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AUF FEELS THANKFUL ftVPlKKSS IN AliL OUH HOMKH, 'ho Ih Glad Wo Jfavo Oood Thing? to Knjoy in This World?Beauty in Autuiun Loavee. "JIow email the part of what wo all en dure Ib that whicii kiiif$s or laws can cause or cure." Wo make much ado ovor tho money question, tho tariff, tho trusts, tho com bination of capital against labor and tho greed and corruption of politicians, but after all our folloity dopouds upon ouraelvea and what wo choose to make of our domestic lifo. (Compared with happiness M homo all other joys aro trilled, transitory pleasures lhat oome and go and leave us at laut to tako refuge In tho domestic cirolo. A hundred yoarb ago tho poot wroio : " If solid liappiness wo prize * Within our breast Ibis jewel lies, From our own solves our joys must come And that endearing plaoo?our homo." How hiully awout is tho dream of houio to tho boys who havo oxllod thouisolvua to a foreign laud?to tho daughters who havo followed tholr husbaLds far away?to tho eoldiurs who lie iu tho trouchoB In tho distant Iblandb of tho sea, aud to tho wretched convicts who toil In bo minus for lifo or for a term of mlttoruolo years. 1 was ruminating about how much wo couipluinlug mortals have to he thaukiul for iu this goouly )t?ud. It ia well for us all to sometimes tuko an in voico of what wo havo got that neither kings nor laws can take from us. Tho masses of our people havo homes? humblo homes, comfortable homos where, as W.dlam l'itt said, "Tho p?O. -?l man may bid detianco to tho crown. It may bo frail, its roof may shako, tho wind may blow through It aud tho rain leak iu, but tho king of England cannot outer, nor bis lorces daro to cross its threshold." Tho masses of our people havo good health, which is the chlofcst of all tho poor niuu's blessings. In this goodly South ern laud wo havo pure air, good water, a temperate climate aud a soil that re sponds easily aud surely to the la borer's toil. Adam Smith eald in hie groat work on tho wealth of r.atlons that a kind IV ovldonco hud so ordained that tho average labor of one man would support eight persons aud gi\o them all of tho necessaries, many of tho comforts and &omo of tho luxuries of lifo. How nicely thib fits tho aver age family?a man aud his wife and six children. If tliero aro moro chil dren tho oldor ones aro ablo to help, and as the man grows old and fcoble tho younger children havo grown up to tako his place. Of course, there aro exceptions, for tho wilo may bo an invalid or tho children all girls or tho farm horse got sick and dio, or tho hogs tako cholera or tho houso burn uo, but most ull of our ills aro tho re sult of indolence, imprudence or crimi nal conduct. If wo violate a law of mtturo wo aro suro to anlTor for it. If w> spend more than wo mako and get in debt wo Chain ourselves to a hard master, for, us Solomon said, " tho borrower is a survant of the lender." Frugal habits and coulcntmcnl at homo a. o cardinal virtues that ensure happlne$8. Then there aro tho plea sures that a li cet tho heart aud tho emotions, th^j joys of loving and being loved, tho innocent sports of children or grandchildren, as thoy play around us ; tho sweet cha*-m of music, oven though it bo a mother's song as shu soothes lior child to bleep. From my window I sec beautiful Mowers looking up to heaven or bonding gracefully to tho Uod who made tin m. " Flew era that weep without woo, And blush without a crime.'' And the vines on tho trollis are fad ing into beauty und tho forest trees uro taking on their variegatod colors. What is lovelier than tho autumn robes Of tho chesnut and tnaplo and swoetgum and tho intermingled green of tho pints f Why not cultivate a taste for all those outside ornaments of nature, for they aro not only beautiful, but the. contemplation of them is re fining. A beautiful tlowcr is a mira cle : no human hand could fashion it and " Solomon in all his glory was not clothed like one of these." Tho bless ings o! nature aro gratuities. They cott nothing?the trees, tho (lowers, tho grass, tho huushinc aod the rain, the songs of bird6 and the reverential sound of distant thunder that comes, as tho poet suys, from heaven's own organ. And so tho invoico might go on. Of course, a good citizen will tako an in terest in the laws that govern him, but ho should not forget the blessings that laws caunot take away, nor should he fret himself because of evildoers. A much