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, uM.n^ TIPTON, GA. FRIDAY, MAY SI, lm
tbc Litton <5a3ette
THE AFFAIRS IN BROOKS AND CRISP.
PuUiaiMd W«Jdr
So much hu ystf nil of the cruelty and
ie acts of the
of tho'acti of the lyuchin, mob th»t
there remains little that can be said. Lynch-
ins* will continue until people learn to control
_, „ passion and take the lesson to heart that vi-
BO. L. Herring : ■ Editor and Manager olencc beget8 and that a race claiming
• itself
Entered at the Postofflce at Tifton, Georgia,
, Second Class Matter, Aet of March 8, 1878
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Gnorgin- -
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SATURDAY NlGHT.
mental superiority must learn to govern
When the Jotany Reb Lo.t Hi. Cush.
"A Yankee will keep his word, but sometimes
he forgets until the last minute."
The speaker wore a Captain’* uniform of Con
federate gray, and hitched his rocker around to
a more comfortable position as he spoke. I*
was the great annual reunion of the Boys ii
Gray, and the parade of the morning had betfn
through cheering thousands beneath a broiling
sun. It was over, and on the broad veranda of
the hotel the'soldiers of the Lost Cause were re
cuperating while reminiscences were exchanged.
The speaker had gone to the front when still a
boy; he had attained the stature of a man un
der times of trial, but now his six-foot two was
beginning to show the weight of three-quarters
of a century. - He wap still vigorous however,
and had a deep, mellow voice. Replying to the
natural question, he continued v
"After the fighting around Chattanooga and
the big fight at Chickamauga both armies, ex
hausted, stopped to rest. We were camped
near the Georgia line, and just across the creek
from us a few hundred yards, oil the crest of an
other ridge, was the Yankee outposts. It was
within easy musket range and snipers could
have given a lot of trouble, but both sides were
tired of killing and let things rock along.
“Pretty soon our pickets began swapping to
bacco, of which we had plenty and the Yanks
had none, with their pickets for coffee, of which
they'had plenty and we had none. Also, we
traded pocket-knives, meal for flour, etc., and
got to be pretty chummy. Often the tedium of
i watch was enlivened with a game from a dog-
' eared deck of cards, and some of our boys who
were good at poker began to sport greenbacks,
although it wouldn’t buy anything with us.
Kno* now just how it happened when I read of
the Russians and Germans fraternizing along
the eaatern front, but the Hun is a different pro
position, altogether. Both sides had agreed not
to shoot at each othef ^without giving warning.
“ ‘Oh, yes? they assured us; ‘we’ll sure let
you know before we shoot; you can count on
that’
" ' But why don't you stop them fellers over
on the hill to the southeast from shooting at
we asked. Muskets on the hill in question had
kept popping away at us off and on all the time,
and were a regular nuisance in a time of peace,
so to speak.
“ ‘Oh, they are furreners, and don’t know any
better,' they assured us. ’We ain't like them.
We'll holler before we cut loose.'
“So we kept on fraternizing and enjoying our
rest. Our horses and men both began to take
on flesh, aijd I got real lazy and comfortable.
We both knew that we must fight again when
orders came, but for the soldier each day must
take care of itself so we just let things moBey
along. We got to where coffee was almost reg
ular fare, and the parched pea or corn meal sub
stitutes didn’t taste good; grew almost as finicky
as a young man about town at breakfast the
next morning. As for tobacco, we overdrew
our ration, and some of us wrote home for
more.
“Finally, one June morning I had just finished
•cookmg'an’early breakfast. The coftee-pot was
boiling up at the spout, my - ash-cake was
done, and having fried my rasher of bacon, it
had Yjeen"pu*hed~to one side of the pan and my
com mehl cush stirred in the gravy. Nearby
was piled my saddle and blankets, and not far
off the horses were hitched in a thicket.
“It was abuut sun»rise, and I was hungry.
Just as I went to settle down on my hunkers and
lift the pan of cush apd bacon from the fire, a
yell'came from over on the hill:
“ ' hook out, Johnny; we’re going to shoot!’
“And shoot they Tiid. It lodked like fhe top of
t ! e hill lifted off, and the heavens opened with
t e roar of artillery and the bang of musketry.
The tops of the trees over our heads blew off,
the trunks of some of them were «yit with can
on-shot ; three musket-balls hit my saddle be
fore 1 could get it on the horse, and the limbs
■ and brush were falling all around. As our men
ran to saddle, without waiting for orders,
'Zwing-g-g.' a shrapnel smashed my coffee-pot,
and another plastere^ the ashcake against a log.
