The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1895-01-23
JOHN r PROCTOR.

tam saved him from much annoyance,
INIT soon after made very bitter speech
against it in the house The speech pre-,
sumablv made him solid with his office
seeking constituents. There certainly is
i a civil service reform, and as it is now
4 2I years old and beginning to grow side
whiskers the American people ought to
know more about its parentage, birth,
bringing up and present condition, tor
8&suredly it has come to stay.
A Question of Distance.
More than that, it is rapidly grow
linz power Already does it control one
Hfourth of all the offices, and by executive
order it is fast absorbing others, and the
more heated the assaults of its critics
the more determined is the president to
#brOaden its scope. So we'll is this under
stood here that whenever the New York
Sun makes a particularly yenomous at
@tack on him and refers therein to the
system it is expected that Mr., Cleve-
land will at once issue an order taking
n few hundred more employees. In
IBIS present term he has issued Is general
orders, taking in some 10, 900 who had
peen out, and some 5000 more are ex-
bected to come in soon
The critics have had their fun, how
over, and there has been ample material,
FOR at the start the examinations were
NJ lot arranged by the most practical men
~ the world, and many real questions
sRnd many more fictitious ones with lu-
slcrous answers have amused the pub
n Everybody has heard Of the TeXG<l
Jerk who to the question, "How far is
from the earth to the planet Mars at
Relr conjunction?" answered that he
ad no idea, but he knew that Mars was
~ enough away not to interfere with
Us work in the custom house, He got
Pc appointment. There was a school
s#acher from Illinois wanting to teach
olanS who was given a once famous
ngllsh book entitled rejected Ad-
4esSes, " with request to write short
l'lclsm on it. He wrote that he could
y see why they were rejected, as there
u some really good things in them. -
lheSe, however, are but the light hu-
OFS OF a rather serious situation. Two
portant facts must first be noted
~ the percentage of failures in the
llinatlon has grown much less of late
mat OF ludicrous answers still less.
. clerks in the Office of Major Will
~ d. Webster, chief examiner, have
III tlme to time laid aside specimen
p0is as curiosities, and some of these
g peen allowed to look over, though
ioles forbid the publication of the
e' number or residence of the appli-
Inc most astonishing fact in the
- that the simple word crooked
~ spelled in no less than 81 differ
ways. This seems Incredible, but
SieLkS haze counted the variations
1uiiy. The most unique perhaps is
uohlal' but there are many purely
l0vle spelllngs by foreign born ap-
- nus not familiar with the word, who
~ aV the sound as represented in
se''ers OF their own languages. The
na'lon also brought out the fact
- large section of this country
., W Is pronounced exactly like
D. III Few, in another section as
an, ~ 1000 and in few places almost
Wy Ike the French "u." The lar
dp0rcentage of errors seems to be in
ending in ance or enoe, many get
s tnem confused. AS to believe"
;, oeielve, " receive" and "de-
go u course they abound here as in
Hs'lsh writing countries.
Life Is Real.
Am Do papers used for one year there
b - ,; Grder' Make prose paraphrase
II me not in mournful numbers
For Ttt ts Is but an empty dream,
An ,Ie !, soul is dead that slumbers,
In1ngs are not what thew aoo.r,