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MIOOSTH SEMI-WEEKLY Tl*** a o. i g. L. TURNER. <i>IUDtimON PRICE II A VKAB ■mni at Ike Poetofflce M VeldaeU n*k. M kwel Dm Heir Mvtcv. n With the finest Are-fightlng tm ta the world, eldedi hr creft on the river-front which were throwing tons of water on the blase, with hun dreds of policemen and scores of gaarda on constant dotr, one of the moat modern Are-proof buildings la New York has Just teen destroyed hr a Are which raged nearly all day. That valuable records ware destroyed and els Urea lost are things not easy to understand. The birth place of 0rover Cleve land .has been bought and la to be converted Into a Memorial to the former President, and Mr. Carnegie has promised to contribute a library. Bet the library la not to he a mem orial to "old drover." Carnegie libraries are not built that way. Carnegie cornea drat and Plato, Bocratee, Cato and tba balance of them cornea along In their order. The Charlotte Observer thinks that Nat Ooodwln and Lillian Bun nell ought to marry each other. We presume that the Observer wants to ■so a "lightning-change” perform ance In the marriage and divorce line. A western man who bought some Ware county landi Is said to have been so well pleased with the trade that he bought Afty acres more "without seeing *!t.” There Is no telling what he will do when he i It GOT. WILSON AND OOL. HARVEY, Verily, politico hath Its vicissi tudes. Consider, for Instance, the report of a break between Governor Wilson and Colonel George Harvey, editor of Harper’s Weekly. Else where on this page la printed the New York Bun's dispatch from Tren ton, as well as the result of its tele phone inquiry of Colonel Harvey for the platform, says the Houston Post The report was that Governor Wilson bad written to Colonel Har- rey suggesting that the colonel’a Interest In the Wilson (movement was hurting, rather than helping the cause. We do not known, of course,'that such a letter was writ ten, 'but Colonel Harvey doesn't de ny that some such suggestion was made to him, and Governor Wilson has been willing to asy only that there has been no break In the rela tions between him and the distin guished editor of the Weekly, This fact remains, however. Col onel Harvey la the originator of the Wilson boom. Some years ego when Governor Wilson was exploiting his political philosophy along conserva tive lines, the Weekly declared he was the kind of man who ought to be president, and even after the gov ernor had made tbe transit from life long conservatism to extreme radi calism, the colonel did not waver. Roma weeks ago he Issued a Wilson edition of the Weekly which act forth brilliantly the colonel’s undlmlshed VALDOSTA, ' OA* TUESDAY JANUARY 1A, MIR. Ticket Agent 8milh at Macon Is said to have confessed robbing the ticket office and afterward denied the confession, but he returned f941 of the money and was sent to Jail to be trlod for the robbery. The record of service of William K. Reynolds, who haa completed a quarters of a century as a member of the city council of Providence, R. I., Is believed to be without an equal anywhere In Urn country. for the furtherance of the progres sive movement Professor P. O, Holden, orli-lnator of the corn gospel, has resigned hts position as superintendent of tho extension repartment of tbe Iowa Agricultural College to become candidate for the Republican nomi nation for governor. admiration for the New Jersey statesman, Perhaps It was the laudatory pro duction that alarmed tbe governor. Be It remembered that Colonel Har- very has been frequently accused of being a Wall Street mouthpiece. Mr. Bryan has on several occasions made the charge aqd has demanded \ list of the owners of the Weekly and. other publications conducted by Colonel Harvey. Machine politi cians of New York and New Jersey have also disliked the lolonel be cause of his mugwumpery addic tion. It Is possible, of course, that they are telling the governor, who Is now becoming a