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THE VALDOSTA TIMES, SATURDAY, JULY 13, 1907.
the Valdosta times
C. L.
C. C. BRANTLEY, EXlter.
TURNER, Suelni
SUBSCRIPTION PRICE |1 A YEAR
Entered at the Poetoffioe at Valdcata
Qa„ a> Second Claas Mall Matter,
VALDOSTA, GA„ July 18, 19<W
TWELVE PAGES.
When In doubt, and you feel tUe
absolute neceailty of blowln* off,
cuss John D. Rockefeller.
The silly aeaaon seema to be haring
the usual effect upon the Jlng ies of
the oountry.
; The Now York banker who soya
aiiyer dollars are a nuisance la not
i chunking any of them at the birds.
John Temple Graves has crawled
flown from the "band-wagon" and has
mounted the water-wagon, apparently.
Editor Sweat, of Nashville, Is ma
king the Herald a model paper. It
la aa neat as a pin and always full
of interesting matter.
The legislator who hasn't throe or
four different bills which he expects
to make him famous must be sadly
lacking In ambition.
PACTS ABOUT LUMBER.
A compilation by the Forest Ser
vice of the United State* - Depart
ment df Agriculture of & report*
received from over 10,000 sawmills
In the United States upon their op
erationa in 1005 snows the proportion
of lumber kiln-dried and the propor
tion surfaced, the amount of slab
wood sold, and the proportion
logs cut on lands belonging to the
sawmill operators. No figures along
these lines are available for New
York, and none are given for sever
al of the states In which the cut was
very small.
The states in which the largest
proportion of lumber is kiln-dried by
manufacturers are South Carolina,
with 51.3 per cent; North Carolina,
with 36.5 per cent; Florida, with 35.0
per cent; Alabama, with 34.2 per cent,
and Georgia, with 30.6 per cent. In
other states the amount Is less than
30 per cent. Altogether 1,642 mills
reported the use of dry kilns.
A large amount of the pine cut in
the South Is klln-drled In order to re
duce Its shipping weight, and this is
especially true of loblolly or North
Carolina pine. Kin-drying is practic
ed to a less extent In Rocky Moun
tain and Pacific coast states, and very
little lumber Is kiln-dried by the
sawmill
term if made to fit every foreigner,
and nearly everywhere It includes
the German. Mr. Roosevelt !a not a
Hollander, though his ancestors were,
the name being identified with the
nomenclature bestowed in South Af
rica by thoae Hollanders who emi
grated to that region and came to be
known as Boers.
Neither is Mr. Roosevelt known to
drink beer. Just now ft Is being con
tended that he did not turn his glass
down at that famous dinner given In
his honor by Vice President Fair
banks at the latter's home, when
cocktail was served. As a result of
that dinner, it may be observed, Mrs.
Nation has acquired an assistant.
NoW called "Buttermilk Jo*," Fire
Alarm Foraker Is going up and down
the Middle West proclaiming the
beauties and benefits of buttermilk
as a beverage, pointing, In the mean
time to ‘‘Cocktail Charlie" Fairbanks
as a horrible warning, with the result
that butermllk vs. cocktail may be
come the campaign Issue,
It must be admitted with sadness
that reform and common sense do
not go hand-in-hand, always.—Colum
bus Enquirer Sun.
THE IRELAND WATERWAYS. j»*t sort.. On the contrary a ping of! POWER FROM THE OCEAN.
An illustration of what waterway unpromising appearance, wtth the • l s the cherished dream of scientists
development will do for the interior; right sort of training, may soon be to come true after long years? A
“SPITE'’ NEWSPAPER8.
The Nashville Herald, In discussing
the rumor that a new paper will be
established at Valdosta because the
Times refused to advocate prohibi
tion, truthfully states the case when
It says, “Spite newspapers are short
lived and full of trouble.”
If there ls any town in Georgia
operators In the hardwood! where another paper Is not needed
The Albany Herald ls of the oplnlfln
that If Mr. Roddenberry defeats Con-
greaaman Orlgga he will he deserving region where the cut ls principally by | that town ls Valdosta. The Times ls
the honor. portable mills. For tne country as i , one of the bes J P a P ers >“ the Etate -
- . , , , .. . - , It may not have been for prohibition,
, - whole, about 15 per cent of the lura- 1
The statement that there a 4 e 25,- ........ , .. ...
