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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SA'l iY, FEBRUARY 4, 1905. FOR SHACKLING DAVIS. GEN. MILES SCORED BY JOHN SHARP WILLIAMS. House Refuses to Pay Miles the Sal ary of an Active General—Williams Opposed 8uch Punishment—Didn’t Want Miles Cut Out of the Pay. Washington. Feb. 1—The treatment by Oen. Nelson A. Miles of Jefferson Davis, president of the Confederacy, daring the time he was a prisoner at Portress Monroe. Va., was recalled In the house today, when Mr. Wil liams, of Mississippi, the minority leader, tried to secure the adoption of the senate amendment to the house provision regarding retired of ficers serving with the state militia. Messrs. Hull, of Iowa, and Hay. of gtnia, both mem be res of tho mill- airs committee, indorsed the [pg it retroactive, sras Democrat- bney, and for the Demo- immittee. to agree to rhich does not retired of- it, 71 to 171. > conference. OREAMED OF SON’S DEATH. WARSHIPS FOR RUSSIA. [ly to Messrs. » was not at [tack on bis be oulil. [fealty an a beta to ntay lit an well .cling that [ter tain re- nnduct when he .Pthe anklcn of Jef- I do not believe It FhJntory to lila credit or ' sound In hlnlory to tho JT ot ji r Davla that he wan Bed to oubmlt to It, old and ^na nnd nick nn he was at that , ^'If this leglnlntlon had been point ed nt anybody else than Oen. Miles— a Democrat appointed by n Democrat ic governor under thoBe circumstances nnd believed by me, rightfully or wrongfully, to have that motive be hind It—I would have taken the same course that I have taken, except that I have taken It much more anxiously and much more warmly. "I stand in the relationship to Jef ferson Davla that aomo of my critics do not. First, he was a Mlsaiaalpiffan, nnd I am.one. My'gi ■nlJbaptaln Wat Drowned In River According to Dream of Mother. Chattanooga, Tenn., Feb. 2.—The story of a remarkable premonition of death, revealed in a dream, cornea from Claiborne county, this state. On Wednesday, January 11. Campbell Olllenwaters left his home and went to a logging camp to hasten prepara tions for starting rafts down the river on the tide that was expected within the next twenty-four hours, and It was necessary for him to cross the river to reach his destination. It was hla Intention to return home early tho next morning, and this fact was known to his family. On Wednesday night, Mrs. Olllen waters, the unfortunate young man's mother, dreamed that she saw her son struggling Id the waters of the ex pected tide. ‘She awoke in a fright and aroused the household, telling them her dream. F-eakfast was has tily prepared and disposed of. and be fore daylight came tho young man's wife, who was a bride of a few weeks, was well on her way, horseback, to meet her husbBnd at the river to warn him not to attempt to cross. When she was very near tho river, still rid ing at the best speed her fagged-out horse could make, she met a man who told her that her husband had been drowned Just a little while before and that his body had not yet been re covered. During Sunday night the drowned man's mother-in-law dreamed that the body was hung at the bottom of tho river near where last seen. Mon day morning her husband returned to the river, and with others wont to the spot Indicated by his wife, and In five minutes succeeded In recover ing the body. This Year’s Eclipse Many well equipped expeditions will leave this country and Europe to view the big astronomical event of the year 1906 from tho most advantageous points. This event will he a total eclipse of tho sun, which will occur August 30. William H. Crocker California, lias offered to defray the expense of sending expeditions from the Lick Observatory, California, to Labrador, Spain and Egypt. The Na val Observatory, of Washington, will probably send three expeditions, one of which may bo located near Burgo, Spain. Photographs of the corona by means of a camera of flvo Inches aper- tufe and forty CHARLE8 SCHWAB TO TAKE THE BIG CONTRACT. He Goes to 8t. Petersburg to Conclud# the Contract for $100,000,000 8hlp§ for Russia’s New Navy—Bethlehem Steel Corporation the Real Bidder. New York, Feb. 2.