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ror two years I suffered with Liver disease
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pa all failed to affect me beneficially.
Respectfully, E. ELLEN PATMAN
y: PI) Le S nRtOD * G*. May 12, 1878.
Miss hllen Patman is my daughter, aud
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D. W. PATMAN
kwirt!!r^ ev ' Daniel, Pastor in charge
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PH invaluable medicine.
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FARM AND HOUSE.
TOPICS OP INTEREST TO THE
FARMER AND HOUSEWIFE.
Care of the Hog.
The hog is the only enimal kept on the
farm without some provision for a regu
lar supply of pure water. And when this
is considered it seems strange that there
is not more disease among hogs than
there is. A drink of clear water has the
effect to cleanse the system of many im
purities and pass th“m off in the secre
tions, and if a hog is deprived of water
entirely, or limited to what he can ex
tract from the slops, which are already
saturated with tilth, and obliged to
wallow in filth and sleep in dust, how
can his system be healthy or his flesh
lit food? The comfort of the animal
should not te overlooked, and no animal
is comfortable that is suffering with
thirst; and sour milk and greasy dish
water and salt slops are not drink. ■
Compost fop Young Trees.
In planting trees the following method
is usually practiced by experienced
planters: The holes are dug large enough
to receive the roots without crowding;
the surface soil is put on one side by
itself. Some compost, old and decayed,
and specially prepared for this use, is put
in the bottom and well mixed with the
earth. Some of the top soil is then put
in for the roots to lie upon, and the re
mainder is then spread over and amoDg
the roots, which are placed in'a natural
position Then some o# the compost
mixed with the bottom earth is put in
and trampled firmly. The hole is filled
up with top soil from around the tree,
which is replaced by the soil left from
the hole. A mulch of manure on the
surface is useful. Manure should never
be put in contact with the roots. —New
York Times.
Scerile Grapevines.
One cause of frequent complaint of this
barrenness is the inability of some plants
to set fruit under any conditions (haviDg
stamens but no pistils), and of others to
fertilize themselves (having early re flexed
stamens). When plants of the latter
sort grow among others, the ever-active
bees see that they are fertilized, but
when remote from.other vines that bloom
at the same time with them they do not
always service. Professor
Augur has recently written a very sensi
ble, practicable article on thiCkubject,
and it is well handled by Mr. Munson in
a paper read before the American Pomo
logical Society last fall. Most of our
wild grapes are polygamo-dioecious, that
is, with about half the plants male and
the rest perfect. Labrusca is the only
one of them which appears to be regular
ly self-fertilizing, so far as Mr. Munson’s
observations go, though hybrids and the
European vinifera are bud-fertilized. “If
one variety is planted in a vineyard it
must have erect stamens in order to
make a crop.”— Dr. William Trelease.
Distribution of Weeds.
When we consider the almost ineredi
ble production of seed that characterizes
some weeds, it is little wonder than men
of intelligence have believed that these
plants spring up by spontaneous produc
tion. The power of self-propagation
differs greatly in plants of the same kind
grown upon the same soil. Prof. Brewer
found individual plauts of the mayweed
producing 30,000 seeds, while near them
were others that would ripen less than a
dozen. He found also the common ox
cyq daisy to produce from 100 to 10,000
seeds <rom a single root, and the Canada
thistle from a few up to 10,000. So
great is the yield of seeds in the mullein
that if they were evenly distributed, and
all grew, a plant would spring up on
every square yard of 126 acre3. The
cause of wheat that contains chess be
coming more foul each year, unless great
care is taken with the seed, is that the
chess multiplies much faster than the
wheat. It is asserted that many of our
worst weeds are importations from
Europe, but if is a curious fact that some
of them give little or no trouble there.
The troublesomeness of weeds depends
upon the soil, climate, and cultivation.
It has been noticed that weeds introduced
from foreign parts will sometimes have a
•trong tendency to choke our native
species. Not only has this observation
been made concerning European plants
in this country, but there are marked
examples of the dissemination of Ameri
can plants in the Old World. While in
fighting weeds the treatment is to be
varied according to the kind we have to
deal with, there is one rule which will
apply to all, viz.: Allow no kind to go
to sied.— Cultivator.
Importance of Food in the Develop
meat of Breeding-Stock.
The breeding of all farm animals re
quires uot only skill in mating, so that
proper formation may be brought about,
but during the growing life of the ani
mal the food must be of such a nature as
best to develop the animal for the pur
pose for which it is required.
