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The times., 1897-10-31

all persons not officially connected with
the department. and legally under its
controI.
Upon the recommendation OF the chief
of the office reduction of % was made
in the clerical force in the appropriation
for the present year, making total re-
duction of 375 clerks since the organi-
zation OF the Record and Pension Office,
representing q permanent annual saving
of $425, 600 in salaries alone.
In sll of the reductions that have heen
made in the clerical force of the office
the selections for discharge Were based
strictly upon the efficiency records OF
the clerks, a liberal allowanc being made
in the ratings on account OF honorable
military or naval service. No ex-Jnion
soldier OF sailor has ever been reduced
in grade or discharged in this office
except for serious misconduct on his part,
or because he was so Inefficient that he
could not be retained without great detri-
:nent TO the public service, or, ia case OF a
reduction of the clerical force, without
unjustly discharging much more efficient
and deserving clerk.
In 1898 80 per cent of the total force
OF the office was composed of veterans;
but ON July /, 1897 after all the reductions
referred to above had been made, 30 per
cent, or considerably more than one-third
of the total force of the office, was conn
posed ofveterans, being higherpercentag
than thatin allthe other hureaus anu offices
OF the department combined. OF thehisher-
The times., 1897-10-31
Angels for sunday.

ff there is any day Of the week upon
gidch the discussion of angels is ap-
propriaue II is sunday, when the church
bells are ringing their story Of the glad
tidings Of salvation: when hundreds OF
church portals Hospitality stand open, cali
ing slnnels To repentance; ana the spirit
OF tile day shines like dew upon the faces
Of al good people.
Bat On such an occasion we must not
forget that there are bad as Wen as good
angels; nor that they are an about US.
tempting to eyn thoughts and deeds and
trying 10 destroy the effects or early re-
Hyious training. and ali the influences IF
good :nothers. and the principles they have
instHed with love, cateehisms and the
slipper cf holy adIuonition. These bad
angels asSsil the high and low, the rich
and the poor. The humble cabin Of
poverty is not too inconsiderable for them
TO invade. and the Flagstaff on the White
House IS 10 lightning rod to catch and
conduct uleir SHAFTS harmlessly to the
ground
All ttHnl n st in the house Of prayer aud
IL tlle Sunday-school Even a coed, good
nan like Mr- Mckinley has not been per.
initted to irradiate the atmosphere Of our
common country unpersecuted by these
bad angeIsl on his cheerful and confident
entrance into the Executive Mansion he
found one waiting for him on the threshold.
IT took him into its foul embrace. Its
name was Cleveiandism! 1t told him that
gold was better tHan hearts; better to love
than The prosperity Of the people; and 1t
whispered in his ear, with the sibilant
Mss OF the horrid serpent; Garry out
my Union Pacific steali The Wall street
Joi.brrS helped Hanna to the tune Of
$4,000 600 in 1896" WI he listen to
this seduction Of the bad angel Of cIeve-
landisl,2 on Tuesday we shan know!
Now there was, and is. good angel,
called Aneucanisrn, that has been wrestling
onits knees with Mr.. Mckinley. and Tapping
its wings at him in the glorious banner on
the roof OF his home, ever since the fourth
of March. 1t has wept and pleaded with
.iin. to throw the bad angel, Cleveland.
ism, and its companion spirit Hannaism,
down the hack steps 1t has begged him
10 heed the agonized cries Of outraged,
tortured, butchered women and children in
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4 Model Dwelling.

