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I THE VALDOSTA TIMES? SATURDAY, MARCH 2 S , 1905. THE VALliOSTA TIMES. C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor. E. L. TURNER, Bull net* Manager. VALDOSTA. OA„ MARCH 2G, 1>0S. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE, (1 A YEAR. Entorod at tho Poatofllee at Valdoata, Ga.. at Second Claaa Mail Matter. TEN PAGES. Milwaukee Is threatened with a n-llk famine, but who drinki milk In Mil waukee? The dove of peace In the Orient Is about ap hard to make up Its mind as the Czar is. President Castro ought to borrow Santo Domingo's standing army of 1,200 men when bo starts out to cap ture New Orleans. President Roosevelt succeeded bet ter with his message to the congress of mothers than with some he has sent to the United States congress. "Don't work for wages any longer than you can help It,” says Mr. Carne gie. This Is what (he walking deio gates have been saying all along. Five thousand sinners In Louisville. Ky., have been converted. How lone some this will mako Col. Watterson feel when ho goes home. Wo object to any more duty on cof fee. Between the trusts and the tar iff It Is getting hard to get enough coffee to color the water now. The poet-editor of the Dublin Times has Indited a poem to Candidate How ell, which indicates that tho campaign among the poets has already opened, Coal is to be reduced fifty cents a ton on the first of April. The ice trust will take care to keep the house holder from pocketing the difference. The bearish attitude of the At lam tn Constitution toward the cotton growers will meet Candidate Howell In the middle of tho road next year if ho does not watch out. In view of the scattered condition of the retreating Russian lines, would be interesting to know 'vitch line Gen. IJnovltch will take up first In tho reorganization. Th president of Bowdoin C dlege says: “Tho Ix>rd Is constantly chang ing His mind about people." Tho Bowdoin College president does not say Just how he found It out. eatout of money long ago. Wish' he owed an account at this office. If Japan should Insist on having ih« Philippines wo may Imvo need o' thoso two battleships that the pro* ident so earnestly denlrod nnd fot which congress reluctantly approprln ted. PROPOSED TAX ON COFFEE. The recent “billion and a half dol lar congress" has left the nation’s treasury face to face with a deficit that must be provided for. The re port comes from Washington that the Republican leaders are laying their plans tq take care of the treasury by imposing a tariff tax on coffee, which la an article of general consumption and which will be very likely to fur nish revenue in proportion to the amount of duty fixed per pound. There is consumed In this country annually nearly one billion pounds of coffee, which at 10 cents a pound makes the nation’s coffee bill abo"t one hundred million dollars. A tariff tax of one cent a pound would in crease the revenues from this source about ten million dollars, while five cents a pound—the amount of duty proposed—would create fifty millions of revenue, or enough to hire the steel trust to build several first-class bat tleships. The proposition to levy a tax upon this article of general con sumption, while no attention Is paid to the ever-increasing incomes .>f the enormously rich classes, is in keep ing with the policy of the Republican party at all times. The poorer classes to whom a cup of coffee at meal time is almost their only luxury, are the ones upon whom # the burden will fall. Nor does the five cents a pound which the government will im pose represent all of the Increased cost to the consumer. The Increase In cost to the Import er will make It necessary for him to increase the price to tho retatler, while he, in turn, will increase the price to the consumer at on even greater ratio. Coffee which costs the Importer 10 cents a pound is sold to the retailer, green, at 12 cents, and he sells it at 15 or 16 cents a pound. With 5 cents a pound added for tariff the increase to the importer becomes 15* cents and to tho retailer 17 or 18 cents. Tho cost to the consumer ad vances to about 25 cents, and for the better grades, or for roasted and ground coffees, the difference will be even greater. 8o, while the govern ment will get 5 cents a pound in reve nue on the coffee which the people consume, tho people will have to pay at least, tfn cents a pound more for the coffee^ they buy. 1^ la perfectly railroad commission Is in their dflicial capacity and it is to look Into the Ac commodations which the railroads are giving to the people here. They will be taken in charge by a committee of representative citizens and they will be given every opportunity of seeing exactly what the conditions are. The people of Valdosta would not ask the members of the commision to do one single thing for this city that would be unjust to the railroads entering here, and they do not ask the commis sion for any advantage over other cities on either of the lines of road. All they ask Is for the commission to study the conditions as they exist; compare the accommodations of to day with those of fifteen years Ago; note the progress which has been made everywhere except in the pas senger rooms at the deppts here, and then write out their verdict. f We trust that the members of the commission will have a pleasant stay In this section of the state and that their visit to Valdosta will Inspire them with a desire to come down this way more frequently in the futur^. who devote themselves to the little unseen things which count for the betterment and happiness of mankind, are heroes whose names may not ap pear upon any of the