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THE NEGRO REGISTRATION
While the white, registration for selective
draft in the whole state exceeded the colored
registration. yet inmanr ^onth Georgia, coun
ties' Uu\ negro registration ran ahead. In
Ttmmail TW h< : grdes“regTsl'ereirfar "outnumber-
Tom. showing him to the mum to
himinepin; taros yellow and gi it-
off the stalk, although in wet
WHAT IS
LAX-FOS IS AN IMmjVEO CAsAtA ^
A Digestive Laxative
CATHARTIC AND UWA TONIC
Lax-Pos is not a Secret or Patent Mnli-
NO SLUMP HERE.
Litton (Sasette
Published Weekly
Knt&d at the Poatofflce at Tifton. Georgia,
as mail matter of the second clasB.
tlae. L. Herring Editor and Manager
” Official Organ City of Tiftoo
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT.
An Unconscious Exchange.
“Had you noticed what a, good man: Jake
■ to liis wife?" asked Lige.
We were sitting on a log back of Lige’* field
eating a watermelon. The boys were having a
coon hunt, and were following the trailing dogs
tar down the branch after striking the coon’s
track in the com field. We knew from the dis
tant baying that the doga were circling, and
Lige and 1 sat down to wait. It was all right for
the boys to run after the dogs and holler, but
Lige and I took things’ easy -and
coming across the cornfield we had stumbled
«n the melon and brought it with us. It was a
hot night, late in August, with a full moon
flooding field and forest with light bringing
•ut the wall of pines and their deep shadows
across the wiregrass. We were thirsty and the
melon which we bkrst over a knot and .gouged
•ut with our fingers tasted like nectar. It was
between mouthfuls that Lige spoke.
“Yes; we noticed it but thought it was
just his good nature." I replied.
“Partly that, and partly my work, although
I don’t make no blowing horn out of it,” said
• Lige. I knew there was a story coming,
■aid nothing and Lige. having eat the meat out
•f his hulf of the melon, scraped the rind, tilt
ed it up and drank the scraped melon and
juke, and threw the rind far off into the grass.
Then taking out his square of plug and biting
•ff a big chew he slid off the log on the grass
stretched out his legs until he was comfortable
and Buye enough, if was coming:
“It was a long time ago. before you can re
member. 1 waS living at the old place, and one
Saturday evening who should drive up to spend
the night but Jake and his wife. They hadn’t
been married very long then, and his wif e and
mine were great friends, as they have always
feet on the floor, and with the next step he ■
outside, his eyes like saucers and his pants and
- shirt in his hand.
We looked around for Tom, but he
gone. Didn’t any of us get much sleep that
night
The baying of the dogs had been coming
nearer, and now a concert of yelps and howls
told us they had treed in the head down by the
spring. Both of us rose;
“But what did that have to do with Jake's
being good to his wife?’’ Tasked. Lige took
out his chew and threw it away, as he replied:
“She never was plumb satisfied about Jake
dropping off to sleep so quick."
JAMES FRANKLIN PAUL.
KNIGHT TEMPLARS
TWENTY-FIVE YEARS AGO.
From Tifton Gazette. March 18th. 1892.
Mr. J. G. Graydon. of Tifton. was appointed
a membbr of the Board of Tax Equalizers for
Berrien county.
W. J. Clements, of Texas, was a virttor to
Tifton, being bne of the parties interested in
the Crpwder-Clements land suit pending
Bemen :superibFcourt. growing out of the will
of Wiley Clements, deceased.
Among the visitors to Tifton during the
week was; J. A. Ball, of Enigma; H. H. Parker,
of Colquitt county; Mrs. W. L. Pickard, of Bir-
tr.ingham. Ala?, and Miss Belle Willingham, ot
Atlanta.
Dr. J. A. McCrea and Miss Pauline Wamell
were married at Johnston Station on the 9th.
The young men of the city gave them a chan
ivari an^ serenade on their arrival home.
O'Quinn and Cunningham furnishing the vio.-
liO music.
A meeting' of the manufacturers of yellow'
pine lumber was held in Macon fpr the pur-
I ose’of organizing for mutual protection. S. R.
Weston was the chairman and W. W. DeHa-
ven, secretary. The object of the meeting wai
explained by H. H. Tift.
A remarkable run was made over the
Brunswick and Western railroad by Wm. Ma
honey. .engineer, with engine No. 17. pulling
Supt. G. W. H: inns’ special coach, with Con
ductor" Welch in charge. The run from Albany
to Brunswick. 1’. 1 miles, was made in 210 min
utes. including lour stops.