1t looks very much as If the tenement
house problem had been, if not solved, at
least greatly simplfied by two young
women 4 model tenement is to be
erected in New York before very long, aud
the architects are two young women who
have baenin the profession for several years
who nave built several large apartment
houses. and who prepared themselves for
graphing with the tenement house diff.
Guilty by living in a tenement themselves
for year
Tie trouble with the tenement in New
York has been that the houses used were
not properly designed for tenements. They
were old buildings which had seen better
days, remodeled into apartments by parti-
tions, ana more or less inadequate water
supply; or they were hastily erected struc-
lures, built with the one idea of making
money, and tenanted by a class too
ignorant and too careless to know what
was the matter or how TO remedy it. Now
an old building is about the worst place
possible for hive-Iike collection of families
who do not know how to live properly.
There is no ventilation, the house having
been built originally in open ground, and
with large rooms, which have been divided
up to suit modern exigencies; and what
ventilation there is, the tenants do not
know how to use. If people viii keep
gas burning all night, and huddle together
regardless Of health, and be careless about
cleanliness they must have house which
will ventilate itself, and in which the
water supply is so abundant and easily
reached that there VIII be some encourage
ment to keep clean. Above all, the rent
must not be so high as to put the place
out OF reach of the very class it should
benefit.
The new tenements are constructed with
a view to all these things. The smallest Of
the apartments has three rooms, all lighted
from the street or inner court, so that the
gas bin is much less than in those cuhby-
holes in which two OF the rooms must be
lighted artificially day and night. One
OF these rooms is the living room, another
the bedroom, and a third contains two
stationary washtubs, with a partition be-
tween, which, when removed, converts
them into a bathtub. In the liying-room
there is built-iu range, with place for
coal --an important point which seems
never to have been considered by those
architects who build tenements in which
coal must be bought by the bucketful.
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Though Dead, Yet Llveth.

"The evil that men do lives after
them The good Is oft inferred with their
bones" often, hut not always! Henry
George was q man of the sort whose
apostleship never is fully recognized dur
ing life. His philosophy too much repre-
sented complete revolution against the
spirit Of greco and oppression; but, being
dead and his intense personality with
drawn from the contest, his works viii
speak for him with force and power null
tipIied bv tte universal acceptance today
of mis- united honesty, love of humanity
and genius.
That Henry George WAS a great. good
and al honest American citizen, all in
tie highest sense that those terms can
lie applied, is conceded by the men who
opposed him, OF opposed tie application
of tie principles and doctrine he sought
to innllcate amounts to a national bene-
diction upon his mission. II does not
mean that ali ms feIlow-oountrymen agreed
or are willing to agree, with the details
OF the system Of which he was the apostle,
and, perhaps, the prophet. 1t does mean
tnat ali 4 Arne1oans recognize his patriotism,
his love for the country, and for the un.
derIy yiug principle upon which free govern
ment ever must be founded-the greatest
good of the greatest number.
So, we find statesmen, economists, jur-
lists, many Of them opposed to the plan II
the reform as susceptible of adjustment
TO present conditions II society, ioinirsg
heartily in giorification of the refoner
whose big heart swelled with grief for
the ills Of the people, and who with high
intelligence. and total Indifference to self,
sought an economic solution which should
make them free and happy.
It was hard, but we shall never cease
to think that it was wise and proyidentiaI
that his life work Should have been crown
ed with the glory Of proto-marty rdon. Il
was Appropriate, almost natural, that the
Tribune of the People should fail i'll the
smoke and din of battle for tie cause he
loved, aud To which his weak body. bat
his great train and soul, were devoted.
THE blood of martyrs is the seed OF
the church" Dying from the physical
exhaustion Of his splendid labors, his fear
less deuunciatlons Of corruption and crime.
and his self-a bnegation in commanding his
| followers to seek first the destruction of
the curse Of bOssism, without regard to
his personal candidacy, ought to speak in
thunder tones, through the exercise uf an
Independent american suffrage, at the
polls IL New York next Tuesday.
Well has it been said, that, two hundred
years hente, tie struggle Of 1897 in Greater
New York, against the evils and abuses
of the Croker Platt dictatorship, viii be
remembered only for the share tina Henry
George, the patriot, the philosopher and
champion OF the common people, had in
the fight. With equal truth, it is pre-
dicted that, fifty years from now. his
name viii be honored, and his memory
universally revered by all civilized nations,
as the memory and name of one of those
WHO have advanced the progress Of hanan-
ity, ana rne divine gospel of the rights
of man.
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AN INTERESTING REPORT.
Rendered by Chief of the Record
and Pension Office.

