 4 shoe-lace corsets?
Or a telegraph pole a vote2
Or sparrowbawk bauanas2
Or coupe bill?
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Or the moonshine q shoe?
Or the moon set watchi
Or sparrow boat?
Or the sunset on n tack2
Or the moonlight fire?
Or clambake some bread
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

mind the extraordinary efforts and ex-
penditures made to justify the wholesale
charges against the pensioners the Com
missioner of Pensions was yet able to re-
port but 1874 convictions of pension
frauds for the year ending June 80,
1894. In the ordinary course of work
with no beating of tom-toms or sound
ing of trumpets-Commissioner Raum
indicted 147 pension frauds in 1892,
and convicted 122, or but y less than
the number exultantly claimed for Com
missioner Lochren. In 1891 Commits
sioner Raum secured 236 indictments
and 176 convictions, or but q less than
Commissioner Lochren. These items
are each given but two formal lines
in the tabular part of Commissioner
Raum's reports He did not find it
necessary to praise his own remark
able energy and zeal for the public
interest, and President Harrison made
no allusion whatever in his messages to
the commendable efficiency Of the Grim
inal prosecutions in the Pension Bureau.
Both felt that in considering the great
pension question there were things ex-
ceedingly more important than the de-
lection and punishment of an occasional
impostor.
How rare these impostors are is at
opce shown by the paucity of results
secured by this two years of noisy and
sensational search for pension frauds.
There are in round numbers 100000
names on the roll, and after all this
effort and expense the Commissioner re-
ports but 1874 convictions. In round
numbers that is less than one to every
5000 names on the roll
Could there be stronger demonstra-
ton of the general integrity of the men
and women on the pension-roll?
Could there be a more emphatic
refutation of the wholesale ISLANDERS
against them?
Is there another branch of the Gov
ernment's expenditures that will bear
such a crucial examination SO credit
ably?
We beg Mr.. Cleveland to sit down
calmly, with paper and pencil, and with
mind freed from all prepossessions
against the veterans, and carefully fig
ure out all these incontestable facts,
which are now officially before him.
We are confident that his sense of
Justice will soon show him that the pen
sioncrs have been grossly illuminated,
and that the pension-roll is in the high
est degree a roll Of honor.
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TRIBUNETS.

When seeley, the thieving bookkeeper, was
arrested be had very little money in his
pockets He had been living in Chicago.
a*4
Patient-Doctor. my memory has become
shockingly bad recently.
Doctor-Indeed2 In these cases, sir, it is my
invariable rule to ask for my fee in advance
Du Naurier.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

THE civilized world will be very glad
to have either England or Russia take
charge of Armenia. The rule of either
will be a glorious improvement upon
that of the unspeakable Turk"
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

MUCH Of the idea Of the enormously
increased cost of living in this country
comes from the Englishmen making a
hasty tour of this country and writing
letters home. The hackmen charge them
from 81 upward for taking them to a
hotel, when they get a cab in London
for n shilling. The bootblack charges
them dime, when the price in London
is penny, and the hotels charge them
dollars where they pay shillings in Lon
don and francs in Paris. They write
home that the cost of living is immense
ly higher in this country than in Europe,
and the calamity-howlers take their
complaints as the basis of hysterical
shrieks. The undeniable truth is, that,
for the mass of people, living is very
much cheaper this side the Atlantic.
Food is and must be very much lower,
and so are rents, which are the main
items Of expense for the common people.
The well-to-do and wealthy can probably
live much cheaper abroad, because much
of their expense is for personal service,
and servants Of all kinds work for much
lower wages than in this country. An
American would not think of offering
bootblack two cents, and yet that is
the regular price in London, and other
service is in proportion. 81
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

BEFORE Germany will admit one of
our Illinois steers, she requires a certifi-
cate of character more rigorous than
the credential to join a church. Yet
we accept the men and women she ships
to us without q question as to their fit
ness for citizenship.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20
A NEW MAN ARISEN.

