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Atlantic Caast Lina. NOltTHEASTEItN RAIL HOAD OF SOUTH CAROLINA. Condensed Schedule in Effect Dec. 20, 189J- SOUTHBOUND No. 35 No. 23 No. 53 A M P M P M Lv. Florence 755 Lv. Kings! ree 8 57 Ar. Lanes ....4 38 9 15 Lv. Lanes 915 7 40 Ar. Charleston... 6 03 10 65 9 15 A M PM P M NORTHBOUND No. 78 No 32. No. 52 A M P M A M Lv. < harles‘on ... ...633 5 17 700 Ar. Lanes 6 45 8 26 Lv. Lanes ... 8 10 6 45 Lv. Kli.gstree ,...8 29 • • • • Ar. Florence 7 55 A M P M A M No 52 runs through to Columbia via Cen tral Railroad ot South Carolina. Trains Nos. 78 and 32 run via Wilson and Fayetteville—Short Line—and make close connection for a'.l points North, Trains on C. & D. R. R. leave Florence dally except Sunday 9 55 a m, arrive Dar lington 10 28 a in. Cheraw 11 40 a m, Wades- boro 2 25 p m. Leave Florence dully except Sunday 8 15 p m, arrive Darlington 8 40 p m, Hartsville 9 35 p m, Benneusviile 9 36 p m, Gibson 10 00 p m. Leave Florence Sun- daj only 9 55 a m. arrives Darlington 10 27 a m. Hartcsvillell 10 a m. Leaves Gibson daily except Sunday 6 15 a m, Bennettsville6 41 am, arrive Datlington 7 40 am. Leave Hartsville daily except Sunday 6 45 a m, arrive Darlington 7 90 a m, leave Darlington 9 00 a m, arrive Florence 9 26 a m. Leave Wadesboro daily except Sunday 3 00 p m, Cheraw 5 15 p m, Darling ton 6i9 p m. arrive Florence 7 00 p m. Leave Hartsvdle Sunday only 8 20 a m. Dar lington 9 05 a m, arrive Florence 9 25 a m. J. R. KLNLY, JNO. F. DIVINE, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Sup’t. T. M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. H. M. EMERSON, Gen'l Pass. Agent Brown Velveteen in Vogue. Brown velveteen is considered dressy this season and will be worn even to dancing school. DOUBLE DAlg lERyiCE To AtUnta, charlotte, Augusta, Athena, Wilmington, New Orleans, Chattanooga, Nashville and New York. Boston. Philadel phia, Washington, Norfolk and Richmond. Schedule in effect May 30,1897. SOUTHBOUND. No. 403. Lv. New York *1100801 “ Philadelphia 112pm “ Baltimore 8 15pm “ Washington 4 40pm u Richmond 8 56pm No. 4L • 800pm 1305am 3 60am 4 80am 806am “ Norfolk “ Portsmouth .* 8 30pm . 8 45pm •8 05am 9 20am “ Weldon Ar. Henderson....... .*11 28pm •12 56am •11266am •1 39pm “ Durham Lv. Durham .+ 7 32am .f 6 20pm f4 09pm til 10am Ar. Raleigh • 316am “ Sanford 8 35am •3S4p& 8 03pm 1 X8pa 811pm 913pm “ Wadesboro “ Monroe. . 6 64am . 6 48am “ Charlotte .* 8 30am •10 36pm “ Chester .* 8 10am •10 47pm Lv. Columbia........ Ar. Clinton “ Greenwood. •• AhtavillA. .* 9 46am t6 00pm •13 10am 107am 140am 3 41am 8 46am 480am 8 20&m “ Elberton 12 07pm “ Athens.... v 115pO « Winder. 1 59pm “ AUantaCent’l Time 2 50pm NORTHBOUND. Satchel* to Match Gowns. Traveling satchels are made to match gowns, so a fashionable woman must perforce own several of snakeskin and lizard skin, with their delicate mark ings; sealskin and morocco are dyed in all the prevalent shapes and fastened with clasps of solid silver and gold. Woman's Hair. It is now said that women’s hair is becoming more beautiful in color every year, and is also growing thicker and longer. This is said to be due to the small light bonnets that women wear. Certain it is that air and sunshine im prove the color and texture of the hair. San bleaches the hair, and Venetian beauties always dried their ruddy locks in the sun, thereby getting that tint so much admired called Venetian red. Of course, sunshine will not bleach dark hair, but it gives a deeper color to all kinds of tresses and will brighten dull-brown hair. The Bustle a ICeallty. We are to have the bustle again. There is no doubt about it. All you have to do to he sure is to go to the- dressmaker who best knows the styles and she will tell you that the newest costumes all have that idea in view. The bustle in its present form is bound to be popular, for it is far from being the monstrosity of a few years ago. Neat and graceful, it is just large enough to round up the hips and give a stylish set to the skirt and prevent its sagging. The modern idea is to use the bus tle in the only sensible way—that is, to suit the individual. Bustles are being made in great variety, both long and short, and some much fuller than others. The style most in vogue is moderately long, and has hip exten sions which will suit the woman who is tall and not too full of outlines. A pad of some sort is essential in order to be fashionable.