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Rpv 5 A SINNER ET SOPHIE ( I "My, but your mornin' glories do look nice. Miss Phemey! Wish you'd save tie some Beed offen that white one." : was Mrs. Ridley coming up the ;alk. *'I will, Mis' Ridley. Come in and bt down. There's a pa'm leaf on the Hinge, an' mebbe you'll take a glass ST cool water. It's a scorchln' inornig." said Miss Phemey. i "I would like a drink, thank you," wsponded Mrs. Ridley. "Seems like when anybody's fat as I am, they just net he't' up like a coal stove. My, that tastes good. You got a grand well, Miss Phemey." The hostess smiled a flattered smile, but before she could speak Mrs. Ridley went 011: "1 brought over three of Mr. Ri?lley's vests. Miss Phemey, to get you to mend 'em. He's bu'sted 'em ever* one right down the back, f'r all the world like a seven-year locust, 1 tell Mm, an't seems like 1 got no time to flx 'em, with Emma May gittin' married next week. We're Just livin' in a regular whirlwind, an' sorry as I'll be to see Emma May go?not that I don't like Charlie Koote. but you know what 1 mean?1 cert'ney shall be glad when all this fuss is over." "I expect it is trying," sympathized Miss Phemey. "Rut Emma May's always been a good daughter, an' she deserves a fine weddln'." '* 'Tain't that I don't want her to have it," said Mrs. Ridley, hastily. "But I'm just dog-tired this mornln'*? for the land sakes, it's half-past ten o'clock a'reody; I got to go. You bring them vests over when they're done. Miss Phemey, an' I'll pay you Tr 'em. I'd send one o' the boys over, but Emnu. May wants you to come particular an' see her presents, so 't'll be klllin' two birds with one stone." She chuckled comfortably as she stepped outside the door. iVliCO I lltTKIIl'J lUUMfU UlUT UtT lieparting form with rosentful stare. "Yes," she muttered, "she can get Miss Maxwell to make Emma May's weddln' clothes, but I'm good enough to mend tip Jim Ridley's old vests. I'll charge her 15 cents apiece, see 'f I don't; that'll be 45 cents. Does seem m good bit to cliurge f'r mendln' tinfee ..vests." . \ 7 -v v i . I Miss ruemey^vent In and shut fout the glare of the summer day. As |she picked up the package of vests I her thin little hands trembled. Tfears sprang to her eyes and she burst! out fiercely: " 'Taln't right! I made Eimma May Ridley's dressB to be christened In, little teenty baby as she was,/ an' I made her a dress to be confirmed in, an* I made her a dress whep she gragwated at the high school, an/', she'd always said I should make hen* weddiu" dress. That flauntin' city/thing's got all my trade! I've sewed pere all my life and dealt honest by all / an' It's not. fair." The tears rolled duwu her withered cheeks and fell unheeded upon Mr. Ridley's second bestt peppercmd-salt vest. Presently hf>r wrath flamed anew. "Emma May wants you to come portickler to see her presents! 'Taln't no hint; oh. no? Sally Ridley needn't 'a' troubled herself to say that. I got a present for Emma May, an'/ I'm going to give it to her. I'd like to get even wiiii iiic in( ine wuuie kii in oui. aesi as if I couldn't 'a' made Emma May's weddin' clo's. They tell me Miss Maxveil uses a chain-stitch machine. I always did say chainstitch machines was made for the careless, an' 1 don't see no reason to change my mind. Well, 'pon my word, this vest ain't on'y bu'sted. but frayed int' the bargain." Miss Phcmey fell briskly to sewing. The next day, despite the threatening rumble of a distant storm. Miss Pfaemey dressed in her best and started toward the Kidleys, carrying two packages. She was graciously received by Emma May, a fat. fair girl of pleasant mien and placid disposition. "I brought home them vests," explained Miss Plftmey; "and here, Emma May, is a little present I brought for you. It'll be nice f'r your dining room table. 