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The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
A NATIONAL ARBITRATION BOARD.

Pending in Congress is a. bill to ere
ate national board Of arbitration, to
assist in settling labor disputes I'm
der the bill the powers of the board
are limited TO hearings and recon-
mendations. The board will have no
power to enforce its awards. Samuel
Gompers and some of the other la
Dor leaders are against the bill. Doubt
less they fear that its passage would
be a step in the direction of compul-,
sorry arbitration as it exists in some of
the countries of Europe, and they do
not desire such arbitration.
John Mitchell Of the miners union
says that in a strike both sides get
licked Bishop Spalding says the
strike is hell" Both OF these gen
tlemen speak from experience and OBJ
servation. They have seen the suffer-
ing, the heavy losses and the de-
moralization that are consequent upon
all strikes, even those that are best
managed. Their conclusions, therefore,
are worthy of highest respect and most
careful consideration. Both would
like to see the strike abolished and
a more humane and civilized method
Of settling labor differences adopted.
In several states there are arbitra-
ton boards. created by the legislatures.
1t cannot be claimed that any one Of
them has met with high degree of
SUCCESS in settling strikes and lock-
outs; yet their influence has been good
and they have doubtless diminished
the number of labor controversies in
their states. And a national board
might have more influence with both
labor and capital than d state board.
Notwithstanding it lacked authority
to enforce its awards. 1t would be
composed of men whose character
would command respect, making up in
moral influence, at least in part, what
might be lacking in legal authority.
There were in New York state last
year 1872 labor disputes of considerable
proportions, involving $4,000 employees.
These workers lost in consequence Of
the strikes not less than 100000 work
ing days and the pay thereof. The
less to employers and employees to-
gether has been estimated at mini
mum of 100000, in the one state
alone. In the whole country the ag-
gregate loss was probably ten times
as much. Had there been compe-
tent national board of arbitration to
whom the parties to the controversies
could have appealed, much of this
waste might have been avoided. 1t
seems clear that both sides ought to
be willing to make concessions, to save
the great waste. There ought to be
some high middle ground on which
employers and employees could meet
for peaceful settlement of their diff
ferences. The creation of a national
hoard of arbitration might result in
finding the way to that much desired
high middle ground.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

bright BITS.

--Employer-"What did you do this
for, say?" Office Boy-"Cause I'd
ruther make mistakes than ak ques-
tons. Cincinnati Commercial-Trib-
une.
-Employer-"An office boy should be
modest, reserved, and unobtrusive. -
Office Boy-"Well, say, / can't do all
dat for two dollars week Pick
What are We to understand by
the 'KnowNothing Party pop?'
1.-THE know-nothing party, my son, is
the individual who stands at the rail-
road station door, and of whom ques-
tions are asked in vain. ''-Yonkers
Statesman.
My words don't seem to have
much weight" protested the young
wife during an argument at the break
fast table. Never mind, my dear"
rejoined the brutal other half, your
biscuits more than make up for the
shortage. Chicago Daily News.
What a cool and indifferent air
Miss Frappay has. She acts just as
If she didn't know that anybody was
looking at her." Yes, she inherits
that. Her mother used to bake pan
cakes in the window of a quick lunch
restaurant. Cleveland Plain Dealer.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
NDLA ~ NEW EMBELLISHMENTS