—New York Herald. No. 4OX Lv. AtlantaCent’l Tlme*12 OOn’n “ Winder 2 40pm Athens 3 16pm " Elbeiton 415pm *' 'Abbeville 5 15pm “ Greenwood 5 41pm •• Clinton * 6 34pm Ar. Columbia Lv. Chester • 813pm Ar. C harlotte *10 25pm No. 38. *7 60pm 10 43pm 11 26pm 12 33&m 1 40am 2 09am *8 O'ium •7 45am •4 f«3am *8 30am Lv. Monroe “ Hamlet “ Gibson • 940pm .•1123pm . 810am •6 05am (115am 7 00am Ar. Wilmington .? 5 30am •12 80pm Lv. Southern Pines... “ Raleigh Ar. Henderson .•12 Ham • 216am 3 28am •9 20am 11 85am •1 00pm Durham Lv. Durham .t 7 32am ,.f 520pm f4 09pm til lOatx Ar. Weldon “ Richmond “ Washington..... “ bwLJhnoie.. “ Philadelphia..... “ New York “ Portsmoufii “ Norfolk •Daily. jDaily Ex. Monday. Nos. 403 and 403.- .* 4 55nm *3 OOpn 8 16am 6 60pm . 12 31pm 1110pm 1 43pm 12 48am .. 3 50pm 3 45am . *6 23 pm *6 63am . 7 30am 5 50pm . *7 50am 6 05pn Ex. Sunday. JDailj ■“The Atlanta Special” Solid Vestlbuled Train of Pullman Sleepen and Coachea between VYaahimrtou a"d At lanta, aleo Pullman Sleepers between Pc.te- mouth and Chester, 8. C. No*. 41 and 38.—“The S. \ L Expresa,’ Solid Train, < oaohes and 1 i'iman Sleeper* between Portsmouth and .'.I’-uta. Company Bleepers between Colurabu and Atlanta. Both trains make iinmedlate»connectloni at Atlanta for MonUomery, Mobile, New Orleans, Texas, California, Mexico, Chat tanooga, Nashville, Memphis, Macon, Florida. For tickets, sleepers, etc., apply to B. A. Newland, Gen. Aat. Pass. Dent.. 6 Kimball House, Atlanta, Ga. Geo. Me. P. Batte, Trav Pass. Agt, Charlotte. N. C. E. 8t. JOHN, H. W. B. GLOVER, V P. A Gen. Mg’r. Traffic Manager, V. E. McBEE, T. J. ANDERSON, Gen’l Supt. Gen’l. Pass. Agt. General Offloea: Portsmouth. Va. {Olbtou Vldetfe.] A dame Law In Itself.—Gobang—"I think IH do quite a little shooting this summer. I wonder what the close sea son Is?" Buckshot—“Well, in your case, old man, I lancy If you applied to the Legislature, they’d throw the whole t'ear open to you.”—Truth. The three big cities of the south of Ireland—Dublin, Cork and Limerick— have for the first time just been con nected by telephone. This distance of 225 miles Is quite a long one for such a compact kingdom. The Girl in a New Uole. - from time immemorial women have, to a greater or less extent, been em ployed in the fields, but never up to this time, we believe, has any direct effort been made to educate them in the higher lines of agriculture. It is very much to the credit of Minnesota that she has established schools with this solo purpose in view. One of these has jnst been opened, in which sixty pnpils can be accommo dated, and in which they will enjoy the highest privileges and academic honors. Women, as far as they have been permitted, have developed splendid capacity to prepare and survey land and carry on fruit and other staple culture and develop the soil in every line suggested by science. They make the best of gardeners, are good architects and are in many instances in the West very extensive and suc cessful stock raisers. Woman’s proverbial love of nature eminently fits her for outdoor country employment, and especially does it bring within her purview such experi ments as are necessary for the propa gation and development of plant life. Surely the establishment of the Wo man’s Agricultural College is a move in the right direction.—St. Louis Star. Gossip. Massachusetts has twelve registered women pharmacists, but not one of them does business iti Boston. Miss Lisa Eschelsson has been ap pointed professor of civil law at the University of Upsala. She is said to be the first woman professor in Sweden. Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy, who is liv ing in New Hampshire, is the founder of Christian Science. Her income is said to be about §40,000 a year, chiefly from her books. The new President of the National Council of Women Workers in Eng land, Mrs. Alfred Booth, is an Ameri can by birth, and since her marriage has lived in Liverpool. Mrs. Emily Stevens, who is said to be the oldest woman in England, celebrated her 102d birthday in the Kingston Workhouse the other day by presiding at a tea party. The Boston Advertiser tells of two women, Mrs. Nellie Kimball and Mrs.