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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1905. THE VALDOSIA TIMbH C. Ct OnANTLEV, Editor. E. L.' TUftNER. Sutlneti Manager. VAUDOSTAi GA, FEB. It, 1105. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, 91 "A YEAR. Entered at the Pottofflee at Valdosta. Ga. aa Second Class Malt Matter. TWELVE PAGES. The Ccar aeemod a little surprised that he oould not teed his subjects on ‘'proclamations and fudge." The bears are helping to push cot ton In order to make Southern farm ers plant another suicidal crop this year. Tom Lawson says designs are being had on Ilia life by Walt street The latter thlaks all ho needs Is a little more rope. AccordMg to Devoe's predictions, there Is a fot moro of cold weather to come.yet. March Is put down for a good many cold days. Women tiring In Kansas will hare full cltironshlp In Kansas after this. It remains to fco seen whether they will use It any less foolishly. With coo gross hammering the rail roads at oao end and Atlanta at tho other, there ought to be no difficulty In bringing them to proper terms. That scientist who thinks he can extract gold from the sea must hare gotten that Idea from the big graftB In the canal business around the coun try. Under the Illinois law bigamist Hoch cannot be sererely punished. A lit punishment would bo to deliver him Into Uie hands of his surviving wives. Florida orange and Georgia peach growers say they cannot market their crops without the private car system. We hope the watermelon will not get Into, such * Jdopardy as this. Professors. Pickering, of Harvard CollegAvglUr* be Is watching the aun spots ehidjy. The rest of us are set- to be some ninety-three million 1 from them. Alabama should Invite ovor a few moro boll weevils to regu late their annual output of cotton. This |s much more effective than swearing dn from raising It. Kentucky has named a place In Jackson bounty “Hang-around.” has been suggested that the next town that springs up In or near Brea thitt ooaM^ bo namod "Shot-around." It was ypfy kind of Col. Henry Wat- tcraon,..gti8to Louisville Courier-Jour nal, to yp£*tfLAU£h a long vacation In Europe and-glvo the Now York smart act an opportunity to "cut up” again. If Mr. Osborne Is to write any moro lettors It would be well If some of bis friends would get him to put some thing In them besides wind and words. The public, wants facts, spcclOc facts. Harris Jordan has begun to shout "Victory is ours,” but he had better wait until tho noxt crop-la planted. There Is plenty of time yet for the bears to swallow the cotton growers whole. Senator Bacon, of Georgia, has call ed attention to tho fact that whilo sev eral senators havo boon Indicted, nono of them are Democrats. The graftors ure all In tho Republican party, aomo how or other. Mr. Osborne made a perfectly nat ural mistake in regarding Col. West os "his” candidate, but the balanco of the state is, pretty woll convinced that Col. West .Is the candidate of no man or set of men. A Jaoksoq. Miss., woman takes the cake In divorces. In suing her hus band for (front she claims alimony of the money he won In a suit tor the alienation of her affections. This wo man almost belongs to the Chadwick class. .... , • Some of the Republican congress men from Indiana and Illinois are try ing to explain that their position on the tariff has been "misunderstood." When a congressman uses the word mlsunderestood, he Is usually, trying to hedge both ways. The State Agricultural Society Is fixing to p«t the Stato Fair where none of tho dtles will want it It they do not look out If they want to ro tate they should do so, but to knock it off to the highest bidder la a very good way to put It where there will be no kidding tor it Coxoy aad his army tried to march up the capital steps, then a bicyclist was arrested tor attempting It, and now aa ertmll player of Pennsylvania Is going to try. to run a sixteen-horse power automobile up them. Just bo- canes a tow men hare gotten Into congress so easily Is not a sign that just anything can get up the capital steps. 18 IT A HEW R008EVELT? President Roosevelt made a speech before a Republican club at a Lin coln dinner Uat Tuesday .evening which ha* caused many newspaper* to imagine that a change has come over the spirit of his dreams. Sobe of them say that it is a new Roose velt The president spoke upon the raco problem, or what is moro com monly called the negro question. He started out by quoting from Lincoln's second inaugural address, "with mal Ice toward none and with charity for all.” Then he went into a very tem perate discussion of the question, ap pealing for fairness to the negro and sympathy for the 8outh as she faces the problem, which is more acute here than at the North, The president expressed the desire to see “the forward race enabled to preserve unharmed the high civiliza tion which had been wrought out by