The ledger. [volume] (Gaffney City, S.C.) 1896-1907, March 19, 1896, Image 5

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THE WEEKLY^LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., MARCH 19, 1896. TO WARM THE WORLD Sleeve that bare arm. Nearly all tho pictures of Martha Washington repre- very thankful. Now the good Bamnrl- tan says, “You must get on my saddle, CHRISTIAN SYMPATHY IS THE GLO- FURNACE. sent her in courtly dress as bowed to by j nml I will walk. ’ Tho Samaritan helps RIOUS Taltuage Finds a Lesson la the Weather—Christ the Groat Warmer—A Word to Frosty Christians—Good Deeds Kindle the Fire—Como In Out of the Cold. Washington, March 15.—Tho freez- ng blasts which have swept over tho icuntry at tho tinio wo expected spring feather make this sermon especially *ppropriate. Dr. Tahuago’s text was Psalm cxlvii, 17, “ Who can stand before his cold?” Tho almanac says that winter is end ed and spring has come, but tho winds, and the frosts, and tho thermometer, in ome places down to zero, deny it. Tho salmist lived in a more genial climate than this, and yet ho must sometimes have been cut by tho sharp weather. In this chapter ho speaks of tho snow like wool, tho frost like ashes, tho hail stones like marbles, and describes the cougealmeut of lowest temperature. Wo have all studied tho power of tho heat. How few cf us have studied tho power of tho frost! “Who can stand before his cold?” This challengo of the text has auy times been accepted. Oct. 19, 1812, Napoleon’s great army began its retreat from Moscow. Ono hundred and fifty thousand men, 50,000 horses, GOO pieces of cannon, 40,000 stragglers. It was bright weather when they started from Moscow, but soon aomething wrathicr than tho Cossacks i swooped upon their flanks. An army of tic blast:-, with icicles for bayonets and hailstone.- for shot, and commanded by voice of tempest, marched after them, :ho flying artillery of tho heavens in mrsnit. Tho troops at nightfall would athcr into circles and huddlo thom- Ivcs together for warmth, but when ,e day broke they roso not, for they edead, and tho ravens camo for their orning meal of corpses. The way was iwn with tho rich stuffs of the east, iught ns booty from the Russian capi- I ib An invisible iiowcr seized 100,000 and hurled them dead into tho iwflrifts, and on tho hard surfaces of chi 11 rivers, and into tho maws of tho that had followed them from Mos- Thc freezing horror which has np- J history was proof to all ages that * vain thing for any earthly power 1 weep; tho challengo of my text, conld stand before his cold?” FrlRid Horrors. the middle of December, 1777, at Forge, 11,000 troops were, with 1 ears and frosted bauds and frost- I without shoes, without blank ing on tho white pillow of tho bank. As during our civil war tho On to Richmond 1” when tho were not ready to march, so iu Evolutionary war there was a de fer wintry campaign until Wash- lost his equilibrium and wrote tically, “I assure those gentlemen easy enough seated by a good tiro- end in comfortable homos to draw tnpaigns for tho American army, I tell them it is not so easy to lio on k hillside, without blankets and out shoes. ” Oh, tho frigid horrors gathered around tho American army |ho winter cf 1777! Valley Forge t one of tho tragedies of tho century, umbed, senseless, dead! “Who can d before his cold?” “Not wo,” say frozen lips of Sir John Franklin and s men, dying in arctic exploration. Not wo,” answer Schwatka and his )W, falling back from tho fortresses of ie which they had tried in vain to cap- ro. “Not we,” say tho abandoned and Tushed decks of tho Intrepid, tho Re- istance and tho Jeannette. “Not we,” ,y tho procession of American martyrs turned homo for American sepulture, Loug and his men. The highest pil lars of tho earth aro pillars of ice— out Blanc, Jungfrau, tho Matterhorn, e largest galleries of the world are alleries of ico. Somo of tho mighty ’ivers much of tho year aro iu captivity if ico. The greatest sculptors of the ages to tho gaciers, with arm and hand and ihisol and hammer