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THE TIFTON GAZETTE
Published Weekly
Xaterrd «t the Postofflce at Tilton, Georfia, aa Second Claaa
Hatter, Act of Uarch S, 1870.
Gazette Publuhing Company, Proprietors.
J. L. Herring Editor and Manager.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
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Twelve months $1.60
Six Months .76
Four Months ... .60
were washed and made whole, th e thirsty re-1
freshed, and the hungry satisfied. The heightsLg
of emotion were reached. There were shouts ouuge nve s cnarj
and laughs of happiness, and often the soul Superior Court ini 1
Would burnt- inf/> firmer a* T„«.‘ ■* ■ /v
SATURDAY NIGHT.
Campmeeting Time.
‘ The Holiness meeting is in full swing at Ash-
burn. It is a short and pleasant motor trip
from Tifton and a great many of our people
are taking advantage of the opportunity to at
tend the services. Soon the big state camp
meeting at Indian Springs will be on and many
will take their summer vacation trip s then.
With the changes time has brought camp-
meetings today are different from the camp-
meetings of olden time but they are still great
occasions for spiritual refreshment and uplift.
Forty years ago, campmeeting was looked for
ward to as the great event of the summer. It
wa s a week of soul-cleansing, of soul-feeding;
of wiping off the slate of the year past with its
many trials, perhaps its backslidings, and a re
newal of resolution and strength to face the ev
eryday temptations, of the year ahead.
Old Bethel campground was a tract of land
set apart for a holy purpose. Campmeeting
came late in July or early in August, after the
crops were laid by and before the harvest began.
From all the country around, even fifty and one
hundred miles distant, the people came in bug
gies and wagons, in carts, on horseback .and
afoot, until hundreds were gathered in the tent
ed square. Also to campmeeting came the best
preachers of conference, and some borrowed
from neighboring conferences. The camp-
1 grounds were always located near springs af
fording an abundant supply of fresh water
The campgrounds were arranged in a hollow
oblong square. At one end was the arbor and
on three sides the tents stood in long rpws.
These tents were usually of wood and large
enough to accommodate two or more families.
Partitions divided the lower part into rooms
while overhead was a loft for feed for stock
and sleeping-places for the men. In the rear of
the tent was the cooking s hed and between it
and the tent a long table. In addition to these
permanent tents many cloth tents were pitched
about the grounds. During the campmeeting
every tent kept open-house and there was a
■♦hearty welcome to all visitors. There was a
measure of semi-privacy but as a whole while
campmeeting was in progress occupants of the
tents were as one large family.
Farther off, at sufficient distance that they
could in no way disturb the worship, were a
number of shacks and tents where there were
refreshment stands, candies, cigars, and such
articles on sale. Here the rougher element or
what might be called camp-followers hung out.
Here also the scoffers and sight-seers congre
gated, although some who came tef laugh re
mained to mourn.
From each of the tents in the oblong square
there was a path leading to the arbor. Here
was the pulpit, the seats fo r those who led the
singing—although everybody sang, and in front
a wide space several yards across, for the
mourners. Beyond this were the seats for the
congregation, sufficient to accommodate many
hundreds, Overhead a brush arbor protected
from the sun and the ground was covered with
wheat straw to the depth of a foot or more.
, There was a sunrise prayermeeting, the 11
o clock preaching sendee, an afternoon service
a * ain a ‘ night The hours were
filled, but still time was found for visiting and
gossip, the annual campmeetings being also
periods of reunions for many families.
centiirv ® trongeat me “ in « a rly nineteenth
century Methodism occupied the pulpit. There
* as J fT t™° ld ’ Joh " Duncan - the three Stew-
f* 8 ’ t a Plerces - ‘he Haygoods, the Anthonys,
the McGehees and many other sturdy, able and
earnest advocates.