Special Notices-Insurance. w. t.
Hopkins.
Business Notices-When Out at
Night, Sommers' Cafe.
Summer Comfort-Lindsay g. Nor
gan.
Prescriptions Our Specialty-Ma-
sonic Temple Pharmacy.
Laziness Is a Disease-A. B. Girar-
deau.
Timely Things-Schwab, the Jeweler
Warburines Go Everywhere-Rowlin-
ski. Druggist.
Proposals Wanted-For Constructing
Officers Quarters, Etc, at Fort DeSoto
Fla.
Mocha and Java-The Delmonico
Company.
The Cleveland Bicycle-At Latti-
mores'.
Defensive Fluid-The Solomons Co.
Cobbs Corn Cure-Knights Phar-
macy.
Green River Whisky-Henry Solomon
& Son.
Auction Sales--Peachtree Lots, At
lanta, Ga.
Medical-Vinol; Herplcide.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted Employment Wanted; For
Rent For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The current session of Congress will
not dispose of the proposition to pro-
vide a general staff for the navy. 1t
will go ovor until the next session,
when it will probably be adopted.
Meanwhile Secretary Moody is under
stood to be opposed to the general staff
scheme as it is now in contemplation.
lie thinks that the present general
board could be reorganized and made
a permanent institution with better
results. The strongest advocates of
the general STAN are to be found with
in the naval service. The officers do
not like to be bothered with civilian
Secretaries of the Navy. Having been
trained for the navy as a profession,
the officers think they know better how
the department should be run than it
is possible for any civilian to know.
The creation of a general staff would
make the Secretary of the Navy prac-
tically a figure head, whose chief du-
ties would be to attend social functions
and look the part of a great depart
rent's chief. That is probably the
reason Mr.. Moody is not so favorably
disposed towards the plan.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
1t Puzzled the ExDerf.

The customs official was greatly puz-
zled. He knitted his brow and frown-
ed darkly, says the Cleveland Plain
Dealer. He even tapped his foot ner-
vously on the polished floor
what seems TO be the ciifficuity?''
inquired a sympathetic subordinate
The chief turned to him with a
troubled stare.
I'm bothered" he growled. Pm
badly stumped. And yet 1 am the
very man who classified frogs legs as
dressed poultry, and admitted a colt
from Canada as household furniture +"
And what's the question now?" the
subordinate respectfully asked.
The chief ran his hand through his
matted hair.
Pm worried to DEATH" he cried.
over the proper classification for a
three-legged stool! 1t isn't a biped and
1t isn't quadruped-and there YOU
are"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Charleston Post (Den1.) says
1.-The record of President Roosevelt is
taken as material for a good many
warm political speeches in Congress in
the closing hours of the session. 1t
begins to look as if Col. Watterson was
right when he said that Roosevelt
would be the sole issue of the national
campaign this year"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem.)
says Senators Lodge and Foraker
both want to draw up the next Repub-
lican platform. They. should be united
in so eongenial labor. While Foraker
would make the platform blaze with
his fire alarms, Lodge could put into
1t all his Natiyist and Puritanical
hatred of immigrants"
The Springfield CMass) Republican
qnd) says: The House democrats
would be guilty of qualification if they
did not oppose the deficiency appropria-
ton rendered necessary by the recent
pension order. They cannot con-
sistently attack the order and then
vote the money needed to make it
good. The two-faeed policy was carried
to the limit in the Panama affair"
The New York Evening Post Qnd.)
says THE explicit stand against the
monopoly fost ering tariff taken by the
New Jersey Democrats yesterday
shows that they know the issue on
which their own State can be carried
New Jersey Is no longer the surely
Democratic State ii used to be-
Changes in population, especially in
the northern section, have favored the
Republicans. Yet they themselves ad-
nit that tariff bigotry is not popular
in their party. A decent Democrat on
low-tariff platform would win
thousands of nominallY Republican
voters in New Jersey"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

