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T11E|WEEKLY LEDGER;: GAFFNEY, S. C., AF1ML 1G, 189G. r» NEXT TO THE Till!ONE ful J(<m Fi\:u r!( k C'.k rliu :.llcvinting ipiorwK'o imi4 di.stit^K; K m nixl juinsing f PRACTICAL LL IN THZ •H. LIFE OF Rov. Dr. : ;e I.oJu VlTlil W:j.V , ’11;v lie Hy i o ii DJ K :, Mace nult «>f rerneetjtloii. In I.U I'nnal Ilo.< ■ i'roni Obucur- Klri’atlun tlie Hp- 'VAsiiiNriToN, Anvil li.—Tl'.n Hcnnon of Rov. Dr. T;i 1 i stifjo Uxlv.y is fall of stiirij'." iiiK* i.'iio* if.il lessons for nil. Washington has many mrn who, liko tho hero of ili ■ te:;ts, startod from al most nothin .* and roso to hi/»h ]>laro. The texts ehe-. n were : (irnrsis xxxvii, and lifted up Joseph m<l sold Joseph to tho 20 pieces of silver. ” “He is governor over pt.” itv \v SB, “They ont of the pit Ishmaelites for Genesis xlv, 20, all the land < f lig- You eaimot keep a pol'd man down. God has d ■ n <1 for him a certain point of elevation, lie will bring him to that though it O'- t him a thousand worlds. You someth s lid men feai’ful they will not lie 1 ;■ p< rlv appreciated. Every man comes to 1> ■ \\dr d at just what he is worth. You cannot write him np, and yon cannot write him ih wn. Tin *<* Meta arc powe rfully illn t rated in my sutj|'*ct. It would 1 • an je alt to suppoae fclist you were ncit all tamiliiu - with the- life i.f Joseph—how h:a j'*t* 1 one Irothers tlwiwl.im inti) a pi', hut Heeiny a eitni- van of A;;.haul Merchants tnhlying along on t ir camels, with spices and gums tli a I .adod the air with aroma, sold tlv ir hr itlu r to th.ese mcichimts, who ear; ied !.im down into E.vypf; Joseph tIr re s ild to Podphar, a man of influt in t ami i filce; how by Joseph’s integrity he rais< d liimsi If to high posi tion i’i the realm u itil, under the false charge f a vile wretch, he was hurled into tl, penitentiary; how in prison hu commanded ri sjK i't and confidence; h >v, by tlie interpn tat ion of Pharaoh’s dream he was freid and became the chief ];i;m in flier aim, the Pismarck of his century; how in the time i f famine Jos n ]>h had the control of a magnificent storehouse, which lie had lillcd during seven years <f plenty; how when his brotlnrs, who had thrown him into tho pit and .sold him into captivity, applied fir ci rn lie sent tl 1 m Ir me with the beasts of burden borne down under the hefr of the c ’••) si '-hs; how fhs sin against tl; > br tls r v. h’eh hud *« long been hidd' n return d 1 v :ar ■ i ‘ at l/.ut and was br lior’s forgivinesK and kind;. tb only revenge he took. Christian Character. You pee. in tho first ]dace, that Ike m; Hid to lienor Christian !'. : ohar was i nle man of -enh rose in his esti- world is ei clmracti r. tho world. ; mation u”* great lions charge. In nil tho affairs of that w re committed to his m hi.. ; "want no honor or confidence was witbb"l<L When .1 "Si pli was in prison, he s > n won tho heart of the keeper, and though placed there for being a scoundrel, ho noon onvincid j tho jailer that lie was an innocent and trustworthy mail, and released from j close confinement, be became gcnrrnl su perintendent of prison affairs. Wherever Joseph was placed, whether a servant in the house of Potiphar, or a prisoner in the peuiMit'ary, he became the first man cveryw!)'. i", and is an illustration yf the truth 1 lay down, that the world is compelled t > honor Christian charac ter. There are those who affect e> de spise a religious life. They speak of it. as a Fystem of phlebotomy by which the man is bled of all bis courage and »o- bility. They say he has bemeimed him self. They pretend to have no more confidence in him sineo his conversion than befor his e nv rsion. Bat all this is hypix risy. There is a great deal of hypocrisy in tli" church, and there is a great deal of hypocrisy outside fh<‘ Church. It is impossible for any man not to admire and confide in a man who shows that he has really become a child of God and is what he professes to he. Y< u eaimot despise a son of the Lord («< d Almighty. < )f course we have no admiration f< r the sham of religion. I