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•, Act of March 3,1870.
THE TIFTON j
TIFTON, GA.
TIFTON GAZETTE
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and Tift County, Georgia.
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SATURDAY NIGHT.
When They Turned Lucinda Out.
They turned Lucinda out of the church.
Only a few of the faithful were present at
the church conference that Saturday morning
in July. The men, with the exception of the
preacher, were in their working clothes, still
damp with perspiration as they came from the
fields, where they had worked in their crops un
til church time. The older women had “put
on” their dinners before leaving home, but still
found time for a change into simple but cool
summer dresses.
Firdt came the Saturday morning sermon,
largely doctrinal, as addressed especially to
the church membership. The- sermon over,
the public was dismissed and the members re
quested to stay for the conference. An ex
pectant hush preceded its formal opening.
The door and unglazed windows were wide
open, and through them came the summer
breeze, soothingly. Outside was the hum of
bees, and the casual glance showed flitting but
terflies, while the pines kept up their unceasing
murmur and the wiregrass softly rustled. A
venturesome lizzard ran out on the hewn log
step and sunned himself daringly. The pine
plank floors and even the lower logs of the in
side walls had been scrubbed to a white cleanli
ness that induced even the veteran tobacco
chewer or snuff-dipper to move close to a win
dow or a convenient crack in the floor.
The preacher came down from the pine-board
pulpit and took a cow-hide bottomed chair in
front. There was a subdued rustic as the few
members changed to easier positions on the
split-log benches, or drew nearer into a group
in front of the altar.
The accused occupied a seat on a front bench
and beside her sat her mother. She was a
pretty girl, with ‘red cheeks and brown eyes,
and a mouth usually smiling. Today her face
was set in firm, rather stubborn lines, with
pouting lips, and a defiant gleam in her eyes.
Her mother’s face was hid in her deep sunbon-
net of black, but her head was lowered and her
demeanor that of one to whom trouble was no
stranger. Across the aisle on the benches set
apart for men sat the father alone, his face
sternly expressionless.
Lucinda had been dancing; not once, but
many times. Thrice had she expressed repen- °wn lights,
tance and been forgiven; now there was little
mercy in the faces of her judges. Doubtless
each time she had promised to go and sin no
more she had been sincere. But there was a
lurking devil in the music of the violin and the
company of young people of the ungodly that
tempted her tiny but nimble feet beyond her
power to withstand. After her last promise,
there had been many months when Lucinda’s
-Jf feet strayed not from the path prescribed.
powerful arm as a shield of protection from the
wiles of the Evil One. 'He sat down amid a
silence that could be felt, mopping his wet fore
head with the bandana that was knotted around
his ample neck.
Bro. Duckworth unfolded his immense length
of limb and body until his head almost touched
the overhead joist. The frosts df many winters
were seen In his hair and the suns of many sum
mers had deeply browned his face. Many fried
meals and much black coffee had made him a
dyspeptic, and suffering had left its mark on
face frame and nature. Bro. Duckworth
reached up and caught the pole joist with his
hand, supporting himself thereby as he spoke.
He did not think the church could afford to see
itself mocked and its ordinance^ violated with
impunity. Mercy had been thrice granted—
as often as the rules of the church had beert
flouted. It was almost certain that if oppor
tunity was given they would be flouted again.
He believed in mercy up to a certain limit, but
the time had come when the good name of the
church was at stake and its discipline involved.
He loved Brother and Sister Jones, and deeply
did he sympathize with them in their affliction.
But the conference could no longer stand be
tween their daughter and the consequences of
her folly, to its own undoing. Therefore, he
moved the question.
The vote was solemnly put and solemnly car
ried, and youthful Lucinda was without the pale
of the church of her fathers. Conference ad
journed, she walked, with chin defiantly in air,
out at the church door, but her heart beneath
the calico waist was full and heavy and behind
her eyes which looked ahead, the tears were
welling. Beside her walked her mother, weep
ing softly, as mother must weep since Eve bent
over erring Cain, while apart her father strode,
his face more sternly set in hardened lines.
Through it all he had not spoken; neither did he
speak now, for some hearts break while the
mouth is silent.
Which path did Lucinda take?
Cut off from her church and its associations;
without its guidance and help, and beyond its
protecting influence, smarting as youth ever
smarts at discipline, did her rebellious heart’
harden, and hid her feet turn into the broad
road of Error, that leads downward into sin and
misery and that Living Death which makes the
final appearance of the Grim Harvester wel
come, despite the terrors that lie ahead?
Or, did discipline bring repentance, and re-
flection steadfastness? Did the Mother’s pray
ers win after all, and a more quiet, more de
mure Lucinda face life from a different view
point?, Did the coming years bring with their
maturity a husband and sturdy children, with
the laughing eyes of the mother and perhaps
her untrustworthy feet? Did Lucinda at last
settle down into a staid matron, the pride of her
community and her church, and did she finally
pass away, loved and honored and reverenced
by her posterity?