Representative Bourke Cochran, in
his splendid speech the other day,
pointing out the ways in which the
House had lost influence and power,
called attention TO the fact that the
newspapers published scarcely any
thing Of its proceedings, whereas in
the earlier days of the republic they
devoted a large amount of their space
to them. At first thought this would
seem to be a good point in support of
Mr. Cochran's contention. AS d mat
ter of fact, however, the newspapers
give as much attention to the proceed
ings of the House as to those of the
Senate. The real reason, however, why
the proceedings of Congress now occu-
py so small a space in the news
papers is that newspaper readers do
not want them. The newspapers give
them what they do want and that is
the gist of any important matter that
is under consideration. No important
bill is introduced or considered, no
great speech is made, but that it is
dealt with as fully as newspaper space
will permit, and perhaps, as the pub
lie desires.
OF course before so great a part of
this country and in fact, of the world.
was reached by the telegraph. the
news field was limited. The newspapers
often found it difficult to get sufficient
news to make their columns interest
ing to those who cared particularly for
news Now, however, the newspapers
have more news than they can pub
lish, and it is frequently d question
as to which of the news items shall
be given the preference. AS a rule
the space is given to those items which
promise to attract the most attention.
1t is doubtful if Mr.. Cochran reads
the Senate proceedings in the Con-
gressional Record except on occasions
when there has been a lively debate
in that branch of Congress or the con-
sideration of a bill of exceptional i'm
portanee. And it is about certain that
if the newspapers were to give to the
proceedings of Congress more space
than they do their readers wouldn't
be as well satisfied with them. The
truth is, when there is anything of
unusual Importance or of an exciting
character in Congress. the people want
an account of it and they get it, but
they don't want the ordinary debates
or accounts of matters pertaining to
bills in committees or on their passage
through the House or Senate.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The Latimer good roads bill, pend
ing in the Senate, has been carried
over until the next session of Con-
gress. The bill proposes an appropria-
ton Of $24.000,000. to be devoted to the
construction of improved public high
ways in various parts of the country.
Meanwhile Senator Latimer and Rep
resentative Brownlow are carrying for
ward a vigorous campaign of educa-
tion in favor of good roads. At the
next session the bill may meet with
more favorable consideration.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

1t is an easy matter to project
improvements for the beautifying of
the city and the pleasure of the people.
If it could be made a doubled decker
and run a quarter of mile up and
down the water front it would be all
the finer. But just at this point comes
in the bothersome question of ways and
from? And, if a sufficient sum could
be scared up, are there not a great
many other improvements more badly
needed? There are a good many recre-
alton places in and about Savannah al
ready.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
LEGAL SALES.
CITY MAIssHAL's SALE.

City Marshars Office, Savannah, Ca,
April IA, 1904.-Under direction of the
Committee on City Lots and Opening
Streets and according to a resolution
of Council, passed April 10, 1904, I
will offer for sale, at public cutlery, to
the highest and best bidder, in front
of the Court House in the city of Sa-
yannah, Chatham county, state Of
Georgia, on the THIRD DAY OF
MAY. 1904, same being the FIRST
TUESDAY of the month, and between
the legal hours of sale, the following
described property of the City of Sa-
Vannah, to-wit:
Lots Nos. % and 20, Thomas ward,
minimum appraised price for each lot
$2,500) twenty-five hundred dollars.
Lot No. 27 Thomas ward, minimum
appraised price ($3,000) three thou
sand dollars also
Lot No. IS, Solonlors ward, mini
mum appraised price ($3,500) thirty
five hundred dollars.
Terms cash, purchasers paying for
titles. HENRY E. DREESON,
City Marshal.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
THE PARKER SENTIMENT IN GEoR-
GIA

From many sources the information
is gained that the Parker sentiment in
this state is steadily increasing. Park
err clubs are being formed and where
there isn't a club the people appear TO
have quite generally made up their
minds that Judge Parker will be sup
ported by the Georgia delegation to st.
Louis.
There is plenty of room for work,
however. While there doesn't seem to
be any reason for doubling that Judge
Parker is the choice of the people he
may not get the states delegation I'M
less his friends see to it that men who
represent their wishes are sent to the
state convention. 1t may be that those
who are working for Mr.. Hearst are
active in many of the counties and
have already laid their plans for cap
turing the state convention. A few
men in each county, If they are earnest
and persistent. can do a great deal to-
wards overcoming the wishes of the
majority, particularly If the majority
is Indifferent and fails to exert itself
in selecting delegates to the state con-
vention
There is no doubt that Judge Parker
is the choice of New York and that
the New York delegation to ST. Louis
will be instructed for him. That he aan
carry that state there doesn't seem
to be much doubt among New York
Democrats. 1t is the opinion of those
who have studied the political situa-
ton carefully that he can come near
err to uniting the party than any other
man that can be named. His friends
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

