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wo are in the right; and although I have perfect confidence in the honor and intelligence of our officers (cheers), I will not now assume that they may not have been misled. I will prepare myself for the issue, and I will abide by it. as far as I can, in a spirit of impartiality. What I say is, that those who hare caused such an engagement to fail, ought to become known to their own government and to each contracting party. I will not eay we are even now in possession of all tho facts of the case; bnt we are in possession of facts which create in our minds impressions unfavorable to the conduct of some of those who form the other party to these negotiations. But I will not deviate from the strictest principle of justice in antici]at.ing anything of the ultimate issue of that fair inquiry which we desire to prosecute and are endeavoring to prosecute. The causo of that deplorable collision may be uncertain. Whose was the provocation is a matter of the utmost consequence. We know that the attack was a Russian attack. We know that the Afghaus suffered in life, in spirit and in repute. We know that a blow was struck at the credit and authority of a sovereign who is our protected ally, and who had committed no offense. All I say is. that we cannot, in this state of things, close this hook and say, ‘We will look into it no more.’ We must do our best to have right done in this matter. Under these circumstances there is cause for preparation, and I hope that the House will feel with me, after what I have said, the necessity w’e are under of holding the Soudanese fund available for service elsewhere. 1 hope the House will not press upon us a demand for time, which can have no other effect than propagating here and elsewhere the belief that there is some indecision in the mind of Parliament (loud cheers], whereas. I believe that, with one heart, and one soul, and one purpose oi'ly, while reserving absolute liberty of judgment in the conduct of the government, and visiting them with its consequences, the House will go forward to perform and meet the demands of justice and the calls of honor, and will, subject only to justice and to honor, labor for the purpose of peace.” [Loud and general cheers. ] The vote to pass the entire credit of $55,000,000 en bloc to the government, as Mr. Gladstone had requested, was then put from the chair. The credit, in this form, was at once agreed to without dissension, amid loud and prolonged sheering from both sides. The cheering was renewed and made tumultous when Mr. Gladstone •rose from his place and passed out of the chamber. Commendation from France. Paris, April 28.—The newspapers here today praise Mr. Gladstone’s speech and applaud the patriotism of the English Parliament. The Temp? says it expects that, after exhausting diplomacy in order to maintain an honorable peace, Mr. Gladstone will employ those rare administrative qualities which have made him the first financier of our time in preparing for and prosecuting war. TIIE POLICY OF WAITING. The Part Played by Time In the Tactics of England's Premier. Cable Special. From the. very beginning of the Afghan muddle it has been noticed that Mr. Gladstone has always had some very good reason at hand why England should wait. For many months it was because General Zelenoi, the Russian boundary commissioner, had not yet met Sir Peter bumsden. Tho Russians advanced iu force from Sarakhs into the disputed territory and Englishmen grew impatient, but they were tpld that nothing could be decided until after the durbar between Abdurrahman and Earl Dufferin. Before the durbar was concluded General Komaroff slew some hundreds of England’s Afghan allies and seized Penjdeh. The British became furious, but were told to wait until the official reports were received. When Komaroff reported that the Afghans were the aggressors his government loaded him with honors and the British government said: ‘‘Let us wait and see what Sir Peter Lumsden says about it.” Sir Peter Lumsden said flatly that Komaroff's report was a pack ot lies, and the people again became very hot in the collar. Mr. Gladstone then proposed that an international commission of experts should sift the contradictory reports, and that England should, of course, await the result. The mixed commission was agreed to by Russia, although without the slightest hint that she would consider herself bound to abide by its decision, and this projected debating club on the frontier was given the pleasing title of an “Arbitration of the Penjdeh Affair." In the meantime, Russia holds Penjdeh, Tulfikar, and i dozen other points in the disputed zone, and - undisguisedly reaching out for Herat The tritish public must be lulled again, and it is old to wait until a budding diplomat can bring a tisnatcb box 5.000 miles from Sir Peter Lumsden oEarl Granville. The result of all these-delays has been precisely what Mr. Gladstone has calculated it would be. It is just twenty days since the massacre on the Kooshk. and the capture of Penjdeh became known in London. The man that should have suggested arbitration then would have been mobbed on the streets. Tho very least that would bo heard of in the way of reparation was that Russia should recall Komaroff in disgrace and surrender Penjdeh. otherwise there must be a declaration of war within twenty four hours. During the weeks that have elapsed since then there has been nothing to change the situation except that Russia has glorified Komaroff instead of cashiering him. But