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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09

A great many young men and young
women complain that no opportunities
come to them to get ahead in the world
Like Mr.. Micawber, they wait for
nothing turns of its own accord they
blame fortune and everything else but
themselves. 1t never occurs to them
that there is such thing as making
opportunities. Hundreds of thousands
of dollars worth of merchandise of va
rious kinds is sold on the streets of
the cities every day. The founder of
the street peddling business died in
New York some time ago very rich
man. He began business in New York
on a borrowed capital of So, with which
he purchased a dozen pocket knives.
Going into the streets where the crowds
were thickest he called out his wares
In a short time he had sold out his
stock at 100 per cent. profit. He re-
invested in more pocket knives, and
again quickly sold out. From this he
learned the valuable lesson that there
were many would-be purchasers on the
streets who would buy if the wares
were polSed under their noses and their
attention called to them. Many people
are too busy or too forgetful to go to
store for small articles they want
This street merchant, who made his
opportunity, amassed a great fortune
before he died.
In Boston there is a young woman
who is a prosperous manufacturer of
fine neckwear for men who made her
opportunity in pretty much the same
manner as the man referred to above
With few dollars capital. but with
an abundance of pluck, good sense and
perseverance, she bought a small stock
of fine neckties. These she took INTO
the financial district, where there We're
men who could afford to wear fine ties.
The sales We're prompt. The men want
ed the ties. which had been selected
with excellent judgment, and were de-
lighted to have them brought to them
instead of having to go themselves TO
the shops and select them. Her profit
on the first lot was $24. She saw there
was money in the business and resolY-
ed to follow it up. Within four months
she had cleared $1,000. The young
woman thereupon determined to go per-
manently into the necktie business, so
she went into factory and learned
how to make ties. Having acquired
that knowledge, she set up little shop
of her own and became a necktie man
ufacturer as we'll as merchant. Now
she is conducting a flourishing business
and is getting rich. She made her OPP
portunity; good luck did not send it to
her. .
The two incidents cited should be a
valuable lesson to those who have
the capacity to do" but who wait
for something to turn UP. The per-
son who is most apt to succeed is he
or she who seeks, or makes an oppor-
tunity, instead of waiting for the OPP
portuity to do the seeking. The posi-
bilities in opportunities are far from
exhausted.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09

The President is telling the people of
the West that the protective principle
in the tariff is to protect American
products from foreign competition.
Among the most highly protected ar
ticles are those which are produced by
our iron and steel mills. Yesterday
we published the annual report of the
United States Steel Corporation. better
known as the billion dollar trust. From
that report it appears that the net
profits of the trust for the last year
were $133. 3OS,764.
In order to earn such a sum the
profits must have been enormous. And
why was the trust able to charge such
high prices? Was it not because of
the protection it received from the tar
if? With a lower tariff prices Of
structural steel would be much lower.
They would have to be lower in order
to prevent importations of steel prod
ucts. With a lower tariff, therefore,
the building industry wouldn't be par
alyzed by high prices.
And the high prices of materials
have no doubt induced labor to de-
mand higher wages and shorter hours,
each meaning, of course, an increase
in the cost of a building.
Prices of both labor and material will
have to be reduced if activity in build
ing is to continue. The billion dollar
steel trust is likely to soon be with
out enough orders to keep its mills
busy if it insists upon prices that will
yield it a net profit per annum of more
than $13S,OOO,O 900.
The present tariff, therefore, instead
of proving itself a good thing for the
country, is likely to lead to disaster,
because if building is checked a very
large number of people will be thrown
out of employment. Idleness in one
industry is likely to be followed by
idleness in others. There is limit to
high prices, and that limit seems to
have been reached, if not passed, in the
building industry.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Norfolk Landmark Dem) says:
Mr.. Roosevelt's long drawn harangue
about dealing with the trust question
may be reduced to this: Go slowly"
If that is what is needed, nobody can
do better than the present administra-
ton"
The Philadelphia Record (Dem)
says: Temperance is now moving
forward on well approved lines There
is a falling off in the effort to curb
the drink habit by prohibitory laws
and a resort to other forms of re-
straint-especially heavy taxation of
the taffic and local option. The APP
petite for drink cannot be abated by
law, but the temptation to engage in
ministering to the appetite can be
greatly lessened by making such en-
ployment expensive at the outstart
and making the dealer responsible for
injury resulting from the abuse of his
privilege"
The Richmond Times-Dispatch
Oem.) says: "One of the best signs
of the times is that Northern men
are disposed to open their eyes and
the negro problem as it is. Southern
ers are glad that slavery is a thing
of the past. 1t was a curse to the
whites, but it was in many respects
a blessing to the blacks. 1t was just
the training that the negro race need
ed, and if the negro youth of the day
could have the same sort of training,
without slavery, and with a little book
learning thrown in, the negro problem
would soon be solved. The training
that the negro needs is in obedience, in
manners, in morals and in industrial
pursuits. That sort of education would
be a blessing indeed to the race"
The Charleston Post (Dem.) says:
Or. Parkhurst of New York preach
ed a very good pro-slavery sermon on
Sunday. This is not an age for slav-
cry but if the doctor will amend his
remarks to make them applicable to
the suffrage conditions of the South
he will touch upon a practical and
competent question. He rightly says
that since the negroes are not capable
of being the law for themselves they
were fortunate in days of slavery to
have masters who were the law to
them. And by the same token they
are fortunate now in having the white
man to make and administer the law
for them and to keep them from mis-
chief. All of which is commended to
the mere doctrinaires of whom Presi-
dent Roosevelt spoke contemptuously
in discussing this question IN accepted
doctrinaire style"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
THE MESSAGE OF GOV. JENNINGS.

