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THE VALDOSTA TIMES,
VALDOSTA, OA, TUESDAY,
VALDOSTA SEMI-WEEKLY TIMES
c. C. BRANTLEY* Editor
E. L. TURNER. Business Manager
REUB*S VOICE AND OTHER
VOICES
We printed and commented yes
terday upon Mr. Reub. Arnold'5 let*
j ter to Chairman Wright, giving ex-
BUB8CRIFTION PRICE $i A YEAR 1 officio reasons why a senatorial pri-
, , , 11 - 1 mary should not be held. But we
Entered at the Foalofllee at VaMoeta dM not finish with him for want of
(J,., u Second Unas Mall MaOer. I apace and patlaice.
I At agaltnst his "masons” we quote
Rumor hae It that Governor-elect front the Democradic platform adopt.
Smith Is too busy making educa : <”> ■» Mheon In 1906-by the Hoke
catlonal and Sunday school address- Smith convention of which Mr. Ar
es to answer Guyte McLendon’s "»'«* w **> ft nu ‘ mber - Tbat PMtcrm.
■’defy” or to tell hie frlenda, Cov- »» '» known, was written by
Ington Candler and Stovall, wheth-''«»“> Smith and It was fetched to
er he I. a candidate or not. When '“ Ven ‘ ,0n n by , „ D ' C * ” d
,, 1 Heub Arnold. On the subject of sen-
Hoke gets hold of an apple there •
, , ,, „ alorlal primaries this platform dc-
alnt no core left." , ,.
clarod:
An old Massachusetts woman gives
this advice to womea who wish to
live long: "Work hard, fifteen hours
a day, abstain from gossip, never
fiirt. never read novels, abstain from
the vanity of drers and keep away
from danc-s and shows.” The aver
age women does not want to ltvo
long that way.
A bill providing that no woman
shall be permitted to work more
than nine hours In any day or
more than fifty hours In any week
In Missouri will take effect June 20,
nnd most of tho factories, Btores
and laundries will have to recast
their schedules before that time.
The rest of food and rent combin
ed Is 52 per cent .greater In the
United States than In Englnnd and
Wales, but these heavier relative j t|tlo«l to vote for tho Democratic ran
charges on working clans incomes, ,udatea an follows, to-wlt. Gover-
”We declare U to Iw* the poli
cy of tile Democratic party or
Georgia that hereafter ALL
primary elect Ions for UNITED
STATES SENATORS, State
House officers, supremo court
and appellate court, should
such latter court lie created,
Shull lie by DIRECT POPULAR
VOTE.”
"All” primary, election for "Unit
od States Senators,” not part of them
to meet political and fractional exl
gonefea.
Tills declaration w-as followed up
by the State committee In 1908,
when It provided. "That a Democra
tic election to he held on Thursday,
the 4th day of June nil
white Democrats . . . shall ho en-
decision, and the thrice denial of
the proffered candidacy for gover
nor? The trumpeted reforms, the
promisee made, the alllancea form
ed, are all to be cast to the winds—
if the plane carry—and instead of
one primary for Governor special
election for Governor, and an extra
session to Inaugurate that Governor
to serve less than two
we say If the plans carry! .
Talk about expenses!
Now to put It in a word: If the
Interests (the political and factional
Interests under review) did not think
that they had a majoitlty of the leg
islature, does any one believe that
the people would be denied the .right
a say-so—a primary? It would
have been ordered and over with by
this time.—Macon Telegraph, *
have been accompanied with weekly
wages which are as 230 to 100.
Attorney Ocnoral Wlckoreftam
has made somo startling charges
against tho so called lumber trust
nnd thsro Is to bo an Investigation
of that trust. If all the Attorney
Oeneral says Is true, the lumber
trust needs Investigation.
Woodrow Wilson Is making
li.lghty long reach cut Into tho West
fur a man who pretends not to ho
figuring in National politico It 's
nearly ttmo for Governor Harmon
of Ohio to mako a trip out that way
for bis health.
In the Virginia penitentiary one
firm It said to have a contract for
the manufacture of shoes, and over
two million pairs are produced year
ly for tills firm, the company paying
tho state for tho labor of tho con
victs 60 cents per day.
