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•bo. L. Herring.
. Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
SATURDAY NIGHT
WhUe Waiting for the Jury.
"It ia born into the free American to hanker
after an office," the lawyer said
The court was in recess, while waiting on a
It had been a hot, gruelling day
But even the
hung jury.
and the case a hard-fought one
attorneys who hiyi waxed belligerent during
the strenuous contest were taking things easg
now that the responsibility was off their shoul
ders and were laughing and chitting with their
late opponents. The dignified judge had step
ped down from the bench npd was hob-nobbing
with his fellows. The speaker was wrestling
with a reluctant cigar, with Tiis feet on the ta
ble opposite. As no one contradicted his as
sertion he proceeded to furnish evidence:
■*1 took an early Start over tc superior court
In another county one morning, for it was “
long drive. About five miles out. I met Bill
Rycraft. W was coming into town, driving
a piebald Texas pony to a road-cart. He saw
me coming and stopped, and of course I had to
halt and pass the time of day.
“‘Where you going so early, Bill?’ I asked,
just for manners.
“ ‘Going over to the county-site.’ he answered-
•Got to thinking about it. and 1 kinder think I'd
like to have the tax collector’s job. Thought
Td go over there and see if anybody had ap
plied foj it yet.’
“I guess they had, for when the election was
*ver, Bill was the seventh gnan.”
“You were lucky not to get into trouble by
giving him advice,” said a fellow attorney,
hitching his chair over nearer the spittoon and
* biting off a piece of plug. “I got into a scrape
one time by just talking foolishly and guessing
too well.
“It was Sunday morning and nothing to do
but rest, ro I was sitting on the front steps of my
office, when up the street which leads by the
eburt house Joe Sparks come, driving along, in
a Jersey wagon. He was gazing straight ahead
like he was ruminating, and didn’t look up un
til I spoke: \
“ ‘Hello, Joe: where yol going'
“ ‘Whoa.’ he said, and as the horse willingly
■topped, he flung one foot over the end of the
seat and turned facing me. Then I saw he
all spruced up. He had on a new white shirt
with one of them big, wide bosoms, stiff as
pasteboard ending in a cute little deWlap
with a buttonhole worked in it hanging out over
the waistband of his pants. He had on a new,
glistening paper collar and one of them black
1 gOlU-lfeftha ties that come ready-made and
fasten with elastic snap at tlie back of the neck.
“ ‘Mornin’.’ Jie replied. 'I was jest goih'
over the way a bit.’
“He was dolled out so. that I took a chance
shot:
“‘Shaw, Joe;’ I said; “you needn’t be going
over to see thnt girl; another fellow has grot
her and gone.'
“His face fell, and he stared at me a minute,
the tobacco-juice oozing out at the corneF>of his
mouth.
" ’Good Lord, you don’t say so!’ he exclaim
ed, in dismay. ‘When did he git ’er?”
“Now. I hadn't V»e least Idea who he was go
ing to see and hadn't heard of a wedding in
two w*«ka. I just said something to scare him
up a bit, and it succeeded better than I wanted.
But I stuck to it:
“ ’Sure,’ I said; ‘You’re behind the times.
.Jladn’t-you hoard? He's done got' her and
gone.'
“I didn’t have the least idea who I was talk
ing about, but Joe swallered a few times, give
his lines a jerk, and drove on.
I had forgot all about him an hour or so lat
er and was fixing to go over to the house for din
ner, when I heard a rattling up the street and
saw Joe coming back, driving in a trot. He
come right up in front of the office, jerked up
his nag,, and jumped out. His face was
white, and he was gritting his teeth. He came
straight towards me. and when I saw the look
in his eyes, I got up. ‘What’s the- matter. Joe?’
I asked, but he came straight on. As he got
closer he reached his hand down in his pocket
pulled out his Barlow knife and opened it, his
hands trembling, jerkily. I stepped back:
“‘What’s the matter, Joe?I asked again.
’“You done it; doggone yer,’ he said. ‘You
done it, and I’m a.goin' to.cui yet gizzard out.'
“He meant it. too. i tried to ask what I’d
done, but he was gettirtg too close. You can’t
argue with a white-mad man gritting his teeth,
with an opefl Barlow in his hand, and I didn't
try. Just before he got in reach, I jumped
back, up the two steps, and slammed the don
shut, just.in time. I was holding it tight for w
didn’t have any locks then, when I heard a noise
behind me, looked around and there was Joe.,
climbing in at the window, still with his open
knife in his hand. The blade looked a foot
two, and over to Sam Spicer’s, who was sur
prised to see me visiting at that time of day,
and still further surprised when 1 said I bad a
cold and could not sit on the front porch. I
•isltcd with Sam until he got good and tired,
nnd then went home, cautiously. J^>® was ofit
of sight.