practical poli tician, that tbe Harvey InAuence hurts, and perhaps the governor hss been made to believe It, and believ ing It he has asked the colonel as an act of friendship to say nothing more In his behalf. If the story la untrue, we trust the fact will be made kni A conference of Progressive Re publicans of Alabama Is to meet In the fact will be made known in [rnent, Birmingham next wpgfc. ta -argentor oaaa-kuthdllWb "WAEHerT' TfS^tKi' T'.TT A Pennsylvania politician who was given $2,600 to get out of the race decided to go to New York and live like a millionaire for one day. It took Just one day for him to get rid of what he had. The second nttht he slept In a bed which cost him 15 cents. All the weather men have to do these days la to send out a forecast of a cold wave. That prediction 1s nearly always verified In January and February. Billie Hardwick threaten! to pull elf his cost for Woodrow Wilson. The thing Is getting worse than we thought h was. A visitor to China has fonnd out that the Chinese men are ruled by tho Chtneeo women. In that particular the Chinese are not so very different from other people. The Atlantic Coast Lin* train reached Ra varnish yesterday tlheen matter atanda, we are Inclined to sympathise with Colonel Harvey. It must be humiliating to the editor of a hlgh-claas publication like the weekly to be asked as a matter of friendship to remain silent. It la, or at least would be, a reflection upon the wide Influence of which Colonel Harvey can Jnatly lay claim. Anotheg phase of the esse la this: In politics, the custom Is to co-or- dlnata widely different elements and faction*. If poaslble. That la to say. If a man he sincerely In favor of an other's candidacy, he la not apt to care how many of his personal ene mies may ha lined up In support of his favorite. If we were called upon to analyte motives, we should say that the men who complained to Governor Wilson of Colonel Harvey were not Governor Wilson's friends at all, hut that their object was to create a breach between two old- time frlenda and deprive the one of the helpful support and Influence of the other. As we have said In tho beginning, we do not know how mnch truth there Is In the New York Sun story, but the Weekly does not seem to be vsylng anything further In advocacy of the candidacy of Governor Wilson. but the majority of the crlme^WS accidents relate to bera offer own race. ' My object In wrlttlng Is to appeal to the 3 » -ea or our people througo the mlp ieters, teacher* and other leader* t > ri«c up at once for all the habit ^ (Jmrytng concealed weap- j subject that should be taken up in the pulpit, In the Ban dar schocnl tn the home and eon- «v*ry member !* now to the habit >led weapons will to do so. Daring all 4 I have lived In Ala- never carried n con- I have Hirer kept 'end have never felt I have traveled of the South by r and have never been In the least had, I am quit# t have been pro carrying a pistol, gun keeps a per- !e one time, nine gets him In tron- tlnnally of onr of eanrytal foal the year* bam* I cesled one In the nged through ell ntgat enA 1 felt that I danger, and If' sure I should tocted by reason Where a pistol son out of ti times out of tea Ible. Besides, weapon* not oi life, but carryli one la a barhai gar habit. Tl a person tn a the United States el habit of going arom munlty loaded and piece of Iron In the or gun. If this subject !t end dlscnased end Their* aro hundred* of thousands of men who may be brought to believe that it would-he to their advantage In some Indirect, myaterlons way to vote foh'jt tariff? Apt who could not bs ca joled or coerced Into the conviction that it ta ta their Individual Interest to vote to put an enormous taxx on everything they eat, wear and use. If Democratic editors will make It a standing order tn their offices to substitute the word "tax’ for “tariff" In every article having to do with protection, and It every stump speak er will .carry on a similar crusade, and movement will be