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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
CURRENT COMMENT,

The Chicago Chronicle (Dem) saws:
when some important private inter-
est wants relief Congress can act
with wonderful expedition. This was
demonstrated the other day when it
became necessary to do something for
the tea importers, who were likely to
suffer if the Interpretation placed
upon the tariff laws by the treasury
and the courts were permitted to
stand. TO help out this private in
terest bill was rushed through both
houses or Congress in single day.
In this connection it is worth while to
note the fact that the tariff on coal has
not been touched and that there is not
the slightest prospect that it will be-"
The Chattanooga (Tenn.) Times
Dem.) says: THE majority of the
alleged reformers of conditions in mills
ETC., that employ women and children,
are merely playing for notoriety and
what money they can get out of their
activities. If their work has any eff
rect 1t is to set back progress The
textile industry in the South has been
blessing to the Southern poor. 1t has
reached helping hand to them. But
neither the masters nor their employees
nave done as well as they might Both
need regulating they are material
for the missionary and the school,
master. Time and the working of the
law of progress will measurably ele-
waite them, but the degradation and
EQUALIZATION of centuries, are not to
be even greatly modified in a few
decades"
The Pittsburg (Pa.) Post (Dem) of
Jan. 2, says: More than $4,000. 900
pounds of tea were released yesterday
from bonded warehouses, the duty of
10 cents per pound having been re-
mitted and the article placed on the
free list. But confidential whole
saler in Chicago frankly asserts that
tea will not drop in price. The result
OF the release of duty will be to en-
courage the Importation of cheaper
tea. But when asked why there would
not be a cut in fine tea, he naively ex-
planned that people would think a
lower price meant an inferior article.
and hence the reduction would not he
made. If the tea drinking public would
understand that tea ought to be cheap-
er the pride of the buyer would not
oppose some sacrifice on the part of
the grocer. The corner that was en-
gineered in tea when this solitary tax
of Spanish war days was retained for
some months now has its profit dis
tribution-"
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
TOWN AND COUNTRY.

In our Dublin. Ga, correspondence
a day or two ago it was noted that a
public spirited citizen, DIR. Duggan,
who lives eight miles in the country
and owns no property in The town. had
started a subscription for the purpose
of providing Dublin with a public IL
bra = The correspondent went on to
comment on the cordial relations exist
ing between the town and the country,
and asserted that much of the growth
Of Dublin is due to the loyalty to the
city displayed by the people of Lau-
rens county whenever an opportunity
presents itself" This is as 1t should
be; and by this display of interest in
and loyalty to their county seat, the
people of Laurens have built up a
thriving little city that is destined to
see still greater things.
The spirit of friendship and reci-
procity that exists between Dublin and
Laurens Is highly to be commended.
We wish that it existed in every coun-
ty in the state as strongly as in Lau-
not far distant when the old time ami
mostly between town and country will
be wiped out everywhere. There was a
time when the people of the country
regarded the people of the town as
"stuck-up," proud and not to be trust
ed implicitly lin business transactions.
And the people of the town were rath-
er disposed to look down on the coun-
try people as being ignorant. uncouth
and boorish. All of that was due to
lack of a good mutual understanding
and a want of general education.
Means of communication were bad.
country life was isolated and people
were less broad-minded than at pres
ent. Good schools, good roads, the daily
newspaper. the telephone and other
have worked big change. The family
on the farm is no longer isolated. 1t
keeps in touch with the outside world
and feels that 1t is a part of the vast
system of human affairs. The family
in town has become neighbors with the
family in the country Each UNDER
stands the other better and there is n
warmer sympathy and appreciation on
the part of both. The country and the
town have been brought to see that
their best interests are identical: that
the prosperity of one means the pros
perity of the other. the uplifting of
one the uplifting of the other 1t is a
happy community in which country
and town are proud of each other and
work together for mutual benefit.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
OUR FOREIGN COMMERCE.

