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1 THE TIFTON GAZETTE, TIFTON bAY, MARCH 2, 1917. ^tfton (Bajette Published Weekly Entered ut the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia, as jnail matter of the second claaai 0ao. L. Herring. Bettor and Manager Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. From the Tifton Gazette, January 1st, 189: Capt. VY. H. Snow writes fr 0 m High Point, N. C./of a trip through this section and advanc es the opinion that-South Georgia is sure to be a winner in tobacco growing. Rev. P. II. Crumpler is pastor of the Metho dist church. E. J. Fulwooij resigns as section forejnan at Cycloneta. Mr. H. H. THts shingle mill is'approaching completion. S. D. Thomas secures permit to build a buck ster’s stand, corner Railroad and First streets. 'Col. C. W. Fulwood sold his Love avenue res idence to Mr. Robert Turner, of Kirkland. arM moved into one of the Fulwood and Alexander cottages, on Central avenue. The Berrien County Farmer's Alliaiic agreed not to use a pound of commercial fertil izer during 1892. A fantastic parade is mentioned among the Christmas festivities, in which Mr. J. C. Hind starred. / At an entertainment at Tifton Institute for the benefit of the furniture fund of the Metho dist church, Mrs. W. O. Tift, Mrs. F.. H. Tift. Miss Murphev and Misses Smith, of Sycamore, received especial mentioh. Mr, E. H. Tift’s local hits in a character song were features. At a meeting <>f the Knight’s of Pythias. F. G. Boatright. M. A. Sexton, C. A. Williams. C. W! Fulwood. J. A. Alexander, S. G. Slack. W. O. Padrick and J. H. Goodman were elected officers, in the order named. A banquet was served at Robert C. Copeland’s restaurant. J. E. Dean, lumber inspector at Tift’s mill, is sure he saw I. D. Sm'th, missing from his home in Laurens county. Rev. D. B. Sweat began the publication of the Sunday School Revival at Waycross. The Gazette was the official organ of Berrien county. D. W. Tyson was Sheriff and F. M. Smith. Ordinary. The death-of Asa Newsome, of Hahira. is mentioned by the Cecil correspondent. “Bohe mian.’'. SATURDAY NIGHT. UNCLE SAM TAKES A HAND. RAILROADING IN 1892. The general public has an idea that this the fastest age of railroading the world hns known, but so far as our immediate section of South Georgia is concerned, this is not the case. Before us is a schedule of the Brunswick and Western railroad, now. a branch of the Atlantic Coast Line, in the Tifton-Gaiette of January 1st, 1892. or just a little over twenty-five years ago. On this schedule, train No. 4 was timed to leave Albany at 1:30 a. m. and to arrive at Tif ton at 2:45 a. m., or one hour and twenty-four minutes for the forty-one miles. Returning it made even better time. It left Tifton 12:51 m. and arrived at Albany 2:10 a. m., one hour vend nineteen minutes for the same distance. ^ Thi^was locally known as the "Cannon Ball." and the description was fairly accurate. It a through train from the North'to Florida, and carried Pullman equipment. The train pre senting the nearest analogy to it now is the Seminole Limited. This'ia also a through train to and from Florida, but it does not huAle as did the "Cannon Ball" of twenty-five year* ago. It leaves Albany at 1:50 a. m, arriving Tifton 3:25 a. m„ or a schedule of one hour and thirty- five minutes. Westbound, the-running time is the same, giving an advantage to the fhrough train twenty-Jlve yesrs ago of ten minutes fast er time eastbound and 'fifteen? minutes faster - westbound. The difference is really gi ■ The locomotives of that day concealed in the cab of the ent. The rails were forty-pot with ninety-pound today, and ujter than this. $>uld be almost l_.of.the pres- | as compared ! other equip- Cal Turner and the Black Runner. Cal Turner was afraid o^Hnakes. In this he in no way differed from the aver age barefoot boy in SoOth Georgia forty years ago, but Car added nervous frills to the ordin- fear. When he was fishing, if be saw a snqke. he jumped at every crooked stick for the balanc“ of the day, and the savor of wooing the nimble pike and hungry red-eyes, was gone. His associates kgcw this weakness, and they played It tn the extent of many boyish pranks and practical jokes. , But this fear of Cal’s was acquired, not inher ited. In early boyhood he played with snakes. 