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£, asmp&cft, CORNER BROADWAY AND JACKSON STREETS, AUGUSTA, GA, *■ V Soda 'Water AND ICE CREAM PARLOR. HUYLER’S CANDY. SUB POST (fid, till PLOWESS HI PUBLIC 111' OF INFORMATION The Model Bstablisment of its Kind IN THE U. S. PROFIT IN STANDARD BREED Jp?£ j^me {fjZitism. The Survival of the Fittest. WAYNESBORO, GA., DECEMBER 14, 1901. i This is :Iih freest country on earth ! Well yes, with pensions. Mrs. W, II. Feiton believes the message of the president was a very good paper. EIo took it alibaek and got in the procession anent prohibition. Naughty Sara to wonder so far from home. The munificence ot Carnegie must make the little mustard seed souls of Rockafeller and Morgan rattle worse than ever. “Niue cents cotton in sight again,” says an exchange. That is very unsatisfying now that the cron is out of sight of the farmers of the South. One legislator wanted to put a “rider” on the depot bill to require the gate keeper to be civil Do these fellows with railroad iree passes want the earth ? Rev. Sam P. Jones has been con verted against dispensary liquor by Brother Lewis. He owns up, but a little belated after that from Pigeon Roost. awful veto The Brooklyn lawyer didn’t un derstand the little joke of tar and feathers his friends get up for him near Richmond, Va. But he only killed three of the jokers after all. Tho Atlanta Journal is good au thority for most anything. It says paragraphically that drinking champagne will cause cancer. Well we know a lot of folks that will not have any cancers. Say it over softly to Kaiser Wil- heim that he cannot settle any Ger man colonies in South America for home consumption. Mr. Monroe says so. Put that in your mere- sham and smoke it Billhelm. It is remarkable, hut they say it is a fact. A rabbit’s eye can be sub-sti- tutod for a blind person’.; eye and the blind one made to see. The on ly trouble about the rabbit’s eye is, one lays awake at night looking lor a greeu pea patch. j The South can look with scorn i on -lie cruellies practiced on no ! combatant Boers in South Africa • but. the memory of the North short if it do not find a paraiiei in the cruellies visited onConfedei ate soldiers in the Federal priso; into which they were huddled. Ov er thirty thousand unmarued graves disgrace their cruel record. No won der ihe tender soul of tho murder ed president was moved to speak of them when the South, on his vis it here, was rendering him homage as president of the United States and exhlting its loyally to the filag Thirty thousand nameless grayes Tne South can weii say of murder ed Southern soldiers whom the cruel policy of northern leaders refused to exchange on any terms we could offer! Tim more heartless part of the transaction, if one could be more heartless than another, was the dreadful condition imposed on the Northern soldiers left to be cared for by the South who had no means of curing even for her own sick and wounded, or, as for that, her army ia the field properly, It ia ali over so far a3 the two sections are con cerned, but the British know the history of our war we'.l and stand ready to point the parallel when the United States as a Nation proposer to lecture Great Britain on -he cru elty of concentration camps for thf poor, unfortunate Burghers o c South Africa. A Well Known Breeder Gives Fig ures to Prove That tlie Cost Pay. I have been breeding standard bred poultry for about ten years. Previous to this I thought anything that wore feathers and resembled a hen would answer the purpose, but experience has taught me better. I have been breeding Buff Plymouth Rocks almost from their introduction aud have found them very profitable both for fancy and market purposes. I want to tell your readers the results I obtained from au investment of $12 in Buff Rock eggs a year ago this spring, as I have kept a strict account of the chicks raised and the profit de rived from them separate from the rest of my flock. I sent a noted west ern breeder $12 for 45 Buff Rock eggs, and he was to scud me eggs from his best birds. These 45 eggs were set the 20th of April, 1900, under some game hens which I borrowed from a neigh bor. These hens were the worst things to break eggs I ever had any experi ence with, for when hatching day came (May 11) there only remained "5 eggs in the nests. From the 35 eggs 30 Mrong, healthy chicks were hatched. Not satisfied with breaking eggs, these pesky game hens trampled two chicks to death in the nest, which left me with only 2S chicks, and I raised the whole 28 to maturity. Now, to show the profit I have made on these 28 chicks to date (April 20. 