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DREAM MYSTERIES.
THE I-BDGER: GAFFNEY, 8. C., AUGUST 18, 189(5.
MAY BE SHADOWY MEMORIES OF PRE
VIOUS EXISTENCE.
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BRITISH ELOQUENCE.
Little Satisfaction Found In the Many
Explanations GlYen For the Formation of
the Fhnntasmaj;orla Which Come to F»
as Wo Sleep.
Iii ;i thonghtfal, well written nrticlo
on “Dmuns and Their Mysteries,” in
The North Ame rican Review, Elizabeth
Bislaud reminds us that we are 80 fa
miliar with the phenomena of sleep
that tho strangest dreams como as no
surprise. She says, truly:
‘‘Provo that you have the hypnotic
power to make a man feel pain or pleas
ure without material cause; (hat you
can force him to believe himself a sol
dier, say, or a woman, or that he is
three feet high, or two persons at once,
and he will gape upon this occult mas
tery witli awe and wild surprise—he
who eveiy 24 hours of his life, with no
more magic potion than healthy f atigue,
with no greater wonder working weapon
than a pillow, may create for himself
phantasmicul delusions beside which all
mesmeric suggestions are but the flat
test of dull commonplace.”
Because people are afraid of being
thought supi rstitious with regard to
dreams there has been an unscientific
avoidance of tho whole topic, which is
no less superstitious and puerile, the
consequence of which foolish revulsion
has been that one of the most curious
functions of tho brain is still in a period
of universal investigation—left unex-
nmiued and unexplained. Some dab
bling there lias l*een in the matter, hut
so far no tenable explanation has been
offered of tin.se strange illusions of
sleep with which all mankind is famil
iar. The results up to this time of this
dabbling are for the most part of little
more value than the contents of the
greasy, well thumbed dream hooks that
formed the only and dearly beloved li
brary of eighteenth century milkmaids
and apprentices. The greater portion ( f
such labor as has been bestowed on the
subject hasb'en mainly directed toward
efforts to prove the extreme rapidity
with which the dream passes through
tho mind, and that it is some trivial
outward cause at tho moment of lous
ing from slumbi r, sw h as a noise, a
light or the like, which wakes the
brain to this miraculous celerity of im
aginative creation.
The general conviction th. t dreams
oocur only at the instant of the awaken
ing shows how little real attention has
been bestowed upon the matter, since
tho most casual observation of ‘‘the dog
that hunts in dreams” would show that
he may be chasing tho wild deer and
following the roo in the gray kingdom
of seeming without breaking his slum
bers. He will start and twitch and give
tongue after tho phantom quarry ho
dreams himself pursuing. But given the
truth of any one of these assertions, still
t4»e heart of the mystery has not yet
biMU plucked out, since it is not ex
plained why a noise or a gleam of light
—Such as the senses are quite familiar
with in waking consciousness—should
at the moment of rousing cause the
brain to create with inconceivable ra
pidity a series of phantasmagoria in
order to explain to itself the familiar
phenomena ef light or sound.
It is broadly asserted by many that
the memory retains each and ( very ex
perience which life has presented for its
contemplation, but this is hardly true.
It makes to a certain exto’it a choice
and chooses oftentimes with apparent
caprice. To demonstrate the truth of
this, let one endeavor to recall the first
impression retained by his childish
mind, and it usually proves to be koiuo-
ihiug extremely trivial.
A lady, interrogated as to this, de
clared lyr first char memory was a
Dense of tho comfort to her tired little
2-year-old body of thech an linen sheets
of the bed at the end of the most perilous
and adventurous journey, and of v\hose
startling incidents her memory had pre
served nothing. Again this capricious
faculty will seize on some few high
lights in a vivid picture and reject all
the unimportant details. As a rule,
however, it is the profound stirrings of
the emotions which wake tin* memory
to activity. A woman never forgets her
first lover. A man to tho end of his life
can recall his first triumph.
