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VALDOSTA, GA . JULY 21. 1908
EIGHT PAGES.
They gay the negroes around Sa
vannah are fixing to vote for Bryan,
many Of them. We bet that won't
make Taft smile.
Dougherty county's negro farmer,
Deal Jackson, has landed the first
hale again. It being his twelfth time
to win (hit distinction.
London's Olympian Games are said
to hare been unfairly conducted. An
athletic contest without ''kicking”
would be a novelty anywhere.
Candidate Taft is still writing on
that “acceptance speech.” He either
writes very slow or that speech Is
going to be Rooaeveltlan In length.
A bolt of lightning struck a pas
senger train near Americus yester
day, and the result wag about the
same aa If the train had hit the bolt.
The amount of Ix-er consumed at
Dallas this week shows that there
were good delegations on hand from
Maine, Vermont, Georgia and Okla
homa.
Champ Clark says that the “most
Idiotic performance on the face of
the earth Is at a political convention.”
We have hear’n 'em say as much
a’fore.
Those ninety-nine thousand new of
fices that were created by President
Roosevelt to cancel his political ob
ligations may be filled by Democrats
after next March.
Georgia women are not going to
defy the law by making home-made
wine. Many of them are merely go
ing to squoete out the Juice and let
nature do the rest.
There are thirteen letters, thirteen
leaves, thirteen stars, thirteen arrow
heads' sad several other thlrteens on
AmericiiTcoins. Maybe that Is what
UNtof-W hard to get.
, »er« . over two hundred
nt primary 'in Georgia .and the
GEORGIA AT DENVER.
Some of those Georgia exchangee
that can see nothing bat Bryanism
when they go out to look at Democ
racy, are not pleased with the atti
tude of the Georgia delegation at
Denver. They seem to think that
the Georgians ought to have "Joined
the gang" and gone with Br/an
whether or not. While the conven
tion was in session, the Atlanta Jour
nal's correspondent (Ralph Smith)
wired that paper that the Texas dele
gation was so disgusted with the
Georgians that they almost severed
all relations with them. That may
be true and yet the credit may be for
the Georgians instead of the Tex
ans. The editor of the Rome Trib
une-Herald who was one of the dele
gates, thinkg that the Georgians
should have gone for Bryan. He was
one of two Bryan men in the delega
tion and It la quite natural that he
should have wanted the delegation
to go hia way.
The Dawson News, another Br/an
paper (for the past fifteen years)
says: "For the first time in the
recollection of this newspaper Geor
gia, the Empire State of the South,
has failed to play a leading and con
spicuous part in a democratic na
tional convention, failed to exert an
influence, failed to have anything to
do or to say. For the sake of the
prestige and pride of this great and
proud state we hope the like will not
occur again.” "Pride and prestige”
do not necessarily come from being
on the big side of a question. The
protesting minority (if it be on the
right side) can afford to wait until
the "tumult and the shouting dies"
to find out where the honors will fall.
If Georgia "failed to play a leading
part” at Denver It was because Geor
gia refused to drift with the tide
like a cork ujton the bosom of the
wat'ir. The Georgians who comjjos-
ed the delegation were not playing
for bouquets or the plaudits of the
grand stand. They were looking be
yond the noise of the hour, and they
can afford to wait a little while to
gather the crop from the seed which
they planted.
These Georgians are but the pio
neers In a movement to draw the
South back to the conservative posi
tion she las always had in the af
fairs of the nation. The people of
Georgia spoke In their election in
June. Florida followed fast upon
her heels. Alabama will fall In line
as soon os she is given a chance to
act. The waters are troubled in
pie of the other states will become
as tired of political‘ . agitation and
business stagnation
did if they are 'j^fp^enough 4tmf?
Those who are aborting tears oral
Georgia should weep for the “lost'
and not for the “found.”
MAINE’S LIQUOR LAWS.
