Evening Star Newspaper, April 18, 1895, Page 9

Broom Day. 10 GENTS. TOMORROW WE WILL SELL THE 2%-CENT BROOMS s0R 10 CENTS. SPECIAL PRESENTS. WE WILL HAVE ON EXHIBITION TOMORROW THE NEW ARRIVAL OF BEAUTI FULLY DECORATED OATMEAL SETS. THESE ARE OF THE LATEST DESIGNS, AND THEIR DECORATIONS ARE IN ASSORTED COLORS AND VERY HANDSOME. THEY WILL BE GIVEN TO EACH PURCHASER OF ONE POUND OF TEA OR THREE POUNDS OF COFFEE, 2 Dozen Eggs Free. 5 Lbs. Best Gran. Sugar Free. IN PLACE OF CHINAWARE TOMORROW WE WILL GIVE TO EVERY PURCHASER OF ONE POUND OF TEA OR FIVE POUNDS OF HOLLAND JAVA COFFEE EITHER 2 DOZEN BEST AND FRESHEST EGGS OR FIVE POUNDS OF BEST GRANULATED SUGAR, BEST MIXED TEA, [0c. POUND. HOLLAND JAVA COFFEE, 30c. POUND. COCOA EXHIBIT. COFFEE EXHIBIT. CUP OF COCOA OR COFFEE FREE. TRY A CUP OF WILBUR'S DELICIOUS COCOA OR HOLLAND JAVA COFFEE. FOR ‘THOSE INCLINED TO DYSPEPSIA WE WOULD ESPECIALLY RECOMMEND WILBUR'S cocoa. THE HOLLAND JAVA AND MOCHA COFFEE, WHICH IS BEING DEMONSTRAT- ED BY THE DUTCH TRADING COMPANY AT OUR STORE IS ALL THEY CLAIM FOR IT IN DRINKING QUALITY. BE SURE TO TRY A CUP. RESH MEAT DEPARTMENT. IN OUR FRESH MEAT DEPARTMENT YOU CAN SECURE THE CHOICEST CUTS— PORTERHOUSB STEAK, SIRLOIN, ROUND STEAK, RIB ROASTS, SPRING LAMB, ‘THE PRICES ARE MUCH BELOW WHAT YOU WOULD PAY AT MARKET, AND THB &e. QUALITY FAR SUPERIOR. VEAL, GROCERIES. WE HAVE RECENTLY ADDED MANY DEPARTMENTS UNDER THIS HEADING, EACH OF WHICH IS PRESIDED OVER BY EXPERIENCED SALESMEN. THE CAKE AND CRACKER DEPARTMENT AND DEPARTMENTS FOR FANCY GROCERIES AND IMPORTED GOODS ARE SUPPLIED WITH LADY CLERKS. GINGER SNAPS AND CRACKERS WILL BE SOLD TOMORROW FOR FOUR CENTS PER POUND. OHNSTON'S, 7129 Seventh Street. The Johnston Company. ‘Telephone 816. FUNNY-=- Isn’t it—how some people will worry and fret be- cause they need things about the house and haven’t the money to buy them with? Some folks seem to look for trouble— never happy unless they are miserable. Their next door neighbor has a house full of nice furni- ture—every recom is neat- ly carpeted—and he isn’t in any better circum- stances than they are; he bought the Furnitureand the Matting—and the Re- frigerator of us —on credit —and he comes in here once a ‘week or once a month and pays a little something on them—we didn’t ask him to sign a note—nor to pay any interest—and we won't ask YOU. Our credit prives are other dealers’ lowest cash prices. If you want fur- ther proofi-compare prices—ours are marked in plain figures. GROGAN’S 1AMMOTH CREDIT HOUSE, Roseiaet TT STREET NORTHWEST, Between H and I streets. HOT, NIGHTS Are Utknowa in TAKOMA PARK, and this fact alone is a sufficient inducement to the man of business, the Inwyer, merchant oF clerk, whose close application during the day rerders refreshing sleep necessary, te seek a home here. Good Water, High Ground. hO MALARIA. TAKOMA PARK Is six miles from the capital, ou two rafl- roads—steam and electric—fare six cents—is 400 feet higher than this city, and real estate values are increasing more rapidly. Buildusg iots, 30x150, HIGH GROUND, apl6-844 $55. FIFTY-FIVE DOLLARS. SEE Cunningham, ap6-3m,42 614 F ST. N.W. Do You Paint? If you do we want you to know that we have a full stock of Painters’ Sup- plies, Ready-mixed Paints, Floor Stains, Varnish, ete., for either inside or out- side work. Quality all right. you. Geo. F. Muth & Co., 418 7th St. N.W., Buccessors to Geo. Ryneal, jr. Prices all right for DRINK eoee cece —muddy, impure Potomac Water if you will, but you run a great eee risk. ‘There is but one Filter s¢** really worthy the name, and that * eeee is the . Pasteur Germ-Proof WATER FILTER ee —and we are sole District Agents Se? fr Mt. = bdlecin ad We will put one in, and if you + don’t like it after a few weeks’ ***-* trial we will take it out again * ¢¢** and return you your money. Size eee for average family, $6.60 and up. °° Cutalogue free. Wilmarth & Edmonston, Crockery, &c., 1205 Pa. Av. apl6-36d 5 : Children’s Cheviot .98 Suits, I a —Zouave, braided jacket, sailor collar, sizes 8 to 7 years. $2.50 elsewhere, and worth it. Children’s A!l-wool Serge ‘and Suits, braided and buckles on pants, sailor collar, only $2.50. $4 elsewhere. A white blouse waist with cach suit. Tanzer & Co., 908 7th St. apié-3m,16 ARASAAAARAADRDRDEOEROLOREDR SPECIAL {Prices TEAS {On Our q For the balance of this week. And 4 P to take advantage of these prices means to save yourself considerable REE ee REDUCED 7 Soc! Our $1 Tea Our 50c. Tea “n™ 4ocl £2 Our same assures you of getting 2 2¢% nothing but the best when you buy 4 2*%** from us. {Witmer & Co., 1918 Pa. Ay. eee } ee am. te tl SPLENDID i (PORT, G06. tomst i$ -40 A GALLON. 4 4 4 222° A superb California Port —12 ears old, rich, crusty—and abso- * lately pure. Unexceiled for me- se dicinal purposes. As a tonic—un- L222 f rivaled. Telephone or mail orders ave our prompt attention. {CALIFORNIA WINE © AND FRUIT CO., ; FERD. SCHNEIDER, MANAGER. 