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THE DAILY JOURNAL TUESDAY. OCTOBER 15, 1889. WASHINGTON OFFICE 513 Fourteenth fit 1 s. Heath, Correspondent. Telephone Call. XJaalaess Ofice 238 1 Editorial Booms 343

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Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson, streets. BT. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern lloteL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House and Ehbltt House. Perhaps the best thingt General Boulanger can do is to come to this country and hiro out to a dime museum. Evidently there is no opening "for him in Europe. The first Legislature of South Dakota will meet to-day to elect Uuited States Senators. Of four candidates, Judge goody's election is regarded as certain, while the other three will contest for second prize. It may not bo out of placo to add that Judge Moody is an Indiana man. The efforts of the Mexican authorities to induce negro immigration do not meet with favor from tho Southern press and politicians. "While tho chivalrous Southron abuses 9 tho negro like a i pirate, and kills off a few occasionally to "assert Caucasian supremacy," 'ho fully Understands the fact that a negro exodus would seriously cripple tho prosperity of the South. It is announced from abroad that hypnotism is a sure cure for vice, but ' that it will not cure tho big head. This is too bad. It was hoped that somehow or other tho discovery could bo utilized in reducing tho head of an inde- . pendent editor ust after he has evolved a scheme to "bust" tho Republican party. Perhaps, after all, it is better the cure should bo gradually effected through association with new-found allies. A free-trade organ remarks that "Western farmers have learned a great deal from the 'tariff reform' crusade." This is a fact beyond question. They have learned from tho free-traders that their farms aro, mortgaged for all they are worth, that they are doing business at a dead loss, and that ruin and general destruction are staring them in the face, all of which is very surprising news to them Hitherto they have been groping along in the blind but blissful delusion that they were fairly comfortable and prosperous. - Persons who were disappointed in "The Wrong Box," a recent novel by Robert Louis Stevenson and Lloyd Os- . borne, may be interested to know that Mr. Stevenson did not write a line of the book, but lent his name to it to help his jctep-son. Mr. Stevenson himself writes )to a friend to this elloct. When a popu lar author lends his name to assist in j floating a worthless story which he did dot write, thereby aiding in a literary (fraud, the public is not likely to pity jjdm if he gets caught in a storm of cenxruro. The Grant Memorial Association, of tllew York, has hit; upon a new plan to paise funds. It is proposed to make the .mAnnmonf r rnf-nol eld?AVbV tnAtnnti1 Umd appeal to Grand Army men through out the country for contributions. This ; is a catchpenny scheme, and only goes to (emphasize the mismanagement and failrare of the original plan. Tho govern ment should remove tho remains of Gen. Grant to Washington and erect at the . capital of the Nation a monument befit1 ting his services and fame. New York has trifled with tho matter too long. W. E. Curtis; manager of the Inter national American Congress, seems to have been "taken in" by Mr. Erastus , wiman. The latter promised Mr. Curtis there would bo no speech-making at the banquet at Niagara on Sunday, but it ecems that Mr. Wiman had prepared la great oratorical effort, and did not propose to lose the opportunity to deliver it. The fact that copies of the ad dress were left in New York newspaper offices several days ago shows he had no intention of complying with the ideas of Mr. Blaine of refraining from Sabbath informalities. An effort now being made in San Fran cisco to reduce 6treet-car fares to three cents is likely to fail owing to the lack of copper cents. No coin smaller than the nickel is recognized in trade on the Pacific coast, the result being that the small purchaser pays twice or threo times as much as in tho East for articles at tho corner grocery, or fruit stand, or retail dry goods store. Several efforts have been made to introduce the cent. but each time the attempt failed through the hostility of the retail dealers and the apathy of the public. There was a lively time in Staunton, Va., yesterday. It being "court day," that is, the first day of court week, Re publicans and Democrats both held pub lic meetings. Ike speakers on tho Re publican side were General Mahooe. Congressman Burrows, of Michigan; Congressman Houck, of Tennessee, and perhaps others. The Democrats were represented by their new recruit, exSenator Riddlebcrger, and some Virgiuia tweakers of local renown. These oppo-