1t looks very much as if new leader
had risen in the South. 1t may not be
that his influence will extend all over
Dixie, but there is little doubt that he is
to be the dominant factor in North
Carolina politics. His name is Marion
Butler, he is 50 years of age, and the
son of a farmer and the keeper of a
country store in Sampson County, in the
Tidewater region of the State. He was
fairly educated, but the death of his
father took him out of college to attend
to the business and assist in caring for
the family.
He began to take an interest in poll
tics when quite young, but found the
State and all its subdivisions under the
iron rule of ring of old politicians, who
would admit of no idea developed since
the war. He speedily came into collision
with them, and finally was recognized as 4
leader of the younger and more progress
i've element, who wanted the State
brought up to the standard of to-day.
In 1891 he was elected to the Senate,
and began showing his abilities as an
organizer He bought q newspaper, and
devoted himself TO the interest of the
farmers and common, everyday people.
Nominally, he is a Populist, but the
farthest remove from the wild-eyed i'm
practicables and abuse singers that gen.
orally 60 by that name. He and his
party want plain, everyday, practical re-
forms in the management of the State.
They want to get rid of the moss-grown
old Bourbons who have held the country
back from the path of progress. They
want to diffuse education, develop The
States resources, encourage immigration,
have honest elections, and put the people
generally on the plane of Americans Of
the end of the 10Th century. He or
gained his last campaign with superb
ability. Enough young men who sup
ported the new order of things were
found in every County to thoroughly
organize it, and, get out every favorable
vote. He was admirably seconded by
an excellent Republican Committee, who
developed the entire Republican strength
in each County. The old Bourbon lead
ers were everywhere out-worked, out
managed, and beaten. All the places
on the tickets were equitably divided
between the Republicans and the nomi
nal Populists, and the arrangement hon
orably carried out in every detail. The
result was majority of 10000 for the
Fusion ticket, and the election of six
out of the nine Representatives, with
contests for the three remaining seats.
Mr.. Butler will be elected Senator to
succeed Gen. Ransom, and the other
Senatorship will go to one of the Repub-
lican leaders. The new Legislature will
reorganize the State Government, pass
fair election laws, school laws, which will
give every child in the State four months
of proper education each year, laws for
the development Of the great oyster in
dustry, and other material interests of
the State. If Mr.. Butler keeps on as
he has begun, he will become the ac-
knowledged leader of the New South,
and great power for good for the whole
country.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20


WHAT singular condolences we some
times find! 1t is reported that the
Railway Mail Service reached such a
high pitch of efficiency under the AID
ministrations previous to the present
one, that the errors averaged but one
in every $3.50 pieces of mail matter
handled. The report of Commissioner
Lochren that he had secured 1914 con-
victions of fraud among the 100000
names on the pension-roll shows about
one fraud to every $500 cases allowed,
shows that the Pension Bureau had been
brought to the same state of efficiency
as the much-praised Railway Mail Serv-
ice. The facts are highly creditable to
the predecessors of the present heads of
the Postoffice and Interior Departments.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

SENATOR TURPIE urges a novel reason
against the Nicaragua Canal. He says
that if it had been feasible it would have
been dug long ago. As well say that if
Senator Turpie had been feasible he
would have been born centuries before
he was.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

THE report that man named Debs
has been sentenced to six months i'm
prisonment in Jail for contempt of court
sets people to trying to recall him and
what he did. One day last Summer a
previously unknown man sprang into
National prominence. In the estimation
of many people Mr.. Debs was bigger
than the whole United States, and he
seems to have cherished the fattering
| delusion himself. Because the working
men and the employers in certain car
shops near Chicago could not agree in
the matter of wages, Mr.. Debs proposed
to take charge of the entire business OF
the country, and run it to suit himself.
No Oriental satrap ever presumed to be
half so despotic. Not one man in 1907
600 knew or cared about the car-shOps,
but everybody must be made to suffer
for the alleged wrongs. Everybody
must stop work until the dispute was
settled Just as Mr.. Debs wanted it. No
trains must run to convey people on
errands of business, pleasure, necessity
or mercy, nor to carry goods to market
and food to cities. Cars and railroad
property must be burned, and anybody
killed who did not approve of this way
of settling wage disputes. For q few
days it looked as if social chaos was
come again, that the whole fabric of
law and order which had been painfully
builded up for centuries had fallen into
ruin, and that all of us held our lives
and property at the mercy of any man
who might spring up between two days
and proclaim himself High President of
this or Grand Panjandrum of that.
Then the Great American People slowly
pulled themselves together, as they
always do, and decided that Mr.. Debs
should be promptly suppressed. He
and his "unlawful combinations dis
appeared from public view almost as
suddenly as they had emerged, and
people went about their business as
usual. They have just been reminded
of him by the announcement that slow
footed Justice has at last overtaken him
and began to get in her work.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

THE indications are that Mayor-elect
Strong will justify all that his name
implies, and be real Mayor of New
York.
The National tribune. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1877-1917, 1894-12-20

