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f THE WEEKLY LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., APRIL 23, 189G. 3 CHKIST S SAH EXILE. THE LON 'taln: V.’Iirn J!:i' 111 n 1*1:11 Orer.t 11. room to LXPATRIAT ION WAS DR. AY THEME. '••rtli nml Turrlril i Tar Off—ChrUtV r :t:i tho TItocc- Was!ii:> .<» dcrful ' may l : <lay s!i:n, .:.i earthly <.■ forth, ilis t- "And tl in a plac v, ' Far up and heaven tdi i most ill. -tr Bent hin.si lf. from b aeh done that, from ouo h sphere; mai was line to 1 lit.—It is won- *. i lies iho gospel sermon to- v.;.y i;i whieh the t oar Lord is set •Hi 'amui 1 xv, 17, ioilh ami tarried far < tr.” k ia the history of a jx riod wh< u its ■ : . a was about to ab- ! was not ;::<inp to sail Iw aeh; we have often v.'u; ne t poiiiff to put out ;.‘h( n>to anotlier hemi- f u; have done that. But he was to seal from world to world, the spaces unexplon'd and the immensities uutraveled. No wc rid has ever hailed heaven, and heaven has never hailed any other world. I think that the win dows and the balconie s were thronged, ami that the pearly beach was crowded with those who had come to se e him sail out of the harbor of light into the ocean beyond. Out and < ut and e>ut, and on and on and on, and down and down and down he sp. d, until one night, with only one* to greet him when he arrived, his disembarkation so unpretending, so quiet that it was not known on earth until the excitement in the cloud gave intimate u to the Bethlehem rustics that something grand and glorious had hap pened. WIuj c im s them? From what port did he sail? Why was this tho place of his destination? I question the shep herds. I qm.'tioi; the* c;imel drivers. I question the ang< K I have found out He was an exile. But the world had plenty of exiles. Ahruham, an exile from Haran; John, an exile from Ephe sus; Kosciusko, an exile from Poland; Mazaini, an crile from Rome; Emmet, tin exile from Ireland; Victor Hugo, an exile from France; Kossuth, an exile from Hungary. But this one of whom l speak today had such resounding fare well and camo into such chilling recep tion—for not even a hostler went out with his lantern to ’ight him in>—that he is mere to ic celebrated than any oth er expatriated exile oi wirth or heaven. From Throncrcom to Sheep Ten. First, I remark that Christ was an imperial exile. Ho got down off a throne. He took off a tiara He closed a palace gate behind him. His family were princes ami princesses. Vashti was turned out of tin* throm room by Ahas- nerus. David was dethroned by Absa lom’s infamy. The five kings were hurled into a cavern by Joshua’s cour age*. Some of the Henrys of England and some of the Louis of Franco were Jostled on their thrones by discontented subjects. But Christ was never more honored or mere popular or more loved than the day he left heaven. Exiles have suffered severely, hut Christ turned himself out from throncroom into sheep pen, and down from the top to the bot tom. He was not pushed off. Ho was uot manacled for foreign transportation. He was not put out because they no more wanted him in cele stial domain, but by choice, departing and de scending into an exilo live times as long as that, of Napoleon at St. Hi Iona, and a thou sand times worse—the < >ne exile suffering for that ho had destroyed nations, tho other exile suffering because he came to save a world. An imperial exile. King eternal. “Blessing and honor and glory and power be unto him that sitteth up on the throne. ” 1 But I go farther and tell you he was an exile on a barn n island. This world is due of the small' st islands of light n t)ie ocean i f imim nsity. Other stel- irr kingdoms an* many thousand times akgcr than this. (Jurist came to this Ijihiill' Patmi s of a wofld. When exiles are sent out, tie y are generally sent to jvgions that are sandy or cold or hot— some Dry Tortugas of disngrocnbleness. iphrist came ;us an exile to