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The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
CIVIL; SERVICE.
Synopsis OF the Principal Features
Of the Annual Report of the
COmmisxiOn.>

Washington, Jan. 22.-The sixteenth an
nual report of the United States civil serv-
ice commission has been submitted to the
president. The report opens with pre-
l1minary statement in regard to the ex-
tent of the classified and unclassified serv-
approximately 75.000 classified positions
and 1910 unclassifled positions; Of the
latter 10T are occupied by fourth-class
postmasters. There are 19,446 positions in
the executive service in the District of Co.
lumbta and more than 10000 distributed
among the states and territories. The
commission states that the expenditures
Tor salaries for the entire service, classified
and unclassif1ed. is approximately So, 000, =
UOO per annum, large increase having re-
suited from the war with Spain.
The commission for the first time dis
cusses the question of providing retire.
ment fund for superannuated employees,
and in this connection says:
1T Is suggested that the question of en-
acting law providing for retirement
fund for incapacitated employees, such fund
to be created and maintained by withhold
Ing certain percentage of the salaries of
employees, Is worthy of the serious atten-
ton of congress. Such law would not be
open to the objection of establishing a
civil pension list, and If it should be en-
acted the government would be the chief
retired list because Of their inefficiency
would be succeeded by active and energetic
persons in the prime of life.
Only 9.19 per cent. of those appointed
through the commissions examinations
have been removed from the departmental
service during the last 16 years, or little
over seven-tenths of one per cent. year.
The commission says the order of the
president of July q, 1897, prohibiting re-
movals from the competitive positions ex-
cept FOR just cause, and requiring that
the reasons Tor removals shall be given
IN writing and made part of the records
OF the office. has had a salutary effect in
holding the number of removals down to
the figures given.
The report gives special attention to the
extension of the civil service in our CO.
lonial possessions and lays stress on the
advlsab1lity of merit system. In this
matter the commission makes reference
to the last report of the secretary of war,
which recommended that wherever it is
necessary to employ Americans, except in
the chief offices, system of civil service
examination should be provided, under
which requests from the governors of any
or the Islands for suitable persons to be
appointed may be filled.
AS further argument, the commission
quotes from the proclamation of the Phil
1ppine commission, stating that the COR
rupt1ng influences of the patronage sys-
tenn should be suspended by a well-admin-
1stered merit system, thus enabling this
country to fulfill the promise of the Philip
pine commission to give the FiliDinos an
honest, economical and efficient civil serv-
ice.
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Died a. He Predicted.

Indianapolis, Ind, Jan. 22.-Rev.
Charles Harvey has been pastor of the
Methodist church at Eaton several
years. Last week on Sunday he
preached very affecting sermon to
his congregation, saying that it was
the last time he would ever address
them, as he would die before another
Sunday rolled around. He said that
he never felt better, but he was sure
that he would not live till another Sab
bath. Within a short time after reach
ing his home he was taken ill and
grewsteadily worse till early Saturday
morning, when he died.
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MINOR NEWS ITEMS.

Admiral Dewey and wife will attend
the mardigras in New Orleans in Febru-
airy.
Bigamists in Hungary are required
by law to live with both wives in the
same house.
The National Live Stock association
recommends leasing of government
grazing lands.
Alan Arthur, son of the late presi-
dent, lives in Europe. He finds that his
income goes further there.
Kansas City is to have another in
terurban electric railroad, to run to
Olathe, Kan. 21 miles distant.
Rev. J. NJ. Atwater died in Cleveland,
O., at the age of 62 years. He was at one
time president of Hiram college.
Hundreds of physicians from Illinois,
Wisconsin and Iowa are arranging to
60 to Paris on special excursion.
Uniform prices are now assured in
the glass tableware industry, as all of
the factions have been harmonized.
Gov. Brady, of Alaska, now in Wash
will be greater than ever next spring.
Henry Hughes, hero of the old navy,
has been admitted into the county aims
house at Chester, Pa, at the age of IS
years.
Cannonading does not interfere with
the sending of wireless telegraph mes
sages. This has been tested in South
| Africa.
Andrew Carnegie told Bible class
in New York poverty is blessed and a
boy should not be afraid to argue with
his employer.
An Italian bishop has invented an ap-
paratus to warn a railway engineer of
train approaching on the same track
and indicate its distance.
During the last year 25.202, 901 BUSH
els of grain and 2,19s,513 gallons of
molasses were used for the manufacture
Of liquor in this country.
William L. Wallace, of Chicago, has
been appointed special agent in the
census bureau, in charge of the collec-
ton of lumber manufacture statistics.
Fort Bayard, N. NJ, has been discon-
tinued as garrison post and the build
ings will be turned over to the surgeon
general of the army for sanitarium.
Jay B. Burrows, one of the principal
organizers of the Farmers alliance and
the populist party in Nebraska, died
suddenly at his home in Lincoln from
lumbaQO. '--.--A-
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WEST AND SOUTH.

