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)N GAZETTE,
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Ube tEttton (Payette
Published Weekly
The Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietors
JOHN L. HERRING, Editor and Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
•nail.matter of the second class. *
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County Georgia
LEANING IN THE YOKE.
THE ZIG-ZAG LINE.
The three-hundred-and-fifty-mile battle line
through a corner of Belgium, across Northern
and Eastern France, to the border of Switzer
land, has been compared by some writer to the
course of a stream through a meadow. The
course was constantly varied according to the
resistance encountered, until it is marked by
loops and curves and sharp indentations.
After the German army retreating from be
fore Paris made a successful stand along the
hills of Champagne and the mountains of the
Vosges and after the German dash for Calais
was checked along the Yser, the line of battle
was fairly straight. Beginning at Westende on
the Belgian coast, it turned Southward to the
river Oise; thence curved East to Verdun and
thence Southward to the three corners of France
Alsace and Switzerland.
But during the late fall and through the win
ter there have been many struggles for vantage
Bill Jones had the finest yoke of oxen to be
found in forty miles of wiregrass territory. They
were big, sturdy, brindled fellows; their mus
cles stood out like whipcords and when it came
to a pull, they could beat a successful politician
and a mustard plaster combined. Bill had tried
them on divers and sundry occasions and he was
wont to affirm, as he bit off a chew of plug, that
they could "pull h—11 ofT the hinges.”
But Bill’s pride had a fall, as pride usually
has. For some unaccountable reason, known
only to oxenology, one of those oxen got it into
his head that the other was trying to pull him
over to the wrong side of the road. All he knew
was to pull, so he braced his feet against his
mate and set his weight on the side of the yoke.
The mate did not propose to be pulled and haul
ed around in any such manner so he took a brace
likewise, and there they were.
The best team of oxen in four adjoining coun
ties was ruined. Where before they could pull
anything that had one end loose, now they
could pull nothing. A one-horse wagonload of
good resolutions couldn’t be moved four miles
by them during the day. The minute they were
yoked up they took a dead set against each oth
er and instead of pulling on the load pulled
against themselves.
They were rapidly losing flesh, and seeing
the day fast approaching when he would have
no oxen left, Bill turned them out on the juicy
wiregrass for a few weeks and then killed them
both for beef.
Those oxen were big fools, were they not,
and deserved their fate? They were. And
there are plenty of their kind walking around
on two legs that the world would be better if
points, the Germans winning here and the Allies
there, the French defensive being bent in by a they could be killed and sold for beef. We said
German salient and the German line indented
where the French had the local balance of mil
itary power. The main thing has been to get
ready for the spring; to hold a point from which
a blow could be struck when field operations
opened up. “Exactly as a foliage which will not
be put on the bough for some weeks to come,
has boon preparing in the buds, the expected
unfolding of vast military efforts, due presently
throughout this field of war, has been prepared
so far as the capacities of skilled commanders
could avail.”
But the period of preparation has not been
idle. During the past two months there have
been not less than 250 and perhaps more than
300 engagements involving infantry assaults at
one place or another along this line without tak
ing artillery duels into account. The season
has been bitterly cold, but this with the storms
and sleet and mud and slush has not dampened
the ardor of either side. Briefly stated, the sit
uation when hostilities are almost ready to open
is:
The Belgians are held back by Ostend on the
coast, but to the South Ypres is a strong inden
ture in the German lines. Still further South,
Lille enables the Germans to drive a wedge at
LaBassce, but at Arras, a little further along,
the French have the advantage. The Germans
are strongly fortified from Roye to Noyon and
are here nearest to Paris. At Soissons the
French are apparently impregnable, but at
Rheims, nearby, the Germans continue to press
them strongly. At Verdun the French position
juts far out into the German lines, but South of
this the Germans from Jjetz still hold the wedge
they thrust last autumn clear to the Meuse. At
Pont-a-Mousson the French have driven far
toward Muelhausen, but again at Saarburg the
Germans hold a peninsula in French territory.
At Donon the French hold another advanced
position but just to the South of it the Germans
again hold French territory. The line ends at
Thann, the French promontory of power in
Alsace.