1 thought." She held out a smull white pasteboard box, with an expression of the hcaping-coals-of-tire kind. "Ma." called Emma May, "come here; Miss Phomey's brought in ^ a butter knife; Wisht you'd look. That cert'ney is beautiful." ? "It's solid pilvcr," said the donor, proudly. "My neicc down to New "York got it for me." She received the thanks, delivered a trifle embarrass rui}, ui iiiinucr uiiu uaiiKiiiiT, wun polito coolness. u* When the brld^?iect invited her to an inspection of the presents. Miss Phemey looked them over and made few comments. She turned the eet of silver spoons, "presented by the groom's parents," so that the pinto mark was visible, and she Lapped the globe of a gaudy china lamp with the remark that th?y were just $2.25 cents down to Ueedhmn's When she had looked at all, she said, cheerfully: "Now I want to scC your clothes. Km ma May." Mrs. and Miss Ridley exchanged glances of annoyance, but the latter led the way to the spare room, where, on the bed and chair, lay the creations of Miss Maxwell, "City Modiste." There was the white silk wedding f drers, the tan traveling dress, sonv odd waists a black satin, stiff with jet, and a "tea gown." No girl in a country town marries without these last indiepensible garments: they are the real backbone of the trousseau. Miss Phemey looked at the display, * felt the qiinlity of the material, and # examined th? despised chain-stitching, 4 UNREPENT. * || without a word. At last she said, pleasautly conscious of paying old scores: "If I might persoom to criticise. I really do think it's a pity you got your wedding dress made with a p'inted overskirt. All the latest fashion books say they're not worn at all this season; and box-pleats, too, is kind of droppin' out. I was rcadin* only yesterday that 'twas just the cheapest goods was made up so any more. That black satin's real pretty, though. Did you see Lena Sullivan's black satin? Hers was a beauty?finest piece of satin I ever cut into, an' all made up with these here pleated ruffles. Why, Emma May, seems ii you'd be more afraid to leave all these iine things in here with the winder niwni fliii! f#w.r? on the ground floor like it is. It's been a real treat to see such elegant clothes, an' I hope your married life'll be happy. The Footes have all got terrible onreasonablc tempers, they say: but 1 hope you'll be able to manage Charlie. Good-bye, all." Miss Pliemey walked home slowly. Even the thought of the darts she had planted in Mrs. Ridley's capacious breast brought her no real comfort, when the vision of the snowy wedding dress rose before her. "Things ain't edge even yet," she mummured. A low growl of thunder startled her and she hastened into the house to shut out the cutting flare of the lightning. When the kettle boiled she set her lonely table and made tea. The quick thump of heavy rain-drops on the roof made her start nervously. Night had come with the storm, and after her supper was over. Miss Phemey sat in the dark and meditated. About 10 o'cloek the rain ceased, and she flung the shutters open. The stars were shining now. The air outside was cool and damp and fragrant. She looked over toward the Ridley house, and as she did so their last light went out. M'ss Phemey strained her eyes to iro avail. All was darkness there. "I'm a-going to do it." she said aloud, determinedly. Rummaging over the table, she found a pair of scissors. She j took a match from the box beside the window and unlocked the door. The moon was creeping up, a flat disk of pale yellow. Miss Phemey looked down at herself and saw that she still wore her hest dress. "It'll be all drabbled," she thought; then recklessly, "I don't care, nohow." She brushed against the dripping flowers beside the garden path, and held her breath as the gate gave a [ whining cr-e-ak. Out on the road, walking noiselessly, she went. Once she heard a team coming and crouched in a corner of the worn fence, behind a little sweet-gum sprout, till it was pnst. She recognized the doctor's rig and her heart came up in her throat and beat there, with great frightened leaps; but he passed by safely and she crept on. At last, after a