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TIFTON, BERRIEN CO., GEORGIA. FRIDAY, AUGUST 2. 1895.
YOL. 5-N,0. 10.
BILL ARP IS WORRIED.
Atlanta Constitution.
It takes a long time for big things
to settle down so that we may get
the truth and the facts. 1 was rumi
nating about this in connection with
the battle of Manassas that was
fought thirty-four years ago last
Sunday. This is one time that the
day of the week and the day of the*
month correspond with the anniver
sary of that battle. Thirty-four
years have passed and this genera
tion is just beginning to understand
what the^ war was about. Northern
histories have been so partial and
one-sided that our young folks have
been astonished that our people
fought so hard and so long with so,. ,, T , ., . , ,
f , „ _ . long after I read that there was
little to fight for. 13at the truth is
gradually dawning upon the nation.
Southern histories have been written
and introduced into southern schools,
and our children are becoming our
defenders. I see that Mrs. Susan
PendletOD Lee, the gifted daughter
of General Pendleton, has written a
history of the United States, and has,
without reserve, told the story of the
late civil war, and the United Con
federate Veterans, in their - great
meeting at Houston, have as fearless
ly indorsed it. In a few years more
the south will be vindicated, but it
takes a long time. Eighty years haye
passed since Napoleon figured in Eu
rope, and'even now historians differ
widely about events and motives con
cerning him. Marshal Ney was shot
in f.815, or he died in North Caroli
na in 1845, nobody knows which.
Eor several years we have been
waiting for the truth about the Ha
waiian Islands, but it has not yet
been written from a non-partisan
standpoint. Conservative people
don’t know what to believe. The
.Missionaries used to tell us that the
Sandwich Islanders were cannibals
fifty years ago, but had all become
Christians, and had schools and
churches like we have. Later ac
counts say that political schemers
and unprincipled scoundrels from
account about Tavares being attack
ed by rattlesnakes and the people
had to turn out with guns and rocks
uud thrash poles, and they killed
over 400 in the streets one Sunday
morning and in two days had killed
over 1000 and the people were ter
ror- stricken. The article went into
many details and told of a woman
who put her infant child in a tub
while she was washing in another
tub, and a big rattler got his head
over the edge of the tub and she had
to kill him with her battling stick.
I asked a Tavares mail about it and
he was amazed. “Why,” said he,
“it is a lie—a lie without any foun
dation. Some lying reporter made
it up for a sensation.” And not
yel
low fever in Tampa and the people
were flying from the city. I was in
Tampa that very day and knew it
was a lie. Of course the paper took
it all back the next day and said it
.was a mistake, but there is no telling
the damage that such mistakes do.
If a reporter who is running around
for news gets up a he for a sensation
he should be turned off instanter.
call it. I confess that I cau not see
anything wrong or immodest about
it when the dress is modest. It all
depends upon that I saw two
young girls in Tampa ride up the
street and Might at the postoffice
and get their mail and mount again
and ride away and nobody thought
searched diligently and fouiid one
old man over there who said his
grandfather told him he saw four
oue time—four 1 women armed with
spears, astride of horses—but he says
from his best information these were
a few dusky slave women who escap
ed from their captors and fled far
it anything wrong or immodest. I into the interior and built a fort to
am sure it never occurred to me, and
I was obliged to admire them and
the grace of their evolutions. 1 don’t
think that married women who are
nettled, as they say, nor very large
200-pounders, should ride them.
There are many Jthings that young
girls may do that their mothers
should not. As to the dress, we arc
all creatures of prejudice, and the
costume of the country we live in
has much to do with our prejudice.
In Italy and Switzerland and Anda
lusia the grown up maidens all diess
in short skirts and show the ankle
protect themselves, and there, in the
course of time, they all died. This
Amazon story is all a myth, but if it
was not, it does not follow that our
men will ever get so low as to let the
women do the fighting. And now
there is a big controversy about the
old woman who killed her husband.
