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THE 1*17. 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.