1901), I quote from my poultry account book. After culling out and selling surplus birds I had left nine females aud two cockerels, which were kept for breed ing purposes. Following is the ac count as it appears in my account book: j Sold five cockerels at $1, $2.50, 75 j cents, $5 and $3 respectively; one pair, | $5; 100 incubator eggs, $5; eggs for hatching to date (April 20), $11; sold eggs to stores during winter, $5.15; used in the house four dozen, $1; total. $39.40. My expenses were: Eggs for hatch ing, $12; express, 00 cents; feed aud other expenses, $11.3G; total, $23.90; profit, $15.44, or an average of a trifle over $1.44 per head, including male and females, with the original nine females and two males yet on hand, which, figuring from the average price by which the other stock was sold ($2.15), would be worth about $23.05, or a total profit of $39.09. There is a prevailing idea among a very large class that a lien is a hen and one is just as good as another, so 1 quote the above for the benefit of this class. Poultrymen who have and are making the business a success will tel! you that standard bred poultry is the most profitable in every way, and this decisiou conics from knowledge and ex perience in their business.—Henry Trafford in Poultry Keeper. ZOQQQCOQQQGQQQQQCQQQQQGOQQ Christmas Presents. CATS AND POULTRY. They May Work Well Tog-ether, but Special Training Is Necessary. My chicks have been kept in cat proof coops for throe or four weeks aud then turned out, the chicks to run, while the hens are confined in slatted coops. There is still danger from cats p.t that age, but I would rather risk los ing a few and give them the benefit of the range than save all from cats and have oniy such chicks as are grown in very close quarters. There have been several cats about, but the chicks were out for a loug time before the cats mo lested them at all. Then one day 1 went home at noon and, going out to feed the chi%ks, noticed first that a light Brahma chick which I was par ticularly anxious to raise because wheu hatched he was nearly black, was not there. I hunted high and low, but could not find him. Then I counted other broods in that part of the yard and found that two more chicks were miss ing. That afternoon I cliored about the place aud kept on the alert for a dis turbance among the chicks. About thc- middle of the afternoon I heard a com motion and arrived on the scene just in time to see a neighbor’s cat disappear with a chick. Being sure of the cat, I informed the neighbor, and the cat has not been seen since, nor did any more chickens disappear until several weeks later. Then late one afternoon I saw a half grown kitten dragging away a chick that would weigh about a pound. As the chick seemed to be very much alive I went after the eat. When I approach ed, it dropped the chick aud ran. That evening and again next morning 1 watched for its return with a gun, but It never came back. Inquiry discovered that it was a cat that had been aban doned by a family recently moved away. Hunger prompted it to hunt, and the chicks came handy. We can hardly blame the cat under such circumstances, and I think that iu perhaps the majority of cases where cats kill chicks the fault is with the owners of the cats. Many people purposely keep their cats short of food to induce them to hunt mice and rats. The usual result is that they hunt what conies most convenient. The best mousers and ratters we have had have been cats that killed their prey, but rarely ate it. The best cat we ever had caught comparatively few mice aud rats, but patroled the place so thoroughly that she frightened them away. In a great many cases poultry keep ers are to blame for cats killing chicks. They leave an occasional dead chick where a cat finds it The cat eats it, acquires a taste for young chicken and soon begins to kill. This is not a de fense of the ehickeu killing cat; it is an explanation. The cat that kills chickens ought not to be allowed to live, but as cats as well as chickens— that is, some cats—are useful it is cer tainly the best policy to have cats taught and trained to let chickens alone and to allow no others about.