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The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

mo, sir" said a Philadelphia who
supplies the government with necessi-
ties of life. according to the Philadel-
phia Telegraph, you can't do business
with Uncle Samuel in the spirit OF
contract; you simply must obey its
letter. If you put in specifications
amounting to 'steen dollars and Il
cents, and then bill it goods under the
contract and the total amounts to the
same 'steen dollars and 19 cents
you've got to take it back and make
up the other cents, or you don't do
business.
Let me give you an instance of
Uncle Samuers character for exact
ness. We were awarded a contract for
1000 feet of copper wire for League
Island. We sent the order to the
manufacturers, and they turned in the
stuff. In a few days we got letter
from the island authorities that that
wire was only 9S5 feet long.
I'VE answered that we knew it, that
the copper ingot did not yield any
more, and that we charged them only
for 9S5 feet. Would that do? Not a
bit of it.
They sent us word that if that
wire was not brought up to 1000 feet
the lot would be rejected. Then we
had to get a permit from the L. A.
tc send a man down to join on
enough to make the demand good, and
he went down and did the work.
''In few days we were notified that
the pieces he put on made the whole
length 1,004 feet. We wrote back that
we didn't care for the four feet and
Uncle Sam could have it.
Next morning up comes an order
to cut off that four feet or the whole
bunch would be rejected. Then we
had to get another permit for our man
to go down and lOp It off, which he
did.
Was it all plain sailing then? 1
should say not. When he threw the
offending excess upon the ground the
guard said:
" Pick that up; that's against the
rules
He picked it up and was about to
toss it into the river, when he was
stopped in a mandatory way:
" Here, you do that and you'll get
yourself into trouble!"
80, thinking he'd find a resting
place outside of the government re-
serves, our employe walked to the
gate, where he found a sentinel.
" What have you got there"
A piece of wire
" You can't carry it out without a
permit
" All right. 1 don't want to- and
cast it down.
You pick that up said the sem
tinel. You can't throw things around
here
But 1 don't want the blamed
thing
" Go back and get permit
And he really had to do it to get
that four feet of wire outside of Uncle
Sans fence. Now, wouldn't that
make you tired?"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
WILL ENGLAND SUPPORT JAPAN,


If Japan should engage in a war
with Russia would England become
! involved in it? That is a question
which Englishmen are now seriously
! discussing. Her newspapers have been
| telling her for several months that she
would According to their view, it
would be practically impossible for her
| to avoid becoming the ally of Japan.
| There is a treaty between England
/ and Japan BY which each agrees to aid
! the other in the event that either is
| attacked by more than one Power. Ac-
cording to this treaty, therefore, Eng
| land wouldn't have to go to the aid Of
! japan unless some one of the Powers
should aid Russia.
It is expected that France would
lend Russia a helping hand, especially
if it should become apparent that
Russia was getting the worst of the
fight Russia and France have an un-
derstanding in which each is to assist
the other under certain circumstances.
The impression seems to prevail in
England that if France and England
should become involved in the trouble
between Russia and Japan the United
States would also be drawn into 1t. On
what this impression is based isn't
clear. 1t seems to be rather a hope
than an impression. AS far as is
now apparent, there is no good reason
for thinking the United States would
become involved. The English people
would like nothing better than to have
this country as an ally. They think
the two nations together could easily
overcome any force all the rest of the
world could muster against them.
OF course, the United States have in
terests in the Far East, but they do
not seem to be menaced. Russia is
showing herself very careful not to
do anything that would likely get her
into trouble with this country. 1t is
probable that she will not throw any
thing in the way of the treaty which
this country recently entered into with
China, providing for the opening of
certain ports in Manchuria.
London dispatches say that the Eng
lish people do not seem to be disturbed
by the prospect of being drawn into
war with Russia as an ally of Japan,
and for that reason the British gov
ernment, which is believed to be ad-
vising Japan, hasn't suggested to the
latter the advisability of making such
concessions in her demands upon Rus
sia as would open the way for avoiding
war. On the contrary, it is said that
she has been, and is still, advising
Japan to stand up for her rights. If
that be the case,s 1t looks as if Eng
land expected to be called upon to as
sist Japan in the event of war between
the latter Power and Russia.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
PERSONAL.

