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The times., 1898-01-08

creating or abolishing offices when free
of personal relations to the incii.nbentS
than IL the places TO be 1eait with were
filed by their political favorit:s
II do not believe that civil service
examinations secure men OF betteF ca
pacity than the other system; put
where two men possess equal capacity
the one v ho feels that his tenure OF
office depends entirely upon the en-
cincy OF his work will be more likely
to earn his salary than the one VINO
places reliance upon outside pressure
to keep him upon the payroll
There are some reasons, also. OF
secondary character, which seem TO me
TO put at great discount the current
clamor of the Republican leaders
against the Civil Service Commission
and civil service principles. The appli-
cation of the civil service principles
to Federal offices has been gradual
and never, perhaps, until President
CIeveland's last order, have sufficient
number of offices been included in the
classified service to give falr test
of the value of the plan 1t was high
ly desirable to make the list conpre-
hensive enough to furnish this test.
President Cleveland, in his first adj
ministration, enlarged greatly the field
of the merit system. President Harri-
son came along and enlarged it's bound
aries still further; and President Cieye-
land, in his second administration
completed the work. There would have
been no consistency in stopping half
way, and it was no worse for CieVe-
land to make a sweeping order yeaI
ago than it would be for Mckinley to
do it now.
"On the whole. my judgment is that
we should continue the experiment in
augurated under the Pendleton bin
until we have given it fair and full
trial. No doubt many of the examina-
tions ought to be made more practical.
Some necessary exceptions Will be de-
veloped by experience, and the difficult
ties which are now magnifed by baf-
fed partisans will disappear with
time.
1T has been often pointed out that
the remedy for all real difficulties now
lies in the hollow of President MeKin-
ley's hand. Instead of making long
speeches in Congress to show that this
office and that office ought to be ex-
empted from the operation of the rule.
let Republican leaders convince the
President of that fact. and the relief
can be made instant and ample The
truth is that the efficiency of every law
upon our statute books depends upon
the good faith of those who admin
lister it.
IF the head of a department is truly
a friend of civil service reform he will
administer the law with vigor, discrimi-
nation. patience and credit. II, on the
other hand. he is its secret enemy he
will obstruct and deal double with its
provisions
Coming to higher ground. If Mr.. aie-
Kinley is the true friend of the civil
service principles, to which the Repub-
lican party has been so long pledged,
he will administer those principles with
a firm hand: he will treat as infidelity
to himself any infidelity on the part
The times., 1898-01-08
SATURDAY, JANUARY s. 1898.
Hawaiian Annexation.

When. on next Monday, the Ha-
waiian annexation treaty is called up
in the Senate by Senator Davis. chair
man of the Committee on Foreign Re
lations. the prospects for ratification
win be great deal brighter than they
were at the close OF the extraordinary
session. Since that time the aggres-
sions of European nations in China
have shown to the people OF this coun-
try what a precarious hold we shall
have upon the trade OF the Pacific. un
less we do something for the protection
of our interests and rights. Without
Hawaii we should be shut out of either
a cable or a coaling station between
San Francisco and Yokohama, and
helpless to maintain our commercial
position.
II viii be shown in executive
sessions of the Senate that another
power stands ready to seize the islands
the moment we reject them, and the
friends of the treaty are confident that
the necessary two-thirds majority viii
be secured without much difficulty.
This result viii not be reached without
a fight The hand of the Sugar Trust is
apparent in the sentiment which some
influence has attempted to work up in
the agricultural districts against the
proposition, on the argument that Ha-
waiian annexation viii operate to de-
press the American beet sugar industry.
But this is nonsensical idea and one
easily exploded.
The attempt forms a useful les
son IN showing how a single ma
tive interest, enriching a small CO.
terie of persons at the expense of the
nation. win conspire to destroy the
whole commercial future Of seventy
odd millions of people, simply to serve
its own selfish and immediate profits
and purposes. There should be no
doubt about the success Of the move
ment for annexation.
The times., 1898-01-08
Capt. Coverings Dignity.
,From the st. Paul Dspstch.l J