-Emma Hamilton, who own coal and wood yards. Both women are prospering and both attend personally to the details of the business. Miss Jennie Wertheimer, of Cincin nati, has invented a commerical paper which excludes the possibility of forg ing names or otherwise tampering with its face value. The invention hns been sold to a New York firm ton $25,00(1. Miss Go-Won-Go is an Indian actress. She plays in an exciting Western drama entitled “Wep-Ton- No-Mah, the Indian Mail-Carrier.” Miss Go-Won-Go wrote it herself and takes the leading role. She is a de scendant of the famous Red Jacket. Two young Englishwomen, Miss Grace Fairweather and Miss Ella Col lins, have recently appeared in Lon don as professional billiard-players. Miss Collins is the daughter of a well- known retired expert at billiards, and has a sistor who promises tal»e even a hotter player than herself. A young woman of St. Tammany Parish, La., can shear more sheep in a day than any two men in the place, catching, tying and washing them herself. She can also hoe two rows of corn to the average man’s one, and prefers to ride her horse bareback with no reins but his name. Lady Marcus Beresford had a re cent exhibition of cats at the Crystal Palace Cat Show London. It is said that she has the most remarkable col lection of tabbies in the world. All the cats are named, and know when they are called. They are devoted to their indulgent mistress, who has a man specially to care for them. . The’season has developed two fresh specimeuts of the “new woman” among the aristocracy. Laity Gifford is personally hunting a pack of har riers ; regularly, while the Duchess of Bedford has established her reputation as a first class shot, and in Bedford shire knocks over high rocketing pheasants with the best shots among the men. S*ll OB th* Poor Stork. Though food is cheap for feeding season next summer. If the trees am denuded of fruit before it has madn stock, it is never worth while to winter much growth, this plan will probably They give very full, wo colors, is canvas metal ef- * are in are the in color cured by seen in me are ruche of New York Fashion*. Ribbon embroidery is in high favor. Doeskin gloves are worn with street gowns. Handsome costumes are much be spangled. Yokes are much worn, tbs effect of an underbodic Ruches for the neck a: The most stylish ones show A striking evening fabr with phosphoric stripes i feet. Plain and figured velv brisk demand. Velvet gow vogue. Chatelaiue bags are of s to match the gown, and are gold or silver fastenings. Roman striped sashes an many width and colors, trimmed all round with a chiffon. Silk underskirts are to be had in Roman stripes. They should be ac companied by corsets in solid color or pure white or black. A lovely novelty is a shoulder cape for evening wear. It is an arrange ment of white ostrich plumes with boa ends forming a border. In millinery, marten, sable and as trakhan are much used ns borderings for toques, turbans and capotes which have full crowns of velvet. There are some quaint Empire fans listed among holiday novelties. One of white gauze has steel paillettes in close-clustering lines in the form of of wee stars. A conventional border is wrought in plain gold sequins. The ivory mounts are inlaid with gold and silver. Some of the prettiest frocks shown are of gray plaids, made up straight or with the squares forming diamonds; small sleeves, with a top puff effect, and a round blouse ent down to show a yoke of plain-colored cloth, braided, or velvet, with a narrow folded’belt to match. A stylish hat is a sailor shape in felt, with the brim bonnd with velvet. One side of the brim is rolled up to the crown and holds a large bunch of curled feathers. A scarf of velvet passes around the crown, ending in a bow in front fastened with a jeweled hackle. Heliotrope in all shades is popular for winter dresses. It is combined with many shades and colors, most of which are anything bnt artistic. Helio trope is at its best with black, white, a peculiar shade of green very like that of the elm leaf, and various tints df yellow. The fur blouse which will usurp the place of both bodies and wrap is one of the leading novelties of the season. Ther» are likewise fancy blouses for very youthful wearers, made of Scotch tartans and plain vivid reds of many different shades, bnt somewhat toned in effect by their velvet trimming. Ltttle girls are as fond of the Rus sian blonse as the grown-up ladies. Their preference in this respect is gratified by making np delicious cos tumes of this nature. Frequently the blouse forms the outer wrap, and is trimmed with