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THE NEW GROCERY! I have opened up a Store next door to Duggan Brothers & Company and will keep the Best and Freshest Stock always and prices will be to suit—Also an Up-To-Dete Cold Drink Stand. I Invite all my friends to call • jt\ me. Delight ful and Refreshing Cold Drinks of all Kinds will be kept on hand. J. A. DYKES. J. .J. TAYLOR. President J. P. PEACOCK, Yi.e-Puesident. J. A. WALKER, Cashier. (Eorfjran Hanking (Hmnpang, Capital, $25,000.00. Surplus, $35,000.00. (Eurfjratt, (Srunjia. We Solicit Your Patronage. You can make a water-tight box out of » hardwood flooring, coat the inside with |kianizb floor finish f Fill it with water and let it stand ail day. I Twenty-four hours of water soaking won’t J feaze the KVANIZE a bit. When it’s dry in an hour or two it will be as bright as ever. KYANIZE is waterproof—it’s made so on purpose. , Gomes in Clear and Seven Beautiful Colors Good tor all Inside Werk a* well as Floors TAYLOR & KENNINGTON. PROFESSIONALS. DR. C. T. HALL, Dentist, Cochran, - Georgia. Office over J. J. Taylor’s Store. R. L. WHIPPLE. S Physician, Cochran, - Georgia. Calls answered Day ami Night. Office Phone 264. Residence 273. HERBERT L. GRICE, Attorney-at-Law, Hawkinsville, - Georgia. DR. T. D. WALKER, Physician and Surgeon, Cochran, Georgia. L. A. WHIPPLE. Attorney-at-Law, HAWKINSVILLE, GA. Huggins Building. M. H. BOYER, Lawyer, HAWKINSVILLE, GA. Huggins Building. Rooms 27 and 28. niijiji T. D. WALKER. JR.. Physician and Surgeon. SURGERY A SPECIALTY. Calls Answered Promptly at Any Time. Leave Calls at WALKER’S PHARMACY. DR. R. J. MORGAN. Physician and Surgeon, Cochran, Georgia. Office Phone 13. Residence 28. DRS. LANFORD & WALTERS, Dentists, Office on Main Street. COCHRAN. - - GEORGIA. P. O. Box 93. Dental Work Done in ill of its Branches. W. L. & WARREN GRICE, Attorneys-at-Law, Hawkinsville, Georgia. Office over George's Drug Store, Commerce Street. H. E. COATES, Attorney-at-Law, HAWKINSVILLE, CA. Farm arid Garden DAHLIA JACK ROSE. This Flower Ons of tha Moat Profitabla That Can Ba Grown. Farmers who grow flowers for profit as a side line— mid this appe.-ils partic ularly to some of the farmers' wives who live near good sized towns—are assured by L K. Peacock of Berlin. N. J.. who produces many kinds of flowers, that the dahlia Jack rose is one of the most profitable blossoms. Mr. Peacock cut blooms last season that brought sti per hundred, while a Massachusetts man sold his output at ft 1.50 a dozen. As to this rose Mr. Pea cock writes: “Now, sifter another year’s growing, during which we had several acres, we can only add to the praise extend DAHLIA JACK ROSE. ed by us last year. It was the henlth iest plant we bad ou the place, the first to get Into bloom, and every flow er was perfect the entire season, which in our location wns a most trying one owing to the extended droughts. True, the stems were not as long as they should have been, but they were as loug as those of Sylvia, recognized by all as a first class flower with good stems, and later in the season many Jack rose stems averaged longer than any of the recognized standard va rieties. Almost every special order for cut flowers lucluded the jack rose. “Another thing not to be forgotten Is the forcing quality of the jack rose, which Is even today being placed on the market and sold at prices far above chrysanthemums, as it has that brilliant, rich crimson that appeals to all and cannot he found In the chrys anthemum—a decidedly richer shade than found even In the Jacqueminot rose.” A Nsw Kind of Corn From China. A small lot of shelled corn ot a kind that Is new to this country was sent to the United States department of agriculture from Shanghai, China, In lUOB and tested the same seasou. It proved to have qualities that may make It valuable in breeding a corn adapted to the hot and dry conditions of the southwest. The plants raised in the test averaged less than six feet in height, with an average of twelve green leaves at time of tasseling. The ears averaged five and one-half Inches in length and four and one-third inches in greatest circumference, with six teen to eighteen rows of small grains. On the upper part of the plant the leaves are all on one side of the stalk. Instead of being arranged in two rows on opposite sides. Besides this, the upper leaves stand erect instead of dropping, and the tips of the leaves are therefore above the top of the tas sel. The silks of the ear are produced at the point where the leaf blade is joined to the leaf sheath. This corn is very different from any now produced Id America. Its pecul iar value Is that the erect arrange ment of the leaves on one side of the stajk and the appearance of the silks in the angle where the leaf blade joins the sheaf offer a