1205 Vv. 1¢280) | PHONR 141, B ed e eevee Petra nants he AAA AR nod $Exceptionally Fine S-H-0-E-S At prices that competitors cannot equal are the inducements offered you during this sale of superiluous stock brought from our avenue store. ‘The following items but inadequately indicate the bar- gains in fine footwear we're offering: Ladies’ Shoes, $1; Men's Shoes, S0e.; Babies’ and Children’s Shoes, 10c. to O5e, cee 1237 32d St. ¢ apl7-230 SLLESOS SI OC OOS ES ST ETSOTeTe “Our daugiter had Sctatle Rheumatism; was helpless for months; was advised to use Dr. K nedy’s Favorite Remedy, and In a short while was entirely cured of this ‘dreadful 7 LM. Sanford, Des Moines, Ia. THE EVENING STAR, THURSDAY, APRIL 18, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. HAWAIIAN HOPES Annexation Movement Among the Islandera. THE EX-QUEEN AND THE CROWN LANDS American Supremacy Threatened by the Japanese. THE HARBOR IMPROVEMENTS Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. HONOLULU, April 6, 1895. The New York Evening Post has em- ployed to write us down Capt. Julius A.. Palmer, who visited us more than a year ago as correspondent of the Boston Tran- script. He at that time wrote in a tone of modified hostility, saying some things true and miny that were less so. His first let- ter to the Post, dated San Francisco, March 1, has just reached us, in which he plunges at once into a snarl of misstatements, go- ing to show that martial law here was un- necessary, because the laws had already taken away all liberty. One is at a loss to guess from whom Mr. Palmer loaded up in ’Frisco with such a quantity of misinfor- mation about our laws. Palmer took an early occasion to apply to the attorney general to learn whether he would here be liable for anything he might publish in New York. He hat in mind the case of Charles Nordhoff, who in 1893 was summoned before the councils for certain false statements written to the New York Herald. Col. Blount protected him at that time. Mr. Palmer perhaps had in view the slanderous statements about this govern- ment which he had already forwarded to the Pest. It can hardly be supposed that he was providing against future intended misdoings. On the same occasion he applied for per- mission to visit Mrs. Dominis, whose hand he had before boasted of having most rev- erently kissed on his previous visit. The permission was refused on the ground that such a precedent for interviewers could not be set. Palmer speaks of the “recent seizure of arms before those for whom they were im- ported had time to organize.” This is a fine sample of his way of putting things for the Pest. Everybody conversant with the late insurrection knows that the rebels had already organized as completely as they knew how to do, and were in full ac- tion, advancing on the city, before the gov- ernment suspected any landing of arms. In fact, there was no “seizure of arms.” About half the arms landed were captured, a few at a time, from prisoners taken in the field. Palmer evidently was stuffed by some deported “patriot” on, the coast, and was betrayed into a foolish attempt to be- little our danger from the insurrection. The Imprisoned Ex-Queen. Mrs. Dominis, although debarred the in- tercourse of transient journalists, has some relaxation of her bondage. A few days since, by the advice of her physician, she was given permission to walk freely in the grounds of the executive building after 4 p.m., when the offices are closed. There are about ten acres of garden and park. Although not like freedom, she certainly enjoys considerable mitigation of her im- prisonment. A couple of days ago she exchanged salutations with a gang of rebel prisoners who were returning to their quarters from their daily work on the reads, they waving their hats, while she waved her handkerchief to them. She tcok care to stand a little back from the window. One of the violent royalist native weeklies, which has been resuscitated since its editor has been released from prison, indulged a few days ago in remarks like the follow- ing: “Our queen has taken the oath of allegiance to this usurping government. That does not bind us, her subjects. She has made herself a martyr for our e8."” This strain of talk retiects the feelings of no doubt a iarge faction of the natives, and especially of those who have been ac- customed to prosper as politicians, and of their supporters under the monarchy. It certainly does not represent the views of all the natives, nor probably of anything like a majority. The Annexation Movement. The movement among the royalist na- tives for promoting annexation has gather- ed some force, but cannot yet be consid- ered a decisive one. It is to be said that the government feels a very limited in- terest in it, and is not joining in any effort to promote it. This is not because they are at all lukewarm on the question of annexation to the United States. That continues to be as ever their fixed aim. But there is no reason to believe that any effort made here can have any speedy in- fluence in securing that end. The present administration is settled in hostility to the measure, and its agitation here is not prac- tical business. Yet, again, they will leave any movement in that direction among the royalists to be spcntaneous, as it has been so far as it has gone. As I have already reported, quite a num- ber of the most prominent native royalists