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THE V ,VL1) )STA TIMES
c. C. :: 7AATLEY, Editor.
L. TUi’.MiR; Business Manager.
VALDOSTA. C.l, JAN. 18, 1905.
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, *1 A VERB.
Entered at the PostoWes at Valdosta,
Ga., as 8econd Class Mall Mattsr.
TWELVE PAQES.
John L. Sullivan Is delivering a
course of tortures on the fun lie had
spending $1,000,000.
The Chinese government promises
to remain neutral. The boxers are
yet to bo hoard from.
"Big Jim" Smith says ho Is In the
race for the governorship, but It is
most too Boon to say so.
Uncle Sam la now awarding con
tracts for carrying mat’ to the elec
tric roads where possible
There were 12,221 commercial fail-
tueb last year. Unfortunately, there
in no record of the successes.
The bloOd which was shed in Rus
sia this week puts the nation that
much closer toward constitutional
government
Two hundred thousand Ruskm
Quaker* are coming to this country
to establish a permanent colony near
Los Aagclos, Cal.
Socretary Wilson says there is no
such thing as a cabbage snake. Will
the secretary please tell us what to
call it?
The Paris doctor who has dlscov
ered that kissing promotes digestion
needn’t expect any rake-off from the
pill-makers after this.
Russia fiTffcd upon about as much
as any nation on earth, and there Is
less reason for having to lie on her
than any other nation on the globe.
Tom Watson attended ther cotton
grower# convention at New Orleans,
but?when he found that it was not
the purpose to legislate values Into
the staple, he kept his mouth shut.
The retirement of Hr. Steed from
the raoe for the presidency of the
senate simplifies scatters a little. It
makes It a three-cornered fight, with
the odds in favor of Col. W. 8. West.
The newspapers arerjiredlcJIog
pcaoo In Industrial circle? from the
diminished number of strikes. Let
them wait until the weather Is warm
er and see If the strike docs not flour
ish once moro.
Mr. Rockefeller sayB wo live too
fast and oatHoo much. With the idea
of reforming tho latter the multimil
lionaire milk and cracker eater has
established his CO cents a day hotel
In Now York.
The Japs and tho Russians have
boon as quiet for' the past week or
so as either Mrs. Chadwick or Nan
Patterson, but the Russians at homo
have not failnd to keep the corres
pondents busy.
Every day or so wo find a state
ment of what tho bugs cost the farm
ers. Why not give them some cred
It for tho good they do by cutting
down tho supply and thus raising the
price?
Mayor McCue, of Charlottesville,
Va„ who Is to bo hanged two woeks
from today for killing his wife, de
clares that ho will get Justlco above.
That Is true, but It nmy he that Jus
tlco la not what ho needs.
The Russian peasants need to be
educated boforo they can hopo for
anything like self-government. Rus
sia’s greatest crime is that she does
not put botte.r educational facilities
within tho roach of the masses.
While tho cotton growers’ convcn
tlon la straightening out the price of
cotton, would It not bo a good Idea for
it to strike a fow licks of the pen at
our bad roads? Tho farmers need
good roads nearly as much as they
need high prices for their cotton crop.
The Macon Telegraph sees much
good to result to the farmers by the
holding of the various cotton conven
tions. It says If thoy can be kept
busy In these conventions they will
not have Umo to plant more than half
a crop of cotton.
Two woeks ago, tariff reform was
In the air, excluding every other na
tional question. Now it Is almost
as completely fo^ed away as free
coinage of stiver and the regulation of
railway rates Is the Imminent ques
tion; almost as Inrticato as the tar
iff itself. t /
Thera are 1,100 ^delegates to the
New Orleans Cotton Growers' Conven
tion, and more than 1,100,000 cotton
grower^ who do not feel bound by the
action of the convention, and who
are going to plant all the cotton they
want to this year. It Is a pretty good
time for tho wtso farmers of thla
section to stay close to the shorer
THE BEARS ARE STILL AT WORK.
While eleven hundred delegates are
attending the Cotton Growers' Con
vention In New Orleans, the bears are
also "getting busy” themselves. They
are determined to destroy the effect
of the convention, If possible, and
they have already begun the tactics
which they employ about this time
of year every season. This year they
are Just a little shrewder than usual
In their campaign. They are not sat
isfied to do the work themselves, so
they call for the help of the admin
istration and from such other subjects
as they may employ. While (he cot
ton growers are calling for a reduc
tion of the acreage and of the ferti
lizer bills, the bears are busily en
gaged In showing that the world Is
Just on tthe verge of needing a tre
mendously large cotton crop.