traveled .friend, on his return from Europe told me that aa ho jour neyed through Germany he saw many and many a woman yoked besldo a cow or a steur pulling a plow through tho tough soil, and hundreds of women going to market half bent undor the burden of wicker baskets plied up with small wood or vegetables. The whito man's burden Is nothing com pared with the whito woman's burden among tho peasantry of that country. Evory young man owes military service . to tho government and is obliged to go when bis time comes, but hero evory mun is a king or a aovoreign and can go or not, us ho pleases. Tho truth is that our common people aro tho most independent common pcoplo In tho world aud ought to bo grateful to God that tho lines have fallon to them in such ploasant places. Why bo envious of tho rich, the inillionairoa who have more care and anxiety than wo havo ; whose children grow up in peril, whoso days aro consumed In plans to increaso their riches, whoso nights aro restless with dreams of gold, and whoso health and appetite, require constant nursing. Tho law of compensation ia as Uxod as fato and it la entirely possible in this laud of liborty for a poor man to bo as happy as jy rich one. Hut wo -niueUiJi^rTnttnd bo diligent in busi ness. It is every man's duty to bettor his condition, if ho can. Uo must mako his homo comfortable and at tractive. His wife and daughters aro compelled to live there and thev like com i or in anu Ornament?. It Id the nature of woman. The roof should not loak nor the wind blow In at a broken window pano. The doors should shut oasily and the front gate bang well on JUh hinges. If you can't buyacarpot. you can mako one of bagging that will a comfort in winter. JJog a few roso bushes and vinos from your neigh bors and plunt them. tiring sarao goidonrod from the tiolds and placo it somewhere to loot at. Keep a good, olean dog, but don't lot bin", lio by the Are. If you can't hire 3 servant, thon do you or the hoys mako tho fires and . milk tho cows. Woman has enough { to do in nursing the little chlldron and ' making their olothos and caring for them all tho day and sometimes half tho night. My contempt for a man Who does not holD his wife haa tin nounas. Tho catechism asks what is tho ohlof end of man. And tho answer is, " To glorify Ood and enjoy him for ovor." That is good theory, but tho fact is that a man a chief business is to raiso children aud to enjoy them. The h- world is working for children and our f groatcst pleasuto and our g contest ' grief comos from thorn. Wnat does politics or famo or mone y woigh com pared with tho death or the dishonor of a child, i low does tho groat world shrink when uflllction Invades tho family circle The welfare of our ohildron is tho all-absorbing business of our life. Tho deslro to soo them woll and happy In ohlldhood and Inter on to fee well on.ted and married and proBporiog in bus'neas and ornamocts jy? tho church and the oommunlty is MH^AlUiLhope of parents. ''To glorify K-fWihL^^r'' 1? In a Him, but our moat constant devotion I and ?nxloty is for our cbildron. But why this moralizing? Tho poets havo long since suog tho ewoet song of Ulial and paternal love. Even David san? of tho rioh roward to the righteous man when hin children grow up llko olive plant* around his table. Our llttlo orphan erlrl camo homo yesterday as proud us hor Undo Tom will bo when he receives his thousand dollar sword, for sho ie on tho second honor roll at school and her picture will get into the papers some of tn*se days. Another grandohild got tho second honor in anothor grade and tho parents and wo grandparents aro as proud as the children. We had no marks or honors when we wont to school, except to got head la the Fri day ovouing spelling class, when tho wholo school stood up In a eoml-cirolo and contended for tho highest place. My sweet-heart generally hold tho i'ort and if 1 could climb to her aide and In.Id her hand In mine it was enough for ine. But, ah 1 tho beauti ful books tho children have row and the beautiful pictures. How wo would have wondorod and admired If wo had had a sinull nortion of thorn. The old bluobaok spelling buuk had ?vo, 1 think, aud I ccj tho rudo boy up In tho applo troo now stealing appl58. And wo had an F.ugllsh reader und I ro moteber tho plcturo of the two farmers quarreling ovnr a cow. One had her by the horns and the other by tho tall and tliy wore both pulling with all their might, while a