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FARM, ORCHARD
AND GARDEN.
BY J. S. TRIGG.
Copyright, 1600, by J. 8. Trigg, Rockford, la.
Correspondence Solicited.
Only bm'stis, men and monkeysj
sweat through the pores of the body.
The com belt has one of the best
crops of com now maturing which It
has ever grown.
A lent tool Is always out of order.
Men will not care for others’ property
as they will for their own.
Never Indorse u note for your broth
er-in-law, for the chances are you will
have to pay It for your wife's sake.
Anew pattern of mower cutting a
swath 10 feet In width and. 30 acres of
grass a day is claimed ta run just as
easily as the old four foot machine.
We do not believe that docility and
gentleness can he licked Into a dairy
cow'. A cow which has to be licked
should be fired from the dairy herd.
Argentina will export not far from
75.000,000 bushels of wheat thits year,
and It Is produced there at a smaller
cost per bushel than In any other coun
try.
It Is always a difficult matter to
undertake to change the focal and the
religion of men. A scrap iy,ay always
be looked for when the mttempt Is
made.
It Is the working hen that lays the
eggs. The hen that plays the rolo of
my fine lady and is not uosnpellcd to
scratch for a living is re sidy for the
pot any day.
When conditions are snchthat fruit
trees make muck new wood, they will
not the next season mako much fruit.
Itank and abundant follatpe and good
crops of fruit seldom go together.
A cautious old Kansav. granger said
he was thankful to the Lord for tho
big wheat crop, but <decllned to ex
press an opinion on, the state of the
country until ho sawihow the corn crop
turned out.
Don’t pay some separator shark $5
for the privilege of diluting your milk
with cold water in order to hasten the
rising of the cream. The right to
put water In milk has always been
yours, provided you. did not try to work
off the combination as whole milk.
A wise old agrleuitnrist put on record
the truth that a field is not sown to
advantage with the grain which itself
yielded. True as this Is, but few men
heed It. A constant change of seed
Is always an advantage to the Bower.
Nature Is a great mixer and diverslfler.
Much of tlie vim and push of north
ern men may be attributed to the fact
that if they do not hustle In the sum
mer season they will starve and freeze
to death In the winter. In fact, most
men need the terrors of a wrath to
come to make them do their best
work.
Tho mutual Insurance companies of a
western state about evenly divide the
business with the old line companies,
each doing a business, or rather, writ
ing policies, txi the amount of $225,000,"
(HHt annually’. To do tills costs the mu
tuals $110,625 and the old llue com
panies si)lß.:>ttl. These are very sug
gestive figures.
Don’t be a chump and bite at every
fraud offered just because it is cheap.
This applies to linking powder, vine
gar. spices, coffee, periodicals and news
papers, and a hundred other things.
In almost every en.se you will get just
what you pay for, no more. If you
want a good article, be willing and
expect to pay a fair price for it.
If at evening time there waits for
you as you finish the day’s toil a home
where peace and comfort dwell, if
from its portals greet you loving words
of welcome from wife and little chil
dren, It Is little matter that you are
denied high place, wealth and fame,
for yours It is to enjoy all that makes
life really worth the living, and this
applies to men whether they live on
the farm or in the town.
If you expect your wife to get a bet
ter dinner for Sunday than she does
for other days, you should help her In
the preparation of it on Saturday so
that Sunday is not made the hardest
day of all the week for her. And
right here we will just remark that
while it is very pleasant to have your
friends call and see you on Sunday
afternoon, and all right, they should
have sense and courtesy enough to get
their own dinners before they come.
Put little is done by the average
farmer In the way of feeding off any
crop where grown except grass. More
might be done to advantage In this line.
It saves the labor and expense of har
vesting such crop and it secures a most
perfect fertilization of the field so
treated. In a practical way this can be
adopted by sowing rape in the cornfield
and turning in a lloek of lambs and
wethers intended for early winter mar
keting; it can be done with advantage
on a field planted to sweet corn and
pumpkins for the hogs. Improved
types of portable fence have made this
method of feeding a crop very easy
and satisfactory.
