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BUYING AT HOME n Oasette Entered at the PoatoflSce nt^TU an mail matter of the aecona clash, |ao. L. Herring Editor and Manager Ofbcial Organ City of Tiftoo aod Tift County, Georgia. SATURDAY NIGHT Told In the Jury Room. ••Are you afraid of ghosts?” the foreman ^"No, but I've seen times when I was a little pestered," said the lumberman. The jury was hopelessly hung. It was a pet ty case, to'decide a land line with about $15 involved, yet it had been threshed out through a n entire day in the court room, at a cost to the count* of perhaps half a thousand dollars, and to the lawyers much expenditure of perspira tion and near-oratory. Finally, alter a grpve charge by his honor, the jury had retired and after many hours of argument had given it up and sat down to wait. The opinions of eleven hard-headed and contrary creatures had gone against the convictions of one broad oM liber al-minded gentleman, and this man had. after ■ustaining his contentions in eleven different arguments, withdrawn into the shell of reserve and calmly sat down to await the time when the others came around to his way of thinking, or a mistrial could be declared. The other eleven had smoked, joked, yarned and were now on the second round. ' “Bill Stephens would go farther to win a bet or crack a joke than any man 1 ever saw,” con tinued the lumberman, lighting another che root by the stub of the last and throwing the atub out of the window. "About a mile from the town where Bill lived, down beside a swamp in about the most dismal looking place you ever saw, was an old grave. Tradition did not say whose grave it was. and somehow or another the talk got out.that there was gold buried there. More than once plans were made to dig down into the grave and see what was there, but no one ventured. “One night. Bill and three friends were hav ing a social game of draw poker when the sub ject of the grave came up during a lull in the play. Tom Price said he was a good notion to go down there some night and dig up that money. “*Bet you $100 you don’t dare do it; said Bill. Tom couldn’t Back out. with all that crowd listening, so he took it up. but a little half-hearted. . The money was put up. and the conditions madfe. Tom was to go to the grave at midnight of the next night and dig into it until he found what was there. He stipulated that the other three should accompany him, and this was agreed to. “As soon as the meeting broke up. Bill got busy. He routed out a friend w"ho ran a hard ware store and told him he wanted all the guano trumpets he had—wanted to put a bunch of negroes to strowing the stuff early In the morning. He got them, nearly a hun dred. You know they are long, tin things with a funnel-shaped mouthpiece. Bill carried them out before day. and dug a trench from the middle of the grave to a clump of bushes over one,hundred feet away. Then he ' laid the trumpets along thus, end stuck into end. cov ered them with dirt and scattered .pinestraw over this. Then he hunted up Jake Purvis ••nd told him that he "would give him ten dollars to do'a job for him that night.-^ake agreed, and Bill told, him to hide in that clump of bushes, and what to say when he gave him the signal by striking a match. Jake agreed. “That night just after 11 o’clock Bill, Tom and the other two left town for the grave, Tom carrying a shovel. He had fortified him- aelf with a few stiff drink's, and had a bottle in his pocket which he would 3top and sample sow and then, passing it aronnn. Bill helped him out by telling a!! the scarey tales he could think of. “Nearing the grave, they sat down by the side of the road, waiting far midnight, and BUI told some more tales. At last the time .came, ar ‘ Tom nervously picked up the shovel. He e-i ! afterwards that he would gladly have given up the $100 then, but he didn’t j^ant*Bill to crow over him. “He was a little shaky ; about the knees when he walked up to the grave, kicked off the dead grass and pinestraw. set the shovel, put his foot on it.and shoved it in.-full depth. Bill struck a match. “ ‘Aw. go on away from here, and let me sleep.’ came a deep, muffled voice, apparently from the depths of the grave. “Bill beat ToA*to the road, but Tom and the were passing the middle part of it, we hi low moan. Dan started to-run; I stofjMd to listen. Soon it came again—a hollow groan, if I ever heard one. ‘Fore God, wha’s dat?’ said Dan, sorter jerkily. The moan came again, a little louder. “ Tm going to see what It is,’ I said. Dan went with me, because; he was afraid to stay by himself. The cemetery gate was open, and we had no trouble in following the sounds by waiting for them once or twice. Way down on the other side of the cemetery was an open grave, from which a body had been removed for shipment the day before, as both of us knew. They had neglected to fill up the grave, and down in it was a calf, only a few months old. which had doubtless been wandering about the cemetery, and fallen in. 1 got down into the grave and handed the calf up to Dan. who took it and turned it loose. •We drove the calf on out of the cemetery, shut the gate and started on home. We walljjri along slow at first, laughing about what a scare that would have been to %ome folks. All at once Dan' stopped talking and began walking faster. So did I. The more I thought, the fast er I walked, until I struck a dog-trot. Dan was right with me. I began to run—just couldn’t help it to save my soul, and Dan ran with me. It was n foot-race for home, and when I got there I jumped in and slammed the door shut behind me. the scaredcst I ever was i n my life. Dan was-almost white. 'Can't explain it. but it’s a fact and I never thought about getting scared until after the calf was out and safe and we were well on the wa.v home. You all may be able to explain if; 50 per cent above cost!' Does he know that this same house h^s declared dividends approximating $3,000,000 in the past five years and increased Its capital 200 per cent? That some of its members own win- homes in Florida and in California and have built palatial residences in Chicago? And all WHEN TtfE-NATfONAL GUARD WILL GO ; On. M.n Fraaldy T.U. Why «• In every county and "town the country over s#«d. Mon.y a«j. relatives of the boys who have enlisted in the ChnU, G«-. July 23, 1917. National Guard are anxious to know when they X& will go to France. The executive order incor- ^ porating the National Guard in the regular ar- ^ tUn off by ^yin* that thfai built palatial residences in unicago: Ana an - {mores- You sun o.« oy ^ Who buy from them because they thmk they For ^ reason8i very apparent, the »« “ ^ you wo U ,d c,H «*>*- are buying cheaper. It is not a question or G ^ ^ n(jt t0 Europe for se verh! months »t-nation. Sending your order* to a :a come, possibly not before the New \ear. Mj | order bouse and get your m*r- The very fact that the encampments for the chan( ji»e for from twenty-Ave to National Guard are all located in the South,, one hundred P« ehawrtlwn because here the winters are mild. ^Uiebest you can ge merchant? evidence that the soldiers are expected to rc- ( «» ««* “ k „ pin(f our money .t main in. those camps through a part of the win- horoe> wh at is the difference in ma « ter at least. _ ; sending, the money off or paying thej jn’t." 'Mr. Foreman. I move a ..mistrial in this e” somebody 1 said, and the jury unhung itself. SOME MAIL ORDER ARGUMENT How Do They Do It. but the cold act remains that They Do It. No retail house in Tifton or Tift county has made any such proportionate profits; many of them failed to show a profit. And what the Chicago house did those in New York. Kansas City. St. Louis, and other dis tributing centers are doing. The question of the retailer buying direct from the manufacturer is one of distribution. Many of them buy the bulk of their goods in this way. But in somefWtes a certain amount of intermediary distribution is necessary. This has been proved time and again. The most notable illustration was the co-operative stores started bv the Farmers' Alliance about twenty- five years ago which were intended to-meet the manufacturer and the consumer in direct touch and eliminate all the middle man s P r ° f ' To the best of our recollection, practically every one of them failed. We. would like to say more under this head later; this article is now too long. . We would also like to say something to Mr. Morris along the line ol Community Co-Op eration; that the home merchant helps to pay taxes, helps to support schools and churches and county institutions. Also, if every one pro duced and nobody consumed there would be no home market and a restricted outside market with consequent lower prices. Further, that the money which has been 'going from the South to mail order houses for the past forty years has helped to keep the South poor and to enrich the North and East; has made them money centers and kept us in the borrowing class. We will have something to sav along this line later, but sufficient to the day irto meet the principal argument of all. that mail order goods are cheaper because the mail or. der house is content with smaller profits. The Montgomery. (Ala..) Advertiser instructively discusses the situation thus! money to the local dealer and left If there is a business man in Tift county, be he retailer, wholesaler, banker or professi >nnl man who does not believe that the Buf-at- Home campaign to be put o n by the Gazette is timely and vitally necessary, we invite him to read the letter of Mr. F. C. Moms, if Chula, published in another column. Mr. Morris fairly represents the great mass It has been generally believed