Itopresontatlvo Hobson Is an ad
vocate of National Highways along
In connection with n big navy. Hob
son probably wants our publlo
roads to bo wlxlo enough for our
army to march In platoons,
Tom Watson scorn* to ho a mark
ed man. Hardly a week pnsw-e that
somebody docs not open his mall,
walk acres hla Hold or stop and say
something to somebody else In front
of his houso.
nor, United States Senators, Attor-
noy-Genernls,” etc.
Confirming this, the state conven
tion last summer said:
"We urge tho Importance of
selecting by direct vote of tho
people tho nominees for public
office and we condemn all other
methods which make It possible
for such election to be made by
convention vote, instead of by
voto of the people.”
But oh you fllm-flammcrs, and
Slippery Dicks!
In his card printed yesterday Mr.
Arnold said: “There Is no provision
of law to ralso tho money to hold a
senatorial primary.” The platform
of 1906 made this declaration.”'
"We favor the payment by
the state of tho expenses of
holding primary and general
eloctlon for United States Sen
ators and Stnto llqua:> officers.”
Tho crowd that mado that plat
form declaration controlled the leg
islature which followed. Why didn't
they carry out the pledge and make
It tho law that primary election ex
penses for Sonntors shall be psld
by tho Stato? But thoy did not do
It. and now they aro using their
own lapso of n solemn pledgo ns n
ladder to climb up on.
Mr. Arnold further said that "we
ore having entirely too many eloc-
Whtle the ™ ronglng ^ ^ ^ ^ w01 „ d hnve bfit .
from 9G to 100 lu tho North
Friday and Saturday out In "grand
old Toxas” tho mercury got down
til St> ami In Colorado a biiow storm
raged.
Thomnsvtllo -Is still puzzlod over
the disappearance of F. 11. Faulk
ner from that city on May 8th. Ills
trunk nnd clothing are at his hoard
ing house there, hut no trnee of htia
can he found.
It Is said that the law In Georgia
regard lo dynamiting fish In
tor service If wo had fewer elec
tions, and had them further apart.”
Yes, let a star chamber in Atlanta
do the filling of tho offices as an ac
commodation lo the peoplo who arc
run to death going to tho polis
With tho characteristic boldness
of the usurper this mouthpiece af
firms. without naming tho "reason,"
that "there is good reason for limit
ing tho requirement of popular elec
tions! "Just let the boss do the
work, for ho ran do It better and
quicker and with leas expenso than
streams of tho state Is violated ovory tho people, beenttso he Is Wiser and
day. It is a pity that the violators' better than tho people. He knows
cannot be severely punished for what they want better than they
eiieli acts of |vandalism.
do themselves. Away with populnr
elections!
boat year when some of us declar
ed that tho peoplo wanted and need-
peace and quiet, and n formal
Col. Uosooo l.uko Is working up
quite a boom for the Governorship
although ho lias not positively
stated that ho will bo In the race Inflection only to give a splendid Gov-
case of a vacancy. lernor a second unopposed term,
■ o I they (these - fellows under review)
Nature ernvee diversity, and the t0t>(0( | th c cow horns, bent the bass
best wmy to fight the disease and j llnlms sounded the tomtoms nnd
pcsls which affect crops of thla cl|inko(1 tho cym t )a ia, and cried aloud
kind Is to diversify
rotate.
the crops and
that tho State needa saving, ana
that ono man only could save It—
that he had been cut short In hla
career of reforming things, and that
ho must and shall come back, else
General Nevarro la trying to dem
onstrate the tr th of what Gold
smith said about "Those who flgktf” fit "and damned! The
nnd run away may live to fight, stato was going hollwards and tho
another day." (bottomless pit was Just aheaidi! By
Judge RRh7rd°~UuRsoH 1, going! coqfottlnK with the prohibitionist,
to he tendered a "surer',e banquet” *»d flirting with the liquor people
ti -.in wwvKnKis. ho by book and crook and fluke, and
on Mar 27th. Ho will probably bo *. . , , n .
" u ,/ I with the help of over-confidcnce on
taken entirely by surprise by it. I * ... Hv
the other side, Hoke came back by
The Wavcroaa Journal think* the l°ss than a majority of 6.000.
pnmo of Hoke Smith stands above An< t‘ after all, hts great wor
all other sontherners. That de- ot ■*'•'«* the sta,c ** to go ,or
peada upon whom It la wvltt&i. . nausrht. If he can back out of It
| After all, the UlnpBs of poor Steve
Woodrow Wilson bolleves the Clay opened up the possibilities for
nomination should seek the man. playing for position for the succea-
bnt he Is not doing a thing that slon! Wan It Clay's varying states
will keep it from finding him. ^of health that caused the long ln-
THE FARMER'S BOY.