was at a place a few hours after the ruffians had gone int o the rail train and demanded th r the pn:•mmigors throw np their arms, awl tlv n tlr se mfiia.ns took the jr.ek' tb ; ks, and satnn comes and suggest ton man tb.at he throw up his anus in hyp* critical prayer and preten sion, and then ; teals his soul, for the more profusion of religion we have nb- horrenee. Kedwald, the king, after bap tism, had an altar < f Christian sacrifice and an altar for suer if ice to devils, and there arc many men now attempting the same thing—half a heart for Ood and half a 1 ■ art for tho world—and it is a dead failure, and it is a caricature of religion, and the only successful as sault ever made on < Christianity is the in consistency « f its professors. You may have a contempt for pretension to re ligion, hut when you behold the excel lency i f Jo; as Christ come ont in the life of one of his disciples, all that there is good and noble in your sonl rises up into admiration, and yon cannot help it. Though that man he as far beneath you in estate as tho Egyptian slave of whom wo are discoursing was beneath his rulers, by an im vixiablo law of your nature, Potiphar and Pharaoh will always esteem Jostph. When Eadoxia, the empress, threaten ed Chrysostom with death, he made the reply, “Tell the empn vs I fear nothing hut sin. ” Such a scene as that compels tho admiration of thoworld. There was something in Agrippa and Felix which demanded their respect for Paul, the rebel against gov« rnment. I doubt not they would willingly have yielded their office nml dignity for a thousandth part of that true heroism which licamrd in the eye and Isot in the heart of that un- eonqui rabV ape tie. Paul did not cower Is •fore Fi !ix; Felix cowered before Paul. Tho infidel and worldling are eonqs-lled to honor in their hearts, although they maynot eul< gia with their lips, uChris- tiau firm in persecution, cheerful in poverty, tru iful in losses, triumphant in death, i find Christian men in all professions and occupations, and I find them respect' d and honored and success- from dungeon to hv.ni« tto with healing f r the ImmIv and ■ ul; Elizabeth Fry g ing to the j rofiigney c t Newgate jiris- on f • s] a’: • its olslnr.tey ns the angel came to ;ho prison at Pliilii pi, driving ojmh the doors and rnajiping loose the elm u. as well as the l : v(s i f thousands of f )llow< vs of Jesus who have d< voted themselves to the temporal and sjiiritual welfare of the race are monuments of the Christian religion that shall not crumble while the world lasts. A man said to me in the cars: “What is re ligion? Judging from the character of many professors of religion I do not ad mire religion.” I said: “Now, suppose we went to an artist in the city of Rome and while in his gallery asked him, ’What is (heart < f painting?’ Would he take ns ont in a low alley and show ns a mere dr.eh r f a pretender at paintings, or would he take ns down into the cor ridors and show ns the Rubens, and the Raphaels, and the Michael Angelos? When we a-ked him, ‘What is the art (*f painting?’ he would point to the works of these front mnrtejv and ray, ‘That is painting. ’ Now, you jiopive Ind Site mere caricature of religion, >u r'ck after #»nt which in the meiv prsP'Brtion of a holy life, uid you call fluii religion. I point yim to W:e splen did aien and w< men v.h(>m this g< apel kar hi*used and lift**! and crowned. I/Mik at tin* musterpieers of divine grace if y<;« want to know v.l*«t religion is.” ■vault m( We Vvn also from this atery of Joseph that the result of perseontio* is •lerttion. Had it not been for his being *ild inko Egyptian Is.tidnge by his mu- lieionn brotheiM and h:s false imprison ment Jos*ph never wonld knre ht eome a ptivernor. Everybody aet'-p's th** pniwis'', “Blmsed are they that are fer- * rated for rigl.tei asm ra e;:ke, for ttieira ia the kiinplom of heaven.” Imt they do *ot real:*.' the fact that this priaciple applii • to worldly na wel as t^irik.i*! snecei*. R ia (me in all de- pjsrtinf'ats. Meu ri*e to high ( ftieial po- aitknu throufh