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[Copyright, ISW, by American Press Asso ciation.] Washington, April Ifl.—In his ser mon today Dr. Tahnage lodges a protest against the parental heedlessness and worldly ambition which are threatening the sacrifice of many Amerjnt- chil dren; text, Judges xi. 86, ^My father. If thou hast opened thy mouth unto tho Lord, do to me according to that which hath proceeded out of thy mouth.” Jeplithah was a •freebooter. Early turned out from a home where he ought to have been cared for, he consorted with rough men and went fortli to earn his living as best be could. In those times it was considered right for a men to go ont on independent military ex peditions. Jeplithah was a good man according to the light cf his dark age, but through a wandering and a preda tory life he became reckless and precipi tate. The grace of God changes a man’s heart, bnt never reverses his natural tempera men t. The Israelites wanted the Ammonites driven out of their country, so they sent a delegation to Jeplithah, asking him to become com mander in chief of all the forces. Ho might have said, “Yon drove me out when you had no use for me, and now yon are in trouble you want me hack,” hut he did not say that. Ho takes com mand of the army, sends messengers to the Ammonites to tell them to vacate the country, and, getting no favorable response, marshals his troops for battle. Before going out to the war Jephtbah makes a very solemn vow that if the Lord will give him the victory then, on his return home, whatsoever first comes ont of his doorway ho will offer in sacrifice as a burnt offering. The battle opens. It was no skirmishing on the edges of dangers, no nnlimber- ing of batteries two miles away, bnt tho hurling of men on the point of swords and spears until the ground conld no more drink tho blood and the horses reared to leap over tho pile of bodies of tho slain In those old times opposing forces wonld fight nutil their swords were broken and then each one would throttle his man nntil they both fell, teeth to teeth, grip to grip, death stare to death stare, until the plain was ono tumbled mass of corpses from which the last trace of manhood had been dashed out. Jepbthah wins the day. Twenty cities lay captured at his feet. Bound the victory all through the mountains of Gilead. Let the trumpeters call np tho survivors. Homeward to yonr wives and children. Homeward with your glittering treasures. Homeward to have the applause of an admiring nation. Bnild triumphal arches. Swing out Hags all over Mizpab. Opeu all yonr doors to receive the captured treasures. Through every hall spread the banquet. Pile up the viands. Fill high the tank urda The nation is redeemed, tho in vaders are routed and tho national hon or is vindicated. Jephthnh'a Solemn Vow. • Hnzza for Jephlhah, tho conqueror 1 Jeplithah, seated on a prancing st“ed, advances amid the acclaiming multi tudes, but his eye is not on tho excited populace Remembering that he had made a solemn vow that, returning front victorious battle, whatsoever first came out of the doorway of his home that should be sacrificed as a burnt offering, ho has his anxions look upon the door. I wonder what spotless lamb, what brace of doves, will be thrown upon the fires of the burnt offering I Oh. hcrrorsl Paleness of death blanches his efieek. Despair seizes his heart His daughter, his only child, rushes out the doorway to throw herself in her father’s anus and shower upon him more kisses than there were wounds on his breast or dents on his shield. All the triumphal splendor vanishes. Hold ing back this child from his heaving breast and poshing the locks back from the fair brow and looking into tho eyes of inextinguishable affection, with choked ntterance be says: “Would to God I lay stark on the bloody plain! Aly danghtcr. my only child, joy of my home, life of my life, thou art the sac rifice!” The whole matter was explained to her This was no whining, hollow hearted girl into whose eyes the father looked All the glory of sword and shield vanished in the presence of the valor of that girl There may have been u tremor of the lip. as a rose leaf trem bles in the sough of the south wind; there may have been tho starting of a tear like a raindrop shaken from the anther of a water lily Bnt with u self sacrifice that man may not reach and only woman’s heart can compass she snrrenders herself to fire and to death She cries out in tho words of my text, “My father, if thou bast opened thy mouth unto the Lord, do unto r > what soever hath proceeded from thy mouth. ’ She bows to the knife, and the blood, which so often ut the father's voice had rnsbed to the crimson cheek, smokes in the fires of the burnt offering. No one can tell ns her name. There is no need that we know her name. The garlands that Mizpuli twisted for Jeplithah the warrior have gone into the