sition meetings havo become a feature of the Virginia canvass now in progress. They are not joint debates, but a device of the Democracy to break tho force of Republican meetings, and prevent Democrats from going to hear Republican speakers. In spite of them, however, Republican speakers are getting the ear of the people and makingan impression. Congressman Butterworth, of Ohio, is going into Virginia in a few days, and will give them some of the best Repubr lican talk ever heard south of Mason and Dixon's line. NEGRO EmOBATIOK. It is stated that the Mexican press almost unanimously attacks tho action of tho government in granting a concession in aid of a negio emigration scheme from this country. If this is true it only shows that the Mexican prejs does not understand, or, at least, does not represent the interests of that country. Tho great need of Mexico is industrious working nienwithout regard to race or color. That is a country of great natural resources, but very little enterprise. It con tains an immense amount of wealth

waiting to be dug out, and work of all kinds waiting to be done. The average Mexican is a chronic loafer, and the working people are not only very poor but very lazy. What is needed to make Mexico a live country is capital, enter prise and muscle. The negroes have not much capital, but they havo 6omo ideas of enterprise and they possess a large amount of muscle. They aro trained to work, and, under favorable conditions, aro good workers. They make gdod farmers, and are fond of be coming land-owners. They would probably do well in Mexico, and Mexico cer-. tainly would do well in getting any con siderable number of them to emigrate and settle there. They are a vast improvement over the present working class in Mexico. That is one aspect of the case; but re garding it from another point of view, the Journal sees no reason why colored people should desire to emigrate from the United States to Mexico. This is a better country than Mexico in every way better to bo born in, to live in and to die in. It is better for the black man as well as the whito man. Circum stances have made it tho black man's homo as much as tho white man's. The colored people have done their, share towardsxontributing to the prosperity of the country, and have a right to stay here. There is work for them here as well as in Mexico. There is abundance of room for them here, and more ave nues of usefulness and happiness open to them than they would find in Mexico. The colored people are needed in the South quite as much as they are in any other section of the country, and if the Southern whites were hot miserably shortsighted they would treat the 'ne groes well, in order to obtain their serv ices as laborers. But if the colored people cannot get fair treatment in tho South they should migrate to Northern and Western States. This is a much more inviting field for them than Mexico. Hundreds of thousands of them could find homes in the Western and Northwestern States, where land is cheap and workers are heeded. Once let the tide of colored ( emigration to the Nortlj set in strongly, and the Southern whites would soon come to terms. They know the value of the negro as a laborer, and when brought face to f aco with the probability of los ing him they would adopt a very different course toward him. Nobody knows better than the Southern whites that the South cannot spare the negroes, and if the latter once begin to emigrate in con siderable numbers the whites will soon be begging them to stay. The negro is master of the situation in the South if he only knew it and chose to assert his mastery. Emigration is the winning card. The exodus is the thing. But when he concludes to pack up and leave let him turn his face toward the North, and not toward Mexico. HOW TO GET FOREIGN TRADE. One of the members of the South American delegation now visiting this coun try is reported as saying that what the United States needs to secure an in creased South American trade is tho establishment of steamship lines. He says: Anjbodv familiar with South American affairs will tell you that the entire com merce of both the east and west coast is controlled mainly by knglish companies. There aro also quite a number of traran Dutch steamers, which go anywhere that ireigm can oe oDiainea. as a natural consequence. Europe absorbs all of our prod ucts, when, if there was a good line of American steamers, this same traffic would be given to Isewiork instead of London. The only time we see an American llac is when somo United States man-of-war happens to come into the harbor. If we had a line of steamers from the United States the cost of living would be much cheaper. and onr products could be shipped to this country at a fairly reasonable rate. As things are now, we are completely at the mercy of tne steamer lines. This is true beyond any doubt. Trado follows tho flag. It always has been so, and always will be. Where the flag goes trade follows. The way to extend our foreign trade is to send our flag into foreign ports. European governments know this and practice it. They acquire trade by going after it, and by establish ing and maintaining lines of trade. If we want to competo with them we must do the same thing. Our navigation laws need overhauling and amending. Laws should be enacted for tho en couragement and protection of Amer ican shipbuilding, and Congress should adopt an intelligent and liberal system of subsidies for American steam ship lines. These, are the methods adopted by ether countries to secure foreign trade, and they will have to be adopted by this country if it expects to competo in tho race for trade. The en terprising business man does not wait for trado to come to him he goes or sends for it. Every other commercial country in the world pays liberal subsi dies to steamship lines for the avowed and express purpose of extending trade. American steamships are driven from tho ocean by three or four European governments, notably England, paying their steamship lines enough for postal service to enable them to underbid our fillips in tho 'freighting business. Yet when it is proposed for the United States to imitate the policy aud pay American eteam-

