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ZEbe Gtftcm (Sasette
Published Weekly
Entered at the Postoffice at Tifton, Georgia,
as Second Class Matter, Act of March 3, 1879
LETTER FROM A SOLDIER
AT THE FRONT IN ’62
jno. L- Herring Editor and Manager
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SATURDAY NIGHT.
When The Young Man Crawfi.hed.
“Speaking of April fooling the teacher, re
minds me." said the agriculturist, as he knock
ed the ashes from his clay pipe, stuck it back in
the crack between the logs of the house behind,
Him; and with a reminiscent gleam in his gye.
bit a chew from the quarter plug from his pock
et and eased his feet comfortably to the top of
the banister rail;
"Of the time when I was a teacher. 1 found
out through grape-vine news that the whole
achool had planned to April fool me. so I went
. n > .» i i«,, u Ut nf iMitrrw imil had
WITH BACKS TO WALL.
’emtone better. I got up a lot of teams and had
them at the school-house early on the morning
of April 1st. and declared it a holiday. We
Went out to an old mill about two miles—fished,
eat dinner, and had a good time, generally.
Along in the day. one of .the S. Aleck* boys
brought me au April fool in the shape of a big
crawfish, sealed up in an envelope. Wh^n I
found out what it was. I wouldn’t open it. out
stuck it in the breast pocket of my vest,
was open, and forgot all about it.
“We only had one Sunday suit them days, and
only used it on special occasions. I hung mine
up in a closet and didn’t get it out until a few
days later* when I went with a friend to a neigh
boring town to attend a teachers’ institute,
smelled something curious when I took the
suit down, and though I felt in all the pock
ets. but found nothing (I forgot about the in
side vest pocket). I supposed a rat was dead
in the closet and the scent would blow
after a while.
"On the train, seated beside the friend. I not
iced he kept sniffing, and bimeby moved off to
get some water. Arrived. I found that when I
got into a crowd, it would melt aw^n - . on one ex
cuse or another. They called m^ up on the
slaRe when the program began, and I sat be
tween two old friends. They soon got uncom
fortable,' looked at me with an inquiring air,
and as Boon as they could, got out. They ask
ed me to talk about something, and while I am
not a talking man. I got up for a few remarks.
I kept getting a whiff of that thing, now and
then and thought it strange that the odor of a
dead rat would hang on so long. I couldn t for
get it, and soon sat down.
"At dinner, an old friend insisted that I dine
with him. and I w«nt. But 1 slipped off to one
of the stores, sidled around behind the counter,
and asked the owner. ‘Wilbur, you not any good
cologne?’ ‘Shore/ he said, -here's Hoyts and
it’s as strong as anuafortis.' • I paid a d.me for a
• bottle', went into a back room and poured it all
on. Instead of making matters better, it made
them worse; the combined smells cried out to
high heaven.
“When they called us in lo-dimu r I was seat
ed beside a young lady, very charming and at
tractive. whom 1 had met several times. I ev
erted myself to please, but that haunting odor
hung -round still. She seemed preoceupwd
and didn't eat much: neither did I,and the ms
on toe other side of me seemed to have no ap
petite Do the best I could to be lively, depres
sion hung over my proximity We ‘Cloud-
“After dinner out on the veranda. I had plen
ty of room. People would lot* at me with a
sort of injured air. and conversation h«dM.
Back at the institute, it was just like it had bi
all kinv. I wanted to cut It om and romc home,
but it was twenty miles and we had no autos
then Another friend asked me to supper,
wanted to back out if I could, but therewas no
excise and no hotiTto go tb Suppi-. awns
petition of dinner, it was one of the nddu-
cruble days 1 have ever spent. I know how the
o-called 'marked man.’ or the fellna- with small
pox. or leprosy feels. Ishmael had nothing on
me. At last the train for home came,
v as glad. I sat on a seat by myself, and when 1
got off hurried home. My wife was waiting up
^“^Do you sntall anything unusual about me?’
