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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
LATE IN BEGINNING,

The President is showing a great
deal of Indignation at the revelations
made by Representative Fleming rel
alive to the Matchmaking practices of
negro Republican leaders in the Tenth
Congressional District. Is it not rath-
err late for him to make so much ado
about this matter? II it were a new
thing there would be some reason for
his Indignation. but the practices
doubtless have been common for many
years, not only in the Tenth District,
but in all other parts of the South.
The wonder is that the President has
been so long in ignorance of them.
1t is a pretty safe statement that for
many years negro off1ceholders in the
South have been paying large portion
of their salaries to leaders of local
political organizations, and that they
could not have obtained the offices
they hold unless they promised to di-
vide their salaries with these leaders.
1t takes influence to get the offices
and the local organizations, having it,
sell it for all they can get for it.
The President has decided that he
will punish the leaders of these local
organizations, by refusing to give
them any further recognition, and will
place the guilty parties on his black
list, thus making it certain that they
will not benefit in future, in any way.
from federal patronage.
Has not Representative Fleming
been wasting his time and energy in
exposing the Matchmaking practices in
the Tenth District, and is not the Pres
ident taking upon himself an unneces-
sary burden in attempting to put a stop
to the practices which have aroused
his indignation? AS already stated,
the practices have been going on so
long that the leaders of these local or
CARNATIONS look upon the federal pa
tronage as practically belonging to
them, and the emoluments arising
therefrom as theirs, to do with as they
please. The President may put them
Gin his blacklist, or threaten them with
the law. but it is safe to say that he
will not bring about a reform. They
will find way to accomplish their OBJ
ject.
The only way a reform can
be effected is to stop appointing
negroes to Office. That course
the President is not likely to adopt.
He thinks he has the foresight to pick
out negroes who are of such a high
type that they will neither be guilty
of the practices of which complaint is
made nor submit to them.
That he will continue to appoint ne
groes to office, Notwithstanding such
revelations as those made by Repre-
sentative Fleming, there is no doubt.
The welfare of the Southern people
and the proper administra ton of the
federal offices in the South are not
matters of so much Importance to him
as the good will of the negro voters
in the doubtful Northern states lie
is looking out for his denomination and
reelection, and he will continue to put
negroes into office. The Southern peo-
pie may protest, but their protests will
do them no good.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
A Willy Passenger.

Many funny incidents happen in the
street cars, and many evidences of
unique ingenuity can be observed
among passengers who adopt all sorts
OF plans to keep the company out of
fare, says the Baltimore News.
The other day--it was in the early
EVENING" man, busy workingman
he seemed, got in a Madison avenue
car and proceeded all the way to the
front, where he snuggled down for
quiet snooze. He had almost passed
into the land of dreams when he sud-
denly sat up, and, fumbling in his vest
pocket for moment, drew out
transfer. This he placed carefully be-
tween his teeth, and then finally
dropped off for the forty winks" of
rest some men seem to think they get
while being carried along in a trolley.
1T would be pity to awake him."
said the conductor, as he paused to
collect his fare, and he quietly drew
from the lips of the slumbering man
the bit of necessary paper OF course,
every passenger was interested in the
incident, and when the destination of
the drowsy passenger was reached he
awoke quite widely, as sleepy riders
somehow have a way of doing, and
pulled himself together to step off The
man next him related the occurrence
to the conductor and the transfer, and
asked him if he was aware of that Of
ficers proximity.
Certainly, my good friend; it was
an old transfer l had had for some
time, and / was only biting off the
date" replied the willy Dormouse as he
swung himself off
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
A CHANCE TO GET RID OF ADJ
DICKS.

The leaders of the Republican party
have been anxious to get rid of Mr..
Addicks of Delaware for long time.
He has a grip on the party in that
state which they have been trying to
shake off. He keeps the Delaware Re-
publcans divided, and the consequence
is that the state has not been repre-
scented in the United States Senate for
two or three years. There isn't much
of a chance for electing senator this
winter unless the anti-Addicks wing
of the Republican party of the state
unites with the Democrats and elects
the senators, there being two to be
elected. The Democrats have made the
anti-Addicks Republicans of the Leg
islature fair proposition. 1t is that
they will take the short senatorial
term and give the Republicans the
long one. The Republicans ought to
be satisfied with it and accept it. The
chances are, however. that they will
not. Simply because they have a ma
jority of the Legislature they want
both senator's. They cannot get to-
gether and elect both, and the propo-
sition of the Democrats is, therefore,
a very liberal one. The short term is
for only two years. If the Republicans
don't accept the proposition the under
standing will be that they don't think
so badly of Addicks as they pretend to.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
A Slight Breeze

