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ZEbe ZEtfton
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Entered at the Poatofflce at Tlfton. Georgia,
aa mall matter of the aecond class.
I mo. L. Herring Editor and Manager
Official Organ City of Tiftoo
and Tift County, Georgia.
THE HAWKIN5VILLE TRAGEDY
All legal edvertieeenenw a
Ublluery nolle**. •**:•*» •
utur. 1 e#nt a word
SATURDAY NIGHT
The Bee a Deceitful
“About the most dissateful animal in
% -world is the bee," said Bill Spillers.
The crowd was over at Zeke Whitfield’s,
pulling fodder, and after dinner the boys were
sitting out under the big oak. cooling off be
fore tackling the hot aftemoonjob and swap
ping yarns.
“What’s the matter. Bill; were you
friendly and got stung?" was asked..
"No; worse than that. It was this way,: Me
and Joe Crum and John Stephens were cutting
cypress down in Little river swamp, and stop
ped to rest by one of the biggest pines I ever
saw. After we rested a bit, Joe goi up and
.began to walk around the pine, sounding it with
his axe. It was hollow.
"Then, we heard a sort of droning noise, and
walking out a little ways and circling ’round
we saw some little, black-looking specs way up
about the bottom limbs coming out and going
back in. ’It’s a bee tree: by gum.’ said John.
Joe and I agreed with him. for when we hit the
tree a few times with the axe. we could see the
things just swarm out.
"That was a find, for with such a tree there
ought to be honey enough to sweeten Shickle
lake. You know, when bees locate in a big
tree like that, they just go on making, year aft-
r er year. and when you strike an old one. some
of the honey is so black it looks like molasses.
I’ve seen ’em build up and down a hollow for
eight or ten feet
"We marked the tree, and set a day when
we could invite over the settlement folks and
have a sure enough cutting. Ras Smith had a
sack of flour and he brought it over to Joe’s
to make biscuit foivthe crowd, and one Satur
day after dinher 4re went out there. I had
been thinking of honey and hot biscuits until
my month watered. i r—
“Thefe was about twenty of us, women and
men and children. We built a fire of pine sap
to make a smudge and Joe and John, being
axe men, set to work. That tree was at least
five feet pirough. It was the biggest pine I
think I ever saw, and even the bark was hard.
They went at it manfully. Took out a curf. cut
it down; went up higher, took out another and
brought it down. John stopped to rest; his shirt
was as wet as if he had fallen into a well. *Rv
grabs;' he said, ‘it looks ftke we ought to be
to that holler by this time.’ 'Sarfie over here.’
aaid Joe, who was every bit as tired'as John.
“ ‘It can’t be fur, now,’ said Joe, and they
set to work again. But it was. It was’ one of
them sorter trees that come down holler near
ly to the root and then the holler stops and the
balance is as solid aa a rock. T-hey are the hard
est kind of trees to cut and the rest of us had
to spell Joe and John several times and then
it was sundown before the tree was ready to
fall.
“The women folks and children got out of
the way up on the side of the hill, and purty
» the big tree begin to lean and crack, and
Saturday night’s occurrence at HawklnsviTle
in which two were killed and three Injured is
but the natural outgrowth of the inflammatacy
propaganda, seditious utterances and the reel*
lean advice to disregard law and order with
wlich the people of Georgia and the South
have been so long afflicted.
Tom Simons, an Assyrian, had been register
ed for -elective draft, but claimed exemption
because he was not a naturalized citizen,
delayed filing this ejaim until the time w«
frr filing with the local board and had to file
it with the district board. Meanwhile, he took
a vacation trip west Before going away, Si
mons showed signs of being mentally unbal
anced and after his return talked like a crazy-
man, abusing the United States and saying that
’his side’’ ‘woulcTneon take care of this coun
try. Saturday night he met the clerk of the
Pulaski exemption board in a drug store and
asked him about his claim On being told that
it had not been passed upon by the district
board he began a tirade of abuse and struck
the clerk in the face. When a policeman went
to arrest Simons in the store operated by he
and his brother, the two and Simona’ wife open
ed fire on him. Mrs. Simons shot Allen Dortch
through the lungs and was killed by him. From
10 o’clock ;it night until 3 next morning a posse
laid siege to the store until the two men made a
break for liberty. Then Tom Simons was kill
ed while his brother escaped. John .11111, a
member of the posse, was shot through the
face and arm.