inisrey.reKantatioii. Pub lic ahnao is all (has aotne of our public men hare had to rely upon fir their »'le- vatioiL It Inw brought to them what talent and executive force could ant have achieved. Many tf those who are making great effort for place and power will aever sacci*' d just because they ara aot of enough imp'.rtiince to be abased. It is tkr nature of nu n—tliat is of all fenerou.s and reasonable men—to gather nhoaf those who are persecuted arid defend them, and they aro apt to forget the fault of those who arti the sulijeets of attack wliile attempting to drive hack the slanderers. P(rs< emtio* is elevation. Helen Htirk, the Scotch martyr, standing with her husband at the place of e *ee* t ion, said: “Husband, let ns r<»joire today. We have lived to gether many happy years. This is tho happiest time of all our life. To* see we are to he happy together forever. Be brave now, he brave. I will mot ray 'G'xid night’ to you, for we shall soon lie in the kingdom of our Father t< weth er. ” Persecution shows Hie heroes and heroin's. I go into another department, nnd I find thi»t those great denominm- tioss of Christians which have been most abused have spread the most rapidly. No good iuhii was ever miore violently maltreated th»i John Weslep'—belied *nd cariratmml and slasidered mntil o*e day he sbxjd ui a pnlpit in London, ami a man aros» in the audience and said, "Tom were drunk last night, ” and John Wesley mid: “Thank God, Hie whole catalogue is now complete. I have been charged with everything but that!” Ilia followers were hooted at and maligned and called by every detestable name that infernal ingenuity could invent, but the hotter the persecution the more rapidly they spread until yon know what a great host they have become said what a tremendous force for God and the trnth they are wielding all the world over. It was persi'rntion that gave Krotland to Presbyterianism. It was persecution that gave our land first to civil liberty and afterward to religions freedom. Yea, I aiight gi farther back and say it was persecution that gave (he world the great salvation of the gospel. The ribald nvx'kory, the hungering and thirsting, the unjust charge, the ignominloas death, when all the force of hell’s fmy was hirlcd against the cross, was the introduction of that religion which i« yet to be the earth’s deliverance and our eternal salvation. The stp.t* sometimes said to (he chareh, "Come, take sir hand, and I will help yen. ” What was the result? The church went hack, and i it lost its estate of holiness, and it be came ineffective. At other tiinrs the state said to the ebareh, “I will crush yon.” What has been the rcsalt? After the storms have spent their fury the church, so far from having lest any </f its force, has increased snd is worth in finitely more after the assault than he- ! fore. Read all history and yon will find that true. The church is far more in debted to tho opposition of civil govern in' nt than to its approval. The fires of the stake have only been the torches which Christ held in his hand, by tho light of which the chnrch has marched to her present glorious position. In the sound of rackn and implements of torture I hear Hie rambling of the gospel chariot. The scaffolds of martyrdom have been ! the stairs by which the church mounted. A Tlimmancl Tongars, Learn also from our subject that sin will come to exposure. Long, long ago had those brothers sold Joseph into Egypt. They had made the old father believe that his favorite child was dead. They had suppressed the crime, and it was a profound secret well kept hy the ccrwaved his handkerchief, ; e secret is out. mil was sent to Washingto brothers. But suddenly the The old father hears that his sou is in Egypt, having been sold there by the malice of hi* own brothers. How their rli<'«'k,‘« must have burned and their In arts sunk at tho fiiuniug out of this long sup pressed 'Time. The smallest iniquity lias a thousand tongues, and they will blab out exposure. Haul was sent to de stroy the Canaanite:, their sheep and their oxen, hut when he got down there among tho pastures ho saw some lino sheep and oxen too fat to kill, so he thought ho would fteal them. Nolxxly would know it. Ho drove these stolen she']) and oxen toward liou< . hut stop ped to rejMjrt to tin prophi t le w he had executed his mission, when in the dis tance the sheep began to bleat and tho oxen to bellow. The secret was out, and Samuel said to Hie blushing and con fused Saul, “What menneth the bleating of the sheep that I hear and the b; Row ing of the cattle?’’ All, my 1: an r, you cannot keep an iniquity still. At jiv-t the wrong time the sheep will bleat and the oxen will bellow. Achnn cannot steal the Babylonish garment without being stoned to death, nor Arnold betray his country without having his in ok stretched. L*Mik over the police arrest . These thieves, these burglars, there counterfeiters, these highwaymen, tin assassins, they nil thought they could bury their iniquity so demi d'wn it wonld never come to lesuiTection, but there was some shoe that answered to the print in the soil, some false k vs found in their possession, some bloody knife that whisper* d of the death, and the public indignation iukI the anatln ma of outraged law hurled them into the dtmgenu or hoist'd tin m on the gallows. Francis I, king of France, st'xxl coin •cliHIt with his officers how he could take his army into Italy, when Amcril, the fool iJ the court, Icajs <1 t ut fr< m a corner i/ the room und raid, “You had better he ciusultiug law you will ft your army back. ” And it was fiand that Francis I, and not Aim ril, was the f<Mil. Instead <.f c'.nraltiiigas tothelx st way of getting into pin, you had b< tii r consult its to whether yon will be able to get o*t of it. If the world does not exiMiso you, you will tell it yourself. There is an awful pov.’i r in an aroused conscience. A highwayman plung' d out upon Whitelield xs lie r*xle along on hursc'back, a sack < f money on the horse —money that ho had raised for orjihau asylums—and the highwayman put his hand on Hie gold, and Whit* ti< Id tunicd to him and said, “Touch that if you dan*; that belongs to the Lord Jesus Christ.” And the ruffian slunk into the* forest. CuiFcienee! Conscii mv ! The mfllan had a pistol, hut Whitelield shook at him the, linger of doom. Do not think you can hide any great and pro tracted sin in your heart, my brother. In an anguarded niona iit it will . bp i.ff the lip, or some slight action may for the nioui* nt set ajar this door that yo’i wiuit< d to keep closed. But >‘:pp * that in this life you hide it, xml you y t alongwith this tramgne.-ion burningin your heart, as u ship on fire within i r day* hinders the Haims from l uistiny out hy keeping down tho hatches, yet :,i lai;t in the judgment tb.at iniquity wfi! blHBO out lx‘for*' God and the m.iv* iw. lAu>* cf tlio Ul!Jvcrii«‘. I/ urm also from this subject that there ia an inseparable connection L tv,a < n all '-venls, however remote. The uni verse ia onlyone Hionglit o? God. Those things which xeemed fr:i4,nuei *ary ami ttolabd are <.nly different parts • f tii..' great thought. How far ; part siemod theaa two i vt nts—Ji.si 1’h sold to the Arabian merchants and his rah rHi’p of Egypt—y« t you si e in what a mysti riou: wtiy God conia'cti d the two int » one plan. So the or* nts are linked together. You who are aged nu n look hack and group together a thousand th eg.- in yo«r lifi* t!>«t once sk n:< d isohui d. One undivided chain of events reach' s from tl(e garden of Ed' n to the cross of Calvary, and (has up to the kingdom of heaven. Tlier. is a relation b' twoen the nnalkxt insect that Jmm:- in th sum mer air and the arehnnr' 1 on his tlmme. God ran trxeo * direct anr stral line froBi the blue jay that tV.ht sprin;: v ill build it« m st in the tree Ir hind the hoyse to Mine one of the fi- el: of b:: ’ which, when Noah lioisted the aril’s window, with a whir and dash i f bright wings, w< nt out to am- ovi r Mount Ararat. The luli** that hh om in the garden this spring wor iiur-d by tha rnowflak* s. Tb.e fart In <t star < n o*e aide of the xuiv! rse could not look toward the faith* i t star on tlu‘ ot!.« r aide i f the nniv< rse and say, “You mo ■o relation to m«*,” fur from that hriylit oih a voice «if 1’ght would risr sstosk tin' heavens rrspondinr, y< s, ve are lifters.’’ Nothin;; in (h *;’:* uinvcrse swings at loo*'ends. A.eci(V nt« aroonly God’s way of taming a l*'af in the P i .!; erf hia et* rral d‘er en From oar eradi ' ♦o our grave there is path ail maik'.i omt. Each < vent in our lif" is eoTiin '•"■d with every other ' vi nt in our lile. Our lews* h may be the most direct road to o*r gain. Our defeat and our vict ry are twin brothers. The whole direption i f your life was changed It* ni( thing which ut tl time •'fired to yo* trifling, while s-meic- carrenee which r-« mi d tremendous af- fi'Otrd you hut little. God’;; plans are Biagnifieent beyond all eompn hi m ion. Me molds *a atid turns and dinct * U", and we know it not. Thoasands of y* irs aie tvi him as the flight of a sbutib*. Th** moat terrific occurrence ds's. not make God tremble. The ni' st trium phant achievement does not lift him in to rapture. That one great thought < f God go** out through the e< ntvri* s, and nations riue and fall, and eras pass, and Hie world changes, but G< d still keeps the undivided mast* iy, linking event to event ami century to century. To God they are all one event, one history, one plan, one development, one system. Great and marvelous are thy works, Lord God Almighty! I was years apo in New Orleans at the * xp . ition rooms, when a telegram was sent to the presi dent of the Unit'd Stabs, .it Washing ton, and we ’vnited some 15 i r 20 min- ntes, and then th* pn ident’s answer came hark, nnd then the pr* sidiu;'olli- md the si^- qfton that we that respond in the far dis- yean from now, 50 years 1,000 years fnim now, 1,000,- froBi now—one touch sound- it. :b'es. i'or ttn* Future. infinenees tane.e, 40 fn m now, 000 years in;; through tn< I'rovislon We al -o learn from tliis story the pro- P'.'i' ty ot laying up for tho future. Dur ing 'h* revfn y<arsof plenty Jof.eph jm pnred for the famine, and when it earni h" had a crowded rtrr* house. The lib < t most men in a worldly resjxet is divided into years of plenty and famine. It is s. Idoin tb.at any man passes through lib- with ut at least seven years of plenty. During those seven years y«>iir business bears a rich harvest. You scarcely know win re all the money comes from, it comes so fast. Every bargain you make si ems to turn into gold. You <• ait ract few had debts. You are astonish* d with large dividends. Yon invest mom and more capital. You woud* r bowmen can he content with a rnmll husir.esr-, gathering in only a few hundred dollars while yon reap your tii usaiids. Those are the seven y< ars of plenty. Now J< reph has time to prepare for the threatened famine, for to almost every man th* re do come ht- cn years of famine. You will he sick, you will he unfortunate, you will ho defrauded, th* re will be hard times, you will be disappointed, and if you have' no stor* Louse up* n which to fall hack you may 1m famine struck. ▼*'*' have iK) admiration for this d* living oneself nil personal comfort and lux ury for tlv mere pleasure * f hoarding up, this yrnepkiy, grasping for the mere pl< asure * f s‘. in* how large a pib' you ran get, this always being pe* r because ass. .'lias a dollar comes in it is rent <int to see if it can find another dollar, so that it can carry it home < n its br«k. \V< have a contempt b r all th* se things, but th*re is an intelligent and noble mind* <1 f'rerast wlreh we love to Fee in men who have families and kindred depending upon them for 1 he hi* ssings of education and home. Godsends us to the iu.‘'(< , ':t f* r a lesson, which, while they do not stint thenis* Ives in the prosi n'., do not forget their duty to fore cast tho future. “Go to the ant, thou Cons id* r her ways, and be having no guide, * v* rreer •id' lb. her meat in the sum- *1 gathered! her food in the har- CHEAF FODDER CUTTER. Ex- TIip Doric* of nn Ohio F.irrnrr V.'lilcll poilltCH l.uhur ari*l ."