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Herring H
Of&ciaJd
MR. WIL!
One cannot i
the Senate uponl
without being deej
rwponaibility tha
“ the strongest o
almost certainty t
into the mad met
P«ace comes at i
rives the time t
given place in i
events wKTclT'Jo 1
•peech of Mr. 1
terpiece of
conception but u,
tuned to the time*
»H>ging of vital cm
to the warring natii
lop the peoples of-
didactic exposition]
regher than an a<
these same events t,.
the physical deman*
i at Tifton, Georgia,
3 class.
|. Editor and Manager
. WiU
pATE SPEECH.
lident’s address to
opean war situation
bressed with the grave
bnts the United States
eutral powers, and the
^ country will be drawn
destroying rage unless
day. And when ar*
nentous phrasings are
1’s chronicle of those
! history, this Senate
(take rank as a
liction magnificent in
y, not diapasonly at-
clear, concause cat-
i affairs, as applied first
and then made to enve-
earth, is a wonderful
power of the man
concatenation of
bed in raiment hued to
! the units which make
table c
As time goes by the
more and more appnreni
without more need* '
of today, the craze .
reation, automobilinj
tractions of a n
self-denial and
try to keep apace
kills.
No man ever
do without,
duct;
self-denial is
_ e art of doing
social fascinations
amusements, rec-
the glitter and at-
1c age—oal! loudly for
ing. And tho$p who
crowd sot a pace that
Ty Ty Department
gooi
self-control,
mastery and
business succi
Did you ev
street fakir
use—a potato
persuaded th|
peel potatoe:
chasers, who;
home and pr<
righteous fe|
labor,” only
same old waj
Doing witl
■t gets y
depend upon il
n painful proi
pleasant. Sacj
nial never popi
things of life
sands of little
ho wants a bicl
ida and the lik
give him lasting
little sacrifices,
ficult. and self-di
combs a joy. It is
•stance—to do
:ceds who does not learn to
■rj - basis of religion, of good
laracter lies in the virtue of
the highest evidence of sett
le foundation of all social and
Mb* France* Jona* i* In Sylves
ter, the guest of her sister, Mr*.
F. Stombridgc.
Mr. W. B. Park* i* on a fl
ing trip to Florida with several of
hi* old-time cronie* from other
stop to watch a crowd around a
ig some article of household
, jeler, for instance? How he
men that their wives could not
dthout it. and found ready pur-
Jd down their qunrters, marched
inted the article with pride and a
l of “helping wife in her daijy
find her peeling potatoes the
Je next day?
it may be difficult at times, but
iwhere. All successful careers
Saving money and economy is
Mr. Hobgood has bought the liv
ery stable from Mr. G. S. Nelson,
paying $2.60 for it.
Mr. Jake Taylor.'who ha* been vis
iting relative* ifuf^bld friend* m
-Ty Ty, ha* returned to hi* home
in Florida.
Mr. John Maund and Mr. Warren
Butler were among the Ty Ty vis
itors to Tifton this week.
The negro school
but the results are mighty led, as the result of a miiunderstand-
:e was never easy and self-de-jing (to put it mildly) between
\ But you can’t have the big teacher ’and one of the patrons,
you insist upon having thou- % * * * * *
ings all the time. The boy) Mr*. C. E. Grubbs and her
lie must do without candy and little girls have gone to visit rela-
but he knows his wheel will tires in Sylvester. Mr*. Grubb*, who
leasures that overbalance the)is a sister-in-!aw of Mrs. R. R, Pick-
iving for a purpose i» not dif- (Ott, has been in Ty Ty some weeks
* il for larger pleasures be- and will jirobably return heic
to follow the line of least fore going back to her home
te easy thing: to follow the Arizona.
j crowds brings you to no
But follow
desirable goal.