lawyer was sitting on a stool milking her. liow does that Ut lawyers and a law case now V We had a g.'ammor and an arithmetic and I notice that three times three still make nine and the multiplication table Is the same, but I don't reo the rule of three nor " tare and tret," that we used to whisper was enough to make tho devil sweat. Our geography was a book and an atlas separate, but there wore > o pictured. But there is more in tho boy or the girl than Ln the books, and cither can get an education if they try to. The best part of our education comes after we quit school and scttlo down to the business of life. It ironies from reading good books? history, biography, magazines and newspapers. ln our young days we did not read trash, for wo did no. have It, but now the young pooplo read any thing aud everything. If evil com munications corrupt good manner-*, as St. I'aul said, then a person's character is all'octcd by tho books ho reads. Heading all sorts of novels Is as much a dissipation as gambling and 1 wish there wu? .? commission in evciy State to decido what books wore best for minors to road. Thero Is a smart servant girl In my family and she is reading Trilby" on tho sly? negroes will do every devilish thing they see tho white folks do. i reckon that is thu monkey that lb in them. Bill Aui\ AN HlHlOltlO REGIMENT. Tho First Tennessee Has a Record ISxtondlntf From the Revolutionary War to ihn War in the Philippines, One Tonuomee regiment?the First ? has been making history this hun dred years and more. It was organ ized and commanded by John Sevier, when tho State was merely " Ten nessee County " of North Carolina. Sevier led It over the mountains when Revolutionary fortunes were at the lowest ebb, to fall upon Tarleton at King's mountain, and turn a wavering tight into a brilliant victory. Twenty years later Andrew Jackson wa-3 its colonel through the bloody Indian wars that broke the power of Choctawy, Creeks and Cherokeos. A little later Con. Andrew Jackson posted his old regiment in the very fore fron:, at tbe battle of New Orleans, whero, sido by side with the Iluntors of Kentucky, itb unerring rilh:s mowed down tho rod coats like grass. Afterward the First Tonncssoo slopt upon its laurels until thero were grumblings of war in tho Southwest. Man., of its original members had gone to Tcxus, but they had loft kinsmen h plc-nty to till tho ranks afresh. The renewed thirst Tennessoe went to tho help of '?Old Ucugh and Uea.ty," as Con. /achary Taylor wasalTectlonatoly ca'led, and soon bhowed that it meant to live up to itb reputution. At, Mon terey, a wallod and fortiliod town which Taylor was forced to carry by assault, it was tho First Tennessco which set tho lirst American Hag tri umphantly in tho breach- and what is very much more to the military pur poso?kept it there until it was car ried further forward. Ail through Mexico it wont, winning golden opinions from oven the starch and stately regular army mon. When it camo homo after tho old fashion, it kept up a sortof skoleton organization. A skeleton tho civil war found it, but a skeleton that quickly took on life and strength. A state of war super vened lato ln April ; in May Tennessee seceded ; in Junj tho First Tennessoo oddly brigaded with tho Seventh and Fourteenth regiments, left for Virginia, where tho Tonnessee brigado was as signed to Loo's corps, thon oporating In West Virginia. Tho next winter Loo took command In front of Uichmond, and tho Tennes see brigado becamo part of Jackson's " foot cavalry." It stayed with him till his death, bearing itself soldierly through all his lighting and moro than once winning special mention for des perato and distinguished daring. At Cottysburg it made part of Plekett's charging column, losing moro than half Its numbers in killed, wounded and prisoners, " Tpo cankers of a calm world and a long peace," oven, could not destroy tho lighting spirit in the famous old First regiment. When tho Spanish war came on, sons and grandsons and great-grandsons of First regiment men wont joyously into its ranks. They al most prayed..'