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V .ljdostav GA.. OCT. II. 1908
EIGHT PAGES.
Cot tom la aalllog ao high through
Dixie nowadays that the farm aw are
actually contemplating twenty-hone
power automobllee.
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the Japaneae and American
demonstrating that In tboaa pi
of military activity that are
ROW OF THE A. d. U AND IBB
TURPENTINE HEX.
The effort of the Atlantic Coaat
Line Railway Company to, arbi
trarily ralaa the weight of ceeka of
turpentine from ISO to 440 ponnda,
faaa cauaed a atorm of pro teats from
the naval atorea men all through
the heltj as well as the exporters
and factors In Bsvannah.- The kick
made by the latter resulted In the
matter being carried before | apon u, e physical vigor of the men
state railroad commission by the 1 ... 7 .
Savannah Board of Trade. It
Issue With him.
There Is no .rubbing out the fact
that a great change must take place
considered rests not only an army's | *f America l a to continue to feed
efficiency, hot Its ettstehea. To Its people, much leas being the
shoot la less Important than. .to ! grsasry lor other natt»na.
march, to shoot accurately' I«a . Im
portant than to obey' ImplfeUlr.
and to kill la leas Important than to
aurvlve.
The energy of an army, or. Its
lighting capacity, depend) primarily
there now but a tort of truce has
been declared for fifteen days during
which an effort-will be made to ar
rive at a compromise.
The case Is simitar in some re
spects to tbA of the pear shippers
u | that composed It. A body of men
to fight tnd march and endure the
Chicago man killed hia wife and j tbls section, who the paat season
himself, rather than work-
•aid. Still, It may have bean rather
than stay In Chicago.
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The batteries for this afternoon’s
game will be Summers and Schmidt
for Detroit and Willis and Olbson
for Pittsburg.
The wege earner who Is complain
ing of Increasing prices of food tnd
clothing for bla family should look
Intently at the Taft smile and be
happy.
‘That daszllng disciple of damna
tion,” is the way the Fltagerald
News refers to Elbert Hubbard.
Pretty hart on Elbert, but he bus
boon called worse things.
Tho wife of Pittsburg’s biggest
millionaire hue left her home to live
In England whero there Is leas smoke
and lets scandal. Some people are
Mo bard lo please.
Incensed at the diminution of hit
proportion as a dally news feature,
Theodore Roosevelt may discover
King Solomon’s mines and nail the
stars and stripes to a conical pile of
gems
Admiral Dewey resents the Insinua
tion that the American navy ,1a a
bluff. The Admiral ought to know, for
It was certainly no bluff tbnt be work
ed on Spain one bright''May day
down at Manilla about twelve years
' We ten where some aviator Is go
ing to teach United States soldlors
how to fly. We thought we taught
L —- r that nt the Battle of Bull Run.
• —Savannah Press.
We taught ’em at Bull Run, all
right, but you see most of those
old fellowsi are dead now, and tho
young crowd must be taught.
) Beer in mind that If >jou expott
to vote In next yoar’B elections you
must register six months ljetoro tho
time. The registration hooks are
now open In every rouuly In Geor
gia. They will close next April, the
state primaries will probaly ho held
In Auguls, and the general eloctlon
cornea In October, atx months after
the registration books are dosed.
Dr. Cook seems to have become
mixed on hit dates. In a letter he
wrote to the captain of an arctlo
steamer Its stated that he reached
the Pole on April find, 1808. god In
his published reports of hie dltoov-
ery he gives the date as April list.
The little discrepancy may not mean
anything, but we’d rather the Doctor
had hie dates straight
Our guess l« that thh next election
will be tho most satisfactory and
clean that has occurred n the his
tory of the elate. A large number of
the honest taxpayers and a smaller
number of Qie burnt and fioateio
will pratlclpato.—ntdgeratd News.
Qubiaos don’t cost anything In this
caer, therefore wo "guess” that one
trial of the new registration law will
be enough to forever damn It with
the good poople of Georgia.