a world scorched with heat anil bittiq with pold, to ih s« i ts simoom swept, to a howling wihb mess. It was tho hack jjooryard seemingly of the imivorso. Veq, Christ came to the poorest part of this barren island of a wopld—Asia Minor, with its intense summers, unfit for the residence of a foreigner, and ii) tlie rainy season unfit for the residence of a native. Christ came not to such a hind as America or England or Franco or Germany, but to a land one-third of tho year drowned, another third of the year burned up, and only one-third of the year just tolerable. Oh, it was the barren island of a world! Barren enough for Christ, for it gave such small wor ship and such inadequate affection, and such little gratitude. Imperial exile on the barren island of a world. Tho Kartli A|;aliiHt Him. I go farther and tell you that he was an exile in u hostile country. Turkey was never so much against Russia, Franco was nevi r so much against Ger many, as this earth was against Christ It took him in through the ibior of a stable. It thrust him out at the point of a sjiear. The Roman government against him with every weapon of its arm, nml fevory deeisic u of its courts and every beak of its war eagles. For years afp'r his iirrival the only question was how Jiest to put him out. Herod hated |iim, ! ho high priests hated him, the Pharisees luff'd him, Judas Iscariot hated him. Gestus, the dying thief, hated him. The yliole earth seemingly turne d into si de fective to watch his steps. And yet ho faced this f< roeity. Notice that most of Christ’s wounds were in front. Homo scourging on the shoulders, but most of Christ’s wounds in front. He was not on retreutwhen he expired. Face to face with tlie world’s ferocity. F:w*e to face with the wovli’a sin. Face to face with the world’s voe. liis eye on the raging countenances of his foaming antagonists when he expired. When the cavalry offi cer rowulod his steed so that lie might come nearer up and ree the tortured vis age of the sufli ring exile, Christ saw it i When the spear was ti rust at his side, and when the hammer was lift»d for his feet, and when th" md was raised to strike ib i p< r down the spik s < f tin rn, Christ watched the whole pri'ceilure. When his hards were fastemd to the er, ss they w re wide open still with benedictirn Hind yen, his In ad was not fastened, lie could look to the right and he could look to tho 1'ft, and ho could look up and he could look down. He saw when the spikes had been driven home, ami the hard, round, inn heads were in the palms i f his hands. He saw them as plainly as you ever saw any thing in the palms < f ' your hands. No ether, no chloroform, no merciful anaes thetic to dull or stupefy, but, wide awake, be saw the obscuration of the heavens, the unbalancing < f the rocks, the eountemmros quivering with rage and the caehinnatien diabolic. Oh, it was the hostile as well as the barren is land of u world. Fur From Heaven. I go farther nml tell y< u that this exile was far from In me. It is Oo.OOO,- 000 mih s from here to the sun, and all astronomers ngn e in saying that our solar system is only one of the smaller wheels of the great machinery < f the universe turning around some one great center, the eonti r so far distant it is beyond all imagination and calculation, and if, as sonu* think, that great center in the distance is hi aven. Christ came far from home when he came here. Have you over thought < f the homesick ness of Christ? Some of yon know what homesickness is when yon have been only a few weeks absent from the do mestic circle. Christ was !!.’