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tki Tim* OAzrm. nrroi«, o*. ' »i " DAY, ocronat ■ ZLbe Litton (3a3Cttc iahly mischievous, and at last "Slnterely, ^ Published Weekly Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia, •a mail matter of the second class. J^Tl. Herring ... ■ ■ EditorTnd Manager ■ Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County. Georgia- SATURDAY NIGHT. The Three-Cent Stamp. Thirty-three busy years have passed since its 'face smiled and was familiar. Full years they have been, for they saw yooth develop into, young manhood; the upward climb of the hill o the meridian ;\he beginning of the descent to old age. Much water has gone over the dam for aincc it cost three cents to rpail a letter. But although it represents a tax for 4 horrible war and an outlay of much coin of which ws have little, we will welcome its fnee on Novem ber 2nd as that of an old friend, for what it brought to us when the world was .voung. Compared with today Uncle Sam's postal ser vice was slow then although we thought it fast_ A week was reqfiired to bring a New York paper and out at the star-route postoffice it was many days before the letter Shc'mailed. also at star^oute.office, reached y same county. For two or three days, perhaps you had knocked off work at noon to walk the mile to the postofficc to arrrivc v Perhaps you were eagerly ahead and spent the . . #v..aainittir with the nostmas- Friend.” Hdw you hoped she meant friend 1 The letter rifled of its *reasu*M, did you loek side the envelope, carefully tearing loose the sealed flap? And was it there? “S. W. A. K.” —Sealed Vith a -kiss? They say the express ion is even nsed to this day. It was there. And after that, the day was brighter, the notes of the twittering birds had an added sweetness; you noticed the scent of the buds of the bay-trees in the small stream as you passed; the honeysuckles had a more appealing per fume. AU because of what the three-cent stamp brought! Yes: w« welcome you again as an old friend, three-center, although >‘ou will cost us a pretty penny. ' intervening time in gossiping with the postmas ter until the carrier rode up to the door and threw off the leather pouch, fashioned with a concaved center to fit on the rear of the saddle, and*rode around to the well to water his tired horse. . , The postmaster picked up the pouch, amt limped on his crutch to the high desk on the Qir end of the counter of his little store. Then he leaned his crutch against the -vail and rested his crippled leg on a chair while he deliberately— Ah. so deliberately—took down the key from a Jail, unfastened the lock and hung it up. ahd leisurely pulled the strap with its metal hasp in the end through the many staple-like eyelet* that stood guard over the contents while en- route. All the time, you impatiently shifted your weight from one foot to the other and ■wanted to help, but Uncle Sam's mails were sacred to the hands ofjiis officials only. At last the pouch was caught by the strap on the bottom and its contents poured out on the desk. There were two or three packages of letters for postoffices farther on the same route; these must be put back into the pouch together ONE HUNDRED THOUSAND IN FRANC r The news was given out for the first time yes- terdaj that there are 100.000 American troops in France, or one-fifth of the army of half a million men the War Department intended to send across the water. That hiese men were transported together with the immense amount of equipment, muni tions and provisions incident to an army move ment without a single casualty or the loss of the life of a soldier is the greatest tribute that could be paid to thp efficiency of our navy For many years knockers have been tolling us that our navy was p-ioriy equipped-, bqdly offi- cred and still worse manned. But when the first test came it measured up to every require ment; has surpassed even the most sanguine •xpectations. and not eontent with accomplish ing reasonable results its performances have bordered on the marvelous. That the news of the sinking of a transport homeward bound should follow in less than 21 hours that of the successful landing of this “JAIL? TO RENT.” Commenting on a recent statement in tbe Gazette that the town of Pelham had rented out its guardhouse because it had no further use for such a building, the Atlanta Constitution says: This, from The Tifton Gazette, tells the story —which is. indeed, but one of ••similar inci dents" in the history of Georgia towns that did not “go into bankruptcy” because of “dry-bone conditions." Jails to rent! And "on your own terms!" t The only "slump in business” has been in the jail record. . r\ In the item quoted nothing is paid of better itizenship and happier homes. But—read between the lines! Not only the smaller towns, but the cities have fiad less use for jails during the past few months. In a recent issue. The Springfield. Mass., Republican had an editorial about puts ting Springfield dry. Commending it.