“You know what’s a fact, dad-blamed if one
of odd man Truluck’s girls hadn't run awav the
flight before and got married. That wiS the
one Joe was sweet on! and even the family
didn’t know she was gone until Joe told ’em
that 1 told him she was married. From that
day to this. I’ve never been able to' convince
either Joe or the Trulucks that I didn’t have
mething to do with helping the couple off,
nd I daren't get one of either family on a ju-
y when I'm trying a case. I ‘guessed entirely
Joe* well, but believe me. that broke me for all
ime from telling anybody's .fortuije^ I might
it it again, sometime.” •
“Jury’s cornin’ out/’’ said a bailiff, and the
court got busy again.
WANTON, FOOLISH WASTE | JAPAN’S DESIRE FOR TERRITORY i
I Of Stata Narcotic Law Which Worlc
A news rtory »y» th.t the sheriff of. Mitch-1 Mob-riddee end dom.reue.d «™» - ■£,
wine rendering without contest its richest posses-. Atlanta. Ga., Aug. si iv*r
.Lions to the German invader- Riga, the key tOjEditor of the Tifton Gazette,
ell county began destroying the Hand
Thursday. It is stated there was originally mom to tne uerman ***•“’hi”coit| Xbi writer ha. traveled Georgia
about 800 barrels of this wine but about 300-‘he Russian capita . two for about thirty yean, selling phy-
barrcls had be?n wasted by bursting and leak- hundreds of thousands of Uvfc>» the and surgeon, supplies. *a
years, has been abandoned without a sKtrmisn, probably acqua j n ted with more dpc-
its de 1 and the fall of Petrograd appears certain, if tors in Georgia than any other per-
the Germans care to make the effort. | ,on. and being thus acquamted. I
On the extreme south end of the line, only have often *•£££
a feeble defense-is made of Bessarabia and £
rich wheat fields which the Germans will doubt ^ n ‘ j(iance an ,i t ho greatest trouble
less soon own for the replenishment of their ^ a physician than anything ho has
denuded larder, just as Rumania's grain fields to contend with. Briefly -h ! « law
and oil wells one year ago gave the German, re.da: A doctor, horse doctor,
empire a longer lease of life. It Sf ".h”-
hie that the Teutonic powers mil be «bl« r „a„ „„t
A PATRIOTIC EXAMPLE
That was a fine example General J. A. Thom-
put before the Confederate Veterans and
their sons ofVTift county in his address at their
nnual reunion last week.
After telling some, of the things that the men
who fought for the South in the War Between
the'States accomplished, he turned to the pres
ent world crisis and told of the duty of uphold
ing the national honor; of the place th« sons
of the South could fill in tjie ranks of those
battling for a new liberty nnd of the things the
laughters of the South could do to further the
cause of this war for humanity.
There was no comfort to the slacker nor the
nti-draft agitator in (Jen. Thomas' speech. It
vaa the noble expression of a brave man who
had fought and suffered in a righteous cause
and who saw before him the path of duty and
pointed it out to the sons of the men who fought
-beside him fifty years ago. Age has not dimmed
Gen. Thomas’ patriotism nor cooled his ardor
n his country’s service.
We wish more of our people coqld have
heard his speech. It was worthy of a man who
wore the bronze cross. A few days since ji<fe
saw an old man wearing the cross of a Confed
erate Veteran, working to promote a meeting'
i,f those opposing selective draft. We pitied
him. that the passing years had wrought such
a change, and that the feebleness of age should
have made him an easy victim to those who
deceive and mislead for their own selfish ends.
We could no more feel anger towards him than
we could toward a child who had been started
oh the wrong path. But we thought what a
pity, that one once so great could stoop so
low!
Gen. Thomas and his compatriots among the
Confederate Veterans have ^ noble work be
fore them in protecting their comrades from
falling victims to error. In this time of trial,
the Confederate Veteran should'be the bulwark
«f-hi* <ountry's patriotism.
What a foolish, senseless, waste
atruction! In these days of conservation, when
every household in the nation is being urged
to conserve its food supplies and prevent, waste,
the state sets an example in the wanton arid
heedless destruction of $40,000 worth of val
uable medicinal property. '<
In the hospitals in this country ai\d,'Europe
are thousands of sufferers to whorrtHhis wine
would mean food, strength and newMife. Wnen
a high official in the American Red Cross or
ganization heard that its destruction was con
templated he wired a request that, it be turned
over to the Red Cross for hospital use. Instead
cf letting it take this common sense course,
foolish, bigoted fetish was followed and the
wine was destroyed.
