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The Washington times., 1902-05-04
INTERIOR CHANGES.
Number of Appointments and Promotions
Made YESTERDAY,

The following appointments. promo
tions. and other changes in the Interior
Department were made yesterday:
General Land ONCE - Appointment:
Charles S. Moore. of Oklahoma. copyist.
$500. Promotions: Jerome B. Satterlee.
OF Iowa. clerk. s1.4o0 to $1,000: Judson W.
whitney. of North Carolina. clerk. 81 200
to sl,i0O; George W. Honey. OF Maryland,
clerk 81, 600 to $1,000.
Patent ofice-Appointments: Wilbur NJ.
Beatty. of Ohia; william w. Holt. of
North Carolina. and James NJ. Drysdale,
of Colorado, fourth assistant examiners.
81 200. Promotion: Clarence L. Parker.
of New York. fourth assistant examiner.
81 200. to third assistant examiner, 81 400.
designations: Harry G. Kimbali, of New
York, third assistant examiner, sl.400:
Larrance Page. of Kansas. fourth assist
ant examiner, 1920.
Pension Ofice-Promoticns: Emile Pio-
yet. of Iowa. clerk. $1,000 to s1.400; David
B. Perry, of North Carolina. clerk. $1,000
to $1,000: Charles r. Lombard, Of Maine.
Charles G. James, of Ohio. and Charles b.
Robbins. OF Indiana. copyists. $500. to
clerks. $1,000. designations: David C.
Arnold. OF Ohio. clerk, 81 200: Charles
Bornarth. Of Minnesota, clerk. $1,000.
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Oriental Suavity.

The gentleman Of the East feels bound
out OF poiiteness. to give one the answer
that Will prove most agreeable. An Eng
lish traveller reports from Northern India
the result obtained from intelligent ma
tives by repeated enquiries:
"Is IL far to Gilgit?"
Not so far. your highness."
zone or two kos?'
"Yes. your highness."
isn't II three?"
at may be. your highness."
'Is that what II is?
'Tt may be five or six, your highness."
"Then why did you say it was one or
two?"
..To please your highness."
Now, what is the real distance?"
.sWhatever your highness pleases"
Here is another specimen: At a certain
village the traveller enquired OF the prop
er official. the cutwal, as to supplies
ANY eggs or milk?
PLENTY, your highness.'
Sheep"
"Plenty, your highness," and SO on
through the list.
They were told there was plenty OF
everything. So they ordered lot of
things 70 be brought. and rejoiced in the
1dea of alenty-milk. eggs. and butter be-
1ng occasionally scarce; but nothing
came. Then they finally sent for the off,
cial again.
where are the eggs?"
There are no eggs, may 1t please your
highness"
mo eggs, Well. where's the milk"
MAY IT please your highness. ] cannot
find any milk"
Cannot find any milk? What do you
mean. Where are the cows?"
There are not any cows, your high
ness"
"Then why did you say there were
plenty OF supplies?"
ITO please your highness. Youths
Companion.
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BRUIN ON A SPREE.
Invaded a Dairy, Drank His Fill and
Was Happy.

The proverbial bull in a china shop has
found an imitator In a bear which has
| been paying an unlimited visit TO an es-
| tablishment where milk is dispensed, but
| In order TO relieve Immediately any
| anxiety which might be felt on this
| subject, hasten to add that bruin be-
haved extremely well, and that no bones
or crockery were broken. The bear was
being exhibited on one OF the outlying
boulevards when its owner In an absent
minded fit relaxed his hold on the chain.
The animal took advantage of this situ-
alton to start on a promenade, and when
the people who had gathered round to
witness the show bolted panic-stricken in
every direction, il pursued the even tenor
OF its way until it had reached the shop,
at the door Of which a pail OF milk was
standing. II seized the can In Its paws,
walked into the establishment. and squat
ting comfortably in a corner, drank of
the contents at one gulp.
When the owner Of the bear arrived on
the spot he found the worthy woman who
keeps the milkship lying prone on the
floor behind the counter in a state of
abject terror. but otherwise not a bit the
worse for the adventure. He patted
bruin. who was in an even more amiable
mood than usual after the little feast to
which he had treated himself. duly paid
the bill which he had run up. adding
trifing sum TO compensate the trades
woman for her fright. and then he sailed
forth In triumph with his grizzly COM
panion, who during the remainder OF the
day went through his evolutions with
even more zeal and energy than he was
wont TO display, SO that when his owner
finally wenaed his way homeward he dis
covered that he had far exceeded his usual
average OF profits, and had more than re-
cuperated himself for the money spent on
the milk-Paris Correspondence London
Telegraph.
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
BARBER SCARED WHILE
SHAVING A DEAD MAN
Muscles Relaxed and Gave
Artist a Fright.
Thought the Man Had Come to Life and
Took a Hasty Depar-
ture.