the softening toueh of time has done wonders, as Gladstone knew it would. Earl Dufferin has decided that “Penjdeh is not worth fighting .about.” The Jingo Times has admitted that “much of what Russia demands might be conceded without harm. ” The steady advance of Russia upon Herat is regarded with apathy, and the rumor of another Russo-Afghan battle excites only a feeble ripple of interest It is undeniable that. Mr. Gladstone believes that England’s only chance of peace lies in gaining time. The Premier's constant dream just now, and his highest present ambition, is to retire in a blaze of glory, after having finally and peacefully settled the dreaded Central Asian question.' He confided this ambition to a close personal friend a few days ago, and he added: “It is this alone that enables me to bear the jeers of the Tories and the suspicion and apathy of the Whigs.” \ ■ ll 1 —" -■ ■ Steamship News. Havre, April 2& —Arrived: Dam ora, from Baltimore. Halifax, April 28.-—Arrived: Manitoban, from Glasgow. New York. April 23. —Arrived: Wyoming, from Liverpool. Queenstown, April 28.—Arrived: Alaska, from New York. Glasgow. April 2&— Arrived: Norwegian, from Philadelphia. Sopthampton, April 28. Arrived: Main, from New York for Bromen. Unsigned Bank Notes Stolen. El Paso, April 28.—Today a box containing 00,000 in unsigned bank notes of the Banco lexuauo, stored in the custom house at Paso cl Norte, was broken open and robbed of all but ue $5,000 package. Three custom house officials . re under arrest on suspicion. Terrorised by Strikers. DaYTON, O , April 28. Stone reasons on strike here for increase of wage* marched in a body to J. D. Platt’s new residence, and badly beat tho n*-u at work, and compelled them to quit. Other reaion* quit because of threat*. Saloon Regulation for Cinoiuuati. CoU’MBUS, April 28.—The Legislature to day passed ft law requiring saloons, in Cincinnati to r< nmm closed from midnight until S A. at.

INDIANA AND ILLINOIS NEWS The Daily Chronicle of Happenings of All Kinds in the Two States. A Woman Commits Suicide by Hanging—Sensational Divorce Suit—Children Poisoned by Eating Poke-Root—Gleanings. INDIANA. Suicide of an Old Lady—A Sensational Divorce Suit. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Columbus, April 28.—Mrs. Elizabeth Foust, a widow aged about sixty, living seven miles from this city, committed suicide last night by hanging hereel? to a beam in the barn. Her brother committed suicide in the same manner a few years since, while insane. Her daughter was recently sent to the insaDe asylum, and it is supposed that her mind was affected also. A somewhat sensational divorce suit was filed in the Circuit Court here to day. Mary A. Kyle brings suit against Albert Kyle for divorce and SIO,OOO alimony, alleging abuse, habitual drunkenness and inconstancy. The defendant is an ex county commissioner, a wealthy farmer, and one of tho most prominent men of the county. Robbery by a Plausible Stranger. Special to tho Indianapolis Journal. Elkhart, April 28.—While Gibson Smith, a farmer living near Goshen, was on his way home, last night, with a valuable team, he permitted a stranger to ride with him, who drugged him with liquor. * When Gibson came to consciousness, he found himself near home, but minus his team, which tho stranger had appropriated to his own use. Minor Notes. Elder M. M. Vancleve, of the Baptist Church of Crawfordsville, performed his 531st marriage ceremony on Sunday. William Rodebaugh, brakeman on the Chicago & Atlantic, was run over at Huntington and instantly killed. Hickson Halstead, a farmer south of Connersville, had ten hams and a quantity of other meats, amounting to SSO, stolen from his smokohouse night before last. Jacob Hafling, charged with killing a man in Dubois county, six months ago, by clubbing him to death in a saloon, has been arrested iu Louisville, Ky., and taken to Jasper. The trustees of Hanover College have elected Rev. A. P. Keil. of Seven Mile, 0., to the chair of Latin and modern and have created anew chair of physics and astronomy, to which they have transferred Prof. John F. Baird. The Republicans of Crawfordsville held their city primary election, last night, for the purpose of selecting a candidate for couneilmen from each ward. The result was: John Bishop, in the First ward; J. A. Naylor, in the Second ward, and T. M. Robbins, in the Third ward. The first named had no opposition. The Odd fellows of Tipton, and visiting members from Kokomo, Windfall and other points, celebrated the sixty-sixth anniversary of Oddfellowship. The progt amine was well arranged, and the street display was an imposing and interesting sight. At night addresses were made by Hon. A. N. Grant, of Kokomo, and Elder J. C. Bartholomew of Tipton. Allen Dodge, of Oxford, 0., and his wife have been visiting her parents at Richmond for several days. On Monday evening, when Allen came hack from up town, ho found a letter addressed to him on the table, signed by his w T ife, which read: “Allen, I have left you; I am going to Chicago; don’t weep for mo.” He went to Oxford that night after money, saying that he would be hack the next day to trace her up. ILLINOIS. Children Poisoned by Fating Poke-Root— One lloy Dead and Another Very Sick. Special to the Indianapolis Journal. Greenville, April 28.