ships enough to enable them to compete with those of foreign countries, and to carry the American flag into for

eign ports where trade awaits it, some cross-roads demagogue orseven-by-nino newspaper shrieks "subsidy," and tho American Congress cowers like a pack of curs'. In connection with the establishment of American steamship lines, Congress should enact laws to encourage American ship-building. Other countries do this. The French government pays a construction premium or bounty on wooden ships under 200 tons of 2 per ton; on wooden ships over 200 tons, $4 per ton; on all iron ships, S12 per ton. Mr. .Henry W. Cramp, of William Cramp & Sons, ship-builders at Baltimore,. says: "The government should pay on such American-built ships as engage in foreign traffic a premium for navigation in proportion to mileage and tonnage. Give American shipbuilding such a stimulus as is given to the French. Wo have the requisite raw materials, and we have the mechanical skill.". Mr. Arthur Sewall, aMaine shipbuilder, says: I favor the navment. by the national Government, to tne Duuuers oi American . . . a ships exceeding 2,000 tons register, and used in the foreign trade, $10 per ton for wooden sail. 8:30 per ton for steel or iron sail and slow steam, 25 per ton for steel or iron steam with speed not less than fourteen knots, for a period of ten years. To the owners of these vessels 1 favor a further payment of 20 cents per registered ton for every 1.000 miles sailed in the 'course of foreign trade this payment to bo for the same period. Of course, free-traders will denounce these suggestions as nothing more nor less than protection. That is just what they are protection for American in dustry and American interests just such protection as other countries are practicing towards their industries and interests, and by which they are enabled to obtain, hold and increase their foreign trade. If the next Congress is permitted by the Democrats to do anything at all, it should do something for tho encour agement of American shipbuilding and the development of foreign trade. COUHTY BO ADS. The question of country roads and the proper methods of constructing and re pairing them is receiving a good deal of attention recently, notably in some in telligent magazine articles and essays by civil engineers, who are entitled to speak on the subject. It is one of univers al interest and great importance. The value to a State or nation of a general system of good roads rs simply incalcu lable, and the loss resulting from a lack of them is equally so. They are an un failing accompaniment of advanced civilization, and their absence indicates primitive crudeness or indifference to one of the most important features of social progress. No other country has as many miles of poor roads or as few miles of really good ones as tho United States. No other people pay such an enormous tribute to the maintenance of bad roads as' the American people. It is not only a money tribute, vast al most beyond computation, but it is a per petual waste of time and labor, and a reckless sacrifice of comfort and con venience as well as dollars and cents.' Indiana is not in advance of otli?r States in this regard. In fact, it is be hind many others. Her road system is abominable. Her road laws havo never been good, and have always been badly administered. Tho country roads in this State, bad in the beginning, and often made werse by "working," illustrate about all the evils of a bad system, and are perpetual object lessons of what roads ought not to be. The loss to the State andpeople,direct and indirect, from bad roads, amounts to millions of dollars annually. A general system of good roads would add millions of dollars to the value of real estate, and save the people a great sum every year. Yet year after year thotLegi dature continues to patch worthless road laws, and tho people to patch worthless roads, the en deavor on both sides apparently being to show how, not to do it. No other evil calls so loudly for reform, and no other presents so broad, inviting and fruitful a field. The Council is to be commended, at least, for having directed the institution of legal proceedings to compel the Citizens' Street-railroad Company to refrain from restoring tho old bobtail cars of disagreeable memory, and to enforce tho ordinances requiring conductors on the principal line3. It is to bo hoped that the ordinances are of