have united in a Hawaiian Annexation League. They are forming branch leagues throughout the islands and are gaining a considerable membership. Here in Hono- lulu, however, the common natives fight rather shy of them, not understanding why they should now right-about-face and rally to a measure which their leaders have heretofore furiously denounced as robbing Hawaiians of their country. Those leaders last week called a mass meeting to adyo- cate annexation. They were quite short of speakers, as most of them apparently disliked being looked askance at by their followers. Paul Neumann, for one, had engaged to speak, but found it impractica- ble to be present, although he sent a note avowing adherence to annexation. C. G. Hopkins talked to the natives in their own language, which few of the whites pres- ent understood, there being no interpreter. There was certainly in his case the utmost latitude of free speech. He called the government all sorts of evil names. They had done their best to overthrow it by United States aid, by appeals at Washing- ton and in Europe and finally by taking up arms. All had failed. But annexation would overturn this abhorred bayonet gov- ernment. Should they hesitate, then, to obtain it? Besides, it would open the pris- on doors and set free their brothers and sons. Appeals to the People. Hopkins did not hesitate to appeal to the People’s lower instincts. “I know you Hawaiians have your weaknesses. You Jove gin, saki and pleasure. Now annexa- tion will bring in money and you can grati- fy all your desires.” He knew his audience. Hopkins is a half white, whose father was an Englishman of good family, imported here forty-five years ago to serve in the government. He sank very low in habits, although having ability, always keeping in office and néar the younger kings, whose boon companion he was. The son has been marshal. Another speaker was the ex- queen’s friend, C. B. Wilson, who spoke in English, in a rather sensible strain, Hop- kins interpreting. He told the natives they had been badly misled. They ought to have taken the oath and got their votes in and helped elect the legislature. The situation was inevitable. The whites must naturally lead. Annexation was the best thing for the Hawaiians, and would improve _ their chances in every way. All the speakers dwelt strongly on the great financial ad- vantages which annexation would bring in —white immigration, booming the country, ete. There does not appear to be an immediate prospect of rapid rallying of the royalist majority of Hawalians to the annexation standard. It will probably come after a little time. They have been too long on the other tack to swing around readily. They still fancy that something or somebody will yet interpose to restore the monarchy. But their leaders are mostly converted to the new plan and will no doubt get their fol- lowers to see and adopt it. As I have stated before, the great motive with these Jeaders is a hope of recovering their for- mer political power. They imagine that with annexation will come unlimited suf- frage. The hated $600 income limitation for senatorial voters will be abolished. The native vote will then swamp the white vote. The demagogues and boodlers will then be run in by the ignorant and debauched ma- jority_of- the natives,-and the “nationals” will again rule. Whether such sanguine hopes would :materidlize in the event of annexation may adngt doubt. But they are the chief motiv: eee Yeadets. Mr. Gresham and Mr. Thurston. A very lively excttement was created around the post office on the 2d by the news that Secretary Gresham had sent through Mr. Willis a demand for the recall of our Minister Thurston as persona non grata, or for some alleged offense of dis- closing matters under, diplomatic discus- sion. ‘Your press tatives’ have giv- en out much fnformation upon the subject. But we find ourselves much in the dark on the subject, Decaune Ma ter Willis says-he has received no instructions in the matter, and Mr. Hatch declares that he has heard nothing about it from Mr. Thurston. All this shows a serious discrepancy with the confident Washington‘statements. One fact, however, stands out distinctly, that Thurs- ton has wired that he ‘will be here next week, on the lith. This looks much as if there was something serious in the business. So we shall have to wait a week or so for more light. Mr. Thurston has bested Mr. Gresham on two or three former occasions, and it is not improbable that he will do so again in the present difficulty, so that the latter gentleman may feel no happier in the out- come of his present move than he did after his former ones. Thurston is a young man who can take very good care of himself, as well as of his friends or foes either, al- though he may tend to a little too much frankness for a diplomatic career. But the expectation here is general that he will not get the worst of it in the present affair. At any.rate, we keep having fresh matters coming up to keep our interest alive, now that the rebellion has been well cleaned up and all that business quieted down. The Crown Lands. Our legislature, elected last November, will be