,From the st. Paul Dspatchl
I have q good sto Y on Capt. Lowering,
the United states Army officer who was
court-martialed, and was reprimanded by
the President for q show of bad temper in
re Private Hammond, also of the United
States Army, and a very contumac!ous
fellow indeed. The story has nothing in
it i'm the way of criticism of the captain or
the court martial. and so may be told
without suspicion of offensive partisan
ship.
Capt. Lowering then had a bicycle and
had become an expert as wheelman-so
expert, indeed that he had cssayed TO ride
without touching the handle bars, a feat
which, as eli who have tried it understand,
requires at first no little practice.
He was riding one day at Fort Sheridan,
his hands free from the bars, when the
wheel gave lurch and cast him hea dlong
over the bars and upon his nose. His nos
was skinned, his tunie was soiled and his
military dignity was the victim of COM
pound fracture.
Getting on his legs and gazing angrily
at the bicycle which had done him, the
captain, addressing it in the language of
belIigerency, called it a blank blank
thing in general, and then proceeded to
impute larceny to every spoke and to
all the OF her parts
On the same road a, private OF the
United States Army was driving cart
loaded with manure. 1t occurred to the
captain that fitting indignity for the
offending wheel would be to be broken
beneath the cart.
Drive over the bIanked thing! Drive
over it, Break it, he cried TO the driver.
The driver of the manure cart was ac
customed IT, obeying orders without swerv-
ing, and he did drive over it.
When the cart passed, the wheel was
tangle of ruin, and the captain had been
avenged.
The times., 1898-01-08

through ability, experience. and elective
affinity, men for our ordinary depart
mental work, statisticians, treasury ex-
perts, accountants of a high order. GUS
toms officers and consuls. The civil
service, under such conditions, even
would become a college for the gradu
alton of Ciiplomatists, and all sorts of
technical national experts and agents.
We are quite aware that this is the
extreme view of the service; but it is
what. in our opinion, intelligent and
patriotic friends of the merit system
mean in promoting and fighting for its
maintenance and extension. 1t is the
only logical ground upon which it can
be defended OF advanced.
The times., 1898-01-08
4 silly lie

We are very sorry TO observe that the
New York Herald is lending itself to
the cowardly and, on its face. false
story from Madrid to the effect that
General Aranguren enticed Lieut-C Col
Ruiz to visit him, ana then murdered
his invited guest. The object of the
canard is too plain for discussion, IL
is solely worked up to excite Ameri-
can opinion against the patriots.
The Spanish papers in Havana
have totally disproved the lie in
advance. Immediately after the ex-
ecution OF Ruiz. they gave all
the details of his foolhardy under
taking. Among other things they
printed statements made by him to
brother officers and others at the
Army and Navy Club on the night be-
fore his departure for the Republican
lines. He told them that he had asked
ATanguren, who was an old friend. for
an interview. The latter had answer
ed that he would see Ruiz, pro-
vided their conference was devoted en-
tirely to personal matters. and all po-
litical questions excluded. Ruiz had
replied that he wished to talk of 9TH
er things. whereupon Aranguren
wrote him, for Gods sake to keep
away" Ruiz said to his club friends
that he felt sure he was going TO his
certain death, but that he had given
his word to Blanco to make the at
tempt, and would keep TO it.
The Herald, in common with other
American papers, has published all
this in the past. How it can
surrender its columns and editorial
opinion to the silly SANDER cabled
from Madrid is almost beyond be-
lief. 1t goes to show to what
desperate straits the Administration
and other co-pareeners of Spanish
atrocity are reduced. in view of the
current situation in Cuba.
The times., 1898-01-08
Great Globe for Paris Exposition.

tfitui tEC ttistdEO 1ttHeS-i8cIdAl-J
The great gioac which is TO be the :ea-
turc of the Paris exposition is now Ge1r-
Iy completed. Elevators and stairways
will run to nine tiers or floors, from ga ch OF
which section OF the globe can be seen.
Il will thus be posSible~to follow the equa-
tnrial line, the temperate or the arctic tnh
antarctic cles and make thorough stiiy
OF the earth's surface.
TIC globe is being built by T. RuddimaE
Johnston on a scale OF 1 in 500. 600 OF the
actual size of tie earth, or, roughly, one
eight, OF an inch TO the mile. Ii VIII
measure cighty-four feet In dia meter and
have a surface area of 22. 600 feet.
Some idea of the vastness of the work
is conveyed by the fact that II the ma
teriaI composing the covering were TN.
rsGlef il would form a band one foot in
width and four miles ia length. In order
that the globe may be Property inspected
it will be surrounded By circular wall
around which win run series OF galleries.
The globe itself viii revoive slowly. thus
pernaitting the speetatorto view every part.
Every place OF any note viii be given and
all towns IF 5,0oo inhabitants, whilelarger
ts.wns viii be marked accurling 10 scale.
Various colors VIII be employed to dfstin-
euish between sea and land, forest and les
ert while every zone Will have different
shade.
The times., 1898-01-08
Convicted Statesmen.
lFrorn 1he chicaco Record.l

