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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA.,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 1916.
TEbe ZEitto (Sasette
PublUhed Weekly
be Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietors
JOHN L. HERRING Editor and Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second class.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Fodder-Pulling Time.
Beneath a blazing August sun the fodder had
ripened on Jim’s corn, and his neighbors gath
ered to help him pull it. When Jim’s fodder
was safe, the crowd would go over to the next,
and so on, until the crop of the community had
been gathered.
For be it known, pulling fodder is mighty
lonesome business, when a man is alone. There
are so many opportunities to stop and look, and
ruminate, so many things to draw a man’s at
tention, that it is only the strong-willed who
can keep the back-breaking pace in solitude
from dawn until nightfall. So, as in numbers
there is inspiration, the fodder-pulling season
was made a community event, all helping the
man whose crop ripened first, and in turn
receiving help. And each needed the moral
stimulus of numbers, for of all the hot jobs on
the farm, pulling fodder is perhaps the hottest
—unless it be tying it up and toting it to shelter
just after noon, in the face of a lowering rain
cloud.
The sun was not very high when the five
neighbors gathered at Jim’s home and he led
the way to the corn-field. Across a little branch,
they climbed the worn rail fence, and each man
taking two rows, set in. Catching the top blades
of the corn by a hand on either side a few in-
, ches from the stalk, the hands were brought
:• quickly down, gathering the blades as
they came, until the stalk was stripped to the
; ' ground. (Occasionally, if an ear was green, a
blade was left to collect moisture until it ma
tured.) Then on the other row the stalk was
' stripped, each man carrying two rows, walking
between them. When both hands were full
of the green blades, they were tied together in
to a “hand,” a stalk bent down just above the
ear and the "hand” hung thereon, or it was
hung astride the car if the latter was heavy
enough. But altogether, practice made for
dexterity, and despite the detail the work was
done with surprising rapidity.
Sometimes the fodder was full ripe and tough
if so it had to be jerked loose from the stalk
At best, the work was trying on the back, and
the heat of the blazing sun on the stooping body
was made several degrees harder to endure by
a fuzz or pollen from the fodder, which irri
tated the skin. But soon the hickory shirts
and even the denim trousers of the laborers
were wet with perspiration, and this, with an
occasional breeze, brought relief.
Scarcely had the work started, when a race
was on. Neighbor Brown had a son just out of
his teens, long and lank of limb and sparing of
flesh, but the way that boy could jerk fodder
was a sin to snakes. Neighbor Jones had a son
about the same age, short nnd rather stocky
built, but when it came to pulling fodder, he
was some hot stuff. The two were nearly equal
in speed, and the rivalry between them was
keen. Tom Jones could with greater ease
reach the top of the stalk, but Sam Brown was
nearer the ground, and both were experts at
the business.
Graudually, as the men got under good head
way, it was noticed that each of these boys, who
had adjoining “throughs,” got n little faster;
first Tom forged ahead; then Sam, and at last
the race was in full swing. Despite
blistering sun and pouring perspiration, at it
they went, stripping the blades, tying the
“hands,” with rapidity amazing, stopping for
neither breath nor to wipe perspiration,
soon as one “through” was done, the first one
out helping the other (that was his victory),
both whirled into the next four rows. The
others, accepting the champions philosophically,
took their time, chewing tobacco, exchanged
gossip, and even told a yarn or so between
breaths as the “hands” were tied.
A shout from Sam, who was then slightly in
the lead, brought good news. A watermelon
was found! Long, gray, rattlesnake striped it
was, nestling under its own green leaves and in
part shaded by the corn. In triumph it was
borne by one of the smaller boys out to th
. fence at the row’s end, and then everybody got
a move on them to pull out to it.
i Iu the shade of a pine which stood outside,
they sat down in the fence jamb, pocket-knives
were out, and Old Daddy Gray was butchered
A feast it was to thirsty palates. Hourly during
the morning had each turned up the big water-
gourd which the carrier boys had brought and
took a long, delicious swig, but water only tem
porarily quenches thirst, and this melon was a
And, indeed. Jim bad known where it was all
along—in fact had denied himself to spare the
treat for this very occasion. Also he knew where
two brothers lay, and while this one was being
butehered and its dripping red heart devoured
he stole off and returned with them. For each
of these men could eat a good-sized melon, and
one for the crowd would have only tantalized
appetites.