—Charlie Palmer, aged five years, and two younger companions, sons of John Perkins, a farmer, of Woburn, a small town about five miles north of this city, were playing in the woods ou Sunday last, and were all poisoned by eating poke-root, which they thought to be calamus. The youngest child of Mr. Perkins died from the effects of it* and the other i3 yet in a very critical condition. Charlie Palmer was slightly affected, but will probably recover, One Vote for Logan. Sprtnofeld. April 28.—1n the joint session of the General Assembly, only one vote was cast for senator, which was given to General Logan. general looan’s relation to the contest. Interview in Chicago Tin eg. “The impression seems to be growing, since the publication of Senator Torrance’s letter, that General Logan’3 tactics are resulting, not in the obstructing of business, but making more than probable the election of a Democratic senator. A reporter for The Times found General Logan at his residence. He was feeling tired, and was about to retire, but he consented to be interviewed. although while doing so he remarked: “1 guess you know more about tho situation, than I do.” “Do you still hope to succeed yourself as senator!” “Yes, sir. Why shouldn’t I? I have as good a chance of being elected as any one else that l know of.” “Do you think you are obstructing the election of a Republican senator, as a Republican paper claims, by your continued candidacy?” “I have nothing to say in reply to that. The Republicans in the Legislature are masters of their own judgments and their own actions, and I guess they understand their own business.” "Then it is not true that you are fighting as a dictator?’’ 3B“No, sir. lam not dictating to anybody. I have told my friends that whenever they see their way clear to elect any Republican other than myself, they are .at liberty to call anew caucus and make an effort to do so.” “Do you think there is a possibility of electing a Republican while the tie is unbroken?” “The Republicans in the Legislature understand two things: first, that so long as there is a tie it may cot bo possible for them to elect anybody: and second, that if they break f Keir ranks the Democrats may elect someone.” “Then you think your candidacy, at least for the time being, unifies your party?” “That’s it precisely. I have no doubt bnt that is what makes my friends keep me in tho field.” “Is it true that, if you can not be elected, yon will not permit any other Republican to beP “No, sir. No Democrat shall succeed roe iu the United States Senate if I und my friends can prevent it.” Brief Mention. Henry Boxmeier, while intoxicated, fell into the river at Quincy and was drowned. At St Johns, near Uentralia, William Perry jumped from a moving train, struck a switch post and was instantly killed. Zed Strathen, brakeman, threw himself under a moving engine, at his home at Pearl, and was iiistantly killed. An unsatisfactory love affair is given as the cause. The Winklebaek murder trial vs on ngain at Charleston for a rehearing. Winklebaek is charged with the killing of Mr. and Mrs. Fleetwood. near Hardin, who were found murdered ia their beds. Mm Miles, seventy years old, living on the outskirts of Rockford, was assaulted by a negro named Johnson, and beaten so badly that it was, for time, thought she could not recover. The negro escaped. A young itiui named Howard, living near Noawegun, ** afflicted with rlieumatism of the kuee. A traveler styling himself a doctor promised to cure him, for which he waa to receive a

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horse when the cure was effected. The stranger by fraudulent means got possession of tho horse and fled. Fayette Lodge, I. O. O. F., at St. Elmo, celebrated tlie bixty-sixth anniversary of Odd-fel-lowship. Rev. 8. P. Chapin, of Altamont, delivered a masterly address. Oteco and Altamont lodges were alio well represented. TELEGRAPHIC BREVITIES. Seventy-five employes of the Westinghouse Machine Company, at Pittsburg, have been suspended on Account of a lack of orders. The men, who have been working half time most of the winter, are very despondent over the suspension. Fred Tyler was shot and killed yesterday morning at Traverse, Dak., by Anton Nelson. The latter gave himself up and is in the hands of officers. The men quarreled over the right to a claim on which both settled two years ago. The committee of New York architects that examined buildings that had been erected in different parts of that city by builder Buddensick reported yesterday that nearly all of them would nave to be taken down and rebuilt; that the walls bulge an 1 were out of plumb, the foundations defective, and the buildings constructed of detective material. R. D. Muiian, division superintendent of the Cincinnati Southern railroad, was chloroformed while asleep at the Real House. Chattanooga, and robbed of nearly S3OO. He awoko at daybreak, greatly nauseated, and could scarcely breathe. He found his clothes scattered about, the pockets rifled, his room door burst open, and a chloroform odor still strong in the room. At a meeting of coal miners at Irwin station, on the Pennsylvania railroad, yesterday, it was decided to continue tho strike for sixty cents per ton. About 1,500 miners are involved in the strike. A majority of them are in straitened circumstances, and a public subscription has been opened for their benefit. An unusual feature of the strike is a temporance revival conducted by ex-Master Workman Rankin, of the Knights of Labor. Over 400 signers to the pledge have been obtained. AFFAIRS AT PANAMA, [Concluded from First Page.] guard the railway approach at night, and a cordon of twenty sentinels guard the terminus at the Pacific mail dock. The national troops nre within two days 5 march ot