1 asked. ' -
-What in the world is it? .„*h*M«*llv
•'■I should say 1 do!' she said emphatiially.
‘Whut m the-world s it? -
( “I told'her I didn’t know, and when she ask.
,d told her I had searched all my pockets. J**
to show her. I went through them again and the
second dash I made, put my hand into the inside
pocket of my vest—and Pdlldd out the envelope
with the big crawfish. He wa» fn«y npe.
“After that. 1 never would Stand for any
April fool jokes. 1 warned my Aholura that
the first one- who tried it would gel the licking
of his life and told all my friends that an at-
tempt at one meant a fight. And 1 don't fish
!iu no crawfish bait, and have no taste tor
prawn, crab, shrimp, or any of their famil>.
Among some old papers, the editor finds the.
following letter from Capt. Wm. N. Kendrick,
written from the front in 1862 to his mother.
Capt. Kendrick was a brother of Dr R. T. Ken
drick, one of Tifton’s practicing physicians
twenty years ago, and the uncltf-of Mrs. J.
Maund. who died in Bainbridgc last year,
publish it as being of peculiar interest just at
this time, \yhen so many South Georgia boys at
the front will soon be writing such letters to the
folks at home. War is war. heroism is heroism-
in any age or clime, and the description of the
fighting at Sharpsburg may well fit the fighting
along the French front
In Camp Near Sharpsburg Va.. Oct, 2. 18G2.
My Dear Mother. For the first time since the bat
tle of Sharpsburg, Md., I have an opportunity
of-writing to you. I suppose you heard before
this reached you of the death of Brother Jack.
He was killed in the engagement of September
the 17th. several days after the battle of Sharps
burg, after our army had fallen across the Po
tomac. 1 learned that the 4th Georgia Regi
ment was stationed near by. I found it and
learned the sad intelligence tha’t “Bud Jack"
as no more. Capt DeGraffenreid informed
me that he died bravely. I came out unhurt.
Our brigade waa in the thickest of the fight
and suffered severely. I was in command of
ouf Company, f lost three men. They were
brdve men. who would have followed me any
where. Capt. Rice has got back. He is in com
mand of the regiment and I am still in command
of the Company. Dan Jarvis has also got back.
Dan is running for 3rd- Lieutenant.
Tom McCrea has gone home. Ben was kill
ed and now Dan and myself are the only ones
left. I am able to say. however, that 1 have
many warm friends in the Company. 1 do not.
think we will have much more fighting in this*
campaign. The whole army is encamped
around Winchester.*- I expect we will move be
fore long into winter quarters somewhere.
The Captain says I can go home this winter
if I can get off. I would have liked very much
to have been home during watermelon fruit
time. I have seen a piece of watermelon vine
since I left Twiggs county, that is all.
Mv health is very good. Mother, you must
not grieve about Brother Jack. Think about it-
You had two sons in the figty. it would hav
been a miracle if both of them had come out mfe
The bullets fell as thick as hail around me. kill
ing and wounding men that were touching me.
It seems wonderful that I escaped. \\ e Unnam
ed under fire until our ammunition was exhaust
ed and then fell back a short distance out of
range of their muskets, but not out of range of
ar V 1 went to the 51st Georgia the other day
Mr. Smith was left sick at Gordonsville and Mr.
Meads was slightly wounded in the ankle.
Give my best respects to all the relations.
Bennie, you must write often to ijie. I have not
heard frpm any of you in a month.
I Remain "
ever. Your Obedient Son,
Wm. N. Kendrick.
Direct to Richmond.
WHERE A MAN IS INDESPENSABLE.