seemingly unending j journey, she reached the Ridleys' gate. ! The maples threw deep shadows, and, ] so sheltered, she reached the house. Round to the left wing?slowly?slowly?and the window was still open! She stopped and looked in. The moonlight lay in patches on the floor, the dresses spread upon the bed, and there, within reach, it fell upon the wonderful pearl beading of the wedding dress and made scintillating lights. Miss Phemey saw all this and slowly?slowly ?her hand went out toward the glis tening beads. A quick jerk, and the waist of Emma May Ridley's wedding dress lay across her knees. She sought tho seam in the middle of the back. She could feel the dispised chainstitching and she slipped her fingers deftly along toward the collar. What was this? A lose end of thread?a little pull?r-i-i-i-ip it was done! In a spasm of fear Miss Phemey hustled the waist through the window, back into place, and ran into the concealing shadow. Out to tlie gate, down the road again?she was almost home. Suddenly she stopped and gave a little chuckle. "Them bastln's '11 hold it together so nobody '11 s'spect?lucky she left 'em in. But when Emma May puts it on, big an' fat as she Is, It'll bu'st square up the back like a frog." She couldn't help laughing at the idea; it tickled her fancy so. She forgot her wet feet, her draggled, muddy skirts, and went to bed with a smile still pulling at the corners of her mouth. The next morning the exposure had done its work. She was hoarse and feverish, and there was a sharp pain that stabbed her at. every breath. "Threatened with pneumonia," the doctor said, and commanded her not to stir from her bed. though she could not have done so had she so wished. TUo nAUkl.?- ... i in.- u> ijiiiuui n were very Kind and attended her faithfully, and the tenth day found her sitting up. very weak and frail, but with life in her eyes and voice. Mrs. Emerson, the town gossip, came in and brought a bundle. "Jest as soon as you git able. Miss Phemey. I want you to make mo .1 dress. It's one Mr. Emerson got me over to Bristol, an' he showrd real good taste for a man, I must say. Look a-lxere, ain't that fern leaf real pretty?" "It's just beautiful," assented Miss Phemey. "Seems If you'd have Miss 1 Maxwell make it up, bein' she's from the city and all." She'll never cut Into a piece of goods f'r me. I c'n tell you," raid Mrs. Emerson, with cmphnals. "Ain't nobody told you how she made Emma May Ridley's weddlu' dress and never | sowed up th2 back, an' Emma May. not Buspicionin'. put it on an' bu'stcd it chan wide open? O' course, you was sick an' didn't git to the weddin*; but I was there, an' the weddin' party was nigh an hour late jest on that account. Nothin' but a bastin' thread to hold it together; such shifleRsness! Course, bein' bad luck, Krnma May never tried on the dress after it com:* home, like she did the others, an' I c'n tell you she was hoppin'. People at the church didn't know what on earth was the matter. No 'ndeed. Miss Maxwell makes no clo's f r me." After her visitor was gone. Miss Phemey lay back on her pillows and looked out of the window a long time. " 'Twas an awful mean trick. I know," she said at last. " Twas right; but I got tb's spell o' sickness to pay up fer it, an' that butter-knife was solid silver and real expensive. I'm evened up all 'round?an* somehow? I jest can't care."?Ladles' World. HOW CROKER FICHTS A FIRI. In tlio ltiri) o?" l liuiw* IN* Cnn't Stuml IUIii- ltoih?re?l. Croker's method of directing tile fight on a fire is typical, says Lindsay Denison in Everybody's Magazine. Bonner taught the fire-chiefs of the world to take up a position commanding the best possible view of the fire, and to hold it; issuing orcK rs to the deputy commanders and receiving reports from them without moving from the spot. Croker's first step 011 reaching a fire is to look over the building thoroughly; then he selects his position commanding a view, but he does not stay in it; he leaves Oswald there and starts