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The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
Promised to Keen 1t Secret.

Judge Jerome early in his famous
whirlwind campaign of last month
against Tammany showed that he had
little patience with the so-called DO
iltlcal striker" He sized these fell
lows up pretty quickly, whether they
oHered him the support of fake"
newspapers on condition that he should
order a few thousand copies or wheth-
er they asked him for a simple loan,
winch was virtually a gift. Some who
dreaded the judges keen eye too much
10 approach him in person, put their
requests into begging letters. 1t is
SAID by tn New York Tribune that one
man wrote reminding Judge Jerome
OF college days spent together. con-
iesslng that since leaving college he
nad wasted his life and ending up with
an appeal for gift of IS, protesting
that only dire stroke of i'll fortune
could have driven him to such degra-
uatlon as to beg. He closed the letter.
1t is said, something like this:
L am overwhelmed with shame as
IN my minds eye, 1 see you reading
these words"
The judge, who recognized the dead
beat under the winners cloak. and who
also mas a keen sense of humor. wrote
back, so it is related:
Don't let your shame entirely over
Whelm you. l have spared your
bushes by not reading your letter. and
nave ordered my secretary not to saw
anything to me about it,"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
Still He Doubted.

An old German was on his death
bed, says Lippincotts. In his earliest
years he had led a wild life, but since
the death of Schneider, one of his
boon companions, he had reformed and
given up his bad habits. This Schneider
IN MS day had been a mighty drinker
Famous for his capacity and his ca
rouses.
The priest was ministering to the
dying man, consoling him with visions
OF the paradise he would soon enter
telling him that he would meet there
MS old friends and what joy it would
be to see them all again.
The dying man asked feeblv. "wiu
schneider be there, your reverence?"
Thinking to give him pleasure, the
priest replied: Yes, Schneider will be
there
"Ach." said the other, dot is very
bad! IAN dose dringings and eadings
and fighdings all over again; all dot
beer and whisky"
But there will be no drinking in
heaven" said the priest.
But you said Schneider would be
there"
80 he WILL" was the priests re-
ply.
And there won't be no dringings.
you dink? Ach, you don't know Schnei-
der"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
BRIGHT BITS.

Information Wanted.-AIiss Rural
And were you never in the country
during the season for husking bees, Dir.
Sappy?
Sappy: No. The ideal How do you
husk a bee, anyway?-Philadelph
Press.
Sharpe: On his birthday before
their marriage she gave him book
entitled "A Perfect Gentleman"
Wheaton: Any change after a
year of married life?
Sharpe: Yes; on his last birthday
she gave him book entitled, wild
Animals l Have Met."-Chicago News.
He Didn't Count.-Lady of the
House: Bridget, didn't you tell me
when you came here that you would
have no male friends coming around
the house, and now l find man in the
kitchen almost every evening?
Bridget: Shore, mum, thot amt no
male friend of moline at all-.he's me
husband.-Town and Country.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
IADEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.

Meetings-Stockhold Edison Elec-
trio Illuminating Company.
Special Notices - Andrew Hanley
Company; Savannah Building Supply
Company. Savannah Merchants. Amer
icus Herald; Notice of Intention to
Transfer Stock, Estate Maria II. Gam
NELL
Business Notices-Youngers Scotch
Ale; E. & w. Laundry.
Great Exposition at Charleston, S. C.
Via Plant System.
Plant System--Excellent Train Serv-
ice Between Savannah and Brunswick.
Amusements-Una Clayton and Com
pany in Little Miss Military" To- night
at Theater; "A Runaway Girl" at The
ater Tomorrow Night.
Railroad Schedule-The Southern
Railway.
Kennedy's Oysterettes - American
Biscuit Company.
Pearline-Jas. Pyle & Son, New York.
Medical-Heiskell's Ointment; Cas-
toria; DR.. Hathaway Company; DR..
Wright's Pills; Hostetter's Stomach
Bitters.
Cheap Column Advertisements Help
Wanted; Employment Wanted; For
Rent; For Sale; Lost; Personal; Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
why the Drum Was silent.

