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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, APRIL 15, 1905.
THt Valdosta times.
C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor.
E. L. TURNER, Bualnet* Miniger.
"VALDOBTA, OA, IpRIL 15, 1108.
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TWELVE PAGES.
Today la the day for the prealdent
to capture a horned fros-
The fact that 'hoya bate bathing la
no algn that they dislike to "go awlin-
rain’.’."'
Mr. Carnogle'a gratuities have ‘nov-
cr boon aubjccted to the ouggeatlon
that the monoy was "tainted."
Kojeatrenaky regards Vladlvoitok
ns hla home base, but be will have to
do some tall sliding to get there.
The newspaper reading world Is In
tent on learning whether Rojeatrens-
ky will prove himself a Cevera or a
Nelson.
DEATH 8TRUQQLE ON THE 8EA.
The outlook la that Russia and Ja
pan will meet in a death struggle on
the high seas within a very few days,
unless Admiral Rojestvensky, of the
Russian fleet, manages to evade the
Japanese' ships which are hunting
him with as much savage determina
tion as a Hon ever hunted Its prey.
The Japanese seem to fully realise
that It Is better for them to strike a
quick blow before the divided Rus
sian squadrons get together. If Adml-
ral Rojestvensky should be permitted
to reach Vladivostok he will be rein
forced by several first class Russian
ships that are now In the harbor
there, while a little delay may bring
to bis aid another squadron which Is
now sailing to form a Juncture with
his fleet.
It seems from the reports that Ro-
Jestvensky's fleet, which has reached
the China sea. Is about equal to the
Japanese squadron under Admiral
Togo, which has gone to meet him
and give him battle. The Russian
fleet contains one more first-class bat-
Jlelatcd reports say that the Rus
sian losses at Mukden were greatly
exaggerated. Rut they were large 1 He ship, but the Japanese have the
enough. (advantage In lighter ships and In the
Tho ship - yards of the world may \ num,l ' : ' r of "trp.-do boats, which were
over the Rockefeller gtRaj might be
easily settled by (he Woris of Jesus
Himself, If men eotdf ^ *
Ideas and notions out of
awhile. "And John said,
saw one casting out
name; and we forbade
he was not one of us.
said unto him, ‘Forbid
he that la not agulnst ns isfwlth us.'
Rockefeller's business methods may
not accord exactly with this Sermon
on the Mount, but there Is no reason
why the churches or others cannot
use the money he gives them to car
ry on tlyir work without doing vio
lence to anybody's conscience.
LABOR FOR THE - CANAL.
Ij» Thy
because
Jesus
not; for
get a lot of business after the Rus
sian and Japanese fleets meet In the
China sea.
Tho Tlmos-Bntcrprlse says that ru
ral freo delivery suits Thomnsville.
Of course. It suits all the rural com
munities.
If cotton goes to 5 cents this fall,
the Popullsta will have another ex
cuse for declaring that their party Is
still alive.
Lettuce give thanks that early
spring vegetables are coming In to
rescue the country from the maw of
the beet trust
The prealdont told Seocretary Taft
to "sit on the lid," and tho secretary
Is "Holding things down’ 'with his en
tire 173 pounds.
The' Chicago Traction Company
may be depended upon to look out for
Number One when the city goes to
take It In charge.
That new Kansas oil company, with
Its $7,000,000 of capital, Is nearly
? fitonrtlor fhnlr aim hnttor nna thav
an Important factor In tho naval en
gagements that have already occurred
between Russia and Japan. Another
thing that gives the Japanese the. ad
vantage at the present time is that
the Russian ships have been cruising
for a long time and their bottoms are
clogged with barnacles, while the Jap
anese ships are fresh from the dry
docks, and would be more agile or
more easily managed in an engage
ment.
These things are all favorable to
the Mikado’s men, but there is still
another point In their favor. They
are in better mental shapo to enter
the engagement than the Russians
can poBBlbly be. They are encourage^
by a long succession of victories on
land and sea, while the Russians are
naturally “hacked,” or discouraged,
by Vn almost endless chain of re
verses. The Japs would go Into the
struggle determined to keoij up the
prestige which their country
Tho Wnycrosa Herald has recently
Installed a linotype machine, which
means that the Herald Is going to
keep up with tho procession.
The proipects of~havlng their af
fairs ventilated In congress has
brought a good many “magnates” to
the vorgo of nervous prostration.
Hon. Martin Calvin Is mentioned in
connection with the ofllcc of statu ag
ricultural commissioner. He would
msko a fine official If olected.
Tho prosidont may not have liked
to see Chicago “go Democratic.” but
ho certainly .cannot consistently be-
grudgo success to a man who has thir
teen children.