out on a dare-devil chase through the lire. He goes to every spot where there are men at work and to many where there are not. Everywhere he drives the men, encourages in em, warns mom, and directs mom. From time to time ho sends a messenger back to Oswald with an order for a change in the disposition of the attacking force, or for a call for re-cnforccnicnts. He may be traced around the outskirts of the (ire by the feverish ferocity with which the firemen work where he has been. His very presence seems to transform thorn into jumping erows of devils, and the spoil docs not pass from them until they have soon him toss aside his helmet, null the crumpled brown hat over his eyes, and stick a black cigar siantwise in the corner of his mouth. When the chief docs these things, the (ire is out. It may smoke and sputter for hours, hut it is beaten, there is no more light left in it; all that remains is the "wotting down." Once a man stood in front of Croker and obstructed his view of a building which was burning. Croker did not ask him to stop aside, neither did he push him out of the way; he knocked him down. Afterwards he denied violently that he had struck anybody; he could not remember any incident of the sort. Hut he could remember with absolute accuracy every order thai lie had Riven to his men, he knew from what engine every one of the 20 lines of hose had received water. Another time he struck a police captain in the face for asking the question. "Fire almost out, chief?" There was murder I in his eyes when he struck the blow, but in the same second he was giving orders to his aides in as calm and cold tones as though he were asking them the time of day. His own expression for the feeling that comes over him at such times as these is that he "can't stand being bothered at fires." QUAINT AND CURIOUS. By applying a prolonged pressure of 18.000 pounds to the square inch a Montreal professor makes marbles flow like molasses. The censorship is a very real tiling in China. There, anyone who writes an objectionable book is punished with 100 blows of the heavy bamboo and banished for life. The Danube flows through countries in which ail languages and dialects ar<> spoken. It is 2000 miles in length, and bears on its currents four-flfths of the 1 commerce of Europe. An eel nearly nine feet long, two feet and four inches in girth and weighing; 148 pounds was recently | caught on the beach at Snettisham, near Huntstanton. England. Red snow is frequently seen in the j Arctic and Alpine regions. Chemical experiments have led to the eonclu| sion that the red color is due to the I presence of vegetable substance. An immense trade is done in China in old English horseshoes, which are considered the best iron in the world for making small household articles, such as bracelets, hooks and bolts. The town of Nylstrom. South Africa, received its name .10 years ago. During a trekking expedition the lJoers, it appears, came upon a river and at once wrote to their friends saying that they had just reached the Nie. Some remarkable relics of the early /.IrilOotin,. vXIMMItlVIl <11 linn- ICITIllI) been unearthed and deposited in tu British Museum. Among them Is a beautiful impression of a royal seal which represents the king wrestling with a hippopotamus and spearing a crocodile. That must have been the kings busy day. S?rprl??il itl tlio Clock. "What time Is it?" asked his wife, suspiciously, as he came in. "About one." Just then the clock struck three. "Gracious! When did the clock commence to stutter?" he said, with a feeble attempt at Justification and u , joke.?Philadelphia Timos. p'J'/*' ' ; ' '-is . s ' H . .. "y ~ ;S||~ About Ihmiii Beans are divided into two classes, pole or running and dwarf. These are again divided into wax, green podded. white and English. The first two are eaten pods and all. The wax beans are considered the richest but arc not as hardy as the green-podded. Itnx Stall*. Every barn should have one or more box stalls in it for