Here is delicious story of war times
that has an unmistakable air of fresh
ness and human interest, says the Bal
timore Sun:
The torn and tattered remnant of
Confederate regiment one day toward
the close of the war was lined up by
its colonel and told that the command
ing general was to pay a visit of in
spection' on the following day. The
soldiers We're admonished to do their
prettiest."
Just brace up as though your
clothes were brand new uniforms and
as though you had the best on earth
to eat and plenty of it. We haven't any
bugles left but Smith there has got
drum, and it's a plumb fine one-big
as barrel. Now, Smith. when I give
you the word tomorrow you let her
go for all she's worth" Thus spoke the
colonel.
The next day came the general to
inspect" the poor half-starved fight
ers, and as he appeared in the distance
the colonel gave the order to Zine up"
AS the commanding officer drew near,
the colonel shouted: Now. Smith, let
her go!" and turned to salute the gen.
eral.
But not a note came from the big
barrel drum.
The colonel, red in the face. turned
toward the drummer and again shout
ed his order for music
But still the drum remained as mute
as the harp of Tara Hall fame.
Infuriated at this open disobedience
of orders and in the presence of his
commanding officer, too, the colonel
rode down the line, and as he reached
the refractory drummer, cried out:
Say, Smith, what in and - do
you mean by not beating that blanke-
ty blank drum"
Il can't, colonel" whispered Smith
The old drum is full of chickens, and
half of EN- are for YOU
The colonel paused but a moment
before he shouted so that the general
and the soldiers might hear:
All right, Smith, but if you were too
sick to play the drum, why in
and - didn't YOU saw SOP"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
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The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
Hard Way of Hardening.

Theophilus Kent is a small mortal.
scant of shank and narrow of Shout
der; his ambition is by far the most
robust feature of his makeup. saws
the Albany Journal. In spite of his
spare physique, which reminds one of
a thin bantam which had been pluck
ed, Kent wanders about in summer
jeans and without an overcoat in the
early morn to tougher his constitu-
ton. He wandered one day; he wan
dered two; the third he received a chill
which was so attentive that several
portions of Hunter" merely temper
arily checked it. Kent consulted a
physician, and while his teeth ground
their edges off, chartered but not chat
ted Of his ailment to the man of medi-
cine.
Il wan-w-want," said Kent, 81 W.
want-t-to-to-g-ge t-hardened."
The doctor eyed him. you are like
a cake of ice now, my friend. If YOU
want good health, consult a tailor.
Three-fifty, please. and take these
once an hour" He extended a box of
licorice tablets and held out a huge
hand for his fee
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
FLORIDA ORANGE GROWERS EN-
Outraged.

Florida has crop of oranges this
year that makes the orange growers
of that state think the time is near
at hand when the annual shipment of
oranges will approximate that imme-
diately before the great freeze of 1895.
1t will be recalled that during the sea-
son before the freeze pretty nearly g.
900 900 boxes were shipped out of the
state.
The estimate for this season is 1,10o,-
900 boxes. Next year, IL nothing in
terferes to injure the trees or the fruit,
the crop will be very much larger. The
trees that were saved from the freeze
are just now coming into bearing, and
every year they will have an increased
yield.
In the meantime new trees, mostly
planted below what is thought to be
the frost line, are coming on rapidly
and in the course of two or three years
more will be in bearing. 1t is a pref
ty safe prediction that within six years
Florida will be producing 100000
boxes a year again. and, judging from
the number of trees now being plant
ed, it will not be more than ten wears
before ne crop viii be double that
number of boxes. 1t is estimnted
that the number of trees that were
planted in Florida last winter approx
mated 100000.
And there isn't going to be any let
up in tree planting. There are vast
areas of land south of the frost line
suitable for orange growing, and the
planting of it in trees will go on
steadily. There is no fear that the
oranges Of California, Cuba or Porto
Rico will supplant those of Florida in
popular favor. Indeed, there is no
orange In the world that equals that
of Florida. The cool weather of the
late fall and winter seems to give it
a coloring and flavor finer than that
of any other orange. There has al
ways been, and, it is safe to say, al
ways will be. a greater demand for
the Florida product than for that from
any other section of the world. 1t
may cost more to grow the Florida
orange, but it commands better
pTica
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
WHICH WILL wINs

Profound interest is felt in the
threatened struggle between the COM
bination of Governors Of Minnesota,
North Dakota, Montana, Idaho and
Washington and the great railroad
combination composed of the Great
Northern, Northern Pacific. Union Pa
cific, Southern Pacific, and the Chi
cago, Burlington and Quincy railroads.
The Governors of the foregoing states
are interested in preventing a combi-
nation of only two of the roads in
question, namely, the Great Northern
and the Northern Pacific. These roads
are parallel lines, and traverse the
states which, it is expected, will take
steps to have the railroad combina-
tion declared unlawful.
This railroad combination is the big
gest trust in the world. 1t represents
capital amounting to s1,0S2, 900, 0O0-$64,
900 more than the United Safes
Steel Corporation, known as the bill
lion dollar trust.
1t is by no means certain that the
Governors can agree upon the course
that ought to be pursued in fighting
the railroad trust. 1t may be that
all of their states haven't laws pro-
hibiting the consolidation of parallel
lines by railroads. If they haven't,
and they expect to have such laws en-
acted, the chances are that they will
suffer defeat. The railroads are pow
erful and influential and have friends
in the Legislatures.
The struggle to defeat this great
combination of capital, the greatest
the world has ever known, will attract
the attention of the entire country,
and it may become a factor in the
question as to whether the government
shall take control of interstate rail-
roads, to tine extent or supervising
their rates
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
A Brilliant Clerk.