The man who lived in Canada, says
Judge, opened the store door, and a
gust of wind almost blew out the
lamps.
"Shet it, quick" yelled the store
keeper, making grab for the wrap
ping paper.
The man paused with the door half
open and surveyed the crowd in dis
gusted surprise. Then he carefully
shut the door and took a seat as far
from the crack in the wall as posi-
BILE.
"sho' it's windy said the Town
Marshal. Don't reckon them boats
will try ter git out to-day"
The man eyed him pityingly Call
this windy? Shucks! Why I'D in
Canada folks would say this was so
nigh dead calm that it warn't no use
ter try ter go sailin'. Member one
time-nothin' out of the common up
thar, but you fellers might thing it
so1nethin'-I was helpin' ter build a
house, an long in the evenin' the wind
commenced to git up pretty strong
BY an by it got so strong that us
that was workin' on the side Of the
house that the wind was a BLOWN
aginst couldn't draw back cur ham.
mers aginst it ter hit the nails. an IL
Kept sittin harder. Then 1 thought of
a way. l would just hold a nail where
l wanted it driv', an that blamed wind
was a-blowin' so hard that in less 'en
minute that nail would be driv' plum
up. Got my side of the house finish
ed fore them on the sheltered side
was half DONE"
''1uh!" said the retired whaler
don't call that SIGH a hard wind. The
place to see the wind blow hard is up
in the North Sea. l recalls a little in
cident that took place when l was
second on the Mary Jane bark. when
we was a-winterin up 'mongst the ice
packs. An bears? them foes was lest
materially swarmin' with polar bears.
We had muzzle loadin' guns in them
days. an every blarsted grain of our
powder had got wet in a squall, so we
jest had 20 set an watch them fine
rat bears walk up an look at us sorter
contemptious an then walk off.
'Wa-al, l didn't like that, so one
day when thar was a little more of a
breeze than usual l fill up pocket
with bullets an go for a walk.
In little while I sees a bear right
straight down the wind from me, so 1
takes out bullet an holds it up be-
tween my finger an thumb an then
lets go. That bear dropped dead with
hole plum through him, an went
on huntin' till all my bullets was
gone. We killed more'n a thousand
bears that winter"
Come back an shet that door,~
shouted the storekeeper after the man
who had lived in Canada.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

1t is learned from the Boston Tran
script that the women's clubs of Mas
sachusetts propose to establish mod
Ell school in Georgia, which they will
undertake to maintain for few
years, when it is hoped that it may
invite more extended assistance and
be the forerunner of others having like
ends in view. The Transcript says of
the plan that it can hardly fail to be
a factor in the elimination of child
Ia Dor in the South, to which end the
federated clubs pledged themselves to
work when the great federation meet
ing was held at Los Angeles last May.
It will be interesting to hear further
from this new educational enterprise.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Senator Stewart of Nevada, who is
chairman of Subcommittee that is
investigating the coal situation, says
that somebody is "sandbagging' the
public in the matter of the price of
coal. But, gracious alive, hasn't the
patient public been sandbagged for
years in the matter of prices of all
sorts of commodities; and doesn't the
public seem to enjoy the experience?
If not, the public would rise up and
turn out of power the rascals who
make it possible for the trusts to WELD
their sandbags so successfully.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

According to the reports of the Chi
cago Health Department. there has
been an increase of nearly 20 per cent.
in the number of deaths of persons un-
der years OF age since the first of the
year, as compared with the same pc
Rod last year. There has been even
A greater increase in the death rate of
persons of 90 years or more. It is
stated that fully 2O0. 900 persons in Chi
cago ARE at present suffering from
ailments of a grave character caused
by privation and exposure resulting
from the coal famine" What a terri
Bile indictment of those persons who
are responsible for the coal famine!
And this is the showing of only one
city.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Gov. jerks of Alabama told the Leg
islature some rugged truths in his an
nual message, especially with respect
to mob law and crimes of violence,
Human life is held too cheaply in that
state, as in some other parts of the
country The law is often held in con-
tempt, so that it may almost be said
that no mans life is safe against the
pistol-toter or the mob. "And the
sheriffs can prevent this lawlessness
In most cases." declares Gov. Jelks. Is
IT not true? The sheriff, who is an
elective officer, is too prone to side with
so-called public opinion when there is
danger Of a lynching. With lynchings
and other crimes Of violence it is pre-
cisely as Senator Tillman said with re-
spect to trusts, namely, that the
statute books may be loaded down
with laws, but none of them will do
any good unless they are enforced.
There must be officers of the law who
viii do their sworn duty fearlessiy
before lynch law can be suppressed.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Thirteen million peach trees in
Georgia! What a promise of luscious
ness and delightful juiciness to be en-
joyed next season by all lovers of fine
fruit! And yet 1t has been only a very
few years since Georgia went into the
peach business. Its development has
been most gratifying, and at the same
time profitable. Within the next few
years we expect to see the number of
peach trees more than doubled. There
is still a plenty of room for peach or
chards, and the market for Georgia
peaches is ready made.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Gov. Murphy of New Jersey comes
to the defense of the trusts in his an
nual message to the Legislature. He
says there are few if any real trusts"
and calls the corporation laws of New
Jersey "beneficent." In connection with
this he makes the statement that cor
porations have paid into the state
treasury during the past ten years the
sum Of $1S,000.o00, and that for the last
three years the annual payments have
averaged s2,227,246. The corporation
law is to New Jersey what the pig is
to the Irishman, 'it pays the rent"
and no doubt that is why Gov. Muir
ply thinks so we'll of ii.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