dust, but all ages are twisting this girl’s chaplet It is well that her name came not to ns, for no one can wear it They may take the name of Deborah or Abigail or Miriam, but no one in all the ages shall have the title of this daughter of sacri' flea Not Pleaaloa; to the Lord. Of course this offering was not pleas ing to the Lord, especially as a provi sion was made in the law for such a contingency, and Jephthah might have redeemed bis daughter by the payment of 30 shekels of silver. Bnt before you bar] your denunciations at Jepbthab’s cruelty remember that in olden times, when vows were made, men thought they must execute them, perform them, whether they were wicked or good. There were two wrong things about Jephthah s Vow. First, bo ought never ! to have made it. Next, having made it, j it were better broken than kept. But do uottaku on pretentions airs and say, “1 could ( iOt have done as Jephlhah did.” if in former days you had been 1 standing on the hanks of the Ganges ; and yon hud Iktu born in India, yon i might have thrown yonr children to i the crocodiles. It is not because we are , naturally any better, hot because we bave more ifoebel light. Now I make very practical use of this question when 1 tell you that the sacrifice of Jephtbah’a daughter was a typo of the physical, mental and spirit- nnl sacrifice of ten thousand children in this day. There are parents all un wittingly bringing to hear upon their children a class of influences which will as certainly ruin them as knife and torch destroyed Jeplithak’s daughter. While I speak, the whole nation, with out emotion and without shame, looks upon the stupendous sacrifice. In the first place, I remark that much of the system of education in our day is a system of sacrifice. When children spend six or seven honrs in school and then must spend two or three hours in preparation for school the next day, will you tell mo how much time they will have for sunshine and fresh air and the obtaining of that exuberance which is necessary for tho duties of coming life? No one can feel more thankful than I do for the advancement of coinntcn school education. The printing of books appropriate for schools, the multiplication of philo sophical apparatus, the establishment of normal schools, which provide for our children teachers of largest caliber, are themes on which every philanthro pist ought to he congratulated. Bnt this herding of great multitudes of children in ill ventilated schoolrooms and poorly equipped hnllsof instruction ie making many of the places of knowl edge in this country a huge holocaust. Pclitics in many of the cities gets into educational affairs and while the two political parties are scrabbling for the honors Jepbthah’s daughter perishes. It is so much so that there are many schools in the country today which are preparing tens of thousands of invalid men and women for the future; so that, in many places, by the time the child’s education is finished the child is fin ished! In many places, in many cities of the country, there are large appro priations for everything else and cheer ful appropriations, but as soon as the appropriation is to be made for the edu cational or moral interests of the city we are struck through with an economy that is well nigh the death of us. Danger of Ovemtnily. In connection with this I mention what I might call the cramming system of tho common schools and many of the academies; children of delicate brain compelled to tasks that might appall a mature intellect; children going down to school with a strap of books half as high as themselves. The fact is, in some of the cities parents do not allow their children to graduate for tho simple reason, they say, “Wo cannot afford to allow our children’s health to he de stroyed in order that they may gather the honors of an institution.” Tens of thousands of children educated into im becility, so that connected with many such literary establishments there ought to be asylums for the wrecked. It is push and erowd and cram and stuff and jam until the child’a intellect ia be wildered and the memory is ruined and the health is gone. There are children who once were full of romping and laughter and had cheeks crimson with health who are now turned out in the afternoon pale faced, irritated, asth matic. old before their time. It is ono of the saddest sights on earth, an old mannish hoy or an old womanish girl. Girls 10 years of age studying algebra! Boys 12 years of age racking their brain over trigonometry! Children nnac- qnnintedfwith their mother tongue cry ing over thedr Latin. Fr-nch and Ger man lessons I All the vivacity of their nature beaten out of them by the heavy beetle of a Greek lexicon! And you doc tor them for this, and you givo them a little medicine for that, and yon won der what is tho matter of them. I will tell yon what is the matter cf them They are finishing thedr