The total customs receipts at the
port of Havana for the year ended
December 81, 1899, was $14,072, 114.79.
In a train collision on the Great
Northern at Hillyard, WASH, ten per-
sons were injured.
In Hillsboro, ILL.,, Edward Moore
shot and killed his wife at their home
installing her for burglar.
1t was shown by deathbed confess
sion that William Rose, who was
hanged in Redmond Falls, MIMI, ~
years ago for murder, was innocent.
Burglars robbed the Commercial
bank at Silver Lake, Ind, of $500.
At the meeting in indianapolis John
Mitchell was reelected president of the
United Mine Workers.
The trustees will request congress to
assume control of the Chicago drainage
canal and convert it into deep water
way connection between the great
lakes and the Gulf of Mexico.
Philip benson (colored) was hanged
In cambridge, Ca, for the murder of
Will Lane in November, 1899.
AsOOOCAo SCSu1Cu p1SoOV III l1lC UduA III
Elletsville, Ind.
A gang of counterfeiters who have
operated in the south for years were
captured near Nashville, Tenn.
Brig. Gen. Anderson has been placed
on the retired list and Brig. Gen. Wade
succeeds him as commander of the de-
partment of the lakes.
After March 13 Rev. G.. Nj. Sheldon,
author of I'm His Steps," will edit the
Topeka (Kan.) Capital for one week on
"What Would Jesus Do?' lines.
In Fort Scott, Kan, a mob lynched
George and Ed Meeks, two Kansas City
criminals, who were convicted OF the
murder of Leopold Edlinger, a young
farmer.
The Oregon democrats will hold their
state convention in Portland on An.
gust IL.
The two daughters of Rev. C. N. Day
were drowned in Cheat river, near Par.
! sons, W. Va.
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A Trap of Her Own Setting.

We have all met people whose pride in
their possessions is so great that they can see
no charms in those of others. A young bota-
mist was showing party of ladies and gen.
the choicest plants: Among the visitors was
q, would-be young-looking, middle-aged lady
who at every description volunteered the
statement that the plants and flowers she
had at home were quite the equal of any,
thing here or indeed anywhere.
Just as they were passing giant cactus
she was heard to exclaim:
"Well, this is nothing extraordinary. I
have a cactus at home that is still larger. I
planted and reared it myself"
Reared it YOURSELF" the professor
gently observed. GLOW remarkable! This
specimen. is 63 years old, and if yours is still
larger"
The lady did not stay to hear any more.
but executed strategic movement to the
rear.-Philadelphi Press.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

The government has a peculiar case
on its hands from Hawaii. C. D. Prin-
gle, a merchant, has taken possession
Of Cocoanut island, the most famous
spot in all the islands. and claims the
place under squatter's rights. The
government lays claim to the place be-
cause of its having been set aside
by the old monarchy as a quarantine
station for the harbor of Hilo. Our
minister has notified Pringle to leave,
but he has thrown up q small fort and
says he is prepared to defend his
claim by force If necessary. He has
appealed to Washington.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

Love laughs at locksmiths, but not at
telephones. A young couple eloped
from a place near Plainfield, N. j.. and
started off with horse and wagon for
Plainfeld to be married. The lovers
were pursued with another horse. It
was close race till the first vehicle
broke down in muddy road. But the
fugitives got hold of tandem bicycle,
and away they went. Alas! they had
forgotten the Telephone, and as they
entered Plainfield they were arrested
on a telephone message and detained
for their respective parents. Modern
science beats romance.
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FOUR persisted.
Disastrous Result of q Fire in a Big
Tenement House in New
Orleans.