Consul Smyth, the American repre
sentative in Tunstall, England, has
written the Department of Commerce
and Labor that the expansion of the
Lancashire spinners, combined with
the shortage in the Egyptian cotton
crop, will make an increased demand
for the American product very soon.
Another bear representative calls at
tention to the settlement of the strike
at Fall River to show that a new
source of demand will spring up there,
while still another pretends to believe
that a treaty of peace between Russia
and Japan is near at hand and that
a large demand for gotten will come
then. These are all syren songs,
which have led the farmers astray a
dozen times in tho past. If there is
an increaee In the demand for extern
from any source, we may* be sure
that thore Is enough of ttbaa staple
piled up In Southern cotttp\ ware
houses to prevent a famine or t6 pre
vent a greater Increase in prices chan
Is needed to compensate the Scvtth
for what she has already lost on the
staple tyis year
The advice of tho/botton Growers’
Convention should /be heeded. The
cotton acreage should So\ reduced,
and the fertilizer blil should he re
duced with it As we have pointed
out before, It Is a good time to plant
other crops and to let the land rest a
year, so that it wiff bring
crop without so much fertiliser next
year. The farmers of the South have
the reins In their own hands this year,
if they will refuse to be led away by
the plausible arguments of the agents
of the cotton mills. Not only are
they In good shape to reap a rich re
ward for tho cotton they have on
hand, but thoy are prepared to dic
tate prices for the crop to be sold next
Tho cotton acreage soon to be
planted will determine whether thoy
moan business or not. Bo caroful that
it does not betray a bluff. The enemy
Is sharp, and bluffs will not dcceivo
or lead him astray. A short acreage
moans bottor prices now and next
fall.
THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, JANUARY 28, 1905.
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POISONS IN OUR FOODS.
Dr. Wiley, of the Department of
Chemistry, is earning his salary these
days and is also vindicating the move
ment which led to the establishment
of that department three years ogo.
According to reports which come
from him, and based on the fullest
investigation, there r.ro very few
things which mortal nmn has to eat
that are not subjected to a lot of adul
teration, many of the adulterants
being poisonous. The announcement
conies, though, that adulterated food
is not Ro common as It was a few
years ago. Laws have been made in
many of tho states and by the fed
eral government which forces manu
facturers of adulterated goods to so
label them. Cotton seed oil, for In
stance, used to make about tho best
Goshen butter we could get, but when
the government forced the makers to
label It "oleomargarine," tho industry
was crippled and the eyes of tho gul
lible public were again opened.
According to Dr. Wiley, there are
several reasons for adulterating ar
ticles of food, os well as several ways
of doing It. One way Is to take the
most valuable Ingredient from an ar
ticle, as, for Instance, taking the
cream from milk and selling It as
"unskimmed milk;*' taking the Juicy
substance from beef and putting only
the lifeless meat upon the market,
as was charged during the war with
Spain. Another way is by adding
some cheaper article to a food prod
uct for the purpose of Increasing Its
weight or bulk, as the addition of
water to ssific, or glucose to syrup or
honey. Another way is by taking an
entirely different article and making
-an Imitation of a food product, as in
substituting oleomargarine for butter,
or mixing glucose and* honey together
so as to produce a maple syrup.
Another very common way of adul
teration is by coloring a food prod
uct to make it look better than it
really iq. This la practiced giving
a yellow appearance to bifpr that
would look like lard without It; add
ing anoline dyes to a mixture to
make it resemble and. take the place
of pure fruit jams, preserves, jellies,
etc.; the addition of sulphate of cop
per to give a better color to green
peas, beans and other canned vege
tables. Another common way of
adulteration is the use of drops, such
as boric acids, sulphurous aclhs and
other chemical antiseptics for the
purpose of preserving different arti
cles from decay. These are used in
oysters, meats and various produce,
cream, butters, dessicated frtilth,- etc.
In fact, there Is hardly an article of
food that Is not adulterated In some
way or other, and very few articles
that escape harmful adulterants.
The housewife who goes lnto^csta-
cles over certain brands of canned
goods may not know that It was the
doctoring" that gave them such a
satisfactory appearance., The codfish
may bo preserved in boric acid in
stead of salt, and the French sar
dines may have been caught oij, the
coast of Maine, just beyond pious
Boston. The maple syrup may be
glucose and brown sugar, add the ol
ive oil may have been squeezed out
of cotton seefi that grew, at her very
doors; the Mocha and Java coffee
may have - come from Brazil, while
the Havana cigars which her husband
smokes may have, been made tn Way-
cross or Quitman. There. seems to
b? no way to escape the adulterations
that go Into foods of all kinds, except
to 'make what you eat at home,'And
them, enough over ' to supply .^the
neighbvrs In town.
