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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

graduates of the white colleges are
failures.
1t seems to us that farming offers
the best field of endeavor for negroes.
All over the South land is cheap. Me-
groes can get land now at low prices
out of which to make farms, and
they can make their farms exceedingly
valuab BILE. They have an opportunity
in farming for improving their mate
rial condition possessed by the toiling
masses of no other country. There is
nothing for them in the professions
and will not be until their people be-
come possessed of a great deal more
property than they now have, and
until they have as much confidence in
professional men of their own color
as they have in white professional
men. In the macKanic arts they are
sure to meet with strong opposition
in the very near future. In the North
they have been driven out of all of
the trades and pretty nearly all Of
the occupations. They have been SUI
perseded by the cheaper toilers of
happen in the South in the course of
time. The chances of the negro farm
er being interfered with, however, in
the near future are not very great.
Graduates of the Georgia Industrial
College have as fine an opportunity
as they could desire right here in
this county to make homes and ac-
cumulate comfortable little fortunes.
There are tens of thousands of acres
of unOccupied land within the coun-
ty limits awaiting tenants, and this
city affords a market for much that
could be produced on the lands of the
county. Now meats, dairy products
and poultry are brought here from the
West. There is no reason why these
things should not be produced right
here at home.
The negro would lose nothing by
dropping politics and giving his entire
attention to industrial matters. I'm
doubtedly his political interests would
be cared for, and it is certain that
If he pursues this course the race prob
lem will be less in evidence.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
CURRENT COMMENT.

The Richmond mes-Dispatch
(Dem.) says: Col William J. Bryan
is turning an honest dollar this week
by serving on jury in a suit in which
widow is the plaintiff and life in
surance company the defendant The
colonel was asked If he was capable of
giving an impartial decision in cause
of this character, where a woman was
on one side and a corporation on the
other. He said he thought he could"
The New Orleans Picayune Dem.)
says: Labor unions have come to
stay, but they must be put under the
obligation as we'll as the protection of
the law. They are composed of repu-
table citizens, who are ready to take
advantage. of all the benefits the law
gives them over the corporations that
employ them, and they should be will
ing also to respond to their legal du-
ties and responsibilities. AS to ques-
lions of wages and hours they depend
on conditions which must be severally
taken into consideration, but in every
case there should be due regard to
equity and Justice
The Chicago Chronicle Dem.) says:
y. Pierpont Morgan has bought in
Europe works of art which cost him
$4,000 900. Hea has stored this i'm
mensely valuable property where he
bought it because he objects to paying
the tariff on the goods If they were
brought to this country. The tariff on
paintings and marble statuary Is 20
per cent. On books the tariff is 25 per
cent. On furniture. art works. curios
antiques, relics, bronzes and many
things included in Mr. Morgan's val
uables the tariff is as high as from So
10 so per cent. The total amount of
duties on his $1,000, 900 invoice is about
SS'OO0Oo0, an average OF AZ per cent
The tariff on clothing, carpets, wool
and wooden products, glass and earth
enware. cotton goods tin plate, iron
and steel products and food articles
ranges from 80 to more than 100 per
cent. on $1,000. 900 worth OF the neces-,
saries OF life the total amount OF du-
ties would be not less than 81. 900 900
and might exceed the purchase price
Of the property. Is there any reason
Why the sum Of S30O0.OO0 in duties
owned by man worth 800, OOO. 900
should be related while the people are
compelled 20 pay a much greater sum
~ duties on the same value ~ the nee.
essaries - life imported IN the same
ships under the same tariI laws7"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
WAR CLAIMS AND LOBBYISTS.

few days go we called attention
to a big fee which a Kentucky lawyer
had received for collecting from the
government claim growing out of the
Civil War, the fee amounting to some
thing like $1,000, coo. 1t is said that a
Connecticut lawyer named Fesenden
has just been paid fee of nearly $780,
900 for collecting a Civil War claim for
that state.
The question which presents itself
in connection with these claims is,
will the Senate feel agrieved be-
cause agents were employed to col
lect them-agents who were given con-
tracts before they entered upon their
work? This question is asked because
of the attitude assumed by the Senate
when ii became known that the Book
Concern of the Methodist Church,
South, had paid about 80 per cent. of
its war claim for having it collected.
The whole country knows about that
scandal, and unless we are mistaken
the matter is not entirely settled yet
as far as the church is concerned. The
work that was performed by the Ken
lucky and Connecticut lawyers for
their respective states was precisely
the same as that performed by the
agent that collected the claim of the
Methodist Book Concern. 1t is proba-
BILE that the kind of lobbying done in
one case was not different from that
done in another. 1t consisted of keep
ing the cases before the proper COM
mittees and in calling the attention of
committeeman to the merits of them.
Probabl certain members of the Sem
ate and House were urged to push the
claims along.
If there had been no agents behind
these claims it is a safe statement that
they would not have been paid yet. In
the hurry and confusion of business in
Congress only those matters receive
attention which are steadily pressed on
the attention of members. The greater
part of the lobbying-the lobbying in
behalf of claims-is simply efforts to
keep claims on the route that leads
through the Senate and the House
There ought to be tribunal to pass
upon all claims made against the
government. Then they would be
investigated and paid with more
promptness. Under the present system
payment of meritorious claims is de-
layed for years, and there are claims
paid in which there is a large per cent.
of fraud. There ought to be a radical
reform in the matter of claims pre-
scented to Congress.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
LeO's Last Prayer.

