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The National tribune., 1903-05-07
c .: pssSssAkER: JOIN PAUL Joyss
PENNEBAKER g. JONES,
Attorneys and Counselors,
1881 STREET, WASHINGTON. d. C.
c. D. pENNEbAEeR.
JOHN PAUL JONES'

Special attention to adjustment Of accounts of civil
war Voluntee. Officers
We think very officers properly paid.
Widows even II remarried or other heirs are emil.
tied. Write for details
We are especially anxious to communicate with off,
GERS or their heirs who ~ paid recruiting
services or for services rendered prior in:
90 who were denied bounty by OF promotions:
90 who were dismissed from the Service % who
denied travel pay by of resignation for personal
reasons or convenience; (s who were not mustered
and paid because command below minimum num-
ber and 49, who lost U. pay by Of State pay.
ment.
The National tribune., 1903-05-07
HOW TIE MONEY IS RAISED.

The Nations debt of gratitude to the
heroic defenders Of the Union has not vet
been paid. 1t will not even be fully as
s'Iined until the service pension policy
which The National Tribune is so visor-
ously and inteiliGently, urging shall be
adopted by the Government and enacted
by the American Congress-. 't'f
1t Is not now burden on the National
resources, nor will it be burden wbe.,
fully assumed and 'conscientiousIy dis
charged.
How lightly this expenditure rests on
cilr people may be gathered from the fact
That fractional part of our inferno
revenue taxes and customs duties col
lected from absolute Injuries or super
fluities, more than meet it. See the fol-
lowing:
fension expenditures, 1902 s139. 81, $50
spirits Ell, l3S oh
Customs duties on liquors 1214s443
The National tribune., 1903-05-07

THE TRUE FUNCTIONS OF GOVERNMENT.
A review Of these widely diversified OBJ
jects of expenditure suggests reflection on
what should be the limitations on proper
functions of Government. While social
relations must continue, it is indisputable
that the restraints of Government must
grow more mild and less tangible or yisi-
BILE as the race attains higher degrees Of
elevation. Otherwise state socialism" is
The National tribune., 1903-05-07

$3.50, 45G
Or, the following equally significant il
lustration
Pension expenditures 1902 $40 $40 oan
Internal revenue tax on
!. tobacco ................. S5l, 937,ae
Customs duties on to-
bacco :.....".:.... 1s,157.7lS
Customs duties on Class
I'd" (tine foreign goois) 67714gC2
13s 4.O,5i5
Or the following, which, is perhaps. still
more significant:
Pension expenditures, 1902 I3oste o9O
Internal taxes on fer
mented liquors. ........- ST. gSs GO2
Customs duties. Glass "E''
pure luxuries ......... 6s.O5s,G3
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S24,944, 124.77
Total .$4S6, 439, 306.6S

Besides these there is the bill making
appropriations for the postal service.
which, as the cost is mainly reimbursed
from the postal revenues, is seldom
counted in stating the aggregate, but is
classed as Indefinite
EXPENDITURES AND THEIR OBJECTS.
As previously shown the appropriations
for some branches of the public service,
and for all branches in the aggregate.
usually exceed the actual expenditures. a
detailed statement of disbursements under
the several heads, as classified in the an
nual report of the Treasury Department,
is as follows for the fiscal year ended June
80, 1902:
The National tribune., 1903-05-07
SUPPORTING THE GOVERNMENT.
The Constant Need of Money and the Pur
poses to Which 1t Is Applied-Justice
Pension Expenditures.

