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THE T1FTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA., FRIDAY, APRIL 7, 1916
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and Tift County Georgia
EACH MAN’S JOB.
That was a valuable piece of information Mr.
J. A. Evans gave the farmers of this section in
his address Wednesday, when he told them that
keeping fields clear of the boll weevil was each
man’s separate problem. 1 ?
Heretofore, the majagfty thought that individ- But the poetry of his soul breathed out through
ual effort would be ofaittle effect upless every his violip.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Homefolks Dance.
“Cheeks like a cherry—cherry like a rose; ’
How I love Lucinda, God Almighty knows.” j
The mellow notes of the violin, the tapping
of the straws were accompanied by the sound of!
tripping feet. Through the open door of the 1
cottage, across the grass-carpete'd valley and!
over the pine-clad hills, bathed in the soft moon-
light, the sounds floated, to set the blood danc
ing; or mellowed to a plaintive sweetness.
With his chair tipped back against the fac
ing of the wide fire-place, from which glowing
pine-logs lighted the scene, the violinist sat,i
his head bent reverently over the centuries-old I
instrument from whose depths he was drawing
the best there is in music. The contour of his
face, the Roman nose and flowing white beard,
formed almost an exact picture of Longfellow.
planter in the sectior^o-operated. Mr. Evans
says this is not the case; that one grower can
keep his fields practically clear of the pest, al
though his neighbors’ fields may be infested.
This because, onedtthe weevil is here, he only
travels in one direction, east, and that with the
wind.
Now each cotton grower can feel assured that,
by vigilance and work, he can reduce the dam
age from the weevil to a minimum without wait
ing for the co-operation of every grower in the
community. Having reduced it to a one-man
problem, with the assurance that effort will be
rewarded, we are relieved of a portion of the
dread of the weevil’s advent.
THE CANNY DUTCH.
Although she has suffered considerably, the
usual fate of neutrals sandwiched between bel
ligerents, there is little probability that Holland
will be proybked into war. She is finding neu
trality too profitable.
Her export business has increased ten-fold,
and everything she has that can float is com
manding a fabulous price. Never in her history
has the little Dutch nation done such , a profita
ble business, and there is good reason to suspect
with both of the warring factions. This she
would lose if she went to war, therefore, Hol
land can safely be counted on to maintain her
neutrality.
Holland has cared or thousands of homeless
Belgians, and many interned of both nations
have been fed by her. Her ships have been sub
marined and sunk by mines, and she has been
obliged to maintain a standing army on her bor
ders since hostilities broke out. But with such
items as these on the debit side, she has made
huge profits out of the war, 'and if she keeps
on will be one of the richest of l’the small nations
in the world before long.
Of the neutrals, Switzerland has been worst
stung. She has no ships.
A LABOR OF LOVE.
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The little sketches appearing in the Gazette
for some time under the title "Saturday Night”
were intended primarily to put into print, by
one who knew them intimately, something of
the home life and customs of the people of South
Georgia thirty to forty years ago, that a record
might be made for posterity before those who
knew and loved them have closed the last page
of the Great Record.
The following letter, from a man in a neigh
boring city, 'who is one of the strongest factors
today in the great development of the South
east,, is written understandingly, for it charac
terizes the sketches as “a labor of love.” Such it
is, for we loved those people and all lthat made
their lives wholesome. What we are tryihg to
do for them is an effort to repay in part the
great debt we owe them.
Here is the letter:
Dear Mr. Herring:
I feel that I want to write and thank- you
for your “Saturday Night” editorials, which
enjoy very greatly, as I know is the case with
your readers generally.
If I may say so, there is so much more in
such editorials than the enjoyment which they
give, and upon the young especially they are
calculated to make an impression for good, the
extent of which can hardly be estimated. When
you say in a recent editorial that "Behind them
they have left a rich legacy in this fair country
of ours, and a posterity that inherited their stur
dy honesty and strict integrity”—when you
wrote this you penned a statement which culti
vates patriotism and appreciation and incites to
emulation.
Your “Saturday Night” editorials mean la
bor for you, but it is a labor of love. No man
can write such things except he be in love with
his task.
Three decades before he had come to thl3
pine-barren wilderness a young man of wealth
and of an old and revered family; his acres were
numbered in thousands and his stock ranged j
many hills. Now the only possessions left him, |
except his family, were the priceless Stradivari
whose curve was tucked beneath his chin and
the trusty rifle which rested on a rack of deer-
antlers above his head. And his skill was re
nowned for one as the other.