summoned to meet in a few weeks. The time for a regular biennial session would haye been a year ago, and this is called a special session. Until this meet- ing, the advisory and exetutive councils, acting together, possess full legislative powers. After that time such powers will be confined to the legislature. A: leading measure which has been reserved for the legislatdre.to.act upon is the disposition to be made of the crown lands, which by the abrogatiom'of monarchy have reverted to the government, id are no longer a sourcé of-révenue to a sovereign. It is de- sired as the leases of these lands fall in to place them on the market in such ways as are best for the public interest. Some ex- tremely Valuable tracts have never been leased, having been inaccessible for lack of roads. Such a tract is the magnificent coffee belt in Puna, of late partially open- ed by the new.Voicano road. President Dole has given great study and care to a measure for selling the crown lands, so as to favor settlers and immi- grants of small means. It is hoped that this will cammend itself to the legislature, and that a healthy immigration from the United States may be stimulated thereby, as well as that landless Hawaiians and others may have facility in acquiring home- steads. The crown lands are scattered all over the islands. Many large tracts are leased by wealthy tenants for cattle ranches, which ought to be cut up for small farms. The effort will be to provide measures tending to promote the settling up of the country by such inhabitants, in- stead of being occupied so much as it is now, exclusively by large plantations em- ploving, great gangs of laborers without jomes. The Treasury Surplus. Notwithstanding special expenses in sub- duing the late insurrection, amounting to something like $100,000, there is a fine sur- plus in our treasury. On account of this, our public works are making active prog- ress. (he administration of the funds is with thorough economy. Where is absolute- ly no boodle. The management of the pub- lic business is strictly clean, as well as efficient. The financial condition of the treasury has never at apy period been so good as now. The activity of useful con- struction of public works has never been so great. The credit of the government has never been better, or loans for special pub- lic works negotiated at easier rates, not- withstanding the injury to credit in conse- quence of political disturbances. There is a constant market for the government bonds from local investors, a few thousand at a time. Is there any -better evidence of the high character of a government than that its own people are eager to take Its bonds? A very useful work now in progress is the erection of a pumping station for the water works of this city. Two artesian wells are just completed, of ten-inch bore, and 600 feet depth, about fifty feet apart. The natural discharge of the two is about six millions gallons in the *twenty-four hours, rising, it tubed, to a height of forty feet above the sea. A double expansion pair of pumvs is now being set up, with capacity for lifting three million gallons a day into a distributing reservoir 150 feet above the wells. About three miles of twelve, ten and eight-inch mains have just been laid to convey the additional supply. Altogether about $75,000 will have been ex- pended. Besides this, the new reservoir is to be excavated on the slope of Punch Bowl. With this copious additional supply of water this city will bloom in new beauty. Hitherto depending on small reservoirs in the mountain canyons for storing rain wa- ter, the supply has been very irregular, and water famines frequent. Owing to the steepness of the canyons, large reservoirs were impracticable, and dry years fre- quently occur. But the water of the arte- sian bed seems inexhaustible. At Ewa plantation, fifteen miles west, twenty of these ten-inch wells have been pumped from at the rate of thirty million gallons a day for years, producing 10,000 tons of sugar a year, and often ten tons on a single acre. After our new pumps are in opera- tion the higher portions of the city above one hundred feet will continue to be sup- plied from the mountain reservoirs. Harbor Improvements. Another plece of work about to be com- menced is thé excavation of a dock in the inner reef. It is to be 400 by 150 feet and 27 feet deep, accommedating two of the largest steamers now in the Pacific. This dock will reach far inland of the Pacific Mail wharf and alongside of the new mar- ket building. The ground is at present bare at low tide. There is a thin layer of coral near the surface, with mud below, which will be taken out by the suction dredger and discharged inland to fill up land above on the present mud flats. Other docks are projected still farther along and around toward the: Marine railway. It iS probable that the extensive mud flats on the west side of the harbor will ultimately be invaded by similar enlarge- ments of docking space for steamers. It will, however, be difficult to keep up with the steadily accelerating increase of the commerce of this port under present con- ditions of Pacific trade. Whenever the Nicaragua