Charles Dana Gibson, who origi-
mated girl and married her sister.
draws the largest salary ever paid an
illustrator of periodicals. The two
publications for which he works give
him $4,000 a year. A well-known
cartoonist in New York makes $12, 900
a year from a single paper. Another
was under contract at $4,000 and
spent every cent of it.
A Christmas present for Charles
Ritter, an aged farmer of Bristol Pike
and Penny Pack lane, near Philadel-
phia, was fine pair of boys, Mr..
Ritter, who isN70 years old and but
ten Older than his wife, came to this
country from his native town-in Sax
ony in 1850. HIS wife is also of Ger
man birth, having come to this coun-
try from Cassel, in Hesse. Mrs. Rit-
ter does not look more than 40 years
old.
Prof. Charles S. Sargent of the
Arnold arboretum of Boston and his
son, A. r. Sargent, who have been
six months in Russia and Siberia,
where they Went to collect trees and
plant specimens indigenous to that re-
gion, have just returned. Their mis-
sion was successful and it's immediate
result is found in the more than 5000
bulbs, seeds and roots collected, in
cluding many rare specimens of east
ern flora
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
Put Trust In the Lord.

Last winter when l went South for
my health" said Col. L. S. Brown
of the Southern Railway, according to
the Washington Star. II was told they
were going to try colored man for
stealing a quantity of raw cotton, and
when. the hour arrived l went up to
the Court House to hear the case. The
prisoner was a man about 40 years
of age. and he had elected to plead
his own case. The prosecution proved
that the bag of cotton was found in
the colored mans cabin, and the prop
erty was fully identified as belong
ing to the owner of compress. The
prisoner asked no questions, but said
he wanted to make statement and
rest his case wild de lawd.' After a
while he was given an opportunity to
speaksand said:
80 L was gwine by dat compress at
'leben O'Clock last night. when a voice
dun called out to me: Hold on. dar.
Abraham Jones. Yo' was pore man,
an yo Jest take long dis bag O. cotton
to buy yo' some shoes fur cold weather.
Den de bag fell at my feet, an 1 dun
took it home
Ibid you recognize the voice?' said
the Judge.
-" No, sab: but / reckon it was an
anger VINO spoke
" Then why did you hide the bag
when you got home"
" Well, sab. jest as L got frew de
gate another voice dun told me dat I'd
better hide de cotton fur few days
" Did you recognize that Voice?'
No, sah but l dun reckon it was
a voice from heben.'
" And that's your defense, is it?'
Yes, sab. Ize willin' to rest dis
case in de Lawd's hands. De Lawd He
dun knows l nebber stole dat cotton.
" Hadn't you better have a lawyer?'
suggested the Judge, with something
like a smile on his face.
" 4 reckon not sab. Tze been gwine
to church fur de las fo'ty vars, an
I'ze restin' dis case right in de hands
oh de Lawd.'
Then 1 shall have to give you four
months III Jail, Abraham
Huh. what fur?'
For stealing that cotton
THE prisoner received his sentence
without d word. seeming to have ex-
pected it, and was presently led away.
Two weeks later ! met him on the
streets of a town fifty miles away and
said to him.
Abraham I thought you were in
Jail over at Selma?'
Yes, sab. / was he replied.
"'And / remember you put your
case in the hands of the Lord?'
Deed, but / did, sab, an / cum out
all right.
But you got four months
so l did. sah-so l did: but arteI
serving nine days OBJ de time de Lawd
showed me how to dig outer dat jail
an yer 1 am an dey won't nebber git
me agin.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
BUILDING LAWS.