The falling off in our exports during
the last year and the increase in our
imports were the subject of a good
deal Of comment during the closing
days of the year. The impression got
abroad that our foreign commerce was
declining, that our manufacturers
were not doing as well as they had
been and that we we're not getting a
fCothOld in foreign markets as fast as
we thought we were year ago.
Our exports fell off more than $780,
100000 and our imports increased about
S7O,0O0OO0 during the year that has
just closed, blu. when the facts are
known there appears to be no reason
for apprehension.
The falling off in our exports was
wholly in farm products. AS is well
known there was a failure of the corn
crop in 1901, and, consequently, there
vas a great falling off in corn exports.
There was also falling off in the ex-
ports of wheat and other grains be-
cause, owing to the scarcity of corn,
there was need at home of more
wheat. barley, oats, etc. The shortage
in the value of corn exported in COM
parison with the value of that export
ed the previous year was SAB, 900, 900.
The value of cotton exported was $14,-
100000 less than the value of that ex-
ported the previous year. Going
through the list of our exports Of
dc { Es.
,ly apparent where the falling off in
our exports was to the value of more
than 500, 900 600.
If there had been a falling off in our
manufa ctured products there would
have been room for thinking there was
a decline in our foreign trade. But
there was no falling off in our exports
of manufactured products. On the con-
trary, there was a very marked in
crease. The increase was more than
SIS, O0O. 900.
1t is true there was marked in
crease in our imports, but when the
character of these importations is no.
ticed it is found they consisted princi-
DdHy Oh raw HldteTldl-Ol Bin anu
fibers and other things needed in man
ufacturing. The increase in the i'm
ports therefore mean that the year was
one of unusual activity in manufac-
turing. Besides, we imported a large
amount of iron and steel products be-
cause our own mills were not able to
fill orders that were offered them.
No, there is no falling off in
our foreign commerce. 1t is increasing
all the time, and there is every reason
to think it will continue to increase.
Germany and England realize that we
are gradually taking the commerce Of
the world away from them and for
that reason there is an undercurrent
of feeling in those countries against
us. To all appearances they are our
friends, but they wouldn't grieve much
If misfortune of some sort were to
check our material progress.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
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The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
As to Two Evils,

Theodore Hallam, one of the most
celebrated of legal practitioners, once
defended burglar; and the case gave
him story that he never tired of tell
ing, says the Philadelphia Ledger. The
prosecuting attorney was fighting Wig
orously and had the defendants wife
on the stand.
you are the wife of the prisoner?,'
he asked her.
Yes" she replied
did you know his mode of life when
you married him?"
Il did. sir"
viii you tell us, then" went on the
prosecutor, surprised by this adrnis-
sion, how You came to contract an
alliance with one of his kind?"
Well" she answered, ingenuously.
was getting on, the other girls had
all been married, and at last had no
choice but between him and a LAWYER
who was counting me-
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05


The rich did not open their purses to
charity and benevolence last year To
quite the extent that they did the year
before. A contemporary that has kept
the account says that the total of gifts
to educational charitable and religious
institutions last year aggregated ST.
Ssi,16I, as against similar gifts of s123.-
SSS'fS2 during 1901. The greatest gift
OF the year was that of w. S. Stratton.
of Colorado. who gave SIS. 100000 to
charity. Mr.. Carnegie's gifts during
the year amounted to s6,OOO,O 900. 1t was
stated somewhere the other day that
Mr.. Carnegie had an assured income of
SlS,OOO,OOO a year. If that is true. he
viii have to give more than $4,000. 900 a
year If he hopes to escape dying dis
graced
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

Connecticut paper says that SEN
ator Joseph r. Hawley of that state
will not resign, but will serve to the
end of his term, March 4, 1905. It has
been stated upon authority that Sena-
tor Hawley is both mentally and ply
sically incompetent to discharge the
duties of his Office. His state, there
fore, must get along with the active
services of only one senator for two
years. The Senator's condition, of
course, is his misfortune and not his
fault; yet it seems out of keeping with
the spirit of the age that an incapac-
itated man should hold a seat and
vote in the most august deliberative
body in the world" However, if all
the dead wood were pruned off the
congressional tree there would be left
a numbers of gaps.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

A month ago when a grandson was
born to Senator Clark of Montana and
the announcement was made that the
Senator would present the child with
fortune of $1,OOO.OOO there was a
Hood of congratulation poured out up
on the infant. Happy baby; fortu
nate child" was the chorus. Yet
before the little fellow has grown old
enough to understand, his mother is
taken away from him by death. Not
all the millions in the world could
compensate that baby for the price
less boon which he is destined never
to know-the inestimable treasure of a
mothers love. The poorest Iaborers
baby. who can pillow its head against
its mothers breast, is infinitely richer
than the unfortunate little Clark child
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

1t would appear that ex-Representa-
tive Bynum of Indiana is now a full
fledged Republican. He is quoted as
having said a few days ago: 1.-THE ma
jority of the American people, 1 am
satisfied, favor the protection principle.
/ am willing that the American pro-
Queer and manufacturer shall be given
ample protection to compensate them
for the higher wages and every other
increased expense in the cost of pro-
duction." For several years Mr.. By
mum has been trying to get the Job of
member of the Board of General An
praisers at New York. as a Democrat.
This declaration of his puts him en-
tirely outside the Democratic breast
works, and makes it possible for the
Republicans to take him up if they
want to.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