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John Skolton Williams again heads
the directorate or the Seaboard Air
line Railroad, having succeeded In
ousting hla ancient enemy, Thomaa
T, Ryan, who was Instrumental la
having Williams deponed from the
progldency of the road several years
ago. lir. Williams la presldsnt of the
Georgia A Florida Railroad, and hie
getting control of the Seahokrd
again meant much to both lines and
to the territory through which the
roads run
Will it tie Brown against Brown
tor governor next year? This is the
question that U agitating the politi
cians atnee^ atate treasurer Pope
Brown delivered a speech at Carrol-
ton this week. Of course the delivery
of one speech doesn’t necessarily
make a man a candidate, hot the
tone of Mr. Brown’s address, combin
ed with other signs and dream-
staaoee, have ceased some people
to believe that the state treasurer,
Instead of Hoke Smith, may oppose
"Little Joe” tor governor nut year.
had to pgy nearly double Abe freight
previously paid ou their fruit. For
years the Atlantic Coast Line,
which splits the LoConte pear ter
ritory open, accepted pears at an
estimated weight per barrel of 10O
pounds. This yesr, owing
ruling by the Interstate Commerce
Commission that the shipments
should be charged for at actus!
weight, the weighing of all ship
ments wag begun, with the result
that Instead of a barrel weighing
100 pounds. It was found that they
averaged dose around 180 pounds.
The Atlantic Coast.Dispatch refused
to accept at 8avnnnah shipments to
New York at the old rate, and as a
consequence the shippers were. hit
for almost double freight.
Unlike tho pear business, how
ever, as we understand the matter,
the railroad Is not proposing to
charge for actual weight of each
separate cask of turpentine, hut
seeks to arbitrarily raise the aver
age weight. It Is probably the
case, however, that all casks of
standard slse will weigh practically
the same thing.
For'twenty-five or thirty years
the railroads have been charging
for an average weight/ of 420
pounds on a cask or turpentine.
Now It ti sought to make the weight
440 pounda. The Atlantic Coast
Line Is the only road which has so
far raised the weight, and the oth
er lines appear to be holding off to
nee what tho outcome will be.
Savannah, through her board of
trade, dalms that the railroad. Is al
ready getting as much on turpentine
shipments no It la entitled to, and
that If the Increase Is allowed
stand her receipts will be materially
lessened thereby. That city la the
largost nsvnl stores market In the
country, and al naturally Jealous of
her supremacy. Hundreds of thous
ands of barrolg of spirits and rosin
reach that port every year for export
and It is not likely that the commer
cial organisations will give up the
tight against tho proposed Increase
aa long as there Is hope of prevent
ing IL In this effort the producers
will also of course lend their aid.
the Inter-state Commission
sticks to Its ruling to have the casks
go at their actual weight, and
cask weight 440 pounds, it teems to
us that the fketora and the produce ■«
are butting agalnat a atone wall,
and their efforts will count tor
nothing. The Btate railroad com-
mlselon, under the circumstance!,
will he forced to yield fb the ruling
of the national commission.
hardships of War moat bd^as
physically perfect at possible. A
tick man .entails a greater loss than
a man killed on the field, to that
If the advance lo the price of pro
visions >a even approximately main
tained tor a few years longer, the
poorer wage-earners, as well aa
those In easier circumstances, will
be hard pnt to provide even the
commonest necessities. Unfortu
nately, too. It la the necessities—
meat and bread—which have ad
vanced In price so enormously.
While those things-commonly term
ed luxuries are also probably high
er now than at any time since the
the ability of an army to eonqner j civil war, they have ’ not kept pace
decrease* geometrically aa aleknesa | with the things consumed by the
and mortality Increase In excessive i poorer people. A few years ago
n tie raises on the corporation tax, if j
hot censored, impress ns that way.
And as tor the eloquent phrases 4n j'
his predecessor, the elephant hat pnt
s heavy mark ou hi* neck. The para
graphs are more eloquent of the par
ty In power than of our country's
leader.
With s fine sweep of optimism, he
declares ns to ha better than we were
fifty years ago. He hellers In modern
altruism. -He ought to. Do we? That
each man has a greater Interest
bis fellowman than fifty years ago
may be true. Aa far ss his party Is j
concerned, the Interest consists j
mainly of finding out how much each
multi-millionaire Is willing to give
to elect a Rdoeevelt Republican for
preeldent.
Our executive In chief pleases to
Times Want Ads
FOR SALE—500 bushels home-
raised'seed oats. Get my prices.
C. R. Ashley. 10-12-swlm
FOR SALE—300 bush ale native
rust proof oats 75 cents per bushel;
100 bushels Hastings oato at $1.00
per bushel. A limited quantity gen
uine South Georgia rust proof oats
1“ j at $1.00 per bushel.
In 1 S. T.‘ TYGART. Nashville, Ga.
10-94t
ratio over the number killed
battle.
In the American Civil War more
than tour men died from prevent
able sickness .to every one killed
In the Spanlsh-American War four
teen men died of disease to one on
the battle-field, In the Japanese
Army during the Russian War four
deaths resulted from bullets to one
from- sickness.