_.. . .. . . .. _;ber cut Is klln-drled at the mill.
000.000 widows in India explains the
other statement that the Empire ls! A much larger proportion of the
grown up In weeds. jcut Is surfaced at the mills than Is
klln-drled
cities of the United States, once the | brought up to the thoroughbred stan-
government gets its Jlroposed program dard. The poor, the criminal and
under way, ls found ln the latest the degenerate will always be with
number of "Deerlck'a Reports,” the us, but there ls plenty of room for
standard authority on trade statistics improvement in the training of the
In England. The publication, copies youtb of the land tbe tut '
ure fatners and mothers.
of which have found their way here,, There more ot ignorance than
Bets forth the marvellous commercial anything else ln causes which wre
rise of Manchester since the ope- j frequently attribute to chance or li
ning of the Manchester canal. Inci-, fortune,
dentially, It Is shown that In one de
cade the waterway has far more than
ROCKEFELLER’S INNOCENCE.
v Mr. John D. Rockefeller, the hon-
paid for itself, although the' Initial orary president of the Standard Oil
cost reached the vast sum of $75,- Company of New Jersey, ls too inno-
000,000. cent even for an honorary position
Manchester lies thirty-five miles ln a corporation where the shekles
from the sea, on the banks of the £al1 like autumn leaves whenever the
Irwell. For years the manufacturing ( ^ ree * 8 3 baken. In court at Chicago
town was forced to play second fid- Saturday, he declared that he knew
die to Liverpool, which boasted splen- not ^ n S of the business of the con-
did docks that drew the trade of the cern ' " ae ^ad been its president,
hole world. Thtf citizens of Man- honorary ^ tor the P ast ten y ears I
cheater, however, undertook a cam-,** 14 * be bad vis * te<i to ofllces only
paign to induce the British govern-, 0nce In elght yeara *
ment to canalize the river and thus 1 He sxld ’ alS0 ’ that he did not know
give her access to the sea. that bls company owne <l stock ot *-
The British authorities scoffed at
er corporations and that he did not
the idea that the Irwell, an inslgnifl- k “° W that 11 heIped 0perate anotber
cant stream, could be made an avenue COnCern ' eTen bearlng tbe same name
of connection. They met every petit
ion with coldness and derided the
belief of the Manchester people that
the canalization of the river would
ln a different state. Mr. Rockefeller
is probably not as innocent as he pre
tends to be. It Is more likely that
the “hired men” who are doing his
Col. Graves has been over in Ken
tucky predicting that Roosevelt will
carry Tennessee. But thep the Co
lonel told us four years ago that
H«*rst would carry the entire country.
Of the mills reporting,
more than 3,900 surfaced a portion
of their cut. For the country as a
whole, at least 35 per cent ls surfac
ed before It Is shipped. In this re
spect Iowa leads, with 77.2 per cent
but this Is because most
Atlanta had a temperature of 104
flunday. It was a little warm In this .'surfaced
eeotton, but the warm weather here', th# Iumb „ ctrt that ltate „ s
baa * *°° ,er edge thoa 11 hM 'few big mills along the Mt..l..lppl
moat places.
l : ■ which operate exclusively on north-
H » Wan will take a trip over the L rn plne A „ 4 , lrom Iowtt _
etate at tht, aea.on of the yeer he ^ ^ wU# ^£ # proportion
will wonder why the northern halt
' does not pull up stake, and move to'° f ,he cut '* • urtace d »* the.awuBiTT
South Georgia. jar* Texas, with 71,7 per (jents • Lout*-
- caused many citizens of that place I per cent: ' Monta “- rt ' 2 * T oent '
to hunt for a little something thgt | and Arkansas, with 50.6 per cent,
usually leaves a dark brown taste ln In all the other states less than half
the mouth the next morning. j the cut is surfaced by the mill op-
It Is announced now th^t Macon Is Gra t° rs * an< J* as In kiln-drying, a rela-
to have another great banking instl- tlvely small proportion of the total
tutlon to succeed the Exchange ban*, cut Is surfaced In the hardwood re-
whlch was placed In the hands of g i ona .
a receiver this week. | Some 4000 mllIa reI , orted 9alea of
They are already talking of a d!*- slab wood totaling 3,503,287 cords,
ponaary on the Sonfn Carolina aide Washington leads ln this respect,
but certainly It was not offensively aa
anti-prohibition paper. It was very
conservative and It does not seem to
us that there is much room for crit
icism. The owners of the paper felt
sure that prohibition was not be3t for
Valdosta and so voted. This they
had the right to do If they wanted to.