During the recent fighting it is the Allies that
have been driving their wedges vigorously and
from their vantage points the most of the en
gagements have been reported, especially along
the Eastern front and in the Vosges and Cham
pagne. The French have won some territory in
Alsace and continue to gnaw at The rear of the
German force at St. Mihiel. At this point the
German communications are in peril because of
their advanced position along the narrow valley
which we have explained in a previous article
The French have also captured some strong
defensive positions covering Altkirch and Muel
hausen and appear to have been successful in
a majority of engagements in the Argonne for
ests. Should they be enabled to turn the line
from Champagne to Pont-a-Mousson into an un
broken salient, with Verdun in the center, they
would be in a position to make the Germans’
position on the Oise dangerous when the wea
ther permits extensive field operations.
Meanwhile, the Belgians and English have
not been idle. Foot by foot the gallant men
under King Albert have been winning back the
territory from which they were dr'ven and the
English victory at Nuevo Chapelle is perhaps
the most important since the Germans stopped
at the Yser. This in brief is the outline of the
immense front, (as long as from Tifton to Nash
ville, Tenn.) on which 7,000,000 men will fight
for their nations’ lives with the coming of spring.
That twelve-ycar-old Brookfield school boy
yfito has saved enough to purchase a town lot
and is going to cultivate his land, is setting an
example which his fellow schoolmates every
where would do well to follow. This youngster
not only learned to save, but he has also
Bed where to put his savings. Whether he
aes.to make his home in Tift county or
ne elsewhere, no one need feel
Dorminy, as ainon, becomes
jUdrip'hls community. Hehasalrea Uy.won
• ' ' ‘ties by starting right.
something the other day about the four-legged
chicken that pulled itself in two trying to walk
both ways. Bill Jones’ oxen were just another
example of hard-headed contrariness, combined
with darn foolishness.
An ox has a forehead that bends in instead of
bending out. It is concave instead of convex.
Yet there are plenty of men whose foreheads
bulge like Moorish battlements that haven't any
more common sense than Bill Jones’ oxen. They
just let their better nature and tlieir worse na
ture pull against each other until, instead of
traveling on and helping pull the common load,
they just stand right still and finally somebody
chunks them on the junk-heap, where such
trash belongs.
Then, some churches are that way. Instead
of pulling right along together in harmony,
some of the members get cross and begin lean
ing in the yoke, and they exhaust their strength
in pulling against each other when they could
do good team work if they would just forget
their foolishness and walk right along.
Then, there are some communities worse in
the oxenology than individuals and churches.
The citizens get to leaning in the yoke, idioti
cally trying to pull each other across the road,
and they keep it up until the town dies as dead
as Hannibal. Did you ever live in a community
that did such foolish things? If you did, what
did you do to remedy the bad conditions?
Is your forehead concave or convex? Are
you leaning in the yoke and pulling against your
neighbor instead of helping him amble along
with the whole load? If you are, forget it; else
providence will come along some day and you
will go into the discard, where you belong.
SUGGESTIONS FOR OAT GROW
ERS
Cultivation—The heavy rains if
the past winter Jiave packed the
ground and fait sown oats are email.
As soon as the soil is dry enough
run over the oats with a weeder, or
section harrow, to loosen the surface
soil. About ten days later give the
oats a second cultivation with the
section harrow, or with the weeder.
This will let air into the roots of the
plants, help to make plant food in
the soil available and will conserve
the moisture stored up by the winter
rains.
Fertilizing—On soils that will make
less than 20 bushels of corn per acre
it will pay to use a top dressing of 75
to 100 pounds of nitrate of soda per
acre, which should be applied just be
fore the oats begin to "boot” or
“joint,” or about 50 days befbre har
vesting.
Harvesting—Oats are best harvest
ed with a binder. A binder will har
vest 8 acres a day, or will easily har
vest from 80 to 100 acres during a
season. The binder will soon pay
for itself where as much as 40 acres
of grain is planted each year. Where
the binder is used, adjust to make
small bundles to facilitate curing and
threshing.
Where a binder is not available, or
where the area is too small to justify
the use of this machine, the crop may
be harvested with a mower. When
harvesting for grain, begin to cut as
soon as 76 per cent of the field has
turned yellow; when harvesting for
hay, cut while the grain ia in the milk
stage. Oat hay is equal in feeding
to the best timothy hay.