According to the figures of the Rail-
way Age, a total of 5,549 miles of new
railway track was laid during 1902
This was on $40 lines in forty-four
states and territories. This does not
include spur tracks and sidings or any
of the mileage of numerous private and
logging roads constructed during the
year The Southwestern states led in
the aggregate of mileage, with $50
miles. The South Atlantic states built
5SS miles of new road. The whole
group of New England states built only
50 miles of new road during the twelve
months. In Georgia the new mileage
was 202, in Florida LOG. in South Caro-
lima 40, in Alabama SO and in Louisiana
40. The greatest construction was in
soklahoma and Texas, where 532 and 479
miles respectively were constructed
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

New tangled notions don't go in
Easton, Pa, especially if they have to
do with religious ceremonies. Pastor
Keiffer. of the First Reformed Congre-
cation wished to introduce individual
communion cups. He told his flock all
about how dangerous it was for a
number Of people to drink from the
same vessel; how the terrible microbes
were transmitted from lip to lip by the
congregational cup, and all that sort
OF thing. The flock listened attentively,
but when it came to a test vote the
iiock said that if the pastor didn't like
the old-fashioned way of taking COM
munion he could draw his pay and
quit He says he will.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

The Rev. DIR. Parker, the eminent
non-conformist preacher of London
whose death was chronicled in the dis
patches some days ago, once uttered
this fierce blast against the smoking of
tobacco: II hate smoking. From one
end to the other it is a nuisance. 1t
ends in cancer, apoplexy, bad temper.
bankruptcy and almost in hydrophobia
1t is an invention of the devil. 1t is
the devil. 1t is the pastime of perdl-
ton. No dog smokes. No bird pines
for tobacco. No horse is a member of
a pipe club. No intelligent person ever
puts a cigar in his mouth. The whole
idea and practice of smoking must be
condemned as athestical, agnostical and
Infinitely detestable." 1t is hardly
worth while to point out that this IL
wholly Incorporate and partly false
1t is the utterance of a fanatic. The
list of great and intelligent" men who
have smoked is very long, and includ
es even the name of the celebrated
Rev. DR.. Charles H. Sturgeon, also an
eminent divine of London, who on one
occasion said: II smoke to the glory
of Cod
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

A manufacturing company at Nj
agara Falls has succeeded in making
a good quality of soft and tough paper
from cotton seed hulls. 1t is believed
that a first rate quality of writing
paper can be made from the material.
This is a matter of much interest to
the South. If cotton seed huIs are
available for paper stock, it will mean
the enhancement of the value of the
Souths great money crop.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

Argentine, one of the best behaved
and most prosperous of the South
American republics. had bad luck with
the crops for several years up TO the
current harvest. This season, how
ever, there have been abundant rains.
and the harvest of both wheat and
corn will be among the largest on rec
ord. Argentine is seldom heard Of in
political way. but commercially she
is repadily forging to first place
among the Southern sisterhooS
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

1t is taught in the koran that rulers
who desert the faith of Mohammed,
who dress in the garb of infidels or
who adopt the ways and manners of
the infdel dogs, shall surely loose
place and power. Therefore no good
Musselman is astonished at the troubles
of Mulai Abd-el-Azziz, the sultan of
Morocco. Mulai owns an automobile.
is camera fiend, has several talking
machines and occasionally wears Eu-
ropean dress. 1t IS, therefore, kismet
that he should be overthrow.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

Marconi's wireless telegraphy is not
limited to crossing expanses of water.
1t will operate on land quite as well as
over seas. He is now making arrange
ments to cross Canada with a line of
wireless stations, and within a few
months messages will be flashed
through the ether between the Atlantic
and the Pacific coats.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

1t has been only a few years since
Levi Y. Letter was a clerk in country
store in Maryland at the wage of sic
q month. 1t was Levi q. Letters
daughter, representing really queen
in power, who rode at the head of the
procession in the Durbar ceremonies
in Delhi, India, the other day
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
COLLINSVILLE LINE.

(Fair Grounds and Dale AVe.)
Beginning at 600 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 p. m. 7:30 o. m.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
TIIe weather,.

The indications for Georgia and
Eastern Florida for to-day are jor
partly cloudy weather. with light, vari-
able winds.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

the figures together and see what they
make. Thirteen! Isn't that ominous?
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

New York man the other day
bought a parrot and carried it home to
see if it could out-talk his wife. Be
tween the incessant chatter of the two,
the man was driven to drink and
wound up in a police court.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
FREIGHT AND PARCEL CAR.

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 Sandfiy.
Cattle Park, Thunderbolt and all in
termediate points-6:00 a. m. Hoo a.
M. 300 D. m.
Freight car leaves Montgomery at
$50 a m. and 2:35 p. m, connecting at
Sandhy 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 y NAGr,E Maraeer
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
WEST END LINE.
(Lincoln Park.)