education! In my parish in Philadelphia a little child was so pushed at school that she was thrown into a fever, and in her dying delirium, all night long, she was trying to recite the multiplication ta ble. In iny boyhood I remember that in onr class at school there was ono lad who knew more than all of us put to gether. If we were fast in cur arith metic, he extricated ns. When we stood up for the spelling class, he was almost always the head of tho class. Visitors came to his father's boose, and be was always brought in as a prodigy. At Iff years of ago he was an idiot. He lived ten years an idiot and died an idiot, not knowing his right hand from his left or day from night. The parents and the teachers made him an idiot Wrouic System of fOdncotlon. Yon may flatter your pride by forcing yonr child to know mere than any ether children, but you are making a sacri fice of that child if by the additions to its intelligence yon are making a sub traction from its future. The child will go away from such maltreatment with no exuberance to fight the battle of life. Such children may get along very wtll while yon take care of them, but, when yon are old or dead, alas for them if through the wrong system of education which yon adopted they have no swarthiness or force of charac ter to take care of themselves! Be care ful how you make the child’s head ache or its heart flutter. I hear a great (Teal about black man’s rights, and China man’s rights, and Indian’s rights, and woman’s rights. Would to God that somebody would rise to plead for chil dren’s rights! The Cartbagenians used to sacrifice their children by putting them into the arms of an idol which thrust forth its hand. The child was put into tho arms of the idol, and no sooner touched tho arms than it dropped into tho fire. But it was the art of the mothers to keep the children smiling and laughing nntil the moment they died. There may be a fascination and a hilarity about the styles of education of which 1 ant speaking, but it is only laughter at the moment of sacrifice. Wonld God there were only ono Jepb- tbah's daughter! Again, there are many parents who are sacrificing their children with wrong system of discipline—too great rigor or too great leniency. There are children in families who rale the house hold. The high chair in which the in fant sits is the throne, and the rattle is the scepter, and the other children make up the parliament where father and mother have no vote! Such chil dren come up to be miscreants. There is no chance in this world for a child that has never learned to mind. Such people become the botheration of the church .tf God and the pest of the world. Children that do not learn to obey hu man authority are unwilling to learn to obey divine authority. Children will not respect parents whose authority they do not respect. Who are these young men that swagger througn tne st’cet with their thumbs in their vest talking about their father ns “the old man - ,” “the governor,” “the squire.” “theold chap,“or their mother as “the eld woman t" They are those who in youth, in childhood, never learned to respect authority. Eli, having heard that his sons had died in their wicked ness, fell over backward and broke his neck and died. Well ho might 1 What is lifp to a father whose sons are de bauch* d? The dust of the valley is pleasant to his taste, and tho driving rains that drip througn the roof of the sepulcher are sweeter than the wiuoa of llclbon. Ilnniioii)’ In the Home. There must be burmony between ths father's government and the mother’s government. The father will he tempt ed to too great rigor. The mother will be tempted to too great leniency. Her tenderness will overcome her. Her voice is a little softer; her hand seems better fitted to pull out a thorn and soothe a pang. Children wanting anything from the mother cry for it. They hope to dissolve her with tears. But the mother must wot interfere, must not coax off, must not beg for tho child when the hour comes for the assertion of parental supremacy and tho subjugation of a child's temper. There comes in tho history of every child an hour when it is tested whether the parents shall rule or the child shall rule. That is the crucial hour. If tho child triumphs in that hour, then he will some day make yon crouch. It is a horrible scene. I have witnessed it—a mother come to old age, shivering with terror in the pres ence cf a eon who cursed her gray hairs and mocked her wrinkled face and be grudged her the cruet she munched with her toothless gums! How tiiarper than a serpent's tooth It Is To have a thankless child! But, on tho other hand, too great rigor must ha avoided. It is a sad thing when domestic government becomes cold military despotism. Trappers on the prairie tight fire with fire, hut you can not succcisfully fight your child’s bad temper with your own bud tern par. Wo must w< t be too minute in our inspec tion. We cannot expect our children to be peW t. We must net see everything. Since we have two or threw faults of our own. we ought not to he too rough when .