The cottage was neatly and substantially
built of the material ready to hand—pine logs,
by the labor of his sons. At the foot of the hill
to the east flowed the Warrior, its waters alive
with fish, its swamp abounding in wild turkey
and deer. Around, for many miles, there was
only the almost trackless pine forest, indis
tinct trails leading to the homes of the nearest
neighbors. It was a goodly land, although a
wild one, in keeping with his own untamed, eag
le spirit to which this man had brought the
ideals of youth.
At his knee, keeping time with bounding
straws to the notes from the bow, sat his son,
one in whom the soul, of the musician dwelt,
as in the father. Even as he taps, the music in
him must find expression, and the “straw-man”
hums:
“I woudn’t marry a weeping girl,
And I’ll tell you the reason why—:
Her nose is always dripping,
And her cheeks are never dry.”
Sitting in a chair tilted back against the fac
ing of one of the doors another son called the
figures of the quadrille, to which the four coup
les were dancing.
. The ladies were the mother and her three
daughters, the youngest just rounding into wo
manhood. From the parent was inherited the
love of music which found ready expression in
the dance. Like the mother, they were grace
ful, their movements, poetry in motion; to watch
them was an inspiration.
For the dance of that day was accounted no
harm among the secular classes. The "church-
folks,” those members of any church, did not
dance at all. They were not asked to by those
who knew, although the younger ones were of
ten invited to homes where dances were held
they were not expected to participate. The
dances of those days were different from those
of today. There was no personal contact except
the mere touching of hands in the swing and
promenade. Certainly, there was nothing im
pious, nothing irreverent in the dance in prog
ress then. No abandon, but the expression in
action of the spirit of music.
The young men gathered for the. Saturday
night dance which had grown to be a custom in
this home had walked many miles, after the
week’s work was over, for the enjoyment that
made weariness forgotten. And for many hours,
until midnight upproached and even youth
grow weary, the dance went on, with chang
ing partners, the inexhaustible repertoire of the
violinist furnishing a variety that never cloyed
Few are left now to remember the scene of
that night long ago. The home is gone, the pine
forest and wiregrass have yielded place to cul
tivated fields; the game is gone, the patriarch
and hunter long since gathered to his fathers
The mother and oldest daughter sleep at old
Kimball; two daughters are settled matrons,
One of the young men of the four dancers has
long since “heard the call” and is numbered
with the most earnest, zealous and efficient lead
ers among the Master’s workers in Wiregrass
Georgia; another before he died was a leader
in financial affairs and n man of means; anoth
er now numbers his farms by the hundred plows
and writes his check in five figures; nnother
was bitten by the newspaper bug. and never
amounted to much.
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Although he laid it on the linotype, the New
York typo who perpetrated the following on
one of the leading New York dallies is said to
have lost his job: "The charge against him sim
ply grew out of an unfortunate theatriial ven
ture. He explained that the iomplainant had
r to beoiroe an aitress anh that her aition
ae to the failure of theatrical plana. Miss
iLacorring|<£hie papers claimed that she
him the mohffjrto forward her interests as
an actress.” *
"What has become of the old-fashioned mothj
er who would not allow her daughter to go aul
tomabiling with a young man at night without J
chaperone?" asks the Leurens Citizen. Why,
dear boy, they are still with us, but you should
ot get them mixed up with the few "other”
who are tangoing while their daughters
almost anything they want to.
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But as we close our eyes the scene comes
again, as of forty years ago—the flickering fire
light, the figures swiftly changing in the meas
ures of the dance, the aged violinist and his pu
pil at his feet. As the vision comes, the noise of
the street outside softens and changes; again
there sounds the mellow tones of the violin, the
rythmic tapping of the straws, the light trip
ping of nimble feet, the sing-song voice calling
the quadrille:
And as we listen, the fiddler raises his head
and smiles; his bow is poised, and the tune
changes to the "good-night” measure:
"Run along, John, or I’ll tell your daddy.
The way you've been a’courtin’."
Editor the Gazette-.—The coun
ty primary is over; people have gone
back to work and all is quiet over
the county. Yet the nomination of
the officers, in whom we should be
most interested, is yet to be made.
The time has come when men muat
stand for something, be something,
do something. For what a man
really is, himself, and not what he
has done nor what he or his people
have, must count. The time has
come when we need men with back
bones in our legislative halls. We
must send men to the legislature
who have the interests of the com
mon people at heart. We should
now select men for their principles.
I am going to suggest a platform
for Representatives and Senators
that means something. A platform,
that if carried out, would make
Georgia a very desirable state in
which to live, and since something
must be done to relieve the situa
tion why not now? Why not make
the Legislature of Georgia mean
something?