Miss Bislaud believes that wo inherit
many ef the memories that come to us,
waking as well us sleeping. Every one
lias felt many times in his life a m usc
of familiarity with incidents that have
had no place in his own experience and
has found it impossible to offer any ex
planation for the feeling. Coining sud
denly around a turn of a hill upon a
fair and unknown landscape, his heart
may bound with a keen sense of recog
nition of its unfamiliar out lines. In the
midst of a tingling sense of emotion a
sensation of the whole incident being a
mere dull repetition will rob it of its
joy or pain. A sentence begun by a
friend is recognized ns trite and old be
fore it is half done, though it refers to
matters new to the hearer. A sound, a
perfume, a sensation, will awaken feel
ings having no connection with the oc
casion.
In sleep the brain is peculiarly active
inecrtuindirections, not being distracted
by the multitude of impressions con
stantly conveyed to it by the live senses,
find experiments with hypnotic, sleepers
prove that some of its functions become
in sleep abnormally noite !:nd vigorous.
'Why not the 1 unction of memory? Tim
■possessions which during the vaking
bonrs were useless, and tlicn f< re re
jected by (he'wil), surge lip again, vivid
.and pctenl, and ti i.pl* fore the j*. rcep-
tion unsiunmoned, muth y and fantastic,
serving no purpose more apparent than
do the idle, discountcted nccllections
of one’s waking moments of dieaiainess,
and yet it may hup, withal, that tho
tireless brain, forever turning over and
over its heirlooms in the night, is seek
ing here an inspiration or there a mem
ory to Im used in that fierce aud complex
struggle called life.—New York Com
mercial Advertiser.
A Capital Specimen of the Speech®* Made
Ju Local Elections.
The following manifesto, copie l ver
batim from tho original poster, is a cap
ital specimen of election eloquence as
applied to parochial contests: “Fellow
workingmen, gentlemen and ladies, I
honorably put myself forward under
your very kind notice for a seat on tho
Swanscombe parish council. Let me tell
you as a man that I was tl*c first to give
cheap meat on Galley Hill and Swaus-
combo and all round. I never did and
never will hurt a workingman. When
times is good, I want to get paid for my
very superior food that I always supply,
ami when times is hard then you can
take it at any price you like to feed
your wives aud children and your fam
ilies from George Clinch, ‘The Peoples
only Butcher’ in this parish. I shall
work hand in hand with tho Rev.
George Halo to bury the dead at tho
lowest price aud put the poor body deep
in mother earth, where they ought to
be, and I promise that I shall sell my
meat at tho same price. I shall also
help Mr. Dunbar (for ho is an old Toff)
to reduce the salaries of clergymen, as
it do cost too much for prayers, and we
can go up to glory at a less price. I
also promise to do more than the last
council, for they done nothing, and as
Mickey Finn is not standing, but sit
ting down low, we can do good business
and have no Donuybrook fair at cur
meetings—in fact, gentlemen and la
dies, I shall do every mortal thing for
the good of your body, and the parson
will take care of your departed souls.
I shall reduce tho rates and get rent for
the workingmen cheaper. I shall light
up your roads so that you can see them
upon a dark moonlight night. The bust
word I say unto yon is, do your duty to
yourselves and never mind about me,
but put me on tho council for your own
sake and tho interest of the men who
get bread h> the sweat of their brow.”
—Household Words.
TO A VIOLINIST.
A little brown IbWlo
Wrought long years ago.
Kay road me the riddle—
What make s the tune flow
From these four narrow strings
When your violin sings?
For us tho wood’s soundless
And senseless and eold.
For you there’s a boundless
Romance softly told
By tho 1k>\v to tho strings
When your violin rings.
It has prisoned and eapturod
The rustling leaves’ whim.
It echoes th’ enraptured
Wild nightingale’s hymn.
Hark to forest taught strings
When your violin sings.
Or, stay, did Apollo,
A-tuning his lyre,
Give you hint how to follow
His passion horn fire?
Divine grow the strings
When your violin sings.
And scorned by the muses
Is Marsyas again.
The while your hand chooses
Its tender refrain.
Come, iiuick, touch the strings.
For your v’.cl n sings!
—Blanche Lindsay in Speaker.