THE MESSAGE OF GOV. JENNINGS.
The leading features of the message
of Gov. Jennings of Florida to the
Legislature are the states financial
condition, pensions and taxation. 1t
must be gratifying to Floridians to
know that the financial condition of
their state is so good. The states
debt is so small that it is not felt to be
a burden, and the Governor says that
the proceeds from the hire of the state
prisoners for the remaining three years
of the present contract will be sufti-
cient to pay it. He recommends that
that means of paying it be adopted, so
that the people will be relieved from
paying interest.
The tax rate isn't heavy. 1t is only
two and a half mills on the dollar for
the general fund, and it is expected
that it will be reduced in the near
future.
The pension system seems to be get
ting little burdensOme. The one mill
tax for that purpose does not yield
enough to meet the demand upon it,
and the pension roll is steadily grow
ing. The number of pensioners in 1901
was 75S. Last year it was 1,S43, and Is
steadily increasing. The tax yields less
than $l00000 and the expenditures at
the present time is nearly $4,000 a
year. 1t has become necessary to in
crease the pension tax, and the Gov
ernor recommends that it be made two
mills on the dollar.
The Governor wants a board of
equalization to equalize and determine
the value of real estate in the different
coun ties. No doubt such a board would
result in much good, for the reason
that. there is great inequality in the
assessment of real estate, the asses
ment in some counties being much
than in others. And he recommends
the taxation of franchises. 1t is doubt
full if franchises are as yet very valu-
able in Florida-that is, railroad
franchises, but no doubt they have
some value. Many of the roads had
pretty hard time OF IL AFTER the DE-
struction of the orange groves until the
discovery of phosphate, but the vol
ume of the states products have in
creased wonderfully within the last
two or three years, and if the fran
chises are not of much value just now
they will be before very long.
The message is a carefully prepared
document. 1t contains great deal of
information about the states affairs
that it is necessary for the Legisla-
ture to have and the recommendations
appear to be wise ones.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
Personal.

Tho statement made in the papers
that Herr Kubelik's fiancee, Marianne
Csaky Sell. is the niece of the Hun
garian prime minister is a mistake.
The young lady is merely the name
sake of Minister Sells niece, who,
when only II years old, married
Hungarian hussar officer But the mar
riage was dissolved soon afterward.
The two ladies live in the same town.
1t is announced that Maurice Mae
terlinck, the gifted Belgian author, will
visit the United States during the
coming summer, accompanied by his
almost equally celebrated bride, Georg-
cite Leblanc, the singer and actress.
Maeterlinck does not confine his study
TO literature. He is a good deal of a
philosopher. knowing Emerson about
as thoroughly as any other living man,
and has devoted great deal of atten-
ton to bee life and the management
of apiaries."
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09

Some years back there was a very
dignif1ed old fellow elected justice of
the peace in one of the townships of
Berks county says the Philadelphia
Ledger. The elevation caused him to
look for a certain degree of Difference
on the part of all with whom he came
in contact, and at any shortcomings in
this respect he would show marked
irritation. Once while walking along
his dignity was ruffled by one of a
group of boys addressing him rather
Familiarity.
Young man, I fine you s. for con-
tempt of court said the provoked
justice.
But, Judge, the court is not in ses-
SION" interposed the youth.
This court is always in session, ="
said the other emphatically land con-
sequertly always an object of con-
tempt"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09

