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THE TIFTON GAZETTE
Publiihed Weekly
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TIFTON, GA.,
tl» PootoAc* »t Tifton, Georgia, u Second 1
Act of Kerch 3.1873.
Publishing Company, Proprietors.
Herring Editor and Manager.
Official Organ City of Tifton
and Tift County, Georgia.
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SATURDAY NIGHT.
The Power of Imagination.
“Magernation is a curious thing," said John,
John and George were in the thicket back of
old man Scroggins’ cane-patch, chewing cane.
Scroggins had furnished the cane, but he Was
, not cognizant of the fact. A full moon was
flooding the pinewoods with its radiance, but
the screen of cane-blades offered , protection
. from watchful eyes while George stood guard
? a nd John slipped over the rail-fence and rald-
f ,ed the patch for a dozen long, green stalks.
The boys were seated on a log where they were
under cover while they could easily see anyone
; approaching. It was while peeling a fresh iont
that John ventured the remark above.
“Why?” George asked—for politeness sake
not that he was curious. John had a fresh
round in his mouth! his jaws were distended
and two streams of juice ran out the corners
and down his chin and neck as he threw his
head back to swallow. He w as speechless un
til the chew was under control. While he was
cuttng off another round, he started, finishing
between rounds and joints:
“It shore made Pa hustle once. We were
fishing for red-fin pike down on Warrior creek.
We started out early that momng arid walked
five miles to th ecreek by sun-up. Stopped in a
flat just before we got there and ran out two
earthworms with wiregrass. Using these for
bait, we caught a red-eye apiece and split the
bellies off them for pike-bait. Soon we had
red-fin and then.there was no more trouble.
“The pike is a cannibal and bites best at
piece of his own kind. I have heard of peo
ple catching them with pieces df fat bacon and
red flannal rags, but the best bait I ever used
was a white strip off a pike’s belly with two lit-
. tie red fins on it.
* * “I don’t want any better fun than catching
pike. The day was roasting hot, the water was
few—almost stopped running, and the pike
. were lying in the shallow water in the cool
and swallowed nearly half a plug—lucky I had
it in my pocket. But he bit me, fore I felt it.’
“Ma got the whiskey, and brbke raw eggs in
wide-mouthed bottle and held them to the
bite. Pa wanted her tq kill a chicken, split it
and bind it warm to the leg, but she said she’d
wait to see if it began to swell. It didn't, but
Pa got pretty sick, I guess from the tobacco.
The snake didn’t bite him at all. The
scratches were from bamboo vines. The
snake tried to bite him all right, but we found
at the top of Pa’s brogan shoe where its teeth
had struck, just a quarter of an inch too low
to do serious 'damage.. But Pa always contend
ed that he had been bitten, and that it was ei
ther because the snake had shed its poison
fangB or else the tobacco saved his life. The
blow when the snake struck his shoe, the scare
and his magernation did the rest.
Magernation. is a curious thing,” repeated
Johiv as the two boys, having finished the doz
en stalks of cane, wiped their barlows on their
pants legs, put them in their pockets, arose,
stretched and started home.
SUGAR AND PROHIBITION. A
The statement by. the United States Sughr
Equalization Board to Senator Harris that pro
hibition is in part responsible for the increase^
consumption of sugar, leading up to. the present
shortage, is probably correct And tins does not
mean that the surplus was used in the manu
facture of soft drinks, although it is' probable
that a portion of it went that way. .
Those who made a study of the .effects of al
cohol on the human system;discovered long accomplishes the results its originators expec-
THE BUDGET SYSTEM.
It is gratifying to note that the proposition to
establish a budget system for national expendi
tures is growing in favor and may be adopted
by the present Congress.
The plan- was one of the pet measures of
President Taft and he made a strong effort to
have it adopted. His successor has also urged
it, as have nearly all the cabinet officers. A
budget means expenditure by system instead
of haphazard. It is a means of economy but
first of all it is a preventive of waste. Also, it
in a measure is a safeguard against jobbery
and graft.
