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The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

The bill of Senator Simmons. of North
Carolina. providing for q fourth circuit
Jpdgeshlp, It seems, will BIO run down and
lost in the closing hours Of Congress-
that is. lost by default, It will BIO remely.-
bered that this circuit judgeship was the
berth that had been pre-empted for senn-
tor Prltchard, who on the 4th of March
will cease to he a Senator, Now. seeing
that this Is not available, his friends are
looking about for some other place Just
as good for the able Tar Heel to fall into
They haye found q rulnoF that Chief Jus.
tlce Alvey, of the Court Of Appeals Of
the District Of Columbia, is about 10 re-
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Warwick county wants to float bonds
for good road building. 1t would not take
great many bonds to macadarnize the
whole county.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22
Short Talks Withthe Legislature.

Edinburg sentinel: Certainly no one
will accuse our Virginia Legislature with
undue rush and haste this session.. 1t
begins to look like they would need The
electric fans the Constitutional Conyen-
ton failed to entirely wear out"
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Booker Washington says the negro has
passed through even darker periods. Yes;
once upon time there were no muattoes
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

The cold wave has not lasted near long
enough for the small boy with the new
skates.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

A New York paper says i, was only the
first cousin OF blizzard that struck
Gotham. BY comparison 1t was the bliz.
yards daughter-ln-law that blew her
cold breath on Richmond, but that was
bad enough.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Nobody has yet declined banquet in
vitation where Justice Parker is expected
to break bread.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22
FRorlTHE CHURCH. PAPERS
HEDGES AROUND US

The Lord Jesus Is telling of Gods care
of the church when he says There was a
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Tho New York Herald of Friday an
nounccs the death of a man who was
engineer on the Monitor when she sank
the Arerrlmac!''
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

corruption he succeeds in doing this
tory as no who wins battle.
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Rockbrldge County News; 'We cannot
but be Impressed with the business attI-
tude Of Congress as compared with that
has enacted much difficult legislation
The latter during q longer session has
apparently placed nothing to its record.'
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

Sign. and they have fallen upon that va
cancy MS temporary resting place Until
there shall be a vacancy on the circuit
bench That may not DO far away, as
Judge Sim onton has reached the retiring
age and may resign at any time. There
seems to be no doubt Of the fact that Mr..
Pritchard will be provided for In some
way.
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Tho Baltimore Sun is authority for the
statement that thirty-two years ago two
bats wore walled up. entombed in a
building in that city. Last Wednesday
the wall was opened to repair some dam
age that had been done by a fire, when
one of the bats was found to BIO alive and
the other dead. 1t is suggested that the
i've bat may havo subsisted upon the
blood OF Its mate; but. II SO, there must
have been a lot Of 1t In order to have
lasted moro than three decades No at
tempt Is made to explain how the bat OBJ
tained air.
Further Information on the subject is
needed. We don't want to be told that
the DAT IN question Is Drlck.DaC.
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The Baltimore papers report that Lewis
Nixon's shipbuildlng company, or trust.
Is negotiating for the purchase Of the
Baltimore shlpbuidlng and Dry-Dock
Company. The company Is capitalized at
s750 900. Another story has 1T that de:e!
Is on for the absorption Of the plant in
question by the William Skinner Ship
building Company. In that event 1t is
thought probable that Mr.. Harry G. Skim
ner would become president Of the con-
solidated corporation.
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The Charleston News and Courier
speaks Of the Zion. Marcus A. Hanna as
"the greatest living Repu blican states
man. 1t thinks Hanna could beat Roose-
welt for the nomination IL he would enter
the race.
The trouble with Hanna Is that the peo-
pie don't know whether he is for or
against tho slave-pcnsion bill that he In
PRODUCED ''by request; also that his own
State Of Ohio docs not seem to be very
enthusiastic over him
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Tho New York Herald of Friday an
nounccS the death of n Imam who wer
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22

AleXandria GazeEte: ''That tho peoplo
throughout the State are growing rest.
less oyer the long session Of the LegIs.
tature and the little work which that
body is seemingly doing is becoming is.
upon the LEGISLATURE to adjourn ana ia
home. and some OF the papers openly say say,
that the four dollars a day, which tic
members are receiving. Is the reason for
the protracte session.. tff. M
The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1903-02-22
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES.