Nothing is more curious than the
different ideas people have about ow-
ing the doctor" remarked a good look
ing, middle-aged physician, according
to the Detroit Free Press. Only to-
day 1 encountered two singular mani
festatiOns of what might be called 'su-
perstitionS' concerning sickness. At one
house the lady who was in bed muir
INJURED to her husband:
John, pay the doctor before lie
goes; you Know how 1 feel about that
l am always sick longer if we let a
doctors bill run on
Although l ridiculed the idea, the
sick woman persisted, and the little
debt was discharged on the spot. In
the evening a highly nervous lady of
cheerful spirits-a businesswoman--
came busting into my office and ejac-
ulated:
oh, doctor, give me something for
fits quick. I'm dreadfully run down.
/ hear doorbells ring when they don't
ring, and l see black cats out of the
corners of my eye when there are no
cats of any kind in the house.
Il made out some sedative powders,
and when 1 handed them to the excit-
able patient she said:
" I'm not going to pay for this medi-
cine, doctor I've always noticed that
when 1 don't owe you anything I'm
sure to get sick. While 1 have a little
debt hanging over me l feel that
can't afford to collapse until it is paid.
You needn't laugh, doctor; it is so.
I'm going to make a little bill, now,
and see if 1 can't get rid of doorbells
in my head and black cats in my optic
nerve
These are only specimen instances
concluded the doctor. THE world is
full of people who have queer super
stitions about taking medicine, and
paying doctors bills"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
iNDE1 IL NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Georgia Division, Travel
ers' Protective Association; Zerubba-
bel Lodge No. Is, F. and A. M.
Special Notices-Better Than Ever,
c. D. Kenny Co.
Business Notices-Bartlett Pears, A.
M. & c. w. West.
Auction Sales-Executor Sale, by l.
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The Mathushek Piano-Lidden &
Bates S. NJ. H.
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Mems Easter Suits-The Metropoli-
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What Is Your Future-Savannah In
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Special Sale White Mercerized Ma
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They Are Carried All over the World
EWaltham Watches.
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Come Up Where You Belong--Grape-
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Proposals Wanted-For Copper Wire
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Quarantine Station, Ga
Chicago Glee Club, at
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Silverware-Th Gorham Co.
Foods-Force; Grape-Nuts.
Beer-Schlitz Brewing Company.
Medical-Pinkham Remedy; Wine of
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Cheap Column Advertisements-Help
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
49,
BRIGHT BITS.

White: Have you heard about
Harry's scrape? He has got to pay
Miss Nipper $4,000 for breach of prom
Use.
Gray: And yet they say talk is cheap.
Boston Transcript.
-Beatrice: So Ethel has refused to
elope with Clarence? What is the
trouble?
Agnes: oh! I really don't know
She is mad with her father about
something, 1 suppose!-Puck
u think auntie is very inconsist-
ent," said the fearful bright boy.
"Why?" asked his mother.
Because she called me a young
heather, but she never makes the other
children save up their pennies and send
them to me. Washington Star.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
is DRUNKENNESS ON THE IN
CHEASEs

Rev. DIR. L. A. Banks, rector of Grace
Methodist Church, New York city, told
the New York Conference in Pough-
keepsie last Sunday that drunkenness
was alarmingly on the increase among
women of the better class in the cities.
Among other things he said: 81 know
what women in New York do in the
way of drinking. Drinking among
women has come to be a matter of in
difference nowadays. 1t is prevalent
among our more respectable classes. 1t
has progressed so far that we read
every day of our rich women recuper-
ating at sanitariums. Their poorer sis
tiers must have recourse to alcoholic
wards in public hospitals. The re-
cords show it, Cocktails, of whiskey
are lowering the respectable level of
the women of the middle class. They
take the place of the champagne and
hot wines among the rich. So
ciologically considered, the women
of to-day are like a gigantic pie.
The crust, the Four Hundred. is steep
ed in champagne; the bottom layer is
soggy with beer; the middle is whiskey
cocktails"
Does DIR. Banks know what he is
talking about? Is he sure that what
he states is correct? There is no
evidence of drunkenness to be seen on
the streets. Still, it doesn't follow that
there is none because there is no
visible evidence of it on the streets and
in the restaurants.
Those who can remember as far back
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
THE MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS.

No conclusion can be drawn from
the result of the municipal elections
which have been held this week as to
whether there are noticeable changes
from one of the great political parties
to the other. In about all of the cities
there were local issues which caused
the voters to disregard party lines. In
three great cities of the Middle West
Chicago, Cleveland and St. Louis, the
Democrats were victorious, Mayor
Harrison of Chicago being elected for
the fourth time. In that city matters
pertaining to the street railways were
the issues. In Cincinnati the Republic
cans elected the Mayor, and in a num-
Der of other of the larger cities they
were successful. In Ohio thirty cities
went Democratic and thirty Republl-
can. In Kansas the liquor question
was the issue in a number of the
cities as it was also in Nebraska
towns.
There was more real politics in the
elections in Ohio towns than in those
of other states. For instance, 1t was
understood that Ingalls,.
Democratic candidate for Mayor in
Cincinnati, is expected to be a candi-
date for United States Senator against
Senator Hanna, and it is announced
that Tom Johnson's success in Cleve-
land. he having been reelected Mayor
of that city. makes him prominent as
a candidate for the Democratic nomi-
nation of Ohio for Governor.
In all of the municipal elections, it
appears from the accounts, in the dis
patches, there was lively interest
manifested, showing that the people
are thinking about matters that
touch them closely.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
"AIIee samee white Man"