The breeding animals in cattle, sheep,
and swine must receive different feeding
from that where the short life ends at the
slaughter-house. The breeding animal
must be developed in every part. The
animal brought to the block at one, two,
or three years of age requires only such
bony and muscukr development as will
enable it to lay on the proper amount of
fat to bring the muscle into the best con
dition for food. But the breeding ani
mal must be developed in the specific
qualities to be inherited by the offspring.
In the breeding of horses all this must
receive the most careful attention. The
bone and muscle giving strength and
speed to the horse, together with the
form and perfect symmetry that always
accompany these attributes, must be
carefully guarded. Here the similarity
in the rearing of horses and other live
stock ends. Whether for breeding,
labor, or work, every colt must be fed
from colthood up with a view to the per
fect development of bone and muscle.
Fully as much depends upon the feeding
as in the breeding of the horse. Not
only this, however good the food, if the
proper care be not given as to shelter,
and no less in exercise, the end can only
result in loss, for however good the
strain of blood the horse cannot reach
that perfection to bring the best profit
for the money invested.— Chicago Tri
bune.
Corn-Fodder.
Sowing corn broadcast for fodder can
not be advised. 1. It is a great waste of
seed, as it is gown too thick. 2. It is not
planted deep enough to stand the sum
mer drought, and gets yellow and wilted
before it is half-grown. 8. It is usually
gown too late, and has not sufficient warm
weather to cure it. 4. If cut green for
•ilage there is little strength or substance
in it, and nutritive food cannot be made
out of it. When it is drilled it is better,
but it is usually too thickly sown to give
good result*. The best way is to plant
it in hills, the same as corn, but some
whltt plod/tr
GEORGIA HOME JOURNAL: GREFJvESBORO. FRIDAY. JUNE 25 1886.--EIGHT PAGES.
Plant at the same time as the genet al
corn crop is planted. Flint corn or earlv
dent is the best; the strong growing late
dent is too coarse in the stalk, and sweet
corn doe* not give enough of fodder to
the acre, besides it is very doubtful if it
is any better than the other, while its
stalks are too weak to stand up when
tie and iu shocks for curing.
The corn should be cut as soon as the
ears begin to glaze, and if properly put
up in small shocks tied with basket-wil
low— of which every farmer should have
a supply growing—and thoroughly cured,
it will be found to be in the most nu
tritious state for feeding. If put in silo
in this state the ears of corn will mould
and be lost, while if the fodder is cut up
in the cure and state as feed, these ears will
be the best part of it, and it will be
found more profit ible than putting it
into silo.
There are still great differences of
opinion as to the real value of silage foi
stock. At any rate, its value for feed
ing to milch cows is very doubtful,
to least, as the milk will not
keep as well or be as sweet as if fed on
cut-fodder mixed with a little cornmeal,
bran or cotton-seed meal, together with
roots during winter. The excitement
about ensilage, which a few years age
had so many advocates, has in a great
measure died out; many of its greatest
advocates have discontinued it. We
have all along advocated that cured corn
fodder was cheaper and better than en
silage if properly managed; to do this
and have it thoroughly cured before
stack'ng or hauling to the barn, it is
necessary to sew early varieties early in
the season, otherwise it will be only
half-cured when cold, wet weather sets
in, and will not keep well. The best
way to keep it is in what is called a
Dutch barn, the roof of which can be
elevated to stack it and let down, as
necessary, to keep the weather out.—
Witness.
Recipes.
Boided Cabbage.—Pick off all the
dead outside leaves, cut off as much of
the stalk as possible, and put into plenty
of last-boiling water in which salt has
been placed; keep the lid off the sauce
pan, and boil for twenty minutes. Drain
in a colander.
Breakfast Dish.—An excellent dish
for breakfast is made of six eggs and
three tablespoonfuls of ham chopped
very fine; beat the eggs, and, after melt
ing a lump of butter in the frying-pan,
drop the eggs into it aud stir the ham in;
the ham has, of course, been c Joked,
either fried or boiled; season with pepper.
This is a good way to use up pieces of
meat that are left from dinner.
Hashed Potatoes Browned. —Pare
and cut potatoes into dice; lay these in cold
water half an hour; stew tender but not
soft iu hot salted water; turn this off and
cover the potatoes with a cup of hot milk
in which you have melted a tablespoon
ful of butter cut up in a tablespoonful of
prepared flour. Turn all into a greased
pudding or pie dish and brown lightly
in a quick oven.
