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you use a fertilizer whose
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over feed the plant at one
time and starve at another.
This is why Royster brands
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work to do. Twenty-five
years experience in making
goods for Southern crops has
enabled us to know what is
required.
See that trade mark is on every bag
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Schedule Seaboard Air Line
EASTWARD.
No, 52—For local stations, Mon
roe and Columbia .. 9:45 a m
I No. 32—For Norfolk, Washing
ton and New York... 2:49 p m
No. 58—For local stations to
Athens 6:55 p m
No. 38—For local stations north
of Athens, Richmond
and East 11:25 p m
WESTWARD.
No. 41—For Atlanta, Birming
ham and west 5:40 a m
No. 57 —For local stations and
Atlanta : 7:52 a m
No. 33—For Atlanta, Birming
ham, Memphis and
West 4:02 p m
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No 53 —For Atlanta and west 6:55 p m
These arrivals and departures are
riven as information and are not guar
anteed.
Schedule Gainesville Midland Railway
SOUTH BOUND
No. 11 —Lv. 8:45 a. m.
No. 13 —Lv. 3:05 p m.
No. 15 —Lv. 7 110 a m
No. 17 —Lv. 10:20. Sunday only
NORTH BOUND
No. 12— At. 9:25 am.
No. 14 —Ar. 2:15 pm.
No. I(5—A.. 5:2> pm.
No. 18 —Ar 8:35. Sunday only.
BOWSER'S VISION,
Chanca of His Liis Looms In the
Culture of Cabbage.
Cl ATS GOVERNMENT BGHE3S.
Honors Mrs. Bowser by Asking Msr
Opinion Firsts —Her Figures and the
t Butcher’s Opinion C. use Bowser to
Wander and Muse.
! By M. QUAD.
' [Copyright, 1-JlO, by Associated Literary
I ress.J
&'[ K. BOWSLH had been reading
jjWjU and smoking fur hull' an hour
I the ( tlier evening when he
suddenly said:
“Mrs. Bowser, there is a little matter
1 should like to lay before you and
have your opinion about.”
"1 shall be glad to hear of it." she
answered as she turned to him in sur
prise that he should seek her opinion.
“You don’t blame me for wanting to
get rich, do you?”
“No.”
“I don't mean by dishonest practices,
of course, but by taking advantage of
fortuitous circumstances.”
"In other words, by speculation?”
“Well, it is that, and yet it isn’t.
I'm not buying any stock in butter
milk I mean is that: If
I had a cliawK? to buy out a sure thing
at less than its worth —a thing that
must pay SIO,OOO a year for the next
fifty years—would you favor it?”
“Why, certainly. That Is, unless it
was a flying machine or something of
the sort. You might think it was a
sure thing, while I differed with you.
I’lease state what your sure thing is?”
“You will be surprised. I admit that
I have thought well of several schemes
that would have bankrupted me had I
gone into them, but this one is as solid
as the rock of Gibraltar. It was pre
sented to me a week ago, but I wanted
to thoroughly investigate it before say
ing anything. I have investigated it.
It is safe and sound.”
“Well?*
“What do you pay for a head of
cabbage at the grocery?”
“From 10 to 15 cents.”
Cabbag# Like Government Bonds.
“Exactly, and the grocer pays the
farmer from 7 to 11 cents. Cabbage
heads are cash down. A head of cab-
SB. BOWSER'S CABBAGE UKEAU.
bags Is so much silver in your band,
always worth its price. Wheat and
corn may go up or down, but a cab
bage head always remains the same—
that is, it is never worth a less price.
There are vegetables that people can
do without, but they must have cab
bage. Take the cabbage head away
and what would become of our boiled
dinners? Where would be our sauer
kraut? Where would be our sago and
other preparations made from cabbage
stalks? Do you see?”
“Yes. I am seeing.”
“When a farmer has thirty acres of
wheat, oats, corn or potatoes growing
he cannot say they will be worth so
much, because the market price is al
ways fluctuating. When he lias thirty
acres of cabbage lie is as sure of their
value as if he had invested on a first
mortgage. You can liken cabbages tc
United States bonds. Indeed, the gov
ernment may fail, but cabbages can't.
