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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

One naturally looks TO the pulpit for
truth and charity. but one does not al
ways find these divine attributes there.
For instance Rev. DR.. Parkhurst Of
New York said from his pulpit the
other day: There is a degree of bar
barism in our treatment of the black
race that is not exceeded in any other
part Of the world, and although We
send missionaries to Christianize other
lands, there are communities in the
South as un-Christian as any part of
heathendom." 1t is difficult to under
stand how a man so grossly ignorant
of social and religious conditions in his
own country, within a days journey
OF his home. and so manifestly mar
row-minded and prejudiced. could have
attained to that eminence in spiritual
leadership which DR.. Parkhust enjoys.
II DR.. Parkhurst's life depended on
finding one of those un-Christian COM
munities in the South TO which he so
pharisaically refers, he would be a
doomed man. The fact probably is that
sational statement he cast truth aside
and slandered the most Christian and
chiyalrous section of his country. If
his ignorance OF the South is as dense
and inexcusable as appears from his
utterance, it would stand him in good
stead to miss a trip or two to Europe
and come down here and study condi-
tions as they are. Three months in the
South would be sufficient to induce Dr.
Parkhurst 10 apologize to the section
for the utterance quoted above; that
is. assuming him to be a man broad
minded enough to recognize truth when
he sees it and of sufficient moral cour-
age TO acknowledge an error once he
has been convinced.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
index TO NEW ADVERTISEMENTS

Meetings-Georgia Chapter No. 3, r.
A. NJ.
Special Notices-Special Notice, Sa-
vannah Trust Company; Delicious
Free Lunch for Ladies, Savannah
Steam Cooker Company; Ship Notice
Strachan & Co., Agents; Rupture can
Be Cured, knights Pharmacy; Keep
Warm, Cornwell & Chapman
Underwear Sale Continues-Daniel
Hogan.
The Mathushek Piano-Ludden &
Bates S. NJ. H.
Some Great savings-Mutual Gas
Light Company.
Robinson's Bath Cabinets-Living-
ston's Pharmacy Co.
Tiny Us With an Order-M. Wilensky.
Kitchen Utensils-At Lattimore's.
Silver Polish-The Gorham Co.
Legal Notices-In the Matter of the
sharpe-Jackson Company of Screven
County. Bankrupts.
Savannah Theater-"Old Innocence"
Tonight: Richards & Pringle Min
strels Tomorrow Matinee and Night;
1.-THE Prince of Tatters," Friday Mat
inee ana Night.
Medical-Swamp Root; Cuticura
Paracamph; Cascarets; Medical Lake
Salts; Stuarts Dyspepsia Tablets;
Pyramid Pile Cure.
Cheap Column Advertisements-Hel
Wanted, Employment Wanted, For
Rent, For Sale, Lost Personal, Mis-
ce1laneous.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
TIE FOWLER hill

1t is expected that the Fowler Cur
rency bill will come up for considera-
tion in the House to-day. There is
much speculation as to its fate. While
it is understood that the Republicans
favor it. some of them. it is certain,
are of the opinion that it could be
| greatly improved.
1t is radically different from the
! currency bill which the Committee on
! Banking and Currency reported at the
| last session. and which failed to COM
mand approval That bill-the one re-
| ported last session provided for quite
a number of things, among them credit
| currency, branch banks. additional sill
yer coinage and the retirement Of green
/ backs.
! The present bill provides only for
credit currency It gives to a national
bank the right to issue credit currency
! to an amount equal to % per cent
of its capital stock. These notes are
to be taxed one half per cent. per an
mum. and they are to be protected by
| a guaranty fund equal to per cent.
of the notes outstanding.
The bill is a very simple one, its
aim being to enable banks to increase
the volume of the currency when
there is need for an increase. 1t is
said by it's author that this credit cur
rency is not to be regarded as an
emergency currency. 1t is simply in
tended to meet the steadily growing
demand for money-to prevent such
stringencies in the money centers as ex-
listed last fail and the early part of
this winter.
The opposition to the bill-such as
has developed-is based upon the be-
lief that it does not go for enough,
that it would not be an adequate
remedy for the monetary troubles
with which the country is afflicted
every year about the time crops are
being moved.
A bill that seems to meet the APP
prevail of many members of Congress
and some bankers was introduced by
Representative Padgett of Tennessee,
who is also a member of the commit
tee on Banking and Currency. 1t pro-
vides that a bank having a circula-
ton secured by bonds equal to so per
cent. of its capital may. in addition.
issue so per cent. of credit currency
notes. The first 20 per cent. of these
notes must pay a tax of 1 per cent.
the next IS per cent. per cent. and
the remaining Is per cent. per cent.
per annum. There is also provision
for a per cent. guaranty fund. When
the proceeds from this tax amount to
100000 the tax on the first two is
sues is reduced one half on each is
sue.
1t is probable the discussion will in
clude both of these bills. Both have
received considerable attention in the
newspapers. That there is need of
legislation along the line of them is
admitted. At all of the recent meet
ings of bankers the need of a more
elastic currency was discussed,
but in none of the discussions was
there agreement as to the kind of legis-
lation that would accomplish the pur-
pose desired. There is much doubt as
to whether the House will reach a
vote on the bill at this session. The
chances are that it will not.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
PROHIBITION ON A NEW BASIS.