of ice. Tho cold is imperial and has a crown of glittering ■ystal and is seated on n throne of ice, 1th footstool of ico and scepter of ico. ho can tell tho sufferings of tho winter 14.1S, when all tho birds of Germany rished? or tho winter ofj| 1058 in Eng land, when tho stages rolled on tho hamos and temporary houses of mer- ihandiso wern built on tho ice? cr tho inter of 1821 in America, when New ork harbor was frozcu over and tho eaviest teams crossed on tho ico to taten Island? Then come down to our wn winters when there have been so any wrapping themselves in furs or athcring themselves around fires or brash!ng their arms about them to re ive circulation—tho millions of tho temperate and tho arctic zouus who aro impelled to confess, “none of us can and before his cold. ” A LfHHon In Common Sense. Ono-half of tho industries of our dav aro employed in battling inclemency of tho wouthw. Tho furs of tho north, tho cotton of tho south, tho flax of our own Iflelds, tho wool of our own Uocks, tho 1 from our own mines, tho wood rom our own forests, all employed in bottling those inclemencies, and still ev ery winter, with blue lips and chattering teeth, answers, “None of us can stand before this cold. ” Now, this being such cold world, God sends out influences it. I am glad that tho God of 1b tho God of tho heat; that of tho mow is tho God of tho te blossoms; that tho God of Janu ary is tho God of Juno. Tho question as to how shall we warm this world up is a question of immediate and all encom- iasHing practicality. In this zone and Mather there aro r.o many firoloss earths, so many broken window panes, fo tunny dofoctivo roofs that sift tho now. Coal and wood and flannels and tick coat aro better for warming up oh a place than tracts and Bibles and beds. Kindle that tiro where it has one oat. Wrap aomething around those jiivering limbs. Shoe those bare foet. bare bead. Coat that bare back. foreign embassadors, hut Mrs. Kirk land, in her interesting book, gives a more inspiring portrait of Martha Wash- I ington. yhe comes forth from her hus band’s hut in the encampment, tho hut 16 feet long by 14 feet wide—she comes forth from that hut to nurse tho sick, to sew the patched garments, to console tho soldiers dying of the cold. That is a better picture of Martha Washington. Hundreds of garments, hundreds of tons of coal, hundreds of glaziers at broken window sa: lies, hundreds of whole sonic d men and women, arc necessary to warm tho wintry weather. What aro we doing to alleviate tho condition of those not so fortunate as we? Know yo not, my friends, there aro hundreds of thousands cf people who cannot stand before his cold? It is useless to preach to baro feet, and to empty stomachs, and to gaunt visages. Christ gave the world a lesson in common sense when, before preaching the gospel to the mul titude in tho wilderness, ho gave them a good dinner. Winter of GlntlnesR. When I was a lad, I remember seeing two rough woodcuts, but they made more impression upon mo than any pic tures I have overseen. They were on op- Tho one wcodent repre- tho snow m wm- posito pages, sented tho c< ter and a lad looking out at the door of a great mansion, and ho was all wrap ped in furs, and his cheeks were ruddy, and with glowing counte nance he shout ed, “It snows, it snows 1” On the next page there was a miserable tewincnt, and tho door was open, and a child, wan ! and sick and ragged and wretched, was looking out, and lie said, “Oh, my God, I it snows!” The wintir of gladness or of grief, according to our circumstances. But, my friends, there is more than one way of warming up this cold world, for it is a cold world in more respects than one, and I am here to ccm-ult with you : as to tho best way of wanning up tho j world. I want to have a great heater in troduced into all your cluirch.es and all your homes throughout the world. It is a heater of divine patent. It has many pipes with which to conduct heat, and it has a door in which to throw tho find. Once get this heater introduced and it will turn tho arctic zone