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OTHER VALUABLE BABIlS.
John D. Rockeb Her, III., In worth
more millions than nny other baby In
the world.—Dally Paper.
8ho Isn't worth a fortune nnd Hho
— hasn't any socks,
Her wealth Is all In lilt It- shoes and
pinafores and frocks.
In little rings of curling hair and b.g
blue laughing eyes,
In leaves and grass and buds and
flowers and bees nnd butter
files.
Hut when she comes In tired from
piny nnd crawls upon my
knee
She's worth a hum rid million to her
A ^ mother nnd to me.
She sits among her dolls and toys
and doesn't seem to care
If wealth Is b’I In rosy cheeks and
locks of curly hair.
Sh? toddles up to me and like an
urtful falr> clips
A coupon bearing love from off tile
Hwcotm ss of her lips.
And when she puts her nrms around
my neck nnd goos In glee,
She's worth uncounted millions to
her mother and to me.
And when she's In her crib at night
and daintily tucked In
The wealth of Croesus couldn't buy
the dimple In her chin,
And as she blinks her roguish eyes
to play at peek-a-boo,
Eli.* chuckles me 1 fortune with each
archly spoken goo,
And though she has no fortune, 1 am
sure you will agree,
She's a fortune, more than money, to
her mother and to me.
—J. W. Foley.
OIL DISCOVERED ON
COFFEE COUNTY FARM
Surluce Indications S irpass Thusi!
Found In Rich Fluids ul West
back then;, no matter if you fancy that hope has slipped
away from you, look ahead. Hope never dies and treasures
as <rrcat, {'olden, and glorious, as those Opliir still shine in
the future. The world needs folk who art; looking upward
and onward, pushing ahead, opening up ways for other
people. Looking back means brooding over what might
have been and opportunity may pass at any time.
A smile and a blessing hover just beyond the horizon of
mortal view for those who will travel with perseverance.
This is the age of advancement. There is no such thing
as standing still. The old idea of being conservative and
staying on the fence, so to speak, is vanishing. The theory
about evolution coming in the naturul order of things has
been exploded and it is activity now that brings about
changes. The people who try to stand still retrograde and
lose all chance of doing anything.
Standing in such a position too long puts one in an
awkward place. It is a hard matter to fight it out after you
drag along in the old rut for awhile. Every way you look
seems to he backward, because you have traveled over all
the ground. That’s a hard old story, hut it’s too true of
the toilers in the common ranks of men.
But still there’s even a way to climbout of the rut. Look
up. Don’t try to look around, hack, forward,or on tho side
The view will Uo the same that has greeted your gaze day
after day for years. If there happens to he a mirror near
by you’ll see you are growing older and that wilFbe all the
change.
It’s time to look up! There never was a moment,'or
rather two moments, when the skies above always appeared
tho same. Some new tint of blue, some new star, some new
cloud that brings a shower when rain is needed, is always
there. It pays to look up and go onward. Looking back
brings wrinkled brows and care-worn minds. The other
way means health, happiness and hotter time in the days to
come. J. C. McA.
ON WASTING TIME.
THE SCIENTIST tells 11s that in reality TIME does not
actually exist.
To all practical purposes the “Scientist” lies.
Others tell us that time is money. That’s bettor.
But got this into your head. Time is a real, genuine
thing, a tangible asset that God gives to every man.
Time is money. Time is capital.
Yesterday is currency. To—day is case in tho pocket.
Tomorrow is a saving account to draw on and invest.
Time to the young man is gold- To the middle aged
man it is silver. To the aged it is still as valuable as a
clearing house certificate.
When you waste time you waste money. You are
thi owing away opportunity just assure as the man who
lets good bottom land lie under water because he hasn’t got,
the energy to drain it.
(Jet busy.
Don't grumble because you haven’t inherited a working
capital of your own. Beach out and grab the hours and
shake the profit out of them.
Don’t let a day slip by unrecognized. Collar it. Look
it in the face and demand what it has for you. Every day
rain or shine, brings you something worth while if you will
but ask for it.