"Maine never has been Mr prohi
bition state in spite of the fact that
for fifty-seven years she has had a
prohibitory law on her statute books,
and for most of the time in her con-
Btltution," says Holman Day, the
well-known editor and writer of iter-
ies about the Pine Tree state, who
has just completed a study of thi
much-discussed Maine liquor law tor
Appleton's magazine. As a newspa
per man Mr. Day has observed the
working of the prohibitory law In
Maine for the past twenty years,
he asserts that at no time since the
prohibition law was passed has It
been enforced throughout the state.
In cities and other communities
where the majority sentimpnt
been against the anti-liquor 1 Air, nominees ta Noremb
the sale has been permitted Openi/,
orer dSInlim find* tc-Jiin* la thi
Republicanism of Rootemk and Tift
lo commend itielf to bljni Taft Is
Sorely * toy In the hiMj of Rooae-
velt, and Roosevelt Is but a bubble
upon the seething, restless wave of
jgCjStlcal agitation. He Is as brave
as a lion on an Impulse, but slinks
airly like a coward on sober second
thought He la leas consistent than
jBryan and la not as strong a charac
ter. He can skin the cat. loop ta--
loop, ride a bucking broncho, use
harsh language against those who
high purposes, grand alms, noble as
pirations. •
It does not take very long to learn
that the good excludes the bad; that
the higher always shuts out the low
er; that the greater motive, the grand
er affection, excludes the lesser, the
haive been enormous. Hoot of tho
farmers will gather their corn and
other crops of that kind, bat they
will not pay enough attention to their
hay crop, which, by the way, Is oce
of the best on the farm.
The cotton crop of the South this
lower. The good Is more than a match; year is going to be large, but prob-
for the bad.—O. S. ,Marden, In Sue-1 ably not aa large aB it was last year,
cows.” ! The cotton mills have not been aa
busy as they were during the last
WOOL GROWING IN GEORGIA, if PW ' years and the result Is that much
There w-as a time when the wool cotton yet remains on hand. There
clip of Georgia amounted to some- I s solus to he a tremendous effort
cross his path, but If there Is onej thIl , g but the gbPpp lndu ., rv 3 »,. ms tc > bear down the price of cotton, and
act of genuine statesmanship in hi, ; to be prPttv n ' Parly on Its last leg' the result will be that the crop may
whole career we cannot recall It now. 1
Of all the Republican adminlstra-
Democratlc primary In Nov°mber Is
going to be about a» usual.
New York 1* not the power in
national .politics it used to be. In
1892 Glevoland could have spared
the state and 95 other electoral votes
and still have been elected.
Plte women were numbered anions
the delegates and alternates at the
rteent Democratic convention at Den
ver. At the Republican convention
but one woman had a seat.
although illegally.
Maine’s experience does not
prove that prohibition is either
-good thing or a bad thing for
state, in Mr. Day’s opinion, because
Maine’s never has bad real prohibi
tion.
Until the adoption of the Sturgis
law the Bole power of enforcing the
statutes against liquor selling rested
In the hands of sheriffs and other lo
cal officials, who Interpreted the law
according to the sentiment of their
own communities. Under the Stur
gis law a special commission appoint
ed by the Governor, with a large
number of deputies at its command,
has had charge of the enforcement
of the prohibitory measures. Accord
ing to Mr. Day, the legislature is al
most certain to repeal this law at
Its next session, and the state will
go hack to the old plan by which
each community regulates the matter
for Itself. This will mean a resump
tion of what hag come to be known
as the Bangor plan.
“Under the Bangor plan,” says the
Appleton article, “the sheriff and coun
ty attorney permitted a certain num
ber of saloons and hotels to sell liquor
Prior to the term of court at which
fines were to be ‘assessed* the count7
attorney or his agent went to the
office of the collector of Internal rev
enue and drew off a list of the names
of those In the count) who were.po
tions this country has had, there
less in the RcoseveU-Taft propagan
da to attract a Southern Democrat
than any we have s»en. The Hot
Springs press-agent should confine
himself to mountain lions and sea-
serpents, as his stories from the
South are too ridiculous to fool anv-
Georgia will give her usual 50,000 to
majority for the Democratic
WASTE IN COAL MINING.