Capt. Kidd and his treasure are called
to mind by tho announcement that a
.hfteen- story "natiron" building is to DO
put up at the junction OF Pearl and Hea.
yer streets, in New York, on the reputed
site OF the famous pirates dwelling while
on land.
The sun., 1903-06-20
GEN. YOUNG CHIEF OF STAFF.
Gen. Chanee to succeed Him Nhen He
Retires Next January.

WASHINGTON, d. G., June lo.-Secretary
Root to-day announced the selection Of
Major-Gen. Samuel B. M. Young to be chief
OF the General STAFF Of the Army and Adju-
tant- General Henry c. Corbin and Brig Gen.
William n. Carter to f1ll the two existing
vacancies. Secretary Root also said that
the present intention is to make Gen.
Chaffee chief OF staff upon the retirement
Of Gen. Young next january. The order
prepared at the War Department says:
Brig -tien Carter will be relieved from
his detail In the General stan corps at such
time as It shall seem adyisab BILE In the dlsere,,
to his sta ton in the Philippine Islands under
orders heretofore made
Brig. Cen. Tnsker ii. Bliss - oetailed 70 pc
q member Of the General Stan corps. 70 take
the place OF Gen. Carter when relieved.
MajOr-t;en. Samuel h. NJ. Young is reneyed
from duty ~ president OF the Army war
College Brig. ,lien. Tesser n Bliss ds,ae. y de-
both to take eftot on The 18th OF August next.
With Cen Corbin's transfer 10 the usi'-
eral STAFF he will cease to be, to all intents
and purposes. the Adiutsnt General OF the
Army. an Office Of great power and re-
sponsibility. This position will be s'ibor,
dinated to the General Stan. which VIII
practically exercise its functions wiz,
much greater powers. One of the onicers
of the Adjutant Generals Department: {:
possibly Col w. P. Hall. will be assigned
az acting Adjutant General after Gen.
Corbin begins his General Stan duties.
but will. il is supposed. he subject to the
supervision OF Gen. Corbin
The sun., 1903-06-20
Gam. p.,.r, Question. and Assertions.

To THE EDITOR or THR SUS-.Sfr: In the course
of his remarks at the Horato Seymour Club. last
nieht Mr.. Thomas Smith. secretary OF Tammany
Hall said that the rule adopted by Tammany for the
exclusion Of Mr. Devery WAS made for Devery
alone, and then unintcntionAIy, perha ps. Nj Smit
added "for any other Deverys that may com =
along" What did Mr.. Smith mean by the last e1
preston! Are We to understand that. in the event
OF the defeat sf Tammany district leader al the
primaries. the successful candidate. II not &C
cep,ahle TO Murphy ct al will be classed as another
Devery and treated accordingly! Is II threat and
does Mr. Smith mean to have understand that IN
Tnmmany Executive Committee as now constituted
/, the only one that will be regarded as such. and
that any OF Its members who may be defeated IN
primary contests next fall will st be retained a.
district leaders and not the successful candidates
who may come along:
Mr. Smith alsp stated that M. John c. Sheeh.n' :
followers Joining the Goodwin forces to defes
Mr.. bevey., Nothing is further from the truth
left Nr, Shechan. are with Devcry heart and soui.
and the writer has had the pleasure Of introducing
. number Of them 10 Mr. Devcry and heard The! T
assurances Of support and sympathy.
william 5. Devery Is only beginning his political
career and man who can avoid all tho pitfalls dna
for him Devery has done Will It is safe TO say. al
ways come out rgh, side up. Speaking OF political
graves. Mr.. Smith may nave n chance to onaciate
al . rne, large funeral next fall. Tamn,sny 10 dsy
has foot In the grave ana the other no business
out OF H. The Devery movement Is hourshlng
Ike green bay tree. DEvERrIT1-
WrsT TWENTY fIRsT SrREEr.
The sun., 1903-06-20
Av,,, Result Of /. M,,.nneunes m.n,.