In moist, damp climates it is best
to put only four to six bundles in a
shock. Set the bottom of the bund
les well apart, and press the heads
of the bundles together. Go over
the field every day and after every
rain and set all shocks that have fall
en down.
Marketing—Where oats are to ne
.marketed, they should be thorough
ly recleaned and placed in new sacks.
Feed oats are usunlly marketed with
either 4 or 5 bushels to the sack. The
same weight of groin should be put
in each sack. The sacks should be
sewed, not tied.
Feeding—The high value of oats
for feeding horses and mules is gen
erally well understood. They are es
pecially valuable to feed to colts and
other young growing stock. A grain
ration of half oats and half corn
makes an excellent feed for work
stock.
Seed—Each farmer should at least
save his own seed oats, as he can then
avoid the danger of infecting his
field with obnoxious weeds and grass
es. Native grown seed ore more re
liable than seed brought in from dis
tant sections. H. E. Savely,
Agriculturist and Field Agent
THE UNION ROAD.
When the Indian journeyed, he followed the
route the crow (lies. The Indian trails were later
used as guides for the white man’s roads be
cause they were the most direct, offered fewer
natural obstacles and were the easiest establish
ed and maintained.
From Macon south, there runs the great wa
tershed between the Oemulgee river on the east
and the Thronateeskn on the west, later be
tween the Alapaha and the Withlacoochee on
the east and the Tlironateeska, (which empties
into the Apalachicola) until the tributaries of
the Suwance are touched.
Along this mighty shed an Indian trail ran,
and along this trail the white man built his
towns, which grew to be cities. And from town
to town ran a road, and because it united the
counties and their county seats, it was called
“The Union Road.
From Macon, through Perry, the county seat
of Houston, through Vienna, the county seat of
Dooly, it followed the watershed beneath the
whispering pines by where Ashburn, Tifton and
Adel now stand to Troupville. in Lowndes, and
then on south through Florida.
The Union road was a tribute to the wood
craft of the Indian. Later, the most modern in
volitions of the white man, the steam locomotive
and the motor car, brought to the ability of the
aborigine more testimonials.
When the route for the Georgia Southern and
Florida railway from Macon to Florida was
sought, the surveyors followed the Union road.
Within twenty miles north of Tifton the. railway
crossed this road seventeen times. (Of course
those crossings were eliminated.) The trailway
civil engineers paid another tribute to the In
dian.
Still later, when the National Highway w
being mapped out south of Macon, it also fol
lowed tills Union road, because it was proved
by competitive test that the route was best An
other tribute to the Indian
This is the route proposed for the Dixie High
way. It is the easiest route; the most direct
•oute • the route proved by test to be the best.
It will bo no.wtperimentLtt.tii.established and
already bjiilts|:Ayhen seekingiMfouteinto Flor-
iconsider any other?
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BUY AT HOME
From Nashville Herald:
The attention of the Herald has
been directed to the fact that the
Woman’s Missionary Society of Nash
ville has been duped into patronizing
a mail order house. The ladies have
undertaken to Beil a great quantity
of merchandise for a mail order
house, in direct opposition to home
merchants who are entitled to the
business.
The Nashville Chamber of Com
merce will probably take some action
at its next regular meeting. An effort
should be^ made to reason with the
ladies, and show them the folly of
patronizing mail order houses. It
seems that, upon investigation, it was
found that nearly every family in the
city is enlisted in this great scheme
of the mail order people, through the
ladies, to reap a rich harvest of Nash
ville dollars.
Tho Herald has been asked to call
tho attention of tho good ladies of
this noble organization to the fact
that ovory Nashville dollar should be
kept at home—if possible. When
you order goods from a mail ord
house you are doing the local dealer
a great injustice.
Think about it, ladies, and let one
of your mottoes be, “Patronize Home
Industry.”
Invigorating to tho Palo and Sickly
The Old Standard renerat atTvnzthenin* tonic,
GROVE’S TASTHLKSS chill TONIC, drive* ou(
Malaria.enricheMhe blood.and build a up the aya<
Griffin News and Sun: Tho farmers
of Tift county arc having regular
meetings and discusing farm work
and how to better their conditions.