1: was one qf his jokes to take a garter snake or a chicken snake UjMhe tail,and chase a bevy of squealing girls around the yap I with it. Or he would-swing the reptile around his head a few times and with a quick jerk, as if manipulating n whip, pop its head off. How Cal’s familiarity was'changed to fear, is the story: Cal was siding corn in the big field .across Hie greek. The day was hot. and C-al munched hi* tobacco and ruminated, as he followed the scooter, attached to a 'grasshopper stock n.nd a deliberate mule, up and down the long- row There was the fishing coming next Saturday af ternoon. and (inly a few weeks off. prcachin; over at Rodger Bottom, with the Johnson gals certain to be there. The thought of’Cynthii Johnson, in her blue figured calico dress and pink sunbonnet. brought a smile as the mule reached the end of the long row and turned from habit up into the corner of the worm-rail fence. A rustling, like the swish of a submarine per; iscope, caused Cal to glance over in the fence iamb and there, from under the bottom rail, the head and about six inches of a black runner showed, the red tongue licking out at Cal spite fully. Now. the black runner is not at rfll clas ed among the lighting snakes, and often ha Cal chased one to its hole, or caught it uni wares anil snapped off its head. This one wi idently a giant of its species, but it was with the feeling of chastising an impudent coon that Cal picked up a small pine knotjjmi hurled it ak the runner's head. ( The missile went true. Perhaps the-blow daz ed the snake; perhaps, due to thinhot weather, it had a brainstorm: more probable that under •orm rail fence its spring eggs (were hatch- In any event, to Cal> alaytn. instead of running away the snake came at him with open mouth. If the runner wouldn't run. Cal would, and just as the reptile, coming within easy , reach, made a lunge at him. Cal turned and flew. In those days, few boys under twenty wore pant.- -bile at work. Cal did nbt and his only gar ment was a homespun shirt, reaching to his knees. . S As hir whirled to run, and the snake struck, the switching TaiTbF this shirt was the only thing rench and into this, near the hem, one long tooth of the runner caught—and hung, for the cloth \fras honest and strong. Cal felt the cold snake touch his calf and wit A a yell of horror he "lit a shuck" down the long corn-row. along the furrow he had just plowed. Because it could not get loose the black runner, over three feet long, trailed be hind. That the snake couldn’t help this. Cal did not know; he thought the runner had sever 'd diplomatic relations and was trying to com mit an overt act. His breath growing short. Cal glanced be hind him—the snake was coming along the fur row. like a black streak, right at his heels! With another yell, Cal put on a burst of speed, the sweat pouring down his face and body in streams under the May sunshine. Thinking Inter that surely he had distanced the runner in a fair test of speed. Cal jooked behind. There was the snake, not an inch the loser! This time Cal went down for it, with ev ery atom of strength that tense muscles and frightened mind could give. His bare toes dug into the freshly plowed ground, thowing be hind "him a shower of rattling pebbles and a cloud of dust. was near half a..mile-JUXQas that.field, apd. GETTING BACK IN THE GAME. the “Cannon Ball" were the fib' ones Brunswick and Western had burning coal. But the men at the throttlejon the old "B and W.” were men on the job!{ John and Jo- Green. John Golden, Pat Craofr, -Bill Futch. John Clements; and their associates could coax out of a piece of-machinery alllthat was in it. Not but their successors (Joe (J-een is still on the job) are as good and as competent men. but in those days.xulei were n#t so strict and l charge of the train had more lati- Eor making up time. Jphn Green and »• superiors, while Cramer "the wild Irishman." • —- — , , VI1II1U on Uip UIIU men ien mi iuhiivi k, high sliced under-diffieut- "But ‘hS^was'Too~\yeak fo’cllhib. The best he . . % Ball" had few accidents, i goes to show thay while w i progress in railroading, we With a Congressional unanimity surprising, ^pcle Sam hns taken charge of the interstate transportation of intoxicants, and now states that desire,the total suppression of the liquor traffic can have it. The motives behind the almost unanimous vote were varied. There was the sincere prohi bitionist, whose dreams for years have been the total suppression of the liquor traffic. There- wLs the citizen of a prohibition state, who has watched the outflow of millions of dollars year- for intoxicants. There was the moderately nperate man, who rWslievcs that, with total prqhibition will sooner come a better under standing and real temperance. And last‘was the liquor man. who believes that a law so drastic will bping reaction and regulation in the place of totit.l prohibition. But no matter wTiat the ; behind the vote, the result was the same, -rgia hns been regulating her liquor trade for thirtV-five years. First with local option, next with statewide* prohibition with -a leak, and it With“zin iron-clad law. Now