The most egotistical man in Penn
sylvania has just died at Wilkesbarre
He left an estate of $4,000. and a will
directing that all of his property
should be expended in erecting monu-
ment, to stand at the head of his grave,
is to cost $4,000, and the remainder
of the estate is to be used in erecting
four other monuments. one at each cor
ner Of his burial lot. This leaves moth
ing to his family. The will ought to
be broken.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

1t Is announced that Nine. Sarah
Bernhardts memoirs, on which she is
now engaged, will contain all of her
experiences in real and theatrical life"
Gracious! No wonder three volumes
will be required.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

A New York court has just given
verdict for s1,5OO to a man who suffered
the loss Of seven teeth by being struck
in the mouth by street railway con-
ductor. That would fix the legal price
of teeth in New York at about s21429
each
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

The permanent funds of Yale Uni
versity now amount to almost $9,0O0,-
600. The institution received gifts ag-
gregating 100000 during last year.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
COLLINsvILLE LINE.

(Fair Grounds and Dale Ave.)
Beginning at geo a. m, cars leave
Bolton and OFT streets every IS min
utes; returning, cars leave Estill ave-
nue. and Waters road at 6:07 a. m. and
every Is minutes thereafter, connecting
with cars on Thunderbolt line, until
1900 o'clock midnight.
Through cars are operated between
Market and Thunderbolt via Collins
vile and Dale avenue as follows ---
Lv. Market. Lv. Thunderbolt.
6:45 a. m. 1880 a. m.
6:45 d. m, 7:30 o. m
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
The weather.

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are for in
creasing cloudy weather, with light va
riable winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Why should the people stay up North
and shiver and "cuss OUT the coal
man. when for the price of couple
of tons Of coal they can come to sun
ny South Georgia or Florida and go
fishing?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
WET END LINE.

Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 600 a. m. and every
40 minutes thereafter until IL 80 D. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
$40 a. m. and every 20 minutes there
after until 1900 O'clock midnight.
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.
Leaves east side of City Market TOR
Thunderbolt, Cattle Park, Sandfy, Isle
of Hope and all intermediate points,
3:15 a. m, 1:15 p. m, Sis p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for SandGy,
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all in
! termediate points-6:oo a. m. 11:cO a.
m. 300 p. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
$50 a. m. and 2:35 p. M. connecting at
Sandfy WITH regular parcel cav for
city
Parcel car from the city carries
freight to Montgomery on each trip.
Regular parcel car carries trailer on
each trip for accommodation OF pass
engers.
Any further information regarding
passenger schedule or freight service
can he had by applying to
q. =. NACT.F Manager.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16

Somebody in the coal business Is
making the public pay price that
stagZers humanity.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
Savannah Electric Co.

schedule Daily Except Sunday.
In Effect Friday, Nov. Z.
subject TO change without notice
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-16
MONTGOMERY LINE.

Connects at Sardfly with parcel car
to city.
sConnects at Sandfly with parce, car
for Isle of Hope.
"Goes to Montgomery on Peturn trip
from isle of Hone
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14
BALT4MoREs CRACK ELEVATOR