The man who goes in to grow them
isn't speculating nor taking chances
lie is banking on a sure thing. Me is
at once rated *Al’ by the commercial
agencies, and when he enters the doors
of a trust company the officials take
off their hats to him and ask him to
please borrow from five to ten thou
sand dollars at the very lowest rate of
interest. You now understand the sit
uation. don’t you?”
“Y r es. partly,” answered Mrs. Bow
ser; “but, you see. you have not quite
finished. Do you mean that you have
had an offer to go into the cabbage
industry on favorable terms?”
“That's it. 1 have had the offer of
my life. If I were to live for a thou
sand years I could not look for an
other like it. Some men would have
closed at once, but 1 have waited to
ask your opinion. I am offered by a
cabbage grower thirty acres of the
best cabbage land In the United States
for our home here, lie will exchnnge
even up. There you have it, and what
have you got to say?"
"You want my honest opinion, do
you?" was asked.
“I do."
"And you won't be vexed If I differ
with you?"
“Of course not."
“Well, lot us pee, Y’ou value our
home at SIO,OOO. don't you?"
"It's worth that and more."
“Then you propose to pay over $323
per acre for your cab bare land, and 1
have seen the very tiuest cabbages
grown on land that coukl he bought
for $2!) an acre. Isn't that a bad move
•t the very start?”
“I’m paying nothing of the . kind!"
shouted Mr. l’.owser as la' sprang up.
“Figure a little an.l you’ll see. Is
there a house on the thirty acres?”
“I—l dunno.”
“Then if we vacate here, where are
we going to live?"
“You are finding fault, just as you
always do.”
A Women's Eusiness View.
“No; I'm looking at the business side
of the case. These thirty acres must
be prepared for your plants in the
spring. Have you figured on the cost?
Then you must get plants and set
them out. Have you figured on that?
Then they must be tended. The cab
bage may come through all right, and
then again insects may bother. When
grown they must he gathered and ship
ped. Have you figured on the cost of
all these things?”
“Idiot that I am for having said
anything about it to you!” shouted
Bowser as he stamped up and down
the room.
“Please don’t get excited. You have
been offered something better than a
gold mine. Let us see about it. Did
this cabbage head man tell you the
number grown to the acre?”
"I believe lie said 500.”
“It’s more likely to be less, but we’ll
take his figures. If every cabbage ma
tured you would have 15,000. How
much had these ought to sell for?”
“Thousands and thousands of dol
lars. I tell you, I have gone over and
over it, and it is a gold mine and bet
ter.”
“But take the figures for it, Mr.
Bowser. If every head is sold at 10
cents it is a big average. Your thou
sands and thousands of dollars amount
to just $1,500. Out of that must come
all the expenses. If you got $750 clear
you would be doing well. Don’t turn
red in the face and shout and gesture,
but look my figures over and see if I
Lave made any mistake."
“They are all wrong, wrong, wrong!”
“Come and show me.”
“I’ll do nothing of the kind. You
have set out to down me in this thing,
but I refuse to be downed. It’s your
Infernal meddling that has kept me
from hitting a dozen different good
things since our marriage, and I’ll
have no more of it. I say that there is
a fortune iu a cabbage orchard every
year.”
“Then why can't we figure it out?”
“Because you don’t want to, but
others can and will. Mrs. Bowser, I
will bring you figures iuside of half
au hour that will prove you an idiot at
mathematics!”
••Very well. I wish yo would state
the case to others. Our butcher has a
farm and raises cabbages. Ask him.”
“I'll do it, and I warn you of your
doom. I'll crush you as the elephant
crushes the worm!”
Mr. Bowtir Gets Light.
Mr. Bowser donned hat aud over
coat and rushed from the house to the
butcher shop. The butcher hud fifteen
minutes to spare him to hear his sto
ry. As he listened lie smiled. When
the story was concluded he said:
“You couldn't make enough at cab
bage growing to buy your bair oil!”
“But why?” was demanded.
“Ask Mrs. Bowser. I’ll bet she’s got
the sense to see why you couldn't.
Why, man, a chap Just out of an idiot
asylum or going in wouldn’t be caught
in a scheme like this!”
“Don’t you call me no fool!”