that the Na tional Guard will be rushed to France at an ear- Iv dav. A little reflection upon the difficulties confronting the War Department shows that it would be foolish, ifixfnt impossible, to hurry the units of the Gtfard to the trenches of France. The transportation difficulties would forbid this, if nothing else. How many men General Pershing has an France is a matter of conjecture—the estimate runs ail the way from 15.000 to 40,000 and the real number is much nearer 15.000 than 40.000. The transfer of this force from America, to gether with huge stores of supplies for them taxed the transportation resources of America. It is said in Washington, that if America has 60.000 men in France by November it will have broken a record: The regular army now num bers 225.000 men. If we allow for all ‘.li., nffi- _ cers and men that could possibly be r.eeded fm u t the training of the new army, th f itnf.re fall and part of the winter will be taken up in the transportation of the regular arm' to •France. Carrving the men over themselvos. M: ut a part’of the big undertaking of putting tie full regluar army into the trenchi-*. Every mouthful of food, every atom of clothing and even.- bit of ammunition must also be trSn"- ported. A new railroad will have to be built from the French seaport used as a base by the ' him send it off for the a THE PRESS CONVENTION Editor Allen of the Moultrie Observer at tended the press convention in Thomasville. and in his interesting notes on the gathering, says:, That the press convention does not appeal Mr. Moms ta.ny represents u.e to^ome of the busiest and best newspaper men of people .who are mistakenly seeding the ‘ r : 0 ^ thi , sec tj, ir i is evidenced by the absence o. money to Northern and Easteitfi mail order McIntosh of Albany. Herring of Tifton. Brant- money to Northern anil tasteijn man uiuu ! McIntosh houses, for things that can be bdughtjrom the ley of Valdosta and Daniel^ of Quitman, home merchant. He is sincere and "proves his sincerity by putting his argument in black and white. Anil he is a fair, average citizen, with a degree of local pride and a disposition to do vh'at is right. This he proves by the statement: If 1 could tfet goods anywhere near the same price 1 had much rather go to town for my goods’than to have to order the Same by mail." Hundreds of others think as Mr. Morris al- though they are perhaps not so candid. It is) This is a question that is | to b e hard to explain t '' ” n ,|y Way that the home « chanr can hope to stop the « der business is to get i compete with their prices ! should think would be com~ to do. for they hsve t! __ of freight r and express charges ifj practice buying from W turer* direct instead at y jobber and wholesale make their profits out If I could get goodW near the same price. 1^ rather go to town for my f to have to order the » me mai1 ' long as present conditions ex- j ut I shall hnve to patronise mail ^ order houses, at least for some Henw£, on vh:c^jj|p save the most. \/\ F.’C. Morris. IN JUVENILE COURT. trom tne rrenen seapun uwu « « «.• *"*• ] ni : _ h «... ,...f,>re Ordit Americans to the point in behind the trenches • up f where they are stationed. Moreover, the Am-. -y ' ,. : ;il n.o 1,., »hL tn K/irnn active onera- : - ,,r e ericans will md be able to begin active opera-1“ tions untildfhehrtillery and aviation ?orps ready for service. We harp-a long, dong ways yet to go anil i s folly t,, talk of sending over the National ( " K f) ' . ".nnr.l in the nnrlv fall. living the guardian- hip ..f the little baby Lofty Renew, Ordinary Gravaa a hearing Court Monday u-n-e Mr 1 !t . ardlon l' r thia ..... ..ib who ? th.- child, seek ita . The.- »re represenU nith and B. C. Willi- Dl VHiuuawt j was expected that they would at least attend this southwest Georgia editors meet but they were unmovedvI) us . v we suppose. The editor ofth^ Gazette did not miss the Thomasville meeting because of lack of desire to foregather with his brethren of the press or because he was not in thorough accord with htr fellow newspaper men in their desire for a summer holiday. f He does not subscribe entirely to the sugges- up'to the business man Who wants this trade ition that funmaking be eliminated from these that is going 9way Trom home to show these meetings and' the entire time devoted to bus- people that thcvican get their goods here as igess. Perhaps the other extreme has ruled cheap, as they can get them anywhere, trans- and there has been too littlb business transact portation equalized. ;ed. but the newspaper men work harder tba- The delusion that mail order goods are ? a grocery clerk year in and year out. and the* heaper has n :. le lean purses for the home annual meetings-are practically their only holi- merchant for ny decades, and has enabled day. They need recreation and should have