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THE LEDGER: GAFFNEY, S. C., JUNE 11, 1890. AN ILL EAST WIND. REV. DR. TALMAGE GAYS THAT GOD CONTROLS IT. Ho Ackuov.lcilccs That It T«Ue« Almlelity Graco’ta E.i Wo Should IJo Under the Chill Ea.:t Wind—The Use* of Trou ble. * Wasiiint.ton, J-yp ?.—lu Ids dis course today Rev. Dr. Talmagc pointed ent the consolations which the religion of Christ extends to all who are in trou ble and specially to sucli>as arc in deep misfortune or sutTeriug from bereave ment. Ho chose as his text Exodus x, 13, ‘‘And the Lord brought an east wind upon the land all that day and all that night.” The reference here is not to a cyclone, but to the long continued blowing of the wind from an unhealthful quarter. The north wind is bracing, the south wind is relaxing, but the. east wind Is Irritat ing and full of thre at. Eighteen times does the Hible speak against tlio east wind Moses describes the thin ears blasted by the cast wind. The psalmist describes the breaking of the ships of Tarshish by tlio east wind. The locusts that plagued Egypt were borne in on the east wind. The gourd that sheltered Jonah was shattered by the east wind, and in all the 6,000 summers, autumns, winters, springs, of the world’s exist ence the worst wind that e'er blew is the east wind. Now, if Cod would only giyo us a climate pf perpetual nor’west- er, how genial and kind and placid and industrious Christians wo would all be! But it takes almighty grace to bo what we ought to be under the cast wind. Under the chilling and wet wing of tho-cast wind the most of the world’s yjlluinic:;, frauds, outrages, suicides and murders have been hatched ont 1 flunk if you shonld keep a mctcorologi- pal history of the days of the year and put right beside it the criminal record pf the country you would fipd thaf {hose wero the best days for publip m or_ pis which were under the north or west Wind, and that tbcflD wore the worst 4pys fer public morals which were pm thorr-'a. "jhe p^ihrs~£J ppmpa^ll i )a vo more tp fbo VrH' s lm,oral8 and the church’9 piety fhau y3i have yet suspected, ftevi Dr. Archib/ld Alexander, cniiuent for Joanir / jug and for consccratirmV wnen psked by PRO of his students at Priucetoq whether ho always had full assurance of faith, Replied, ! ‘Yc3, except when tho wind blows from the cast.” Dr. Francia, dic tator pf Paraguay, wheq the wind wi and increase npon me. I tell nobody, but I am very much sunk indeed, and I wish I could have the relief of weeping as I used to. My days arc exceedingly dark and distressing. In a word, Al mighty God seems to hide his face, and I intrust the secret hardly to any earthly being. I know not what will become of me. There is doubtless a good deal of bodily affliction mingled with this, but it is not all so. I bless God, however, that I never lose sight of the cross, and though I shonld die without seeing any personal interest in the Redeemer’s merits, I hope that I shall be. found at his feet. I will thank you fer a word at your leisure. Ely door is bolted at the time l am writing this, for L am fall of tears. ’ The En-.t Wind. What was the matter with the dean of Carlisle? Had he got to be a worse man? No. The physician said that the state of his pulse would net warrant his living a minute. Oh, if the cast wind affects the spleen, and affects tho lungs, and affects the liver, it will affect your immortal soul. Appealing to God for help, brace yourself against these with ering blasts and destroying influences, Jest that which the psalmist said broke the ships pf Tarshish shipwreck you. But notice in my text that the Lord controls the cast wind: ‘‘Tho Lord brought the oast wind.” He brings it for especial purpose; it must sometimes blow from that quarter. Tho cast wind is just as important as tho north wind, or the south wind, or the west wind, but not so pleasant. Trial must com'', ^ho text does not say you will escape the cutting blast. Whoever did escape jt? Especially who that accomplished guy thing for church or state cve'r escaped it? I was in the pulpit of John Wesley, in London, a pulpit where ho stood one flay and said, “I have been charged With gll the crimes in the catalogue ex cept one—that of elrunkenuess, ” and a woman arose in ihq audience and said, “John, you were drunk last night.” So .John Wesley passed under the flail. J sa\y in a foreign ibqfuq) a •vport of pno