Would some power could give us now, just
for an hour, the capacity for enjoyment that
made the juice of the melon then a nectar su
preme, its red meat a feast Lucullus never
dreamed the equal. Then no possibility of sa
tiation, no fear of indigestion or after conse
quences—only the amazing capacity for enjoy
ment.
The melon eaten, a brief rest and yarn-spin
ning, then a leader arose, and the work was on
again. During the morning, Tom had been
showing a little better form, and had three
“helpings” to his advantage. Along about
eleven o’clock, he was leading Sam, and victory
for the day appeared certain
ped a stalk at the bottom of which a ground rat
tler, about a foot long, was sleeping,
This snake has a temper like a dyspeptic, and
Tom’s foot had already disturbed its nap. When
his hands came down, the reptile struck, vi
ciously. A large agate button on the cuff of
Tom’s shirt saved him from a few hours’ death
ly sickness, for it caught the force of the blow
and deflected it, the snake’s fang penetrating
the cuff and hanging therein.
Tom felt the blow and looked down; saw the
snake and jumped. It followed him, dangling
from his cuff. Tom thought it had hit the
wrist, let out a yell that gave a war alarm over
in the next county and brought the other work
ers in the run. “I’m bit! I’m bit! ” Tom yelled,
and the snake at last dropping off, he made a
bee line for the house and help. On the way,
having heard that tobacco was an antidote for
snake-bite, he devoured the square he had in
his pocket. Reaching the house far in advance
of his trailing companions, he had swallowed
the major part of Mrs. Jim’s winter store of
blackberry wine, administered as first aid to the
injured, before some inquiring mind insisted
THE DECISIVE BATTLE.
More than one military writer has expressed
the opinion that when the history of the Great
War is written it will be agreed that the Battle
of the Marne was the decisive conflict. Cer
tainly it was the greatest battle of modern his
tory, fought by two and a quarter million men
over a front nearly as long as from Tifton to
Atlanta, from the environs of Paris to the forts
of Verdun
It was in this battle that the German army,
which had moved from one victory to another
Then, he strip-jsince the line of Belgium was crossed, was turn
ed back and compelled to retreat on one flank
not less than seventy miles leaving behind it
rich loot in guns, flags and prisoners, and losing
the great objective for which German military
men had been preparing for forty years and for
which Belgium had been overrun. Also losing,
with the exception of occasional spurts of ef
fort, the German offensive in France
This battle began Sept. 5th with a slight
skirmish at the village of Iverny, less than
twenty miles East of Paris; reached its apex
when the forces of Gen. Foch were bent back
in rainbow shape on September 9th, south of the
marsh of St. Gond, and concluded on Sept. 12th
when the fleeing Germans took refuge behind
the Aisne and dug themselves into the hills of
Champagne.
On the second anniversary of the great bat
tle, Frank II. Simonds reviews it comprehen
sively for the New York Tribune. In this review
the writer brings out some interesting facts not
generally known. The battle was not the sud
den rally of hundreds of thousands of soldiers
who had been for days fleeing before a victori
ous enemy. It was the result of a clear, coo!
on seeing the place where he was bitten, and an ^ deliberate plan, in obedience to which the
there was none. Tom went back to work, but several French armies and the small British
French line.
At this crisis d’Esperey, having cleared Bu-
low from the banks of the Little Morin, came to
Foch’s assistance. This enabled Foch to with
draw his Forty-Second division, transport it
astward to Linthes and very late in the after-
| but little political stuff. The
spoke highly of the enterprise of
the editors, business management and
people of that progressive city.
Colonel Watterson is reported to
have said that Kentuckians do not
drink mint juleps. Of course not.
They sip the nectar slowly and con
tentedly. A julep should not be con
sumed in any other way. To drink
it would be most plebian.—Enquir
er-Sun.
Talk like that is the sort that start*
rough house tactics, especially in this
arid country, and we advise the E-S
to use something more “cheering”
as fillers for their first col. ed.
the ginger was out of him for the day. He
jumped at every crooked stick and shied at
every shadow, and Sam had a victory so easy
that he didn’t think it worth while.
Noon, and the blast of the long horn summon
ed the workers to dinner. It was hot on the
table, and the men ate while the women wait
ed, and occasionally put a word into the con
versation, for the mothers and daughters had
come with the men, and Mrs. Jim had help,
just as she would help others on the morrows
to come.