The completion of the new grain ele- vator for the Northern Central Rail- way upon the site of old No, at Lower Canton, destroyed by fire on the night of December 31, 1902, provides Baltimore with the most modern elevator on the Atlantic seaboard,
 The new building has a capacity for storing one million bushels of grain, and is constructed of the best material obtainabie. The foundations for the superstructure were supplied by the railway company, after which the con- tractors, George RI. Meulton K Co.,, of Chicago, began it's erection. Previously the contractors erected Q steam sawmill on the shcre, engaged four hundred me chanics and laboreFs, and on May 30 the building began growing with mush- room rapidity. A photographer was in- cluded among the artisans to make pie lures of the work as it advanced for the daily reports sent to the contractors in Chicago.
 Timber was brought from the south and other sections. White or burr oak, leng-leaf southern pine and kiln-dried N0fLG AaEDlltib pllG were tHc pfliCiphl kinds used. The enormous quantity of ,203, ,207 feet of lumber was used in the elevator, cribbing, and the marine tow CT or dock elevator. In addition the contractors used 171,575 feet in rebuild ing the piers about the structure. All this was received in the rough and sawed, shaped and fitted to its proper pIaca in the building
 The huge building is one hundred and eighty feet and ten inches above the foundations, one hundred feet wide at the ends and two hundred and forty two feet long, The cupola, ane hundred and ten feet above the foundation, de- crosses jn width to s!xty-nine feet and six inches and extends the full length of the building transversely in the cen- ter. It is supported, with ali it's con- tents, directly from the masonry base by ten-inch square wooden pillars rest ing upon the first-story framework. The lower roofs are similarly support cd from the masonry by pillar posts six inches by ten inches.
 The main elevator building. to the height of twenty-five feet above the foundations, is enclosed with brick walls twelve inches thick. Above this level
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14
TEO MONTHS IN ANC0ES
PELEW ISLANDERS SFORMDRIT- EY MAKE TRIP OF ], ,6OO MILES.

They Finally Reached the shores of Fermosa-After Recovering From the Trip they Were Sent to China and from There They Got Passage to Their Hon,es,
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14

first supposed it was a real cat, and the room being extremeily dark, they kept approaching each other, each with boot in hand to demolish the supposed cat. They got together final ly, and then there was an act not down on the programme.
 Each had aimed his boot we'll, and when light was finally struck the tws men were mixing up badly in the cen ter of the room, and it took the rest of the lawyers and the town doctor to get them in presentable shape for court the following day."-Omaha Bee.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14

James ". Davidson. United States consul in Formosa, has just told Of 9 remarkable journey made by sixteen natives of the PeleW Islands, who were picked up nearly dead on the Island of Formosa, sixteen hundred miles from their homes.
 Some Fornosans saw the poor wTetches one morning on beach of their northeast coast, also three canoes the like of which they had never seen before. The canoes were fitted with outriggers, which helped to steady the little vessels among the waves. In oth- CT respects also they differed from ea- noes common in that part Of the Malay archipelago.
 AN AMAZING ADVENTURE.
 The men were scattered along the beach in a very weak and famished condition. Only two or three of them could speak, but no one understood their language. They were taken 10 the custom house, where they were well cared for and slowly increased in strength. Only one of them died, and Ile suecumbed from sheer exhaustion about week after his arrival.
 Every one was greatly surprised when it was possible at last to learn the story of their adventures. The men had been fishing few miles from one of the Pelew Islands, where they lived, A heavy gale came up and car ried them away from their fishing grounds. They had in their canoes a considerable quantity of fish. and dur ing their long journey they lived on fish, though when their original supply was exhausted they were unable to catch a sufficient number to meet their needs.
 They drifted for sixty days and had not the slightest idea where they were when they finally came within sight of the mountains Of Formesa. The next day they were cast lip on the beach; and 1t speaks we'll for the strength of their craft as well as their own powers of endurance that they should have held out so long.
 RETURNED TO THEIR HOMES.
 When they had recovered sufficient strength to undertake the journey home they were sent to Hong Kong, whence they obtained passage to the Caroline Islands, and soon after were taken home by a vessel plying in the island trade.
 This is one of the involuntary voy- ages of which so many records have now been collected that anthropologi believe they adequately explain the means by which the widely severed bits of land in the wastes of the Pacific re- ceived their inhabitants, Ii some way or another the persons found on these bits of land must have been brought there; but the problem how they were transported could not be satisfactorily explained as the result of the expert ness of oceanic peoples in navigation.
The daily morning journal and courier., 1903-12-14
TOO MUCH CAT.

"A bunch of lawyers were sleeping in a crowded court room in an Illinois town because of the overcrowded con- aiticn of the single hotel during a ses- sion of the court" continued Bartran1,
 when one of them, practical joker, possessing a remarkable faculty of imi- tating cat. concluded to have some fun out Of it. After all of them had quieted down to sleep he started a platntive mean like a cat. Another fellow on the opposite side of the room had similar faculty of imitation and was awakened by the noise of the SUD- posed cat, and remarked to his next follow, Some alarmed eat has got into the room, Just wait I'll initiate a
 tahby and will catch the Tom So the two began meowing at each other. The