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.g well as the fox squirrejWalmost disappeared. The negroes had hooks attached to long poles or the purpose of pulling' the gophers from heir holes. Only a Georgia Cracker, to the maimer horn, "•an cook Georgia collards and bacon properly; ply a negro caq cook gopher as it should be cooked. It cannot be cooked on a stove, and THE TIFTON GAZETTE s PnbIbMWM4r ; The putkular colons! paopb of the United States um Nelson’s j HalrDresslng Lwscly Attewkd from All Part* of South Ooorsta. Sinn* Sermons sod Inter. eMIns DlMUMloni of the Work •f fko Chunk. The Primitive Boptixt meetlof at Cor- dele, which boftn Tneodajr and will last through three dara !* a sreat fatherjof ...Editor and Manager, Pot non than as yoan Nabon’s U ban sold and noonmandad by <£1 ftomcvrrahin, N«Wi aulas fuj l»m, curk hdr tofc glossy rsij&E-dtelKri 8 fcbiaporimttojrttWsiaiiooN.Wi. Nelson Manufacturing Gt, Inc. SUBSCRIPTION Twelve month. Six Months — pour Months ..... MnHQ&fiuOENP h«aM»r fcy tay •coufixtswhich SATURDAY NIGHT. they are in session from 3 to 5. The meeting is for the purpose of gen eral discussion of matters pertaining to the work of the denomination, and for co-operation between the churches. The discussions the first day were on the work aud duties of the Elders, and were very interesting and instructive. Dr. L. A. Baker and Elder Mollis at tended from Tifton. 5 1-2 PER CENT FARM uHn 7 Per Cent Tifton Gty Loan Tffls nuk*fannioMw «t B t-2 par «mL Mans! md gf«««U- bon'owor the prhrilego of paying part of tha principal at fka *ay year atopping interest en amoonla paid, htman nnal paymait of principal nqnirsd. , R. C ELLIS W. W. BRYAN Goldan Bufldin* Tifton, Gaergia SAVE THE MEAT YOURSELF . Get» M0I6AN MEAT PRESERVER And save your neat, no matter what the weather. Hundreds of farmers are using them today wiAenthe satisfaction. s Write os for full information I. D. MORGANS SON S morgan’s“meat preserver TIFTON -{- GEORGIA - i Women AiHsBesi? The receipts for the Nonnin-Af|ie lime at Norman Park Thanksgiving Day exceeded |S00, of vrhleh each school gets one-half after all expenaeo of the game ar e paid. The returns for thia game *111 pay all debts of the A. M. S. ath letic aiaodatloit and leave about $75 In the treaaury to atari tha next eeaton Member, of the team have requested the Gaaette to extend their thanks to people .of Tilton for the liberal support given the team. The boya appreciate the support given them here and also the loy alty of tho fans who have accompanied them on games away from home. A Conditioner and Worm Eij Don’t allowyour stock to “get o ■Odin a run-down cdhdition. Condition your cows for cab feeding Dr. Hess Stock Tonic Tie Woman’s Took M Deyo«Mw«sk,dn- _ fm ay, won-cut? Is yodr V # lack of good health caused R W <n>m any of the coo- M freshing. Then , feed it regularly to crease the flow of milk. It length the milking period. ? ■ % Buy Stock Tonic according to the 1 of your herd. Get from your dealer foundsforeaah average hog, five pou for each home. Cow or steer, to start w If Constipated, Bilious or Headachy, take "Cascarets” much less both in quantity and value. After cottoh,'nogs came second in value, cotton seed thirdrapd watermelons fourth, the melon ship ments aggregating $43,250. Com came next, cpttle next and peanuts seventh, with a value of $10,000. A very interesting item was $2,000 worth of hay. Not many years ago, Omega was buying Western com and hay.. Then cotton was practically the only money crop; now it is only one of half a dozen—all - profitabe. These figures do not apply to less than carload ship- feed as directed and then watch ri Why Pay the Peddler Twice My Price? Sick headache, biliousness, costed tragus' or sour, gassy stomach—always trace this to torpid liver; delayed, fer mented food in the bowels. Poisonous matter clogged in the in testines, instead of being cast out of the system is rtvobsorbed into the blood When this poison reaches the delicate brain tissue it causes congestion and Grocery Co " TIFTON, GA. WUtflyM bownrahTb2ktuhi£ Dr. Hess Instant Loot K Kills I ce ments and tobacco is not mentioned because.it. | was marketed largely by truck. \ - — . ;' ,r 1 Since the Farmers Union of Georgia has gone on record as opposed to collective bargainingj cunttip^tvd waau mattvr'liud it will brace up some of those weak-kneed, poli-i