such character that their provisions may be -enforced, and.that they have not been rendered practically inoperative by the failure of some one to prescribe penalties for their violation. Sinco tho new company took hold of the street-railways of Indianap olis, it has given to the city a really excellent and satisfactory service. It has spent a great deal of money here, and has done many things that should properly secure for it very liberal and generous treatment from the city anda its patrons. For its enterprise and liberality it is justly en titled to a good deal of consideration. But if it would continue itself in tho good graces of the public it should con tinue the features which have ma do it deservedly popular, and not take any backward steps. The public should not expect any corporation to do business for it at a loss, but it has a right to and should demand service that is in keeping with its reasonable comfort and con venience. A Montana paper says that tho four hundred employes of tho Anaconda Min ing Company, in Deer Lodge county, when they came to the polls to vote in the recent election, each one handed the election judges a printed slip as follows: I cannot read or write the English lan guage. and I wish to vote the straight Dem ocratic iicueu - The Montana election was held under the Australian ballot system, which pro vides that where a person cannot read or write English, he may, upon a statement to that effect, have his ballot pre pared foi him by the judges. Tho pe culiarity of this case was that four hundred such voters, a in the employ of one company, should present printed slips to this effect. The Montana paper which makes the statement says tho Anaconda mine is owned by Democrats, and that there was every indication that they controlled the votes . of their illiterate em-

ployes. As tho Democratic majority in

Montana is less than four hundred, the incident shows how tho new State was carried. . TnE young German Emperor's fond ness for travel has led Berliners to examinq the records of the journeys he has made since the' beginning of bis reign, in July, 1888. The result is rather surprising, showing that he has made thirty-live different journeys by rail, and has actually spent more time on the roatlthan he has in Berlin. Ho seems to be an enthusiastic junketer. When rail roads were first introduced into Germany tho Royal College of Physicians, in Bavaria, signed and issued a protest against the new mode of travel. "Locomotion," it declared, "by means of any kind of steam-engine should be prohibited in the interest of public health. Rapid change of placo cannot fail to produce "among travelers the mental malady called delirium "f usiosum." The young Emperor evidently has no fear of the disease. The Pennsylvania W. C. T. U. met in an nual session the other day, and, among other things, discussed the cigarette evil. Pennsylvania, like most States, has a lawforbidding the sale of cigarettes to boys under sixteen, but the dealers do not strict ly observe it. Various means of enforcing the law and gotting at the guilty parties were discussed, but the superintendent of legislative work settled it by advising the ladies, when they saw a boy smoking a cig arette, to "clutch him and make him4eil where he purchased it." In view of the elusive nature of boys, the advice to first catch them is quits as necessary as in ' case of the haro that is to be cooked. This reformative process suggests, also, the sure method of getting rid of potato bugs, which, as disclosed for a liberal cash compensation, by an enterprising advertiser, was to catch the bug and place it between two stones. The boy who is not overtaken until he has begun to smoke has not been caught young enough. ' "F. D. M.," who is reporting the Mahone campaign in Virginia for the Cincinnati Commercial Gazette, tells some funny things about the meetings. He says: . Men In the audience make personal remarks to the speaker, ask questions, "argufy" with the or ator ana witn Drotner members or tiie assemblage, and, upon the whole, a political meeting In Virginia is one of the liveliest and most inter esting entertainments conceivable. Over at Appomattox U. U., the other day, Mr. Cabell was delivering an Impassioned oration In denunciation of Mahone and his methods, and he used this expression: "Now, my fellow-citizens, whv do I make this assault' upon William MahoneV' There was a slight pause, and uncle Jimmy catnron arose ana. said: "I can answer that question. You make the assault upon General Mahone because he is live hundred miles away, in the city of New York.' At another meetinsr. In the same viclnitr. a "Groaner." as the recatcitrant or kicking Republicans are known in Vir ginia, niaue this statement: "I acknowledge, my fellow-citteens, that I did at one time swallow Mahone." A bright young negro arose and said: ."If you did dat, then you's gotraore brains in you belly than you got In you head." To the Editor of the Indianapolis Journal! Please give Foraker's- pluarality over'Hoadly; and, also, over Powell. Keadeh. Richmond, Ind. In 18S5, over Hoadly, 17,451; in 1887, over Powell, 23,319. . ABOUT PEOPLE