! years away from home, Sonic of you feel homesickness when yon an' a hundred or u thousand miles away fr< m the do mestic circle. Christ was more million miles away from home than you could count if all your life you did nothing but count. You know what it is to bo homesick even amid pleasant surround ings, but Christ slept in huts, nml he was athirst, and lie was n-hungored, and he was on the way from Ixong bom in another man’s barn to being btiried in another man’s grave, I have read how the Swiss, when tiny are far away from their native country*, at the sound of their national air get so homesick that they fall into melancholy, ami sometimes they die un der tho homesiekm ss. But, oh, the home sickness of Christ] Poverty homesick for celestial riches. Persecution home- pick for hosanna, Weariness homesick for rest, Homesick for angelic and nreh- ungolic companionship. Homesick to get out of the night, mid the storm, and the world’s execration. Homesick ness will make u week seem as long as a mouth, and it seems to me that the throe decades of Christ’s residence on earth must have seemed to him almost interminable. You have often tried to measure the other pangs of Christ, hut you have never tried to measure tho magnitude and ponderosity of a Sav iour’s homesickness. I take a step farther and tell yen that Christ was in an exile which lie knew would end in assassination. Holman Hunt, the master painter, has a picture in which ho represents Jesus Christ in the Nazarcnc earpent* r she p. Around him are the saws, tho hammers, the axes, the drills of carpentry. The pic ture represents Christ as rising fr< m the carpenter's working bench and wearily stretching out his arms as one will after being in contracted or uncom fortable posture, and the light of that picture is so arrangt d that the* arms of Christ, wearily stretched forth, together with his body, throw on the wall the shadow i f tho cross. Oh! my friends, that shadow was on everything in Christ’s lifetime. Shadow of a cross on tin Bethlehem swaddling elorlioR. Shad- 6wof a cross on the retail over which the tlireC fugitives fled' ihto Egypt, shadow (if a brosi Yui ji.ako Galilei? as Christ walked its mosaic floof opa^ and phitrald and crystal. Shadow of a cross pil the ptail to Kmmaus. Hhado>y pf a fgtiss on the hrook Kedren, and op tho temple, and on the side of Uliyi f. ^had: jtyit of a cross on sunrise gpd sunset, tlonstantipe, pi arching with h*s army, paw just once a cross in tho sky, but iphrist saw the cross all tho timo. Jlir Pet! Wan piulp. On U rough journey we cheer our* solves with the fact that it will end in >varm hospitality, Inn Christ know that liis rough mt.h would end at ;i dcfnliagcd tree without ope leaf and with only two branches, bearing fruit of sneh bitter- pess ;iu po liunijiu lips had over tasted. Oh, what im exile—starting in an in fancy without any cradle and ending in assassination! Thirst without any wati r. Day without any sunlight. The doom of a desperado for more than angelic excel lence. For what that expatriation and that exile? Worldly good sometimes comes from worldly evil. The acciden tal glance of a sharp blade from a razor grinder's wheel put out the eye of Gam- bet ta and excited sympathies which gained him an education and started him on a career that made his name more majestic ami ng Frenchmen than any othir name in the last 20 years. Hawthorne, turned out of the office of i*olloctor at Salem, went home in de spair. His wife touched him oil' tho shoulder and said, "Now is the time to write your book,” and liis fatnnils (‘Scarlet Letter” was the brilliant Ooti- Acqnenee. Worldly 'good souk timMt conies from worldly evil Then hi' Viot' hnbclicviug when 1 tell you tluiOfrom the greatest crime o^ all eternity. ;iud oy tlie whole universe, the murder of Son of God, them shall ronie ^esplts Which shall eelips* all the grandeprs of eternity past and plcmity to pome. JJirist, mi exile from heaven opening jhe way for tho {lcportnt{op towani heaven and to heaven of a]! those whd Will accept tlie proffer. Atoiiopient, a ship large enough to take all tho passen gers that will come aboard it. Tim Open j For this royal exile I Is-s^ok tho love and service of all the exiles hero pres ent, and in