dainty fur. A fancy bodice is worn under it with the dress skirt. what even after keeping is sure to he worth little more in spring than in fall. The young growing stock makes a positive gain in size and weight. If any other stock does not do this, see hi it that it produces something to pay its way or else dispose of it at once for the best price to be had. Improvement in Tomatoes. There has been great improvement in both the shape and quality of tomatoes since we first new and liked them. The original tomato was very rough, had little pulp, and was merely a bag of seeds and water with very thick, tough skin. The first improve ment was in securing sound and smooth tomatoes, hut somewhat smaller than the fruit was originally. But for many years we have had toma toes full of pulp, and having compara tively few seeds. These are much the best for sooking and canning, as when cooked there is something to them besides seeds. he effective. We have tried it on a young orchard, and have thus brought the Northern Spy apple tree into hear ing several years earlier than it would have borne had it been left alone. The upright growing trees, like North ern Spy, do not come early into bear ing unless treated thus. We believo the same plan will be effective in reg ulating the hearing of older orchards. —Home and Farm. ImprovltiK the Itrenl. Breeds for producing beef have been improved so as to enable a farmer to secure twice as much weight in a steer compared with forty years ago. The average weight of an entire herd of cattle would uo't exceed 800 pounds, but an average of from 1200 to 1(500 pounds is not regarded as remarkable at the present day. Beef cattle, in addition to being improved in size, are also better adapted for the objects for which they are intended, and the farmer who enters into the business of producing beef will not give much at tention to the milking qualities of his cows,—Home and Farm. Whole Grain For Fowl*. All kinds of poultry have very strong digestive organs, provided they have the gravel with which to fill their gizzards, and have enough exercise to keep in vigorous health. They are positively injured by having the hulk of their food ground, moistened or cooked so as to make its digestion easier. Young chicks are most apt to be injured in this way, the popular idea being that as they are very small their gizzards cannot digest hard sub stances. We always began feeding young chicks with cracked wheat, I giving in addition some milk curd pressed hard, which is quite as difficult of digestion as the wheat. They will not eat much wheat at first, and it is best they should not. Little and often should be the rule with all young animals, chicks included. — Boston Cultivator. rusturing Winter Grain. When either winter rye or wheat are sown very early it is no injury, but rather a benefit, to have the top eaten down, provided it be done by small stock like calves or sheep, which will not deeply poach the soil. Trampling of the grain by either calves or sheep makes the loose sur/ace soil more com pact, so that it will not absorb so much water. The result is the root will not heave so badly in winter. Bnt the cropping off of some of the top is equally a benefit. The root growth is not lessened bnt is rather increased, as the soil is compacted above it and therefore the roots spread out near the surface and are less easily thrown oat. Besides, with less top there is less sur face for moisture to evaporate from the plant, which it does even in cold weather. Every winter much of the top growth of grain is browned be cause the roots cannot supply the moisture required to keep it green. All these browned leaves have to be dropped off by the growth of new ones in spring. It is far better for the plant to have them eaten off or clipped off the previous fall. Farm and Garden Note*. j Many who have more horses than are needed for active work during tho winter turn them out for a rest. It would he well to look them over care fully before doing this for somo of them may have received strains or bruises while at the summer’s hard work that have caused lameness or en largements. Cement floors to stables are said to he cold and uncomfortable in winter, which is an objection, but floors should always be kept well covered with cut straw, leaves or litter of some kind. There is no floor that serves better as a protection against rats, and cement enables the