A budget system on a small scale was put
oh trial in Georgia the past year with very sat
isfactory results, so much so that it is very pro
bable that we will have one adopted at an early
date to cover all state expenditures. It will
save the tax-payers a large amount of money
and so simple is it that one wonders why we
have tried to do business so long without it.
ago that sugar was one df the readiest substi-
stutes for alcoholic liquors. Men jfho want
ed to break themselves of the habj|. found it
easier to do aoWfcan they#te MBp a good
deal of other sweets. A year Dflp&tyie tad-
vent of national prohibition one of :the largest
brewers in this country announced his inten
tion of turning his breweries into plants for the
manufacture of candy. Before the national
prohibition law went into effect, the increased
consumption of sugar was forepast, and the pre
sent shortage was not unexpected.
These facts lead to several interesting points
for discussion: Has sugar and its products, can
dy especially, been instrumental in sreating, in
dy especially, Deen instrumental m •reaung, in
women and children, a desire for intoxicants?
In the past, was candy a mild form of dissipa
tion especially designed for. female consump
tion? Or, have sugar and candy helped to
keep us a sober people? ahd hogm.
Of course, when the saloons went out of bu
siness, the consumption of soft drinks greatly
increased, but that is not alone responsible for
the increase of 800,000,000 pounds in our con
sumption of sugar this year. There has been
also an enormous increase in the manufacture
and sale of candy and in the household con
sumption of sugar. And prohibition is in part
responsible for this.
Meanwhile, Friend Wife, if your husband
has recently shown an unusual fondness for
candy or readily seizes and devours quantities
of pastry, sweets, preserves,' jellies, etc., you
can get a line on what he had been doing before
bone-dry became a fact.
SAYS IT IS SURE TO PASS.
Hon. Lott Warren, Representative from Tur
ner county in the General Assembly, says that
his bill to divide.Georgia into two states is no
joke. He says he would have introduced it
last session had it not been for the Macon fight,
and he waited to give Macon a fair show. Now
he is preparing his bill and will introduce it -on
the first day of the coming session. “And
have good reason to believe it will pass,” said
Mr. Warren. “South Georgia will vote for it
places in the shade. If you got up to the hole solid, and there will be a good many votes from
easy and dropped the bait in without making a other sections of the state.”
' “Tell that Savannah editor,” Mr. Warren ad-
easy and dropped
gplash, ten to one there would comp a swirl in
the water, and aWay went your line. Man, that
was some fun 1
“They were biting good that day and we
£ both soon had a nice string. We had enough
*• for a mess before dinner, and should have gone
* home then; but. you know how hard it is to
quit when the fish are biting. They let up
, about 12 and we sat down And rested awhile
f In the early afternoon, we started again.
“Pa was standing on a tussock of blackgum
roots on the edge of a hole we had just come
V up to, with his fish on a string made from a
forked twig resting in the water at his feet to
v keep ’em fresh. There was no good place
where I could reach the water on that side, so
I crossed on a log ahd went down ‘the other
side of the hole, which was the side toward
home.
“I was fishing away and had just got a strike,
■ when Pa brought out a yell that you could have
' heard a mile, jumped into the water and came
cross to my side, although it came up to his
eck. He paid no attention to me, but started
if in a trot homewards,
jygt " ‘What’s the matter?’ I called.
MitSi-" ‘Snake-bit!’ Pa yelled. ‘Moccasin as big as
.. Jyour arm. I was standing on his tail. Bit me
,Jj right on the leg!’ And he was gone, pulling his
.< plug of tobacco from his pocket and tearing off
a chunk of it with his teeth as he went.
■ “I looked over to the tussock he had been
ded, “that if he don’t believe there will be some
thing doing in this line, to come up to Atlanta
next July and watch my smoke.”
SHOULD APPLY NOW.
The case in Crisp county last week, Where ,
a'trial jury hung over the question of determin- j
ing a sentence and it was necessary to declare ]
a mistrial after the defendant had entered a j
plea of guilty is an illustration that the new
Georgia law under which it is the preprogativc
of the jury to ftx the sentence' in criminal cases
does not always work to the most desirable end.
It is very doubtful if the law, as a whole,
ted. In the first place, it doubles the work of
the jurors; will necessitate longer terms in the
jury rooms and result in more mistrials. Af
ter the jury has, perhaps with much discussion,
arrived at a decision as to the ffullt'br inno
cence of the prisoner, if the verdict is guilty,
the whole ground must be gone over again in
order to determine the sentence. In many cas
es it will require longer to do this than was re
quired to arrive at a verdict Jury duty is
trying and disagreeable at best—the new law
adds to its most disagreeable features by dou
bling the jurors’ responsibility and lengthen
ing the hours in the jury room.