made falutln Hamiltonian pretense of which ho'denounced ‘grand opera’ ha the epitome, end he hated the af fection of violin virtuosity typified in YiDny Kubelik as being contrary to nature. > He reveled In a good old time, prononneed toon* and not 'twen,' and, as we have delighted to not* ere this, his would leave hit horse hitched at a camp meeting and walk fifty miles-to play '*rnrkey-ii r the 8traw'"knd call tbe numbers for a barn warming. ‘Sngar ta thr Bound,’ 'Rabbit In the Brier Patch’ and ’Leather Brcetchco' were In cluded In hi* -repertory, nil learned nation-wide, the problem of reverting by •**< end with plenty of rosin on Republican vlctorls* *t tho polls Will the bow, which wasi * principle of hsve been solved. ' n.vrtSOMj his, he VSohM 1 mAh* fcls Addle outslng LATIMER SUCCEEDS TUMLDT Friend of Gov. Brown is Appointed Keeper of Buildings and Grounds Atlanta, Os., Jan. 15.—Pitres Latimer, of Cherokee county, who succeeds George Tumltn as keeper public buildings for Oeeggla, arrived at the oapltol this morning and entered upon his new* duties. Mr. Latimer's Aral serious work will be to euperlntandsnt the repairs at the governor’s mansion, with a view to getting It reedy for Gover nor Brown’s occupancy the latter part of the month. Think this over! THE FIGHT OF GUFFEY. The Aght In the National commit tee over the right of Colonel Guffey to hold a membership in that body seems to The Post to have been a waste of passion and oratory, aayi The Houston Poet. What Colonel Guffey's sins may have been wa do Trying concealed | not ionw _ He wu accutsed of con- *■ [* kettle, ohtbutx S bumblebee, out- hum a sawmill and tickle the heel of a negro a half mile away Into a syncopated spasm. Bob Taylor could cast out devils with hie music. He could euro human misery. Hr could charm a soul. He could win a vote. He could make even a standpatter dance, Alas, that ho has hung np the Addle and the bow at does not protect lonccnlad weap- coarso and vut- reason why country Ilk* sorting with the republican party, an offense that la well calculated to arouse tbe Ire ot the average organ- Ization man. It Is an offense, how- ever, which Is not uncommon among g*t‘ln *“* democrats. Mr. Bryan himself was responsible for the defeat of the democratic candidate for governor of Nebraska In 1519. (or whlck ho has been, severely crttlCSOd. Like wise, Mr. Mountcastle, of Tennes see, whose title was challenged, out the South by our 'people, 1 am acc y Md 0( supporting fusion ot Te- sure that within a few year* at, least DU bn c ans and Independent d*mo- the colored people wllll ***** carry. Ing weapons and tberp will not he so great loss of life end limb as is now true. BOOKER T. WASHINGTON. Tuskegee, Ala., Jan. 5. ROOSEVELT AND THIRD TERM. The World cannot astro with Its old friend Henry l.7»tter*on that "the third term tradition Is all that stands between js end life tenure In the preeh^ffal of- fflee," saye tho New York \tirld. Tho mance of tho Rooaevelr cam paign doe* not Ilo In the stuck upon the third term tradltl0\ but [upset th«!r choice, in the state of mind that coni,, dgr if the National Committee must sire four yuan more ot Thcotnre override the action ot party anthor- Rooeevelt In the whlto liouao-^ytn the States, then we have cen- tour years more personal V. givern^^^jj party government, and that nn m""*' 1 il|V ''' publicans crate In Tennessee against the dem ocratic nominee. But thle fact remains. Colonel Guffey was regularly chosen by the constituted party authorities In Pennsylvania, and It Is difficult to understand why a private cltlxen, armed with a proxy, should inyade the committee and aek that body to eject a regularly elected memiber. was Mr. Mountcastle regularly elected by the party authorities In Tennessee. If they condone tho apostasy of which he Is charged, then the National committee can not properly go behind tho returns and Horticultural Meeting. On January 17th and '15th The Georgia Horticultural Society Is go ing to hold