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THE VALDOSTA TIMES,!
THE VALDOSTA TIMES
c. C. BRANTLEY) Editor.
E. L. TURNER, Butlr-M*
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Gt, te Second Claee Mall Matter.
VALDOSTA, QA„ APRIL 28, 1906
TWELVE PAGES
If it takes six years to convict
Greene and Gaynor, how long would
it take to put a multi millionaire
trust magnates behind the bars?
Cuba seems to be selling us all of
her products, and buying most of her
goods in Europe. Thus, does recip
rocity get twisted.
Gen. Wood’s "Around the World
Mileage 1 ' ball has been explained
about as satisfactorily as the killing
of tho Moro women and children.
The Carnegie Hero Commission
ought to give a medal to the woman
who is brave enough to wear her old
hat at Easter,
Knox says congress can regulate
rates, but it must be careful not to
regulate them too hard. Knox, knocks
with gloves, as it were.
An Ohio man has been cured of
consumption by living In a tree. Was
.the tree fitted up with Dowle’s
‘Leaver of Healing?"
If Greene and Gaynor have to work
out that $575,794 fine at the usual
rate of a dollar a day, they will be
kept busy for some time to come.
Every time the president regales
the public, with an installment of his
personal views, some republicans
think more kindly of Wm. J. Bryan.
Iowa has not yet given up hope of
having at least one republican can
didate for governor from every con
gressional district.
THE SUPPLIES IN OUR CITIES.
The earthquakes and fire which
devastated three-fourths of the city
of San Francisco last week revealed
a fact that is frequently overlooked
la the ordinary run of life. It is the
enormous amount of the consuming
capacitly in proportion to the amount
of supplies usually kept on hand in
our big cities. The supply of vari
ous kinds of merchandise Is so sel
dom exhausted that we do not stop
to consider how much is usually in
store. The announcement was made
the morning after the earthquake in
San Francisco that there were but
three days supplies on hand in the
city. In other words, it would re
quire but three days for the people
to begin to suffer for the necessaries
of life if the source o! supply should
be entirely cut off.
It is said that nearly the same
thing is true of New York and all of
the great cities of the country. If it
were not for the fact that the farmer,
the truck grower, the fruit raiser,
the butcher and the manufacturer
were constantly pouring their sup-
A half dozen prophets
have predicted the tragic dea|
President McKinley, to say
of the less disasters that
ways point to ns a vindic
their foretellings.
It Is not bard to predict
things, with the perfect
that they will coxfie to pass ( lf i
enough time. Where so many ’
ets are predicting It is Impossibll
anything to occur that has no|
ready been foretoldi You can I
ly talk to the average man wit]
having him express his beliefs
the future. The less sense he
the quicker he is to tell you just j
to expect. But the San
disaster was foretold by probhe
more than ordinary standing.
Totten, for instance, formerly ol
college and a distinguished cdu
has been predicting that the^
the world Is near at hand.
n
have been something ovet
earthquakes which killed soihe
teen million people since people I
gan to keep record of such evel
we hardly think there is much rq
piles Into our great cities, it wouldl for alarhl ln ,he llttle shake tlrat |
'Pacific coast had last week.
The spring gardening season
makes the suburbanite wonder wheth
er, after all, the man with the muck
rake is not entitled to some sympa
thy.
Secretary of Agriculture Wilson,
says there will be no more crop fail
ures. Evidently the secretary of ag
riculture and the head of the weath
er bureau, have been putting up a
hardly be a week before their teem
ing populations would begin to suffer
for food. Even in a city like Val
dosta, where the stocks are larger
in proportion than the demand,
would take only a few days for the
people to begin to suffer if the sup
ply of food should be cut off. Sup
pose the butchers here were
off their meat for a week—suppose
egetable dealers were to receive
no vegetables, no garden truck
kinds and the fish dealers no
fish. Suppose the grpeerymen w*ere
tQ receive no new supplies of gro
ceries, the chances are that famine
and pestilence would stalk through
our streets in less than a month.
Suppose that such a disaster as
the one which has just occurred in
San Francisco had occurred fifty
years ago before the railroad and tel
egraph lines were threading the
country, bringing all of the sections
In close touch with each other. Sup
pose the cry of distress in San Fran
cisco had to be oarried across thb
country on horse back as it was fifty
ippose relief had td 1
But since the San Francisco
aster, Prof. Totten has said:
"I have voiced the dlsastei
the solid standpoint of prophe cy,
terpreted and proved since 18l
What I look for next is a comet,!
portent of the greater disasters,
noble universe is wound up for dls
ter. There isn’t a cycle that dc|
noc out toward Zero. Look at.,
conditions of cities and banks an
surance companies, deviltry is
up for the great crash. I wotj
be surprised if New York got i
ger quake tomorrow."
The original Adventist prophesfl
that the world would end in 184
About 400 years ago old Mother ShiJ
ton declared:
"The world to an end shall con
In eighteen hundred and elghty-onel
Another prophet declared, "WheJ
tho Colllseum falls, Rome will
and when Rome falls then will thf
world fall," but the first of
cidents occurred many years M
but Rome and "old mother {
continue to do business
dilnd, speech
nor love that Still, he keeps
on using microscopes.
