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The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
AN 1MpnovEn pnovERn.

That "the Lord hates a gutter" is
a proverb that has been variously at
tributed to Mark Twain, Aristotle,
Andrew Carnegie, julius Caesar, Mrs.
Eddy, Josephus, Samuel ]. 1ilden
and some others, including Chauncey
NJ Depew. But who originated 1t
doesn't matter, since Pension COM
missioner Ware has improved ON 1t.
Pension clerks and others were some
what surprised the other morning
when they saw staring at them, in
big block letters, on the door Of Com
missioner Wares reception room in
the pension building, the legend: THE
Lord Hates a Liar!"
That the sentiment was startling, in
the pension office, is putting it but
mildly. Many of the pensioners and
applicants who read the sign are said
to have been plainly agitated, and
there were clerks who saw in it a
threat involving the cutting off of
their official heads. That a sentiment
directed against prevarication should
have been posted in the pension
bureau, of all places, seems to have
struck all beholders as particularly in
congruous. There is probably not in
the United States any repository of
records in which more departures
from the truth are preserved than
in the files of the pension bureau.
There are more invented ills, more
imaginary wounds, more faxed dis
abilities represented in the pigeon
holes of that bureau than could be
catalogued in six months of Sundays.
The case of John Doe, who applied
for life insurance and swore that he
was physically sound, and then ap-
piled for a pension and swore that he
was suffering from rheumatism, lung
troubles. indigestion, heart disease,
half a dozen gunshot wounds. etc., all
the result of services in the war, is not
uncommon, if reports are true That be-
ing the case, what lot of enmity
the Lord must have laid up against
the pension bureau!
But it is gratifying to hear that
the Commissioner has set his face
against the bearing of false testimony.
He is known to have a breezy, West
ern way of puncturing fakes and let
ting the hot air out of certain classes
of wind bags. If he can cut untrue
stories out of the pension bureau he
will merit all the good things that
could possibly be said of him.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
MIR. DAVIS, ACCEPTANCE.

Hon. Henry G. Davis letter of ac-
ceptance of the Democratic nomination
for Vice President will be generally
read and thoroughly enjoyed. It is
concise and goes directly to the point
on every topic considered. There is no
circumlocution. no waste of words,
about it. Mr.. Davis has opinions on
the various national questions, and he
states them so tersely, so plainly.
that there can be no mistaking what
he means. Put into parallel columns
with the meaningless Fairbanks letter,
Mr.. Davis's acceptance would shine
as an incandenscent light beside q
tallow dip.
Mr.. Davis has disclaimed any pre-
tentions to oratory. His letter of ac-
ceptance is strikingly bare of rhetorical
flourishes and word-painting. 1t is the
plain statement of a business man de-
filming his position with respect to pub
lie questions to other busy business
men and workers. 1t is a letter for
public information, telling in a few
words what Mr.. Davis believes, why
he believes it and what the Democratic
its success at the polls next month.
Every paragraph of the letter contains
an idea; every sentence means some
thing. The charge is made that the
Republican administration of the gov
eminent is extravagant, and figures
are submitted to prove 1t. Under
Cleveland's administration in 1892 the
per capita cost of maintaining the
government was 1929. Under Roose-
welt, in 1904, the cost per capita is $7.14,
or more than $25 per year for the aver
age American family. This sum, as
Mr. Davis asserts, is a considerable
percentage of the earnings of the aver
age family per annum.
Republican organs have charged Mr.
Davis with being q high protectionist.
He makes his position on this point
perfectly clear, asserting that the
tariff is undoubtedly too high upon
such articles as enables the manufac-
turer to sell his products abroad cheap
er than at home" He instances steel
rails by way of illustration. The do
mestic price of steel rails, at the mills,
is $2S per ton. The same kind of rails,
from the same mills, are sold in foreign
markets at SIS to $22 a ton. THE aver
age selling price of hundred articles,
taken principally from the iron and
steel list" he says, lis found to be
about 20 per cent. higher in this coun-
try than abroad" That sort of thing
is manifestIy unjust. But relief from
the injustice is not to be expected from
the Republican party. 1t will come
only when the Democratic party has
been restored to power.
There is not point in Mr.. Davis
letter that isn't soundly Democratic,
and as a whole the letter is so adj
mirably constructed that it will be re-
ceived with genuine pleasure by the
party and the large independent vote.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
be stnrted a Mateh charity.