That Tom Simons was insane there can be
little doubt. That incendiary articles and se
ditious utterances inflamed a mind already
weak or tottering on. the balance is certain. He
heard and read too much of this in Georgia and
from the national capital and on his trip West
heard still more. He went away brralic and
brooding: he came back a violent anarchist. .
For two and probably three deaths at Haw-
kinsville the men who have been sowing the
seed of sedition, dissatisfaction and insurrec
tion inr Georgia and throughout the country
are as much to blame as if they had held the
guns from which the fatal shots were fir*d.
So far. the government is/UIameless; if it per
mits such conditions to continue and the guilty
men to go unrestrained, it will be a party to
the next tragedy of this kind. The Department
of Justice owes it to the loyal public to put such
men where they can do no m<fre harm. They
have had too much license already.
BE NOT DECEIVED
Don’t let cotton at 20 centa a pound took you.
The price is not as high, comparatively, as
bacon at 27 cents, corn at $2 a bushel or flour
at $16 a barrel.
Twenty-cent cotton will not buy any mere to
day than 8- or 10-cent cotton would buy three
yean ago. The same is true of the seed at $60
The roan who listened to good advice last
spring and planted food crops and now says he
is sorry he did so because cotton is 20 cents,
is foolish. He has set a good example, and hia
crop will be worth more to him from a monetary
standpoint than if he' had planted cotton.
Our people havPmade cotton a money crop
for nearly a century and it is hard for them
to realize that there is more money In almost
any other crop. So when the price of cotton
reaches an Unusual figure, they go right op in
the air for the time being.
The man with a good- crop of $2 corn, or
$1.25 peanuts or velvet beans, or hogs worth
20 cents on the hoof, or cattle for which he can
demand his own price, has got no cause to envy
the man with a crop of 20 cents cotton-
then she come down with a roar that made the
.folks across the river think a September storm
was coming. She fairly shook the ground when
she hit. and pieces of limbs and pinetops fell
in a shower all ’round.
“Some of us grabbed a smudge of smoke from
. the fire and the others with axes, and pans and
buckets to get the honey, run up. Jofe and John
were ahead to cut into the holler. It was gittin'
sorter dusk and we couldn’t see the best in the
world, but just before he got to where he
thought the holler was Joe stopped and slap
ped himself on the side of the jaw hard, aiyl
aaid. ‘Dad-blame!’ John’s shirt was open at
the neck and he hollered ’Ow!’ and hit himself
in the breast. . About that time I felt a streak
of fire hit my shin just above my shoetops. ,
’“Hurry up with that smokr!’ all three of
us yelled at once, but when the smoke got there
It didn't seem to make any difference. They
hit us so fast that it kept all hands busy and
we didnlt have time to cut into the tree. It
wasn’t netig^sary.
•“‘Yellow jackets!’ somebody yelled—and it
-was!
T*Tho tot I-saw-of- Joe and John, they were _
tflreaking up The hill like all possessed, but f
made for the swamp and the run ck the river
where there were still some deep hotes.although
the water wasn’t running- When thVJtree fell
it made them yellow jackets about the maddest
set of insects you ever saw. They chased us
for several hundred yards, and even got‘out
l-i. it. I U
into the crowd where the women folks were.
Says the Hawkinsville Dispatch and News:
The destruction of this wine, as our Tifton con
temporary says, was ‘wanton, foolish waste,'
but under the circumstances there was nothing
else to do but to pour it into the gutter. The
bone-dry law made no provision for the dispo
sition of the Hand wine, consequently the state
could not sell it without violating the law, and
if it had done so it.would have had no right to
prosecute any individual who might he caught
with intoxicants in his possession or selling
same.” We did not want the state to sell the
wine, but to donate it to the American Red
Cross, for exclusive hospital use, where it
badly needed.
THE LUTE WITH A BROKEN STRINC
There was an object in the triumphal entry of
e-Kaiser ! nto Riga and making the fall of that
Russian port a holiday . celebration in
Germany. Perhaps we may ?ee in this dem
onstration the objective of the concentration of
the German army and fleet upon the demor
alized and disintegrated Russian forces at that
point.
The German people have been fed upon
promises, and the weak point in this policy is
that such a diet must be kept up. They are
forced to undergo many privations to support
thetf^armies at the front and to see a. steady
stream of kindred and friends going to the fil
ing line, never to return- As'compensation for
thia they are promised rich indemnities when
Germany is a world power supreme.