Fixing the sentence, heretofore the preroga
tive of the presiding judge, should be a matter
on which the judge is just as capable of decid
ing as the jury—perhaps more capable. The
judge has heard all the evidence, is equally ,or
more familiar with the case than the jurors,
and is certainly, through experience, a better
judge of law and evidence. For these reasons,
the new law does not appear .altogether desira
ble. Perhaps these it will work out better than
appearances indicate, but Crisp county’s first
experience does not warrant that conclusion.
SffMfcl Booklet oft Motherhood a
Bndftrid Regulator Co. DpcF44.At*u*»,a fc .
ROAD TAX NOTICE.
I will be in Brookfield Saturday .Octo
ber 18 and 25, for the purpose of collect
ing road tax.
All partieK subject to road tax in the
Brookfield district are requested to see
i dates named and settle for same.
C. V. fraylor, Collector,
dwlt Brookfield District.
AT ST. MIHIEL.
Applications for pensions for Confederate
Veterans under the Act of 1919 must be filed
with Commissioner Lindsey before November
1. Under this act, pensions may be paid to any
Confederate Veteran who saw six months ser
vice and received an honorable discharge, ir
respective of his present financial standing.
The law in relation to pensions for widows of
Confederate Veterans was also changed, those
married prior to 1881 being now eligible.
While applications niust be filed now, the pen
sions will not be paid until the fall of next year,
as the General Assembly failed to make appro
priation to meet the increase. Commissioner
Lindsey estimates that there will be 3,000 ap
plications for new pensions, which will require
$300,000 at the rate of $100 each.
One year ago Sunday, the Americans in
five hours wiped the Germans out of the St.
Mihiel salient.
This was the first practical demonstration of
the efficiency of the American troops on their
own initiative and of the efficacy of -the con
centrated fire of the Allies’ improved artillery.
The St. Mihiel salient, projecting like a giant
letter U into the French lines on the Eastern
frontier, had remained in possession of the Ger
mans for four years despite / many assaults,
thousands of lives and untold quantities of am
munition expended in an effort to recover it.
The French had assaulted in front and on either
flank and at all three points repeatedly but had
never been able to gain any decided advantage,
But all the while the Allies were improving
their artillery, and for a year and a half Amer
ica had been massing men.
So thoroughly had the shell fire cleared the
ground that for four hours the advancing
Americans had little to do except march and
pick up the dazed prisoners, cowering in their
dugouts. It was not until 10 o’clock in the
morning, when they got out of range of the
concentrated gunfire, that our men run into the
Huns’ machine gun nests and the actual fight
ing began.
St. Mihiel was a great day and a great event.
It was not only a great American victory, but
it was an epoch in an American fighting offen
sive. It was St. Mihiel that made the Argonne
victory possible and the Argonne victory broke
the back of the German army and sent the
Huns clamoring for an armistice.
Another step toward the construction of a
$1,000,000 paved road between Savannah and
Tybee was taken when the representatives of
the War Department decided that there was no
opposition to the proposal to construct four
bridges across navigable streams on the route.
The construction of this road is of interest to
standing on and there, sure enough, was a big, Jail Georgia and a good portion of Florida and
rusty water moccasin, coiled up and as mad as South Carolina. With gobd roads into Savan-
a hornet. He was either in the tussock and Pa Inah and a paved road from Savnannah to Ty-
didn’t see him or he had smelled the fish and bee, the number of visitors to that famous re-
gone for them when Pa stepped on him and sort would be greatly multiplied,
started the row. I killed him with my pole,! —
got both strings of fish and started after Pa.
“I could run faster and hold dut longer, but
I would never have caught him if he hadn’t
thought about cording his leg. He was sitting,
down tying his suspenders around his leg just
below the knee as I came up. He didn’t tar
ry long, but as soon as he got the knot tied, was
up and gone, in a half trot, every now and then
biting 6ff a fresh chunk of his tobacco.
“I had to carry the fish, and besides it was
hot, so before we got home I was just about
give out Pa was going good as ever. He left
1 the yard gate wide open and made a bee-line
for tile house, where he fell over on the bed.
“ ‘Hurry and bring me some whiskey,’ he
aaid to Ma, who dropped her sewing and ran to
Mm; Tm snake-bit and it was a big one. See
here,’ and he rolled down his sock and unlac
ed his shoe. There were two tiny scratches
just above his ankle.
