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The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
Mr.. Reid.s Generosity.

Much has been written about Daniel
G. Reid, the railroad n1agnate who,
less than a decade ago, was unknown
to fame, but who is now manager of
the Rock Island system and can con-
troll millions, says the Denver Post.
Stories have been told of his phenome~
nal success. but little tale of human
interest related by friend will serve
to illustrate the observation-disclosures OF
the man.
While going from Denver to Glen
wood Springs, on a recent trip through
the West with his family. Mr.. Reds
train was delayed several hours by
rock slide. When the train stopped.
two small boys, about II and II years
of age. crept from under the special
car, where they had been stealing a
ride. The miscreantS were brought be-
fore Mr.. Reid, and, terror stricken,
they told their "hardluck story to the
big. quiet man. A motherless home
and cruel treatment by a drunken
father were the factors in driving these
waits into the world.
How much money have your" ask
ed Mr.. Reid. Investigation revealed
Is cents, the total assets of the COM
bine.
"How do you expect to reach Cali
fornfa with that sum-" was asked.
"Oh, Wen ride ON the brake beams
and get along without grub replied
the youngsters.
What would you do if you had some
money!"
This sounded interesting, and both
boys began to talk at once.
They craved money, not for food nor
clothes, but to get to California. Then
a miracle happened. They each fell
heir to a S. bill, more money than they
had ever possessed in their lives.
California, their Ell Dorado was in
sight. and this seemed the jolliest of
worlds. While they marveled, their
joys multiplied; for they were invited
to board the train, which was a NOV
able palace, and, better still, invited
to board" with the aristocratic French
cook, who, according to his masters
orders, was to serve them whenever
they desired. How they did eat, and
how Mr. Reid did relish their enjoy
ment of the good things. The dis
gust of that chef can never be ex-
pressed in English. This casting of
culinary pearls before the swinish
gamin was to him the height of folly.
and had it not been for fear of dis
misSal in this far country" there
would have been open rebellion. At
Glenwood Springs the boys said good
by to their wonderful new friend. who
had so generously shed sunshine into
their barren lives.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
THE POSTAL SCANDAL.

Thirteen additional. indictments
against the 'grafters'' in the Post
office Department have been returned,
making. in all some twenty-five or
thirty indictments against half as
many men. Some of the accused have
half dozen or more indictments
against them, as in the cases of Beav-
ers and Machen, while against others
there is but one bill. The announce
| ment is made that the end of the in
vestigation has been reached, and
Postmaster General Payne has ex-
pressed great satisfaction" that the
thing is all over so far as digging up
evidence for the grand jury is con-
| cerned. The whole affair has been
very painful to MI. Payne. The dis
! patches have reported him dozen
times on the verge of tears. when new
| patches Of rottenness were discovered.
! When the charges were first made by
| Seymour w. Tulloch, formerly con-
nected with the Washington city post
! Office, that there was grating brib-
cry and other rascaiity- in the depart
ment, Postmaster General Payne de-
clared that the charges were an hot
air." that there was nothing in them
But an investigation was forged. and as
an outcome it has been shown that
a system of graft and plumber has
been going on in the service for
number of years. Many of the plum
derers cannot be reached because of
the Intervention of the statute of linn
itations. Except for that there would
have been returned indictments against
certain Republican politicians who
stand high in the councils of the party
The National Committee itself would
probably have been shaken.
The thefts and extravaganccs of the
postal ring have cost the government
hundreds of thousands of dollars. How
much of the stolen money will be re-
covered? So far it does not appear that
a dollar of it will be returned to the
public treasury; at least nothing has
been made public that tends to show
that there will be recoveries.
In the business of the Postofice De-
partment there is an elaborate system
of checks and counter-checks covering
all receipts and disbursements If
solitary window latch is wanted, a
formal requisition must be made out
and it must pass through half dozen
or more hands for approval. With
such system of accounting, does it
seem possible that the pilfering and
grating could have gone on for years
without high officials of the depart
ment finding it out? From what has
been learned during the investigation
the public has become pretty firmly
fixed in the belief that some high Off
Gals of the department a few years
ago were actually privy to what was
going on, and that but for the statute
of limitations, which prohibits going
back more than three years, there
would have been much bigger fish in
the drag net of the grand jury,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
Some Reflections,