All this year the^Allies have been steadily
hammering onWestern front. Since the
great German retreat early in the spring the
gains have been by piece-meal but the aggre
gate is large and the Germans have lost only
after strenuous efforts had cost many lives.
With the single exception of the Russian front,
the German story of the war for many months
has been a continued retrograde.
German public opinion must be fed again.
Therefore, a success was an absolute necessity.
Russia was pitifully weak and Riga a noted
strategic point. Hence the advancing force,
the occupation after evacuation, ami ti;? cele
bration. It may be that the War party will con
tinue the advance to Petrograd. to afford
terlal for another demonstration. But it is noil
probable; winter is coming on and to add an
other 300 miles would stretch the thii Germati
line to a dangerous length.
i> Tito.
CAUGHT WITH THE GOODS
START A SAVINGS ACCOUNT
That is an excellent example the Bank of
Tifton has set in establishing a savings depart
ment and giving it especial attention. The rea-
ion our people are not wealthier as a whole
today is because they have not acquired the
habit of saving. Savings accounts in banks,
to which a small sum can be added daily or
weekly, encourages this most wholesome thrift.
One of the reasons—of course there are oth-
s—why the North and East are money cen
ters is because the people as a rule, especially
those of moderate means, have been taught to
save. The peasantry of France paid that coun
try’s enormous war tax to Germany forty years
sgo out of their savings. With these they also
financed de Lesseps for his Panama canal ven
ture, and sent millions to this country to aid
in its development.
No people ever grow wealthy as a class un
til they learn to save. An account in a savings
bank encourages and aids them. With the im
mense resources of this country it will become
the wealthiest in thr world whan the people
have once learned to'save a portion of their in
come, no matter how small it may be.
Every man. woman and child in the South
knows what a cantaloupe is but perhaps very
few know that they originated from muskmel-
on seeds brought from Armenia nearly four
centuries ago and first grown at the Villa Can-
taluppi. in the States of the Church. But the
wise man enjoys the luxury as it comes to his
hand and questions not the origin.
WHY THEY CALL IT THE "RAINBOW DI
VISION"
(H. H. Stambury, in Atlanta Georgian.)
“Why do they call it the ‘Rainbow Division’
the editor asks, referring to the first big group
■I National Guard units selected for service in
France! and officially designated as the Forty-
ty-second Division- ’ ".
Because its fighting men come from sections
of the country which stretch as a rainbow from
one horizon to the other. The name was coin
ed b.v a comparatively unknown Washington
correspondent while endeavoring to write a sto
ry of n War Department order otherwise dull
and uninteresting.
The name smelt, and. Iikfr-the_Rgugh -Rider?.
af the Spanish .American War. the organization
'»f Guardsmen already has become a distinct
ive branch of the new army of the United i
States.
Starting from New York with the-Sixty-ninth j
on the Atlantic Coast, the- Rainbow Division
Contrary to the usual practice of holding
to an office until the last minute, Charles S. Ar-
Secretary Lansing caught Sweden in the pan
try with jam on its jowls* so to speak.
Fqr ^eyeral months that country has been
sending up a howl about the injustice it suffer
ed-because Uncle Sam had shut off^Xood sup-
W« teei that it has been a
short time since we sold out our
: drug business to Conger Drug Com.
pany. amt now preparing to open up
a store cm the corner f owner! y occu
pied by tha Bank of Tfton, that .
possibly som* of my friends and the *
public Urge might not understand
why we have taken this position we
have. This little explanation will
to where any on# will •
understand and apprecia f out pjsl-
When Mills' Drug Company sold
Conger ‘Drug Company, I waa
Manager of Mills' Drug Company,
closing up the detalU of the
sale, I enade the Conger Drug Cam- ^
jy a promise that I did not expert
>o back in the drug business in
Tifton which I was far from at that
time. But after the sa*« had i>een^ ^
made, some two or three -weeks hsd~
eUpaed when the Manager ef the
Conger Drug Company came to me
and asked me ic taVe off theta-
hands the lease they had bought from
the Mills Drug Company, en the
bank comer. I told him I could not ‘
I had no use for t, and
could not use it. But he insisted •
that I take it off his hands, as it
about to create trouble n bis
less on acc<- ■ ->' of the iesat. as
members of His company did
not seem, to know they had Uken
over the lease. So after he persla-
ted I finally told him that if ha-Wt-
ed to release it, and get rid of it
bad enough to release mo fromvhby
and all obligations to his company
and especially that I would not go
back in business here, that under
this aerement I would relieve him of
the lease, but at the same time told
him that I thought it would be best
for them to seep the lease, so they
could control" the building. I called
in a witness and recited the story,
and he agreed to it and I accepted
the lease and my freedom.