A correspondent of the Brunswick Times,
writing from Leliaton discussed the probability-
of a railroad from Leliaton to Nashville, the
Many thoughtless persons have blamed the
railroads with the negro migration from the
South, thinking that in order to secur e the pas
senger business their agents were inducing the
negroes to move.
Some of the"Ttforthern railroads were per
haps primarily to blame in the matter because
in their efforts to secure men for heavy work
to take the place of many foreigners leaving
that territory* they offered flattering wages to
the Southern darkies. But from the first, the
railroads in the South have not looked very
kindly upon the movement and some of them
at lehst are taking steps to check it-
Recognizing that the emigration - of negroes
has assumed such proportions that diffi
cult in some localities to secure sufficient negro
labor for farm work the management of the
Southern Railway is putting a ban on this class
of travel. "Orders haVe’been Issued to discon
tinue. effective at once. th e assembling, hold
ing and using of extra passenger and baggage
ears for laborer movementS aTid otherwise to
discourage th e negro exodus from the South
•ery legitimate manner. Representatives of
the development and traffic departments have
received instructions to devote their energies
to the promotion of the campaign to induce the
negro to remain in the South, and bankers and
business men ar e being urged to endeav
find employment of some kind for all surplus
negro labor in their communities.”
The example of the Southern Railway is to
be highly commended and will doubtless be
followed by other lines of the South. Especial
ly do" we endorse the following suggestion to
its representatives: ^
We should endeavor in each community to'
- e some man make it his special business t
interest th e negro preachers and have thei
Like strong stand against th e people of the:
race being lured away by promise of higher
wages in other sections, pointing out that
advantage that t{ie negro might get by mo
away would almost invariably be temporary
and that in the long run it will be to his advan
tage to stay in the South where h t . is known and
here h>s labor will always be in demand."
. 'Special Saccicc Largely AFuniad
Only the body was aged and frail, and this | Sunday at Baptict Church,
alon. has rone; within dwelt the hetrt of| a del. £*1°" »t .fat "•»•»
yonth immortal; the .oul everlaaUog. bec.or* j
therein bloomed perennial the sunshine,« nd conducted religious
flowers of spring. Within the man of sffventy| Bt ^ p irst Bepuat church.
as the heart of a child, and ot such is the | The Knight* wer* met her/
kingdom of heaveh. by « number of relent member*
Always with him went the joy of life, the! of the order end repired toHoul
ready amile. the hearty itreetin*. the 'trick ■‘“""“S.'S
appreciation, the warmth of friendship, the
loyalty of kinship, the willingness to comfort
and aid, the anxiety to at all times do his full
part of the duty of a man.
Near half a century gone, although then he
had reached man’s estate, in childhood days
th e writer knew him as a playmate; in youth
he was a comrade; in early manhood a ready
confidante and sympathizer; in mature years
still the firm friend and understanding,
panion. For in him was that marvejertis thing
that keeps some blessed men younguntil death
parts the veil to the glories of Eternal Youth.
A REMARKABLE SHOWING.
latter being at the time without railroad facil-
“Just about the time we had his horse in thj» jtjes. Gray and Gatchell were building a tram-
lot. up drove Tom Black and his wife, and of road across the Alapaha river to wlthi
, coming that time 6f day, they intended miles of the county seat of Berrien,
to stay over Sunday, too. We were mighty glad j Much favorable comment was made on Con-
to see both couples, for neighbors were scarce pressman Henry G. Turner’s speech in Con-
sad visitors few. My wife want into the house
with the women and then huiVied to the kitch-
•n. I went with Tom and Jake to put up their
stock, we fed. and walked about the place a
little until dusk when the smell of frying ham
brought us to the hquse to wash up for supper,
where hot biscuits and honey helped .the ham
•at.
■ “After supper there was much heap talk, as-
f th e Indians say. and it was late before the wo
men folks’ tongues gave out and they went to
bed. After seeing them off my wife came where
we were talking and told me. ’Jake will sleep in
■ the room to the -right and Tom in the one to
* the left’ ’All right.’ I said, and she went to
bed.
1 “Tom had been up in Dodge county about
the time the big land lawsuits were on. and
was telling us about it I guess we sat and talk-
ad ’til close on to 12 o’clock. We were about
ready to go to bed at last when S5me noise at
the lot caused us to walk out there to s ee >Hhe
horses were getting out. They were only having
a little friendly fight, and We came on back.