From the Chicago Tribune
1 know a lot of Dooleys, and some Din.
kelspeils and Bowsers,
A bunch of Chimmie Faddens and
some Katzenjammers, too;
l used to know John Henry and his
crowd of boon carousers;
Some Spoopendykes and Hogans were
among the folks l knew.
And yet l never heard them do this
keen philosophizing,
Or talk on current topics in their daz-
zling style of wit;
l never saw them do a thing amusing
or surprising,
Nor heard them say a single thing
that ought to make hit.
One reads of all the sparkling jests of
Dinkelspeil and Dooley,
And notes the subtle fancy that John
Henry has in print
Why, there are David Harums all about
but / say truly,
OF all their mots and epigrams they
never give hint.
We wonder why it is that they in life
are moderated
And why these joy-inducing funny
things they never speak
Until by some astuteness they are sold
and Syndicated
And put upon the market at a given
rate per week.
Who knows but in the future one of us
will be a feature
BE fitted with dialect and manner
humorous,
And known the world around as quite
a scintillating crea ture
Because some other fellow will think
up our wit for us!
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
THE INSURANCE RATES.

The outlook in the local insurance
field is more promising than for some
time. The agent of the Southeastern
Tariff Association has told us not only
what must be done to secure the re-
moval of the extra fifteen cents added
to the rates some time ago, but how
we may be raised to a city of the
first class. The conditions for the re-
moval of the fifteen cents are that the
city must have a building inspector,
new fire engine, and lay no water
mains smaller than six inches in dame
ter. To be advanced to the first class,
in addition to the above, a constant
be maintained.
In all probability all of the conditions
will be complied with. The matter of
sustained water pressure of forty
pounds will doubtless be the most diff
tfcuft to meet of the conditions, though
1t is not apparent that any serious
difficulty will be encountered even in
that matter. 1t will call for the burn
ing of more coal at the water works
and the strengthening of any possible
weak places in the mains. An aid to
the maintenance of the required pres
| sure will be found in the stopping as
! far as possible of the wasting of water.
! There isn't room for questioning the
fact that more water is pumped than
is used legftimately. The per capita
consumption of water in Savannah is
larger than in most of the other cities
of the country. 1t is not desirable that
| there shall be a skipping of water
1t is better that there should be an
abundance for every legitimate pur-
pose. But there is no sense in pump
ing vast quantities of it to run to
| waste.
Being raised to the first class, Sa-
vannah will have as favorable insur-
ance rates as any city in the South,
and she ought to have them. She is
big. progressive and prosperous enough
TO be classed with the best of them
and TO have all of the advantages they
enjoy. The matter is now well in hand
and there are good prospects of a sat
isfactory adjustment within a short
while. The re-rating and re-classihca-
ton will be worth many thousands OF
dollars a year to the property owners
| of the city.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Chicago Daily News Qnd.) says:
Joseph Chamberlain may have heard
of the great American political act of
frying the fat out of the protected
manufacturers for campaign pur-
! poses.
The Baltimore American (Rep.) says:
England is now depending on the
United States for her fruit supply,
which will. doubtless, provoke a fresh
outburst of Indignation over the Amer
lean invasion European wit seems
unable to sharpen its point sufficiently
to see that the invasion consists of
our having so many things which Eu-
rope wants that the people there come
to us after it. and that the real inva-
sion is that of demand for satisfying