Its annual session In Athens Jointly with the Georgia Dairy and Lire Stock Association and the Georgia Breeders' Associa tion. There will be many things of Interest discussed at this meeting. Among them will be an Illustrated lecture by Mr. Davy, the father of . .. . tree surgery. Mr. Davy was the orlg- <»«tor. and at the present time democratic orchestra 1* most needed In tbe land!” The “ruling habit” la said to bf hard to subdue as age creeps on. Senator Btfb la yet In his prime, and let us hope that hla fiddling habit will again reasert Itself. For him to play a good old democratic tun* at the coming Baltimore conyentlon at the opportune moment, might do more for democracy's hope*—as suredly it could do no less—than ever was wrought by the "cross of gold and crown ot thorns” speech. As much ae we lore music, w* would rather mlaa one of Morris Sheppard’s mcllifloue speeches In favor of free raw materials and Ini tiative, referendum and recall amy- head, of one of the largest organi sations of tree surgery In the United States. This paper will he of Inter est to all those woo hare valuable shade trees or homes of which they are particularly fond. There will also be discussions and papers on tbe possibilities ot track growing In the state, as well as dis cussions on tho various end sundry horticultural Industries that are rapidly coming to the tore In Geor gia. It seems that there Is going to bo * large meeting at tne State College ta well aa an enthualastle one, for the thoughts of the Geor gia agriculturists are being tnrned from cotton and cattle, through the fear of the boll weayll and tbe per- tlme than to bellevo for a moment .istent attacks of tho Texas tick, that Bob Taylor haa renounced hla fiddle.—Houston Post. BOOKER W A8HTNGTOX APPEALS TO mS RACE. To the Editor of The Telegrapa: Through your paper I wlah to call the attention of the men of my raee »»n late. That train wa* probably Ike frightful loan of life and aar. bulletined fifteen different time* "to* wounding and maiming of hu- during th* day. Former Governor Ashton C. Shal- . Ienbarger .pt Nebraska ha* filed ap plication a* a candidate for the Dem ocratic nomination for United 8tat*e senator. The weather man to still en to hit Job. He does not always deliver the goods, but he hts th* vtrtns ot making good promisee. Wonder what. Andrew Carnegie thought whan Congressman Bart lett, of Georgia, "upp” and began to ask him questions. A Sumpter county farmer who eould not pick hla cotton hu decided to plough It under, and in It for fertiliser next year. Massachusetts to now tbs only State to hold annual elections. man beings that grows out of tho habit of carrying concealed weapons. No on* can read th* dally papers giving account of the ertmu and ac cident! growing out of snooting* during th* Chrtotmu holidays, with out being tmpreued with th* fearful and uietess lota of Ilf* and limb re sulting from the habtt of carrying concealed weapons. During Chrtotmu week, * rough calculation shows that tn Alabama role, four years more of exeeu contempt for congreu, courts constitutions, four year* more bAln- golem, four years more oi wafton extravagance, four years mol denunciation and demagogy—la tho atate of mind that wants the new nationalism, that wants a little lath er, that wants federal Interference with every form of human Industry and actlrlty, that wants the states stripped of their power, that all aafo- guarda against the tyranny of the majority and bureaucracy substi tuted for the bill of rights This Is a generation that hat far too little Insight Into the mean ing of Its own Institutions.. ft ha* forgotten how much bloofl and Iron went Into tba making of the liberties which it Inherited and /which coat It nothing. It to a generation Im patient ot all reatratt upon Its Im pulses and Its passons. I It regards Itself as the father and Che prophets. It thinks It haa nothing to learn from the past and that the olstory of the human struggle! for freedom carries no lesson