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■t the Postoffice «t Tifton, Oeorjla, »• Second Clam •, Act of March 3,1870. THE TIFTON j TIFTON, GA. TIFTON GAZETTE Published Weekly Gazette Publishing Companyi Proprietors. j i. Herring -^-.-Editor and Manager. Official Organ City of Tifton and Tift County, Georgia. SUBSCRIPTION RATES: Twelve months Six Months Four Months . $1.60 76 60 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.