“ ‘But if a big snake had bit you there, you
never could have walked all the way home and
you would be dead by this time,’ Ma reasoned.
‘Besides, ^ don’t see a bit of sign of swelling,
was poisonous your leg 'would
alceg by now,’ shd" added.
A “That put Pa to thinking, but he argued still.
,fft was tbe tobacco I eat,’ he said. T chewed
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THE SENTINEL A JOHN HERRING PAPER.
From the Atlanta Georgian.
When it was announced that John L. Herring
who long ago wrote succession insistent letters
across the pages of the Tifton Gazette, would
take over the editing and managing of-the Cor-
dele Sentinel, there was no doubt whatever in
the minds of the newspaper men of Georgia
that the new venture would be a go.
Mr. Herring knows how to make a paper that
constituency can learn to lov e and under
stand. He has made that sort of paper of the
Tifton Gazette—he is making that sort of pa
per of the Cordcle Sentinel.
But merely because his paper is printed in a
relatively small town, Mr. Herring does not
concede the necessity of molding it along tra
ditional “small town” lines. His handling of
the world series of baseball games, for instance
was exactly in line with the modern and com
prehensive methods pursued by the papers of
the cities. His readers undoubtedly must
have appreciated so excellent a service.
The Cordele Sentinel, under Mr. Herring’s
management, is yet a youngster; but the "old
man” at the helm is no youngster. He knows
how I
Cordele is to be congratulated that John Her
ring has entered the newspaper Held there.
He will make a paper Cordele will be proud of
—a wholesome and helpful paper, live and up
to the minute withal.
POLITICS IN THE SECOND.
Interesting possibilities are presented by the
report from Pelham that Col. A. B. Conger, of
Bainbridge, Representative from Decatur in the
General Assembly, will be a candidate for So
licitor-General of the Albany Circuit in the
1920 primaries and that Col. J. J. Hill, of Pol
ham, at present Solicitor of the City Court of
Pelham and Camilla, will be a candidate for
the Judgeship of the circuit.
It is taken for granted that Col. R. C. Bell, at
present Solicitor-General of the Albany Circuit
will not be a candidate for re-election. Rumor
has it that Col. Bell, whose home is in Grady
county, will make the race for Representative
in Congress from the Second Georgia District
against Congressman Frank Park, should
Judge Park offer for re-election.
While no announcement has been made, and
the whole thing is rumor yet, there has been
persistent talk over the District for several
months that Col. Bell would be in the race for
Congress.
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7- 20 X O Standard size wire 41c rod
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10-47 X 6 Medium size wire 441-4crod
13-48 X 0 Standard size wire 70c rod '
13-43 X 12 Standard size wire 55c . rod
20-00 X 8 Poultry fence 60c rod
23-00 X 6 Poultry fence 79c rod
4 point Heavy Hof Barbed Wire |5.25
Use of the frank privilege by Congressmen
grew to abuse long ago, and that abuse increas
es. The last report of the Chairman of the
House Committee on accounts said, that the
bills paid for members through Congressional
frank had grown from $19,430.18 in 1914, to
$108,947.53 in 1919. This is for the House on
ly,‘ exclusive of the Senate bills. Neither does
it include the immense tax of the postal frank
openly used for campaign purposes, both per
sonal and partisan. The people are long suffer
ing, but they will get tired of this sort of thing,
some day.
That the Augusta Chronicle has just cele
brated its 134th year of usefulness reminds us
that this country is not so young after all and
that Georgia was leading in educational work
about the time Boston got a good start.
THE WASTE IN COTTON.
The statement by a Texas grower that coun-
trydamage to cotton aggregates $60,000,000 a
year, and that all this could be saved is further
evidence of a waste that would keep any other
section except the South poor. This loss a-
niounts to $5 a bale and is caused by exposure
to the elements by 'the grower, careless hand
ling at the gins and lack of protection at the
warehouses.
It is probable thatthis estimate was very con
servative ; the net loss may be more than $5 a
bale instead of less. It only requires a trip
through the country; the sight of piles of cot
ton lying in the fields; of bales of co/tton ex
posed to the weather, perhaps theonly shelter
a tree; a glimpse of the cotton oas it is hauled,
from picking to marketing, to bring a realiza
tion of the enormous loss through carelessness.