As the week passed and the souls of the con
gregations responded to the preaching and sing-
Jng, a high spirituality characterized the meet
ings. Often the entire space reserved for
mourners was filled, with an overflow into the
aisles between the seats. The shouts of the
converts, the calls of the exhorters, the impas-
fiioned pleas of the preachers, made occasions
that those who attended could not soon forget.
Each meeting was attended by many convers
ions and these conversions were the great nurs
eries of the early days of Georgia Methodism.
' Campmeeting was a source of inspiration, a
period when believers could bathe in the great
fountain and drink deep of its refreshing waters.
A time when the Bread of Life and the Bread of
the Word was handed out plentifully, and the
XaniuC pg Sustenance descended. The unclean
would burst into song. Occasionally emotion
so. far overcame the body that the converts
would lie for hours in a trance apparently al-
most lifeless.
But not all who attended campmeeting did so
from religious motives. Some went from habit
and some for sociability. Among the latter was
Jeff Baisden. Jeff was a diamond in the
rough—pretty rough. He carried a full beard,
chewed his tobacco rapidly and spat straight out
between his teeth, With a kind of s-k-e-e-t.
He owned fifty negroes and his plows furrowed
many hills. He was not much of a cotton far
mer but one of the kind who always had corn,
meat and flour to sell. His people were very
religious, and attended every service. Jeff
owned his tent and kept open-house, but he'did
not go near the preaching. All during the ser
vices he would sit in front of his tent under a
big tree, against which his cowhide-bottomed
chair was backward tilted. Occasionally some
enthusiast would remonstrate with him: “Why,
Mr. Baisden; how can you sit here and all this
good preaching and good meeting going on?
The people are getting so much good from it.
Your folks are up there enjoying it. Come now,
why can’t you go with them? You should be
with them; they are having a great time.”
'That’s allright;’’ Jeff would reply. “Just let
’em alone; they’ll git over it.” And he would
send a stream of tobacco juice at an object
three yards away. But Jeff’s heart was in the
right place, for when the Wa r Between the
States came on there was no soldier’s family or
soldier’s widow went hungry if Jeff Baisden
knew it
January 1, the F-
Brand Ji
,— he stated that after
al Courts would have juris-
driftingbackward.
, “ K 8eems that we are danger of set,
f after down to the old selfish and God-forgetting m
the manufacture and sale of intoxicants has at- Episcopal Diocese of Atlantal U *!
ti-acted wide attention. The article was prom- poSg the ne“ d
St hand !, ed ;r ° f the , le8din * pa * er8 0f AmSn people *
Commenting on J.dg.Wi d™,., ,hn 0,11. SoSnl^ ...'SSTS'S
Federal au- Bishop Mikell explained™ tL manner the
thorities have exclusive jurisdiction. We know
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£« “« SPR'NC SCHOOL AGAIN.
Federal court for trial there is not the oppor- The Georgia Society for the Deaf is again af-
tunity to use personal or family influence that ter the School for the Deaf at Cave Spring
too often exists in the. State courts. A larger which it claims uses obsolete methods which
per cent of cases on the criminal dockets of the handicap instruction of pupils. Again it re-
rederal courts result in convictions than on commends the removal of the school to Macon,
similar dockets in the State courts. We believe These resolutions are an echo of many of the
one of the most notable effects of Federal regu
lation of the liquor traffic will be the wholesome
wh^ a tL a n,?. 8 f a " d great days th0se- We t0 | fear that the average crimtearentertaiM 0^6
whom the past means so much think they were Federal courts.
r pl * have just as good The Federal aa ‘ b °ritiea have many agents
times now but they have them in a different way. I who have nothing else to do but to hunt down
SELLTHE STATE FARM. Ca8e8 ' * Vi °’ lati ° n ° f the Federal 8tatutes ' In
The Committee from the House appointed at
the last session of the General Assembly to in
vestigate the State Farm, in its report urges that
the present farm be sold and a new Ideation pur
chased if the prison farm is to be continued.