No, 1 wouldn’t bang her. It was an
awful crime for a woman to do, lint
1 wouldn’t hang any woman. But
look how many men have killed
their wives or sweethearts in the last
six months. It is getting as com
mon as suicides. What is the matter
with the country, and who will pro-
and a pretty cross-laced hose above
it, and it is all right over there, tect the girls when we are gone ?
I’ve seen the pictures of these pretty
maidens and like their costume, but
it would be shocking over here. I i
will make another confession. I can i
Bill Ann.
SIN HATH COMES AGAIN.
knocked from the track with a bro
ken leg. Though Mr. Tift was in no
way to blame, he had the wounded
man carried to his home, called the
physician at his own expense, fed his
family until lie was able to work and
relieved him of a large debt,the price
of a home which Mr. Tift had pre
viously sold the gentleman.
This was done by one of these
dreaded, northerners and done to a
southern man. But where,the result
of Mr. Tifts energy will end, I am
unable to see. Already a city has al
most magically sprang into existence
by it, and it is making an Eden of
the country around the city. Be it
remembered, that Mr. Tift pays the
highest tax of any one man in the
county and that those who
have located in and around Tifton
greatly lighten the burden of taxation
from the native Berricnite.
There are those of our people who
are opposed to emigration, especially
disdain the idea of inducing yankecs .
as they are termed, to come among us,
lienee the reference to the Tift brotli-
wliicli I have made without their
And here is the silver question
that has been the subject of more ex
aggeration than will ever be forgiven
in the day of Judgment—more crim
ination and slander and suppression
of the truth. And nothing is yet
settled about it. When ive see such
statesmen as Morgan and Vest and
Harris and Daniel and George and
Blackburn and Crisp and Black and
| McLaurin and a host of others on
one side, and as many notable men
on the other sjde, what right has a
common man to jump up and say he
knows all about it and that those
who don’t think with him are fools.
But I reckon the next election will
settle it, and I wish it was over, for
the people are getting mighty tired
of the whole business.
see no good reason--save custom
why ladies should not ride a horse
like a man if they ride at all. It is
certainly the safer way. I can’t see
any good reason why a woman should
not practice medicine among her
own sex. In fact, I think they
should have the . preference, and if
some enterprising woman should es
tablish a female medical college it
would be liberally patronized,
time is near at hand when the
men will have to run the machine or
it will not be done. The time is past
ers,
Scaurs, July ‘24.—Now since the
Midsummer fair attained success, and
the Gazette has laid aside its knee
pants and donned its trousers, and
the corn crop is about made, the like
of which has not been known in Ber
rien county for several years, we
have great reason to be thankful.
Were it possible, our grand old coun
ty ought to come together in one
vast assemby and with hearts filled
The; with gratitude, join their voices and
wo-! sing, “Praise God from Whom all
consent and for which I hope to gain
their pardon.
More in the future,
.). J. SlXEATU.
No More Free Seed.
Washington
Blessings Flow."
for confining women to the fireside
when there is no support for them
there. Paul spoke for his own time
and its customs—-not for ours—when
he said that long hair is the glory of
woman. It was worn long, but now
our country have plundered that un
happy land, and reduced those na
tives to beggars and subjection. And
now we read that another set are
arming vessels to drive (lie first set
out under the pretense of helping
the natives. 1 wonder what are the
facts in the case?