It is a splendid achievement—this doing with
out and few learn itiBut the structure it builds,
lasting and beaatiful one.
facets ti
There was to have been an import-
leetlng of the Ty Ty Improve-
Club Tuesday afternoon, but
» ..... * rained out. Member* of the
And the pitiful fact Is that if you do not learn, d1 “ b - however, and the play they
to do without now ther* may come a time when expected to arrange for on
have to do withont, and then it will be ton.Tuesday afternoon, will come- Off
into. That is the lesfibn of the poor house, and ^cording to schedule. Ty Ty un-
the bread line And as sure as you practice the!? rov '“ , ? nU " lusl on ' and tl ) e ' l “ h
«ln of Rclf-irratirtcntio, and toons tho virta, ofH J ”... ^
,elf-control, listen to the lure of the shop> win- oot {or themu|vi ., covert conaidcr .
dow, the] amusement Obmo. the appeal that W, b!e proundi but th#y wU1
manage it.
on even* band to spend .'and let yourself go. you
join a crowd thfc^a sliding down hill to! Mrs Felton is an ardc nt ndvo-
powhere. only to get r. hard bump at the bottom ■ cat ' e of rikrhu . , lUti llkf „, h .
-hen it is too late to men<Wpd wake up to vgin rr feBMh shc
regrets.—Exchange. )
«P the Entente Power* on the one side, and the
Allies which surround Germany on the other.
Mr. Wilson is eutopic and. therefore, .so far
ahead of his fellows that his enemies will
“align hhn and many warm partisans wholly
“ishndenrtand-the bigness 'if his purpose.
No one may fairly take issue with the Pres
ident as to the principle upon which he constru
cts his plea for an international peace union
so. cemented as to render every large and small
unit dependent and independent one of the
other, with identic co-ordinate powers. Such it
peace footing is, of course.entirely possible and,
under any other conditions than now exist,
might be easy of accomplishment if .directed by
the master mind of the President. But Eng
land and France believe that no peace can be
permanent until Germany.Austria-Hungary and
Turkey are stripped to proverty’s last bone, and
therefore are likely *to view the President'.*
speech as an assembly of admirable but imprac
tical platitudes. True, they hardly will be so
discourteous as to say this; in fact, they may ex
press the very contrary view for political effect,
but,when the final summing-time comes it will
be found that the Entente Powers will intrust
their-destiny to the keeping of an international
company of nations o«ly when the Teutonic
races no’longer are able to plot and intrigue.
And the reason: Two years overflowing with
German atrocities, in the midst of which looms ^ "
t mumentai tragedy of Belgium and the SUNDAY IN OLD GEORGIA. b( , de f crr j n g thr rlay of execution
that became a soap of paper when the " ijust to keep people guesamg^M
thought he saw the way open to Paris. From the Savannah Morning News. j weight ha* been estimated f
other hand we believe the Central Pow- NeW York Sun: Sunday was once u P on a most anything fr-m four hundred |
,, ., a . ,, time a, day for making calls, a fact which may j eight hundred Many persons ha\
err wui hail the PCfind^Ms Senate address as a, be f orgo tten hy those to whom Sunday is the visited hi, h«.gr.h ip and made
world consummate ds*utly to be wished for. day when the good citizen turns left at Sol- hot Mr Henry Und speak* |
We are not schooled In diplomacy,.neither
If you don’t better* the Tiftoo
Gazette 1* read by every bo ody in
these part*, put in a little notice (no
matter how small) and see bow
long before you hear from It-Men
tion was made in these cofnnjn*
last wock of an important‘letter in
the Ty Ty postofllce addressed to
Mr. Clsy Porter. It was put with
Mr.Clabe Porter’s mail and retarn-
cd, “opened by mistake.” The para
graph in question appeared in last
Friday's paper,.and on** Sunday “Mr.
Clay Porter,", beard *bqyt It at *
negro church in the country some
distance from Ty Ty. Of course he
lost no time getting to the post-
office and proving his right
letter. It contained a money order.