You know that old house—double-pen of logs,
with front and back piazzas and sheifYooms at
cither end of them. I don’t know how it hap
pened. but either 1 got so busy talking that I
forgot, or else going out and coming back
turned me ’round. For as we came up the steps
I motioned with my right hand to Jake and said
•you sleep in this room.' and said, the same to,
gross Thursday on Tariff revision.
McTighe and Company filed a petition in
Bibb Superior Court asking for the removal of
W .B. Sparks as receiver for the Macon Con
struction Company and its railroad properties,
the Georgia Southern an.d Florida, the Macon
and Birmingham and the Macon^and Atlantic.
The frends of Hon. Robert G. Mitchell, in
Thomasville. announced that he would not be a
candidate for Congress from the Second dis
trict.
M. S. Patten, numbered among the most pro
gressive of the teachers in the public schools
of Berrien, completed a course in the Florida
Normal school, at WTjite Springs.
Gazette published a long ppetical obit
uary for Miss' Sadie Phillips, daughter of Mr.
John A. Phillips, who died just before the
coftijfletion of the Sadie Hotel, which was
named for her.
Mr. Mack Easters and Miss Ida Stevens were
married near Brookfield; and Mr. B. M. Han
cock anil Miss Emma Horne, nesr Minton.
W. A. Harris, of Worth county. Secre
tary of the Georgia Senate, was suggested as
excellent Congressional timber.
left. They
opened Vhe doors anil went on in. and I went
in the house. ■ ■ ■■ » 1 1 - ■
"We sat up so long both candles burned out.
and the rooms \ver e dark. Jake must have
shucked off quick an/1 piled right into bed, not
saying anything to the woman he thought was
his wife who was sound asleep agaiifct the wall
ion the other side.
“Tom whs slower. He puttered around, get
ting his clothes off. and evidently there must
hav been something in his actions to arouse
suspicion, for he was paralyzed for a minute
or so When a voire from the bed said ’is that you
Jake?’ He made no reply but' grabbed his
clothes and bolted out at t)ie door.
"My wife must have heard\i>mething. for
the said. ‘Lige, haven't you made a mistake?
By granny. I had. The right hand room while
you were in th e house facing out was the left
*«n*d'itiom coTning^Dnek in. ‘You Had better
straighten it out.’ said my wife, and I went out.
“The door of th e room on the right was open
and Tom was out in the yard under, the big
mulberry tree, with one leg 1n his pants, mak
ing frantic dives at the other pants leg with
his foot ThF door of th e room on the left was
■hut. and Jak e must have dropped off to sleep
as soon as he hit th e bed.
“I knocked on the door, ‘Jake’, I called
‘Huh.’ he answered, about half asleep. ‘I *n
afraid thert has been a mistake?^ said; ‘ain’t
you in the wrong room?’ ‘Bump’ comes Jake’s
Taking into consid oration the negro exodus
-North and East the showing made by the
•Soulhefrn states in registration for Selective
Draft is remarkable. • In nearly every one of
nine them the per centage of reglstqition is larger
in Comparison with the government’* forecast
than that of states of like population in other
sections of the country.
Yet we ar e told that during the past few
months no- less than 300.000 negroes have
grated from the South to other sections, prin
cipally the North. East and Middle Western
states. A large majority of these negroes v
of the age included in Selective Draft and. are
counted against’the Southerd states in th e gov
ernment’s estimates, based on the census of
1910.
The government’s estimate for Georgia was
254.793: the total registration is approximately
131.418. being 23.375 short, pr about 91 per^
cent of the estimate.' When we consider that
perhaps 40.000 negroes of registration age
have movpd from the state within less than
rear. w e can see where Georgia is running far
ahead of the advance estimates of her pro rata
share. Of course, the negroes who have gone
• not lost to the service, as they will probably
registered somewhere else, but they are lost
to this section so far as their numbers would
ount.
cd .tjliujvbilea-ajul in Dougherty- the white
registfalSon was 565 while the colored vya;
1,026. In Worth county, where it is usually
supposed the whites are in majority the regist-
triit^pi \t*as 882. while the colored was 1.009.
It is rathe? surprising that the white regis
tration in Dougherty should fall 2.37 below
that of Tift and that Worth, one of the largest
f the South Georgia counties, with a heavy
voters’ registration, should only exceed that of
this county by eighty.