•iimii ,'ionoy. Farmers, us a rule, must economize. Hence every device tliat means a saving of money is welcome. This time tho device is that *.f an ingenious Ohio man, and it talas the form of a fodder cutter. After giving tho a.ssuruuco that his fod- / i ‘Y > V, ' . \J L ■ .• V, /S.x Q ecoxomicai. ronnrr; ct'rrrn. dor cutter answers every purpose for which it was designed ho furnished the following illustrated description in a communication to tho Ohio Farmer: Tho sketch, which explain.-! itself, shows tho cutting box I made to cut corn fodder, etc. Four pieces of scan tling 2 by 2 and 28 inches long make tho framo or ends. Two boards 14 inches wide and 4 feet long, placed ns shown, mako tho box. This makes a box a little higher than an ordinary man’s knee. Place a bundle of fodder in th** bo::, pnt your left kneo on it, and with a L ; ght- uiug hay knifo shear off tho ends sticking over tlio box. Pn; h tho bundle along and repeat. Cat up to tho baud, then turn the bundle around end for end, and go ahead again. For horses I out :i or 4 inehes long and think it short enough. With a b x like this I cut fodder for six horses ansi four cows last winter, feeding bushel apieco at a feed. It took me about five minutes to cut enough for one feed. Mr. ' ; Crausby, * r St, Mem phi. Tcnn., •.. llu.r. his wife paid no attention to . ; r, 11 lump which ipp-arul in her hr i, iait it noon dc- velopcl into a emo.i < ! the worst type, ir.d uotwitta f iuiliii'' i " ; •• tm nt of tho best physic! m , coni imt i to .pread and grow rapidly, eating two holes in her hroa 1 1. The doctors soon pronounced her iueuralilc. A eelcir it’ ! New York speeiali: t IhcTi treat ed her, but : lic con tinued to a ro-f worse and when iMormcl that both r aunt and uraivlnWlicrluul 'Zs'T * commended S.S.S. and though little he pc remain^# she, begun it, and an improvement Ws no ticed. The cancer commenced to heal and when she had taken several bottles it disappeared entirely, an 1 although sev eral years have elapsed, not a sign of the disease has ever returned. A Real Blood Remedy. S.S.S. {guaranteed purely vegetable') is a real blood remedy, and never fails to cure Cancer, Eczema, Rheumatism Scrofula, or any other blood disease. Our book; ir*!. The other way to m giving it away, lie is makes both • f iIk-h*' iu- snig wise, wnieii, or nil* r, pro! mer V*‘8t.” N*.w, th(’r*' are two ways of layinf up money. Oik < f these is to put it instock and dejnsit it in bank and invest it on bond and m* "’x.-g* lay up money ‘ the safest who v< stments. TIk iv ar*' in this houi *' men who if tin y lose every dollar they have in the world would ho millionaires for eternity. They made the spiritual in- v stment. But the man who (Wotes i none "f his gains to the cause of Christ and looks only for Ids own comfort and luxury is not safe, I earo not how the :u* noy is ir.v st* *1. lie acts as the rose if it •. dd say: "I will hold my breath ; and non*' nl all hav ' a snatch of fru- from in*' until next week. Then : I will o f all th*' far*i< n rifl* at with my ; ar*ii::ii. " Cf eourae the rose, r‘fusing to lircatlu , died. But ab>ove all, lay up treasure* in heaven. They never depre ciate in value. They never are nt a dis count. They are always available. You may feel safe now with your #1,000 or J’.’.OOO < r #10,000 or #20,000 income, but what will such an iurome he worth after you are dead? Others will got it. I'd! "i- pom*' of (hem will quarrel about it b< fore you are buried. They will bo fo impatient to get hold of the v.ill they will think you should be buri'd on*' day fooiut than you ar*' buried. They will 1." right glad when Treatment of Heilges. What to do with hedg'd now growing on many prairio farms is a problem. Where allowed to grow freely without severe trimming they are undoubtedly a nuisance, making unsatisfactory fences and greatly reducing crops in their vi cinity by robbing them of soil moisture. Many advise digging ont and replacing hy some of tho cheap, durable wire fences now on tho market. The Orange Judd Farmer says: In most cases it seems that