* Eliza beth Tilton, writing from Cambridge to The Republican, gives the following figures which she obtained in Savannah on a visit during the past year to several Southern cities where prohibition laws had rfecentlv gone into effect: The records were as follows at thcjmlice sta tion. comparing the 10 months before and the 10 months-after prohibition, which.began May 1. 1916: Arrests: Assaults with intent to murder reduced from -19 to l8-^-64 pec cent. Drufik and disorderly reduced from 1197 to 34.7—72 per cent. Disorderly-conduct -reduced from 2117 to 1052—51 per cent. Larceny from 61 to 28—51 per cent. Dr. Brunner, secretary of the board of sani- tarv commissioners, and a well known health, official, said “Two years ago I called prohibi-| tion poppycock, but prohibition enforced is a, mighty good thing here.” He showed me how under prohibition the chain gang of negro pris-| a bill was omyrs had fallen from an average of 600 to 700 (; eor? i a <j e , down to 200. Homicides dropped from 24 in ... , h _ 1915 to 10 in 1916. and 8 of those 10 were m THE STATE EXPERIMENT STATION HOW UUJWC OCOMMV. . , (ro .To^.«* T.1U .f Dlffi- £U**'**° H “**° m Ca- “* Oct. 28 to ° !v Lewis Hudson, ths man onhe*d st Scooterrill. knocked on » ^ ^ ^ died in the hospiul »'»* brought bom* — ..1 ?* t ^^*jnd the funeral services wer* heretofore been paid to Georgia provides for 1 Sun jr ^ BapUit church at 3j30> expenditure only under the control of the S ® — The refusal of the Secretary of Agriculture at Washington to pay any farther money on * e ~ count of the Georgia Experiment Station at fin brings to a head a matter that has been pen ing for several years. The act of Congress under which this fund nas r«t. W. F. Cox ei conducted the a< ,„d M, “ t. r othcrc end three ai*- wife end several children,.and College of Agriculture. Since the Experiment Station at'Griffin has been participating >n thus fund from the Nationaal Government the law has been evaded. In 1914 when the question or a branch experiment station was before marnM the General Assembly a representative of. ^ here. The wcond the National Department of Agriculture »P ent boy , absut 15 yean ot several days in Atlanta and he is said to have arm br oken by.1 Ford ^ informed the Committee on Agriculture of the „«>.nd « con » pondent lpwer House that unless some/arrangemen s] ^ 0 ver a 25 were made to operate the Experiment Station m i in , ,ettlement for w connection with the College of Agriculture, the ^ ^ wfrc some , ix mc n .und.ng to national fund would of necessity be withdrawn, r shop and Hudson It is said also that the Secretary of Agriculture ..undine wth '^ r * n holdinir Gunn . brought the matter again to the attention of tne and *‘‘ rfmartfd .. turn him loose, Georgia authorities while the Legislature was m j hp a won ^ hurt nobody." nnd as they session this year. ' tu med hkn-loosc Gunn remarked. “1 As the Secretary has positively stated that ^ ?how thf ," and at the same no further funds will be' paid until arrange- t:mc he picked up « menta are made to bpve the money used as the j»nd struck Hu ?<w on law directs, we will probably see such arrange- ( 00UGLAS WINS GAME. ments forthcoming. Unless tbi=» drastic ‘ *- action had been taken, matters would probabi T i:on s.l«« About Wh.t have g-.n,- on in the same old. slipshod mantel ***••'**\.. Th,. niattnr liT.s Veen l-mp^rarilv arraiuml «S= til the Ix-gislature meets again, but if means , " !irk yj„ n day afternoon, li->t provided f*>r the legal expenditure of t*-e ^ P -h»; the worst had hap- funds, no more will be forthcoming. TO ADJUST DIFFERENCE. that *he A pries had tost. Douglas win- writer had a Fitzgerald with the immeniw .r„,y .how, yrc.t ,he oClITs 'prohibition be- i -» Probably adjMdiffer™™ between „ E er * The low. l,ri„ B . a .hadder a.: cam . effective. .the •u't.n.nV^^ W ajo ^ t.U 1 itc to go to Fitzgerald wun me inroduccd at the last session of the T ^ tpnm bat , hey lfft him. doubt, ral Assembly which stands an ex- 1^, n . a!il i nr beforehand that defeat .* to pas^'al^he next session, which , ;1 , befarc th«*n. He has tried to in touch with^ Coach Thrash • the game, but ha* not been , to ioeaje him. therefore no de- of Monday's game are jiraUabl*. ming the operation of the Georgia ■ N to co-ordinate the work of what might have been had our nav.v. our war- ^hig statement would be comparatively true^ t: . ships and our seamen been less vigilant whenj„f any other Georgia city where the prohibition Experiment Stations, the vessel was eastward bound, with its hea^y i aw has b«n strictly enforced- The credit is. This bill proposes and precious freight of human lives. 