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✓ ^ THE VALDOSTA S, SATURDAY, MARCH 11, 1905. ini: Valdosta times. C. C. nnANTLEY, Editor. E. L. TURNER. Business Manager. VALDOSTA, OA.. MARCH 11, 1905. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, *1 A YEAR. Entered at the Poatoffiee at Valdosta, Ga„ at Second Clata Mall Matter. TWELVE PAGES. There Is only one cloud on Presi- dent Roosevelt's horizon. The senate is still In session. Marshal Oyama and Gen. Kuroki were hunting Russians this week, Just as though the hunting season has not ended. Andrew Carnegie says that ho has not signed a note In thirty years. And that is one of the reasons why he does not have to. Congress spent money at the rate of ninety million dollars an hour on March 4. This will boat even Mr. Carnegie's library record. * Mr. Cortelyou having successfully managed a political campaign, will now take up the serious work of man aging the postofflco department. The state of Illinois has hit upon one way of solving the dlvoro* ques- tion. It proposes tc prohibit, the pay nicnt of alimony. THE MEN WHO WILL. j years The value of dogged determination; hands first was We and unconquerable persistency splendidly shown In the success which has come to the Japanese arms during the past week, and. Indeed, during the entire war with Russia. The ‘‘little brown men” have been imbued with a spirit which knows no such word as fail. They have “put their hand to the plowshare, and have not looked back, though it cut through the hearths of the living and the graves of the dead.” They have entered ev ery engagement with a determination to do or die, and It has been that re sistless force which has driven the Russians from hill to hill and from pass to pass until the Russian army is now forced 10 flee for Its very exist ence. There Is no one who has kept up with this war who will doubt for a moment the bravery of the Russian soldiers. In defiance of death. In the hand to hand grapp.'es, in their charges against the enemy and in their conduct under showers of shot and shell, they have shown up about as heroic as their plucky antagonists, but the difference comes in the pow er of endurance and the ability to keep going forward In spite of oddf. The Russians fight like tigers for a The Czar is said to be tired of Gen. i day or a week and then collapse, be- Kuropatkln, and wants him displaced. como rou ted and flee from the scene. But the Czar may change his mind || tl | e j ap8 f aa ten their determine* about it before tomorrow. I . . . _ . tiou to some object way off yonder, Col. Harvlo Jordan's press agent Is an( j t h ey go forward, heedless of op- dolng full duty these days. If cotton don’t go to 10 cents It will not be for a lack of reduction on paper. The sonato does not believe that Judge Swayno was guilty, but the houso has amended his fee bill so as to remove any temptation that might assail him. The houso presented Speaker Can non with a large silver loving cup At the close of the session. Uncle Jo ac cepted it. but he doubtless would hnvo prefaced a tin dipper or a gourd Gen. Stocssol, the reports announce, was not mot by any bands on his re turn to St. Petersburg. Probably the moro Important part to the general ia that be was not met by any bombs. Was not the verdict In favor of Judge Swayno made In justice or In teer that windows In certain glass houses occupied by senators might get broken? Mrs. Chadwick fainted In court the other day. Her nerve probably drop ped back aJJtHn III ml U»n “ffll 1 ITuHHSWlopmonts which are to fol low during her trial. o An American negro missionary who spent twonty-flvo years In Africa sunong tho< heathen there has ro- nouncod his faith and Joined them in their Pagan worship. If all the 8mlths in Georgia attend the "8m!th <^iy” at tlio Macon fair this fell, the railroads will have to put on extra accommodations a week or so beforo hand In order to take caro of the crowds. The X-ray has been used to demon- atrtate that a crook in a prize bull pup’s tail had been the result of nn- turo and not of "tampering” ns the Judges believed. Thus are great sci entific discoveries turned to the bene fit of mankind. Because "Roosevelt luck” extended even to the weather for his inaugura tion Is no reason why congress should refuse to postpone the Inaugural cere monies to April 30th. There are too many odds against the cllpinte on the 4th of March. A recent consular report states that the towel and soap have penetrated to China. If all the laundrymen have not left the mother country to come to us great things In the way of cleanli ness may come to pass In the Celes tial Empire. \ The secretary of the treasury has Issued a warrant for $750,000 in favor of three lawyers for their service* to the Choctaw and Chickasaw Indians. To pay this amount will leave the In dians hardly enough of their reserva tion to gdt up a war-dance on. Cu! board and patent medicines as soon as the American Invasion took place, has