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I WICK-A-WEEK PMatry, 0fflc , LITTLE JOHN DE- FENOS JOSEPH. Rockefeller Likes the Story oT the Com Crop Comer. A Biblical Story that Appeals to the 8on of the Oil Magnate—He Tells His Sunday- School Class That Cornering the Food Supply in Egypt Was a Great Thing. New York, March 1—By defending Joseph’s action In cornering the food during the seven years of plenty In Egypt and selling It to the people in the seven years of famine, John D Rockefeller, Jr., in his Bible class yesterday morning made the first really public defense, by intimation, of similar methods adopted by his father In building up the Standard Oil monopoly. Middle aged and old men crowded the pews of the Fifth Avenue Bap tist church when Mr. Rockefeller be gan to speak, there being in all two hundred and one members present, the largest attendance for many weeks. Mr. Rockefeller made the point that Joseph’s foresight and ability saved the people of Egypt from star vation, something unprecedented in all the geat famines of history. Fur thermore, according to the best com mentators on the subject, Joseph, in storing the food, exacted only one- fifth of the regular crop from each, this one-fifth being really only the tax each man had to sup port the government. Joseph not on ly knew the famine was coming, but all Egypt knew it Any one could hnte stoted n» the food In antlclpa-i tlon of It, but, said Mr. Rockefeller, | Jospeh knew, as we all do,. that It ’ Is difficult to get the people to look ahead and provide for emergencies of this kind. It required a man of Jos eph’s foresight to do this, and Joseph did the people a great service there by. “When Joseph brought the food they came to Joseph and bought fro m him. In buying from him, Mr. Rock* efeller argued they practically paid their taxes only, and when they had no more money to pay Joseph took their land in exchange. The govern ment had to hr 'e money for Its sup port. “Now. did Joseph do something which seems to us wrong and unjust? Of course, we must judge from the standard of the day in which he lived and worked. We want to get a fair estimate of his character.’’ One member made the point that Joseph was wise in doing what be did; that In the great famine of In dia a few years ago, 3,000,000 people starved to Jeath, and had the Eng lish government followed Jospeb’s example al these lives could have been saved. “If Joseph wbb true to God," com mented Mr. Rockefeller, “he was certainly true to the people. “When Josevh brought the food from the people he was giving them a market for their produce. It is al so true that they muBt have known that there years of famine were com ing, but, of course, the masses of the people are not apt to think seven years ahead and lay by, and perhaps they could not afford to lay by. But the difficulty would be to get them to lay by even If they could There cannot be any criticism of that. But how about the method of distribu tion? Did Joseph do the right thing there? Was there any other alter native except to give away the corn to the people? Joseph gave the peo ple the corn on their own terms. They did not then become slr.ves as we think of slaves. The situation then was that they were tenants of the land. The only dif ference was that the people not only paid the tax as they had paid it be fore the famine, but paid a rental of exactly the same amount the lands being held by Pharaoh. They had sold their land to Pharaoh for the food. It is difficult then, it see m a to me to see where any great Injus tice was done. “I do not see how we can come to •.ny other conclusion in regard to Jos' eph’s action. I cannot see how there can be any blot on his life because of It" In conclusion, Mr. Rockefeller said: "Let us so live that we can walk along the street and look every one In the eye unflinchingly." BUY8 A MWmm W. Gould,Brokaw Astounds a Hurdy- Gurdy Man. Palm Beach, Fla, Feb. 28—W. Gould Brokaw has bought a plebian monkey from an organ grinder for $250 The hurdy-gurdy man was grind ing out symphonies when Brokaw, in passing, was struck by Jocko’s hu manlike faO. Tonmsao said he would sell his pet^for $250 and was almost paralyzed when Brokaw peeled that sum off a roll of bills, grasped the slman, and In 30 seconds more was riding away with him. Tomaaso left town hurriedly lest Brokaw repent his bargain. VALDOSTA, GA., SATURDAY, MARCH 3, 1906. = Mrs. Verges Mizner Takes Her New Hubby to Her Heart Again. New York, Feb. 28—Wilson Mlz- aer, the young Lochlnvar who came out of the west and wooed and won the beautiful Mrs. Yerkes, widow of Ithe great American street railway magnate, Charles T. Yerkes, has ueen taken back by the wife who sent him from her palatial home here af ter ten days of married bliss. “It was conspiracy to separate us, but it failed,” said Mrs. Yerkes-MIz- ner In the Hotel Netherland, Fifty- ninth street and Fifth avenue as she sat looking lovingly into the big blue eyes of her athletic young husband at a little dinner she gave In that hotel wherein shs had dwelt in the most magnificent suite for several years with her first husband. “They told me all sorts of dread ful things about Wilson,” she added, “and foolishly I credited them until I slnrted an investigation and found they were all false. “Please do not say we are reunited because we never wero separated. We had a little quarrel, it Is true, but I love him and I have found out that painted. v k “Don’t let any more of those un kind things be said about him," she pleaded. “He was always good to me. The stories that he abused me and that w# quarreled over money matters Art Absolutely untrue, never asked me for a cent either be fore or aftsr>our marriage, and gave me only whatl have found to be the best advice in regard to financial af fairs. All $ have is his if he wishes for 1 now know that but for him might havej been put In a position where the wry root could have been sold over nsy # head." With tha? Mrs. Yerkes-MIzner left the hotel with her husband and was driven back in her own automobile to her Fifth avonu. home her face beam ing and looking In every way as charming aa tlu- most youthful bride. From a friend who was present at the dinner It was learned later that Mrs. lift •‘g-Mizner had dlscove r eJ in the ach* •me to separate her from her husband a plot Involving ore millions than any ever related he is not so black ns he has been [ in the weirdest romance. Mr. McCurdy Makes His Flight While Coachman Fells a Reporter. New York, March 1.