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Yes it is something new for a responsible concern making perhaps the best buggy that is built in the South
tb go direct to user and offer buggies at factory prices. The time has come when it is necessary to do
this, if there is to be anything left in the buggy. The dealers require enormous profit, which means that
the builder has to put in cheap material, if he sells through the dealer. We are therefore selling our out
put DIRECT, and if there is a better buggy built in the South than the “Valdosta,” we do not know it
Don’t be fooled into buying a medium grade buggy at a fancy price, when we will sell you the “Valdosta”
buggy at factory prices. Remember that you pay the high freight when buying buggies that are shipped
from a distance, which is not the case if you buy a South Georgia buggy.
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KUROPATKIN’S ARMY
NOW ON RETREAT
Japanese Are Hanging on Rus*
sian Troops Flanks.
KEEP THE RUSSIANS HARRASSED
Despite Terrible Weather Conditions
Army of General Kuropatkin Is Re
tiring In Good Order —Other News
From Zone of Eastern War.
Mukden, Sept. G.—1:40 p. m.—The
retreat of General Kuropatkin’s army
is being carried out in good order,
despite the terrible condition of the
roads, rendered sodden by the rains
•which fell yesterday and today which
mire the lumbering wagons and heavy
transport trains. Long lines of com
missariat wagons, drawn by steaming
mules, horses and even bull oxen are
steering their way north over the soak,
ing, cut up main road from Yentai.
Behind them come long trains of artil
lery and back of them still Kuropat
kin’s army.
The Japanese are hanging on Kuro
patkin’s flanks, keeping the Russians
engaged in a continuous rear guard
action. The progress of the Russian
army has been slow owing to the ne
cessity of first getting through the
baggage and guns; but heads of the
commissariat trains already have
passed through Mukden, and are con
tinuing their way towards the north.
The main Japanese army Is march
ing up along the roads eastward of
the Russian lines of retreat which con-
SOMETHING NEW.
verge at Mukden. Another Japanese
force is also heading for Mukden from
the westward coming from the direc
tion of the Liao river. Marshal Oya
ma seem:; to be making a race for
Mukden. He evidently has great su
periority In numbers, especially in
artillery.
As this dispatch was filed the cor
respondent of the Associated Press
could hear the booming of the Japa
nese cannon which are in play 14
miles from Mukden. The skies are
black and the air is stifling, the suf
focating smoke and the storm breaks,
making strange harmony between the
elements and the menacing attituda
of the contending armies.
Mukden, Sept. 6. —The following
message describing the earlier events
of the Japanese attack on General Sta
kelburg’s corps, southwest of Liao
Yang, Aug. 30, was written on the bat
tlefield by M. Kiriloff, one of the As
sociated Press Russian correspondents
and sent to Mukden for transmission
just before the correpondent was shot
through the lung:
“This morning around Liao Yang
guns thundered unceasingly. The
heights forming a semi-circle around
the city were dotted with jets of flame
and little black and white clouds. The
spectacle was clearly visible from the
water tower of Liao Yang. The Rus.
elan left alone was not engaged.
"At 7 a. m. the correspondent rode
to the Russian center, where the Jap
anese were concentrated in an effort
to break through and climbed the
neighboring heights following a de
tachment sent to relieve the skirmish
ers who had been covering the battery
commanded by Pokotiloff, one of the
heroes of Kiulienleng. ..The Japanese
according to custom, were snemng
places where they believed the Russian
reserves located. Before the corre
spondent could reach the battery he
had to cross a danger zone of 150
yards, projectiles falling and burst
ing on it until the very ground seem
ed to quiver with wrath.
"There was a touching scene when
the skirmishers were reached. A Rus
sian soldier met a brother whom he
had last seen in their native village.
There were joyous greetings and a
talk of news from home. Then each
went his way and settled to the work
of firing. The Japanese fire was spas
modic. Their bullets sang like birds
as they sped overhead and the Rus
sians cracked jokes about it. Two
hours later the correspondent reach
ed the battery and found that Poko
toloft and Captain Tasroff had been
killed. Captain Tasroff was in charge
of the battery. His quiet courtesy
recalled the hero of one of Count Tol.
stoi’s novels. Fifty yards away was
a splendid looking gunner, whose duty
It was to record the success or failure
of each shot, the grim song of death,
with deadly messengers hurling all
around him, but the Russian gunner
atood erect and utterly without heed
ing the danger to which he was ex
posed.
“The Russian officers had not eaten
anything since the previous day, and
the correspondent shared with them
what provlsiaons he had. The taste
of food caused them to realize the in
tensity of their hunger. Prudence urged
the correspondent to leave the spot
but he was fascinated.”
Here the message ended. The cap
tain sent forward the correspondent's
message with the notation:
“The correspondent was an ontlmeL
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ast in Tiis work, gained" universal re
spect and sympathy. He was shot
through the right Lung while standing
by our battery and fell back suffering
Intense agony, the blood spurting from
his mouth. Yet his devotion to duty
enabled him to overcome his suffer
ings. He Insisted on being placed on
• horse ao that he could get to Liao
Yang. It took five hours to cover
the 0 1 / a miles to Liao Yang. When
he reached there M. Kiriloff was so
exhausted and weak from the loss of
blood that we got him into a hospital.
He asked me to complete his message
for him. lam a soldier and no writ
er, but I will say that after the awful
fight today we are still holding our po.
•itions. Japanese bodies bestrew all
the heights. Their losses must run
Into the tens of thousands. We have
lot 5,000 thus far. A shrapnel shell
burst two paces from General Stan
ley. The general was slightly wound
ed in the leg.”
Strikes In Russia.
When strikes occur, there is no
delay in dealing with them. Troops
are mobilized at once. The printers
in Moscow, for example, struck last
autumn. The strikers marched in
procession along a few streets, clam
oring for shorter hours. They com
plained that they had been com
pelled to work overtime and that no
compensation had been given for
the extra labor. General Trepor,
chief of police, issued a notice that
any man refusing to return to work
would be excluded forever from
Moscow. This stopped the move
ment. Such notices have stopped
similar movements elsewhere.
World’s W T ork.
THE FLY AS A BAROMETER.
“Fine day, isn’t it?” I remarked
as I hade a friend good morning in
the market house, where he con
ducts a meat stand. “Yes,” he re
plied, “but it is certain to rain be
fore the day is over.”
Asked how he could he so confi
dent when the sky was apparently
clear and the sun shining so bright
ly, he called my attention to the
flies. “You see them clinging to the
beef?” he explained. “Well, in dry
weather the electric fans serve to
keep the flies away from fresh meat,
but the instant the atmosphere be
comes affected by an approaching
shower these insects begin to stick
to the meat so tightly that it is al
most absolutely impossible to drive
them olf. Our fans are made to re
volve at full speed, and in addition
we resort to fly brushes. But even
with all these precautions some of
the little winged pests cling to the
beef with a tenacity that is astound
ing. When this occurs, we know
that it will rain, and it never fails.
Just watch and see if it is not cor
rect. The fly is the best barometer
in all the world.”—Pittsburg Dis
patch.
Th« Money Order Busineee.
Over $1,000,000 a day is being
paid into the postoflices for money
orders. If the average time between
the purchase and the cash.ng of a
money order is ten days the govern
ment holds an average balance of
$10,000,000 of the people’s money—
a balance with an earning power of
about $500,000 dollars a year.