the mail ordc iuses in the metropolitan cen-. it is only to be rbgretted that all cannot join ters to erect nty-story buildings. The av- taking a week off. erage mail ord- . stuff compares with goods The Gazette was not represented at Thomas- sold over the • ntera at retnil about as a dol- atch comp _ es with an Elgin or Waltham. They are made on the same principle, of greet quantities, uniformity and cheap material. It is right for a man to buy a dollar watch if he •ants a dollar, watch, but it is not right to sell him a watch for a dollar by creating the im pression that it is as good as one which must be sold for $25. Yet the average mail order buyer does not realize the difference. The pictures look Just ns good and Be buys on ab solute faith. His money is in the other man’s pocket long before the goods reach him. ana when they come he is not critical. He is anx ious that they should please, because he thinks that necessary to vindicate him for sending off after them. Perhaps they are bought on a guarantee, but never, except under the most unusual circumstances, does the buyer go to Guard in the early fall. imiitinn of the child'* health that Mayor Ilargntt com- t.. the Tift County Hos- til Saturday <»f nrxt week the question of it* final di»- up before th* ,, court. It i* very frail ana a piti- Gen.ianv has dropped Zeppelin construction ,, tt|i ./ thin|f ' and. turned every effort to the building of aero-j. In thc mean tj m e, an Advisory nlanes to match the American effort. These^p oar j w jg be named for the Juven- Sehatr The aeroplanes are thc eyes of the a<my. and ^ 7 e American forces in France are waiting on| mit ...e aviation corps.' Yet the army aviation bill Liu has been held up indefinitely i n the Senate when th. while Senators vent their individual spleen, j ? •°if In - Board v are holding up American construction .il* Court which will net in the c — 0 f a jury. It was co„- that ymine Wha- ville from, necessity, rtftt from choice. Like many other men on small dailies its editor :s lilt ing the position of manageT, editor in chief. *"C- change editor, city editor, local reporter, bus iness manager, and assistant devil, with no sub stitute. ’ In that situation a day off is almost an impossibility. Besides, we have been on diet for several months, and a man who -ai t eat good rations has no business at a- Thomas- villc gathering. • ■ , We expect that what is true of the Gazette is in par-t true qf the Times. Thr Hrr»hL the Free Press, and other paDers. But the loss was that of the men who could not go, not of the Association. We feel that we ‘missed - some- tWng*ge--*L and oaf -bexTwishes were with the boys at Thomasville, as always. thf troublrttrltaveme' guarantee made good. The same man who will twist and turn a piece of goods and hold it to the light to ex amine the texture or test his groceries by taste and smell and watch the scales with a critic’f eye. will send his hard-earned cash to a mail order house on faith and take what they give him. It is hard-to convert a man who thinks other wise toThe fact that', taking as a whole and on an average, goods are sold as cheap across the -counters-of 4Be retirH "stoTes in the average small town as they are sold by mail order houses. We mean the same grnde of good: and folpeash. It is not fair to compare stand- other two soon p'fc&ed him. the pebbles and nrd goods with shoddy, nor low-grade materials sand falling in a shower behind them as thev with first grade, nor credit prices with cash in went up the road for town, like race-horses on advance. But take goods for goods, quality for the home stretch. > •■quality, with enstbf transportation added, we “Bill collected the $100 and spent it all dn a invite a comparison with prices on articles sold swell supper, at which he had Jake Purvi.^tell T- Tifton and ether towns in Tift county, with about how it was done. Tom blackballedtBose sold by any mail order house, at the next meeting of the R. O. R. lodge." ' For the average local merchant does not The carpenter pulled a square of plug to- make the high profits that the mail order houses bacco out of his pocket, bit off a chew, passed make. This may be surprising, but it is true. It around with a circling motion, and said: Does Mr. Morris know that the largest mail “Me and a negro helper, Dan, had been order house i n Chicago paid last year, after all about two miles out of town, on a job. We left expenses of clerk hire, wrapping and shipping, there some time after s«M«r. und were near > dividend to its stockholders of 28 per- cent? midnight getting in. Jbtfbftd n a right along-' Add to this express and parcel post charges and, c we‘the goods must hpe been sold at an average ,nd giving Germany a start. They would not be fighting with as mujh effect for the enemies I •f their country if they were carrying .a gun in ■ the front ranks of Hindcnbtirg’s army. In times of turbulence- the trash comes to the top. It - s time for the people to skim the- pot. The weekly editors drew a letter of thanks from the President for their Thomasville resolu tions. The G-orgin newspapers as a whole, -’r.ily an' 1 weekly, are slanding loyally with the President. Mr. Murphy Candler has furnished uTa'kev- note: “Get right, or get o,ut.” he admonishes Georgia’s public men. 