An ordinance that is of interest to pro-
bitionists and barkeeDers in all parts
Of the country is now pending be-
fore the Council of the city
! of Los Angeles. Cal. It is
| based on a petition submitted TO the
Council by Mrs. Jane B. Mason. a
leader in the Anti-SalOon League of
that city. 1t imposes an annual tax
Of 81 on each member of a church
and a 10 per cent. tax on the salaries
of ministers and officials Of the Young
Mems Christian Association and Anti
Saloon League. the purpose being to
make good the deficiency in the City's
revenue that would follow the closing
of the saloons.
According 10 Mrs. Mason's view. the
majority of the people of Los Angeles
will not consent to the closing of the
saloons as long as the saloons bear SO
great a part of the expenses of the
city government. The amount they
pay is about Sl2O, 600 a year. Mrs. Ma
son, who is a prominent prohibition
and Anti-Saloon League worker. takes
the position that if the money the sa-
looms contribute 10 the support of the
city were contributed from other
sources there would be but little oppo-
sition 10 the closing of the saloons.
She suggests that the same clerks and
collectors employed in collecting the sa-
loon licenses be employed in collecting
the proposed tax from the church
members, ministers and others whom
il is proposed to tax.
Would Mrs. Mason's plan work in
practice? II is doubtful Mrs. Mason
has paid 50, at least she has forward
ed that amount to the city treasurer,
but it is pretty certain her example
will not be generally followed. The
ministers particularly are likely to OBJ
ject to the plan. not because they
would not be willing to make any rea-
ciples. but because, as a rule. they do
not now get more than is sufficient to
meet their most pressing needs-that
is, ministers generally. We do not know
what the salaries of the ministers of
Los Angeles are. 1t is doubtful, how
ever, if ministers in that city are paid
more literally than ministers in other
cities.
Mrs. Mason's prohibition plan VIII do
to talk about, but it won't work in
practice. Is she of the Carrie Nation
type?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
Retainer and Reminder.

An upstate man told story on
himself at the Murray Hill Hotel the
other day. says the New York Mail
and Express.
Z had occasion recently, for the first
time in my life" he said, Ito employ
a big New York lawyer, and went 70
former Attorney General John w.
Griggs, stated my case and gave him
SIS for a retainer.
Without betraying the slightest
feeling as to the size Of the fee. Mr..
Griggs told his secretary to give me
a receipt for the amount, and dismiss
ed me with the remark:
When you want me to proceed
with the case, send me a reminder.
This is only a retainer. you know. "
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

Bennett Burleigh has some good sto-
at Berbera, says the New York Tri-
bune. The single official at Bulbar was
lately invited by signal to breakfast on
a coasting steamer. Having looked
up the code book, he ordered his ma
tive servant to signal back the letters
u H D." which signified Il am COM
ing" But the genial Somah, to whom
one thing is as another, reversed the
letters, and the signal read III D j,
which conveys the information, of i'm
portance in the engine room, My
stuffing glands are out Of order" 1t
was natural that man in such a state
of congestion was not expected when
he turned up for breakfast, after all.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

An experiment in high speed electric
traction is to be tried between Chicago
and Aurora, Ill. Several steel electric
vestibuled cars for the service are be-
ing built at Elizabeth, N. ]. The cars
are about the size of the average Pull
man sleeper, and each is fitted with
four motors Of 125 horsepower, aggre-
eating 500 horsepower to the car. It
is claimed that these cars will be capa-
BILE of making the speed of $50 miles
an hour, though 1t is not expected that
that speed win be made in actual OBJ
GRAFTON. 1t is asserted. however, that
an average speed Of eighty-fve miles
an hour, including stops, will be
adopted as a regular schedule. It is
predicted, as a result of these new cars
ana motors, that the time between New
York and Chicago will be reduced
within a few years to ten hours
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