canal shall be opened, and the great rush of Atlantic steamers in the Asiatic trade begins across the Pacific,Hon- olulu will be overwhelmed with -business. Fortunately,Pearl Harbor is ten miles west, closely connected with the city by rail and wire. The Nicaragua traffic will overflow into that capacious haven, with its ample spaces and natural wharfage. It is con- sidered a very conservative estimate that four hundred steamers a year will at once begin te call here for coal in crossing from Nicaragua, seven thousand miles, to China and Japan. There is no other possible coal- ing port thar this. This extra business must all go to Pearl Harbor. It must be remembered that the supplying of coal will employ one hundred ships of two thousand tons each, for which wharfage must be af- forded. The Menace From Japan. A fact becoming very conspicuous here ts the invasion of Honolulu by Japanese man- ufactures, such as dry goods, clothing, boots and shoes, and saki liquor, all of which their skill and cheap labor enable the Japs t6 sell at far lower rates than Euro- pean or American goods can be imported. In addition to this isa fast growing com- petition from Jap sf®reKeepers, who can live so much cheaper than white men as to undersell them. There seems to be a serious and growing -danger of the Japa- nese crowding out the whites. Of course all this would be obviated by annexation. We are struggling to ‘keep this a white man’s country. Shall it be surrendered to the Asiatics, or will the United States hasten to secure to themselves their nat- ural outpost in the North Pacific? This form of Japanese pressure is turn- ing public attention to the tremendous menace which the great naval and mili- tary power of Japan will constitute for Hawaii. Possibly the leading statesmen of Japan will be inclined to a moderate policy, but they will be subjected to vio- lent pressure from the noisy politicians in- flamed with martial success. There has been a growing impatience here among the 25,000 Japanese and their leading men at being practically debarred, as they are, from participating in public affairs. Be- fore their war absorbed their whole atten- tion, Fugil, the Jap commissioner, was growing importunate in his demands for Japanese suffrage. It is scarcely ible that such pressure will not be revived after the close of their war, and in a severer form. Japan can then send here any day a strong squadron to enforce such de- mands. Even if the United States gav- ernment cared to interpose, they could not send any force here equal to that of the Japanese. It would be quite possible for the Japa- nese to intrigue with the royalist element to supply forge to overturn this government, and rep! the queen upon the throne, in return for large concessions of voting rights to Japanese. With the well-known antagonism:of Meusrs. Cleveland and Gres- ham to this republic and the American cclony, and their partiality for the mon- archy, it appears highly probable that, so far from interposing to prevent such a triumph of united Japanese and Hawaiian royalty, they would encourage it, and forbid any help to be given to American interests here. This is no fanciful supposition. It de- scribes a real and great peril which men- aces this republic, and our noble American civilization, solely through the monstrous and unreasoning hatred of the Washington administration. See you to it! Happily, we know the great American people to be heartily and solicitously for us. ———._—_ LIKIN TAXES ABOLISHED. A Measure for Which Commerce Must Thank Japan. Although the terms of peace concluded between Japen and China have not been officially communicated to the State De- partment, it is believed there that Japan has secured the abolition of the likin tax, by which is meant the tax imposed upon goods trat:sported from one point in China to another, in addition to the regular cus- toms tax. This has been the object of all occidental diplomats accredited to China for many years, and the cfficlals of the State Department feel that all civilized na- tions will owe a debt of gratitude to Japan for thus removing a most onerous burden upon their commerce with China, for it is not believed that the concession would be made in the interest of Japan alone. Should Japaa, however, be the only bene- ficiary as regards this tax, it is fully ex- pected that a strong protest will be made by the powers, who would be greatly handicapped in the competition with Japan for Chinese trade unless they could claim the same privilege of exemption under the favored nation clauses of their treaties. The loss of the likin tax will be very se- vertly felt by China. It averages about twelve million taels per annum, and China will supply the deficit in revenue with great difticulty. The total revenues of the country were estimated by a competent British consular officer in 1888 at 65,000,000 taels per annum, and as the customs taxes are limited by treaty, it is matter of much speculation as to how the country will raise the large indemnity demanded by Japan. The London News, in a leader on the trade aspects of the Japanese-Chinese treaty, says: “Nothing but our own