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THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON, GA.,- FRIDAY, OCTOBER?«, 1916.
Ube ZLtfton <3a3ette
Published Weekly
The Gazette Publishing Company, Proprietors
JOHN L. HERRING Editor and Manager
Entered at the Postoffice at Tilton, Georgia,
as mail matter of the second class.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
GROUNDPEASE AS A MONEY CROP.
If there ever was a class of people who despis
ed the day of small things it was Georgia plant
ers in the time of the Old South. They seemed
to think it beneath the dignity of a gentleman
to allow anything but cotton or rice (according
to the locality in which the planter lived) to
grow on the plantations—crops that could be
sold in the bulk, by agents, for many thousands
of dollars.
True, the trustees of the Colony of Georgia
and the people they sent here expected to cul
tivate pretty much everything that grew (cur
iously, not one of our present-day staples, ex
cept Indian corn, was thought of), but it must
be borne in mind that our planters, as a' rule,
were not descendants of Georgia’s first colonists,
It is no doubt owing to this weakness of plant
ers that very little notice was taken of the lowly
groundpea for several decades after it was
brought to America. It made its way very slow
ly to public favor, and for many years was not
cultivated to any extent except for hog feed.
Now people are beginning to wake up to its im
portance as a money crop.
When the Emperor of Germany was just be
ginning to be a "war lord," he experimented in
food values, his principal object being to find
an article of food that contained the maximum
nutriment in the minimum space. It was said
that the decision was in favor of groundpease,
and the fact was much exploited, at that tim
by the newspapers of the United States. Noth
ing has been heard of it since; but, for atf] we
know, our groundpease may be helping, right
now, to stave of starvation in German^
Even in a small way, there is a lot 4f money in
groundpease, as witness'the following facts:—A
few years ago, Joseph Harris, dJsmall boy, the
son of Mr. J. H. Harris who Uv e s in Tift county
began to sell boiled groundpease.
Let it be known to the/unitiated that boiled
groundpease, to be palsjfeble, must be cooked as
toon as taken from tede ground and eaten as soon
as possible aftei; cooking. Joseph’s stock was
always up^fcbihe highest standard in both re-
spccts, -ah'd an editorial which appeared in the
Tifto; n Gazette at the time that he and his
groundpease appeared in the Tifton market,
j boosted his business amazingly. Trade was
brisk from the start. Business was so good, in
fact, that many rival venders appeared in the
market, and all the rules of supply and demand
were violated, but the trade still holds, Joseph
withdrew from the business, however, when
school opened, and since then more important
matters have claimed his time and attention.
In the six weeks during which he sold ground
pease his gross receipts were $146.00. His larg
est sales in one day amounted to eight dollars,
From a small beginning the groundpeas crop
of the United States, within the last forty years,
has grown to great proportion. Its estimated
value in 1908 was $12,000,000, and it continues
to grow. Virginia, North Carolina and Tennes
see have almost a monopoly of the wholesale
trade, but there is no reason why Georgia should
not take a hand and outwit the boll weevil
A writer in the Savannah Morning News, a
Northern man who says he has farmed twenty
years in the South, makes this suggestion:
■ "Put in an oil mill, get the farmers to agree
j to raise a certain acreage for a series of years,
* * * extract the oil from the nuts and feed the
peanut cake that is left to the cows and hogs,
f This is one of many uses to which groundpease
may be put, and, its uses combined, the ground
£ pea becomes one of the most profitable of crops.
Not quite equal to 16 cent cotton, but it is sure-
er. The cultivation is simple and cheap, the har
vesting costs less than that of cotton, and, like
cow peas and other leguines, groundpease im
prove the soil.
Put up that mill, right here in Tifton, and let
# the boll weevil starve.
It is said that a good crop of groundpease is
worth from $40 to $60 an acre.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
By Emma R. Sutton.
"What Do Yon Think ths- Brido Wat DrtiuS hr
"Monday for health,
Tuesday for wealth,
Wednesday the best day of all;
Thursday for losses,
Friday for crosses:
Saturday’s no day at all.”
Sang a young girl on a Saturday moaning
nearly three-quarters of a century ago—and
even then the superstition embodied in these
lines was very, very old.
‘Saturday’s no day at all,’ ” she repeated as
an old woman came out on the porch, of a com
fortable home in the wilderness of what was
then Randolph county.