Oartagene. and news of an attack on that city may be expected any day. Upon entering Panama, on tiie 24th inst., Commander MeCalla issued a small fly-sheet in the French. Spanish and English languages, giving his reasons for entering the city. Hedirected all bars and drinking saloons to be closed; stated that no armed force would be allowed to enter the city, and that the Uuited States forces would do police duty. MeCalla further explained, through this fly-sheet, that by allowing disturbances in Panama the United States would greatly endanger their guarantee of an open transit; that events at Colon proved that this action was prudent and advisable. The disinterested service of the American troops was applauded and appreciated greatly by the better element of the citizens. The city was turned over to General Aizpura upon his signing a treaty that no barricades would be erected, that no fighting should take place in the streets, and upon his guarantee to protect foreign lives and property. United States Consul-general Adamson has given prompt information to the American commander of Aizpura’s warlike preparations, and has received some strange treatment at the hands of the French consul, Armando, who claims to have caused the withdrawal of the United States forces. Armando had nothing to do with tho withdrawal. Consul Adamson and Commander MeCalla have undoubtedly saved Panama. The French consul, Armando, publishes a letter to-day, denying that he has telegraphed to his government protesting against the action of tho American forces on the isthmus. He did nothing except draw the attention of the consular corps to the necessity of taking every possible precaution to prevent a catastrophe, having in view a statement made by the rebel General Sandoval, of a threatening nature. Even this, ho declares, was ex officio, and as a private individual. Armando says ho has never communicated one word of the political situation here to his government. . At 4 o’clock this afternoon the various consuls hold a meeting with Aizpura. who undertook to give up to the government troops unon their arrival, hut as yet he shows no signs of carrying out this undertaking. The rebels still occupy the cathedral towers and are ready to defend thecuartels. The national troops remain aboard the hulk. If, as now appears probable, Aizpura refuses to vacate the city, he can only be dislodged by an attack by the government troops. No one can predict tho effect of such an attack. It may result iu terrible disaster. Transfer of the Alert. Halifax, N. S., April 28.—The transfer of the arctic steamer Alert from the American to the British government was formally made today at tho dock yard. Detachments of marines and light infantry formed a guard of honor. The American flag on the ship was replaced by the British ensign, while a salute was being fired. What Hendricks Is Fighting For. Washington Critic. Newspaper correspondents have been indulging in considerable comment upon Vice-presi-dent Hendricks's pertinacity in applying for positions for nis constituents. A friend mentioned the matter to the Vice-president yesterday, whereupon the latter remarked: “I thought we were fighting for a change, and I want to see the departments opened and cleared out, so that the light of heaven can shine squarely iu.” The Reason of It. Milwaukee Sentinel. The First Assistant Postmaster-general is an invalid, whose health is such that the only official act he has yet been able to perform is to draw his salary. Hence, no doubt, the recent rule adopted by Postmaster general Vilas Requiring all applicants tor office in his department to give a full account of themselves, including a statement a* to their health. Bashi-llazouk Baylcss. YV&baah Plain Dealer. Bayless Hanna, a sort of Democratic basbibazouk, has begged and bagged an appointment for himself after working hi* son into a position. He goes as consul-general to Persia at a salary of $5,000 per annum. Some Democratic families in Indiana, such as Hendricks’s, Gray’s and Hanna’s, are being well provided for at the expense of the party at large. Bayless Hanna Abroad* Philadelphia Press. Bayless Hanna, of Indiana, the new American Minister to Persia, is one of the greatest story tellers on earth, and enjoys a joke better than he does a square meal. His friends intimate that be will be one of tho dizziest flirts in Teheran, and that he has one or two choice stories that will make the Bhah laugh himself clear out of his waokeupbast*. “Strike Up, Fiddlers.** SbellyyvtHe Republican. Frank Creel man expresses his opinion of Vice-president Hendricks in most emphatic terms.* It is now in order for Thomas to let us have his ©pinion of Creetman ami Creel man’s backer. Congressman Bynum. After they have denounced each other all round, let the band strike up and the campaign proceed. Poor Economy. National Republican. Poetmsster-grneral Vilas contemplates, it is said, making an order reducing from thirty days to fifteen the annual leave granted the department employe*. Economy is wealth; in this case it means poor health for the victims to this unmerciful order, and eventually poor work for the department. A Polite Supposition. Ptiflndfllpliia Press. Courtesy impels us to assume that President Cleveland lost bis copy of the civil service rules just before he appointed United States Treasurer Wyman’s successor. Well, Wo bkould Say Ho. Boton Journal. Os coo r*e Mr. Hanna, of Indiana, will accept the Persian mission. An Indiaua Democrat will noi go without an office that he can reach.