'T was never more scared in my life
J than was the first time / shaved a
| corpse" said a local barber to one Of
his customers the other afternoon. The
gentleman being in an attentive mood
consented TO hear the barber tell his
story.
We'll, you see, 1t was some time ago.
probably about twenty years ago. 1t was
a r-iny day and along about shop clos
me dropped in and asked me II I wanted
TO make little extra money. OF course
/ did. He told me to go down to such
and such a number on such and such a
street Ee said couldn't miss the house.
IT was the only one on the street with
crepe on the door bell.
1.-The undertaken said he wanted me to
shave corpse. This dampened my ar
dor for the time being, but I soon got
over It. and bracing myself 1 put my
proper tools in handsatchel and started
off for the place. / reached there all
right and after knocking once or twice
was admitted to the house and was told
that the body was that OF man and
that 1t was upstairs. / went up there.
Just as / got In the room the young man
who had been watching the body for the
family went out, leaving me alone with
a dead body. ] began to get real scared
right :hen.
Nevertheless" continued the barber.
81 started to work on the Job: it all
went all right for the first two or three
minutes, and then / began to get shaky
and began to sDag the face. Just as I
was about to put the last stroke on, the
body suddenly made lurch, all the mus
cles relaxed Il know what made IL now,
but l did not them. With one shout
gathered up my tools and was getting
down those steps three and five at
time. Did Ii scare me? Well, / guess.
/ was never more scared In my life be-
fore. Just imagine yourself not knowing
that several hours after death the mus
cles of a dead man relax. and the body
gives a lurch, and that you are in
room with only corpse, and the muscles
relax then, ] guess you would go under
too"
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
TlMiD' NEWSPAPER MEN
ALARMED AT FIRST SHOT
General Alger Stops Sale of His Book to
Make Change in Expression.

In the first edition of General Ayers
book. "The Spanish War ap-
peared the following paragraph:
"Somc timid newspaper men accompany
ing General Young and Colonel Wood be-
came alarmed at the first shot fired at Las
Guasimas. and rushing frantically back to
siboney. before the engagement was over.
wrote from the transports where they took
refuge, imaginary accounts Of the fight,
on by General Wheeler. in direct violation
of General Skaters instructions. The Sew
cnty-first New York Volunteers was pic
turesquely described as taking an active
part in the fight, and conducting itself
with great valor. This regiment was not
engaged"
On General Ayers attention being call
ed to this reflection upon those corre-
spondents who accompanied General Young
and Colonel Wood, and who were actually
on the firing line at the Las Guasimas en-
gagement. he stopped the sale of the edi-
tion. and issued a second edition of the
book with the following modification Of
the Objectionable paragraph:
Some very excited newspaper men, who
were not on the firing line at all, and
whom General Young described in his tes-
timony before the War Investigation Com
mission as 'demoralizcd.' and. according to
reports. who remained in the rear during
the entire engagement. wrote imaginary
accounts of the fight. which was described
as an ambush brought on by General
Wheeler. in direct violation Of General
Skaters instructions The Seventy-frst
New York Volunteers was picturesquely
described as taking an active part in the
fight, and conducting itself with great
valor This regiment was not engaged.
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SAVE THE CHILDREN.

THIS SOCIETY is cndeavoring TO help lower
the death rate in the District of Columbia.
THIS SOCIETY Is also endeavoring to les
sen human misery and TO protect the lives of
children and Of persons in impaired health.
THIS SOCIETY has convinced itself that
contaminated raw milk and cream are largely
responsible for
SCARLET FEVER. DIPHTHERIA. TUBER-
CULOSls, TYPHOID AND OTHER
ENTERIC DISEASES.
THIS SOCIETY has carefully studied the
subject and concluded that
ScALDISG THE MILK
Is the proper and simple precautionary meas
ure: that scslding milk will not affect its di-
gcstibility. and that milk laws and inspection,
while undoubtedly helpful, offer only par.
tal protection. After scalding. keep cool and
covered.
The Washington times., 1902-05-04
Society for Prevention of
Sickness.