one sense or the other that includes all of us. The gates of this continent have been so widely opened that there arc hero many voluntary ex iles from other lands. Seme of you are Scotchmen. I see it in your high cheek bones and in the color that illumines your face when I mention the land of your nativity. Bnuiy {’eothaid! Dear old kirk! Some < f your ancestors sleep ing in Greyfriars rhnri hyav.l, < r hr the deep lochs filled out of the pitchers of heaven, < r under the heath' r, s inetimes so deep of eoler it makes otto think < f the blood of the Covenanters who signori their names for Christ, dipping tin ir pins into the veins of their own arms ojieued for that pr.rp- so. How every fiber of your nature thrills as I mention the names of Robert Brace and the Campbells and Cochrane! I bespeak for this royal exilo of my text the love and the service of all Scotch exiles. Some of yon are Englishmen. Yc.ur ancestry se rved the Lord. Have I not r; ad of the sufferings of the Haymarket, and have I not seen in Oxford the very spot whire Ridley and Latimer mounted the red chariot? Some of your ancestors hoard George Whitcfiold thunder, or heard Charles Wesley sing, or heard John Bunynn tell his dream of the celestial city, and the cathedrals under the shad ow of which some of yon wore born had in their grandest organ roll the name i f tho Messiah. I bespeak for the royal exile of my ser mon the love and the sen-ice of all English exiles. Yes, some < f you came from the island of distress over whieh hunger, on a throne of human skeletons, sat queen. All efforts at amelioration halted by massacre. Procession of fam ines, procession of martyrdoms march ing from northern channel to Cape Clear and from the Irish sea across to the Atlantic. An island net bounded as geographers tell us, hut, as < very phi lanthropist knows, boundi d on t he north and the south and the east and the west by woe whieh no human polities can al leviate and only Almighty God can as suage. Land of Goldsmith’s rhythm, and Sheridan’s wit, and O’Connell’s eloquence, and Edmund Burke’s states manship, and O’Brien’s sacrifice. An other Patinos with its apocalypse < f blood. Yet yon cannot think of it t< day without having your eyes blinded with emotion, for there your ancestors sleep in graves, some ef whieh they entered for lack of bread. For this royal exile of my sermon I bespeak the love and the service of all Irish exiles. Yes, some < f you aro from Germany, the laud of Lu ther, and some of you arc* from Italy, tho land of Garibaldi, and some of yen are from France, the land of John Calvin, one of the three mighties of the gh riou : reformation. Some of you are descend ants of tho Puritans, and they were exiles, and some of you are* descendants of the Huguenots, and they were oxih s, and some of 3*011 are descendants of the Holland refugees, and they were 1 xiles. “Goins Home.’’ Some of you were bom on the banks of the Yazoo or the Savannah, and 3*011 are now living in this latitude. Seme of you on the banka i f the Kennebec, i r at the foot of the Green Mountains, and you are here now. Some of you on the prairies of the west, er the tabh lands, and 3*ou are hi re now. Oh, how many of us far away from heme. All of us exiles. This is not our In me. Heaven is our home. Oh, I am so glad when tho royal exile went back he left the gate ajar, or left it wide open. “Going home!” That is the dying ixelamation of the majority of Christians. I have, scon many Christians die. I think nine out of ten of them in tho last moment say, “Going home.” Going home out of banishment and sin and sorrow and sad ness. Going home to join in the hilari ties of our parents and our dear children &bo have already departed. Going home tVi Clirist. Going borne to God. Going home to stay. Where arc your l ived, Ones' 1 tjbat died, iii Christ? You pity ^eyi. i^h, ihey.yuip'ht tjo pity you! You my au, yxile far from homo. They