farmer to construct his floors in a manner to collect the liquids and thus enrich his manure heap. Many farmers who are sufficiently progressive to invest one or two dol lars in a sitting of eggs from purebred fowls have been ridiculed for their ex travagance in so doing, hut after they have established good flocks their neighbors who ridiculed them usually promptly come over and request to “exchange eggs,” so as to derive bene fit from the enterprise of others at » trifling cost. It is never a good plan to mulch orchards late in fall, especially in n season like the last, when there is much rain in midsummer. This al ways makes a great growth of grass which is the best protection for mice, and they increase amazingly. Later these mice find refuge in corn stooks, but as these are cleared away they hasten to orchards, where the hark ot young trees is very attractive to them when other food is scarce. Royal Carpet*. The finest carpets of the East are not woven but done with a needle. In one of the discourses of Buddha, he speaks of “the well-made chariots, yoked to excellent horses aud covered with carpets of elegant stitching." The pattern is drawn on a warp and the carpet-makers put their stitches around two of its threads, then twice tie into knots the woolen, the silken or golden thread, and cut it off. The finer carpets are frequently enriched with texts from the Koran, and orna mented with beautiful patterns aud gorgeous colors. They take eight, ten, twelve or more years to make. A small rug in the Paris Exposition of 1878 cost $7500. Those carpets are mostly made in rich men’s houses,aud often by the women, and given for presents. A Persian in Loudon, be ing shown a large Persian carpet, said: “What a rich carpet-seller that man must have been; carpets like this are only made by men’s wives, and he must have had fifteen wives to havo made so large a carpet.” “We shall never have any fine car pets in Europe until we give up the brutal habit of walking on them with our shoes,” says one writer. “Dirty shoes destroy them in an incredibly short time, while the Mussel man cor pets last for centuries, aud up to n certain time they actually improve by the wear of naked feet. They have the smooth, satiny appearance of the sktn of the beast in the Apocalypse.” Detroit Free Press. f riiaDcInjc Bearing Year*. It is a most unfortunate fact that everywhere nearly all the old orchards get into the habit of bearing only on alternate years. What is worse, this year is generally the same for all old trees, so that when tha trees do bear the fruit is hardly worth the gather ing. This doubtless originally came from a frost or other climatic condi tions which some spring destroyed all the blossoms and made the trees barren that season. Then next year they bore an extra heavy crop, which so exhausted the tree that it coaid not produce fruit buds for another year’s fruiting. We have known farmers who on a part of their apple orchard entirely destroyed the fruit, but this sometimes resulted in the trees mak ing a large extra growth of wood that year, and not bearing until the year came around when all apple trees were fall of frait. There were few apples this year, and if all yonr trees make a fall show of blossoms next May we would advice yon to bend the branches over aud hold them in a cramped position during the growing singular. Worship Double Tree*. Double trees are worshiped in In dia as divine. Of these curious freaks which are two trees—usually of differ ent species—that have became ac cidentally united, M. Hector Leveille mentions four examples now to be seen. In each case one of the trees forming the union is a fig, the ad- ventive roots let down by this tree from its branches seeming to play an important part in causing the plants to become joined. In the principal street of Vellore a Melia Azadirachta is completely surrounded by a Ficus religiosa, attracting much venerative attention; at Conrtalium a Borassus flabbeliformis is entirely imprisoned by a Ficus Bengalensif; intte colonial garden of Pondicherry a Ficus I5ea- galensis letting fall its roots—destined to be transformed into trunks—from the top of a palm tree, the Caroyta ureas, gives an exact idea of the pro cess of growing together, and at Colombo a Borassus is closely held at its base in a Ficus. The effeot of a palm surrounded by a fig and ap parently growing from it is very BsLJISikggite