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SATURDAY NIGHT.
» hear the guns in the
etaehments of Federal
The Capture of Jefferson Davis.
So many of the alleged facts of history are
tradition, or the usual conflicting reports of eye
witnesses, that the careful student is confroted
with the problem of silling fact from fiction,
and the doubt often intrudes that things whicti
have come down to- as as history are widely
different from what really took place.
More than half a century has passed since
Jefferson Davis. President of the Southern Con
federacy. was captured by Federal cavalry
while passing through South Georgia on his way
to the region beyond the Mississippi. Many
men -have -told the‘story, and with the facts
readily obtainable,'it would seem that the truth
concerning the capture should have long since
been established beyond question. Vet oc
casionally an account copies from a source un
doubtedly reliable which gives the story in many
details different from the version commonly ac
cepted.
Hon. Thris. B. Young, for many years ordinary
of'Irwin county, who represented his county in
the Georgia General Assembly and also his dis
trict in the State Senato. but who now lives at
Sneads, Fla., was honr and raised within
mile and a half of Irwinville and was eleven
years old when Davis was captured His mem
ory is clear concerning the event, and he gives
some interesting details which have, so far as
known! never been published. One of the most
significant of these is that Davis was not cap
tured on the morning of the 1 Oth of May. I860
but fhe night before. Mr. Young Is perhaps
the only man now living who was near enough
to the sceife of capture t
battle between the two <1
troops the next morning, Ib- says
-Davis and his party cam j into Irwinville the
afternoon before, inquired a/ to the road ahead,
made some purchases and/wtmt out of town a
short distance to camp. There was no effort at
concealment of identity, and the few who were
present knew it wan the Prcsidcntof the Confed
eracy and what was left of his staff. The party
had come into Irwinville from the north along
the Abbeville road from Poor Robin's ferry,
v where they had crossed the Ocmulgee.
“Soon after they left, a detachment of Fed
eral cavalry came into Irwinville from the op
posite direction. They had come down what
was known as the river road, found that they
had got in advance of the Davis party, and turn
ed to head him off. They made only 'a brief
atop in Irwinville, and went on to.where Dav
and his party had camped and arrested him.
There was no effort at resistance. n<> attempt at
concealment, and as every one knows now. ab
solutely no truth in the statement that he was
wearing his wife's skirt
“Afte.r the capture, the troops struck camp.
Next morning before it was clear light, sentinels
gave the alarm of appioaehing cavalry
was th« detachment that had followed Davis
along the Abbeville road, and they were com
ing in a hurry. The captors thought it was Con
federate cavalry coming to the rescue, and de
ployed for battle, opening fire as soon as they
could distinguish the outlines of the approach
ing men in the semi-darkness. Some were kill
ed anil several, wounded before they found out
the mistake,
not raining that morning, it w;
perhaps some mist.
•T was up and out on the farm, for the day was
one my father had set for his annual sherp-
‘shearing. For several dify ”
gatheiing the sheep fro
doubt come to the knowledge offer officer.
"We expected the men to return in less than
an hour and waited with some dread, for we
knew that if all our supplies were taken we had
means of getting more before crops came in.
But the men never came. There was a'large
gathering at my father's for the sheep-shearing,
and all the men had brought their giins, as was
general custom then, when the woods were
full of game. These guns, perhaps twenty or
more, were standing in plain-view of the officer.
.nd-I have always thought that he believed 1 it
was a party gathering to go to the rescue of Dav-
He was in a hurry to leave, and as soon as
returned to camp the two detachments,
their prisoners,-packed up and left.
Many of us went to the scene soon after the
cavalry left. They had buried the dead but took
the wounded with them, there were several
dead horses lying around and many pines bore
marks of bullets.. Where each horse l*y> the
wiregrass died 'anil has never grown back.
Pines are still standing bearing the marks of the
bullets, and although the timber has almost dis
appeared from the section surrounding and
arlv all the land has been brought, into culti-
ition. that particular spot is little changed
m e the capture of Davis and has been offered
Judge .1. B. Clements, its owner, to the Geor-
a division of the united Daughters of the Con-
derac.v for a memorial park."
Iluv a Liberty Bond - *
A COUNTY CANNING CLUB.
DNNING THE RED BLOOD.
E MAIN OBJECTIVE.
The women of the Midway school sectioi^of
Tift County have started the organization of
TiVt County Canning Club.
The purpose is to solicit contributions of fruits
vegetables and other foodstuffs from those who
have a surplus, can them and donate the canned
good,s to the government for the soldiers at the
front.
