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XLbc Litton <5a3ette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Poctofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
M Second Claas Matter, Act of March 3, 1879
SHIPPING THE KEYNOTE.
Judge's stand.
The body of Jordan and the wounded Vick
ers were carried to the boarding house of Mrs. | That an early victory depends on shipbuild-
McNkil which stood not far from where the ( ing in the United States was made plain by the
Ido. L. Herring Editor and Manager
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gressive ixiwnaes county town, nanira. inev - . . huriatino J.
Gazette office is now located, and their wives' address of Sir Eric Campbell Geddes, First have an organization which takes care of every aclun 6 joint* or iwiaung c
", . , But some tew nave not a
sent fSr (the tragedy of woman's suffering.) j Lord of the Admiralty, in the British Hdbse of
Harrell was carried to the home of J. S. Gauld-'Commons. A careful consideration of Sir
ing, who lived where Hotel Myon stands now, lEric’n remarks will cause patriotic people in
and Mayo was earned to the home of Sam Lapps, ‘ this country to have less patience with strikers
I
SATURDAY NIGHT.
When War Broke Out In Tifton.
Over one-third of a century has passed, near
thirty-six years in fact, since the Tifton war.
It came with the abruptness of a thunder-clap
—the guns cracked;.the smoke of battle hover
ed ; Death’s scythe garnered its harvest and the
•vent was history. There was no diplomatic
interchange; no ultimatum: only swift action,
and the war was on. As quickly it was over:
the dead and wounded were gathered, and
•nee more peace reigned.
r> It was a sweltering hot day in August. 1882,
when Judge J. J. F. Goodman, Justice of the
Peace for the 1211 District, Georgia Militia,
called his court to order in a little pine board
ahack then commonly used as a courthouse,
achool house and church for all denominations,
which stood a few yiirds east of where the Tjf-
, ton Methodist church stands now.
For a week or more, there had been rumors
•f serious trouble. Harrell & Guest; Martin
Harrell and G. W. Guest, operated a' turpen
tine distillery about two miles east of Tifton.
and a little further on G v B. Mayo & Co., had
a loading place on the railroad for their naval
■tores plant, which was out a mile or so in ttu*
woods. Between these two trouble.' arose of
a source only tgo common—negrd labor—and
•when it had reached an acute staff, litigation
•ver some timber added fuel to the flame; this
growing out of a disputed land line between
what is flow known as the Sineath place and On-
farm qow owned^ by \V. L. Harman. Harrell
' ft Guest took out*a possessory warrant for tin-
timber against Mayo & Co. Later, a letter was
written to ul B. Mayo, signed by Harrell, who
was the active member of the firm, in'which it
is said some very abusive language was used.
Tradition has it that this letter was written by
Jordan, bookkeeper for Harrell,^but that it was
ahown by him to Harrell, who signed .it. \\
was what Mayo said whelf he .received tin
ter that led people to expect troubl.
in east Tifton, near Lamp's hill. Strange to
say, although there was a crowd and so many
shots were fired, none but the principals and
only a few of them were hurt, and only one was
hurt who did not die.
So began and ended the Tifton war. ' For in
those days, men settled their own affairs, and
while warrants were sworn out and served, the
courts did nothing, and the tragedy which cost
three men’s liws and made a fourth a physical
wreck passed into tradition. There is no writ
ten record except this, and in obtaining it^we
have made many inquiries.' But-the memory of
man is treacherous, and thirty-six years a long
time. The above is the result of sifting the
facts from varied recollections, and while it
may deviate in some minor details, is correct in
I essentials.
The participants who lived are dead now, or
scattered to the four winds. But the next week
the Justice of the Reace resigned his commis-
; applied for license to preach, and a short
time later organized the Tifton Methodist
hurch in the same pine shack which was once
the scat of war. Thus doth the Captains of the
Lord Qf Hosts in the end triumph over the dis
ciples of force.
THE RIGHT SPIRIT.
■ let-
Writing to the. New York Times. S. S. Mc
Clure, the veteran newspaper. and magazine
.publisher, speaks for every patriotic parent in
the country on the question of publishing the
casualty lists when he says.
I have two sons in France. If General Persh
ing belives that the American soldiers can fight
more successfully if the. names and addresses
of tho-e who &re«killed or wounded are not
published, then I agree with General Pershing’s
order. If General Pershing . is mistaken, then
I feel that the American army in France should
have a new commander-in-chief. I have been
over there myself. 1 agree with General Persh
ing. I feel that my sons are' saved from need
less risk’s by following the practice that expe
rience has shown to be best.