AND THINGS. Miss Ellen iTeiuiy, it is made known, wears No. 7 gloves. Frof. John Stuart Blaieie, of Edinburgh, attains his eightieth .birthday this year. Doctors who recommend quinine say that onions are the next best thins toknock a chill. A marble statue of the Princess of Wales, by a French sculptor, is to be executed for erection at Copenhagen. Thomas Nelson Page, the clever Vir-, ginia writer, has been offered the editorship of a Chicago magazine, but does not intend to accept it. He says he prefers to write stories. Mrs. Austin Corbin, Miss Corbin and more than a score of their friends are making an autumnxtonr of the White mountains. A few of them are in carriages, and the rest of them on horseback. The late Wilkie Collins never passed a day without taking up one of the Waverly novels. He had a very warm admiration for the genius of .the elder Dumas, and of t Balzac, but especially tho former. When told that he had been accused of plagiarism Edward Bellamy only shrugged his shoulders and laughed. "The usual cry," he said, "the usual cry." Nevertheless he is said to feel cut up over the charge. Canon Farrar's scheme for establishing celibate brotherhood's in the Church of England is causing much discussion and some unfavorable criticism of the good Canon's own manner , of life and luxurious surroundings. M. Emile Zoia, let it be well known, is opposed to the guillotine because, when he was a boy, he witnessed its operation and the 6ight sickened him. So there was a time when it was possible for something to sicken M. Zola. ? M. Nantet, reached the Paris exhibition after a seven days' journey from Brussels in a phaeton drawn by a pair of dogs. Ho is a humane man, and when his dogs wcro tired he went between the shafts while they mounted the box. . Andrew Carnegie has appointed a committee of prominent Pittsburg citizens to select a suitable sie in that city that he may buy it and erect thereon a free librarv, which is to cost 8750,000. The building, "it is said, will eclipse anything of the kind in America. The Sculptor Giovanni Turini has finished an equestrian statue of Field Marshal Sucre, of Venezula. It is fifteen feet hi gh and will be cast in broaze at Chicopeo. Mass., and shipped to South America. A number of gentlemen connected with the American International Congress at Washington have visited the studio. "Pretty Betty Ordway," General Albert Ord way's daughter, who forsook society for the comic opera stage after a sensational separation from her husband. Arthur Padelford, cowhided her manager cn the street a few days ago in Portland, Ore. They were formerly good friends until, some jealous chorus girls uade trouble between the two. Spkakino of Queen Victoria's literary tastes, a recent writer says: "She still finds pleasure in Trollope's novels. Tennyson is her living idoh Walter Besant js another writer whose works stir the aged monarch, and Mrs. Humphrey Ward's Uobert Elsmere was read not once bat twice by the Queen of England. She has met many American writers in her day, bnt is not acquainted to any extent with their works." The eldest son of the Czar of Russia has already succeeded in making himself decidedly unpopular with his German cousins. Whilr in Berlin recently attending the army maneuvers he persisted ia addressing the German officers in French, although he speaks their own language v?ry well. Emperor Willir.m was palpably disgusted by the manifold gancheries of his boorish guest, and treated him with tho mast frigid courtesy. Prince Adalbert, of Prussia, the third son of the German Emperor, is still in short frocks, but he has already developed quite a strategist's instinct for making the most of an opportunity. The phonograph was exhibited the other day to the imperial circle, afid when it came to Princo Adalbert's turn he seized the opportunity to say something that 'was evidently very near bis heart. "Will papa pleass give mo a pony !"

is what he shouted at the sensitive machine, with an earnestness which made tho whole court roar with laughter. A. M. Bisbee, who arrived in Washington a few days since as a delegate from China to the International Maritime Congress, is a transplanted Yankee from Cape Cod. He was born and reared in Plymouth county, Massachusetts, and drifted across the Pacific in search of adventure and a fortune. He now holds tho rank of coast inspector in the imperial maritime customs service of China. '1 here are only two oilicers in the service who outrank him. Emile Zola is a comparatively young man, not yet having reached his fiftieth year. Says a recent observer: "His countenance still gives an impression of youth. For that matter, his entire personality reveals an astonishing vivacity. He talks with charmilig volubility, and becomes enthusiastic himself, unable to resist the flow of his images and thoughts. His face lights up mostexpressively. His forehead wrinkles slightly as the conversation increases in intensity. His eyes, the soft eyes peculiar to near-sighted persons, remain dreani5 veiled, tranquil behind his glasses. At the slightest compliment his glance seeks tho iloor. and ha seems to want to run away."