AN
CANDLE POWER.
HYPNOTIZED THE BEARS.
A Story Which Newsome Believes Because
Anderson I* Cross Eyed.
J. E. Newsome is a Port Arthur Ca
nadian and Alex Anderson comes from
Pearl River. An Englishman named
Al well wanted lo get a bear, and An
derson tried to gratify his desire.
Newsome told Forest and Stream about
it. Atwell was the kind of man who
would like to kill a boar in a trap, ho
Anderson took two bear traps and a lot
of bait up a gully near Ouimet, looking
for a sign. The Englishman went look
ing for bears and left Anderson to set
the traps.
All of a sudden a big she boar ap
peared before Anderson at tho foot of a
treo between a couple of whoso roots
one trap was to have bet'll set. Not hav
ing any gun, Anderson, so Newsomo
says, determined that hypnotic force
had to be used, and that suddenly. An
derson looked tin* bear in the eyes, and
the bear paused; then Anderson mado
three prwses with his hands. Tho bear
leaned ils head forward and its eyes
bulged out. Having satisfied himself
that Uk* bear was properly influenced,
Anderson yelled for Atwell, but Atwell
was a good w ay off, and before he could
arrive the she bear’s 2-yoar-old and
yearling cub came out of tho treo at tho
same time. A yearling enb alone would
be n pretty bad fighter at close quart* rs,
especially with a hypnotized mother
bear near by liable to acme to at any
moment, hut a 2-year-old cub and a
yearling both at ouco mado a mighty
serious matter.
But Anderson was fully equal to tho
emergency. He managed to look at the
bears’four eyes at ouco and soon bad
them subjugated. Newsomo says that
ho would not have believed Anderson’s
talo only Anderson is now cross eyed,
which ho wasn’t before, owing to his
looking both bears in tho eyes at ouco.
BlKniarck’H Fateful 1*1 pe.
Prince Bismarck is a great pipe col
lector, and tho gem of his collodion has
a curious history. Many years ago, as
Bismarck was strolling in the suburbs
of Fricderiehsiuli with his two hounds,
ho was accosted by a Bohemian peddler
and asked to buy a plain meerschaum
pipe of the type that Bismarck most af
fected. At first Bismarck declined, but
the peddler claimed for the pipe a power
of forecast and told him ho would serve
three emperors us minister, and that
three important changes in his life
would be foretold by accidents befalling
the pipe.
Laughing, Bismarck bought the pipe.
He has since served three emperors.
Two days before tho historic moment
when lie was refused au audience tho
stem of his pipe separated and went to
pieces. Enter he chipped a piece from
the side of the bowl, aud w’ithin a
month he was practically dismissed by
the present emperor. The third sign has
yet to come.—Berlin Correspondent
Dentlnts' Forceps.
There are about 200 different styles
of forceps made for dentists’ use, vary
ing in the sizes and forms of tho beaks
and in the shapes of the handles. A
dozen pairs of forceps would probably
till all tho requirements of a single
dentist, hut another dentist, thougli he
might use on the same tooth forceps
with the same size and style of beaks,
might prefer a pair with a different
grip to tho handles, and forceps aro
made not only to suit every need in
practice, hut < very personal requirement
of the practitioner.—New York Hun.
8y*tem» of l.nvr in Germany.
No fewer than five systems of law an*
in use in Germany, in moving from
one place to another tourists are of(en
greatly puzzled when they find Hint an
act fit rfectly allowable in one state is a
crime in another. A still grout* r con
fusion often results when tho right of
property is (-(insidered.
The I’erloil.
‘ Why do yon call her a girl of tho
period ?’ ’
“Well, she ooincs right to the point
for one thing. "-^Detroit Tribuna
How to Measure the Lighting Force and
Effect of v Flume.
This question and iis answer have
i boon until recently of interest to scien
tists only. But since one method of
lighting is competing with the other
Ter superiority the question of lighting
j power has seemingly become a public
matter. How many candle power? The
i question is very simple and yet mystcri-
; ous to the layman.