the accommodation of sick animals and cows that are about to calve, large enough so thai the animal could turn round, and those working about it would have room enough, and it should bo on the sunny side of the building and well ventilated. Tho M nrtn. The cabbage worm is hatch d from nn egg laid by tho white butterfly. Numerous remedies have been proposed, hut the best method is to destroy as many of the butterflies as possible. Hot water, saltpetre, black pepper, etc.. have not given satisfactory results. The kerosene emulsion will prevent attack, but it leaves an odor on the cabbage. For a small patch insect powder is excellent, but it must bo used frequently. Paris gre n is used, but consumers object, fearing its poisonous effects, though it is claimed as a safe remedy. Proper Food for I.living Hen*. Haying hens require food rich in tho elements which compose the albumen or white of the egg. The carbonaceous material is plentifully supplied when they are given corn and wheat, but meat. milk, linseed meal, bran, finely cut clover, gluten meal and bone meal should also be given by way of variety. Those foods need not he allowed every day, but may be fed as required, or about three times a week. Tho ground commercial meat should be given if fresh meat is not obtainable. Cow peas may be grown as a special food for poultry, as they cannot be excelled when used for layiug hens and growing chicks. Coii<|Ueriiii; lliit Onion Mitceot. In some sections the onion maggot is the greatest nuisance. These ure hatched from the eggs deposited hy a fly in the leaf just below the surface of the ground. This trouble is more apt to appear in old beds, yet not always. for 1 have had crops greatly injured by the maggot on ground but two years from the sod, on which onions were never before grown. Thick planting is to a degree a wise precaution, but as the fly passes from onion to onion, depositing her eggs, the b? ?I will present but a patchwork of a crop at the best. Many remedies are prescribed, hut most of them are practically worthless on largo areas, as they involve the outlay of too muc,h time .and raon 1 cy. The two that I have most faith in, founded on the experience of myself and neighbors, is to run over the bed with a roller immediately after plant inK. This compacts the earth so that the fly cannot so readily deposit her eggs below the surface. The other remedy is to dot the piece with cinalh movable coops, which confine the hens hut permit the young chicks to ramble; these will soon learn to be on the watch for the IIy. Sometimes a slight change of location will give ground free from the maggot. The coming and going of the maggot is well illustrate 1 in my own experience. The laud which 1 am now cultivating to onions is free from the maggot, though years ago it was so infested 1 was fairly banished front it. ! sometimes meet the idea that the pest is earrh d Ir. the seed. This is untrue, because impossible, as all entomologists will agree.?J. J. 11. Gregory, in New England Homestead. When How to I'runr, All persons familiar with birch* and maples know that if any limbs lore taken from thorn in the late winter or spring time, the stubs will bleed freely for a number of weeks; and if such limbs are large ones, they seldom heal over before decay bus commenced in them. Apple and pear trees will bleed more or Uss when pruned at the same sea sons of the year: and for that reu.-< i nc? pruning, when large limbs are to he taken off, should be done at that time of the year. When pruning i.