Ty Ty’s street cleaning squad did
not, in any way—race, color or pre
vious condition, or anything else—
resemble in the slightest degree the
'White Wings” of New York, but
he (the “squad” consisted of a lone
negro and a lonesome mule) kept
street* in good condition—bet-
than they were ever kept before
ind the finest squad ever organ
ized could have done
H43. TWO QUARTS
When the condition km
'bone dry” comes to this
the country, there is going
mighty foiling off lb postoi
ccipta. There i* something appall
ing in the number of money orderi
going out from here (most df them
to Jacksonville), for vrhi»ki
every device is resorted to inlefforta
to evade the restrictions of the law.
One carrier reports fog* ordel
en st the same time from one :
—father, mother, and two dg
ters, each ordering two quarts bj
same mail.
drunkenness is far 1<
It used-to be—and undoubted
ly it is—what must haVe been the
amount spent for whiskey before
days of local option, which prcc
ed prohibition in Georgia, and
down the whiskey bills to a cert*
extent?
Of course,
daughter* do not
whiskey
there is
prefer* to spen(
transfer of Jack’s efforts from the
streets to the rqjlroad is Ty Ty's
loss. If all negroes were a, able,
ffllclent and willing, and if ail white
people appreciated good negroes a*
y Ty appreciated our street
iquad,” we should never hear of
ice troubles.
The for drink,- doing, wi
A WORK OF ART.
.week, and, though a man would ha'
been fined (or making a similar r
mark under the same circumstance*
The way they kept on following Billy Os
borne up after he was ai}t of the running in
the federal judgeship race'looked a good deal
more like persecution than prosecution. . , . . - ... «...
r , . . 1 it seemed only amusing in her. May
Now that the boys have;kept on about tnat: be SM f,^ day womcn wi n | carn ttbcn
visible leg business until-they have Sutlive. of| t h e y are^well off.
the Press, started, we may really have to show
the thing up, after all-
The question of dyes hns received
msiderablc attention since the
European war began, for America
largely dependent on other
tries for dye stuffs. Even thr
aggresive of the Aanericu-for
Americans class reluctantly admit-
that it was just posuido that
could not produce the best of
a, inks, and a few other things
i ..ecently I have seen n specimen
both “rights and privileges. She of woo|c „ K „ od , dyed wlth wild
certainly took a woman's privilege p1wlUf prep . red at home . which
of speaking her mind in court last wouId ralh „ upspt 0,1,
theory. The article in question is
a counterpane, or coverlet, oarded.
spun, dyed and woven by Mr*. Zary
Nipper half a century ago. It is
woven in diamonds, formed of
black and white squares, and ,th<
. black was dyed with a mixture of
really bet- (.allborry, sumac! and sortie other
Great are the possibilities of Tift!
farmer living only a mile northwest of Tifton.
ahs for his neighbors Rainey..Rainwater and;
Pond. Ought to have plenty of moisture there.
SUP.’DAY IN OLD GEORGIA.
of that hog (Ty p i Bnts indigenous tq South' Ci
A trn k Ty f ° lka <r?n t indul * e in thnl ‘ ort soil. There is not a thread out of
■miT 1CK ' of ' rce P’- ma ? bc c0,d drink!1 place in the weavA and the dyed
| on the price of cotton., and possibly woo j j s as black as if it had been
ome other little
dyed yesterday with the bi-
of commerce. Altogether, this
counterpane is a work of art.
ALL OF THEM ALIKE.
. They used t'
are we well versed in toer points of national
politics, but we do not bow believe that • maj
ority of the American people arc in accord tyii
any policy that has for fia ultimate end an al
liance with European pewera along the linei
Si
which render thia people subject to the concert went calling on a Sunday in summer
dictation of a company of nations- However,
after warring Europe haa adjusted all differen
ces—and they will be adjusted to the liking and
dialiking of the interested powers regardless of
America’s views, with proper consideration, of I and in its place is some fine farm land.
dier’s Monument (18-7), follows trolley to Zink-^he voice of authority. He killed
hunt (32.8) and takes ri'f'nt fork over bridge! recently that came tolerably
i Gladewood (41.9), there to cat a simple (We hundred, and he pronounces this
ible d’hote dinner, with sacred cabaret. But one "a whole* lot bigger."
