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FRIDAY, OCTOBER 5, 1»1T. Litton (3a3ctte PublUbed Weekly N. THE BRITISH OBJECTIVE. THIS GREAT COUNTRY OF OURS - Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia, u mail matter of the second class. j^L. Herring Editor and Manager Official Organ City of Tifton •nd Tift County, Georgia SATURDAY NIGHT. Apple Dumplings. Some of the best things of the days that are gone are unknown to the youth of the present. One of these is the apple dumpling. The real apple dumpling was made only with apples that grew on the gnarled old tree that stood between the kitchen and the big house, into whose branches your first experiments in childhood climbing were made; under whose abade your first frog-house was built and minia ture railroad constructed, with cars and brake- men of corn-stalk and locomotive of a discarded oyster can. The only way to make them was for Mother to gather the red-striped apples while yet the dew was on. and later peel them, sitting in a chair by the kitchen door, while you sat on the step at her feet and shared the peelings with the pet duck and gnawed the juicy parts of the core. Sliced thin, the apples were sailed in wide alabs ofaough- made from the treasured stock of flour in the barrel behind the kitchen-door. Seasoned, kneaded by one who knew, and then rolled wide and thin with the long, wooden roll ing-pin that hung by a string on the nail above the kitchen table. In the pot they boiled long, until the dough tasted like apples and the apples tasted like ambrosia the gods knew not. Hot from the pot the.v came .when dinner was ready and the hungry family, with appetites whetted by great expectations, grouped around the table. And the sauce? The only sauce to serve with apple dumplings was of sugar whipped in butter. The butter from milk from old Brindle who was then feeding herself from the tender wire grass undershots along the flat down by £ e branch. Sugar from the bucket with its ooden hoops and close-fitting wooden lid that was only replenished when cotton was sold, and which was kept among the family treasures in the bottom of the wardrobe in the big hobse. Sugar which, whea the lid was lifted, sent up an aroma that brought the water to your mouth and brought you pleading for "just a lump”- which you usually got? 7 Half a dumpling generously filled your plate, and on this you spread the sauce in lavish plenty. As it melted and added its savor to what nature and a good cook had already’ pro vided. with the wide side of your knife-blade you shoveled, until even the appetite of youth was satiated. For while you did not get good things often, when you got them there plenty. Gone is the apple dumpling, with the. South Georgia apples and the days when the world was young. Now you have the apple roll, the apple pie, the apple turn over, but they do not reach the spot that the dumpling touched. Neither will-anything else, for gone with it is the appetite, the capacity to enjoy'. But in its day and time—which was yours, the apple dumpling was one of the good things of the earth. Lament not that it is gone, for the best part of you has gone also—like the dumpling, the best you have left are memories. Sir Douglas Haig’s men are striking at the German submarine base at Zeebrugge. ^For nothing else would the British War Office make such an immense sacrifice of men and munitions. While he is literally blasting his way with his cannon the weekly list of British casualties is astounding. First 24.000, then 26,000, then 27,000 failed, wounded and missing. The War Office llat puts to shame for all time the state ment that the British are leaving the hard fight ing for others to do. Since the Marne and the first days of Verdun, no other nations at war ex cept Russia during her debacles, and perhaps Germany, of whose losses we know little, have paid sucl, a fearful price in men for an advan tage gained. Nearly every foot of ground won represents a British casualty. Only a great objective could warrant this sacrifice, for that it was deliDerately planned and methodically executed, the continued and increasing reports attest. The Channel coast must be cleared of the enemy before winter sets in and the time is short Why? The Germans must not be allowed to use this coast as a base to send their submarines • tgaSriifc shipping during the five months of winter. The sea lanes must be measurably dear tor“, through them must flow bread for Britain and her allies and munitions for their unk. Through them must also flow the steadily growing American army; its aviators and their