This wine was a product of South Georgia
soil and South Georgia sunshine. More than a
decade ago it was pressed from the grape and
ince, in oaken containers, has been reaching
mellow and ripe old age. It was especially
fitted for hospital use. for administering to the
sick and for strengthening the feeble and up
building emaciated tissues. Bpt those whom
it might have relieved must go without or
an inferior substitute, that Georgia may pour
her libations to her pet gods of destruction
Of course, the $40. 000 worth of wine could
have been sold and the funds gone to the Uni
versity of Georgia, as its founder intended, and
materially aided in the higher education of
Georgia’s sons. But what is the use to educate?
It only makes people more intelligent!
Perhaps, to be consistent with her own laws,
it was r necessary that the wine be destroyed.
But what a sad’commentary on the law-making
bodies of the state that permit its own la
put it in such a discreditable position!
to take from Russia just what territory 0p lhi , they majjo out '.heir
want and may be able to occupy before win- t h e -wholesaler # manufact-
ter shuts down.on military operatiom^tfiere six- urcr in duplicate; one #opy he
iy *■$> lwnce. ' ,.n.r tag «• «£.
Confronted with this fearful debacle, there,one. The, mu.t p J”
ia “little wonder that the Allies arc looking very 11'^ „ to!!c „ p n„ m
favorably toward Japan, where two million {v [. 0 ‘thousand item*. *o yon can.
trained soldiers are-only awaiting the word to ^ thB( a doctor. druggist, etc. “.jfc
cross a narrow strip of water and occupy the nKa i n st it, particularly the doctdff
territory won from Russia little more than a de- Now. we will take f«ne «t the ItoMt
cade since by such an immense outpouring of for I”**"'*They
Japanese blood and resources, only to be lost a half inches long, one
by the interference of Germany and Great Brit- ha)f jnefc in diameter, shaped like a
ain. torpedo; they are made with a cocos
Only British and French influence have so butt,; ,!.«» »nd contain the follow-
fur held the Japanese oft hut with Russia giv- ' Inimdienv. A '“”
ing up. apparently pot unwillingly, to Germany ¥£*•.
all the territory she wants there seems little •**—
reason why Japan should not be permitted to ( Bera ,
have her will. The distance is so great and. tom „ u
the transportation so poor that Japan could do L>tor w
little to stop the Teuton advance this year, hutjmt
with a rich slice of Manchuria (whic.h she won mskl
by right of prowess) as-the prize a strong Jap
. Extract. Carbo-
THE RETURN OF A CHILDHOOD FRIEND
A friend of thirty years ago is to come back
to us in frequent visits. We are to see our chil
dren and grandchildren enjoy what we ourselves
derived exquisite pleasure from in childhood.
The announcement that the Atlanta Georgian-
American has secured the rights to republish
the Unde Remus-stories-brings pleasure to thou
sands of older people as well as delightful anti
cipation. to the young.'
Of course Mr, Harris’ stories have been pub
lished in book form nnd those books are in
many Southern households. But in the news
paper the stories will go into thousands arid
thousands of horiies where the book was nev
seen, and where without this stroke of news
paper enterprise the quaint philosophy of Un
cle Remus j»pd the astonishing adventures of-
Bre'r Rabbit would never have been enjoyed.
The Georgian-American has done the South
a favor’bv bringing Mr. Harris back to the chil
dren of today.
After all, the word "bunk” is not bad slang.
It is a^shortning of bunkum which is another
form of buncombe and mean’s exactly what it
says. For the origin the Syn sends us back to
the debate on the Missouri compromise in the
Sixteenth Congress, when an old mountaineer
representing Buncombe county, N. C., rose to
speak. The House wanted to vote and friends
begged the old man to sit down; he refused,
saying that his constituents expected him to
speak, and seeing many members leaving th«
House he shouted: “You,can,all go, if you like
I’m only talking for Buncombe." A good
many Congressmen are just like that in this
day and time, although they are not quite so
frank .the bid mountaineer.
j THE LOCAL NEWSPAPER
From t&) Macon County C ;f izen:
The local newspaper beats the world as
advertising medium. A handbill Rttmct-'
tention by accident. The newspaper carries your
message to a waiting audience. The fence rail
ad is a corpse that can only be looked on by a
few neighbors who have to go near it The
newspaper advertisement goes into the home.
“While he 1
i seat in the family circle and talks
j the hundreds of people who pay for
End of entertainment They love the
jewapaper and read it with confidence,
j equals a good live newspaper when it
i to reaching the people.