supply"
The Philadelphia Public Ledger (Ind. }
says: THE defeat of Parks candidate
for the presidency of the international
Association of Bridge and Structural
Iron Workers, at the convention in
Kansas City, was not so complete as
could be wished. but still Parks man
was defeated by a vote of 43 to 40. The
Parks kind of leadership has weaken
ed sensibly union labor before the
country, mas niIluefeQ prosperity ana
threatens grave troubles. Blackmail,
cNtortion, arrogance, tyranny, foolish
and costly strikes are the marks of
the Parks kind of leadership. which
so harnesses and hinders operations
that industry is retarded.
The Philadelphia Press (Rep.) says:
1T is not strange that the President
is impatient with the vexatious trou-
bles and annoyances of Delaware poll
itics. lie would have more than the
virtue of Job if he were not His eff
forts at adjustment have only precip-
itated more violent conflicts. and the
action taken under imaginary schemes
of agreement and division has brought
more criticism. If the politics of Del
aware is to be treated as on the same
plane with that of other states, then
the senators ought to be expected TO
find a modus vivendi. Make your own
high standard, MIR. President, and
teach Delaware that this is your rule"
The Cleveland Plain-Dealer Dem
says: Among the latest news items
from Washington is one to the effect
that Postmaster General Payne will
not resign on account of his poor
health. Life evidently again looks rosy
to him. and public office assumes more
and more the proportions of a sacred
trust that is not to be lightly yielded.
In other words, Payne stays"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
MDEX To NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Georgia Chapter, No. 5. r.
A NJ
Special Notices--Ship Notice. Will
hanson & Rauers: When You Take a
Train. Union Station Restaurant: Ap-
plications to Retail Liquor.
Business NOTES.-THE Brightest,
Theus & Co: Punctures Patched, G..
w Thomas.
What You Need to Make Your Pock-
etbook Grow Fat-MutuaI Gas Light
Company.
About Brain-Grape-Nuts.
our Constant Attention to Details
I. & w. Laundry.
Lifelong -Waltham Watches.
Just Take a Journey-Wm. & H. H
baltimore.
Miss Butterhy-Gamble' Tooth Pow
der.
Take Warburines-Rowlinsk, Drug
gist.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of NJ
j. Solomons and Marcus H. Barr of
Chatham, I. H. Swicord & Bro. and
j. P. Chapman & Bro. of Decatur. and
Foreman & Pinkston of Colquitt Bank
rupts.
Savannah Theater-Thursday Night,
Shay Grand Opera Company: Friday
Matinee and Night, Happy Hooligan;"
Saturday Matinee and Night,
'Thelma'
Beer-Anheuser- Busch Brewing Com
pany.
Silver Polish-The Gdrham Company.
Foods-Postum Food Coffee.
Medical-Paine's Celery Compound;
Duffy's Pure Matt Whiskey: Medical
Lake Salts; Herpicide; DR.. Bulls
Cough Syrup: Blood Wine.
Cheap Column Advertisements
Help Wanted: Employment Wanted;
For Rent; For Sale: Lost: Personal;
Miscellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
Never Touched Him.

Along West Eighty-fourth street
went a messenger boy in all the glory
of a new. neatly fitting uniform, says
the New York Press. 1t was early
morning, and the messenger boy was
feeling good. The strains of ''Hiawa-
tina" came in one ceaseless whisper, like
the carol of the lark.
Suddenly from out the fourth story
of an apartment house a small glass
vase fell, barely missing the jaunty
messenger and crashing into fragments
at his feet. Amid the atoms of glass
with which the concrete sidewalk was
strewn lay a wilted American Beauty
rose.
Without batting an eyelash over the
fall of the vase, the messenger non
chalantly picked up the rose and stuck
il in a buttonhole. Then he looked up
at the startled face of a woman in the
fourth-story window.
Much obliged for de bokay. lady,
he called out as he tipped his cap.
Sorry de vase got broke"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