This should be done. The Gazette has com
mented before on the statement of Hon. Boyce
Ficklen, who was a member of this committee,
that the majority of the land of the farm was
pon-productive and could not be cultivated to
advantage. The state should quit throwing
away money on this Baldwin county farm, sell it
as the committee recommends and reinvesta the
money where the farm could be made to pro
duce food supplies for state institutions.
In this connection it is interesting to note
that a farmer who lives near the line of Tift stat
ed a few weeks ago that if the state would
move the farm to this section and give him
charge of the convicts now retained on the
farm, he would guarantee a handsome rental
every year.
After a while Georgia will learn to carry on
its farming where real farming is done.
AN INTERESTING PROBLEM.
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CHINERICA.
Columbus, Leif Ericsson and Amerigo Ves
pucci, please step back to the end of the line!
Ancient Chinese documents lately discovered
|eem to indicate that a Chinese monk discover
ed the west coast centuries before the modern
young upstarts mentioned at the head of this
grticle were ever bom or thought of.
The documents contain descriptions unmis
takably referring to Mexico, and also to points
all along the coast as far north as Alaska.
Just what the Chinese are going to do about
this if it proves true, we do not attempt to
foretell. Possibly it will mean that the Peace
Ponference will have to decide whether to re
turn us to China or give us into the mandatory
control of Japan.
In the meantime all good Americans will just
go on discovering America every day—its sound-
pess and its saneness, its possibilities and its
promise. And we just wish to say to any old
explorer, be he Italian, Norse o r Chinese,
“Maybe you discovered it, but if you want to
(enow who runs it—start something 1”
SMALL CIRCUITS GOOD ONES.
While joing in the opposition to a new judi
cial Circuit composed of the countief of Berrien,
Clinch, Atkinson and Cook, to be known as the
Alapaha Circuit, Hon. W. A. Covington of Col
quitt is quoted as saying that nine-tenths of the
Superior Court Judges in Georgia have the eas
iest jobs in the world, and that there are too
many small Judicial pircuits in this state.
As to the soft jobs, we leave the answer with
the presiding judges, but in regard to the small
circuits, Judge Covington i s altogether wrong.
There is no comparison between the average
conditions of the dockets of the small circuits
and those of the large circuits, just as there is
po comparison in the way business is expedited
and the people served. We know, because
Tift has tried both kinds.
BRINGING IN GOOD MONEY.
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same kind which preceded them and the board
of visitors for the school has several times en
dorsed the proposal. In the interest of many
deaf children in the state who are not receiving
benefit from the school, Tifton took up this
matter once and secured a favorable report
— - from Committees of both the House and the
recent case where a violation of the anti-narco- Senate. But the Cave Spring institution has a
tic law was charged in a small South Georgia strong political pull somewhere and much good
town, evidence was on hand from Jacksonville work did not produce results
anti from another point 300 miles down the East The best proposition was to move the school
. ot t londa. The State authorities cannot to a more convenient location and use the state’s
give so much time to this work because the property at Cave Spring for a technological
funds are not provided. With national prohi- school. This may be done some time, and when
„‘‘ ° i„ the num ber of Federal agents will be it is done it will promote the education of the
greatly increased and therefore the chances of deaf mute children of Georgia,
detection of the guilty multiplied.
Meanwhile, Judge Eve expressed the opinion
that the Federal statutes will not conflict with
the enforcement of the State laws against hav
ing liquor on hand, or keeping it for the purpose
of illegal sale, and these will give county and
State officers ample opportunity to evidence
their zeal and activity,
words for repetitions,
erior court clerks will rewire in in-
**• of 5 cents per bnndred words to
Njrding proceedings in eiril esses and
, ,H, *r matters handled by them under the
bill of McIntyre of Tbomss. The pay
now is 15 cents per bnndred. The per
diem for attendances on JO cv-jrt, is
rsised in this bill from fi3 to $5.
toe kit tor rosl tax liability
H to 00, ss nor rpovided, Is lie turnose-
from 21 to 50 years instead of from 1(1
to 50, aa now presided, is the purpose of
a bill by Cole of Coweta. The bill .
provides tbst no person shall be required
to work more than fotfr days per year
and that the tss shall not exceed $L
per day for such work.