By this means it Is hoped to conserve products
vhich would otherwise go to waste, and apply
hem toward feeding our fighting forces. Ev
•ry year, a large part of our fruit and vegeta-
ile crop is wasted because it is not canned in
eason. These ladies want to stop this waste
and help out in the conservation of food. Their
services are entirely voluntary', and they ask the
•o-operation of others over the county,, women
and girls, in the organization of district canning
lubs. These will likewise secure contributions
of foodstuffs, can them and bring them to borne
central point, where they will be classified,
packed and shipped.
Not only contributions' of fruit, vegetable
and similar products are solicited, but the
li-lj* of experienced canners is as’ - ed, both in
organizing the clubs and in directing the work
of the canners. Those interested are invited to
address or call on Mrs. J. H. Hutchinson. Route
3. Tifton.
WHERE TO REPORT DISLOYALTY.
Loyal Americans should report promptly to
the proper authorities any suspicious or disloyal
acts or manifestations of sympathy for the en
emy. Many do not make such reports because
they are uncertain as to the proper official to
approach. The follownig is from an" official
source: * ,
It is very important that the Government
should have the assistance of all citizens in de-
-ting enemy propaganda or suspicious activi-
s of individuals, and you wfft^rhi a service in
notifying your friends that any communication
addressed to ‘Intelligence Officer. Headquar
ters Southeastern Department. Charleston, S.
C.’ will receive attention and. be transmitted to
the proper official of the Government for inves
tigation. The names of informants will not be
divulged and there need be no fear, on the part
of anybody, of getting into trouble in case sus
picions prove to be unfounded. Informants
Men wfco were boys more than a quarter of
a cestury gone are puzzled at the number of
young men who are trying to avoid military
service. Remembering the days of their youth,
as well as feeling the spirit under which they
chafe now, they cannot understand why every
red-Hooded American is not anxious to go to
the front.
Ttere glory lies. In the army camps is that
military discipline, that stem physical training,
thatw-ill rebuild and make upstanding men of
then- The cause is as Bacred. as appealing, as
inspring, as any that every fired chivalric ardor
or inspired patriotic endeavor. • »
H«w f then, can the young man hesitate Xj
Bit instead of earnestly endeavoring to find
a wav in which they can serve their country and
thus help to repay the sacrifice their great
grandfathers and fathers made for Liberty and
perptuate the cause of the peoples’ rights, far
too nany seek, by every specious excuse, to
oii a sen-ice into which they should enter re-
joiciig at the opportunity.
Cm it be that soft drinks and cigarettes are
akng weaklings of the young men of today?
Is Anerican blood disintegrating, and is woman
aiffnge coming because the coming man is
driftng into effeminacy?
L.Itis evident to the most casual observer that,
aVtlis time when his countryy demands the full
imeof every man. many are frittering this most
aluible asset away in idleness. In any small
owi there Is enough time lost around the soft
drin: dispensaries to successfully cultivate a
larg- plantation. The time, thus wasted' the
courtry over should nearly double the food pro-
ducton if applied to this one industry alone, not
to nrntion the hundreds of other opportunities
oper-
In the matter of cigarettes, the sale in the
fnied States in 1917 was 34,832.385,676 com
pare! with 25,253.456.591 in 1916 showing an
inenase of nearly lO.WKLQOO.OOO. or close to
40 jer cent. In 1900, the total was on!yy3.-‘
258,' 16,305. The increase over a 17 years'
period has been nearly 1100 per cent.
0! course, not every man who smokes cigar-
lei is effeminate, but as a whole the habit is
not .vhjolesome from^ physical standpoint, and
itxTSrease is little short of alarming.
[ Oar.ancestors took their liquor straight and
thfir tobacco strong, but when the need for*
fighting', men came, they rose to the occasion.
Can we Jay the blame for our many slackers at
tfta.door of the cigarette and soft dejnk. or
they merely evidences and not the causes c
growing race effeminacy?
- — Huy * t.ibrrty Howl
Since the Teuton hordes overran for the sec
ond time a thousand square milea of French ter
ritory, one is impressed with what would have
been the waste to the Allied nations and the rich
pickings that would have fallen into the hands
of the enemy had the -visionary proposition to
reclaim and rebuild this devastated territory
been attempted last year. Yet the scheme re
ceived the endorsement of several public men,
some of them Southern Congressmen.