It was a much more pretentious house than
any other in that locality, and the head of it
had "Colonel’’ as a prefix to his name: Georgia
colonels have .been abroad in the land from the
beginning of the state’s history. “It may be ‘no
day at all/ but it seems to be a favorite day for
weddings in these parts,” was the answer. “We
are invited, even urged, to be present, as I am
furnishing what is supposed to be the finishing
touch to the bride’s array," and she nodded to
wards a red-haired, tallow-faced boy whose
entire costume consisted of a single garment
GOOD BYE BOLL.WEEVIL..
The anouncement that the business people at
Tifton, with the co-operation, of, the fanners of
Tift and adjoining counties, will erect a packing
plant here, coupled with the. statement that a
feed, grain and flour mill will be put up and
that improvements will be made to the Planters
Cotton Oil Mill to equip it tot care forra large
peanut crop, created intense- interest through
out this section when read in Saturday’s Ga
zette.
These improvements mean more to this part
of the country than can be estimated, because
it means that the farmers are to have aemarket
for other things besides cotton and that is what
is going to be needed hereafter with the weevil 1
in the fields.
Back of us, as the statement is made, no prep
arations were made in advance of the; weevils’
ravages. Farmers went along and planted large
acreages in cotton, and the business men made
no effort to help them get a market for any
other crop. The result, an reported by men
sent into the weevil infested territory, was that
this year there aye thousands and thousands of
acres in Alabama that will not make a bale of
cotton to, fen acres planted.
Of course, this sort of yield is disastrous to
the- planters,, and their misfortune falls not
y; oi
oiigh
htj to
Those Prussians are humorous, although they
don’t realize it. As evidence, the complaint of
^ the Berlin War Office to the International Red
/ Cross that the new British caterpillar armored
i are contrary to usage of civilized warfare,
humor lies in the fact that this protest
•mes from a nation which used airships and
adersea craft to slay women and children, and
MB the fighting front resorted to poisoning, as
phyxiating and lachrrymai gases; whose ar
tillery shells churches and whose army makes
war on civilians; whose military courts stand
women nursea against a wall to be shot. The
British capterpillar cars at the worst are used
-«q)y against fighting men, and the protest goes
to prove that they are as deadly as the Allies
claim them to be.
LETTEff
Here all of the time we thought Guglielmo
if tn oni was a full blood dago, when his moth
er ww an Irish woman. Although the inventor
of wireless telegraphy was born in Bologti"
ved h's,preference for his mother’s
i nurried an Irish girl, the lion.
that reached from his neck to his knees. In his -alone upon them but is shared by the business
hand he carried a box. “What in the world ^Ye
you sending her?” asked the girl. “Thq baby’s
cap.” laughed the other. “She has $hvays ad
mired it very much, and she aske^me yesterday
to let her have it for this occasion.”
In those days a little bo^-’g cap was a very
elaborate affair, patterned somewhat after
those worn by aristocratic men in the time of
Henry VIII of England. Some old pictures,
still extant, sljflw what they were like. The one
in questiog' was black velvet, bedecked with a
long wfcftte plume and a jeweled buckle. The
brlggRo-be admired the plume and buckle so
ch that she was willing to take chances on the
black.
It was a close, warm night in July, but, when
the company assembled, they found blazing
fires of pine knots, not only on the little ele
vated platforms, built all about the bouse, but
in the one fireplace inside, in the room where
the wedding was to take place. Under the
trees in the back yard a long table was spread,
covered with a great abundance of everything
in the way of food procurable in a new country.
Chief among the meats was wild turkey, tur
keys being very plentiful then in the woods of
Georgia.
Henry of Navarre, with his white plume at
Ivry was not a circumstance to the bride. Vio
lating all the rules laid down for brides (far
more stringent then than now), she carried her
nodding plume and flashing buckle every
where. Her chief care seemed to be to see
that the fires were kept going, and, in ac
complishing this, she called frequently to a stal
wart negro who was ably seconding her efforts,
Seated as far as possible from the roaring
fire in the “big room,” were the guests, the
men ranged solemnly on one side, the women
on the other. A Methodist preacher, a “cir
cuit rider,” (there is no place on earth so far,
or hard, or dreary, to which this kind will not
go) was among the first to arrive, and he sat
now, in his rough clothes, patiently waiting and
holding his “Discipline,” ready for his part
in the ceremony.
Finally, the bride retired to a “shed room 1
where she took her seat on a trunk and calmly
waited to be torn violently (figuratively speak
ing) from the bosom of her family by the
groom and his friends.