u>*. towels, tlcians and others who fear to speak because : ;L h ^‘Z‘ "SSL AD Druggists ■nragraBHarara The Patting of the Gopher. Occasionally, some one brings a gopher to town; it is a curiosity. Not so many years ago, the gopher ranked with the fox squirrel as the most numerous citizens of this section. The fox squirrel is now a little more of a curiosity than the gopher. * ’ Some people will tell you that a “gopher is a misnomer—that you are really talking about a tortoise, and that the real gopher is a sala- This is only in part correct. That the > GA., FRIDAY, DECEMBER 6, ISM. rarely in a house. The best place to cook go- efcgr is in a pot over an open fire in frbnt of a abin or* in the wide fireplace of a stick-and lirt chimney. The proper cook is a coal-black legro, with thick lips and white eye-balls, and inferably half a dozen hungry pickaninnies tending around. Rut gopher, properly cooked and seasoned, yas good-J-surprfalngly good. The old fellow vas a pretty tough looking customer, with his ough shell and scaley skin, but separated from hese and parboiled and seasoned, then eaten rom a tin plate with a hoe-cake of hot corn- tread, no chicken meat could compare with it. The bones are snow-white, like pigs-feet, and he flesh juicy, sweet and tender, as is that of learly all animals that live exclusively on vege- ables. The best time to eat gopher was when coming lome from a long day’s tramp, hunting or fish- ng, and stopped, late in the afternoon, at Mam- ny’s cabin in answer to her call. Gopher, like mander. land tortoise is properly called gopher we have ^ no less authority than Webster’s Unabridged >, great many other things, has to have the pro- and the International Encyclopedia. To both I , er surroundings to be at its best, we are ' indebted for the information that the But' gopher meat, like many other good name is a corruption of the French word “gauf-: hings, is only a memory now. But it is a mem- fre,” “a honey-combi” which was applied by , r y that makes a man’s mouth water if he has the French settlers in America to various bur- , a d the privilege of tasting it at its best. rowing animals which “honey-combed” the soil. j Strictly speaking, or rather the first definition, i SCHOOL LIBRARIES. of a gopher is any of several American rodents j « which burrow the soiL In the South, especially | Pointing to the splendid work done by the in this section, this species of gopher is mis- Maine Library Commission, the Americus Times- called a salamander. (The salamander by the Recorder urges that some systematic and corn- way, is a species of lizzard with a short tail, prehensive method be devised for providing which inhabits the water in a tadpole state, and free circulating libraries to the rural sections returns to it only to deposit its eggs, generally of Georgia. living in moist places, under stones, roots of! Commenting on this, the Savannah Morning trees, etc. It Varies in size and color in dif- News cites the fact that about twenty years ago ferent countries, being common in America, this work was begun by H. H. Stone, while he Europe and Asia. What we call a salamander was School Commission of Newton county, the here is not a salamander at all, but is really a county in which the first boys corn club in the gopher, or burrowing rat. The superstition United States was organized. Stone establish- that it can withstand fire is a myth.) The pro- ed traveling libraries in the common schools, the Kt<:wnr,lK per name of the species of turtle which we call books being placed in cases equipped with han a gopher here is “gopher tortoise.” Under this dies and taken from one school district to an name it is accurately described in both diction- other. ary and encyclopedia and is located in the san- 1 Tift county began establishing school libra- dy coast districts of the Southern United States. lies several years ago. Where interest was man- A 1 portion of this description may be of inter- ifested or could be aroused, a library was es- est. “The shell, brown and black above and tablished for that particular school, until now yellow below, often measures fifteen inches in nearly every school in the county has a libra- length, the females being larger than the males. *y °f its own. They are strong animals, burrowing deeply In- ( According to reports of some of the club wo- to the