Encourage year boys to handle and
break the sucking colts.
Kansas grangers arc Investing in
rubber tired buggies, pianos and bank
stock.
Care and cultivation put a head on
tho cabbage and will <lo the same thing
for a man.
If the Caucasian thinks it. all right to
eat frogs, why should he kick at the
Mongolian eating dog?
Five bushels of wheat to the aero
ought to set many a western farmer to
studying up the dairy question.
' . ■;>. which to beat the banana
trust Is to use good Wealthy and Duch
ess apples and let the bananas alone.
The cow may yet bo developed which
will give lots of milk and make beef at
the same time, but she is not here yet.
Wherever alfalfa can be made to
grow It will be found to be the very
best forage crop which can lip raised.
The farrow cow which is being fed
for beef and milked at the same time
makes the very toughest lieof to bo
hud.
A calf can be raised on whey, but
you had better not try it. The average
farmer has his hands full In raising a
gooil sklmmllk calf.
If you have a good hired hand, it
will pay better to raise his wages a
notch than to let him go and take your
chances on anew man.
tVe note anew thing in the line of
canned vegetables a whole train load
of canned asparagus being shipped east
recently from California.
The baby who kicks and squalls for
his supper when lie hears the milk
man’s bell at tin; door Is in about the j
same fix as the incubator chicken.
There is to he a general advance In
the price of nursery stock, tDo greatly
increased demand and the losses inci
dent to the winter of 3898 and 1890
being the cause.
The balk in a horse originates nine
times out of ten with the man rather
than the horse. A man with a bad tem
per Ima no business owning anything
but a mule anyway.
When herds of Polled Angus and
Hereford cattle begin to show up on
the farms of a community, It becomes
hard lines for the creamery of such
community right away.
Feeding a cow to the limit during one
period of lactation is quite likely to In
jure her for the succeeding one. There
are reasonable limitations in this mat
ter us in everything else.
With ordinary D'i per cent milk sell
ing in the large cities at 7 cents per
quart, enterprising dairymen have
found a ready market for -1 1 _■ per cent
milk put up in airtight glass jars at
12 cents a quart.
Make it a rule to be always observed
to sell only the poorest of the breeding
animals on the farm. The good brood
mare and sow, the best ewe and dairy
cow, are nearly always badly sold even
at a fancy price.
Give a Wealthy and a Duchess apple
tree equal age and equal chances as to
care, and the Wealthy will give you
two bushels of fruit inhere the Duchess
does one, and It will bring you just
twice as much per bushel in the mar
ket.
Thirteen pounds of sugar for $1
should make every man take an inter
est In tho beet sugar business. We
should have 26 pounds Instead of 13
for a dollar and may have just as well
ns not if we will improve our oppor
tunities.
The "one judge" plan of awarding
premiums at county fairs is generally
meeting with approval. If the man se
lected as judge is the hired man of
some competing exhibitor, its in a ease
we came across last year, it does not
work so \\ ell.
The best test of the butter maker is
the quality of his early August butter.
Not that lie should be expected to
make extra goods out of hot weather
milk or cream, but that he should be
able to do the best possible with raw
material at its worst.
The good dairy cow is not apt to be a
handsome one. Such a cow puts her
food into the pail and not on to her
ribs. She should have a clean cut and
delicate head and neck, but the home
lier the build of her hind quarters the
better udder she will be likely to carry.
The Belgians and the Eskimo are the
only peoples which have succeeded In
making the dog a practical beast of
burden. In Belgium the dog largely
supplants tiie horse as a motive power
for car;s. -si ■; the deg trains of the far
north alone make travel possible in the
land of ice and snow.
THE SAFEST INVESTMENT.
