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Courtship With The VeretsMes-
A potato went oat on a mash
And sought an onion bed.
“That's pie for me,” obterred the
squash,
And all the beets turned red
“Go away," the onion, weeping cried
"your lore I cannot be;
The pumpkin be your lawful bride,
You cantiiloupe with me.
But onward still the tuber came
And laid down at her feet.
“You cauliflower by any name
And It will smell as wheat;
Aud 1, too, am an early ruse,
And you fro come to see,
80 don't turn up your lovely nose,
But spinaebat wltb me,”
"t do got carrot all to wed,
80 go, sir, if you please,”
The modest onion meekly said,
"And lettuce, pray, have peas.
Go. think that you have never Seen
Myself or smelled my sigh;
Too long a maiden 1 have been
For favors in your eye."
"Ah, spare a cuss," tho tuber prayed,
"My ohorryshed bride you'll be
You are the only weeping maid
That currant now wltb me."
And as tho wily tuber spoke
lie caught her by surprise,
> And, giving lior nn artichoke,
Devoured bar with his eyes.
—Miss Anna Dwight Guzo.
1 Atlanta, Ga
The Two Kinds of Farming.
The farmer is now endowing the
toil of Georgia with countless tons
t of commercial fertilizer, and as he
! stfew* the long rows with cotton
seed his mind is filled with a prob
lem in mental arithmetic. After
paying for the plowing and the
i 1 planting, the chopping and the
I 1 hoeing’ killing tbe grass and rnn-
niug the gauntlet of rnst or cater
pillars, feeding the mule and the
plow hand, taking up the gnano
notes and cancelling the mortgage
on the male, paying the toll for
: -**’ug and ginning, footing the
>r bagging; and ties and fin-
selling the prodoot for what
ever the powers that be may see
fit to pay, how much will remain
to warm the farmer’s pocket? He
thinks of the possible droughts
and wiudi aud floods that may
oome to spread desolation in their
wake, and sighs because the far-
pier's lot is his.
' On the other side of the road,
notber farmer fertilizes bis field
ith compost from his own horse
t, and plants cotton seed that
saved from lost ynar's crop,
■ I .didn’t have to buy. He
orry much about the
trice of cotton next fall,
m is for a pasture full
s„and Holds of corn aud
a., j^'tatoes and oats and
■ and hay, aud droves of fat
hie. Cotton crop or none, be
( come out ahead of the game
the end of the year, and the
kings in frout of his fireplace
1 be full to overflowing on
ristmas eve.
And this is one way of telling
,0 story of tho two kinds of form-
jg that are pursued in Georgia.—
Albany Herald.
Cattle Raising In Georgia.
The day is not far distant when
Georgia will become a great cattle
raising state. We hove everyth ing
here to bring it around. This
fact is the more emphasized when
we turn to other sections where
cattle are raised profitably and
see the troubles with which they
hove to contend. For instance,
the Denver Republican rises to re
mark that it has been said that it
1« unprofitable to feed cattle in
Colorado for markot because Colo
rado is not a coru-producing state,
overlooking the fact that other
methods of feeding than those
prevalent iir Kansas or Nebraska
may be profitable. Excel lent beef
cattle are prepared for market in
England and on the continent,
and yet the use of corn for feed is
but little resorted to. It seems
that some ot the Western cattle
growers are hegining to appreciate
this, and to recognize that there
may be other means of feeding as
good as tho use of corn in Kansas.
Attempts are to be made to feed
cattle in Colorado without the use
of a large amount of corn, reli
ance being bad chiefly upon alful
fa, the product of sugar factories
and root crops. This is tho way,
declares our contemporary,
whieh cattle are fed iu Europe, and
tboru does not seem to be any
good reason why it should not snc.
ceed in the United States. In ad'
dition to the kinds of feed men
tioned in the discussion of this
subject barley is named. The rel
ative merits of barley and corn
for feeding have been considered
at the Fort Collins experimental
station, and while it seems that
corn is a little the better of the
two, there is not suffieiont differ
ence to exolude barley. Should
methods of feeding cattle for mar
ket be devised m Colorado equal
to those in vogue in Kansas aud
Nebraska, says our contemporary,
it would make a revolution in the
live stock business in that part of
the country adjacent to the
“Queen City of the Plains.”
Here in Georgia we have not
only the corn, wheat, oats, barley,
the root crops, tho grasses—long
spring, summer and fall pastur
age, almost no housing—but the
illimitable possibilities of that
wonderful tuber,. the cassava,
which will grow to perfection
from Bibb couuty to the south
If bleak and almost sterile Colo
rado (speaking compartively) can
be made a profitable cattle raising
section what shall we say of balmy
and feitile Georgia? And yet our
morning beefstenk and our dinner
roast, for tho greater part, comet
to us in refrigerator cars from
Chicago and Kansas City.
Georgia must wake up.—Macon
Telegraph.
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Nuts For Bays to Crack-
Here are a list of question* for
• wide awake hoy:
\>u can see any day a white
v but did you ever tee a white
Howmfny different kinds
' r . your neighbor
are they good for ?
i eat grasa back
rward ? Why
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Clouds the happiness of the
home, but a nagging woman often
needs help. 8he may be so nerv
ous and run-down in health that
trifles annoy her. If she is mel
ancholy, excitable troubled with
leas of appetite, headache, sleep
lessness, oonatlpation or fainting
and dizzy spells, she needs Elec
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remedy for ailing women. Thous
and* of sufferers from female
trouble*, nervous troubles, back
ache and weak kidney* have uaed
it, and become healthy and happy.
Try it. Only 60o. at aii druggist,
guarantee satisfaction.