Just as 1 jerked up my pan of bacon and cush
and made for my horse. I had to hold and mount
.tssitb one hand with the frying-pan in the other,
and as I swung onto the home's back, a musket-
ball hit the pan and knocked hofxuah all over
lay horse. It burned him, and he started to rui J
I had both hands full, and couldn’t hold hirri
didn’t try hard. Fact is, we didn’t come to
full atop until we got to Atlanta.
“Yes; a Yank will keep his word all right;
just the same, he’ll bear watching."
THE SECOND TEUTQRICrijfuV^ > THE VANIS1
before it can with justice assert its right to
govern others.
After air that can be advanced in favor of
mob law has been said, there remains the fact
that no one is better for the lynchings while two
of the state’s most representative counties and
the white race as a whole is incalculably in
jured. But for some reason, a certain element
has formed the opinion that crime by negroes
must be punished by other and equally violent
crimes, and until our people as a whole ge
away from this—win a higher ^nd more reason
able viewpoint, these things will ^loubtless go
l, to the harm of people and section.
■It is to be noted in these cases that neither ot
the criminals were caught by the mob; they
were taken into custody by the officers of the
law. That one of the first negroes hung m one
case was the one" on whose evidence the state
would have been obliged to depend to make out
a case iHhat the woman lynched had no proven
connection and very probably had no connection
at all with the tragedy, and that in still an other,
grave doubt exists as to guilt. Mobs do not
catch criminals; they only handicap officers of
the law in their efforts to catch them. Mobs
never go in upon a desperado armed and offer
ing fight; they wait for the officers to do this,
and then vent their rage upon helpless prison
ers. Thus, the lesson is plain that mobs never
-'d in enforcing the law; they only violate it
Mob violence springs froom race prejudice.
Those seeking the blood of all negroes on occa
sions such as this see only the crime and its pe.r-,
petrators. They forget the law-abiding ne
groes who- had no connection .with the crime
or any sympatthy with it. In the Brooks county
instance, it was forgotten that the house to
which the poor, stricken woman half crawled,
half staggered, for help was th ? house of a fam
ily of negroes. And that the aid given was as
prompt and unhesitating as though the crime
had not been committed by one of their ij&ce.
Surely, such as that negro family should win
fair consideration for their race. And in Val-
man that the officers
E SOUTHERN
Dante, in his wildest flights of imagination,
never conceived a hell so horrible as that which
broke over the once fair lands of Flanders and
with the dawn of Monday morning.
The Hun has used the month of comparative
quiet as a mbnth of preparation." From the ex
tremes of Russia and Rumania, from, the old line
which once stretched from the Baltic to the
Black Sea, he has brought up his reserves of men
and artillery; from the great plants at Essen
and Blenheim, train after train has hurried its
load pf shot and shell; from the Swiss border
and from interior Germany the fleets of aircraft
have concentrated; from the Chemists’ labora
tories have come immense supplies qf poisonous
gas—every device of a nation war-mad,
with one mind centered on making war inhu
man, as'horrible, as murderous, as th§ ingenuity
of super-devils can make it—has been concen
trated on two sectors of the Western Front, and
as this is written, the greatest struggle of the
world is on.
For the Hun realizes that this must be-his last,
his supreme effort. Failure now, with the
mighty young Champion of Liberty coming out
of the West in ever-increasing millions, means
failure for all time. Therefore, the long pause
that everything, every force, every ounce of
strength, should be brought.to bear, that the
Channel ports or Paris may be won; the British
or the French army’ crushed. For no winning
of territory will bring a decision, so long, as the
army is left"to fight. • ’
It is not to be supposed for a moment that the
Allies have been caught unprepared. They
have known for weeks what was coming—for
days they have been able to locate the sectors on
which the blows will fall. Every resource in
men and munitions thajt three great nations
could bring to bear have been concentrated for
a mighty resistance.
What are the prospects for success?
The Germans have a slight superiority in
men and a considerabble superiority in artillery
and munitions, due to immense captures from
Russians and' Rumanians and to British loss-
late in March- They have at least sixty di
visions which have not seen service, but on the
other hand, -140 divisions participating in the
drst drive were so badly shattered that their
restoration to full fighting strength and morale
is hardly conceivable. In modern warfare, an
army can blast its way. up to a certain point,
through an enemy line if it cares to pay the price
doata, it was due to a negro
finally ran the murtlerer to earth. ,
Lynohins. have been Koinzon (or yearly half m men and ammunition. Therefor, a alight
century, yet there has been no deereaee in the German advance may be expected. Early re
crime, which provoke them. Would it not be perta indicate that It was made.