And what about Cuba? Who
knows? The prevailing idea is that
Spain is a tyrant and has got those
Cubans by the throat, and they want
And there is another question that j it is done up and secured with hair-
comes up periodically and has re- pins. Who ever saw a painting of
contly come up again. Does educa-1 Eve or of Mary Magdalene or any
tion lessen crime? Some jihilan-1 Jewish woman of that day with her
tliropists are becoming concerned ; hair done up in a wad on the back of
about this, and well they may, for | Her head. How could Mary have
the statistics, of every state in the J wiped the Saviour’s feet with her
union establishes the fact that edu- Bair if it had been a switch or was
cation of the Kind the pupils are done up with pins. Paul no doubt
getting increases crime—not a little, was fascinated with woman’s
but immensely, and yet we goon and
on with it and the clamor comes for
to govern
more and more. Just look over the
daily papers and see how the record
| of crime is increasing—not misde
meanors, but the most awful crimes
not only away off in Ohio, but
themselves and set up a righfc he ' e in Georgia. But I for
bear. I wrote this all up two years
ago and have the figures from the
upproved reports of the penitentiary
Yes, indeed, ours is a God-Iavorcd
land. Gonial climate, jugular sea
sons, fertile soil and healthful ami
happy homes. How fortunate that
it pleased the great Giver of all good
tilings that our lots wore cast in the
sunny south, and just liow it is
that some of our people, who seem
to have great big hearts, aglow with
love for humanity, can ivisli to close
their gates against emigration, I fail
to see. We have land enough and
some to spare to those who were so
much less fortunate than ourselves—
those who were born in the bleak
north, where extremes in heat and
resBcs j cold come in regular succession. Wo
as we all are. Even some of our j are commanded in holy script to bo
notable men admired long hair so ! not slow to entertain strangers, for
much that they wear their own hair ■ thereby some have tmtertainod an-
dowu upon their shoulders. Joseph gels unawares.” Of course, we do
Henry Lumpkin and L. Q. C. Lamar j nol expect any of the angelic host
wore theirs very long and so docs] as homescokcrs here, but wo do look
Dr. Hawthorne and Roger A. Pryor,(for high grade gentlemen. We al
and I don’t suppose there is any | ready have a few samples of northern
Word comes from
that the seed division of the agricul
tural department will be abolished
oil October 1. Secretary Morton has
ishued an order stating that the prac
tice of distributing seed broadcast at
government expense will be discon
tinued, during the fiscal year of 1896,
and that the service of the employes
engaged in the work will not be re
quired after October 1. Accordingly
Mathias E. Fagan, of Illinois,chief of
the divison at $2,000 a year, and the
entire force of employes will he drop
ped from the rolls.
Secretary Morton’s action is based
on a ree'ent dicision of Mr. Oluoy,
flu* attorney general, regarding the
class of seed pnrchaseable by the de
partment. The latter hold in effect
that the secretary of agriculture was
empowered to purchase only those
seed described in section 527 of the
revised statutes, viz: rare and uncom
mon to the country or such as can be
made more profitable by frequent
changes train one part of our country
to another.
Under this official construction all
harm in it, even though they were j
not Nazarenes. A great man can uf-1
ford it, for it does give him u “Ju-1
people among us, in whom we are
well pleased. I have in my mind
this moment, a family of northern
who have been in Berrien
republican form of government like
ours. But a knowing man, who has
been there, told me that those Cu
bans were mostly negroes of the most an(1 t j )(J p r ; 8onfi atl( j t „ e j a jj g aiK i L | le j piter tonans” appearance. “He j people
degraded kind, and were not fit to vvor khoiises from Massachusetts to! shakes his ambrosial locks and gives (county long enough to undergo
govern themselves; and all this rum- ]Texas, and they are all alike, so far Bie nod." (every possible test and so far as my
pus Was being raised by a few HIi- u8 increase is concerned. Hadn’t we: -^ s i° women talking in church, I knowledge extends, I do not know of
blistering Americans who want to better stop and think about this and hope they will not make a business i a single instance in which they failed
capture the island and divide out the j a {- e a lesson from Prussia as to the lllJ b w . e could say the same of acquit themselves like men of a high
offices and get rich off the Sl1 g ar kind of education that will diminish some men we know. But if she type. I refer to the, honorable fain-
plantations that the Spaniards aro crime? Who shall the good and talks well and makes the world bet- j ily of 'lifts, I very well remember,
cultivating, there was a big fuss I virtuous girls marry nowadays?, Bo’, let her talk. She teaches our several years ago, Capt. II. 1L Tift
(Raised and lots of sympathy extended jwhere are the young men who are children in the public schools, and | planted the little saw mill at tho place
about an editor whom the Spaniards; worthy of them ? There are at least why not in lli» church? I lie fact is, where tile old union road crossed the
had confined in Moio castle, but forty young marriageble girls in this; if woman wa? allowed to be our law-,1!. & W., that we all thought his
Homer Reed says he found but the j'town, of good families, who would J Maker tor on* 4 session slie would wake time was quite limited, and that lie
Other day that the editor was a coal- make good wives, but where are the "P the nation on the whiskey busi-
black coon who had been very scan- young men to whom the 3 fathers ness, wouldn’t she? Then let her
dalous in his paper. And so the would entrust them ? There are not make progress in every good work.