New Orleans, Jan. ga fire which
started in barroom in the old St. Mary
market neighborhood soon after mid
night Saturday obtained considerable
Roadway before the firemen reached
the scene, and half dozen people in
the adjoining building were suffocated
before help reached them. They were
mostly Sicilians. Four were taken out
dead and the others will hardly live.
The family is named Giordano. The
origin of the fire has not been traced,
but the building is an immense brick
structure, honeycombed with poor tene-
mentS
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Butter for Soldiers.

London, Jan. PA committee of
Danish farmers has sent to the princess
Of Wales $4,000 boxes of choice butter
for the British soldiers in South Africa.
She has accepted the gift in the name
or the sick and wounded, and has re-
turned complimentary message,
which concludes with the phrase:
Especially as it IS present from my
native country, Denmark"
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Refuaed Big Brihe.

Washington, Jan. 22.-In the Clark
sensational investigation by the SEN
ate committee on privileges and cleo
tions Saturday T. F. Normoile, of
Butte, Mont, member of the last leg
islature, testified that he had been
approached with an offer of $12,50o to
vote for Mr.. Clark, but had not &C.
cepted it, and had voted for Conrad
throughout the contest.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

1888, and graduated in 1912. Studied paint.
ing under Copley, Fielding and Harding
and published work in 1S43 on Modern
Painters" aiming to prove the superiority
OF modern landscape painters, and espe-
cially of Turner, over the old masters. He
held different college professorships, and
wrote a number of works of a socialistic
tendency on political economy, and, in
1871, established the St. Georges Guild, an
Industrial society based on his peculiar
views in relation to capital and labor. He
was the son of wealthy wine merchant
who died in 1854 leaving him an ample for
tune. Since 1885 he has lived in retirement
on his estate at Brentwood.
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Perhaps we are growing more honest,
Or it may be that it is easier 10 be honest
under prosperity than under adversely;
at all events, in 1899 the total sum en-
bezzled in the country was remarkable
for tssmallness; it was 81, 21s, 1913. This
may sound like large sum, but when
one considers it with reference to what
might be termed the stealable wealth
of the country, it is trivial, and when
one knows that it is So, 632, 800 less than
that of the year before, and that it 10
the smallest total for 20 years except
1882. when it was s.. o00. 900. then the
real smallness of it appears.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

Mrs. Ballington Booth, of the Saliva
ton Army, is to open her home for
ex-convicts" in New York city. The
home will provide for 40 men at
time and will be a resting place for
them while they are obtaining work.
There have been many protests from
the people living near the lone who
fear the ex-prisoners, but Mrs. Booth
refuses to listen to them.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

The wife of President Loubet, of
France, celebrated her New Years by
giving $50 widows enough money 10
pay their January rent. It has been
said by some of the sham aristocracy
Of France that the president and his
wife are livery common" but it is evil
dent that they are of royal stock even
if their blood is not blue.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

It is very likely that model farm will
be established by the government three
miles west of Washington. A part of
the ground belonging to the Arlington
cemetery, a part for which there has
never been any use, will be turned over
to the agricultural department. The
house committee on military affairs has
agreed to the bill providing for the
farm, the action of that committee be-
ing necessary because of the fact that
the land is in the charge of the war de-
partment.
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In Mrs. Leutxert Alive:

Chicago, Jan. a2.-Louisa Luetgert,
for whose supposed death her hus-
band, Adolph Luetgert, was convicted
of murder, has been heard from again.
This time she is in custody at Akron,
o. Sunday night the sheriff of the
county notified Lieut.. Perry at the
Central station that the Ohio officers
were not mistaken in the identity of
their prisoner
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

Bells have been the same shape for
so many years that everyone naturally
supposed thati it was the very best shape
for them, but now up jumps bell
maker who has discovered that the
proper shape for the bell is tubular. It
is stated that the discovery will make a
revolution in bellmaking. All of which
goes to show that if we insist upon stay
ing in the old rut we will never know
what there is outside of it.
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= Next June with J eekbpa 1edehe Ave
eaundredth anniversary of the birth OF
@ute9herg, the 5t1yeutor Of printing,
4rhe contrast between his little supply
6faneterialaudt modern composing and
press rooms is good illustration of the
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
JOHN RUSKIN IS DEAD.
The Famous Author and Art Critic
Succumbs In London to an At
tack of Influenza,