the youth of John L. Herring,-editor of the] -Make your — guesses, gentie-
Daily Tifton Gazette, there were no motor; men," and ladies are not barred,
cars either in South Georgia or elsewhere. John
neighbor Gay’s. It was only a seven-mile walk
to Obediah Gay’s house and there was no
road but a horse-path trail through the wire
grass and the unnbroken pine forest The for- n
est is gone now, John tells us in the Gazette, i Tifton last Sunday
There °V
not demonstrate worth a cent, and
one of them ia an automobile in
the lulka. Mr. and Mrs. L. S. Wat-
coming from Sylvestci
Once when Bill Nye was travel
ing through North Carolina, he saw
a hog of the genuine razor-back va
riety. He continued to look eagerly
from the window of the car, and,
when his friend naked him what be
was looking at. he said: “I'm look
ing for the other half of that hog.”
Razor-baclu were plentiful I
those days, but their kind .is fast dii
appearing from this part of th
might tnwel^U
day without seeing one. and other
scrub stock is also disappearing to
make way for thoroughbreds; but
tell a story in Liber- the change is more noticeable In
Samuel Dowse, when Ijogs than in the other kinds,
rasa young man. and this story: Different breeds of hogs have
•odjcht to mind by the action of been introduced, from thm
of the R. F. D. men connected otily to give wav to some other kind;
ie | with the Ty Ty postofficc. hut the Duroc Jersey seems to have
Medway church. !n Liberty coun- come to stay. Mr. Will Wade, at
ty, is said to he the first place of Hillsdale, who ha* been raising this
worship ever built in Georgia. Sam- breed for sometime, says tjiey yield
uel Dowse was an influential mem- more meat at less cost than cny
ber of this church, and one of. his other. He' killed four this winter,
name sake*. Samuel Dowse Broad- fourteen month* old, and each of
living, it is, in
hpt when he spends in this way
ey that rightfi.il>- tieioi.c to oth
members of t o family, lortiog thi
to do withwu/ many of Uie z,*ce*i -
ties of life, a great suite ougtht
find n way te stop it-
WILL NOT Rt GDEL.
The Primitive {.‘“ptlata. Vho
about to build a brick church on
lot *whero the old school bidding
stands, have changed their plans
somewhat. The original intention
was to *move, remodel
old building but it was found that
the funds were not sufficient, and
Primitive Baptists are violently op
posed to debt. So they decided
as much of the lumber as .was needed
for the wapdsrtfrk of the church,
and leave other'building till they
coaid afford to pay\cn«h for it.
Adjustment wqul<L QheduJi c
icRtion of the-prin^IjessAhilne
Obediah Gay had no butler, no silver cock
tail shaker, but he had a family of Seventeen
children, all In the single pen house built by
himself of pine logs and ceiled with boards riv
ed with a frow. The floor was of puncheons—
logs split and hewn smooth on one tide.
The chimney was of clay. The doors
hung on home made hinges o f black
gum. Obediah had no burglar alarm, ex
cept a dozen deer hounds and when
the boy John appeared,at the fence two of the
Gay sons walked to the bars to guard him in.
came dawn between the green cape
bushes to meet the guest and show-
oak. Two
courae, due the dignity mad respect of this gov
ernment—there can and doubtless will be some
international agreement reached whereby the
chances of war will be reduced to the minimum.
Disarmament and reduction of sea power might
or might not be included in such a pact, but
this would not materially weaken or strengthen
it* binding force. If Mr. Wilson’s preseot move
ahould result in such a consummation he will
have rendered to the peoples of the world an
inestimable service. ,_ f
mean applicai
dple of the Monroe dootiKe, „hi=h i. u muth "■* “■» “ » s ' at S' bl *
.. M more sons of Obediah s presently appeared
as can be hoped for now. . with a cotton basket full of roasting ears, the
Meanwhile, we await with keen anticipation I 0 f jj, e g e g son _ The guest prepared for
Europe’s criticism of th#; President’s speech* .dinner at a tin basin on a shelf beside the front
That lt generally will be regarded as a statfc dcor. dipping water with a long-handled -gourd I
Cla/sic there is small doiifcmt it WiU Iesaenltrom a cedar pall. The soap ffime from the,
tha artivifies of th# hlood-tfazed nations wa dol bi * lron b’e-^ot In the back yard.