. , - i , j.! ILhilu A mormon tmnns in at
worth while to try legal and orderly methods
for a time, the other having signally failed?
Gov. Dorsey is to be commended for th)
promptness with which he acted in Lowndes. i
Had not the negro Johnson been killed while re-. ”ance.
sisting arrest, he would have insured his trial by but Americans can be counted
Try The .’vent illustrate, what we ma, ex-1200.000 mrtd 300,000
pect from an executive whose administration
has already given such brilliant promise.
While American troops in sufficient number
to offset Germans released from Russia and Ru
th* ’ mania have not yet crossed the water, it is evi-
withVhich he acted in Lownd*. Jdent that we now have at least 650.000 men in
1 Wltn WmCn 1 The majority of these are raw troops.
for between
THE FLYING ARMORED TANK.
ing to reports, these are well distributed along
the whole front, being named in as many as five
sectors. But it is not in numbers alrfne that the
Americans count as factors: & is in morale—
* . in the encouragement of their presence and
Something has beerkaifid of a flying armored wi „ even anx j e ty, to get at the foe. The
tank that the Germans had put into use, and now . nalionj of Europe are weary of fighting; sick of
through the correspondent of the New York war; fcya D f e ighteen*and old men of fifty
Times comes the statement that Maj. Raoul Luf- j n {he | ines lnto the ra „i cs 0 f their troops
bery America’s heroic air fighter, met his, Ameri( , a has poured hundreds of thousands of
death in combat with one of these tanks that
young, vigorous, sanguine ipen; young men
_ proof against the fire of his machine guns.. . ^ ^ tbc - r physical prowess and perfec-
The flying tank was used by the Germans in
the battle of the Somme, and now it has appear
ed over the American lines. The correspon-
Frora the New York Sun.
As The Sun has referred occasionally, and
quoted liberally from articles printed from time
to time in the Gazette of Tifton, Ga., reminis
cent of life some forty years ago in the Wire-
grass region of the Empire State of the South,
it is glad to see that these little classics, all from
the pen of Mr. John L. Herring, the editor of —^
the Gazette, have been put in book form. Thejf- Vhoi»v
are worth preservation. They appeared ongi- oUmot wl
nally .under the heading "Saturday Night,” and
the title of the collection is "Saturday Night
Sketches.” Mr. Herring answers the obvious
question:
“Saturday night in the south is a semicolon ;
a breathing space between the work of the week
and the devotions of the morrow. A time for
the young of merrymaking; for the old, of retro
spection. . . . The week’s work ia done
and the chores of the farm are over; the stock
has been fed, the wood boxes in the kitchen and
big house filled, the plough gear and stocks are
under the shed, and the farm hasjiutron its Sun
day dress.
“The soil of toil has been removed by vigorous
application of home made soap and the Sunday
clothes put on. A clean shirt, home laundered,-
a tie of gorgeous colors fastened with a glisten
ing pin of the mail order kind—there were no
jewelry stores to supply us; brogan^hoes of ser
viceable cowhide, which took on renewed youth
from a coat of suet and soot, carefully admin
istered."
The sketches, and there are more than fifty
of them, supply a complete picture of life in
southern Georgia in the decade after the civil
war—and probably before the war too, al
though Mr. Herring is not old enough to speak
of that earlier period with the authority of a
eyewitness. What he does show us is ar. in-i
dustrious. honest, simple lot of people. w#th
enough piety, food and laughter to make iheir.
happy. He tells his stories with the careful
ness of a good reporter, the sentiment of u na
tive and the philosophy of a man who does not
find preaching necessary. This philosophy is
reflected in the narrative of the debating society
that permitted an Irishman to become its lead
ing spirit. He insisted on a subject origirial and
familiar:
"He discarded all offerings of time honored
topics, and so dominated the committee that
they reported, as subject for debate at The next
meeting: ‘Which is mpre desirable—a long
watermelon or a round watermelon?’ The
society heard in consternation; they kne'
about watermelons; therefore they could not
debate them. Hence the society, as a society,
met no more.”
A vein of humor runs through most of the
sketches. Usually it is homely but delicate. It
is broad occasionally, as in the story of |he
Steglfll boy who went to make a call, clad in
the single garment—a long shirt—which Geor
gian lads of the ’60s and ’70s wore until they
were ready for "long pants." As the Stegall
boy sat on the neighbor's porch old man John
son’s bull yearling came softly from behind and
yielded to an unholy appetite for cotton cloth.
The Stegall boy. according to the legend, never
grew an inch from that day.