We favor a stringent law prohibiting the
sale or use in Ice Cream Of any CREAM not
Pastcurizcd,
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Mutinies Frequent.


Sometimes the food Is reduced in quail
ty. or the men arc compelled to work over
time, until human endurance can stand
no more. Then there is a mutiny. FIRE.
quently the boss or whoever happens to
be standing guard at the door is struck
down with a shovel. and left dead or dying.
while dash is made TO gain the deck for
light and air. Seldom do the poor wretch
es accomplish this, however. for the alarm
Is usually sounded In time for the doors
to be SHUT, and no amount of hammering
at the stout iron panels will gain them
freedom. Then from some hatch or graf
ing the officers OF the vessel can dictate
their own terms and the stokers must
obey. for they are prisoners. cut of from
light and air. and without bite to eat.
Meanwhile another gang has been driven
into the stoke hole, and the ship continues
on its way without a pause. Above. on the
broad breeze-swept and sunny. decks. the
passengers lie comfortably In their steam
er chairs. or play Switchboard. utterly ig-
norant that the slightest thing is amiss
deep down in the interior of the ship
They have no knowledge of what goes on
there. 1t is place apart to them. place
iuii Oh Interest. anu one tney Wouiu lihe
to see, but beyond that they are ignorant
of all knowledge concerning 1t.
A good many Of the men who become
stokers are persons who have absolutely
no idea of the frightful hardships OF the
place, and are trying to work their way
across the ocean. Some men. however,
are professionals at the work. They have
been at 1t a good while, and seem utter
ly unable to change their vocation But
it is form Of employment that cannot be
endured more than three or four years
even by the most healthy man. Those who
have worked at the trade any length OF
time know this. but they usually seem
powerless to get something else to do.
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ST0KERS At WORK ON
BIG ocean LINERS
One Continual I Round of
Semi-Darkness and Heat.
EXTREME BOTTOM OF SHIP
Sunshine Never Seen and Air Is Fur
mshed by Artificial Means-Three
Gangs of Eight Hours Work Each
Passengers Have Little knowledge of
What Is Going on Below.

Comparatively few Of the thousands of
passengers on the great trans Atlantic
| liners have had an opportunity to go
down into the stoke hole" and watch
the stokers at work. The very atmcs-
phere OF the place is redolent with hor-
| ror and gloom. and the ships officers are
| quite averse to having their passengers
catch even momentary glimpse of how
the other half" lives at sea-
For the scores of stokers life is passed
In one continual round of semi darkness.
| blasting heat, and filth. Their work is
dcne in the extreme bottom of the ship.
and even their living quarters. which they
occupy when on duty. are far down in
| the ships hold. where the cheer Of ray
OF sunshine is unknown. The only air
that reaches them as they stand before
the tremendous furnaces. shoveling the
coal into the great glar;ng maws. comes
down through the long air tunnels from
the upper deck. These tunnels are rig
ged directly over the heads OF the men,
and the cooling drafts that pour down
them are all that prevent the terrible
He"e iiohi sHiiNeiluS tne lie OUT Vi iHeiT
bodies. But even this life-saving blast
brings with 1t horrible disadvantage. as
1t swirls the mass of coal dust about the
hold in great clouds, choking and blind
Ing the struggling human beings.
Work in Three Tricks.
Steamers are provided with three gangs
Of stokers. each working eight hours.
When a gang is summoned from its rows
of dirty hunks. far below the water line.
the men are hustled down the long flights
of winding stairs to the roaring "Hades
afoat," where the great open doors of
the rows Of furnaces glare red through
the gloom and swirling clouds of coal
dust. Before each door stands a man
shoveling coal into the great nav as fast
as his arms will l. move Hither and
thither through the long Ipassageways be-
tween the furnaces men are hurrying with
wheelbarrows loaded with fuel for the
stokers.
The stokers wear merely stout shoes
and pair of pants. The other portions
OF their bodies are directly exposed to the
furious blasts Of heat. Sweat trickles
down their faces and bodies and mingles |
with the coating OF black dust No one |
is recognizable. From head to foot they |
are black as Nubians. In the red glare |
their black figures look. CHASTITY and spec |
trail. And here in this tomb of almost |
superhuman terrors. scores of men toll |
and burn out their lives eight hours at q |
stretch for wages that would be consid- /
cred pitifully small even to a laborer on
shore Frequently some poor wretch falls |
in his tracks on the hot iron floor. either |
dead or utterly exhausted, An almost In
human boss commands his companions to 4
carry him up from the stoke hole, and he I
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is unceremoniously dragged up the iron
stairs with as little care for his welfare
as though he were dog.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01
The Rusfs.