The Tennessee Coal, Iron and Rail
road Company is going to increase its
economies In mining by treating with
preservatives the timbers which are
u^ed in the mines. A plant will be
erected for carrying on the work.
To avoid the expense of stato con-
Ttntlon the Socialists of Illinois have
Issued no call for such a gathering.
They have decided to name their pres-
ldentlal electors by petition. j
Iowa's Supreme Court has held con- j
•titutional the.law giving women tlio j
right to vote on » )**c!flc uroposltlons '
for levying tax and Issuing municip
al bonds.'
i
Tho Independence^ Longue In Call- j
fornla has decided to hold its state*
convention In Oakland eurlv next'
month. . The oonvenHon will consist j
of 294 ‘ delegates.
iMr. Bryan does not inteud to be
drawn Into a discussion of the
Brownsville affair. If reports are
true, Bryan has/ already said too
much on that subject.
A coavlct on the county roads of
Putnam stole |he county dogs this
week and mad* his escape. We do
not know whether the incident is
an argument for or against the lease.
They want Teddy to deliver a cam
paign epeech in a phonograph, but
what 1s the use since he Inoculated
Taft and the recent Republican con
vent-ion with Ills political virus.
Major Beecher B. Ray. who has
been placed in charge of the organiz
ed labor end of the Taft campaign,
is a veteran member of th*' railway
men’s union and was a political lieu
tenant of the late Mark Hanna.
President E. R. Wright of the Illi
nois state Federation of tabor. has
issued a letter urging organized labor
In that state to support Governor
Deneen for re-nomination at the pri
maries next month.
Lieutenant Governor Draper of
Massachusetts will have no opposi
tion for the Republican nomination
for governor this fall. Three candi
dates Ore engaged In a spirited con
test tor the nomination for lieuten
ant governor.
. h 'ptKr'-r
gogues there are going to be wiped
out of existence when the people
become aroused. The state Is large
and slow to act, but those who
were disgusted with Georgin” at
Denver may have to hunt their holes
little later on. Texas has been
hit harder than any other southern
state by these frenzied statesmen,
and the people are already In revolt.
Listen to the following resolution of
the business men of that state, in
convention assembled at Galveston
•cently:
We also believe that the pres
ent anti trust laws, In their pres
ent form, work an unintentional
Injury on the people of Texas,
as Instanced In the case of the
harvester trust, which was fined
and driven from the state of
Texas; yet today the goods of
these same corporations are be
ing sold to the merchants and
farmers of Texas at prices about
15 per cent higher than they
were sold before the alleged har
vester trust was driven from the
state of Texas, a result which
simply means that, while their
goods are still sold In Texas, the
consumer !s charged such addi
tional sum as to enable them In
a shor* time to pay both fines
and attorneys’ fees enforced by
our laws.
Tn attempting to rid the state of
the harvester trust, they have mere
ly added a tax of 15 per cent upon
the farmers there who buy harvest
ing machines. Texas has a’so been
hit hard in the matter of outside
capital, which will not invest In a
state where it is outlawed. Another
resolution passed by this convention
was as follows;
We favor such legislation as
will encourage the investment of
capital in factories and other en
terprises. and thus secure addi
tional and continuous markets
for the products of the soil, em
ployment of labor and develop
ment of latent resources of the
state; and we oppose any and
all legislation which, i^ letter or
spirit, is unfriendly to such in
vestment.
These things merely show that
Texas Is following Georgia hack to
conservative politics, which means
greater prosperity for all the peo
ple. That Georgia was by herself
at Denver was a reflection upon oth
er Southern state* and not upon
Georgia. Four year* hence she will
have plenty of company, no matter
who la elected this year. The peo-
unltel
nenti
'rom Moultrie,
county, telling how the farmers of
that section were selling out their
aheep for tranportatlon to Tennessee,
Mexico and elsewhere, because it Is
no longer profitable to engage in
the sheep and wool business in Geor
gia. Only a few yeare back Colquitt
county raised and marketed upwards
of $20,000 worth of wool per year, and
Berrien, Appling, Coffee and other
South Georgia counties did as well
or better. Wool sales were held from
time to time, closely following the
clipping, and they always turned loose
a considerable lot of ready cash.