To THE EDITOR OF TER SrS-.ar: wish to utter
q mild protest against the enunciaton Of railroad
conductors and IL" guards. A tnp 10 the suburbs
over the New York Central road would lead one 10
Imagine ne was travelling In . foreign countryside
names Of the stations shouted BY the conductor,
sound SO different from the places on the time
10 ride beyond hts Jumping on point. thus causing
Inconvenience. mental anguish and justihable
was recently hiding In New York on an IL"
train; ~ the tran pulled out Of the Fifty ninth
street station: tie guard leaned through the door
iiemsn awoke with start and ieaped from his seat
shouting II knowit know II. and MY Of them are
from me-" He was overpowered and removed at
the next station.
sixth street next instead OF sixty six snakes" we
would have been spared witnessing deplorable
example Of the ravAges OF rum. Don you think SO
GNEREPoIHT. June 10, SAD FYR.
The sun., 1903-06-20

There was Juan Fernandez, where the
real Robinson Crusoe had lived. There
were the Sandwich Islands, with the
beautiful Kanakas.
We have known one man, at least, VINO
carried out our boyhood's wish. he
bought q schooner in San Francisco ana
sailed away into the South Seas and saw
all those wonderful sights. He left the
world behind him and never really got
back into it again; but we envy him all
the same. He saw the things we dreamed
of which will never be the same again.
Civilization has made its way into the
islands, with its train of rum and disease
and a veneering of Christianity. Tho
kanakas and Maoris are dying away as
fast as the North American Indians.
Hawaii has become an American Terri
tory and means little but sugar and
leper colony to us. In Queen PoMARHs
Tahiti the French have modern bureau-
cracy. Samoa has become an interna-
tional question and literary fad. Guam,
that land of Nod. has been joined to the
business world by cable, while FIJI and
Tonga rejoice in British adminlstra-
ton and Ponape and Ruk in German.
There is no room left in the South Seas
for pirates or stranded sailorman kings,
or affairs of the heart with primitive ma
tive houris. Civilization and commerce
have invaded those blessed isles the
SrEvENsoNs and BECKEs and their im-
tators have described them, and follow
ing them come the personally conducted
globe-trotters to inspect them in steam
ers with electric lights. And the natives
can't even turn them into long-pig.
The sun., 1903-06-20
A Repi, by the Rev. MIR. F1lliusham.

To THE EDITOR OF THE SrN-Sir: Having
been away. preaching in Toronto nave
only this morning found an opportunity 10
meet the criticisms Of certain gentlemen on
my previous letter.
Two OF thcso correspondents seenn to me
to be unconsciously obscIring the view by
bringing in the subject Of the Incarnation
They both practically agree that II tho doe
tripe of the Real Presence II absurd. as l
contended. so is that OF the Incarnation l
cannot follow them. To me there seems
an ipf'nity of distance between holding that
the Divine Intelligence was in some mys-
terious way present in a human intelligence
and holding that it ia present In biscuit
surely there is an infinite distance between
a man and a cake!
Besides. from the literal and orthodox
point Of view. the parallel fails to hold good
Er hypothesi. the Incarnate Christ was not
the helpless creature your correspondents
ntstfH thst He could call down leRions Of angel.
t" deliver Him., His incarnate life was a
yoIntary ae1ss down de- of .nse
10 take it. is there really any similitude
Ut II IA not because do not understand the
doctrine Of the, Real Presence. II is because
II is IRRATIONAL and md q absurd God asks m"
but not things which are directly CONTRARY
a. iSs yHs s in RESssts s.s%:p p
Because. in Ensland at least they Srasn, are dis,
Church. a Church which was reformed to
get rid of the doctrine OF the Real Presenee
and the sacrifice OF the mase. and then they
preach these doctrines and do the work o,
Rome They declare at their induction that
masses are "blasphemous fables and danger
ous decsits. and then they openly seleb,a." }.t"
pretencee do not denounce the Romansts
because they are honest. though mistaken
I cannot but denounce man who takes money
for teaching one thing and then teaches the
With regard to my supporter taking the
conseerated wafer IT was PVT n his hand o.. q.
property. to do what he pleased with, The
act was no act of sacrilege. When the e. bread
ia consumed in reverent memory OF Christs
death. then the ceremony is holy thing;
and the elements are saved when II is turneri
Into a saturnalia Of idolatry, then IT becomes
an abomipable thing: When the brszen % ger, r.
Worship, the holy king destroyed II. And
when the wafer becomes an obj ect OF Worship,
/ am Justified in holding il up TO contempt
New YorK, June II. C. F1LLlNoRAM-
The sun., 1903-06-20
DUTY on RUSSIAN SUGAR.
Count cryailing Rate viii He COLLECTED
Unless Russia Suspentls Dount!.