Chicken pie, of course, field peas, with rich,
black pot-liquor, strips of fat, rib-filling bacon
across the top. Pone corn bread, hot light bis
cuit and rich butter; cool buttermilk, hot black
coffee, and apple or peach dumplings, with
sauce of sugar whipped into butter. Yum, yum!
You great old days of good things!
After dinner, an hour of rest, a melon cut
ting—for they could hold a little more, despite
the meal, some courting of course around by
the water shelf; and then back to the field until
the shades of night saw Jim’s fodder down and
they agreed where they should meet on the
morrow.
Next day, after nightfall and the dews had
made the fodder pliant, they came to help him
tie the hands into bundles, and tote these on
their bncks to the center of the field, where they
were stacked, or to the loft of Jim’s barn.
Modern agricultural science tells us that pull
ing fodder is a waste of labor and injurious to
corn, but we knew no better then. And out of
our obscession, if such it was, we got a lot of
hard work and some fun, nnd the horses and
mules in the stalls appeared to enjoy the sa
vory product with their corn during the winter
days when long forage was scarce.
But now the few who pull fodder go it alone;
there is no longer the community spirit that
made of arduous labor an occasion for commun
ity co-operation and social enjoyment.
Now conies along the constant contributor,
Gifford Pinchot, who takes his typewriter in
hand to express his disappointment in Mr. Wil
son and his disapproval of all Mr. Wilson does.
I Mr. Pinchot has been nursing a grouch so long
As! that the case has become chronic with him, nnd
like a certain gentleman we might mention in
Georgia, his condemnation has grown to be
praise. Mr. Pinchot declares himself a Progres
sive and asserts that ho was very much worried
for a long time whether to vote for Wilson or
Hughes. Finally he decided on the latter, and
he takes four pages of a type-written letter to
tell why. It would have been impossible to ac
cumulate all these reasons in the little time Mr.
Pinchot has had for conversion, so we are led t
the conclusion that he opened a charge account
against Wilson three years ago. Mr. Pinchot
uses all the argument that the most enthusiast!
stand-pat Republican could use and the expens
he has undergone of sending letters to several
thousand newspapers all over the United States
inclines us to think that he is backed by th'
funds of the Republican National Campaign
Committee.
force had been drawn back from the frontier.
The French purpose had been to keep these
armies intact until the direction and nature of
the main German thrust was disclosed. It was
the British failure, due to Sir John French’s mis
understanding of the whole situation and his
extreme caution, that allowed von Kluck to
escape after his flank had been turned. The
consequence of the battle was wholly misun
derstood at first by both the French who
thought it had turned the Germans out of
France and by the Germans who believed that
they had suffered only a minor reverse,
Four German commanders were leading the
advance, with five armies. Von Kluck immedi
ately east of Paris, with his Fourth reserve
Corps north of that city; von Bulow and von
Hausen in the center; Wurtenbcrg on the east
and the Crown Prince on the flank touching
Verdun. Facing von Kluck’s Fourth Corps
north of Paris were the French under Maun-
oury; immediately east of Paris the British, in
the center the French under d’Espery and
Foch, while de Langle commanded the eastern
division and Sarrail the extreme right flank,
facing the Crown Prince.
Following the defeat at Charleroi. Joffre
waited until he had equal or superior num
bers at the decisive point. He was ready to
make a stand on the line of the Somme, the
Oise and the Aisne, from Amiens to Verdun, but
the British army had suffered so severely at
Mens that it had retreated too far, which com
pelled Joffre to fall hack until he was aligned
with the British, which carried his lines east of
Paris. Joffre offered Kluck the chance to at
tack Paris hut Kluck wisely refused the tempt
ing bait. Instead he turned south-eastward,
across the face of the forts of Paris, to strike
the French left wing. He made the mistake
of thinking he had only beaten troops before
him when the army of Maunoury, north of
Paris, was ready to strike his flank. If this
flank could be turned, it would leave his rear
open to attack and expose the whole German
line, from Paris to the Vosges,
On the morning of September 5th Joffre pub
lished his famous order announcing that the
hour for the attack had come. Maunoury would
strike east from Paris and the British army was
expected to engage and hold Kluck in front
while Maunoury turned his flank and attacked
his rear. Maunoury struck and the German
flank crumbled, but at the critical time, instead
of pushing the fighting. Sir John French held
his men hack and sent to Maunoury for rein
foreements when the latter was fighting two
divisions and slowly losing ground, while only
avalry screen had been left by Kluck in front
>f the British, as he turned his second army to
>p the French. Kluck's quick shift of his
rces and the British commander’s hesitation
allowed Kluck to escape with the major part of
his army and thereby kept German soldiers on on '
French soil for two more years. With his two
The South Georgia
sued sixteen pages last
was brim full of splendid _
noon launch it in a terriflic drive at the Prus-1 matter, good advertisements
nan Guard on Haussen’s flank. The Prussiansjthe business houses of Americus
were routed and lost most of their artillery; the
flanks of two Saxon corps crumpled, and the
whole army of Haussen was sent in a wild re
treat. It was news of this disaster that caused
Kluck to start on his retreat to the Aisne and
Bulow to give up his efforts to regain control
of the north bank of the Marne. This decisive
victory earned for Foch the title of “the first
strategist of Europe."