We hold cotton many weeks at considerable
expense to gain $5 a bale i price ,but we will
not take a little care, ordinary, common-sense
care, to win nthe same $5.
REDUCED PRICES
4 point Heavy Cattle Barbed Wire 4.90
2 point Light Hoc Barbed Wire $3.60
Nails Bast $4.60
Delivered 300 pound lota or more.
GEO. D. MASHBURN
17-w2t Hawkinsvllle, Georgia.
$5,000 BOAR AT VALDOSTA
“Snper Clansman,” a Poland China
oar valued at $5,000 and insured for that
amount against accidents, arrived her*
by expretm Sunday morning, consigned to
A. G. Swanson, says the Valdosta Times,
The hog weighed 650 pounds and was at
tended by Messrs. Clarence DeAtley and*
J. F. Hall two veterinarians, who looked
after his hogship on the trip from Mancie,
Ind., to this city. It is said that the big
boar was In danger of dying two or threw
times on the trip and would have passed
in if it had not been for the assistance-
rendered by his keepers. This hog cornea-
from the finest stock and is probably the
best bred Poland China hog la Georgia.
The next time you have
chills and Fever
That is an excellent move over at Ocilla to
organize a county-wide Chamber of Commerce
for Irwin, with Ocilla as headquarters. In days
past, it was thought the cdmmercial organiza-
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A scientific prescription which kiili tb* jj
malaria (emu, break, np the Chill, and
Fever and build, up tb, «?Mem.
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TWO BO¥S INJURED.
lb 8. Patten, Jr. and Wesley Bndd had
tions should be confined to the towns and cit- !* ««*«» from serious lajnty
ies; experience has proven the value of bring
ing representative farmers into such trade bod
ies, thereby securing not only co-operation, but
a wider field of usefulness.
A canning plant at Macon, to cost $300,000
and with a capacity of 20,000 cans a day, is to
be erected on the Camp Wheeler site. It will
tax the resources of the truckers and fruit
growers of that sectiion to supply it Tifton
put in a $30,000 cannery about twenty-five
years ago, and it starved to dea{h. Adel tried
one three years ago that had no better fate.
We hope conditions are different now.
What a big country this is! Before us is the
Arizona Record, published at Globe, Ariz., and
at the head, in the place where we quote cotton
in this country, they quote current prices of cop
per and silver ore. Over here we regard these
metals as too precious for listing.
Adel’s banks bought Cook county’s road
bonds. That is the right sort 'of spirit for Geor
gia’s youngest county—and one of its most pro-
“Study Spanish,” says the Brunswick News.
A whole lot df people in this country would, do
well to Study English first .
The substitutes for sugar are about as many
as the substitutes for rye and malt godds.
Sunday afternoon when a car driven by
M. 8. had a hcadon collision with a car
coming from Ocilla at the sharp cum
north of Kennedy's dairy farm, on tht
Oailla road.
Tbe left front wheels of the two cars
were smashed and Wesley was thrown
through the windshield and cat on tht
head and leg. M. S. vras thrown out on
the running board and a gash cat in hit
head, which required three stitches to sew
np, an<l his foot was cat Two white
men and a negro were in the other car
and one of them was injured, though non*
of the injuries were serious.
The boys were taken to their hornet
as quickly at possible and given medical
ttention.
Thirty-eight negro educators of North Caro
lina '-gave their race some mighty good advice
when they repudiated the intermingling of the
races on terms of social.equality, the intermar
riage of the races; a resort to force, or talks
that counselled such. Obedience to law is the
negro’s best safeguard. Race troubles alwayrf
start with law-breaking.
Now while sugar is a memory, is an excellent
time for the young man who believes his best
girl can “sweeten his coffee by sticking her fin
ger in 'the cup,” to put his faith to a practical
test.
Cotton went up 100 points when the embar
go on shipping to Britain was removed, just as
it went down tbe same number when the aem-
bargo went on. Moore evidence fit the commun
ity interest of the world as a whole.
The Cook county fair is on this week, open
ing Tuesday and continuing through Saturday.
Editor Shytie has promised us the best small
fair we ever saw, and we believe he has it.
To abort a cold
and prevent com
plications, take
The purified and refined
calomel tablet* that are-
nauseakas, aafeand anre.
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