It was in keeping with the equally wild and
visionary proposition to blind Germany with
a mass of 100,000 airplanes,” which did look
little credible until someone pointed out that
each airplane required a crew of forty, and
therefore four million men (more than we had
eplisted then) would be needed for the glibly
mentioned "fleet of'100.000.”
The harm of these silly propositions is-that
they detract attention from the great^objec-
tive-that of winning the war. And wars can only
on with men, guns and foed. To take the
time and money needed for the support of our
army and navy and waste it in reclamation
schemes would be worse than foolish. To build
our hopes of defeating the enemy on immense
and impossible airfleets is to invite discourage
ment and disappointment.
It will be all right after the war is won to em
bark on schemes for reclamation of desolated
territory. That will be the task of the future.
But the job for today is to win the war. and.it
will require every atom.of American energy and
every American resource to win. A glimpse of
what would have cojne from a reclamation en
terprise last year should carry its lesson and if
there are any visionaries left, impress oirthem
that war is a grim and practical business and
that we are pitted against a foe who has brought
practicality to a science and who will allow no
outside issues to stand in his path to success.
Wadr-Coro ( ompsn/'o Knlrrrd Friday
Night tor Srrood Time.
di-Corry Compan}'* ttur* on I-ove
- was burglsrisrd stain Friday
should indicate the nature und source of their
(lonlrary to usual accounts, it was ftg VJFfl 1us"ftie'TIme an(t place.”
What the church p'eople are doingjn this war
was illustrated during the Sunday School C’oji-
fcrence..wherr Rev. G. W. Mathews stated that
he.had a son on his way across and that he did
not want him to returu until victory
lilE MEDICAL MAN’S PART.
MEMORIAL DAY AND LIBERTY DAY.
Since tha day of the a
liked his meat raw,
learned a lot about tk
ment o( the things we ext.
Naturally none at t
prefer to have our mca
taloes as they come ftoax th
our coffee unroasted.
And naturally follow* tl
covery recently made py ‘
can Tobacco Co.—that 0'
belter TOASTED!
This wonderful r
like all great invei
used in producing the famous LUCKV I
STRIKE Cigarette—made of tr-
Burley tobacco.
Burley has a mellow flavor,entirely
different from the tobacco usually
used for cigarettes. It is a pipeBn.
baccoand LUCKY STWKECigaieUp - .
taste like a pipe. I
STOKE BlKCil-AKlZED AGAIN.
sack >sf hi' hum
'hranhur latvr learn
••Buy a l-ibrrt> Hood’*—
President Wilson has designated April 26th. •
Memorial Day throughout the South, as Liberty •
Day.
It is fitting that a day set apart to pay honor J
the heroes who devoted their lives to the
cause of a peoples’ rightashould be selected as;
e one especially devqfed to the cause of a;
orld's liberty—to the-freedom of all the people i
from the domination of despots.
The South nolds'no day more sacred than that.
i which we annually gather to lay flowers on
the graves of the heroes who are dead and pay Now She is Strong and WWT
tribute to those few gallant Veterans who arej'
still numbered among the living. It ii
that our President, himself a son of the South.
TIRED, NERVOUS
HOUSEWIFE
TOOK VINOL
Delegates from this section to the meeting of
the Georgia Medical Association in Savannah
pronounce it one of the most serious sessions
that organization has ever held*
The war has already taken heavy from the
ranks of the doctors of Georgia. Four hundred
and sixty-seven have gone from this state, and
• the Association is called on for 200 more.
The eovenmoit must have 6.000 rhedical men, ... men
l.unn turtle Navy and S.M0 tor the Army, and H , nioc|t Grsnf ,
eacl) state has been allotted its quota, that tor
Georgia being 200. ‘
The object is to obtain these without leaving
y community short of the services of a-pructic-
ing physician. The members of the Association
are to janviss the situation in their difervnt sec
tions. It if from this report that the men will
be called into service.
Such was the situation that confronted the
edieal men. and brought before them with ad
ded impress, the grimness of war.
• Buy a I.ihrrty It-ii-l
no apg«tit*, could not ala
alwayt tired. *o my ho*
has set apart that we may show our devotion to work was a great rfoet. After a
, , „ other medicines had tailed
the cause of Liberty. V built me up and made me *tro£__.
Thousands of the grandsons of the men who have a good appetite and «kep vwfc-
followed Johnston, Jackson and Lee are now at ^"fcdmMdfc.
the front, fighting as their forefathers fought.for 3I07 Dwight Way. B*rkaicy. CM*
the cause of a free people. Thousands more , We **k every nervous, w**k, m.