"when I'VE We're poor, remarked the
prosperous man. rehectively, in the Chi
cago Evening Post. 1--WE looked forward
to the time when we could have a sum
mer home" al
'Well ?"
well. when we got rich enough to
have one, we didn't like going to the
same place every summer, because 1t
was monotonous. and we looked for
ward to the time when We could have
another for variety"
'Well?"
well, we got another; and then we
began to long for winter place, so
that we wouldn't have to be so much
in the big house in the city"
"Well?"
We'll. we've got them all now"
And are you happy
Il suppose So AT least, | suppose my
wife is. She keeps them all shut up
and spends most of her time in Europe,
but she knows she has them.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Margaret Matilda, the 14-year-old
daughter of William Smith of Column
bia, N. j.. appeared at the breakfast
table the other day with her hair done
up" and reef shaken out of her skirt
When her father wanted to know what
meant those indisputable evidences of
the fact that the girl deemed herself
young lady, he was astounded by
the. announcement that she had been
married the day before and was. de-
termined TO dress the part. Then the
new woman got spanking for a we'd
ding present.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

A lady in a New York theater was
informed by an usher that she was mo
lady" because she would not remove
her hat. Thereupon her son very
promptly punched the usher in the eye
The son was taken TO the police sta
ton. but the justice discharged him,
holding that the usher had offended
and that he had no right to express
his opinion as to the moral character
of the defendants mother because she
would not remove her hat. We are glad
that the women down South remove
their hats, though we know they are
in no danger of the imputation of the
usher.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
THE SENATE ATTACHED.

Some days ago Col. Henry Wattersen
published in his newspaper, the Louis
Vile Courier-Journal, a pungent edi-
torial on the Panama canal situation.
in which it was asserted that there
was a "$4O,OO0,000 steal" mixed up in
the matter. There were numerous ref
erences to the grey wolves" of the
Senate, to the thieves in France" 1.-The
thieves in Bogota" and the thieves
in Washington" The Boston Herald
thought Col. Watterson to be unwar-
rantedly severe and said so. 1t as
stunned that congressional morals We're
on a much higher plane than Col Wat
tersons editorial implied, and declined
to believe without very strong evidence
1 that any member of the United States
Senate had share in what Col Wat
terson called the the "s40, 900, 900 steal -
In response to the Herald Col. Wat
terson reiterates the charge that there
was corruption at Washington, and
adds: "If the Herald wants specfica-
tions we have them in plenty If it
wants statistical information we are
prepared to furnish it. But let it revise
its own judgment as to this Panama
business. From first to last it was a
job, pure and simple. There is not a
well-inforrned man in Washington who
will not privately, if not publicly, say
as much
Now this is becoming promising of
interesting developments. The Herald
will, of course, invite Col. Watterson
to submit his. specifications and sta
tistical information, and then the
Colonel will go into details as to per-
sons, places and amounts. BY the time
this can be done the Senate win prob
ably be in session. and the country will
want to hear from it with respect to
the matter. If there are grey wolves"
in the Senate, the country wants to
know who. they are.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Great oaks from little acorns grow
and large suits from slight omissions.
A telegraph company has to fight one
of $4,000 in New York because a tele-
gram addressed Miss Ada Hanna"
was held for some supposititious per-
son by the name of Miss Ada H.
Anna" 1t would have required a Cock
ney clerk to make the proper delivery
of that telegram.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Sir Thomas Upton says he is a
free trader. A preferential tariff for
Great Britans colonies, in his opin-
ion, would never do. She must look
to America, he insists, for her food
supply Sir Thomas own tremendous
trading interests would doubtless suf-
fer under q different fiscal policy, but
he speaks mt for himself but for his
country at large.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

The New York chief of detectives
says There is a poker game in every
club in New York, and game in every
hotel every night. but what can 1 do ?"
Any other reply than nothing" would,
of course, be a reflection on the depart
fnent
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Last April the National Good Roads
Convention was held at st. Louis. By
dint of superhuman energy the govern
ment printing Office has managed to
get out the eighty-page report of the
proceedings in October The poorest
private printing concern in the coun-
try would be ashamed of such a rec
ord
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Mamie DeCris Will have to have
something else happen to her between
now and November of next year if she
wishes to emerge from the peniten-
tiary with fresh notoriety. Her inge-
nuity viii probably suggest something.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

