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THE VALDOSTA TIMES,! THE VALDOSTA TIMES c. C. BRANTLEY) Editor. E. L. TURNER, Butlr-M* SUBSCRIPTION PRICE «1 A YEAR. Entered et tbs PoetoEloe «t Veldoeti 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<| HALES, Perhaps you like your gray hair then remember—Hall’s Hair Reij gra^jair^topsjdlingjialr^alj