“There, there! Don’t get excited.
Try cabbages in your back yard or on
the roof and get jour band iu. Get a
book on the cabbage bead. Read poet
ry ou the cabbage by moonlight. Con
sult the encyclopedia on the cabbage
stalk. Good night, Mr. Bowser!”
And Mr. Bowser backed Into the
winter’s night and walked and walked
and thought and thought, and his ears
grew cold, and the frost found his
feet, and now and then a gust of wind
whipped round a corner to meet him
and sing the sad refrain:
“Oh. where is my cabbage head to
night?”
An Appropriate Move.
“Well, well!" ejaculated the patent
churn man. who iiad not visited the
hamlet before iu several months.
“When did you change the name of
this hotel to the Taft House?”
“Bight after we built ou that big
bay window.” replied the landlord of
the hostelry at Wbittlesville.—Puck.
FOR SALE.
Braml new graphophone far stile.
Co-t $25. Will take S2O. Alto
second-hand buggy in first-class con
dition. Apply at this office.
WHY SOWF.AK?
Kidney Trouble May be Sapping
Life Away. Winder
People HavG Learned
This Fact.
" When a healthy man or woman
begins to run down without ap
parent cati-c, becoms weak, languid,
depressed, suffers ‘ backache, dizzy
spells and urinary disorders, look
to tin* kidneys for the cause of it
all. keep the kidneys well and
they will keep you well. Doan’s
Kidney Pills cure sick kidneys and
keep them well. Here is Winder
testimony to prove it.
.1. C. Sea graves, Caet>ry Hill,
Winder, Ga.,* says: “For irregu
larity in the lussages of the kid
ney secretions and painfc in the
hack, Ido not believe there is a
remedy equal to Doan’s Kidney
Pills. I was troubled by disordered
kidneys for two or three years and
at times my back was so lame and
sort' that 1 could not turn over in
l>cd. Occasionally 1 had dizzy
spells, during which everything be
fore me became dark- 1 tried any
numbei of remidies, but nothing
helped me in the least until 1 began
udng D( tin’s Kidney Pills’ pro
cured at City Drug Store. They
went at once to the* seat of my
trouble and it was not long before
1 was completely cured- 1 gladly
recommend Doan’s Kidney Pills to
anyone afflicted as 1 was.”
For sale by all dealers. Price 50
cents. Foster-Mil burn Cos., Buffalo,
New York, sole agents for the
United States
Remember the name —Doan's
and take no other.
Why He Returned.
Last winter, says the Cleveland
News, Mrs. Clifford A, Neff, who
resides in that part of Bratenahl
still known as Doan street, s >rted
out her husband’s cast-off clothing.
To the first applicant who came
along she handed a complete suit of
clothes which she thought had seen
enought service, and the man went
off rejoicing and volubly thanking
her.
This week he reappeared at the
Neff home, where he was immedi
ately recognized.
“Last year, madam,” he said
with a bow,“ your were kind
enough to give me a suit of clothes.
In tin* pocket of tla' coat I found
a dollar bill, all crumpled up, and”
“And yon waited all this time to
return it?” interrupted Mrs.Neff,
“No, madam,” replied the yan
handler, with anothe how; “ I cal
led to ask you if you hadn’t another
coat to give me.”
HOW Ht GOT EVEN
A traveling man who stutter.*
spent all afternoon in trying to sell
a grocery business man a bill of goods
and wii* not very successful, says
Success.
As the salesman was locking up
bis grip, the grouch was impolite
enough to observe in the presence ef
his clerks: “You must find that im
pediment in your speech very incon
venient.”
“Oh, n-no,” replied the salesman
Every one has his p-peeuliarity.
S-Stammerii.g is mine. What is
yours?”
“I’m not aware that 1 have any,”
1 replied tin 1 merchant.
“J)-Do you stir y-your coffee with
your r-right hand?’’ asked the sales*
man.
“Why, yes, of course,” replied
the merchant.
W-Well, ’ ’ went on the salesman
“t-tbat’s your p-peculiarity.
Most people use a t-teaspoon.”
We have a large stock of Nails
and Barb Wire, and can make you
best prices on it.
Wooniu KK Hardware Cos