The literary digest . eartening business of the nation and the legisla-tion of Congress are subordinated to the*distribution of plunder among eagerpartizans. President, secretaries, senators,representatives are dogged, hunted, be-sieged, besought, denounced, and theybecome mere office - brokers. . Thecountry seethes Avith intrigue and corrup-tion. . Economy, patriotism, honesty,honor, seem to have become words of nomeaning. As early as 1864 Charles Sumner intro-duced a bill in the Senate proAiding forcompetitive examinations; but the disin-cUnation of Congress to accept such a bi
The literary digest . eartening business of the nation and the legisla-tion of Congress are subordinated to the*distribution of plunder among eagerpartizans. President, secretaries, senators,representatives are dogged, hunted, be-sieged, besought, denounced, and theybecome mere office - brokers. . Thecountry seethes Avith intrigue and corrup-tion. . Economy, patriotism, honesty,honor, seem to have become words of nomeaning. As early as 1864 Charles Sumner intro-duced a bill in the Senate proAiding forcompetitive examinations; but the disin-cUnation of Congress to accept such a billAvas illustrated by its fate. Another wasunsuccessfuUj^ introduced in the 1867. In 1871 the President Avas ableto prescribe regulations for admissions tothe civil serA ice. In 1880 Senator Pen-dleton, of Ohio, introduced a bill for thereform of the civil serAdce, but criticismshowed its defects. The next year hobrought in a substitute, and this Avas Ilic LitPittrv Di^tst for MaicJi <.. 1919 -43. Boss^That One Stoker Saves Us10 Tons of Coal Every Day r With the old hand-fired furnaces we burned on an average of 50 tons of coal a day, and had to keep both boilers under steam. Now we carry the load on one boiler, burn only 40tons of coal a day, and use a cheaper grade of coal at that. The best part of it is that our otherboiler is always in reserve, so we dont have to buy that third unit we thought was what weve accomplished with our The STOKER saves fuel because Itsoperation insures completeness of combustion. It gets the very lastunit of heat out of every ton of coal. It also enables you to usecoals of a grade far below what you have been using. The LACLEDE-CHRISTY STOKER does not stop at coalsaving. It is also a big saver of labor—that competent, high-pricedlabor which is usually so hard to get. With the LACLEDE-CHRISTY STOKER one man per shift can care for a battery of half-a-dozcn boilers — and do it far more efficiently and
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