COMMENT AND OPINION. The New York Herald asks: ''What can an international congress accomplishf" Head the expressions of alarm in the foreign journals and think a little. Milwaukee Sentinel. The revelations concerning the'eonspiracy to bribe the jurors in this the Cronin case are almost as shocking as the murder itself. They prove that the Clan-na-Gael not only plans and commits murder, but that it defies even the courts-of justice themselves. Cleveland Leader. . The" New York Sun says that ex-President Cleveland smashed the Democratic party. Undoubtedly Governor Hill is trying to do something similar; but while Mr. Cleveland's was a plain e very-day sort of smash. Hill's is more redolent it is a whisky smash. Baltimore American. As tho world grows in population, as civilization advances, and with it specialization increases, the opportunities tor work are multiplied proportionately. The thing to do is to" learn to do some work well, whether it be professional, commercial, mercantile or mechanical, and to be prepared to satisfy special demands. New York Sun. ' Protection has so multiplied and diversified the industries of this country that more than 99 per cent, of our farm products is placed in our home markets, and for. consumers we have 3,000,000 workingmen in our mills and factories, and at least ten million more dependent upon, them to taker the farmer's produce at his own door. Detroit Tribune. . Prohibition interferes with the liberty of the citizen, though it neither regulatc3 nor restrains the trallic in liquor, by compelling him to buy and to drink furtively, in violation of law, that which he has a personal right to buy and drink freely and openly, subject only to such economic or Eonce regulations as ine state or me city as authority to impose upon the traffic. -New York World. - - t Tins Nation's institutions render undesirable an extension of its dominion over people widely differing from its own in race and temperament, customs, training and home interests. The one desire of the United States, with regard to other American nations,' is to help them toward greater prosperity, and to establish with them a closer ana more mutually beneficial intercourse. New York Tribune. The money; which tho outside world invests here aids us as well as its owners, strengthens the social ties binding us to the other countries, and powerfully assists in creating a sentiment favorable to the peaceable adjustment of the international difficulties in which wo may chauce to be concerned. Such capital as England or any other country sends us for investment should be welcomed, instead of repelled. St. Louis Globe-Democrat. BURDJETTE IN THE PULPIT. The Noted Humorist Preaches an Interesting Sermon to a Largo Crowd. . Chicago Herald. The jam last night, at Grace Methodist Church, was really astonishing. It was not 7 o'clock when every seat in the church had been taken, and by 7:S0 the organ loft, the railings of the galleries, and every aisle and stairway was packed with men, women and children. At 7:45 the doors were locked, and all entrance was refused. It was quite evident by the demeanor of the congregation that the people had come to laugh with the funny man rather than to listen to a sermon. Interest in that paOt of the service which preceded the sermon was plainly small, and people chatted and fanned themselves unconcernedly until the ante-sermon hymn, when the famous humorist advanced to the edge of the platform. Mr. Burdette chose as his text II. Timothy v., 1: ''Thon, therefore, my eon, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus." The sermon was clearly the work of an enthusiastic optimist, eagerly desirous that every one might share the joy he had experienced in the teachings of his religion. 'God is good," he said in effect. The world is a mighty fine place, after all. Sin may be banished and sorrow overcomeand happiness may be had for tho asking. In the course oi the discourse he said: SThese words of the apostle were not tho utterance of a cold anq crafty preceptor who proposed so to bring up ihis adopted child that he should tread the devious paths of the world in safety and achieve the greatest possible amount of material good. If St, Paul had been such a teacher he would have said: Tbou, therefore, my son, be strong in the wiles of the devil. Cheat, lie, steal, trample upon conscience, murder, scruple; take to thyself that which thou canst seize upon, whether lawfully or unlawfully. Fear not--t here may beheaveu, there may be hell; meantime, there is one earth here But St. Paul was not that kind of a man. Thou, therefore, my son,' he said, be strong in the grace that is in Jesus Christ .That way lies happiness; there is sweet content and the heart's ease of a calm and quiet on science. The heathen rage furiously, tho wicked make a stir in tho world, but there is no health in them. They sow the wind, and they reap the whirlwind; and they pass away. But thou, thou, my sou, be strong in the grace that is in Christ Jesus, aid evervthing that is pleasant and beautiful shall be about thee, and joy and rapture will till thy soul eternally.' Now, you may not believe it, but it is true that St. Paul "knew what he was talking abont, and some day you will corae to tho conclusion that yon would havo been better and happier if you had followed and profited by his sage advice. Then you will look back with sorrow and bitter tears upon ' the vast fields of pestilent wild oats that you have sown so thick and with such diligence, and slowly, with halting step, you will goto the bank of God and say: "Let me have fifteen years this morning, please.' And the cashier will say: No. my son, you have overdrawn your account.' 