The bust of Gen. Barlow represents
him short time before his death, and
to make the busts consistent in detail
that of Gen. McLaws has been made to
represent him at similar period of his
life, as an officer in the armies of the
Confederacy. Gen. McLaws lived long
after the war, and until a very few
years ago, and the bust shows him
much younger than his friends remem-
Der him. This may detract something
from the bust as a portrait, but the
IDEA. has been to build more for pos
terlty than for the present generation
to erect for the admiration of future
SaVannahians reminders of the virtues
and the martial excellences of two
gallant men, who lived and fought and
old their duty well, in the days that
tried mems souls.
Mr.. Zolnay has caught well the in
splrat1on of this ideal of the promoters
OF the construction of the monument
Inc busts show two soldiers. More
than mere pictures of the men whom
the monuments are designed to honor
were intended by the committee and
ny the sculptor. The purpose of both
was TO make them show, in addition to
t me physical aspect of the heroes, some
.hIhg OF the nature and disposition and
udlls OF character that lay behind.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01

Maj. Gen. Lafayette McLaws was
born in Augusta, Ga, Jan. Is, 1921.
Graduating from the West Point Mil
itary Academy in 1912, he was assigned
to the Sixth United States Infantry.
He had attained the rank of captain,
when, on the secession of his native
state, he resigned from the United
States army to share in her fortunes.
He was appointed major of the First
Regiment of Georgia Regulars; but,
elected colonel of the Tenth Georgia
Regiment, he served with distinction
in the operations in the peninsula. He
was promoted to brigadier general
Sept. %, 1860, and to major general
May %, 1862, and led his division in
the severe engagement at Savage Sta
ton, and in the bloody slope of NAL
vern Hill. His command holding in
check the Federal force on the James
river, covered the Confederate rear in
the second battle of Manassas. Gen.
McLaws was chiefly instrumental in
the capture of Harper's Ferry, hur
rying thence to Sharpsburg in time to
save the Confederate lines from dis
aster At Fredericksburg Gen. Nc
Laws command sustained and re-
pulsed the main assault on the Con-
federate position.
At Charlottesville Gen. McLaws held
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01

they pay no attention to the squirrels,
and they come right up to the dogs
without being frightened.
Squirrels placed in your park would,
no doubt, be very amusing and inter
esting to the children. Frequently my
friends, from the city, drive out to my
place, so the children can enjoy seeing
them and playing with them.
However, I do not believe, were you
to catch wild squirrels and turn them
loose in the park, they would remain.
1 would suggest you get several pair
of young ones, raise them in a cage,
and turn them out in the early spring.
They increase very rapidly. and,
think, bring two or three filters an
nually. Mine are all too large, even
those born in the spring. When they
have young, 1 will bear it in mind. and
if possible get several pair for you
from my own park, which 1 will take
great pleasure in doing. On my return
home, / will attempt to catch a few
of the old squirrels, and send them to
you, but l hardly believe they will stay
in the park, Unless you have some
good hiding place for them. BY taxi
ing them when young, it will be much
easier to approach them, after turning
them out.
I'm the park at Memphis Tenn. =,
there are, right in the midst of the
city, hundred upon hundreds; all are
very gentle, and take food nuts and
cake from the children in the park.
They are protected by the city, it be-
ing a heavy penalty to injure or kill
one of them. l will take great pleas
ure in doing what I can for you"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01

gomery, Ala. In this distinguished
body, he was chairman of the Commit
tee on Military Affairs, and author Of
gray as the color for the uniform of
the Confederate Army.
Leaving Savannah, May 81, 1861, he
led his company to Virginia and joined
the Eighth Georgia Regiment, of which
he became the colonel. At the first bat
tie of Manassas, July 81, 1861, he COM
manded a brigade of five regiments,
and was there killed, when the climax
of victory was near, exclaiming, ere he
died, They have killed me, boys, but
never give up the field" Col. Barlow
being member of the Confederate
Congress at the time of his death, the
Hon. Thomas r. R. Cobb pronounced
his eulogy before that body, and it
adjourned in honor of his memory.
There can be no doubt, that had Col
Barlow survived the battle of Manas-
sas Plains, he would have been COM
nissioned a brigadier general. As al
ready stated, previous to and on that
memorable field of conflict, he COM
manded a brigade of five regiments;
hence his popular recognition as Zen.
Barlow, in which rank he is usually
referred to, and is best known.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01
GEN. FRANCIS S. BARLOW.