equipment; iLs hospital men and supplies, and greatest of all. food and clothing for the men who are pressing forward to take their places in the fighting lines. It is for this that Britain is paying deliberate ly and methodically as Britain does all things, a heavy toll in men. It is in this that the Brit ish have won for themselves a place again among the greatest fighting nations of the world. Weil they - strike al the submarine, for of all their enemies it is the most uncertain. Two weeks ago, when only eight ships over 1,600 tons snd twenty under that tonnage fell victims, it was thought that because of convoys the sub-- marine commanders had turned their attention to thn smaller vessels. Next week, however, thirteen vessels of more than 1,600 . tons and only two of less tonnage were deatroyed,jind the calculations of experts were again, upset And id it goes; the estimates of today are 'worth less tomorrow. But one thing remains certain, that Be submarines continue as the most seriouk menace to the Allied cause and that the British are kjriking at the heart of the situation when they are driving the Germans from the Channel coast Two articles in the Gazette's news columns the past week give an idea of the great re sources of this wonderful country we live in. Eighty-four hogs sold by one grower, and these only portion of his crop this year, brought within a few cents of $2,000. A crop that paid a profit so handsome that 4L eclipsed cotton even as a money crop at 25 cents pound. > Another tells of a bee-hive which had ready netted its owner cash returns of $13 for the year. And this hive was only one of many Bees require a little care and attention but not much actual work. They do the work them selves and collect good money foistheir owner from the flowers and buda thatTjfoom sponta neous. These are only items of the many resources that this section offers the man of resource and perseverance. They are by no means small things, but the profit in them lies in look ing after the details. There are many others of the same class. With this country availing itself of the splendid market for all kinds food products, we expect to see more attention n to by-products of the farm, in which after all, the great profit lies. J. F. Yaneay . C. Ireland Daniel Sutton '. H. Davis Mr. John G. Herring, for the past two years with the Albany Herald as city editor, is again at his desk on the Gazette- He returns as as sistant to the editor, and will also have charge of our local and advertising departments. He had hia early training in newspaper work in this office but later went to the outside field for a broader experience. We believe he is qualified to do better work for the Gazette and for Tifton by the years of absence. He returns to take a portion of the work off the Old Man’s shoul ders, which for some time had been very heavy, especially when changed conditions first dou bled and later trebled it. Now that the young man is back, the Old Man expects to doll up some glad rags and loaf around town, smoke gift cigars and chat with the boys awhile- He has done enough work this year to last him a long time. >The boys have got to take our place Bometime; they had as well begin now. Jack L. Patterson, formerly of Griffin, is at the head of the Conyers Times.’where his good work, is already noticeable. WHO PAYS THE INTEREST? From the Dublin Coorier-Heruld. One must admire prosperity, and the means of promoting it. no matter where he finds-it, nr ti what the business is bv whieb. pmspcrityls jfain- *' ed. ’ Wb have hot a word of objection to the success of the big mail order houses. We could not have. We have the greatest faith in the methods they use in building up their busi ness. They use the only approved system the world kndws—Advertising. Don’t misunderstand us. We are not iff fa vor of mail order houses. We do not patron ize them. We never will patronize them, and we do not advise anybody to patronize them. But at-the same time vr e must admit that they conduct their business on the only lines that count for success in business, listen to a little newspaper item, which we cut from a city fin ancial column some weeks ago. “Local stockholders have been notified that the Directors of Sears. Roebuck and Co., have recommended the distribution to stockholders of a 25 per cent, stock dividend, making the en tire capital of the company $75,000,000 common — and $8.