A great truth is conveyed in the following,
from the closing paragraphs of “The Making of
George Groton.” by Bruce Barton, which war-
concluded in the American Magazine for May
No man mav flatter himself that he is indes
pensable in th«* bustling world of business. Har-
riman dies, and the trains of Harnman s rail
roads pause for five minutes out of respect 1
his memory - And. after having paused.th-
rush on aga'n. a little faster to make up for the
feS, .,f lost tin,.-. Th;-
me up; other men give the orders that Jester-
dav he gave; another name ft painted in gold
letters where his name stood: the
turn to other men and things, and the plac
where he had grown so great henceforth remem
bers him no more. , * . __
No man is big enough to be missed for long
from business. No man can say Confidently:
‘Th* work that 1 do m my office is everlastingly
important.” For. lo. he dies, and another does
it ewn better than he. Only in one place may
a man be sure of an inllaenoa that stretches be-
voml the grave, down through the generation?
'into eternity. He may so raise hu
their sons and their sons sons will
’orld forward and onward and up-
Thrtt work no other enti do for him.
Says the Dawson News: "Although thfjr
continue to take a lively interest in the cultiva
tion of cotton the farmers of Southwest Georgia
are diversifying. They are growing increased
crops of peanuts, grain, fruits, poultry and live
stock. Small farmers are large farmers, in the
sense of realizing large sums of money from
small acreages, and we have many men now
who are ?ble to buy the necessities of life in
abundance and pay cash for them, whereas
heretofore they lived, or undertook to live, on
credit-bought goods. These farmers are get
ting fnore out of life, and spread an entirely
different atmosphere in their respective com
munities."
Vith grim desperation, fighting,- as Field
Ma'shal Haig said, with their backs to the wall,
the British appear to be checking the German
ad«nce in Flanders although the Channel ports
arestill in danger. Passchendaele Ridge. Vimy
Rid?e. Merries Ridge. Wytschaete Ridge. Be-
thtfe, y e t remain in the hands of the British,
theHun having been beaten back after repeated
assaults with great slaughter.
S>on, another blow may be expected at an-
othtr point. Perhaps toward Amiens, but that
wodd not be so valuable to the foe today as it
woild had he reachfdjt three weeks ago; per-
hajs at some point along the flank held by the
Fr«ich .although the French are well prepared;
penaps again at Arras and Vimy; or along the
lin- running almost south from Verdun to the
Swss frontier, where the American army is on
guird—where assaults have been growing more
intnse daily, and where the line has very prub-
abl' been weakened by the withdrawal of both
Krnch and Apicrican troops to assist the sorely
prased British. Perhaps even on the Italian
frcit, where there is promise of comparatively
eay gains.
Vhere he may strike again, only the next few
das can tell, but strike the Hun jnust. He is
fored to bring the war to a conclusion at once,
if le can. Once despised America is'pouring
mfl across the seas in an ever-increasing
stram; soon we will have enough there to turn
th-scale. And at home the German people are
wr weary. For a time the flush of temporary
vitory will keep up the spirits revived a few
ninths ago by Russia's defeat, but they must be
fe. continually with the stimulants of army
moments, or they will stop to count the cost
of German blood and home privation—and
wienever they do this. Prussianism and the Ho-
hezollems are in danger.
5o far the German drive, while successful in
evry initiatory step, has failed of its great ob-
jetives—to separate the Allied armies and
ersh each in turn. The territory won is a bag-
atlle, compared to the fearful cpst that has
ben paid—a cost for which Hindenburg and
‘.h’ Prussian war iords must account to thcii 1
ptiple.
ileanwhile. details of just how narrowly
di*ster was averted, after St. Quentin a
pertinent here. What happened to tW* British
a ray is well told by Frank H. Simond?
eek’srevWof the war operations in the Con-
stitition of Sunday:
Gough’s Fifth army was beaten a? no British
arnv has ever been beaten. Not only was it
beaten, but in its retreat it was so badly hand
led that the Germans were able to intervene be
tween it and the main British armies to the qortifc
and similarly between it and the French armies
to the sauth. The fifth army was the link in
the allied chain of armies from Switzerland to
the sea and this link was effectually broken by
Friday.* March 22. .
The ultimate Germafi victory, after this im
mediate and enormous local success west of St.