into tho tem perate, and the temperate into tho tropics. It is the powerful heater, it is the glorious fmnaco of Christian sympa thy. Tho question ought to bo, instead cf how much heat can wo absorb, How much heat can we throw out? There aro men who go through tho world floating icebergs. They freezo everyth nig with their forbidding look. Tho hand with which they shako yours is as cold as the paw of a polar bear. If they float into a religious me: ting, tho temperature drops from 80 above to 10 d< greos below zero. There aro icicles hanging from their eyebrows. Thoy float into a reli gious meeting and thoy chill everything with their jeremiad.-. Cold prayers, cold songs, cold greetings, cold sermons. Christianity on icc! Tho church a great refrigerator. Christians gone into winter quarters. Hibernation! On tho other baud, there aro people who go through tho world like tho bref.th of a spring morning. Warm greetings, warm pray- j ers, warm rmi’os, warm Christian inllu- I cnco. There aro such persons. We bless I God for them. Wo rejoice in their com- | panionship. Fellow Feel lag. A general in the English army, tho 1 army having halted for the night, hav- 1 ing lost his baggage, lay down tired and i dek without any blanket. An officer came up and said: “Why, you have no : blanket. I’ll go and get you a blanket.” and tenderly steadies this wounded man until ho gets him on toward tho tavern, the wounded man holding on with the little strength ho has left, ever and anon looking down at the good Samaritan and saying: “You aro very kind. I had no right to expect this thing of a Sa maritan when I am an Israelite. You aro very kind to walk and let mo ride. ’ Now they have come up to tho tav ern. The Samaritan, with the help of tho landlord, assists tho sick and wound ed man to dismount and puts him to j bed. The Bible says tho Samaritan staid all night. In the morning, I suppose, ; tho Samaritan went in to lock how his patient was and ask him how ho passed tho night. Then ho comes out—tho Samaritan comes out and says to tho landlord: “Hero is money to pay that man’s board, and if his convalescence is not as rapid as I hope for, charge the i whole thing tome. Good morning, all. ” Ho gets on tho beast and says, “Go i along, yon beast, but go slowly, for ! those bandits sweeping through the laud may have left somebody else i wounded mid half dead.” Sympathy! Christian sympathy! How many such | men as that would it take to warm tho cold world up? Famine in Zarepthath. Everything dried up. Thero is a widow with a sou and no food except a hand ful of meal. She is gathering sticks to kindle a fire to cook tho handful of meal. Then she is going to wrap her arms around her boy and die. Here comes Elijah. His two black servants, tho ravens, have got tired waiting on him. Ho asks that woman fur food. Now, that handful of me.'fcl is to ho di vided into three parts. Before, it was to be divided into two parts. Now, she says to Elijah, “Como in and sit down at this sol run table and take a third of tho last mease]. ” How many women liko that would it take to warm the j cold world up? Warming tin- World. 1 Recently an engineer in the south west, on a locomotive, saw a train com ing with which ho must collide. Ho re solved to stand at his post and slow np tho train until tho last minute, for there were passengers behind. Tho en gineer said to tho iiroman: “Jump! Ono man is enough on this engine! Jump!” Tho fireman jumped and was saved. The crash camo. Tho engineer died at his post. How many men like that en gineer would it take to warm this cold world up? A vessel struck on a rocky island. Tho passengers and tho crow wero without food, and a sailor had a shellfish under his coat. Ho was saving it for his last morsel. Eo heard a little child cry to her mother:“Oh, mother, 1 am :o hungry; give mo something to eat. I am so hungry!” Tho sailor took tho shellfish from under his coat and said: “Hero! Take that.” How many men liko that sailor would it take to warm the cold world up? Xerxes, flee ing fri m his enemy, got on