We are ia receipt of two or three in
quiries as to the best investment for a
little (surplus money. There lias never j
been a time in the past when so many
of the common people were confronted j
with this problem of how last to in- i
vest money. Sound securities, wheth
er government, municipal or corporate,
as well as farm loans, are all bearing a
very low rate of interest—from 2% to
5 per cent—and are not easy to get hold
of even at these low interest rates.
There are a thousand and one wildcat
mining, improvement and corporate
schemes Inviting investment. Better
let all these alone. As it looks to us,
money invested in good land —now
mind, good land—land where grass will
grow, where the average rainfall is not
less than 30 inches per annum for a se
ries of years and where the climate ia
not too rigorous —at prices ranging
from S2O to SOO per acre, according to
location, Improvement, etc., is the very
best and safest Investment for surplus
savings whicli there is to be had today.
Kuril lands will pay more than 5 per
cent net on the Investment for a series
of years whether they are operated by
the owner or just leased. The security
Is perfect, for the land can neither
blow away, burn up nor you be
dispossessed of it unless you mortgage
It. There are thousands of well im
proved and productive farms in the
western states which can be bought at
prices varying from $-10 to SOO per
acre. Then there are other thousands
of acres in the newer sections which
can be got at $lB to $25 per acre—this
the best of land, but only slightly im
proved. Then there are large tracts of
land in a state of nature, at present re
mote from railways and markets,
which can be got at from $5 to $lO per
acre. Either one of these three classes
of lands at the prices named is a bet
ter investment than what are known
ns gilt edged -1 and 5 per cent securi
ties. The probable advance In value of
the two last named classes of land will
of Itself amount to more than a good
interest return on tho Investment. Put
that surplus into a good piece of land.
A WORKER AMI THI VKER.
If the American citizen is to be identi
fied by some one national trait of char
acter more than any other we think it
should be as an inventor of labor sav
ing machinery. Avery large propor
tion of all the labor saving machinery
in use In the world today is the result
of the dislike which the American citi
zen has for hard manual labor. Give an
Irishman, a German or an Englishman
n hard Job of manual labor to perform
and each will dig away at it stolidly,
persistently and patiently, just ns his
father always did; while an Ameri
can, given the same work to do, will be
studying all the time he works to in
vent some other and easier way in
which to accomplish the same results,
and he generally succeeds. In en
gineering problems—earth and rock ex
cavating and handling, In till forms of
in mining and the
handling of the products of the mine,
in manufacturing of all kinds and in
the use of machinery for agricultural
purposes, the Inventive genius of the
American has wrought out a miracle
of economy and effectiveness. It Is
difficult to estimate what the world
owes to this man who thinks while he
works.
ITT TIIE OPTION ALONE.
The story is going the rounds of the
press that a man who invested S2O in
a wheat option and reinvested the j
proceeds as wheat went up in price j
last June was able to clean up the sum
of $12,000. In the first place, we be
lieve this yarn to be a lie out of whole
cloth; in the next place, if it were time,
the money will do him no good, for we
never knew a case where a man had
sweetened up on a lucky option that he
did not put it all back in the hole in
side of a year and usually twice as
much as his winnings with it. It Is a
far safer business to go surety for
your neighbor, invest in a Colorado
gold mine or even buy a gold brick
than to take a whirl at options on the
board of trade. In the cases named
you know when you are through; with
options, never as long as money and
credit hold out.
DON'T THY IT.
We never knew a man who was a
patron of a creamery or cheese factory
to make a real success of watering or
sldmming his milk. It looks as though
It might be a very easy tiling to beat
the creamery man, but all known
methods of so doing are so well under
stood that fraudulent practices are
soon detected. No amount of money
which a man Is likely to make, even
if he is successful for a time, Is any
sort of compensation for the awful
cheap aud meacliy feeling that comes
over him when he Is found out. Don’t
try It. It doesn't pay. The dirt of
such a trick will stick to you as long
as you live.
v
One of the most aggravating things
connected with horticulture is the get
ting hold of trees not true to name. I
Me have made the unpleasant discov
ery during tlie past year or two that
trees which we had bought in good
faith ns of certain varieties and which
have been carefully tended for four or
five years are not of the kinds ordered
and iu some cases are utterly worth
less. This sort of thing makes a man
who is not a good Christian feel as
though he would like to bury the seller
of such .trees iu the hole made by the
removal of the fraud.