the forefathers.” He also said that the ^‘vicious, ignorant, venal colored man Is a greater foe to his own than to the community as a whole.” Again, "law abiding black men should for the sake of their race, be fore most in relentless and unceasing war fare against law-breaking black men.” Ali of that is good, and here is more like it: "The white man who, if he is willing, can help the colored man more than all other white men put to gether,, is the white man who Is his neighbor, North or South.” It Is the realization of this truth that makes tho Southern people resent the inter ference of Northern busy-bodies who are ignorant of the real situation and who would prefer to ombarrass the whites of the South to helping any body, white or black. The president then pays a tribute to the South, to Southern soldiers in the war- and to the great deeds of the South. He also rofors to tho manner in which the negro is treated at the North, and says that the North 'should act in good faith upon the principle of giving to each and * li iiiMtlv' film him ivninllnir hit*, .tot ii* mlfSCttfflJi | is justly due him, granting him i/b special favors, but denying him no proper opportunity for labor and the reward of labor.” This 1b Intended as a rap at those pious critics of the South who try to force equality here, but t?ho refuso to even allow the ne gro the right to labor in their own locality. “Bach of us,” the president declares, “must do his whole duty without flinging, and if that duty is national, it pftst be 'in accordance with the principles above laid down.” That, of coufqe, is intended to justify his own cour^ in appplntlng negroes to of fices in the South. And the grievance which the South has had against Mr. Roosevelt is that ho has not been so "unflinching” when it came to putting negroes in offices at the North. Hie policy there'was to choose men wBo were acceptable to tho communities in which the appointments woro to be made. In regard to the South, he has run rough-shod ovor tho wishes of the peopio and has appointed men to offico against whom thete was loud and unanimous protest. The president’s speech was very- well larded and was evidently intend- we quoted above, Japan has increased her trade with Ghjoa manufactured goods from $250,000 to $16,000,000 in ten years, and on rat cotton, which she has to secure^ it the United States. Last. year,.Japan purchased over $7,500,000 jOf cotton from us and converted It into cotton goods which she sold for jporc thin double that amount of money. Great Britain took from us ft 1902 ovtjr. $125,000,000 of cotton and*sold the manufactured products at efcport for. $358,000,000. Germany, France and o^er countries buy our raw material arid convert it into untold millions of profit. It shows, moreover, that the world’s exports of cottljn goods for 1904 amounted to $66*000,000 in value, though the Unltedlstates sup plied only $22,500,000 of lie amount; this, too, although we prijduce three- fourths of the cotton supply of the world that was exported. Last year, the records show, we imported more cotton goods than we exported. Of course, It will be arjbed that in America wages are higher than in Europe aqj^^Rr that we cannot compote withi^mn in manu factured goods. There Ij.jpuch force In this argument. The industrial classes in other countries get small wages when compared wfth the prices which are paid here, but that is not the only reason why we show up so poorly in our exports of cotton goods. It Is largely true that we do not cater enough to the wants of the foreign trade. We try to sell China. Cuba. South America and other countries the same goods that we make for our own use, rather than the goods that they want. American manufacturers must give more attention to studying the de mands of our foreign customers. With our expansion of territory, our big navy and ouf big ideas or our mission in the earth, we must Increase our merchant marine, so that ? 4uf "drum mers'’ may be nosing of the foreign ports, HpUilMout tfteir wishes and then soglb* tA American questionable condition of this main stay of our system. The other ma- cUjnry is in excellent condition and is 'a testimony of itself to the splendid care it has had from the superintend ents* * § ration.—Having been operated a lease, the cityr Bas, of course, r lost uor gained from Its op eration during the past year. Superintendent. — The resignation of our superintendent, which was very much to be regretted, it is now our pleasure to say, has been with drawn, and we shall be able to retain In our employ the services of this most competent and able superintend ent, whose long and faithful service demands consideration and apprecia tion. Recommendations. Extension.—The city has outgrown the efficiency of pur plant, and a wise policy should extend its usefulness by placing new mains as rapidly as our income will permit. A most advisable policy would remove our smaller mains to less densely populated dis tricts and replace them with six (6) inch and eight (8) inch mains, as new ones are put in. Pumps.