re taliated by a bill to make the use of patent medicine a crime. This coun try is going to have a "dope evil" of Its own If the patent medicine busi ness Is not checked by legislation. uba, which became one huge alga rd fpr the advertisement of milk Tom Watson ought to devote the next Issue of hla magaxlne to the whya and wherefores of his recent small vote for the presidency—how it was that the once proud party of Pop ulism, Pefferlsm, Peek and political teucy was overwhelmingly ted with the holy himself as position, careless of danger and even defying death. It Is that sort of spirit that wins in every encounter. The man who fights splendidly for awhile may be all right in the short struggle, but it is the man who never gives up who wins the fight in the end. It takes extraordinary ‘grit" to battle against the oddfi that spring up along life’s highway some times, and few are the men who are able to seal their lips and go forward In the fight when there is little hope of.success. But these are the men whose names shine out like mountain peaks along the history of time. The men who have accomplished most and whose lives hive sweetened the earth and brought about Its greatest develop ment are the men who have pinned their faith to a star and have not turned to Jho. rlghUlitefc until tne goal was reached. For the past four or five days the little Japanese have hardly stopped to eat or drink—marching and fighting, day and night, sacrificing thousands, tout pressing onward. No wonder the reports tell us that they have Kuropat- kin surrounded and may force him to surrender. The Japs have cut the word "fail” out of their lexicon, and the Russians will not bo able to con quer them until they do as they said they would do—"fasten the last one of them to the point of a bayonet and throw them into the sea.” THE MOST C08TLY CONGRESS. A few years ago a "Billion Dollar Congress" caused Czar Reed to say that "we are living in a billion dollar country" and the remark was used with telling effect against the Repub lican party, which wns then iu power. Up to that time, a billion was regard- d as a mighty big pile of money, and, ven for a number of years afterward, that sum was regarded as the utmost limit of congressional expenditures for congress. But the Fifty eighth congress, whl-h adjourned last Fri day night, not only passed the bil’lon dollar mark, but e\en went beyond the billion and a half mark, with as little rovard for the3e flgires as though the money were to be gath ered from the trees. It may be re membered, too, that this was an eco nomical congress—so economical. In fact, that tho hill to appropriate about ten million dollars for urgent public buildings, was not even considered. The congress just ended made ap propriations at Its first session of a little more than $7S1,000,000. The au thorized expenditures for the s«>cond session, as compiled by the clerks af ter the adjournment foots up not quite $82b,000,000. This gives a grand total of $1,610,000,000, or to spell it out—one billion, six hundred and ten million—or about one bilhou more cf money than*was required to run the government when Grove.* Cleve land was elected president twenty ago. We held up our In holy horror when our billion dollar congress announced. "Whither Are Drifting ’ Was the ominous heading of editorials in the most con servative papers in the land, and cam paign orators took up the cry as their r;ost effective slogan. The figures of the recent appropria tions are almost appalling when com pared with the expenditures by other congresses. They exceed the expen ditures of the Fifty-fifth congress by more than $31,000,000* and that con gress had to provide for the extraordi nary expenses of the Spanlsh-Amori- can war. It may be remembered, too, that the revenues which were raised to meet the former expenses were col lected by means ot an extra stamp tax levied in various ways and upon va rious articles, to meet the deficiency which would arise from the Regular revenue-raising duties, while ^ government has only the oulnary sources of revenue to rely nij|n to meet tho bills which congress ifts au thorived. The appropriations which have been authorized for the next year, according to the statisticians, means a decficlt of about $93,000,000, which, however, is offset by the $141, 000,000 in the treasury, which is far in excess of what the secretary of the treasury regards a.i “safe and cure.” The defendtrs of this record of na tional extravagance will point to the initial work upon the Panama canal and to the enormous growth of the country to justify the expenditures, but the fact of the matter Is that the legitimate items do not make up the vast bulk of the sum. "Graft" is written all ove.