Dr. WUey and his Departing
ChemistrV are entitled to^raP
port of every citizen in their effort^
to keep up with articles of food which
have been poisoned by adultera
tions, and so keep them off the mar
ket—as welL as prevent adulteratibns
of that kind.
.shatter the nation’s idol.
The recent manifesto from the au
thorities which promises concessions
to the strikers, though late in coming,
may do some good in patching up a
treaty of peace between the two
classes. The proclamation is Cunning
ly devised, asking the strikers why
they did not appeal to the govern
ment at first and not listen to the
agitators. It is true, the agitators do
frequently make compromises In mat
ters of this sort impossible, and it
may have been fear of the anarchis
tic element which kept the Czar from
presenting himself to his subjects who
sought his counsel. Nevertheless it
would have been better for the throne
if he had braved every risk in order
to hear the appeal of his people in
their distress.
Since the shackles were stricken
from four Million American slaves,
more than that many Russian serfs
have been given freedom, and it has
been demonstrated that too much lib
erty was a dangerous thing for them
as well as for their country. What
the poorer classes of Russia need is
more of education, so as to make them
better prepared for the kind of gov
ernment which many of them are now
seeking. If the Czar is wise and if
he desires to see the house of the
Romanoffs perpetuated he will strive
to give them better educational facil
ities and to show himself the de
voted Father which they look upon
him to be.
Whale Chewed Up Cable.
Seattle, Wash.. Jan. 25.—The break
in the cable* between this city and
Valdez, Alaska, which has put it out
of commission for three months, has
been repaired, and the work of for
warding messages has been resumed.
The Sitka end of the" cable was
WANTED.
WANTED—Rooms for light house
keeping, furnished or unfurnished, or
will rent cottage References given
Address Box 185
WANTED—Second hand piano,
raised by the battleship Burnside, and | Must be cheap. Box 4, Valdosta.
It was found that a whale was at-1 .
tached. The animal’s Jaws were firm- WANTED-An experienced man
ly entangled In the wired and mb- " oold "* e a set of 1)00148 t0 ke °P-
ber Insulation, and the condition of j Address X., care this offlee.
its body showed that it had been dead! WANTED-Three or four hours per
for-some tme. It is the belief ol the day stenographic work by competent
cable experts that the damage to the ^nographer. Address “Miss, box 107,
cable was caused by the whale. | ‘ _ ...
I GAME WANTED—All sorts of fresh
r iVr.TTTrTno K»nie wanted every day at the highest
THE TIMES WANT ADS. prices, at McCrauie’s Cafe, 111 West
, Hill avenue.
WANTED—Ladies to operate sewing
machines. Can get comfortable work in
For sale, a grocery store and beef | our sewing room. Valdosta Mercan-
FOR SALE*
market combined. Apply to A. T.
Woodward.
COW FOR SALE.—Fine fresh Jer
sey cow. Apply to W. E. Rouse.
FOR SALE—Ten acres of truck
land, with running water, one mile
from court house. Price $1,500. Ap
ply to D. M. Smith, Valdosta, Ga.
FOR SALE—A five-acre lot on Oak
street, two blocks from car line. Price
$1,000. Apply to D. M. Smith, Val
dosta, Ga. 2t-Fri.
tile Co
WANTED AT ONCE —Sixteen tons
upland cottOD seed.
2l-4t Vam-Mathis Grain Co , Valdosta.
WANTED—Good ohq or two-horse
renter or half cropper; with or without
stock. Good house.
J. B. Jones, Valdosta, Ga.
BOARDERS WANTED.
BOARDERS - Gentleman and wife, or
two young men, can obtain good board
and room at 204 Central avenue. l-24-4t
.. . WANTED—A few boarders. Good
FOR SALE - A grocery store and beef accommodations, at rejusonabls rates.
Splendid location. Apply 400 Pine street. l-7-8t.
market combined
' Apply to A T. Woodw ard.
FOR SALE—A tine, well-trained 2
year-old bird dog. Address C. O.
Avriett, Jennings, Fla 1-24 4t
FOR SALE—8,000 gallons pure Geor
gia cane syrup—extra thick and care
fully filtered, manufactured on the
latest improved steam evaporating ma
chinery and put up in one gallon tin
nans, hermetically sealed. Every gal-
guaranteed pure and delicious.
Otherwise, his despotic government j g. 4 n 011H G f something good for your own
uso. Packed six to eight tins in a case
W L Thomas, proprietor Magnolia
Farm, Valdosta, Ga. 12-24-sw-2m.
will be torn asunder by anarchy and
revolution, and another government
established In its place.
