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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, APlOL 1 4 , 1906.
(HE VALDOSTA TIMES.
C. C. ■HARTLEY, Editor,
t L. TURNER, Rutin.m Msrsssr.
IUBSCRIPTION PRICE |1 A YEAR.
entered at the Posteffle* at Valdoata
Oa., aa Second Claaa Mall Matter.
VALDOSTA, OA., APRIL 10, 1906
TWELVE PAGES
The spelling reform lg not likely to
make much headway In Jorjah, Bond
lllant or Mlzoory.
FOR PURE P0LITIC8
The representatives in the legisla
ture from Richmond county hare
made an appeal to the voters of that
county for a fair primary—one fre
from the use of money—which Is so
much to the point that we reproduce
it. It is aa follows: f
"No little apprehension is beingfelt
by good citizens of this community
interested in the preservation of pure
elections, that unless wise action and
preciu* ops are promptly taken by
the public at large and by rhe offi
cers of the law, there Is grave danger
of a return In the approaching prl-
Aliout 200 oysters would be requii rr.ary to former Illegal practices
ed daily to supply sufficient nourish- fecting our elective franchises
THE POWER OF ATTENTION. cles should not Intersect
The fact that the mind ol man is In the German army, of which the
eaelly distracted from say .inject In pay ■» ,efi9 «“» half our ° wn - a
bachelor subaltern Is not allowed to
the
moot for one person.
Possibly Senator Dtep^w. likewise
would make. a few changes it he
could live his life over again.
Johnstown, Pa., having had both
flood and Are, Is .prepared to expect
either a tornado or earthquake. leently p*s?«-d tv> protect the o.opic
‘againsr the corruption of the ballot.
0
“Two years ago. through the over-
Mr. Andrew Carnegie uaya
profits by reading poetry. Many per |
Oas have failed to profit by writing,v/h
u. !->.
If you have not visited our open-*
ing sale at The Empire Store comej
now,. Sale closes i Saturday nl^ht ltoykln W: Igh
April 14th.
John I3arry, an Irishman, was the
coirmodcre of the American navy i
a wonderful sea fighter and a true,
patriot.
contemplation, accounts
slowness of tlje development of
uioit minds, and for the extreme
slowness of the development; of the
human mind collectively. Th!ere are
historical periods when general en
lightenment seems to have advanced
by leaps and bounds; but when one
takes cognizance of the tens of thous
ands of years that man has been at
play In the Kindergarten of Creation,
one is aware of the very gJalualani
deliberate character of human prog
ress as a whole; and this deliberate
ness of growth, and the remains of
I ignorance and superstition even In
minds regarded as educated, come
largely from the inability of men to \
keep their thoughts employed stead
fastly on the various objects and
problems of matter, mind and life.
The faculty of attention is striking
ly lacking in the savage man; It in’
creases as civilization increases, and
,is a largo factor In the advance of
itlment of this ommun i . , _
civilization and of curture. t
•itions were inaugurate " ro-l*-
I When the power of attention Is ex-
Mr jceptional in the Individual, he 1* set
|apart from his fellows; he Is a ge
nius In the business world, or pertiap*
a poet, artist, Inventor,
marry We, believe, unless he can
show to the satisfaction of his su
periors that either he or the object'
tlve bride has ‘(private menaa.” Gen.
Corbin, it seems, indicated some such
regulation as proper in our own
army. Hence these Jeers. But it is
certainly worth the attention of con-
feel it our mtj to call the attrition
of the public to this matter in ajvanc*
of Hie primary election that it n:iv
be alert to discountenance such prac
tices and to lake such steps as shall
l>6 i ecessary to execute the law re-
ROMANCE OF MODERN BU8INE8S
The brilliant manner In which an
American solved a Russian naval
problem of a truly appalling nature
Is Che subject of an article In the
current Harper’s Weekly by Henry
Townsend, who describes Lewis Nix
on’s recent achievements in building
for the Russian government
torpedo-boats in fifteen weeks. The
story is one of those romances
gross that the present rate of pay of ! I>usln^ss with which, .s Mr. Town-
the army puts a pressure in a young I sen d remarks, the world is growing
officer who has to live on his pay to j daily moje familiar, but which are
quit the army If he wishes to marry, j none the l esa engrossing for that
no matter bow' much he may prefer • reas °tt. The task that was set Mr.
dn ir.g
. pure
this coiLty and city.