Car leaves west side of City Market
for Lincoln Park 900 a. m. and every
40 minutes thereafter until 1870 D. m.
Car leaves Lincoln Park for Market
$40 a. m. and every 10 minutes there
after until 1900 O'Clock midnight,
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
MONTGOMERY AND THUNDER.
BOLT LINE.

THUNDERBOLT LINE (SpeciaD.
City Market to Casino, via Bolton
Street Junction.
Beginning at 5:45 a. M, cars leave
City Market for Casino at Thunderbolt
every Ii minutes until IL 80 p. m.
Cars leave Bolton Street Junction Is
minutes after leaving time at City
Market.
Beginning at 5:53 a. M, cars leave
Casino at Thunderbolt every Is min
utes until 1908 midnight.
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05
MONTGOMERY LINE.

Connects at sandfiy with parcel car
to city.
sConnects at sandfy with parce. car
for Isle of Hope.
'+Goes. to Montgomery on return trip
from Isle of Hone
The Savannah morning news. (Savannah, Ga.) 1900-current, 1903-01-05

every day in the year. and served 20
subscribers in the city. or sent by mail.
at 20 cents q month. $500 for six
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-08-13
Ills Up to the Doctor

\ lady wrote us few weeks ago
from Winchester, Va, that she had
been under doctors care for 4 years
for dyspepsia, the pain seemed 10
center under her left shoulder blade,
and was so severe at times that she
could neither eat nor sleep. She had
lost faith in her homo doctor, and
asked us to send her samples Of our
DR. Gums improvedLiver Pills which
had been recommended TO her We
sent her two pills In few days
she sent for box. Now she writes
that the pain undcr shoulder has left
her entirely, she enjoys her meals and
never sleeps less than $ hours every
night, and this has all come about
in two weeks and cost her sec, for
two boxes of pills Says the doctor
charged her $50 90 and that she told
him he had hotter take the $50 90 and
invest it all in DIR. Gums Impr1 we'd
Liver Pills and build up his practice,
| We have not received the Doctor :
order vet but any one having dyspep-
/ tia, bilious spells or ck-hcadache
san got u speedy cure by the use Of
these pills Sold by W. f. krcmer
cfor 25c per box or 10y mail ON receipt
Of price Samples free. Address DR.
BoSanko Co PhilA Pa.
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-08-13
THE M'KINLEY DEATH COT.
which the Assassinated PrssI-
dent Breathsd His Last.

Although various people In New
York, Boston. Chicago and other cities
say they have the cot on which Presi-
dent Mckinley died, they are all alike
in error. states the New York Sun.
According to Francis Almy. Of the
Pan-American exposition two cots ex.
actly alike were in the Milburn home
for the use Of the wounded president.
After Mr. Mckinley died one Of them
was sent 10 DR.. Matthew u. Mann. one
Of the physicians in attendance. The
other was replaced among the cots
owned by the exposition company.
Both we're originally taken from the
hospital at the exposition.
"rhere has been some talk" says
Mr.. Almy, "as to whether the second
cot should be seat to the Buffalo His
torical society II seemed to be the
feeling that II should not be preserved
as the cot upon which the president
died, but should lose its identity and
be put with the other hospital cots and
sold with them, regardless OF its use
during the presidents illness
"That was done. The cot was placed
with the Others Its identity was lost.
No one knows who has II now. The
cots were sold to persons and institu-
tions in different parts Of the country.
81 cannot tell whether Mr.. Mckinley
died on the cot which went TO DR..
Mann OF on the other one"
Rogue River courier. (Grants Pass, Or.) 1886-1927, 1903-08-13
Reduced Summer Excursion
Rates.

The Denver & Rio Grande, popu-
larly known as the "Scenic Line Of
the World" has announced greatly
reduced round-trip rates from Pacific
Coast points for the benefit of
teachers who will spend their vaca-
tion in the east, and of delegates to
E. A., at Boston; A. o. U. W, at st.
Paul: b p. o. L, at Baltimore ;
Woodmen Of America at indianapolis
Eagles at New York; Mystic Shrine
at Saratoga Springs; X. of P. at
Louisville, and T. p. A., al Indian
apolis
Tickets at the reduced rates will be
based upon one fare for the round
trip, but will be sold on certain days.
These tickets will carry stopover
privileges on the going trip, giving
passengers an opportunity to visit
Salt Lake City, Glenwood Springs,
Colorado Springs and Denver; and
will be good to return any time
within ninety 1901 days. Passengers
going via the Denver & Rio Grande
are given the privilege of returning
via different route.
For the rate to the point you wish
to go. and for dates of sale and other
particulars, as we'll as for illustrated
pamphlets, write w. G. MCBRIDE,
General Agent, l24 Third St, Port
land, Or