'What!' you will exclaim, in surprice, T have checked out only thirty-five years ho far.' 4Ah, my son,' the angel of life will say to you, 'you have lived seventy years in those thirty-live, and your credit is exhausted.' Then will come, all too soon, tho time when vou will be stricken down, and then 'Ihink of it. my boy! Eternity! Nevermore to greet God's glorious sun with. the stnilo of perfect and unconscious innocence; never acain to hear tholowingof tho kine on the hillside vou knew so well in your boyhood; never again to listen to the melody of the birds: never again to join in the romping of merry children on the village green: never again. Eternit3r! Never again to feel the arms of loving wpmen about your neck; never again to hear the gladsome prattling of your child; never again to know the delights of friendship; never again. Eternity! And thus, at your own desire, you will go forth into the black night of x death, hopeles3. helpless and aloue. My boy, is that to bo your life! Is this to be your latter end? No; God forbid. Be true, uo nonest noi Decanse some one' has said that honesty is the - best policy. tot if you are honest from considerations of policy von will be dishonest iust as soon as diai honesty seems to yon to be a. better policy. 1 1 I A. t A nut ue nonesi necausw noncsiy is rieni. Decause honesty is noble. And if you find the task a hard one, remember that there is one that will keep you, if you will but ask His aid. He died for the priests and the Pharisees who judged Him falsely. He died for Pilate, who condemned Him. He died for thopeople who jeered at Him. .Ho died for them who crucified Him. He died for the millions who daily wound Him. He died for you and me. He will help you, my con. Ask Him."

HOWPENSIONS ARE GRANTED

Necessary Eed-Tapc Methods by Which Claimsof Ex-Soldiers Are Accepted. A Vast Government Bureau Whose Influence Is reltThrouhouttheCountry TheExaraination and Adjudicating Divisions. SUff Correspondence Philadelphia Press. Few visitors to the national capital come away unimpressed by an enormous oblong structure of red brick, with eloping roof, belted by africzo of terracotta figures of soldiers, horses, artillery, ammunition wagons and ail tho paraphernalia and impedimenta of grim war. Tho building is not far.froin. tho Capitol and is quite near the Postoffice and Interior Departments. Its appearance, as viewed from tho commanding plaza of the Capitol, is very striking,, looming up, as it does, in tho midst of foliage that almost hides the houses in that part of tho city, so that tho effect is that of a mass of red in the midst of a sea of green. When the visitor is told that ho is looking at the Pension Bureau, ho nevtr fails to bo impressed with the extent of business that this branch of tho government must do. The visitor is right in judging of the vol ume of work by the size of the building, for there are employed beneath its roof over fifteen hundred clerks, who in the course of a year deal with nearly one hundred thousand new applications for pensions, to say nothing of the enormous volume of correspondence relating to tho 1,200,000 claims for pensions filed since the war. These are big figures, and it is no wonder that a big building is required to do tho work in. In deed, the Pension Building is so much larger than the Interior Department that people who see it everyday are continually forgetting that it is only ono bureau of that department. Possibly this had something to do with the delusion cherished by Corporal Tanner when ho was Commissionerof Pensions that he was a bigger man than Secretary Noble. , , Certainly it is true that the Pension Bu reau torches the great body of the people more closely, than all the other parts of the government put together. It is not only that about it are clustered the sentiments and memories of tho war which every generation of Americans has known 6ince the birth of the republic. Nor is it alone that the Pension Bureau does busiuess iu every township in the United States, impresivo as that fact is. The Postoffice Department does that also. But tho Pcusion Bureau enters into the daily life, into the food, and shelter, and clothing of more than a million of citizens pensioners and their dependent while twice as many more have in its operations tho lively interest of expectation. Tho visitors to the Pension Bureau and there are thousands of them every year do not see anything of picturesque , interest outside of the building itself, with its immense interior court, lofty glass roof" and imposing pillars. The littlo army of clerks occup3r many rows of desks in many mites of rooms that fill the four stories of tho structure. Thero they write, write, write all day, and read and distribute thousands of letters. Many of these clerks are pensioners themselves, and it is a fact that most of tho men at these desks carry visible marks of the sufferings of war. t A pair of crutches