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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.