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M Second CUm Matter, Act of March 8, 1879
Herrin* Editor and Manager
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and Tift County. Georgia-
SATURDAY NIGHT.
There are many things which the Liberty
Bond you are going to buy will pay for; these
are a few of them:
One $50 bond will buy trench knives for- a
rifle company, or 23 hand grenades, or 14 rifle
grenades, or 37 cases of surgical instruments
for-enlisted men’s belts, or 10 cases of surgical
instruments for officers' belts.
A $100 bond will clothe a soldier, or feed a
soldier for eight months, or purchase 5 rifles or
30 rifle grenades, or -13 hand grenades, or 25
pounds of ether, or 145 hot-water bags, or 2,000
rgical needles.
A $100 and a $50 bond .will clothe and equip
an infqntry soldier for sendee overseas, or feed
a soldier for a year.
Two $100 bonds will purchase a horse or
mule for Cavalry, Artillery, or other sendee.
Three $100 bonds will clothe a soldier and
feed him for one year in France, or buy a motor
cycle for a machine-gun company.
Four $100 bonds will buy an X-ray outfit.
One $500 bond will s'ffpply bicycles for the
any of an I
Although there is still grave danger to the
AllieB on the Western front, the acute stage has
passed. The apex of the wedge which the
Germans have driven towards Amiens, the last
important railway junction in.the communica- - - . . ., „ ,
tin’line. Ween the Briti.h nnd French
, .. ., , . flank was exposed toward Paris. The strain ot
nrmlPM.-l** nnu> Inca thnn tnn mtlna u'ltln nnrf in. ..... ... .. .1 i.n- .1
headquarters Vompany (
Infantry regiment.
NO MORE MEATLESS DAYS.
Beginning Sunday, meatless days were sus
pended for-thirty days by order of the Food
Administration. At the same time, wheat and
wheat products were wiped from the menus of
lauding hotels throughout the country, nnd pa
triotic citizens were asked to abstain from
wheat .until the next harvest is in. This
response to a request from Food Administrator
Hoover, who while addressing hotel managers
from nearly every state in. the union on tKe
wheat situation, told them that the need for
wheat was even greater now than when the
new regulations were promulgated, that a
sus of supplies revealed the harvest had been
less than estimated and that shipping difficul
ties made it imperative to* feed the Allies from
here instead of from the Argentine. It is im
possible to ship corn, owing to loss from ger
mination. so that wheat must be America'?
chief contribution to the rations of the people?
abroad. Mr. Hoover said the renunciation of
luxurious foods must begin at the top of the
social scale, not only to set an-example, but be
cause the industrial population is dependent to
a large extent on baker's bread.
When Homer Mi»»ed Hi* Thief.
"Homer Adams was a neat farmer, said Un
cle Tpm, as he took his square of plug from his
aide pocket, bit off a good ration, replaced it and
stretched out his legs comfortably. It was the
first daV of sheep-shearing, and after a hard
morning's work in the pens apd a good dinner,
the boys had gathered under the shade of $he
hig oak in the yard l'or a breathing spell before
tackling the afternoon's job. Uncle Tom was as
full of reminiscenes as an egg of meat, and all
stopped to listen.
"Homer kept his crops dean, his plowsfi
gear and tools under shelter, and everything
about his farm was orderly and trim. He was
what you might call a good farm housekeeper,
to speak. He made fine crops, too, and his
watermelons were the joy of the neighborhood.
lh old days he didn't raise them to sell, for
there was no'market—just grew them for his
own use and for his friends. But the turpentine
men came to this country, and when Smith
Bussey put up a still near Homer's place, he
soon had u market for his watermelons and
everything else good to eat that he could spare.
"But with the coming of a home market for
his surplus, came other troubles. The negroes
would steal his watermelons. The patch
a good ways from the house, and nearly every
day Homer would miss a^hoice one. That madi
him mad. No matter how liberal he was about
giving them away, to come and take them wi
a different matter. He stood it for a few day
and then decided to take his gun and sit up for
the thieves.
“Homer was a bird-hunter, and a good one
Like everything else about him. he took a pride
in tiis gun and took cart 1 of it. He had the first
breech-londing shot-gun ever brought to that
part of the country. It cost $-10. and that was
considered some price for a gun in those days.
“Well, he leaded up a lot of shells with
buckshot, and that night after supper went out
to the melon p^tch, hid himself atid waited. The
long hours of ffte night passed, but no negro
came. Homer was sure he would get his thief
"the next night, so he was bapk on the job on
tiine. -It *'as bright moonlight, and he hid in
the shade of a persimmon tree about the middle
of the field. There was a lightwood stump
about three feet high under the -tree, and he sat
down by this, leaning his back against it, with
his gun cocked lying across his lap.