CIVIL-SERVICE REFORMERS. Complimentary Dinner at Delmonico’s to Hon. George H. Pendleton. Speeches by George W. Cnrtis and the finest of the Evening—The Spoils Sj’stem and Civil Service Cannot Live Together. New York, April 28.—Despite the inclemency of the weather to-night, the complimentary dinner given at Delmonico’s to Minioter George H. Pendleton by the civil-service reformers was largely attended. The main dining-room was decorated and festooned lavishly, George William Curtis presided. Mr. Pendleton sat at Mr. Curtis’s right, as the guest of the evening, and beyond him, on the same side, were Senator Evarts, Hon. Wayne McVeagh, Judge Noah Davis, Hon. Wm. Dorsheimer, Sherman S. Rogers and ex-Attorney-general August Schoonmaker. On the chairman’s left were Carl Schurz. Oswald Ottendoerfer, John Jay, Senator Warner Miller, L. D. Thoman, Rcr. Dr. George L. Prentiss, Theodora Lyman and Hon. Roswell P. Flower. Among those -who occupied seats at the various tables were, Congrescman Hewitt, Gen. Stewart L. Woodford, Collector Robertson, S. B. Elkins, Hon. James Putman, of Buffalo, H. i Richmond, of the State Civil-service Commission, Perry Belmont, Congressman O. B. Potter, Everett P. Wheeler, Mayor Low, of Brooklyn, Horace E. Demin er, Silas W. Buit, Judge W. H. Rawl, of

Philadelphia, Major Swain, Anson Phelps Stokes, F. B, Burber, F. K. Pendleton (son of the new minister), Elliott and Edward Pendleton (brothers of George H.), Horace White, Charles F. White, Charles McLean, George Haven Putnam, Charles Collins, John H. Schuman, Joseph W. Sutphen, and about 150 others. Shortly after 9 o’clock, Mr. Curtis rapped for order and jocosely opened his address by saying that “this assemblage is a pleasant congregation of impracticable, visionary, amiable, sentimentalists, harmless theorists, and political lunatics, who have come to make public atonement for their supposed follies and mistakes, by offering a sincere tribute of respect to that American statesman who has identified his name with the least romantic of all things commanding the public attention, the reform of the civil-service. We have siezed this occasion to offer to one of the highest government officials our honor and our testimonial of regard, because that gentleman, as a senator of the United States, and as a distinguished leader of a political parry, has declared in the Senate that he believed the spoils system was a great crime, because we believe with him that we are here to-night, Republicans arid - Democrats alike, to bid him God speed in his new career, and to pledge ourselves to him and to each other that neither our interest nor credit wili allow us to fail to carry the provisions of the Pendleton bill further and further, until its spirit penetrates the whole civil service of our country and emancipates that service from the degradation of patronage, even a.s nature in balmy spring is emancipated from the paralysis of frest ” Mr. Curtis said all great inventions and reforms were abused iu their inception, and concluded thus: "Our object was not to abolish parties, but the abolition of tho abuses which destroy the functions of parties ’’ When Mr. Pendleton was introduced, the gentlemen cheered him for several minutes. Mr. Pendleton responded to the toast, “Our guest of the evening.” He said, in substance: “Mr. President and Gentlemen: I feel so much honored by your kindness to night that I cannot well express my gratitude, for words of fitting acknowledgment fail me. There are emotions which find no ready utterance. During my life I have had grateful public assurances of cordial approval from friends; I have had tho cordial good will of fellowpartisans, but the highest honor was reserved for this evening, when I receive this mark of commendation from my fellowcitizens of New York, who are assembled without distinction of political parties, professions or callings in life, whose only bond of union is their resolute purpose to abolish the civil-service evils, and to rescue the country from the perils which those evils involve. I see many noble names among those present tonight, many of whom I had not known until an hour ago; but we are assembled brethren according to the faith. It is to that faith, and not to me personally, that you pay this tribute. As I stand among you, lam painfully conscious how much more I owe to your considerate partiality than to any claim of my own. I have been faithfully persistent and unflinching, and always ready to sacrifice the present, in assurance that the people in the end would see the right, and thus eventually win iu the future. I was groping in the dark with the Jenckes bill of the old time, until Mr. Dorman B. Eaton explained the defects of that measure. 