—Charles Schwab Is today making plans for a trip to Russia, where he has a deal pending with that government for the construction of ten battleships, their accessories and other armament, cost-r ing $100,000,000. Mr. Schwab said! today that he waa'acting on behalf o| the Bethlehem 3teel Corporation air' he hoped to conclude the negotlatloi in Russia which have been in pri ress for about a month. It has been generally known amoi the large shipbuilders of the worl that Russia purposes to begin irnm diately the reconstruction of itsnav: Tentative propositions have bee made by several English and Germ concerns to the Russian governmei but when the Bethlehem Steel Co ration,- as the reorganized ship T trust ip now known, presented its 8] eifleations and estimates, the inter of the Russian navy department mediately cei^cred therein. As it is now constituted the lehem Steel Corporation is able / turn out a battleship complete. * ready the company has begun HI for the construction of a battleship to be sold to tho highest bidder, a plan which has been found to he high ly successful by two of the largest English shipbuilders. Two weeks ago, it is learned, Mr. Schwab decided to leave for SL Pe tersburg to discuss the proposition of the $100,000,000 contract, but was de-j tained on account of the reorganisa tion meetings of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation. When the labor disturb ances occurred lajer, he was advised to postpone his visit. COMMEND8 GOVERNOR TERRELL. Congratulated Upon Refusal to Allow Negro Troopa at Inauguration. New Orleans, Jan. 30.—The PicA- yune’s Jackson, Miss., correspondent says: Governor Vardaman this ev^* nlng sent the following telegram Governor Terrell, of Georgia? “Permit me to congratulate white people of Georgia upon y character of their chief executlVj f far* A. PEC] ALEm’ WE don’t believe in 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.fi Better get srhile there is a chance. Maybe you will find your stze long 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. * V ww Copyright 1904 by Hart Schaffher fc? Marx BOYS’ CLOTHING. Buster Brown Saits, $6 60 down to . 44 6C Bnstor Brown Saits *7.50 down to . . $5.00 400 Boys’ Donble Breasted Suits $6.50 to $4 .00 400 Boys’ Donble Breasted Suits $6.00 to $3.90 $5.00 Suits Reduced to $ 3 - 25 $4.00 Salts Reduced to . 4 1 - 25 60 Salts, no two of a kind at One-Half Price. $1.00 to $3.00 Knee Pants at 89o to $1.49 MEN’S CLOTHING Made by Stranss Bros, and Hart, Sohaffner & Marx, the host to be had. We have arranged these suits into four prices, putting in odd lots, one two suits of a kind, to make np the line. If yonr size is in them it is money saved for yon. All $ 9.00, $10.00 and $11.00 Suits go at $ 7.75 12.00, 18.00 “ 13.60 18.60, 15.00 ” 16.50 “ 17.00, 18.00 " 20.00 “ ■’ 20.00, 22.00 “ 25.00 “ 100 Men’s Suits to close out at 9.50 11.00 12.00 15.00 8.69 ithers & Company. as an old mas can i a friend of 4 child or boy. If yon want to punlah Oen. Milas or anybody else for what was dona In those days; if history la to hold oat Its condem nation all right, but this la not the 1 tlmo nor the place nor the way to gat even. The people of the South don't punlah In little ways like that.” Mr. William* waa loudly applauded on the .Democratic aide. BIO DIAMOND WAS FOUND. Largest Diamond Evtr Found Is From 8outh Africa. New York. Feb. 2.—Much Interest was manifested today In the report that a diamond weighing 3,003 carats had been found In the African dia mond fields, and that It Is valued nt something like $4,000,060. (leorge F. Kunx, the diamond expert, snfd that he had heard of the great African And. A member of Stern Bros. & Co., dia mond dealers, said that the biggest stone hitherto reported was one weigh* lng 900 carats, taken from tho De Beer's Company's Kimberly digging, and retained by the company r.s an exhibit. An expert said today: ''Three thousand carats would he about 60 ounces, considerably more than three pounds. Dlumond cutters estimate thnt 60 per cent. Is lost In the cutting, and should n stone weigh- lng 3,000 carats be found nnd put on the cutting table, it woidd he nenrer 1,800 carats when finished." The first news of the discovery of this tremendous diamond reached New York through former Congress man Jefferson M. Levy, In a cable gram ha received from l-ondon. an nouncing that a 3,006 carat diamond had been found In the Premier dia mond Held In the Transvaal. Mr. Levy is the largest American stockholder In the Premier Company, which la controlled by London capital. The Kohlnoor diamond, until now tho largekt la the world, weighs 113 carats and la worth 1600,000. It weigh ed 900 carats before It wa* cut. ItlMM ■tours, will MgMflKrgo, Spain, which It probably one of the moat desirable stations along the route of anticipated darkness. A programme Is being arranged tor covering the mi nor detail* of an eclipse, such as ob servations of the diminishing sunlight, tho peculiar shadows cast by the fo liage on the ground when the sun la nearly eclipsed; the strange wavering lines or Bhadow hands, aa they aro called, which make their appearance few momenta before totality; the swift onrush of shadow .and Anally, tho glorious but Indescribable corona. "Thus, whllo tho astronomer is ab sorbed In special details which re quire his wholo and undivided atten tion, the nmatour enjoys the oppor tunity of watching the unfolding glories of the corona front tho stand- point of n poet or artist. Words fall to convey the Impressiveness of tho scene. Front remotest times It has been described with enthusiasm as being one of tho most beautiful of nat ural phenomena."