* the Republican admin istration, and it is these small items, such as private tension bills and "pork barrel” measures that make up the mighty total of Republican extra vagance. The river and harbor appro priations were not unusually large aji the last session, and there was no ap propriation either for buildings or for repairs upon the government bull# togs. The army and navy budget and the pensions claims were the great est items in the total amount of ex penditures, and yet they hardly ex ceeded a half a Million dollars. The record which the Republicans have made In their appropriations de stroys every shadow of hope for tar iff reform from that party. With the deficiency which will accrue before the next regular session of congress, the question of Increased revenues will como up and the burden of na tional taxation will bear more heavily upon the people's necks. No 111 ef fects of this extravagance will be felt while the money is being spent, but when tho day of final reckoning comes —when accounts have to be balanced —our nation may have to repent of Its folly, even os the young man did who wasted h's substance in riotous living. liointment does not unfold the full pol- cannot be fal»; to any man, whether | icy of the president toward the South. It will be time enough to believe in this change of heart when he com suits the representative people of the various localities In regard to the people who are appointed to offices among them, as he professes to do In regard to appointments in the North and Weit. HON C. R. PENDLETON. The following tribute to Hon. C. R. Pendleton, formerly of this city, but now editor of The Macon Telegraph, is from the pea ol Rev. 8am Small, who is at present editor of the Bruns wick Journal. Those who have known Mr. Pendleton best will recog nize in it not only a brilliant picture drawn by a literary artist, but a trib ute of which the subject Is in every way worthy.^ A stronger eulogy has not been paid a living Georgian in this generation that we know of: Citation* To all whom 11 may concern; B. E. Haekel having applied for guardianship of thepemoos and property of Lloyd. Willard end Ckrl Haekel, minor diildren of Stonnie Hmckel, late of Mid cjmnty, deceased, notice Is given that aald spclica ton will be heard at my office at tea o'efeek a..m.. on thegret Monday in April, State or Uioboia—Losmdee County: To Whom it May Concern: O. L. 8mith has In due form applied to tho undersigned for permanent letters of admin istration on the eetate of Mary J. Chastain, late of arid county, deceased, and I will pass A p ?iLwi‘ ppUo * l * <m00 th * flr * t MoDd *y “y.h* 1 ^ ? n d official signature this the 6th day of March, 1005 A. V. SIMMS,Ordinary. friend or foe. Nothing sinister marks gkobgLA—Lowedes Oouett his dealings with men -or measures. He is pitmde* of independence than of fortune gained by fawning, and he —"Wtuld not flatter Neptune fir his trident. Nor Jove for hi* power to thunder!" if he believes a cause right he will fight for It like a Richard of the Lion Heart; If he believes It wrong, neither priest, nor prince, nor stake and fag got could intimidate him from denoun cing it In Georgia he Is known among his colleagues of the press, among public men and among the major moiety of the mass as a virile thinker, a pun gent writer and a publisher in whom there is no guile. What he says goes far and holds weight. No editor in the state has obtained since the war— not even Henry Grady—the reputation for solid and enduring common sense and nobly-cast patriotism that is ac corded to Col. Pendleton. He does not belong to the "old line" journalists of his order, perhaps, but he is at the head of the new line of like-minded men, among whom are Grubb, of Da rien, Lewis, of Sparta, and others, in whose company we would ourselves he delighted could we be numbered. —Brunswick Journal. The Editor of The Macon Telegraph. In a current magazine is a most in teresting character sketch of dear old Henry Watterson, called "the last of the old line of personal Journa'ists”— such as Bennett, Raymond, Greeley, Prentice, Forsyth, Daniel, Bowles. Grady and so on. The sketch of Wat- terson Is deftly done and will repay perusal. But we have left in Georgia au edi tor quite as notable in his state sphere 1 of influence as Watterson ;ias been in the national field, a man who. if he had owned Watterson's backing ami opportunities? In journalism, would have surpassed him in fame and pro ductive influence. The gentleman we have id mind is Hon. Charles R. Pen dleton. editor of The Macon Tele graph. He is one who has come from the people, bringing the strength that grew with a stresstul early life, the high thinking that belong with plain living, and those fine ambitions which spring alone from the heaven-born “Jo BfittOP SCllOOl fit Afiy PPiCB.” spirit that is without selfishness and zealous for the good, the true and the beautiful for man and the state. His Is a rare and admirable charac ter to his friends and a trusted stand ard of honesty and loyalty to the peo ple who are fc;s clients in tie fields of opinion and counsel where the true ££ltor finds his best functions. He is honest first with his own soul and GEORGIA—Lowedes Cotnrrr: To eU whom it mmy concern: Nero Greggs, haring applied for gnardianahip of the persona and property of Allen and Henry Pappy, minor children of Henry and Mary J. Pappy, late of snid county, deceased, notice ia riven that said application will be heard at my office at ten o’clook on the first Monday in April, next. Thla March 8th. 1006. 