of George Wliitcucld’s sermons—a sermon preached a huinlredmja^f^c^y Of thirty years cs pose. They do not come at random. Here is tho promise: “Ho stayeth his rongh wind in tho day of tho east wind.” In tho tower of Loudon tho swords and the guns of other ages are burnished and arranged into huge pas sion flowers and sunflowers and bridal cakes, and you wonder how anything so hard as steel could be pnt into such floral shapes. I have to tell you that the hardest, sharpest, most cutting, most piercing sorrows of this life may be made to bloom and blossom and put on bridal festivity. The Bible says they ■hall be mitigated, they shall be as suaged, they shall be graduated. God is not going to allow yon to be overthrown. A Christian woman, very much de spondent, was holding her child in her arms, and the pastor, trying to console tho woman in her spiritual depression, said, “There, you will let your child drop.” “Oh, no,” she said, ‘‘leouldu’t lot the child drop. ” Hesuid, ‘‘You will let the child drop. ” “Why,” she said, ‘ ‘if I should drop the child here, it would dash his life out!” “Well, now,” said the Christian minister, "don’t you think God is ns good as yon are? Won’t God, your Father, take as good care of you, Jus child, as you take care of your child? God won’t let you drop. ” Uses of Trouble. I suppose God lets the east wind blow’ just hard enough to drive ns into tho harbor of God’s protection. We all feel WO Call manage our own affairs. Wo have hejui and compass and chart and quadrant. Give ns plenty of sea room and wo sail on and sail on; but after awhile there comes a Caribbean whirl- Wind np the coast, and wo are helpless ip tho gale, and wo cry out for harbor. AH our calculations upset, wo say with the poet: Clvint-o uni’ doeny on nil nronnd I feo. Ob, thou who chnngcst not, nbide with ni«>! The south wind of mild providence makes us throw off tho cloak of Chris tian charactef and wo catch cold, but tho sharp cast wind of trouble makes us WT-flP around us (he warm promises, The best thing that ever happens tons is trouble. That is a bard thing perhaps to say; but I repeat it, for God an- of death, “weeping may endure for a night, but joy comcth in tho morning. ” Across the harsh discords of this world rolls the music of the skies—music that breaks from the lips, music that breaks from tho harps and rustles from tho palms, music like falling water over reeks, music like wandering winds among leaves, music like caroling birds among forests, music like ocean billows storming the Atlantic beach. “They shall hunger no more, neither thirst any more, neither shall the sun light on them nor any heat, for the Lamb which is in the midst of tho throne shall lead them to living fountains of water, and God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes. ” I sec a great Christian fleet ap proaching that harbor. Somo of tho ships come in with sails rent and bul warks knocked away, but still afloat Nearer and nearer tho shining shore. Nearer and nearer eternal anchorage. Haul away, my lads; haul away! Some of the ships had mighty tonnage, and others were shallops easily listed of tho wind and wave. Some wero meu-of-war and armed of the thunders of Christian Rattle, and others wore unpretending tugs taking others through the Nar rows, and some wore coasters that never ventured out into the deep seas of Christian experience; but they are all coining nearer the wharf—brigantine, galleon, line of battle ship, longboat, pinnace, war frigate—and as they come into, the harbor I find that they are driven by tho long, loud, terrific blast of tho east wind. It is through much tribulation that yon are to outer into the kingdom of God. You have blessed God for the north wind, and blessed him for tho south wind, and blessed hi.:i fer tho west wind; can yon not in lhe light of this subject bless him for the cast wind? Nearer, my God. to theo, Nearer to theo. E'en though it be a cros« That raisetb me, Btill all my 8oag shall be. Nearer, my God, to time, Nearer to theo. IRRIGATION IN THE GARDEN. Rrsnlta Obtained With 1 leans. Pepper*, Eggplants, Tomatoes, Tnrnlps and Celery. With land still practically barren from a lack of methods of applying wa ter that in many places is abundantly at hand, irrigation experiments were began at the New Jersey Agricultural college farm to answer questions concern ing the reclaiming of land. Tho water