AS part of his own contribution to
the celebration of his 93rd birthday
and the twenty-fifth anniversary of
his election as Pope, Leo XIII wrote
a Latin poem, which has been trans
lated by DIR. William H. Ward for the
current number of The Independent. 1t
is explained that no attempt has been
made TO follow the meter of the origi-
nal. The translation follows:
Leo. now sets thy sun; pale is it's dy-
ing ray;
Black night succeeds thy day.
Black night for thee; wasted thy
frame; life's flood sustains
No more thy shrunken veins.
Death casts his fatal dart: robed for
the grave thy bones
Lie under the cold stones.
But my freed soul escapes her chains,
and longs in flight
To reach the realms of light.
That is the goal she seeks; thither her
journey fares;
Grant, Lord, my anxious prayers.
That, with the citizens of Heaven.
Gods face and light
May ever%thrill my sight;
That | may see thy face, Heavens
Queen, whose Mother love
Has brought me home above.
To thee, saved through the tangles OF
a perilous way,
I lift my grateful lay
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
INDEX TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Landrum Lodge, No. As.
F. & A. M.
Special Notice-Insurance, Geo. s.
Haines
Shop Wisely for Your Spring Suit
r. H. Levy & Bro
They Are Worth More-M. Wilensky.
We Are Ready for Great Savannah
VIM. & H. H. baltimore.
Pure Food in Cans-The Delmonico
Co.
Now Comes the Time to Prepare-Al-
len Bros.
Pianos-McArthur & Sons Co.
Savannah Theater-"Foxy CUTLER"
Tomorrow Matinee and Night.
Oficial-Proceedings of Council.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Foods-Presto.
Medical-Paracamph; Cuticura Cas-
carets; Hyomei; Vinol; Mulrs Grape
Tonic; Doans Kidney Pills.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted; Employment Wanted: For
Rent; For Sale: Lost; Personal: Mis-
cellaneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
4az&o
PERSONAL.

--Zola was generally believed to be
worth about 100000 in cash when ne
died, but it now seems that he was al
most dependent upon his royalties.
Mime. lola has sold nearly all his
property, and from investment of the
proceeds will have an income of about
$500 a year. Friends of the deceased
writer are at a loss to understand what
he did with his money.
Mime. Scuba Weinberg, the sister
of Rubinstein. the composer, who died
a few days ago in St. Petersburg, was,
like many of the members of her fam
ilys a talented musician. Her devo-
ton to her family only prevented her
from becoming a professional singer.
The only member of the Rubinsteins
living is Miss Josephine Rubinstein,
who is a teacher of singing in st.
Petersburg
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
In an Impenetrable Forest.

How do you know this man was
drunk?" Numbered the magistrate to
the policeman who had brought in a
dilapidated prisoner, says the New
York Press. Your honor" replied the
officer, Il seen him run up against a
lamppost and fall back, then run up
against it again and fall back, then
third and fourth time and fall back.
Then he made a much harder run,
struck his chest against it and dropped
fat on his back on the sidewalk. Then,
your honor, 1 crossed the street to pick
him up, and as l was about to take
hold of him he said to me, your honor:
1t amt no-no use; S impenetrable
forest "
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Sometimes Sits on ThOrns.

A New York woman and her daugh-
ter of seven were presented to the
President the other day, says the
Washington Post. The little girl, who
has considerable imagination, had just
been reading, Alice in Wonderland"
and after the introduction she said:
Mr.. President, do you sit on a
thorn?'
What is that, my child? 1 don't
think I understand you"
II mean, do you sit on a thorn?"
The little girls mother. with visible
embarra ssment, explained: II think
she means to ask you if you sit on a
throne"
The President laughed heartily as he
caught the point.
f''My DEAR" he said, Il do not sit on
a thorne, but do sit on many thorns."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
Fun!