Last Saturday at their meeting they
were to discuss the operation of
farmers* exchange. A farmers* ex
change should be established in ev
ery county in the state, which would
enable the farmers to get better pi
ces for their farm products, and
would also open a market for any
thing they could raise.
WINTER
Prof. Frankland demon-
strafes that COD LIVER OIL
generates more body-heat
than anything else.
In SCOTT’S EMULSION th.
pore oil ia so prepared that tho
blood profit* from every drop,
while It fortifie* throat and I unfa.
i Liver, as that organ la usually at
wrong, you can. blame It •
\ ’ For a Torpid Liver You Need
NE
The Remedy That Puts New Life In the Liver
and Regulates the Bowels.
A Mver that Is torpid exercises a demoralizing Influence all through the body. It hampers the
ktdneyn In their work, clogs up the bowel*, throws bilious impurities into the blood and interfere*
with digestion. A person in this condition is pale, sallow and discouraged, feels bad. looks bad and his
general condition is bad. Food digests poorly, bowels mostly constipated, suffers from dlxxy spells.
*o sit around and do nothing In place of his usual hustling energy
Herbine chunges all this by starting the Interna! machinery into activity again. Its reviving
t the Torpid Liver is prompt and thorough. The Stomach and Kidneys feel its stimulating in-
The Bowels are purged of costive conditions and regular dally operations re-eatabliahed. As.
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ST. LOUIS, MO.
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BROOKS PHARMACY COMPANY
ALONG ALBANY AVENUE
When the trees begin to shed their
leaves at the threshold of a severe
prolonged winter, casting a gloom
over the surrounding country busi
ness depression, loss of capital and
ambition, opportunities unavailable,
degradation and poverty prevailing
with but the hope of future compen
sation and advantages, drifting with
the tide, the atmosphere as well as
you chances dull and heavy.
The days are of short duration,
sunshine is aim and weak, the skies
are hazy and cloudy, the bleak, cold,
frosty winds whistling through the
timbered forest in mournful, dreary
nd of agony, similar to the sor
rowful moaning of the bereaved
mourners at the sepulcher of the
departed loved ones. The tempest
raging, blizzards, storms and hurri
canes, causing destruction, devasta
tion, to lives and property. Floods,
famines, disease and hurricanes,
causing destruction, devastation, to
lives and property. Floods, famines,
disease, wrecks, conflagrations, earth
quakes, wars and panics and ull the
elements of torture and destruction,
threatening to put their power and
authority into effect, defying the su
premacy ofh umble humans, crowding
him into a narrow space for shelter
and protection, guided by an unseen
hand, controlled by an unseen pow
erful, merciful being.
As you listen to the piercing
shrieks of the tempest, the breaking
of the brittle leaves and falling tim
ber, your thoughts travel swiftly re
calling many incidents of fife, re
minding one of the decaying bran
ches, prostrated trees, dead leaves
and flowers that similar to those ob
stacles in the mercies of the storm
likewise you shall perish.
The floods subside, storms cease,
at the early peals of thunder, spring
has come. The birds sing praises to
the Master in their pure original mel
odious tones. The tiees, buds and
flowers begin to bloom. Nature has
taken a new lease on life. A wonder
ful transformation has taken place.
A new hope, encouragement, pros
pects of good crops, better conditions,
brighter future, all create a more
determined effort of usefulness
this life’s struggle. And with the
spring comes the resurrection of our
Savior. Easter comes in the spring.
After all nature has gone to sleep
during a long winter period. The ro
ses bloom at Easter, the day that our
Savior has arisen and redeemed lost
mankind.
The Allies intend cracking Easter
eggs at Constantinople. There will
bo many skulls cracked also .
If Russia gains Constantinople and
the warmer water ports they can
supply the world with wheat. There
will be no necessity for Tift county
farmers to raise wheat. England will
plant cotton in Palestine and Jeru
salem. American tourists will rusti
cate in the shadow of the mount of
Olives.
The Allies expect to be in Berlin
bv May. And in June they will have
all the saurkraut and bologne sau
sage demolished in Germany. Rus
sia will claim all of the land from the
Arctic to the Mediterranean Sea.