For measuring tho lighting power the
most reliable results are obtained by
means of a grease spot. In its most sim
ple application the experiment eiui Ik*
tri( d easily at heme. A sheet of white
paper with a grease spot, in tho center
is put into a frame and placed between
two flames of different lighting power
—for instance, between an ordinary
candle and a lamp.
When tho frame is equally distant
from tho two unequally bright flames,
the grease spot can bo seen plainly on
both sides. By moving the frame with
the sheet of paper slowly toward the
loss brilliant light—that is, the candle
—it will arrive finally at a point where
the grease spot lias apparently disap
peared on both sides of the paper. This
deception must always cccur when on
both sides of tho paper mi equal bright
ness prevails and no side light exists.
Having reached this point, it can be
asci rtaiued how much stronger is the
light of tho lamp than that of tho can
dle.
If tho candle is 20 inches distant from
the paper and tho lamp f>0 inches and
yet the brightness on both sides of the
paper is the same, then the light of the
lump will l i as strong as that of nine
candh s. The calculation is based upon
the distances, tho figures of which arc
multiplied by themselves and then di
vided—here, for instance, (50 times CO
divided by 20 multiplied by 20 equals 9.
, This, of course, is the most primitive
method for measuring light, but it is
tlx* principle for all the delicate instru
ments used in the laboratories.—Pear
son's Weekly.
A GRAINHOUSE.
Beaorlptlon of u Bumiing L'*e<| In Ohio
For Wheat, Oats ami Corn.
A house which holds 1,000 bushels of
wbeur, 1. BOO bushels oats and ‘i,0(>0 to
2,500 bushels ear corn, is illustrated by
Qhio Farmer and described as follows
by 1*. Baerof tho OhioHtatouniversity:
Tho building as planned is 24 by 48
feet and 12 feet high t(,> plates; drive
way through tht* center 8 feet wide and
bins on either side. It has a floored
driveway; the foundation to consist of
stone pillars placed H feet apart both
ways aud well set. The pillars are rep
resented by dots in the ground plan.
The double lines are sills. Wo figured,
in estimating the required amount of
lumber, to use drop siding and line in
side of wheat and oat bins with matched
boards. This would make a tight house
for corn. Perhaps it would bo advisable
to side the entire building with barn
boards ripped to 0 inches in width aud
DRAWING FODDER CORN.
larea Back Aching Work and Need Not Be
Expensive.
Here is a vehicle for drawing, fodder
corn to tho silo or dry corn fodder to tho
barn. It will save much back breaking
work and need not lio expensive. The
low down attachment is fitted to the
front wheels of an ordinary farm wagon.
A short reach of strong oak scantling
extending back about one foot is put in
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PKUSPKCTIYK OF GltAlNIIOUSK.
planed so that they could be painted
and put on without battens to allow
ventilation.
Cost, estimated: Hills, 7 by 8, 1,242
feet ; joists, 2 by 8 (1(1 inches apart),
1,088 feet; joists, 2 by (I (It. inches
apart), 1,088 feet; studding, 2 by 4 (10
inches apart), 1,081) foot; plates and
ties, 2 by 4. 480 feet; rafters, 2 by (5(18,
inches), 1,05(5 feet.
Total lumber, 0.024 fret, nt 414 ?P2 PI
Sheet ins, 1.440 fret, nt $12 17 28
Flooring, two floors, 2,:!U4 feet, nt f 18— 41 47
hiiiiiiK. tnrlmlins matched lining, 8,440
Lath, for corncrlb, 1,080 feet, nt $12..
.... 12 9(1
Foundation, material and work
.... ft) 00
Carpenter work
.... 00 00
Hardware, etc
.... 10 00
Painting
25 00
Roof, slate, one-third pitch, $4
JHT
square, including work
.... 00 00
Total
We would hoard Inns up 10 feet
high. Put joists for floor jpqnedintely
above. This would give plenty of room
up stairs for small tools nr a shop. A
Stairway to bo hoisted by rope and pul
ley could he put at any convenient
place, leading up front (ho driveway.
Hinges at the top and a half inch rope
fastened to the lower step, running
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— L -
Writers’ Pride.