it will t) possible for her I'ttizens to obtain intoxicating liquors, wines or beers by any legal tm-aits. if by any means at all. unless they go beyond the onfines of the state and drink them. Now Georgia will find for the first time whether she really wants prohibition. One of the fifst-mul most beneficial results will be to stop the flow of money out of th- state and the flow qf liquor in. It has been said in some quarters that many negroes are.leaving because they cannot get whiskey here. If so. well and good—negro and whiskey is a combi nation that no peace-loving people want. It be that other citizens will *migrate'to fol- the dram, if so- we’wiH bid them a hearty farewell. As for the great mass of the people of the state, they will be left to work out their •n problems, domestic and economic, without being obliged to see their laws nullified by their sister states. As for the ultimate results—whether for good or bad—of the new law. time alone can tell. We believe it will be for the great and lasting good of the people as a whole, and that- tin tion of Congress will enable the people to ulate the liquor traffic in accord with the will of the -majority—which is wholesome and Den\; ocratic doctrine. ‘ For the first time in fifty years a British firm hns placed an order with .American ship-build ers, the Union iron works, of San Francisco, having closed a contact for three . 10.000-ton cargo ships for an importing house in England. Because of a foolish tariff wall and silly maritime laws, American shipping had almost disappeared from therijigh seas before the out break of the great war. and for half a century the largest shipping firms in this country had their vessels built abroad. Perhaps one of the first direct results of the war will be the open- fn American eyes to the immense price this country’ has been paying for bonehead legis lation. COMMENIS & COMEBACKS WHAT MILITARY ^TRAINING MEANS. The universal military training bill, which Committee on Military Affairs, in brief, pro vides for: The ■period of training is. six months and ii to begifi ill the nineteenth year. After that the soldier or sailor goes into the reserve, from which, until he completes his twenty-eighth year, he may be called at any time by the Pres ident only for the purposes of defense. As suming that at least 400.000 young men will receive this training each year, it is figured that after nine years the Nation will have al ways in reserve approximately 3.000 Quo able- bodied men with some knowledge >f arms *f}d able to take care of themselves i«o camp, trench and field or on shipboard. / A Duplay of Waallh- Ope onion that coat a dime potato that coat- fourteen cents ■ one rutabaga turnip that < ty cents were weighed In ■ grocery store. And they i such whoppers in aUe, Albany Jierald. Got a Who). Gall-on,-m t It is a common thing ,1 or orte man to bpn another to order an extra | but Quitman presents a other map’s nar get a fellow i Observer. . Foolish The Tiftg pasterous J ’i From The, (.Villa Star. The Star views with great regre! the laying 1 . ‘ of the work he has been doing by Dr.| fu r ,her 'eolation would help WE LOSE A VALUABLE MAN first p h-grislatd time i Before jn cigarettes, tisor. what fc_ of the way?. , Point i » pernicioua ? peace officers a’ (ted in their u —Tifton Gaze The pistol toting If and cowardly, I) Fort. >>nr District Health Commissioner. He hud been on the job about a year, and yet there is hardly a man. woman or child in Irwin .niinty (and we assume thn£ the same is true of Tift)/wHq has not directly or indirectly been somewhat affected by his work. He caiTieii on a great educational campaign along the line of his work, and it is safe to say that these two counties where he has worked ill be a great deal healthier on account of his ear's labor. New things generally meet ~wRh more or less opposition. n-> matter how worthy. And yet. so tactfully has he done his work as a health cer among the people; that,we have yet to hear the first word of criticism. believe that he leaves his work incom petent hands. He-hns laid the foundation well, and his successor will have asier sailing. Whilst another will carry bn the work, and in his way. the work of Dr. Fort will go xm. Irwin county regrets the accident that forces him to abandon the line of work that he loves mi ktv-ws so well how- to do, but wishes him ■—in i;r.o work he wall OVERLOOKING THE HOME MAN The following is from the Dublin Courier* Herald: It is said that "a prophet is not without hon or save in his own country." If you will change »■— , . , .. , the word prophet to product you will find one abundant success in the line of of the reasons why diversified, farming has notjtake up. proved the,success it was hoped. The story of 1 the potatoes in the editorial, "Out for Results.” in.the Southern Ruralist. reminds me of an inci- dent , which huppamiMLJn-Goorgia *«v«rak yoarAjFi-wm-th*^ M<*uUrj« Observer, go. A fruit grower in Fort Valley put tip his hen the markets were glutted add the And for the love of Mite don’t go to talking too much ebook right now. Some buiybejHee might persuade the governoejf_ -a session to corral#/the “great, til.”