In a war between Japan and the
United States, should the ratio of
deaths In the American Army re
main the same as during the Civil
War, while in the Japanese forces
the ratio of the Russian War should
continue, the result would he, that
for every ten thousand American
soldiers killed on the field more
than forty thousand would die from
preventable sickness; while for ev
ery ten thousand Japanese killed
only two thousand five hundred
would (tie from disease. Should the
Spanlsh-American War form the
true basis tor comparison, then the
total American losses from disease
would amount to seven hundred
thousand, aa against twelve thou
sand five hundred Japanese.—Gen,
Homer Lea, In Harper’s Weekly.
meat was considered dear
cents a pound: now It Is fourteen
and fifteen cents. Heal, floor and
other staple foods have likewise
doubled and trebled In value.
' It Is true that up to two years
ago wages were advanced something
In proportion to the advance In the
cost of living, but the panicky busi
ness conditions forced a reduction
of wages, while the prices of food
oontlnned soaring upward. Under
present conditions, wages are now
as high as can possibly be paid—
there can be no further substantial
advance In nny line. Th
amuse himself. He hath a pretty wit
—Jacksonville Ttmes-Unlon.
HELPING A BROTHER EDITOR.
The plant of v the MlUtOwn News
was destroyed by fire the other day,
and fftere was no thsurance on It
The -Cuthbert Leader says that If
every country editor'would donate
one dollar It wouM help a brother
In distress to get on his feet, and
states It 7e willing to contribute for
this purpose. The suggestion does
credit to the big heart and sympa
thetic nature of' bur neighbor, and
we believe other editors of Georgia
will readily respond to It Our dol-
poor maq j i ar rea dy. and"will go forward by
must make his dollar do double' next nln |] t o the unfortunate Mill-
duty, and he finds It a mighty hard town brother.—Dawson Nhws.
thing to do. | The Herald is ready to do ita part
Whether there Is an actual shon. ; aDd suggests that every editor In the
ago In provision crops raised In this j state, dallies as well as weeklies and
country, or'Whether the advance re j semi-weeklies, forward their' dollar
due to speculation, w e cannot say, ! post haste.
bnt there must lie
some way.
re-adjustment
THK VALOR OF IGNORANCE.
To Judge the discipline, morale,
nod lighting capacity of troops,
their loyalty and aelt-aacrtace, U
possible In two ways: during active
service by cowardice and desertion;
In peace by disobedience and deser
tion. The Ten Commandments of a
soldier’s honor are 'all broken tn
the one act of desertion. By tho
lack of o r prevalency of this mili
tary crime, are we able to judge
the degree In which national non-
militancy and antipathy to military
Ideals have their effect on the sol
dier. The deserter la the product
of civil life, not of militant Institu
tions. - <
In Japan desertion la unknown.
In the United States during 1508
there occurred'In' the national army
of only atxty thousand men. stx
thousand two hindred and eighty
desertions.
Whenever a recognizable deterior
ation exlste In some portion of the
government. Instead of meeting
this condition frankly and under
taking In a Just and reasonable
manner Its renascence, the nation
endeavora by substitution tot ' evade
responsibility. With war near at
band, public evasion la found In the
formation of shooting or Title clubs,
under the delusion that to shoot
constitutes the sole duty of a sol
dier, and la the source of ill mili
tary success'. The fatal error of
CONDITION OF TOE TREASURY.
Tho report of the expert account
ant employed by Governor Brown
to audit the affaire of the State
treasury and ascertain the financial
condition of the State, which was
submitted on Saturday, shows that
Georgia Is facing a very embar
rassing situation. -•» i
*Erer since the meeting of- th'
legislature In June, there have
been many conflicting statements
in regard to Georgia’s finances-
Former Governor Hoke Smith and
some of his frionds, notably Hon.
Murphy Candler have contended
that the Stato treasury was In gdod
condition. In fact much better than
It was two years ago, when Gov.
Smith went Into office. Others,
who are In a position to know
something about how the State
stood financially, feared that a great
deficit was at han-d, and that a most
serious financial problem confronted
the new administration.
To arrive at the. true condition of
the treasury and settle the matter
to hl a own satisfaction and that of
the people, Governor Shown de
cided soon after he was tnangnsried
governor, to employ a competent
man to make a comprehensive and
through Investigation and report
the reault aa soon as possible. That
report confirms the fears which
were felt and shows that the
first of January, 1909, there will
be a deficit In the treasury-of
$728,588.50.
As pointed out by Governor
Brown In his statement accompany
ing the publication of the account
ant’s report, Georgia Is, and hu
been tor years, spending more than
her income. This policy can load
but to one result—embarrassment,
and If pursued, to bankruptcy.