Dickens has told us of tho keen emo
tion that overcame him on seeing in
print h’H first “effusion,” as he styled
it, which he had dropped stealthily one
cv ning at twilight, with fear and trem
bling, into a dark letter box, in g dark
oiliee, up a dark court in Fleet street j
and how, when it appeared next morn
ing. he went for half an hour into West
minster hull, “because my eyes were sp
dimmed with joy aud pride that they
could not bear the sti-eet, ” Charles
Mathews tho elder describes the delight
with which ho gazed on the first proof
of his translation of “Tho Princess of
Chwes,” which api»eared by monthly
installments in The Lady’s Magazine, as
“boundless,” and how ho fancied the
iy« a of Europe were upon him, and that
the ladies who subscribed to that peri
odical would unite in calling on tho ed
itor to insist on “C. M. ” declaring
himself.
l'o( r Haydon has left a vivid record
of tho fluster of elation with which ho
greeted the result of his having dropped
a little composition into tho letter box
of Tho Examiner. “Never,” ho writes,
“shall I forget that Huuduy morning.
In canto tin* paper, wet and uncut; in
went the paper knife—cut, cut, cut.
Affecting not to bo interested, I turned
tin* pages ojk'Ii todry, and to my certain
immortality beheld, with a delight not
to bo oxpressed, tho first sentence of my
lett* r. 1 put down the pajs-r, walkt d
about tho man, looked at Macbeth (a
print oil the wall), made the tea, but-
bred the toast, put in the sugar, with
that inexpressible suppressed chuckle of
delight which always attends a cniide-
eocnding relinquishment of an antiei-
patnl rapttiro till one is perfectly ready.
Who has not felt this? Who lias not
done this?”—Chambers’ Journal.
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ckouxi) n.AN os auAisnorsK.
through a pulley in the ceiling, would
get it out ef he way when tho drive is
needed. Bins A A A A A are all of
the same size, and each will hold 520
bushels if filled 8 feet deep. The corn
bin is not divided and will hold 2,.TOO
bushels of ears if tilled 10 feet deep.
There is a window in the gnblo aud also
in opposite end. There is also a bridge
to driveway.
A Useful Iint>lc:uont.
Every farm should have one or more
good land rollers. The preparation of
the land and planting of the seed is more
than half tho work of making a crop.
If these things an* wejl done, a good
yield is to that extent assured. The roll
er is invaluable as a clod crusher;
nothing else will do the work as welj.
But there are many fanners who ipso
rollers for this purpose only, whereas
they have a still more important duty
to perform, we are assured by Texas
Farm and Ranch, which says:
Whether seed are sown broadcast or
in drills, a roller passed over them,
pressing the soil close aud firm utxnit
them, causes a more rapid and uniform
germination and a better early growth.
On many farms the difference in the
amount of seed necessary when well
rolled will in one season more than pay
for the implement. The roller should
closely follow the planting, and when
machine planters are used the roller
may and should be attached to the
planter. Hue!) implements are made aud
should more generally be used.
Her Hat.
It was just Is fore (he bandeau as an
item of hat decoration retired into ob-
senrity. A pretty damsel with u black
Gainsborough, well tilted at an acute
angle by tho pah- blue bandeau that
r< sted on her fluffy hair, sat in a crowded
Broadway cable car, opposite a shabby
old figure in a shawl, who slumls-red
fitfully, giving out a suspicious rum
('dor. Suddenly the clet-iicr roused her-
self, staled stupidly at her vis a vis f* r
a moment, and then, lurching forward
in h* r * eat, said with a watery smile,
“ Y* r li.il’s on crooked. ”
TT.o 'laiiisel turiird It* r lead away in
fiiisliiil indignation, hut the eld* rlv
dame v.nuld not he iiii-iiuil* i.it* < it. F|*o
leaned still furllier lorwuitl, and, point
ing a e avi-riug lorellugi r at Ih*- off*ml
in;; liaiiileiiu, r* iteruled: “ll'syou. Y< r
hat's on crocked I” Tho pasm ngi-rs by
this Iime took an active intercut ill tin
I min It mi as well. Tin* GaiiislMirougli
inuiilcii locked lo'lphs-ly IIround, ni.nl*
a wild sigm ' to tho roiiduclm amt iis k
n tug i in igiioiiiiuiou* flight.—New
Yolk World.