(From the Chicago Recoru-l
State senator Foster Mcfarland OF
Georgia, is chairman of subcommittee
which was appointed 10 Investigate the
condition of the convict force in the oke-
fenoke swamp, engaged in cut ing lumber
He has Just returned, and relates novel
and exciting experience. The COMMITTEE
uren wanted to croSs a creek. They had no
boats, and took off their own clothes TO
wade. The day was cool and they donned
some regular convict clothes, which they
had. Arriving on the other side they ran
shivering into some nearby farm houses in
full convict apparel to change their
clothes. The natives, thinking they were
harhcrinle crowd of escaped convicts,
suiInaned their neigtlhors, and guarded
the Georgia statesmen all night. Sunday
morning some friends arrived and idenii-
fled them, after which the guard relea sed
them
The times., 1898-01-08
"a Lass Am In

a lass am / !, and l wait my day:
TO some t will hc nay. but to one I W ill
be yea:
When the tiiue comes, I shall know what to
say.
The wi,.ler goes, and the warm wind blows.
And who shall keep the color from the
red. red rose?
4 lass aln neither high nor low:
NV heart is mine now but ID have the
world KNOW.
When the x ina S light, away it will go.
The brook sings below, and the birds
sing above.
And sweeter. in between sings the lover
10 his love.
john Vance Cheney.
The times., 1898-01-08

DR.. Schenck, the eminent biologist of
the University OF Vienna, thinks lie has
discovered the determining causes which
dominate the problem OF sex in the progeny
OF men and other animals. If true, the
professor has made a great stride in the
march of antllruioioSical science. Perhaps
also he could solve the merely pathological
question to whether the name Hanna
is feminine tas it sounds) masculine, Re
publican or gold Democratic mugwump?
An immediate reply might assist Ameri-
cans in laying the odds on the result in
Colu,ubns next week
The times., 1898-01-08
Immigration.

tFrOn the HOSton IOurnai.l
Among the Immigrants landed at New
York last Thursday were one Bohemian
who was a raying ma niac, requiring ten
men to overpoNer and secure him; one
German imbecile who had been dischlrs ed
from the German navy for mental unsoin i
ness and sent tu this country by his father
60 get rid OF him; ana one German jailbird
whose pa ssage had been paid hither so
that he might not be a burden TO his
guardian.
The times., 1898-01-08

but So 900 600. Q The Sun says that
the list it gives represents only little
over one-third of l per cent OF the total
of 9T6 Ola pensioners. who altogether
require an appropriation of over $14S,-
600 zoo thirty-two wears after the war.
Ii becomes more and more apparent that
the Congress VIII have to look into this
matter, whether the Administration likes
IL or not.
The times., 1898-01-08
I.onded for bear.

tFrom the Chicago Record.l
Martin Carson FitZsi,nmons, aged two
months. contempiates a grim future in
which he must struggle along under a
name which commentaries (a) prize
fighter; tbl q prize fighters manager, and
tcb theoGly town in the United States where
an avowed prize fight has been tolerated
in recent years.
The times., 1898-01-08
A little Sticker.

(From the Yonkers Statesman.)
Yeast-Why do they call il the busy beeo
Crimsonbeak-Did You ever have one get
at work on you?
'.Oh, yes"
We'll, did you ever know anything to
stick closer To work.
The times., 1898-01-08
Circulation Statement.

Readers Of The Times acho may at oas
time be unable to procure copies OF IL at any
,,etcs sand. railroad station or oa railroad
trains sciH confer q faror upon tie manage
aaent Bv sending to this e6tcc Information o.
the fact
The times., 1898-01-08

Mr.. Lakes submarine boat has been
able to telephone FROM under the sea, off
Baltimore, 10 people in that city and
Washington. Jules Verne could not have
done better Mr.. Lake now purposes TO
raise sunxen wrecks. We recommend his
services to Mr.. Hanna in connection With
that gentleman's Senatorial aspira tions In
Ohio. He Will have to have subua rine or
underground help OF some sort to pull out
Having been something of a wrccker he
knows huw,it is himself.
The times., 1898-01-08
The Point Of View.