D0UG1.AS, Ga.,—An oil expert, re
presenting a syndicate of wealthy capi- j
tails ts. has very quietly after a careful j
survey and analysis of surface indie- j
at ions on the small farm of J. P. Bar
ringer four miles east of Douglas,
secured leases on forty — three hundred
acres of adjacent lands, for the purpose
s>f boring for oil. He states that the
indications promise a brighter prospect
for success than many of the Ohio oi|
fields on first examination, and that
the machinery will be placed at a very
aarly date and work will begin in
earnest; that his company has ample,
and experience in other fields, ani is
satisSed the paying success is only a
matter of time and pioper baring of the
wells and a great surprise awaits those
who own the lands.
The Over street Land Ca. sol) at
auction yesterday afternoan eighteen
lots in the northern suburbs of Douglas,
60x 145 feet, each at an average price
of $125 per lot.
Do all things conic to him who waits? Sure—if ho gets
up and goes after them. The man who sits down and waits
for time to bring him something—generally gets it. And
he gets it goixi and hard.
Take care of the days and the years will take card of
themselves.
Put your hours in the savings bank of life and they will
draw a certain interest for you. The man who waists his
time is no better than the misguided fool squanders his dol
lars on liquors or eWrds.
Take time by the forelock and put a bridle on it—and
ride it to prosperity.
And remember that TO-DAY is yours. To-morrow
may belong only to others. J. J. C.
Before Spring poultry wprk begins
it seems to me It would be a good
thing for many of us to go over care
fully the many and varied points wher*
we failed or made mistakes last sea
son. and try If possible to avoid these
obstacles this season.
We have tried all these methods.
The regular brooder are the best and
handiest.
A knoll or ridge where natural drain
age Is perfect and fine location for
a chicken house.
TOM HUDSON GOES
! TO WASHINGTON IN
BEHALF 0; CATTLE
, Comulsslonsr Will Al'cmpl to Get
Deparimt n: to Con.inuc 1 ar
on Tick.
ATLANTA,Ga.—ThomasG. Hudson,
state commissioner of agriculture, left
this afternoon for Washington, D. C.,
where he goes to beg the federal gov
ernment to not stop its war on the bo-
ophulua annulate* in Georgia. He car
ried along numerous petitions
from the citizens of Stephens and
Habersham counties, in which it is de
clared that unless the war is continued
their interests will suffer materially. '
To the tAknowing ones, it might as
we'l be stated th it bo-ophulu» annulatus
is the scientific term by which the com
mon cow ticks is denoted. As a spread
er and purveyor of cattle's diseases the
above designated specimen of the tick is
said to Le pre-eminent. Thousands of
dollars have been spent by the national
from the land.
\
A Negroless Community
Ruled by Moonshiners
Section of Georgia Which Negroes
Shun and Where Mjonshlne Flow'.
Albany, Ga.—There is a little strip of
territory down in Miller county, not a
great distance from the line of Early,
that is uniqile, in that it is the only
neighborhood in all South Georgia, in
which not a single negro, man, woman
or child, is to be found.
There are many interesting stories
told of this neighborhood, which all
negroes give a wide berth and concern
ing which they speak in awed whispe*».
They will ride or walk many miles to
detour around it, and will venture to
cross its boundary lines neither night
nor day.
Not long ago a negro, who had come
from a considerable distance, was pass
ing through Miller county. .His home
was many miles away, and he was go
ing on foot, as country darkies often do,
to visit some relatives sown near the
Florida line. During the day he walk
ed, and at night he partook of the hos
pitality of members of his race who
were willing to give him shelter.
Warned, But Did Not Heed.
When he approached this negroless
land and casually remarked to a farm
er with whom he st'opped, that his
route lay that way, he warned to go in
another direction. “If you go the way
you’ve started,’’ he was told, “you will
never get through alive.’’ But the
strange negro didn’t believe the tale
that were told him, and he determined
not to change his route. Early one
morning he passed into the "forbidden
land,” and proceeded uninterruptedly
for an hour along the big road.
But before midday, as he was pass
through s me woods, he heard the
crack of a rifle several hundred yards
away, and a bullet sang through the
branches of the tree above his head.
Half a minute later the same thing hap-
| pened, and a fresh pine bough oropped
j down at his feet. Before he had gone
j fifty yards further a bullet splintered
I a rail of the fence by the roadside in
close proxmity to the negro, whose
course was rapidly oozing away, and
who capitulated unreservedly when a
leaden missile from a near by thicket
j threw up a handful of dust not six feet
| from where he had involuntarily halted.