Pottlns Soil.
Here js some advice from American
i ; , i
Agriculturist; If not already done, no
time * hould lie lost in preparing suitab)^
soil for potting plants in autumn. De-
' composed sods form the best possible
basis for such a soil. Cut pieces of sod
j out 12 incites square and 2 inches thick
j and place tliein in a layer; on these put
a layer of cow droppings, then anothep
layer of sod, and so on until the desiref)
quantity has Iteen obtained. Ijouvo the
top fiat so that tho rain will soak
through if. During the dry tveather it
is advisable to throw water over it from
time to time, or, still better, soapsuds
ft* m tin- wiit-htubs. Before potting the
i plants the heap i-hnald be thoroughly
i v *ii Led ever and sifted, adding about
on* thinl of ils quantity of line sand,
the i .ti for per success with plants
i i wiMi-r i l.cran-c thepreper prepara-
te a * ' i t’J . » !* ,1 has In en n* glectcd.
Onl«-k Bncovrry.
The orange ti ei which were cut
down I ) He fiost in Florida aro making
a wonderful growth of wood, and the
trees will bear a fair crop in two years
in-ti a*l of losing live, as was at first ex-
|m * tid Th* '•pininii isexpressed in Irri
gation Ag* that such rapid growing
i" veo*| will, however, bo mtTi suscepti
ble t i' Jury than the old wood of
1 sluwu and Hurdler growth.
VEHICLE FOP. imAWIKO FODIIEIL
place of the long one. A hole is bored
in the end of this and a goose neck
pinned to it. Through this iron a cross
piece is fit ted, as shown in cut
For the platform two round holes
(scantling will answer) about 15 feet
long arc used. At two feet from the up
per end holes are bored, and they are
pinned to tho crosspiece mentioned
above, tho cuds resting on tho bolster
about two inches from the standards.
The rear wheels are 15 inches in diam
eter put on an iron axle, the whole taken
from old farm machinery.
Being so near t he grhnnd, it is best to
board up the lower end of the poll's for
five or six feet. In the absenro of small
wheels the rear end of poles maybe left
to drag on the ground, says The Farm
Journal, which originally calk'd atten
tion to this wagon hy an illustrated do-
script ion.
Beekeeping For Farmer*.
The following is from the pen of a
writer in The Orange Judd Farmer:
My observation and experience teach
me that one never succeeds with any
thing he does pot like; consequently a
man or woman who dislikes to handle
bees had better let them alone. How-
ever, It seems to mo it might pay the
farmer who has a lot of fruit to keep :>
few stands of bees, even though he hail
to buy new stock every spring and did
not get any honey. Tho benefit derived
from the bees fertilizing fruit blossoms
would pay for the trouble. In this case
box hives would bo better than any
others, as bees undoubtedly winter Ix't-
ter in them, and honey is a secondary
consideration.
In any event get a good stock of in
dustrious bees. It is becoming pretty
generally accepted that licekceping will
pot do to rely’ on as a money making oc
cupation unless practiced in connection
with spurn other business. The farmer
who likes to liandjc bees will have an
excellent sjde issue, which, if carefully
managed, will be a satisfaction as wpJj
ns a profit, T f i such a farmer | say g( *■
two colonies of Italian bees from some
reliable breeder, put them in pti eight
or ten frame dovetailed hive, got a
smoker, bee veil, a Ixxtk on apiculture,
and begin. In one respect experienced
apiarists nve quite a* negligent as begin
ners—that is in furnishing shade for the
hives. It has been conclusively shown
that colonies in shade during hot weath
er make tho most honey.
Fall Plowing.