Bean Soup.—Soak one quart of beans
in cold water all night, then take the
beans out of the water and put in a sauce
pan with two quarts of cold water and a
teaspoonful of salt; add one onion in
slices, then put the sauepau on to the
fire, and when it boils move it rather to
the side of the fire, and let it boil gently
for about four hours; the* strain through
a sieve or'colander; rubbing the beans
through with a wooden spoon; stir in
one quart of milk and pour back into
the saucepan; add a little salt and pepper;
stir it well while it is warming, then
serve iu a soup-tureen.
Frothed Eggs.—Bight eggs; one ta
blespoonful of water; pne lemon; sugar
to taste; vanilla or lemon flavoring; one
pound pulverized loaf sugar. Take the
yolks of the eight eggs and the whites
of four of them and beat them up with
the'vtater and the juice of the lemon.
Then sweeten the mixture to taste, add a
pinch of salt, and put the whole into an
omelet pan and fry the same as an ome
let. Have ready the remaining four
whites of egg whipped to a stiff froth
with the pound of pulverized sugar and
flavored with vanilla or lemon. Now
plaee the omelet on a dish, heap tho
whipped egg upon it, and set it in the
oven for a few minutes to brown lightly.
Caterer.
Household Hints.
To remove white spots from tables oi
other furniture, rub the spots with cam
phor, and they will disappear.
To remove ink stains, wash the cloth
thoroughly in milk,, then in hot watei
with soap, and the stains will disappear
Curtains and portieres are looped bach
with ribbons of the same coior of strips ol
the material twisted into a rope, the ends
being fringed.
A pretty covering for a sofa back is oi
bolting cloth, with a design of pink con
volvulus of large size, the veined leaves
worked with the finest filoselle in plume
tis stitch. Of course, this can only bo
used on a sofa upholstered with plain
satin or plush. For one in figured mate
rial, satin serge or some of the delicate
momie linens may be used. Either floral
or conventional designs are appropriate
for these materials.
It is not generally known that cut
straw makes a most excellent stuffing for
beds used by children and infants. Make
a case of soft tick, obtain some new well
dried straw, have it cut in a chaff cutter
and fill the case moderately full. It
makes an astonishing comfortable bed, is
very warm and is much more healthy for
infants than a feather-bed. The idea is
really a good one, and the straw beds are
well worth the attention of mothers.
The First American Tale.
A New York letter to the Troy Times
says: Royal Tyler was not only ti.e author
of the first American drama, but al-o
the first American tale. This was the
“Algerian Captive,” which went through
two editions,but is now a very rare book.
It has no plot, and was wiitten to show
up errors of the times, and especially the
absurdity of paying tribute to the Alge
rines for the privilege of sailing in the
Mediterranean unmolested. It now seems
almost incredible that the United States
was once subjected to this humiliating
condition, but such is history. Our gov
ernment, however, eventually. sent a
squadron to Algiers under Decatur, who
soon taught this nation of pirates to re
spect our flag. To return to the tale, I
may say that in early childhood I came
across a copy, and I well remember the
author mentioning that while yet a lad
he was so deeply interested in “Pilgrims’
Progress” that “he stuck a pin in Apoll
yon’s eye in order to help Christian out
of the’ fight.” The author published
this book under a nom de plume, and the
title page was: “The Algerian Captive;
or, Tne Life and Adventuros of Dr. Up
dike Underhill, Six Years a Prisoner
Among the Algerians.” The book was
popular, and Tyler might have continued
his attention to’ Action, but the next year
(1798) Charles Hrockden Brown’s first
novel appeared, and this checked all
; rivalry.
A FARM IN CEYLON.
AGRICULTURE ON AN ISLANDIN'
THE INDIAN OCEAN.
An American Lady’s Visit to a Plan
tation—Tea, Coffee, and Chocolate
Growing on Bnshes—Chili
Peppers and Croton OiL
Anna Ballard writes from Ceylon,
Indian Ocean, a letter to the Chicago
Inter-Ore in, describing a plantation
owned by J. Lewthaite Dewar, a news
paper writer of Colurabo, the capital of
the island. The following extracts
from Miss Ballard's letter describe some
of the leading products and methods of
Orient agriculture:
Mr. Dewar showed me the chocolate
tree, as I should call it; scientifically, it
is theobroma cacao. The rich fruit con
taining the little nuts that make our choc l
date 'tell for themselves what the tree
is; ana to sail'clcar of confusion we can
at least be understood by saying choco
late tree instead of the corrupt “coco,”
or the proper enongh “coca,” which the
plant is called in Sp inish America, where
it grows. The preferred term should be
the poetical, scientific, proper, and eu
phonious theobroma, which means “food
for the gods.”