The French are masters of the art of war.
They have had nearly four years' experience.
1 do not doubt that they are right. I do not
want my sons to have any unnecessary risks. If
my sons are wounded or killed 1 will be inform
ed immediately. That satisfies me. If General
Pershing is overruled 1 shall feel that a need-
Outeiders expected it. and it WUonly reason- less additional risk will be incurred by my
able to suppose that all the principals kn<
that it was doming. With Harrell came to the
precinct at Tifton that day (Tifton was then
a very small saw mill village) his book-keeper
Jordan, his woods-rider Vickers and his stiller,
a crippled man whose name has been forgot
ten. With Mayo were his sons. Croft, Tom
and Bud: his Bon-in-law. John Ray. and another
family connection. Nolan.
Many came from ■curiosity, and some on
business, for the monthly termsK of Justice
Court were rallying days. The little court
room was crowded to'capacity when court was
•pened, although the first case coming 0|> was
not the one which caused the day to pass down
into history. Ty Ty was the principal town in
there to fight and die. if neces
sary. but 1 should not like to see men of expe
rience in this war overruled.
Mr. McClure also speaks for this writer, who
also has a son in France. The relatives of those
killed or wounded or who die from natural
causes are promptly notified. If \o give this
information to the general putfic will be giv
ing any information to the enemy, we do not
want.it. Further, we believe Gen. Pershing
knows what Is best, and we are willing to abide
by his judgment.
“SATURDAY NIGHT SKETCHES."
shuck.
this section then, and the lawyers of opposing I steam rising from the lye-hominy
sides, William W. Corbett and John It. Sentd!.|tbe blue eyes of Mary Jane twinkling over the
, { j 1 top of the old geography-book, can hear the
mingled melody of birds and brooks, sweeter
were both from that place. Alapah-i furni
■" a lawyer in the person of W. W. Lastinger, and
Ty Ty its third. Judge John Morrow, who hmk,
* been admitted to the bar the past month and
was then in attendant— on his first term of
court in that capacity.
Harrell was sitting almost, in front of the
presirtiiyr .Listice. r. seat on a
pulpit-like platform between two windows in
the north end of the building. By one of the
•windows sal-G. B. Mayo and. MurroW. sai_.be;
side him. The court and attendants held
breath v hen Mayo, a large man. weighing per-
t haps 240 pounds, arose and - walking over in
front of Harrell- shewed thy. letter before lij.-^,
face and asked him if he wrote it (or why he
wrote it) So far, all accounts practically
agree, but here all alike are at sea. Just who
fired the first shot is unknown, but some say
that Mayo struck ftarrell over the head as a
pistol shot rang out—others that he fired. But
following the first shot came a fusillade, like
an army skirmish—hundreds of pistol reports,
so close together that they could not be dis
tinguished.
' The courtroom was emptied like magic.
Court and lawyers went alike out at windows
•r doors, as was handiest Outside, were more
men, pistols in either hand, shooting as their
•bjectives came out. Soon all Che men left in
the courtroom, so far as Vhowii now
were Mayo and Harrell. Off down the incline
. _ «f the hill, lawyers and spectators had taken
nfuge behind small pines, standing straight
and thin, with as little corporosity showing as
posable.
When quiet reigned, the dead and wounded
were counted. Jordan. Harrell’s book-keeper,
was dead, lying where he fell a short distance
from the buijding; Vickers. Harrell’s woods-
rider, was f&tally wounded and died next day
G. B. Mayo was shot in the abdomen and died
i days later; Harrell was shot in the mouth
than the strains of any symphony orchestra,
and all that sort of thing while gliding through
the pages of J. L. Herring : s valuable literary
tribute to the days gone by. entitled "Saturday
Night Sketches." It Ik refreshing, too. merely
o know that a Georgia editor has a soul which
annot be kept nF Sut»j<*cfton by haunting poli
ticians and h/-prtJcsr;htH;cqHr/-{qTF.
"SATURDAY NIGHT SKETCHES."
•SATURDAY NIGHTS” IN THE WIREGRASS.
tfroin tine FitzgeraldLeader-Enterprise.