;,»« npium in it, it
the JSarcotle law. A
an ,| i,u«:a it. He ha* to
out Hie blank* nnd when he
it he ha* to mnke a record.
truce of common
army could be ready to face the Teutons with ! aon-< . i„ thin. A dope eater who i*
With the superbly I taking train* morphine at a dose
•at 20 of these
the opening of spring. ^
trained and eguipped lighting forces of Nipon ( would have to e
there is little doubt what the result would be. ntimr thing* to
, dose
The
VOCATIONAL TRAINING
That, was convincing argument Supt. Brit-
in advancedSt the High Schogl auditorium
last night for vocational training. The fact that
our schools as at present conducted prepare
about five per cent of our population for their
lift work shows the necessity for a change in
methods. / \
/ A negro long-shoreman with sparrow; a car
penter with a saw, or a brick mason with a
trowel will command higher wages than a col
lege graduate, because they havy been trained
for their work and the graduate has been
through an educational mold which shapes ev
ery youth by the same pattern. Why- should
we continue to waste money putting into the
minds of our children something they do not
need while there is so much that they should be
taught to fit them for their life work?
Only a few of our high school -graduates can
expect to be lawyers, doctors, preachers,
teachers, yet we educate them on the theory
that nothing but the profession is open io them.
This is one of the reasons why so many of our
young men are seeking these professions—be
cause in. our short-sighted policy we have edu
cated them for nothing else.
Vocational training appears to be the solu
tion to one of the problems the thoughtful par
ent has to solve.
ould kill
nm* <*f the »Hly
■omplicated. per-
Inw Accord-
dothr.
against the Teuton at Tsing Tan.
Russia has said she did not want any more | nnnftyanra „r ,i,
territory: she has shown little desire to fight'i^ine and fo<
.hat she has. Then if her area rou*t fall Imr o» Inn
to some invader, why not let it be a power
which usually stands for peace rather than to a jp^ripth... ••
disciple of ruthless militarism? (utead of lX-ir
Such a course should be looked upon with !o pm the patient’* fun n:
distinct favor by the United States. Of all the preieription.^n* to put
nations desiring, territory. .Japan has the best | n “'. .‘lie ^
caumt. -Her population ha„ »o far aMlrimi hoi
•pt foe
area that congestion threatens disintegratii
and decay. To give Japan what she is willing
to earn at her door would settle for all time any
question of Japanese Avetousness for posses
sions on the Western hemisphere.
Farmers included in the drafted army will
not be called to the cantonment until their crops
are harvested, according to a letter fronr Pres
ident Wilson to Congressman Park. The let.
ter was in reply to a personal request -from the
Georgia Representative. In his reply, the* Pres
ident says: “The matter to which-you•called
my attention August 20. has. of coupe, given
me also a great deal of concern nnd I nave been
in frequent communication with the War De
partment about it. I have just received from
the Secretary of War a letter from which I
quote the following sentence: ’Already General
Crowder had foreseen the practical need of
enabling men in agricultural work to remain
at their tasks until the close of the harvest sea
son, and has ingeniously arranged the details
of the call to the colors so that men on the farm
will practically all fall within the last group
and will, therefore, not have to report for mil
itary service until on or about October 1.’ I
sincerely hope that this will in a large measure,
at any rate, meet the situation for the present
year.’’
A sweet, motherly old lady writes, the Al
bany Herald with the suggestion that an hour
be set aside every day for prayer fpr the safe
return of our boys and the speedy end of the
war. For several weeks, the usual prayer meet
ings at the Tifton churches have been turned
Into union services, with the war as a special
subject These will doubtless be changed to
tri-weekly or even daily services as the war pro
gresses and the danger grows greater. But in
every household which has a son at the front
there is a mother praying, even hourly.
We are told that as Emperor of Germany
Kaiser Bill receives a salary of $3,737,186
year and that his income from a vast amount
of private property “is indeterminable”. No
wonder Bill is independent and chesty; who
wouldn't be, with an income so big that no
can figure it? But it is to be remembered that
Nicholas Romanoffs income was larger than
Bills’ a year ago and now he has nothing.
nml pays "hi*
If he frilra a
iuppo*itory in-
hirasclf. he ha*
the
full
all
i the
A CUMBERSOME UNWIELDY LAW
In another column the Gazette publishes a
letter from Mr. G. II. Wilson, in which he dis-j Pnn j cn t
Misses some of the hardships Georgia's.anti*nar-|fnorj'hir
•otic law works upon the me-]ical profession.'ably th.