board a boat. A great many Persians leaped in to tho samo boat and tho boat was sink ing. ticn-.a ono said, “Aro you not will- | ing to make a siuriiico for your king?” and tho majority of there who wore in ; tho boat leaped overboard and drowned tianhopo, rwurroctiou hope, which shall not go out until tho last cerement is taken off and tho last mausoleum breaks open. Warmth ami nope. Ah! I am so glad that tho Sun of Righteousness dawned on the polar night of tho nations. And if Christ is , tho great warmer, then tho church is tho great hothouse, with its plauts and , trees and fruits of righteousness. Do yon know, my friends, that the church is tho institution that proposes warmth? I have been for 27 years studying how to make the church warmer. Warmer architecture, warmer hymnology, wann er Christian salutation. All outside Si berian winter, we must have it a priucc’s hothouse. Tho only institution on earth today that proposes to make tho world warmer. Universities and observatories, they all have their work. They propose to make the world light, hut they do not propose to make the world warm. Geology informs us, but it is as cold as tho rock it hammers. Tho telescope shows where tho other worlds arc, but an astronomer is chilled while looking through it. Christianity tells us of strange combinations and how inferior affinity may bo overcome by superior affinity; hut it cannot tell how all things work together for good. Worldly philosophy has a great splendor, but it is tho splendor of moonlight on an ice berg. Tho church of God proposes warmth and hope—warmth for tho ex pectations, warmth for tho sympathies. Oh ! I am so glad that these great altar fires have been kindled. Come in cut of the cold. Como in, and have your UV m ••O'- a, FLATS AND BOXES. For 8t*rtinc Seedlings—The Co-aipartmcut Flat and liow to Make It. Most gardeners understand the con venience of tko common flats used for starting all kinds gf seedlings, also much used for transplanting and growing tho plants until ready to go in open ground. A gardener who has given tho compart ment or divided flat a thorough trial tells in American Gardening that he now uses it largely, and for many pur poses prefers it to the ordinary tray, or even pots. Ho says: You can purchase lumber, inch and half inch, and make entirely new, or you can make as wo do, as follows: Get an assortment of boxes at any store (soap boxes aro good); takotheir iusido meas- Fig I ==::J f iKi '‘Z Come, and have your Como in by th great Ho departed a few moments and then camo back and covered (ho general up with a very warm blanket. Tho gen eral said, “Whosoblanket is this?” Tho officer replied, “I got that from a pri vate soldier in tho Scotch regiment, Ralph MacDonald.” “Nov;,” said tho general, “you tako thi:- blanket right back to that soldier. Ho can no more do without it than I can do without it. Never bring to mo tho blanket of a pri vate soldier.” How many men like that general would it take to warm tho world up? The vaG majority of us are anxious to get moro blankets, whether anybody else is blanketed or not. Look at tho fellow fe( ling displayed in tho rocky defile between Jerusalem and Jericho in Scripturo times. Hero is a man who has been set upon by tho bandits, and in tho struggle to keep his property ha has got wounded and mauled and stabbed, and holies there half dead. A pri' t rides along. Ho sees him and says: “Why, what’s tho mat- tor with that man? Why, ho must bo hurt, lying on tho flat of his back. Isn’t it strange that ho should lie there! But I can’t stop. I am on my way to temple services. Go along, you beast. Carry mo up to my temple duties.” After awhile a Devito comes up. Ho looks over and says: “Why, that man must bo very much hurt. Gashed on tho fore head. What a pity. tabbed under bis aim. What a pity. Tut, tut! Whnt a pity! Why, they have taken bis clothes nearly away from him. But I haven’t time to stop. 1 lead tho choir up in tho temple service. Go along, y< u beast. Carry mo up to my temple duties.” After awhile a Samaritan comes