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wyy THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATDRDAX.2DECEMBER 2,1905. Thomas-Dekle Hardware Co., ;. . . HEADQUARTERS .... Hardware, Hill, Turpentine and Gin Supplies. Paints, Oils, Brushes, Sash, Doors and Blinds. ■ Buck’s Cooking Stoves and Ranges, the very best. Crockery and Glassware. Ellwood Fence, H the most popular fence on the market. The Ellwood is built like a bridge, braced, supported and ■ tied. No stronger or more substantial structure possible. Ellwood fence will hold your hogs, ■ cattle, horses and poultry. We have all sizes in stock and can make prompt delivery. Come to ■ see us when in the market for anything In our line. The Thomas-Dekle Hardware Company. ■ ■■■■■■■■■.a hii HEADQUARTERS FOR [LLWOODwovlFiELD FENCE, ™ POULTRY, RABBIT AND LAWN FENCE!. 1 \A A7 Wr > \ A7 w\ 7YP ~r A Solute efficiency at least expense, somcn A practical fence that will «— pnstivclytn.-nr.vtie, horses, hogs and /\j \ f\ /\ pigs. 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With a subscription In all of $3,000,- 000 from thirty wealthy New York men prominent In finance, patrons of art and stanch supporters of grand op era at the Metropolitan Opera House; with the purchase of the entire block front from Sixty-second to Sixty-third street, facing Central Park West; with plans ordered for aJbuperb theater to cost $2,000,000, containing an Immense foyer which Is to be decorated by fa mous painters and sculptors of the United States and Europe and be en riched with treasures, making It the greatest art gallery of New York, with the exception of the Metropolitan Mu seum of Art; with a committee of wo men who are leaders in New York so ciety and who are to decide who shall be accorded boxes In this artistic and •odaLrival to the “goldenhqrsei of the Metropolitan—with tbetiSj other details quietly arranged Amerf Cat’s National theater, long dreamed of, has been founded in New York, with Heinrich Conried at Its head. The plans and aims and general de tails of the establishment of a theater to do for the drama in the United States what the Theatre Fraueais has accomplished for France or the Burg theater for Germany were explained recently to a reporter for the New York Herald by a well known financier whose patrouuge of artistic efforts lu America has caused his name to be widely known. He has been a mnndlng factor in this the most impor tant move ever made In the Interest of the stage in America. “For some years,” he said, “there has been much and earnest talk about the founding of a national theater, which has been sadly needed, but its worthy promoters were not equipped with financial means toward Its accomplish ment. Nor were they—with due apolo gies to them—working along rational lines from a combined educational, artistic and ‘amusement’ point of view, calculated to win general popular sup port—the support of the entertainment seeking masses as well as the artistical ly Inclined few. “I and other men blessed with means and an Inclination to bring about a dramatic ‘consummation devoutly to be wished' met Heinrich Conried and talk ed it over with him. We talked It over with him confidently because we had observed bis work on the Irving Place theater stage and in the Metro politan Opera House. Perhaps every body does not know it, but after he had been a leading man and star up on the local German stage—the old Thalia theater In this city (New York! —and started managerial efforts on his own account be faced difficulties and won success against obstacles that were heartbreaking. “We noticed all this, and when he was transplanted to the Metropolitan Opera House we saw hJm rise to his greater opportunities. All this showed us that the artistic bent, the business acumen and broad views of the man were those qualities which were want ed to found a national theater which we knew he bad bad at heart this long time. “To make a long story abort, a num ber of gentlemen were approached, and It was at once found that they were heartily Interested In the project. I need not mention them all, but may say that among them were Clarence Mackay, Henry Morgenthau, James Speyer, James Stillman, Daniel Gug genheim and many others. “The plan was that thirty gentlemen should subscribe $100,000 each, and for their investment they should have as collateral, as It were, a site to be pur chased for about $1,000,000 and the theater to cost $2,000,000 more. The thirty were readily found. In fact, we can make it forty If we choose. The block from Sixty second to Slxty- *Mr<L street, Central park West; was purchased, and plans will be given out shortly for the finest theater In Ameri ca. It will be begun next spring and will take over a year to complete. It will be large, but only large enough to make It best adapted to dramatic performances and opera comique. The prices, by the way, will be from 25 oenta to $2. The stage will be up to date, and the interior decorations will be superb, but artistic. “The foyer will be one of the finest art galleries In America, barring the