These ftgure&_are yiven jor comparison and
information, not for criticism. But it is inter
esting to note what the situaticn might be if the
the negroes could vote.
-. e-v^-. Luua*': iathi*immediate-sev'tton
ran far ahead of the government’s estimate for
registration under Selective Draft
The estate for Tift was 976. registration.
1.256; Berrien estimate 1,936. registration.
2.212; Ben Hill, estimate. 1.008. registration.
1.206; Coffee, estimate 1.866. registration 2,-
250 ;Colquitt, estimate. 2,064. registration 2,
129: Irwin, estimate 889, registration. 1.070;
Turner, estimate 856. registration 1.220. Worth
estimate. 1.627, registration 1,901.
Thus it wiH he aeen.that the-slump from the
government’s estimates for the entire state is
from other sections; this one ran ahead.
He accepted the hardest tasks of life
luties of the moment, smilingly, willingly, and
performed them without Ostentation or with-
il. When sorrow came he met it
that silent submission with which those
suffer deeply bow to Omnipotent Will. When
joy came, it found him already smiling, for
his heart gladness had a home, with absence
only the most evanescent. With him Home was
a sacred place in which dwelt all that was in
orld most desirable. To this home shrine
h c ever rendered service, the best that in him
lay: second only in service to his God. Next to
his home was his relatives; next to thes e his
friends. To all he was steadfast, loyal and true;
(to his community, as to his-fellow-man. In all.
through unselfishness. loyalty and service,
rounding "out to a ripe old age. the full meas
ure of a man. Small in body, but ,big in heart
and great in soul, the embodiment of tireless
ciw/gy. of unfaltering industry. - *
And because in him thfreNhvelt the sweet-j
ness and jovousness of perennial youth we
know that wh»t we Have-consigned to the
earth from whence it came was but the used 1
and empty -hell. That this great soul, this kind
lid noble heart in which love dwelt ever
.ut been translated to a land celesHfcl. where
imong kindred spirits he awaits th t . passing
if time as but a moment when we who' so live
is to imitate his worth may join him there
vhere no sorrows come and where
arc no more. ,
And so we know that the widow ds not be
reaved ; the child is not orphaned; that neither
relative nor friend.should sorrow, for he has
but entered, a few breaths in advance. Into the
glories of the reward of the humbl e and
regalia and marched in ■ body to
the church under the command I
Past Eminent Commander Aim _
Jones.
As the Knights marched, into I
church they were greeted byj
congregation singing
Christian Soldiers,” follpwi
W*. burden in t*
the chutch and the <
gave the Templar* ah
When this- was
Knights performed
ceremony, which *
impressive, the lea
bT-X
When the I
ev. Durden J
which *
Tifton. 1
Kings. 9d>f
"And the d
of Jehu, f^
From the t
out that «
tkular .
him '
i^drWin
Mr. Durden went a
I lie indivi !■ i-sUtl«on* had par-
ticular irai > character and while
the rirtsomc order had certain
signs, arips and wyrds which they
used making il poissible for them
to recognize each other In the dark
as in the light which marked the or
der a> different from cotbers and
which he was not allowed to discus*
because they were secret*; it also
had trait* of character of which he
could fully and freely and gladly
he said, Ma-
I when tho
.nil.],I.- the order b*.
airi’n-t -t they ate
Cod. He also stated
another wild
of the order. That
must believe first in
That it
FIGHTING IN ORDER NOW.
The boll weevil Is showing up in many
tions of Tift county now and it is up to those
planters who have cotton infested with the bugs
to get down to real fighting, if they expect to
make any crop at all this rear.
The season is too late for it to be practical
to plow under cotton now and replant in
other crop, and th t ..... . ..
who has the weevil can do is to carefully pick I
the infested squares at least once a week, de
stroying those he gathers anil by so doing he
in lh* Deity.
immortality
task the
Lord J.esu* Christ, us had been done
by the assemble** Templars in 'heir
,t but be for
good and everlasting value to thg
world.
Briefly Mr Durden referred to the
practices of the order, such as car-
ng for the .ick. Jurying *'.ie I'caJ,
•ducting the orphan-: and c-msol-
ng the widows, saying the world
ly thine that the tarmnr]-~“ *“'* •»* *» °»»-
crop—how much
extent of the in-
i pick
Says the Nashville Herald rEditor Camp.
Metter Is another good publisher who sliqiHd
join the press association and rub elbows with
his fellow sufferers from the.Jiigfi cost of living-
John Herring rtf Tift on Is another.