A city employee tells the story of an
offieeholder who was one of party
that attended the funeral of a China
man on a recent Sunday, says Spare
Moments. He took great deal of in
terest in the queer service at the
grave, and noticed that, among other
things, a roasted duck was left there
by the departing mouners.
Calling one of the "Chinks" aside, he
asked:
"Why do you leave that duck on the
grave? Do you think the dead man
will come out and eat it?"
"Yeppee," replied the Boxer sympa-
thizer; "allee samee as lie whitee
deadee man come outee and smellee
f1oWerSI"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
A Song of the New South.

From Success.
A song of the South in new glory
fronting day that is bright;
The shadows fall back from her fore
head; she stands in the light! the
light
She heard, in the tempest's wild warn
ing, the prophets that prated of
doom,
But Jared, with her face to the morn
ing, to starred nights of beauty
and bloom.
To beautiful valleys enchanted, she
passed from the thrall of the
night;
BY the dust of her grave, all undaunt-
ed, she lifted her brows to the
light;
On seas of the thundercloud riven,
and tossed of the wind and the
foam,
She saw, where the black wrecks were
driven, the glimmering shoreline
of home.
She stands, with fair Faith for her
helmet, in the strength Of high
purpose and trust;
Dead hopes to the dead past forever,
and the red sword of Hate to the
rust,
Strong sinewed, answering and loyal,
she fearlessly faces the years;
In the white path of Peace and of Pro-
gress Ger landway and seaway
she fares.
From her fields in the Towering val
leys, all strifes and all discords
retreat;
The summers sing to her; the har-
vests reel golden and rich at her
feet.
Whittier risen from the wrath and and
ruin, an autumn exultingly swells
The dream is the deed as she listens
to the chime of the liberty bells.
Onward! to highest endeavor, crowned
of the sisterly states;
Onward! and. faltering never-the
world at her welcoming gates!
Onward! in grace and in glory-veil-
ing the past and it's scars
Onward! till splendid her story is writ
in the roll of the stars.
Frank L. Stanton.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09

A man was taken on as a laborer
in one of the large shipbuilding yards
on the Clyde, says Tit Bits. The first
job he had to do was to carry some
rather heavy planks. He had been
about an hour carrying them, when
he went up to the foreman and said:
Did all tell you ma name whin ah
started?"
AYE" said the foreman. you said
it was Tamson."
"Oh, that's a right" replied the man,
looking over at the pile of planks he
had yet to carry. "Ah wis wunnerin'
if you thocht ah said it wis Samson"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
THE TRAVELLING MEMS CONVEN-
TION,

Savannah extends a cordial, hearty
welcome to those energetic, entertain
ing and always progressive gentlemen,
the members of the Travellers Protsc-
tive Association, who meet in conven-
ton in the theater this morning. Dur
ing the continuance of the meeting
1.-The Drummers" will be the toast of
everybody; and they are worthy of the
consideration. There is probably no
single class of the citizenship that does
more to maintain public confidence and
push along prosperity than these am
bassadors of trade, who, ever ready with
a good story and bubbling over with
enthusiasm, spread the spirit of their
hopefulness and enterprise wherever
they go. To the good work and good
will of her drummers. Savannah owes
much of her success as d commercial
city; and the same thing is true of the
state. The drummers who go out from
Georgia cities never tire of singing the
praises of the grand old Empire State
of the South. Believing in her i'm
plicitly themselves, they induce others
to think as they do. and thus a healthy
state and civic pride is fostered, to the
advantage of all concerned. Savannah
is greatly pleased to have the drum
mers with her. There is mutual ad-
miration between the city and the
statesmen; and there is a sincere hope
that the meeting to begin this morn
- I,a ,ifNxr,s HI
and profitable ever held under the aus
pieces of the T. p. A. Good luck and
long life to the drummers! .t.''
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-04-09
HIGH PRICES AND BUILDING.

Building is being checked in New
York city and doubtless elsewhere by
the high prices of structural iron and
steel and the high price of labor. In
vestors in real estate are becoming
alarmed at the cost of structures they
had planned, because they cannot see
the profit in them they expected. In
deed, the cost is so great that they can
see no profit in them whatever. There
fore, according to reports. there is a
noticeable decline in the building in
dustry.
1t would be interesting to know to
what extent the present tariff is re-
sponsible for this condition Of affairs.