We never follow a plow with as much
real satisfaction as i\ hen we can get it
into the ground in the month of July.
Flowing then just fixes the weeds, and
all matter turned under is decomposed
and made available as plant food for
the next crop. Flowing done In July i
is easily worth a dollar an acre more
for the nest crop than when done In
October.
KIMBALL HOUSE,
Pearson, Ga.
C. P. Holzendorf, Prop.
HATES, $2.00 PER DAY.
Special Rates by the Week or Month.
Livery in Connection.
Stylish Rigs Furnished at any Hour
| PROFESSIONAL CARDS. %
JOHN H. O’QUINN,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
DOUGLAS GA.
Office near Bank Building, opposite
B. Peterson’s brick blo’ck.
H. O. SNOW,
PHYSICIAN AND SURGEON.
DOUGLAS, GA.,
callspromptly attended.
Office Sibbett Drug Cos.
quincey & McDonald,
Attorneys at Law,
Douglas, Ga.
Offices in Bank Building,
THE CITY BARBER SHOP,
ARTHUR BROOKS, PRO.
in front of Bank Building Douglas, Ga.
Carries a nice line of cheroots, cigars,
Ac. Everything clean and cool. Your
patronage solicited.
I. n IIHADFISM), (;EO. M. RIOKET-nN
BRAD FIELD & RICKETSON.
Physicians and Surgeons.
Broxton, Georgia.
W. F. SIBBETT,
Physician And Surgeon,
Douglas, Ga.
Calls promptly answered day or night
WARREN P. WARD,
Attorney At Law,
Douglas, Ga.
Will practice in all the courts of Coffee
County and elsewhere by contract.
I'. WILLIS DART,
Attorney At Law,
Douglas, Ga.
Office in Court House.
R. A. HENDRICKS,
Attorney At Law,
WILLACOOCIIEE Ga.
Collections and Criminal Laws a special
ty. Office hours in Douglas, Ga., from
9 a. m. to 5 p. m. Third Monday in each
month.
C. A. WARD, Jr.
Attorney At Law
• Douglas, Ga.
Prompt attention given to all businee
Placed in my care. Office in court house.
LEVI OSTEEN, -
Attorney’ at Law,
DOUG LAS, GA.
Solicitor City .Court.
Office tx Court House.
/jgr- All business entrusted tome will be
promptly attended to, receiving most care
ful attention. Special attention given to
collections.
DR. J. A. MONTGOHERY,
Dental Surgeon.
011 ice in Bank SuiSciina.
Will gladly advise with
those desiring dental work.
Both operative and prosthetic
work guaranteed.
Rule Ni Si.
( Foreclosure
Miss Ball Grabam -j of mortgage
vs. (in Coffeeru-
Fannie Googe A W. It. Gocge i perior court
< March term
( 1900.
It appearing and being represented io
the court by the petition of Miss Belie
Graham that on the first day of July 1597
Fannie Googe and W. K. Gouge executec
ami delivered to said petitioner a mortgage
note on certain real estate lying in said
comity described as follows, one dwelling
house and lot, situated in the town o
Broxton, Ga.. and known anil described
as follows, bounded on tiie north by road
leading from Haz’eiturst to Broxton and
on tiie east by lands of Jesse Lott on tin
south by lands of Jesse Lott on rite west
by Broxton and Shepherd toad. For tin
purpose of securing tiie payment of a. cer
tain mortgage note io- the sum of one
hundred and eighty-one dollars and nine
teen cents $i s 1.19. Executed and deli ver
ed by tiie said Fannie Googe and W. R.