? l e “°°*7iTp ld !„u The kitchen was a sister of the big house, ex-
not believe, and for the re»on that the Entente | cept ^ lfae flreplace was broader , to take care
Powez have fixed the price Germany must pay. , 0 f the cooking utensils. No wooden floor was
a prict *hat means'em- pulling out by the rooU needed, for generations of Gays had tramped
of the war fangs of the Taitons. When tHS~is!the clay down hard. The table ran the length
done England will be ready to join America in the kitchen, but even then was too short for
tno«* anv sort of this country mlirht. the entire compony. 80 the smaller boys waited
^ counuY mignp , nd hfld ^ pf corp tQ pi ^ ce out with The
fl ** I corn was piled high on blue-edged plates long
—— i in the Gay family. Then there wife corn bread.
y to cut down the first sweet potatoes of the year, and beef
> high cort of living i» to at liks « itorw. I bulg . h f re < 1 from the ^
i avefag
thing* that will [ well, vouched for the truth of this (.them weighed over three hundred J
story of Colonel Dowses young days. | pounds.
Somewhere in the early years of South Georgia is fart approaching ] -
the nineteetn century (history tell* 'he time .when there will be
just when, for Medway hiffongs to ket here for Westi
history), the old church was burn
ed. Before rebuilding there wa* a
lively discussion among the mem.
bervas to a new site, many of them
insisting that it ahould be moved to
neighborhood that had grown up
n miles away. At last the matter
is brought before the nongrega- .
m. and a vote wa, to beViken on SORTS OF C°° D * F <> R ALL
certain day. On the day appoint-’ SORTS OF PEOPLE,
ed. when everybody, except yoUng "
The TyTy^
DRUGS AND I
SUNOS
Prescriptiou <
School
and Sup
A COMPLETE DRUG STORE
JONES A COM
Dealers In
High date Garnered !
J read this at
this store aa<
shopping.
PRICES RIGHT
FOR SALE.
Berkshire Pigs. S. C. B. 1
horn Chickens, and 1 ~
Cows. I also buy good, j
fat cows and hogs.
W. F. SIKES, Ty Ty, G*. |
A. PARKS,
Groceries, Dry Good* Etc.,
Caskets, Coffins.
Ty Ty. Georgia. -
M, A. WOODARD fit CO*
General Merchutai
Ty Ty, G».
Found a Sure Thing.
L B. Wixon, Farmert Mill*, N. Y„
used Chamberlain'* Tablets for
years for disorders of the stomach
and liver and says, "Chamberlain'•
Tablets are the belt I have ever
used," Obtainable everywhere, (ad)
. •.»„ ■, - , . .‘ must have been tough, but John doesn’t say so.
all we gotta Bay is that/the average At- j ^fter dinner the young folks played marbles.
“- n - upon occasion, c.aa/^°vert himself .shooting from taw at the mibs in the circle with
lore kinds of a jEckars than ar.y specimen.cr:e3 of “roun’ance,” “vence yer roun’ance.”
genus homo on topside of the globe. and “hold studd.v hand!” The length- _ _
(ening shadows warned John that it was time'
.to «tart the seven-mile walk homeward, after ““./n-rienr-.•<»; !.*.-
on a new dress it u the p typic;! Wiregrass Sunday. The only regret I ‘Xu? appm";!!IE-£ Jms'nkS
to tell her how fine it looks..he expresses in looking backward is that of all i pound** ui.it b il* N»vv jicnrri-
■« •• —- - ’ ~ ’ menl actually vtrerded a tt-ufcfa Mu-11
eon tract wn-><su wpl
Bethlcbeni Steel Company
CHAS M. SCHWAB. CSalraun.