On the ground floor of one of the
tall buildings in New York there is a
club Where it has been declared that
the poker games have. no limit. This
means they will have to take the roof
off
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

A Paterson IN. - bride has brought
suit for divorce against her husband
upon the complaint that he made her
wear tight shoes. 1t must have been a
sort of Chinese honeymoon.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Another. International wedding, with
another English lord filling the title
role" is declared to be threatening.
This time Miss Muriel White. daugh-
United States embassy at London, is
said to be the prospective countess,
while the man in the case is Lord Will
loughby de Eresby, eldest son of the
Earl and Countess of Ancaster. AS
this is the fifth time that Miss Muriel
has been reported engaged, however, it
is quite possible that any one banking
upon this event may be Disappointed
Yet there should be an affinity between
''Murier' and Willoughy de Eresby.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Those who danced had to pay THE
Fiddler" The horse made the bookies
at Morris Park pay big money, and
the principal poolrooms throughout
the country where the sports had been
tipped off. were caught heavily Now
the boolies are trying to find out
something about the antecedents of
The Fiddler" They believe a, ringer
was run in on them.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Coney Island is rivalling Cape Nome.
Beach combers are sitting the sands
and finding diamonds and other gems.
1t is the annual cleanup after the
summer crowds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Some astrologer has recently cast the
horoscope of Pope Plus x. He astounds
US with his knowledge of the occult
by informing US that Plus was born to
grea tness. Considering the fact that
Plus had already been elected Pope
when the stars were consulted for their
story, this is, indeed, wonderful. In
order that he may not be regarded
as historian, rather than prophet,
the astrologer also deduees that the
Pope is destined to see much trouble.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Restaurateurs of the Capitol do not
welcome the prospect of the approach
ing session of Congress. They think it
will be too dry. AT the last session
it was enacted that drinks should not
be sold in the Capitol. Keepers of the
restaurants say there is no money in
selling food without drink. Maybe
Congress will get tired of its own plan;
the soldiers got tired of that it devised
for them when it ordered that post
canteens be abolished.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-day
are for partly cloudy weather. with
fresh east winds. Eastern Florida
fair weather, with fresh east winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

The President has given each mem
Der of the cabinet copy of Charles
Wagners THE Simple Life" This is
a plea for simple thoughts, simple
and simple beauty. The Presidents new
text book doubtless would not fail to
leave his cabinet officers good men, but
it might also leave them very simple
politicians. Wagner was writing for
private. not public, life Col. Roosevelt
has climbed higher than Wagner, and
it would seem that his own Strenuous
Life" might be the more appropriately
commended as a rule and guide of con-
duct. aiA
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Almost any act of a strange visitor
to the White House that is out of the
ordinary is nowadays magnihed into
an attempt or design upon the life of
the President. If the man Elliott wished
to kill Col. Roosevelt be had the OPP
portunity when he met and shook
hands with him as he was leaving
church. 1t was just such chance as
the william Czolgosz embraced. The
secret service is right in throwing every
tanning any who may be regarded as
suspicious characters, yet it is bit try
ing to ordinary nerves to have so much
made of the arrest of some armed for
eigner who may have entertained no
nefarious design.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-10-07

Take almost any other man who has
been before the calcium as long as
Sir Thomas Upton and count the times
he has induced at least half the PEG
pie to believe that he has made some
foolish blunder and you will have more
than used up the fingers of both hands.
Sir Thomas has a head that is set
square and level on his shoulders, and
something more than adulation is need
ed to turn it. With no foolish compla-
cency, but with smiling certainty
that somebody has just been guessing
and that he has no chance TO be either
ambassador to the United States or a
member of the British eabinlt, he
views the EXPRESSIONS.