are fionici 0h, what it time it will liefer you wheu the gatekeeper of h* aven fthhU say; ‘‘Tak" off that rough sandal, fhe journey’s ended. Put down tin t subor, the battle’s won. Put off that tpop pout ef until ami put on the robe of conqueror, “ At that gut© of triumph I leave you today, only reading three tender ©antes translated fn m the Ital ian- If you ever heard anything sweet er! 1 never did, although I cannot adopt all its theology: 'Twas whlsjiorod on<* nioriiina ta lu-avu How the liUU* rhilri an ml May, In the shade of the urwit white portal, Hat Horrowtnsr nit-lit ami day: Qow she said to the stately warden, lie of tho key and liar: "Oh, nnirol, sweet angel, I pray you Het the tu-nutiful gates ajar, Only ft little, 1 pray you, Bet the Ijeoutifnl gates ajar. “I ran bet r my mother weeping. Bho Is lonely : she cannot sen A glimmer of light in the darkness HVhrn the gates shut after me. Oh, turn me the key, sweet angel; Tlie splendor will shine wo far.” But the warden answered, ‘‘I duro not Bet the Is-nutiful gates ajar," Spoke low and answered, ”1 dare not Bet the beautiful gates ajar.” Then up rose Mary, the Messed, Sweet Mary, the moth) r of I'iirist. Her hand on the hand of the angel She laid, and her tuueh sufficed. . Turned was the key in the portal, ■ fell ringing the golden bar, And, Jo, fn tin- little child's fingers Stood the beautiful gates ajar, In.tlie Utile ehild'n angel lingers Stood tins beautiful gates nj.ir. 1 .... i .... i WM \ QWEN TOMATOES FOR PROFIT. (lie Rao> CORN IN THE CRIB. Tftifttwoithy Information Concerning the Much Vexed Question of Shrinkage, Many random statements have beep made concerning the shrinkage of corn in tho crib anil tho enormous losses thereby sustained bj* farmers who are so stubborn as to hold the crop for a better market. A number of experiments have also been reported. The principal reason why previous experiments aro of so lit tle real value is because they were madt with insignificant quantities and under conditions which do uot exist on one farm in a thousand. To be of value au experiment of this sort must bo on a reasonably largo scale and under just such conditions as are most likely to exist on a majority of farms. Throe joint owners of a tract compris ing (1,000 acres of land decided to make a careful test and determine exactly how much corn actually does shrink in weight when husked ami cribbed under such conditions as aro usually found on System of Culture Adopted by ccssful ATlnslrtsIppl T» u< kern. In no section probably is tomato cul ture reduced to a liner ryctcin than in Mississippi, where tho early tomatocrop follows fast on tho Florida and Louisi ana shipments. The Mississippi truck ers, owing to their location, early made a special study of the tomato plant and succeeded in the adoption of a system that enabled them to compete success ful^* with tomato growers in southern Florida and southern Texas. So success ful has been the Mississippi plan that tho description of it is hero reproduced from Farm and Fireside: Tho Mississippi trucker grows his plants in a hotbed to a good, stocky size and in April sets them out in a field, being particularly careful to take up a comparatively largo block of earth with each plant. Very soon ho goes through and pinches out all auxiliary suckers or sprouts. This forces tho sap into the main stalk and induces early fruiting. Some suckers may come from beneath tho surface of the ground. These must also bo pulled off, leaving a single stem. As soon as the planting is completed a CORNCRIB THAT S.