From the chocolate bough which I
brought homo one of the larger leaves is
about a foot 1 >ng, and nearly half as
wide. Young leaves at th * top ends of
the twigs, like the youngest leaves of
seveial other trees and shrubs here, are
tender-looking, delicately red, instead of
green, being grown very fast by our heat
and moisture. The “chocolat; nibs” are
in a large, shapely, ruby-red fruit. These
seeds have an adherent, sirupy coating,
which is tart and toothsome. When the
nib is divested of its sour coat and is
dry, it has a browu, brittle, film, a cover
ing which easily shells off from the solid,
shining, polished-brown nut which is the
final and truek rnel, delicious to munch,
aud which only needs pulverizing, and
then treating in the various ways prac
ticed by various people to make the choc
olate cakes of commerce Some m inu
facturers put in a vanilla flavoring. Some
put in sand, to make it weighty, ate.
Kernel and filmy shell are both oily, the
being the “shells” of retail mer
chant ot' food >. They are often incor
rectly termed “cocoa shells.” It should
be coca shells or chocolate shells. The
specimen fruit now lying on my table is
eleven inches in c reumference, aud eight
aud a half inches long. Cutt ng it open
I find thirty-.wo kernels w thin the
tough, pulpy case, which is five-eighths
of an inch deep, is straw-colored, has a
ruby-red skin, and is five-lobed; each
lobe having a very minor subdivision,
hardly more than an-indentation. When
the harvesters have cut open the fruit,
crosswise, not longitudinally, they adroit
ly and instantly scoop out the seeds.
Then the ruby-red and delicate yellow
case loses its beauty, dries up, aud makes
a pair of hard, strong, serviceable cups.
Coffee trees by the hundreds of acres
have been cut and >wn, and their slender,
white stumps remain. The present naked
state shows how at much labor thesq
trees have been protected. An embank
ment of well-built stone wall stands
around th; lower side of each tree to
keep the soil from being washed away
down the steep hill.
Tea requires only three or four years
of growth to become a fortune-bearer;
and the old coffee estates are now being
covered with tea-phtnts, at present mere
saplings, ou which the planters have
hung their hopes. They expect there
from to revel in greater incomes than
were enjoyed from the coffee of the past.
We turned from one new species of
tropical field plant to another, too fast
for my intelligence to pick up their dis
tinguishing appearance. Mr. Dewar
culled boughs of the “Cinchona Sacci
rubra”andthe “Cinchona Seedgeriana”
—varieties of the plant which furnish
the billious world with “fever bark,”
which enters the sick chamber in the
shape of quinine. This tree I learned to
recognize by sight the quickest of all the
tropic field growths. Our remedial qui
nine comes from a not large tree, having
a broad, bright green leaf, too often red,
making it a picture-bush.
The castor-oil plant, banana trees, and
sugar cane for sweet chewing are grown
at Roseneath, in a Tamil garden, which
occupies the ravine below “the store.”
Every estate has a large building termed
“the store,” which stores the products
of the ground, the tools, and wagons. If
has a drying-loft, and near it there is a
large, level, prepared area, for the firrft
spreading out, the drying, and other pro
cesses.
The laborers on Ceylon estates are gen
erally, and until the recent hard jtimes
exclusively, Tamils. The Tamils are from
Southern Hindustan, whence they arc
coming and going from year to year;
while, also, there are some whose fathers
have lived here; and in the North, at
Jaffna, there has long existed a perma
nent Tamil colony. In the English
Orient Empire there is only one more nu
merous people, aud few or none so his
torically interesting and fascinating. The
structure of the language of the Tamils
shows au ancient culture; something
more than civilization—a culture. On a
plantation their huts are in groups, here
and there, or oftenerall together. Such
a group is called “the lines.” We epeak
of going to “the lines,” meaning to the
lines of dwellings, equivalent to the
negro “quarters” we lead of on Louisi
ana plantations in slavery times.
No drones are in these coolie families.