So I began to figure what ta do
with the building and at last decid
ed that I would have to go back In
business in order to make it pay
renk. as I could not rent it out. So
near future there will be op-
.n this corner a nice, brand
drug store under firm
now gave up his job as State Game Warden as; plieg for which iu peop j e were suffering,
soon as his successor. Sam J. Slate, of Colum- !the 9ame time the right hand waa rai8ed fn pro _
bus, was named by Gov- Dorsey. While the, test the , eft wa8 s hovin^aeross the border in
appointment was at first made effective Oct. ls» to Germanv ^eat quantities oE provisions on.
for some reason there was a misunderstanding which the canny Swedes were reaping profits
in the capitol and it was changed, to take ef-' of from 100 to 50 o per cent. Even in this coun- new
feet immediately. Whether Mr. Arnow insist- cry there hag been 80mt complaint of the way \ name of MilU’ Drug Store. Phoo#
ed that he be relieved or whether the Governor that Sweden waa being treated and an effort Ju*t before «• do open, yon
made theejiange for other reasons is not known. ' made to excite sympathy for her distressed peo-J* 1 ) 1 r#ceWe ", nic * , 0 |",
Another facN>f especial interest is that under % ]e _ a stress brought on by themselves*. ! urnTyo"^ w'l' have “the oppor-
a recent court ruling the term of office of ev-j Now tba t it develops that Sweden avowed j t0 become one of our cnetom-
ery county game warden in the state expires ber Ambassadors to act as go-betweens of' er », and you will receive, not only
with that of the state warden. the German Foreign Office and its rjpr.-senta- » good, but the beet good*,
t<na,ln Argentine—and probibty in Mother b»r ud 1M bn.
After all. the French people did not nick- 1 countries—there will be a change of opinion
name the American soldiers “Sammies”. How - mon(r right>hinking people here in regard Ulnl
the term came into use is explained in this wise: to Swedish wrongs. There Is little prospect of
When the "first to fight" contingent steamed war with Sweden, but we at least know about
into port the people on the wharf shouted ‘‘Vi- , v here that country's svmpath s es lie.
vent les Amis!"—pronounced "Veev lays ah-
mee!" What thia means is "long live the (our) A wealthy citizen of Summ.t is under a
friends,” but “les amis” may sound a good deal $2,500 bond to the Federal Grand Jury under!
like "les Sammies,” and the newspaper men so a charge of attempting to' bribe the Emanuel'
interpreted it. Immediately the folks “back County Exemption Board to exempt hi;
home” began calling our troops “Sammies,” but from military servic
the French have yet to acquire the habit. (Offered
It is claimed that he had
i bribe indirectly, and ^tRis coming
j-wilhin the knowledge of the Board he was
The high praise of the work of Miss Rowena trapped into making it direct while the Sheriff
Long, home economics agent for Sumter county and a dictagraph was behind the door.- It has
ills again beet
ong to go chai
to other fields. Her work in Tift county was acting through mercenary motives, when they
by the Americus Times-Recorder recalls again been very popular among some classes to
Tift county’s loss in permitting Miss Ixtpg to go charge that the county exemption boards were
of the same high order as her work in Sumter : were only trying to do their duty. In the
and she should have been kept here. .At pres- nature of things it would be practically imp-s
ent Tif* has no cqunty agent in home economics s *hle for them to be influenced b.v monetary | Y
and the lack should be supplied before-aTtotinrr-onsiderations. even were they so Inclined. The |
— • j EmanUel county incident will doubtless nave a | Y
, wholesome effect.
The government sounds a warning to wheat J
-That was a mean trick the Sheriff of Irwin!
played on Mayor rG. S. Wilcox, of Ocilla, the i . i „ i
other day when he raided hi. office and lound: «">*™ benmmhl, of the plant,n* sea-1
38 quarts and 137 pints of whiakey, aceordin*.™" »« ‘o be rntslel,Into planting abnormally i
to new. reports The Mayor', friend, ,ay it h'gh-P™ed aeed for witch extravagant claims j
was a frame-np and the quantity of the find A , lr '» d >- the , “ ed f " uds «*.•«*» 11
indicate, that the framer, must have gathered to vcU^e fanner.. U rn woHjo purchasing %
the harvest from the seed planted in a corn
field ndar Pinebloom during May of last year.
seed to'know that you. are buying from relia
ble houses or from a man with an established |
reputation.