The Courier-Dispatch has always
supported prohibition from principle.
We never do anything from senti
ment. If we conscientiously believed
that prohibition was not best for our
community we would be for anti-pro
hibition. The Times of Valdosta
simply exercised the right other men
take and should not be censured.
Ona^bf’ the greatest troubles with
aJA*;reform measures is that there are
cranks who overdo the thing, vaj
dosta went dry and now some
to punish the Times because it
not aid ln running whiskey out. Tire
spirit thus exhibited ls Intolerant and
the people of Valdosta should stamp
it out. It Is wrong and should never
prevail anywhere.
But as long as the Times 13 the*
newspaper It Is. there ls not much
danger of the spite newspaper getting
much hold at Valdosta. Any new
paper that shoisld make an effort to
keep up with the Times would lose
$5,000 the first year—and would then
die.—Dublin Courier-Dispatch.
of the river at Savannah. The'- man
who puts In the ferry will also havo
a bonanza.
: with 659,231 cords, followed by .Mich
igan, with 523,518 cords; Wisconsin,
with 368,478 cords, and Virginia, with
THE MAtrWHG WON’T PAY.
Of all the contemptible creatures
t this earth ls the man who will
not pay his honest debts. He ls not
« - . „ m ...... work for him are turning In such a
be of benefit, not only to Manchester
stream of dividends that he does not
but to all England. In the early sta
ges of the fight, the citizens found
the same apathy and lack of general
knowledge of the subject that obtalael
in this country when Toe National
take time to enquire where they come
from. He Is said to be a man of
great religious convictions and that
bis conscience is very tender. May-
a „ , be he is afraid that a full knowledge
Rivera & Harbors Congress first took„„ affalr3 wou , a sbake „„ con .
up and agitated the question of
well-defined program of improvements
by thla government.
Finally, however, the Manchester
citizens won. The British government
determined, In order to still the agi
tation, to canalize the stream. Fif-
science and smite his convictions to
such an extent as to cut off some of
his gains.
Be that as It may, most business
German electrician claims to have in
vented a machine which utilizes the
power of the ocean waves so that dy
namos on shore can be made to de
velop electricity enough to light
streets and buildings.
If this be true, he has solved the
problem of future fuel supply, for no
longer would coal be required for
cooking, heating or power when elec
tricity could be had so cheaply. All
the power, light and heat the world
required would be at hand to last as
long as man. The economical aavlng
of such an invention would be beyond
comprehension and could hardly be
apokeu in figures. Foodstuffs, clo
thing, transportation and a thousand
luxuries and conveniences would be
greatly reduced ia price. Electric
lights would displace all other luml-
nants. Electric power would move
the trans-continental trains and all
vehicles, besides turning the wheels
of labor. The cooking and heating
of the home would be done l?y elec
tricity.
A few years ago this discovery, If
It be a discovery, would not have
meant so much to the world as It
does today, because the Inventive
geniuses of the General Electric Co.
had not then solved the problem of
long distance power transmission.
After this concern introduced the
flrsfi oll-cooled, high-power transfor
mers long distance transmission of
high voltage was made possible, and
today currents generated on the sea
coasts could be carried to almost any
part of the country. Such transfor
mers are used In carrying the power
from the Kern river project to Los
Angeles, a distance of 112 miles; from
Niagara Falls to Syracuse, and in a
dozen other places in this country,
Canada and Mexico.
Bob Taylor, though optimistic In
teen million pounds sterling, or about Mr. Rockefeller says he is. Is
men—unless profits are rolling In 'his lectures, is pessimistic in his
mighty fast—do not allow themselves , views upon ottr relations with Japan,
to be as Ignorant ot their affairs at , He doia not hesitate to say that war
In spite of the efforts of the pro- 213,622 cords. It ls probably safe to i .
hlbltlonists to mako water more assume that this slab and ^aste wood I , t . U . , e amoa S eCGQ
popular In Atlanta, the citizens there 1)rouB ht on an average »1 e cord; 11 Utterly lm ' >03Slbl ° for
ere making a vigorous kick against henco Its sale was a considerable j hlm t0 liave tho respect of the coin-
their present supply. | source of revenue to many mills, Jmunlty in which he lives. He io
Considering
“Talk much and do little" ls th«?
only
important shunned and despised on every haud.
lumber-producing states, It Is Inter- |L,et him enter a store and the clerks
eating to note that the proportion ot
run away from him, for they know if
way tho Tbotnasvllle Tlmes-Enter-
prise refers to the Thoinasvllle coun- . , v . . , . .