follies or mistakes can deprive us of the lead we hold throughout the east. The new treaty only improves our opportunities. In its po- litical issues it may safely be left to take care of itself.” Opposed to Formosn’s Cession. A dispatch to the London Times from Hong Kong says it is reported that the ces- sion by China of the Island of Formosa to Japan dissatisfies the British there. The dispatch adds that the Chinese soldiers threaten to kill their commanders if the island 1s ceded. A Berlin dispatch to the Times says, in reference to the Chinese edict, that the im- port duties at the open ports shall not ex- ceed-2 per cent; that a commutation duty of 2 per cent on the original cost of im- ports into China represents, to all intents and purposes, a differential duty against Europe in ‘avor of Japan. Editorially, the Times says it presumes that the independence of “ Corea really means a more or less thorough Japanese protectorate. It adds that when the exact terms of the treaty are known European diplomacy will probably make a show of considering them, but if the Japanese re- fuse, as they presumably will, to listen to diplomatic exortations, it is difficult to con- ceive that any more effective interference with their plans need be seriously appre- hended. ——— A CADET COMPLICATION. A Question Where Doctors Disagreed as to Disnubility. A complication has arisen over the ap- pointment of a cadet from the first congres- sional district of Minnesota, which is differ- ent from anything the War’ Department his ever been called upon to deal with. Cleon Emery and Ray Cornwell (alternate) passed the examinations, but Emery was rejected by the board of examiners because of near-sightedness. Cornwell was also re- jected on account of some affection of the heart. The surgeon general, however, de- cided that Cornwell's condition was due to excitement and he was selected for the place. After the appointment Emery had his eyes examined by optical experts and they were pronounced perfect. He now asks to be appointed. Representative Tawney called on Secretary Lamont and asked for a re-examination of both candi- dates in order that no injustice should be done. ee Grand Lodge Visitation. The visitation of the Grand Lodge of the I. O. O. F., of the District of Columbia, to Beacon Lodge, No. 15, Monday evening was a very entertaining and enjoyable oceasion. % A short address of welcome was made by ine noble grand of Beacon Lodge, Frank W. Carden, after which very bright and pointed ten-minute talks were made by Grand Master Theodore F. Mead, on “Duties of the Officers of the Lodge;” by Grand Representative Allan, on “Duties of the Mémbers of the Lodge; by Grand Rep- resentative Frederick A. Stier, on “The Bible, an Integral Part of Odd Fellowship.” Following these came Mr. Edwin B. Hay with some of his inimitable remarks “at random,” closing with the recitation of an exquisite little poem, entitled ‘Columbus’ Sailing.” Recitations by Phil Friedlander, R. A. Dinsmore and Grand Warden Jones and songs by Mr. Cathel of Metropolis and Mr. Taylor of Eastern Lodge concluded the program of the evering, after which the Icdge adjourned to the blue room, and was served with a bountiful collation. Aside from the officers of the Grand Ledge, prominent among those present were Grand Representative Burroughs, Past Grand Master Crawshaw, Past Noble Grands Nagle and Crew of Golden Rule, Ellis of Metropolis, J. R. Williams, Frank- Toe Ky., and Jacob Persinger, Xenia, Ohio. —_ Asks for Maintenance. Esther E Dorsey has filed a petition in the Equity Court against Thomas J. Dor- sey for the maintenance of herself and in- fant child and for the custody of the child. She states that they were married in Bal- timora, Md., January 31, 1894, and lived to- gether until the first of this month, when, the wifo charges, her husband deserted her. At her earnest solicitation, she says, he returned to her on the 1ith instant, but again Geserted her three days later. She also charges her husband with drunken- ness ard cruelty. “+> Excepted From the Limitation. Secretary Smith has rendered a decision declaring that the clause “children under sixteen years of age” 1s descriptive of a class of claims which are excepted from the limitation act of March 3, 1879, and are not forfeited by neglect to file the ap- plication during the period of pensionable minority. The amount of increase which this decision will irvolve, it is said, will certainly reach several hundred thousand dollars. There are now about 200 such cases pending before the Interior Depart- ment. ee A Washout Causes a Wreck. Train No. 35, which left Richmond at 7:13 Tuesday night over the Atlantic Coast Line, was wrecked on the Northeastern road within six miles of Florence, 8. C., yester- y morning. A washout was the cause of the accident, and two sleeping cars were burned. No one was seriously hurt, how- ever. Only the baggagemaster, so far as could be learned, was injured. FOR INDIGESTION AND NERVOUSNESS Use Horsford’s Acid Pho: Dr. W. 0. HOYT, Rome, Ga., says: found it both an agreeable and usefal remedy in many cases of indigestion, and also in nervous troubles attended with sleeplessness and a feeling of exhaustion.”