A small newsboy, who had picked
up the stump of cigar stepped into
an uptown grocery shop, says the
Philadelphia Press.
SAY, mister. give us match?'
he said to the man behind the
counter.
We do not give away matches;
we sell Them" the clerk replied.
How much?" said the boy.
Gent a box" was the reply.
Diving down into his pocket, the boy
produced the cent, saying, Gimme
box"
Receiving the matches; the youngster
proceeded to light his cigar, and then.
leaning across the counter, he handed
the box of matches to the clerk and
remarked:
Say, mister, you jes' take these here
matches and put 'em where they'll be
handy, and when some other gentleman
steps in and asks fer a match don't
you sell him box, but Jes' give him
one on me-"
And with a dignified air the boy
walked out of the shop.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
THE GROWTH OF SOCIALISM.

Socialism is not yet menace to
American institutions, but who can
say that it will not be a menace be-
fore the expiration of another half
century? We have ON one or two oc-
casions called attention to the increase
in the socialist vote in this country,
particularly in New England, and in
other sections that catch the bulk of
the foreign immigration. Socialism, it
will be remembered is protest against
monarchy and divine rights. 1t is a
reaction of the people against that
construction of society which gives
special privileges to favored classes, to
would seem to be good reason for
the existence of socialism in some of
the foreign countries, but in the United
States, where the government is based
ON equality before the low and
derives its power from the con-
sent of the governed, there ought
to be neither room nor occasion for
socialism. And yet we find that in
the seven years from 1895 to 1902 the
Socialist vote in the United States had
increased from S4,S69 to 225,sOS. Should
that rate Of growth be maintained for
a decade or two longer, it is easy to
see that Socialism would become an
important factor in our national af-
fairs. The Socialists have never yet
been able to elect one of their repre-
sentatives to Congress, but something
of the kind is likely to occur at almost
any time.
The growth of Socialism seems to be
greater in Germany than any other
country. In 1867 the Socialist vote of
Germany amounted to 10000. Last
year it was zoos, 900, and was repre-
sented in the national legislature by
eighty-one delegates. In France last
year the Socialists polled nearly l.
100000 votes and elected forty-eight
delegates, the popular Socialist vote
having grown from $4,000, in 1889. In
Great Britain the Socialist vote has
about doubled in five years, being now
upwards Of 100000. There are nearly
100000 Socialist voters in Austria. In
Holland, Switzerland, Spain, Italy, Bel
GUM, Denmark and Norway the doc
trine of Socialism is making rapid
Roadway, and it is from these coun-
tries that we draw our most desirable
immigration. Dr. Michel, of Berlin
has recently tabulated the Socialist
vote of the world, showing that the
cult first came into notice In 1867, when
its total vote was 10000. and that in
1908 1t had an active following OF g.
2s5,S74 voters. Does this not indicate
that the form Of social unrest mani
tested in this economic creed is i'm
bued with vitality?
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
CURRENT COMMENT.