Laborers are termed “coolies,” from the
Hindu word “kuli,” meaning a general
laborer. The house kuli runs on errands,
sweeps, lifts, washes dishes, and does
whatever the servants above him bid, he
being the “servant of servants.” Equally
with their men, the kuli women work
among the coffee stumps, pulling up
weeds, planting the proper growth, or
gathering the planter's harvest of leaves,
or of fruit, or of bark, the “fever bark,”
as it is often termed here. It is the “Pe
i uvian bark” of America.
Branching off from the exceptionally
excellent roads made by the government
thr >uihout Ceylon, there are “estate
roads.” well made, leading to the plant
er’s bungalow, his “store.” and all over
the plantation. As we drive through his
cultivate! acres, all without enclosure,
and wind around the rugged slopes, we
see men, women, and also children of all
ages. The least ones are scattered around
the stove or near their mother in the
field. Children in these circumstances
are no trouble to raise, no obstacle to
daily work.
Avery young mother stands in the
picture before my eye. She is standing
among the rich leaves of a quinine tree
(cinchona). She wears simple clothing—
a dress without a stitch—a few yards of
cloth, draped in the graceful manner of
her people. In the midday of sunny
toil, her hair, without her effort of
thought, looks just as a Western belle
of Europe or America would take much
pains to mike her hair stay through an
important occasion by aid of bandoline
and other tricks. Her feet are bare.
They never hud on a shoe, and never
will, not even a sandal. But they are
coquettishly adorned; at least three toes
bear toe-rings, funny and heavy, of some
uncorrosive mixed metal.
More simple than even the clothing of
the mother is tho apparel of the child.
It wears absolutely nothing excepts its 1
ornaments. The leaden rings drag open
the hole in the lobe mnch more than
wide enough to hold all which the fu
ture woman will carry, by her ear. It
wears also a necklace, armlets and brace
lets. The armlet, which is above the
elbow, and the necklace are of assorted
beads.
Mr. Dewar put into a great bouquet of
brnnchlets, a bough of the croton oil
plant, which yields the croton oil of
commerce; also twigs of “Chili pepper,”
and stalks of “citronella grass.” The
citronella is a perfume-grass, much used
for its oil, which is good for soaps, hair
oil and rheumatism. The “Chili” is
a bright red pepper, not longer and more
slender than your little toe, and violently
hot.
More beautifully interesting than all
the other fine growths is a* mature and
thrifty grove of nutmeg trees, glossy
leaved, symmetrically rounded, with
their beautiful fruit thereon. The
nutmeg upon the tree is about as
large as a peach and is a more
regular'globe, has a light yellow exterior,
covering a Dalcr stratum, which is a half
inch or more deep, a tough pulp. It
opens when the fruit is ready to leave the
tree. The combination of colors in this
little globe is then striking. Inside
is a polished, glossy, leather-colored
nut, which is the basis for the loveliest
branching, bright-red embroidery, an en
closure which lies close around thd shin
ing kernel. I have no words to tell how
pretty this fruit is, in its peeping crevice
in the fresh-cleaved, delicate, corn-col
ored case. The red branchlet, this close
envelop; is the “mace” of commerce and
of pudding, custards and cake. Iu dry
ing it loses its glow of color.
In our path through a sunny ravine a
“stag-moss” was too pretty to leave
under-foot. A lime tree hung'in my
way, its ripened fruit, a small, green, per
fect globe, which makes delicious lemon
ade, or lime ide; aud one of whose spicy
leaves, ingeniously cut and curled, lies
ia the bowl a3 a flavoring to the finger
and lip water at the end of the thrice
daily feasts of the Vungalo. The lime is
the presentation fruit ol our Tamils on
great days, such as New Year or a bridal
visit upon our veranda.
Origin of Horse Racing.
In “Racing and Steeple Chasing” the
author—the Earl of Suffolk—tells us
that the e irlicst mention of race or run
ning horses occurs in the ninth century.