-done during the midsummer months, the stubs commence to heal over quite soon, and tli y can be painted within a few days after pruning, if the weath| or is warm and dry. which cannot be done, and have the paint hold, if tlio pruning is done before the bleeding has ceased to flow. During the sum mer months the sap is thickening for the making of new wood and is largely near the bark and not in the older wood of the trees. Trees that are pruned in the spring are from one to two years longer in healing than if pruned in summer, and that fact is of great importance when the life and health of the trees are taken into consideration. Now how should a tree ho pruned ? Should the stubs ho left King or short, or with .as little wood as the circumstances will permit. Any person who has taken much notice of how others have pruned, as wall as his own work, has noticed that the longer the stubs are loft the longer they are In healing over, and in many cases they never heal over, but dry up or decay, which in many cases is tho beginning of the decay and death of the tree. One other error in pruning is often made in not sawing the limbs off as nearly as possible perpendicular with j tho body cf the trees or the larger limbs from wcicli they are taken. lJy taking off the limb3 perpendicular rather than horizontal, more or less, the lower parts of the stub or wound will heal over nearly or quite as soon as the upper part.?Jonah II. Pries, in The Country Gentleman. tho Soil. That an animal may be inoculated with disease or with rome remedy for disease, is well known, but the science of agriculture has so far advanced as to aid In inoculating the soil. This subject has been previously treated, but experiments are being made every year, and they add much information for farmers who are interested in soil inoculation. In Farmers' Bulletin No. 124 the United States agricultural department gives the reports of results in this direction. Nitrogen is the most expensive fertilizer. yet it is tho most abundant, forming four-fifths of the atmosphere. though only under rare conditions is free nitrogen available for plant growth It has long been known, how- i ever, that leguminous plants, such as clover, alfalfa and cow peas, are rich in nitrogen, and increase the nitrogen | contents of the soils upon which they ; arc grown. They have the power to appropriate the free nitrogen of the air. but only when small nodules aro found on their roots. It is now he- j lieved that these bacteria draw their nitrogen from the air and convert it into forms which can be utilized by the plants on which the nodules grow. J Whenever one or more of the legumin- j ous crops are grown it should be tho duty of the grower to carefully exam- ' ine the roots of some of the plants for ! these nodules, if they are not found then the plants will not make any ac- I tual gain in nitrogen, hut when a crop like clover has been grown at inter- j vals for a number of years it is proba- ; ble that the soil contains the proper bacteria for forming the nodules, hut the bacteria growing upon the roots < of clover may not grow upon the roots 1 of another genus, such as the cow pea or vetch. Every genus has its own J characteristic bacteria. When the nodules are not formed on the roots of the plants it is possible to produco them by inoculating the soil by pro- j curing soil from a field which has proflllpod n f*rr*n i if t lin c:i nm I'ind whinli had the nodules or> the roots. The soil may he inoculated when the ' seed of the crop is sown, or at some | time during its growth. In Kansas ' inoculated soil was obtained from a soy bean field in Massachusetts, and 1 by scattering it over the Kansas land plants with tubercles were grown, pro- | during rn increased field and a higher percentage of nitrogen. Several methods of inoculating were tried. Tim seeds were thoroughly wetted in a bag suspended in water into which some of the Massachusetts soil had [ been stirred. Again, the dry soil was broadcasted over some plots, and in oth< r cases was drilled in with the seed. The best results were obtained by drilling in the inoculated earth. To j secure plenty of the inoculated soil the following is the method: In a row 500 feet long incorporate 100 pounds of inoculated soil at the time of sowing the seed. After harvesting the crop take up the soil in the row to the depth of four or live inches and spread it on boards in the shade to dry. When dry it may be stored