Views expressed by the writer,
hose the editor has held since the law ,_2r,nth of a
acted. Wc commend for the article a careful tnkan
reading. jchltTFeif'for
The nriti-narcotic law. like so many pieces of ji* made of
relation of a general nature that h-is come j 0,1
roigh the Georgia General Assembl;
of. the revenue
the number on
•inted or not.
link 1700. or more article*,
under ]fhi* P*li*h lnw. Over
iIoua per*cvi*. and “finiky'' collect
ive trying their best to ect pare-
ric into thi* law The opium
itent* of psretrnric 1* 1-8 (Train of
,ratline'to the fluid ounce. Proh- t
■ it not a baby In the wortT
itle with h’ 111 l" 1 " ,nkrn pareeorlc. A do*e
1 ' infant i* 15 drop*; that makes
of o
■Id
Pareg
c !*'
It
aspects, that j Thr ,
rd«hip.l
ith the 1
crude, so ill-considered in m.
in K<v-r.i:p for the publir ?•
mat y innocent people ari n't
III this re-ncct it is equally u
pr ihibit'on law.
. Other countries have anti-narcotic laws ■■hi.-h
an- -j id to be efficient ami an*wtr the pur fy
pose.: et tio not throw around the medical pro
fession Mich barriers that suffering can old)
bo relieved at a great inconvenience and some
personal expense- Mr. Wilson cites supposito
ries and paregoric as notable illustrations of
something over 1,700 articles that corrS^'under
the general application of the law. His state
ment that it is still being enforced although a
United States Supreme Court decision has prac
tically nullified it, and that its enforcement de
pends on inspectors who know nothing whatev
er about medicine, are especially worthy of at
tention.
, The enforcement of this Jaw in some of the
cities has caused great distress and suftering
among habitues of narcotic drugs. It is to be
earnestly hoped that this suffering eventually
resulted in their own good and their being re
claimed from the habit, but such appears to be
very doubtfuL. A less rigid and more humane
application of the principles involved, with due
allowance for individual cases, might have re
sulted in great good instead of so much suffer-
nnrcotic effect,
n. oil of anUe. rectlfi-
. camphor. *u(rnr. ett It
<t intestinal antUeptic ever
J, hence it*, extensive me
up i he claim thnt pnreito-
> <l..pe fiends.
* 10
rnhine
mg.
Laws of this nature, especially with such
eeping effect, should first be disedssed by
constituted medical authorities apd recommends
ed by tlie organizations of men engaged, in the
practice of medicine. Then we would have less
cobbling by amateurs and a finished product
that would bring good to the people of the
state.
Those experienced in handling peanuts for
market caption growers at this season not to
gather their peanuts too green. If they do this,
they will not only lose a large per cent of the
erop in spoiled peanuts, but the younger nuts
will not reach maturity and their maximum
weight.
Wait until the peanuts are matured on the
vines. There ia no danger of their sprouting
such weather as this.
day. If he U»\ par-
■c would have »o drink
* drink to jet h : « do*e.
not foqir. •i:'u!4I the
;ed v
to
ecor.l "oT It while he keep*
d of the Mrniifht paregoric. ji
The ' lnw reads thnt a patient on
whom the dnrtnr i* rejrilnriy attei- ^
ding n<* record ijyed hg kcot of whit .
he give* the patient Should a pa-
tient come to hi* office *he doctor
examine* him. decide* nn giving him
hypodermic of morphine; this he -?y
i* to keep a record of. but he can t
*tep into the hallway, Invite the pa
rent there, administer the mor
phine there and he has ,*o keep no
I could go on and write a whole
iwspaper full of thi* crazy law.
Doctors have been up In.arms ngsinrt
it ever since it passed but they' car
get no redress If. the editor of the
Gazette will investigate this law and
aim his guns at|it he could soon have
it repealed an-) some common sense
law passed in its plsce. Canadians
i-narcotic law which pre
vent* the sale of opiates to only those 1
whom thy doctors think should have
it, and the law is simple anWsucces*-
ful. A decision of the United States
Supreme Court nullifies this law al
together, yet it V kepi. oh. being en
forced’ more rigidly all the time.
Inspectors, who draw snail salaries
and know nothing whatever about
medicine, are failed to enforce this
law.
s very truly,
G. H. Wilson,
Boi 70, AtlanU, Ga.
Swellings of the flesh ciused by
inflammation, cold, fractures of the
bone, toothache, numlgia or rheu-
matiwn ein be relieved by applying
BALLARD’S SNOW LINIMENT.
It should be well rubbed In over the
part affected. Iu great healing
and penetrating power eaees pain,
reduces swelling and restores natur
al conditions. Price 25c,. 50c, and
51.00 per bottle. Sold by Conger
Drug Company.