On the extreme right flank, de Langle for
three days beat off the Bavarians under Wrr-
temberg with great bravery and heavy sacr-
fice of life, but without decisive results. In the
same way, Sarrail withstood the attacks of the
army of the Crown Prince. These German
armies retired in good order when retirement
became necessary to keep the alignment. Of
the five German armies, those of Kluck and
Haussen were the only ones to put forth their
full strength and only that of Haussen was de
cisively beaten. Of the French armies, cnlv
those of Maunoury and Foch were engaged to
the limit.
The total loss in killed and wounded of the
2,250,000 men engaged is placed at more than
300,000; the French lost at least half of these, if
not more. The Germans outnumbered the
French on the battlefield but lost this advan
tage through faults of concentration.
A German myth, that the French as a nation
had disintigrated, was dissipated by this bat
tle, and Mr. Simonds’ article also dispels the
legend that the British army saved the French
at the Marne, as also the legend that the French
victory was won by the transport of troops
through Pnris in taxicabs. Troops were thus Pinkham’sVegetable'compound?
transported by they did not arrive for the bat- mother bought it and the next month
GIRL GOULD
NOT WORK
How She Was Relieved from
Pain by Lydia E.Pinkham’s
Vegetable Compound.
tn
Taunton, Mass.—“I had pains in both
aides and when my periods came I bad
to stay at home
from work and suf
fer a long time
One day a woi
came to our hoi
and asked
mother why I wl
suffering. Mot]
told her that 11
fered every monti
and she said, '
don't you buy
bottle of Lydia r
, . , ,, . , , ■ . was so well that I worked ail the monti
tie of the Marne but only in time to bolster ^ju^ut staying at home a day. Ii
Maunoury’s forces on the Ourcq. “The British,” in good health now and have told lots q
girls about it.”—Miss Clarice Mor
The British,'
armies combined, he counter-attacked Maun-
oury on Sept. 8th and came near driving him
back into Paris. On the night of Sept. 9th-10th
the Paris garrison stood to arms and Maunoury
says Mr. Simonds, “ were never actually en
gaged in battle at all. They never had anything
but rear-guards to deal with and these held
them until the chances for a supreme success
had disappeared.”
The battle of the Marne was the first Ger
man defeat; a defeat from which their armies
have not been able to recover through the lapse
of two years. It took from the Germans the
initiative and kept their armies in France when
they intended to have them in Russia. There
fore, the Marne will probably go into history as
the decisive battle of the war.
22 Russell Street, Taunton, Mass.
Thousands of girls suffer in silenci
every month rather than consult a J
sician. If girls who arc troubled ’
painful or irregular periods, backad
headache, dragging-down sensaUo
fainting spells or indigestion would t
Lydia E. I’inkham's Vegetable
pound, a safe and pure remedy mq
from roots and herbs, much suffer!
might be avoided.
Write to I.ydia E. Pinkham Medid
Co., Lynn, Muss, (confidential) for f
advice whicli will prove helpful.
Snl.niUtln
A T’l’qd.A M ATI ON
:iilment I
Colquitt county has given up her fight
tgainst the cattle tick, dismissed the inspector:
vnd let the governor’s men go home. But if the
ticks get too bad on Columbus Allen, Thud
Adams, Mayo Kendall, Babe Powell, and the
balance of that bunch down there they can
ise a curry-comb.
her 7. 1516,
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re to tl n anu na
NAT E. llAURIS, Governor.