1 no t due entirely to what is known as the “bone-. the Mate College of Agricu tugp an eorgia. It would be unreasonable to suppo.4 that dry law” because any other rigid prohibition Experiment Station and provide for the removal our entire army of half a million can be land^ law would have had the same effect had it been „f th e Experiment Station to Athens- without some loss. But that 20 per cent of it enforced. It is true the Georgia law of 1916| it wi |l remove all objections on the - -. JaH has, gone through the danger zone safely is jlis more easily enforced^because its provisions national government as to the distnbuhon of, want a . „ fact that should lighten many hearts whiyfi jare more drastic, but iNa equally true that fum l 3 in this state for agricultural experiment Farri , are weighted with anxiety for dear ones who stronger efforts have been made to en orcc 1 work. * mutt male. ,ho croMne. ] than charactvrized either of the two pmv.ous ; The b.ll al.o provides for the establishment of I i aws> which may be regarded largely as step- another experiment station in the costal plains ping.stones to that of 1916. • region for agricultural experiments on crops For this rigid enforcement three factors con- incident to the soilvf the southern part of the THE NEW DRAFT RULING. aids, Callb. Scratch**. Soraa, Hurt*. Screw Worms. Toy make the best core for soeh If passed Urouble*. buy ■ pint of linseed oil, the part Of the! tf ■ h,.u™ .11. Or .■ . 1 »« b— ]ard ot vaseline if you and add a 50e bottle of Remedy. It simply be beat by any salve or lini ment modi. And see what you gel —a full pint for not over 60 cent*. Farris'Healing Remedy is sold by ne on the Mimey Back Plan. The sweeping change in the regulations. of tributed: First the sincere friends of prohibi- state. 1 .... , . i. . a .1. —a.t r-nnrtanrl In In.- ,T\V "Pb.. The Experiment Station at Griffin has been of the further calling out of men under the seb tion; second, that element opposed to the.law ective draft as announneed by the Provost Mar- which believed that the best way to get ml of il|i att le value to South Georgia because of the d.f- are the ^result of experience was to enforce it and thus make prohibition : ference in soil and climate. ele- •wi h the letters from that office to points beyond, Saturday. are me — —, , .. and the carrier started on his way again before Ka j ne( j (h t . past four months and will unpopular; third, the great p^ona » the local mail was assorted. There was a pack-1 e j| in | Iia t e practically all of the complicated ment that believes in the enforcemen o a age or two some mail order victim—yes. ‘ he >' mac hinery which proved so irksome in select- laws, irrespective of personal-preference, bit in ll >se days also: a few papers, and the - mg men ulder the first ca n. Had the law of 1908 orthe law of 1915 e , ti , packet of letters, tied wjth jute cord. j T . he new plnn divides the registered men into enforced with the same zeal with w hu-n tne a The and hung began going .... ... brought a deep sigh- of suspense. Would She. necessity for calling those for physical exam- tbit to its prcdeces.- write. after-all? Or had She forgotten? P er ‘,i na ti on w h# will perhaps not be required for ser- that has been enforced, haps, oh! pernicious thought, she had ceased to vicp Q ue jtj on sheets will be sent out to every is necessary to make any law- love! Your eyes grew larger as one a£ler registered man and when these are filled out A station at some nt in the coastal plains region could experi-j ment on sugar cane. Sea Island cotton, swe'et • potatoes nnd other crops, which the Griffin sta- j er been able to handle satlsfactor-] ily. The coastal plains region is rapidly hecom- CASTORIA Fqr Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years l Oi leueis. ucu I T-he new plan divides tne regisiereu men into . . . . ”• . • -* » postmaster carefully untied the string flve tho8e most eli gible for service com- of 1916 was put .into operation the results w ould mg the great agneuRural section of the -tat. ungit on a nail for future use. and'as he ( ^ fln<t rhu men in each c i as » will be called have been practically the same, it i> not >e- Th( . establishment of an experiment s.ation in going over the letters, you involuntarily „ noe(led , nil the division does away with the cause the last law is a better law or one prefer-, this section would aid in its development, it a deep sigh- of suspense. Would She... a ,i insr those for physical exam- lble to its predecessors, but because it is a . Which, bv the w 11 success. aie uucu —- The facts quoted concerning Pelham and r'bu cUmiflod- Savannah afford indisputable evidence that pro.