-000,060-preferred. At the meeting of the directors yesterday the dividend rate on the common stock was increased from Paitor Jim Foster, who is now at Rochelle, has i»ur sons in the army. Two, Hinton and Robert, are with the “Rainbow” division on Long Islani; Sam is at Camp Beauregard, and George is atCamp Gordon. Mr. Foster was twice past# of the Tifton Methodist church and those who know him are not surprised that his boys respflided so readily to the call to service. A THREE-YEAR-OLD-GIANT Fron the Lincoln Journal. Tl* Tifton Daily Gazette has just entered its fourth year, and not withstanding its youth the |Bper has developed a strength that puts it in a class with the daily papers published in citiel with ten limes the population of Tifton. Bit the Gazette has been well nourished fronwvithin and without. It is edited by a man who knows the newspaper business from the hell-tox to the sanctum; a man who has given to thl Gazette and' to Tifton more than most citiei could ask. but who has. in return, been give* much by the people he has so earnestly and faithfully served—a- fact unusual in the garni of editing a newspaper. Tfaee years or a little better ago. when John Harifag oarne .out with the first issue of his daily. many, of his closest friends in the business felt ti*trthe "Old Man" was entering the stage of life -when reasoning faculties lose their keen- • the stage of second childhood, so RpaeJc • ditor Herring saw a field wide open and ked and so he stuck his plow in the soil, ' the ceding himself and the result is that :tte has Won an envious position. __ back or the success of the paper is still another feature that should be kept in mind and that is that Tifton is one of the best citieB in Georgia and the Cleanest City in the South. For several years previous to the birth of the daily edition of the Gazette, Tifton had been torn and bled periodically with political strife. She never knew a year of absolute calmness and-co-operative business effort for so long a time that some of the younger men there for got when peace reigned in her midst. Soon after the Daily began a proposition was put up to the folks there that they bury the hatchet for all time und get together. The advice was taken and from a stagnant city filled full of disagreeing office seekers, caring not a rap for the welfare of any save themselves, the place has developed into a marvel of activity and civic development. In the past three .years or less hundreds <)f thousands of dollars have been invested in substantial improvement* and nstead of the business imen haggling away their time over politics, there is a joint effort John Newspapers will be much more expensive to their readers after July 1st next. The increase postage as agreed upon by the House and Senate Conference Committee makes it impos sible for the publishers to avoid raising their subscription price. The high postage under the zone system will also force subscribers to _ ltl confine their reading to newspapers published | Jo - hn R WiIli , l Bennett within a few hundred miles, as the price of J T w Tift Dave Branch those printed in the metropolitan centers wilTj s G ibb» J. D. Denby be so high that only the wealthy living at a dis- j nco b Goff 3. T. Mlekel „ , .. * w A Doss 3. A. Yarbrougn tance can afford them. "• A- Newspaper publishers must also be expert accountants, to figure the postage on their newv papers to different points. The following are the rather remarkable rates proposed In the w revenue bill Beginning July 1, 1918, and continuing until July 1, 1919. the rate per pound^will be 1 1-4 cents per pound on reading jjwtuer more than the present rate on all second class matter, 1 1-2 cents per pound after July 1, 1919. Publications carrying more advertising than CALLED BACK HOME AUTUMN NEWSPAPERS WILL BE HIGHER. traverse jurors Drmvm to Sorea Fiot WtJi Oct- Tarm Ttf« Superior Coart. R. T. Pop* G - w - D,nlelj Ssm Turk W. J. Slko. A. B. Blalock H. J. Young F. H. Short A. R. Thrasher C. B. Coarsey E. D. Branch E. L. Ireland * “ ” ... Doss P. Young T. C. Allen E. L. Dukes Lamar Sellara Eitls Fletcher H. H. Scarborough F. Z. Dumas J. N. Brown Wiley Walker W. A. Fletcher C. S. Arnold J. K. Butler - W. I. Bell J..W. William*. , GRAND JURORS H. Rainwater J. 5 per cent of their space would be subject under }J - Jone> the fourth-class parcel post zone system, to the j R w Branch October Ter Court. L Doss . Abbott , u ,, B. Clement* following rates per pound on their advertising j M g PaUcn g 3. matter: i\| Tucker Dempsey W. Wlllla Between July 1. 1918. and July 1. 1919. n™ 1 v;j || io Sulton j. c. Touchstone and second zones. 1 1-4 cents; third. 1 1-2 cents; | s N Adams William Branch fourth, 2 cents; fifth. 2 1-1 cents; sixth 2 1-2 ; c 0. Montgomery L. L. Simmon* cents; seventh. 