>e discover that our children have a., many. If tradition be true, when wo were children we were not all little Samuels, and our parents were not fearful lest th*y could not raise us because of cur premature goodness. Yon cannot scold or pound your children in to nobility of character. The bloon of a child’s heart can never he reen nnder a cold drizzle. Above all, avoid fretting and scolding in the household. Better than ten years of fretting at your chil dren is one good, round, old fashioned application of tho slipper! That minis ter of tho gospel of whom we read in the newspapers that he whipped his child to death because be would aot eey bis prayers will never eome to canon ization. The aritbmeties cannot calcu late how many thousands of children have been ruined forever either through too great rigor or too great leniency. The n .avens and the earth are filled with the groan of the saerificed. In this important matter, seek divine, direc tion. O father, O mother! Seme one asked the mother of Lord Chief Justice Mansfield if kIio wan not proud to have thrra nuch eminent nous, and all of them so good. “No,” she said: “it is nothing to be proud of, hut somstbing for which to bo very grate ful.’ haerlflee to Worlrtllneii*. Again, there are many who are cac- rificing their children to n spirit of worldlinetw. Sumo ono asked a mother whose children had turned out very well what was the secret by which she prepared them for usefulness and for the Christian life, and she said: “This was the secret: When in the morning I washed my children, I prayed that they might he washed in the fountain of a Saviour’s mercy. When I put on their garments, I prayed that they might he arrayed in the robe of a Sav iour’s righteousness. When I gave them food, I prayed that they might lie fed with manna from heaven. When I started them on the road to school, I prayed that their path might he as the shinin'' light, brighter and brighter to the perfect day. When I put them to sleep, I prayed that they might be en folded in tlte Savionv'a arms.” “Oh,” yon say, “that was very old fashioned!” It was quite old fashioned. But do you suppose that a child under such nurture as that ever turned ont bad t In our day most boys start out with no idea higher than the all encompassing dollar. They start in an ago which boasts it can scratch the Lord’s Prayer on a 10 cent piece and the Ten Com mandments on a 10 cent piece. Chil dren are taught to reduce morals and religkn, time and eternity, to vulgar fractions. It seems to be their chief ut- taimm ut that 10 cents make a dime and 10 dimes make a dollar. Howto get money is only iqnaled by the other art—how to keep it. Tell me, ye who know, what chanco there is for those who start out in life with such per verted sentiments! The money market resounds again and again with the downfall of such people. If I had a drop of blood on the tip of a pen, I wonld tell you by what awful tragedy many of the youth of this country are ruined. Further on, thousands and tens of thousands of the daughters of America are sacrificed to worldlincss. They are taught to he in sympathy with all the artificialties of society. They are in ducted into all the hollowness of what is called fashionable life. They are taught to believe that history is dry, bnt that 50 cent stories of adventurous love are delicious. With capacity that might have rivaled a Florence Night ingale in heavenly ministries or made the father’s house glad with filial and sisterly demeanor, their life is a waste, their bounty a curse, their eternity a demolition. Sacrifice at Y!nrr!n<(e Altar. In the siege of Charleston, during our civil war, a lieutenant of the army stood on the floor be:;ide the daughter of the ex-governor of the state of South Carolina. They were taking the vows of marriage. A bombshell struck the roof, dropped into the group, and nine were wounded and slain, among the wounded to death the bride. While the bridegroom knelt on the carpet trying to stanch the wounds the bride de manded that the ceremony he complet ed, that she might toko the vows before her de;iurture, and when the minister said, “Wilt thou be faithful unto dasthi” with her dying line she laid. “I will,” and in two honrs she had de parted. That was the slaughter and the sacrifice of tlte body, bnt at thousands of marriage altars there are daughters plain for time and slain for eternitj'. It is not a marriage. It is a massacre. Affianced to some one who is only waiting until his father dies po he can get tho property; then a littlo while they swing around in the circles, bril liant circles; then tho propet ty is gone, and, having no power to earn a liveli hood, the twain sink into some corner of