This was a curious part of a rural wedding,
practised up to a time within the memory of
people yet living, which has come down thro
the mists of centuries, no doubt brough
Georgia by Oglethorpe’s band. It may have
had its origin in the Rape of the Sabine Women,
or as pioneer people knew more about the Bible
than about mythological history, it may hive
come from the incident recorded in the lpst
chapter of Judges, where the Renjaminites are
commanded • * • “If the daughters of Shijoh
come out to dance in dances, then come ye
of the vineyards and catch ye every man his
wife of the daughters of Shiloh.’’
Suddenly were heard the shouts of men, the
sound of guns (who minds a little anarchronism
like that?) and the thud of horses’ flying feet.
A body of men dashed up to the gate, threw
themselves from their horses and rushed to the
house. Arrived at the steps, this part of the
ceremony terminated abruptly. The bride
groom, looking as sheepish as a bridegroom of
today, started towards the “shed room” where
the bride was waiting, and his friends proceed
ed to take their places “among those present.”
Shortly after this, the bride and groom came
in, the preacher “got busy” with his "Disci
pline” and the couple were united “so long as
ye both shnll live.” In those times this phrase
meant something, for divorce was unheard of
in the country. Even in cities, divorced people
were considered hardly respectable, no matter
what might have brought about the separation,
and in the country such persons were disgraced
for life.
As soon as the ceremony was over, the com
pany repaired to the bountifully spread table,
lighted by flaring candles of tallow stuck in
bottles (there was always plenty to drink on
these occasions), and the boys and girls got to
gether.
As he was finishing supper, the preacher
caught sight of an anxious-looking old negro,
in the background, clasping a fiddle. And the
preached decided “This is no place for a min
ister's son”—or something to that effect.
men and towns and cities are right-now "going
broke” while-farmers are wondering how-they
are going to exist through the winter.
It is for these reasons that the business men
of Tifton have made up their minds to spire the
farmer a market for anything else he wants to
raise and' make the crop he selects a money
crop.
With a market for other products, the farmer
is going to be asked to co-operate with the busi
ness men so far as planting cotton is concerned 1 .
They are going to be asked to not plant more
than five acres of the staple to- the plow and to
plant and care for the crop according to the
advice of men whp have become experienced
with the weevil conditions.
With a packing house of the capacity that
the proposed one to be built here will have
there will be ample market for thousands of
hogs and cattle; the proposed grain and flour
mills will take care of the farmers crops in
this line; the additions to the cotton seed oil
mill will make it possible for farmers to dispose
of all the peanuts they want to plant at good
prices.
The farmers are going to be asked to sub
scribe stock in this biggest proposition, the
packing house, for the reason that the business
men are of the opinion that if the farmers own
some of the shares of capital stock in the con
cem they will take a deeper interest in the rais
ing of hogs and cattle for the packing house
than they would if they did not take stock, and
the presumption is logical.
If the farmers of Tift county go down under
the weevils’ weight next year it will be their
own fault, because the arrangements to take
care of them will be such thBt they will not have
to grow large cotton crops to make money,
If, also, the farmers do not take active part
in this movement, and give hearty co-operation
then they will be to blame for suffering through
a siege that Is sure to come if the weevil fight
is not made and made right.
A DEFENSE FOR “WE ALL.” '\ >
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Not long since Miss Emma Sutton, in that
nlways interesting Azilian, called attention to
numerous errors made by critics of Southern
writers, in which the expression "we all” was
referred to. The article was republished in the
Gazette.
Since then the New York Tribune, the Louis
ville Courier-Journal, and various other heavy
weights have editorially classed "we all” as cor-
rect English. The most interesting contribu
tion on the subject is furnished by a correspon
dent of the New York Times, who evidently well
knows whereof he writes, and from whom we
quote:
The best type of middle English prose is full
of the expressions “we alle,” “ye alle,” “they
alle.” Shakespeare uses the three forms, his
preference being for the post position of "all.”
“We all were sea swallowed,” Tempest, II;
1, 261.
"You all do know this mantle,” Julius Cuesar,
III. 2,174.
“I tell .ve all I am your better,” Henry VI., V
5, 35.
“They all have met again,” Tempest, I, 2. 233
"Better it were they all came by the father,'
Richard III., 2, 3, 24.
Bible translations have used it:
“For one plague was on you all,” I Samuel
VIM.
We give thanks to God always for you all.
1st, Thess., 1: 2.
"I speak not of you all,” John, XIII: 18.