3 cd*ts: and eighth. 3 1-4 cents. w s Cobb n. N. Malcoa Between July 1. 1919. and July 1. 1920. first and second zones. 1 1-2 cents; third. 2 cents; fourth. 3 cents; fifth. 3 1-2 cents; sixth, 4 cen»«, seventh. 5 cents and eighth, 5 1-2 cents. / Between July 1. 1920. and July 1, 1921, first and second zones. 1 3-4 cents; third 2 1-2 cents; fourth. -1 cents; fifth. 4 3-4 cents; sixth, 5 1-2 cents; seventh. 7 cents, and eighth. 7 3-4 cents- r July 1. 1921. first and second zones 2 cents; third. 3 cents; fourth. 5 cents; fifth. C cents; sixth. 6 cents; seventh. 9 cents, and eighth 10 cents. Practically no newspapers which accept ad vertising at all carry as little as 5 per cent of their total space. Therefore, the higher rate of postage in each instance must be paid- Very few newspaper publishers are making money now; many have gone out of business during the past two years, and others were facing dif- 1 Parks Sumner Sander* Gibba e^llips C. L. Parker Hook,- E. J. Cottle Geo. W. FleUiSer E. F. Harrell L. P. Thurmmn Jacob Gibbe. : F .RO Bl'RGLAR CAUGHT. Alien Person, a negro who claimi Douglas as Viis home, was arrested SaiSrdny night, by Chief Thrasher as he was breaking into a rear win dow of L. S, Shepherd and CJe/a store. Persons is sijd to hare brok en into the store one or more times and Mr, Thrasher recovered some of the stolen goods. Persons is held in (Written for-the Gazette). September belongs toHlie past, one month nearer the end of the old year, and one month nearer the new; and still the-golden days of sum mer linger. Days of brilliant sunshine, that SI-- —t p»- a. <-» so.- "*-'“iT; fields, where the bamboo lays a trap for the for the second yeifr. o 1-2 cents; for the third careless, with its crimson thorny tangle. year. 7 3-4 cents, and for the fourth year. 10 eta. Magnolia Balm Acuities before the new postage rates were pro-| tJQUID FACE POWDER. posed. Consequently, they must raise their subscription price to meet the increased post age or suspend publication. The zone system will confine the circulation. of the smaller newspapers strictly to local ter- , rltory. For instance; the Gazette has a few subscribers in the far Western ptates and in the Canal Zone. These are in the Eighth Postal Zone. Although we have only one or two sub scribers in the different zones beyond the third Nature in all things shows a marked distinc tive individuality. It is the season of Indian Summer when she lifts her breezes to the top of the pine and oak, Peddens the fronds of the fieldgrass, turns the poplar leaves yellow, pur ples the sweet gum, and gives to the maple its crimson bloodlike shade. In Autumn the wind in the tree top is never jolly, it is as if moving slow and touching tend erly the chords of sound, and recollection. If the Mocking bird sings, its voice is low. If the summer insects linger in the fuze, they seem to mellow their notes to softness on an echo. If the Magnolia flings out a white flag of truce to all the strifes of the passing year, from the topmost bough it ts waved to the sinking sun—waved to the rising star. Spring the Beautiful! Dreamland of Youth —Spring of passion—of pleasure, of play, whose Violet eyes oft times are blinded by April tears, with unsatisfied restlessness presses eager ly on to Summer, with its days bo full of toil and heat and passionate throbbing life, so fill ed with sowing of seed, and solving of problems, so tense with unrestful expectancy. * AutumR—Golden, mellow, dreamy autumn, belongs to life’s maturity, and has in its very breath a restful assurance. It is in the Autumn of life, that time begins Je.lsy the finger-of peace upon, our brow., ami- wisdom leads us through paths once fill ed with cruel, cutting stones, stones oft-times marked with blood drops from the stumbling, slipping feet of inexperience and cruelty of the World's rush and roar.—. Uke a weary child we are filled with a rest less longing for the Ahtumn— “Some morning you will wake, not long from And draw a breath, and smile, and will arise And hurry to the window, wondering how In one brief night so much of sorrow dies. For you will look .into the morning skies And-find a different blue above the pine. And every thought will be glad surprise, And all the air be glorious as wine. “Some morning you will wake, not long from now, And find a world of peace before your eyes. For time will lay his fingers on your brow Andleave .vou so content and. oh. so wise! No longer you will worry and surmise. For age wjll come with medicine divine And heal the hurt and "till the aching sigh. And life will be glorious as