employed is brought to tho land in a three inch pipe from the city reservoir, about 1,000 feet away. Extending from this main are lateral pipes ending in uprigbt* provided with faucets above TURNING GRAY AND THREATENED WITH BALDHESS The Danger is Averted by Using AVPR’Q H I tel U VIGOR ‘‘Nearly forty years ago, after some weeks of sickness, my hair turned gray and began falling out so rapidly that I was threatened with immediate baldness. Hearing Ayer’s Hair Vigor highly spoken of, 1 commenced-using this prepara- from tho east, mado oj ments for tho fvo eqaet- hnfc when tho nmged repented him of the OFuelticy, repealed the enactments and Was in good humor with all tho world. Climatio Changes. Before I overtake tho main thought of jpy subject 1 want tfi tell Christian people they ought to be observant of pjimaticul changes. Bo on your guard when tho wind blows froni the east, •fhcro »ro i rtain styles pf temptations that you cannot endure under fertaj 11 Styles of weather. When the wind blows from tho cast, if you are of a nervous temperament, go not among exasperat ing people, try not to scttjo bad debts, do not try to , ettlo old disputes, do not talk with a bigot on religion, do not go among those people who delight in say ing irritating things, do not try to collect funds for a charitable institution, do not try to answer an insulting letter. If these things must bo done, do them when ihe wind is from the north, or tho south, or tho west, but not when tho wind is from tho cast You say that men and women ought not to bo so sensitive and nervous. I ad mit it, bnt lam not talking about whaj; fho world ought to be. J am talking fllbout what the world isj. While fhero qre perrons whoso disposition docs pot teem to bo affected by changes in the nt- xposphero, nine put of ten nyo mightily pjayrd upon by such hifjucucca. Q ffliristian man! under such circupp Stances do pot write hard things,against yourself, do not get worried about your fluctuating experience. You aro to re member that tho barometer In your BOnl is only answering tho barometer of tho weather. Instead of sitting down and being discouraged and saying, “I am not a Christian because I don’t feel ex- hilarant, ” get up and look ont of tho window and see tho weather vane point ing in tho wrong quarter, and then say; “Get theo behind me, satnn, thou prince of the power of tho air; get ont of my house; get out of my heart, thou demon of darkness hovsed on tho cast wind. Awayl” However good and great you nhay-be in tho Christian life; ^our sou 1 Wi|l uevei- bo independent Of physica pppdition. I fee] I am tittering a mos practical, useful truth We, pniai ‘thai piay givo relief to a great many Chris tians who arc worried and despondent At times. Dr * Rush, a monarch in medicine, after, caring hundreds of cases of mental depression, himself fell sick and lost hi> religious hope, and ho would not believe his pastor when tho pastor told him that his spiritual depression was only a oduscquencB of physical depression, An drew Fuller, Thomas Scott, William Covvper, Thomas Boston, David Brain- erd, Philipp Mclanchthou were mighty men for God, bat all* of them illustra tions of tho fact that a man’s soul is not independent of his physical health. An eminent pliysiciau gave os his opinion that no man ever died a greatly tri umphant death whose disease was below tho diaphragm. Stackhouse, tho learned Christian commentator, says he does not think Saul was insane when David • played the harp before him, but it was a hypochondria coming from iuflamma- tiou of tho liver. Oh, how many good people have boon mistaken in regard td a their religions hope, not taking those things jnto consideration! The dean of Carlisle, ono of the best men that ever lived, and one oMh# most useful, sat down aufl v “Though Ilmvoendeavored todlsc dnty Us well as I could melancholy reporter to take (lie sermon, and thief idea was to caricature it, and hese arc somo of tho roportonal iutcr- iniugs of the sermon of George Whito- leld. After calling him by a nickname wljcativo pf a physical defect in the pyo, it goes on tpsay: “Hero the preach: er clasps his chin on Uoo-pulpit cushion, Nero ho elevates voice. Hero ho lowers pis voicpr-^Hohls bn mms cjo ended. Jj^Wlsaloud. Stands trembling. U frightful face. Turns up tho Wbi tf> 6 pf his eyes. Clasps liis hands be hind him. Clasps )iis uip’.a around him And