Quentin was prevented by £he French: they
saved the British even more unmistakably than
Blucher saved Wellington at t\ aterloo. Had
the Fresh not been able to intervene, the Ger
main puipose of their strategy; they would have
mans woild have realized in the *ir-=t week the
driven tie British in something approaemng a
pleterout. so far as the fifth army was con-
i. lorth of the Somme aijd_out
are relieving the French troa» in four sectors,
at the smallest reckoning. Presumably, then,
we are puttirig around 200,000 men at the ser
vice of the Allies. This is a small number as
this war goes, but it is equal to a class of French
recruits, it is half as large as the annual incre
ment of the German army. and. since the men
picked, it is unquestionably better in its hu
man material than either a French or German
class."
NOT A TIME FOR DANCING.
With all due respect to those who enjoy terp-
sichorean pleasures, the Gazette submits that
one of the things Tifton does not need just now
is a dancing class.
The days will be only a few we fear before
some Tifton homes will be homes of sori’ow;
over many of them the pall of anxiety hangs
darkly now. Feeling for* them should' put a
•heck on frivolity; Still, we would not curtail
timely pleasures or wholesome amusements
a people need bo*h. especially in times of anx
iety as a sort of safety-valve, so to speak. - But
we arc sure that those in Tifton who enjoy dan
cing know fairly well how to get through the
necessary evolutions; expert instruction can be
dispensed with for a"\vhilc. Few of the so-call-
-ed dancing masters today are the equal of Ver-
lon Castle, yet he set an example for all by giv
ing his life for his country.
' The money spent for dancing lessons could be
admirably used to much better advanuxgj* in
the purchase of Liberty Bonds. And if any of
our young men find themselves at a loss for ex
ercise. and find no other opportunity open to
further the cause of their country at war. they
might try the expedient of practicing cps to
the Up of a drum, with the weight of a gun fee
balance. And the young women Could find
such a splendid opportunity for filling their leis
ure time in Red Cross work or the furtherance
of the Army Y. M. C. A. cause
Georglff has done so well in the conservation
of flour that we have enough for present needs,
and can allow mill shipments which would
otherwise come here to go toward feeding our
Allies. Therefore, the State Food Admiriistra-
lor has ordered that no more shipments of flour
be made for the present from points outside the
state to points in Georgia. At the same time,
an order was issued that neither flour nor sugar
be sold to new concerns started since January
1st this year, which use either article in manu
facturing.
“AN INTIMATE GLIMPSE OF A
VANISHED RACE.” <
Water Softened 1
Red Devil Lji
_ sans everythin* in
water make* waahin* ei
a little Red Devil Lye h
hard water soften* it like
With Red Devil w
ore leu then half the ■
daintiest fabric, will be J
usual with Tittle or »*JQ
it's the rub that it
Work. Wot
throughout the home. Itw#k»a* i
bath-tubs, wash bowls, toilets end j
kitchen sinks white, dean and ■
iary. It whitens and renun
spots from floors, window
marble, and docs the I
dirty work in a hurry-
tumble and with little e
Red Devil Lye mho m
derful soap, peels peaches - - .
It is the real housekeeper's mend. I
AmA Your Grocer. S«e(*»ldsh I
WM. SCHiELD BFC. C0-, S*. Lew*. *•- I
WILL IS GLAD I IB WENT.
t Home Ip Know Aboat
are Uioucht well ol by every bod J -
Webb. i*it this in the Weekly ,
tr lie sure to put it in the Week-’T
l> i: metre because 1 want uiy people ti
the Weekly Cazrtte.
WJI.L I.A1KLE1
157 I »epot 1'rdff i!2 Set. Ooy ,
FronvihBjSpringfield. Mass.. Union.
IntimzRe stories of the Southland alwi
are welcome, providing they
i that
carry the
mime ai)d_out of. touch
ith the Fre
The Fnnch saved the British and the situation
by the raaidity with which they moved their re-
norlhwartl. They had two things to dt.