Metropolitan museuin. Famous sculp tors and painters of this country and Europe will provide mural and other decorations, and fr- these and art ob jects for the foyei > 50,000 will be ex pended. “There will be thirty boxes, and In order to insure that the box shall be so cially select A committee of women prominent In New York society will pass upon the names of the applicants dor a box in permanency, which will cost $100,000. As In the Metropolitan, a box bolder will own a share In the theater property. No one will be per mitted to own a box unless accepted by the committee. I may say that the entire thirty can be disposed of Im mediately. The company will be the best that unlimited money can command. The repertory will comprise new and old plays of genuine worth and thorough Interest, but unexceptionable In morals, using the word rightly, and played In perfect manner. “Hie theater will be an authority In ~,cUng. It will aim at purity in rlajUqp** passed .upon difference of Oplfiion by a committee from Yule, Harvard, Columbia and Princeton. A commit tee of urtists will be’consulted as to scenery and costumes. Another com mittee will pass upon points of eti quette to root out bad munners fre quently seen on the stage. These are details, but they show we have thought It all out carefully. “The season will be thirty weeks. There will not be any long runs. Ten plays will be produced the first year and ten each year following, and on two nights each, week there will be opern comique—not ‘comic opera,’ as Broadway unhappily knows It, but genuine, delightful opera comique, with artists drawn from Paris, Berlin, Vien na and other foreign cities, as well home singers and a contingent from the Metropolitan Opera House." THE PEANUT CLUB. Unique Ohio Organisation Formed by Society Girls. “I'll bet you haven't a club in this town that can hold a caudle for orig inality to the one we have In Lorain,” observed William Nixon, a business man of that Ohio town, who wus at the Griswold House in Detroit recently, says the Detroit Free Press. “They call It the Peanut club," he continued, smiling, “and to be eligible one must have rolled a peanut from Dexter street to the loop, North Broad- way, which Is up through the business section of the town. Oh, it's a great club. The members are all society girls, and I understand that the coming winter the initiation will be changed slightly to Include the novitiate blow ing x feather in frotat of her while propelling the peanut with her left foot Great town, Lorain." WORLD’8 BETTER CONSCIENCE. The world is In & serious mood these days. In all walks of life—even perforce, within the giddy whirl of “society”—may be detected a new gravity of thought and an unwonted alterness to the moral and social po litical significance of the signs of the times, says the Philadelphia Press. Wherever men and women assem ble one is likely to hear thoughtful discussion if the pending insurance; financial and political revelations. It L said that at the recent meeting of FIXING MINIMUM PRICES . We printed yesterday the views of a prominent cotton merchant of Sa vannah in which doubt was expressed as to the wisdom of the step takon by the sea island cotton growers in mak-: Ing the minimum price at which theyj propose to sell the balance of their crop of cotton about five cents per pound above the present quotations This authority seemed to think that the Jump was too great and that the growers would not stand together in trying to enforce their demands Of course, it depends upon the growers to a very large extent what kind of prices prevail for the balance of the cotton crop. If they try to push their crop upon a market which does not want it low prices will be the result. If they hold their croj back until the market of the world begins to hunger for it, they will get their own prices for it. The scarcity of the product and the demand for it Is wh&t fixes the price. If the farm ers carry over a large percentage ot their cotton from this season to next season they will have to make a big cut In the acreage next year In order to make their policy effective. It was the largely reduced acreage which put the club In the hands of the upland cotton growers this year. When the spinners began to read the religious leaders .,|i^.5Jew York city there was scarcely one* among the to dawn upoJ^^B'that the cotton hundred-odd speakers who did .not growers were l^earnest the price of make come more or less extended al lusions to the present unmasking of graft. This is but one of many evi dences that tne revelations which each day’s newspapers bring to' the public are being weighed In all their import and phases. The news of world politics, and es pecially the news of the grewsome page of history that Is being written In red by benignted Russia, increases the seriousness of the public think- the staple began to advance and it has gone forward or backward just in proportion as the reports have In dicated a large or small crop. The sea Island growers, In order to make their organization effective, must crente a more active demand