What a good time the tariff pro
tected trusts aro having plundering
the people with high prices and how
Yblljr they must endorse that repub
lican Kansas platform: "Let well
enough alone. ’
The talk about disfranchising the
negroes will not be taken seriously
as long as the Fourteenth and Fif
teenth amendments remain in force,
though candidates for office will make
pl&tforms out of that kind of talk
merely to "get iu on.”
While the president Is not a candi
date for re-election, his decision to
make one - of those popular trips
"around tho circle" will give several
"eminent republicans a number of
sleepless nights.
Czar Cannon insists that a "be-
livvOlent despotism" is the best fovm
of government fm the house of rep
resentatives. and that it does not
matter much whether it is "benevo
lent’* or not.
In ordor to describe the new Eas-
tor bonnet, some new words should
he added to the English language.
Also a fow of another variety, to al
low the man who has to pay the bill
properly to express himself.
This problem of saving Niagara
Falls Is simple. All that is neces
sary is to make the corporations who
arc taking the water, carry it back
and pat it in the river again above
the Fells.
Ol course the trusts are selling
goods cheaper abroad than ln this
country, but they are too busy to
bother with explaining how they do
It, and besides so many democratic
congressmen cannot understand their
figures anyway.
By the way, what did Gorky do
with his wife and children before he
left Russia? Before the hysterical
people of this country go crazy over
him, they had better find out wheth
er the lady accompanying him is his
wife or only an "uuderstudy.’’
;r forefathers of even a half
a century ago had to employ—what
mind can fathom the depths of dls
tress that would have been the re
sult!
The swift messengers that have
gone from all sections of the country
to the relief of the afflicted people,
carrying millions of money, besides
clothing, blankets and tents
make the people comfortable are but
feeble indications of the Improved
condition of the public conscience,
far as it relates to man’s duty
to man, as well as the improved ser-
lce which the mind and energy of
man have devised for catering to the
comforts of man. It but shows what
great advances have been made dur
ing a few brief years, both In ma
terial and spiritual things, despite
those chronic kickers who spend
most of their time In sighing for
the "pood old days of old.”
The railroads are doing a mag
nificent work for San Francisco and
the stricken districts of California,
and that despised class among us—
the men of greatest wealth—have
unloosed their purse strings and
turned a tide of millions in a direc
tion where it may do great good »n
alleviating suffering. Great afflic
tions like the San Francisco horror
are not always without some silver
lining to the cloud. That it softens
the human heart to the cry of dis
tress and that It teaches the critics
and fault-finders that there is much
good where they have only admitted
that there was evil is some sort of
compensation.
usand alleged proph
told” the ending of the world
nervous people "see signs in evel
unusual occurrence, from "shootlnl
star” to the occasional earthquakq
but the end is not yet. There
very little sense in worrying over the!
end of the world, as hardly any ofl
us will he here at the finish. Andl
there are hundreds of daggers lurk-|
Ing about us all of the time more
he dreaded than earthquakes or simi
lar disturbances.
As public opinion la opposed to
attacking the Chinese Empire the ad
ministration has stop\MHi sending ex
tra troops to tho Philippines for that
purpose. Our exuberant president Is
•aid to be ruffling for trouble and on
ly the sound common sense of the
country will prevent an explosion in
some quarter.
THE “l-TOLD-YOU-SOS."
The earthquake and fire which
wrought such havoc In San Francis-
and other California points last
week has resulted In bringing to the
surface of public notice the usual
number of prophets with their "I told
you so.” Disasters never occur with
out the prophets calling the pre
dictions which they had made. Wars
and pestilences may occur, but the
prophets always managed to show
how much might have been saved If
, their predictions had been heeded.
OTHER QUAKES IN TRI8CO.
Seismic shocks are of common oc-|
currence In California, according to|
facts w’hlch have been brought
light by reason of the earthquake ini
San Francisco the past week. But!
none of such wide spread disaster as I
the current one has ever occurred Inn
that section of the country, and no
loss of life has been occasioned by j
earthquakes since the one In ,1874.-|
as recent as 1891 the earth trembled
slightly in San Francisco, but so in
distinct and lacking were these I
shocks that no publicity was given to j
them at the time. j
On March 26 and 27, 1872, there!
as an excedlngly severe earthquake}
in the Inyo Valley ln California, in
which about 30 lives were lost and a I
number of small villages were ruined. I
The shock extended Into the city ofl
San Francisco, where some slight-
damage was done to the Lick House!
and several handsome public build-!
ings. In 1852 an earthquake struck!
the southern section of California <
and destroyed one of the ancient and 1 I
picturesque missions of the Francis- {
can Fathers. !
It has come to light that two years!
ago several slight earthquake shocks
felt ln San Francisco, during '
which a man was killed. Several days
later it was found that the peak on'
one of the twin stone towers of the I
city ball, conceded to be one of the I tfl
most magnificent buildings in the|l<|
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