Reduction of the minimum of service '
of life term prisooer from ten to firs-
years before such prisooer shall be given-
« parole is asked in n bUl Jointly Intro
duced by Pilcher of Richmond. Kelley
of Gwinnett nod Stewnrt of Atkinson! ■
The bill seeks to amend nection 1224'
of the criminal code of the state
Prorision {or erection in the state Cap
itol of bronze tablets containing tbs Damp
of the Georgians who made the supreme
sacrifice in the war with Germany is
contained in a bill introduced by Rep
resentative Burt of Dougherty, Arnold of
Clay and Anderson of Jenkins
A STEP BACKWARD.
The news that the County Commissioners of
Lowndes have reconsidered their decision
to discontinue cattle dipping is good.
Lowndes county is said to have spent something
like $60,000 in an effort to clean out the cattle
tick and the work was almost done. If it is
dropped now the money that has been spent will
Rather a queer state of affairs has developed t 1°* th -? C ° Unty g0 back automat *
in Lowndes county which presents a problem in IhSkbewan^ tVT wbe “ the again8t
road and bridge construction!. ‘ h . e “ ck . bega "’ The(County Commissioners had
The County Commissioners advertised for eon ? h f rd ? gbt ln Lawndes . finite a lot of law-
tracts to build a concrete IZTlJoZZ in the effort * ba
Withlacoochee river on the National Highway th ® la J,£ e 1 uinn S cattl e dipp'ed.
It was advertised twice but each time onTy oTe ? ver 21 « fJT"? re8iStanCe had been
bid was received and the Commissioners cohsid! nlnriiwl d u Wlth the large ex ‘
-red this too high. They decided to do the work flwht tn k® ^ dl ® cu ! t understand why
themselves and ordered the necessary material abandoned at P° lnt where vic-
including steel and cement, concreTe woSng Stiesln slth gTo"™' * n ^
machinery, etc. About the time they were readv ITt S , th Ge ° r ? la wil1 foIIow the exam-
to proceed their attorney advised th^m that it " of Lownd ^ ln getting cold feet,
was not legal for them to do the work. Then Say s the Montgomery Monitor; “In certain
SVMMER COMPLAINT QUICKLY
RELIEVED
‘About two years ago when suffering >
from a severe attack of summer oomr
plaint, I took Chamberlain’s Colic and
Diarrhoea Remedy and it relieved mr.
almost instantly,” write* Mrs. Henry *
Jewett, Clark Mills, N. Y. This is an ex-
cellent remedy for colic and diarrhoM
and should be kept at hand by every fain*
Hr. Adr.
FIRST TOBACCO BUYER
Mr. Win. G. McElwnino, of Richmond,
V«„ • representing the Export Totoccp
Company, is registered nt the Hotel My-
at The aC exneVdR e urJ a f d 0 r 0 th et tbe . contract - c °*»>ties ‘here is adverse criticism of theloTr-
I Vb ,? nd t f r tbe br ‘dge was much year term for county officers. We can see no
h h" m- e C0Un ,/ 3penda every raonth or 80 in option to the four-year tenure of office. Even
Sea If a coa " ty . t . C8n build roa ds if it had disadvantages, the longer period be-
why cannot the same authorities build bridges tween political spasms under the new plan is
where the expenditure fo r bridges is much less? Worth something As we have rlpeatediy
ap f Pea fi r3 t0 . be a ' egal split tmg of hairs to said,/this is a democratic country, ruled by the
a point too fine for the layman to understand. people, from the lowest to th e highest office,
Mr. McElwnino in the first of the tobac
co buyers to reach the city and thin la
hia first viait to thia section. Ha ia
much imprened with the outlook for tht
tobacco industry, and complimented the
local warehouse over the preparations
made to hare a good market in Tifton.