Perhaps Mr. Rockefeller would havo
boon In better business If he hnd con
tributed $100,000 to the Parsonage Aid
Society or Homo Missions, after all.
Charity begins st home.
Nan Patterson la to bo tried again,
which roenns that Nan will get ns
much space In tho newspapers as Cas
tro, RojesL, Togo or even Roosey on
hi? Western coyote-scalping tour.
Tho Brunswick Nows wants some
body to rise in his seat nml tell where
South (leorgtu begins. Get Editor
’Small to rlso out of his Rent and tell.
He Is the authority on that particular
p’Int.
“Tho friction of two minds causes
tho spark «of truth to scintillate” is nn
epigram that was upon tho lips of Mr.
Washington Dessau, before the su- 1
promo court, when death overtook
him day beforo yesterday.
The Illinois chaplain who prayed
that the president might be delivered
from the “ferocious beasts and moun
tain monsters” has probably heard
the howl of tho coyote without know
ing any of that animal's traits of char
acter.
Nashville's first conflagration cut
an ugly swath through the northern
part of oar neighboring town, but it
will not be long before better build
ings rise up In tho place of the old
ones. It was always bo In enterpris
ing communities.
Mr. W. J. Bryan refused to discuss
the American navy with Richmond
Pearson Hobson, because the Demo
cratic party declared against the pol
icy advocated by Hobeon. But Mr.
Bryaa flings himself madly Into an
Indorsement of the municipal owner
ship of traction lines, though that pol
icy Is the purest of Populism. Mr.
Bryan has never hesitated to turn to
any new Idea that the Populists might
bring forward. , •
steadier, their aim better anji they
would be Inspired &y the successes
they have already achieved to do their
very best. Success helps to create
Success in the gune of war, Just as
It does In other sharp contests, while
it is Just as hard to overcome the
influence of defeat there as It Is In
other lines, where the streak of “bad
luck” gets In Its work.
There Is little doubt that the Japan
ese would be able to demolish Rq-
Jostvensky’s fleet as It is now formed,
but it will be more difficult to do so
should a Juncture be formed with oth
er Russian ships in that quarter. If
a naval engagement occurs In the
next few days, we may look for an
other Japanese victory, but If tho
Japs allow Rojestvensky to move on
toward Vladivostok without a scrap
we may expect the little island empire
to have trouble In disposing of tho
Russian ships of the combined fleets.
HUMAN NATURE IN CHURCHE8.
Tho discussion which has been cre
ated by the gifts of John D. Rockefel
ler to missions, through various
church organizations, and tho protosts
that have been filed against their ac
ceptance, havo only served to show
that there Is a lot of human naturo
In the churches, as well as elsewhere.
Human weakness, human prejudices,
narrowness and other traits of human
nature show themselves every day.
At our very best, it is hard to get
away from tho many elements that
mako up mere men.
Rockefeller has been denounced for
breaking all of the commandments in
the decalogue by one set of men, and
he has been called a philanthropist by
another set, who loolc at him In a dif
ferent way. In Atlanta recently a
charitable organisation was formed.
Including members of the church and
those who were not. One faction
wanted to adopt the name “Christian”
association, thus excluding Jews or
others who desired to take a hand in
the work, but who probably did not
care to act under that name. There
were two sides to the controversy,
and good reasons were presented by
etch, but the faction which favored
calling it the Christian Charity Asso
ciation subsequently prevailed.
This controversy, as well as the one
There have been many problems to
overcome before active operations
could be undertaken In the jfonstruc-
tlon of the Panama canal. Oho pres
ident was smooth enough toinvent a
method of getting around tire objec
tions which Colombia first offered, and
he also managed to get rid | of the
dallying tactics of the canal Commis
sion. He helped organise a «&w gov
ernment to get rid of the Cojombian
protest, and he dissolved his commis
sion and created a new one to get rid
of the second embarrassment. If the
president cannot get what he wants
from those who have authority, he be-
llevep In placing authority somewhere
else and making a new deal.
But it Is doubtful if he will be able
to get around the labor situation so
easily. It is pretty well known that
labor tof digging ihe canal cannot be
employed in this country, and the ca
nal commission does not want to em
ploy the West Indian negroes or Chi
nese coolies for the work. It ty ru
mored from Washington that negotia
tions are being made with^a Japajnesi
labor contractor to supply Japanese
labor for the work, and several thou
sand Japanese are to be broqifrt there
In a short time. This contractor is to
be paid so much a day for each labor
er he furnishes, and he will also have
full control of the men. About 12,000
active laborers and a Reserve force of
the same sire will be require.’ for
ing with a pin hook In the street be
low.