... . . c ........ output reported aa ?awed from log3. . .. . . . .
«"• la,t raoet,nf '- 9,nce tbe " d ;cut on the Iaints owned by the saw- Wey crodU b,m lhey wl “ ba ' e t0 pay
wa. put on maybe they think they. n>m opmtors range from ^ 974 I)er ju.o bill.
have done a plenty. 'cent In California to 34.5 per cent la . We have never been able to find
Bishop Turner does not like for Washington. Tho lumber companies language to describe our coutempt
Senator Tillman to refer so often to In California do their own logging |j or hUC ^ a creaturei b ut we think tlK
"niggers In hls speeches, though it largely on their own holdings, aad j j- ol j oW j U g j- r0IU p eu 0 j p r# u. [tal degeneracy. The bill provides
was Bishop Turner who used to lam- » relatively small quantity an iole In the Religious^ tbe Governor shall appoint the
hast members of ht, race who were of logs from other sources. In Wash-jPo,year In an article the R ‘' 1 “’‘o“= ^ and ^ be CQm
ashamed to be referred to as "nig- Ington most of the logging is done by Herald, comes as near meeting the'
gers," or negroes. j firms tvhich buy stumpage and deliv-1 situation as anything we have ever
er logs to tho sawmills for a fixed
$75,000,000 was expended and the
wisdom of this investment was prov-
almost with the opening of the
canal in 1892. Prior to that^time
Manchester exports were sent over
land to Liverpool and transshipped,
slow and expensive method that
effectually kept down the export bus
iness of Manchester. In 1895, three
years after the opening, the Immedi
ate effect! of waterway transportation
was apparent In increased trade. In
that year the value of exports of yarn
and cloth, alone, had risen to $233,-
796,790, while in 1905, ten years later,
they had totalled $354,035,160. Thus
In a decade the canal so stimulated
trade as to force an Increase of $120,-
238,370.
TO LOCATE~THE CAUSE.
Senator L. G. Hardman, who Is
taking quite a prominent part ln the
deliberations of the Georgia State
Senate, has introduced a bill that
may work wonders in the state of
Georgia, and some of the adjoining
states. Hls measure is v to provide
for a permanent commission to 'ex- j
amine Into the causes ln Georgia of
crime, pauperism. Insanity and men-
It
true that Rockefeller is ashamed ta
know how hls profits come to him? It
looks that way.
Unperturbed the notoriety "in
tending the connection of hls lame
with the Violette Watson scandal,
Thomas F. Walsh, the millionaire
miner, is said to be laying plans to
between Japan and the United States
Is bound to come. The Japs have
tasted Just enough of the western
civilization to make fools of them.
They should “drink deep or taste not
the Pyrean spring.” : .
Dr. Thomas, of aeronaut fame, car
ried his advertising schemes further
than he intended Sunday when he
enter the United States Senate" as' drove bls auton 'o , >»e Into a post and
the successoi of Henry M. Teller ot! came near kllllns himself, as well as
Colorado. It ls likely that hls candl- ,he two ladlea who wer « 111 11
dacy will have the support of the, blm '
mining and smeltering Interests of
Colorado.
Buck Duke is about to be married
again. As a lover of the "grand
sweet song, ’ Buck is In the class
with some of the Four Hundred.
Guatemala ls _ going'to buy a half
million dollar navy with which to
meet Nicaragua. That amount of
money would hardly buy an American
torpedo boat.
The "Kolb Gera” melons are on the
It Is about settled now that Mr S ' raarket agaIn * carrying their lull pro-
A. Roddenberry. of Thomas county!, P ° rtl0n of fever germa to th * North *
will oppose Judge Griggs for congress The misfortunes which have befallen
In the second district. t h e Exchange Bank of Macon 13 gdlng
So Haywood promlseslo tell his t0 have a bad effect a11 over the South -
whole life story at the Boise trial, The watermelon trust ls Texas Is
even if it takes two or three days to calculated to bring on a series of race
• r
The American people, by their sen- contract price, so that in this case
timontal sympathy for the Japs in the operator of a mill may own little
their struggle against Russia, are'or no timber land,
largely responsible for the top-heavy
attitudo of the Japs toward this coun
try at present.