These were sent by Hugh Capet of France
as a present to King Athelstane. With
the coming of William the Conqueror,
the breed of horses was considerably im
proved, and new stock was imported
from Norman ly and other countries. A
breed of targe and heavy horses was in
troduced from Spain. In the time of
Henry 11. horse racing had come to be a
popular sport. Edward 111. was a great
lover of hordes, and paid what in our
money would be eight hundred dollars
each for several choice racers. In this
age it was considered dishonorable and
disgraceful for a knight or gentleman to
ride a mare; while, on the other hand,
the clergy rode upon no other horse. Un
der Henry VIII. there was a law re
garding the breeding of horses which
would be considered in these clays
very severe. Constables and keepers
were authorized and commanded to
each year examine the horsps of -the
country and kill and bury all that were
not up to a certain standard. This and
other acts of Parliament had the effect of
killing out the small breed of horses in
Cornwall and Wales. Some of the laws
which compelled men to keep a certain
nilmber of trotting horses according to
their wealth or rank, are very curious.
Stealing a horse was punishable with
death, without benefit of the clergy.
During the reign of Elizabeth, racing fell
into disrepute, and so little attention
was paid to horse-breeding that when
England was threatened by the Spanish
armada not more than 3,000 cavalry could
be mustered in the whole kingdom. In
the re'gn of James, however, the sport of
racing was revived, and with it the breed
ing of horses. King James imported the
first Arabian horse, for which he paid
£SOO. Under Charles 11. the sport be
came national, the “merry monarch”
taking active part in the great races
which were established at Newmarket,
bestowing a royal gift upon the winner.
Since that time the “races” at the vari
ous great English courses have formed as
much a part of English social life and
habit as if they had been enforced and
guaranteed by the English constitution.
—Boston Transcript.l
Advantages of Low Ceilings.
Rooms with low ceilings, or with
ceilings even with the window-tops, are
more readily and completely ventilated
than those with high ceilings, says the
Scientific Monthly. The leakage of air
which is always going on keeps all parts
of the air in motion in, such rooms,
whereas if the ceiling is higher only the
lower part of the air is moved, and an
inverted lake of foul and hot air is left
floating in the space above the window
tops.
To have the currents of fresh air cir
culating only in the lower parts of the
room, while the upper portion of the air
is left unaffected, is really the worst
way of ventilating; for the stagnant at
mospheric lake under the ceiling, although
motionless,keeps actively at work, under
the law of the diffusion of gases, fouling
the fresh currents circulating beneath it.
With low ceilings and high windows
no such accumulation of air is possible,
for the whole height of the room is swept
by the currents as the dust of the floor is
swept with a broom. Low ceilings have
also the advantage of enabling the room
to be warmed with less expediture of
heat and less cost for fuel.
Latest Thing in Late Sappers.
“The latest craze,” said Mr. William
Ottman, of Fulton Market, New York
City, to a Mail and Express reporter, “is
grilled marrow bones and old ale for a
late supper. There are several uptown
resorts which have already made a
specialty of this sort of thing. The
bones arc grilled in the usual way and
are served up on hot plates. The mar
row is extracted by means of a long spoon
shaped like a gouge, which is made es
pecially for the purpose in England.
The marrow is eaten on slices of fresh
white bread, seasoned with salt and pep
per.”
A Sharp Contrast.
■ftjere lives an old man in Montana,
Just lately arrived from Havana,
He wears six suit* of clothes.
And a muff on his nose;
Yet between fits of sneezing,
He vows he is freezing;
This frigid old man fn Montana.
There lives an oM man in Havana,
. Just lately arrived from Montana,
He is dressed very thin in
An ulster of lineu;
While two big fans, revolving,
Keep the heat from dissolving
This torrid old nun In Havana.
—Mary C. Bell, fa H ide Awake.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
THE BOSS OF CRUSHERS
THE FARMERS' KEY TO SUCCESS!
■ Farmers say it is just what they have been looking for ever since the war.
, By which farmers can make their own fertft
pUst Rrind k steame<l bone, phosphate and load
3^2sl nure, corn and cob for stock food, or
V"*’ Anything That is Grindable.
* U will make good corn meal when you era's
1 it. do an y better. By its use the farmer will grow
richer, instead of poorer all the time.
H fBM_-L* Pa SENI> FOR CIRCULARS.
mm -?!■£§§& . Giving full particulars; abo state if you would
Fm ' KHh&B V? 5 "S’- like circulars of the DeLoach Water Wheel*,
' T WfcSrafe Portable Mills, etc. We sell Portable Mill* ra
i° w as $80; guaranteed to
1 Fm J MAKE GOOD MEAL
I Address:
A. A. DeLOACH ifc BRO.
ATLANTA, GA.