Chicago, profoundly shocked by the
Iroquois Theater disaster, is looking in
to her building laws and making in
quiries as to whether they have been
complied with in buildings where con-
siderable crowds of people congre-
gate. AS a consequence it has been
learned that the statute books are bur
dened with building laws, many of
which are whimsical and unreasonable,
and the enforcement of which would
result in the closing of practically
every church, hotel department store,
Office building, and apartment house
in the city. Furthermore, a consid-
cradle number of private residences
would have to be abandoned until
changes were made, since in the con-
struction of them certain requirements
of the ordinances were disregarded. At
the same time many well conceived re-
Quirements for the safety of the in
mates OF certain classes of buildings
have been as totally disregarded as if
such requirements had never been writ
ten into the laws. AS a matter of
fact, 1t seems that architects and own
ers have builded pretty much as they
pleased, without paying great deal
of attention to the laws. 1t has been
asserted that if the laws as they ex-
list were rigidly enforced, there would
be few church services next Sunday
and the majority of the factories,
stores and office buildings would have
to close their doors.
The attention of the Mayor has been
called to this condition of affairs and
he will take steps to relieve the situa-
ton. One of the first things to be at
tempted will be a revision of the build
ing ordinances. The City Council will
be asked to cut out all of the foolish
ness and unreasonableness that it can
find in the ordinances. That will at
once simplify matters. Then the re-
naming, and needful, requirements will
be enforced strictly. The ordinances
1t seems, have been so overloaded with
freak and reform requirements that
architects and builders did not feel un-
der obligation to observe them to the
letter. And then it is just possible
that there have been complaisant in
spectors, who have been blind to sin:
of omission and commission against
the ordinances, for reasons of one sort
and another.
The shaking up will do good. 1t will
serve to do awaE with obsolete ant
useless requirements and give the city
better building regulations. There il
a strong probability that in the major
ity of cities a similar shaking up woulC
be productive of beneficial results.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

DIR. Edward Everett Hale, who has
been elected chaplain of the United
States Senate, is a Unitarian preacher
1T Hardly accords with the spirit and
honor of a Christian nation to have a
Unitarian in so representative a posi-
ton" says a Presbyterian publication
of Philadelphia. DIR. Hale's theology,
it seems. is too broad for some people;
he does not give them h enough; his
fire and birthstone do not sizzle and
smell in the proper degree. But, since
when has this been a christian ma
ton? Is it not the law of the land,
thanks to Thomas jefferson, that a man
shall have freedom to worship God ac-
cording to the dictates of his own con-
science? Mr.. Jefferson regarded it as
one of the greatest of his achievements
that he was author of the statute of
Virginia for religious freedom, and di-
rected that that fact be noted upon his
tombstone. Under our institutions the
Gentle and the Jew, the Unitarian, the
Presbyterian and the Catholic, stand
upon precisely the same footing. There
would be just as much reason to OBJ
ject to DR.. Hale because of the color
of his eyes as because he is a Unitar-
ian.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
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The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
MAYOR HARRIsON,s VIGILANCE.

The extraordinary vigilance which
Mayor Harrison of Chicago is show
ing in enforcing ordinances for the
safety of theater audiences in that
city leads one to inquire why vigil
ance was not displayed prior to the
Iroouois Theater disaster. 1t may be
that he didn't know the ordinances
were being disregarded, but wasn't it
his business to know? 1t was GER
tainly somebody's business to know
and in the absence of any informa-
ton fixing the blame for the non-en-
forcement of the ordinances the pub
lie naturally holds the Mayor re-
sponsible.
A report from Chicago says that
a warrant has been taken out for the
arrest of the Mayor. Somebody evil
IDENTIFY thinks he is just as responsible
for the disaster as some of those who
have been arrested. No one of those
arrested is guilty of Intentionally in
viting the disaster. and no one of
course thinks the Mayor Intentionally
| neglected to have the ordinance en-
forced. The truth is of course that he
never thought of the matter prior to
the Iroquois Theater fire.
1t seems that about all of the thea
ters were guilty of neglecting to COM
ply with the ordinances. Perhaps their
attention had never been called to
them, or if they had, they had for
gotten all about them. The disaster
woke everybody up to the fact that
there had been criminal negligence
and so the Mayor closed all the thea
ters until the ordinances were COM
piled with.
The wonder is, Notwithstanding the
laws for the protection of life in places
Of amusement and on railways, that
there are not more accidents. There
are many careless people among the
vast number of employees. and it is
practically impossible to get men who
are in all cases conscientious in the
discharge of their duties.
Even If every one of the city ordi.
nances had been complied with The
Iroquois disaster would have occurred
1t was caused by the negligence Of
one of the employees. He left support
of one of the lights in such a position
that It was impossible to lower the
asbestos curtain. II that man had at.
tended to his duties properly the dis.
aster wouldn't have occurred. Still,
that fact doesn't excuse the neglect
to enforce the ordinances for the pro,
lection of theater audiences.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