—Being entirely dependent upon one “air compressor’ for our en tire water supply, and this machine having been in constant operation for seven years, and even now needing repairs, which are impossible while in constant use, it is urgently recom mended that council immediately in stall a duplicate pump. Relying upon the opinion of our superintendent, we believe it wise to make a test of the Bcrew pump now at thq plant. Boilers^-—Your committee recom mends tlfmt ‘all boilers be equipped with coal grates and be put in thor oughly first class condition. Fuel.—In view of the constantly in- creasipg scarcity and uncertainty of the wood supply, your committee rec ommends that the" city make contract for a year’s supply of coal. Meters.—There being yet forty- eight (48) water takers on the sched ule rate, we recommend that meters be installed as rapidly as possible un til every opening on private property shall be under a meter, and that the schedule rate be absolutely abolished Relation to Fire Department.—The fact that our pressure pumps are in constant danger of over-work by use of large nozzles in fighting fire, the fire department is urgently requested to consider the safety of the plant by using as small nozzles as efficiency in their department will permit. J. T. BLALOCK, Chairman. J. M. HARVEY, Waterworks Committee. Early Garden Seeds. Wo handle all rarieties of garden seeds. Pat your order in early and hare an early garden. Genuine seed Irish Pota toes—the kind that grow. For sale by W. D. Dunaway, Druggist and Optician. ply them. (Continued From Page* MAYOR ANO COUNCIL IN THEIR ANNUAL MEETING. Report of 8treet Commltee. Hon. Mayor and Council—Gentlemen: I beg leave to submit the follow ing report of the street department for the year ending February the 10th, 1905. The following amounts havo been expended for this depart ment: Salary city engineer and street foreman $1,020.00 Permanent improvement 1,6294)0 Pay roll, etc 2,716J)1 Report of Health Committee. Hon. Mayor and Council—Gentlemen: We think from what we can gather from citizens of different sections of the city, the sanitary condition is Jalrly good, although same could be gr&atJy ^improved. 8ewer*p-We havo • seventeen miles, kumm? uTQod_condltlon, except.In two p»sujw,^fce af~Stev6ffr Florida avenue, one near the guano factory, in the western portion of the city. We are having some trouble with roots from shade trees In the smaller sewers in the residence sec tions of the city. We would there fore recommend that your honorable body buy a sewer rod and root cutter. Sewer Connections.—We are truly pleased to be able to report that all residents on sewer lines have been connected, with the exception of about twenty-five (25). These we expect to have connected by summer. New Sewers.—We recommend that you put in sewers on streets as foi lows: On Ashley, from Webster to Gordon; on Gordon, from Ashley to Slater; on North and Adair, from Ashley to Dead End, near Patterson; on Stevens, Briggs and Toombs, from Florida avenue to Savannah avenue. Recommendatlons.-r-Wo recommend the purchase of four (4) new scaven- The largest and best equipped entertainment of Its kind In tin T LOCATED NEXT DOOR TO CARTER & MBTHTClPSite HOUSE*- • - ' ■ ‘ _ throwing the sand out of the ditches on the sidewalks [to bo wash ed back by Jhe first rain. It may be .'ttked why wo throw the Band on the fluftvplks and in the streets. My re ply Itf ♦Flat we have nowhere else to put the sand, and nothing else with which to fill up the holes in the side walks. We must either dlsposo of it in this way or loave it alone. I beg ,’o say in this connection that we Intend throwing less sand the pres ent year and spend $2,000 of the ap propriation to our department in per manent Btrcet improvement. As an experiment, we laid out ed for tho Southern people to swallow about 3,333 squaro yards of pyrites on easily. It Is easy to fling out maxim. Rlvor street, which has prover^to be very satisfactory, and shall use^pore of politeness for others to follow, but when tho material can bo obtained, the president will bo guaged by his ^ far as possible, we have repaired bridges with terra cotta plpo, which conduct, rather than by what he Bays, will need no further repairs and Is a Let him bring forth fruits meet for ! Permanent Improvement. I Aa the contract for paving with vlt- repentance It he wanta the South to rifled brick has not been completed, give him the glad hand and to l . w ‘>> mako no report on that, but Total |5,3G5.01 Deducting $480, tho cost of dean- - . .. , In* up trash In the business section I *®r carts, as the ones now In uso are and 1780 for sprinkling and sweeping the streets, from the pay roll account, l^.leaves $1,456.01, the.fiQiount spent in'; repairing bridges, cutting