The Constant Need of Money and the Pur-
poses to Which 1t Is Applied-Justice OF
Pension Expenditures.
Congress meets annually, and one OF It's
most important duties is the preparation,
discussion and passage of the approprla-
ton bills by means OF which provision IS
made for paying the expenses of the fiscal
wear. which begins on the first day of July,
following the beginning of each regular
session in December. These bills, with
the amount appropriated for each Depart
ment for the fiscal year 1903, now current,
are as follows:
To supply DEFICIENCIES. .S24,944,l24.
and .Jndicial expenses. 25.396. 6S3 90
feor smdry civil expenses. 54394. 601 .63
For sunnort of the army. 81. 730. 136.41
For the naval service 7SS56.363 ID
For the Indian service. S9S6,02S.1O
For rivers and harbors. 80 $40, 1880
For forts and Notifications. 1925, $4,000
For support of Military .,- 90, 90
Academy .............. 2,o2t,5Z4.4Z
For invalid and other pen
cies .139, S42, $4,000
For Consular and Diplo-
matte service .......... 1,9oI ,4oo.5l
TT tur nep .. =. 5,2OS, 10000
For expenses of the District
of Columbia .... S,544, 469.97
For miscellaneous 4,0S1, 747.24
Total .s4s6, 439, 3o6.6s
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
WHY GATES WAS ELIMINATED.

The inquiry that was begun before
the Interstate Commerce Commission
last week by the Kentucky State Rail-
road Commission to show that the
Louisville and Nashville Railroad was
purchased by the Southern Railroad,
and not by the Atlantic Coast Line
Railroad, has been productive of a
great deal of interesting testimony.
Among the witnesses were j. Pierpont
Morgan and two of his partners, and
they told all about the deal by which
the Louisville and Nashville was ac-
quired by the Atlantic Coast Line.
If the Kentucky Railroad Commits
sion could show that the real pur-
chaser of the Louisville and Nashville
was the Southern, the Louisville and
Nashville would become an independ-
ent system again, because the law does
not permit che merging of competing
lines, the Southern and the Louisville
and Nashville being strong COMPETE
tors. 1t has not been able to show any
thing of the kind thus far. Both Mr..
Morgan and his partners testified that
in the Louisville and Nashville.
1t was the firm of j. p. Morgan G.
Co, however, that took the Louisville
and Nashville property from the Gates
syndicate and transferred it to the At
lantics Coast Line Railroad. Mr.. Nor
gan said the reason that his firm took
so much interest in getting the Louis
vile and Nashville into the control of
the Atlantic Coast Line was that it
thought that Gates was not a proper
person to have control of a great rail-
road property. 1t was suspected that
he would use it for speculative pur-
poses If it were left in his control 1t
seems that Mr.. Morgan's idea of MIR.
Gates is that he is a speculator, pure
and simple, and that he is in no sense a
| builder. If he had retained control Of
| the Louisville and Nashville the prob
ability is, according to the testimony
before the Interstate Commerce Com
| mission, that he would have so oper-
ated the road as to make as large
! dividends as possible for a year or
two with the view of selling it. In
order to make a big showing of BUSH
ness he doubtless would have cut rates
and damaged its competitors greatly.
1t was for the purpose of protecting
l the Southern from cut-rate methods
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Atlanta Journal says: 1.-THE
spectacle, as furnished by the man who
shot down Editor Gonzales on the
streets of South Cardinals capital city
yesterday, of big, strapping man go
ing around armed with two immense
pistols, either because he was seeking
or was afraid to meet unarmed man
who was not his physical superior, is
a pitiful one, to say the least"
The Charleston News and Courier
says: "If any evidence were desired
as to the spirit of violence which con-
trolls our people it will be found in
the conduct of the Lieutenant Gov
ernor of the state, the second highest
executive officer of the state. One
moment clad in the robes of his Office
and presiding over the Senate of South
Carolina; the next, armed with two pis-
tolls, carried upon his person in VIOLA
ton of law, shooting down an unarmed
man in one of the main streets of the
Capital City of the state, without CIV
ing him the least chance to fight for
his life. One hour the President of the
Senate of South Carolina in discharge
of his duties; the next prisoner in the
county jail, awaiting the result of the
injuries inflicted upon his defenseless
victim"
The Richmond News says: There
is a melancholy coincidence in the fact
that F. w. Dawson of the News and
Courier of Charleston, who preceded
Mr.. Gonzales in position as the recog-
nized foremost editor in South Caro-
lima, met the same fate that has come
upon his young and shining successor
Mr. Gonzales took his first lessons in
newspaper work under Capt. Dawson,
whose vigorous methods or executive
management, thought and writing have
been stamped on the minds and have
governed the careers of so many
younger men in that section. Capt.
Dawson, in consequence of a strictly
private and personal trouble, was shot
very much as Mr.. Gonzales is, through
the body, but died almost instantly
The man who killed him actually drag
ged his body into rear hall, the trag-
edy having occurred in an Office where
none but the two parties to it were
present, and attempted to bury him in
a closet beneath a stairway. Failing
in this, he walked out on the street,
announced his crime and surrendered
himself He was tried and acquitted.
Judging by this instance and by many
others, we are forced to the deplora BILE
conclusion that in all probability, IL
Mr.. Gonzales dies, his death will be
| unavenged. They do not convict white
people for murder in South Carolina"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18

