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TEbe Litton ©asette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Postofflce at Tlfton .^SaoRgia.
•• mail matter of the second
iao. L. Herrin*. Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tiftoo
and Tift County, Georgia.
THE COWARD’S PART
A fool is he who. in the impulse of the pres
ent. forgets the future.
This war. ruthless, terrible, bloody though it
be. is but a matter of.a few months or years—as
a course in college, a post-graduate stuHy, a va
cation from the life’s routine. After all. a per
iod only and not the end or aim of existence.
After it is gone, history will be all that is left
thereof. When this history is written it will
tell of the desds of men; of those who were
tried and failed; -of those who were found true
metal. History will not deal with motives, but
with results. The men who responded to their
country's call and stood loyal to its leaders will
be classed in future with the heroes: those who
failed will be rated with the traitors and in-
grates.
In which class do you want to stand?
When the war is over, the petty subterfuges
by which some seek to evade their plain duty
will be ashes and forgotten. Remaining only
wilHje the action by which the man is judged.
The people of the future will know nothing of
the excuses behind which a miserable fey. are
now giving aid and comfort to the enemies jf
their country: they will know only that such aid
was given and hy whom.
When the men who are now or soon will be
lighting its battles come home, it will be as he
roes whom their country will delight to honor.
Their scars will be badges :,f valor and their
names a rich heritage to their posterity. 1
honoring them, the people of their country wi
strive to forget the men who sought to throw ob
structions in the way of the successful prose
cution of the war
The war of the Revolution had its tories; the
War Between the States its tush-whackers. Aft
er American independence was won the prop
erty of the tories wns confiscated and they
were driven by public opinion to other coun
tries. That the bushwhackers did not share a
like fate after the War Between the States was
only because the people to whom they had been
disloyal were defeated and powerless.
For over a century the American people have
paid tribute to the heroes of. the Revolution.
The South's richest heritage today is the names
of the men who fought or died for it in the War
Between the States. The descendants of the
men who fought boast of their lineage. When
and how often do you hear a man say he is
a descendant of a tory or of a bushwhacker, or
of a deserter who had to be hunted'out of the
swamps by a squad of fellow citizens in order
to press him into army service? Doubtless
many such exist but they are ashamed of their
ancestry and keep it carefully concealed.
So it will be twenty years from now with the
descendants of the reactionists and obstruction
ists of this time, when the fate of their counA
try is at stake. Their children will hang their
heads i n shame when their record is shown and
their grandchildren will deny if they can their
ancestors. This will be the last war—at_ least
for a century, and its traditions will go down
through many generations.
Do n6t think the future will judge by excuses;
it will judge by acts alone. A good life record
may be spoiled by-a mistake now. Benedict Ar
nold was for two years one of the bravest and
SUPERIORITY OF MEN AND METAL
The smashing blows struck by the French
a n| Italians Monday mean more than an ad-
v »ce pf a mile on an eleven-mile front at Ver
din, and a mile and a half on a thirty-mile front
°1 the Isonzo, although thpse within them
es are great achievements. It means that
Entente Powers can strike and win against
maximum strength the Central Powers may
b» able to assemble.
There is no Russian offensive now to com
pel Germany or Austria to maintain large ar
mies in the East; the Russians and Rumanians
•re struggling desperately to- hold their own
ground against a comparatively Insignificant
Teutonic force. There is no sustained offen
sive on the South to occupy all of Bulgaria’s
•rmy; therefore-Germany and her allies were
free to assemble all their available men to face
the British and French on the Western fro-it.
The plea that they are obliged to divide their
forces no longer holds good.
Yet, the previous week the British and
French struck' along*the Yser and the French
around St. Quentin, wresting from the Germans
dominating elevations which they had held
lince they fell back from the .Marne three yea
ago and selected the best points . for defense
that the country afforded Hill 70 was car
ried Sy Storm and the .British lines passed to
the east of the most easterly houses of Lens,
leaving that city securely between the points
of the British p’incers. Although the morning
papers of April 19th reported that Lens had
fallen to the British, being misled by the state
ment in cable dispatches that fighting was in
progress in the streets of the city, a portion of it
has remained in German hands and it is still
strong objective poifit in the Allied offen-
live.