The reciprocity treaty with Cuba
provides for a reduction OF 20 per
cent. on cigars and leaf and filler to-
baccos. But the consumer is not in
the least likely to benefit by the re-
duction his cigars will cost as much
as they did before. The reduction will
go into the pockets of manufac-
turers, importers and dealers. Cai-
culations based on government figures
show that the average reduction in
the price of cigars effected by the
treaty is in the neighborhood of IL
cents on each cigar. On cigars made in
this country of Cuban leaf the re-
duction will be about one-tenth of a
cent. These sums, it is pointed out,
are too small to be apportioned be-
tween all of the interests involved
hence those who sell the cigars will
keep it for themselves and require
smokers to pay as much as heretofore
1t may be depended upon that the
consumer will always get the tarred
end Of the tariff stick.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
BRIGHT BITS.

They tell me Skinnem is out for all
there is in it,"
mo; his customers are out for all
they put in it."-Commercial CONNER
cial-Tribune.
-Wantanno: At which joint did your
friend have his arm amputated?
Duzno: That's mighty disrespect-
fui way to speak of p. hospital.-Bal-
timore American.
Mr.. Stanzer has written some
verses in which he describes me as be-
witchingly beautiful" Miss Frocks
confided to Miss Flypp.
What do you think of that?"
Il think that there must be more
poetry than truth about the verses, -
was the latter's unkind reply.-Detroit
Free Press.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
different Climates.

An Irishman returning home from
America got into conversation with an
Englishman, who asked him what
part of America he hailed from, says
Tit Bit.
California" said Pat.
II believe" said the Englishman,
there are different climates near each
other there"
We'll. to give you an idea,'' said
Pat, Il was shooting one day, and
my dog. a we'll trained one, set him
self across a ditch. 1 was surprised
to find, on my giving him the usual
token to start, that he remained mo-
tionless. Going toward him to ascer-
tain the reason, / found that his tail
was frostbitten at one side of the
ditch and his head sunstruck on the
other"
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
Redections of n Bachelor.
From the New York Press.

Prom the New York Press.
A happy bride is just foolish enough
to have an innocent widow around the
house all the time.
When a man no longer remembers
to tell his wife that her pretty toes
are like rosebuds to him it is a sign
the honeymoon is past.
1t takes a woman lifetime to dis
cover that she can't make a man like
her cigars any better by putting them
in a different box.
The way to make a girl fight against
being kissed SO that she is likely to
get it somewhere else, is to try to kiss
her on the cheek.
You can make an everlasting friend
of woman by asking her, after you
have seen her riding in hired hack
how much month she has to pay her
coachman
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

Is mans mustache part and par
eel of the worldly goods with which
he endows his wife at marriage? The
question is to come before a German
court for solution. Herr Rottger of
Breslau offered to shave of his beau
tiful mustache If certain of his friends
would give S25 to a charity in which
he was interested. The friends agreed,
if he would put the contract in writ
ing. Rottger signed the paper dis
posing of his hirsute adornment. At
this point Frau Rottger steps in and
says the mustache is hers; that she
married it, and that her spouse has
no right to dispose of it without her
consent, which she refuses. The afore-
said friends have determined to take
the matter to court to determine
whether Rottger can be made to live
UP to his contract.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