1 then successfully urged the passage of the civil-service reform bill. If I bear scars, they are honorable insignia, won in an honorable achievement. I will not discuss the wrongs to Ik? corrected, or the methods of righting them. Show me the spoils system and tho merits system, and I will show you a warfare inevitable, and to the death. Either may live, bnt the other must die. The spoils system gives the offices of the people not to those best qualified, but to those who have rendered the best partisan service to thu successful candidate; it uses public service to pay private debts; it raises an immense army cf office-holders, who are enlisted and paid out of tho public treasury by the party in power. It spoils public faith, public credit, the public service, and in the end will spoil tiie public institutions. The system should have no resting place in our government The civil service system, on tho other hand, lias for its dogma, ‘a public office is a public trust/ and the man best fitted so discharge the duties of an office should be charged with the responsibility. The one pivotal idea around which cluster the details of this system is, that every citizen desiring to enter tiie public service should be entitled to enter into competition for the same. It is a fair, open, manly way. The system ha3 worked It has improved the public service and has made men work well, and not feel like slaves. Its scope should be enlarged, and should be extended to all offices where political opinions are not necessary to the discharge of duty—and it will be extended. Tho faith of the administration is pledged to it. Let us press on in this good work, now and always, to a final consummation. I have entire faith in President Cleveland, as a true friend of civilservice reform. [Cheers.] The bold and manly stand he took in his letter of acceptance, and in his early declarations, made his election possible. and his action* since have been deliWrate and within lines of the highest duty. No more difficult task ever devolved upon a man than upon Grover Cleveland on the day of his in auguratioii. In my judgment, on the whole, he has done remarkably well. [Cheers. ] This is the crucial time of his administration. He must formulate policies and encounter criticism from his political opponents; he must appoint office holders, ami many good men will be disappointed; but it is the dnty of ail his just countrymen, however they may feel inclined to criticise him, to give iiim now, in the supreme moment of liis trial, that hearty support that every chosen ruler of every free people is entitled to. Gentlemen. I mingle my heartiest; congratulations with yotfts upon the eminent success our good cause has attnined, and thank you, one and ail, for this flattering token of your consideration." Beery Socialist* anil Awkward Militia. Chicago. April 28. —Between 500 and 000 socalled Socialists gathered on Market square this evening anti listened to several inflammatory speeches, of which the alleged splendor of the new Board of Trade festivities was tiie burden. Just m the crowd was becoming boisterously infected with tho sentiments of the speakers, the cry

was raised that the militia was coming. It so happened that an “awkward squad” of the First Regiment, consisting of reventeen youths, was being inarched in that direction by a drill master, all unconscious of the reception that awaited them. The crowd jeered at their numbers and under the impression that it was to be attacked, assumed an offensive attitude. The squad, however, was quickly wheeled nbout, retreating in good order. The Socialists then formed in procession and marched to music to the new Board of Trade Building, where they were met by several squads of police, who made them disperse. Someone in the crowd threw a stone through a carriage window, slightly injuring Mrs. L. P. K&dish, which was the only attempt at violence. THE DAY’S HUMOR. Boston Post: A Milwaukee editor committed suicide because he was in debt. It is such an unusual thing for an editor to be iu debt that he could not stand it “What One Girl Did” is the title of anew story. She doubtless did the same as all other girls do—jumped on a table nnd frightened a poor little mouse to death. —New York Journal. It is said that the Japanese women do not know the use of pins. This ought to cause young men to emigrate, but with the usual recklessness of the sex they will go right on bearing scratches on their wrists with martyr-like heroism. He writes: Last night I left my heart with you, A captive to your winning grace; As you have one that’s kind and true, Pray send me yours to take its place. She answers: if yon have left your heart with me, I can’t I regret it; And as for mine— Jet me see!