— Cor. Farm Poultry. Incubators. BeiDg interested in pure bred poultry and desiring to have part of our chicks hatched early in the season, we found It necessary to purchase an incubator. We had never had any experience with an incubator: but, after having oper ated one through eight or nine batches, we have learned a few things that some incubator catalogues don’t tell. “Our machine is not affected by out side temperature.” is a statement that may be found in more tbaa oue cata logue, and if the temperature of the room in which the machine is operated always remained the same the state ment would be true enough, but we know from experience that it rs more or less affected by the tempera ture of the room. A machine iu a coo! room will keep quite an even tempera ture. but If the room warms up to 80 or 90 degrees the regulator will be of little use, as the live eggs, after the first ten days, will radiate a great deal of heat, and that with the heat of the lamp and the extra heat of the room will overheat the eggs. Sometimes we have to extinguish tiie light and on real warm days open the machine to keep the temperature even. We have learn ed that it is not necessary to add mois ture to help the hatch, as there is enough moisture in the egg to hatch it if the machine is operated right, but a great deal depends on the ventilation. Too much ventilation will toughen the membrane and harden the shell, so much so that the chick cannot get out. —W. H. O. in Central Farmer. <fc $**&&*+$*+%**$0**+<>+00++* -a a, <5 <£> ❖ s * ♦ % <► ❖ A * ♦ ❖ :: Hunter, :: Pearce & Battey, Cotton Factors, And Wholesale Grocers, : : Savannah, Ga. : • .+n+. Money loaned Cotton Shippers on approved security. Kent In Brooders. In the past there has been quite a controversy as to top or bottom heat for brooders. This, ! believe, has been settled in favor of top heat. The heat from the natural mother comes from the top, which is just sufficient to warm the floor of the coop. A brooder made so that the heat descends upon the backs of tlxe chicks will lend suffi cient heat to warm the floor and corre sponds, therefore, with the eaturai method. Brooders constructed so as to have the heat come from underneath the floor are very apt to keep the floor too hot aud consequently will overheat the chicks and leave their hacks too cold, but wiiatcver style of brooder is used the chicks should be carefully watched ou the start to see that there are not too many in together, for I be lieve this to be the principal cause of finding dead chicks in the morning.—V. M. Crouch in Commercial Poul announce: Ng acw Silver a» UhristnaiiH. No new silver coins will he issued by ihe mint this Christmas, the Bank of England being notified recently that. In view of the fact that the present stock cf silver coin is large enough, new coins bearing tho king’s effigy will be issued in the new year, says the London Mail. In future the issue of silver coins wifi be regulated by the requirements of circulation and not by the desire of the public to possess new silver at Christmas. We have the most complete stock of Dia monds, Watches, Ster ling Silver Ware, Fan- Gcods especially for the Holidays, and would be pleased to have you make our store headquarters while in Augusta. Expert engraving, Jewelers, Shoal Water nt Deepwater. A factory at Deepwater, Mo., has been obliged, says the Indianapolis News, to stop by a shortage of water- Augusta, Georgia. '5GQQGQGQOQQQQQGQGGGQOGQOOC, There are the usual junketing committees for the vacation to make reports to the next legisla ture, oue is to investigate the Geor gia School for the deaf and give it a hearing. Guess there v. Ill be ore for the dumb asylum and th >t vviil bring on more talk. Bourke Cockran says Great Brit ain can’t conquer the Boers. It does no w look iikeOom Pauls’ ultimatum meant something that may he com pared to the verse of the banjo man: Little tallow, little tar Make a mighty plaster, The more you try to pull it off The more it sticks the faster. CENTENNIAL OF HUGO. There have been several claim ants to lhut beautlfui poem, “If I should die to-night,” many of whom would not like to admit they were wiiting poetry when it was first published in 1S62 as the production of Father Ryan of Mobile, A !a. Some of them are alleged poetesses and graduates of female colleges long since the war ended. Now if ariy one else puts in a claim