Following closely on this, the French strike
Mr. J. H. Harris and family ars
f on an automobile trip to Middle
Mra. E. W Oliver is at home after
The English are becoming more
and more convinced, it seems, that
“blood ia thicker than water,”
favorite quotation now with
extended visit to her mother in ! W. C. Beck, J. S. Eason, J. D.. Dekle | co “*”“ ^ *
Atlanta, - - Ltd oth.n Mt T, T, “"V" *
. ....... inr about us are so complimentary
Mrs.. R. W. Weodham, formerly | afternoon to attend th e *»ti draft i * -|fhl be „ aU ob>nuini if
Miss Mary Nelson, of Sylvester U demonstration m Maeon. \ ^ ^ lndividu .,, y ,
visiting Mrs. Frank Parks. The tent meeting going on in the ^ BJU1
. C. G. DeU stopped over tyllrtove nearly opposite the Primitive ( , n an era of g00 df e eling Uk e this,
old friends in Ty Ty on tek£P a Ptist church seems to be some- j it • not „, em> t0 the casual read-
return trip from Atlanta to TSf- thing rather different from th e usu- fr quit* right to bring up
but th e contrast will i
s of that cli
Miss Elsie McIntyre, a niece of '
Dr. Hendricks, of Tifton, is '
ing Mrs. and Mr. W. C. Thoenp- 1
Mr. and MW. W. B. Calhoun,
Camilla, are visiting Mrs. Calhoun'
mother. Mrs. Dowd, and other rela-
Ty Ty.
Some of the rain other near-by
localities ar c complaining about
would be welcome here, except, may
be, to the cotton pickers.
Mrs. J. W. Culpepper is
long-deferred visit to her old
at Georgetown. Ga. having accom
panied Miss Luella Avera that far.
Eggs are high for the season,- and
scarce. It may be that farmers and
their families find that it pays to
keep their eggs at home to help
along 30-cent bacon.
Cotton was selling in Ty Ty last
week at a quarter of a tent more
than it brought in Albany, and so
ly graveyard.
i Ty Ty three
. ; buyers were going to Albany while
at Verdun and the Italians strike at Trieste,! ae n ers flocked to Ty Ty.
both movements being crowned with success.) -j-j,,. brick - pa raK e, recently built
No better evidence than these three separate; by Mr. w. F Sikes almost oppo-
offensives could be had that the Allies now jqrite his store, will be used for a
have the superiority in the weight of artillery j “-"rehouse during the Vqtton
and in men against the best that the Germans j for rolton
bring forward. Had conditions been oth-i “ u * ° r ' , _ _
* , . ... . In repairing the streets of Ty Ty.
irwisc these attacks were impossible of suc- p,, MsiW
teas. .breeding-places for mosquitoes along 1 ft is saft
Unless the Germans speedily retrieve >their, the rail r^d. Mosquitoes have mer-
losses, the lesson is obvious. No mattef'wheth- cifully spared us this season, So-far;
«r Russia comes back or stays out; no matteri don ' 1 tem P‘ ,hem
how long the United States may be in putting Until olh « arrangement.
-»™>- - "w* “ ii: ,h : Briti ’ h ,‘ nd Fr “' h ss; iTMErs,
are in a position to force the war to a success- hom< congreiration . ho!d (covered that hti pocket book,
ful conclusion. Since the Somme driv^Aast gerricee , t Hickory Spring. Thi.l tain,nK 4 “ u ’ en . <lol !* r *’
summer the Germans have been steadily losing arrangement takes effect the third t * rekemid heean'on thi
ground and one strategic point after another'Sunday in September. iJL'kn Hi. «n.i.