Representative Jenkins of wiscon-
sin, chairman of the House Committee
on the Judiciary, has introduced a bill
to amend the constitution so as to pro-
vide against plural marriages and to
deny polygamists the right to sit in
Congress. Mr.. Jenkins says his bill is
aimed at Reed Smoot, who is going to
the Senate from Utah. But it is a lit
tie difficult to see how Mr.. Smoot is to
be reached by any such measure. He
is a Mormon, but it has never been
charged that he has more than one
wife.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
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The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

The, much-contested will of A. t.
Stewart of New York is to be once
more opened, for another contest. The
new heirs live in Ireland, and
hope to have the will set aside so that
they may inherit one-sixtieth of the
estate, which would give them from a
quarter to a half million dollars. The
Stewart will, the Tilden will and some
others afford very good evidence going
to show that ex-Gov. Hastings of
Pennsylvania was not far from right
when he asserted that the law pro-
vides better will than most men can
make.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

1t has been some time since all of
the states had their full representa-
ton in the United States Senate. At
the present time, however, every state
with the exception of Delaware has
two senators at Washington; Delaware
has none, thanks to the policy of Mr..
Addicks. OF the lightweight senators,
flfty-one are lawyers. one is a civil en-
gineer, two are doctors, three are
journalists and the rest are bankers,
miners, farmers, business men and
politicians.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
BRIGHT BITS,


why does Mr., Bruin hibernate
every winter?" 81 suppose he finds it
too cold out of doors in his bear skin"
Harvard Lampoon.
This" declared the eminent ora
tor, lis the very key to the whole
question" But" interrupted a small
man in rear seat, where is the key
hole Judge.
Mrs. Joy-"If I do say it, my hus-
band is worth millions of money to
me-" Mrs. Blunt-"How lucky of you
to snap him up when he was going
cheap! Transcript.
DO you know Mr.. Fresco-Mr,
Albert Fresco?" inquired Mrs. Nuritch
No" said her husband. "Why?''
I've got an invite to Mrs. Blugore's
garden party, and she says they're GO
ing to dine AL Fresco. "-Philadelp
Press.
-Shopkeeper (whose patience is
completely .exhausted)-"Snip cal
the porter to kick this fellow out
lmportunate Commercial Traveller
(undaunted)-"Now while we're wait.
ing for the porter, I'll show you an en-.
tirely new line-best thing you ever
laid eyes on."-Glasgow Evenins
Times.
The door of the drug store opened
and a wild-eyed man entered. Have
YOU" he whispered hoarsely to the
druggist, IAN antidote for the break.
fast-food habit?" On being answered
in the negative, he turned on his heel
opened the door again, and fled shrek.
ing maniacally into the darkness
Chicago Tribune.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

Prof. Robert Baird of the Northwest
ern University, Chicago, holds that no
play should be produced upon the stage
until it had passed the censorship of
"a committee of prominent people, not
necessarily ministers, but representa-
tive moral citizens" This assumes
that the people are not competent
to judge for themselves, an assumption
that is contrary to the spirit of Ameri-
can institutions. Russia is a country
of censorships, of the drama, the press
and the pulpit; does Prof. Baird adj
mire Russian civilization more than
that of the United States?
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

A City of Mexico dispatch says that
a number of shrewd Americans are in
vesting heavily in Mexican real
estate, in anticipation of the adoption
by that country of the gold standard
One American. a Boston capitalist, is
quoted as saying: p am sowing Mex
lean pesos to win out with bright gold
dollars. Some day soon this country
VIII have the gold standard. and realty
win fetch the same price in gold that
it does now In silver"
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

A new word was coined during the
course of a lynching case in Jackson,
Miss, the other day. The word is
"alibier," and Judge Niles explained
that 1t meant zone who is always will
ing to swear to an alibi for a friend.
through good and evil report And
the judge remarked that he found the
section in which the lynching occur
red to be full of "alibiers."
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

John Alexander Dowie, the elijah
IT. of Chicago, is going to descend
on New York with 5000 missionaries
from Zion City for the purpose of MAX
ing converts in the Eastern metropolis.
He has taken lease of Madison
Square Garden for two weeks, and
says he will make 100000 converts. And
no doubt his expectations will be real
lied. Any glib talker with a gold brick
to sell or new religion" to propa-
gate can go to New York and do a
land-office business.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
The Weather.

The indications for Georgia for to-
day are for rain in east. clearing and
colder weather in west portion. with
fresh to brisk south to west winds.
Eastern Florida. partly cloudy wealth
er. with showers in northern portion,
fresh south winds.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

The Retail Merchants Association
yesterday took action looking to the
Inauguration of work on the marine
hospital which the government is to
erect in this city. There appears to be
no good reason why this work should
not be commenced at an early day. The
appropriation has been passed by Con-
gress and the state Legislature has
given the requisite authority for the
old postoffice site to be used for the
hospital. All that needs to be done,
therefore, is to spur up the authorities
in Washington and get the thing start
ed. Operations on the proposed build
ing. would give employment to a num-
Der of workingmen and distribute a
good many dollars in the city during
the coming summer
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
COLLINsvILLE LINE.