1t was in the restaurant ar tbA
Sportsmen's Show in New York. saws
the Forest and Stream. Smoke from
three post-prandial cigars curled above
the small coffees. Archer, the still-lffe
and wild game artist; Brown, who
writes about angling, and Bristol, the
insurance man who has fished from
Idaho to Labrador, were swapping
yarns.
Slept in the snow at Jackson's Hole.
Wyoming; like it better than British
Columbia" drawled the artist.
Slept in the water on a mesh be-
side Bottom Brook, in Newfoundland /"
added Brown.
That's nothin'!" chirped Bristol.
Listen. When l lived in st. Paul T
went a-fishing with three members of
the Minnesota Four Hundred. II was
after shutdown when we arrived at a
railroad station sixty miles in the
woods; but the smart members of our
party knew the way to the lake and
our camp, which had already been es-
tablished by guide, who waited there
We hired the one two-seated wagon
in all that region, and started. The
smart fellow chose the wrong fork in
the road, four miles out. We drove
until II O'Clock, flushed a log shack {,
POuAiuOO Oh Inc QOOT, ana asked for
beds.
Been a cleanin' UP an no beds
fixed growled the frowsy owner of
the house. Keep on this road an
youn strike the county poorhouse
Only three miles,
We reached the poorhouse after
midnight. The overseer swore at ms for
waking him.
" This amt no hotel paupers live
here, an we're just a-runnin' Overt
But If We wanter stay in our ole harm
mebbe We kin lose Their muskeetersl'
We Embarrassed and hitched the
horses to a tree, and went to had
Found two bins OF oats and laid down
on them The smart driver removed
MS SHOES. and the mosquitoes held n
mass meeting around his feet Finally
a foraging rat nipped him and he SAT
up. II was pitch dark; he could hear
the rats running sbout. and the snores
ed. sth-
And they call this fun"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

discussed and explained, the less it APP
pears to be a sweeping measure of re-
form. At first it had the appearance
Of extending a measure of religious
liberty to about all of the Cars sub
it has been learned by a Jewish news
paper of New York that the edict does
not include the Jews, and that their
condition under the law remains pre-
cisely as before. The probabilities are
that Nicholas is not permitted to make
his reforms as broad as he would like,
because comprehensive reforms would
weaken the bureaucracy that governs
the Russian empire.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
A compromi.e Suggested.

Your daughter" said the physician
who had been summoned to the home
of the O'Tunders on st. Patricks day,
according to Judge; your daughter is
suffering from a severe form of dys-
pepsia. You should give her small
doses of tincture of yellow-root ana
let her eat nothing but oranges for a
short while"
Doctor" asked O'Tunder, while
beads of anguish appeared on his
brow, "Oi'll shtand fer tn yellow-root;
but, sa-ay, fer this wan day at Taste
can't we give her Crane oranges?"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Six negro vaudeville performers ap-
peared at Home City, Kan, the other
night. After their performance a mob
of white men attacked them. The ne
groes were billed to appear at neigh
boring town the next night, but the
Home City mob warned them not 20
do so, saying they would be followed
there and roughly handled. The play
ers therefore went to Marysville, where
they purposed giving an entertainment
But they were not permitted by the
citizens of that place to stop even long
enough to get bite to eat. All of this,
be it remembered. was in Kansas, the
state of "Osawatomie John Brown"
The Kansans are strenuous in their de-
mand that the negro shall haze his
"rights"-in Mississippi!
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

A sensation has been created in Ma
sonic circles in New York city by the
discovery that "Shang" Draper, the ex-
bank burglar, gambler and reputed col
lector of police graft" in the Tender
loin district, was recently admitted to
membership in Doric Lodge of that
city The grand master of the state
has ordered an investigation of the af-
fair, meanwhile suspending the char
ter of the lodge. 1t is regarded as GER
tain that not only Draper. but every
person who had any connection with
his admission to membership, win be
expelled from the order.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

IF the trustees would permit me to
pay for it, 1 shall be very grateful in
deed. Andrew Carnegie" 1t was stated
the other day that Mr.. Carnegie had
announced that he would give $4,000
a year in support of "a movement to
reform and correct abuses in speaking
and writing English"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

The relatively close vote in the
French Chamber on Wednesday on
report concerning the new law OF as
sociations-5OO to 257--means that while
the governments position has been sus-
tanned, the end OF the matter has not
been reached. There are signs OF
revulsion OF feeling in the country In
tayor ~ the religious orders whose in
sutuiions have been closed by the OBJ
'rations of the law Should this reac.
non W far enough Il would mean serf-
Gus embarrassment 10 the government
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Mayor Carter Harrison of Chicago,
who has been nominated by the Demo-
Gratis for a fourth term as the city's
chief executive, has as one of the prin-
cipal planks of his platform the munic-
ipal ownership of the street railways
This demand is said to have become
quite popular in Chicago.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

A young man from Chicago visiting
in New Orleans the other day endeav-
ored to flirt with the two daughters
of a washerwoman. The mother of the
girls told the police, and the Chicago
young man quickly ascertained that
there was a law of the town against
flirting. His goo-goo eyes and his toss
ed kisses cost him SIS. 1t isn't always
safe to try Chicago manners in the
SnlIth
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
BRIGHT BITS.

