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ZEbe ZEtfton Published VtrWkly i3cttc 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