hug* himself. Rcanfaload. Halloos, jumps, ciics. Changes from crying. Halloos and jumps again.” Well, my brother, if that good man went through qll that proecss, in your occupation, in your profession, in your etore, in your ilipp, at the bar, in (he sickroom, in (hoodhorial chair, some where, you will jiavc to go through a eimihur process. You caniipt escape it. Keats wrote hia famous poem, and (he hard criticism of tho poem killed him—literally killed him. Tasso wrote bin poem, entitled "Jerusalem Dcliv ered, ” pud it had such a cold reception it turned him into a raving nnmiua Btilliugfloct was slain by his literary cu- cmioR. Tho frown cf Henry VIII slew Cardinal Wolsey. The Duke of Wel lington refused to have the fence around liis house, which had been destroyed by an excited mob, rebuilt, because he wanted tho fence to remain us it was, a reminder of the mutability and uncer tainty of the popular favor. Seined that tfir*-H«s^|gs it again and again, tho best ’ In Tiinn of Trial. Au<J you will have trial e£ somo sort. You h'avq had it already. \Vhy need j prpphcsy? I (night better mention an jiisfpripaj fact in your history. Yuq arp A merchant. What a time you had with (hat pld business partner I How hard it WPS (0 pet rid tf him I Before yon bought biin opt, or ho mined both of yon, whpt magnitude of annoyance! Then after yon had paid him down a certain sum cf money to have him go out and to premise ho would not open a store of the same kind of business in your street, did ho not open tbo very same kind of business as near to you as possible and take all your customers us far as he could take them? And then, knowing all your frailties and weak nesses, after being ju your business firm for so many years, is ho not now spend ing his time in making a commentary on what you furnished as a text? You aro a physician, and in your sickness, or in your absence, you get a neighbor ing 1 doit or to take your place in the sick room, and ho ingratiates himself (ntp |f)o fkvor‘ of (hat' family, so that you foroycr Ipso (heir patronage. Or, yon fake a patient through (ho serious stages, pf a fever, and sonic flay the impatieqt fa(he( pr husband of tho sick one'rushes ppt pud gets another incdicnl practi tioner, W’ko comes in just in time to got the credit of (ho cure. Or, you wo a lawyer, and you come in contact vith a trickster in your profession, and in your abspneo, and contrary to agree ment, bo moves a nonsuit or the dis missal of tho case. Or the judge on the bench, remembering an old political grudge, rules against you every time he gets a chance, and says with a snarl, "Ifyon don't like my decision, take an exception.” Or, you area funner and the curculio stings the frnit, pr tho wee vil gets into tho wiieat, or the drought stunts tho corn, or tho long continued rains givo you no opportunity for gath ering tho harvest Yonr best cow gets the hollow horn; your best horse gets foundered. A French proverb said that trouble comes in on horseback and goes away an foot. So trouble dashed in on you suddenly; but, ob, how long it was * in getting away! Came on horseback, goes away on foot Rapid in coming, slow hi -guiutf. That is tho history of Again mid “rieuced may 00 (hing that Irffp^to us is trouble. IjVhcn the FronfriPTiny wcnt_ lie (nto Egypt under Napoleon, an engi neer, iq digging for a fortress, enmo Across a Jablet which has been called (ho Jtbaotta stone. There were inscrip tions in three or four languages cn that Rosetta stone. Scholars studying out tho alphabet of hieroglyphics from that »tono were enabled to read ancient in scriptions on monuments and on tomb stones, Well, many of tho handwritings pf God in our life are indecipherable hieroglyphics. Wo cannot understand them until wo take up the Rosetta stone of divine inspiration, and tho explana tion all comes out, and tho mysteries all vanish, and what was before beyond pur understanding now is plain in its meaning, as wo read, “All things work together for good to those who lovo God. ” Bo wo decipher the hieroglyphics. Qh, my friends, have you ever cn leu lut ed what tremble did for David? It mado him the sacred minstrel for all ages. What did trouble do for Joseph? Made him tho keeper of tho conic ribs of Egypt. What did it do for Paul? Mado him tho great apcstlo to tho gentiles. What did it do for Samuel Rutherford? Mado his invalidism more illustrious than robust health. What did it do for Richard Baxter? Gave him capacity to write of the “Saint’s Everlasting Reat. ” What did it do for John Buuyaul Showed him the shining gates of thq city. What has it done for y.pu? Since Tho Bank Clerk’* Rovence. This is a story about a girl and a man. The girl lives over in George town, where she is distinctly the belle. 