Ten or fifteen years ago George NJ.
Ray of Shclbyville, Ind, was convict
ed of conspiracy to defraud the county
and sentenced to a term in the state
penitentiary. A few days ago he was
released. One of his first acts upon
regaining his freedom was to estab-
lish a newspaper, for the avowed pur-
pose Of driving out of public life the
judge who presided at his trial. Ray
claims that the judge was his political
opponent and that his rulings were
Illegal and biased and resulted in a
conviction on insufficient evidence.
The ex-convict editor will now devote
himself to showing up" the unfair
ness and prejudice of the judge.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

Six cases of smallpox at Allentown,
Pa, are alleged to have been traced
TO ball held there recently. A dis
patch says; "At the ball was pret-
ty young woman. who is thought to
have had the poison in her face. six
young men danced with her, and each
of them has been stricken with small
pox." Now the question arises, if the
smallpox poison was in the young
woman's face, how did it come to be
communicated to the young men who
danced with her? Was there sprig
of mistletoe hung in a dark and con,
venient corner?
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
HAIR TELLS CHARACTER.
Color of Hair Said to Indicate Per-
sons Temperament.

Many people believe that blonde, or
light hair, denotes affection, and DARK
hair constarey. A person without halr
is not devoid of character; far from IT,
The disposition of the average bald
headed man is to show such solicitude
for the welfare of others that he neg
lects himself. A germ causes badness
Prof. Sabouraud of Paris, France, m
noculated a rabbit with dandrun
germs, causing it to become totally
bald in five weeks time. To rid the
scalp of these dangerous germs II IS
necessary to apply Newbro's Herpl-
eide.
Destroy the cause-you remove the
effect"
Sold by leading druggists. Send iVc
in stamps for sample to The Herpicide
Co.. Detroit. Mich.
Livingistons Pharmacy Co., Speciai
Agents.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

There has been a new and sensa-
tional development in what some of
the Northern papers are calling 'the
race war" in Sheffield, Berkshire
county, Massachusetts. Some weeks
ago, it will be remembered, this Mas
sachusetts community drew the color
line rigidly and set up a negro school
in the Plain district, at. the same time
forbidding the negro children from at
tending the white school in the dis.
trict. The negroes got "huffy," of
course, and did not want to patronize
the Jim Crow school," After sew
eral weeks of animated quarrelling the
Plain, or Jim Crow" school house
has been burned to the ground, and
it is charged that the disgruntled ne
groes did it so that their children
might go back to the white school.
However, the whole thing is no af-
fairs of ours. We shall leave Massa-
chusetts to fight out her race war;
as she sees fit.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

Secretary of Agriculture Wilson says
that during the current year the great
business that will engage his depart
ment will be the. finding of a remedy
for the cotton boil weevil. He hopes
by the end of the next cotton season
the department will be in possession of
facts that will lead to the production of
a preventive of the pest.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05
The weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for partly cloudy weather,
with fresh north winds. Eastern Flor
ida, partly cloudy weather. warmer in
north portion. with fresh north winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

Gen. Weyler, of Cuban notoriety. has
written a book In it. according to re-
port. he has explained his plan for
landing a Spanish army on United
States territory and carrying the war
to Washington 1t is doubtless a very
interesting chapter. setting forth plan
as feasible as some of the adventures
of Don Quixote.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

--Flatleigh; 1 suppose you are pref
ty familiar with the scenery betweeh
the city and your suburban home?
Urbanite: Yes; know every inch of
the Observation-Disclosures Daily
News.
The Savannah morning news., 1904-01-05

The New York Press learns upon au-
thority'' that Mr.. Loree. the new Presi-
dent of the Rock Island Railway sys-
tenn, is to have a salary Of not less
than $4,000 a year and probably twice
that sum-" Fortunate Loree.