—Chicago Nows. Two Man Hard at Work. There are two men In the West engaged this winter on decidedly now el work. Each la working In the base ment of hla house, and has a pile of aand and some barrels of cement. The one la moulding handsome blocks with which to build a nice house next summer and the other la making drain tile from the same material and in the same manner with which to reclaim the wet places on hla farm. Why is not this n good scheme? Burdens Borne by Russia. National debt, $3,500,000,000. Annual interest on debt, $80,000,000, Expended on Siberian nnd Manchu rian roads, $1,500,000,000. Taxes unpaid by peasants (1900), $60,000,000. Lews by famine in five years preced ing 1902, $500,000,000. Eight famines, five since 1902, loss $200,000,000. 1,088 to tollers by 150 to 170 holi days each year, $100,000,000. Wnr loss to date, $400,000,000. Expenses of holy synod annually, $18,600,000. In relation to these figures a well known write says: "The simple truth is tho Russian peasant, 100,000,000 of him, Is, under present conditions, slowly starving to death. His average earnings In tho central provinces aro 17 or 18 co pecks (8 or 9 cents) a day through out the year; during the busiest har- veat time they rise to an average of 27 to 36 copecks (14 to 16 cents) a day; during the whole winter he and hi* family earn nothing. Hla diet consists of meal, hour and grits, cab bage and potatoes; no meat, except three times a year. Hla diet la in sufficient and less than in any civilised country. The hovel he lire* In It two and a half yards long and one and one-half yards high, harboring the whole family, and whatever cattle he possesses. These data are taken from official sources.”—Philadelphia Press. v your devoted head the severest ^con demnation of the misinformed negro- phiUtea of the North, the office-bribed referees of the South and a few broad minded and patriotio office-holders and political creatures of both sec tions, but nine-tenths of the decent, liberty-loving, self-respecting white people of the South commend your act. I thank God that a few of the faithful old guard are with us still. Southern gentlomen In authority, who cannot he bribed with federal patron age or debauched with presidential flattery. "JAMES K. VARDAMAN. NEQRO COMPANIES TO QUIT. Governor and HI* Advisor* Decide They Are Ueeleea to 8tate. Atlanta, Feb. 2.—Governor Terell nnd the adjutant-general nnd inspeC- tor-gencral have practically decided to abolish the colored military com- panics In Georgia. Experience has shown thnt tho colored troops are entirely useless. They have never t called on to do service of any kind, and the state is not particularly proud of them. The refusal of Governor Terrell \o allow a colored company to go to Washington served to bring matters focus. Tho disbanding of com panies will be passed on by the mili tary advisory board nt Us next meet ing, which will be held In the spring. There are five companies in the state, three In Savannah, one in Augusta and one tn Macon, Twain Wat Entirely Harmless. Mark Twain was walking along the street one warm day and stopped to rest, sitting down on a horse block. Ho was fanning himself with his hat when a hurdy-gurdy started to play Just back of him. An elderly llady passing by and seeing the famouti hu morist with his hat in his hand con nected him with the musical instru ment, and dropped a generous contri bution into Mr. Clemens’ hat. Ha promptly rose, bowed low, much to the lady's astonishment, and said; "Do not be frightened, madam. The man here”—Indicating the muaclan— "does not attach a chain to me, but I am very well trained, and, I assure you, entirely harmless” / Mr. Wm. S. Crane, of Caltlornia, Md., suffered tor years with rheuma tism and lumbago. He was Anally ad vised to try Chamberla|n'a Pain Balm, which he did, and it effected It com- plete cure. This liniment la tbr sale by W. D. Dunaway. f Fit and Style. There are some things which can’t be improved. One of these things is the "Queen Quality” Shoe for women. You can make it more elaborate, you can decorate it, embellish it, use costly materials and all that. But for $100 a pair You Cannot Make a Better Shoe Than “Queen Quality,” having regard solely to the two great essentials of FIT and STYLE. This means that mechanically it is perfect. As for its appearance, the fact that one hundred thousand women choose it instantly above all other shoes would seem to indicate that it is attractive. Why don’t you go so far as to- try on a pair the next time you go to the store. It costs nothing to see them fit your foot. Boots $3.00. Oxfords $2.50. Special Styles 50-cents extra. Fast color eyelets used exclusively. The Leaders in Staple Dry Goods, Heavy Groceries and Farmers’ Supplies, W. T. Lane. BOSTONIANS FOR MEN BOSTONIANS FOR MEN