protected place In which pollen can settle and fertilize the silks before the latter are ever ex posed to the air. While this corn may be of little value itself, it is likely that by crossbreeding these desirable qual ities can be Imparted to a larger corn. The discovery of this peculiar corn In China suggests anew the idea that, although America Is the original home of corn, yet it may by some means have been taken to the eastern hemi sphere long before the discovery of America by Columbus. From descrip tions in Chinese literature corn is known to have been established in China within less than a century after the voyage of Columbus. Hay Consumed by Animals. The hay consumed by different ani mals does not vary greatly_from three pounds daily for eit.Ti hundred pound weight of the animals. The following table Is the result of various expert meuts by different persons and will be useful to farmers who wish to deter mine by I'ah-tilation beforehand how their hay will hold out for the winter: Working horses. 3.08 imuuds; milk cows, “.-to pounds; young growing cat tie H.IIK pounds; steers. 2.H4 |Miunds; dry cows. '2.42 pounds; sheep. If pounds. All Ibe articles enumerated in this food table are estimated as of good quality. If the fodder be of poor qual ity more must be allowed. NO FEAR OF BEEF TRUSTS. Golden Words of Wisdom Anent the “Back to the Farm" Slogan. Here is the view of a Vermonter, who signs himself "A Farmer From Town." In a recent teller to a .New York paper: We in the hills have watched with great Interest the widely varying com ments on the high prices and means for restoring less costly living. •'Back to the farm Is the only reme dy,” but what will Induce laltor to go back to producing food'; The farming population, a fairly large proportion, has simply asserted its right to choose where to work fur a Jiving. If labor prefers to build automobiles or to man icure Indies' bauds or even, as we see It, to make cheap wrappers in a New England factory town rather than work on a farm, what is to be done? The only way to make those one time farmers go back to work on the land is to make it pay, and that would nieuu higher prices than are now paid the farmer. At present 7 cents per pound, dressed. Is the best the farmers of this region receive for beef. 3 cents per quart for milk richer In fat than most that Is sold in cities, and vegeta bles for nearly nothing buck from the railroads. But already ’’the ultimate consumer” pays more than he wishes. The remedy is back to the farm with “the ultimate consumer” himself! If he will forego fashionable clothes, champagne und cnnvasbaek duck, be content with the best beef, mutton and chickens, milk, cream, cheese and but ter that any market affords, the city rebel could, with no more than a few thousand invested in land und SSOO a year, live like a lord In lovely sur roundings and spend some time In town as well. If. like us, he chops and hauls some of his own wood, plows his own land and cares for his own garden, $2,500 to invest and S2OO a year would give freedom and good living—hard for well to do folks to find in town. On the fnrm we have no fear of beef trusts nor of illness. When six months' Idleness follows a sickness we hnve a year's fuel ready, some “critters” to sell, a cellar full of vegetables und an unfailing supply of rich ntllk from which we make our butter and cheese. To Build Lime Spreader. Very useful as a furming adjunct is a distributer for spreading lime, ashes or bone on land. A machine built for tills purpose by a New York farmer is thus described: The axle of an old mowing machine Is first cut in two and made as long as the machine is to be. Five col lars are then shrunk on to the axle equal distances apart in such a man ner as to hold the four feed bars about one Inch from tlfe axle. One by three eighths inch Iron feed bars are then fastened to the collars with tap bolts and the heads cut off and riveted, mak ing a cylinder which acts as a force feed when revolving with the wheels. The same wheels and ratchets are used that were on the old mowing ma chine, so it can be put is and out of gear. The sides of the hopper are con structed of one and one-quarter inch lumber, and the ends are made of two inch hard wood, with iron plates screwed on where the axle passes through to prevent wearing. The in side of the hopper is made one-half Inch longer titan the force feed cyl inder, so it will work easily. The ends and sides of hopper are made separately and put together on the machine. The whole bottom of the machine Is then covered with heavy galvanized iron with a 1 by 2 Inch LIMB DISTRIBUTER. hole every six inches, and over this ! a false bottom is placed so It will slide toward either end to regulate the feed. This false bottom Is held In place with three