-,, down, *iung woman in thia town. M
are now in the army camps, soon to go to fill the try 01U cod liver and iron toaic oa
inks, mayhap the places, of those who have al- cur guarantee to return their moo*]
adv gone. Thousands more are enrolled, but ^ f !t f *‘—’° h - p them -
NOT A WHEATLESS SOUTH.
s fair: there ’
*menTuul be,
■ mile.-
.. hunch that rang.dd.iuar how- -and Mr. JrtlL Tlllirrcll kAuTlie bad two brothers
put therewasmuL
along the small stream .vhere Da - , is was captwi-
*d. and these my father always iefi until the
morning when he began shearing. I heard
the tiring but thought it was the popping of
whips of the drivers sent out for these, although
I though; it remarkable that the sound was so
cleai and the .(flips came so close together, con
cluding that father had sent an unusual num
ber of men after the sheep anil IhaLthey were
having trouble driving them. 1 knew nothing
of the capture of Davis until several hours later.
“Toward the middle of the morning, when the
men were busy beginning the work of shearing,
a Federal officer and his aide rochtup: I think
he was a captain. They went to the horse lot
and without dismounting opened the. gate
up to the cribtttibr, opened i* and balked al the
enrn in-iidp. Still OH Up'IT hlTflT thl'V
the yard, opened the smok.- house door, ami
looked in to see how much bacon and lard we
jbad. Then the officer asked who was the owner
and my fathei being pointed out, rode up to him
and said:
“ • We arc short on rations and feed, and will
jave to use some of your coni, meat and lard.
1 will send some men for it,’
“They had been on a long march, through a
coyntrv *hich the war had made desolate. I
have rn might they had met considerable trou
ble in finding feed for men and horses. My fa
ther, Jaoob Young, was known alwajs to have
a good supply of corn and meat, and that had no
Over There." Rfev. J. M. Foster, a former pas
tor of the Tifton Methodist church, has five sons
one of them was recently
•WONDERFUL DAYS IN THE OLD SOUTH.’
The Jacksonville Times-Uiiion calls the AVil-
mington Star to task for wondering “how much
of the coming wheat crop Mr. Hoover is going to
hand imlTqflje wheatless Soufh”'"with this array
of facts:
The consumption of wheat in this country U
ahauL-tiycJwshais-P*»r-jaapita...-Tbo--popfil^o«-
of the Smith in 1910 was 32.682.665 and its pro
duction of wheat in 1915 was 166.47i.000 bu
shels. This was five bushels per capita and
more than three million bushels over. The
wheat crop in 1915 was a large one but that in
1916 was a small one. Tfcat year the South’s
wheat crop amounted to 124.502.000 bushels, or
38 911 325 bushels less than enoygh to furnish
this section its supply. Thus in this.year of low
production, three-fourths of. the wheat used in
From the Calhoun Cpuntv Courier. ymuuun,.... um- _—.«•-*-« *
The editor of The Courier is ip rPTelpt of a Jlie Smith was grown in the South,
copy of "Saturday Night Sketches." written and ** ‘ ' " “ " "
published originally in the Tifton Gazette by
awaiting; the call to their- country’s service.
These men are fighting and soon to fight along
side the grandsons of men who followed Mi-
common cause.
No better illustration could we have of a coun-
morc one in mind and purpose than the
names of the states represented at each roll-call
■f the American armies in France, and the fact
that the head of.the nation has fixed the South's
day for the observance of the memory of its sol
dier dead as that upon which the country sfiall
rally to Liberty's cause.
And for this reason, as well as for- the sacred-
ss of the cauA*, the magnitude of the trust and
the weight of the responsibility resting upon us,
•ountry as a whole, the South especially,
and notably Georgia, Jhat. typical Southern state
in the heart of-thc-Softth,’should make this April.
26th th,- Memorial Day which shall dwell long
est in the memories of the people; make the an-
niversary- of Johnston's surrender the day pw
which ue *how (.• the world that-we have Yeany f
begun to fight.
Conner Drue Co.