According to his sworn statement of cam
paign expenses* Dr. Hardman spent $19,976.08
during the campaign just closed. In the cam
paign two- years ago Dr. Hardman, spent some
thing over $14,000 making his'- total expenses
for the office that he did not. get something
over $34,000. And Dr. Hardman ran third in
the race.
Other candidates spent as follows:
Gev. Harris, $1,116. The statement says
the governor understands the Atlanta central
committee spent approximately - $12,000, not
more.
Hhgh- M_ Dorsey spent $9,322.26; a large por
tion of same contributed by friends.
Jos. E. Pottle spent $5,736.86.
Fhr Superintendent of Schools—Alex E.
Reese, $725; M. L. Brittain, $100..
Commissioner of Agriculture—J- J. Brown,
$2,005.10 (of this $1,555.10 from friends) ; J.
D.. Price,, not yet filed.
Comptroller General—William A,- Wright,
$734,21; E. P. Dobhs, $1,720.
Prison Commissioner—R. E. Davison, $360-;
A. H. Henslee, $590,97.
For Railroad Commissioner—James A. Ferry,
$894.73; S. G. McLendon, $126.42.
State Treasurer—W. J. Speer, $1,198.33; W.
Jv Eakes,. $2,493.14.
Railroad Commissioner—C. ML Candler,
$141; J. H. Peeples, $776.
Court of Appeals (New Places)-—George C.
Grogan, $446; M. J. Youmans, $704.58.; J. J.
Kimsey, $570; Roscoe Luke, $378.20.';. Henry- S.
Jxtnes, $£,304.58; O. H. B. Bloodworth, $1,200.-
07; Alex W. Stephens, $1,699.72; A’. W. Qizart,
|780.4ft; H-J. Fullbright, $605; W. F. George,
$2,751.S9 ; W. F. Jenkins, $1,716.18; L. P.
Skeen,. $619.09; John B. Hutcheson,. $2,077.60.
While Dr- Hardman spent more, than either
of his opponents, and being the. man. we know
him for we are sure all of his expenses were
legitimate, his experience gives, some idea of
the cost of running for office. This cost has
been multiplied many times by. the white pri
mary system and increases with, each election.
It has nearly reached the point, where a poor
man cannot aspire to office in. Georgia with a
reasonable chance of success.
Had Dr. Hardman been successful in both
his races his two terms of office would have
cost him $14,000 more than his salary for the
four years. In other words,, he would have
served his state at the personal sacrifice of a
small fortune.
Editor Gazelle;
We arrived in Valpa.
first spring day, May 22-
been here long enough- to i
School openei the *9th
an enrollment of abdut
dents. Twenty-two- fbre.gn
and every State in the Union 1
as various islands., of the
represented. Mr. R. A Patrick”
says that he feel* as though he
taken a tour of the old’ worfi}, c
fng in caotactadth' so many foreign
students.. A Hindoo spent the even-*
ing with us some days ago and we/
were somewhat ztia-lossas to what 1
to say.when ho remarked “that
the American people wen ton rough!
in their customs.and. manners-” Wo *
are getting a conception of the vastJ
ness of thoughts and opinions of dif-J
ferent rations as -compared with ou J
: compared with opn
Personally, I am connected with-'
the Y. M. C. A. actiog-as associate;
secretary which-defrays my full col
lege expenses. Hundfeds of student^
work tiieir way through;
We go to scliool twelve months i
the year and then have a month fi
vacation. I spent two weeks on/i
farm few miles from town- durinj
vacation and Mr. Patrick engaged
laying concrete. The methods
farming here arc quite different, ml
though-no better than .those-of Geor
gin farmers.
Yours truly,
Etheridge B. Gay.
For forty years Frenchman and German hated
each other, but that hatred was a lukewarm
feeling compared with the animosity displayed
between Briton and Teuton after only two years
of war. Much evidence of this was seen in the
recent fighting on the Somme:
YOU’RE BILIOUS!’ LET
“CASCARETS" LIVEN
LIVER' AND.’ BOWEL;
Clonkr- stay- hesdSeh'y, constipated
sick, with' brwath' bed and
stomach' somt .
tffet a lOteent box now.
Yon men and women-who-can’t ge
feeling right—-who have headache
coated tomgue, bad' taste and fou
breath, dizziness,- can’t sleep, arc bil
ions, nervous end upset, hotherc
with a sick, gassy disordered 1 stomac
or have a. bad cold.