Professor W. C. Wnlborn tolls in the
Texas Farm and Ranch that ho has had
great benefits from fall plowing, and
among these benefits are the following:
Tennis are left with little heavy work
to do at the lieginningof crop time. All
the stalks, stubble, weeds, grans, pea
vines, rle., arc plowed under and have
time to rot by spring. This keeps tho
land loose and porous, allowing the air
to infer it and dissolve its plant fopdl
It also enables water to drain through
jt 1 tetter and never lets it get soggy.
Opr lands aro thus kept as loose aud
friable and as productive as new groun \
all tho time. Wo ran plant more
promptly and satisfactorily fall plowed
land. When tjic time pomes for pluutr
ing, wo have nothing to do bnt run q
harrow over it and follow with the peed
drill, Lastly we get bettor yields, prob
ably 25 per cent more.
Hoek Plioopliatm,
Rix'k phosphates are known under
several different names which general’y
designate the localities from which they
come, as Honth Carolina rock, Florida
reck, Tennessee rock, West India rock,
etc. Other forms of mineral phosphates
aro known under the names of apatite,
coprolite and phosphorite, which aro
found in various places in America and
Europe and some of which aro used in
making oommereial fertilizers. How
ever the greatest source of supply’of
phosphoric acid is the phosphate rock of
our southern states. Tho rock phos
phates are extensively used In making
superphosphates. When ground to a
very lino flourlike powder, rock phos
phates are called “floats. ” Rix'k phos
phates contain usually from 25 to 80
per n'nt of phosphoric acid and some as
much as 85 or 40 per cent.
Here and There. >
A groat impetus was given to market
gardening and trucking in the extreme
south by tho frost of last year.
Tho California Fruit Grower gives an
account of a now process for ridding
fruit trees of scale and other pests by
moans of steam combined with sulphur
vapors and other chemicals.
It is elascly estimated this year that
tho j teach crop of southwestern Georgia
will be between 700 and 800 cars, or
about 85,000 to 40,000 orates.
The southern belt for deciduous fruits
will this year turn off smaller crops
than earlier expected.
Alabama enacted a law proscribing a
pi nulty for the sale of oleomargarine
and other similar substances without
labels to distinguish them.
Tin* swine breeders of North Carolina
have formed au association and now de
sire to have sufficient membership foes
to warrant the incorporation of the as
sociation aud offer liberal prizes at tho
coming state fair. Frank E. Emery,
secretary, Raleigh.
Merit
Is what gives Mood’s HarsApnrtlla its great
popularity, its constantly increasing
sales, and enables it to accomplish its
wonderful and unequalled cures. Tho
combination, proportion and process
used in preparing Hood’s Sarsaparilla
ere unknown to other medicines, and
make Hood’s Harsapnriiia
Peculiar 4o Itself
It cures a wide range of diseases becauso
of its power as a blood purifier. It acts
directly and positively upon the blood,
and the blood reaches every nook and
corner of the human system. Thus all
the nerves, muscles, bones mid tinsueii
como under the beneficent infiuecco of
1?
Sarsaparilla
The One Trui* l!l*>!>*l I’lirilh-r. ?1; six for -v.
Hood’S Pills X.e£*
our*' Liver Ills; easy to
o operate. 25e.
A. N. WOOD,
BANKER,
does a general I’ankingand Exchange
business. Well secured with Burglar-
Proof safe and Automatic Time Lock.
Safely Deposit Boxes at moderate
rent.
Buys and sells Stocks and Bonds.
Buys County and School Claims.
Your business solicited.
MoDuiental Works.
Granite Monuments a
specialty. Asjeiit for
IKON KENOEB.
No. 235, W. Trade St,,
Charlotte, N. C.
T. L, ELLIOT.
SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
riEDMONT A]ft LINE.
Condensed Schedule of I'a^engor Trains.
Korttibou nd.
>>».
' Fst.M I!
No. IS
No. as *<>• i i !-:*•
Jfuiut 14, 1.81)0. j >a || Ti Daily. sun.
iiT«) m U Jy
UW i* *~ E
pv. Atlanta, C. T.
Atlanta, E.T.
f! Noror<j«k..
Buford
* Gainesville...
t? Lula....