The great reason for the virtual
ruin of the wool business in Geor
gia is embraced In one word—dogs.
» ” ’ lit has been found lmnosslble to get
To date, the actual consumption I rid of the doss. Ninety-nine out of
° f _ coaI ^ a * been over 7.500,000,000 j every one hundred sheep-kllllng dogs
are absolutely worthless for any pur-
in this state. T n the Morning New s i se ^ f° r a ^out what It costs to make
a few days ago there was a special or l e &s. For, It must be rernem-
dispatch # rom Moultrie, In Colqult*
at was presented to the grand jury,
was accepted of evidence and the
parties were indicted and paid the
regular fine and coats, amounting to
$110. TTusually the county “assessed’
twice a year. Penobscot"county paid
off Its debt and built a handsome
new court house while that plan was
In operation."
“While any man who wants to ob
tain liquor can do It without much
difficulty In almost any part of the „ —
state, there Is no prospect that the | to time, and thus the comparative
prohibition law will he repealed," i economy of the different methods of
said Mr. Day In explaining the con- treatment can be accurately ascertain
tens; the waste and destruction
the neighborhood of 9,000,000,000.
This sentence from the address of
Mr. Andrew Carnegie, at the Confer-
ei*e<* of Governors at the White
House, points the moral of the con
servation policy with tremendous
force. A waste of more than half of
all the coal mines, in the face of the
fact that the end of the coal meas
ures is In sight, is sufficient to give
the most indifferent coal consumer
a rather rude shock. Perfected min
ing would reduce this waste by at
least ose-half, and so double the time
during which our present population
could continue to use coal for fuel.
Some of waste In coal and Iron
fining Is caused by the collapse of
galleries due to the breakage from
decay of tjto props used to support
the gallery roofs. By preservative
treatment the life of the mine prop
1*’ greatly lengthened and a saving
la effected In the outlay for timber,
wijlch Is constantly increasing Item
With the mining companies, owing
rise in timber prices.
e Tennessee company hr erect*
the timber preserving plant,
which will be located at some con
venient point near Birmingham, Ala
bama. The plant will be of small and
Inexpensive design, and the mine tim
bers will be treated with creosote,
solutions of zinc chloride, and com
mon salt. They will then be set in
typical locations in the mines and
tracts, and records will be kept of
heir future behavior. This will be
done by careful Inspection from time
elusions he has drawn from his
twenty years’ study of the subject.
“Tn other words Maine Is strongly
committed to prohibition, but Is Just
as strongly against its enforcement."
A BUSY PRESS AGENT.
Judge Taft’s pres* agent, who Is
evidently *he one who follows the
strenuous "Teddy” on some of his
bear-hunting adventures, Is busily en
gaged In sending out stories from
Hot Springs. Va., where the Republi
can candidate is being put in train
tng for the coming race, to the effec“
that a great many Southern Demo
crats are writing Taft that they are
n ing to vote fer him this fall. Of
course, he will get a few votes In the
South Just as every Republican has
done since tho war. If the trpth
were known. Tom Watson Is probably
getting letters from Taft stftte» pledg
ing him their support. Mr. Bryan Is
doubtless getting letters of this char
acter by the wheel-barrow load every
day. We all know that a considerable
number of Ohio people this week
wanted Seab Wright to run for pres
ident so that they could vote
him.
But there was no press agent to
nd these reports out and make big
things of them. The fact is. they are
common in every national campaign.
The people who are writing Taft will
probably be heard from again If he
is elected. They want him to know
now that they are on the "band
wagon.” Most of those disinterested
patriots who are going to follow The
inmost woolngs of their consciences
and wander away from the old rath
are going to do so without wrtMng
Mr. Taft or his press agent anything
about It. The vote which Taft w*ll
get in Georgia will be about the
same that Roosevelt received four
years ago. plus a few coons who have
reached their majority and minus a
few who have pasted^ away tinea
then—also minus a few populists who
will take Watson straight this year.
