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TILE VALDOSTA TIMES* SATURDAY, DECEMBER 2,1905. U : k v P ; V\. THE VALDOSTA TIMES C. C. BRANTLEY, Editor. E. L. TURNER, Butin#** M»n*i«r. SUBSCRIPTION PRICE *1 A YEAR Entered «t the Po*tofflce at Valdoeta, Gi, ae Second Cla*a Mall Matt*r. VALDOSTA. OA . DEO. 9, 190.1. TWELVE PAGES. At last accounts the sultan was atlll playing for time. Prince Louis of Battenburg got his eye teeth as well as his molars at tended to in New York. The Sultan of Turkey says he only wishes that the international fleet was on wheels so he could turn it loose In Macedonia . "Don't call me Prince call me ad miral," said Battenburg. Heavens, what will our todays do with that. We have admirals over here. Senator Foraker explains that the defeat of his party in Ohio was due to local causes. True, and he was one of the local causes Ono reason that farm labor Is scarce in South Carolina, is that a large number of negroes In the last few years have begun editing newspapers. Secretary Taft should remember that ho cannot dig the Panama canal with a knife and fork and corkscrew and champaign. Senator Platt has taken his place In the lino of noble reformers ready to swat the wicked Odell with righteous snickersnee There Is nearly as much red tape nbout electing a king in Norway at there is about digging the Panama canal. Jimmy Hyde hopes the country notices the kind of men ho has been obliged to associate with since early youth. Having conquered the cigarette and the Sunday drinking habits, Indiana may yet bo able to curb its passion for novel writing. A Baxtor Springs, Mo., girl is nam- fd^Silonco. No young man need fear her. Silence always gives mt. 4 *•' ■ ■ "• . .rKS the ring at theNtfw York horde ■how. * It's safer to kiss a horn thi\b ■one men. The Pennsylvania board of revenue feommiHsloncrs have decided that statu funds shall not hereafter be loaned to banks that have branches In political headquarters. Appleton, Wi8., may And “whoop ing cough" parties enjoyable, but oth er towns will wait to learn whether they are not much too good a thlug for the whooping cough microbes. Mrs. Stetson Is much distressed by the report that sho Is to succeed “Mother” Eddy ns head pusher of the Christian scientists. Wo should think so. It Is truly distressing. ? Mrs. Chadwick complains that her creditors have received very llttlo, though all of her property has boon Bold for their benefit. She surely did not expect the lawyers to handle the case for nothing. The football record today may be a bloody one. but It will be n milk and water affair by the side of the stunts which the toy pistol will do In the next three weeks. The man who predicted that Mr. Fairbanks would some day become a senator, died In Indiana the other day at a good old ago. The man *who predicted that he would be president Is In the enjoyment of good health. ' MILLIONS FOR A ROAD. It Is announced that New York state proposes to spend the sum of fifty million dollars on the road from New York city to Buffalo by way of Albany and Syracuse. The road will pass through one of the most thickly settled portions of the state and when completed will be like the paved streets of a city. The expenditure of such a vast sum of money on a road in a state that already has good roads looks like foolishness, but it is because New York already has good roads that her people are willing to make such an expenditure. They know the value of good roads and of what a saving ,to say nothing of the other advantages, that will come with them. It has been the history everywhere that the work of Improving the roads, when once undertaken in earnest, is never allowed to lag. The people who have been accustomed to roads of that kind are not satisfied with any other kind and will not tolerate them. You might as well try to get the people upon a rural route to con* sent to the abolishing of free rural delivery as to get those where the roads have been improved to return to the old style. The growth and greatness of almost every city and section has been In proportion as the roads have been Improved and the growth has followed rather than pre ceded the good roads work. Rome’s palmiest day was when her splendid highways radiated out to all parts of Italy standing as monuments to the foresight and enterprise of the an cient Romans for centuries to come. And It is so with Georgia and our own section. Our growth would be quickened an hundred fold if were to begin the expenditures of a million or so a year on the roads in Georgia. Lowndes county could eas ily afford to spend a half million dol- dars on her roads in the next ten years. By that time her values would have increased five times the amount expended and .fche; would be on the way to growth stich as she has hardly dreamed of boforo. Wo have been doing soma' t wark on-onr w *th what we formerly had, but even our best efforts now are as child’s play to what we would do If we could only realize how much we would be pleased after we had secured roads of the very highest class. llan who filches the funds Intrusted to him by the policy holders of an in* surance company. It is an easy matter to convict the moneyless man who violates the laws but it is much harder to convict one who has both wealth and Influence. It is more important, though, for the good of society and the cause of pub lic morality