'And the people say amen. A CARD OF THANKS We wi»h tf> thank our many friend* and neighbor* for iheir lor* and kindnw* during the brief 01- n««s and d. nth of our darling little daughter. June 5 2. May God’s rich- - . ver rain upon them and the ■■plrit of the ‘ Loved One minister to them through the future iday* of this life, that at God's call they will join her in Christ Jesua. Our darlinc •HE’S HAPPIER HERE - T-fr-tt this• cuatrtry is mat all onb' as yeVTs denied by Jh«? failure of the War Department experts to ihcluil? sweet potatoes on the army bili of fare. They didn't intend to leave off one of the best and most staple articles of food, buf the experts are ^11 from the North and did not know that the food properties of the sweet potato are thirty per cent greater than those of the Irish potato, which was, up near the head of the list. The Southern Congressmen are endeavoring to have the oversight remedied, but there is a bunch of re^ tape to unwind first. In the interest of.the Southern boys in camp, hope they will succeed. I Some idea of the task before the American Red Cross can be gained from the fact that the French, for the spring offensive,, jut pared .iar 900,000 wounded. Iir some cases, at the front wounds were- tied up with newspapers for the lack of something better. If you don’t want your fried or relative' to endure hardship and run unnecessary risks of like, give now to the Red Cross, and keep on giving. With half the session gone, the Georgia As sembly has nothing to show but proof that the Gazette was unqualifiedly right when it advised the members on the day they convened to ad journ and go home in the interests of and economy. rum the Atlanta Georgian: The erudite and entertaining Mr. rice remarked with a considerable degree of, isdom that he never worriyd hajf so much the fare of th'e negro' in the hands of 1 to the uppftr land; And dear l.ahy whivn God cho»* A—darting pet so hard tA lose; ' Our a2^* dimmed Kv, Might, » j Oh. our hearts arc aching to- | right! Doolev Somebody'* baby, why should it b« t * God in HI* tendornc-s passed by In tbs lnHr rt? Tbv his. oppressers as in the hands of his deliv- * '*j-jlliL ° .Limbo Is learning up in Illinois that his old j- ,n home .wnjr down upon the SuwanM Rlva' t»U,. h „, t , a , a pretty good old home-after all—and that, eonc- he is rather certain .of. frVjM ■■■ L ; “*L ■ I re*t gooil treatmsnt there, aiiywnv. With all its faults, real and imaginary. Dixie land still is the land of cotton and. watermelons and a snug placg ji/pvbPiio fnr.anch as he. - - Down here he isn’t permitted to vote and he is required to come in the back door with his hat in his hand; but once he gets in that way. there is a welcome for him. all right. He is permitted to work, and earn a living—some times its a pretty hard one. admittedly, but he has discovered for a sure thing that it can be worse—much worse. And that’s something. The sojourn of a number of Southern negroes in East St. Louis has been a - sad affajr. They went there with their hearts full of hope—they fought they would have a "better chance" than down heTe. They were mistaken—terri bly and pathetically so. They were promptly mobbed for showing evidence qf a happy and willing disposition to gather in -a modest supply of the m"ilk and honey supposedly lying around loose in that promised laqd. The negro’s lot is melancholy enough at best. He hasn’t much of a chaqce _anywhexfe sjuL 'mavbe Silver will have' But, at least, here in the South he DOESJiave some sort of opportun ity—and close analysis will show, I think, that that opportunity is GROWING. He is some times mistreated and violently assailed in his personal and individual'aspects in the South—1 his kind are even lynched now and then, when they ought not be—and thjtt is shameful. But he isn’t mobbed EN MASSE—he isn’t denied the right as a race to live and work and enjoy some degree of happiness here, merely because he is black and his labor comparatively cheap. Illinois is no place for him—and although he couldn’t be convinced of it before he saw for HIBISELF, a wliole lot of hi^people know it NOW. ThiLvoice u,»..lav*«| i» -*Wb— Tljr pl»cp wade vacant in otir m ' filled; W;_ hwgd.yjipf, (till. Josh* loved thee more: lo now lie hath sweetly called thee To yonder shining shore. Mr. and Mr.. A. B. Blalock. 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