The Louisville Courier Journal (Dem.)
says: THE alleged letter from the
President to Mr.. Donnelly contained
among other things this clause: L have
all that 1 can do in attending to the
legitimate business of my office This
alone would be sufficient to indicate
that It did not emanate from Mr..
Theodore Roosevelt, who has never
been so much of a weakling as to
impose on himself any such limita-
ton"
Democrats in Alabama should get
busy" says the Montgomery Adver-
tiser (Dem). THE state will 60 for
Parker and viii elect a solid Demo-
cratic delegation to Congress-, but that
isn't enough. The majority should be
a decided and unmistakable condemna-
ton of Roosevelt and his administra-
ton. He will get some votes In Ala
bama, of course, but not as many as
his referees are claiming. Tom Wat
son VIII also get some votes, but he
ought not to have one"
The Galveston News (Dem.) says:
zone of the newspaper correspondents
in New York says that in popula-
ton of 100000 there are 2SS persons
VI Aut CITY uetDiy lnlcTtHleu IN the ma
tional campaign. OF these 233 twenty
five are newspaper men who are writ
Ing political matter for their papers
and the rest are men who are employ
ed at the headquarters of the two par
ty committees. But the 100000 will
probably awake some morning to find
themselves feverishly excited. 1t is
only at the last moment that the New
Yorker realizes that a political race
is at hand, and then he goes wild"
The Baltimore Sun (Dem.) says: TT
is curious how averse our Republican
friends are to implanting in the Fill
Pine mind the idea Of independence at
some remote period. John Brown was
acclaimed a hero for preaching free
dom 10 the black slaves In the South.
ana the negroes were given freedom
and citizenship without any prelimi-
nary preparation. Why should the
Filipino be regarded as less worthy
than the untutored African? II John
Brown we're alive now and were 10
start a campaign IN the Philippines.
would he be hanged as a traitor BIZ
those who now reverence him as a
'niartyr'T
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
WHY THE JAPs ARE STRONG.
From the Medical Record.

The Japanese are allowed to be
among the very strongest people on
earth. They are strong mentally and
physically, and yet practically they eat
no meat at all. The diet which enables
them to develop such hardy frames and
such well-balanced and keen brains
consists almost wholly of rice, steam
ed or boiled. while the better-to-do
add TO this Spartan fare fish, eggs,
vegetables and fruit. For beverages
they use weak tea, without sugar
or milk, and pure water, alcoholic slim
ulants being but rarely INDUCED in
Water Is imbibed in what we should
consider prodigious quantities-to an
Englishman, Indeed. the drinking of
so much water would be regarded as
madness. The average Japanese in
dividual swallows about a gallon daily
in divided doses.
The Japanese recognize the bene-
fetal effect of flushing the system
through the medium of the kidneys.
and they also cleanse the exterior of
their bodies to an extent undreamed of
in Eurone or America.
Another-and perhaps this is the
usage on which the Japanese lay the
greatest stress--is that deep, habitual,
forcible inhalation of fresh air is an
essential for the acquisition of strength.
and this method is sedulously prac-
tised until it becomes part of their
nature.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
The Merry, Merry Hazers.

From the Chicago Record Herald.
Now the merry. merry hazers in their
Elee
Drag their victim from his bed at
dead of night,
And they innocently hang him on
tree:
They behold his painful writings
with delight.
Round and round the dangling one
They go dancing just for fun
For the hazers are a jolly, jolly band;
He that's hanging there may choke,
But, no matter. it's joke
That the dullest person ought to I'M
derstand.
The merry, merry hazers bind and gag
A luckless boy who fought until he
fell,
And in pursuit of pleasure then they
drag
Him forth ond blithely throw him
in a WELL
Round the curb they form a ring,
And they dance and jest and sing
Till the splashing and the gurgling
cease below.
He whom they have gagged and
bound,
While they revel. may be drown
Oul no HldlleIs II 10 all HI Iuis yOu
know.
The merry, hazers, twenty-six to one.
ADduct a freshman and proceed to
take
Away his clothes. and after that IS
done
They pitilessly tie him to stake.
While the flames around him rise,
Needing not his mournful cries,
They frolic and they rolic and are
glad.
He, of course, may not survive.
But then, gracious sakes alive!
Since they're joking, there is no use
getting mad.
If the merry hazers MAIN your son
some night.
Be patient, keep your senses. do not
fret:
II they chance to rob your son of
strength or sight,
Consider the amusement that they
get.
Do not take a gun and go
Forth to lay the hazers low;
Remember 1t was only done in play.
Let the faculty declare
That such things must cease and
there
Drop the matter in the good, old fash
Toned way.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
INDEX 10 NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-order of American Fire
men.
Special Notices-Bids for Feed Want
ed. Police Department; General In
surance, w. T. Hopkins; Ship Notice,
Strachan & Co., Consignees; Ladies'
Hair Dressing Parlor. S. L. Gerst; DIR.
f. S. Kenan Has Returned.
Business Notices-A Delightful Place
to Dine, Sommers' Cafe; Second Hand
Bicycles, G. w Thomas.
There's None Better-The Delmonico
Co.
Do It To-day-Lattimore's
Green River Whiskey-Henry Solo,
mon G. Son.
My Brand Up-to-date-Pete Daley.
Words of Praise-J. T. Shuptrine.
Hair Tonic-The Solomons Co.
Our Prescription Experimentation
linski Druggist.
Savannah Theater-Tuesday Night,
Peggy From Paris" Wednesday
Matinee and Night, 1.-THE Village Par
SON."
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost, Personal, Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
THE PAINTING LAKE.
From an Exchange.