to /this century. Anything Ilk* constitutions courts or precedent! which stand In our'-fioasb that we are lor a people's government. If-ttsfcommlttea had listened to) Mr. Bryan and ejected Guffey, then It would hay* repudiat ed the au thority of the half mil lion democrats of Pennsylvania at the Instance of one cltlicn with a persons'! grudge. That would hare born the limit of absurdity. Mr. Bryan made a similar attack upon Colonel Guffey In 1905 and hid him ejeu’ed, hut Pennsylvania came back and elected him again, so It to apparent that Pennsylvania doss not approve the attitude of Mr. Bryan toward Colonel Guffey. Most of nv bar* oar animosities. There lr hardly one who haa not tn mind one or more Individuals whoa* a-t* of iHilltlral relations are sound ly execrated, but our Individual opinions can not be act up as party law, and we mnat depend upon time and circumstance* to ylndlcat* onr Judgments tf they are ever to be vindicated. We tnke It that there would hay* been no vote against Guffey If Mr. nryan hud not secured a proxy In order to prosecute hts warfare against the way of tta tmmedtata will to re- [the sitting member from Penntyl- gnrded aa an obstacle to progress. | v anla. The fact that eighteen mem- The danger doe* tJot lie in popu- bers TO ted with Mr. Bryan on th* tar Indifference to /the third term que stlon wan due entirely to hts VALDOSTA. '(Dedicated to Dr. Breedlove by an Illinois Man.) Where tne Pecans grow, And the babbling brooks, Through the woodland flow; For I long to gaze. On the fields ot cotton, A sight once zeen, la never forgotten. Take me back to the Land, Take me back to tho Land. Where the long leaf pines. Lift their heads through th* maze, Of the Myrtle vines; And the perfumed 'breeze, From the Orange trees, Prove the wonders of Nature, Shall never cease. I long to go back. To tnat Georgia town. Where no one Is sick, • And the doctor* frown; One a moonlight night, Where the magnolias rise. You would surely think, It was Paradise. tradition but In popular principles of liberty upon which the republic wea established. If the American people, with all thalr knowledge ot two terms ot Rooeefelt, want a third term ot Roosevelt,! they should al low nothing so flimsy as a precedent to stand In their A LITE Why would I for all Demoei hereafter taboo "tariff” and tn Its place use the word "tax.” which a tariff really tt If every Democratic writer and m * political influence, and not because he enunciated one valid reason why Colonel Guffey ahould be ejected. non HANG UP THE FIDDLE Whether true or not, the state ment Is going the rounds that Sen ator Bob Taylor of Tennessee, dear old Fiddling Bob, haa announced that he has quit his fiddlt and will never play again. We ara not ad vised as to why h* reached that do- termination, hut possible melll- fluous “chin music" of some orator leal supporter of tho Initiative, refer endum and recall, so unstrung hit. speaker would ins* the term ’The democratic nerves that he concluded lu Payuc-Aldrlch tax bill.” Instead of the American people Should hsve a there were twenty-eight persons kill- | Tll# Y*yn*-Aldrlch tariff bill” from rest on appeal* to their sentiment ed and about the same number of now nnttl ,h * polls', close on Noram- and he encouraged to Indulge In ■ persona seriously or fatally wound- , ,b * r ther * *F«d ho little conjecture little common sense reflection on ed. at to th* outturn* of th* election. matters pertaining to thalr public Taking tor granted that an equal I Who doubt*, 1 but that If th* Dlngley welfare, number were killed and wounded to **rlff b,u been known and ro- In connection with th* report, the remaining twelve Southern ttmd to generally~*s the Dingle* the St. Louto Republic pays n pretty atatce—end I think this to n corner- tax hill, and the McKinley tariff bill and deserved tribute to the senior vatlv* estimate—we have n total ot *• **• MeKJnley tax hilt, and the senator from Tennessee. "Aa s fid- about 100 peraene klllM and *n Payne-Atdrieh tariff bill as the dler.” says the Republic, “Bob Tay- equal number wounded daring' Payne-Aldrleh tax Mil, th* Hepnbl’- lor wax essentially the heat ot dem- Christmas woek. ran party wknld not be to ootoer to- oerato. Ho was th* exponent ot Of conn* I ratlin* that all ot this day. li . >4 leffenonlan simplicity In melody, shooting wa* not aon* by th* color- Th* worf “tariff” la too Indrtnlta. R* wa* on record against th* high- Khartum Cathedral Consecration. London, Jan. 15.