away for use in sacks. When planting a field to sow beans or cow peas apply the inoculated soil with the seed by means of a fertilizer attachment to a grain drill, or broadcast for clover, but do not overlook the fact, as stated, that inoculated soil for soy beans will not answer for cow peas. Each kind of legume has its own special bacteria. ' There are also artificial cultures hot- | tied for use. known as "nitragln." but which are too costly to use, except as ' a "stirter," from which a certain amount of sc.il <-.?n he inoculated. Any j farmer who will procure a two bushel j nag of soil from a fi Id upon which ; clover, cow peas, soy beans, vetch or any other legume has been grown, provided the roots of sucli plants contain nodules, may inoculate bis own soil | for such crop.-. Experiments with hairy vetch, | grown on a soil for the first time, one | lot of seed was dipped into a water solution of earth from an old garden spot upon which v tch had been grown and for comparison another plot was sown without treatment. The inoculated plants had large clusters of tu- ' percales on the roots and produced 2i?tn I pounds of cured hay per acre. The uninoculated plants had no tubcrcules and produced only lb'112 pounds of hay. In a crop of crimson clover inoculated seed produced an av< rage of '1057 pounds, while the uninoculated seed produced only 7?">1 pounds per acre. These results were at the Alabama station. the commercial bottled "nltragin" being used. The gain in nitrogen is large, that from the inoculated crimson clover being about 148 pounds, while the nitrogen from the uninoculntr.l i>lot was less than five Mounds. The inoculated hairy vetch pave over 10.r> pounds of nitrogen and the uninoculrted only seven pounds. At tlio Mississippi station the yield of hairy vetch was increased over G4 percent by scalt ring inoculated soil in the drills. The nodule* will, no doubt, in time, develop without inoculation, hut th-?. work is slow, honce it is better to inoculate the soil. It will probably bo found not necessary to inoculate soils that are capable of producing large crops of the legumes, as no doubt the nodules will be found on the roots in such ciuses, but for poor soils that are deficient in nitrogen, and upon which the leguminous plants do not thrive, the coil should bo inoculated. Superstitious persons say that a wart cut off by tying a silk thread round It and drawing the ends tightly will naver return. LA30R WORLD. 1 Croat Britain imports cue-tIiI:\J of her food. Italy now supplies considerably ovc.* one-third of the world's silk crop. ? Snusag^mnkers in New York City arc demanding a shorter workingday. The Irish linen Industry is said to by just holding its own in the textile markets* of the world. Boilermakers at Bayonne, N. J., havo I ciiui-K lui- an lucreiilQ or pay aud tlionlnc-liour work da>\ ! Tko Machine and Tool Company, of Toledo, Ohio, the largest plant there, has signed the union scale. Five unions of blast furnace workers, at Youngstown, Ohio, will ha, the nucleus for a national organization.' -v The skilled workers on the rapid transit tuur.el ia New York City have struck, practically- stopping construction. Bricklayers and masons at New Ycrk City have returned to work. They ; will receive sixty cents an hour, a'j J advance of live cents, j The striking bricklayer.'. plasterers and masons at Trenton, N. J., have returned to work. They will get Sd.oO a day and work eight hours. Owing to the depressed condition of manufacturing industries in tlcnnauy twenty-live per cent, cf the workmen of the country are cither idle or itisaklcleutly employed. ( President O'Connell. of the Machinists' Association, at Washington, said he would rceomiucml a movement for V a nine-hour day on all the railroads of the country, and a strike if the demand is not granted. The different unions in the tailoringtrade in New York City. Brooklyn, ?.....ii1111 i>c\vuru nave issnovl n notice to the manufacturers that they are preparing for a light for theabolition of the middlemen in the clothing trades. Who think* of the United States as a large importer of agricultural products? Will not the statement that its importations of foreign-grown products exceed in value all its vast exports of grain of every kind, including wheaten tlour, by $17u.ut>0.000 excite surprise? Such Is nevertheless the fact. The United States Iiepartineut of Agriculture's report states the total value of the principal agricultural imports for the year that ended Juneau. 