At a meeting of the Presidents of
twenty of the nation's largest corpor
ations held In New York, the other
day It was a matter ot comment that
of those present, twelve were “farm
er's boyB."
When the youngster at home on
tho farm gets "the blues" and fan
cies that there is no longer the chance
that there used to be to rise above
the monotony and drudgery of a til
ler of tho soil, ho can think of those
twelve captains of Industry who
started as ho 1, starting and remem
ber that when they were boys there
were times when they too Imagined
that It was hopeless ambition to um
pire to win their way to the front in
tho city.
Ho wants to remember that the
farm has evolved some of the world’,
greatest men and some of la most
conspicuously useful ones art! that
with the Increasing activities of the
nation In all directions there Is now.
more than ever, room at the top for
the exceptional man.
In the contemplation of the stirring
achievements on tho farmer’s boy
past and present, if he has Imagina
tion and soul he will find helpful In
spiration, when the day seema dark
and the future full of gloom. Let
hlim recollect—as the world surely
does—that it was the garm that gave
us Abraham Lincoln, ope of the
world's most majestic figures; that
gave us Andrew Jackson, Millard
Fillmore, the martyred Garfield
Horace Greeley, Sir Isaac Nekton and
the brilliant Carlyle. It was
er'a son—Ell Whitney, who created
the cotton gin, which laid the foun
dation for tho growth of the cotton
Industry, now worth $900,000,000 a
year to the United States and a farm
er's boy—Ella, Hcwe, who emancl
pated womanhood from the slavery
of the needle by Inveuting the sew
ing machine.
Txing before Robert Fulton sailed
his steamboat, tho Clermont, up tho
Hudson, John Fitch, the engenious
product of a Pennsylvania farm dem
onstrated that a boat could bo pro-
polled by steam by equipping a skiff
with an engine and sailing his craft
up the Delaware with Its aid. An
other brainy farmer's boy—Olivet
Evans—Bometlmes called the Watt of
America—was tho the first to build
nnd operate a locomotlvo In the
United States. Cyrus McCormick,
Inventor of tho reaper, the whir of
which w today heard round the earth
wn s tho modest son of an ordtanary
Illinois farmer. The first machine
to mnko tacks was the crcntlon of a
Massachusetts farm lad—Thomas
Blanchard and tho device that fur
nished tho world with the modern
screws wns the work of a poor Ver
mont gentous—Thomas Harvey,
quiet, thoughtful farmer's son. To
the resourcefulness of an Ohio farm
boy—Charles F. Brush—who Invent
ed the dynamo, the world Is Indebted
for Its present day great Industrial
and power plants that give employ
ment »o millions of hands. Thomas
Edison, most brilliant of the
world’s Inventors, sponsor for tho
electric light, the phonograph and a
hundred other devices, was the •»>
ot a poor farm laborer. Patrick B.
Delany, Inventor of tho mutiplex, tho
Delauy relay, tho telcpoet automatic
telegraph and a hundred other tele
graph and cable Improvements grew
on a New England farm. From a
Wliotitlu faint came C. L. dholes,
the Inventor of tho tt (writer, which
of tho.world.
revolutionised tho business methods
of the world.
-Where service Is tho only creden
tial that commands recognition and
a man's ability must square with his
responsibility, the "farmer’s hoy”
who has hearkened to the call of the
big city will be found today In the
front ranks of the worlds useful
workers in every large city on the
face of the earth. He makes good
and the world needs him.
M. Howell, a popular druggist
of Greensburg, Ky„ says, ”W# use
Chamberlain’s Cought Remedy la
our own household and know It Is
excellent. For sale by all dealers.
INSURGENTS ANYHOW.
It was not surprising at all that
a large element of the Mexican ln-
surrectoe refused to put down their
arms when Madero patched up a
treaty of peace with the Diaz gov
ernment Neither was It surprising
that a considerable element in this
country should have begun to buck
and kick up their heels when they
learned that the decision of the su
preme court In the Standard Oil
Company was not going to bankrupt
that concern. There are people In
Mexico who Joined the Insurrection
because they wanted to fight. They
had a sort of brain-storm, a craving
fbr excitement, for broodtheddlpg,
etc.
It goes to how that the Mexicans,
the Latln-Amerlcans, are far behind
In civilization. They are not much
further advanced than were the old
Israelites, Amalekltes and the No
mads of early history who used to
make a past-time of killing each
other, stealing each others stock and
land without let or hindrance- Of
course, the Latln-Amerlcans are not
that bad, though there Is something
in their make-up akiu to the spirit
which used to stir the early, unciv
ilized races in dealing with each
other. The reports show that General
Madero is in danger or assassination,
which Indicate his followers - were
not fighting so much to get rid of
Diaz and the Diaz government as
they were to satisfy the savage in
stinct In their nature to keep
shedding each other's Iblood. War
and blood was what they wanted.
General Ffguero and some of the
other lnsurrectpg, In the southern
portion of tho country, promise to
keep up the fight- They are going to
march on to Mexico City, so the new
administration will probably have to
quell the revolution a B the first duty
which It has to perform. If reports
aro true, many of Madera's followers
will probably Join the Insurrection
and keep up tho fighting. The re
bellion has given the anarchistic ele
ment and the bandits the opportunity
which they wanted and It Is hardly
probable that peace will ibe fully re
stored there until this element has
satlsflel itself with the shedding of
human blood and has also gotten all
of the booty which they can manage.
There Is a political element In this
country not altogether unlike the
unyleldihg Mexican rebels. It Is an
element that feeds Itself with strike
making and "opposition.” Let It
find out what one faction wants,
whether good, back or Indifferent,
and It sill go tho other way. Princi
ples do not count for much with this
class. The excitement of political
campaign, the big promises of loud
mouthed demagogues and the mili
tant spirit suits Bs best, no matter
what the result may be.
The "insurgent” element Is not
altogether without its benefits ana
advantages, the chief trouble being
tho difficulty Im controlling them.
When they get tarted they never
know when to stop. What good they
accomplish Is usually overcome by
tho damage they do when playing the
fool.
to Insure a continuance of that prog
ress—Clarence Poe, in Raleigh (N.
C.) Progressive Farmer.
Jack White and Eddie Dennis.
St. Joseph, Mo., May 22.—Jack
White and Eddie Dennis are to fur
nish the main bout in the boxing
THE BOARD OF TRADE. show here tomorrow night The
There is a movement on foot to agreement call® for a fifteen round
put more life Into the Board of Trade
and this is a movement that ought to
commend Itself to every citizen of
Valdosta, in proportion to the
amount of interest which every cit
izen has in the town.
There is not a man living in Val
dosta who is not benefited by things
and movements that benefit the
contest at 126 pounds.
The son of oil magnate Pierce 1*
said tQ take forty-five drinks a day,
which shows that oil does not satis
fy the whole family.
.Times Want Ads
Col. William Jennings Bryan As
going to speak at the Dublin Fes*
tival on June 12th. He will also
speak at Albany while visiting Ge©r-
town. Every advanced step that gia.
Valdosta takes adds to the value of
property here and therefore helps the
property owner. Every improvement
adds to the work of the day laborer
and therefore helps him. Every
improvement helps the trade of the
town and it therefore benefits ev
ery merchant in the city.
If the merchant prospers, the clerk
prospers. If the tenant* prosper,
the landlord prospers in like pro
portion. There must ibe constant
improvement 'in the community or
there will bfc a backward movement.
What Is needed more than any
thing else is a union of force In the
city for the benefit of the town as
a whole. Such a movement would
not take much of any one's time, but
there should be an organization
which would voice the sentiment of
the leading men of Valdosta and that
sentiment should always be In the in
terest of advanced movements. |
What the Board of Trade needs
more than anything else is an ac
tive, wide awake, sensible man as
secretary, a man who could take hold
of things and command the confi
dence of the folks at home as well as
those he Is dealing with away from
home.
Valdosta has* always managed to
get along very well. Her geograph
ical location is bound to make this
city a prosperous community, even
without much effort. But it would
be ibetter to Join fn the widespread
movement all over the country and
try and bring outride capital to this
city. The committee which will
make a canvas for the Board of
Trade in the next few days ought to
meet with hearty encouragement an
all sides.
The Board of Trade has done ex
cellent work for this city under ad-
AUTOMOBILES FOR SALE—Two
Reo Runabouts, 1909 model, $300;
1910 model $350. Apply to P. T.