VI TWIH Ute CnNstSU T UslJ
what do you think of yegetarianiSfi9'
she asked.
Well" he replied cautiously, Il should re-
gard 1t much more highiyif were either q
turkey or a cow.
The times., 1898-01-08

People engaged i'll political matters
as a rule do not sufficiently recognize the
preeept: Love your cnemies. Now how
in the name of Ethan Allen and the Con-
tinental Congresses to speuk-any Demo
crat can help loving Marcus Aureltus Hanna
il is impossible for us to conceive what
more could anyone tio for US than Hanna
is doing? Oh, let us love him for the evil
he has wrought and is wrea king! He reeks
beautifully.
The times., 1898-01-08

There il =. preacher out Il Missouri who
has the iaupdice in his mind. He is not
by auy means the only sufferer or his
day and generation, but sermon which
he recently preached has caused the earth
around his habitat to turn yellow, ana
he Is therefore of interest ak curiosity.
The subject OF his discourse was do They
DriHk Whisky in Jupiter, Dance in Mars.
and Play High Five in Venus?" No syn
licate has yet gotten hold of the sermon,
and it is not know n just what the reverend
gentleman did W 18th his subject, but the
subject alone would be food for thought
for a whole lunatic asylum. He is almost
q bird, is this preacher; at any rate, he
may be called a bat. 1t is evident that
he has burned good deal or midnight
oil in studying these Inomentous questions,
aud has flown about more or less in the
night, and has studied the life
OF the man about town from sci
entific point of view. Whether there
are apy abuses nearer home which it is
his business TO rectify does not seem
10 concern him at all He, Inein Werther,
is at,ove il all, he is alone with the stars.
OF course. min ister has right to lie
yellow il he chooses, just as newspaper
or d playwright, or a novelist or a cain-
paicn orator. Like them, he is usually
yellow for cash. He is seldom original
in his methods, being ordinarily weak
imitation OF each of them iii turn. But
in glancmg over some of the sermons which
people are obliged to hear if they stray
into certain churches, one signs for the
oll-fa Sllioucd, uneducated preacher, VINO,
when he had TO he sensational, quoted
the prophet Isaiah instead of the Bowery
The times., 1898-01-08

Senator Wellington and Congressman
Mcdonald. in discussing the Maryland
situation yesterday, said It was an un-
fortunate setback to the party 10 nave
the House organized by the selection
of the combine candidate, but eoth
agreed that the pressure Wouid De so
strong that these holters Wouid De com
nalIad ultimately to return 10 the foid
ana vote for the caucus nominee for
senator. Both these gentlemen thlnk
Judge McComas will be elected. it IS
understood that the pressure VIII como
from the city of Baltimore. which can
not afford to permit eleven men, not
majority of the city delegarion, TO tnln II
the influence of the counties against
the city in pending legislation.
The times., 1898-01-08

The New York Sun. la it's roll OF honor
publishes The names and addresses OF all
national pensioners who draw FROM $40
To S516 a month from the Government.
OF this high class there are only 3 .52S
and the total yearly amount involved is
The times., 1898-01-08

Reports from Europe Indicate that the
Rothschilds OF London and Paris have
thrown up the sponge" as far as any
hope that Spain can reconuuer Cuba NAV
be concerned Sagasta only hesitates to
ask American intervention because he
fears "a Carlist a Republican outbreak
or 10th. But he will have 10 come TO IL.
Spain's great creditors will insist. Then
we shall see the revival of the Olney-Atkins
deal TO coerce the Cuban republic into as
Suming the Spanish Cuban debt as the
price OF liberty already won. The Admin
istration gives signs of preparation for
such profitable industry. Why not?
II is another OF the OLD campaign debts.
The times., 1898-01-08

A London dispatch from Shanghai states
that Russia is trying to secure from
China some such concession as has been
given TO Germany at Kiao Chou. English
opinion to tile contrary Or otherwise. Russi;,
probably VIII not have to try very hard
TO get anything in the Empire that any
other power has been able to. And, by
the way, ii Chinese ports of prime adj
vantage to commerce are for rent, we
might perhaps raise the means 10 hire a
small onci
The times., 1898-01-08

A gentleman temporarily in the city
on business wandered into the House
gallery yesterday while Representative
Burton, of Ohio, was talking on civil
service reform and sat down to listen
to the proceedings. The speaker had
his hack to him. The moment the Vlsl-
to-, he ard the voice he recognized IL
as one with which he had once been
familiar Leaning back in his seat ne
closed his eyes and let his thoughts
roam through the past. A moment
later there came before him the vision
of a class room at Oberliu, Ohio, and
the voice of the professor under whom
he read Homer became identical with
the voice of the speaker on the floor.
Just then Mr.. Burton turned TO answer
a question and the man recognized the
face. although he had not seen 1t OF
heard the voice for twenty-four years
When Mr. Burton emerged from the
chamber he found his former pupil
there TO congratulate him. An invita-
ton TO dinner followed and it is safe
to say that old times were discussed ~
the two last evening.
The times., 1898-01-08