‘In his ?liouncement card
then declared:
Court revlow amendments in all (
tho "new spring shades’’ and styles
are being offered in the senate on
tho rate bill. I
It Is perfectly natural, somebody!
ehourd suggest to Mark Twain for a
United States senatorship. This is a
OUdad Age. |
Since we have eliminated the
venal negro vote and Invited in
to our democratic primaries all
whli a voters who shall affiliate
with ns and abide by he nomina
tion there not only no excuse
’or deb uii hing the white voters
of o«n county and state, but Its
continued practice threatens the
very foundations of our civil ln-
f.C iitlons. * * * In case you
elect my associates and myself
pledge ourselves to introduce
the army, and no matter how much
he may be or promise to be "an
ornament to the service." Meanwhile
Secretary' Taft can do something of
his own motion to relieve the state
of things which he deplores. He can
for example, modify those preposter
ous and outrageous regulations of
his own department which make It
Imparatlve that an officer shall spend
three or four times aa much on his
clothes as a civilian is compelled to
do.
HOW CHINESE REGARD AMERICA
The Cuinaman, unlike the Euro
pean, regards America ns only torn-
discoverer, ■ xjorarlly his home, preserves his na-
j philosopher, reformer, statesman or ttonal customs and peculiarities, and
j conqueror. When the power of at-'finally returns, carrying his savings j this task would have meant a loss to
.fention in a community has been , w ith him. He is not attracted by! the contractor of $50,000. Mr. Nixon
Nixon presented seemingly Insur
mountable difficulties. He was re
quired to deliver to the Russian gov*
erncent, complete in every particu*
lur, ten torpedo beats, and the time
allowed for their construction was
less than four months.
Not only had all the macterial for
these boats to be collecteu in the
United States, properly numbered as
to parte, carefully crated, and this,
I of course, within the shortest possi
ble time: but from tho day of tho ar’
rival in Russia of this great mass
of material, only six weeks were
granted to the builder In which to
launch tho first torpedo boat with
everything in place upon her.
The forfeit for failure to perform
A new organization that has been
formed in Topeka la the Women's
Kansas Day club, which has for Its
object the colection and preservation
of the early history of Kansas to
instill patriotism in Kansas youths
and establish comradshftp among
Kansas women.
Drunkenness
Physicians pronounce drunken-
ness a disease of the nervous sys
tem. No “will power” can heal
the stomach membranes which
have been burned and seared by
alcohol.
Cures Whiskey and Beer Habit
ORRINE removes the craving forliijuor
by actinic directly on the effected nerve*,
restoring the stomach and digestive organs
rmal condition, improving the ap-
oring the health. No Bau
dot or publicity,
itbout patient's knowledge, bay
treatment
-e without. . . .
ORKINE No. 1; for voluntary treatment.
buy ORRINE No. 2. Price $1 per box.
Cure Effected or Money Refunded
A registered guarantee iu each box. Book
on “Drunkenness” (wealed) mailed free on
request AH correspondence .
ORRINE mailed (sealed) on r
by the ORRINE CO., Inc., Washfagton^D.
C-,or60ldby 37
A. E: Dimmock, Patterson street, Val
dosta, Ga.
The United 8totes la to have a 20,-
000 ton battle ship, British taxpay
er* may well prepare to settle for a
21,000 tonner.