—
The new Aostro-HungaMan Minister of Fi- I
nance amI"Eoreign Affairs has his work cut out 1 ]
fur, him. as indicated by the following from the '
New York World: “As Minister of Finance, Bi
rian presides over a treasury hopelessly bam
ruptj with billions of irredeemable paper back- I
ed by only 1.1 per cent, in gold and silvi
Foreign Minister, he is a mouthpiece for Berlin I
when Clemenceau's revelations made the Dual |
Monarchy a laughing-stock. As a cabinet mem-,
her he consults! over the fate of a starving and
[Helps
Sick
Women
Cardui, the i
■ took, helped Mrs. WB- I
I liam Eversole, o! Hazel I
1 Pilch. Ky. Read what \
I the writes: "I had a I
I genera) breaking-down I
1 of my health.- i was in 1
I bed lor weeks, unable to I
I get up. I had such a I
I weakness and dizziness, [
. and the pains *
b .vrry serrre. A bi
I told me I had tried evi
I thing else, why'’ not I
I Cardui?.... I did, and 1
| toon taw it wjs helping j
. 7'. ’’Alter 12 bottles,
I I am strong and well.”
Editor Herring and now compiled In hook form, j .
These sketches give a vivid picture of those stead of being wheatless, produce* al a•
wonderful days of the South when life was sim- much as three-fourths of the wheat . 1 1
jile and people were sincere, and makes most consume and sometimes produces a s j>. -
interesting reading to anyone, bringing back a' We doubt whether then
i was grown in tne nouin. '■■■ •
But the fruit and early vegetable crops, ship- ruineil natioii -which, is kept from rebellfon only
ped out of the South wouldJiaye paid fprjt? en- , bv niennce of trooim witheid from the giring-
shorfage’of wheat-m 1916. The South, in-
• - -i I1K wheatless, produce* always
- —.i. . . ,- ,U.. ...Uittit it-j 111*11.... ,
GRACEFUL AND ENTERTAINING.
ar in the
nation when the South did not From the Adel News.
,„-• ii H more than feeding itself. We have received from the author. Mr/Her-'
caL.iilid with ring.-of 3j^(<^ju;^.<iLl‘X.uI-chia.hoaic^- 1 ^atgr4ajigM
lilry'proiTiiT’-' "Nignt Sketches.'* which we prize very highly.
1 value in a gracuful and entertaining manner the 1
of the
‘A PE
old and .\3mng.
•ery.home.
• ■f the
host of pleasant memories to those familiar with history
the traditions and„customs of the old time South. f‘*ed it
would like to see on.e of these lmoks in -^7
1 Ihlhl ot the popula -
'os vastlV more than one-third ol the
ERIoJtHATAPPEmJ to" PEOPLE.-; mpfu" prodl'cd'n^hia“i” ' ’ ill"
From the Rrthswick News. . 1 tion. which also furnishes cotton to clothe the |,,,ok should-be
The editor of The News acknowledges with people of this and many other nations. |
thanks the receipt of "Saturday Night Sketches" There is no need to distort facts to imtuce ine 4. P | CTU j^£sque FEATURES RURAL LIFE’
front tbe-facile pen of Editor Herring, of The South to do its duty- The Southjtias been doing From ,ho DeKalb New Era.
Tifton Gazette. These sketches, being in the its share, is now-doing it and will continue to The ^ew j? ra has received a copy of “Satur-'l
nature of editorials which have appeared in The it. v , day Night Sketches." the new book just publish- |
Gazette for many past Saturday afternoons, are, South Georgia will raise its ed by Editor Herring, of the Tifton Gazette. 1
most attractively written and deal with a period n ‘; 1 ". f the fins \ time in half The-short sketches of which this hook is made ,
in the history of Wiregrass Georgia that must ,°" n m ai „ r » n n r ,i„. up portray in a delightful and entertaining way-.-f
:.uf the.people i»f a century, and uo-iloubt. tlie wIleal crop 01 „i,.i„reTmie //.aiiiros of (be tvir»<rr. M *Z. 'I
TAKE
The Woman’* Tonic
Do you tec) weak, dlz-
I ry, worn-out? Is your !
lack oi good health caused
’ from any ol the com-
nts to common to
I women? Then why not I
r'gTvi! OlfiKri truIV
1 should surely do lor yon .
what .it has dooe lor a* J
' many {houtand* el ol
men who at
I should help you back N
Ask some lady t
I who has taken Cardiff.
I She will tell you how M I
I helped her. Try Cankff.
appeal to a large percentage —, (
this Action! 'Editor Herring has indeed contrl- South will be the largest
1 record. Reside!
mani piciurysque features of the wiregrass ro-
gion a generation ago. Mr. Herring's book i
AD 1
buted to current Georgia hist'ory~«ffd he has [the cotton crop will be a normal one, the boll no , o„|y highly entertaining but is a valuable
done StPin a very graceful way.
ficulty.
weevil permitting-
ontribution to the historical literature of the I
—Bur a Lib«tj 11"“'