I do not know—or 1 will not tell. Answer
these questions for yourself, according to your
Then came the big Fourth of July picnic and rest,
barbecue at the old mill, and inevitably that Erect as the stately pine, he was as straight
afternoon there was fiddling and dancing in the ( in character as he was in statue. A man who
CAPEL GLENN DELL.
Like a soldier struck at the post of Duty, Ca-
pel Glenn Dell passed to his reward. Had it
been given him to select the place, time and
manner of his passing, he would have chosen as
they came. Not often is it so granted a man to
go as he would wish. In the place he loved, in
the bosom of the church he loved, at the work he
loved, he gave a sigh and passed from labor to
My Mother
Motheb&F]
before 1 was bom
26 yean ago and my birth was j
tically a painless one,” writes c -
thusiastic mother. How very i
then, that her own mother, whose i
perience had unqualifiedly proven t
virtue of Mother's Friend would r“
her daughter enjoy the same ben
Mother’s Friend is used extcnuilly.
At all Druggists.
Special Booklet oo Motherhood and Bebr fa
DcadficU Regulator Co. Dpt.F-ll.AH—fi.O
GOOD MUD CONSTRUCTION V
Government Displays Show Importance
of Keepin* lllxhwsy. la Good
Condition. *
Methods of road maintenance will be
an important part of the displays of the
Bureau of Public Roads, United States
Department of Agriculture, in the
bined government exhibits at the South*
eastern Fsir from October 11 to 21
War’a demands placed a big, new bur*
den upon the highways of the United
States. Not only are’great fleets of artsy
trucks atill thundering over the
near military posts and cantonment^ bit
inert-aging numbers of commercial tricks
and borac-drawn vehicles are carjinf
farm products to markets .and are tnukf*
porting merchandise of every description
from the city to the country and frod
one city to another
All this means that to prevent the road*
from becoming rutted, crumbled and shat
tered mid ut length impassable under
their burdens, the greatest attention must
be paid to their maiuteiiuuee.
The Bureau of Public Roads is tin
agency that, with its other duties, nd
inisters the Federal Aid Hoad Act, lie
lieved to the greatest stimulus to rnai
building in American history. A ;jren
program of highway construction, it
which the federal government eo-operale
with (lie states, is now under way.
Its displays will not only demonstrat
niiiinteminee, hut the tested methods o
idiug drainage and foundations am
how to huild earth, gravel, sand-elm
macadam, brick and concrete roads.
All drugs have remedial value.
The better the quality the greater
purity; the more pronounced
J ie strength, the better their cura
re value. Bring your prescrip
tions to us and you will get always
the very best drugs in the kinds
'and qualities the doctor expects
and with every care and knowledge
exercised to put them together as
science commands. So much more
reason for bringing prescriptions
to us. A few of these reasons we
have told you. The others are
SAFETY AND SATISFACTION
IN ALL MEDICINES.
I have a few White Sewing Ma
out Cheap. Notwithstanding they hat
per cent, I am telling for lets than the old j
need a Good Sewing Machine now it yo
get it
Accommodating Druggists
Telephone 94
Conger DrogCo/n Olrl Stmntl
Uliambcrlain’s Colic and Diarrhoea
Remedy in Michigan
Mi-. A. II. Ilall, Cascville, Mich., says,
thank you for your grand good
iuc, Chamberlain's Colic and Diarr-
Reinedy. We ar e never without it
• house, and I am sure it saved our
< life this summer.”
s. Mary Carrington, Caseville,
. -ays. ‘ I have used Chamberlain’s
and I unrrhoea Remedy for years aud
! it has always given prompt relief.”
LEMON JUICE
FOR FRECKLES
Sell Us Your Sweet Potatoes
We have storage facilities for twenty thousand
of Sweet Potatoes and will pay market price for tan. de
livered to our house in Ty Ty, Ga.
WILUS DRUG CO. ; Wb Furnish the Grates in Which to Put Them
When you dig your Potatoes sort out the smooth, Medium
sized Potatoes in the field and place them in the crates right
then. Bring them from the field to the house and get your \
money.
This will save the expense of handling them twice
and your loss from rot as they are o ur Potatoes
then. . >
Sea Us About Crates
Ty Ty Potato House Co
Chas. Bowman, Sec. and Tveas.
Girls! Make beauty lotion for
a few cents—Try It I
Squeeze the juice c»f two lemons into
* bottle containing three ounces ot
orchard white, shake well, and you have
a quarter pint of the best freckle and
tan lotion, and complexion beautifier, at
very, very small cost.
Your grocer has the lemon§ and any
drug store or toilet counter will supply
three ounces of orchard white for a few
cents. Massage this sweetly fragrant
( otion into the face, neck, arms and
hands each day and soe how freckles and
blemishes disnnpear and how clear, soft
and rosy-white the skin becomes. Tea!
It is harmless and never irritates. adv
IRWIN SUPERIOR COURT
big mill house. Secure in her resolve Lucinda, I ■, (.oil and kept His commandments, Capel
* who for a time sat aside with those who re-jGlenn Dell was known to his fellow-man. In a
mained at a distance disapprovingly, went with day when men were primitive he lived an exam-
John to ’“look on.” For awhile she sat with! pie of piety; and even rough men respected his
John on the old sill and looked, but soon the religion and loved his upright manhood. His
!g music and the whirling figures of the dance i life was worth much to his country and com-
were too much for her. John, noting that his munity, and his record of honesty, integrity and
, own feet had been unconsciously keeping time, ‘ right living he leaves as a rich heritage to his
glanced down and saw that her's were doing posterity.