Governor Brown renews his
recommendation for s bond Issue of
$$00,000 tor the payment of teach
ers’ salaries, and eays that tf this
is not deemed proper, he suggests
ithe refunding of tho annual pay
ment of $100,0$0 a year on the
8tate's bonded Indebtedness, for l
period of six years. It Is to be' re
gretted that conditions bars reach
ed the point where one or the oth
er stepe la necessary. The State
mast pay Its Aebta, however, and
her credit must he maintained, Jf
possible.
OUR PRESIDENT'S CREED.
Washington contemporary has
paragraphed the most salient utter
ances of Mr. Taft In a most Interest
ing fashion. As a sort of party cree-i
it is not bad at an. As an aftermath
of ante-election promises, It Is a good
deal of a Joke. Only one must bring
to 1C a sufficient sense of humpr, or,
It may border on the grim.
We are aware of the fact that It
wae his bounden duty to sign the
tariff. There are Bonds and bonds,
and the bonds of the Republican par
ty do not allow a man to forget Bis
Editor Will Black is one of , the
biggest-hearted, Jolltest pencil-push
er a in the business. His friends call
him ”Blg-unr’ Make your checks
payable to him.—Nashville Herald.
The Times will be glad of an op
portunity to help In this work, and
w.- wp-.i!d suggest making the sum
$2.00 from" each .newspaper.
For Sale Cheap.
1 60-h. p, boiler, H. S. G. make;
1 35-h. p. engine, H. 8. G. make;
1 3-block Chsllender' shingle ma
chine: 1 bolting machine. Located
at Suwannee, Fin. Addrei* T. U.
Carlisle, Stockton, Ga.
fi-10-d-eod 2w w-sw 4t.
WANTED—Teechera tor Lois
School, in Berrien county. Apply
to Wm. L. Peters, Jr.. Secretary of
Board of Trustees.
J0-2-4t sw.\
~STRAYED—One black sow
marked crop-split and under-bit In
one ear, under-square and under-
bit In the other. One red and black
spotted sow. One red and black
■potted barrow. Two black gilts.
The four latter marked with swal-
low-fork In each ear. The two
sows should have another litter of
pigs, if found, please pen and
notify B. F. Monk, R. F. D. No. 2,
Naylor. Ga., and receive reward.
8trayed la«t February.
10-2-sw 4L
~^ANTED—To~buy~chIckens"~Mid
eggs. Highest prices paid at Jeff
M. Davis’, corner Ashley and Dasher
streets. 10-7-d2t w2t
MONEY TO^LOArT^nTmproved
farm lands In Lowndes county.
WOODWARD* SMITH.
10-8- d tues fr| «v t 1 tf.
FOR SALE—A home and lot on
Floyd street;. also 1,10' acres of land
four miles northwest of Valdosta, 130
acres cleared. There la" good water
power on the place, and about 300
acres underlaid with good ftrldt stay;
Also two dwellings, one broom and
the other 4-room. B. W. Force. 609
Fioyd sweet Valdosta, Ga.
9-24 man. act n aum st.
'^OR^XLE^SmairtrMtTofTarm
lands near Quitman, In Bropks
county. O. M. Smith, Valdosta, Us.
8-23-sw-tf dms tf.
LOST sight or falling vision can
be restored by the right glasses
Our skill In fitting may save you
much worry.
J. O. MACKEY. Optometrist.
MUST BE A BE-ADJUSTMENT.
James J. Hill, the great north
western railroad, magnate. In a
speech delivered nt Seattle recently,
took occasion to Umrnt the hagtra
of people from the country to . the
towns, and pnedteted some dire
things unless there was a return ko,
the farm. We believe there v|u
"more truth than poetry,” |„ -whkt j
this belief Is atown In a tangle com- | Mr - Hill had to say on that line, at-1
partsoo of the Internal economy of I though many able men - have . , taMa j
DON’T LEAVE HER WITHOUT
A WEAPON TO FIGHT WITH
IN HER HOUR OF NEED
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t HE policies Is
sued by The
Empire Life In-
surance Company
of Atlanta pro
tect the daughter,
the eon and the
widow from want
.or privation. Talk
it over with the
agent.
Men fall sick, or die, and often a girl is
suddenly confronted with the necessity of earn
ing her daily bread, when she has been taught
no way on earth of making a penny. It isn’t
fair, it isn’t just, it isn’t kind to send a poor,
little helpless girl out into the world this way,
when you should have safeguarded her against
want by one of The Empire Life policies.
The expense to you is small—the bene
fits to your daughter are manifold.
SAFE-SANE-SOUTHERN-OLD LINE-LEGAL RESERVE
The Willis Co.,
General Agents -
VALDOSTA, GEORGIA.