1SKM1, at $42u.i:V.).2SS. Our com I lined exports of cotton aiul eor- ^ eals for the same period were valued at $4ha.uoo.ooo. using round tigures. The total value ot all our agricultural exports for that year was cSll,tilt;.."ai>, so that the American people are Inlying very nearly half as uiueh farm and plantation produce from foreigners as < hey arc selling to tliem. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. Ccntml Time at Jacksonville) aai Savnanala Eastern Time at Other Points. Schedule in KTi-ct Jim. 27th. IDJ1. NOHTIIIIOl'.M). 7^?'i'S ^ ' Daily Dauy ex su tv. .lacivviimi.f u'. ) ... a ;ijn 7 46 p 1- -vo " .Mvmm:iii v^> Ky > l -'.V.p,12 U)n 4oJi) " bill IIWeil , 4'2.,p 4lMa " btuekviuo 4oi'v 4ita &;ap Ar. Oo:u??liui_ .. v.- 0 1 "'t' 0 lu? ?4o^ Lv. Chur.c>;ou, uy ; w ., jiuopl s>2.>i? touiiiliiervilie 7 4ia l.Uootj lioi>V> Hiauo?iv...o a .Son 2 Don 7 60 " Orangeburg p fca , 46a 7 .Vo> ' Kingville lu l.Sa 4 26a ' ?W? Kr. Columbia . li 00a 6 66u Pb4t> bv. AmputR, t&ol ivy.) ouupi"vtiup| ITajp Lv. 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' ~ , u<. i -ia o ?-.m " Aahcvllio nun' a05l>; ' Spartanburg 11 4Cmi OlSpl Ar. winmUto I h2jpl l)KUyl Lv. isevv YorkiPu.ti.li) i HiJbp lt'liio: i-4,tu " Philadelphia ; 00op I';V? 318p " Baltimore ! t -^7p ?l isda 52.V Lv. WinW'iit'n (.So.Hy>... fltOpll lt> 085f> Lv. Ki<*nnin i.? TT"i-jp IaTihi1 . ... Lv. Danvlllo t .,*4? . i l?v. Charlotte llw H(6p! 4-la ' liook Kill I Pirn lulAp i u,u " Ohrstor 1 ti.taUljp V.la " Vjiniyboro . lv) 1 :? l.'u.,u tl t/'rv Ar. Co.uiu'v.fi, t lildg St 11 v.'-a 1 lja 7 o.a Lv. ( tiluiiMiiit, iU. !>.) il .'ft 4 ;*<n ' Jonr.Htua i 1 Dip r. Ibo ' Trenton | 1 );!;> 8 4wi Ar. Aiken 7 nr. It 1j? Ar. tiruiitcrillo * 13p 7 l>n Ar. Aryan'n . ... v . 2C0p strna 103Jt> Lv. Columbia tso. ityj 4UUp|Tatel 7 OPi " Kiiikvillv 4 4in> It'll ' Uj\ " Orangeburg... &!ttp'U46n 8 4la ' Hrnnchtillo filjpj 4 26n 0 S.a " Summorvlllo "Ulpl 5 57aiu:<oa Ar. Cnwrlcuon L . H15p. , una 11 ITi* Lv. Columbia (So. Ky.) li .tea 1 lia 70t? " Biookviilc 1 10p i 67n 8 liia " Barnwell 1 ,'4p ? lin " Savannah .. 3 Hop f 'Am 10 2Jr? Ar. Jm-k-^vll h ip. ?:.) 7 4upi 0 26n! 2 20p hioepinf; Car Sorvioe. Excellent dally passenger acrvico Ik-t ween Fiorida and Nt v\ York. Nov .1 outiNew Yorlt and Florida Limited. Iiaii.v usi-ejii Sundal, rnnipOMid exclusively or l'ulln.an finest l'riivvtng Komi .Sircir lop. Compartment and Observatory Curs bo iv?ooa r\"\v York.t" lum'.iu and >t. Aucuntme. i iliu.au >. K onra Iwiwi^n Au?rrHtn au l A!) i lUifl Nowk run- Irom 4Q|Qlt> to l.'o.uiiiliia \ia H.u-kviliw 1 urior curs Ixr iwoci) Charleston ui(1 O'oumbiit. Niw. J> nr.d ?v<?Now York ami Florida Et[ rcks. Drawing-room alec'.inj <nrs twuvcca Augusta and New York. Pullman druwinir* room iilec|iiiii; . urs between Fort Tun:\>n. Jacksonville, buvunnan Washington and \ ow York. I^tUmon alfctd in* cars l.ct\s?o:i Charlotte ami Kichmond. Dining cant beiwoeu Cuiirlutla and Havuannb. Nos. .i5 and TU5?IT. 8. Fast Mail. Through Pullman drawing-room buffet aleernag car-" between Jacksonville and Now York and Pullman tdceping oars l>etween Augusta and Churlotie. Dining cars serve all mcnls esironto. Pullman mceping run letwrfn Jack and Columbia enrouto dn.iv between Judutoavtllc and Cincinnati, via AioovUle. KKaNK A.OANNOK, n. H. H ARDW1CK, TMrd V-P.C*eu. Mgr., Oau. Pa? A(iWashington, D. O. Wiuthiugtou. L>. 0. W. H. TALOE, ft. W.BUNT, I Aat torn. Paa*. Ar t., Idv Pana. Ag't.. _gM Atlanta. Oa. Char tea ion, a. C.