Justice Harlan contends that It Is
possible for a man to remain on the
supreme court bench and still take
an interest in religious affairs.
to its passage, a bill to punish
vote selling and every other spe
cies of fraudulent practices at
party primaries, and to still fur
ther amend the election laws, of
the state to the end that vote
buyers and contributors to vote
buying funds shall Incur the
heaviest penalties for the Infrac
tion of these laws."
arts.
j The supreme object? of the teach
er Is to cultivate attention in his
or her charges. When a child has
learned how to pay attention, he has
learnfed how to study and to learn
I "Object lessons” are favorite de
vices for fixing attontlon. Accord
ing to the orthodox theologies, . re
r::. ,r ?..!!!. passed at iiBion naa been taugM *° mttnkind
Tho head of an Eskimo family giv-
como*. If the piulent recovers. It Is ‘ “ ,,u 19 “" w upon largely through object lessons In the
kept; If not. It la returned. i e cr,m,nal statute book, and will f orm sometimes of "progressive reve*
Let nobody be .stonl.hed at sec “ P “ »> approaching prl- wioni:- and the system of aymbola
tag a vigorous article In defense of tho y ' W “ that platform waa an ' In all religions may be called simply
■ »iviuuo ai ns-ia iu uutriiao tmuo v — — — - — r • . r . : _
Donato Ip- tho Hon. Ben Tillman lnj 0 “ u R oed . two yoars a *° some.of.ua dev ices for fixing the wah(fOrin'r**F Va9im»^oivHtetrl<klSjnt8ft»t-».^th8j[Pi
one^of the magurtnoa before long. ,hen - a9 now, regarded the preserva- tentlon of aoula, for (heir suitenaace
A smell' boy being asked by hl." l0n ° r ,he purUy of 1,10 ballot aa ab and lasting benefit,
toucher to name the principal occu-* wa ^ 8 l ^ e paramount duty of the We see, year In and year out. the
potion* of the United States, answer- j k° ur - I
ed: “Manufacturing and • grafting.” “We can Imagine nothing
coming and going of beliefs, customs'
that popular heroes or mere popular pets;
However, the Iowa man who wants *' <>ulJ vro ' e n "’ rec a| atultous to the begt ae ii e r« among books; sports,
to seslgn his American citizenship «t Augusta that to bring movcm ents and fads of all kinds-
doesn't have any worse opinion of on again the curse and demoraliza- whlch flcur9 . nromlnentlv only as
tho Unltod States than Mr Debbs tlou of ballot hnvln. i ng r prominently only as
h „. I balIot b "' lnB la 11,14 eommun- Jons a9 thoy aru ttble to clalm the at .
| lty ’ bo,le '° tb,,t t 1 *® great pat- Mention of largo group* or of the en-
Tiup guveruiuent print shop turns rlotlc movement of a re-unlted neo- .. .
, ' uuueu peo- t j re community. The whole system
out hundreds of thousands of public pie f ur a Greater Augusta would have . k ■ 9 ,
documents which are never dlsfrlbut- bM>n lllln ,„ ... ..... of buslncM "Ivertlsing, and the In-
<od. They intend to quit this and save ° u tor pure G,ec ‘ finite number of publicity depart’
>1-00(1.000 a year. ,tloa movement that preceded It. ' mC ata-publlclty as to all sorts of
Prof. Gamer announces that he m „[. C ‘ l ." “I® 15 auotbt,r pri '| wares and all manner of cauees-are
has now completely mastorod the'. ' *■ 80 on re6 fr " m ballot de- nothing but means of securing atten-
munkoy language. Ho expects hero-' buucbery - we believe pure elections t |on; of spreading Information and
alter to be able to move freely In I* 111 b ® flrmly estab!lshe,l as the habl‘ ,„ dl , c lag action through suggestion,
tosfcfonahle society. |of our community, whereas If some Century Magazine.
Hoke 8mllh “got left" In coming ° f our should again resort — ■ ■—
to Homervlllo. but the e*|Mtrlence b>such Illegal practices It wouldprob* MARRIAGES IN THE ARMY,
lioee not compare with what Is in “bly require a decade or more to Sounding again tho note sounded
store for him later on If the opposl- restore us to tho place wo now oo. " evcral months ago by Gen. Corbin
lion Is to be believed.