\ the same. “Let’s try it,” he suggested, Adam
being the tempter this time. She nodded as- j RECALLED OLD TIMES.
sent, and when another quadrille filled, they | “If you don’t quit writing about frows and
took their places. Having stepped beyond the things like that, people will begin to think you
From the Ocilla Star.
Irwin Superior court will be in seRsion
agnin on the first Monday in October.
Tills is a continuation of the March ad
journed term. It will be recalled that re
cently there were two weeks of court,
but there were several important eriminal
cass that could not be disused of mid
Judge Eve again adjourned court till the
first Motidny in October, when these cases
will be taken up. Additional jurors have
been drawn for this adjourned term so
as to be sure of having a competent jury
for the eases that are to be tried.
Judge Eve is showing a disposition to
dispose of the considerable mass of busi
ness on the dockets thnt has accumulated
in the last few years through the failure
to hold court at the appointed times.
• pale, Lucinda made an evening of it, doubtless , are old,” said Rev. George F. Clark, of Cros-
,v considering her fate sealed anyway. | land, whose mind easily goes back to old times.
?■ There was no evidence given for none was “I have a few houses on my place yet that
needed. The facts were well known, and are covered with rived boards. When I mar-
1 . there was neither denial nor defense. Even the ried 34 years ago I moved into a house with a
sorely tried father put in no plea for his erring board roof and when 1 put a new cover on
the
I
, one, and the women did not speak out in meet- that house recently, those old boards were thi
g. ing. ; best part of the roof. .1 remember once when
Bro, Peavy, recognized head ot the local was very small helping my father put on i
church, arose and in pursuance of his duly, re- roof where we used hickory pegs to fasten the
• ■' cited the facts, the persistent transgressions the boards instead of nails, boring the holes with
it vain promises of reform, the reproach that had a gimlet. One peg went through two boards
f been brought upon the church and its member- but they held and the roof was a good one."
ship, and moved in their behalf that Connection “That was better than weighing the roof down
with the erring one be severed, Bro. Braswell with poles,” we suggested,
seconded .the motion. I "Yes; but the first house I saw built for
Bro. Spillcrs arose for a plea of mercy. He negroes after they wer e freed had the boards
* was a short, fat man, a bald spot already show-.weighted down with pine poles, and they held
ing beyond his high forehead where his curly very well. We were not quite as industrious as
| locks were thinning. His full, red cheeks , the man you saw putting a garden fence to-
proved that good feeding and an easy con-aether; instead of boring three holes in a post
science had triumphed over many hours of hard ; we only bored two and used a fence rail for
gfe work and much of the worries of life and kept'the bottom lath, letting it rest on the ground.
' his heart warm and his nature sunny. He j We had plenty of time in those days and things
wanted to\give the girl another trial. “Young | were not so easy to get, but when we built any-
folks will bWtfung folks,” he repeated the old ( thing it usually stayed with us.
of which there was no denial, H& knew
girl at heart and he loved | According to the Wiregrass Farmer, near
m
ucinda ]
her and 1
their sake, as i
Jones, her parents, and for ,1,600,000 pounds of tobacco was sold at Ash-
lasher own,.he
1® believed
Lher.to.burn’this season, the price averaging between
with jl5 fund 20 cents a pobnd and the money put in
and (Circulation amounting to between $226,000 and
its $300
IN MISERY
FOR YEARS
Mrs. Courtney Tells How She
Was Cured by Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vegetable
Compound.
Oikaloos.i, Iowa.—“Foryears I wan
■imply in misery from a weakness ami
awful pains—and
nothing seemed to
do me any good. A
friend aemsed me
to take Lydia E.
Pinkham’s Vege
table Compound. I
did so and got re
lief right away. I
can certainly re
commend this valu
able medicine to
other women who
suffer, for it has
done such good
work for me and I know it will he]
More New Arrivals in Womens
New Fall Suits, Coats,
Dresses and Skirts
I
D IGHT from the center of Fash-
v ions come these Beautiful Crea
tions which we now offer to you
for inspection and selection. Added
to numbers of earlier arrivals they
make our stocks as complete and
varied as you would care to choose
from.
We hasten to put them on display
for your inspection and to indicate *
to you the trend of Autumn Fash
ions. You will be delighted to wear ;
the artistic simplicity of the new
styles, their charm and beauty and
becomingness.
■■■■
othm if they will give it a fair trial."
—Mra. Lizzie Courthey, 108 8th Ave.,
West, Oskaloosa, Iowa.
Why will women drag along from day
to day, year In and year oat, suffering
tad misery as did Mrs. Courtney, when
such letter! aa this are continually being
published. Every woman who suffers
from displacement*, irregularities, in
flammation, ulceration, backache, ner-
B s-ssp
fp'g’SS
: experience U at your aerviea.