weeds. simply Bay in passing that when this believe him sincere in his statement work is completed and the sidewalks that he "respects, believe. In snd ha. ^ e^W^rw^^ra 1 ^ faith la the men and women of the ter appearance, and I think our "so- vercst critics” and tho "heaviest South." knockers" will suspend business tem porarily. In conclusion I wish to commend the city engineer and street foreman WORLD'S COTTON MANUFAC TURES. The New York Commercial reads tor their efficiency and faithfulness, .. . ,. .... i . .. and to thank you gentlemen for your tho South a kindly lecture upon tho klndncM Ktvln g m , department al- (act that we are allowing non-cotton most everything I have asked tor, and . to assure you that I havo done my producing countries to reap tho great- ,*.1 t0 got Y , Iue received for every er profit from the cbtton which we dollar spent. Respectfully submitted. raise. Statistics which have recently been compiled by the Department of Commerco and Labor show that oth er countries are making fabulous tor- Report of Waterworks Committee. General Condition.—The general tune, out of manufactured cotton goods, which should be shared more splendid system, and, as far as it largely by the section of country ££ Zprel'eTj.'s '’ooZV^Io which raises the cotton. It is the by a more rigid inspection of house thing that used to happen when *™e’'T p£er the South would grow the cotton and needed In time of fire. , M „. fc Station.—The nation house Is in a ■end It North to be manufactured and good condltlon generally. The boll- then send up Nortt'to buy the finish- era need some repairs, which will be - „ promptly put In. and the constant ser- •d product vice demands of oar "air compres- According to tho authority which son" has of necessity occasioned • - - V- • We further recommend that the board of health be re-established and put oh a firm basis, as the city has grown to such an extent that it is impossi ble for your committee to keep in touch with the health and sanitary conditions generally. , Owing to tho fact that the city has been without a sanitary inspector for the past four or five months, we are unable to make a thorough report. Respectfully submitted. J. W. PINKSTON. O. K. JONES, Health Committee. HAPPENING8 AT HAHIRA. Newsy Notes Reported by The Times' Correspondent There. Hahlra, Ga., Feb. 16.—Mr. George Martin and Miss Lula Starling were married on last Sunday evening and succeeded well in surprising their many friends, who were not expecting them to wed so soon. They are both very popular young people, and have our heartiest congratulations. On account of the extreme cold weather, the Valentine party which was to have been given for tho ben efit of the parsonage could not take place, which was very much regret ted, as it was for a good cause and would undoubtedly have cleared a neat sum for the purpose. Dr. Jim Roberts has returned to his home in LaCrosse, Fla., after a two weeks’ visit to his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Roberts. Mr. Louise Hodge visited Valdosta on business last week. Tho youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. Jody Coppage is quite 411 with bron chial pneumonia. Miss Annie Starling leaves Satur day to viBit friends in South Florida. Mrs. Taylor, mother of Mrs. Dr. Owens, left last Wednesday for Jack sonville, Fla., to visit relatives and friends. Mr. Hard Rountree has remodeled his home into a beautiful residence, which adds much credit to this sec tion, as it is one of the prettiest homes to be found around this section. Mr. Melton Weldon is building a very pretty cottage. Saturday the Last Day R. M. Howell's Celebrated Troupe of Glass Blowers Children 10 Cents on Saturday Afternoon. Glass Blowing, Glass Spinning, Glass Knitting and Weaving, Solentlflo Experiments, Beautiful Glass Dresses, Glass Neckties and Other Spun Glass Fabrics, Wonderful Glass Steam Engine In Constant Operation. "• A Beautiful Souvenir Free to every visitor,. ' Exhibition hours 2:30 to 5, and 7:4(0 to 10 p. m. ADMISSION 15c. TO‘‘ftLL. . The Perfume Store. Our customers call this “The Perfume Store” because m addition to our complete stools of first class diugs, we carry an ex tremely large and well selected assortment of the finest perfumes—one which any lady will eDjoy examining. We most cordially invite j ou to give our store a visit. We will take real pleasure in showing you the contents of our perfume cases. You will not be asked or even expe’eted buy any thing unless you yourself desire to do so— but we do want you to know what an elegant line of perfumes we now have. I Don’t Wait.... \ Now is the time to make your dollar do its full purchasing pow er. Get our prices on all kinds FURNITURE And House Furnishing Goods before you buy. It will .pay to see us. ' N. lattereon 8L, VALDOSTA, GEORGIA., N.ztlDoor to Brins’. ♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦♦ - &M > . /•