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THE WEEKLY LEDGER'.: GAFFNEY, S. MARCH 26, 1896. rrrTnftS OF NATIONS f u<1 Z 11010 is a sn,a11 riot nf semicolons, IIj I'/A* _ * iiyi^hcns and commas, and wo come to newspaper the eudject of Dn TALMAflE’S sermon. Plsaemiastcra 0 f KD 0 '*’ 1 ^!^ to tJio 3Julti- tndi- tad ta Accu-ato Uistory of the T,me-Xhe Mo»t potent lofluence For Oowl on EirtA. WASinsfiTON, -drcli 22.—Newspa per row, w it is hero in Wash- inciou, the long ri w of olficed connected wiih praniincut ji nrna].^ tlmingliout tho landi pays m uncli attention to Dr. Talaago they nir.y l;o glad to hear what ho thinks vf them w Inio ho discusses a jjjHcct iu whicli th wh !o (ujuntry is intcrceteii. Bit ti tvas, “And tho wheels wert full of eyes” (Ezekiel a, 12)> “For H tho Athenians and strainers which wero there spent their timo ia nothin ' else but either to tell or to hear seine new thing” (Acts xvii, 21 >- , What is a preacher to do when he finds two tex s equally good and sug gestive? In tidit j i rplexity I tako both. Wheels fall of eyes? What hut tho vbeolsof a''e’.e'j.ai'er printing press? Otherwbcei au: Ijlmd. They roll on, p n ]lingorcr : . : -liu!g. Tho manufacturer’s \rhee!-hov itg’.iufls tho operator with fatignes ar 1 : 11s (.ver nervo and inus- • cld aod be ) and heart, not knowing what it <1 Tr.o sewing machine wheel see - in t th'; aches and pains fas tened to i —t 1 :?.t • than tho baud that more.-it, harp, r i .aii tlio ncedlo which it plies, llv ry nu :a( ut ( f every hour of there a: evert liny of every month of every year hundreds of thousands of wheels' m-ah ah.'in, wheels of enter prise, v' co f < f laird work, in motion, bat they are eye h: -. Kot ) tiie wheels of tho printing press. Tl. ir •••.tira business is to look and r ao:r. They a no full of optic Bertf'. fr.ini a.xlo to periphery. They wlila' those sl 'ircu of by Ezekiel as fill] of eyes. Sharp eyes, near sighted, fart’nht d. They look up. They look dotv:;. They look far away. They tako inti: in i-tiect and tho next homi- flei'c. Ey a 11 criticism, eyes of inves- tiga' on. iyi.; that twiukla with mirth, qpe; gliAveriag with indignation, eyes tender with love, eyes of suspicion, 0£s of hope, bluo eyes, black eyes, p( :i eye a, holy eyes, evil eyes, sore <yc>, political eyes, literary eyes, kis- tcrieni eyes, religious eyes, eyes that teo everything. “And tho wheels wero full eiV ” ITT iu my second text is tho x:: rld’s cry f; r tho newspaper. Paul loseri? • a elti. s ef people in Athens who spent their time either in gather ing tho news or telling it. Why ospie- [ ciallyin Athens? EccauKO tho moro intel ligent peoplo Lccoino, tho moro inquisi tive tlicy arc—not about small things, but great things. Geatailoxy of tl.c Ncvtfpaper. The question then most frequently is tho question now most frequently asked, What is tho news? To answer that cry in tho text for tho newspaper tho centuries havo put their wits to work. China first succeeded, and has at Peking a newspaper that has toon printed every week for 1,000 years, printed ou silk. Rome fucceedcd by publishing Tho Acta Diurua, in tho fame column putting fin s, murders, marriages and tempests. Franco .suc ceeded by p. physician writing out tho news of the day for his patients. Eng land succeeded under Qucou Elizabeth in first publishing the news of the Span ish armada, and going on until sho had enough enterprise, when tho battle of Waterloo was fought, deciding tho des tiny of Europe, to givo it one-third of a column in the London Morning Chron icle, about as much as tho newspaper of our day gives of a small fire. America succeeded by Benjamin Harris’ first weekly paper called Public Occurrences, published in Boston in and by the first daily, Tho American Advertiser, published in Philadelphia in 1784. The newspaper did not suddenly spring upon tho world, but camo gradually. The genealogical lino of the nowpaper is this: Tho Adam of the racowas a cir cular or news letter, created by diviuo impulse in human nature, and the cir cular begat tho pamphlet, and tho pam phlet begat the quart* rly, and tho quar terly begat the weekly, and tho weekly begat tho semiweekly, and tho semi- weekly begat tho daily. But alas, by what a struggle it camo to its rirosrnt development! No sooner had its power been demonstrated than, tyranny and su perstition shackled it. Thero is nothing that despotism so fears and hates as a printing press. It has too many eyes iu its win < 1. A great writer declared that the king of .Naples made it unsafe for him to write of anything but natural history. Austria could not endure Kos suth’s journalistio pen pleading for tho redemption of Hungary. Napoleon I, trying to keep his iron heel ou tho neck of nations, said, ‘‘Editors aro tho re gents of sovereigns and tho tutors of na tions and am only lit for prison. ” But tho buttlo for tho freedom of tho press Was fought iu tho courtrooms of England and America and decided heforo this century began by Hamilton’s eloquent plea for J. Peter Zenger’s Gazette iu America, and Erskino’s advocacy of the freedom of publication iu England. These were the Marathon and Ther mopylae in which the freedom of tho press was established in tho Enited States and Great Britain, uml all tho powers of eartli and hull will never again bo ablo to put ou the huudcniTs and hopples of literary and political des potism. It is notable that Thomas Jef ferson, who wrote the Declaration of American Independence, wrote also: “If I hud to choose between a government without newspapers or newspapers with out a government, I should prefer the latter.” Htung bysonio base fabrication coming to us in print, wecomn to write or speak of tho unbridled printing press; or, oui new book ground up by an un just critic, we come to write or speak of tho unfairness of the printing press; or, perhaps, through our own indistinctness utterance, wo are reported us saying Ht tho opposite of what wo did say, . to spear, or write of the blundering print ing pros; or, seeing a paper filled with divorce cases or. cciul scandal, wo speak and write of the filthy printing press; or, seeing a journal, through bribery, win el round from ono political side to the other in one night, wo speak of the corrupt printing press, and many talk about the lampooury, and tho empiri- cism, and tho* sans culottism of the printing press. ■An Kvertastiiig; Blessing. But I diBcour.se now ou a subject you havo never heard—tho immeasurable and everlasting blessing of a good news paper. Thank God for tho wheel full of eyes. Thank God that wo do not have, like tho Athenians, to go about to gath er up and relate (he tidings of tho day, sinco tho omnivorous newspaper does both for us. Tho grandest temporal blessing that God has given to the nine teenth century is tho newspaper. Wo would havo better appreciation of this blessing if we knew tho money, tho brain, tho losses, the exasperations, tho anxieties, tho wear and tear of heart strings, involved iu the production of a good newspaper. Under tho impression that almost anybody can make a news paper, scores of inexperienced capitalists every year enter tho lists, and conse quently during the last few years a newspaper lias died almost every day. The disease is epidemic. Tho larger pa pers swallow tho smaller ones, the whale taking down CO minnows at one swallow. With more than 7,000 dailies and weeklies in the Unit' d States and Canada, thero are bat d!i a half century old. Newspapers do not average moro than five years’ existence. The most of thorn die of cholera infantum. It is high time that tho peoplo found out that the most suecessfal way to sink money and keep it sunk is to start a now: paper. Thoro conics a timo when almost every ono is smitten with tho nev.>; aper mania and starts one, or havo stock in ono ho must or die. TJio course of proceduro is al iut mis: AEtirniynum has an agricultural or scientific or political or religious idea which ho wants to ventilate. IT lias no money of his own—literary men teldom have. But lie talks of his ic. as among confidential friends until they Lccorno inflamed with tho idea, and forthwith they buy type and press and rent com posing room and gather' a corps of edi tors, and with a prospectus that proposes to cure everything tho first copy is Hung on tho attention of an a-.miring world. After awhile one of ers finds that no gn at been effected by this daily or weekly publication; that noithir . an nor moon stands still; that the wurM on ly ing and cheating and stealing just as it: did bcToro tho first issue. Tho aforesaid matter of fact stat']-:holder wants to sell out his . took, hut nobody w ants to buy, and other stockhofi] r.s get ini’tcied and sick of newspaporilcm, and an enormous bill at tho paper factory rolls into an avalanche, and the primers refuse to work until back wages aro i aid up, and tho compositor bows to tho managing editor, and ti.o managing editor bows to tho editor in chi; f, and t : •.< editor in chief tows to tho din vs, and the di rectors bow to tho v, rid at 1 ..•go, and all tho subscribers wcmlcv whv their revolution paper doosu t havo to learn T!- v.(.rid will in :, >1. England or iale cute rprito agricultural < political idi a ter charge up- columns ahi a for any ono w tilth n a college If you have jscii. ut ilk; to v; utihtr m tho vrorl t:. o, thin: rlso to cstal cannot iie’.v.-i A’.\ ['(J• T V I'A US gets i t ci n the Bank of n cornets, and i:not an have hid i t!z* nfcrii-aid : • i taut w: or religious or force to ai ■, you ! ad bet- ly saw adi d through the in tho old i d. It in folly quiiY.r J. ’ uccci ,l;t any- G., or in iiiuni. If you Tho Time: < f your house, Pest W. <, cf tho Matter- press I,. I. it is folly to tiy tho si horn. Comcn Tlirouj;!! Ftra. To publish a new. paper requires tho skill, tho precision, tho bohlne.s, the vigilance, the strut, gy of a commander iu chief. To edit a newspaper requires that one bn a state.man, an essayist, a geographer, a statistician, and in ac quisition em yclop-iliac. To man, to govern, to propel a newspaper until it shall bo a fixed intitution, a national fact, demand moro qualities than any business on earth. If you feel like start ing any newspaper, secular or religious, understand that you uro being threat ened with softening of tho brain or lu nacy, and, throwing your poeketbook in to your wife’s lap, start for some insane asylum before you do something des perate. Meanwhile, as tho dead news papers, week by week, aro carried out to tho burial, all tho living newspapers givo respectful obituary, telling when they wi re born and when they died. The best printers’ ink should givo at least one stickful of epitaph. If it was a good paper, say, “Peace to its ashes.” If it was a bad paper, I suggest tho epi taph written for Francis Chartreuse: “Hero continuoth to rot tho body of Francis Chartreuse, who, with an in dexible constancy and uniformity of life, persisted in tho practice of every human vice, excepting prodigality and hypocrisy. His insatiable axurico ex empted him from the first, his match less impudence from tho second.” I say this because I want you to know that a good, healthy, long lived, entertaining newspaper is not an easy blessing, but one that comes to us through the lire. First of all, newspapers make knowl edge democratic and for tho multitude. Tho public library is a haymow so high up that few can reach it, while tho newspaper throws down tho forage to our feet. Public libraries are tho reser voirs where tho great floods aro stored high up and away off. Tho newspaper is tho tunnel that brings them ciowu to tho pitchers of all tho people. Tho chief use of great libraries is to make news papers out of. (treat libraries make a few men and women very wise. News papers lift whole nations into the sun light. Better havo r>0,00<),0U0 peoplo moderately intelligent than 100,000 solans. A fujso impression is abroad that newspaper knowledge is ephemeral bo- cause periodicals aro thrown aside, and not ono out of ten thousand people files them for future reference. Such knowl edge, so far from being ephemeral, goes into tho very structure of tho world’s heait and brain and decides tho destiny of churches and nations. Knowledge on tho shelf is of little worth. It is knowl edge afoot, knowledge harnessed, knowl edge in revolution, knowledge winged, knowlcdgo proji-etcd, knowledge tliun- derbolted. So far from being ephem eral, nearly all tho host minds and hearts havo their hands on tho printing press today and have had sinco it got emanci pated. Adams and Hancock and Otis used to go to tho Boston Gazette and compose articles on the rights of tho people. Benjamin Franklin, Do Witt Clinton, Hamilton, Jefferson, Qnincy, wore strong iu newspaperdom. Many of tho immortal things that havo been pub lished in book form first appeared in what you may call tho ephemeral period ical. All Macaulay’s essays first appeared iu a review. All Carlyle’s, all Raskin's, all McIntosh’s, all Sydney Smith’s, all Hazlitt’e, all Thackerary’s, all tho ele vated works of fiction in our day, are reprints from periodicals in which they appeared as serials. Tennyson’s poems, Burns’ poems, Longfellow’s poems, Emerson’s poems, Lowell’s poenu, Whittier’s poems, wero once fugitive pieces. You cannot find ten lit erary men in Christendom, with strong minds and great hearts, but aro or havo been somehow connected with the news paper printing press. While the book will always have its place, the newspa per is more potent. B* cause tho latter is multitudinous do not ccucludo it is nec essarily superficial. If a man should from childhood lo old ago see only his Bible, Webster’s Dictionary and his newspaper, ho could bo prepared for all tho duties of this life and all tho happi ness of the next. A 7iiirror of L!fo. Again, a good newspaper is a useful mirror of life as ir- is. Ic is sometimes complained that new. papers report tho evil when they ought only to report the good. Tln-y must report the evil as well as the good, or how shall wo know what i.> to bo reformed, what guarded against, what fought down? A newspaper that pictures only tho honesty and virtue of society is a misrepresentation. That family is 1 sc prepared for tho duties of lifo which, knowing the evil, is taught to select tho good. Keen children under the impression that all is fair and right in the world, and when they go out into it they will bo as poorly prepared to struggle with it as a chi hi who is thrown into tho middle of tho Atlantic and told to learn howto swim. Our only com plaint is when sin is mado attractive and morality dull, when vice is painted with great; headings and good deeds are put in obscure ccrners, iniquity set up iu great primer and righteousness in non pareil. Sin is loathsome; make it loath- seme. Virtue is beautiful; make it beau- til ul. It would work a vast improvement if all onr papers—religious, political, lit erary—should for tho most part drop their impersonality. This would do bet- t' v justice to newspaper writers. Many of the strongest and best writers of tho country live m il die unknown and aro denied their just fame. Tho vast public never learns who they are. Most of them aro on comparatively small in come, and after awhile their hand fur- mniug, and they are without li i; to die. Why not, at least, k: It ghvays gave additional licit* when yen occasional- d to acme .significant article L'Tew York Courier and En- \7. W., or in Tho Tribune H. Thu Herald J. G. B., nr in II. J. lb, or in Tho Evening B., or in Tho Evening Ex- Wbilo this arrangement would be a fair and just thing for newspaper writ- e::-, it would be a defense for tho pub lic*. It is viinetinies true that things damaging to privaio character aro said. Who is responsible*? It is tho “we” of the editorial or veportorial coltmftu. Every man in every profession or occu pation ought to bo responsiblo for what. Ik does. No honorable man will ever write that which he would bo afraid to sign. But thousands of persons have suffered from tho impersonality of newspapers. What can ono private citi zen wronged in his reputation do in a contest with misrepresentation multi plied into twenty or fifty thousand copies? An injustice done in print is il- limitably worse than an injustice done in private life. During loss of temper a man may say that for which he will bo sorry in ten minutes, but a newspaper inju::ieo has first to bo written, set up iu type, then the proof taken off and read and corrected, and then for six or ten hours the presses are busy running elf tho issue. Phzity of time to correct. Plenty i f time to cool off. Plenty of time to repent. But all that is hidden in the impersonality of a newspaper. It will be a long step forward when all is changed, and newspaper writers get credit for the good and uro held respon sible for tho evil. 'I ho Mont I’oti-nt Influence. Anothir stip forward for uowspaper- iloin will bo when in our colleges and universities wo open preparing candidates chair. Wo havo in medical departments, law departments. Why not editorial departments? Do tho men who will climb up without such aid into editorial power and efficiency. So do men climb up to success in other brandies by sheer grit. But if we want learned institntious to make lawyers and artists and doctors and ministers, wo much moro need learned institutions to make editors, who occupy a position of influence a hundredfold greater. I do not put tho truth too strongly when I say tho most potent influence for good cn earth is a good editor and tho most potent influence for evil is a bad ono. Tho best way to ro-euforce and improve tho newspaper is to endow editorial pro fessorates. When will Princeton or Har vard or Yale or Rochester lead the way? Another blessing of tho newspaper is tho foundation it lays for accurate his tory of the time iu which wo live. We for the most part blindly guess about the ages that antedate the newspaper and aro dependent upon tho prejudices of this or that historian. But after a hundred or two years what a splendid opportunity the historian will havo to teach tho people the lesson of this day. Our Bancrofts got from tho early news papers of this country, from tho Boston News-Letter, the New York Gazette, and The American Rag Bag, and Royal Gazetteer and Independent Chronicle, and Massachusetts Spy, and the Phila delphia Aurora, accounts of Perry’s vic tory, and Hamilton’s duel, and Wash ington’s death, and Boston massacre, and tho oppressive foreign tax on lux uries which turned Boston harbor into a teapot, and Paul Revere’s midnight ride, and Rhode Island rebellion, and South Carolina nullifaction. But what a field for tho chronicler of tho great fu ture when he opens tho files of a hun dred standard American newspapers, giving the minntia) of all tilings occur ring under the social, political, ecclesi astical. international headings! Five hundred years from now, if tho world lasts so long, tho student looking for stirring, decisive history will pass by tho misty corridors of other centuries and say to the libraries, “Find me tho volumes that givo the century in which the American presidents wero assassinat ed, the civil war enacted and the cot ton gin, tho steam locomotive and tele graph and electric pen and telephone and cylinder presses wero invented.” Front Wheel of the I.ord’s Chariot. Once more I remark that a good newspaper is a blessing as an evangelist ic influence. You know there is a great change in onr day taking place. All the secular newspapers of tho day—for I am not speaking now of tho religious news papers—all the secular newspapers of tho day discuss all the questions of God, eternity and the dead, and all the questions of tho past, present and fu ture. There is not a single doctrine of theology but has been discussed in the last ten years by the secular newspapers of tho country. They gather up all tho news of all tho earth hearing on reli gious subjects, and then they scatter tho news abroad again. Tho Christian newspaper will be tho right wing of tho apocalyptic angel. Tho cylinder of tho Christianized printing press will bo the front wheel of the Lord’s chariot. I take tho music of this day, and I do not mark it diminuendo —I mark it crescendo. A pastor on a Sabbath preaches to a fow hundred, or a few thousand peoplo, and on Monday, or during tho week, tho printing press will tako tho same sermon and preach it to niillicns of people. God speed the printing press! God save the printing press! God Christianize tho printing press! When I see tho printing press standing with tho electric telegraph on the one sido gathering up material, and the lightning express train on the other sido waiting for tho tons of folded sheets of newspapers, I pronounce it the mightiest force in our civilization. So I commend you to pray for all those who manage tho newspapers of tho laud, for all type setters, for all reporters, for all editors, for all publishers, that, sitting or .stand ing in positions of such great influence, they may give all that influence for God and tho betterment of the human race. An aged woman making her living by knitting, unwound tho yarn from tho ball until she found in the center of the ball there was an old piece of newspa per. Sho opened it and read an adver tisement which announced that sho had become heiress to a largo property and that fragment of a newspaper lifted her from pauperism to affluence. And I do not know but as tho thread of time unrolls and unwinds a little further through tho silent yet speaking newspa per may bo found the vast inheritance of tho world’s redemption. .Tceus shall reign where’er tho sun Does hi.s successive journeys run, Hi.i kingdom stretch from shore to shore Tiil sunS shull rise and set no more. A HELPFUL DEVICE. Convenient For Lifting (he Carcass When Dressing a licef. A tripod illustrated by Rural Now j Yorker deserves attention because it provides an efficient substitute for tho pulleys and windlass and other couveu- i ieuces of tho slaughter pen. This tri- I pod is formed of three straight poles, 14 feet long, with a diameter of about 5 inches at tho larger cud. These are joined near the upper end by a five- opportunities for for the editorial such institutions legal and healing professions demand more culture and careful training than the editorial or roportorial professions? I know men may tumble by what seems accidt nt into a newspaper office as they may tumble into other oceupationu, but it would bo an incalculable advantage if those proposing a newspaper life hurt an institution to which they might go to learn the qualifications, the responsi bilities, the trials, tho temptations, tho dangers, the magnificent opportunities, of newspaper life. Let there be a lec tureship in which there shall appear the leading editors of the United States tell ing the story of their struggles, their victories, their mistakes, how they work ed and what they found out io lie the best way of working. There will be strong Manning R. Khankland. Manning R. Shunkland, who died a fow days ago, was the oldest clerk in tho employ of the United States. Ho occupied a position closer to senators than any other because of tho confiden tial nature of his duties as executive clerk in charge of tho secret business of the senate. He was appointed to a clerk ship by his friend, tho late Colonel John W. Forney, when the latter was occupy ing the office of clerk of tho house of representatives, in 18(50-1, and when in July, 1801, Colonel Forney became secretary of tho senate ho took Mr. Shankland with him to tho north wing of the capitol, and thoro tho latter re mained J15 years, proving himself a thoroughly worthy official.—Philadel phia Press. ChrupiT Than Alimony. “It’s all wrong,” said tho old man from the country. “Young men nowa days spend too much money on the young women in whoso eyes they are anxious to find favor. Courtship is altogether too expensive. ” “On tho contrary,” returned tho man of the world, “it is comparatively cheap. ” “Comparatively!” “Yes. It’s a lot cheaper and more catiafactory than paying alimony.”-— Chicago Post. sd < ^ up the case as formed that my r r.vicE ror. lifting a carcass. eighths inch bolt in a three-fonrths inch hole, thua allowing tho outer poles to be separated to a distance of C feet or moro at the bottom. Thirty foot of five- eighths inch rope aroused. This is giv en ono turn vertically about tho joining of the poles above, as to prevent slip ping when tho two ends of the rope bear unequal weights, as in cutting down the carcass. Slip knots formed at tho lower end of the ropes receive the two pins of the roller, care being taken that tho roller shall lio horizontal and re main so during the ascent. Tho roller is mado of hard wood, about 5 inches in diameter and JJ4 inches long, from shoulder to shoulder. Six inches additional at each end aro cut down to a diameter of ^ inches next the beveled shoulder, while the outer end is nearly A inches in di ameter. Tho pins for the ropes are 8 inches apart, and between these pins two holes are bored through tho roller at right angles to each other and a few inches apart, in which hamhpikes aro used. When the animal has been killed and partially skinned, t he tripod is set up over it, tho center polo to tho rear, and the pair of other poles forward. Tho pointed ends of tho roller aro inserted under the largo tendon just above tho hock joint, and these being sloped in- Mrs. Laura E. Mims, of Dawson, Ga., says: “A small pimple of a strawberry color appeared on my cheek; it soon began to grow rapidly, notwithstand ing all efforts to it. My eye became tbrtihJj' inflamed, and was so swollen that for quite a while I could not see. The doctors said I had Cancer of the most malignant type, and after ex- ^ hansting their efforts without doing me any good, they gave hopeless. When in father had died from the same disease, they said I must die, as hereditary Cancer was incurable. “At this crisis, I was advised to try S.S.S., and in a short while the Cancer began to discharge and continued to do so for three months, then it began to heal. I continued the medicine a while longer until the Cancer disappeared en tirely. This was several years ago and there has been no return of the disease.” A Real Blood Remedy. Cancer is a blood disease, and only a blood remedy will cure it. S. S. S. (guaranteed purely vegetable) is a real blood remedy, and never fails to per manently cure Cancer, Scrofula, Eczema, Rheumatism or any other disease of the blood. Send for our books on Cancer and Blood Diseases, mailed free to any address. Swift Specific Co. Atlanta, Ga. THE ROLLER OF HARD WOOD. ward tho carcass cannot slip off oven when sawed asunder. Tho ropes aro hung on the forward sido of tho roller, that the handspikes maybe used iu that direction. The animal is raised a few feet and held in this position by a stick laid across tho ropes, and tho dressing proceeds. The disadvantage is that the roller soon passes out of reach from the ground, but this is met from below by the use cf a box on which tho operator stands while using ti.o spikes. When fully dress, d, the forequarters maybe cut away singly. The hind quarters are lowered within easy reach and both tak en off at once. Appiyirc Manure. A Country Gentleman correspondent writes as follows: 1c seems to mo that tho practice of drawing manure to fields and placing it in small conical piles has nothing to commend it. This method is often em ployed when tho manure is wanted iu spring for top dressing, but usually there is a sod field that can use the ma- r.nro as scon us made and will moro than double in value to a spring crop by making an increased vegetable growth for the soil. When tho manure is put cu tho surface of a field intended fur a plowed crop, it is only a source of fertil ity. When it goes on the sod or on ground intended for wheat and grass, it helps tho sod to furnish a greater store of plant food. If it can bo spread even ly on the surface, ten loads per acre do more to increase the fertility of the farm than 15 loads used on bare land. The truck patches get too great a share of manure. There should bo rotation with clover hero as well as in other fields, and then one part of tho farm would not ho robbed to feed another. The chance of an abundant yield of “truck” is enticing, but in tho end the manure will give best returns on the thin portions of fields where tho sod is or promises to bo light. Evenness iu fields is most desirable, and wo should look to the barnyard manure to secure it. Heavy applications on a small area or the plowing under of manure aro not calculated to make the best returns iu a series of years when tbo supply is rela tively small. Corn and Cob Meal. The Texas Farm and Rauch says: Don’t waste tho corncobs, but if able get a corn and cob mill and grind both together. In nutritive properties tho combination does not differ materially from tho corn unmixed except in the greater proportion of fiber and a some what smaller per cent of flesh forming principles. For cattle especially, it is good and economical, tho mechanical notion of tbo fiber compensating for lack of protein. Tho entire plant of Indian corn, except the stubble, should bo util ized os food. Cotton Crop of IRflft. Tho cotton crop of 1895 is estimated by tho department cf agriculture at a little ever (57 per cent of that of 1894, or 0,375,000 bales cf 500 pounds each, against 9,51)0,000 Laics last year. But the mean farm price of cotton is 7.59 cents agaiu.it 4.9 on Dec. 1, 189-1. A. N, WOOD, BANKER, does a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- I’roof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Bays and sells Stocks and Bonds. Buys County and School Claims. Your business solicited. Grain and Provision Market. FOR seziezcs: Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, 8. C. Southern Rrilmy. PIEDMONT AIR LIN2. Condensed Schedule of Messenger Trains. Northbound. Vo. No. 38 Fst J,. No . 6 No. 12 No. IS Jan. 5, 1896. Daily ; D.ulj Dai y K Sun Lv. Atlanta, C. T 1.’ Dim 11 13 p 7 50 a 4 35 p Atlanta, L.l. loo p 10 1 . a 8 50 a 5 35 p M Norcross. 13 3U a 0 38 a ti p 7 ojj p ft Buford .... 10 1G a ff Gainesville.. - -OR. 2 cl a lo 4i a 7 4j u #4 Lula. 2 03 a 11 u4 a »l2p ft Cornelia 11 2G a it Mt. Airy J oO *l ' 11 oO «i ft Toccoa 3 15 a 11 i3 a ff Westminster 3 3o a 12 27 p t» Seneca to, a 12 U - - - i - if i entral •i 4 .I P 4 33 a 1 20 j. ft Greenville .. b 30 |> 3 io a 2 1G p ft Spartanburg b IS p 0 18 a 3 22 ;> ft Gailneys. . (j i0sJ si 4 lop ft llhicksburq .. loop 7 00 a 4 30 p ft King’s Mt... 7 32 a ft 00 p ft Gastonia .... 7 33 a 5 2s ji Ar. Charlotte S ’JO p »33a 6 20 Ji tt Danville 12 0j a 1 :.0 p 11 25 p ••••.... Ar. Richmond.... 0 00a G 40 p GC0 a Ar. Washing^ i . 0 42 a 0 4) p •t Bultiu’e. P ilU S 03 a 11 03 p tt Philadelphia. 10 H3 a o Ui) 14 . , «t New York 1.1 33 It G 20 a ••••.... Yes. Fst Ml No. 11 Dally - Southbound. No. 37 Gaily No. 35 Daily No. 17 ESuu Lv. N. Y.. P R It. t 30 p 12 L'l n tt Philadelphia. 0 03 j> 3 30 a ........ is Baltimore .. .0 *» 0 JJ a ff Washinglt i. 10 43 p 11 13 a ... Lv. Richmond... 3 00 a 12 55 p 2 00 a Lv. Dan ville 3 30 a G 05 p 7 00 a »t Charlotte — W 33 a 10 33 p * i 20 p ft Gastonia 11 30 |i . 0G p ft King’s Mt... 1 32 p tt Blacksburg.. 10 40 a 12 If 2 tO p ft GatTne"'*. .. 12 23 a 2 IS p ft Spartanburg Greenville.... 11 37 a U 50 a 3 05 p ft 1Z -*S 1> 1 50 a 4 40 p tt Central 1 13 p 2 35 a 6 4) U •t Seneca 3 00 a G 03 p tt Westminster . . . • . G 22 p ft Toccoa •••••••• 330a Ct8p tt Mt. Airy 7 40 p tt Cornelia 7 43 p ff Lula 3 31 p 4 41 a S 12 p esT» ft Gainesville . 4 50 a 83G p 7 20 * t« Buiord 9 07 p 9 42 p 7 48* 8 27 * ff Norcross. ... Ar. Atlanta, K r. 4 5.» ]> C20O 10 30 p 0 30* 1 ' r VtUlM’H * 1 . 3 .VI i> * , 9 30 p 8 30 a '■A’a. at. **r"’|i. iu. ‘*M” uoun. ••N” night. Non. 37 ami 3H—Washington and Southwestern Vestlhulo Limited Through 1‘ullinan sleepers between New . ork and New Orleans, Ti* Wash ington. Atlanta and Montgomery, and also bo- tween New Yo and Memphis, via Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining cars. Nos. 33 and 3<i-Unitcd Stales Fast Mall. Pull man sleeping cars between Atlanta, New Or> leans and New York. Nos. 11 and 12. Pullman sleeping car between Richmond, Danville and Greensboro. W. H. GREEN, Gen’l Supt., Washington, D. C. J.’L CULP, Traffic M’g’r, V shlug a, D. O. W. B. RYDER, Superintendent, Charlotte, North Carolina. W. A. TURK, S. H. HARDWICK, Gen'l Pass. Ag’t, Ass’tGeu’l Pass. Ag’t. Washington, D. 0. Atlanta, Qa.