—A large party bf English churchmen and their families will depart tomorrow for Khartum to attend the consecration of the great cathedral that has been erected In the metropolis of tho up per Nile country In memory of the famous General Gordon. The con secration to to take place the latter part of this month and will be at tended with splendid ceremonies. The Bishop of London, the: Right -"11 r-' T- nov. t^tanlpgtoiiglngrsm, will officl- nlo: Into other lines of agricultural and horticultural endeavor. T. H. MteHOTTON, Treasurer. Oeorgta State Horticultural So ciety. Times Want Ads FOR SALE—490 acres, 100 clear ed, balance timbered land, 1 aero town lot, containing 24 pecan trees hearing; dwelling hoot*, etc.,; 70 acres, 25 cleared; ti acre town lot and residence to go with the land. Also 325 acre* one mile ot Stockton, 125 acres cleared, well Improved. For information come to Zee or ad- _ dress J..A- Mathis, Stockton^ TAKEN UP—Two sows, one black, on* yellow, marked awallhw- fork and croaa nick under both can, and two shots* eight months old under the sam* mark. Owner can get them by, calling on me and by paying for this advertisement and damagea. Have had them oev- eral weeks C. B. Zelgler, Howell, Oa. l-8aw2t. NOTICE. All privileges arc reserved over the Banks' mill pond tor fish t;id game culture. R. T. BERRYHILL, Lessee. l-2w4t. V Mllltown, fla. WANT TO SELL—A good horse at a bargain. A. H. Denmark. l-3d6*w4t GENUINE SEAL ISLAND SEED W* have arranged lor a limited sup ply of genuine sea Island Seed from a grower on one of the Is lands ot the South -Ceroltna coast. Orders will be accepted, first come, first served. Atlantic A Gulf Mills, Quitman, Oa. 1 6 wtf WANTED—To rest a heavy one- drum ground sklddcr with privilege of buying. Give price and snipping mint. A. Smithgall, Council, Ga. 2-12 wtf. Wood’s Seeds Fop 1912. Our New Descriptive Catalog it fully up-to-date, and tell* *U about the best Garden and Farm Seeds. Every fanner and gardener should have n copy of alia cata log, which ha* long been recog nized as a standard authority, for the full and complete infor mation which it gives. We are headquarters for Cress and Clover Seeds, Seed Potatoes, Seed Oats, Cow Peas, Sola Seans and all Farm Seeds. T. W. WOOD Cl SONS. Seedsmen, - Richmond, Va. STRAYED OR STOLEN—Prom near Ray’s Mill on the 27th of No vember, a blfck mare mule four years old, weight about 900 pounds, la good order, has small white »pot under one ear. If. traded for* the Innocent party who gets her will be protected fully from any lost or be refunded the amount Invested In the animal, _ provided he can *lve name of party from whom he got her. Notify ,C. P. Shaw, Raya Mill, cotton Seed for sale—73 bushels Allen's Bilk, 75 bushels Tool's Prolific, 135 bushels Hclt’s Prolific, 100 bushels Simpkins' Pro lific, 50 bushels Broadwetl'a doubt* lolnt, 100 bushels sea island, se lected and bred up to yield 33 1-3 pet cent lint All of the above seed vera grown from seed bought from te originators last spring and haa* been tpeclally grown and aelects'l for my own planting, but haying sold my farm I offer them for sal* *i 51 per bushel, or will gty* spe cial price, on all of any one kind. S T. Tygart, Nashville, Oa l-*w4d3t FOR BALE—3 good farm mule*, cheap, will work anywhere. Wlnn- Jones Co. 110 dlwl 8TRAYED—On* black bora*, fly* yean old, weighing about 1009 ounda. Reward* for recovery. R. Eatman, Homervllle, Ga. 1 9 w3 dl cant, three yean old. 8. Harrell, Valdosta. Pries 1254c. 112 d2t wl