Communications intended for publication
an The Times should be tersely and pleiaig
acritteH and mast Ia az cases be accompanied
or The name and address of the aeriter. he
jec'ed communications wdi Rnt be prcserced,
aud only manuscripts II obriouS Importance
sriU be returned 10 tteii' authors.
The times., 1898-01-08

There was some amusement III tiie
Senate cloak room yesterday oNei
statement emanating from ffoi.
SchoenfeId. of Columbian UNIVERSITY ~
the effect that the Spanish prisons In
Cuba were more like palaces thah
prisons. and that the prisoners were
we'll kept and well fed. Prof. Schoeh-
faId has recently been in Cuba, ana
comes back presumably with fund oi
information obtained from his personui
observations. Some one asked VINO .'e
professor was and it was said that II
was then learned that, although ne Is
one of the professors at the university
and a talented man, he has been hiihS
the position of private tutor to the
children of the Spanish Minister. rms
may not, however, have anything TO 90
with his views of the Spanish treat
ment of Cuban prisoners.
The times., 1898-01-08
CAPITOL GOSSIP.

Whether he is ever confirmed or not,
Mr.. Charles Page Bryan can point to
the Congressional Directory and the
latest revised diplomatic list as his au-
thority for the statement that he was
once United States minister to China.
His name appears in both of these
publications. 1t is a custom when
man is appointed in recess to have his
name inserted in the first edition OF
these publications after his appoint
ment, and that is how Mr.. Bryan came
to be designated as minister to China
1t was not to be expected that the ed
itors of those Journals should know
the Senate would precipitate row and
hold his name back. In the same way
a few years ago. when Mr.. HornbloWer
was nominated to be one of the asso-
ciate justices of the Supreme Court, ms
name got into the directory under the
same circumstances. Mr.. Hill succeed
ed in having Mr. Hornblower re1ecteo
by a vote that was so one-sided as
to be almost ridiculous. Still the VI
rectory says that Mr.. Hornblower was
at the time of it's issue one OF the
Justices of the Supreme Court.
The times., 1898-01-08

Representative Northway. of chic
whose name is mentioned as a COM
promise candidate instead Of Hanna
said yesterday; Il am not candidate,
nor will l be under any circumstances
The opposition to Eanna is picking nr
men all over the State and urging them
forward to al1ay the indignant on
against the conspiracy by saying, We
will nominate your mar Their plans
will not succeed.
The times., 1898-01-08

Evidently the House is beginning to
tire of this ceaseless and apparently
endless discussion of civil service re-
form. An unsuccessful effort was made
yesterday to reach an agreement to
close debate. Finally Mr.. Moody gave
notice that he would ask vote Mon
day afternoon The debate in commit
tee of the whole always takes wide
range. THE state of the union is
prolific field, and anything unda: the
sun can be discussed without oues-
ton as to whether or not it is gerplane.
The times., 1898-01-08

The troubles of Greater New York have
begun in the Postofriee Department Peo-
pie who are proud to show that they read
the newspapers and know that Brooklyn
Long Island City and other towns have
been swallowed by Gotham, are directing
their letters simply New York City. Now
there are streets OF the same name in three
or four Of these places, and there is no
possible way of telling which OF them is
meant. The only resource is to SEND the
letters around frum one place TO another
until they find their owners, and that tn Kes
considerable time. By-and-by the duplicate
streets will be given other names, and then
there will be peace and order IN he Amer
inan METROPOLIS but all trouble in this
line win probably not end for some years
to come.
The times., 1898-01-08
Then why Not Tell Us,

tFrom the Memphis Scimitar.)
At last we know what's the matter with
Hanna.
The times., 1898-01-08

We congratulate Mr.. Reed upon his pro-
posed amendments to the rules" of the
House. If he feels that he requires any, 1t
may be taken as a sign of amendment"
otherwise than by vote. We confidently
had expected that he would dispose of the
whole question by Siinpie repeal of the
rules noninally in force, but perhaps he
may be able To reach the same result
through an intelligent use of parliamentary
yerbiage.
The times., 1898-01-08
Boys UlSterS.

These are for the short pants wearers
and there are about % of them
They're cut very long, with big storm
collars, ulster pockets, and warm plaid
Innings None larger tban IL years.
They're $3.50 UIsters-closed Gt 50
out today at - Pi' ~