7 A. V. SIMMS, Ordinary. Leave to Sell L1»ie Herring, administratrix of the estate of Noah Lester, haring In proper form applied to the undersigned for tears to soil one vaoant lot in the town of Valdosta belonging to the estate of Noah Leater, this Is to cite all con cerned to show cause at the next term of court why said administratrix should not have leave A. V. SIMMS, Ordinary. Marshall's Sales. State of Georgia—Lowndes County: Will be sold on the first Tuesday in April _ext, at the City Hall in Valdosta, within the legal hours of sale, to the highest bidder for ea*h. the following property to-wit: One-quar ter of «n acre end house, described as follows: "onnded on the north by Florida Avenue: sst by lend of Nero Greggs; south by land of M. Cook, west by land of Richland Wilson. Said lot levied on as the property of Isaao Baird to satisfy a tax fifa Tuned by A. W. Varnfdoe Clerk of the city of Valdosta, * gains i Isaao Baird for city tax for the year Also, at the same time and place, < and a half and house, described i follows: Bounded on the north by land of Western Cede; east by the land of the Loan Association; •outh by B. W. Bentley; west by Dukes’ bay. Said property levied on as the property of Mitch Patrick to satisfy a tax fifa issued by A. W. Vamedoe. Clerk of the city of Valdosta, i> . favor of the Mayor and Council of the city of Valdosta against Mitch Patrick for the city tax for the year 1004 and 1003. Also, at the same time and place, o Every Day w e add tho names of new students to our list. Do you know why? Well, we figure it out, that “its tho way we teach.” Remember there’s Our best advertisement is our grad uates who are at work. They are sought out by the foremost business houses. Positions are generally waiting for yon when yon finish your’ coarse. Enter at any time. JUS’ | Valdosta, Georgia, satisfy a tax 4 , Clerk of the city of Valdosta, in favor of the Mayor and Council of Valdosta, against the said George Daly for city tax for the year 1004. Also, at the aame time and place, one-half acre of land and house, described as follows: Bounded on the north by Branch street; east by land of Captain W ithera: south by the same . party; west by the land of T. M. Cook. Bald lot 1 cried on as the property of Arch Kvler to satisfy a fifa Issued by A W.Varnedoe, Clerk of the city of Valdosta, In favor of the Mayor and Council aforesaid, against Arch Kyler for oity tax for the year 1001. Iso. at the aame time and place, one-half ^, r _. [111ns; west hr Troup street. Bold property Hc<i on Uilrko* t levied on as the property of Jim StmuMViff Cleric of the city of Vsldoeta, la favor of the RgaTn^t'ji m mo na f o r t he d ty ASHIONABLE CLOTHES A FASHIONABLE DRESSER. THE TATE APPOINTMENT. The appointment of Carter Tate district attorney for tho Northern dis trict of Georgia has caused somec fusion among the Republican machine in Georgia, because the appointment as not made at tho machine's bid ding. Some Democrats, as well as Republicans, are trying to see in it a change ol heart on the part of the president toward the people of South While a member of congress, Tate supported a number of the president’s measures and It was gen erally understood that he was a great admirer of Roosevelt His appoint ment therefore, to the position of dis trict attorney may be taken as a re ward for services rendered or be cause of his friendly attitude toward the president. It was expected that the president would appoint some white man to this position and there is no reason for surprise that tu should have appointed a man, ever though a Democrat, who had bfen his friend. < Of course, we do not take ,4he ap pointment to mean that the president Is going to ignore the machine in oth appointments which he is to make: neither do we understand that he has entirely turned his back/ upon the brother in black.” One swallow does not make a summer, a^d this one ap- Have you ever thought how content ed you would feel, how well you would look and what satis faction it would af ford your friends to see you dressed in one of our handsome SPRING SUITS. The new garments are now on our ta bles. The best de signers and cutters, the most skillful tai lors have all done their very best for you. Come in and let our new suits talk to you for a few minutes. Strauss’ High Art clothing have a great story to tell of their excellence. All of the new designs are to be found here. Every purse can find here a suit to fit it. Suits at $10, $12.50, $15 and up to $25. See our Spring Manhattan Shirts, .Edwin Clapp Shoes and No Name Hats. Davis Brothers & Co., SPECIAL ATTENTION TO MAIL ORDERS.