‘. VFI) $1,600.23 ON ONE CROP. “great” time is TClf vuti-d Hark Vanin. Some of' the second ih><tr dwellers ot TW'ihoht enjoy mlvnntng< s of which the fipcupam^ of theiir.xt floorsmvil< prived. (n tuauy part# of that district the ^auy dulling houHK are built adjoining. Sttync of (hew* houses are erected after the cheapest plans possible, and iu many iustniieck U 1 " owners ri fuse to Ik er the wumnH'S of having hil i •ehiml tin m cuf doWMi v By this fact tlie coeivutits of the first floor are ih pvivi d of yard advantages, while those on the seeond and often on the third nml fourth floors have tin m. It is not an uneoinmon thing there for an oeeupant of the first tit sir to ask ♦ he oeevpant of tho sieond or third, “May I hang my elotht-s in your In ▼aid?"”-New York Ib nUiL the ordinary farm. To this end, they erected, in tho center of the tract men tioned, a double crib, 20 feet wide, 250 feet long, and 10 foot high at the eaves, with a driveway 8 feet wide through tho center and a good, tight roof over all. Near one end of this crib a small office was built, and a set of standard scales put in. Husking began Oct. 22 and ended Dee. 17. Every day while it. was going 01. every pound of corn that went into tho crib was weighed and re corded. Tho quantity put in footod up exactly 10,155 bushels of 70 pounds each. From November to March tho prico offered for corn by local dealers was 38 cent:! per bushel of 70 pounds. June 1 tho price went up to 52 cents, and tho corn was sold, to bo delivered at the elevator 3miles distant early in July. When the time for delivery ar rived, Iho corn was weighed as it camo out cf iho crib, and it was again weighed at tho clevato”, the total weight at tho two places varying but a few pounds, Tho corn weighed 14,8!)<J bushels 4(1 pounds when taken out, showing a total shrinkage of i,250 bushels, or a small fraction loss t’>aii TH per cent, It vrill bo soon that if these men had sold tho corn immediately after hu: Ic ing it would have netted them ♦0.- 138.1)0. By holding until it was suffl- ciently cured to be handled safely iu great bulk and tho lakes and other wa terways were open to traffic, they real ized ¥7,740.12, or $1,000.22 more than if they had allowed themselves to ho frightened by tho great shrinkage buga boo. There is a right as well as ;t wrong timo to sell corn, says the writer of tho foregoing in Rural New Yorker. Ho adds: If the crop is a short one and tho price at husking timo is what may be termed high, then is the time to lot go. If, on the other hand, the crop is a one and tho prico at husking below the cost of production, then is tho timo to hold on. In this age of wire and slat combina tions good cribs can be erected at a mod erate cost. Tho main parts aro tho floor and roof. Get the floor well up from tho ground, so that vermin cannot harbor under it and block it up so that it will not sink. Then put on a rainproof roof, and tho corn will bo all right. A steep roof mado of common boards is better than a nearly flat one made of tho best shingles. Get your portion of this “great” crop into good cribs, and then you can afford to smile at tho shrinkage wail. Hoi-ninila Gratia. As for all other grass seed, tho land should be thoroughly plowed and tho seed bod made very lino. Then sow* tho seed and harrow lightly, or, what is better still, roll in. If sufficiently early in iho fall for the young grass to become thoroughly rooted before cold weal hey, the work can be done then ns iveU J® tho spiing, but if it is delayed th« Htifcr plan would be (0 sow us early in the spring as danger uf frost is past. If quick results are desired, planting by sets is preferred. Either spring or fall is suitable. A good plan is to procure tho sod, run through a cutting mn^hiue. and drop tho sets about i^ont apart in each furrow ns the ’yaut is plowed. Tho next furrow will cover them. About a barrel and a half or two barrels per acre of these sets will give you a quick, close md.