Knight or R. W. Starling, Hahira,
Ga. 5-9-w-tf
STRAYED OR STOLEN^From
Baker’s mill, one sorrel Texas
mare; has blaze face and both hind
feet white. Notify John High, Bak
er’s Mill or Jasper Fla. 5-23-w-tf
STRAYED OR STOLEN—Six
shoats, two blue and four black:
mark swallow fork In right ear and
under bit in left. Reasonable re
ward for return or Information. J. T.
Palin f'y t d-w-tf
. FOR SALE—Cheap, good house
and lot close in. Winn-Jones Co.
6-15-d2t-w2t.
FOR SALE—Nice Draft Horse,
large safe and one Underwood Type
writer. Briggs Supply Co. 5-19-d&wtf
FOR SALE—One first class Milli
nery Business, in good condition.
Will sell cheap and give right party
splendid terms. Write at once.
W. Ml. Giddens, Tifton. Ga. f»-23-w5t
FOR SALE!—Twelve thousand feet
capacity saw mill, complete, now W
operation, one shingle mill drag saw'
and bolter, complete and in opera
tion, with enough timber to run for
several months; twelve head of good
oxen; three carts and chains. Rail
road side track at the mill. Pope and
Shaw, Bemtss, Ga. , 6-20-d-sw tf.
LEARN telegraphy; the Southern
-Business College, Live Oak, estab
lished In 1905, offers special lew
rate on scholarships In telegraphy
verse conditions and we are sure that j department; trained and experienced
with the encouragement of the citi-J teachers; best equipment money can
zens of the town, it ^vould be a force buy; graduates holding many posi-
that would be almost inestimable, tions in Florida and Georgia. For
But citizens of this town need to
make a “scared fight." They need
to get together in earnest and pull
for things, as if *>nr very existence
depended upon them
A Dalton Woman has asked to be
buried In the confederate cemetery
hen she dies. Still she will prob
ably not kick if her wish is not car
ried out
particulars write W. P. Mu&ick, Prin
cipal, Live Oak, Fla. 5-20-d2t-w2t
Turpentine and Tie Wagons.
Big stock heavy wagons at lowest
prices. Anything you want In heavy
team harness, saddles, buggies and
buggy harness with patetnt traces,
our own make. Ingram Buggy anti
Harness Co., Valdosta, Ga.
5-1-tues-sat-lni.
ASIA’S IMPORTANT LESSON.
No, the -prosperity of every man
of every interest, cf every industry
depends upon the prosperity of the
rerage man with whom that indi
vidual or industry has to do. You
prosper today, you live in greater
comfort, simply because men in other
ages have > encouraged Knowledge
Education, nnd ns a result of Know!
edge, have better Tools and Machin
ery for men to labor with. That is
our debt to the Past; to the Future
we owe the duty of encouraging
knowledge in constantly increasing
degree.
Pity—may God Pity!—the man
who fancies he ownes nothing to the
school, who pays his tax for educa
tion grudgingly as if it were a char
ity,—os If ho had only himself
thank for the property
which the government levies
pitiable mill or so for the advance
ment and diffusion of knowiedge
among mankind. Pity him if he has
not considered; pity him the more, if
having considered he be small enough
of soul to repudiate the debt he owes
the race. But for what education
ha« brought us from all Jts past, but
foir what it ha* wrought through the
invention of better tools and the bet
ter management (through increased
knowledge- of all the powers with
which men labor, our close-fisted,
short-sighted tax-payer would himself
be living In a shelter of brush, shoot
ing game with a bow and arrow, cul
tivating com with a crooked stick!
Most of what he has he owes to his
racial heritage; it is only because
other men prosper that he prospers.
And yet owing so much to the past,
he would do nothing for the future,
owing so much to the progress the
race has made, he would do nothing
■§TOVI>8 &
How about replacing that old stove ? Do
a little figuring
A good range costs less than ten cents a day for a
year. One of ours will save this much on fuel alone.
If you had bought one a year ago it would have paid
for itself before this.
RESIDES, think of the satisfaction in using a stove yon can de-
pend upon. One that doesn’t bum your baking and coOks
perfectly. After a year when the strive has paid for itself think
what it will save in the way of fuel and food and the amount of
satisfaction you will get from its use year after year.
Our stoves save you money and we save you money on stoves.
Let ns prove it.;
Larsen-Forbes Hardware Co.
South Patterson St.
Phone 525
Valdosta, Ga.