The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1895-07-30
He ought 10 Have an ONCE.


He ought 10 Have an ONCE.
If the government is hunting for good
men to MI vacancies that occur from time
to time in the departments we know of no
better man for a first class position than
Mr.. NJ. E. Pagan, who was the head of the
seed division" of the department of ag
riculture. Mr.. Pagan lost his place and
a good salary by the discontinuance of that
division. Instead Of using his influence
with congressman to have the division
restored he wrote to the Secretary of Ag-
riculture to the effect that no reasonable
excuse could be offered in behalf of the
continuance of the division"
He would have had no difficulty in get
ting congressman to interest themselves
in having the division retained, and there
by securing for himself a very comfortable
place at a large salary, because about the
only persons who get any benefit out of the
division are congressman. They We're in
huential enough to keep it out of the jul
risdction of the civil service commits
sion, so that they could use it in provid-
ing temporary places for poor relations,
or political supporters who were unable
to earn a living If thrown on their own re-
sources The congressman also had con-
troll of the distribution of the seeds, and
they took good care to distribute them so
as to benefit themselves in their campaigns
for reelection.
The Secretary of Agriculture is of course
entitled to the credit for the discontinue
ance of the division. He found that It was
not beneficial in any respect to the real
farmers of the country. It was more o;
a vote buying institution than anything
| else. 1t cost the tax payers good deal
of money every year TO maintain it, and
the secretary made up his mind that IL was
the right thing to do to put an end to it.
The secretary's action will not make
friends for him among congressman, but
| he is not seeking their friendship. He
considers that he has a duty to perform as
a public servant, and a part of his duty is
to see TO It that the people are not re-
| quired to carry unnecessary burdens. The
people will sustain him and their good will
| is of far more Importance to him than that
of the politicians.
The cruiser New York was the cynosure
of all expert and professional eyes at
the Kiel celebration. The cruiser Column
bia is the leader in the type of triple
screw war vessels. The liner st. Louis
is one of the largest, swiftest, and finest
| ocean greyhounds ever launched. The
| big wooden, four-masted ship Arthur Sew
! all, recently built at Bath, Me, is at the
head of her class. The alumnum-plated
| Defender is believed to be a better and
| faster yacht than the English yacht that
| is coming over to sail against her. The
! United States, it will thus be seen, can
compete with the world in the building
of ships. Then why not modify our an
! cient navigation laws, which prevent us
from becoming great maritime nation?
Ferdinand of Bulgaria doubtless thinks.
and with some show of reason, it will be
| admitted, that the crowned heads of Eu-
rope should not make too great a fuss
about little thing like the assassination
of an ex-prime minister. and that he
should not be forced off of his throne be-
cause of a suspicion that he was connected
in some manner with the Stambulofr trag-
| Guy L htlG are lew lAIO0eS IN Europe
! that have not been smirched with the
blood of assassination, and if every occu-
pant of a throne who came there through
the murderous shedding of blood were to
be compelled to get down and out, there
would probably be a number of vacant
thrones. The monarch and the assassin
have Travelled through history together.
The fruits of agitating the subject Of
a good and wholesome milk supply has
been very well illustrated in Jacksonville
week or so ago the sanitary inspectors
swooped down Unexpectedly upon the
milk vendors and put their stocks to the
test with the lactometer. Out Of twenty
four samples tested only six came I'D
to 100 or the standard of rich and whole
/ some milk. A few days ago the inspec.
! tors again made an unexpected descent
| upon the vendors. This time. however
only one sample out Of twenty-three fell
below the standard. while nineteen Of then,
went above it, In Jacksonville all milk
vendors are licensed