—Richard McCurdy and family last night boarded the steamship America, wljJch sailed for Europe this morning. A reporter endeavoring to get an interview with McCurdy was knocked down by the' coachman, who was ar rested. The McCurdy home at Morristownwas left In charge of a caretaker, and It Is reported that the owner will be absent several months. McCurdy's health Is much Improved. Speer Calls Lawyer Down, innah, March 1—Tha principal. cal Ted his attention to this omi Savannah, Incident of interest to tho Qfeny and tta United 8tatee courT noon was the colloquy between Emory Speer and Col. P. W. Meldrim, of attorneys for the defense, upon the lack of courtesy to the court on the part of Col. Meldrim. The attorney had addressed the court once or twice without prefacing his remarks with the customary “May it please your honor." Judge Speer AN INGENIOUS MACHINE. Transmits Signatures and Reproduc- j es Messages of Handwriting. Savannah, Feb. 28—One of most Ingenious contrivances ! brought to Savannah Is the telauto- ; graph, now in operation at the Clt- : izens bank. j This muchlne, which is an electrl- ! cal instrument, records Identically at a distance any mark or writing made at other end of the line. A question written downstairs by the teller Is at once reproduced In the same hanJ- writing upstairs before the book keeper. The answer Is returned In stantaneously In the handwriting of the man who replies. This machine is now used to ver ify signatures anJ Is a noiseless way of communicating from floor to gal lery or throughout the different sto ries of a building. The telautograph can transmit replies twenty-two n:!!es. The time will come, of course, when the machine will be perfected, and when the handwriting of the writer will be reproduced nny dis tance. Many people hnve flocked to the Citizens bank to see tho telau tograph work. It Is a curiosity and. more than that. Is a very useful piece of mechanism. GOT OUT JUST IN TIME. Shirt Factory Building Took F.re as Girls Went Out. Bridgeport, Conn., Feb. 28—FIvo minutes after some 500 factory girls marched out of tho big factory of the Star Shirt Company yesterday the building was a roaring furnace and within an hour It was In ruins. * When ^ome of the girls from on* cf the upper floors reached the sec ond story the sight of the smoke frightened them and about twenty of them became panic-stricken. These were taken from the windows to the ground by the firemen. Mrs. Jennie Heappy, 42 years ( Id FRENCHMANS THE CASE. Cash Payment la Mile Elsie Tannier. Rather Breezy Change Given to the Greene-Gaynor Case by the In- troduction of Perfumed Financial Transaction*—Many Stubs 8how How Sho Was Remembered by the Captain. Savannah, Ga., March 1.—For a few brief moments yesterday, the proceed ings in the Greene-Gaynor trial smack* ed cf the delectable. Scum ol Capt. Carter’s pe.iumed fl nancial iransuciions were exposed in the judicial calcium, and ifiongh the cur tain was raised for only a skoi t time, the expose was sufllcienr to & use those present to sit up and pay attention. The pi os-ecut ion has, from the very beginning, re!rained (torn making use of an; thing that involved or reflected nponniiy of Capt. Carter’s fair asso ciates, bat in order to account for a mm of money which is supposed to consti tute a part of Curter’s share of tho “loot’’ it beenmo uecossary tor one Mile. Elise M. Tannier of Paris, to bo introduced by a New York bank official. Mademoiselle is not here in person, but a letter was read showing that tho former engineer in charge of the Sa vannah district improvements forward ed 2,500 francs to her in care of her Boulevard de Sebastopol, Paris, address. Mile. Tannier was in BaVan&ah in 1002-3, and is remembered aa the petite would only suggest a formuIsr {•facing his remarks he would be glim to conform to it The* judge told him that the usual salutation was all that was required The incident closed with this expla nation. Pugilist Dies From Knockout. San Francisco, March I,—Harry Tenny, who was knocked out last night by Frank Neal bantam weight champion pugilist, died here this morning. Suicide, Wore New York, March 1—Dressed her bridal gown, with white weddlos slippers on her feet, Mrs. Laura Ward was found dead tojlay In her room at 517 Lenox avenue. Between her lips she held a rubber tube from an open gas Jet. The colored wash goods novelties w« are displaying this season are tin* surpassed In quality, style, etc. C. , C. VarneJoe & Co. 1-Jlt-wlt. that ihe vast __ remittances evidenced by teaoiVWMfS «‘E. M. T.” When Capt. Carter was tried before the aimy officers they did not go into any of these sweet scented matters. Upon the request of the officer nnder indictment, all such documents wero returns to him niicxuniined. bntthenit was i oi so essential to supply each link slu wing the disposition of tho funds, as iuthe present proceeding. To Use Improved Agricultural Implements Is To Farm For Profit. You Must Come to it, Labor is Scarce and Unrelirable. We Sell the Prosperity Line. Makes Thrifty Farmers Independant Vie Are Elegantly Equipped to Meet Every Demand of the Farmer. Come and See Us. HARware company, HEADQUARTERS, VALDOSTA, GA. White Pine Sash, Doors, Paints and Cooking Stoves. The Great Southern Hardware Distributors to South Georgia and Florida-