— Call round to-jiight ana got it. —Boston Courier. O fair is the girl with the very tall hat, She’s lithesome and she's gay, But sad is the man with the very short neck Behind her at the play. Os the stage be catches nary a glimpse, Her feathers obscure his view. And says, with the tyrant, “Off with her head,” And curses till all is blue. • —-■ ■ ———— •' - Asking too Much. Texas Biftin.es. A man applied at a house in San Antonio for aid. “You should go to work and earn a living,” was the indignant reply. “Go to work! It isn’t bad enough that I am so poor that I have to beg, but here you want me to work besides. Not much do 1 work.” Taking His Part. Boston Courier. Mother (severely)—“Johnnie, you bad boy, you have eaten your little brother’s candy. Didn’t I share it equally between you? Couldn’t you be content with your own aud leave your little brother his share?" Johnnie (whimperingly)—“Yes, but didn’t you tell me, the other day, that I was older and bigger than my brother and must always take his part.” A Clear Case of lAbel. New York Run. Brown (to lawyer): “Smith called me a fool jackass in the presence of witnesses. Isn’t that remark actionable?” Lawyer: Ye 9, it is libellous, certainly. Did he say anything else?” Brown (anxiously): “He said he could prove it' Lawyer: “That won’t make any differonce.” Brown (relieved): “AUright, if yon are sure of that. Go ahead and sue him for $500.” Unreasonable Expectations. New York Times. “See here.” said an angry citizen to a quack doctor; “that ‘wonderful discovery’ of yours for preserving the scalp is a fraud." “Why so?” “Look at that,” he went on. removing his hat, “since using it I have lost all my hair.” “Oh. it doesn’t pretend to preserve the hair,” replied the doctor, “only-the scalp. You’ve got your scalp loft. You mustn’t expect too much of medical science.” From Pillar to Post. Now York Times. “My pa is one of the pillars of the church, ain’t he'l” asked Bobby of the minister, who was dining with the family. “Yes, my boy,” replied the good man, fervently, “I am pleased to say ho is.” “An’ is he one of the posts of the church, too?” “Posts,” queried the minister. “Yes.” went on Bobby, regardless of a frantic pantomime on the part of his father, “when lie got in late las’ night, ma told him that ho must have come home from pillar to post.” Effect of the Markets. Wall Street Daily News. “Love you!** echoed the young man; “why, I’d walk through the fires of hades to sit by yorr side for ten minutes!” “That's awfully nice. I wish pa loved ma that wav.” “Doesn't lie?” “O. no. She asked him at dinner for a S3OO camel's hair shawl, and he made her cry.” • “How?” “Why. he said that, with wheat touching a dollar, and he half a million bushels short on a delivery at 87 cents, she’d better be thinking of calico at 0 cents a yard. Why, what ails you, Augustus?” “I—l—that is, I’ve got to meet a man at sharp 3. Half a million bushels short, eh? Good-day, Miss Fairbanks.” And he went off kicking himself for not being in love with an ice-dealer's daughter. The Hallway Mall Service. so the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal: An amusing example of the existing ignorance in regard to the railway mail service came under my observation at the civil-service examination recently held in this city. An applicant, with a bright, boyish face, remarked to me that he was in doubt as to which class in the room he belonged. 1 told him it depended on the office he desired. He replied that he wanted “to take care of mails on ears.” Remembering the late past, when my own knowledge was equally misty, I repressed a smile and gave him a few “pointers,” and he went his way evidently under the impression that his future would be plain sailing. Few people have any idea of the requirements of this branch of the civil service or the difficulties attendant on the perfect execution of its duties. If they give the subject a thought at all they supfmse that mails are “tied out” at the postoffices ready to be delivered at their destination, with no more outlay of mental or muscular force than a knowledge of the towns on the road and the handing in and out of the mail at each, required. It is needless to say this conception is erroneous. It does not touch the work of the great railroad postoffices of the United States, like the New York <fe Chicago and Pittsburg & St. Louis. No clerk protected by the civil-service law is subjected to a test of qualifications for the offieo he holds like that applied to the railway postal clerk. During bis six months’ probationary term he must become thoroughly conversant with the mode of operation in the cars, aud he must undergo rigid monthly examinations called “caseexaminations.” This is doing in miniature the work required of him in the cars. The chief clerk, at whose office these examinations are conducted, furnishes a small tlise> p i geon . holed to represent the letter and* pa per cases in the cars. He also furirshes small white cards representing letters, ou which are written the names of the postoffiees and the name of the .State on which the clerk is being examined. Each compartment of the case is labeled; everv railroad carrying mail in the State has its own compartment, into which must be thrown the letters (cards) which it should distribute. Then tlrere are yet other compartments labeled “Dis,” as “New Albany Din. “Indianapolis Dis.” Into these are thrown the letters distributed from these points by the “star route” service. There are sometimes two thousand of these cards to be handled at a single examination, and many of the addresses have the same suffixes or prefixes. As: Springdale, Spring Valiev. Spring Hill, .Spring Lake, Springfield, Spring Mills, Spring Mountain, Springborough and Springer. These, while occupying neitjhborly positions in the Postal Guide, are scattered far and wide over the State of Ohio; no two being in the same county. As the comity is not written on' the curds,