. - .e
When the'writer took charge of the Gazette
twenty-two years ago it was a member of the
-Georgia Weekly Press Association. Before
lie came toTIfton tbe paper h e worked on wa.^
iHso-urtnenitJCT.”"for nearTy’Twentv- years he
kept his membership paid up and counted -it- as-
ne of this paper’s strongest*, assets. He was
thoroughly in sympathy with thp ideas of the
>ys of the weekly press, and the things they
ere working for. From one cause or another,
the principal on e being lack of time, the writer
attended any of the meetings, although!
each year intending to do so.’ Finally, a fewj
ears ago. they began addressing him as a_
stranger, and asking lorn To-join, lie did iirtt j
care to come in as a recruit when h e felt that j
he was entitled to’ the place-*»f a veteran and;
thrYe'Vou are.
- df .he
will be abl e to make part of a
depending altogether, on the
festation.
It has been estimated that
the squares moving along the rows about as
fast as he tfould go when plowing, thus cover
ing in the neighborhood of five acres a day.
The cost of this work, therefore it easily figrred
by multiplying th* number of weeks from the
■ *e :h • ui.e-iation was-discovered by the cost
peFday of work necessary to eovef the acreage j m ,i,i,. r f.irm. \.r l."n*. : l c.implant
f'p'P'trtl «"•! «*•• l«*o «1 «*?ti” “!«*<? •'JSSrgSU^?’*" - ‘"mm:
the crop. \ * j ^
A former who is -'-intereeteri in discovering
vheTher lhe weevil is'm his cotton will tio well j
n~hTJi1Te~e:irelul examination” Ids crop. He
■*ill pot tin.f .-iny «f-lhiz.hllg*-lo -G>e-^ermimtlj
Hud this late in the season; because now they
the -••marc. The egg i- .b-po.-it* .1 : Cost Little Make Big Money
square and in about ten days it opt - .« tmi tWor hid. ■ . .' - ,T . S t 1 ,*-
His newspaper brethren throughout
this section deeply sympathize with Editor J.
W. Bivins, of the Cordele Sentinel in the loss of
his mother, the *ainted Mrs. M. C. Bivins, who
'i«*d-r«»riy> -jivihe hornr"of another*
son. Rev. U. L. Bivins, in Americus. She was a
member of the celebrated Cox family, a a!ster|=" d «* ° £ som “ “ tto ” being made.
cf the founder of Cox College and at the —
age of 84 went to her reward, full of years and) , The navy ■* enlisting quite a number'of no
honors. [table recruit*. Among these are St. Peter.
v. hyt lik,, a
rally drop
.eat her it may remain on.
By getting rid of the squares infested, the, _ _
•end and subsequent, multiplication >•{ lh e ;TM*Iras&SsjplyC*. Mkod.Ga
i**=v y» yeilueedFand if the first lay of eggs is'
bout got rid Jif. then the work of keeping]
own ihlustatixmJs les*e»«d-f«r the weevil does)
•ot mi gruff, to a great extent at this season
mil the first weevils out of winter quarters d;
iot lay as.many eggs as.those hatched.
However, it is going to make cotton farmers
vhos e crops arg infested hustle with aff their
night to make a crop. Fighting is aTl that wiTl
ehr fw-tiiFm. Neglect m&ans entireToss: A nil
the sooner the fight begins th e easier it will be
I George Washington,
From the Moultrie Obbener. ' j Atkin*. Jesse J.mrn nnd Julius,
At this season of the year you can see hun-| Caesar. St. Peter comes from Chicago, strange
dreds of pigs in th e hot barren lanes of this t 0 say. and his given name i* Leroy William:
sectiop when they ought to be in a green pas- 1 almost as singular. Caesar hails from Brooklyn. Svrep u»-
ture in some place where-there is vater . nd , wi „ be mteferting to note the records
shade. The pigs are almost worth their weight ; nob]e Roman .. and j e8se Jame* on
ciue in! . ,
old-Uthioned toot* and herb*:
CASCARA BARK
BLUE FLAG ROOT
RHUBARB ROOT
BLACK ROOT
MAY APPLE ROOT
8ENNALEAVE8
r* . cu -j ei. AND PEPSIN
Grant, Sheridan, Sher- In L* x . Fo sthe C A9CAx*U»m]
’ ' ” addition of these •'
i nukiDi il belief'
■
..i silver, and a little care taken of them iow
will be abundantly rewarded next winter. fighting line.