they wi 1 have to ante-date 18(12. The railroad free passes got in their deadly work on the state of Georgia as usual in this legislature. Many of the members staid at home for days on private business, leaving the houses without a quo rum to do work, for the stale. It is a viscicuh piece of business on the part of railroads to extend these passes. It amounts to giving that much morfby to each member of the legislature, which they may not receive as a bribe, but what else is i. after all? Did each legislator with a pass in his pocket give his mileage to the state, or did he step up to the treasury and draw It out as Innocently as a lamb? Does your horse “feel his oats” ? What a difference be tween the grain-fed and the grass-fed horse! The first strong and full of ginger, the second flabby, weak and tired out before he begins. The feeding makes the difference. Children are not alike either. One is rosy, bright-eyed, full of life and laughter, another is pale, weak and dull. The feed- ing again is responsible. Sickly children need special feeding. They don’t “feel their oats”. Scott’s Emulsion adds just the right richness to their diet. It is like grain to the horse. The child gets new appetite and strong digestion. Scott’s Emulsion is more than food. It is a strong medicine. It rouses up dull children, puts new flesh on thin ones and red blood into pale ones. 11 makes children grow Scott’s Emulsion makes ordi nary food do its duty. This picture represent.' the Trade Maik cf .Scott’; Emulsion and is cn th. wrapper of every bottle. lend fer free sample. SCOTT & BOWNE, 409 Pearl St., New York. 50c and $1. all druggists. France to Celebrate Famous Writ er’s One Hundredth Birthday. M. Waldeek-Rousseau and liis col leagues in the French government have decided to celebrate iu a national way the one hundredth birthday of Victor Hugo, which will fall next February, says a Paris dispatch to the Chicago Record-Herald. The celebration w r ill be ou the largest and most imposing scale. Representatives of French art aud literature, all of the highest dis tinction, will participate, and the fes tival will be in a special sense such a one as tiie masses may join in. In making the announcement for the gov ernment the Temps says: In spite .of the reaction against the school which Victor Hugo led, in spite of a tendency to question his original- and his philosophic authority, he nevertheless remains, both by virtue of the amount of his product and by the brilliancy of his. imagination and his unrivaled control of the melodious ca pacity of words, the most imposing lit erary figure in France during the nine teenth century.” Doubtless the celebration will lead to revival of popular interest in Hugo’s novels and poems. Literary French men see in him not only the chief of romanticism, but the ablest exponent socialistic democracy. Tossibly, though, his anticlerical prejudices will prevent the French religious classes from joining heartily in the projected ceremonies. An Intelligent Goose. A writer in Our Animal Friends re lates several anecdotes that show the Intelligence of animals and birds. The following is among them: “At Ardglass, County Down, Ireland, is a long tract of turf coming to the edge of the rocks overhanging the sea, where cattle and gc-ese feed. At a barn on this tract there was a low in closure, with., a door fastened by a hook and staple to the side post; when the hook was out of the staple, the door fell open by its own weight. I one day saw a goose with a large troop of goslings coming off the turf to this door, which was secured by this hook in the staple. The goose waited for a moment or two, as if for the door to be opened, and then turned around as if to go away, but what she did was to make a rush at the door and, making a dart with her beak at the point of the hook, nearly threw it out of the staple. She repeated this maneuver and, succeeding at the third attempt, the door fell open and the goose led her troop in with a sound of trium phant chuckling. How had the goose learned that the force of the rush was needful to give the nook a sufficient toss?” We have reduced the sub- scrip? ion price of The True Citizen to $1 00 a year from August 10? Ii, 1901. The caMi must accompany the name. Those w ho are in arrears for past amounts, will pay up to August 10‘h, 1901, at tbeold rate and from that date at ihe new rate. Statements are