Editor John L. Herring. ofThc Tiftnii Daily
Gazette, has added more laurels to -his es
tablished fame, in publishing in book form a
svric-1 ->*/, fikiSriWIi which have anm-nred from
time to time in the Saturday editions of his
daily. The sketches portray the “long ago."
in thu formative period of the Wfanran sec- ke ; tr „ m ,he of John L. Ilerrine, the »ble
lion and will bnnit hack to many of his reader. ec i itor of „„„ „ f Georgia's brightest and best
fond recollections of their Childhood days. To papers, the Tifton Gazette. "Saturday Night
fully upprociute them one must have lived the s k 4 tc he,” is full of good reading from cover to
life they portray and as the Macon News, in co tr enting. in short sketches, of the. cus-
spcaking of the Saturday Nights, says: t om3 and doing of the people of south Georgia
The very first sketch in the volume conjures l a Florida in the pioneer days of forty and
up for us a typicarSaturday night in the remote fi f ty y .. n „ „„,i oa m-t- “It is
and other obstructionists to our shipbuilding
plan and bring the'day nearer to hand when,
men will be drafted for shipbuilding service in
the same manner they are drafted into the
army.
During the laBt quarter'of 1917, according to
Sir Eric, the Allies were averaging within 100,-
000 tons of shipbuilding monthly of the amoppt
destroyed by submarines, which only repaid
75 per cent of their losses. The total American
and foreign construction during this quarter
was 932,000 tons, while the losses in the same
period were 1,20(£000 tons. Great Britain had
lost an average of 200.000 tons monthly during
that quarter and had built 140,000 tons month
ly. A total of 6,000,000 tonnage has been sunk*
during the past twelve months and the world’s
ship tonnage, exclusive of-that of . the enemy,
had fallen 2,500,000 since the beginning of the
ar.
Notwithstanding the decrease in the sub
marine losses during the past few months ship
building in Great Britain and America had
failed to catch up with U-boat destruction. De
spite this fact, the speaker was convinced
that it is well within the capacity of the ship
yards of the Allies to make good the world's
losses. This can only be done by increased
production, for this increase Great Britain and
the other Allied nations must largely look to
America. —
The steadily decreasing ship tonnage of the
•orld has not only practically stopped foreign
commerce but if the downward trend is not
•hecketl will soon seriously interfere with the
transportation of American troops across the
water and ev£n endanger the safety of those on
the other side. While the strenuous efforts be
ing made to build submarine chasers and des
troyers will still further decrease L'-boat activi
ty, we must face the fact that for a year longer
at least the submarine will be a serious menace
to Aliped shipping, v^'ntil the submarine is ef
fectively put out of commission, hope for Al-
lieti_victory must depend as much on the ship
builders an the soldier in the field.
Confronted with such a situation, the Ad
ministration and the American people cannot
afford Jth temporize with slackers t>r obstruc
tionists. If the men in the shipyardsWill not
ork they should be made .to work, or sent a-
cross the water to ‘fight and their places sup
plied here by mechanics from the new drafted’
army.
man in uniform appearing in that town. If hq 1
needs anything, it is furnished-; if they can
speed or forward him on his way. it is done; if |
he wants nothing and needs nothing, they give
him the glad hand, and make him feel that he j
is at home.
Give us a spirit like this in every community!
this country of ours! Where the enlisted
man, the man who has offered his all, even life,
for his country’s defense and for the cause of
human liberty, is made to know that the uni
form is an insignia of honor; that his khaki is
the color the country's heroes wear; that he is
among people to whom the sight of a uniform
brings a lump into the throat and a tear to the
eye, in memory'W loved ones who wear it! •,
May the tjme soon come when there wiHoe
a hearty tvelcome in every city, village and;
town; in every community and home, for the |
an in uniform. It is coming, and a good day J ,
will be for us when it is here.
During the War Between the States, it was a J
custom among those whom age Or infirmity! Tlir f
kept at home to speed-on his journey the sol-pram- •
dier wayfarer. Did the footsore and weary man T,ft
from the front stop on his pilgrimage, the mule
as taken from the plow, the farm work was
stopped, and the soldier given a lift on his.way.
That is the kind of spirit we need among our
people now. The true spirit of patriotism,
hich is the spirit of sacrifice. ' vul
A jail would not commend itself to you as an
educational institution, would it? Yet a man
ent into Chatham county jail an illiterate and
ow he can read and write, His'name is Henry.