FROM an EXCnduEe.
Two years ago the Executive Com
mittee of the italian Geographical So
ciety determined to undertake the de-
sirable work of preparing an exhaus-
tive monograph on one of the lakes
of Italy, and selected the Lake Of
Bolsena for the purpose. Limnologi-
cal stations, equipped with Sarasin's
Monograph and with other instru-
ments, have been established on OPP
posite sides of the lake at Bolsena and
at Marta, and that at chosen points
in the immediate vicinity five meteor
illogical stations are to yield continu-
Gus records of the rainfall and air tenn
perature. A gauge for measuring the
hight of the water has also been fixed
to pier in the Fleeme Marta.
One of the most interesting phe-
nomena, of which continuous record
will be kept, are the seiches, the
rhythmical oscillations of the surface
of the lake, which have a regular pc
Rod of twelve to fifteen minutes, and
are more conspicuous at Marta than
at Bolsena, apparently on account of
the position of the former village near
er the major diameter of the lake, and
on account of differences in the decliv-
ity of the bottom. A rise of the wa
ter of seven inches at Marta was no.
ticed to be correlated with a rise of
only four inches at Bolsena. On occa-
sions the rise of water may amount
to foot, and the seiches are then so
noticeable that the common folk, in
their expressive dialect, declare that
the lake is painting.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
Home springing Eternal.

DIR. S. Weir Mitchell enjoys telling
of the interview that took place be-
tween a certain wealthy old Phila-
delphian and his only relative and heir,
a young man of twenty-three, who has
since childhood known that he was to
inherit the. uncle's fortune, says an
exchange.
1t appears that the nephew, on hear
ing that the old gentleman was ill,
had hurried from Newport to the bed
side of the wealthy relative. "Oh,
uncle!" he exclaimed as he hurriedly
entered the sickroom. lawfully sorry
to find you so i'll. Is it true
that you are threatened with appended
tis?"
The old gentleman smiled grimly.
II hardly think it is, my lad" replied
he. GAS matter of fact. it's only the
rheumatism. You mustn't be to optimis-
tic, you know"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
Personal.

Prof. Roentgen. who discovered
the marvellous rays which now bear
his name, has refused immense sums
of money offered him by American
publishers for a book on what he him
self modestly styled "a new kind of
ray" Though so, he carries his years
CALAMITY and looks more like man
who has led healthy outdoor life than
one who has spent the whole of his
manhood in investigating strange ply
steal problems.
Two Kansas papers, the Wichita
Eagle and the Lawrence Gazette, are
trying to establish for William Mat
thewson Of Wichita the right to the
title of Buffalo BILL now worn so
conspicuously by Col. Cody. Matthew
son was known as Buffalo BIZ long
before Cody was heard Of" declares
the Gazette. but Cody took the name
and made money and fame out of it,
while Matthewson sought neither
There is not an old settler on the Dor
der but knows that Bill Matthewson
earned and for years carried the title
that afterward made Cody famous"
Deputy Sheriff John w. Anderson
of Somerville, N. J., not long ago was
Princeton athlete. The training he
had in college stood him in good stead
the other night. Larry Wallace, a
heavyweight desperate, undertook to
escape from Jail, but was observed by
Anderson. Wallace butted him in the
chest, but the deputy sheriff was on
his feet in an instant and a beautiful
ough-and-tumble ensued. For a time
the officer was getting the worst of it,
but his old-time training came to his
rescue and the desperate had been
whipped into mi-unconsciousnes
when the noise Of the fight brought
other officers to the scene.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
A LittIe war Traeedy.