1. don’t know where the man. lives, but business hours he is to be found far from tho Fifteenth street cable trsni»?8fr~liP is a blond and is a favorite in the which tho Georgetown girl moves. Ho and she had words—onco upon a day. They hud so many words, in fact, that tho girl, who is said to have more than a bit cf temper, ordered him never to presume to speak to her again as long as he lived. She forbade him to recog nize her, even, and said that she would make it a point to forget that she had ever met him. This was last winter. Tho other day she went into the bank in which lie is employed to have a check cashed. Tho blond young man appeared at tho window. Ho took tho chock*and examined it carefully. It was a broiling hot day. The Georgetown girl was in a hurry. She hadn’t an ac quaintance within half an hour’s walk. The blend young man handed tho check back. “Very sorry, madam,” said ho, "bttt you’ll have to get somebody to identify you before I can cash tho check. ” And she had to do it—Washington Post. TWO REAX PLANTS. ground, which furnish centers for irri gation by means of snrfjfco iron pipes and garden hose. Tho fall from the reservoir is only a few feet, and conse quently tho flow is moderate, bnt with tho inch faucets and hose the discharge averages three gallons per minute. Three faucets are already in nse, placed at the higher ends of as many paths, or four foot boundary belts, separating the series of plots into which tho experi ment acre is divided. The capacity therefore for irrigation, as at present arranged for, is about nine gallons per minute, or 17 barrels in an hour. Following is a summary of the report of results gained last season: Irrigation, owing to the lateness in the season when the water was piped to the field, was confined to only a few* weeks of untnir.n. Four crops received the water before it was too late for re sults to bo obtained—namely, a second crop of bush beans, peppers, turnips d crop) and late celery. Irrigation linn to ^ ns * 1 ^° ans ' there being ' 1"1 hr.-T r l itinILh? many pounds of pods from tho bolt 1 m l 1 inji TT^nVi^ 1 ” elsewhere; besides the quality was far superior. Tbo estimated cost fer the in crease of yield is 45 cents per bushel. Irrigation prolonged the period of fruitfulness with peppers, nearly dou bled tho yield and improved tho quality. With eggplants, mulching, which is a mild form of irrigation, gave encour aging results, and it is believed that ir rigation employed earlier in the season would have been very beneficial. With tomatoes a new growth was produced, aud the-irrigated belt showed a notice able freshuebd of foliage, but no marked ft ,3jWl tion, and was so well satisfied the result that I have 1 ever triid any other kind of dressing. It stop ped the hair from falling ont, stimu lated a new growth of hair, and kept the scalp free from dandruff. Only nn occasioeal application is now needed to keep my hair of good, natural color. I never hesitate to recommend any of Ayer’s medicines to my friends.”—Mrs. II. M. 1Ia;giit, Avoea, Neb. Vigor 1 RTTAnrn isv 0RJ.C. AYER & GO., LOWELL, MASS., 8.11 Ajfer't SartnjHtrllla llemorcs 1‘hnplcir ( Ayer’s is • feair £rty, Jou (uyestrqeuts aro insecure. Since you lost your health, you feel a» never be fore u rapt antioipatiou of eterual re lease. Trouble has humbled you, has enlarged you, has multiplied your rc- aouvocH, has equipped you, has loosened your grasp from this world and tightened your grip on tho next. Oh, Llesa God for the east wind| It has driven you in fo tho harbor of God’s sympathy. Nothing liko trouble to show ns that this world is an insufficient portion. Hogarth was about done with life, and ho Wanted to paint the end cf all things. Ho put on canvas a shattered bottle, a cracked bell, an unstrung harp, a sign board of a tavern callfcd “The World’s End” falling down, a shipwreck, the horses cf Phoebus lying dead in the clouds, tho mccu in her last quarter, aud tho world on fire. “One thing more,” said Hogarth, “and my picture ?s done. ” Then he added, the