—Dalton Cit! The Assist Mr. B. H. ( -ill become A of Agriculture Marc Clay having resigned number a years and have alwayi looked upon him as a man of more than ordin- a ary ability, always overflowing with (J public spirit. He has always dreamed 9B big things for South Georgia, and as labored with hu mind, body and oifey to see his dreams come true, ommissi'oner J. J. Brown has dona himself proud and South Georgia * great service by naming Mr. Groov- •V’aycrose Journal-Herald. in Fal'sTirVath was coming tn'piThting gasps': and from sheer weariness he slowed up. As he slackened speed, the snake drooped until i* touched his ankle. No other stimulus was needed, and oTice more Cal threw her into the high clutch arn! ret his teeth tor the home stretch. Exhaustion was coming when into his dim ming vision came the rail fence at the end o'f the row! Maybe he could make it? Was the snake still.following? A backward glance prov ed that it was, and with one more supreme ef fort h? made for the fence and safety. When he struck the fence. Cal intended to , lia.ii .in top and then tell the runner t-> go to. peachu., - „ \ . prices low. He put up a good honestbaek of choice fruit and placed attractive I a b4" on his cans. He endeavored to sell his outptu in Geor gia, but failing to do so disposed of it to a Bal timore jobber. Among those to whom he tried to sell his peaches was a South Georgia whole sale grocery houscj A short tirne after refusing to buy the Georgia’product this wholesale groc ery house ordered a carload of canned peaches from Baltimore, and when they were received every can bore on-it the label of the Fort Val iev grower. Which reminds us that twenty-five years ag( Tifton invested something like S30.000 in : model canning plant. At that time thq peach industry was at its height in this section, nnd some of the finest Elbertas that ever tickled the palate of an. appreciate . connoisseur were grown here. The canning plant was designed to conserve the surplus peach irrop as well as to encourage truck growing. There were not many farmers then in this immediate section but for the first ear or two quite a lot of "truck'was grown For" the factory, tomatoes especially. Hut the prin cipal: product of the cannery was peaches, and of this specialty one of the finest articles ever placed before the American public was mad« could do was a running jump! by _which he struck the two. top rails, knocked them off. and with them fell on the other side, face down- On the back "f his bare legs the snake ??]'• and when he felt its cold body on him. Cal gave up and for the first nnd only time* in hi.- life fainted. In some way. the runner extricat ed itself, and when Cal came to was gope. After that. Cal played rio more pranks with snakes. It hit by the Reed amendment s in the smaller.counties. ? officials are contingent on jjority of the rural counties of :hey do not aggregate over $50 -many of them iWh less- The .. k registration of whiskey shipments. One of the best of the smaller afternoon dai- uch went into effect May lit lies reaching this - office is the Rome Daily the nav of these deserving oU Chronicle. The paper, is just celebrnting its first anniversary birthday. The Chronicle «« ably edited and sprightly, to boot-. Manv have longed for the day of diversifi-] »i«P °° ■PP** 11 .ation in South Georgia. Diversification has . . • • * been preached for years, it has been taught by our agricultural colleges, farm demonstra tors. newspapers and farm papers. Hasn't the day of diversification arrived? VV'e an hardly picic up a newspaper printed in Georgia now that we do not reatTkoine item about the sale of live stock or the shipping of grain. . There is a big peanut story in one. a velvet bean story in another, a hay story and a syrup story, etc., etc. . - Every little town has its mill getting ready to prepare ground feed from oats, pea vine hay. peanut bread, velvet beans, corn, etc. A Tifton mill advertises for one million bush- ls of peanuts next fall, and the farmers ai;e neeting the call by buvjng up seed peanuts and planting fifty thousand acres in the vicinity of Tifton. The Camilla Enterprise tells us that one rai road in Mitchell county has hzr^led sLxt.v-three carloads of hogs and forty-seven carlonds of cows out of