carrying it on five in a second j to ms ^ e a ]] dip brighter the fav-
and they sa y they belong to i orab i e light in they are s
i nation. , ing us today^alid, if our Revolution-
. Taylor, who was called ary ancestors know what is going -
0 j ....... home'* fast Thursday toy the j on,' they arc probably saying: "I told
[>s i extreme illness of his father, has yon
! returned. Mr. Taylor. Sr., died be- This is not exnetly a favorable
for the son reached there Thursday I tkn e to re-read Dickens, but
He tens buried in the fami- to whom he is always new ai
Nichols, Setur- tertaining have a way of doing that
i in season and out. So, just by
Mrs C. A. Smith whose home was »t the contrast between what the
on Route 2. Ty Ty. died Monday. English thought of us in his time
She had been in ill health for some- and »h*‘ they "re saying of us now.
. but it is thought her death here ar e a few extracts from Mar-
have been hastened by the fact tin Chiizzlewit:
that, witj, two of her sons in the ' ''Look at that engine! ft shall rifsCI
navy, the selectiv,. draft had man moI > >" the w. y of -enal-
tailed a third. ‘y and fine, and satisfaction of tha j
outraged law. to deface in nranton-
ness that senseless mass otf metal
than to take the lives of twenty
human creatures! Thus the'
wink upon the bloody stripes
of these Liberty pulls down her cap upSB
ou» of bcr *>'“• and own, Oppression, in
„„„„„ its vilest aspect, for her sister ”—
Masters Alma Kent. Robert Her
ring and Luther Warion were a-
mong Ty Ty’s recent and most wel
come visitors. Somjt. malicious per
son started a base and "useless slan
der which said that
young gontlemen was
knee “pants” and thu. ......
lady’s mama did r.ot know whether Vo ” 1 • *'t’ , ,. w
invite Oa> (th, wt <»- “• »' “» »-
th.'"pnnt*" which .‘ere r.ot there) twc.c.t Amo. at on ,.-tcd ym-
into th, parlor or .cad ,h.m to play ‘ > k « *•
with the little boys. stated a- ,rcasu Py * as l-inR a ™ong
bove., this was absolutely
DEALERS IN
Groceries, Dry Goods
Notions, Shoes, Hats
ReW^y-to-Wear Clothing
Farm Implements
And Other Things.
Ceteris;! Review Pattern*
e of
i this county evsr reccivwi >nd dangerou ,
thorough "working than was ,
o one of the potato patches
J. W. Culpepper a few dsys
Just as Mr. Culpepper fin-
from'tWr! i,hed P 1#win * lh * P° uto *
BANK Of TYTY
. CAPITAL *25.000.01
, of Mr.
jrortfri' objects. Far the surp
wa, agreed that it should I
voted to aiding the enforeem
those free and equal laws, which
render it incalculably more criminal 0
red „d writ. th.. ,’o'r."'”hl»'’0'T.w. DTp^lt.
alive in a public city."—Vol. ill., D ._ olitl ia This Bank G—r.aU«l
Page 220.
• • • “That Republic, but yester-]
day. let
upon her noble course.
Hogs-a
: disappearing so frequant-
_ being wrested from them. This cannot last,
always and while the process is slow the result fr that »° mo “r"'” P< nnin K
« certain that it is only a question of time when ra '” n “ r ,‘le^ution. but^hin^ they f pu1 '
the Germans will be driven from conquered have a way of comin(t to ]iKhu sa m»- \
territory and will be fighting for the life of . times, quite unexpectedly. they found , be pocketbook,
their nation on their own- soil. Last Sunday, as usual, there was contents intact.