The proverbial Yankee thrift shows
up big in a story now going the
rounds reminiscent of a Western Mas
sachusetts banker who died during the
past year, Nnys the New York Com
mercial. He believed in the maxim
"A penny saved is a penny earned"
with a vengeance. His clerks were de-
MED the luxury of pads of paper and
were required to figure on the backs
of old envelopes that had been care
fully prepared by the Office boy in his
leisure moments. The banker had a
son-in-law who builded wisely by in
wiling his father-in-law to spend a
few weeks with him at the seashore.
The close-fisted banker decided to I'M
loosen to the extent of having the
daily newspapers that the bank had
subscribed for sent to him after the
quotations had been inspected. He
left explicit instructions that the ad-
vertising pages were to be cut out and
the edges trimmed so as to save pos
tage.
The papers, which were sent every
other day, were too heavy for the one
cent limit, though considerably inside
the weight allowable for two cents. 1t
was q matter of facetious comment in
the bank that the "old man. was not
getting full value for his two-cent ex-
penditure for postage. The margin in
favor of Uncle Sam, however, dimin-
ished appreciably after the third in
stallment of literature had been for
warded, the cashier receiving a pos
tai card that bore the following re-
quest:
Mail papers in single wrapper ev-
cry four days, and they will require
but three cents postage"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
A PayvnshOp Tragedy.

I wonder If pawnbrokers have
hearts, writes Jean Cowgirl in the
Chicago Chronicle. Some people believe
they have. l saw man the other day
who went so far as to believe them
gullible. When first saw him he was
standing in front of loan shop, look
ing sadly into space. While he look
ed he was lingering a locket attached
to his watch fob. After a minute OF
silent gazing he entered the shop. ]
was looking for a secondhand guitar
so went in, too. The tears streamed
down his cheeks when he parted from
his locket. Both my heart and the
pawnbroker's responded to the ap-
peal.
IT must take her picture out" he
said. ut was my wife's, lady. She
was a good woman and lady, if ever
one lived. She was too good for me-"
1t was inexpressibly touching. ]
asked his name. A dollar was all he
wanted for a nights lodging. The
pawnbroker gave 1t to him and J
added another for to-morrow's lodg-
ing. 1 have never seen an expression
of deeper gratitude on a face or heard
more chokingly effective thanks. All
day l was happy thinking the poor
fellow had a place to lay his weary
head.
This morning saw him again. He
was standing in front of another
pawnshop, lingering another locket
gazing sadly into another space.
The joke was on me. 1 walked past
without reminding him that had seer
him before.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
BRIGHT BITS.