'stimulated by one attentive mind, or ollr institutions and brings witdi him j accomplished his task, even exceed-'
by a group of attentive minds, the no i QVe 0 f American ideals. To aim jtng the requirements as to speed and !
world passes through periods of great j t he United States 1s a field to be ex' ; endurance.
mental activity; great reforms take'pioUoj, but nothing more. The Eu- j Ag G ermany : 'hal“flgured largely as
place; there Is great material orlropcnn cast9 his lot with us, mingles a proJllcer of the paint with which.
'Intellectual advance; or there are j W lt tho population, and to a few gen- j r()d no „ e3 are Jecora , eJ , it lg on iy
Imo'the'teglslature” and ‘tof'press revlvala ln ,etters and ln the p,a * tl< ' etatlons, his Identity is lost In our proper that now that countrjr 9hould
composite race. He has neither pe-! brlng forth lhe dlscolorer professor
culiarlties of thought nor of dress to • XeIser ls the man when a joyously
distinguish him from those among j tInted no3e ls taken to the professor
whom be labors, and his children be j r m s i nt0 lbe i n |j amed TO ins and
are coon an Indistinguishable part of ^ capillaries with a minute platinum. >
the community. Not so with the p0 | nt and p lIn)ps Q! ,t the superfluous 1
Chinese. They are not only distln- b ] 00 d. A blast of hot air forces the
gulshed by their dress, language and ve j n tissues together and with a
habits, but they remain entirely aep- good-bye splash of merry-merry hy-
arato and apart from those among d rogen the old rose effect is gone and
whom they dwell. This difference (vory has taken ila place
Is due not only to the wide dlsslml-'
larlfy In history, tradition and habits g | | **■■■888
| 11/E have justreceiv-
| "" ed a car load of
f Wagons of ail kinds.
| We have a turpentine
| wagon built especially
| for the trade under
I our brand that will
| sell, at an exceed-
| ingly low price and
fully guarantee.
And ail kind of Har.
ness for sawmill and
turpentine operators.
B. J. SIRMANS & CO..
203 NORTH ASHLEY.
Valdosta, Georgia.
b/ also to the. absence of any per-
cupy. It will also Impede, If It dlj Secretary Taf t has declared tol the
Thus far, no man who has made not paralyse for a time, the comtner- nl,lltary committee of tho senate that
on "unauthorized," use of quotationIcial and Industrial Impulse of a re. " young lieutenant* ,ahould not bur-
nmldalt * h ° , VleW “ ° f ,be ,united Augusta. .den themselves with wives oa the
president,” has committed the blun- . I „ „
tier the second time. | lf baa gone abroad ln the land jv- » resent P ay - °® a - Corbin made
— . erywhere that Augusta and Rlchmvmd hlnl3clf tbe ,argot of many "npleaa-
rooelve a sevete "bea«ng W « Z haVe ‘bemselve. ant lf>8rs f ™"> th e wives, and still
hands of an Indignant huaband." th.| fr0m |M>ll,lc l1 debauchery and de- more trom ,he flaancc8 of "young
polks justloo doesnt consider It any, me a commuhlty noted for Its clean I ■ieutenants.” In communication to
mWaatlon of the offence. | elections. Shall we reverse the goodl 131 ® l ,re ® s - and otherwise, these la-
Fktvl. LT~Qlesslng7T(~yoars old, of worl< of receat years? g i<lies contrasted the comparative cost
lUadtfoot, Mtho, who road patent j ‘ROw absolutely Impqrtant it la anJ tbe °° ra P arat,v ® return ( n hap-
mWUcltu- a-lrertlsemcats until he dU-Ahat every public spirited and pat 1 P lnes * of a bride on tbe one hand
CDTOted he had symptoms of a score rlotlc citizen of every class and fac- and tbe mMa h m and poker on