soil, where they hibernate in winter and men at a recent convention of the women’s clubs eome out at night in search of vegetable food, of the Second District at Tifton, the circulating They are numerous and somewhat gregarious, Mbraryis not always a success. One of the wo- especially in Florida, and do much damage in 111611 said that sometimes when a committee went gardens and among'root crops. The rural ne-W a school to take up the library and send it to gfoes eat them for food, and also search for another school, they would find the books had their buried eggs which are as large as the never been unpacked. At other points the 11- eggs of a pigeon and five in number. The ani-“My workers did not fare this well; they mal Is thus an important foot! resource hfFlori-fennd that the books had been distributed ds, where he fa captured largely in pit traps.” ,*niong the children and had v disappeared. The latter proves how the encyclopedias even [where fbere is a local interest in books, the fail to keep pace with development in the South. Mhool library fa a most excellent thing—but it Forty years ago, when this section of Geor- “ ® est to cultivate this interest first. gia was covered with a pine forest and a thick carpet of wiregrass, nearly every hillside had its gopher-hole. The crawling fellows prefer red sandy soil, where the digging was easy, and some of the sand hills had quite a gopher colo ny, of a dozen or more holes. But the gopher MAKING A POOR SHOWING. We are not surprised that the new Georgia law, making it the duty of trial juries to fix the term of sentence is already proving unpopu- wis a forager as well aa a pioneer and he did Jar. not always dig where the digging was easiest. From the first, we have regarded the law as If the location suited him he would burrow in-ja mistake, and this paper was one of the first to the hard, pebbly clay, sometimes going as far ( in the state to point jjiut some of its weak places, as 20 feet until he got a home to suit him. The Juries have enough to do in determining the holes were curved, perhaps for safety’s sake, jsuilt or innocence of the accused, and this law and very often the rattlesnake and rabbit would Roubles their tasks, for it is often more difficult seek refuge therein. The gopher’s eggs were to' determine the sentence than to agree as to usually buried at the entrance to the den where j the guilt, A Crisp county jury discovered this the heat of the sun hatched them. His front fact a few weeks ago when it was unable to lio-rtat old Officers. Increase Pastor's Salary and Set Aside Sum for Use of Woman's Missionary Society Tho new Hoard of Stewards of the Methodist ehnn h met Monday uicht and organised for the year. The following officer* were re-elected: It. Eve, chair man : (Jeo. {taker, vice-chairman; Joe Kent, secretary-treasurer. The chair man announced that he would name and announce the standing committees at the first opportunity. Upon motion, duly passed, the chair appointed the following committees for immediate service: To prepare treasurer's record book and write names on contribution boxes: T. A. Mitchell, chairman; Harris Massey, A. I). Maxwell, L. I’ardick and C. A. Irby. To assess members of the church: 3. N. Brown, chairman ; M. K. Hendry, 3. O. Padrlck, J. X. Mitchell and E. L. Ireland. Tho above two committees ore to meet tonight in Judge Eve’s office and •mplcte their work as soon ns possible. To assign membership to the vurious Aveu, chairman3im Don’t Let Malaria Sap Your Strength and Vitality Your physician will tell you malaria is the cause of more disease than any mal ady known. Chills and Fever, Malarial Fever, Bilious Fever, loss of appetite^ drowsiness, loss of energy are the direct causes of Malaria. Ameco Chill aod Fever Tonic ia the deadly enemy of Ma laria. It kills the germs and its action prompt and sure in breaking tha Thousands of prominent citizens have been cured with Ameco Chill and Fever Tonic and unhesitatingly recommend it to their friends. W. T. McDonald, prominent employ* of the Macon Railway k Light Go* of Macon, Oa^ says; I bad Malaria and Bilious Fever and Chills and Fever and Ameco Chill unit Fever Tonic cured me. It does every- thing you claim for It.