along —ono who you might suppose through a national grudge might have rejected this poor wounded Israelite. Coining along ho sees this man and says: “Why, that man must bo terribly hurt. I si o by his features bo is an I raolito, but ho is a man and he is u brother. ‘Whoa I’ ” says Die Samaritan, and ho gets dow n off tho boast and comes up to this wounded man, gets down on ono knee, listens to seo whether the heart of the unfortunate man is still beating, makes up his mind there is a chance for resuscitation, goes to work at him, takes out of his sack a bottle of oil and a bettlo o ’ wine, cleanses tho wound with some wine, then pours Borne of tho restorative in tho wounded man's lips, then takes sumo oil and with it soothes the wound. After awhile ho takes off a part of his garments for u bandage. Now tho sick and wounded man sits up, pulo and exhausted, but to save th: ir king. How many men liko that would it take to warm np this cold world? Elizabeth Fry went into the horrors of Newgate prison, and she turned tho imprecation and tho obsceni ty and the filth into prayer and repent ance and a reformed lift.. Tho sisters cf charity, in IMfil, on northern ami south ern battlefields, came to boys: in blue and gray w hile they were bleeding to death. Tin black bonnet with tho sides pinned back and tho wiiito bandage on tho brow may not have answered all tho demands cf elegant taste, but you could not persuade that soldier dying 1,000 miles from homo that it was any thing but an angel that looked him in tho face. Oh, with cheery look, with helpful word, with hiud action, try to make tho world w arm ! : Count that clay 1>: t v.hi.vc low ch ::<•< mling y\.n Vo wa from tl y hand no j;om roaa action done. Christ’s Hympiitli.f. It was his strong sympathy that brought Chnst from a warm heaven to a cold world. Tho land where ho dwelt hud u serene ky, balsamic atmosphere, tropical luxuriance. No storm bla: ts in heaven. No chill fountains. <Ju a cold December night Christ stepped out of a wounds salved, sins pardoned, gospel fireplace. A JMrr.Eed Conflagration. Nowithstuuding all tho modern in ventions for heating, I toll yon thero is nothing so full cf geniality and social ity as the old fashioned country fire place. Tho neighbors wero to cumo in for a winter evening of sociality. In the middle of tho afternoon, in tho best room in tho house, somo one brought in a great backlog with great strain ::nd put it down on fho back of tho heart h. Then tho lighter wood was put on, arm ful after armful. Then a shovel cf coals was taken from another room and put under tho dry pile, and tho kindling be gan, and tho crackling, and it roso uu- , til it Locarno a roaring flame, which filled all tho room with geniality and was reflected from tho family pictures on tho wall. Then the neighbors camo ! in two by two. They sat down, their faces to tha firn, which ever and anon was stirred with tongs and readjusted | cu tho andirons, and (hero wero such i times of rustic repartee ami story tcll- ! ing and mirth as tho black stove and ! the blind register never dreamed of. Meanwhile tho table was being spread, ami so fair was the cloth and so clean was tho cutlery, they glisten ami glia- i ten iu our mind today. And then tho best luxury of orchard and farmyard was rcasted and prepared for tho table, to meet the appetites sharpened by tho cold rids. Oh, my friend?, tho church cf Jesus Christ is tho world’s fireplace, and tho woods arc from the cedars of Del anon, and tho fires sro fires of lovo, and with tho silver tongs of tho altar wo stir tho flame, and tho light ir, reflected from all the family pictures cn tho wall—pic tures of those who wero hero and aro gone now. Oh, ccme up ch sc to tho i fireplace! Have your worn faces trans figured in tho light. But your cold feet, weary of tho journey, close up to tho blessed conflagration. Chilled through with trouble and disappointment, come close up until you can get warm clear through. Exchange experience, talk over tho harvests gathered, tell all the gospel news. Meanwhile