Other buyers are expected to arrive to-
time to be at the opening sale on Jniy 23.
Its UMm That Don net Affect the Haafi
Bteaosa of Its toafclagdlaxative effect, laxa. J
TO BROMO QClIflN* Is better tnan ordinary- *
Quinine and does sot cause acmseaeseiior
ringing la head. Remember the full Ban! and
took for the signature of B. W. OKOVB. »
THREE DEAD FROM
CROSSING ACCIDENT ,
While prices have fluctuated, as might be ex
pected, as a whole the watermelon market has
been good so far through the South Georgia
season. Because cotton conditions were so un
certain and because of the unsatisfactory pea
nut market last fall, the acreage in melons is
large throughout this territory and now that the
returns are coming in the melons are bringing
quite a lot money into local channels of trade.
The showing of the banks of Tift county accord,
ing to their published statements of June 30 was
a good one, but had it been made a few days lat-
er, when mor e melon money was in, it would
have been better.
The tobacco market will open in a few days.
Indications are that prices will be good, and the
yield throughout this section is heavy. If to
bacco brings a few million dollars in cash to
this territory in addition to the money for mel-
ons, peaches and cantaloupes, this will not be
»uch a dry summer, from a financial standpoint.
and it is incumbent on the people to place in of
fice men worthy of their confidence and sup-
port. The present system is correct; if the peo
ple allow it to get into disrepute, for lack of a
competent and trustworthy man, then the peo
ple are wrong—not the system.”
Evidently the Germans did not have the confl-
flence in their friends in the United States Sen
ate that those, fiends expected. They ratified
t S With ° ut Waittog fot 016 Sen ‘
'By the way, is it the capit'a’i or the capit'o'I
which they are talking about moving or allowing
to remain unmoved or something?” asks the
Savannah Morning News Perhaps Atlanta
figures that if the State moves the capitol, that
Will take away quite a wad off Atlanta’s capital.
But when the capitol is removed to Macon, that
city will be Georgia’s capital. So Atlanta is
spending quite a lot of capital in order that the
State shall not move the capitol and Jflereby re
move the capital. In other words, Atlanta
would consider the removal of the capitol as a
capital offense—but not a capital action.
Bklnbridte, July 15.—Tho dreth of,
8am Walla at the Bainbxidge HopjiltiV
niade the third victim of a grade'croaaiDC ’
accident eaat of thia city Sunday, Wfccir
an auto bain* driven from Cliniftt to
Panin*go was struck by au Atlantic.
rcaat paaunjer trail. Clarence
Hawkins was instantly killed and Ben*
Wella, who was driving, was so Ittdlj
incited he died at the hoap*.tU Hre **•*•
oral hours after the accident
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ON ASPIRIN
Always Ask for Genuine
“Bayer Tablets of Aspirin”
The editorial force of the Sparks Eagle serves
notice that the destinies of that paper will be in
the hfinds of the devil this week while Parrish
& Parrish are taking in the big press meet at
Monroe. The Parrish boys deserve a good time
as well as the rest, and while they are away we
hope the balance of the oflfce force will have a
devil of a time.
Only Axpfrin-<rnbltto with the mfctx
-Bnyer Crow" on them nro fennlnt
“Bnyer Tnbleti of Axpirtn," owned and
made by Ameri-'ann and proved We by
made by Ameri-'nne and proved 'Mb by
millions of people. Unknown qnutitiet
of fraudulent Aaplris Tablet* wen eold g
recently by * Brooklyn dealer wklch i I
proved to b» composed mostly of Talcum
“Bnyer (Tablets of Aapirin" should
always be naked for Then look - for
fit* safety “Bayer Croee’’ on the -pack-
arc and on each tablet. Accept nothin*
elae! Proper directien* and doeatt in
tockBa/arpackaee, . Th
Atapwn ia the trade mark of Bayer
of Moaoeeetfcaeideeter ef
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