' Southern Democrat who . gags
ed. By such investigation work it Is
hoped to, save a large amount of tim
ber and money, and to promote the
Interest of wood preservation in the
entire mining community.
Mr. B. H. Ford, of the office of
wood preservation, in the Forest
Service will be in active charge of
thto work, with headquarters at Bir
mingham.
THE 8UN-DIAL*S MOTTO.
If you want your life to run with
out friction, adopt the sun-dial’s mot
to: "X record none but hours of sun
shine.”
What a great thing it would be
.If we tould only learn that the art
of wiping out of our memories forev
er everything that Is unpleasant, ev
erything which brings up bitter mem
orles and unfortunate associations
and depressing, discouraging sugges
tions, would double and quadruple
our happiness and power! If we
could only keep the mind filled with
beautiful thoughts, thoughts which
uplift and encourage, the efficiency
of our lives would be multiplied
many, many times.
No mind can do good work when
clouded with unhappy thoughts. The
mental sky must be clear or there
can be no enthusiasm, no brightness,
clearness, or efficiency in our men
tal work.
If you would do the maximum of
which you are capable, keep the mind
filled with sunshine, with beauty and
truth, with cheerful, uplifting
thoughts. Bury everything that makes
you unhappy and discordant, every
thing that cramps ycur freedom, that
worries you, before it buries you.
Man was not made to express dls-
co^d, but harmony; to express beau
ty, truth, love, and happiness; whole-
not halfness; completeness, not
incompleteness.
The mental temple was not given
n* for the storing of low. base, mean
things. .It wn^Intended for the abode
of the gods,V for the treasuring of
r'mr*
pose under the sun. They are too
mean to throw into a compost heap,
lest their carcasses vitiate the other
ingredients of the manure pile. They
are consumers at home and abroad
of about everything they can get
their fangs upon, and «producers of
nothing except trouble and expense.
And yet they are politically powerful.
The Georgia Legislature has shown
itself to be afraid of them. The mem
ber# of the Legislature talk in favor
of sheep, and vote in favor of dogs.
They hold the worthless dog in high
esteem because there are more own
era of dogs than owners of sheep,
and therefore the dogs have the larg
est voting strength behind them,
Numerous bills have been proposed
to leash the dogs and give the sheep
a chance, hut nothing of Importance
■has ever come of them. A number
of dog bills have been passed—to
muzzlo the flees and lap-dogs of the
cities, and they have been practically
Ignored—but the dogs In the sheep
sections have been left to their own
ally autborizd
sprint' lamb an*
ton according to the demands of
their appetites.
There are tens of thousands of
acres of land in Georgia unavailable
for other purposes that might be put
to good use as sheep ranges. But
there Is no use trying to raise sheep,
which are notoriously helpless creat-
res. In a section where ravening
dogs are permitted freedom
their worst. The effect of this sort
of thing Is seen In Colquitt, Appling
and other counties, where the sheep
Industry Is going out of existence
while the dogs are doubtless multi
plying.—Savannah News.
PUTTING SAWDUST TO USE.
Sawdust is one of the puzzling
wastes in lumbering operations. The
waste Is serious, too, for the kerf—
the part cut out by the saw In the
mill and transformed into sawdust—
always bears a ra’her high ratio to
the boards obtained. In cutting thin
stuff, cne-fourth of the log. or even
more, may be kerf.
Efforts to turn sawdust Into pulp
for the paper mill have usually been
unsuccessful on account of mechani
cal difficulties in handling. In sev
eral European countries, however, a
new way has been found of turning
sawdust to account. The sawdust,
chiefly pine and fir. is ground with
millstones, exactly as old time mills
made cornmeal. or wheat or rye
flour. Expensive machinery is no*
required, but it is necessary to take
ipecial precaution against fires, which
might start from sparks between the
millstones.
The sawdust flour is sold to dyna
mite factories to be mixed with
nitroglycerine and forms the body or
absorbent for that high explosive. It
Is al«o In demand for the manufacture
of cheap blotting papers. The mills
in the Harz mountains. In Germany.
Important manufacturing center,
are kept busy meeting this demand.
