The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-02-01

of each caddy, stated the number OF
the factory and the internal revenue
district in which 1t was located. The
dies stamped into the wood the num-
Der of pounds each caddy contained
The days stamping and branding was
figured up and the manufacturer gave
his check for the total amount of the
tax.
Most of the time during the war
the tax upon plug chewing tobacco
was 40 cents per pound. The caddies
varied in size, in accordance with the
length of the plugs and there was a
slight variation of weight in caddies
of the same size. The caddies con-
tanning the 6-inch plug-and this was
the greater part of the product-ran
from IS pounds to % pounds in weight
the 12-inch plugs made caddies from
SO to AZ pounds. You can see that,
averaging the 6-inch packages at 20
! pounds, and the 12-inch at 40 pounds,
the tax amounted to IS and SIG, re-
spectively
No Protection Around the System.
about all the protection thrown
around the system consisted of the
watchfulness of the secret service de-
partment, and that was far from per-
feet at that time. How many swim
dies went through to the end without
DClil6 ueltCleQ Will never De kIOWn
but eventually some pretty big game
was caught in the secret service net.
But let me get back to my story.
There wasn't a clock in the roll
ing room of the factory. and those of
the rollers who owned watches would
hang them, during working hours, in
convenient places about their benches
so that they might keep track of the
time. as the rolling was done by the
roll Lore n
set tasks for themselves which kept
them always on the jump l was
wrapper stemmer for my uncle, with
whom / lived. One evening about s
o'clock he called to me as l was play
ing in the street, and, when l came up
to him, asked me to go over to the
factory and get his watch, which he
had left hanging on his bench when
he quit work at o'clock
II must tell you at this point about
two mastiff dogs that belonged to our
factory. They were big fellows, ana
l had been told that they were as
fierce as they looked Like many Of
the other boys about the factory, /
had made friends with Pluto and
Ponto, and often went at the noon
hour into the walled yard back of the
factory, where the dogs were kept in
the daytime and fed them scraps fBm
my lunch. 1t was understood that the
dogs were turned loose in the factory
at night, but as l had never been
down there after dark until the night
/ was sent after the watch, | didn't
know anything about it. My uncle
had told me that there was a watch
man at the factory, and that he would
let me go up to the rolling room after
the watch.
A Dog on Guard.
"As l drew near the big building l
noticed light burning in the office,
which was located in the center of the
lower floor. There were entrances at
each front corner of the building. I
tried the door of the first entrance and
found it locked. 1 then went on to
the next entrance, passing the office
windows. Apparently no one was in
the office, but | didn't stop to investi-
gate.
When 1 reached the other entrance
there lay Pluto. stretched out on the
door-sill, but with his head erect, alert
in attitude and manner He was ev-
identity on guard. but not expecting
one of the young friends who fed him
on scraps of bread and meat at noon
times. He wagged his tail when he
saw who the late caller was, and Of
fered no protest as / opened the door
which, l afterward understood, was
left unlocked to avoid suspicion-and
stepped into the storeroOm.
1T was necessary for me to pass
through tbs entire length Of this room