WITH the sale of Captaincies in the
New York police at $4,000 each before
our eyes, it becomes us to speak with
the utmost gentleness of the "squeez-
ing" and other forms of corruption in
Turkish and Chinese official circles.
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IF each subscriber TO THE NATIONAL
TRIBUNE wiH charge himself Nth getting
one ne,0 subscriber the circulation Of the paper
,oW be doubled at once, and Nth lille trouble
Let each subscriber try it,
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ONE person in every 16 in this coun-
try is Irish; in every SO English; l
in every 800 Welsh; l in every 100
Scotch; and 8 in every 200 Canadian.
OF every 100 foreign persons in the
United States Al were born under the
British flag and 60 under other flags.
The German born number in every 9
of our population, and are one-third of
the immigrants. British and German
immigrants form one-fourth of our popu-
lation. The Slavonic element-Russians,
Bohemians, Hungarians, and Poles-has
greatly increased of late years, but is now
only in 100 of our people. The Ital-
ians number in every 1000.
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THE NATIONAL TRIBUNE is a good paper
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One Which is Not "Purgcd," and in Which
There are No Suspensions,
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
IN HAWAII.
Annexation Is the Chief Thought on the
Island.

Washington. Noyeaher lS-The latest ad-
vices from Hawai-. reeetxed at the legation
here show that the American Union party,
which represents the annexation sentiment
in the island. has not only made clean
sweep, prac tically, in the election of Oc-
tober 20. for senators and representative,
but there are few persons in the country
who oppose annexation. The first plank in
the platform of the American party de-
clares the foremost mission of the sparty is
to secure the political union of Hawaii with
the United States. Annexation to this
country overshadows every other consider
alton. Private letters received from Homo
lulu show that the anLexationists believe
their dreams will be realized within the
next two OF three years at the furtherest.
An interesting fact in connection with
suffrage in the Hawaii Islands is the
property and educational qualification
which attaches to that privilege. One must
have an annual income of $500 or taxable
property valued at $15o0 before he can
vote for senators. and must be able to read
and write the English language before he
is qualified to cast a vote for representa-
tive.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
KILLED AND EATEN.
Horrible Fate of Traders at New Guinea
at the Hands of savages.

New York, November 3.-The Herald's
Vancouver, (B. CD special says Ac-
cording to the latest advices from Aus
tralla by steamer Miowera, word has
been received at Sydney from the Bis
marck archipelago, that a native upris-
ing has taken place on all the islands
near New Guinea, and that the Europe
an settlers have all been murdered by
'hanakas. The steamer "Three Cheers.n
OF Sydney, reports calling at Admiralty
Island and New ireland with supplies,
ana f1nd1ng the trading posts there in
ashes and1the white men nowhere to be
found, while the trading schooner was
also burned to the waters edge,
On the approach.of the vessel to Ad-
mlralty Island, the natives fed to the
Mills, unrillnotaa soul remained in the
villages. They feared that the white
men had come for vengeance. On land
Ing, the worst fears of the captain were
realized. Traces of cannibal feast of
recent date were found, and without
doubt all the inhabitants of the trading
post had met with the most norri BILE Of
deaths, being tortured and afterwards
devoured by the cannibals. Garrison
ana Miller, two of the victims. were
prominent citizens of Sidney, and in that
city a. asmovement is on foot to ask the
government to allow company OF vol
unteers to visit Admiralty Island and
avenge the death Of their fellow citizens.
AT New Ireland, the Australian trad
ing post was burned to the ground. A
prominent white trader, named Rodjohu
was missing. while it is feared the en-
tire white population have all met with
a horrible death at the hands of the
man-eating savages. Massacres are also
reported on other islands. 1t is thought
that the natives stole liuuor at one If
the trading posts, and that the effect on
their semi-civlized natures was to con-
vert them again into the wild native
state from which they had so recently
emerged.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
TALKING BASE BALL.
Bowdo1n Elects Officers for Its Next Years
Team.
Especial to the PRESS

Brunswick. November bat a meeting
of the students of the college, held In lower
Memorial hall yesterday afternoon the
officers of next years base ball team were
elected, and the subject of entering the
Maine Intercollegiate base ball league was
discussed. H.sE. Holmes. '95 of Lewiston.
was elected manager and A. P. Ward....'96 of
Freeport, was elected scorer. 1t will be re-
membered that last year Bowdoin was
barred out of the league because she PLAYED
certain students from the Bowdoin Medical
school and although it may prevent her
from Joining the league the student body
voted yesterday o remain by the decision
of last year and still play medical students
on the team. Many of the college men think
it would be better for Bowdoin not to ioin
in the local Maine league but to play teams
from larger colleges out OF the state. With
ii. 5. Fairbanks >95, as captain, and with
much good material to draw from Bowdoin's IS
base ball team for '95 ought to be and will
be equal to any she ever put on the
diamond.
The foot ball game with Bates which was
postponed indefinitely is to be played to-
morrow, Wednesday, afternoon, and good
game can be expected.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
NOTIFIED HIS PARENTS
And Then He Took Poison and Laid Down
to Die.