(Fair Grounds and Dale Ave.)
Beginning at 500 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.
GAS d. m. 1880 D. m,
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

Financiers in Europe are a little sur
prised to find Mexico and China act
ing in concert on the silver question.
1t is their opinion that Mexico would
experience but little difficulty in going
to the gold standard, because of her
proximity to and considerable depend
ence economically upon the United
States, but they do not think China
would find it so easy to adopt gold.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
ADMIRAL sAMPsON,s ArFLICTION

The public of course knew that the
disease from which Admiral Sampson
suffered was aphasia, but it did not
know that he suffered from it for at
least ten years prior to his death.
The granting of pension to his widow
has brought to light the facts in the
case. 1t seems that he was at times
incapacitated for duty.
That disease has the effect of weak
ening the brain, and the thought is
thrown out in Washington dispatches
that his judgment at the time of the
Spanish-American War was impaired.
1t may be that If he had been in ro-
bust health the unfortunate Sampson
CURED. 1t is now said that he was not
the author of the famous Fourth of
July dispatch-that it was written by
his chief Of staff. And there were other
things, perhaps, for which he wasn't
responsible, but for which he was held
accountable.
1t was known, of course, at the time
that the famous inquiry was held that
his health was so bad that he was not
called as a witness, but it is doubtful
if the great majority of the people sus-
pected that as a matter of fact, his
mental condition was such that he
knew little or nothing of the details
of the inquiry.
miral Sampson during the progress of
the Sampson-Schley controversy which
would not have been said if it had
been known that he was so badly af-
flicted. AS it is there will be regret
for whatever harshness there was ex-
hibited towards him and a greater
respect for his memory.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

1t would be a graceful thing for
Chill and Argentina to present their
surplus war ships to the United States
since this country, because of, its Mon
roe doctrine, must continue to stand
between them and any possible foreign
land-grabbing fog
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
rREIGHT AND PARCEI. a.

Leaves east side of City Market Tor
Thunderbolt, Cattle Park, Sandfiy, Isle
of Hope and all intermediate points
9:15 a. M, lis p. m. 5:15 p. m.
Leaves Isle of Hope for SandnN
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all in
termediate points-6:0e a. m. Hoo a.
M. 800 D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery as
$50 a. 10. and 2:35 p. M, connecting at
Sandfy with regular parcel car fon
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 regardine
passenger schedule or freight services
can he had by applying to
G.. q. NAGI.E Manager.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
WEST END LINE.

Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 500 a. m. and eyerv
40 minutes thereafter until 1880 D. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
$40 q. m. and every 20 minutes there~
after until 1900 O'Clock midnight
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
THUNDERBoLT LINE (speciaD.

Beginning at 5:45 a. m, cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunderbolt
every Is minutes until 1880 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction Is
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:5S a. m, cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every Is min
utes until 1908 midnight.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
MONTGOMERY LINE.

Connects at Sanddy with parcel car
to city.
sConnects at Sandfy with parcel car
for Isle of Hope.
'"Goes to Montgomery on return trip
from Isle of Hope
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER
Bolt LINE.

Connects at Sandhy with parcel car
for city.
sConnects at SanGfy with parcel car
for Isle of Hope.
The Savannah morning news., 1903-02-04

all her decorations.
The human mind is so constructed
speaking with all respect of senior
wranglers and men of like ability-that
it is unable to realize bare figures
when they exceed a certain moderate
sum, says the London Globe AS a
consequence, those people whose task
1t is to bring home elaborate figures to
the public are wont out of the full
ness of their appreciation of the weak
ness of the human intellect, to express
the figures by familiar and often more
or less ludicrous metaphors. Mr. Sid
ney Holland the other day unfolded the
number of miles to which the pills dis
pensed at the London Hospital in one
year would extend, and he no doubt
brought home to his hearers and read
ers the inimitable benefits conferred
by the hospital. But the method is
more commonly used in popular sci
ence than in economies. We were told,
for example, the other day, that the
way to appreciate the size of the sum
was to put into it, in imagination. the
earth and the moon. Both at their
present distance would be easily con-
tanned within the circumference, and
yet not reach the center. 1t is high
time that some kind friend put in some
neat figure the size of a microbe. In
most peoples minds it bulks as large
~ as fair-sized chicken. The speed
and nature of a Marconi message need
similar illustration. For example how
much faster does ii go than a cricket
ball thrown up by Jessop? The effort
should not be beyond the scope of the
popular scientific lecturer.