Googe to said Miss Bell Graham on the
first day of July, and due on the first day
November trio’, stipulating for interest
from maturity at the rate of 8 per cent per
annum, and 10 percent attorney fees.
It is ordered that the said defendant d<
pay into this court by the first day of the
next term, the principal including attor
ney fees interestatul eostdueon said mort
gage note or show cause why thev shout;
not pay Lite same, or that in default there
of the" aforesaid mor gage note be fore
closed and the equity of redemption of the
said defendants, therein forever haired,
and that service of this rule be perfected
on said defendants according to law.
This March 29th 1900.
JOSEPH W. BENNETT.
Judge Kttpr. court B. G.
D. W. GASKIN,
Clerk S. C. 0. C.
CITATION.
GEORGIA —Cos flee Cm nt y.
Berry H. Tanner. Jr., Executor on
the estate of Penelope Davis
late of said county, deceased, having
tiled his petition for discharge, this is
to cite all persons concerned to show
cause, if they can. why, said pe
tition should n.ot be granted as asked
for at my’ office on the first Monday in
November, 1900. This Aug, 6h,, 1900.,
THOMAS YOUNG Ord y.
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Wanted!
All people to come and have a look at our work, and to give us
their orders for any kind of Picture they may desire.
We make .Small or Large Photos, also do -Enlargin OUR
PRICES are as REASONABLE AS FAIR WORK WILL PERMIT,
and you would not find it necessary to go to a larger city' to get your
BABY or FAMILY PORTRAITS taken. As long its there are any
babies to make pictures from as long will that be our specialty. We
also are prepared to give lessons in drawing and painting.
Respectfully,
CREEL & JANTZON.
DOUGLAS. - - GA
A WORD Z ~
* * So Von, listen!
Do you want some GOOD PHOTOS MADE ? If
so, you are the one this is for. I want your trade, and if
COOD WORK, low prices and PROHPT ATTENTION
can secure it I am O. K.
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Larger Sizes Equally as Cheap in Proportion.
ALL PICTURES GUARANTEED.
You will find me at Post Office.
J. 11. BOONE, HAZLEIIURST, GA.
Nichols Bottling Works,
I). W. Johnson, Manager,
NICHOLS, - - - GEORGIA.
Soda-water all flavors. Ginger-ale, Coco
cola, and Iron-Brew. Good service, prompt
ness, fair dealing and special attention to
mail orders.
Way cross Clothing.
* STORE ♦
Way cross, Ga
The best place in Georgia for Clothing, Hats
Shoes and gents’ furnishings.
j Good Reliable, Goods at Prices to Suit the People. *
When you go to JP ay cross he sure and call at
The Waycross Clothing Store
Watjcross, Georgia-
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i
i We buy our HA.RDWARE in the Builder’s
Line Direct From One of the Leading
Manufacturers, and we can certainly
] Save you some money, (besides give
f You better goods than you get
i Elsewhere) if you will let
us figure with you on
THAT BILL.
DON’T Buy
I It By Piecemeal,
; Know you never in
\ tended to, but figure up just
What you will need to complete
j the job. and we will make you a
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JUST Remember that we carry a full stock of the
Best White-Pine SASH, BLINDS and DOORS.
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j Plant Avenue., - - Waycross, Georgia.
Sufcm 511 ac time YD oiYs anand
e. v. io. §fa n ,
sdroh cn\d 9c)rass lasting a ebpeciathf,
Special Attention to Boiler -Work,
All Kinds of Machinery -Repaired.
j£ocor\otiYes 9c) ui ft cu\ci 9\cpatrecf,
Good Second Hand Saw Mill Machinery for sale.
Reasonable Prices Paid for old Iron and Brass.
Jdrunell Street, La\jcross, La.