for their products. They enn do this by Improving the staple and making a grade of cotton that Is always in demand and which has no competitor in the upland long MAN FASHION'S SLAVE. Bo Saya Sira. Fiah, Who Scores Him For* Wearing a Derby. Mrs. Stuyvesant Fish has come to the rescue of her sex by flaying men for following fashion blindly, says the New York Times. Bbe saye: “Talk about slaves of fashion. We women are not in it with the men. They wear straw or felt hats, accord ing to a certain date, and pay no at tention to the weather or to their own comfort. But that Is not all. For years they've clung to the derby fashion be cause It Is the style, and If there's an uglier, more uncomfortable or more unhealthfnl hat than a derby I don’t know what It is. “There’s not one man In a thousand to whom such a bat Is becoming. But tall men and short, big headed men and small headed men, fair men and dark men, all stick on derbies and walk around with a self satisfied air. If fashion decrees a narrow brim derby, all men wear narrow brim der bies regardless of the fact that the narrow brim makes the round face look like a full moon. If broad brims are the fashion, every man wean a broad brim, although It makes the thin featured man look like a scarecrow. If fashion says brims shsll roll sharply st the sides, even the man with large ears wears a sharp, roiling brim, although he must know that It makes him look like a *yellow kid* “Women will mind fashion so long as it dictates something becoming, but they will refuse to look like frights to please It But the men follow It blindly and devotedly, no matter at what sacrifice to their looks. And ev ery fall I wonder what has become of the handsome men until I remember that the ugly hat season has come up on them.” As we understand Senator Platt’s testimony, those insurance officials just Insisted upon sending money around to his office about election time .and he did not have the heart to offent them by refusing it. ing. Men are asking what those staples. They must reduce their things mean. They are burnishing | yield to a point within the demands up their own ideas upon fundamental * of the mills. To make themselves principles and relative values. The Decalogue is having fresh vogue. The virtues of the days of plainer living are looming larger as certain late and unlamented kings of finance are being stripped to the hide and left naked and shivering in the cold glare of public contempt. It would seem as if tMTs were the day of the demagogue's opportunity. Yet, as an obvious matter of fact, the present grave conditions are be ing considered with a lack of pas sion, a self-restraint and*a thorough ness that do not, however, conceal the Intense earnestness and alert ness of the public mind. The quiet resolution which marks the temper of the people Indicates how deeply the spiings of feeling have been stir red. The times are portentlous. The annual report of the peniten tiary of Mississippi, with its various branches has by its farms and other Institutions cleared over $108,000. The plan of working the coqvlcts on the various farms has proved most satisfactory. In addition to the mon ey earned 5,000 acres of new land has been cleared and prepared for farming purposes. able to carry on their fight, they must be able to live more at home and with less debt hanging over them for their cotton crop. They must raise their own supplies to a greater extent With the# smoke houses and corn- crlbo full, they will be able to carry on a campaign for better prices. The result 1 of the fight which they have on hand now depends upon how closely tljpjr stand together and how determined they are In the matter of keeping their cotton out of the mar ket. R>lw> of Hnaalan Prisoner*. Many touching scenes were witness ed when the Russian political prison ers were released under the amnesty decree. At the Schlusselburg fortress, where the most duugerous political prisoners are kept lu solitary confine ment, a great concourse gathered, look ing for loved ones who vanished years ago and whose whereabouts were know’ll. But only four were released, Disappointed women waiting for sons, husbands or brothers broke down and wept. A man named Frulenko and a comrade who said they had spent over twenty years lu prison came out with long white beards. They knew prac tically nothing about what had occur red during their long imprisonment. TTHE MUTUAL BENEFIT LIFE 1 INSURANCE COMPANY of Newark, N. J., has been in successful business for sixty years, has cash as sets of over ninety-three million dol lars, issues the most liberal and attrac tive policy on the market at LOWER RATES THAN OTHER TRUST WORTHY COMPANIES and pays the LARGEST ANNUAL dividends. The Leading Annual Dividend CompanyJ of America. Hhs never written a “Tontine Policy.” No Stockholders Purely Mutual. W. A. GODWIN, VALDOSTA, - . Agent, GEORGIA taii/f )U The Oldest Whiskey House in Georgia ESTABLISHED IN 1881. OLD 8HARP WILLIAMS By the gallon 18.00 4 foil quart* 18.50. Bxpre** prepaid. GEO. J. 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