A certain hardware store in this
city recently employed as a clerk a
genuine 1s-karat genius. says the Sy-
racuse Herald. They did not know IL
at the time. but they are firmly con-
WINGED of IL now.
A few days ago a country customer
came in to buy some powder to use
on hunting trip. The new man walt
ed on him. and, not being thoroughly
ION TO the ropes" gave him blasting
powder by mistake.
The next day the purchaser brought
back the iumpy blasting powder 10 ex-
change for what he originally asked
for. Here Is where the new clerks
genius displayed itself. Instead OF TAX
ing back the blasting powder on the
spot he tried 10 argue the country
customer into buying a coffee grinder.
with which the blasting powder might
be ground 10 the requisite flneness.
Sad 70 relate he failed, but he made
great BIZ with his employers never.
thelesE.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
INCREASED COST oF LIVING.

In our dispatches the other day, on
the authority of Dun's Review, it was
stated that the cost of living had
reached the highest point in the de-
cade, and was per cent. higher than
at the corresponding period of last
year. 1t did not need the report of a
commercial agency to inform house
wives that the cost of filling the mar
ket basket had increased considerably
during the past year or two. They
have found meats and potatoes espe-
cially to be higher than usual,
and the cost of the necessaries of life
generally to be higher than the aver
age for some time past. Will this
higher level prove only temporary?
The consumer ardently hopes so; but
there is nothing to be done but wait
and see.
This matter of the higher cost of liv-
ing, without a corresponding increase
in the earning capacity of the eonsum-
ing masses, has direct bearing upon
two very important questions relating
to our national governmental policy
namely, the tariff and immigration.
A defect in the tariff to which the
Democratic party has continually call
ed attention is the fact that it utterly
ignores the consumer. 1t assumes
that the protected manufacturer, out
of the goodness of his heart and Sc
cure in fine profits, will divide his pros
perity with the man who is working
for him by paying the best wages in
the world. There was some show of
reason for this expectation when in
dustries were under individual man
agement, because of the sentimental
connection between employer and en-
ployes. But is there any sentiment in
the trust system as it exists now?
There is a tariff on meats of 2 to 5
cents a pound. Who profits by it, the
raisers of cattle and stock, or the great
meat trust? OF pretty nearly every
agricultural product that is protect
ed" by the tariff, we raise a surplus
which must be exported; does such
protection" do the producers the least
bit of good?
And there are the immigration laws.
While the American workingman,
whose dinner pail has been a text up
on which Republican sermons without
number have been preached, is now
paying more for his living than for
many years, there is a flood of cheap
labor being poured in from Europe.
The immigration last year was heavier
than for a number of years; and there
is pressure being brought to bear upon
the government for a still freer inn
portation of cheap labor, upon the ex-
piration of the existing Chinese exclu-
sion law. Is there any promise of full
dinner pals held out in any such prop
Osition?
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

In the November number of the
Southern Workman, published at
Hampton Institute, Va, there is an ar
ticle on 1.-THE Housing of the Negro"
The idea of the writer seems to be
that the negro village is a sort of
clearing house for the negro-that is,
that negroes go from the farms to the
villages, and that under the quickening
influences they find there some are
benefited and seek a wider field of en-
deavor in the large cities while others
succumb to the vices with which they
come in contact and become loafers
and sink into the slums.
II is question If, of the negroes 60
ing from the country-that is from the
farms-to the villages, the percentage
of those VINO improve morally, intel
lectually and materially is very large.
The farther the negroes are removed
from the white people the less their
inclination seems to be to improve their
condition. 1t is stated by observers that
in this state the negroes of villages
which are not in close contact with
white settlements show signs of re-
turning to barbarism.
There are negro villages not a hum
dred miles from this city where the
negroes are far less thrifty than they
were a quarter of century ago. Their
only ambition is to get enough 70 eat
and sufficient clothes to cover their
nakedness. Their homes are only huts,
although they have opportunities for
becoming well-to-do farmers on a
small scale. They have permitted the
public roads to become mere COW
paths, their houses are dropping to
pieces and everything about their
premises has a dilapidated appearance.
Unless change takes place it will not
be many years before these village ne
groes will be without homes altogether.
They will be living in the woods again,
as it were, just as their ancestors in
Africa did. 1t is contact with the white
people that holds the negroes up. Put
a thousand of them on one of the sea
islands and cut them off from frequent
communication with the main land and
they would be savages in a couple of
generations. They are lacking in am
bition to improve their condition.
Here in the South there are oppor-
tunities innumerable for them to be-
| come a prosperous people In this coun-
ty, for instance, there are tens Of
thousands of acres of good land which
they could obtain at a very low price
per acre, and on easy terms, for farm
ing purposes. This city would afford
them market for much they could
raise, and what they could not market
here they could send elsewhere. There
are very few negro farmers in the
county, however, and there is no prom
Use that the number will be increased
to any great extent in. the near future
There are thousands of negroes in this
city who would rather lead a thriftless
half-starved life in town than to make
an effort to better their condition in
the country.
The negroes are nowhere so we'll off
as on the farm. There they have fairly
comfortable homes. wholesome food
and, because of the influence of their
| white neighbors. are superior in every
way to negroes who live In villages
which are not in close communication
/ with white settlements.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