the wisest policy would bo to keep those that aro now good fences closely trimmed, never allowing the new shouts to go more than one season. Two cuttings, during late winter and again in Hummer, are even more to ho desired. Where tlm hedge forms a poor fence cut off close to tho giound and lot the sprout:-which come from th''roots grow two years. From these a good fence cun usually bo made by judicious layering. I’otaloi'H Under Straw. Farmers on the river bottoms near Ht. Louis have reported successful results with growing ixitatocs under a mulch. Last year farmers in variun:; parts of tho country tried this plan, generally with success. Tho failures w'th tliis «ystern, as reported hy Rural Now York er, aro usually duo “to the use of too thick a covering of straw or manuro or planting on land that is not properly drained. Cultivation may bo dispensed with if a suitable mulch is used. Tho amount of hand weeding required will of course depend on tho condition of tlio ground previous to planting tho potato crop. This method cannot bo recom mended for all sections of the country without reserve, hut u fair trial of it wherever straw or other mulching ma terial is cheap is a legitimate part of farm enterprise. ” will he mailed free to any ad dress. Swift Specific Co., Atlanta Ga. : .o A. N. WOOD, BANKER. docs a general Bani-.i::,";::;*! Exchange business. Well sccar, <1 wi! h Ilurglur- I’roof safe and Aubimalic Time Lock. Safety D* posit Box* s al modi rale r* n t. Buy.' a ml .al!.. S; ad.s and Bonds. Buy County and . d claims. ^ our 1ii:sui* s*‘ soli* - !*":. Grain an.’ Provision Market. Up-to-Dato JcW Print- Inf’;, call at the ! LEDGER Office. n ~ ’ c* r» you <:t gatl ) *li*. What then will all your lyaccumubit ions lx* worth? If you i* *l it all in y >\:r Ixisom and walk- id up with it to heaven’:; gate, it wonld not purchase your admission. Or if al lowed to enter, it could not buy yon a crown < r a robe, ami the poorest saint in heaven would l.M>k down at you and say, “V.b'To did that pauper come from?’’ May we all have treasures in heaven. A.?u"n! Aihn.'ml drr.l riifT. t Urn “R< :‘.r Admiral rial:an IT *.f th*' Rus- -’zii navy,” : ys the Bliilad* Ipliia Uee- < rd. “who v i recently a guest (>f (’haa:*'; H. t ramp, ir; on*' of tin'most c. n'i i' i; ar; Id "ns * f r "*l*'rnEuropean naval history. Although « nly 47 years of age, ]!<■ r* nr admr numlx r < I l y : peaial dariii ' (!:* regard* d is first «in tli** list of PuiHsiim ils and is Renior to a large :n h I r, supersedf'd were ready to have the maehin* vy f tin* eijM)Fiti*iii start* *!, and tbepr ,- *!< at put his finger on the electric hutteu, and in- atantly th*' gnuit Corliss who* 1 began to move, rumbling, rumbling, rolling, i 11- ing. It wax overwhelming, and 15,000 people clapped and shouted. Just < ne finger at Washington started that va. 1 machinery, hundreds and hundreds of mile* away, and I tluaiglit then, ax I officers who pn mi* it i* n. H*; it wax who, ■ last Turk -Russian war, wax tli*' ok 'kelof? of th*' Russian navy, and, like that gn at general, whose pc rtrait ; he resend* 1 es, was several times promoted for his daring and * ntrrprise. Hix en-eer in th.at war was an unintcr- ruple*! series * f ('ashing attacks on Tark- i.-h ships in th*' Batum and other Turk- irl: lawhori; < f the Black sea, in which Ills skill was second alone to his daring. That is why h" in the senior rear admiral at the age of 47 years. Ho recently com mand'*1 the Asiatic squadron and i« n*.w on his way home to assume com mand < f the Halt !