that county this season. Three or four years from now it will’bc possible for the same county to market one thousand cars of hogs, a thousand cars of peanuts, one thousand cars of beans and one thousand cars of com.. Just the other day we were quoting some newspaper that reported the sale of eight hun dred thousand dollars worth of hogs on the feet in Grady county, and besides they; was the largo and fill a two-pound can. were put up in syrup they made a table delicacy that*could not bi celled. Of course, n cheaper product was put out. pie peaches and others to meet the demand .for.liut-urdinary- trade, lml the specialty wns th dessert- peach. At that time S. G. Slack was superintendent of the cannery, and he put up there peaehe- under the "Tifton Brand" with-the picture of his daughter, little then—long since grown and married—on the label. The product was in every way superior, and it-deserved the people's patronage, but did it got it? It did nofTSithougfi-thc price was put Baltimore goods- -sold- for here, the wholesalers were so much given-ti buying-through regular channels that it was dif ficult to persuade them to try the Tifton goods. Salesmen mvFhe--road-to sell the produet found it uphill work. It wns^ difficult'to find “Tifton Brand" canned goods on the shelves of retail dealers in near by towns, and too many even among the Tifton merchants sold Baltimore stuff. ‘ Lack nf support of a locnj enterprise largely responsible for the fact that the ucry was only operated three years. It is also in part responsible for the failure of similar en- • r -:- 0 • — -j - By towns of. late yFars. This is one of the reasons Tifton has not Been very enthusiastic ^o^er the cannery proposition re cently. THE DAY HAS ARRIVED. SCHOOL TEACHER Ward* Off Ntrvotti Break Down Alburti*. Pa.—"1 am a teacher In the i public KhooU, and I xot Into a rrrr Mt-. xoua, rau-dmrn condition. I count Ml... . : ri«-p and kid no appetlt--. I ni tired j thousand dollars worm in mi K » n Gt'adv county, and besides there was the d nroduction of syrup on record and the. ■ gootf"aP<VTnintni?-T)'flsnilrW and cod liver pcptonce. iron ■m*. w |«pu.nat.., and Hereto* * pboapbatea lor run-do* n condition*. SOLD BY MILLS DRUG CO. OAKY GROVE NEWS. lur school i< progresainic nicely |er [he ciircful nrenanement of Prof. Leon Gridin. We have some- , where near fifty pupil*. « le sing at Oaky Grove waa very much enjoyed. Those who attend- • ed from nround Shady Grove were: ,r*. Berrie Baker nnd Hitonwt. Goff: Mines Lizzie Living*tom Ber-.-f tn Johncon and Mattie B-d!e Balter; I guers everybody U tired of (f Mr. ans) Mr *- W ‘ J ere vivting the latter'* etater. MS . H. Robinson. Saturday and Sow D. it, lioumsun is at Eldom tpending a few dnya wW •r. Mrs. N’arcy Akin*, who I k. We hope ahe speedily li Lolflf AUr-v of Coifel liui Mr*. Eliza Robinson.-g are also with Mrs price „ peanuts and fattening cattle for market. The Albany Herald just a few weeks ago an nounced the first carload shipment of hogs on record from that county, but sineg that time they have been shipping almost a car a day of cows and hogs from Albany. The market has just entered that county, and as.in other coun ties^. the stuff was found waiting when it| got .there. L ." Thomasville anaounces the shipment of six carloads of cows and hogs the past few days, and as for Boston and Quitman the railroad yards have not been clear of hogs the whole season. The shipment of hogs has become so common in Brooks jrounty that no more atten tion is given to-itihan to shipping cotton. .. I« Telfair, county.there has .been marketed fifteen cars of hogs, and cows already, and there will be a dozen more cars this seasoh. Dawson. Bninbridge. Tifton. Valdosta. Cor- dele, Fitzgerald‘and practically every Syith Grnrjrta'towTr-haiits own story-of big ments of cows. hogs, coiji, peanuts and ^elvet beans. —T*** * ' . _ ' 7 T The diversified era is here, and if the riyte of increase is kept up for two more .rears the cot ton will be secondary, boll weevil or no boll weevil. ' GUR FARMERS’ CHANCE. From the Albs 'y Herald. .... There is a sk rrtage omillion hogs in the eleven principal hog markets of the country. What p chance for Georgia .farmers to reap in »he shekels helping to make up the deficiency!. We could.fill in the whole gap if we made up Jour minds to do it. Trtr-wtr-T'ttri.rtaiTttr'J her sister, who she had not • bout twenty years. Two Little Pink., A.V T ired aching feet fej freshed after an i _ r Sloan’s Linim rob, it penetrates and sc Cleaner ih,-in tIH!»y .pi* ointments, does not stain tl Have a bottle handy f< mntic pains, neuralgia, g bago, sprains, strains, t bruises and muscle sorer At all drufjists, 25c. 50c. ai Sloari! Linimen rt/LLS PAiri