Mrs. Givem-"Now, don't spend it
on vile liquor" Thirsty Tim-'T won't
lady. W'ot brand do youse generally
call fer?"-Judge.
-Teacher-"And why did John Paul
Jones order his flag nailed to the
mast?" Pupil" Cause in those days
warships didn't have steel masts,
ma'am!"-Puck.
Hopeful Iawldns-"De Teddy mex
door give me some angel cake.
Couldn't you help me a ittle?" Mrs.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. The doctor lives
at the second door three blocks down."
Chicago Daily News.
--Carrie-"I wonder If Horace really
loves me. BY the way, he is coming
to hear me sing tomorrow evening, at
the church," Delia-"Could you pos
sibly ask for a greater proof of his
love, dear?"-Boston Transcript.
-Towne-There seems to be nothing
he enjoys so much as the sound of his
own voice.
Browne-That's so, and there's moth
ing annoys him so much as the
thought that he can't hear himself
when he talks in his sleep.-Philadel-
Dhia Press.
Mrs. Woodby-"There's nothing
like a college education to open the
way to exclusive society Since my
son started to go to the university he's
gotten into the Four Hundred" Mrs.
McGinty-"My sons doing even better
at college. He's on the nine. '-Phila-
delphia Press.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
Personal.

Lord Salisbury when a young man
wrote several pieces of fiction, but
they were never published. Not long
ago an enterprising person discovered
this circumstance and begged hard to
be allowed to bring them out. mo"
was Lord SaliSbury's decided response,
certainly not. I want my old age to
be as honorable as possible"
Representatives McDermott of New
Jersey and Cochran of Missouri were
arguing as to the qualifications of the
federal bench, Mr.. Cochran contending
have the positions they hold and Mr..
McDermott insisting that, with few ex-
ceptions, they are eminent lawyers. At
ter particularly bitter TRADE by Mr..
Cochran Mr.. McDermott rose and said:
why, Cochran, if listen to you much
longer I'll have so little respect for the
judiciary that I'll walk into the Su-
preme Court chamber with my hat on"
Congressman Cannon is not an ha-
bitual gum chewer, but when he does
indulge his performance is simply as
founding One stick of the stuff lasts
him about a couple of minutes, or I'M
til the sweetness has begun to disap-
pear. Then he throws it away and
takes another, so that the ordinary
scent package never lasts him more
than a quarter of an hour. When it
is all gone, Uncle Joe" generally bites
off a fresh chew of tobacco and takes
genuine comfort.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
Lost His Key Note.

A story is told by Richard Harding
Davis, who makes no pretense of being
a pianist. but who does play the guitar
and sing we'll, says the New York Mail
and Express. Having composed a mu-
steal setting to Kipling's Danny Dee
yer" with that instrument, he picked
1t out, quite in the secrecy of his home,
on the piano. The accompaniment to
his voice consisted of few chords
which, from frequent ,repetitions, he
fixed in his memory.
One night Mr.. Davis was at an even
ing party Of musical people, many of
them celebrated composers. As a joke
some one asked him to play one of his
own compositions. To every ones sur
prise he consented and boldly went to
the piano, where he eyed the keys. in
puzzled way. Turning to Paderew-
ski. he said:
81 can't find the starting note. !
composed my tune on Steinway, and
this is Weber. Where should the note
that is under the w on Steinway be
on a Weber,"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
A Brilliant Preachers wit.

OF all the brilliant preachers of mod
ern times no one shone more resplen-
IDENTIFY in conversation thap the eloquent
Baptist minister, Robert Hall, says the
Saturday Evening Post. 1t is remark
able that. while in his writings hardly
a CLEAN of wit or humor is to be found,
yet in the social circle he was listin-
guished by his terse and pungent say
ings. All his life he was martyr to
an excruciating disease, and his wit
test sayings were uttered when he was
writing with sharp pain. A lady at a
friends house found him so lost in
thought that she vainly essayed to en-
gage him in conversation. At length,
impatient of his reveries, she said flip
PANTY. in allusion to a Miss Steel to
whom he was engaged to be married:
"Ah, sir, if we had but polished steel
here, we might secure some of your at
tention; but"
Madam" interrupted the now reused
preacher make yourself quite easy;
If you are not polished steel, you are
at least polished brass!"
Hall had an intense adherence OF
religious cant, to which he gave ex-
preston sometimes in the most scorch-
ing terms. A young minister, who was
VISITING MIN, spent DAY IN signing
ever and anon begging pardon for his
suspirations, and saying that they were
caused by grief that he had so hard a
heart. When the lamentations, which
Hall had borne patiently the first day
were resumed at breakfast on the Sec
ond, he said:
"Why, sir, don't be so cast down; re-
member the compensating principle
and be thankful and still"
"Compensating principlel" exclaimed
the young man; what can compensate
for a hard hearth"
why, a soft head. to be sure!" re-
piled Hall. who, if rude. had certainly
great proyocation.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
Caught the whole Class.