*• fie* t. ” Duuraven’N llu|mc|»uii Flitli. The Earl of Dunraven, finding that there w* re t*Mi many pike in his waters at Adare Manor, County Limerick, Ire- 1 ::d, for pueecssful tn ut fishing, recent ly * rd* n il his professional fisherman to *‘apt me what he could of th* m. Thirty- four have lx * n tak* n so far of an aver age weight of !) pounds each, the largest weighing 25 pounds and the smallest 2 pounds. V/by three-fourths of tin in were female* is not understood at all. That there was need of taki* • * ait the pike is shown by the fact 111 i 1 of the fish contained trout, a| nearly all the females were heavy wif spawn. Th** pickerel fry fe<sl on t ‘ait and sahnon fry, D ing far b* tt< fighter* than equal siz' d trout. The greatest of care is necfisary IBli hatch* rie* to pn vent the ]»ieker*'l fry from getting among the fry of other varieties. A dozen small pickerel in a year will destroy thousand* of other Potato 8eab anti Soil Itot. It has been mado to appear that cor rosive snblimato is a preventive of scab. Professor Holdcad of the Now Jersey station last season made two experi ments, omi on the college farm and ouo in another county and on different soil. Tlio result, stated briefly, was that flow ers of sulphur proved to bo tho best remedy of all those tested, superior oven to corrosive sublimate. On a plot where tlio rut seed was simply rolled in sul phur tiio scab was much reduced. Bet ter results were obtained by tlio appli cation in the drill of 150 to 500 pounds per acre. Hoil rot is to sweet potato growers what scab is to the growers of white po tatoes. II< ro, too, flic .sulphur seems to ho an i fioetivo remedy, applied broad cast or in the hill. oOUTHEPJl Mi LIE r~ - P1EDA10NT Aik LiNB. Condensed Sclittlidc oi Passcnjicr Trains. Vi‘. Nortlibound. No. o' 1 Jan. 5. Diulv Lv. Atlanta, C.T. 12 00m ** Atlanta, K.T. 1 Oj p ** Norcross.... “ iinfoid “ OaiucMrillc . 2 2'i p I .,l a. , , Nu . (, No. 12 No. ID I'uiy 1C suu Cubfiagn In ScciUinjj IIowm. A writer in Median’s Monthly has learned that cabbage sown in drills two feet apart, without transplanting, and afterward thinned out, stands heat and dryness best. The cause is very simple. The main root remains undisturbed and gets its food from deeper regions than those that weie disturbed in transplant ing. Tho heads of those not moved aro as solid as the others. Ar I-uta. Cornelia .. Mi. Airy Tocccw AW.'tniListfr fcfl'hUlLt . ( eiiiiMl. .. <,i ttiviilo . Spuruinliur^ (i u! t neys . l»iat:2v . Kina’s .‘'ll.. (■‘iMuliia — ClKirlo'to . Duiivillo 00 1> H '.'U p ta 'M a I -ni U » s; u i au j' n 'S, j* ni y 4 think now, that men IsomctimeH touch j small fish, und tho loss is cuuhiderablA 1 News anil Notes. Thonxauds and thousand* of bushels of potatoes have been fed to stock this winter. Largo turkeys are no longer wanted. Small ones aro in demand. Rural New Yorker makes the state ment that Kaffir corn may excel in sumo parts of the west and south, but in other sections it will not begin to com pare in vuluo with tho common Indian corn. Better broadcast a strawberry fertili zer before tho plant* start to grow. Tho promising result* from root prun ing at tho south do not justify its gen eral application at Hit* north until care ful trial lias demonstrated its usefulness to northern conditions. Last year's potato crop covered 2,954,- 952 acres and aggregated 297,287,870 bushels, an increase of 7 per cent over the acreage of the previous year. The iverage yield of over 100 bushels per icre was the largest for 20 years. American Agriculturist is convinced that the Angora goat industry is worthy of general encouragement. Ar. Uii.hinond.,.. Ar. WaMliiugli i lialtin'c.P lilt Pluladelidiia. •• New Ymk ... C Is) a a 12 a 8.03 a lu 23 a 12 33 11 0 40 p U - 1 h 3 oo a 0 2) a COO a —1_I SoutlibounJ. Vcs. 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No*. ;i7 ami ' - Wu'-!iini;ii u ami So’itliwcstwru Vestlbuls l.ln itoil Thmugli 1‘iillman i>lcc|i«-n lictwi-on New .ink ami New oiIimuh. ria Wu»it- lant.'in, Atlanta ami Montgunicry, amt alko I»m twet-u New Vu and Mcmpiil.'*, via WasblDKtou, Atlanta and Klnuinghain. liinini; car*. No*. 35 and 3 ; Fnitod Statt 1 * rant Mall Pull, man »let*|iing ears tetwoon Atlanta, N*.w Or- lea'll and New Vork. No*. 11 and 12. Pullman ulccplng cat bclwccu Kiriunoiid, Danville an 1 Grceuaboro. W. II. GRKEN, (ien'l Supt.. Wasbln^tou, D. C. J. M. PULP. Tratlic M’K’r, V •blnj; a, D. C. W. IS. HYDKIt. Surerlntc.idnit, Cbarlott*, North Carolina. W A. TtJHK, h. II. IIAHDWKK, Qeii'l Pa**. A|;'t, A ik'ti>vn'l PaM. ag't. Walking ton, D. C. Allania, Ga.