'' Cornelia
•* Mt. Airy
" Tooooa
“ We.stmtnstes
*‘ Senoon
M Central
w Greenville..
c Spartanburg.
** Gaffneys
** Blacksburg..
•‘ King's Mt .,
“ C4aafonia
Ar. Charlotte..
“ Danville
At. Richmond ...
Ar.Washington..
“ Ealtm’e PRR.
2 2S ji|
2 48 p
8 8") p
4 18 p
4 45 p
5 :*> p
tl 18 p
7 08 p
8 20
12 no
2 01
2 28
I 2 4*1
2 50
a 17
3 48
4 05
4 88
5 25
rt 18
« 58
7 08
7 31
7 58
8 33
1 30
(1 40
1> 7 50 a
8 50 a
" 0 38 n
10 13 a
« 10 42 .a
« 11 05 ».
(' 11 27 a
a il 30 a
a 11 53 »
a 1223 ,,
a 12 41 p
n 1 20 p
a 2 1(1 p
n 3 22 p
n 4 11 p
4 asp
5 Alp
0 28p
7 USp
7 48 p
8 12 p
8 38 p
8 37 p
6 00
fl 42 a 1 1) 40
8 16 all 25
Philadelphia . 10 25 a 3 00
New York |12 53 mi 0 30
500 p
5 28 p
0 20 p
(1 HO a
Southbound.
Lv. N. Y..P.R.R
“ Philadelphia
" Baltimore....
** Washington.,
Lv. Richmond
Lv. Danville
“ Chariot t*
“ Gastonia
“ King’s Mt —
“ Blarksburg .
" Gaffneys
“ Siiartaiihurg.
“ Greenville....
•• Central
“ Hcnora
“ Westminster
** Tin-eon
•• Mt. Airy
“ Cornelia
“ Lula
•' Gainesville...
" Buford
” Noroross
Atlanta, E. T,
Atlanta, C. T,
ti
Yen. Fst.
No. 37 No.
3;
Dally. Daily.
4 80 p 12 15
0 55 p 3 50
0 20 p| 11 22
10 43 p 11 15
2 00 a 12 55 p
5 50 a *1 (6
9 35 a 10 55
11 80
10 40 a 12 09
,12 24
11 37 a, 1 00
12 28 p
1 15 p
1 85 p
2 18 p
3 18 p
3 81 p
4 M p
8 55 p
3 00
4 2)
4 39
4 57
(1 30
6 ft)
1
Vo. 14
Daily
No. 11
Ex.
Situ.
:::::::
2 00 a
6 40 a
12 3) j.
1 )() ]t
1 H5 p
2 03 p
. < T , T . „
2 20 p
3 05 p
i.
4 40 p
5 40 j)
0 25
0 86
0 57
7 20
7 48
827
Oft)
830
••A”a. m. ’•P”p. m. "M" noon. “N" night.
Nos. 37 and 38—Washington and Southweat*
em Vestibule Limltud. Through Pullman
ahs-pers betweeu Now York and New Orb-ana
via Washington, Atlanta and Montg,ninny-,and
also Is-twtsm Now York anil Memphis, via
Washington, Atlanta and Birmingham. Thi»
train also carries Richmond Augusta slcopina
cars Is-tween Danville and Charlotte. First
class thoroughfare coach lietwcon Washington
and Atlanta. Dining ears serve all mcala en
route.
Nos. 35 and 83—United States Fast Mail. Pull
man sleeping cars between New York, Atlanta
ami New Orleans.
Nos. 11 and 12—Pullman sleeping cars between
Richmond and Danville.
The Air Line Belle iraiii. Nos. 17 and 18, will,
from June 1st t*> Octols-r 1st, ISMl, I*' op,.rated
between Atlanta aud Mt. Airy.Oa., daily ex
cept Sunday.
W. H. GREEN, J. M. CULP,
G«nT Supt, Traffic M'g’r.,
Washington, D. 0. Washington, D. CL
W. A. TURK, 8. H HARDWICK,
GenT Pass. Ag’t , Asjs tGeuT Pass. Ag’t.,
Washington, D. C.Atlanta, (4a.