England is again making plans to
build the biggest battleship in the
world, and by next year some other
Important nation will make It neces
sary for the Britons to start all over.
The biggest battieship In the world
never succeeds in getting itself itfreefc car line. Apply to H,
launched before a bigger one Is start* Toombs Street,
ed somewhere. It’s a beautiful game,
especially for the people who pay.
It rarely happens that a man looks
forward to the possibility of failure
jr poverty.jZlL-—
FOR RENT.
FOR RENT.—The nouse at No. 400
East Hill avenue. Apply to J. T. Bla
lock, at the Merchants' Bank.
FOR RENT—Large front room nicely
furnished. Apply at 805 Central Ave.
l-24-2t.
FOR RENT—Six-room house, well
located, close in and in one block of
V Lane,
l-24-2t
ROOMS FOR RENT—Two front
rooms, well furnished. 814 east Hill
avenne; within two blocks citv hall
Excellent table board can be had on
opposite side of street. 117 Af..
BRIOE STORE-Formerly occupied
by E. S. Hamilton for. rent Apply to
A. 8. jrendleton.
To Stay Ahead
' Is harder than getting ahead. The
reason the General was appointed
to, and keeps the lead, was because
ho had the knowledge necessary to
fill the position. ,
SOU IH GEORGIA BOSIUBSS COLLEGE
Will give you the necessary knowl- .
edge to fit you for a General'* com
mission in the Commercial Army.
Our College is fully equipped for
DE8POTI8M OR ANARCHY.
The Russian government seems to
bo swayed at the present time by des
potism on one hand and anarchy on
the other. Unlimited freedom may be
easily turned to anarchy and chaos,
while unbridled authority becomes
despotism. What Russia needs is the
putting down of both these extremes,
or of bringing them into more har
monious relations. The labor trou
bles at St. Petersburg this week do
not appear to have been much greater
than thoy were in Chicago twelve
years ago, or at Homostead. where
tho riots occurred, or during the strike
of tho butchers and the anthracite
minors not so long ago, but the mode
of dealing with these troubles in the
two countries was very different. In
America the rights of the laborers as
well as tho capitalists are respected;
In Russia tho striking laborers were
fired upon without tho slightest ne
cessity for it.
Tho poorer classes in Russia, the
working people and peasants,
usually an uneducated class, who look
up to tho czar as the divinely appoint
ed ruler of the country. They pray
to him with as much religious fervoT
as they do to Jehovah himself. There
is no evidence that there was the
slightest danger to the Czar from the
workmen who composed the mobs
which paraded the streets of the Rus
sian capital and which were fired upon
by tho troops when it approachled
tho royal palace. According to
dispatches, tho strikers went to
palace to pray to the ruler for he
for sympathy, for a word of encour
agement. His appearance before them
and a word from him might have
brought order more quickly and me re
permanently than came with the v ol
ley of shots which carried out the
lives of so many of the people. Su ch
an answer to an appeal to the man
whom these ignorant people worship
fanatically is not calculated to inspire
them with so much devotion to tfie
Czar. In fact, It haa only served
WE don’t believe
hollering, but
these Winter Suits
and Overcoats will
wait for no man at
the present prices.
We are afraid you
will not get your
share. Better get
in while there is a chance. Maybe you will find your stze
among the highest priced ones. You know this is the time for
our annual clearance sale. Take your pick before you get
shut out. The sale includes all of the Suits and Overcoats we
have left. Hundreds are taking advantage of the low prices
we are giving.
BOYS’ CLOTHING.
Buster Brown Suits, $6 50 down to $4 50
Buster Brown Suits $7.50 down to . . $5.00
400 Boys’ Double Breasted Suits $6.50 to $4.00
400 Boys’ Double Breasted Suits $6.00 to $3.90
$5.00 Suits Reduced to $3.25
$4.00 Suits Reduced to . . $1.25
50 Suits, no two of a kind at One-Half Price.
$1.00 to $3.00 Knee Pants at 39c to $1.40
MEN’S CLOTHINd
Mode by Strauss Bros, and Hart, Schaffner &
Marx, tlio bent to bo had. We have arranged
these suite into four prices, putting in odd lots,
one two suits of a kind, to make up the line.
If yoursize is in them it is money saved for yon.
All | 9.00, $10.00 and $11.00 Suits go at $ 7.75
" ia.00, 13.00 •• 18.60 9.50
“ I8 60, 15.00 “ 16.60 " “ “ 11 00
“ 17.00, 18.00 " 20.00 12.00
" 20.00, 22.00 “ 25.00 15.00
100 Men's Suits to close out at 3.69
Davis Brothers & Company.