-Bacon-"Our cook used kerosene
on the kitchen fire, this morning" Egg
bert-'With what result? 2" "She rose
to the sion.''-Yonkers Statesman
Little Girl-"Does your mother tell
your father to spank you when you
misbehave?" Little Boy - Nope:
mothers an independent operator!'-
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

There are certain faint whisperings
in South Carolina suggesting the pos
sibi1ity of the candidacy of Gov. Hey
ward to succeed Senator Tillman. They
are premature, and may work the
worthy young Governor injury.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

A patrolman of the New York police
force was recommended the other day
for retirement on the ground of "obe-
sity contracted in the line of duty"
This policeman, who had acquired ex-
cessive flesh lin the line of duty" was
John Eagan, known about his post as
DE fat cop of de fish tee-atre," other
wise the aquarium.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

1T would be just as easy to bottle
a March blizzard as to prevent the
sending of a Roosevelt delegation from
this state to the next National Repub-
ican Convention" says National Com
mitteeman G. f. Pexton of Wyoming.
That phrase ought to be worth a con-
sulship. or a postoffice. or something
equally as good.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

The American people are not fond
of long official titles, therefore it is
to be expected that the Secretary of
Commerce and Labor will soon be cur
tailed, condensed or otherwise short
ened. "a.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

Prof. B. f. Bailey. of the University
of Michigan. announces that he has
made discovery which robs electric
ity of its danger to animal life. The
electric current which kills convicted
murderers at Sing Sing prison is 1900
volts. Prof. Bailey demonstrated, on
his own person and on those of two
students. that the human system was
capable of sustaining $4,000 volts with
out inconvenience. The ordinary cur
rent alternates at about the rate of
125,000 to $4,000 times per second. Prof.
Bailey makes a current which alter
mates 435,OOO times per second, and it
is this high alienation which robs the
current of its danger. His theory is
that because of the great rapidly of
the alterations, the current has no
time for deadly effect" In his dem
onstration two students swung between,
them an arc lamp, each grasping a
naked wire connected with it, then
with their hands they grasped the
naked wires connected with the gen.
orator. The lamp glowed brilliantly
and the voltmeter registered 100000
volts, indicating the strength of the
current that was passing through the
bodies of both of the young men. Prof.
Bailey then grasped the ends of the
naked wires in his own hands and per-
mitted the full force of the current to
course through his own body.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

1t isn't often that a piece of news
finds its way into the Congressional
Directory, yet through that medium
an interesting bit of political news has
Just reached the public. Senator
spooner of Wisconsin says, in his BIZ
ographical sketch, that when secre-
tary Bliss retired from the cabinet
President Mckinley offered him the
Interior portfolio. and that when At.
torney General Griggs retired. Presi-
aent Mckinley offered him the va
cancy thus created President McKin-
icy also offered him a place on the
JOINT High Canadian Commission.
which Was declined. Thus Mr. spoon
eff preference for the senate IL en-
phasized.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

In Paris a law has been adopted for
bidding the putting of rags or paper
on the streets, for the reason that
they harhor and distribute disease
germs
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for
rain, with fresh east to southeast
winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

First New York Girl-"Is your ae-
auaintanee with Jack OF long stand
hk second Ditto-"Yes. rode IN
ward Lampoon.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

The itinerary of President Roosa-
velts trip, which is to begin April l,
VIII take him over 1883 miles in
twenty-five states and territories. The
time marked out to be consumed is
sixty-siX days. 1t begins to look as if
Mr.. Roosevelt had determined to make
his administration notable. among
other things, for the number of miles
Travelled by him while President.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

The recent strike in Columbia, it is
stated, was started by outside par
ties recently arrived here" That is
frequently the way labor troubles are
brought about. "Outside parties, who
have everything to gain and moth
ing whatever to lose by agi-
tation, foment dissatisfaction among
the home" element of work.
ers, who have wives and children
dependent upon them, and cause them
to quit jobs with which they
were satisfied. The outside parties"
sometimes become temporarily in the
majority, when they out-vote the
home" workers and order strikes with
which the home workers have no
sympathy.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20

(Dr. c. Bouvier's) The widest
known and most sought, for kid
ney and kindred troubles.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-03-20
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