WASHINGTON, June ls.-In reply. to an
inquiry addressed by frm OF importers,
Acting Secretary Taylor Of the Treasury
has announced that the collection OF the
oountervailing duty on Russian sugar
after Sept. next will depend on the action
OF the Russian Government. The counter
vailing duty is at present collected, this
Government holding that Russia pays the
equivalent Of an export bounty on sugar
and this contention has been upheld by our
courts.
The agreement OF the Brussels Sugar
Conference will become operative on Sept.
!. II was agreed by the Governments
party to that conference that no export
bountiee should be paid after Sept. Y
l0O3 The Russian Government did not
enter into this agreement, contending that
she was not at present paying bounty on
sugar exports and did not expect TO do 80.
Had the Russian authorities admitted that
the equivalent Of bounty was being paid
and had agreed to suspend II on Sept. l,
az the other nations agreed to do, the United
the countervailing duty on Russian sugar,
after Sept, !.
Acting Secretary Taylor says that, since
We hold that Russia is paying the equivalent
Of an export bounty, there IL no recourse
but to collect the countervailing duty.
Should Russia admit that bounty is in
effect being paid and should decide TO
suspend It, the collection OF countervailinG
duty would likewise be suspended by TINS
Government The importations Of Russian
sugar into the United States are very small.
The sun., 1903-06-20
An End to South Sea Romance

From the far antipodes, from Austria
lia and New Zealand whose inhabitants,
standing on their heads in relation to U.S.
devise all sorts OF socialistic State ex-
periments, comes an advertising circular
that stirs our memory strangely. A big
steamer supplied with all modern i'm
provements, electric lights, bathrooms
and 20 'on. end with a live Cardinal be-
sides, Is going to cruise for a month or
moro among the islands OF the Pacific,
Fiji and Samoa and Norfolk Island and
New Caledonia and Tongatabu. Per-
sonally conducted trippers will look upon
tho scenes Of our boyhood's dreams with
~ much safety and comfort as they now
dash through the sights OF Paris or New
York
Il was Capt. JAMES COOK, bravest Of
navigators, that led US into those regions
OF delight-those islands OF perpetual
bliss. with their gentle and lovely ma
tives, wreathed in flowers, with the bread
fruit dropping from the trees, the soft
eea breezes blowing over the calm lagoons
and no work for mon to do. There was
Otaheite. the Pacific Cythera, where no
ship could keep officers or men from de-
sertinE. There was Pitcairn. with its
romance ota the Bounty's mutineers.
The sun., 1903-06-20
The Reform Club Changes Challenged.

To THE EDITOR OF The SuN-Sir: Your
notice Of the action Of a few members Of this
club exactly characterizes 1t as to it's practical
effects. Probably no club ever organized
ever attempted so Migrant proceeding!
The case Of Loubat vs. Union Club estab-
lished the law III it needed establishing) that
q club was an association Of equals between
whom there was a mutual contract that, II
ever minority ruled. minority ruled In a
clubhouse. That even single member Of
club has a right even against a majority. to
b TO on s f hs
iie9es, extended to nj embers when one becomes
a member; a.. for example. a member could
ting. even il a majority Of the club wanted
that room for q ladies' reception dayY
hi. efap Aen nanafu sas Ho1q1sn g. Aeh'
clubhouse without consulting ne club q al.
without notifying anybody. and then calmly
theiP uS own good time they perhaps viii see 1t
to inform their fellow members what they.
are pleased TO see fit to DO with the proceeds!
stance is TO wait four months, and then. when
they had gathered Yp proxies enough, called
ana voted to wna dp soca sSe
printing tin ' free trade trscts that ii. TO spend
ine In my StHG hamSis % opinion D there VIM be so%e:
thing for the courts to say to this handful Of
members who propose to license their fellow
until December next. while they themselves
make ducks and drskes-or free trade tracts
OF the clubs funds
am afraid the end is not quite yet for these
free traders, who appear TO consider that
like Monte Cristo the world Is theirs. and that
they can do as they please, evca with the
rights of their fellow ciubmen!
assure you, sir. as q member OF the club
that, beyond this handful Of free traders"
not soul In the club had the slightest sus-
piclon that our clubhouse was 70 be sold!
they called any club meeting at all. even four
courage failed them. For they need not have
called any metting AT all II their action ip
selling the clubhouse was honest and legal,
What they probably hoped was, that a lot OF
members might be misled into paying All
other half years dues NJuiy l being the
day for such payment. But they seemed to
have weakened at the last moment and called
q packed meeting What standing in court
these gentlemen may imagine that they have
IN aims to he seen: what title they can give TO
the club property or whether the title they
have given cannot pc successf fully attacked
and invalidated: what rights they have that
nre not and have never been delegated to
them by the club AZ II whole: and by what
process Of reasoning they propose to argue
that the club ever delegated TO them right
TO soil our clubhouse. All this remains to
be seen. But. " the courts uphold this sort
member Of New York city club should be
on his guard for the consequences, or he
may be on the sidewalk whenever any other
member sees NJ to land him there.
MKMBRR or THE REFORN CLUD.
NEW YORK. June II.
The sun., 1903-06-20
Dr. savage and the Jews.