The collapse of the I^fth British army had not
only opeied a gap between the British and
French a-mies. it had also uncovered the main
roads to Paris. Thus the French had to rush
troops nrrth to cover Paris, they had also to
rush troeps up to get in front of the German
uush •veitward. whieij •>.vas rapidly* get ting to
the point where all pnssihl
tact between the sHi.-u «-•
The tkr.T ... V
AFTtR SICKNESS.
THEY GAVE
HER YIN0L
And She Soon Got Back
Her Strength
R
Vrt M l>- At d,al.T». tat the oonxumer. o£
flour must-ftport Ills st.cl* on .hand. Ths rs-
Mrt'u not to bs mads to the County-FoodI Ad
ministrator. but should be made to the Federal
Food Administration for Georgia, “ AH*”**’
Georgia. Check up your stock on hand and
write the administration what you have.
if con-
,i 1»v impossible.
was stopped short and
, ii—amt g,a nv tinie during the crit-
iU period. But it was not until March 20 that
French tmops had gotten around the corner and
In front <f the ,-xtienie point fff the Wedge and
bv this -ini’- this extreme pomt had passed
Montdidbr and had begun t-. climb the nail
pl'af-Hi: Vet ween the Avre and .
And lfTlTe Xbve vaTIey runs the main railroad
from Pars to the north. It was a - Breath esifin
ish to oik of ftte most exciting races in all mili
tary histtry-
After Jiuch hesitation, the Allied armies at
Wist have an equal advantage with the Teutons
in a single command. Of this Mr. Simonds
ivs: ’
"Allied prospects have greatly improved since
there wai an eleventh-hour agreement upon sui-
gle comnand. it ought-to nave been agreed-
upon last winter, but it was blocked by British
militarv influence despite the urging* of Lloyd-
George. America. France and even »taly t-‘\ .»r-
t-d it. but British influences postponed it until
,fhe present reverse^intervened. After the de-
Tifton Gazette of April 8. did its part'feat there could he no more argument by British
♦
"The IIIIOII OUieui; Ol ni«.i o. u.u .... ... <-.,11
well- ami the Of Tift ...u„,y «• ill rim-;md"ary w'g™,'-.“a.at which w
pond accordingly to the Liberty Loan. South , u . ar |y a disaster. Foch was pre-eminently t
Georgia is always on the job." says the Duklin . )HHH f«»vihe plae**. no other French general-and
fourier-Dispatch. And Tiftpn and Tift county n,> British or Italian general—and. least of all.
should iqeasure up to the. standard.
RICH*IN MEMORIES AULD LANG SYNE
the
From the Walton Tribune. . ,
Editor Herring of the Tifton Gazette, has)
.made a substantial donation to Southern lit
erature in his ''Saturday Night Sketches*’ a
charming collection of South Georgia stories,
just issued from the Gorhapi Press, of Boston.
Editor Herring's lketcbe£ are rich in their mem
ories of the auld lang syne and sweet in their
flavor of the, wiregrass. that wonderful section
which has heretofore received but scant atten
tion in the literature of the day. We are indebt
ed to the author for an autographed copy of the
book, which we are reading with genuine pleas
ure.
American general—could challenge
ievoraent of-the man who saved Nancy, w on
.me Marne apd blocked the German drive to the
I Channel, with the aid of the P»ntish and Bel-
gians." T
f equal interest is the number of Artierkam
on the firingfline. or avaliable t'o support the
British and French at critical junctures. This
number is. for military reasons, a matter of
guess w itlPthe public. We know that the army
fantonfflents In This countrj' are being emptied
and riyit the number over there is increased
daily. Again we quote Mr. Simonds:
“Accepting M/Tardieu’s figures of some time
ago. we mtag now have at least 300.000 men in
France. Of these we are fold 100.000 have
started for the Somme front and other divisions
_ true to type apd
not forced, and no more picturesque subjects for ^
story and anecdote are to be found than the j vinoL *nd
quaint, unprogressive and almost primitive *» I
mountaineers, a type to be found in practically
all of the Southern States bordering on the At- j
lantic. together with Tennessee and Kentucky.; i; ver _
This fact has been taken Into account by count
less writers, who have been only too pleased to
appease the popular demand for this sort of
reading matter. John Fox Jr.. ~abd a dozen |
others have made it a specialty and have served
their subjects middling well.