Two of the sketches are solemn. “W.hen We
Laid Jim Away” and “With the Rites of the
Order”; the first's detailed description of the
grim but imperative mortuary duties of a man's
neighbors in a region where undertakers were
unknown; the second the impressive report of
the Masonic ceremony at a grave in the semi
wilderness. Some of our young realistic wri
ters could learn by reading these bits.
The domestic sketches are the best in the
book. The American Buckle, if he be now
amassing material for some monumental his-
torv of our civilization, should sift Mr. Herring’s
book, for he will get a lot out of it. detailed and
authentic. It deals not only with the accom
plishment of the individual, but of the communi
ty work, done in turn for each individual. Caffe
grinding, cotton, picking, shelling peanuts, log
rolling, sheep shearing—all such labor
STELLA-1
If you doubt our wod
relieve the dUliroringJ
misery peculiar to t*- -
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‘ leva tried tt ai
, what It baa i
only internet they hi
la that whiehRny tr
helping to relieve th'
female complaint for year*-*
Uea of HTKLLA-Vrria curan
laid, and added,"I amcenai
fulforthia greet fcmaiau
Paralee Fraxier, Longview,
ireoaed appreciation of BWW _
n these words: “I WWiWH
tor tUU wonderful maflJjr-
taken other female metuav
years with no good re-"'**
^ tefid for the gg|
done, me. Mr*,
of Greensboro, Ala-, w«a
ferer from female trouble
woman know, what that meenK J
condition
her Into spelU like flta- Her bua^
feared khe would lose her mind. -The
Green*boro doctor*
curable. Then somebody
that she take HTEr.i.>.-\lTAa.Hbem
health; it stimulate* her apr^Uo^*
digestion, quiets her nerve* MO
her complexion. It improve*hi
■Fee Sale kj ‘
CUNGLft DR LG COMPANY
TIFTON, GEORGIA.
S r.MLSTKK AT NAHIItH
dent says a captured specimen “shows it to be
almost invulnerable to machine guns such "as our
aviators use. The pilot sits in a casing of three-
eighths inch steel, and the vital parts of the ma
chine are similarly protected. The pilot at
tends only to running the machine, leaving the
Awo <FU«p«ra to*e. ,Tbepr4insry mean* of com-
\ ' . . IS..'.. I
tion.
The Allies now have a great fighting factor
which they did not possess when the other drive
began last March—that of unity of command.
One weakness since the beginning of the war
lay in the insistence of each nation‘on furnish-
SIM Reward, SMS-
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dr-id-d dlHiM thxt actaac* r*
abta to cur* In nil Us sum **-
Uuurb. Hnil's Catarrh Care Is ■
B tu*s cure now known to th* J
tsrnlty. Catarrh hates n esnT~
. TT- HaSa Cntnrrti“curn Is I
taw-^sskss&gr
ty dci'.r->yln* thr rnondatit
rise, and Cl via#
bui'.dln# —
done by neighbors together in a beautifuFsocial-
ism. We assume that nobody ever talked about |
class consciousness. Everybody was happy.:
cracked jokes and ate heartily when the work-)
was done and the lye soap had cleansed the red
face. . No Hoover was around:
“The dinner was of the times that knew no
indigestion. SubstantiaJ bacon, collards, ^corn j
a 4r-t«iAriret;.ft!e .Hun, rfhrettuiy LiCi
ing down from’behind. wTuch'is effective against (a ^ e of i( in Marc h by striking first at thejunc-
monoplane boche machines, is an almost certain- ture oJthe Britiah and ' French prmies; second at
ly. fatal method against this boche fighter. It
seems that only an exceptionally lucky shot of a
machine-gun or heavy-gun can get it.”
The war has brought many problems, but
soon after the*problem came the solution. If
the Te’uTons 'Have'added 'lo the armored ships
of the sea and. the armored tanks of the land,
the armored tanks of the air, American, French
and British genius can be depended on to cope
with the problem. That they are already nieet-
IngTil is showh by the fact that the machine
which caused Lufbery’s death was brought
down by daring Frenchman.
Not.all the casualties of the recent negra
hunt in Brooks and Lowndes were published.
The Nashville Herald notes that “Sheriff Nix's
dog, which was shot in the shoulder by an ex-
cittfd boy, will recover.”
The “unsinkable ship” has now pased into
the discard, being condemned by Navy Board
experts. It was not so unsinkable after all;
the buoyancy boxes took up so much spafce and
e the ship so slow that it was of little or no
We are fighting out the war on practic-
“MAKES US SIGH FOR GOOD OLD TIMES.’
From the Rochester, N. Y., Post-Express.