wine. (Georgia.) — A L. The beauty secret of wemenwho knowhow to take care of the com plexion. Cannot be detected. Heals Sun- bum. ,lop* Tan. SoolUa* Sample (either color) foe 2c. Stamp. LjoaMla.Cn. to Wh Fifth 3c. B~Ujo.N. Y. Few subscribers will care to pay this price and i the publisher cannot, so people interested in, Tifton who live at a distance and want to read the local paper will be deprived of that privi lege. Another item of the increase will be hard on e editor who likes to keep in touch with the best sources of information in order that he may write intelligently on live topics. The price of newspapers published in the large cen=*j rs will be forced so high that the editor living several hundred miles away cannot afford them. At present the Gazette subscribes for about half a dozen such papers and we -believe a careful reading of them enables us to add to our own information as well as to that of our readers. After next July we must do without them. Further than this the application of the law | is so complex that an expert mathematician may feel at a loss to figure the different rates. Fiipl it must be estimated how much advertising comes within 5-per cent of the total space. Then the number of subscribers must be figured for ach of the separate zones and the tax or. post age in each zone estimated. Altogether, the measure is a queer piece of legislik^ion and will work much hardship on newspaper publishers a whole. These do not object to paying their share of fffe expenses of the war but they do think these expenses should be levied in a way that would save them as much inconveni ence as will be possible. M V YR’S wonderful remedy f< STOMACH TROUBLES One doae convinces. For sale at .Brook's Pharmacy other reliable drug vista. 7 to 8 ... . percent. A special meeting of the stockhold-j being made to make the city grow faster, ers was called for February 26th to enrry in»o Herring is largely to blame for the conditions a Terrell county farmer sold $15,000 worth effect the recommendations of the Directors.”: thiilrexist there now. There are hundreds of oth-| p f. p eanu ts in~ Dawson this week receiving Who pays this big dividend? Who is res-! er *Velping and it is a happy united working g 100 er ton f or 150 tons, or $1.25 a bushel, house. C The neon™** 6 * 8 ° f the . b,jr Chica *°! family, such a family as every cit.v must contain j Thia ja only a part D f his crop from 300 acres. American soldiers who find it so easy to spend their $30 monthly stipend may draw some conso lation fron. the fact that he is the best paid lighting man in the world. The French poilu is said to*get only $1.50 a month, while the Rus sian Boldier gets 73 cents and the British $7.60. The ItaHan gets $5.83 monthly, while the Aus tro-Hungarian gets 2 1-2 cents a day. Japan pays $8 a year and Turkey 92 cents a month. The $75 the Kaiser offered to the first German who captured ah American soldier would rep resent a little more than three years’ pay for a private, says the Macon News, quoting from a war bulletin. All of which illustrates how some of the nations of Europe can afford to maintain big standing armies. The Right Name, Mr. Sutlive. see a Tift county farmer is going to get twelve bates of cotton from a two-horse plow house. The people. . - I • , . , , , . The people alway, repopd to .dvertMpg. if ahe is to Ito anywhere • Iprior to thi. year this farmer always planted ^ the ^ weev i L Then the = i&S°.in7'«.°ptmoU a iU SUTh™ LcS: 1 o^he^ P.^rytowfthi; B “‘ b ''-, Irishman who spoke of it a, "Thrift County" fully the big company referred to above has' something better than a wide place in the road ’ • was not far wrong..—Savannah Press. done its work is due to but one thing—Adver- vrill have to’’bury the hatchet” and her citizens r , ift _ ountv Boarc i 0 f Health is tjaine will have to learn the art of working for each The Colquitt counij ooara oi neaun is , A "Take . loeal store that advertises and gi™,'ether's welfare—or else remain a wide place making preparations to put the Ellis Health Violation!lof the game lawl‘ re ch ® - people to understand how it condueta its in the ond. i„ to operation in that county. The law is ed in neighboring comities. Andusual, and you will dnd always a store that Here ? our hand to the Gazette, andto TK- torward in the conservation of public the violator, are the very men for whose benent • -• « ■ -- . Hriorbt herhts hpoomfi ireaueni F .v. _ , j i that has no compTaTnt to oHer USi ton. . rf»y such bright lights become taQUen.' j order houses ruining its business. .in this southland. the laws were enacted.