the memory has absolutely no help in the correct location of those postofflcee. The department demands a9O per cent, record made in good time, twelve hundred letters to the hour being fair time. Good work before the case must be supplemented by exrellenco in the car, where real letters and papers must be handled under less favorable circumstances than those that wait on an examination. Tables and “stalls” piled and crowded advise the clerk to b lost to surroundings for from six to ten hours to come. No time for thought of broken rail or tottering bridge. Wood, field, hill and vale float by unheeded, while eye, brain and hand, working in unison, rival the rapidity of the wheel* that hum beneath. Each clerk has certain work assigned him, thus: the third clerk going west on the Vandalia takes charge of all registered matter between this city and St Louis. He must “work* the letters for southern Indiana. Illinois, and for the entire State of Texas. This Texas mail comprises all matter collected east of this city. All the great Eastern cities, the “Faderland," the “Motherland,” and the uncles, aunts and cousin lands, glut this line with mail for the Lone Star State. The other clerks, from four to seven in number, have like work to perform, and it must be completed before they reach the terminus of the line. To come in “stuck” is considered an overwhelming disgrace. Each package and pouch has inclosed a slip of paper, on which is written the name of the clerk who put it up, and it is made obligatory, on the postmaster or clerk who receives it, to note on the slip the errors found therein, and forward the same to the superintendent, who keeps a record of these “checks." A clerk who is careless or incompetent is thus detected, and subject to fine, reprimand, and, in extreme cases, dismissal. It must not bo supposed that, after a clerk receives a permanent appointment, the pressure is relaxed. The postoffices of State after State must becommittea to memory, all changes made, discontinued offices, and new ones established must be noted, and particular attention must be civeu to the time-schedules of mail trains, so that mail may reach its destination in the shortest time, distance not being taken into Consideration in its transmission. This requires the mnmorv of childhood backed by the stern application "of manhood, and a clerk who would succeed should, in addition to this, bring to his work that enthusiasm thav makes molehills of mountains, then successes a matter of course. It is needless to say that where one succeeds many fail, or that, ever present with the most successful is a feeling of responsibility that “will not down.” Postmaster general Vilas, when he issued the manifesto that assured these officials of the permanency of their positions, did the country a service it little appreciates. 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PROPOSALS, pROPOSALS FOR FRESH BEEF. Indianapolis Arsenal, Ind., April 27, 1885. Sealed proposals, in triplicate subject to the usual conditions, with a cony of this adwiiwnwit attached, will be received at t his office until 10 o’clock a. m., on Wednesday, May 27, 1885, at which time and place they will be opened in presence of bidders, for furnishing and delivering the Fresh Beef required by the Subsistence l>epnrtm<nit, V. S. Army, at this pot. during the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1883, .and ending June 30. 188 b. The government reserves the right to reject any or all proposals. Information as to the manner of bidding, conditions to be observed by bidders and term sos contraot jtud payment will bo furnished on application to Envelopes containing proposals bo marked “Proposals for h resh Beef. ’ ’at.l addressed to the undersigned. JOHN A. KRESS, Captain of Ordnance. A. A. 0. S. RotOS ALS FOR FU tfL, FOKAGEAXD MTRA ff. Office of the Acting Assistant Quartermaster, I Indianapolis Arsknal, Ind., April 27. 1885. $ •Sealed proposals, in triplicate, subject to the usual conditions, will be received at this office until 10 o'clock a. m.. on Wonnewlay. *Mv 27, I*Bs. at which time and place they will be opened in the piesence of bidders, foi furnishing and delivering at this post Fuel, Forage and Straw, in such quantities us may bo required from time to time during the fiscal year commencing July 1, 1885. The government reserves tho right so reject any or all bids. Preference given to articles of domestic product ion. conditions of prioo and quality being equal, and such preference given t articles of domestic production and manufacture produced oh the Pacifis coast to the extent of the consumption required by the public service there. Bint k proposals and full information as to manner of bidding and terms of contract will be furnished ou application to this office. 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