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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. ~ r "’‘ 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.