London, Jan. %. - John Ruskin died
Saturday afternoon of influenza, aged
81 years.
The remains Of Mr.. Ruskin, in &C.
cordance with 4 wish he expressed
years ago, will be inferred in Coniston
church yard. The funeral will take
place on Thursday.
John Ruskin, eminent English art critic
and writer, was born at London, February
8. 1919. Entered Christ college. Oxford, in
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

The consummation of the United
States "open door" policy in China is
considered as one of the greatest Dip
]omatic strokes of modern times. BY
it all the European powers become
Pledged to pacific policy of CONNER
cial expansion and the United States
secures every desired advantage 1T
trade without meddling in the affairs
CT China or forming any entangling
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

While Lord Roberts is 81 years old,
Alexander the Great died at 80, Hanni-
bal was most successful at 81, Caesar
won Pharsalo at 40, Napoleon at the
height of his power was 40, Wellington
won Waterloo at 46, Washington was
commander in chief at 43, Grant was 43
when Lee surrendered and Lee was So,
and Sheridan was famous at 81.
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Will Amend the Laws,

Victoria, B. c., Jan. 22.-The provin-
cial government has declared it's inten-
ton of so amending it's alien exclusion
law as to hereafter permit Americans
to hold claims purchased from Cana
dian locaters. Such a concession quite
satisfies the Americans at Atlin.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26
How are ~ee-Ipsas ot5tb,. ,eai
briefly? IL it. to be, naughty-naught?

The physician that had his diploma
and necktie stolen on his arrival in
: Chicago is in real hard luck. A man
may be able to practice medicine with
2out diploma, but the public insists
3onrhis having a. neoktie.4 "a Sz%s 4
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

Frank L. Stanton writes in the At
laHfA Constitution of Georgia boy who
sent letter to his father, who was in
another town. This is the way it read:
Dear Dad-This is wrote to tell you
jamie wuz blowed up BY a toy cannon.
He went in your direction. If you find
him please send him home, as we are
worried about him."
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LATER NEWS.

The annual meeting Of the League
of American Wheelmen will be held in
Milwaukee this year.
At Nicholasville. KY, in a fit OF
jealousy, Alex Watt, colored, shot and
killed his wife and blew his brains out.
A British cruiser captured the French
steamer Gironde. The Gironde refused
to surrender until shot was fred
across her bow The vessel was taken
to Durham.
Thirty thousand more miners in the
mines of Austria have struck, their
employers having refused their de-
mand for higher wages and an eight
hour day.
AS the result of hazing at Thiel col
lege, Greenville, Pa, two freshmen,
Forest Davis and Walter Zimmerman,
were seriously injured.
The continued warm weather for the
past week has resulted disastrously to
the fruit crop in central Indiana, and
the growers of fruit announce that the
crop will be an entire failure.
Four convicts in the penitentiary at
Pueblo, Colo, stabbed to death VIM.
Whitney. captain of the night watch,
captured and bound two other guards,
and made their escape.
Captain julius Friedman, a million
aire, was found dead in his bed at the
Palace hotel, San Francisco. Death
was caused by heart disease.
The rod mill workers at the plant OF
the American Steel and Wire company,
Rankin, Pa, went on strike, closing
that department of the big works and
throwing idle about 1000 men.
Mrs. Dunbar, nurse at the Presby-
terrain hospital, at Omaha, Neb.,
yawned in such a way as to snap OF
break a cord on the right side Of her
neck.
Two companies of the 10th infantry,
under Maj. johnson, and three COM
panies of the 3sth infantry, command
ed by Maj. Muir, defeated 500 insur-
gents at Taal, province of Batangas,
taking the town. The United States
gunboat Marietta also shelled the
place. The insurgents had four can
non, two of which were captured.
Two Americans were wounded and 10
dead insurgents were found on the
field.
Two miners, named Kraft and Sweet
dropped nearly 1000 feet to death in
the Atlantic mine at Houghton, Mich.
Alfred Watts, the inventor of crys-
tai gold, which is used in dentistry,
died at his home in Brooklyn.
The supreme court of Iowa sustains
the inheritance law.
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IT seems as if the limit of humil,a-
tiSA has come at last to the horse. He
ha6 been used as d beast of protitless
b,1iaen, cut up into sausage meat and
ct&&rwise abused in the flesh, and now
DOCTORS ord haking a drunkard of him
ins@defthat with his virus they may
dextroy drunkenness in that unrelia-
man.
The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1900-01-26