straps made of hoop Iron, fas tened to the sides of the hopper and worked with a lever at the back. The force feed must work very closely to the holes, in the galvanized iron to prevent clogging. I'lie pole to a 4 by 4 Inch stick as loiijM hopper. This stick Is fn-<tenßW»j|Ei ecu inches in front of bop|M*t*|HKH|| lug It solidly to the two dnijHftHfl made of Z by halt inch iron {J end. through which the nxleUH and two heavy braees whichAaM hopper in |K>sition. New Variety of Fruit. -UH The pecotf Is the name giveff (om new variety of fruit that seems tW have originated in the Yakima valley,! near North Yakima. Wash. Two working separately, each without tht*« knowledge of the other, reached Iha same results. The fruit Is a cross be tween the peach and the apricot. !■ is not so large as the peach, but .V earlier thau either the peach or aprifl cot. It will Ik* Valuable ns an early™ fruit because it comes into bearing and ripens soon after strawberries are in the market. It is earlier than the earliest peaches and has a tine flavor. It has a beautiful ye!low color, with a bright red cheek, nuking It an at tractive fruit when nicely boxed and ready for the market. Surprised Her. A gentleman who had spent the greater portion of his life in Canada relates an amusing experience which befell him. He had been on a hunting expedition for several days in the backwoods, roughing it rather severely, and on taking a seat in a railway train re turning homeward he looked as be grimed and weather beaten a trapper as ever brought Ills skins Into a set tlement. He happened to find a seat next to a young x lndy, evidently belonging to Boston, who, after taking stock of him for a few minutes, remarked: “Don't you find an utterly passion ful sympathy with nature's mountains and the dim aisles of the horizon touching forests, my good man?” “Oh, yes,” replied the apparent back woodsman, "and also I am frequently drawn Into an exaltation of rapt sonl fulness and beatific incandescent in finity of abstract contiguity when horse stumbles.” “Indeed!” said the young lady, much surprised. "1 had no idea the lower classes felt like that.”—Chicago Rec ord-Herald. Night Blindness. Inability to see by day is matched by the commoner night blindness wbleb most of us have known in friend or relative. This { feet, which Includes an inability to V even by artificial light, is congenita, with some people and never overcome. It Is often he reditary. It may also be caused, how ever, by long exposure to an overbrlght light, coupled with fntlgue. A strange story is told concerning a ship's crew two centuries ago which were over come by night blindness so extreme that their captain was obliged to force a fight with a Spanish privateer dur ing the day, knowing that by ulgbt bis men would be helpless. In order to obviate this difficulty for future occa sions he ordered each sailor to keep one eye bound during the daytime, discovering, to ills gratification, that this eye, having rested, was then freo of the defect. The sailors were very nnnislng in their efforts to retain the bandage well over the eye that must be ready for night duty, and so a method of modifying this trouble was discovered—London Strand Magazine. The Attorney In England. The use of the word attorney de notes a belated mind. Since Nov. 1, 1875, attorneys have ceased to exist, their title merged by law into that of solicitor of the supreme court of Judi cature, says a writer In- the Loudon- Mall. The name had long been used as a term of abuse. Johnson observed of nn acquaintance that “he did not; care to speak ill of any man behind his back, but he believed the geutle man was an attorney.” Archbishop TrenCh, in 1850, noted that the word attorney was going out of favor and that the lower branch~of the legal profession preferred to be called solicitors. So when the Judi cature act of 1873 was before parlia ment a clause was Inserted abolishing the obnoxious title. But with our de lightful conservatism we still honor the “attorney general.” Two Smart Actora. In a popular historic drama the ac tor who takes the part of Napoleon is required to read aloud a document of considerable length which is brought to him by General Berthier. This, being written at length, is seldom com mitted to memory. A short time ago, however, the property master at an English theater mislaid the document, and Napoleon, who was new to the part, received instead a blank sheet of paper. For a moment he was aghast; then, eager to escape from his pre dicament even at the expense of a fellow actor, he handed the paper to General Berthier, saying, “Read it to me.” The other actor was not In the least confused. “Your majesty," he said, handing it back, “I am only a poor soldier of fortune, and you must ex cuse me. I do not knofr how to read!"