of dteoses, hangetl himself. t
_________ tion should at this time, of all others, 1,16 “^er.
Siould the bill limiting fortune* | freely and voluntarily set himself In tbe col<1 llg b t ° r mature
TV:Z la °' hu ® ntlre lnfluence reason tbe general and the secretary
warranto u. la the belief that they'‘ n oppo,ltlon to ,h « 4 >l«btest Invasion are f ,B ,he rlght - A , ' young
will take their medicine without a of lbe purlI y ot the ballot- at the ap- aD,r wl,aoul “’her menas than his
murmur. |Proachong primary. P a y 19 burdening himself when
There anTeome eosTMunts I n this C * U upon 0,0 publlc up <»> mllrrie, * glrl w1th 1,0 moa ^ her
busy workl of ourj and among the- tbe °® CPr9 of the law to see to It own ' 1,10 C0UI>1 ® - 111 be mticli
very easiest and most commonly put ,b at the law prohibiting the buying barrasaoj when they encounter so
on exhibition Is that of preaching of and selling of votes and the subscrip- clally clv1llaM of their own kind as
w end'pracUttt “° n °* f ° r purp06R ’ of buy,n « ^ educatloa - but of
tho opposite. or tofluonctng votes shall be stent- moro mon ®y Tbelr best refuse Is
~ !>y enforced at the approaching prl- *° me pemote P 081 where there are
spend ££££ reZ U> al.^ y T n '' lry W,th0U, rt>8p « t "> “ ClV '" ln9 ’ Where ,he a ™ y H pl ®
chewing gum than for foreign mis
atom. And the figure# would be even
more startling but tor the fact that
mo* of the girl* can make one piece
la»t a whole wvek.
whether high or low."
are all po> r together, and extreme
* - . s* frugality is enforced upon everybody.
■Fortune knock, once at every In such a society there are dojbtlees
man's door." Fortune Is a knocker as “good times" as ln more expen-
all right. ,t Te civilian circle*. But the two ctr
land in which they sojourn.
It wv>uld require generations to
bring our people down to a plane
upon which they could compete with
the Chinese, and this would involve
a large Impairment? of the efficiency
of their work. It is not Just to the
laboring men of the United States
that they should be compelled to la
bor upon the basis of the Chinese
coolie labor or stand idle and allow
their places to be .filled by an alien
race with no thought of permanent j
identification with our country. The
American laborer not only produces
the wealth \>f our nation in time of
peace but be ls also Its sure defend
er In time of war—who will say that
his welfare and the welfare of his
family shall be subordinated to the
interests o*f those who abide with us
for but a time, who while with us, •
are exempt from draft or military j
burden, and who, on their return,
drain our country of its currency
A foreign land-lord system is almost
universally recognized as a curse to
a nation, because the rent money is
sent out of the country. Chinese
Immigration on a large scale would
give ua tlie evil effects of foreign
landlordism in addition to its other
objectionable features.
The tea farm at Somervile, S. C.,J
the only one of its kind in the west-*
cm hemisphera. !» tile this year to
•end 12,000 pounds of tea to market.
With the kln liy ass stance of thej
government of the United State* talaj
farm has grownt o a point where it
cam offer serious competition with the
best grades of tea shipped from Chi-1
na, India, Formosa or Java. But
above all, it has been demonstrated,
that, barring the question of labor,'
the finest tea can be successfully
grown in this country, and there is
nothing that gladdens the heart of > |
an American more than the discovery j,
that he can enter Into competition
field hitherto denied him
:■ CONVERSE BROS., ^
■■ and Gent’, Furnishings Store at the old
B. Converse, have
ap-to-date Clothing
s old stand formerly occupied
by A. Converse, Jr. The business will be condnoted as infor
mer years—at a close margin
.EVERYTHING ENTIRELY NEVy.,
When a man’i advertising shows
that he is thdroughly Interested ln
his business, his business will become
Interesting to others.
Ice cream freetrrs from 2 to 20
quarts at Bayd-Fry Stove and China
This store has been remodeled and prices marked in plain fig
ure* so that eaeh and every man can wait upon himself lf he
choses to
We are Agents for Young's $3.00 Hsts and Hess’
$5.00 Shoes -
The Public Is Respectfully Invited.
S Converse Bros.
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