Mollie Shawlier believes in omens.
says the Topeka State Journal. She
works for Mrs. Jeff Sizemore of Mar
ion, Ind, or did until recently. Mrs.
Slzemore also believes in omens and
signs and things
Mrs. Sizemore was upstairs. She
started down. AT the same time Mol
lie started up.
Go backN shouted Mrs. Sizemore.
Its bad luck to pass on a stairway .
L won't go back" answered MoIlie:
It's bad luck to turn back after YOU
start up STAIRS
II say you will go back" said Mrs.
Slzemore in a threatening voice.
Il say l will not go back" retorted
Mollie.
They mixed" When the breeze had
blown over and the police took MolIie
TO Jail, where she displayed a badly
dlshgured countenanee, she said Il
wouldn't turn back for her. 1 turned
back once before for a woman In
Louisville, where l worked, and the
next day my husband got a divorce
from me-"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The exhibit of the Philippine Islands
at the st. Louis Exposition was de-
signed to cost about S25O,OO0. The an
nouncement is made that the cost has
already approached the million-dollar
mark, and that still another appropri-
alton win have to be made for the ex-
hfblt before the fair opens. In all like
lihood the exhibit will cost FIVE times
the sum originally intended to bespent
on it before the end of the great show
But now the thing has been started,
and it must be carried through. That
the cost should exceed expectations.
however. is the old story. Commits
sions and committees of great fairs
always find a use for more money than
their first allowance and they usually
md the means for having the allow
ance increased.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

Senator William NJ. Stewart. of Ne
vada, has announced that he will re-
tire to private life upon the expiIa-
tion of his term, next March. At that
time he will have completed five full
terms. or thirty years. in the Senate.
The Senator is a very rich man, and
OWNS a splendid farm in Nevada. With
a young wife, fine home and plenty
of money, he ought to be able to enjoy
his old age.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
SCIENCE PREVENTS BADNESS.
The Fatal Germ and Its Remedy Now
Facts of Science.

1t is the rarest thing in the world for
man to be necessarily bald. No man
whose hair is not dead at the roots,
need to bald If ne will use Newbro's
Herpicide, the new scalp antiseptic.
Herpicide destroys the germ that cuts
the hair off at the root; and cleans the
scalp of dandruff and leaves it in
perfectly healthy condition. Mr.. Man
nett, in the Maryland Block Butte,
Mont, was entirely bald. In less than
a month Herpieide had removed the
enemies of hair growth, and nature
did it's work by covering his head with
thick hair an inch long, and in SIX
weeks he had a normal suit of hair.
Sold by leading druggists. Send 10
cents in stamps for sample to the
Herpicide Company, Detroit, Mich.
Livingston's Pharmacy, Special
Agent.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The explosion in the after turret Of
the battleship Missouri the other day
has started afresh a discussion of the
ACCESSIBILITY of mounting guns in tur-
rets aboard ship. All of our battle
ships and cruisers carry their heavy
guns in turrets, and on at least two
OF the ships the turrets are two
stored affairs. Our naval cons tructOrs,
therefore, must be we'll satisfied that
the turret is an excellent thing and
that no ship should be without one or
two. Yet the fact remains that in
the British navy there is not a ship
less than ten years old that has a
turret. The English mount all Of their
heavy guns en- barbette on board ship,
for the reason, as one of their admil'als
said, that they are afraid of turrets
afraid of explosions in them, of the
sticking of the machinery at a critical
moment and of various accidents that
are liable to occur in even the most
perfectly constructed turret. The Mis-
souri, accident seems to justify the
British fear of the American system
of mounting heavy guns. Some weeks
ago Senator Hale, of Maine, delivered
a speech on the navy, in which he took
a stand against turrets and predicted
the occurrence of just such accidents
as that on the Missouri
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The Russian navy has had a ''Po-
bieda' in it ever since the time of
Peter the Great. The word means
Victory" The first Pobieda was a
Dutch ship named the Victory. 1t was
captured from the Dutch by the French,
and from the French by the British,
and finally sold by the British to Peter,
who Russianized the name.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