question conies up, “Is Cuba worth ten—are there five ? Marriage is at We know' very well that it is her pluck of aXotbern man can do In the
helping.' a discount—not because these girls natural desire to marry arid be a. south. Nor has his energies been
David wrote, “Tsaid in mine haste iirc f iist or extravagant or ride a mother, but if there is no piospect! bent in the direction of
of tho bids for furnishing seed re
cently submitted were rejected. The
change {(^officially estimated to involy
a saving of about 1200,000 a year.
The force now at work numbers
about a dozen, though at the height
of the season, in the spring and early
summer, it frequently reaches several
hundred.
‘•Cotton will go to 8 emits by Jan
uary,” says a prominent factor to a
Telegraph reporter yesterday. “Good
staple is soiling at nearly 7 cents to
day, but will dropoff by the opening
of the season to about fit or therea
bouts. This fall will be caused by
the fact that all the new cotton will
be what is called •green’ by the trade.
‘Green’ cotton always weighs heavy
and by tho time it reaches the I.iv-
could upt live in the south, much less j crpool market lias fallen olf about
make any money. But he lias clear-; fifty pounds to the bale, ami in eon-
ly demonstrated what the energy and
but because the young
a
men
all men are liars,” and the old Scotch
preacher took that for his text and arc , generally no account, or dissipa- tuc missionary society and
of that what must she do? Go to j alone. X<
e direction of his pocket
sequence of this shrinkage in weight
the opening price is always depressed.
But by January the people may look
for is cent cotton. The fact that the
a short one and the amount
; crop is
the
nasi " ,0 I, , ,
ion hand smaller loan usual
will
man in the county
- . • - , , fnrnishod more of our people wiui| t hi 8 pr0 mi se 0 f a hotter price.”—Ma-
remarked. ‘Ah David, David, if ye ted or can’t support a wife. Some sick, you may say. Unit wont boy igood, honorable, paying employment j p ( ,n Telegraph.
had lived till no v ye might have said 0 ( them will spree all night long and bread nor clothing. I heard a j than the l ifts, and no seeker of be-1 -** —
it at your leisure, me moil. go to a dance the next night with aj preacher say, “Would yott make Am-i novolenco was never turned from: " " ^ck*oovui«'Via.
Are we a nation of liars? Read respectable girl. j azons of your women?” There were ,• . w , . j- timveiwn trunMni»tonu. time with buiuv*
the papers and say! Who knows Dow many young married women ; no Amazons and Amazonia had been j 1 / '. ' , I ihtw^ttot'eouu
wliat to believe? While I was in : have separated from their husbands 'stricken from the modern limps, fot|S ent ‘ eail ' tt was Steeling arouna ms j SU»i« , inw’ w H* n Su in^*»> 1 mTi iw a thnt U it
women j tnill, he carelessly got in the way of; nia , or , !lt . „j) that vou ciatuioa ir would ii<».
Florida the other day I read from j or been divorced or abandoned? j neither the country nor the
Tbe.New York Recorder an awful j About that bicycle craze, as they could be found. Humboldt says ho • on# of the. trucks and wtitj
Yours truly.
For sale by Juke W. Paulk,
V. 11. \\H Mi.
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