tho table is being spread. Un it, bread of life. On it, grapes of Eshcol. On it, new wino from the kingdom. On it, a thousand luxuries celestial. Hark! as a wounded hand raps on tho table, and a tender voice conr a through saying: “Come, for all things aro now ready. Eat, O friends,! drink, yea, drink abundantly, O beloved!” My friend?, that is tho way tho cold world is going to ho warmed up, by tho great gospel lireplaco. All nations will come in and sit down at that banquet. While I was musing, the lire burned. “Como in out of tho cold, como in out of the cold!” n:AMK AND UOTTOM. urements, in order to cut various sizes to advantage. Mark around box depth of pot desired with pencil and straight edge, and raw apart carefully to mark; knock oil lid and bottom, and you have simply a framo or ends and si do? as in Fig. i. Across tho bottom, at each end of frame, nail inch pieces, in from tho Mr. Lincoln Nelson, of Marshfield, Mo., \ writes: “For six years I have been a ; sufferer from a scrofulous affection of I the glands of my neck, and all efforts of physicians in Washington, D. C., Springfield, 111., and St. Louis failed to reduce the enlargement. After six months’ constant treatment here, my physician urged me to submit to a re moval of the gland. At this critical mo ment a friend recommended S.S.S., and laying aside a deep-rooted preju dice against all patent medicines, 1 be gan its use. Before I had used one bot tle the enlargement began to disappear, and now it is entirely gone, though I am not through with my second bottle yet. Had I only used your S.S.S. long ago, I would have escaped years of misery and saved over Jhi 0 -” This experience is like that of all who suffer with deep-seated blood troubles. The doctors can do no good, and even their resorts to the knife prove either fruitless or fatal. S.S.S. is the only real blood remedy; it gets at the root of the disease and forces it cut perma nently. S.S.S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) A Real Blood Remedy. is a blood remedy for real bleed troubles; it cures the most obstinate cases of Scrofula, Eczema, Caucer, Rheumatism, etc., which other so-called blood reme dies fail to touch. S.S.S. gets at the root of the disease and forces it out per manently. Valuable boohs will i bo sent free to auy address by the Swift Specific Co., At- 1 a uta, G a. box ends fingers under Fig. 2, should In cleatcd togetlu r edge of box tho thickness of (this enables ono to slip ends when lifting). Ueo half inch stuff for bottom and divisions. Tho bottom, ono or few pieces, lerueatb. Drop bot tom within framo so it rests (not too tight) on cleats. For tho divisions tako tho required number of pieces. Saw each half through vh'.vo they inter, eet. Do not have them lit too tightly, us moisture will swell wood and cause difficulty when removing. Drop this pigeonhole frame and your tray is complete (Fig. 4). In filling begin in center. When ready to shift or plant out, set tray on a brick or two, and (Fig. ■}) in on top of false bottom and (unless tho bottom is open enough) boro a hole in center of each division-in bottom, push down the outside framo; you then havo nice sqnara blocks to hand, and not a root disturbed. Flip out marginal blocks, and then remove successively each di vision. Bo careful to always set on tho cleats, with no object underneath; oth- A. N. WO' BANKER, reneral Banking and Exchange secured with Burglar- uoes a business. Well 1’rO'U safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safe! y Deposit Boxes at moderate Hit. ys and sells Stocks and Bonds. Ciunty and School Claims. mu- business solicited. Grain and Provision Market. OR .’