The Platform.
I am in favor of selling the
State road, paying the indebtedness
of the state and loaning the balance
of the money directly to the far-
mere of the state at low rates of in
terest.
2. 1 am in favor of furnishing the
children of the state with free school
books.
3. I am in favor of forcing those
counties, that do not altoady do so,
to supplement the school money fur
nished by the state with not less than
three mills local taxation.
4. I favor a law that takes hills of
purely local interest from the juris
diction of the legislature and plac
ing the power strictlv in the hands
of said Idealities.
5. 1 uni in favor of all county otfi
cere, including the Board of Educa
tion, being elected by direct vote of
the people.
ti. I am in favor of abolishing the
system and placing all county offi
cers on a salary commensurate with
their services.
7. I am in favor of speedy trials,
swift punishment for the guilty, and
exhoneraiioii for the innocent.
8. 1 am in favor of increasing the
pensions of Confederate Veterans to
*10 per month, pavable annually.
it 1 am opposed to so many need
less and frivolous appropriations.
10. If elected to promise to carry
out the wishes of my constituents re
gardless of my own individual opin
ions.
Alt right, gentlemen! Here is
something to scrap over. Let’s hear
fnm prospective candidates. Are
you for the common people or the
rich corporations? You must stand
for something definite if you want
the votes of the people. These issues
must not be dodged. They must be
met with your approval or disap
proval. The answer of these ques
tions must not lie: "I am unprepared
to say. 1 haven’t given them much
study.” It is your business to study
them and form definite conclusions
if you wish to represent us. We
want to know where we stand and
what to depend on.
Have a buck bone. Don’t be an
earthworm. Be elected or defeated
upon something definite.
What do you sav gentlemen?
Respectfully submitted,
Democrat.
OUGHTO INTOXICANT.
A Good Family Cough Sy
- Can be made by mixing Pil
The Gazette has said a great mar,y£ con 'te. Sugar. Hyoscyamus, «
Iras, Peppermint, Ipecac, Rhu.
Mandrake, Capsicum, Muriate
ni ce things about the Azilian which
our excess of modesty-not to -men- monTa,“Hiney and Glycerine.
GIRLS) HAVE A MASS
OF BEAUTIFUL HAIR,
SOFT, GLOSSY, WAVY
tion lack of space—has prevented
reproduction in the Azilian’s col
umns. and we take this opportunity
of returning thanks for all the Ga
zette has said and done for us. but—
Well, Editor Herring is fond of
drawing figures of speech from
country life, so he is probably famit- „„„
iar with that one about a cow that
gives a pail of the very best milk * ’
and then kicks it over. This is
brought to our mind by an editorial
that appeared in a recent number of
the Gazette. When that was read
by those concerned, it was immedi
ately moved, seconded and unani
mously carried that we
ig and soothing,
the phlegm, and gives almost 1
relief. For convenence olf
prefer not to fuss, it is
ready made in 25c. bottles-
name of Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tar-Honey.'
Can be had at your druggist. Insist I
on getting Dr. Bell’s Pine-Tsr-Honeyl
and see that the formula is on the j
adv. J
BERRIEN COURT ADJOURNED
Court,
25-Cent bottle destroys dsndrufi end
doubles beauty of your hair.
Within ten minutes after an ap
plication of Danderine you can not
And a single trace of dandruff or
falling hair and your scalp will not
itch, but what will please you most
will be after a few weeks' use, when
you see new hair, fine and downy at
first—yes—but really new hair—
growing all over your scalp.
A little Danderine immediately
doubles the beauty of your hair. No
difference how dull, faded, brittle
and scraggy just moisten a cloth
with Danderine and carefully draw
it through your heir, taking one
small strand at a time. The effect is
amazing—your hair will be light,
fluffy and wavy, and have an ap
pearance of abundance; an incom
parable lustre, softness and luxuri
ance.
Get a 25-cent bottle of Know!
ton's Danderine from any drug store
or toilet counter, and prove that
your hair is as pretty and soft as any
—that it has been neglected or in
jured by careless treatment—that's
all—you surely can have beautiful
hair and. lots of it if you will just
try a little Danderine. adv.
FIRE SWEEPS MINEOLA.
Shortest Term for Many Yaars Clos
ed Wednesday.
Bqrrien county 'Superior
write a I criminal division, adjournejl
piece,” and. having so little space at | term Wednesday,
our command, we decided that it, i ra Maxwell, a negro, f<J
would be poetic justice (women like | Zeke Bork WM found -jm
poetic justice—when it is visited on i 1
Somebody else) to publish our piece recommendation for men
in the Gazette.