Collins, and he was sent to Chatham jail for
safe-keeping from Toombs county, to await
trial on a charge of murder. He found himself
with-much idle time on his hands, and hoping
to be cleared of the murder change when his
trial comes, availed himself of the presence and
aid of better educated prisoners and learned to
read and write. It occurs to us that there
suggestion of opportunity for some splendid
uplift work, by,those benevolently inclined, in
the many jails throughout the country.
THE HAHIRA PLAN.
We commend the plan adopted by that pro^I
rpjuive Lowndes county town. Hahira. They ? .
i Yields
scorn
EMULSK
has been correcting thirl,
when other treatment*' MVfi^
utterly failed.
Scott’* is essentially blood-food
in such rich, concentrated form
that its oil gets into the blood to
alleviate this stubborn malady. •
Get a bottle of Scott'f Enial-
sion or advise an ailing
friend. No alcohol.
sindfcs
_ uboralorin wSle*
ud pabtablc-
atr Saturday Moraine tor
it ■» a lit-t of tvlilird 111"* 1 *-
m
We will have mere daylight now. thanks to
the wisdom and statesmanship <-?) of our rep
resentatives iit Washington.” soys the Moultrie
Observer. Which is news to us. We failed to
note where’ Congress had provided for the sun
to rise any sooner or set any later—to make the
day a minute longer, or a minute shorter. Our
impression is that the law was designed tft
cause people t<> use more and waste less of the
daylight we have; to use nwfeoMhe light na
ture provides, and less of that produced by the
consumption of coal or otheruiel the country
needs for other, purposes. We regard-it as a
good law. because it helps brings ua back to
original sources. During the days of our grand
fathers. workers arose with the sun. did n full
lav's work and rested when darkness came. :
The trend of modern times is fo sleep lat*r in | r>*w
the morning-i-to use more daylight for sleep-—! tiny
and to work or play at night, thus reversing
the order intended by the Creator. The war enj
is bringing us hack to the old order of things. •■»!.,
and we believe the old order was best. We j J!” 1 '
must quit wasting daylight and get our rest
during the time the Almighty provided for us
to get it. We believe He wjis right, and We
believe Congress and the Administration ar.-
right In requiring us to go back to the ways
that are common-sense and economical al :
though they are primitive.
.Admire Babies?
n't- f. f.cr^llnn* !..«« toani l»
muFtlr* reUx *•.
The “War 'Cyclopedia,
ready reference on the G
in its 300 pagi
simply arranged and
handbook for
War containing,
at mass of' information
drrectlv stated., has been .
d by the Committee on Public Information.
The price Is 25 cents and it can be had on
application at the headquarters of the commit- j
tee in Washington. Every subject pertaining ;
tp the war-1« covered in this Cyclopedia and i
the alphabetical arrangement - is such as to;
make it especially valuable for ready reference.
“If you want Snappy Story sort of stuff, don’t
buy J. L. Herring’s “Saturday Night Sketches
That’s real good reading and interestirtg to
those who like good stuff.” is good advice from-
the TKoniasville Times-Enterr ' <
:: -BgrgfSba'rx * 22 icapy i al -Saturday. Niejt.
Sketches'.” Col. A. S. McQueen, of Folkston.
Ga.. is kind enough to say: “As a native of the
’Waregraaa' allow me to express jay appreeia-
tion'oF’VRis really greaFxeqrk. 1,T ~
From the Largo. Fla., Sentinel.
Is the name of a new book now on the mar-
rural districts, before the railway and the auto
mobile came, and frhen the traveler who had
been to Macon or Atlanta was a globe-trotter,
The farm boy who “washed up” with home
made soap, afterithe week's hard toil, and went
to s^e the girl of his choice, dressed in u clean,
home-laundered shirt, his brogan shoes of ser
viceable cowhide polished with.a coat of suet
and soot, belonged to a type which has all but
passed away. And the supper with which she
regaled him, consisting of collard greens, flank-
t-il with mome-raised-bacon, of biscuits and but
termilk and sweet potatoes: the long table with
benchesVoq_ either aide, while the father and
mother satiat the head and foot of the table—
it is a yisiqnwhich many of us can remember.”
But it wpuTd be unfair to the author to at
tempt a description of the delicious flavor of
the story. The very titles of these sketches are
sufficient to let the reader know what he has to
-xpect. “The Sopfe of the Redeemed.” "When
, ago. and, as the editor says: “It is
a link that will connect the memory of today
with those that are past and gone, but not
dead.”
It reminds the editor of the Sentinel of other
days, and in memory he can ' again see the
boys and girls lined up for the old "Virginia
Reel,"-and hear the happy party singing,
“Milk and peaches twice a week.