broken pajette of a paintei^ Then be, died. But trouble^ tyith baud'mightier and more Skillful than Hogarth’s, pictures the full ing, failing, ruddering, flying world- And wo wan( something permanent to iui hold pf, and wo grasp with both hands after God. and pay, "The Lord is my light- (ho Lord is my love, tho Lord IS my fortress, tho Lord is my sacrifice, tho Lord, the Lord is my God. ” Bless God for your trials. Oh, my Christian friend, keep your spirits up by the power of Christ’s gospel. Do not surrender. Do you not know that when you give up, others will givo up? You have courage, and others will have cour age. The Romans went into the battle, and by some accident there was an in clination of the standard. The standard upright meant forward march; the in clination of tho standard meant surren der. Through tho negligence of the man who carried tho standard, and tho in clination of it, tho army surrendered. Oh, let us keep tho standard np, whether it bo blown down by the east wind or tho north wind or tho south wind Np inclination to surrender. Forward intq the conflict The Sorrowing Tree, There Is near Bombay a tree tha( (hey call tl(0 ‘‘sorrowing tree," tho peculiar ity of which is it never pa ita forth any bloom In tho daytime, but in the night puts out all its bloom and all its redo lence. And I have to tell you that though Christian character puts forth its sweet est blossoms in tho darkness of sickness, tire darkness of financial distress, tbo of bereavement, the darkness A. N. WOOD, BANKER, docs a general Banking and Exchar buafaftis. Well secured vith Bui roof sateiffiLA utoma ^ c 1 ime gufeTy^kpos^ ^ oxe9 moder rent. Buys and sells Sto? Buys County and School Claims. * Your business solicited. Cornet! Beef and CabLage aq Eralq Food, Among the Jqw students who failed to pas^ (ho examination before tho su- I iremo court for admission to the bar ust week was a young man whose name commenced vith tho letter S—aud it Wasn’t Smith cither—and for the reason that it did oommenco with an S ho has applied for a rehearing. Ilia petition for another chance is a meet remarkable instrument In it ho alleges that tho court called upon aud examined tho applicants according to alphauctical order of their names. As his name commenced with an S ho was compelled to wait several hours before be was questioned. In the meantime the court took a recess for lunch, and he made a repast cf corncTthocf and cabbage. Now he alleges that the said corned beef and cabbage so disarranged the digestion of the young man whose said name 9091- mcuccs with an S that by (he time he was called upon (p ^nswer questions bo. was in n^cpntliiieu, cither mentally o^ uVj^iriilly, to stand the rigorousexami- oation.—can Francisco Post. '—”' tttt A ntftiiype^rlns. Lake. There is a lake near Valdosta, Go., yrhrch disappears every three or four years and comes back ngqjn, no matter what bo tho condition of tlio weather. The lake is three miles long and throe- quarters of a mfto wide, with nu aver age depth of 15 feet of water, but at the present time the water is rapidly pass ing off through tho subterranean pas sages, and in the next two or threo weeks there will bo left in its place a mammoth basin, furnishing as pretty a beach ns can be found anywhere. After a mouth or so it begins to return, and then in a couple of weeks it is tho same magnificent stretch of water as it was before.—Louisville Couricr-JournaL Coart Etiquette, The delicate distinctions of court eti quette are too many to bo fathomable by ns simple republicans, but they aro not without a degree of interest. For exam ple, at tho drawing room recently held by tho Princess of Wales for tho queen, tho royal state carringo was septfov the princess, but if she had merely at tending tho ^an9((pu as uu assistant she wpnld Jiayo gone in her own carriage, (iiueo tiro represented the queen she must ride in the queen’s carriage.