earth’s rolls of fame, but they will be written just as high upon the pantheon of immortal ity. "There !s nothing more heroic than kindness and nothing more royal than truth." THE 8TATE MILITIA. The recent Inspection of the state troops in various cities and towns has resulted in knocking out a lot of the companies in communities where they are needed. The Inspection has been is said. COURT WEEK IN BERRIEN. A Large Number of People in Attend ance During the Week. Court week in Berrien has carried large crowds to Nashville in spite of the fact that the weather has been Ideal for farming operations, which are considerably behind. A large number of cases are being disposed of, the first one being a case that has been on the docket for the past twelve >9ars. It was the case of Butler & Stevens vs. Mathis & Dob son, suit on account, for $140 and in terest. This case was compromised by the defendants paying $130, so It THE EARTH’S HEROE8. The announcement some time j»go Tho Thoninsvillo Titnes-Enterpriso says: “If Dr. Osier was an actress ho would ho Just tickled to death at th© free advertising he Is getting." Don’t doctors like free advertising, too? was recently handed a (100 by tome sinner who '.'jr.rrw; defrAudeo- tue'4Mr- j.n.nXure!for the dealers to Increase tho size of their profits In proportion to the increased price of the articles which they sell, Tho Republican party could have Imposed a stamp tax or an income tax and raised all of the revenue which it needs, nnd from those who nre the better able to bear the burden. The stamp tax draws revenue from the big establishments of the country In proportion to the business they do nnd their ability to pay tho tax. An in come tax would draw revenue from those men whose Incomes are large and who.are most deeply indebted to the nation in which they live. But the coffee tax puts the same amount of tax upon the rich nnd poor alike, re gardless of the projection which the lasses got and of tho Renter debt which the richer nun pwes to the government. It has been the policy of the Re publicans to place the burdens of tax ation upon those who are least able to bear them, because that party owes Its existence to the influent Ini corpo rations that have become amazingly rich under the Republican plan of tax ation. But the people will awake some of these days and what they will do to the promoters of extravagance, corruption and unequal taxation will bo ettough to last for all time. A Pittsburg millionaire, desiring to prevent his son from marrying u bal let girl, chose tho effective means of marring her htmsolf. Parental inter est could not have found a more pos itive expression. It creates an uneasy, apprehensive feeling In a fellow with a weak hack nnd an antipathy toward the spade nnd rake, to see his wife loosing over garden seed catalogues and making copious notes on the margin. Notwithstanding Roosevelt’s repeat ed warnings of race suicide, bachelor qlubs for both sexes stilt thrive and flourish—independently, and will fully ignore tho president’s veiled com mand of "Got together.’’ This country received seven thous and more immigrants In January this year than last. And still we hear the cry that every’ family must have three and one-half children to maintain tho population at Its present numbers. Hon. Pope Brown favors two prima ries for the governorship, tho second to be between tho two candidates who receive the largest vote In the first. This Is t)ie Democratic way of making the choice where more than two can didates are In the race. Secretary of Agriculture Wilson sings his swan sing In a bulletin ac knowledging defeat In the effort to exterminate the boll weevil. It Is called "Control of the Doll Weevil,” but Us advice Is merely to dodge him when you can't catch him. ThUty-flvo years ago W. H. New man was a brakeman on a Southern railroad at $$ a day; today he it pres ident of the great Vanderbilt system, with a salary of $120,000 a year, a pa latial residence In New York and a private car so sumptuously appointed that a king might envy it THE COMMISSION’S VISIT. The Times voices the sentiments of the people of this city when It ex tends a warm welcome to the honora ble members of the railroad commis sion of Georgia, who are guests of the city today. It Is probably the first time that some of the members of the commission have visited this city, but we trust that It will not be the last time. They will find here a typical wtregrass town, one that has sprung up in a few years and one that is rapidly developing into a full-fledged city. They will find thrift and Indus try among the people, and a degree of prosperity that has come as a result of well directed efforts and a determi nation to excel. The visit of the members of the that Mr. Andrew Carnegie bad laid aside a considerable sura for a fund for rewarding acts of heroism may cause some people to stop and en quire who are the real «heroes, any way? Our pension list is supposed to be a roll of honor of those who fought upon the side of the North in the late unpleasantness, but facts are con stantly being brought up to show that cowards and rulkers and fraudulent claimants are nearly as thick upon the list as are those who really de serve to have their services rewarded. If Mr. Carnegie’s fund should fall Into the hands of administrators who are reckless in their bequests as many of our congressmen are in adding names to the nation’s pension roll, there Is danger that his scheme will become a burlesque. The fact that twenty thousand applicants have al ready applied shows that the heAx fund has caught the attention qf the would-be as well as the real heroei But the question