The annual report of the CHIEF OF the
Record and Pension Office was submitted
yesterday to the Secretary of War. Among
the interesting statements in the report are
the following:
1t has frequently been urged upon
the department. that persons employed by
tie States should be permitted to have
access TO the records and to extract from
them such information as may be desired
and the extension Of this privilege to his
torians. biographers, and other persons en-
gagged in literary pursuits, or their agents.
and even to claimants and attorneys I0t
persons having claims against the GOV
eminent, has been persistently demanded.
There seems to be an impression abroad
especially among attorney sandciaimage gents
that the official records are public property,
to W hich general and indiscriminate access
should be permitted, and it has been found
difficult or impossible i'll many instances to
convince interested persons that they have
not the right to inspect the records at will
and to make such extracts and transcripts
as may suit their interests or caprice.
To all such applications, those OF State
officials al well as those of persons OF no
official station, the department has been
compelled to apply the well -esta hliched rule
that access to the records must be denied to
The times., 1897-10-31

With the election in Ohio only three
days ahead of us, there is instruction in
observing that Administration organs are
remarking that Republicans are hope
fuI.' At corresponding stages of former
campaigns the Republicans have been in
tie habit OF claiming the earth. So, when
we see thea "hepeful," we know from
experience ana observation that they are
quite the rrserse. All the same, they
may not tie without a good basis for hope
II that Union Pacific steal is sure to be
consnmmated, there may be money enough
III ohlo OF Monday tc convince great
many doubtful voters who do not make
up their minds until the eleventh hour
The times., 1897-10-31

No American friend Of good government
80 American enemy Of the corruptions and
crimes Of political machine misrule as it
is1e0.eseated in New York by the personal
organizations Of Platt ana Croker, should
have any doubt concerning the effect which
tie death Of Henry George ought 70 have
upon the result Of the present struggle in
that ,ity. Nor do We see how it would be
possible for any earnest, selfTespecting
adhereut of :he fallen hero to hesitate ore
moment in accepting and acting upon what
practically was the dying rnessag Of the
great champion OF the people, and casting
his y-,te for tie surviving representative ot
the revolution against the government Of
corruption aud crime represented in the
organizations OF Croker and Platt.
What ought TO be is one thing, and what
may be quite another. Itmust Toe said that
tfe assumed confidence Of Richard Croker
may not be without foundation. 1t is true
that the consensus OF New York opinion
seems TO point t0 a landslide toward Seth
Low. on tie other hand, it should not be
forgotten tlat the enormous power ard
patronage OF the Federal Adminstra ton,
conjoneG with that Of the State govern
ment, both fully and freely welded by
Thomas c. PIatt, are in active conlbina adou
with the perfect organization Of Tammany
Han for the purpose Of defeating Low and
throwing the election to Van wyck. An
eonoealIrenis appear to have been cast
aside Federal and State officials are
working in pabllo harmony with CroGer's
ward aeele-s to this end. They have
combined national and State power be
hind them. and consolidated corruption
fund that stiII renders the danger great.
The outcorl- Of the battle as yet is
known only t. the God OF battles. One
thing is certain if the trinity Of Hannaism,
CroEensm, and Plattism should chance e.
win either through bribery, chicanery or
fraudulent practice, then it win be the
first tine IL therecent history OF New York
that an uprising Of all the honest and re-
spectacle elements Of society in that city
against oppression ard rasoaIity has been
defeated.
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An Honest Gentleman.

An independent Republican gentleman
new species of campaign platform, CON
structed mostly of brass. lie wants to
go to the Virginia legislature, and pro-
ceeds to give 1t a very black eye by
bis grounds for wanting to get there. He
solioits 7otes on the ground that he is a
rascal. He says:
People have tried so-called honest men
long enough, and 1t takes a rascal TO catch
rascal and keep up with his tricks,
This gentleman, o. j. Terry, declares
that whenever lie has been caught making
moonshne whisky he has paid the Govern
ncnts claim tand, presumably, gone on
and made some morel. He says that his
reputation for ways that are dark is well
known, and that rascal VIII have 80 sit
up till morning to get ahead of him. His
idea seems to be that the legislature
CT Virginia is composed of raseals. and
to send really honest man among them
would he Ike sending little, bleating,
woony lanlb with blue ribbon around It's
neck into q den Of ravening wolves. or
course he might wear wool outside the
State capitol and the natural hide within,
but he seens to think it win boom him
more ecfectuaIly ii he does not.
Undoubtedly, it Is good to be franz, but
whether it is profitable OF not depends
upon the subject Of ones frankness. yir-
giuia may be disposed to resent the in
sinuation about her legislature. But at
any rate, Mr.. Terry win not be in the
embarrassing difficulty of a voter IL New
York who has just been lfauled up IN the
police court for registering under an as
sumed name. This voter had TO explain
that wlile he went under al assumed Dame
In his lodging-house, lie thought it best
when 1t came to politics to give his real
cognomen. Mr.. Terry win keep the sane
name all the way through, and it looks
as If it ould be mud.
The times., 1897-10-31