Balmy Florida.
If you wish to learn aboutSouth
Florida and keep abreast with the
frnit,' strawberry and vegetable
growing send SO cents Jund receive
tbe Lakeland Sun, from now nntil
Jan. let, 1008, a newspaper fully
alive to the interest* of tbie sec
tion. G. D. Cloegh, Editor,
Lakeland, Fla.
Try the jtmrnal far Job Printing.
His Bees Will Mute His Living.
Mr. Darwin R. Smith, the son
of Dr. J. E. W. Smith who lives
six miles east of Waycross, three
years ago bought two colonies (what
are commonly called hives) of
bees and launched out in the bee
culture and honey business.
Today he has 30 colonies
snugly ensconced in Langstrotb
improved gams and his output of
honey last spring from 21 colonies
was 2000 pounds of hopey which
he readily Bold for ten cents a
pound, realizing about $100 be
sides what he kept for home con
sumption.
This year he expeots to gather
fiOOO pounds of honey for which
he will get $300 and Mr. Smith
says the amount of labor he has
expended on his bees will aggre
gate perhaps 20 days during the
year.
The cost of KUins and other ex
pense will amount to two cents a
pound, thus making his profitB
last year about $100 and this year
about $200 if everything works
well.
Young Mr. Smith is scientific
in his bee culture Hid from the
very beginning mndo himself fa
miliar with bees not only in a
practical way, but he mastered
the theory and he is now a
stant reader of the apiary maga
zines and books.
He recommends for the study of
this business the following peri
odicals and books: “Gleanings
in Bee Culture,” “The American
Bee Culture,” “Cook’s Manuel of
the Apiary" and “DoolittleB Sci
entific Queen Rearing," all of
which may he had from A. I,
Root Co., of Medina, Ohio.
Mr. Smith says beeB will in-
crease on an average of To per
oent. every year. Some years
they increase a huudred per cent,
or more. The first year his two
colonies increased to 9. In 1900
they went from 9 to 22. 1901
from 22 to 84. Of course, now
and then a colony dies out. This
is for want of food or a queen
If they lose their queen and do
not get a new one, no eggs are laid
in tbe cells and the colony dwin
dies away.
The queen lays all the eggs
which are of two kinds, namely,
the male and female eggs. The
female eggs it laid in an ordinary
cell will produce the ordinary
working bee. If laid in a large
cell whore an extra quantity of
food is placed, it will make
queen. The queen bee is the re
sult of extra culture, not of extra
birth. The male eggs are all laid
iu large cells and thoy make the
droue which is the male bee and
he is good for nothing except to
consort with the queen. Tho
drones have no sting and are
harmless as well as good for
nothing.
Bees iu this seotion feed nn
woods flowers and they find all
the flewert they need aud more.
They principally feed on tbe tyty
and gal I berry flowers. Tho gall-
berry makes tbe hest honey it
this section, although many are
fond of the tyty honey.
The honey surplus, that is, ail
over and above what they eat and
store away for winter food, it
made iu April aud May.
They are easily handled by one
who understauds them aud while
one occasionally geta a sting, by
careful management, tkey are
kept in a peaceful state.
Mr. Smith is very proud of bis
bees and with the present increase
in bit bee families he will in a
few year* have an income from
them that will net him * good liv
ing outside of hii regular vocation
of fanning.
Dr. Jamea Atkina, Snnday school
editor of the Southern Methodist
church, announce* a net gain of
80,678 Sunday school scholars the
past
A FEW DAYS ONLY!
Mr. Jos. Marks, of Valdosta, Ga., and
Mr. N. M45osenbloom, of the Baxley
Bargain House, have bought the . . .
D. B. English Stock of Merchandise,
and will offer it to the public at the
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ever heard of in Waycross.
Come and examine the stock and get
prices, as this opportunity will only
last a few days. The goods must be
sold at once.
MARKS & R0SENBL00M,
Waycross, Ga.
Wood’s Seeds
BEST FOR THE SOUTH.
SEED POTATOES
ODE OF OUR LEAOIXB SPECIALTIES.
We have thousands of barrels In
stock; the best rtalne-grown
and Virginia Second Crop Seed.
Wood’s 1902 Catalogue gives
comparative crop results, both as
to earliness and yield, with Maine-
grown and Second-crop seed. It
also contains much other useful
and valuable information about
Potatoes. Write for Catalogue and
Special Potato Price List.
.Wood's Descriptive Catalogue
' for 1902 give* rel lnblp, practical, up-to-
date information about all Seeds, Biting
not only deaert ptlons, but tho boat crop*
to grow, moot flucccatful ways of grow
ing different cropa, and much other in
formation of ipeclal lptereat to every
Trucker, Gardener and Farmer. Mailed
free upon requeit.
T.W. Wood & Sons, Seedsmen,
RICHMOND, VIRGINIA*
Truck#** and permew requiring !srge
quantities of aeeda are requested
to write for special price*.
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Dentist
ALL DENTAL WORK HRST-OLASS,
Crown and Bridge Works specialty.
It will be to your Interest to see me
before having work done elsewhere.
ALL WOIISUL’AKASTBED.
Office Over Star Clothing Stor-
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Can only be secured by a flrsbclua
Tailor. 84 years experience guaran
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Establishment, equipped with latest
In fancy suitings. 10,W0 samples to
select from. Suita $18 and up.
Pant* $3.80 and up.
As ISAAC,
Owens Block, Waycross, Ga.
Ads in the
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AND ALL KINDS OF
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Also tho Ball-bearing Domestic
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NEXT DOOR;’TO THE POST-OFFICE.
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FERTILIZERS,
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See us before placing your order.
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