- ...... . _ _ t. Pnni-ino lev V WIT a Tror one the letters passed through the postmastersj and retunt d the registrants win oe ciassmeu fingers, apd still none for you. Was that I arcord i ng jj r Expert advice will be provided to j hibition has come to Georgia o . > •; third down in the packet? No; ib>?vas for a thp nen jn fll | inK (lUt question sheets. It great many years at least. People arc rea - girl neighbor, from a friend off at school. Sure-| u rontemp j ate d that men without dependents zing some of its blessings and they win n ly. that fat one in the small envelope was yours? , ; nd wh{J m , be8t al ,| e physically to endure tho, easily persuaded to depart from them. Nay. it was for the clerk at the crossroads store, j hardships of war will be in the first class- who would soon he after it. Only five more.- The new ruling will greatly simplify^the work^ ■and your heart went down. You-didn't hav-e"* qf'i’dcitl 'flitt-mifition hoards and eliminate rndrti the courage to watch any longer, and even as ld t h,. delay and annoyance caused by the mass i you turned your eyes away with a feeling thnt y f wo rk tirovvn-upon the district-boards. It is the world was a.desert waste-— here-it came, •• r . v ,-. n - sugge^t-U that ai the coming ?0 a -ion of flipped from the p"mTs 'fingers wi!h a careli- -,-.v will -be ?r» amended that- ... . ! „wn w ill h,. called from 18 toi3.-as \vas lksLJmlditeiLlusau--ALUuita correspondent f»r fig-,lure campaign. urcs compiled by Martin V. Calvin. Secretary of, 1 .' THE LOSSES OF WAR. . * Some idea of the groat burden that will rest in th^-countries of Europe for jutarly. a xentury chapter of Georgia'•* v-xperiem-e ••• which v Not so much in a name, after all. The mem bers of the Germania club of Jacksonville, sub scribed for 53.600 worth of Liberty Bonds. 5 Health About THE FARM FEED MILLS the Atlanta Constitution: The prosperity of one county where diversi fied farming has been given a fair trial is natur ally an incentive to others to make the home- 1 supply plan the basis of future farming opera- .UojbU.... « - - -- •• •' Cifirfrimted with the farts of ready cash com pensation for all the various home products .with llonr mills and canning plants that "spring ■lun'ln ro.poftsa toAhiialuiiHlid of prpgre.ssive- IfB'-ming--the-rrgrvt o r many hns-hrrn that they Hr *‘ did n>! enlist earlier in the diversified ngricul- ‘The value of the of $672, “One for you, John.” 11 Did you tear it open and reaH It right there.isu^ested by the President. >' rcs . • But -"’lyhile ibe methods used ufi3‘er the finT’catlrthe Georgia Agncuitural Society. ■ ] slipping it as something sacred into your breast werty j,i nW a nd tiresome and their .ailministr.i- In 1860 the value of Georgia propeli ty on t ic pocket, you hit the trail for home. And when| nat a j wart perfect, the.people as a whole bore tax digest was ?370v0-l8.046 alone in the privacy of the rustling.wiregrassi with them patiently, it is gratifying to know- slaves was $302.694.8->5. a total and murmuring pines, you opened it reverently lbjl , un d e r the second call the work will be 901. In 1.865 after the emancipation of t e as something precious, and spread its contents mII( . b more rapid and thorough and that only; slaves the total of Georgias taxable prOp- to worshipping eves. w h 0 can best be spared will be rcquirei Although it had seemed bulky, there was only! f or flerv j c e. one-sheet of notepaper. economically written onj both sides. But folded therein was another’ j n ordinary times when there was plenty of smaller sheet containing a pressed rose—which ' wa gon-loads of wood could be seen on the,b 1 e you were sure had lain for many months l>v-[slr-ets of TiflonTdr’sSle almcisFafty'day in the I860, tween the leaves of the Bible at her home, for'^.gjj. e>.o* .««! «r»f there is'had 1 its leaves were tissue, and the letter partook of ,J 1V VJ i •rty had dropped to $148,015,219. ■ars. or up to 1879. these values had -ttention to the work which is go- yhw-fuTTrr?'-wf TtrTumtr rfd nrc'cHf' counties. The THfo n Gazette says that,“diversi fied agriculture is getting under full headway in Berrien county.” and—■ “The Na.-hville Herald says that in part with determination of farmers of that county to raise rhe-ir own supplies, nearly every one has a patch | • >f rice, from a quarter of an aere to an a< n 14 1 Also, that the big canning factory at Sirm; limbed j: s | M) ving sweet potatoes in carload lots and d< Gone- Many thousands of women sutteriag from womanly trouble, have been benefaed by the use of Cardui, pie woman’s Joalf.