Col. Francis Stebbins Barlow was
born in Savannah, Sept. 6, 1916. Grad
uating at the University of Georgia in
1885, with the highest honors of his
class, he pursued the study Of law, and
entered the bar. Taking at once high
rank in his profession. he succeeded
his distinguished father-in-law. the
Hon. John Macpherson Berrien on his
retirement from partnership with the
late Judge William Law.
A citizen of his commanding ability
and magnetic character could scarcely
avoid public honors; but it was not I'M
til the secession agitation moved the
South, that Col. Barlow took a con-
spicuous part in the public drama of
that eventful period. Elected, in 1857,
captain of the Oglethorpe Light Infan-
try of Savannah, he developed fervent
military enthusiasm, and when Fort
Pulaski was occupied by Coy. Brown,
in the name of the state of Georgia,
Jan 2, 1861. his was one of the three
companies designated for the seizure.
Col Barlow was elected by the seces-
sion convention of Georgia, one of the
three delegates to represent the state
in the Provisional Congress of the Con-
federate States, assembled at Mont
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01

what good can be accomplished by pub
fishing to the world our defects. Quar-
rels at home should be kept at home, it
is bad to have them, but they will oc-
cur in every family, in every communi-
ty, and even between nations, and our
ministers who are professed followers of
the meek and lordy Nazarene, it seems
to me, would accomplish much more
good by 'persuading men everywhere"
and not find so much fault with our
courts, our rulers and the people gem
orally. Brethren, if man be over
taken in a fault, we that are spiritual,
restore such an one in the spirit of
meekness.' -
Evil is ever-present; it mas always
been so; 1t is so now, and I presume
1t will ever be so; but it is not right
to condemn people on account of the
evil deeds of few, and make the out
side world believe that we are a God
forsaken people. l quote from Presi-
dent Roosevelt's address at Arlington
F'riday-it fits the case to a nicely:
I'm every community there are peo-
pie who commit acts of well-nigh in
conceivable horror and baseness. II
we fix our eyes only upon these indi-
viduals, and upon their acts, and if we
forget the far more numerous citizens
of upright and honest life and blind
ourselves to their countless deeds of
wisdom and justice and philanthropy, f.
it is easy enough to condemn the
community. There is not a city in this
land which we could not thus condemn
if we fix our eyes purely upon it's po-
lice record and refused to look at what
it had accomplished for decency and
justice and charity"
This is what is being done, and as
Mr.. Roosevelt says, 1t is an attitude
both absurd and cruelty unjust.
J. NJ. II.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-06-01
GEN. LAFAYETTE MLAWS.

the right of the Confederate army, and
by determined attacks, so diverted the
attention of the enemy as to make
more certainly successful the great
flank movement of Stonewan jackson.
1t was his division, united with that
of Gen. Robert H. Anderson, which
defeated the rear attack of Sedgwick' S
Corps, drove it across the Rappahan-
mock and so completed the triumph
of Charlottesville. At the battle OF
Gettysburg, Gen. McLaws led his d.
vision in the firm and successful as
sault on Sickle's and other forces in
front of Round Top.
At Chickamauga, Gen. McIaws led
in the pursuit of the enemy, and at
Knoxville, in the disastrous assault on
the Federal defenses. In May, 1864,
Gen. McLaws was assigned to COM
mand the military district of Georgia,
and the Third Militia District of South
Carolina; but skillfully evacuated Sa-
vannah on the investment of the city
by Sherman, and fighting as he re-
tired, met the enemy finally at Averys-
boro and Bentonville.
Gen. .McLaws was the first president
of the Confederate Veterans Associa-
ton of Savannah, and finally it's hon
orary president He died in Savannah
July "a, 1897, in his 18th year.