now being made out for old amounts due, and we ask immediate attention to them The Citizen will be kept up to the high standard maintain ed for years past. The best sto ries,telegraphic news, agricultu ral reports. local happenings and reoorts from a good corps of correspondents form a weekly budget of news that can not be secured elsewhere. - We hope to visit every home in the county and will ’appreci ate your patronage. We club with some of (he very best city weeklies printed. Read tho list, select your paper and send us your name. The following papers together with The Citizen for one year. Home & Farm $1.25. Atlanta Semi-Weekly Jour nal $1 50. New York Thriee-a-Week World $1 65. Atlanta Weekly Constitution $1 75 Savannah Semi-WeeklyNews $1.75 Ihe Semi-Weekly Chronicle $150. Respectfully, SULLIVAN BROS. Tit YV are Headquarters for the famous Barnesvillo Buggies and Surries, and the Burn Wagon. They are the best on Earth. They are sold on their merits at LIVE AND LET LIVE PRICES. One-horse Wagons at $30.00. Two-horse Wagons, $47.50 to $65.00 Buggies $47.50 to $150.00. Giv us your order and get the best vehicles. Respectfully, The Brigham-Cfaxion Co., GIRARD, Ga. rJ* A* if m fSi m m Did You Ever Ride an Elephant P I ,im going to Yew York iu a few days to re rdenisb my stock. Hotels and Railroads a3 compensation desire cask uot merchandise I have thousands of $ of goods and if you have any cash you have a chance to increase your bank account by making 15 per cent, in-' stead of 8 per cent. If you doubt my word call ou me. m m m m 0:, m 0 809 Broad Sere; t, Bligh’s Crystal Falacs, m 8* AUGUSTA, GA. •"a M M if S To Fatten Turkeys. A turkey will not fatten at all If closely confined, but lose flesh, as it will pine for companionship. If sever al tHikeys are confined together In a yard, however, and given a variety feeding three times a day. they will fatten, but even when together they will not endure more than that length of time in confinement. His Conscience Clear. “Can you truthfully say that yon went into office with an absolutely clear conscience?” inquired the very familiar but unworldly friend. “Of course 1 can.” answered Sena- to Sorghum in a tone of slight irrita tion; “I never yet failed te pay every cent I promised for a vote.”—Washing ton Star. % Advertising ra*es liberal. Duckling's Dying. We are requested to give the cause of ducklings dying, the following letter coming from Orleans, Canada: “Will you kindly tell us the cause of so many of our young ducklings dying? We have just commenced duck raising and our present loss is not encouraging. We feed them the first week on mashed potatoes and skimmilk, mixed' with grit, and later on as much ground oatmeal as they can eat. They are dusted every second week with insect powder. They seem to droop their heads in the morn ing and the following morning they are dead.” All inquiries should give details. Our correspondent does not state bow often be feeds, nor the kind of grit. The only grit they should have is finely crushed oyster shells. The rapid growth of ducklings necessitates some thing more than potatoes and milk (nearly all watery food), and the mess should be thickened with bran and cornmeal, giving one part animal meal with every two parts of the grain food. Eating filth in the yard will also cause loss.—Poultry Keeper! IMPROVED FARM FOR SALE The Bob Thomas place, 6Gtli district, con taining 530 acres, 3K(> cleared. 200 acres in original forest, 4 good Irame tenant houses. Well watered. Will sell cheap for cash. Im mediate possession given. Apply to .T E. TARVER. Augusta. Ga TRESPASS NOTICE. All persons are hereby forbidden to hunt, fish, or trespass in any manner upon the said Thomas place, belonging to Mrs. Mary McElmurrav. and ia codt.roI of Morris Wil liamson. A11 tresspassers will be prosecuted to the full extent of th -law. This Dec. 7 tool. MORRIS WIDLIAMSON. AM persons are herebv forbidden to hunt, fish, cut timber or otherwise trespass on all lands owned or controlled by me. All viola tors will be prosecuted. J. G. PERKINS, November 2d, 1901 Berk ins Ga. Job Printing of oil A Bantam Club. The International Bantam Breeders’ club has been organized, with Mrs. F. L. Kimmey, Morgan Tark, 111., as pres ident. E-. J. W. Dietz, Naperville, 111., is secretary and treasurer, and vice presidents have been selected from sev eral states. The club expects to offer large