"The night was warm. Homer had done a full
day's work and was tired. He was also sleepy,
for a short nap at noon hadn't made up for!
what he lost the night before. As the night Jcome back once more in "Saturday Night
wore on. Homer's eyes drooped: his chin sunk Sketches," which are storiese of old wiregrass
on bis breast, and after several nods, he was Georgia, by J. L. Herring, editor of The Tifton
fast a*lee{»- Then the negro thief came. He (Ga.) Gazette.-
climbed over the fence, went out into the field. The sketches have been running, on Satur-
picked , biz. ripe melon, and looked around for '!“>»• in The Tiflpn Gaketje columns for «on»-
1 . . . U .1 „„,I ... 'time past, but Editor Herrings many friends—
a place to bust Jt. He m»-the .tumjl unde, the in wilh a „ h>v ,. ha .l -, tle joy of
tree, but was'on the opposite side from Homer, j reading them—wished to have them in more
He walked up to it. still not seeing the man in permanent'form.
the dark on the other pidc,‘ > and brought the' So, they're in an illustrated book now,-from
melon down 'bump!' on the top of the stump, -the Gorha'm Press, Boston, with "homey," old-
"The first Homer knew about what was go- j time pictures of the past.
hurst nunrlv on ion! The book needed no "reason". for- its pub
lication. for it is its own justification, but the
The Grand Jury of Berrien Superior Court in
the General Presentments last' week recom
mended that the Board of County, Commission
ers take up cattle tick eradication in^hat coun
ty. Tift county is making good piWress in
tick eradication and we are glad to see our
neighbor joining in the good work/' 1 One will
help the other.
BRINGS BACK OLD TIMES AND OLD
FRIENDS.
Frank L. Stanton, in Atlanta Constitution.
“Old times in Georgia—they were sweet to
know;
Old friends that loved us—friends that
loved so! }
Dreamin’ of ’em always—fig re where Men-
dwells.
They're like a sweet song's echo—a far-off
chime of bells!"
And those old times and those old friends.
ing oil wasjsben the melon burst nearly on top
of hi, head. He thouKl.t tin, thief hud <M»4imS : g1ww a ycisUrtp tl.i.J
covered him and smashed him on th«- h-nd with j •"irt jL-H 'i.-'k.sU'i-lly .st.nicIhinK of
a fence rail. He jumped up. and ns he jumped,; have passed . . . those hardy j-mnee
the gun went N o£T. That scared the negro and j initiated ^the development of a wilderm
aalanc&of _ the -melon on “ , '" wl
Homer's head and ran. He-went one way and
• vvlio
. who
off. That scared the negro and ( initiated the development of a wilderness into
he dropped 4he balance- of' the melon pi of
Tl , v . . — - , t how They lived and loved nnd area.”
Homer's head and ran. He went one way and Ant i grouped sketches—so true to'
Homer the other.
"Homer forgot all about his fine
leftJt by ihe -stump.. -NeighUqrswho ygur.nexV he.a^s .aj]d BjyULAJlteffcifiE then) at, the.l.ater^
day to the scene say you couldn't tell from the ' 18 *5" ,n £ firesides of days we call “The New.’
.... , k . The mere titles of a few of the eketehee will
tracks which was making the best time. Homer
or the negro, but both were what you might call
going some.
“That broke Homer from sitting u$ for
tiji-ve*. Neither were there any more -night
raids on his melon patch-"
"There are still a few of the species left who
will let you send a paper for two or three years
and then when you try to collect blandly inform
the editor that he ought to have stopped it
when the time expired. And the chances are
ten to one that if the editor had stopped his
paper when bis time was out, he would have
been puffed up and ready to ask when his credit
went bad. Such a life. Such a life,” exclaims .. —
the Ocilla Star. And there are still a few of' ° f fart> for a dinner at a country dance of
tho»« editors left who will c„ntmue.«endinz a| , (lld boilci( pork , bam baked
paper on- tq a man w ho does not paj for-it and |chicken, potato-custards (they call them, pies
.who does not intend to pay for it. It is this muw), tea-cakes', pound-cakes . . . to which
the life they depict—they live again, and we
take them by the hand, nnd give th>
make one “hungry” for them all : "Grandma's
Spinning. .Wheel,” "A Candy-Pulling in the
Wiregrass,” "Cane Grinding Time," “Helping
Aunt Mary Make Sausage," “An Old-Time Cir
cus Day.” "The Old Wash-Hoie" and "The Con
version” at "the little old log-church."