The British objective is plain. Although it a big crowd at Hickory Sprinr year-
may not be possible of accomplishment before ly meeting, and (also'as usual) it RAPID PKOMOTtON
winter, the purpose is to force the. Germans ra ' ned n " ’ l "“* ~
from Lens, then from Lille, thereby compelling church
ind but toddy *6 maimed and lame
so full of sores and ulcers, foul to
the eye and aimos. hopeless to the
sense, that her best friends turn
from the loathsome creature jn dis
gust.”—Vol. II, Page 232.
nia asaiAvasice. ■< j j, ou i d want to draw it” (the
..j’ , .t"th'. fi’td to M-rk 11
.V, v.rv la St furrow. “ y ‘ l,k f * b,t ' for ,U »h ort *"' ht -
Mr Edwards, likewise armed with *
DO BUSINESS AT HOME
The TyTy Drug Go.
ith i
edness; ]ik e a bantam, for l
ing^Jikc a magpie, for its honesty;!
likem peacock, for its vanity; like
an ostrich, for its putting its head
in the mud. and thinking nobody
AND DRUGGISTS'
SUNDRIES
Prescriptions A Specialty
School Books
t the • United States of ;
ntojt gl>U*DA lighten and nblcat - leaders under
the American flag. Yet memory of his early [along.the great line are but preparatory there-
achiuvementa have been swallowed in that ofjto. Be this ax It may, the result of Monday’s
his great treachery and his name is only
called to be execrated and condemned.
On these occasions th
sn never hold the crowd. Mr. E. J. Williams, of Ty Ty. went
, , ,, , , . r-. but the people always manage to into the Spanish-American war a n . 1 * “ enl *' ° r
them to tall back to a Lite from Brueea to Corn-- rulJ „ m .Wh.r., «,„„ d h, a p™- <»"««* ! ™> “ b '> "< »
trai which would give the British access to the, „ „ p u,ia, h, th, .“t™" "S '
channel coast as far eastward as Zeebrugge. ripen anil tbe crop i s>K0 5>!; but three years ago. and cotc back a ‘ a ' d ’ ,v<
Here is the submarine base from which fhe alas for the scuppernong wito that major; he was called to Wa-hington And L ‘ thi! ,' rrmark of Martin ffp- and Supplies
Germans are operating in the North Sea and in ante-prohibition days flowed so a few weeks after his return to Am- priincb( . a morc - , lo , ( .j y , 0 a ctanp |j. .....
the British are anxious to break up this nest in this locality, ft has taken «>«. and this w«k he m te » mtnt _ thou( , h a badIy oixrd „ ne _
of iniquity before winter makes military opera- ™ er ’.'^'Zt ,e°emcd I'eu'ten'.nt'coloncl " "" “ ! hj,n * ny , ,hin . f: .‘ he T" 1 ^ ^ A COMPLETE DRUG STORE
tions impossible. Doubtless this work would ao innocent in lhe dayi tbat wer ^_ j Thi, setms rapid r
have been much further along had it not been Good , lUtter _ the Renu in e article, ".iliury man. especia om r ^
weather conditions. which for several UM dulterated—; s greatly in demand nul ■ West Pointer, and it ran mean |n _ (tht lie quatrd from thi# and othfr Dealers In
weeks have been very bad. jin Ty Ty. for the supply falls far t,u <- one thin«.-»erit. works of Dicker:», particularly fr<»n Hi*h Class Gea.r.l MrrchaadUa
Again, the opinion is shared b.V many military short nf the d»vnand.«. Very little 1 * r “ ' I't ' , M « Americen Note*, hut the foregoing After you read'this advr
experts that a gigantic offensive, such as mark- " brought, and shipped butter is not b ’_ bil 2 3n , “' win b « * u ® eicnl <b r dif - e ° 11
... kept here. Instead of paying Tifty accompanied «« w. am son. ferenCc betw „„ now and
1st summer but on a muen , , . ... went on to Fort Worth. Texas, where ,, , n , , :
, . ... , .. . cents a pound for that kind, we p-e- u Alartin—rhuzzlawtt- -was—writCTr—
pore.extensive scate. is c_o_ntemjlated and that frT : nearly three-fluarter, of a century
these hammering blows at different points thirty. wh v new, was n-eeike.i here of hi* aco Bbout sixty y e ars ,,ft C r the close ,
The interiors of cotton warehouse, TH-. h^ had' li. In' seot-to* °- American I
beginning to look very attrac- ,.- • ,', r :.. Probably represented
’ nec ‘ « e o " ’ ’ * .... of the Eng-!
lish (a majority of them, anyway)
JONES & COMPANY
i and do your
shopping.