The Japs think American naval
officers are brilliant figures at balls
and receptions, but are very deficient
in professional training and practice.
But It ia the nian behind the gun, not
the officer, who tho Japs will have
to meet if they tackle Uncle Sam.
The new Alabama Senator, John
H. Bankhead, is a self-educated farm-
©r» who was wounded three times In
the Confederate army, and later serv
ed several terms In the State Legis
lature, and was warden of the state
penitentiary before being sent as a
representative to Congress.
Senator Murray Crane of Massa
chusetts, whose name has been men
tioned by some in connection with
the presidential nomination, is a
man of fine ancestry. The Cranes'
have been the foremost paper manu
facturers of this country since the
dawn of American history, when Mr.
Qrane’s great-grand-father built the
first paper mill al Dalton. Mast.
AN ISSUE OF BEVERAGES.
What a perfectly dreadful old wo
man Mrs. Carrie Nation, relict of
David Nation, must be! It has been
Intimated that David shuffled off the
mortal coil with as much pleasure as
ever did any man who died in Kan
sas, which ls v «saylng much, for as a
rule people are very glad to leave
Kansas. iMrs. Nation does not stay
there. Thinking that reform^should
not remain at homej she Is carrying
lts banner throughout the country.
Just now she is at Charlotte, N. C.,
where the signing of the Mecklenburg
Declaration of Independence ls cele
brated every day In the year. In a
speech at Charlotte Mrs. Nation de
clared that “Roosevelt Is a beer-guz-
tMng Dutchman," showing that a re
former may make mistakes. The
man of the nationality which Mrs.
Nation attempts to designate does
not guzzle beer. He sips It. Fre
quently a half-gallon lasts him a whole
evening. "Dutchman" has come to
be as general a term as ls “Bohemi
an." In many sections the former
seen: "We puy honest bills with
pleasure and we -pay tiietn whether
we can or not. We must pay them.
Of all the forms of meanness, toe
meanest is the non-payment of hon
'est debts. It is meanness and cow-
I urdice combined. It is also a viola
ttou of that sacred confidence which
jis necessary to the existence of so-
,'clety, but the thief, who. In tne smau
I hours of tne night, invades the pig
sty or the hen-roost only gets pos
session of another man’s property.
He violates no confidence, he shows
uo cowardice. Rather there is a
dash of daring in hls composition, for
he knows that he is liable to be ar
rested in hls midnight operations by
the fierce assaults of the bull dog or
the sharp crack of the master’s rifle
He pays the penalty of the petty lar
ceny with becoming grace at the
whippingpost—at least, that Is the
proper place to pay it—and there t
ends. In morals the chicken-thief is
less dishonorable than the man who
evades the payment of hls hones;
debts.”—Greenwood Journal.
lpos*?d of two physicians, two lawyers,
a minister and a teacher,
They are to be appointed for a peri
od of two years and will make an
nual reports to the legislature. Just
what the legislature will do about It
remains to be seen. We do not be
lieve that the records of this and
other states will show that Georgia
is worse' off than other states,
the contrary. Georgia is far above the
average la law-abiding citizens, and
there are as few degenerates here a.
I there are in other states of the same
population.n The lawmakers will
probably find, too, that the remedy
for the conditions which it seeks to
improve will not be In more laws, but
in an improvement of our educational
system.
More attention must be paid to the
rearing of children and, hence, more
attention to the training of motherq
and fathers. "Natural depravity”
and original sin" breaks out
where parental duties and responsi
bilities have been thrown aside. A
fine thoroughbred horse, turned over
to a shiftless, careless negro, woul*
soon become a plug of the common-
S. W. BOOKER.
W. E. HINSON.
Booker & Hinson,
Contractors & Builders.
Estimates, Plans and Specifications Furnished Promptly,
oee us About Your Plans. Office in Peeples Building,
Corner Central Ave. and Patterson Street, Valdosta, Ga
Don^ Delay
It’s Dangerous....
In after life your child
will thank you for early
attention to its eyes....-
L'-efective eyesight is common and often passed un
noticed until the discovery discloses that is too late.
BRING YOUR CHILDREN FOR OUR GLASSES THAT HELP.
W. D. Dunaway, Dn sK t <
Optician.