To TIE EDITOR or TIRE srN--Sir. In the
Unitarian Dr.. Savage's panegyric on the
Jewish race In to-dsys Sun he says:
We Christians are nine ienths Jews. both In our
morals and our religion. and almost the only thing
that distinguishes between the jew and the Chris
tinn Is the 1act that the Christian has turned Jew
into Cod and hates his own people who stlll insist
that He was a magnificent man. the erowning name
among the Jewish prophets. but still man.
DR.. Savage ia not a Christian. he does not
believe in the divinity Of Christ, and there
fore he has no right to say we Christians. ="
Nor are Christians nine-tenths Jews In morals
and religion, however It may be with Dr..
Savage The. Christian has not turned a
Jew Into a God. as pr. Savage somewhat
blasphemously says. though pr. Savage has
attempted to turn God into a jew.
Christians do not hate their own people. nor
any other people, and II the Jews insist that
Christ was "A magnificent man: the crowning
name among Jewish prophets' (which they
do mott but still man 20 do Christians
insist that He was man CDR. Savage
respectfully referred to the Nicene and Apos-
He does we'll to laud the admirable quail
ties Of a noble race, but in denying the God
head and In the Ruise Of I'VE Christians. he
has, as the late Mr.. Birch used to say. lost that
fine per reception which enables man to dis
tinGuisb between his own property and that
Of some body else" \. NJ. 3.
NEW YORK June Is.
The sun., 1903-06-20
The North Magnetic Pole.

The Arctic expedition of Capt Roald
Amundsen which sailed from Christiania
on Wednesday, goes with purpose unique
in the annals Of north polar exploration
James Ross discovered the position OF the
north magnetic pole in 1881, and there his
investigations ended, Amundsen seeks TO
determine whether the magnetic pole Is
merely point or whether this eliminating
centre OF magnetic attraction extends over
a wide area Theoretical study in recent
years favors the latter supposition. ls the
magnetic pole stationary, or does II change
it's position? The latter theory has long
had many advocates.
Most persons are now aware that the
north end of the magnetic needle docs not
point to the true north, but to place called
the magnetic north pole. II vessels IN
various points Of the world were free to
follow exactly the direction indicated by
the north end OF their compass needles they
would all meet at point on or near Boothia,
the most northern peninsula OF our con-
tinent. Taking as a starting point the place
on Boothia where Ross fixed the position
of the north magnetic pole Amundsen viii
investigate the surrounding region in all
directions regarding it's magnetic conditions
and endeavor to encircle the magnetic north
pole, or the region within which the dipping
needle assumes a vertical position. He
hopes to spend the winter Of l9o4-5 as near
as possible to the magnetic pole. and to
check all his determinations OF the terres-
trial magnetic elements obtained in one
year by those obtained in one or more other
years. 1t may not be necessary TO remain
in the neighborhood Of the magnetic pole
more than two years, but the party is slip
piled for four years.
No more important work than this re-
mains to be done in the Arctic.