New York, November 13.-Deep mys-
terry surrounds the suicide of a young
man who died from morphine poisoning
shortly after noon yesterday, in furn-
ished room which he occupied at No. 146
East 34th street The young mans act
was discovered through agtelegram which
Superintendent Byrnes received at po-
lice headquarters about IL O'Clock. 1t
was signed by G.N. Reynolds of Lancas-
tr, Pa, and read as follows:
"See my son, N. r. Reynolds, at once.
at No. 146 East 34th street. He writes
me that he will commit suicide. I am
coming by train."
Sperintendenr Byrnes called up the
East 35th street station by telephone,
and Policeman Gilfoyle was sent to the
house. A young woman escorted the DO
lceman up to the third floor, where Rey-
nolds had assroom. The door was not
locked, and Gilfoyle pushed it open. On
the bed lay young man unconscious
and apparently dying. He was boyish
looking and handsome.
The policeman tried to arouse him but
in vain. A phial which stood on table
near the bedside had Contained NOR
phine. The policeman sent out mes
senger in haste tofind the nearest physic-
liceman to the house said that.three doc
tors were among her boarders
They are Drs. W. II. Bell, G.. H. Wellmot
and W. F. Cham bers, and all happened
to be in the house at the time. They
hurried to young Reynolds's room, lust
as DR.. W. d. .Sewell of No. 800 Lexington
avenue, who had been called ;nYby the
messenger, wassbeginning an examina-
tion. .--.
The four doctors worked hard to save
the young man, but he died just as an
ambulance from Bellevue hospital clat-
tered to the door. There was nothing
in the room that would throw any light
on the mystery. The floor was strewn
with letters that had been torn into
small scraps. While the doctors were
laboring over the youth, middle-aeed
man, who introduced himself as the
young mans uncle, rushed up the st airs
an into the room. After he saw his
nephew expire, he went away hurriedly
declining to disclose his name or address,
1t is supposed that he had received a
telegram similar to that sent to Super
intendent Byrnes. An undertaken, who
soon arrived, was probably sent by the
uncle.
The woman who keeps the boarding
house increased the mystery by refusing
to give her name or any information re-
garding the suicide. 1t was learned.
however, that Reynolds came to the
house week ago.
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
ACCIDENT ON THE GRAND TRUNK
A Teamster Struck by an Engine, but Es
capes with Slight Bruises,
Especial to the.PREss !,


North Stratford, N. q. November 13.-
There was bad accident at Stratford
hollow this morning. AS the Grand
Trunk special was nearing the crossing.
the engineer noticed team about 20
pass on to the track. He tried his hest
to make the driver understand his dan
ger, but he paid no attention to the
whistle, and went on to the crossing.
The engine struck the team, killing the
horses and totally demolishing the car
riage. The driver, F. Cobleigh. was
very luckyiin escaping with his life, as
everyone who sawtthe}accident supposed
there was not the least chance for him
to strike the ground alive. He was lit
orally flung out of the way of the en-
gine. He was very, badly injured. but
not dangerously. 1t is supposed that
Mr.. Coblei2h did not know exactly when
the train was to be expected, or that
he drove on the crossing without think
ing now close it was to train time. He
was taken to his home at Stratford
Hollow, and at last ac counts was doing
well. 9r3}H
The Portland daily press., 1894-11-14
Weather Observations.

The following are the observations for the
Agricultural Department Weather Bureau
for yesterday, Nov. IS, taken at p. nj.
10th meridian time. the observations for
each station being given in this order
Temperature, direction of the wind. state of
the weather:
Boston. AZ degrees. Sc. cloudy; New
forK' 40 degrees. S, fair; Philadelphia, 46
oegretes' ). cloudy; Washington, 46 degrees,
. CLOUDY; Albany. 3s degrees, Sc. cloudy;
buHalo, 5s degrees. SW. rain; Detroit, 81
oegrees' W, snow; Chicago. "a degrees, NV,
cloudy; st. Paul. SO degrees, NV, fair; ST..
Vincent. "a degrees, S. cloudy; Huron,
OAK, "a degrees. ", clear. Bismarck, 80 de-
grees. W, cloudy; jacksonville, 81 degrees.
Sc, cleags