The rrloe of the "flour’’ in Germane
ranges from $7..'b to $ 12.3b a ton. Tt
is shipped in bags, like meal, or In
bales of about 4b cubic feet, made by
means of felsh pressure.
bered that the crop this season has
been made at a pretty good cost.
Where the farmer needs to hedge
is in the cost of the next crop. If
he has all of his home supplies in his
own barn and smoke houses he can
make cotton next year as cheaply as
he pleases, barring some necessary
outlays of money. His provision crops
not only save him money, but he can
sell his hay and grain at good prices,
provided they are in good condition.
There Is always a market for clean
hay and sound corn, and these things
oontribut© more to the profits of the
farm than anything else raised upon
the farms.
Let the farmers make sure of sav
ing their hotae supplies this year.
They will be needed before harvest
time next year.
When the Republican party refus
ed to put “publicity of campaign ex
penses” In Its platform It showed
that It intended to go out and buy
he election. And that very thing is
going to turn thousands of voters
against the party.
Dr. C. A. L. Reed of Cincinnati, has
announced his candidacy for the seat
of Joseph B. Foraker In the United
States Senate. Dr. Reed has been
prominent In the movement for pure
food laiws and legislation to benefit
the science of medicine and surgery.
The spread of the Socialist move
ment throughout the United States
Is beginning to attract the keen at
tention of the politicians. The Indi
cations are that the Socialist party
will nominate tickets In a large ma
jority of the states this year.
Freeport, Illinois, Is arranging to
celebrate on an elaborate scale the
fiftieth anniversary of the second
great Llncoln-Douglas debate which
was held In that city August 27, 1858.
Senator (Bolliver, of Iowa, - wilt- -bo
one of the speakers.
The first politioal wager to be re
corded in Chicago on the presidential
election was a bet of $1,000 that Taft
■ould be elected. The wager was
made at odds of 2 to 1, the man who
took the Bryan end putting up $500.
The Socialists of Oklahoma will
put a complete state ticket In the
field, according to Secretary Brandi*
tetter, who maintains the party will
oil between 15,000 and 20,000 votes
in Oklahoma this fall.
Governor A. E. Mead, of Washing
ton, who Is a candidate for renomina-
tlon, declares ihat if elected *hls
fall he will urge ufron the legislature
the passage of a law to prohibit
gambling on race tracks In any form.
Coal miners of the Bloomington
district have Indorsed the candidacy
of Adlal E. Stevenson former Vice-
President of the United States for
the Democratic nomination for gov
ernor of Illinois.
Bryan and Kern appeal to the farm
ers for campaign contributions. Just
anything — watermelons, squashes,
pumpkins, etc. Send them to us so
will be sure to go where they
will do the most good.
1 he oratorical legislator who does
not get off a few flights on our con
vict system is neglecting the oppor
tunity of a life time to get on what
appears, at this distance, to be a
’band wagon.”
SAVE THE TARM SUPPLIES.
This year above all other y«*
ihould find the barns and
Tom Watson will challenge Willi
am J. Bryan for a Joint debate In
Macon. But William J. will probably
refuse to accept, on the ground that
Tom Watson is not In his class.
A Delaware Justice has fined a ne
gro $5 and cost for referring to a ne
gro woman as "Mrs.” after the court
had s*oted that there were no "Mr.”
negroes In his court.
The Governor has told the legis
lature why he discharged Mr. Brown
from the railroad commission. New,
what will be the next move in the
matter?
William B°rri proprietor of the
smoke j Brooklyn Standard-Union, has been
or. *he farms in Southern
Georgia overflowing with food crops.
It would not be a bad Idea for many
of the farmers *o enlarge their barns,
not in a spirit of boastful pride which
was condemned in the Good Book,
but with a view to having plenty for
the "rainy day" and a little to spare
for the less fortunate neighbors. The
grain and provision crops this year
•'roposed for the Republican nomina
tion for governor of New York.
Taft will not get half enough Dem
ocratic votes in Georgia to make up
for the independent votes which he
will lose.
Reports Indicate that the crops
about Valdosta are doing their full
part toward the 15,000 movement.