** Ameco Chill and Fever Tonic fa «|t in Tifton and guaranteed by Brali Pharmacy Company. nick and 1*. D. Fulyood. Upon motion. Chairman Eve and Su perintendent of Sunday School Fulwood were relieved of the duty of looking sf- r a list of members during the year. Upon motion, the pastor’s salary was increased from $2,400 to $2,700 a year. Arrangements also were made to have the treasurer mail the pastor a check the last day of eaeh month for that month's salary. A letter was read from the Woman's Missionary Society, which requested the stewards to set aside u certain sum each year to be used by the ladies in taking of the parsonage and the needy of the city. Upon motion, $300 was aside for the tear to be used by the W. M. 8. in earing for the parsonage and Hie poor of the Repairs to the par sonage, painting, etc., will not be taken care of by this sum, this matter still remaining uuder the direction of the church property committee. Mrs. W. A. Puckett was re-elected organist for the year. After an appeal from Mr. Baker, Who presided at the meeting, for the stewards to be faithful in attending all meetings and in all their duties, the meeting ad journed. The attendsnee was the best of any meeting held within a yehr. O. FUNERAL OF L. M. CRISP i'bc funeral of Mr. LeRoy M. Crisp, son of Postmaster and Mrs. J. B. Crisp, of Fender, was held Saturday afternoon at the home of the deceased, 338 Calhoun Street, Macon. The services were con ducted by Rev. T. W. Callaway, pastor of the Tabernacle church, and interment was in Riverside cemetery. Mr. Crisp died at bit home in Macon after an illness of about two Wteka, al though his condition was not considered serious until a day or two before bis death. A postmortem eximinattya show ed that death was caused by a ruptured blood vessel in Hie lung. Mr. Crisp moved from South Carolina to Eldorado, wherd he lived for several years, before moving to SttCC he was connected With iha Cf. & k F. railroad. The burial rites were in charge of the Brotherhood of ftathraf Trainmen, of which order h# wae * member. ■ft! claws were shaped like shovels, with shovel-like agree on the sentence of a negro who had r< * nails and with these he could make the dirt plead guilty and it was necessary to declare fly at a rate surprisingly rapid, throwing it in a mistrial, Now report comes that the ends of shower behind him. Authorities are right a-1 justice are often defeated under this law be- bout the gopher being strong, for one of aver-[cause the jury .usually fixes the lowest possible age size could travel with a man standing on his sentence, back. He could also make surprisingly rapid The law is wrong in principle and appears progress when hustling for his hole. | to be working harm in practical application. They were not commonly used as food, the The next General Assembly should repeal it. Georgia Cracker largely holding them in con. ‘ tempt. There was more or less talk about the gopher being sometimes used to help out when meat was scarce, the expression “a gopher case” being attributed to the story of a circuit rider passing a boy who was fiercely digging, with hoe and shovel. As he stopped to wipe the THE TIDE HAS TURNED. The fact that more than half a million dol lars worth of farm products was shipped in car load lots in one year from the small town of Omega, in Tift county, shows the development streaming perspiration from his brow with his'of diversified farming in this section. A little sleeve, the minister said, “You appear to be more than half the amount waa cotton, but a In,a desperate hurry, my son.” "Yes," was, the few years ago it would have been all cotton, but eply; “It’s a gopher case. The preacher fa oming to our house and we ain’t got, no meat.” The gophers did not interfere very much with the cultivation of crops, for they wer,o soon filed out. The chief annoyance in this respect ame from the holes the gophers left. Culti- •ation of land would soon fill these up at the ntrance, but the hoofs of plow-horses or mules would break through, sometimes with trouble- .ome results. A mule had a curious second else, or instinct Where it broke through one if'these holes once, it could never be driven ver the same place again; horses did not: have Uch good memories. \Thoee who ate gophers were principally ne- . -lies, and especially those negroes who came, o this section with turpentine operators from, th-and' South Carolina. It was-not very. er the negroes came before the gophers, they arc afraid of orgnaizSd labor. ''' ‘