that the man in high places should be made to answer just as surely, for his crimes. A score of Tammany leaders have found it necessary to leave the city at this time "for their health." The political atmosphere of New York Is certainly unhealthful for Tammany- ltes these days. There will be no river and harbor bill at the sessioa of congress this winter. Without a pork barrel, we don't know how some of the members are going to llvo through until the new grass oomce. Another aristocratic member of the old world Mobility is about to tour the United States In musical comedy while anotho plebtan member of the now world plutocracy Is about to visit England to put a few baronial halls in repairs. They are telling a story that some where tho returns were posted thir ty seconds after the close of tho polls becauso they used a voting machine. This is pretty good but it doesn’t equal the time made by the Philadel phia machine in 1900, which could have told Just how mony votes there were In the box for McKinley before tke polls were opened. CRIME IN HIGH PLACES. Our dispatches yesterday afternoon announce that Senator Burton, of Kansas, had been sentenced to serve six mouths In prison and pay a fine of $2,500 as punishment for using his office as senator to extract fees from the government. It Is a humiliating spectacle to see a United States sen ator a member of the most august fo’ rum in the world, put upon trial and convicted of crime and yet It is a healthy sign. Not long ago, Senator Mitchell, of Oregon, a man of great wealth and a long life of service to his state In places of honor and trust, was con victed of a similar offense. Both son ators were convicted of purely statu tory offenses forbidding United States senators from practicing their profes sion before departments of the gov ernment or using their Influence for pay in any work that they may do in that connection. While neither sen ator probably Intended to commit a crime, yet both violated the laws and must suffer Just ns other violators have to suffer. We say the conviction of these men is a healthy sign, becauso it shows that money and influence do not make one immune to tho penalty of violated laws. It Is very probable that other senators have violated the COTTON IN WE8T AFRICA. We have heard a great deal anent the efforts to develop the cotton-grow ing Industry I n the West African col onies of Great Britain, and the Royal British Cotton Growing Association has declared its belief t$iat some thing may be accomplished in the way of relieving the British spinners from the “tyranny” of the American pro ducers. But the London Times takes a different view. It says that in the districts border ing upon Northern Nigeria, where the country is more suitable to its growth cotton may be produced as a staple article, but that a production of 20,000 bales per annum will not be chron icled for many years, if ever. It says that Southern Nigeria is the only col ony possessing a river service giving good and ready transport facilities, but being rich in forest products— timber, rubber and oil farms—it can not be looked upon as an agricultural country. The Times further says that the Gbld Coast Colony offers even less encouragement than do the others. It says that the cotton association’s plantation In Slerre Leone was a fail ure last year and that the American seed did not prove a success, and that even under the most favorable condi tions Slerre Leone could not produce more than 140,000 bales of cotton and that the production during any. of the next ten years of 6,000 bales will be the utmost that can be expected. It says that Northern Nigeria affords the best hope; that it has a popular tlon variously cMlmatcd at a' 000,(H&>and that its jhojJ|£ ~ii^entt^|Bi:thar majority West African natives, but thft the great drawback to the development of Industry is laok of transportation It says that the colonies of Lagos, Southern Nigeria, Gold Coast, Slerre Leone and Fambia, under the most favorable conditions, will not be cap able of producing more than 350,000 bales for very many years, and that a reduction of even 100,000 bales need not be expected for at least eight years. “This,” says the Times, “against the American crop of more than 12.000,000 bales Ms a mere drop in the ocean and cannot be expected to help spinners or Influence prices in any way.” The Times develops the fnct thnt much of the cotton ex ported this year from West Africa has already been sold In England at a loss of one penny per pound, and that such a state of affairs cannot long continue.