Little Bo-Peep' wolcott is on his way
home, having lost his sheep" because
the shepherd Of his flock set up naughty
little job ON him, in collusion with the
still naugGuer British government, which
always can he caught with bait of
arbitration, or any other reasonable fly or
worm. II Little Be. Peep Wolcott had
walked out OF the st. Louis conven
ton with The rest OF the silver boys, he
might not have the memory Of princely
junket 20 comfort him but he would not
now he coming home with his tail hanging
town behind him" He viii have to re-
sumo his studies in the Republican school
with a cloud over him, and its silver lin
ing VIII only be worth measured in gold
Al cents an ounce.
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The Kodak Fiend.

In view of the prevailing craze for
amateur photography, it might he well
to insert n few specimens or sound, solid
sense among the artistic notions which
seem TO possess some people. The idea OF
the rising generation seems to be that
anyb.,dv can take a photograph, and but
ton-pressine receives as much attention as
sketchng did in the days Of our grand
mothers when part of every young lady's
education was instructionin sketchiBg from
nature--and funny sketches some or them
were, toe, and elaborated with hard labor
and salt sears. Now, it is not true that
anybody can take a Photograph, any more
than an unframed person can draw an
acceptable picture. Ninety-nine one hun.
credths OF tie average amateur photog-
rapher's work. TO say nothing OF the
The times., 1897-10-31

Judging from reports Of the evidence
given at the court OF inquiry into the
alleged laaltreatnent Of an enlisted man
at Fort Sheridan, in Illinois, who refused
to appear before a summary court-martiaI,
tie officers and commander of the post
seem to consider it agreeable to the ethics
of military discipline that he should have
been tied by the feet dragged downstairs,
across a cobblestone roadway and stabbed
and kicked severely by his captain while
in that condition Perhaps it was; but
if the American Army expects to attract
recruits from any respectable class of
citizens, the practice should be discon-
tinued, even at the risk of a regrettable
violation OF martial law.
The times., 1897-10-31

professional, is mere rubbish, and thing
60 make angels weep--f the old masters
have succeeded in reaching the regions
ADORE, and pay any attention TO the sphere
which TREY have left. The sun viii not
do good work al by himself, any more
than small boy, and sometimes he plays
prankish tricks with the camera, and dis
totts features out OF all recognition. More
otter the distortion is not so serious, and
the proud amateur pets and caresses his
work. ana deludes himself into the idea
that he has done something great. But
his work is really not Of so much value
as the oIdfashioned sampler, decorated
with Il berlounced woman weeping pear
shaped tears over a tombstone, because
the person who had flushed one af those
Things really did know something about
needIcwork.
This is not an attempt to prevent
amnteur photographers from snarpmg their
machines around the landscape. II is
simply an appeal TO them to study the
subject with some sort of scientific ac-
curacy, and not fan in love with their
own skill at too early a sta ge in the game.
To take really artistic photogra phs they
will have to spend as much time and
energy as TO make Il good sketch, aud
after they have done that II is a qGes-
zion whether better results and better
training, and more satisfa ction generally
could not have been obtained by learning
to sketch, Less troublesome than the ar
tistic phott graph, however, is the historic
photographs. Views of buildings may be
taken, views of bits OF landscape, which
can be gotten Mt easily, and pictures Of
rare curios for the use Of museums, which
cannot gel the real articles But the
idea that pressing a kodak button makes
one artistic, any more than turning the
crank Of "A sereet piano makes one musi-
cal, should be discouraged at once. aud
very much indeed. Art cannot be made
veneer or a plaything, and attempts to do
this only debuuch the artistic sense Of
tie country.
The times., 1897-10-31