* “I have "til late. A few pieces 50c. All-wool Black Fig- ured Jacquards. Red Ticket Price... 890. @e. 46-inch Colored Henriettas, silk finish, street and evening shades. Red Ticket Price.. wecececes eee M08. DOMESTIC AND LININGS. 10c. Grass Cloth (black only). 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We intend making ‘this department locally fa- rtance, pre= 8 $4 Cloth Capes, with lace insertion. Red Ticket Price... $1.39 2 $7.50 Navy Cheviot Suits. Sizes 86 and 40, Red Ticket Price..........$2.98 4 $12 Navy and Tan Jackets. Red Ticket Price......... eeeeecees S275 Glove and Hdkf. Dept. 28 pairs of 50c. Red Gauntlets. Red 22 pairs 80c. Foster Hook Gloves, in tans, sizes 6, 6%, 6% 7. Red ‘Ticket Price. ++ SBec. 10 dozen 15¢. chiefs, warranted PURE LINEN. 10c, each, or 8 for......-----see00-. We. Hosiery Department. A few dozen Ladies’ Fancy Cotton Hose, 25c. grade, wide stripes, drop stitch and plain. 1 lot Children’s 18. and 20c. Hose, full regular made, sizes 5 to 8% Red Ticket Price........ + 12%e, Men’s Furnishings and Umbrella Department. 0c. White Duck Butchers’ Aprons. Red Ticket Price... ove A lot of Men's Percale Soft Finish Neglige Shirts. Regular price, 50c... 32c. Lot of $1.50 Bluet Mixed Norfolk and New Brunswick Shirts and Drawers, odd sizes, full regular made. Red ‘Ticket Price.... o- Tan Coloret All-silk Umbrellas, hon. estly worth $8.50. Red Ticket Price .....4 ste eeeeee ces $249 F SSQOSSSSSHHSHSSISSSSHOSHSOSOT DIO STHOSOOSHOSSSO 8 OSSOOS @mous for the unusual values to be had at all times@ @here. Soaps. G666806659806 ) AU M ’ POPULAR SHOPPING PLAGE, 416 Seventh Street N. W. SSSSSE SSS SSS E9509 SO06 Every Friday will be ‘Soap Day’’=-special@ @prices being quoted on the better kinds of soap. Miscellaneous. 10c. Curling Iron, best quality spring. 5 Alcohol Heating "Lampsnns--. i All-stik Taffeta .Seam Fancy Silk Belting, per belt. Hair Pins, kage. . Kaitting “Sibss, Til eles Pree GOSS0000000086 PRI = TERS AND CIVIL SERVICE A Printer's Criticism of the System Which Mr. Benedict Advocates. Discussing Ways of Reform—The So- Called Competitive Methods in Vogue in the Office. Practical application of the principles of civil service reform to the workings of the government printing office is being dis- cussed with more than ordinary interest, especially by employes of that big institu- tion, which at this time is politically oper- ated. Up to this time President Cleveland has given no intimation of immediate desire to extend the civil service rules to the. printing office, but it is regarded by those who have some information as to these mat- ters as likely that the change will be at- tempted before the Fifty-fourth Congress assembles. An interview with Public Printer Bene- dict on the subject of extension of the rules, printed in The Star, has caused a renewal of the discussion. “Mr. Benedict will not deceive any intel- ligent printer by his civil service claims,” said a well-informed member of Columbia Typographical Union to a Star reporter. “In his interview in ‘The Star a few days since he said: “In effect we have civil service here. We keep the best skilled labor and dispense with that which is unfitted for our work. The policy during the two terms that I have been here has been to keep only com- petent workmen, and now we are trying to have here only as many as can earn in six days of full labor the wages provided for them by statute. * * * When I went out of this office in 1889 I left 2,132 employes on the rolls and at work here. When I came back I found 3,562, or 1,430 more than were here in 1889. * * * We had no right to ask competent men to share their loaf with these extra people. The force had to be reduced, and it was done practically on examinations. As a matter of fact, we are having examinations continually. Every- thing a man does here is practically done in competition with others.’ “I acknowledge the force of Mr.Benedict’s statement that he has civil service in the government printing %ffice; but object to the assertion that it is entirely in his hands. He states that it is his policy to keep those only who can earn the wages paid them, yet he goes on to inform the reporter that everything a man does is practically done in competition with others, and here is where the utter fallacy of his whole system comes in. Mr. Benedict takes a number of printers, and, placing them in competition with each other, he commends those at the top of the list for quantity of work, and condemns those at the bottom, regardless of the fact that possibly those at the foot of the list may have earned a surplus over the wages paid them. “Those wages are $3.20 per day, and are figured on a basis of 50 cents per thousand ems of composition. Therefore, a composi- tor, to earn the wages paid him by the government, would have to set 6,4 ems per day. Properly speaking, if a compos- itor does that much work he should be considered a good workman, but Mr. Bene- dict thinks otherwise, as the following will show. He says: For instance, we give out to 200 compositors 200 equal ‘takes’ of copy. In five or ten minutes 150 of those men