—Macon Telegrnph. around. Here, as in many other cases .beauty and economy go togeth er. Dr. Schenk, by making roads around hills near Blltmore on grades not exceeding five per cent, reduced the cost of improving a piece ol woods so that it came within the amount received for the wood. Previ ously, when the old roads leading up and down hill had been followed the outlay for the improvement had far exceeded the income.” CHRI8TMA8 SHOPPING. Christmas is less than a month off for the season is yet to be made. The merchants have opened their holiday goods and for the next twenty five days nearly all thought In the busi ness world will be of the holiday trade. It is important that shoppers should get to market early for many reasons* The stocks are fresh now and you can get a more desirable class of goods than you can get later on. It will not take the holiday rush very long to deplete the stocks and leave only the remnants to select from. Be sides this, by getting in the market early you have more time to make your selections and the merchants have more time to devote to you. When the rush of the last few days comes on there will be little oppor tunity for careful selection, even If the stocks have not been picked over. We want to urge the folks In the city, especially, to do their shopping early. There are some who will not have an opportunity to do theirs until the last minute and those who can do so now should get out of the way of those who cannot. It would be a great accomodation to the merchants and better for the shoppers if all who can would do their trading early and leave the last few days for the buy ers who are prevented from getting in earlier. Start out next week and make your purchases and get rid of that much of the Christmas burden. McCurdy need not bother about having his salary reduced. The pol icy holderq are strongly Inclined to It alfogothgfr, . the anhuaf report o* the United States treasurer, the per capita of money in circulation is $31,- 08. Have you counted yours? L. 3. LITTLE. A. BL SMITH. Little & Smith, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Valdosta, Oa. Office Over First National Bank. WOODWARD & SMITH, LAWYERS. OFFICE UPSTAIRS IN COURT HOUSE. Ph«n« 193. HANDS WANTED. I want 500 hands for railroad grading, tie chopping and right-of-way cutters. Pay trom 8 to 10c. per yard for grading, 10 to 12 l-2o per tie and $1.25 per day for day hands. All work checked np and paid for in fall every two weeks. All good dry > sand work. Work on extension of A. O- L. from Newberry to Perry, Fla* damps at Natural Bridge on Steinhatchee river 82 miles from Peny. Free transporta tion on the Atlantic Coast Line. Address A. F. ll-28-BW-Jan 1 PERRY, FLA. ************************** D. H. BELL. COPARTNERSHIP. * 4* J. E. KIRK. * * D. H. Bell and J. E. Kirk have gone into the whole- * sale and retail Fish and Oyster business. Will be glad J to serve your with first-class stock. * * * * * Yours to please, BELL & KIRK. H************************************ * Butter per lb 30cts Seeded Raisins per lb - 13cts Currants per lb - - 13cts Citron per lb 20cts Dates per lb - - lOtcs Nuts per lb - - 15 and 20cts 241b J*. E. M. Flour ■ 80cts ;; Florida Oranges, New York Apples Stanford & Porter, ******************* ******************* SELECT IT NOW! ADVANTAGE OF GOOD ROADS. The following extracts from the ad’ dress of D. Yard King .the “split log, drag rond man," before the American Civic Association, gives the advantag es of good ronds in a brief space: No subject Is of greater import ance than roads A good road is first of all an aid to economy. It helps one team to do work that would re quire two or more on a poor road. It enables a farmer to reach a mar ket when it is best. With It he does not nave to wait for good weather or for the ground to dry up. It saves the wearing out of horses, tools and men. It saves time. On a good road 1^0 a fall suit that team not only hauls a large load, laws by doing Just as Senators Bur-J but It travels fast. Such a road re- ton and Mitchell did. If so, the con- viction of these two shows that there is an aroused public sentiment at work that makes It dangerous for oth ers to do so in the future. quires a smaller annual expense for repairs than a poor road. A good road help^s educate people. By its use one can see his neighbor often can attend meetings ,can travel over The prosecution and investigations | a wider region and see what la going that have been going on in nearly all of the larger cities of the country show that the officials who use their trusts to feather their own nests will have to answer to the people for their conduct and swift revenge will come to those who betray the trust reposed In them. It Is a bad day for corrup tion and rascality In all stations, from the political grafter to the bigger vil- j comparatively inexpensive to go He can thus in his business often take advantage of facts learned from others. A good road helps one to be sociable. It leads to contentment pros perity. good citizenship and happiness \Vfcat is a good road? In the first place one that has easy grades, takes power to climb hills and money to grade through them, while it Is will proclaim your up-to-dateness, and do it now. Don’t be one of the loggerheads. Gome out in 'new cloths in time to wear the late'styles before every other man appears in a suit. The Fall Kniks. L onger coats, wider collars and ei . More fullness than ever in .■.’« ,hest. Vests cut slightly lower. Aoout fabrics--the richest and most gentlemanly patterns that have yet appeared in ready for-service gar- ments. Carsine worsted, Scotch cheviots in all the new styles. These woolens are ia plain colors, neat over plaids and modest broken stripes. You will certainly be greatly surprised to learn what $10.50, $15.00, $18.00 and $20.00 will do for you here, in buying a handsome, well cut and well tailored Fall Suit. We handle High Art — EFF-EFF The very best clothing that is offered readyito wear. The style and workmanship has no equal in ready to wear clothing. BOYS’ CLOTHING AND OVERCOATS, Edwin Clapps’ Shoes, Manhattan Shirts, Knox Hats—ONLY THEiBEST. Davis Bros. & Co.