There is a large closet in each room. The
rent for three rooms is So a month. For
sixroom apartment it is sig. The floor
of the bathroom is cemented, and the walls
are finished in Such a way that hose can
thoroughly, Contrasted with the average
tenement, even the average apartment
house Of more pretensions, this tenement
appears to be q wonder of beauty and con
venlence, There are nearly fifty apart
ments in the building, and 1T is believed
that the stockholders will get a good per
centage on their money, along with the
comfortable certainty that they are not
making 1t out OF human flesh and blood.
The times., 1897-10-31

The Presidents courteous message of
condGlence to Queen Victoria, On the
death of her cousin, Princess Mary OF
Cambridge. Duchess OF Teck, shows Mr.
Mckinley in pleasant light II is eyi-
dence tDat he can honor true, vigorous
patriotism in another country. Princess
Mary Of Cambridge was a notable per
sonage, aside from being a good woman
and decorous member OF the royal family
Years ago she was known all over the
empire as THE Peoples Polly" +" Why?
Because she was also called The Queen
of the Jingoes." 1t was she who headed
the popular outburst against the Russian
occupation of constantinople in 1873
1t is very satisfactory to observe that
Mr.. MCKINLEY can recognize the merit in
what is, and generally falsely, demon
strated "Jingoism"
The times., 1897-10-31
NEW JERSEYS FINANCES.
Comptroller Hancock Tenders Con.
rrntulafinns tfl IsnX E,.l.rsrs

Comptroller Hancock Tenders Com
gretulations TO Gov. Griggs
Trenton, \. j :, Oct. 3o.-The fiscal year
OF the State closed at noon today. This
afternoon STATE Comptroller William $
Hancock sent tI,e following statement OF
the financial Condition of the State 70 Gov.
Griggs:
Today closes the fiscal year. The bah
ance IN the treasury is S945,345-S9 an in
crease over 1898 OF 1921 ,30T II During
this intervening period there has Seen paid
Sal 1000 OF the State $ debt, and expended
on new buildings and extension OF Stats
institutions, 81 .046 ,S37 sc, and for the
past two years distributed 20 the Counties
for school purposes 100000, where for
Herly only SIoe,o00 was paid-a Sho wing
Oh which desire to congratulate you''
The times., 1897-10-31

grade cIerkships, at 81 500 and 800.
allow ed TO the office by existing law. 81
per cent OF the former and 90 per cent OF
the latter are filled with veterans. In the
lower grades. at 81 400, 81 200 and ST.
ua0, the percentages Of veterans are, re-
spe5tively, 40, 20 and 54. 1t is natural
that the percentage of veterans should be
smaller in the lower grades than in the
higher. because OF the large numb r of
young men " no have come into tn ofricein
recent years under civil-service laws, and
through certincatiOn by the Civil Services
Com mission.
The times., 1897-10-31

1t Is not pleasant to read the news
brought from the Klondike region by es-
Gaping miners. Early in September 1t be-
came ev1dent1n Dawson City that the sup
ply OF food in the district would not last
beyond January. Then wild rush for
sepvs, canoes and even rafts, began, and
al who could get away did so. There does
not seem rnnch grcund for hoping that the
winter win pass over without the horrors
of starvation and @orsein the upper Yukon
country.
The times., 1897-10-31
The optirnist.

The sun S losing its heat. they say;
The oceans are running dry,
And the marks Of death and OF decay
Are on everything under the sky.
The earth is fated to whirl in space,
AS dry as the moon S now,
With nothing alive upon its face =
They know but don't know how,
And | do not bother, nor do l care,
For when this comes about
Heat and water and light and air
viii be things 1 can do without,
Cleveland Leader
The times., 1897-10-31

The scump- in Ohio is great institution.
Mr. Hanna is quoted as wing that Senator
Foraker mounted il for him, as choice
between dofng atliat and going 70 jail
with his friend Knrtz as a companion .
The stump also is the physical object
which Mr., Hama will be up" III case
any accident should happen next Tuesday
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