"Saturday Night Sketches; Stories of Old
Wireg«ww-Georgia." By--Jr-Lr-Herring. - • Bos
ton: The Gorham Press.
Life in Georgia fifty years ago is described
with apparent fidelity in Mr. Herring's book.
“Saturday Night Sketches.” In those days the
railroad was a novelty and this telephone was
not even dreamed of. The author revives for
us a state of society which has passed away.
He shows how the bridegroom on horseback
with a number of his friends came to take away
the bride, how “grandma’ worked at her spin
ning-wheel, how the Fourth of July was cele
brated by Gargantuan consumption of barbe
cued meat, how the country folk of Georgia
danced gaily to the music at the violin, and
how the extraction of the syrup from the sugar
cane was made the occasion for boisterous mer
ry-making.
To read this book is to make us sigh for the
“good old times.”
«■* <” •<* “™‘“- 1* I SrtJSKfia P p" k .nTjXAti'
supreme command was largely responsible lor | potato cus t art ] s . They call them pies now— j
they were custards then, sweet.and yellow or;
tfiuc •anfel’btecV. aceoixirng • pototoe* -and
sweetening, piled a foot high and cut down into
squares. To top off the dinner with three or
fotir custards weighing a pound or so each was^
no "pxTra’T’aiikTor an able bo~dIed_lQg fpB£-
That was merely the limited 1 .diet of winter,
however. In summer, perhaps at the "union
sing.” the Georgian got more variety at table:
fresh beef and Pork^hudcleberry ancLpeach. jie^
pound cake, jelly rollTcookies, apple puffs, crab
lanterns; not to mention chicken and preserves.
When a Wiregrass man was about to marry
the neighbors camfe and “raised” a house for
him. Money was spent only for sawed lumber,
and nails. At the wedding thesfifta were not
butter Knive?: JT
"Sally’s mother gave her- a feather bed and
pillows stocked from the family herd of geese;
John’s mother added to Sally’s store of quilts
and sheets; from his ancestors had come down
to John a cord bedstead of fearful and wonder
ful construction and great comfort; from the
one legged chairmaker across the creek John
bought two chairs of stout hickory with cow
hide bottoms, good for three generations at
least; from the lumber John constructed a table, •
ami a trip to the distant store brought plates
cups and saucers, knives, forks and ^poons; a
coffee pot. frying pan and spider of cast iron.
These simple articles completed their house
keeping. equip men L. No cook stoves to bring _
worry or indigestion then."
These people of Georgia loved music and
song and dancing. They stepped the decorous
quadrille to the tune of the fiddler:
"1 wouldn’t marry a weeding girl.
And I'll tell you the reason why;
Her nose is always dripping.
And her cheeks are never dry.”
Not everybody drank liquor, but when a
strong man did drink he took it from the jug.
Lager beer was a trifle for the ladies and the
clergy. But now Georgia is dry. Of the home ^
group of young Herring he alone remains. Even
the old house with the mud floor is gone. But
his book preserves the memory of a good and
happy people
The War Savings Stamp is a stamp of patriot
ism— the stamp which marks the kiyal citizen.
the-joseture-of—the-British and Portuguese.
This evidences the wisdom of Foch in billeting
French, British and Americans at all points
along the front. The Western front is not now
aeeries-of joint*-;-it ia-a -front-**-solid-aa unity.,
of action can make it.
It is noted that the Hun pursues his usual poli
cy of frightfulness by resuming the bombard
ment of Paris on the same morning the second
drive began with the same gun firat used when
the March drjve opened. It is more than pos
sible that we will soon see another drive in Italy
and perhaps an attempt to turn the French
flank through Switzerland. Certain, before the
drive is over, another blow will be struck for
Amiens, the danger point in the Allied line.
Every nation at war is now keyed up to the
supreme test, which is on. But Americans
should remember: If the Hun loses this drive,
he loses the war. If the Allies lose; even if the
Channel ports are ldht, the reverse only prolong:
the war, for American millions will be in the
fightings with.another. y?»r» and alLjlie_Hun
wins ho must lose.
Buy W. S. S.
WHAT FLOUR SAVING DOES.
Ten million pounds, or one hundred carloads,
of flour will pass through the port of Savannah,
destined for France, for the use of our armies
and Allies This amount represent* what the
housewives of Georgia have saved through the
substitution of other foodstuffs, and is a surplus
bought by the government from the wholesale
and detail dealer^ of the state. Which gives
some idea of the value of food conservation and
the direct good resulting from the efforts of pa
triotic Georgia men and women. And despite
the apparent sacrifice, Georgians have dined
well and bountifully.
letter* from m
Ing of the good C
hu done them. This ti |
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