The editorial in question was about
the booze-producing plants, etc..
sentenced to life imprison
John Green, a negro,'
of finvoluntary manslaughtj
commission of an unlaw
negro killed was named
Green was sentenced to
was suspended
upon payment of costs by the
victed man during his good bchav
JUST TRY ONE]
MAYR’S Wonderful Re
Be Convinced That You I
Be Restored to Health.
A professional rat catcher is temporarily
sojourning in Atlanta. He is Dr. L. H. Hlrsch,
of New York City, and he is ofiicial rodent ex
terminator for the Government. If he will catch
those old grey, political rata that infest the
Capital City and ahut them up safely, he will
confer a favor on the state.
AFTER THE GRIPPE
Vinol Restored Her Strength
Canton,Mist.-“I am75vearsold and
became very weak and feeble from the
effects of La Grippe, bat Vinol haedone
me a world of good. It has cured my
cough, built up my strength so I feel
active and well again."—Mrs. Lizzis
Baldwin, Canton. Miaa.
Vinol, our delirious cod liver and iron
tonic without oil, aids digestion, en
riches the blood and creates strength.
Unequalled for chronic coughs, colds
or bronchitis. Your money back it
It fit la
MILLS DRUG COMPANY
indigenous to the soil of Georgia,
and it was a comment on one or two
articles that have appeared in the
Azilian. Furthermore, there were! in the penitentiary,
insinuations that seemed to call for Emma Robinson a negro wo
Zt CXP l°i convicted of assault and 1
that. Maybe »t would be best to „. „ „ - „ . # - c
call it a denial, for one of the dis-! She * as Rl * a fine of $75
agreeable things about explanations mon tbs on the chain gang,
is that they can't always be made to ; Joc white was convii
explain. ! stealing a cow and was sentenced!
We'll call it a denial then, and • 12 months. Sentence was suspend!
state that we arennt running a blind
tiger, and that we consider “unquali
fied water," together with milk, etc.,
sufficiently strong liquid refresh
ment for anybody.
Wc are not so ill-natured as to in
sinuate that Mr. Herring’s editorial
was just a passing on of an accusa
tion that one of his own staff had
made of his editor-in-chief, only a
few days before in the Gazette's col
umns. We will not go so far as to
say this unkind thing, though pro
hibitionists do tell us that much of
the drink evil would be conquered
hut for the fact that emotions other
than misery like company.
If none of the natural products of <
Georgia is satisfactory for the pur-1
Pose under discussion, there are]
many others obtainable at the prop-1
er season. One of these is syrup
"scimmin’s” beer, but it is not
worth while to enumerate these
things to a native Georgian, who
evidently has given much thought
to the matter.
Should something stronger be de
sired. we could give the name of an
old Iwok which contains a recipe for
making mead, the great intoxicant
of the early English. The manufac
ture of thead does not require a still,
but, if a still is needed for any other
drink, we once heard of a man in
this loeslity who, it was said, made
a very satisfactory one from an old
Pot. a piece of stove pipe and other
similar material, locating thia (till in
his smoke house.
The Aziuan.
Note—“We” is not used editor-
Planing Mill and Dry Kiln Dvslroy-
cd; Gin Burnt at Sparks.
Valdosta, April 3—The planing
mill and dry kiln of the Fender Lum
ber Company at Mineoln, six miles
north of Valdosta, were burned Sun-
day morning, together with a large
quantity of lumber and mill machin
ery. Strenuous work saved the main
saw mill and lumber stored on the
yards. The loss is partially covered
by insurance. The plant will be re
built.
Fire also destroyed the large Ad
ams cotton ginnery at Sparks Sat
urday night. The plant was recently
sold to Dr. C. C. Guldens and J. N. - . _
Bray, of this city, at receiver’s sale £»y: It ia supposed to be the pub-
for $10,000. but it is understood that l,she "’ «• who ^ing.
the property had not been formally j
taken over by them. It was a largo; an, irinsnwrvman
and modem plant and was entirely I fOIEY KIDNEY PHIS
consumed. j Wf SAC SACHS HI OMtS M0 SMDOtl
Hayr’s Wonderful 1
taken by many thou
throughout the land,
health and happiness 1
had despaired of e
and who now are i
may be suffering i
and Intestinal Alin
dose will con
sufferer. It seta a
foundation of tgeee
lag the potawfea]
Accretions, and all
lag
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