And the spirit of "An Old-Time Wiregrass
Frolic” takes hold of one. and you go to “pat
ting” your feet at the sound of the introductory
otd'jingle of “Old Dan Tucker "
“Old Dan Tucker, he got druilk—
Fell in the fire and kicked.out a chunk;
Red-hot coal got in his shoe;
Oh. great granny! how the ashes flew!
"Then,.clear the way for old Dan'Tucker;
Come too laU* to git your suppe.r.”
And in this "Hooverizing” day consider this
it. It il this mu
;ers who^-make th
ibscriber. ( VThe
kind of unbusiness-like publishers
the profitless and dilatory subscriber,
sooner newspapers all get down to a strictly
cash business, the better for all concerned.
Worth county has declared a business holi
day for next Saturday, April 6th, to boost the
Liberty Bond campaign, and intends to raise
that county’s quota in one day. All*business
houses in the county have been asked to close.
'A good example for her neighbors has Worth
£oanty pet
the laughing dancers did ample justice, with
the-appetites of log-rollers!"
But let the book tell its own story, and it will
find its own friends; for every reader of it will
.make for other eager readers. It does not be
long to the wiregrass folk alone. It is Georgia
bome-scenes and happy .history for all. It is
a book of oover 300 pages, and is an author's
autograph edition, the dedication to the au
thor’s’mother, "who, like the wiregrass pioneer,
ia now a sacred memory."
‘•Saturday Night Sketches” will make good
the motto of the old-time Georgia editor “We
Have Come tp Stay!”
THE FRONT IN FRANCI
moment, for time must now have been allowed
for the concentration of the armies.
We are entering upon the time in which an
allied counter offensive is to'be looked for. The
Gertnans are now pnysically and technically in
the condition of the other German armies,
which were defeated at the IJilarne. The rapidi
ty of the push of their center toward Roye and
‘ ' ' ‘ if - -
armies,, is now less than ten miles wide, and in
stead of making steady although slow progress,
the Germans arc at a standstill. But because
they have •arrived within ten miles of their ob
jective there is still danger that a sudden thrust
may put them across.
The winning, of Amiens would not win the
battle for the Teutons, although it would be a
ldng step in that direction., It would cut the
Allied armies apart ancL^iable the enemy to
turn on either at will wjlhthe full strength of
his artnips while leaving sufficient force on his
flank to hold the other in check. As the days
progress, the opportunity to do this lessens. The
important factor now is whether the Teutons
are stopped, or whether they have only halted
until they can bring up guns to-blaat their way
through to Amiens. Reports from the fighting
indicate that they have been stopped.
Of the first week of fighting, the case is well
summarized by Frank G. Simons; one of the
most explicit and best informed military writers
of the country, in his syndicate letter of Sun
day. We quote therefrom. Going back to the
beginning of the great drive, he says
In addition to holding the good position, the
Germans had an advantage of communications
due to two things, first, to the fact that the re
gion of France between Cambrai and St. Quen
tin is served by many lateral railways and sev
eral trunk lines; second, to the circumstances
that the British on the line here had behind
theowthe devastated area over which the Qer-
mans had retreated in March of last year
While the British had built some roads and
railways across this desert" tlifcir communica
tions were far poorer than at any other sector
froin'the sea to the Oise. The Germans be
lieved that if they could defeat and destroy the-
southern half of the British armies and French.
anH roll the former back through Amiens upon
the coast and the latter upon Paris that the
moral and the military effect of their success
would be to compel the French and the British
to consent to a German peace.
In preparation for this gigantic blow the Ger
mans concentrated on the selected front the
nlfcjor part.of ail the artillery in the possession
of the Central Powers, the Gerqians and Aus
trian guns released from the east as a result of
the Russian collapse, the guns captured Trom
Italy and such new supplies as had been,manu
factured. No such concentration of artillery
has been knnwqin human history.
The main ideiNqf German strategy was the
central notion of all previous western offen
sives. namely to obliterate the enemy trench
lines bv a tremenduuus bombardment and then
push through the g^ap thus .opened and. driv
ing the British before them, destroy them in the _ .
devastated area and open a gap in the whole ‘ ‘“P 0 . len
allied position, thu^ compelling a return to the
war of movement, jn which the .Germans be
lieved their troops and their officers were su
perior to the volunteer armies of Britain.
On Thursday morning. March 21, came the
great bombardment lasting some five hours. It
surpassed all previous artillery actions and it
accomplished its main purpose. The whole
. stem of British defense lines was 'rendered
untenable by the end of this bombardment.
hich reached the roads Twenty miles behind
the front line tVenches. With the artillery at
tack went the most intense gas' emissions that
have yet takeh place nnd the British nrtillcry-
ere compelled to sene their guns in gas
masks. In no detail 'was the German pre
liminary preparations more successful than in
smothering and destroying British guns.