PRICES RIGHT- . —I
Do not let others, for motives of their own.
giialasd -you Tiber* is hot • ont tBpmiie Tsst,
«nd that is dtity. Not that the. country wants .
every son to its colors—one hundred is needed
Chiof t.T- rnrtctc
Whqp news was received he
prfrnotion and transfer, the
went out-that he ha.l-heen (
, „ . France. This' report n.» dm
fighting shows that the Entente Powers have tive, but the doors ought not to h$ , r ltBj in thp faet tha , j Ia
hat it takes tu win the war and that while [ eft ,jp ' r ' : IK * of **!« -.pkn ;im , u t , u -
b.l„ W.eht „u Uw P-.tak tie fcfciMM-nMWH*. twl .h.. to
•«W-«"» OU.lM.Me.<i-dw^U w ~—..jig.-Jk, nd,.d5EE
t-vtlptl at home.
America’s.'help''will hasten Siis end it is not f
BbsoktD*!y wseminrthereto. Vice MO freely tendered, during the ’
' " 1 : planting season, and put in food
Much less than half a crop of cotton will be cr op* exclusively.
FOR SALE.
Revolution, and it: Berkshire Pigs. S- C. B. Leg
t.-.T, with tolerable' horn Chickens, and Milk
Cows. 1 also buy good,
fat cows and hogs.
W. F. SIKES, Ty Ty, Ga.
TOMITIS.
la- ploasing -to- eontwnptute thT Hifttl-
in'whivh they and the rest of the
world have been forced to change
their views.
eminent. This you can give, and without meas- the exchange uf information and experiences nPXt to the bank (a vacant lot be-
ure. UJiless you give, you fail in time of nevd>and after this meeting it was .stated that there thing usually found in
Sometimes there is only a moment's impulse
at the deciding line between the coward’s act
and the hero’s part. Unless you set your
guiding compass by the star of duty and steer
•unfalteringly and “unhesitatingly thereby, you
may err. ‘And once in error in this crisis means
shame and disaster.
Few real sons of Hie South will act the
coward. So act that when history is written,
if your name is not\high up on the sen'll of
fam^, be sure that, it Vlisted with those who
were loyal and true, however humble the
would be less than half a crop in that section, place of that kind.
The opinion was expressed that not another boll
and other fixtures a
. „ , , , , , . - ...... building-is one of th e best in Ty Ty. (
of Sea Island would mature and that the crop
expected would be from bolls already matured .
beyond Hie reach of the weevil. Many have which waa a „ lhat „ honeymoon
discontinued picking up fallen squares, regard- ,h 0 uld be^of a little more than a
ing this as labor wasted now. From other sec- week, most of it spent in Macon.
tions of Berrien, especially around Ray City, they will make their home for
growers report a fair crop in prospect, with lit- ,non,h, wi,h Mr
tie damage from weevils. Continued rains and
IMPOSING ON GOOD NATURE
ia is sorely afflicted with The adulteration of 'butter with
nnd other states, instead of tallow is becoming an altogether too
a. us the finger of scorn, frequent praitice in this vicinity
fir., rli.. •* tney arc. doing, ought to giv e us and one that is liable to get the of-
■fri ratoP their swnpathy fenders into trouble, ft is plainly
. and , ho This disease reached us in two a violation of the Pure Food Law.
stages. As serious diseases have a and. upon conviction, the fine would
s-aj. of serving us sometimes. :• was be considerably mor c than the man-
Mr. and Mrs. H. G. Malcom are geareely felt at first: bpt it p;ew ufactUTCr. nf..butter coald.-hopo-to
worae. Complications ensued, and make from his compound in a long
now. but for th e light .ahead, the time. The adulteration is easily dc-
case would seefn hopeleis. tected. but consumers have good-
Voter promises a sure cure naturedly refrained from ‘
few f
the latest complication of our the matter. It is hardly probable
trouble, and .recent discoveries seem that the adulteration wiU-b e alloweJ
■while, Mr. Malcom will {0 jnd j catp a complete restoration ( o K° on indefinitely.