Imagining himself a trapeze per
former and Jumping from the barn
roof to the clothes line.
Imagining himself a comet and slid
Ing down the banister without touch
ing his hands.
Learning to ride a bucking pony.
Learning to swim in water that is
over his head.
Learning to skate on thin ice.
Learning to play football with boys
of twice his size.
Learning to flip trolley cars and box
cars; learning to Jump from trains
#hile in motion; learning to dash in
front of locomotives on grade cros
sings so as to fool the engineers;
learning to hang by bis hands to a
railroad bridge while the train passes
overhead; learning to be a fireman by
climbing waterspouts; learning to be
soldier by exploding powder In a
teakettle; learning to be a sailor by
tatooing his arms and legs with house
paint: learning to be a Juggler by
swallowing the potato peeler; learn
ing to be a man by using his father’s
razor.
The astonishing thing, in fact,
not that so many boys die young as
that so many live to die old.
AMENDMENT TO CHARTER.
The petition o» the Thomas. Roberta Hard
-are Coiupnnv shown.
1. Tfmtnt tne March Special Term. 1903, of
\e Superior Court of Lowndes county, petl-
oner wan duly iucorporawd under the name
nd style rh herein for and during the
eriod of twenty (20) j*‘itrn.
2 That pursuant to the order of incorpora
tion petitioner wiih orgnnlz dand engaged in
the enterprise authorized by the order, of in-
corjiomtion
1 8. That tl
is now ownr „
and E. E Dekie
It is the desire
ir to amend itucc
the name “Roberts" where i-- appeal
in Hen thereof the name
name when
mrpor.te nai
le Thomas, I
* W a number of
however, that may loom up and frus
trate this /plan. In the first place, Ja
pan has a war on her hands that calls
for men by the hundreds of thous
ands, and it may be that she will not
be willing to let her natives leave
home at this time. If peace should be
restored very soon the rehabilitation
of the places made desolate by the
struggle in Manchuria would offer
such opportunities to thrifty laborers
from Japan that not many of them
would want to leave there for some
tlmo to come. Moreover, the alien
contract labor laws of this country
may operate against the plan and
oven If It does not, our peonage laws
would weaken any contract that
might be made with them.
The people are anxious to see the
commission solve all of the perpelxlag
problems which handicap them In
taking up their work on the Isthmian
canal. If they could get the president
to wave his mighty wand over the sit
uation again and adopt the rule of
do It"—the work of digging the canal
might begin within a very short time.
THE PERILS OF BOYHOOd|
The census analysis mado by Pro
fessor Wilccx, of Cornell University,
ngaln brings out tho fact that although
more hoys than girls are born in jthe
United States, the girls eventually
outnumber them. However, the fact
that the death rate among boyd is
greater than among girls should ; not
discourage anybody, says the Chkkgo
Inter Ocean. J
On tho contrary, everything consid
ered, those boys who survlvo tho per
ils of boyhood should bo very
ful. The average girl deserves little
credit for living through; the aver
age boy, from the tlmo he bogijs to
creep, Is not only surrounded by dan
gers, but If ho be & healthy child), as
ho generally Is, he goes out loo^lag
for others, and as a rule with marvel
ous success. From the moment) he
discovers the use of bis hands ;and
feet ho engages In blood-curdling en
terprises, such as— J
Diving from the bed to a hardwood
floor.
StlBonlng his legs between his high
chalf and the dinner table nnd f. illli
backward with a dull, sickening
swish.
Doing to sleep in the bath tub With
out turning the water off.
Falling downstairs.
Imagining the window ledge oil the
third-story front a river bank and fish-
nmended, shall read The
ware Company.
5 By nnanfmons vote of the stock-holders of
the petitioning corporation it has been deter
mined that petitioner file this application for
amendment, atten vote being hna at a meeting
of the 8tock holders of h .id corporation.
6. Petitioner asks that the Court pass an
order so amending its corporate name, with
out prejudice to the right of the petitioner
with its amended corporate name to sue
any of the debts or obligations now owing to
The Thomas, Roberts Hardware Company,
and to be sued upon any debts or obligations
now owing by such The Thomas, Roberts
Hardware Company, and In such amended
corporate name to do and perform any and all
aete that may now be done by the petitioner in
tte said present corporate name. The privi
leges and rights of petitioner in its present
corporate name to be unaffected and unpreju
diced by the change herein taught.
THOMAS, ROBKRT8 HARDWARE GO.
Petitioners.
Filed in office this April 14th 1005
B. T. Myddelton, Clerk 8. C.
V»f the Superior
that the foregoingit
ClerkS.
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