France will claim all of the country
as fas as Munich and the Bavarian
beer breweries and the wine country
of the Rhine. England will claim the
earth with Chula thrown in. The Pan
ama Canal will be used as a duck
pond for Japan.
If I had a billion dollars I would
lend one half to Germany to feed the
Poor. Smnda.
VANCEVILLE NEWS
We were glad to have a few sun
shiny days like spring if it has turn
ed cold again.
The singing given by Mrs. R. A.
Lawrence Sunday afternoon in hon
or of Miss Ethel Kersqy, was enjoy
ed by all who were present.
Miss Clara Lockeby was the guest
of Miss Effie Mae Bowen Sunday.
Mrs. B. M. Bowen and Mr. and
Mrs. W. A. Doss were the guests of
Mrs. H. L. Gentry Sunday.
The pound supper given by Mr.
and Mrs. D. S. Norman Thursday
ni^ht was enjoyed by a host of
friends.
The prayer meeting at New river
church is progressing nicely every
Sunday night. We would be glad
to have you all come and help us
out.
We had several visitors at our
school Friday afternoon. We were
glad to have Mrs. Stephenson back in
school again after several days* ill
ness.
We are very sorry to hear of Mr.
John Stone’s illness. We wish him
a speedy recovery.
Mr. and Mrs. Lendon Fletcher, of
Chula, were the guests of their grand
mother, Mrs. R. A. Lawrence, for
the week-end.
Our society will meet again Friday
week. Everyone has a cordial in
vitation to attend.
Best wishes for a happy Easter to
the Gazette and all its readers.
School Chums.
If You
are troubled with heartburn, gases sod
a distressed feeling after eating taken
Dyspepsia
Tablet
before and after each meal and you will
obtain prompt relief. Sokionlyby us,26c
Mills Drug Co.
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Ocilla Star: Counties round about
are trying considerable wheat this
year. Tifton is ^oing to put in a
small flour mill, and we understand*
that Mr. Marion Dixon is thoroughly
overhauling his mill in anticipation of
a larger supply than usual. When
we get to supplying our own needs
for food stuffs we can claim to be
prospering, but not till then.
TIFT COUNTY SINGING CONVEN
TION
We want every class that wishes
to take part in the convention to meet
with us tho 4th Sunday in May at .
Hickory Springs and join the conven-1
tion and give us the name of the I
class and who will lead that class. Al-1
so, that day wo want to settle on a I
place to hold our convention and a I
day when it shall be held. j
We want every class to bring a I
small sum to help pay for our min- :
utes. Keep this in mind, please. j
F. Ross, President, I
Tift County Singing Convention.
Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy.
From a small beginning the sale
and use of this remedy has extended
to all parts of the United State** and
to many foreign countries. When
you have need of such a medicine
give Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy a
trial and you will understand why .1
has become so popular for coughs,
colds and croup. Obtainable every
where. a dv.
DAMPIER FOUND GUILTY '
Nashville, Ga., March 26.—Gordon 1
Dumpier, on trial in the superior I
court here today, charged with em-;
bezzling funds fropi the Southern ex
press company, was found guilty this i
afternoon. The jury recommended 1
that he be punished as if for a mis-:
demeanor. He will bo sentenced next
week. ,
CL yfoeademe
c2o> tyfonwn
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when your head aches constantly, you are nervous, de
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Buttalo, N. Y.—“I am writing to let you know how much your
medicine has done for me. I failed terribly during the last winter
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The Change of Life.
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Mow To Give Quinine To ChUdrcr.
ntHRlLUfStsfhstrade-mark name »ireo to
Improved Quinine. It is a Tasteless Syro p, pir:
FARM LOANS MAI PROMPTLY
Through DIRECT CONNECTION with
those having ample and READY funds
I am now in position to make ORIG
INAL or RENEWAL farm loans on Ir
win and Tift county farms at cur
rent rates of interest, on five or
ten years time, and at the lowest
rate of commission offered by any
one in this section.
Bring your deeds, make apollca-
t Lon, and HOLD YOUR COTTON.
II. S. MURRAY
Golden Building. TIFTON, GEORGIA.