, - - .. .... , . , . ., build on the land recently purchas- health. This hope may be mis-
cooler weather are cond.bow favorable to the Irem Mr . L Ford , „, m J ta , our ” t 4, s ,„.
weevU and the peat is reported to be rapidly 0 f Ty Ty. » uel ^ in handi afld h ,A°
parity. Be sure above all things that it is. not xpreiiding. But witK present prices even half a "Jftny cotton, picking,, and. as has jiaver fail^l u
wjittep among those.whs failed, because
these will be ascribed The Coward’s Part
tu trov 'will ’be a prcffitaYile one.
er Wilsonii it is, according
luffragcUbj, Pity he could
: .1 . wb li,
so that he might deal properly with 1
suffragettes ant) others of their
kind.
No less authority than the Scientific Ameri
can & sponsor for the suggestion that shot -guns
loaded with buckshot be used for trench fight-
n is a terrible weapon at close
t at the front
f long range firing
| add the shot
L so ei
cotton is out of th e field. All things (particularly the Grim
bum mil stalks and- other rubbish. Reaper) come to-him who waits, and
It was stated a few dav, a e o lhat the bill rais- Tk “ >■ ■ J ™' •« “ *" “V"
*-a. . T .out to farmers and nobody doubts tremity, we may confidently-look
■ )i5> the property limit for old soldiers pensions. ^ u exce „ ent advice . It u fonrard to !hi , rr!ief when this W. B. PARKS
and the time limit for the marriage of wid- (J, e samc that farmers received last relief come,, we may b e very sure Cotton Broker. Ty Ty, Ga.
ows who may receive pensions had passed the year. and. if it had been follow- that the virginal sourc* of the «H*- Highest prices paid for cotton
General Assembly. This- information was not cd, ther e would have been consid- ease ha, been removed. But. alas,
correct, according to the Atlanta correspond- 'rably more cotton and fewer wee- it seem, to be a contagious disease, | -
Mt of the Macon Teleni-aph. who saj-» that ai- vll > “•„»>“ *”*« » “, uk - *" d >*• “* *• *" J?
. .. , en energetically for cotton picking o
loush the bills did both houses there ¥ huwi,d (upcciall, whwi Mm -
amendments which were not concurred cotton is bringing a good price), but Russian proverb says. In the light
trefore, they did not become laws. Mean- there are numerous jobs, pleasant of recent happenings in that part
some needy "widows who would have and otherwise, that seem to inter- of the world, this proverb seems
In allowed pensions had the measures be- fer * with ‘he work advised after eminently correct. No doubt Mr.
operative will perhap. have to to without i 1 """ *• 1,ic '“ d - U,M “ ,ta * “ I
at anv season.
DR. R. R. PICKETT,
Physician and Surgeon.
Ty Ty. Ga. -
DR. F. B. PICKETT,
Physician at d Surgeon.
T.-r Ty, Ga>\
A. PARKS,
Groceries. Dry Goods Ete..
Caskets. Coffins.
Ty Ty, Georgia.
M. A. WOODARD & CO.,
Genera) Merchandise
Ty Ty, Ga.
0, VARNER AND. COMPANY
Dealers In
roceriai Dry Goods, CsndUs, CW
gars, Tobacco and Evcrytblsig
EL. in th. way of GanoT.1
MarchandLo.
Man's Furnishing a Specialty.
LYLE Sc SON
Ty Ty. Ca.
Drugs, Seeds. Stationery and "
Toilat Articles
Ice Cream when the weather ie
warm./Cold drinks all the time.
DR. CARL S. PITTMAN,
Physician andvSuweon.
Phone No. 7. ‘
Ty Ty. Georgia.
E. J. COTTLE,
SHINGLES FOR SALE
HUY DIRECT FROM MILL AN*
SAVE MIDDLEMAN’S
PROFIT
Ty Ty, Ga.