.i. I Up-co-Date po •3 o O O call LEDGER Office. ing. Frint- at the Gaffney, S. C. fio. 4 !' t r n 7.T ^ iVi EllLWSl warm heaven into the world’s frigidity. Tho thermometer iu Palestine never drops below zero, but December is a cheerless month, and the pasturage is very poor on the hilltops. Christ stepped out of a warm heaven into tho cold world that cold December night. Tho vorld’s r< ception was cold. The surf of Dstoiu.' d Guiiice was cold. Joseph’s sepulcher w as cold. Christ camo, the great warmer, to warm tho earth, and all Christendom today fools the glow. He will keep on warming tho earth until tho tropic will drive away tho arctic and the antarctic. Ho gave an intima- tku of what ho was going to do when bo broke up the t urn ral at tho gate of Naiu and turned it, into a reunion festi val, and when with his warm lips he melted tho Galilean hurricane and stood on tho deck and stamped his foot, cry ing, “Silence!” and the waves crouch ed and tho tempests folded their wings. Oh, it was this Christ who warmed tho chilled disciples when they had no food by giving them plenty to eat, and who in tho tomb of Lazarus shattered tho shackles until tho broken links of tho chain of death rattled into tho dark est crypt of the mausoleum. In his gen ial presence tho girl who had fallen 1 into tho fire and tho water is healed of tho catalepsy, and the withered arm takes muscular, healthy action, and the ear that could not hoar uu uvalancho catches u leaf’s rustic, and tho tonguo that conld not articulate trills a quat rain, and tho blind cyo was relumed, and Christ, instead of staying three days and three nights in the sepulcher, as was auppused, as soon as tho worldly curtain of observation was dropped be gun tho exploration of all tho under ground passages of earth and sea, wher ever a Christian’s grave may alter | awhile bo, and started u light of CttrA- * Chicago’s Wonderful Grov.th, In tho seventeenth century the present site of Chicago was a swamp, which fur traders and missionaries found fatally miasmatic. About 1800 a government engineer, viewing that rank morass traversed by a sluggish, stream, pro nounced it tho only spot on L. 1 o Michi gan where n city could not . fii.ilt. In 1804 Fort Dearborn was erected here to counteract British influence. In 1812 tho foit was demolished by Indians, but iu 1810 rebuilt, nud it continued standing till 1871. Around tho little fort in 1840 were settled 4,500 people. Tho number was 80,000 in 1850; 100,000 in 1800, 800,000 in 1870. In 1880 tho community embraced 508,185 souls; in 1800 it had 1,009,850. In 1855 the indomitable city illustrated her spirit by pulling herself bodily out of her natal swamp, lifting churches, blocks and Jjouscs from 8 to 10 feet, without pause in general business. —President E. Benjamin Andrews iu Scribner's. They Were Levers. Of the deep attachment which existed between tho late Prince Henry of Bnt- tenberg and Princess Beatrice it is al most unnecessary to speak, so notorious was it. They both carried thoir lovo for each other on their sleeves. In this con nection an anecdote is related: Last year Princess Beatrice had her portrait dque by a well known lady pastelist, who, while a thorough artist, knows how to combine u good liki ness with a pretty picture. One morning when the portrait was nearly finished Prince Henry hap pened to enter tho studio. After a min- nto examination, the prince remarked: “But you have not made my wife stout enough. I am fond of my stout frau, sinoo it shows sho is happy. ” The por trait was altered.—Loudon Tit-Bits. ncxoNiion; itjami:—i lai comi’lktj;. erwiso up comes tho bottom. Wo place them usually on coal ashes. Wo havo these trays in size? from thumbs up to 5 inch pots, thus shifting as required from tho seed flars on. Wo uso these trays without divisions for seedlings, as wo can get at tho plants without so much prying and digging, cutting out little Idocks with a sharp, thin knife. Wo also find these trays excolleut to estab lish plants in to carry over winter in frames. Tho more caro bestowed upon thoir construct!: u tho smoother they will work. To make them is a good job for rainy days. Sv.bNoij;n~ Clay .Soils. American Cultivator claim:: that it does little pe -d to subsoil a :‘iff clay, especially one that i.s inclined to bo wet, without first underdraining it. “When ever such soils become filled and satu rated with water, tho clay having been broken up by tho subsoiler, tho