society, the husband an idler and a eot, the wife a drudge, a slave and a sacrifice. Ah. spare your denunciations from Jephthah’s head and expend them all on this wholesale modern martyr dom ! I lift np my voice against tho sacri fice of children. I look out of my win dow on a Sabbath, and I see a group of children unwashed, uncombed, un- Christianizod. Who- cares for them? Who prays for them? Who utters to them one kind word? When tho city missionary, passing along the park in New York, saw a ragged lad and heard him swearing, he said to him: “My son, stop swearing! You ought to go to the house of God today. You ought to ho good. You ought to bo a Christian.” The lad looked in his face and said : “Ah! It is easy for you to talk, well clothed as yon are and well fed. But we chaps hain’t got no chance.” Who lifts them to the altar for baptism? Who goes forth to snatch them upfront crime and death and woe? Who today will go forth and bring them into schools and churches? No; heap them up, great plies of rags and wrecthedness and filth. Put underneath them the fires of sacrifice, stir up the blaze, put on more fagots, and, while we sit in the churches with folded arms and in difference, crime and disease and death will go on with the agonizing sacrifice. Mightier Geaeratioa Coa:lng. Daring the early French revolution at Bourgcs there was a company of boys who used to train every day as young soldiers, and they carried a flag, and they bad on the flag this inscrip tion: “Tremble, tyrants, tremble! We are growing np.’’ Mightily suggestive! This generation is pawdug off, and a mightier generation is coming on. Will they be the foes of tyranny, the foes of sin and the foes of death, or will they be the foes of God? They are coming np! I congratulate ali parents who are doing their best to keep their children away from the altar of sacrifice. Your prayers are going to be answered. Your children may wander away from God, but they will come hack again. A voice comes from the throne today, encourag ing you—“I will he a God to thee and to thy seed after thee.” And, tbongh when you lay your head in death there may he some wanderer of the family far away from God. and you may he 20 years in heaven before salvation shall come to his heart, he will lie brought into the kingdom, and hafore the throne of God you will rsjoiue that you were faithful. Coxae at last, though so long postponed his coming. Come at last! I congratulate all those who are toil ing for the outcast and the wandering. Your work will soon be over, hut the influence you are setting in motion will never stop. Long after you have been garnered for the skies your prayers, your teachings and your Christian influence will go on and help to people heaven with bright inhabitants. Which would you rather see, which scene would you rather mingle in in the last great day —being able to say, “I added house to bouse and land to land and manufac tory to manufactory, I owned half the city, whatever my eye taw I had, what ever I wanted 1 got,” or on that day to have Christ look you full in the face and say* “I was hungry and ye fed me; I was naked and ye clothed me; I was sick and in prison and ye visited me; inasmuch as yo did it to the least of these my brethren, yo did it to me?” PeedlnK m Doa Coastrlctor by Hand. England has a remarkable snake charmer in Dr. Arthur Stradling, whose blood is poison proof and who permit* tho snakes to bite him at will. He ho* visited every snake country on tho globe. He had two ribs broken while manipulating a West African pythoness 16 feet long. This is the manner in which ho feeds his boa constrictors, de scribed by himself: “With shirt sleeves rolled up and stockinged feet I grasp the creature just behind the bead and separate its jaws by gentle pressure with a silver spatula. It's more knack than force, for all snakes are exceedingly sensitive about the mouth. A light tap on the muzzle will turn the fiercest of them. “Then the assist! nt (his little son) pops the lump of meat, dead rat, bird or whatever the morsel may be, right in among the quivering triple rowa of long, curved teeth—positively quiver ing and ‘walking’ with the agitation of anger on the mobile jaws—and I push it down to the stomach, fir& with a ruler and then by squeezing upon it with my bands from the outside, a me dian. al suasion which requires to bo un-iutained for some little time in order to iusure that the item of aliment shall remain in statu quo. “In the interval the youngster is not idle, and finds plenty of occupation in shifting the reptile’s coils and disengag ing various parts of mo from a too close embraco. And so we fill the beast up mi' til he can hold no more.” Ileaiity la Blood Dec-p. Clean blood means a clean skin. No beauty without it. 