One of the most important resolu-
tons passed by the North Georgia Con-
ference of the Methodist Church last
week was that ordering the money
paid back that had been collected from
the government for the church's print
ing house in Nashville destroyed dur
ing the civil war. The amount allow
ed was 1928. 900, and out of this a fee
of s125,000 to the attorneys who man.
aged the claim was paid. 1t will be
recalled that the Church was censured
for the manner in which the allowance
of its claim was obtained. II we are
not mistaken there was a charge that
there was a great real of lobbying
done OF course the Church knew
nothing of this, and it seems that the
conference has ordered the money paid
back to the government rather than
have any reflections cast upon the
church
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

1t is owing TO an odd twist of for
tune that p. II. Anderson of. Kansas is
now a millionaire. instead OF a poor
country school teacher. He applied for
a certificate TO teach school and was
turned down. Then he went 10 Alaska
as a missionary. During his ministra-
tons there he discovered a gold mine
worth 81 600, 900. He sold out, came back
20 the states, married a nice girl. gave
a fortune 10 a school, and Is now on a
tour 10 Europe with his bride.
Except for his failure 70 get a teach
er's certificate he would no doubt now
be drilling the three RS" into thick
heads in Kansas.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

Again there is talk of the establish
ing of an American Monte Carlo"
This time the scene Of the alleged pro-
ject is Miami, Fla Tom Costigan is at
the head of the promoters of the enter
prise. A tract of twenty-five acres has
been purchased, and club houses and
a race track are to be commenced at
once. According TO the prospectus, the
place Is 10 be ready for business in
January next. However. It is well
enough TO wait and hear what Coy.
Jennings and the other Florida author
tiles have to say with respect TO the
matter. Florida desires visitors in large
numbers, but Il may be doubted that
she would care 70 offer a Monte
Carlo as an attraction.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

IT. was officially announced the other
day that the details of the new Hay
Pauncefote treaty would not be made
public until it had been presented to
the Senate and that body itself re-
moved the obligation of secrecy; never
theless the day after it was signed by
the Secretary of State and the British
Ambassador a New York paper print
ed what purported to be the complete
text of the document. And it seems
that the article was really the rough
draft from which the finished treaty
was drawn. The State Department
has started an investigation to ascer-
tain how the draft got out of the Of
flee and into the hands of the news
paper, alleging that the paper was
stolen, and that the theft was an Of
tense involving a penitentiary SEN
tence. The department is determined
to get at the bottom of the matter
and see that the offender is punished
to the extent of the law. This, by
the way, is but an incident illustrat-
ing the methods of the yellow" jour
nal, which respects no condolences and
is ever ready to corrupt public or
private servants in order to secure
information desired.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

The Society for the Prevention OF
Cruelty 10 Animals has seized a lot
Of the trappings OF the horses OF the
swell society folks Of New York. The
social swells desire TO have their
horses appear to be spirited and fret
full animals, and 10 secure the required
amount Of nervousness they have been
subJecting the horses 10 the torture OF
the burr Bit" The burr IN its COM
monest form Is small piece Of leath-
er set with stin bristles which Is placed
on the BIZ just inside the horses
mouth. pressing into the tender lips
and keeping the animal iu constant
state u irritation. Therefore the am
imal champs. throws bis head about
and in appearance Do stylish" and
spirited. Sometimes says the Times
malls ana brass screws are nubau-
tutod for thc bustlos such b. fool
lfh prideH demand upon hsmnnfy
yhe FWNia afe willing i0 practice Dru-
rlty upou helplsaa dumb baaai and
Terrrfrato "a fake up0n observer To-
isf SAKE "a apF.arnE stylish"
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25

The new Holland submarine torpedo
boat is the wonder of all naval men.
1t was given trial on Friday at Green
Point, L. 1. 1t is named the Fulton.
shipbuilder Nixon says it is "a great
steel fish, in which are used all of the
mechanical developments of the past
few years and over whose movements
man exacts as perfect and instant
obedience to his will as if the fish had
brains" In his opinion a harbor de-
Tended by two such boats could not
be bottled up as was Santiago.
The Savannah morning news., 1901-11-25
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