A teacher who maintains that there
is altogether too much association of
ideas without a proper understanding
of their relative meanings has fnsti-
tuted a series of tests which might be
regarded by some people as traps, says
the Youths Companion.
He wishes his pupils to acquire the
art of accurate listening as we'll as
quick thinking, and to this end he oc-
casionally inserts one of his catch ques-
tons in the midst of a set of the or
binary sort.
He gives the two instances follow
ing, in which he says the answers came
with joyful promptness from the en-
tire class, not a single voice being
missed from the chorus:
Whose Ratchet never told a lie?"
George Washington's!"
Whom did the negro slaves of this
country free?"
Abraham Lincolnl"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18
REFORM IN THE SMART SET.

There is a possibility that the new
year so auspiciously begun will wit
ness the beginning of a glorious social
reform. or probably it would be better
to say reformation Of society. 1t APP
pears that the social smart set, as the
ultra-fashionables are called. have de-
termined to turn over a new leaf and
apply the rule of common sense to
their lives and functions. They are
going to quit doing those things that
ought to be left undone, and they are
going to do the things that ought TO
be done. If they live up to the high
resolves that have been attributed to
them, the smart settlers will not leave
room for criticism by even Col Henry
Watterson, and monkey dinners and
poodle birthday parties will be forever
hereafter tabooed and Stunned. This
information seems almost too good to
be true, and yet we find it in so good
and reliable a newspaper as the Balti-
more Sun, which is published in the
city that has become famous as the
birthplace of Harry Lehr.
According to the information, "soci-
ety. is going to cut out dissipation and
make it good form to be sober, in
dustrious and unaffected. A whole lot
of the frills Of fashion are to be trim
med off. The people are to wear clothes
and shoes and gloves made for COM
fort and health rather than for novel
ty or style. Dinners are to be SIM
pier, and fewer wines are to be served.
There is to be less cutlery and silver
and crockery on the tables for the en-
barrassment of successful Climbers
who have just managed to break in.
Dame Gossip is to be cut dead, and
the breath of scandal is to be made
to wither where it touches instead Of
adding to ones prestige. Divorces are
to be held in adherence, and flirting
between married people or by married
people will not be winked at and con-
doned. Early rising and early retiring
will be counted a standard virtue, and
society DANES and bellies are expected
to be up with the lark and abed with
the fowls. All affectations, such as the
elevated, sitting handshake, are to be
abolished. The society person most
honored in the set is to be the person
who makes himself or herself most
useful and agreeable. Idleness and
dawdling must go, to be replaced by
activity and useful enterprise.
In short, as can be seen from the
foregoing, a revolution is planned; by
whom does not appear, but the origina-
tor of the scheme is a veritable Ma
poleon in brilliancy of daring. To re-
lieve the smart set of its follies and
foibles, to make it really useful and
not altogether ornamental segment of
our social circle, to make it's men and
women examples worthy to be emulat-
ed by the classes not so fortunate as
they in the possession of the worlds
| goods, is a great task-great in size
and in conception; and 1t is a worthy
task. But there have got to be num-
Der of highgrade funerals before 1t
| can be accomplished.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-18

Justice Connorton of Long Island
City has announced that he Will hold
no more people charged with stealing
coal from the railroads. lone thief,
he says, has a right to rob another.
and the railroads and operators are
robbing the people" According to this
wise justice. therefore. it is all right
to steal so long as a thief is the per-
son robbed. A Chicago woman not
long ago offered a purse of $1,000 to
any business man of that city who
would prove that ne had conducted
his business honestly for one year;
and there were no takers. According
to the logic of this Long Island justice
and the woman, therefore, 1t would
be all right to rob every business man
in Chicago.