An exchange H. trying TO- get up =
c6nsSovefsy over The rsmmatical con-
sttNction of the phrase: The: United
States." 1t is a poor time to start
sd<h a quarrel. Everybody is quite
sure just at present that the United
Stsfes Il, a1a1hmaf or IA grammar.
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Street Cars Tied I'm,

Albany, n. Y, Jan. 22.-An the
street cars in Troy were tied up Sun
day as result of the strike of 365 mo-
tormen and conductors of the United
Traction company. The men demand
20 cents an hour and ten-hour Gay.
The company operates lines in five
cities, including Albany, but the other
men refused to touch q car.
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: II i. just 2dasyeaif, no thatS~Edi-'
Non gave the first public exhibition of
9hls incandescent light in his labora-
Hory at Menlo Park. which led to the
Establishment of the first system of
selectric lighting ever established.
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A WEEKS HISTORY.
q. q r 1870 go 1850 80 10
The important Happenings Of a
y, i 4 BWa|a Briefly Told. ; oil
IN ALL PARTS OF THE UNION
All the Latest News of InterestSfr@
Washington, From the East, be
sE.ss West +smn the SQnt. {
r i II Izz 4 Il FdRE1es p1spA166HEs

FIFTY-S1XTH CONGRESS-.
1nSaspeech in the United States SEN
ate on the 10th Senator Hale (Me.)
declared=thet Hfny-tenths of the Ameri-
san peopleswere n sympathy with the
Beers in their war with Great Britain.
A resolutiep ipquiring Of the president
whether any representative of the
Ifansvaal government had applied for
recognition, and whether it had been
granted or denied, was passed. Senator
Morgan (Ala.) spoke in opposition to
the financial bill. Adjourned until the
ED. In the house the pension appropri
alton bill, carrying $145,245,25O, was
passed, and bill was introduced to ex-
tend our tariff laws to Puerto Rico and
create customs district in the island.
The United States senate was not in
session on the goth. In the house Mr..
White IN. CO. introduced bill to pro-
tect citizens of the United States from
mob violence. The special house COM
mittee appointed to investigate charges
affecting the eligibility of Representa-
tive-elect Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah,
reported in favor of his expulsion. Will
liam F. Aldrich (rep.), who contested
The seat held by CASTOR A. Robbins
(dem.), for the Fourth congressional
district of Alabama, was given the seat.
FROM WASHINGTON.
A special committee of the house of
representatives that investigated the
case of Brigham H. Roberts, of Utah,
decided that he should be expelled.
The committee on elections in the
house has agreed on favorable report
on a joint resolution for an amend
ment to the constitution for the cleo
ton of United States senators by d.
rect vote of the people.
A bronze statue of Daniel Webster
was unveiled in Washington in the
presence of the president and his cab
iret and other guests.
Many claims for pensions are being
received by the pension Office in Wash
ipgton as a result of the Spanish war.
American stock of gold since 1897
has increased $685., 100000. Europe has
not gained.
4Ac AuaA cslAuldteS uduc ny Tue ue-
partment Of agriculture give the wheat
crop of 1899 at 537, 300, S46 bushels, value
$319,545,259; corn crop, 2,07s, LAB 1898
bushels, value $629, 21O,11O.
By the sixteenth annual report of
the United States civil service commits
sion it. is shown that during the past
year 47,956 persons were examined for
all branches of the service, an increase
of 2,244 over last year; 1862 passed
and 1924 failed.
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Washington, Jan. 22.-The fund for
the Mcclellan monument, which it
is proposed to erect in Washington,
now amounts to about $4,000, and the
committee in charge will ask con-
gress for $4,000 for the pedestal: 1t
is hoped to have the ceremonies at
tending the laying of the corner stone
at the time of the reunion of the So
ciety of the Army of the Potomac in
Washington in 1901.