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Many of tho Miciuac and Milicete guides, when at tbo height of the long call, cut the note off ahrnptly with a sort of choking sob. Tho low call or “coaxer” is a tough proposition for tho amateur. It is only needed when the moose is very near, and, as ho is then likely to bo suspi cious, with all his senses on the alert, tbo call must bo given with the ntmost skill aud caution. A single false note and ho will steal away on velvet foot as silently as a ghost Many old hunters claim that as soon as the first answering grant is heard from the bull, away across the lake or up tbo mountain side, the caller should call no more. They say that the moose, though he may bo miles away, locate! the sound exactly ; that bis answer in dicates that he will surely oome, and 1* even then on the way.—Frank H. Bis- teen in Outing. Millionx Given Awuy. It Is certainly gratifying to the public to know of one concern in the land who are not afraid to be gener ous to the needy and suffering. 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When you want a trunk, dress suit case, grip or valise we are the folks to buy from. We carry all the up-to-date neckwear, shirt and cuff bu tions. "Wlisvt we witiit v<>ur trsiclo—rt^ and to got your business we have to got our goods right to make the prices suit. Well, wo just have all this and guarantee to please you. Our 50c and 08c umbrellas are sellers. We lead in millinery and dress goods aud soli you tho newest goods and host styles for the least money. All we ask is to give us a call. We have the largest and best line of heavy and fancy groceries to he found jn the city. Yours to save you money, The Company Store, Leaders in Honest Goods and Low Prices. At Cost. 0 To close out our stock of Stoves we will sell the balance we have on hand at cost for spot cash. Parties who are in need of a good stove will save money by taking advantage of this liberal offer. Galloway & Co. Thor. B. Hutueu. Henry K. Orbornz BUTLER & OSBORNE, A.TTOII PH re YM-A.T-r.A.W. Gaffney, S. C. Very careful ami prompt attention slven to all business entrusted to us. farFraetlee In all the courts. CLINE BROS., Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, Opposite National Bank. Flrst-clnss (urnouts; prompt attention; and courteous attendants. fS^We solicit your patronage. J. E. WEBSTER, Attoruoy-iV t- l^p.’vv, ■ Oliiceln Court House. (I’robate Judge's office) Gaffney City, S. C. Practices in all the courts. Collec- i tions a specialty. W. L. JOHNSON, -TEACHER OF- Vocal and Instrumental Alusic. TERMS REASONABLE, and METHODS LATEST ADOPTED IN CINCINNATI’! COLLEGE OF MUSIC. • SPECIAL RATES TO SCHOOL OR CHURCH CLASSES IN SIGHT READING and SINGING. 3-28-3mo -f J. C. JEFFERIES-S- OAFFNEY, S. C. Attorney and 'Counsellor at Law. Practice* in All the Courts. Collections a Specialty. Dr. C. T. LIPSCOMB, Dentist, Office over R. A. Jones & Co.’s Store. Can be found at office six days In the week SOUTHERN RAILWi Sehsduls of Fa In Effect Oct. 16, IfiW. Jtartli bound. tv. Atlanta, C-T, “ Atlanta, a. 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Atlanta, rsLlfi No. 85 Dallv. imrs 8M a 6 31 a 11 16 a fl of ni 13 W nt ■ ■ IE; J3; 1 81 | «iri 4 w p 866 • 80 p 10 48 p 8 16 7 38 10 00 10 40 11 81 U 46 13 38 1 26 6 60 7 06 « 26 10 46 lu 58 aill 34 a 12 30 3 80 a 8 28 a 4 15 4 85 1 83 3 18 p f8 00 fit 18 8 83 No. II Dally • 88 • IS HJU lITCat 610 itt" 8 55 TTCCiTT pt 8anUay 87 a 12 uMu 1 12 p 113 p 2 W p 2 24 p 8 15 4 W 5 25 555 8 M 660 786 7 40 p 814 p 8 40 p 012 p • 48 p 1080 p •m 6 86 . 667 I 7 20 t 7 48 i 8?7 ■ 8 80 a 8 30 0 It Ar. Norercos, i Lv. Noroross, oast e"nf tan. Ar- Atlanta, contra.' Uni#.. ITW *»a “A"a. m. Chesapeake Lins Steamers in dally servtoo between Norfolk aad Baltimore. Nos. 87 and 88—Dally. Washington and South’ western Vestibule Limited. Through Pullman slam thoroughfare eoachos between Wi ton and Atlanta. Dining . Pullman drawta IV ash tag. ail meal* ig room sleeping < Norfolk. Cioee < on route. Pullman drav __ between Greensboro aad Norfolk. Cloe* ooL section at Forfolk for OLD POINT COMFORT arriving there in time for breakfast. Noe. 86 and 96—United States Fast Matt runs solid between Washington aud New Or leans, via Southern Rat way, A. * W. P. ft H and L. & N. K. ft., being composed of baggage ear and coaches, through without change f©» pes^ngerFof ail classes. Pullman drawing room sleeping cars between New York and New Orloaii*. via Atlanta and Montgomery Leavin'* Washing* *- "' - *— - * sleeping car will lugum and ban No*. 11,3.', I# nnd 12—Pullman sleeping i between Richmond and Chariot is, vi > DanvllU southbound Nos. 11 and 37, northbound No* te aud 12 Fit A N K S. « A N NON, J. M. CULP, Third V P. & Gen. Mgr.. Trafho RTg'r. Wash i r.gtuu, D. U W aabingfou, D. O W. A TCkK, 8. H. HARUWlok, Gen’1 Pass. Ag’t , Asn'tOan'lltesa. Ag’t " JSm ■ auauta ana Montgomery f ton eaih Wedneeday. a tenr-s run through between Wasc > Kiantisoo without chamr* Wesiuugtott, p. q