Friday morning the flood burst and the Bri
tish defense system, their battle positions, -all
the intricate and elaborate preparations against
just this moment, were pierced, and pentrated,
not at all points, but at so many points tfiat'in
this day and the next they hail to be abandoned
and a general retirement begun.
Mr. Simons then f ’ e seven days’
fightmgj;- n I', ;i thus sums the result;
.uiKiiiay. the Germans are stoppedjiorlh
rTRcTSonirne ■ wTTh 'nfe^TngTe gain of Albert,
hich was inside British lines when the Soninic
battle began. On fhiif'day General Maurice.
British idireetor: of military operationsMioHnro*
.that the German drive north of the Somnv has
been definitely checked.
Far to the south at the other end of the bat
tle front the French, defense has stiffened and
■tire .hills'abwe Noyoir are-being held,‘blit be
yond these hills and north of Lassing.v the Ger
man advanefc is continuing and is well beyond
Roye and Chaulnes and breaking into ground
which was held by the French when the Somme
attack began in 1916.
The German attacking front has been nar-
wed from fifty to less than twenty miles and
is becoming a dangerous salient, open to attack
from the northern and southern flanks. On
more than half the front the German advance
has practically ceased and only in front of
Amiens does the German push still remain dan
gerous. 4
We can thus see roughly what the Germans
have and have not accomplished in this first
week. They ha’ve broken through; they have
scored the greatest success in trench warfare
and captured thousands of prisoners, hundreds
of guns am! almost incalculable amount of war
material. They have advanced more thnn 25
miles on a wide front, they have in a week re
gained ground which cost the British and
French a .war of campaigning and exceedingly
heavy costs in casualties. They have restored 1
a war of movement and they have demonstrated
that the war of position can. at least tempor
arily, be interrupted, provided the .assailant is
willing to spend the men and the munitions.
The Germans have won a‘great battle, there
is still the possibility that they will win a deci
sive battle, which has so far escaped them. But
the chances of this are beginning to diminish.
The allies have reserve armies, they have not,
put their reserve armies in yet ajvd they would
not put them in untij a favorable moment had
arrived or the situation become so desperate
that they had no choice. The situation has im
proved and the absence of the counter offensive
would seem to indicate the waiting for the best
the last days has told upon the men the difficul-
ty of getting he^ivy guns ?and munitions up
across the devasted district must be tremendu-
ous. *
A cdunter offensive of the allies is, then, to be
looked for. It may succeed and it may fail; if
it-succeeds the Germans Will at least ba halted
and they may be compelled to make a local or
a general retirement If it fails, then the
chances are that a real wedge will be driven
between the French and. the British and the Bri
tish flank rolled back through Amiens and per
haps out off from the great sea bases at Rouen
and at Havre. These are remoter possibilities,
but they are real possibilities.
Mri Simons estimates tjreriiumber of mgn en
gaged as seventy-fivji^clivisions, or between
9.00,000 and 1,000,000 men for the Germans;
British something over thirty divisions and the
French less than ten divisions, or less than half
a million men, leaving the Allies outnumbered
near two to one.
There has been little Change since Wednes
day. The German wedge has been driven a lit
tle farther, but only a few miles, and Sunday
and Monday there was see-saw. hand-to-hand
fighting for the smaller towns offering strategic
points. Meanwhile, news that the American
troops are being transferred and tViai tfc"
French a[e concentrating indicat <■- that the
time for,the Allied flank attack hasArrlved.
, The condition of the British army must be
reckoned as a factor. If it is not demoralized
and is still an effective fighting force. alth< -gh
its losses in men and guns has been heavy, the
German advance is in danger. But if .many,
more days elapse and the foe's artillery is
brought up. the time for a strong counter will
have passed.
In the N< , vv''York State Fair at Syracuse this
year there is to be an old-fashionetl spelling
bee, theToirtestant* to be chosen by elimination
contests in the 10,009 schools of that state. A
few years ago a mistaken system ofx leachin.c
children to read without teaching them the pro
per construction of words -from letters^ pro
duced millions of poor spellers. Aside '-from
high school graduates who had been taughftthe
derivatives of words and therefore -given \an
idea as to their proper construction, the av
erage boy or girl had a very poor idea of pro
per spelling—and certificates show that onl;
small per cent of children who enter schqol
graduate from the high schools. We had a
striking instance of this in a spelling bee at
years ago. when lawyers,
clerks, bookkeeprs and accountants’went/like
chaff before the wind in the face of the /old-
timers who had learned their spelling/from
Webster’s blue back. Newspaper mem and
KecpingYours<'!f w et
Ron Down*
people need a g<
that will 8end/tl
tingling throuj
body, enrich it
proving the d
and clean it by
waste matter,
matter of plentyuLpfllp
free from impurltfca. -
PERUNA
dispels inflammation ofthe
blood making organs, -tbedl-
gestion-filves tone and pep
to the membranes that hne
the lunfla ind- the dUMtlee Pmct
and invigorate* the eatlre tjuan.