During his Tifton speech, Governor Harris
said.that his reception at Tifton Avas the most
impressive he had met with on his tour. He
aid this was his first visit to Tifton since he
helped the Tifton, Thomasville and Gulf, which
is now a part of the Atlanta, Birmingham and
Atlantic system, organize here about fifteen
years ago, and that Tifton is, in his opinion, the
biggest little city in the state. One of the things
that impressed the Governor, although he did
not say much about, was the Tift county road:
noticahle as soon as the line was crossed. This
was made more impressive by the drivers of
the cars in his escort, which speeded up when
they struck the good roads and landed the Chief
Executive here a little out of breath.
th.- Cmwtitutl..
The following
•titutinr. of GecruU, I*
the people of fit-
Repr. m ntiitiv«'M
irably of the Ktato
The amendment
portion of raid acctloj
article which ert-up
t. and ia a* follow*!
'That said Cui
by declared to te
the Uencra\ Assembly^
Georgia Is hereby give!
legislation to create loa
atltutio
Business men who make a practice of keep
ing a bottle in or about their office in case of
emergency, 'such as snake bite, sudden freight,
etc., will do well to consider the following de
cision of the Georgia Supreme court in the case
if Nowell vs. the State: “One who intentional
ly carries whiskey to place of business, and
keeps it there for any length of time for any
purpose may be convicted of keeping liquors
on hands at his place of business.”
provide,
_.»u It la furthJ
the General AssemblyW
same power to IcgislatM
laid County of Ihu.on tJ
to other counties in the!
laws applicable to th« w
' te are hereby mad*A
1 County of liacon.
of liacon is hereby
create a bonded deut fiotjH
lutnired thousand dollarw^H
public improvements In Mid
Bacon, by the consent of U
of the regular qualified VOt
County or liacon voting atl
for that purpose. That *~
create said debt ahull bo J
in force for creation]
Governor#
q Hired and directed
proposed amendment i
posed amendment to 1
the first Monday In ]
this
... At leo,.
Congressional dlstrk
leant two months br
erat election, and I
qualified voters of l
This is the day of the foolish election bet.
The man who bets on the election puts his
chances of winning money ahead of the inter
ests of the man he is betting on. For an elec
tion bet puts the other man to work; when he
has his money on a candidate, he then has
strong personal interest in his success.
said election shall,J
this propost
utlon, amid a
t of Constitutia
Jec. 3. That 1U
the Secretary of 1
the result* of thsj
Jorit;
tarnation to sQch J
Sec. 4. That
slon of this pH
Do not see how we can get along without
'.I that first-class show Tift county always put-
Will have six or seven counties, but must
have Tift.” So writes Secretary Ashley, of the
follows: ,
itt«-n or m-IaM
wing word
I of £
lion 1. Article I
.... -a * f , . » , , . .. * * . Geonria-Florida Fair Association. We feel just
waited for daybreak with orders to attack but , . , A .
that way about it ourselves.
Georgia _
graph 1«_
iml thOM J
this ami
written i
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amend mi
the Cognt]
xpecting defeat. After three and a half days
of lighting, he was at the end of his strength.
But on daylight of the 10th the Germans were
gone.
To the east of von Kluck, Bulow and d’E» -
perey were engaged, hut Bulow was forced to
retire because Kluck and vonHausen, on either
flank, retired. It was the French army of Foch,
in the center, which bore the brunt of the fight
ing. When Kluck retired the German high
command redoubled its pressure on the French
•enter with the purpose of breaking through,
'timing the flanks, and dividing From e. It was
there the .ighting was the most sanguinary, and
ten thousand graver, mari e one little v:l!agi
eh was driven south; hi- right .1 n’ ietrcnt* d
Some of our exchanges are rather surprised
that Britt Craig could print so much better
speeches for Dorsey than Dorsey could mak
for himself. Nothing strange in that; newspa
per men do that sort of thing every day or
two.
Now,
error of
f irojlflmatlowq
or*going prt
Constitution*!. _
or rejection to <
quell fled to vote
Oonoi
— leml Assembly a
to bo held on Tug
Death removed from a sphere of signal use
fulness Joseph Henry Lumpkin. Associate Jus
tice of the Georgia Supreme Court. He came of
i name celebrated in Southern jurisprudence] so far that in stead of facing north it fa.'id
and to it added lustre and honor:. | nearly eaht and a wide gap opened in the
‘You are too pretty to be fined,” said a Long
Island judge, to a moving picture actress before
him for speeding. It would be interesting to
read the remarks of his wife when he got home
that night.
“To Spank Wife Is Legal, sayr a New Yorl^
Judge," a headline reads. It may be legal, bfl
some times neither possible nor advisable.