The failure of the thirty-four women who
went to work on the Pennsylvania railroad in
Indiana as section hands, was what rillght have
been expected. They were physically unable to
perform-the work, for which the £ord never in
tended them. There are many lines of indus
try' where women can take the place, of men
who have gone to war but grading a railroad
track under a blitzing sun is not one of them.
The Conyers Times suggests that those who
are so fond of quoting Andrew Jackson, regard
the following Jackson utterance for what it is
.worth: “The man who refuses to defend his
cuuulry . -when called upon -by- his-government
to-be a klave’-anh must be Treated’as
enemy to his country and
After-the courtmartial is concluded, the ne
groes of the 24th Infantry, members of which
participated in the riot at Houston, Texas, will
be sent to the Philippines for service until the
end of the war. Why not send them to Messa-
potamia. to help the British fight the Turks’
r thousand* ol
i suilering from
womanly trouble, have
been benefited by the use
of Cardui, the woman’s .
tonic, according to letters
wc receive, simitar to this
one from Mrs. Z. V. Spell,
otllayne, N.C, "1 could
not stand on my feet, and
Just sullered terribly,”
she say*. "As my snl-
lering was so great, and
be had tried other reme
dies, Dr. had us
] get Cardui. . . I begun
-» Improving, and It cured
me. I know, and my
doctor knows, what Car
dui did lor me, ioreny
nerves and health were
about gone."
TAXE
Although he has only been In prison a few
months, J. J. Adams, the ex-preacher who was
convicted of kidnaping a Norman Park girl a ,
few months ago is asking for a pardon. This (
is one reason the public as a rule lacks con
fidence in the enforcement of the law.
[cardui
I Hie Woman's Tonic ■
NEWSPAPERS PAY THEIR WAY
Editor Jnck Pnwe!) Is a neighbor again, hav- ,
friend of its foe." in,r takcn charge of the Milltown Advance. His '
| salutatory to his brethren of the press is ohai
jacterlstlc: "To our brethren of the weekly j
jrress: We are now operating a Diamont^press. I
■ Laugh, dern you!”
gathers its units from Pennsylvania, Virginia.: I mm the Dublin Cqurier-Herald:
North and South Carolina and Georgia; it then: The agitation for .newspaper taxation for)
curls toward Alabama and Louisiana, bends up-U< ar purposes has been fruitful In drawing out I
ward through Texas and Oklahoma, and finally'(bo fact that newspapers are not responsible|
_ ■ , .... . i_ . sweeps up the Pacific Coast in California and f or th e deficit In the postofflee department each
Even after these started home the jackets had.^^ | vef , r as they have been generally credited with! D - . .. ... „„„ „ .
Ht in the wiregraaa and every now and then^one , And all of it. like the rajnbow. is a beautifully i be irtr. Investigation shows that newsuaners Remember, brother, that you are at a loss
REMEMBER, BROTHERl
1 Bainbridge Post-Searchlight:
• "Hhrcriu'Xd **«,«? 8
of the girls would fetch a squeal, grab her'red white and blue, gloriously green on the far ,. an carried in the first zone oi
akirts down below her knees,-*nd light out for'eastern flank and tinted with £Oldon the west. m Hes. which is as far as general newspaper cir-
. The "Rainbow Division absorbs regiments | culation goes, for fifty-nine cents for each one
the house. . . . Ifrom the 26 states, representing every kind of i hundred pounds, leaving the Government aj' rn \- y-y .. ~ A -nmnn-i
H 10 ■” -• - the '”*■
! ooo sentiment They are all AMEHICANS! |Pe«- * Me to do so.
ist dues. --No business i^-having to bear the
t Burden of this war buefness as much aa they
They have been required to give thous-
She writes iu.-hen "1
am in splendid health ...
can do my work. I feel I
owe it to Cardui, lor 1 was
In dreadful condition.”
K you ace nervous, run
down and weak, or suffer
trom headache, backache,
etc., every month, try
Cardui. Thousands ol
women praise this medi
cine lor the good U has
done them, and many
physicians who have used
Cardui successfully wKh
(heir women patients, lor
yean, endorse this medi
cine. Think what it mcM
to be la tpleadid health,
like Mrs. Spell. Qfrv
Cardui a trial.
AD Druggists