Youa*a have health If ij 4 ?
« *7. A care of row-
UIKTIin VY CKI.EBK.vnOS.
r
rivotU wlt'b a birthday • dionrr^ at
'TWaww*Ur* wm.ain*' Mitirth h>-»h-
I, V aud.tbr liflrfOth r*M*r»tiu
liu.i lie bu. belli. Th.- dinner
others who handle
lie return of a day
.vspdper
"copy" will be glad to s
of better spelling.
• Our boy* mutt have their *r
Send them cigarettes!" Thi* U a
familiar appeal now to *11 of u*.
Among those most IS demand te
the now famous “toasted" cigarette—
LI CK Y STRIKE. Thousand* of this
favorite brand have been shipped to
France. There is something home
like and friendly to the boy* in the
*ight of the familiar green package*
with the red circle.
' This homelike, appetizing quality
of th v e LUCKY STRIKE cigarette i*
largely due to the fact that the Burtey |
tobacco used in making it baa been t
toasted. -It's toasted" was the "Jo*. :
gan" that made a great, success of
LUCKY STRIKE in less than a year.
Now the American Tobacco Co. ia
making IS million LUCKY STRIKE
‘ Cigarettes a day.
A good part of this ir
duct ion is making It* w*.’ a
water to cheer our boy*. /
It is surprising that the express companies
have appealed to the Interstate Conynerce
Commission to be allowed to increase charges,
because of an alleged large deficit in revenue
We rather thought they had more buSm&M than
they wanted. When we have anything to ship
we have to carry it to th«;iji ijnd beg them to
take it. and then sometimes have to send it. by
some other moans. • It never occurred to us
that they wanted business.
“SWEEP A RESPONSIVE CHORD."
From Conyers Times.
The editor of The Times acknowledges re
ceipt of a handsomely bound autograph edition
of "Saturday Night Sketches." by Editor L.
Hrrrflpg. rrf the DiiiJy .Tifion Gazette., a- geaning
product of the "01<i Wiregrass Georgia." of
which he writes so interestingly. No man is
better qualified to preserve the sentiment ^of
Southern Georgia than^re nuihqr of these,tales:
dedicated ‘to "My Mother, who like the. \v.re»
grass pioneer, is now a sacred memory."
The whole "Reason” for the volume is based
on the author's.preliminary., "Why- the Title?".
"Saturday Night in the Southland is a semi
colon, between the work of the week and the
devotions of-the morrow. A time for the young
of merry-making and social,, intercourse; for
the old, of retrospection. Therefore, in this
halting between the going and the .coming
week, the mind of the man past life's meridian
flits back to the days that are gone—to "those
who peopled them; and in memory; the dead
live again."
.In this book are faithfully portrayed inci
dents of other days <hat sweep a' responsive
cord in the hearts of those “past the meridian
of life" and entertain those still in the enjoy
ment of sunny youth. Mirth and sadness a
combined, just as the two elements blend in !j
lives of-the people of today. But to be
appreciated, the book should be read and no
Georgia library is complete without a copy.
“SINCERITY AND FRESHNESS.
ti the,
fully
ave renu aim enjoyed me
ve been appearing in the TifJ
- the title "Saturday Night./
have done so had they knoym
ction of these sketches has
From the Savannah Cotton Record.
Many people have read and enjoyed the
sketches which have been appearing in the Tif,
ton Gazette under
Many more would.hav
of them. A collection
been recently published in a. very attractive
volume, embellished with a number of well
executed illustrations. T]he sketches are short
descriptions of life in wiregrass Georgia of for
ty or fifty years ago: They are true to life, And
have the flavor of a genial sincerity, and the
freshness of»the piney woods of Southern Geor
gia. The volume is worthy of a place in any
library, and its author, Johr^THerring, of Tif
ton. has made a contribution of real merit to
the literature of the Southern country.
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could hardly walk . . . 1
just staggered around. 1
... I read ol Cardol, I
and alter taking one bo(- I
Ue, or belore taking quits I
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took 3 jr 4 bottle* at I
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the spring when run
down. I had do appetite,
and I commenced eating. I
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