is, who are th! nnuyand what does it require to one'p name writ high upon the of honor? It, it- tap 1 ipen** who can do some bloody without flinching. Look down line of-history and the men who are pictured as heroes are men like C*»<- sar, Napoleon, Agamemnon, Achilles and other wlelders of the sword or battle-axe. Ulysses, returning home from battle, finds his wife "spinning among her handmaidens," yet Ulys Is pictured as a hero, while she only a devoted wife nnd mother. Who shall say that her sufferings were not great ns her warrior husband? Who shall say that she wqs not tin* greater hero of the two? Heroism, too, may hinge upon a very slight circumstance. Had the Russian army been strong enough to have put the Japs to flight in Man churia a few dnys ago, Kuropatkin would have been the hero upon whom ar office at St. Petersburg would smiled. In his failure, however, the heroic stand which he made is for gotten. and the brave general who lacked nothing in hemic qualities is dismissed from the army in disgrace. Take the little Japs. Oynma, KuroM and the other Japanese generals ate world-wide heroes, but who has heard a word of the brave private soldiers who swept onward through the hail of shot and shel’. against the Russian lines? How many deeds of unrecord ed valor have been done by the pri vate soldiers of both armies? Prob ably no war in history has developed more of the dare-devil kind of heroism than has been shown by the soldiers of tho two armies that have been bat tling for the mastery in Manchuria and yet the deeds of these men—in spired by the spirit and pomp of war —pales Into insignificance by the side of deeds that are done every day by the unknown heroes in every-day life. There are heroic men and women in the humbler walks of life whose names never get in the papers, and whose deeds are unknown to the world, but whose heroism is just as genuine as is that of any name that may go upon the Carnegie hero list. Kind-hearted men and women who do well the smaller things of life, who help to bear each other's hardens and conducted on a scale more rigid than many of the companies expected, and result, probably half of the mill tary companies of the state will either have to disband or be placed upon probation. It strikes us that the state is ex pecting most too much of her volun teer soldiers. Most of the men are en gaged in business, and, while they are ready to respond to every call from the state, they are not willing to be treated like the men In the regular army. They get little or nothing for their services, they have much re sponsibility thrown upon them and they are expected to show up on pa rades. encampments and inspections just as though they were members of e regular army. The state either ought to cut loose | from the government and support and equip its own soldiers, or else it ought to require the government to.pay the volunteer soldiers enough to compen sate them for the trouble and time that it requires to meet the rigid in spections. The next case was that of the Lam bert Hoisting Engine Company vs. J. N. Bray & Co., for $2,500, balance on a skidder. The defendants, through their attorneys, O. M. Smith and H. B. Peeples, filed a plea of failure of consideration. The case was hard fought, and resulted in a verdict of $1,000, which was satisfactory to both sides. M. Cox vs. H. M. & N. E. Mimms. suit on note; verdict for defendant. The celebrated Ball will case is now being argued to the Jury. Quite a number of cases have been of attorneys representing the defense, continued from this term of court. This was done. WAYCROSS MEN PLEAD GUILTY. A Lawyer and Ex-Sheriff Were Fined Heavily for Peonage. Savannah, Ga., March 22. — In the United States court this morning Judge Emory Speer accepted a plea of guilty from William F. Crawley, an attorney from Waycross, and Thomas J. McClellan, former sheriff of Ware county, on the charge of causing citi zens to be held in a condition of peo nage. He fined each of the defend ants $1,000, but remitted $500 of the fine of each, provided there Is no fur ther violation of th$ law. In passing sentence the judge re marked that this was the last time there w*ill be such a light sentence for this crime in his court. He says that there can be no more peonage for debt In his district. Messrs. Osborne & Lawrence, who were among the attorneys for the ac cused, stood out to the last durlnj the consultation of the lawyers as to the advisability of pleading guilty. They wanted the case fought to the end. Just before the plea was entered Mr. Osborne asked the court to have his firm’s name stricken from the list MASHBURN’S DRUG STORE SERVICE “CAN’T BE BEAT.” For good prescription work, for dependable drug store goods, for choicest and wide scope of stocks and for careful and courteous attention to customers you will find that Mashburn’s drug store service “Can’t be beat” anywhere in Valdosta. The Hon. Benton McMillan, of Ten nessee, and Hon. Bob Taylor, from the same state, were neither of them elec ted to succeed Senator Bate, who died in -Washington from exposure on in auguration day. The two men who failed of election were oratora of the florid type, while Governor Frazier, who was elected, is supposed to be a plain, blunt man, and, unlike, the oth er two competitors, has never been to ongress. astii enable Clothes For Fashionable Dressers - 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 dsessed 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 I 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 I, 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 andfNo Name Hats. Davis Brothers & Co., Special attention to mail orders.