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mmHBMP 1 "'* , ■ ■ ■ ■■ 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.” '\ > s 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. YOUP It you on* of your your wife cal Farris’ Colic It is easy to the horsed to: 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. IMA*. ' t