BUCB.'IKU UlUdi.IV. it lie
before
they got to Ty Ty. \hoir car “went
dead” on them. If it a ltad been some
thing in the agricultural line, all
would have been well; but as the
thing was. our demonstrator was
literally "at hii ‘row’* end"—ns far
that car was coilccmed. 'He
hung out a flag of distress (to
change the figure from the farm
to the ocean) and was rescued by — r .
Mr. W. F. Bikes, of Ty Ty. Mr. and Dowse, entitled to a vote had as . 0ur ,ar ** and varil '' 1 f,nck " ITl ' n
Mrs. Wataon reached home-in safe-i scmhled. th# friends to removal, everythiny that the average man
but, at last accounts, that stub- ' counting noses, found there would ; wom * n ' or ch .' 111 '* likely to need,
'Bornlir'wa rigkt where they left;lie •-tie as matter* stond; but they l ^ ocr '' U8lomcrs nhr *rt r «' -|y '
felt .sure that the removal p.rty, piompt and courteous attention.
‘ would win out. for the now site was; u » » ervc y° u - and y° u » re
in the immediate neighborhood of | 10 h* P le »“ d ' “Peneral Merchan-
Mr. Dowse. He was expected mo- ik U and u ’ Bl covc ™ » «f
mentarily. and would certsiny (so Ifround. Especially wr look after the
it was thought) vote for removal. I v ^ Brrt ? of the farmer.
lMr. Dmne arrived, a vote wa* Uk-! ° f S2P«e going w pliant
cn and he voted against removal. : 1^° und peas. The farmer who fail*
When asked to explain his-vOte. he 1 ^ P ut 40 * X 0 °d crop ground■
said that the young lady whom he f e “ 0,0 >' car '» likcl l f f 0T
wa* "paying attention" (young men h ‘» lack of judgment We have
|didn’t sneak of their "girt." in! 1 "* ,,tork of w,d - both tbe Spani.h
those day*) lived near his own home,| Jind Ule ™ nnin lf varieUe*. Plenty o
which was in the immediaf neigh- tbem now ' bu ‘ wc "“P not h,vl
; borhnnd nf the proposed site, and. ) 2ter ' IdlT i" B MPldy whiln
; that he did not intend to forego-that' ^ a,t '
ten-mile drive to church. | ™ ™ FARMERS’ SUPPLY CO.
Now. the Ty Ty postofficc ha* three ; — ■■ ■)...'
E. WILLIAMS
ed to its handsome, new quarters
these married men, anxious to.have] DEALER IN
Bethlehem’s Bid on Shells
for. the United States Navy
TO Vu American PropH.
The SecretVf of I hr Navy ha. awarded
0onlriK-U am. n in tin* to over $3,001 000
lo a Hnli.li li.'Hrr for It sod If,-inch
projectiles f,.r llic Navy U-cauxof v,v*
much lower prliVW I,rrrind by the KnKh,b
the Hntidi I.
UC of the basis uponwhe
««e made, bul tlie po,
U. know (!«• (nrLi up.
Ives bid for this work.
copied by the
i a lady puts
somebody to
Progreae Yee, *nd it’s adviaa- *h« folt-s of that Georgia Sunday only one is
KsL,f , new pie or nnj oth- J' n : “ 11 h«vo boon . Ion* time .,0. Per-
/ — fcnn, on nn> „ i*». lliaps boys play marbles still, in New York as in
;t comes from an ven. «** j G eorjr j ni but what-boy walks fourteen miles to
Vvirnt the neighbors?
things harmonize, immediately
bought fine, new'automobiles,. The Uinh Place
other carrier, who ia not^a married HlBMUIawS
man, continue* to jog along with
a horte and buggy.
] The application? Why. what 1*
even ten miles to an automobii.-?
—and She live* not more than .-.x
from the church.
Drives Oat Malaria, Bands Up System
The Otd atudaid mcrsl tutssthemlaa tealc.
THE STORE
Where Your Dollar Goes Further
Courteous Treatment
YouHIrade Will Be Appreciated
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