-i-ovdeg to lettcn we receive,sir:liar to this one Irom Mrs. Z. V. Spell, ol I Ernie. N. C. "I cculd not slind £m eyr leet, and ■ she says. v As my "sut ler...g was so great, and he had, tnett ciMr reme^ - dies. Dr. —— had us 'Hra/na:. . i begun ImprovinR, and it cured me. I know, and my doctor knows. whatCar- dui did ior me, lor my nerves and health were about goae.” TAXE ii. $235,859,548. and 1890 reached $377^66.784 voting*: the winter months b> canning them.' * . . . - . I n .l if nil llin iif I M , I I taxa- its mellow scent. What was that written faintly as if the words laH^sjied at their own tem erity? Yes: surely, that was it: "The rose is red; tbe violet's blue; No knife c*n cut out love in two." What was that bit of color? Two bits of pa per, red and bluej carefully cut into strips with no loose ends, and then woven or plaited and folded twice, forming a heart, with alternate stripes of red and blue. -It was an artistic piece of work and scented with the dried leaves of Sweet Basil, a delicate, appealing odor- r - Didn’t your heart swell with a suffocating ■welling, as you stopped in a convenient shade and mopped your perspiring face? Then, to the letter itself: “Dear Friend.” How formzl- But, then: "dear” she said. Surely, that -jvas enough. Then the relation that your letter had been duly received and read with pleasure—you hoped this was not merely form —tbe chatty goaslp of tbe family and community; some 328.733 more than the total property, exclusive of slaves in It was not tinfil 1907^that Georgia « Now that coal is hard to get there la j had built her property values back to the figur- little wood on the market, and for what there is es she had reached in 1860. including slaves. advance of 25 per cent is being asked. The when the total taxable property reached 8699.- farmers have been toisy with their crops is one 536.879 an excess of $26,803,9 <8 over 1860. reason-they are giving little time to cutting Thug it will be seen that it required this state wood l>ut another cause of tbe shortage money is comparatively plentiful while cotton is being sold. Perhaps conditions will change ttle later in the season. a little 4^e _ie Dawson News welcomes the state con tention of the Woman’s Christian Temperance Union with a 36-page edition of that excellent newspaper. It was a cordial and appropriate greeting illustrative of the Dawson spirit and the right way the News has of doing things. 42 jears to repioco tho losft-s of war, whan not -o I.. rt. Prortor.' only the entire value of the slave property was wiped out but the values on all other property shrunk 60 per cent, and Georgia was in much bettei shape after the war than some of the countries in Europe will be. Wr r is a costly as well as a terrible thing. Uncle Sam’s soldier boys in Southern training camps are to be taught the Rebel yell, says a news item- If it works like it did fifty-odd years ago tha fear of God will strike the Teuton ic heart aloqg the trench lines in France next ■pring. And if all the farmers of that section hnvp made, good their slogan of "A potato patch oi> -fnem,” more than ottp canning factory will be working overtime this winter. That’s the way." says our Tifton contempor ary. "that we like to see the boll weevil swatted.!, is the best way we know of to do the ^ job!” ^ It is also noted that properly constructed u.-t potato curing fioipo-i mv going tip in that A correspondent objects to the practice be coming common over here of classing the whole German nation as Huns and assassins. A people can only be judged by their accredited rulers, and however much injustice it may work on the better element of Germans the citizens of that country cannot escape as a whole the con sequences of the acta of the leaders of their army and anv^or their government as a whole, a whole. jm The Woman’s Tonic district agricultural and field agent of the Unit- ed States department of agriculture. And tli** establishment of roller mills is cited >s “another chapter in the development of di versified agriculture.” One of these mills was recently installed at ^ Ashbum. and the Tifton paper says that— ^ 'Gradually mills for converting wheat into flour - ^ arq springing up all over this section of the D ■tate. and with them will come increased inter- ^ est in wheat growing. Once here we expect them to become permanent Institutions, and that the day will soon be past when this section will depend on another part of the country for the bread.” And it is up to the farmers to make*tlTem per manent institutions; and nothing but the live-at- home plan will do it. ^ The mills will come to the farm if the farm will feed the mills. She writes tuphere *0 in in splendid hAth ... can do my work. 1 feel I owe it to Cardui, for I was to dreadful condition.** If you are nervous, run down and weak, or suffer from headache, backache, etc.,) every month, try Casdul. Thousands ol women praise this medl- Ofne lor the good U has done them, and many physicians who hive used Cardul successfully with their women oaUents. for