In the Franco-Prussian War a
French gunner was commanded by his
colonel to fire on small house which
was believed to be a retreat of the
enemy, says the Southern Churchman.
TRY it with a shell, my man." said
the officer.
With pale face Pierre obeyed. He
sighted his piece deliberately and &C
curately, then fired it,
"Well hit, my man, we'll hit" said
the officer, as he looked through his
glass. THAT cottage could not have
been very solid. It's completely
smashed"
Turning around, he noticed a tear
stealing down the gunner's cheek
why, what's the matter?" he ex-
claimed, roughly.
Pardon me, colonel" was the an
swer. ut was my own little house
everything had in the world"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
NOT THE RIGHT WAY.

How difficult it is to coerce free
people, even in good cause, was IL
Illustrated some days ago at Fairmont
w. Va. A concert was advertised to
be given at the opera house on Sunday
evening. The ministers of the town
felt scandalized and at once took steps
to prevent the rendering of the con-
cert. They appealed to the town authori-
ties and the Mayor issued an order
that the concert be not given. 1t APP
pears there was nothing illegal about
the proposed concert, since on an APP
peal being made to Judge Jackson,
of the United States court at Parkers-
burg, he issued an injunction restrain
ing the town authorities from inter-
fering, and the concert was duly given
And the dispatches said that "the
churches were practically empty, and
hundreds of church members were the
first to enter the opera house."
Evidently considerable feeling had
been worked UP with respect to the
matter. The people-church members
as well as others-felt that the pro-
hibition of the concert was an undue
restriction of their privileges. They
felt that they had right to determine
for themselves whether they would
spend the evening listening to music
or to a sermon, and since the concert
proposed was not unlawful they saw
no good reason why 1t should have
been prescribed. And when the coer-
cion of the Mayors order was attempt
ed-which order meant, You may go
to church or stay at home. but you
shall not hear the concert"-the effect
was just the opposite Of what 1t was
hoped it would be. 1t made many
people come out on the side of the con-
cert who otherwise would probably
have given little thought to it but
would have gone to church as usual
instead of going to the opera house.
In principle the giving Of a concert
on Sunday night may be wrong. 1t
may be a dissertation of the Sabbath.
We have no defense to offer for the
| concert on Sunday. But. IL it was
wrong, it seems to us that the minis
ters went about fighting it in an I'M
wise manner. Instead of appealing
to the police power of the city au-
thoritles. to shut up the doors of
the opera house, they ought to have
labored to inculcate such a high re-
gard for Sabbath Observance in the
people-the church people especially
that the giving OF a concert in Fair
mont on Sunday would have been inn
possible. because nobody would have
attended it. The incident is merely an
added illustration Of the futility of
attempting to make a people righteous
or moral by force. The religion or the
morality that is forced down ones
throat with a club isn't worth great
deal. The kind that sticks and means
something is the kind that comes with
the conviction of right, and the de-
termination to do right because IL is
right.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
Posterftx.

The psychologists were COMPOUNDED,
says the Chicago Record Herald. They
had, in the year 1921. dug down to
the ruins of magnificent edifice. but
were unable to determine whether it
had been a government building, a
place of religious worship, private
mansion or a temple of trade. After
much wrangling and the airing of
many theories. a grave and hairless
professor said:
1--WE may be sure it wasn't a gov
eminent building, anyhow
''Why?" asked the others.
1.-THE evidences are plain that the
upper part of the structure was fin
ished in less than forty years after
the laying of the foundations"
Thus the matter was at least sim
piified.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
THTrNDERBOTT lime

City Market to Casino and Thunder
bolt via Bolton street junction.
Beginning at $3.50 a. m. cars leave
City Market for Casino and Thunder
bolt every half hour until 300 n m
after which cars run every Is minutes
until 1870 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton street junction Is
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at $3.50 a. m. cars leave
Live Oak station for city every half
hour until 1888 p. M, after which
time cars leave every Is minutes until
1908 midnight.
Car leaving Casino at 11:55 will run
south on Barnard street to Fortfeth
and north on Abercorn to Bolton
street
The Savannah morning news., 1904-10-03
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