will dump their ‘sticks’ on the ‘galleys,’ and fifty of them will be behind. In a mii ute or two the others come in with thei We know the fifty who keep the 150 walt- ing. We know the forty that keep 160 waiting. We know the thirty that keep the 170 waiting. We know the twenty th keep the 180 waiting. We know the te that keep the 1% waiting. When the force is to be reduced we know just who must go first. In that way the best employes are kept. And let me say that this oflice has never had better skilled labor than it has now. The use of the typesetting machines has displaced men that heretofore would never have thought of coming here. The Opinion of a Printer. “From a printer’s point of view the above is the veriest rot. To give out 200 equal ‘takes’ of copy simultaneously is an im- possibility, unless there are 200 men to rennet stent rss erento Sinead semen ad hand out the copy, and even then, as Mr, Benedict must know, if he is the practical printer that the law requires him to be te hold his position, unless the ‘takes’ are duplicate takes, they are not equal tak because copy ts ‘cut’ to paragraphs, an not to lines. Then he appears to entirely lose sight of the fact that while one man may have to walk but ten feet from the copy desk to his case, another man has to walk one hundred feet. He goes on to state that the men are averafed accord- ing to the time they take to turn in their ‘takes,’ Allow me to say that it would be impossible to grade y man by si a system as Mr. Benedict describes, and ag an ex-employe of the government printing office, I know that no such thing is done, In the event of 200 takes of copy being given out, it is done by one man, and by the time the two hundredth ‘take’ is out the man with the first ‘take’ has finished, “There are employed in the government printing office some of the fastest composi- tors in the country, and !t is these men who are used by Mr. Benedict in his in- dividual competition. I know of one ine stance in which a compositor, who has held the championship of America, was compli- mented by Mr. Benedict for his large av- erage and held up as a pattern to his fel- low employes. Another instance was that in which two men, who, under two admin- istrations, had filled positions in which they had given entire satisfaction, were trans- ferred to other work, and one of the fastest printers in the office given charge of the work of the two men; and today that “fast man” is wearing himself away trying to Keep up with the pace. Under Mr. Bene- dict’s system every printer must be an ex- pert, or he is a marked man; and yet we know that the phenomenon is the excep- tion. There are not many Edisons or Mi genthalers or Fultons in the world, al- though Mr. Benedict’s system would ap- pear to force everybody to be one, or else get off the earth. The system was con- demned at a chapel meeting of one of divisions of the government printing office @ week or so since, and in the presence of the foreman one of the best printers in the office declared the existing system of ine dividual competition to be a ‘system of terrorism.” What the Union Expects. “As to the authority of Columbia Uni in the office, it is understood to consist of two claims: First, that a printer shall have a union card or permit before going to work, and, secondly, that the presidency of the union shall be good for a foreman- ship. If there is anything else in which the union has a say it is not generally known. It certainly cannot keep an em- ploye in the office, however competent he may be, against the wishes of the publi printer, and if Mr. Benedict discharged 300 of the best employes of the office tomorrow, and refused to give a reason for so doing, the unidh has no redress. The civil ser- vice commission could, at least, ask for investigation into such an act committ under its rules, but Columbig, Union has not the power to do even that: An Interesting Suggestion, Another ex-employe offers an interesting suggestion. In a communication to The Star he says: “I understand Mr. Benedict to imagine that he does not discharge em- ployes for political reasons, but for in- competency. Would it then not be much better for him to select his men only from those who belong to the various unions that are represented in that office? The men who belong to these unions are eom- pelled to serve an apprenticeship before they become journeymen, and in my opine ion if Mr. Benedict was compelled to make his appointments from their lists of une employed, he would not only have more ap> plicants than he could give employment to, but have more competent workmen.” ——+o+_____ Vestry Elections, Vestry elections took place in the Episco pal parishes as follows: St. John’s—Thos. Hyde, David Ritten- house, F, H. Bates, Jos. G. Waters, John Marbury, Thos. H. Looker, Geo. L. Nicob son, Francis H. Barbarin. 5 Christ Church—William B. Orme, Samuel E. Wheatly, J. Holdsworth Gord Benja- min Miller, Henry 8. Matthews, Rufus 2 Chaney, George G. Boteler, M. L Adler, Wardens—Wm. Knowles, Wm. Wheatly HALL’S HAIR RENEWER IS PRONOUNCED best, preparation made for eae te growt of the hair, and restoring its original’ color. nae