—-New York Times. DR. J. F. GARRETT, Dentist, Gaffney, - - - S. C. Offlce over J. 11. Tollcson’s new stored in office from Isb to 21th of each month; Southern Rjilwjt. Had Been Exercising. "Hello, Sappy! Where have you boon?” “I’ve Loon to the gymnasium, exercis ing, old chap. ” “You exercising?” "Yes, watching the rest—exercising my eye, don’t you (14^. "—Pittsburg (Jhrouiclo-Tol XOXinniGATED AND II’.RIOATED CF.LERT. gain in fruit. For this crop it is true that irrigation, to mako itself felt with profit, needs to begin before tho plants have reached their fnll growth—that is, midsummer irrigation instead of in late autumn. Irrigation greatly increased (be loaf development of turnips, and (here would bavo been a corresponding growth of roots bnt for clnhrou?, which practically mined tbo crop. Irrigation for celery gave tho most striking result in favor of irrigation. In ronud numbers tho crop was increased to two and one-half times that upon belts noj yoeelving the water. In mar ketablo product in pounds tho difference was (lirce to one, and in marketable value about eight to one in favor of ir- rigatiw. In Early Gardening. A woman gardener tells American Agriculturist that she has abandoned a lettuce bed. 6hewrit.es: In earliest gardening I mix lettuce with other seeds, especially with union, beet and similar slow germinating va rieties. The lettuce comes np soon and makes it easy to keep tbo row clea* of weeds until the other seeds ore np. 'iiiD lettneo then is pulled as space is need ed. Lettuce, and radishes, too, ore sown together tho summer through, making a succession of both, and having them crisp and tender. Root crops occupy so little space at first that lettuce does not interfere at all, and the pulling is a benefit, loosening the earth about them.. I often mix other seeds, putting cabbPRV as I want them to stand with early lettneo or radishes, and tomato seed with later crops that are to bo pulled up. * Thus I eoououiixQ space, time and labor. Protection Against Frost. Water vapor is tho approved protec tion against frost Tho latest in this lino is spraying small fires with water. Rapid evaporation takes place and the beat of the fire is greatly consumed in evaporating the water, aud tho vapor rising from the fire is almost immedi ately condensed in the lower air. The beat is thus made sensible in the region needing protection. In carrying out this plan small Area of smudge material shonld be estab lished, and when they are buruim brightly each should be partly extfn- gnished by spraying water ujafllthetn and us they reoover ihew^rfmar bright 1 they 1 PIEDMONT AIR LINE. CcfiAenscd Schedule of Passenger Trains. TsTL. Northbound. Jan. 1,1696. Lv. AtlanU, C. T. n Atlanta, K.T. “ Xorcross • Buford " lialnetvllle .. “ Lula. n Cornelia - Mi. Airy " Tocco* « Westminster * Seneca Central M Greenville .. “ Spartanburg. “ Gaffnevs M BUokslmrr “ Ring's Ml... M i.attonla .. Ar. CbarloUo .. H BauTillo... TeT No. 36 Dally 12 00m loop 2 23’p • *00 • • • • • • 0 • f • • 4 4.1 p 6 30 p 6 Up I flo p 8 20 p 12 00 a No .' 6 1 pally - ■ ■ i. f— 11 Up 12 1. a 12 60a '2 01 a 223a 2 60 a 8 Ua 36oa 4 07 a 4 33a 6 lo a r Ua 6i3n * 00 a i 32 a 7 63a 8 33a 130 p Ar. Richmond... 6 00 a 6 40p CIO a Ar. Washing!. ) . 6 42 a BaUiu'c. y .tlC 8 06 a rniladelnliU. lo 26 a Niw V«rk ... 12 63 n Southbound. Ve* No. 37 Dally Lt. x. v.. r-K it •• J'hiladelpMa. •• Balilm'iie .. M WaahlngU I 430p 6 66 p J '> 10 43 p Lv. Richmond... 2 0oa UMp 2oon Lv. Danville.... •* charlotte .. u Gastonia... M Ring’s Mt... « Blacksburg.. • Gaff ne V. .. *• Spartanburg M Greenville.... " Central "■ Seneca,. m U estmlnster * Toccoa •• Mt. Airy...,. •• Cornelia.... » Lula « Gainesville.- M Buford.... " Ron:roe*. . Ar. Atlanta, t T. | r t r »n*a U. T 160 a 936a 10 43 a 11 31* W 26 p 113 V 3 31 p 4 63 p 8 Mo 9 4) |> 11 26 p 3 oO a G 20 a 1st Ml No. 35 Dai.) 12 16 n 3 60 a o 22a 1116 a 0 06 p 10 66 p 11 lop 1214 12 23a 12 60 a 160a 236a 3 00 a 3 50 a 4 41 a 469a C2.V Sid’ No. 12 Dal y 760a 8 60a 6 31 a 10 16 a 10 4t a 11 04 a 11 2C a 11 30a 1173 a 12 27 a 12 42* j I 20 | I 2»«J' h 3 22 p 4 1.' p 4 30 p 6 0k) p 6 21 p 6 20 p II 26p No. 11 Dal.y 700a * I 20 p • OCp 1 32 p 2 tOp 2 Up 3 06 p 4 40 p 64o D 8 06 p 8 22 p • Up 7 40 p 7 4>p 8 12 p 836 p 9 07 p 9 42 p 10S9P 0»P -A‘a. in. ••F" p. in. “SV’nftOn. “N” Nov. 37 and 38-Washington and So-tthv Vestibule Urn'tod. Tbiough Cullman • between Now ork and New Orleans, via Ington, Atlante and Moutgomerv. anij tween New Yo : and MemphU, via W* Atlaata and Binnlngbam. Dining oara. Mas. 36 and 36—United States Fast Mall, -. ig tera^between Atlanta, vow' Nos. 11 and 13. Richmond, [ Pnllman sleeping oar I ‘ ‘ 1 and Greensboro. W. II. GREK •site;, T .Uu, «, agios, V. a W. S FYDJER, ^ Nor W.A.TUP"’, S. M.lURDI Oen'l Fas*. Ag't, An*‘t Con'I' Washington, D. O. The Air Line Ih-lle train will, on and after. between At' '