Are you keeping yoer-bowelz clpo
with Caeearets,-or merely forcing
Massage vay every fevedays with sid(i
rathartic pills or castor call V;
Caserne Is work white you sleep
cleanse :the stomach, remove the sou;
What is true of the Governor's office, is ,undigcjted, fermenting food and foi
equally true of the others. It cost Mr. Brown < £ s “ ;t ? ketk * exte “ from t,
over $2,000 to defeat Mr.. Price for Commis-?
sioner of Agriculture. Some of the candidates
for the Court of Appeals spent over $2,000 each
and nearly all of them a liberal slice of the sal
ary they would have received had they won.
The statements filed this year, considered
together with the money spent in the race for'forget the chUdren. They love Cai
Governor and United States Senator four years jeareu because they-taste gpod
ago, give some idea of the expense of the white [new grlpe-or sicken. (»dv.
primary. After all, what is it for? Merely,for—-”" 0 —
white men to decide among themselves who F"°' NF f R A "° FIREM * N HUR _
their candidates shall be; eliminating the- vote Sff*
of negroes who were disfranchised ten years | Nobody w« seriously hurt
ago—at least we are assured repeatedly that train No. 94, the Dude
they were disfranchised. We have no party lines ’bound on the Atlantic
in the primary, so why not drop it all together
and give the poor man at least a chance.-to run?*
liver ;>nd carry out. of the system q
the constipated waste matter and pq
son i* the bowels..
A Cascaret tonight win straighte
you out - by • morn mg- «i 10-cent bo
fromnany drug store-will keep yon
stomach sweet, liver and bowels regt
lar, and haad clear, for-months. Don
SOMETIMES THEY ARE USEFUL.
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Farris’ Colic
It is easy to
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minutes he is
In an editorial article endeavoring'to wake
up Sylvester, the Worth County Local says:
Even the fire department has degenerated
into inocuous desuetude. We used to- have a fire
occasionally, but the whistle is now suffering
with a constricted larynx for the lack of use.
At first glance, one would suppose the fire
alarm to be a costly awakening, But some
times it does good. More than one city has been,
boosted into a new and phenomenal growth by
a fire which at first appeared, little short of
calamitious. Chicago and Jacksonville are
notable examples.
As cities grow, it is too often the cast that old
buildings are renovated, added to and rebuilt,
when they should be torn down and new ones
put in their place. Many otherwise progressive ] jay. you
and modern towns have these eye-sores, which j Phillips Men
only a general conflagration will wipe out.
Small fires come, but they usually take the bet
ter buildings; it is only in a general sweep that
the old, unsightly, dilapidated ones are con
sumed.
Fires in a residence section fall heaviest on
individuals and bring much trouble, sometimes
suffering. But where business men are wide
awake. thoro which clean out business blocks
usually result in handsomer and more modem
buildings taking their places.
Of course, we do not mean from this that
Sylvester needs a fire. In fact, we disagree
diametrically with the writer in the Local as
to this means-of rousing any community from a
nap. But the thought comes from reading the
paragraph that in many cases hustling and pro
gressive cities have turned what appeared at
first to be disasters into blessings in disguise.
After all, it depends on the people.
ran into thu- rear- end
32, the Southland, also
at water tank at Foi
night about 9 0*610
The observation
land! was pretty-
two* other Pul!
aged to necesri
oft the train,
men on No. 94
injuries
'Qo paueni
-riderabty
them soi
injuries,
out from
More than once, facing counter attacks, the
British have gone out to meet the Prussian
charges in the open with the bayonet and the
Prussians have done the same. All past records
in ferocity of fighting seemed to have been sur
passed during the latest British ad’--n<e. Sc
freely was life given and so wonderful was the
rourage shown on both sides that the whole
Using seems unreal to the spectator. In tai-.y's
mist and rain the cease!c-ss pounding of the -g ias
goes on as fresh troops march up to the front
from the rear to take their place .t .he u-r vt bat
tle of this tremendous offensive.
Says the Moultrie Observer:
Randolph Rose is advertising buttermilk as
the favorite beverage in his Atlanta coffee
house. Close the door and put out the lights
ntw, they’re all in.
Editor Allen is optimistic. He reckons with
out the prohibitionists-for-rcvenue-only class.
So long as entr.usiartic drys are willing to come
across with liberal contributions to keep Up the
light, there will be prohibition agitation in
Georgia. There is nothing sounds the fire
ilmm more persistently or'quicker than a wad
of licPrrs in H e treasury. Already we
"c.v.if'jg nrtiilc about the hot fight the liqu<
jroen are going to make in Georgia next year.
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