It has remained for a practically unknown-
writer to furnish us With an intimate glimpse
of a vanished race of Southern people, that is. j
a race which has vanished so far as its environs j,
and individuality, and its peculiar modes of liv
ing are concerned. John L. Herring of G* or ‘
gia himself a product of the people he writes
about, has introduced us to thefOrd-time gener
ations of a race of people wjjich.Tis a people,
exists no more, the inhabiUjnte of the Wiregrass
district of Georgia.
Here was a people living far back in the
wilderness, where the ancient system of barter
and exchange, still prevailed at a time when the j
outside world was taking its advanced lessons j,
in high finance. The Wiregrass people cared j
not a whit what outside people did or said, but I
went along their own-w-ay as they always had.)
living under the same old principles, content to
remain just as they were.
They were humaa. like the rest of us. and Mr. i
Herring Shows us wherein they were human.
He tells us of their customs, their ancient ways
which existed almost into the modem genera
tions. when the coming of the railroads and the
sawmills robbed them of their individuality and
their right to-live in retirement.
He"bas chose to visualize his forefather^ in the j
form of a hook of short stories, which be calls.
“Saturday Night Sketches.” The title is chosen !
because in this colony of people Saturday night, j
as he terms if.-was the “semicolon of the week." j
the time between the days and hours of toil, and
t observance of the backwoods Sabbath,
time the real human qualities of the!
Wiiygra—• •*pl- assort : i.. —. - • -; i i—y •-.tin-,
,„it of their shells and lived; they frolicked.!
made love, foqght their private little feuds, and i
experienced their individual sorrows.
- The book is made up of a large nurafber of
sketche/s, which appeared firsf in the /ages of
the Tifton. (Ga.) Daily Gazette, of which Mr.
Herring is the editor. They deserved more con
sideration even thamthis in the opinion of the
author's friends, and so he has presented them
n book form to the world of readers, who should
find themselves just so much richer for having
read the.m. They are wholesome and not the
least bit artificial. JfMi'y show this strange,
individual race of Americans, buried far back
in the forests and living, their own lives in tlieir
own way, and having an almighty fine time
doing it.
New Castle. Ind.—“The
ft me run down, no appetite, a
ot reit at night, and I took a a*
aid which settled on my ban
..u unable to keep about my he
work.. My doctor adriaed me to ti
—* aix bottlea reatored I
do all my houaen
eluding waahing. Vinol i» t
medicine I erer used."—Alice
- . nth St* Ne^ C
guarantee tf 1- **”
Mn.O.P.Ci
Whitwell, Tena.. *
“I aufftred with bearing-^1
down pains,
dizzy spells got so bad I
that when 1 would start to I
walk. 1 would Just pretty j
nearly fall. Was very I
much run-down. I told |
my husband 1 though
Cardul would help me. .
He got me a bottle. . . It I
helped me so much that I
he got me another bottle, r
I got a whole lot b
The dizzy spells and th« I
bearing-down pains .
left me entirely."
II you are weak i
run-down, or sutler tram |
womanly pains.
TAKE
GARDUI
The Woman’s Tonic
You can leel sale In giv
ing Cardul a thorough
trial. It Is composed ol
mild, vegetable, medici
nal ingredients, recog- J
nized by standard medt- j
cal books lor many yean,
as being ol great vajue in
the troubles from which |
only women suffer. The ■
enthusiastic praise ol Bn I
thousands ol women who
have been helped by
Cardui in its past 40 rein
ol successful use should
assure you ol its genuine
merit, and convince you
that It would be i
your V'