The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1902-11-09

of SIS a week." he asked. ITS hard
enough to buy board and clothes"
III help you buy. it," said Mr..
Schwab. Find out all the details and
come and tell me about them"
The young man, doubling but anx-
ious to neglect no opportunity furnish
ed the facts and figures and the deal
was quickly carried out.
The paper is now one of the most
profitable weeklies in America.
This transaction showed that Mr..
Schwab was willing to make a long
gamble even then. 1t is not so diff
ficult to imagine the man who would
take such "A long slide on a strange
young man and a new idea, gambling
a little at Monte Carlo. liking to ride
in fast automobiles or giving lavishly
to European beggars.
Here is a brand of new anecdote of
Gen. S. B. M. Young, the next COM
mander of the American army. 1t was
told to me by a Civil War captain
who was a member of Gen. Youngs
staff when he was colonel of the
Fourth Pennsylvania Volunteers. 1t
occurred in Lynchburg, Va, where Col
Young's command was stationed for
some time after the surrender of Lees
army.
Because of their uniformly courteous
treatment of their late enemies, Col
Young and his officers soon came to
be very popular with the Southern
ers, and all the weeks they remained
in Lynchburg they received numerous
invitations to dine with this, that or
the other Virginia gentlemen.
After the first invitation reached
headquarters, the officers spent many
anxious hours over their toilets, for
they had been given to understand that
a bevy of Virginia bellies would help
entertain them. So, when they ar
rived at the plantation, they were as
respondent as soldiers who had had
no new uniforms for over year could
be.
Everything went smoothly enough
until it came time for the old-fashion-
ed negro mattresses to serve the corn
bread. According to ancient usage the
bread was brought in in the big pans
in which it had been baked, and it had
been cut down the center and twice
across, leaving the bread in what
hungry boy would call huge breaks"
Col. Young was the first to be served.
He calmly lifted a square of corn
bread, presenting a bronzed surface of
about thirty-six square inches from
out the pan and placed it beside his
plate. The next officer followed suit
Virginia bellies and the gentlemen
broadened despite strenuous efforts to
repress merriment. and the servants
showed their CONSERVATION as they
rushed about replenishing the empty
pans.
Then a Virginia-born was reached.
Daintily she reached out and broke off
corner of one of the big squares. An
other Virginian did the same, and then
oh =
from as many Yankee officers as light
broke in on them. After that there
! were peals upon peals of merry laugh
| ter, and after that, also, when Col
| Young and his staff dned out and the
| corn bread was passed around, heavy
piushes would mount to the officers
foreheads as they carefully broke off
corners of the big, brown squares.
Charles T. Yerkes, the man who has
lately been getting the better of ] /.
Pierrepont Morgan in London enter
| prises, one day CHANGED to pass a ia
| NOUS Fifth avenue art store. In the
| window was a magnificent picture by
| Corde, a great French artist. Mr.
Yerkes, who was not known in the
store, stepped in and carefully exam
ined the picture, fully satisfying him
self that it was genuine. He inquired
the price. The dealer announced that
1t was $4,000, rather expecting the
stranger to be somewhat staggered by
the sum.
CAN right" said Mr.. Yerkes please
wrap it up I'll take it with me. Take
the frame off. I don't like the frame"
The dealer at first could scarcely be-
lieve his ears, but when Mr.. YerKes
proceeded to count out the money he
a fd
bid.
The precious picture made a pack
age about eighteen inches wide and
two feet long. and Mr. Yerkes, putting
1t under his arm, marched off with il.
That night he returned to Chicago.
putting the package in charge of the
sleeping car porter with a mere.
Please be careful of that package.
You'd better lock it up in your linen
closet"
When he got to Chicago he again
took the valuable picture under his
arm and went off jauntily to business.
During the day he took il to a frame
maker, had it framed to suit him and
sent home as a little gift to his wife,
The story of Andrew Carnegie's ex-
traordinary photograph album, in
which he has, or will have, fine pho
tographs of each Carnegie library
showing first the site, then two photo
graphs of the building in process of
construction, one of it when completed
and the fifth of it on opening day, has
been told. But here is another along
the same line which, think. is new.
At MIR. Carnegie's castle in Scotland
he has models of all those libraries
pretty little models, none of them
more than eighteen inches high, A
Scotch dissenting minister went one
day to see Mr.. Carnegie during the
latter's stay at Ekibo Castle. The
minister had gone to ask for money,
but while he understood the great
philanthropist's generosity, he evident
ly knew little about it's details. After
Mr.. Carnegie had learned about his
errand the ironmaster settled the mat
ter in one way or another. and then
asked the minister If he would not like
to see the models of the Carnegie
libraries. The minister said he would.
although close glance at his face
would probably have shown that he
did not exactly know what Mr.. Car
negie was talking about. So Mr. Car