Kiss that pretty girl on the cheek.”
Not only did they sing the song, but as they
went through the figures of the “reel,” the boys
carried out the sentiment of the song.
Then the cane-grinding and candy-pullings,
the corn-shucking and quilting parties, all vivid
pictures of the days of the fathers and mothers
of the men and women of today, and were it
not that Mr, Herring has put these historical
facts of the early days of our Southland into
book form, they would soon have been lost al
together with the passing aWay of those of us
In writing for a copy ot Saturday Night
Sketches, one of the most prominent business
men of South Georgia says: "Please allow me
to congratulate you. on this undertaking and it
js my sincere hope that you will sell enough of
them -to make you absolutely independent foi
the rest of yvTu-.kf-,-." If even- friend-fo-Up^d
tl&t- e\ f a'n)fdeMhe 'wish' would become' a renfi?
INTERESTING WAR FIGURES.
I terribly beaten over the head: it wasISpinning Wheel,"
bought be could hot live, bulThe did. Judge Tills.” “The County Site Removal Election.'
dman had a bullet-hole through his clothes, ^ jj |U r ‘
ihere his right Trip was grazed; the walls of
3 bpilding were perforated with hundreds of
ales, eight of which were behind the
From the Western Review. /Y
The soldier has twenty-nine chances of cbm-;
ing home to one chance of being -killed.
IJe has..ninety-eight chances of re^ovej-jnj;'
from a wound to two chances of dying. I
He has only one chance in five hundred of;
losing a limb.
He will live five years longer because, of
physical training.
He is freer from disease in the army than in
civil‘life.
He has better medical care at the front than j
at home. In other wars from ten to fifteen j
men died from diesase to one from bullets. ,
In this war one dies from disease to every
ten from tartlets.
This war ip less wasteful of life thlin any;
other in history.
In anbthqr portion of the journal this quota
tion is found. "The present fighting is not |
claiming anywhere near the nfimber of dead',
recorded for the first twer years. Most of the ,
wounds sustained in the trenches are clean cut
and of a nature that a few-weeks in the hwpi- .
tal makes the subject as fit as ever. But 300.-;
000 French soldiers haye been discharged tj*v ;
account of wounds during the three years of
the war. Most of the wounds received in the !
trenches are -on the top of the head, simply
scalp wounds. Tractically»speaking. a wound;
is either fatal or slight, with but few in be-;
tween these two extremes.”
"Our armies in Flanders and northern,
France last winter in open trenches, in some* of,
the vilest and worst weather troops eve£ had j
to face, had less sickness and fewer deaths;
from pneumonia and other diseases than' it
used to have in barracks in times of peace, ami
the Debaters Met.” "Cane Grinding Time,” who now recognize them as memories of the
"When We Put Jim Away.” “Fodder-Pulline pa9t - .... , ,,
Time.” “The Cape Jessamine” "GrsndmaV "Saturday Night Sketches is a valuable ad- , ... , •
- 'Com Liuiiar ,»d S- '«o» tojh, literature of Ills -Jsy and ahmStjM* prouljsiffln at Some..
Site -Removal Election * readily find a place in even- home where good: gene pi diseases.the figures for the Bri-.
Bee Tree.” “The Old China Grove" * reading is enjoyed, and also because of its, Hah army in France in iqnetoen hundred and
Bin’ and Quiltin’ Frolic ’’ and “The value as a ' vorl < of history of the section -in sixteen were -1 per thousand. In other word.Sj
Revival’s Close." These are but a few of the "-'tacli the present generation will soon become the average
• OI Ine -a— o.„i ~r„ ,.r o n«nt. but not forgot- tO/t
peace.'
was no higher than that believe
The Woman's Tonic
“I look four bottles,"
Mrs. Jones rocs on to
say, "and uas not only [
.greatly relieved, but c.
truthfully say that I have I
not a pain. . . m
" it has now been two
years since I tookCardui, I
and 1 am still In good
health. . . I would ad
vise any woman or girt I
to use Cardul who is a 1
sufferer from ,any female I
trouble-." / j
If you sufterpaln caused I
from womanly trouble, or I
U you feel the need of a I
good strengthening tonic I
to build up your run-down f
system, take the advice I
of Mrs. Jones. Try Car- I
dul. It helped her. We I
believe it win help you.
AQDrugguii
of any man who has a taste for true literature." ten ’ a * e ‘