is not an uncommon sight at tho side of one of thesu desks, and there are many one-armed men. Ex-Commissioner Tanner, it is well known, walked on wooden feet, and tho present acting commissioner, Hiram Smith, rests on his desk, as ho writes, a gloved hand, which indicates that he did not como ont of thewar without a visit to the hospital aud tho surgeon's table. Manv of the employes are women, and of these many are the widows or tho daughters of men who died for tho Union. Some exceptions there are. One of the clerks, for example, is tho beautiful widow of General Pickett, who led tho famous confederato charge at Gettysburg. Many others bear distinguished names, though now obliged to toil for their daily bread. There aro romances endless wrapped up in t tho presence of some of these demure, quiet women in the Pension Bureau. The history of a pension how it is applied for. how the claim is examined and passed upon, how it is finally eranted is a tale that involves some dotail iu the telling, but that will be of interest to many thousands of readers. There is a popular idea that tho Pension Bureau is very slow in its work. This is not entirely just,, in the opinion of the bureau officials. It is claimed that there are rarely more than two or thrco thousand cases on hand which have not been carried as far as the bureau can carry them. The great cause of the delay is the failure of applicants to furnish evidences iu compliance with the conditions of tho law. This failure to furnish evidence is tho cause why thousands of cases lio in the tiles for many weary years. When a pension is finallv granted, however, it dates1 back to tho day of tho application. .The organization of the Pension Bureau for its work is simple enough. There are a number of "divisions," that is. different forces of clerks, to do certaiu work. These are the mail division, where all letters aro received, read and distributed; tho recording, adjudicating, examining and certifying divisions. Then there are a uysterc of medical boards and special agents all over tho country to gather "evidence, and disbursing agencies at about twenty cities for tho payment of pensioners. Of applicants there are several classesoriginal invalid, widows, orphans, applications for increase andreratiug. Thorirst of these may bo taken as a type of all. since its history involves tho routine followed by all the others. In tho first pla'e, the claimant, wherever ho may live, must write or send to the Commissioner of Pensions for the proper blanks upon which to vaio tha statement of tho ground upon which the pension is asked. The applicant, it nc-nld bo said hero, does not ask for a.-pension of any particular amount. He simply f lis out the blank asking for an invr.lia tension, and then it is the business of tim bureau to determine now much he shrll hp.ve. Pensions for different degrees oi disability range from J to 72 a month; This blanlr the nWugout of which is the first step to.sni -t a pension, must bo signed by tba .ojm nf aud two wituesses as to identify ihd io .ni. nd sworn to before the clerk of. an v crt.jVr oZ record. Tho applicant ma3 fili il v.t biaself, bnt it is better to have t 'l .t: 'r::ey. whose fees aro fixed by law. As srun :vt this blank conies to the Pension Ot:oo it is stamped in tho mail division with the date of the day it it received, and tlnsifidie day from which the pension will dat when it is finally alio wed. Then it is taken to the record division. . where the roll of previous applicants is searched to see that no other claim has been filed by the same person. These records fill a great .npace. They contain tho name of every applicant for a pension sinco the very first, ard are iu duplicate, one list being arranged alphabetically and one by tho record of servico that is to Ray; by State, regiment and company. Thus it will be seen how important it is that the applicant should specify his service iu full. Should ho fail to do this, tho search in the alphabetical record lasts much louger. The search completed, the declaration is given a number. By this number it is ever afterwards known until tho pension is granted. Tho applicant is at once notified that his declaration is on file and what its number is. This number he shonld always nam whenever ho writes to the Pension Bureau. Everyday brings bushels of letters in which tin simple precaution has been neglected. Then these letters must go back to the rt-cord division, another search made, and thus much precious time is lost. As soon as the claim is recorded or filed it is sent to one of the five adjudicating divisions. Here is done the work of collecting and passing upon evidence. Several lines of inquiry are made at once. The case is sent to the Adjutant-general of the army, who searches the service rolls for the applicant's hospital record and military character. It is also sent to the local medical board nearest to the applicant's residence ami an examination of his physical condi tion ordered. At tno same tip hat is termed the "first call" is made upon the applicant's attorney, who should bo named m tho original declaration, for wviueuce of his client s disability and of its nature, pometimes this call is omitted when there is reason to believe, from the nature of the dis- 1 ability alleged, that tho Aujutant-cncicJL'D