Princess Radziwill. who is credited
with having fascinated Cecil Rhodes
and who has brought suit against his
estate to recover a large sum of money,
is penniless in Paris, and night or
two ago was turned out of her lodg-
ings because she had no money. A
newspaper writer saved her from a
night on the street by giving her 81.
At one time this woman associated
with royalty and deeked herself with
diamonds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for showers, with fresh south
east to south winds. Eastern Florida
showers in north and central portions,
fair in south. with north winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

The announcement has been made
that George w. Vanderbilt has pur-
chased a block of thirty-fiye farms,
comprising 1000 acres. around his Bilt-
more place. That does not look much
like he intended to give up Biltmore
and never go there. again, as was
reported some time ago. after he had
discovered some of his employees had
been robbing him.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18
A Soft Snap,

Ex-senator Mason of Illinois, accord
ing to the Troy Times, was seated
with party of friends in a Washing
ton cafe one evening when the circle
was Joined by the son of a big Western
capitalist whose main aim in life
seemed to be continuous jubilee. He
was of that class indignantly known
as "butters in" and it was soon evil
dent that his presence was distasteful
to the senator. My old man doesn't
put up a cent for me-" said the young
man, displaying a fat roll of green
backs. I'm on my own resources. -
How do you manage it?" asked one
of the party, You must have some
sort of a snap"
This is my snap" said the CAV
spendthrift, impressively touching his
head.
And there's not a softer snap in
the world" assented Senator Mason.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

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The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

A Kansas City banker is alleged to
have turned a neat trick on a syndi-
cate of Wall street financiers a day
or two ago. The Wall street men
thought they We're in control of the
issue of $3,5OO,OOO Philippine improve
ment bonds, and when the Kansas
City man announced that he wished to
buy block of the bonds at the bid
price, they laughed at him. But the
sale of the bonds to the syndicate had
not been completed. The Westerner,
knowing this, put in a bid for the
whole issue at figure a fraction high
er than the bid of the syndicate, and
1t was accepted. Now, if the smart
New Workers wish to own any of the
bonds they will have to go to the
Kansas City man and pay the price he
chooses to ask
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

festive just begun to read that
novel you loaned me-" Jess-"Oh, have
you? It's queer the way the first
chapter opens, isn't it?" Tess-"I
haven't come to that yet. "-Philadal-
phia Ledger.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

Albert Kirby Fairfax, eldest son
of the late John Contee Fairfax Of
Prince Georges county, Maryland, and
inheritor of his titles of Lord Fair
fax and Baron Cameron in the peerage
of Scotland, has assumed these titles
and has taken his seat among his
peers in the British House of Lords
Mr.. Fairfax went to London two years
ago to accept position in a bank.
and with no idea of giving up his
American citizenship. E.Is claims to
a peerage were too we'll known, how
ever. and he was soon sought by
members of the aristocracy Then he
was adopted as the legal heir of
wealthy Englishman and now he has
consented to assume the titles named.
The title of Lord Fairfax was first
worn in this country by the man who
was a friend of Washington. 1t has
never been allowed to lapse, being con-
firmed. forever TO the family heir by
special royal grant.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-04-18

in Georgia. therefore. ought to do what
they can to make his nomination sure.
They would regret it if. through neg
lect on their part he should fail to
get the necessary two-thirds MAORI
~ and a compromise candidate, one
lacking his political strength, should
be nominated A little work in each
county for Parker delegates to the
vention that will insure a Parker dele
cation from Georgia to St. Louis.