Made a Marathon Sprint.
Facing about, he took his hat in one
hand and his bundle of clothes in th
other and proceeded to “dig” in a man
ner that would put Marathon runner to
blush. Bullets continued to whiz over
his head, but he reached the home
where he had received the friendly
warning with a whole skin and some
j valuable experience.
I Such is the experience of every black
1 man who has the hardihood to venture
into this strange region. There are
stories told of mysterious disappear-
| ances of negroes whose bravado was
greater than discretion, though no such
cases have been reported in the recent
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WiRZ MONUMENT MAY YET
REMAIN PERMANENTLY IN GA.
Savannah, Ga. —Upon the dj3ire of
two. possibly three Georgia cities to
furnish a site for the monument to Capt.
Wirz, for whom it is claimed that he
lost his life in the defense of Confeder
ate President Jefferson Davis rests the
reason for the present fight among the
members of the Georgia Division, Uni
ted Daughters of the Confederacy, that
has been caused by the monument ques
tion.
At the regular convention of the di
vision in Savannah during the last week
for Andersonville. where Capt. Wirz’s
service in the civil war has placed the
center of the discussion his named has
caused since the war closed, to Oe se
lected for his monument. Savannah
delegates led a fight in favor of Rich
mond and by a very close vote the old
capital of the confederacy was select
ed. However, the Georgia cities that
had before wanted .he monument kept
after it and now a called meeting of
the division will take up tha. question
of reconsidering its selection, and tha
in October, 1903, after the partisan j ra mument may yet remain permanent-
fight of cities had made it impossible j ly on Georgia soil.
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liEN. EVANS AND JOE BROWN
MEET WITH BLUE AND liRAY
Fitzgerald, Ga. —Gen. Clement Evans
and Governor—elect Joe Brown have
eggs laid by the smaller breeds are
usually more fertile than those laid
by larger breeds.
Life Is too short to spend much
time keeping a bunch of early chicks
warm with jugs of hot water, warm
bricks and ..atirons.
promised to be tho guests of the Blue j
and Gray Association during tho nat- •
iona! encampment to be held here on
March 11, 12 and 13, and both have
been given prominent places on the pro
gram. General Howard of Washington .
will attend with his staff and partici-1
pate in the sessions. Five hundred de- >
legates from a’! parts of the South and
East are expected and a special train
will be rup from Washington to accom
modate the delegates from the mirth at
that point. It promises to be the most
largely attended convention ever held
in Fitzgerald and the only one of
national seope.
Prof. J. H. Dickinson has returned
home after several weeks stay in Char
lotte N. C. where he has purchased a
Business college.
Capons never grow spurs or combs.
The big quiet fellows never Buffer
from fights or frozen combs, and
more of them can be house- together
than hens ->r cockrels.
past, prohably only for the reason that
no negroes have entered tne forbidden
territory.
The residents of this negroless neigh-
hood are all farmers, and numerous
illicit stills have been found thereabou *
by revenue officers during the last few
years. In fact, it is said that moon
shiners are about as thick in that region
as they are anywhere in Georgia.
Ducks natch well In Incubators and
are easily raised in brooders if thuy
are not crowded.
If you are a lover of chicken meat.
Just try a nice fat capon and you will
know why iney bring a better prica
than other poultry.
Feeding laying hens of the larger
breeds liberally is one way to induce
them to sit early. The number of
eggs a hen may lay before she begins
to sit depends a good deal upon her
condition when laying. The well fed,
fat laying hen will not lay many eggs
before she begins to sit, usually.
Fattening a laying hen is very apt to
cause uer to become broody, at least
the tnedency Is that way with larger
varieties. However, It would not be
wise to feea breeders too heavily. If
any one wishes to try this method I
would advise separating the ones one
wishes for early sitters from the oth
er* then try this mode of feeding.—
Inland Farmer.
Some folks who ought to know bet
ter will file the hen in the brooding
notion more eggs than she can cover
well and comfortably.
And meanwhile have nest large
enough to allow biddy to turn around
without trampling the eggs.
Eg,;s Intended for hatching will not
chill readily in a box of bran or oats,
Buying eggs at the store to fill the
incubator won't do. We can't afford
to trust to luck for a good hatch.
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