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THE TIFTON GAZETTE Publiihed Weekly the iirroN 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. SUBSCRIPTION RATES« Twelve months .—. * 1 '5? Six Months *•*'" “dut Months 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 l Attk 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. WIRE FENCE AND BARBED WIRE 7-20 X O Medium size dwire 80 l-4c rod 7- 20 X O Standard size wire 41c rod 8- 32 X O Standard size wire 47c rod 10-32 X O Medium size wire 40 l-4c rod 0-39 X 6 Medium size wire 39 l-2crod 9- 39 X 0 Standard size wire 63c rod 10-47 X 0 Standard size wire 69 l-4c rod 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- - ■■ . -.y.-s A scientific prescription which kiili tb* jj malaria (emu, break, np the Chill, and Fever and build, up tb, «?Mem. k ior ;' ta Tifton nad iwuM M 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. 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