FACTORY PRICES FOR NINETY DAYS [
NOW IS THE TIME TO BUY FOR ALL WHO WANT FURNITURE AT THM
OLD ESTABLISHED HOUSE OF
PLATT BBOTKEI3S,
The largest Furniture Emporium in the State. Guaranteed to crive Satisfaoton to all Purchas
serg or return the Goods. We take great pleasure in showing our goods. COME
ONE, GOME ALL, and satisfy yourselves that we sell goeds cheaper
—THAN ANY OTHER HOUSE IN THE STATE.
BROTHERS. - G-et-
FOR THE NEXT 60 DAYS !
AT GOODYEAR’S
MMGI imSIW!
WILL BE SOLD THE LARGEST AND MOST
BESiHABLi ASSBRTMitff
OF OPEN AND TOP BUGGIES ever brought to this market at lower prices than ever
before offered. These goods are First Class, with steel axles and tires, thoroughly paint,
ed, full leather trimmed, and warranted for twelve months. Just received anotbat
shipment of those fine
MI! CARRIAGES, PUAFFONS & CABRIOLETS
OPEN and TOP BUGGIES, made upon special orders, by the best Msnufactorm
North and East. Nothing being used in the construction of these vehicles but the bt
materials, and in Qnalitr, Style and Finish are uneaqualled by any others now in tit
market. In stock a full line of
|iM and Jaroigf of |li |rads$ I
Which I will offer at LOWER PRICEB than have ever before been known In th*
history of the business. MILBURN. STUDEBAKER and STANDARD PLANTATION
WAGONS, all sizes. Oak and Hemlock Sole Leather, Calf Skins, Shoe
Carriageand Wagon Materials, Harness Leather, Belt Lacing of superior quality, Rubber
and Leather Belting. Also, a Full Line of
EEJSLmD wake: ,
Guns, Shells, Powder, Shot, Table and Pocket Cutlery, Plow Points for all make*.
Nails, Axes, Hoes, Picks aud Mattocks, Pilch Fonts, Shoyels, Spades, Steelyard* and.
Scale Beams, Grind Stones, Rakes, Padlocks, Carpenter Tools, Files, Hinges, Window
Sash, DoOrs and Blinds, Farm and Church Bens, which I am offering at LOWEST CASHU
PRICES.
A. R. GOODYEAR, Agent,
(Successor to R. H. MAY St CO.)
At the Old Stand, Opposite Georgia ailroad Bank, 704 Broad St., AUGUSTA, GA.
NAVASSA COMPANY
WILMINGTON. N. C.
minim mmizn
POPE cfc FLEMING,
GFNERAL AGENTS, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
We are General Agents for the goods made by the above company. Their FERTILES*
ERS are all of the HIGHEST STANDARD, and none better are offered in this marked
We ask for the patronage of the public. Write to us for terms and full particulars.
I=*op© <Sc Fleming, Q-eneral
WR. TAPP AN, Local Agent, White Plains, Ga. feb. 19, 'BB.
D. R. Weight, President. J. T. Nxwbbry, Cashier.
PLANTERS’ LOAN
AND
Sa'rtoge IBetjafs. 2
CAPITAL, (all paid vp) , . . SIOO,OOO.
Collections Carefully Attended to and Promptly Remitted For.
er DRAFTS ON ALL PARTS OF THE WORLD FOR SALE.
■W Interest allowed on Deposits in the Savings Department. j&
DIRECTORS: D. R. Wright, W. H. Howard, G. R. Lombard, W. E. Benson, W. lf_
Jordan, Z. McCord and D. H. Van Buren. AUGUSTA, GA.
V Min 11 PUT BEFORE BUYING CLOCKS
\l.l II el Pit \ WATCHES. JEWELRY,
011 U 1111 lilt oSilver & Silver Plated Warn
JEWELRY STORE. Write to me .for prices.
ATHENS, GEORGIA. hepairin-g ,/v speczaiity.
immoi mmm
“THE BEST IS THE CHEAPEST.”
SELECT IF’ZEXBTXX.XZEXBS I
FROM THEi
ETIWAN PHOSPHATE CO.,
CHARLESTON. S. G.
ETIWAN DISSOLVED BONE, ETIWAN ACID PHOSPHATE, ETIWAN GUANO,
ETIWAN AMMONIATED DISSOLVED BONE.
R. TAPP AN, WHITE PLAINS, GEORGIA,
Can always supply you wilh the above popular brands from Grcenesboro, Crawfoed.iU*
and Union Point. . tab, ugNL.