—Houthorn Cultivator, Frotpctivu From Kabblt*. A simple way of protecting trees from rabbits and similar pests is to take a wire screen, such as is used to keep out mosquitoes, cut into strips about 1) inches wide, coil the long way around a tvoom handle. Then, when trees are set, spring these coils around the tree, settle well into tho earth, and make the hip on the south side. According to The Ir rigation Age, Wiese will fit tightly and remain until th* tree is throe inches in diameter. No need to tie the netting; keep its position if it has been split stake, 5 feet in length, is firmly set at each plant, and about tho time tho fruit is setting each plant is tied with common cord, which has previously been wound around a bit of plank and cut 13 to 14 inches iu length. Each string is then tied firmly around tho stake and loosely about tho stem of tho plant, so as not to interfere with its growth, being careful, also, uot to allow tho fruit cluster to rub tho stake. The sprouts, or auxiliary suckers, will grow very rapidly and must be kept constant ly pinched off. Three tyings aro usually necessary up to the time when five good clusters of fruit have set. When those aggregate 20 or 25 tomatoes, the top is pinched off, and the whole strength of tho plant is centered in tho production of firm, bright, smooth tomatoes, of good and uniform si/e. Caro must bo taken to leave a leaf stem above tho top cluster for shade. The Mississippi planter pinches back the stem, as stated, because of his ecm- parativoly short shipping season, for tho plant contains all it can profitably ma ture. For a garden crop, or ono on rich laud, tho stalks can ho trained to five foot stakes, or as high as desired. Truckers usually hesitate to plant to matoes on rich land, fearing a rank growth, with but little fruit, but by tho system of pruning as practiced iu Mis sissippi, tho plant is forced into fruit ing. This system is of great value in small gardens whore tlie space is limit ed. t'omo truckers allow a second branch to grow. A Good Scat In Winter. Men usually provide a good seat on their summer carts and gears—unsnally a cast off mowing machine scat—but sit iu most uncomfortable and cold posi- Blood Poison. Contagious IHood Poison has been ap propriately called the curse of mankind. It is the one disease that physicians can not cure; their mercurial aud potash remedies only bottle up the poison in the system, to surely break forth in a more virulent form, resulting in a total wreck of the system. Mr. Frank B. Martin, a prominent jeweler at 926 Fensylvauia Ave., Wash ington,D.C.,say*: I was for a long time under treat ment of two of the best physi cians of this city, for a severe case of blood poison, but my condition grew worse all the while, not withstanding the fact that they charged me three , A*' hundred dollars, /y My mouth was filled with eating sores; my tongue was almost eaten away, so that for three months I was unable to taste any solid food. My hair was coming out rapidly, and I was in a horrible fix. I had tried various treatments, and was nearly dis couraged, when a friend recommended S.S.S. After T bad taken four bottles, I began to get better, and when I had finished eighteen bottles, I was cured sound and well, my skin was without a blemish, and I have bad no return of the disease. S.S.S.saved me from a life of miser}*.” S.S.S. {guaranteed purely vegetable') will cure any case of blood poison. Books on thcdiscase and its treat ment. mailed free by Swift Specific Co., Atlanta, Ga. i A. N. WOOD, BANKER, docs a general Banking and Exchange business. Well secured with Burglar- Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock. Safety Deposit Boxes at moderate rent. Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds. Iluj’S County and School Claims. Your business solicited. Grain and Provision Market. FOR Up-to-Date Job Print ing, call at the LEDGER Office. Gaffney, S. C. Southern Railway. piedmont; air line. Condensed Schedule ot Passenger Trains. UTILIZING A SCMMKR SEAT. tioiiH on tho winter sled when returning from a logging or wood hauling trip. Tho cut hero reproduced from Tho Farm Journal shows a way to utilize tho sum mer seat, slipping it out when ready to load and laying it on top of tho load. When returning, tho seat is slipped into place and a pin inserted. A V^nko* can then ho thrown over que,, and warmth insured. TVo HntWr Product. Thera has been marked increase in butter product in several of tho southern states. From 1880 to 1H!)0 tho total number of jkiuikIh of butter made was more than doubled in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas, was just about doubled iu North Carolina, £.mth Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alubunia and Missis sippi, ayd was yearly doubled iu Vir- ipiu, West Virginia, Kentucky and ennossee. In Arkansas and Mississippi tho rate of butter yield ]>er cow increas ed 50 per cvu», and in Louisiana, Geor gia and £outh Carolina this increase was over 100 per cent, although there are indications that somo of the census dairy figures from this soctiou are unre liable. Virginia, Tennessee and Texas each produced over 100,000 pounds of cheese, but no other southern state re ported so much. Potato?* For Stock. Exhaustive experiments aro reported by the French Society of Agriculture in which a ration composed chietly of po tatoes afforded rapid gains in live weights of both sheep and cattle, a large percentage in dteased weight of the slaughtered animals and flesh of excel lent quality. Cooked potatoes proved moro cffuctiv jud profitable than un cooked. Northbound. Jan. 5.1806. Vc. No. 3ft Daily Pat llii No .6 (Dally Ne. 12 Daliy Ne. It USuu Lv. Atlanta, C. T. 12 00m 11 15 p 7 50 a 4 33 p “ Atlanta, E.T. loop 12 15 a 4 50a 6 35 p •Mp 7 04 u 7 43 u “ Norcross 12 51! ft • 38 a n Buford Gainesville.. 2 23 p 2 01 a 10 10 a 10 44 a Lula. 2 23a 1104 a 4 lap " Cornelia •••#•••• . 11 20 a •• Mt. Airy • o o o # e o • 2 50ft 11 30 a “ Toccoa • set •••• 3 13 a 11 63 a “ Westminster 3 50a 12 27 p 12 41* » Seneca 4 07 a *• Central. . 4 43 p 4 33 a 1 20 p “ Greenville... 6 30 p 5 19 a 2 It p “ Spartanburg 6 16 p 0 16ft 3 22 p • • • • . • “ Gaffneys 0 63 a 4 1» p ... •• Blacksburg.. 7 00 p 7 on a 4 30 p •• King's 5It... 7 32 a 6 00 p •* Gastonia — • 7 53a 6 24 p Ar. Charlotte 820 p 833a t 20 p •• Danville 12 00 a 1 30 p 11 25 p Ar. Ktclimoakd.... 0 00a C 40 p COO a —• At. Wa*hlngtnii. li 42 a ‘J 40 p •a Hahm’o. P KllJ 8 05 u 11 25 p ♦* Philadelphia.! 10 25 a ! U 00 a u >’ew Vork.... 12 63 n ti 20 a Seuthbound. Lv. N. Y., PlR U . “ Philadelphia, “ Haiti more ... •* WashUigti i. Lv. Richmond ... Rv. Danville •• Charlotte .... * Oaatonla * King's Mt... » lllackaharg.. * Oaltne's. .. ** Hpartahburg m Greenville.. . » Central " Seneea H Westminster •• Toecoa •• Mt. Airy •• Cornelia M Lula « Gainesville.. •• Huford. ... " Norcross. Ar. Atlanta, K T. I v A»!»n** r.T Vcs. Ne. 37 Dally 4 30 p 5 55 p A>l> 10 43 p 200 a 5 50ft S&a 10 49 a U 37 a 12 28 p 1 15 p 8 31 p 4 55 p 3 Mp Fat Ml No. 35 Daily 12 15 n 3 50a C 22 a 1115 a 12 63 p 0 05 p 10 56 p 11 30 p 12 If 12 23 S 12 50 s 1 50s 2 35s 300s 350 ft 4 41 S 450ft No. II Daily 2 00s 6 20* 7 00s * I 20 p i 00 p 1 32 P 2 00 p 2Ui> 3 06 p 4 40 p 6 40 l> 6 06 p 6 23 p 6 64 p 7 40 p T 43 p nap 130 • 0T • 42 10 3« Ne. K8ub e ee••• • *##•••« e e e • e • e e e#•e•• e •••••* #••*••• W Taos T 44 • 4 IT • »•»• !»t ••A 1 a. iu. **P" p. m. "M” n&on. ‘‘JP' night Nos. 37 and 38—Washington and Bonthwsstera Vestibule Limited Through Pnllmaa sleepers between New \ ork and New Orleans, vie Wash ington. Atlanta and Montgomery, and else b*. tween New Yoi ; and Mempnls, vfa Washington^ Atlanta and Birmingham. Dining cars. Nos. 35 and 36-United States Fast Mall, •oil man sleeping cars between Atlanta, Ness Or leans and New York. Nos. 11 and 12. rulltnan sleeping oar between Richmond, Danville and Greeusboro. W. II. GREEN, Gen'I Supt., Washington, D. 0. Jk'l CULT, Traillc M'g'rj T ebtng m, D. 0. W. B. RYDER, Superintendent, Cherlette, North Carolina. B. H. HARDWICK, W. A. TURK, Gen') Pass. Ag’t, Washington, D. O. Ais't Gan'l Faae. ag't. Atlaata, 0*.