cash premiums to be competed for at the Chicago show. Mr. Dietz would like to hear from all bantam breeders everywhere. A Cause of Inbreeding, Iowa Homestead says inbreeding is one thing that has prevented many farmers from making a success. This is uot practiced because there is any ipecial desire to do so, but because of neglect on the part of many. The mat ter is not given the attention when it should be done, and when It is called to mind it is too late to get breeders then, and another year of Inbreeding is prac ticed. This is one reason, and another is due to the fact that it costs more to get good males from abroad than it does to select a few of the best ia the Cock for that purpose. A CLEAit BRAIN Is ihe vi'al necessity in life, and when Ihe stomach, bowels and liver are disordered, the brain is befogged and clouded. To regulate the bowels, tone the liver, and put the digestive organs in strong vigor, use Lamar s Lemon Laxative, Purely Vegetable, Pleasantly, Powerful. | Plant Now . | Alexander Seed | Go’s Choice t Sweet Peas . Mixed or separate colors Price ounce, ;0 cts ; qlb 25 cts ; : ound 75 cts. By niaii, 10 cts. per pound exl.ia. DUTCH HYACINTH BULBS.-As- sor'ed colors, 55 cts per doz By lOcs perdoz. US BULBS.—Eight varie ties. as-orted, 25 cents per dove i VE tETABIiR SEED —O' ion r-ets. Georgia Rye, H^cd Wheat, Clovers, Grass Seed. Send or Bring us yourorders. sor'ed col< mail, add Narcissus ties, as-orl $ Alexander: Seed | ! Company, f I 905 Broad St, Augusta* Ga. % SHERIFF’S SALES. NOTICE. \\TI hT, be sold before the court house door, V V in the city of Waynesboro, Burke coun ty, Georgia, between the Ieg-il hours of sate on the first Tuesday in January. 1902, the following described real estate, to-wit: AU that tract of land, lying in a bodv, and situa ted in the 05th district. G- M , of Burke coun- t , Ga . containing one hundred and twenty- seven (127. acres, more or less, and bounded North by lauds oi W. G. Tarver, East by waters of Me Beau creek, anil lands of the es tate of S G. Story, South by Sam Palmer and West by lanus ot Frank Ca swell. Lev ied on as the property of and in possession ot the defendant. F. Elizabeth Voliotiu, by virtue of and to satisfy a fi fa., Issued from the Superior Court of Burke county, Ga , in favor of A L. Ai wood, against sat i F Eliza beth \ oRoton Written notice given. Pur chaser to pay for titles W. L- EcELMU ft RAY, Sheriff, B C. Lawson* Scales, Attys. 1 W ILL be sold before the court house door iu the city of Waynesboro, Burke coun ty, Georgia, between the legal hours of sale on the first Tuesday in January, 1902, tie following described property, to-wit: One two-horse wagon, oue open buggy and har ness. 1000 lbs Jnf seed cotton more or less Levied on as the property of Lawson t-inith by virtue of and to satl fy fi. fa , issued from the Superior Court of Burke county, Ga , in favor of Davison <fc Fargo, mortgagees against Lawson .Smith, mortgagers, upon toe foreclosure of a mortgage ot personalty against said i awson Smith This Dee 4th’ '•M- „ w - L. McELMURKAY, Sheriff. ’ W. H. Barrett, Atty, Augusta Perfect Passenger Service. The Direct Route Between All Principal Points IN Alabama and Georgia. PENETRATINQ THE Finest Fruit, Agricultural, Timber, and Mineral Lands ilSOUTH. IN THE I will be as the following places on dates given below to collect taxes for 1801. which are now due Please meet me promptly. State rate, to II; county, $1.31, making $9.75 on the thousand: I wl.l be in my office during court, and on Saturdays, ana each day from Dec 1st to 20th when the law requires me to close. Ofllce back of Court, house. Respectfully, J. M. WARD, T. C. B. ( Sept. 25th, 1901. J. H. Schroeder, -Dealer in- THROUCH RATES AMD TICKETS FURNISHED UPON APPLI CATION TO ALL POINTS North, Sooth, East. Wost. c., FOR TAX COLLECTOR:—I hereby an nounce that I am a candidate for the office of Tax Collector cf Bnrke county at the Dext en suing election, subject to the Democratic primary. I will highly appreciate any help that I receive. 1 promise if elected to dis charge the duties of the office to the best of my ability. Respectfully, Raxse A. Bei/l. Advertising rate* Htorml S, SNUFF AND PIPES, 502 Broad Street, Corner Centre, AUGUSTA, Ga. fell •n ot xtoa In the rite Try one of oar dabbing oCan Central of Ceorgla Railway, Ocean 8toamshlp Oo. 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