clay and water will run together and dry into a mass mr.ro impervir a . to water than be fore. When an und» rdrain is construct ed, tho broken particles of soil do not run togethr r as tho surplus water drips through them and passes away through tho underdrain. Wherever thero is a drain tile within reach, tho clay broken by the suhsoih r can never become com pact us it was before. Subsoiling such land enables tho frost to peuetrato dt ep- er than it o!h< rwiso would. .Subsoiling land that is without drainage has been tho cause of great injury to clay soils. Yet it may occasionally benefit even those if done lato in tho fall and a dry winter follows. But after a year or two tho soil is likely to b como filled with water, and will thci rclapso to a worse state than at first. ” H PIEDMONT AIR LING. Condcr.scd Schefluts of Passenger Trains. Northbound. Jan. S. 1890. Lv. Atlanta,:’. T •* Atlanta, h.T. “ Xorcross... “ ItlltOl'll “ (.ainesville .. •• Lula. “ Cornelia . “ Ml. Airy •» Toccoa. •» WcHtuiiutu r •* Seneca « Central .. “ Greenville . “ Spartanburg “ (i all ne vs “ lUaeksbur;-. “ King’s Ml.. « Lasionia .... Ar. Cliarlo’ to ... •* L.inviilo .. ■. No . {, jluilj 0)in 1 no p - Vj p | No. 12 La. y Ne. 13 li S'.m 7 »-i iJ-.p H 0, a 3 35 p 1> 3* a •1V u l<> p; a 7 ns ,, PUi a 7 4.1 p 11 : 1 a 8 Up 11:. a 11 ..11 a U a 1J k. ^ iJ '; 1 21 I- 7 Uu p S '.0 p 1J UJ a Comb Foundation. To tho question, “Do yonmakoor buy your comb foundation?” 25 beekeepers responded through the columns of Tho American Boo Journal. Sixteen of them buy their foundation. W. M. Burnum said: “I have always jircferred buying my foundation, as I consider that tho cheaper ami hyfar less trouhlesonio way. Only about 1 per o< ut c f the apiarists of my personal acquaintance make it them selves, and I doubt if that per cent lasts long.” Rev. E. T. Abbott wrote: “I buy it for tho samo reason I buy my flour— because 1 think a man who devotes his time and energy to manufacturing a thing of this kind can do a better job than I can. As beekeeperu aro supposed to bo men of average intelligence, I should say very few make it.” II. I). Cutting, who has made and bought largo quantitiev of foundation, prefers to buy tho brood, and mako tho thin. Ar. Richmond.... G 00 U Clip 0 U> a J ~ r Ar. •t «» ti Washing:' i Ral h.’o. i' .U Fllll.rU Ijdli.l. New York .. 1J A S 05 *4 11 u u ;>j u • li-p oO *i 0 ;i ****•••# •• 1 Yes Southbound. Nc 37 ! Lady 1st Ml Ne. 35 Daily No. 11 Daily No. 17 E Sun Lv. N. Y.. 1* K It 4 ;s» p id r. n »« I’hiiuduipi.iu. C 0.7 P o .o a . . . • it R.il imore .. .d '> 0 .fj .1 »4 Washing.• i. 11 4o P 11 la a -• Lv. Richmond... 2 0J a M»P ■J uu a Lv. Danville 5 .M) a 0 05 p 7 ci a •* Charlotte V »>•' ti 10 W.J p ‘: -’ i p «« Gastonia. ... 113.jp a <n; p 44 King’* Mt... 10 4J a 1 3: p ■••••••• 44 Itlackuburg.. U If . «p •••••••e M GaHiiert. . lid a IX p 44 Spartanburg 11 37 a 1.*. J a u 05 p 44 G.ieuuile... 13.-p 1 50 a 4 1" j) • 4 Central 1 la p b 4 11> 44 Seneca .. 3 oo a t 05 p 44 \V enliniuater . .*••••■ t p 44 Toccoa 240 a 0 Mi p i4 Mt. Airy.. . :4ip ..•••••e 44 < uruoiia.. •.. 7 45 p ..•••••• 44 j ula 4 41 a sup 8 57% 44 Gam. n'illo .. 4 5j «i S 3o p 7 4t Unfold | 1 ti 07 p ' o 4; p 7 4s a 44 Norcr ■*•. ... ! sr a Ar Atlai ■ ; T 4 P i j • I'J 30 p 9 30 a 1 > v • ' I T .’l !» 9.0 p 4 30 a •A ' ;»• in. • Noe 37 and I* 1 Ai .l<•on. “S" uiglit. Wa lnn,;. :i and RnathweSMro Vestibule Lin a-d Thmegh tv.liman sleepers bulwcen Ni « «>rl. and N< u Or loan*, via \\iu)>* Ington, Atlunt .iiui Montgomery, and al»o be- IW<M1 Nt'W \ . run! Memphis, vL Washington, A'.UnUand L; luinghmn. Lining curs. No*. 35 and 3U—L'nltml Stu'cn Past Mud. Pull man nlti ; log err* between Atlanta, New Or* Icu'ia and New York. Non. 11 and \‘i. Putlman n’.toping car between Richmond, Lunvlde and (irtcunboro. W. H. GTiECX, Uen’l Sopt., Washington, L. C. J. CULP, Traffic V'g'r, V* shing a, L. C, RYLLIt, Siiiii'rlntPiuli ut, Charlotte, Ilia ■' W. V Non W A. TURK, U*u’l Pun*. Ag't, Washington, L>. G. aroltna. 8. n. iurdwick, i’I I'aM. Atlanta, ag’t. •i (hk