?s la sOfit- to1 Cuba. The powers that bo thought fit to send them to tho Philippines instead. But it was October, 1898, boforo thoy ombarkod, and thoy grumbled mightily that the fighting was all over. Since events have proved their mis take, tho regiment lias lived up to its traditions. Tho regimental historian has an autograph lottor from Admiral Dowoy, saying : ? l um 100 nappy to havo au opportu nity o( expressing my admiration of this Tennessee regiment, its aplondid work iu tho Philippines in actual war faro, and of Hs late colonel." Gon. Otis adds : " Nothing can bo said of it (Tho First TounosBOo rogimont) which is UOtOOtn* mondablo of it an a military organiza tion. Next to its admirable lighting qualities, what havo Impressed mo moat forcibly is tho universal good fooling and close comradeship which oxlats among its members, and tho regard which tho enlisted men havo for tholr otlicord, who look carofullv after tholr wants. As an admirable fighting ma chine, It has shown its excellence, both hero and at Hollo." Col. W. G. Smith, commanding when tho reglmont wont into action, died of heart disease upon tho Qriug line, ilia Muc.ce. .-.or. Col. Gracoy Chlldross, Ken tucky* born, but by adoption a loyal Tounes8ean, will, therefore, havo tho distinction of being tho but of a fa mous line of eolonels, for he Is bringing the regiment homo?it Is oxpoote? oarly In October?-for final muetorlng out. Undor the now order of things the old regimont will lose its Identity. It is not strange, thoreforo, that a his tory of it is now in preparation.?bt. 1.011 in Globe -1 lob ion rat. ?A doz-on years ago the very host type of sleeping oar oould bo built for $10,000. Tim', in fact, was considered an extravagant prioo, and lnolucW^ overy luxury of the period. Atiy?j ontjft thoroughly flrat-olass osj^fl $22*00. The lncreaHe^aBbJ| gahLrly Bto't<lvjJjrfBl I^O^&Lrf POWDER Absolutely Pure Makes the food more delicious and wholesoaie _i_ROYAl OAKINO POWO?H CO., MW YORK._ CATTLE IN THE SOUTH. Jt in particularly pertinent, la this issue of the Farmer, devoted mainly to grass and forage plants to give Special emphasis to the subject of cat tle growing in the South. Wc start out with the broad, general assertion (hat stock growing in the South is and has been, like all other branches of fanning, except raising cotton, practi cally a failuro, and sve wish to consider the question. Is it profitable Hint it should remain so? If not cau we profitably raise slock in competition witli the corn belt of the Northwest? How is it feasible for the average cot ton farmer to get a start at it anil make the business profitable? In a recent publication, Mr. William LuCroix, a well known stockman of Memphis, goes into this subject ex haustively, lie says that the live stock business in that section is a fail ure ; that there is but little done in that line, and what is done is not profit able to the man who raises them. The reasons for this being true, ho epito mizes as follows : 1. Lack of financial aid and assist ance to engage in the business proper ly, cotton being the money crop or tlio only crop that tlie farmer can obtain advances on to produce it. 2. The lack of attention u the. part of the farmer who raises cattle in their breeding and care oT the animal pro duced. 3. The production of a very inferior animal that commands scant respect in the markets and always selling for a ve -y low figure. Now we are absolutely convinced from the succi s that has crowned the few rational efforts made in Ibis line that, the stock business can be made profitable in any part of the South ; that it can lie done in spite of the fact mentioned in reason No. 1 and that a reasonable effort on the part of South ern farmers will soon remove the dif ficulties mentioned in Nos. 2 and We all know that il is unfortunately true, under the present system of rais ing crops in the South, that the main crop is cotton and that in most cases the planter or farmer instead of rais ing at home his bread, meat, forage and many other necessaries that he could raise plcdgi s Iiis cotton crop in advance to pay the bid. Wo arc sure that no thin king cotton grower can be lieve this is the most economical way of getting supplies, aud wc a.e glad to say many have quit it ; but what they think is the difficulty of making a change deters a great many from even trying to make a change. The opinion prevails with the majority of them, that seems to inspire Mr. LaCroix; that a radical change must be made at one time and right at the start. Tins is a great mistake, the beginning of raising one's own bread, meat, gram and forage ought to be made in a small way and gradually increased as t lie cotton planter understands the subject better, and in the matter of Slock rais ing it would be absolutely a misfortune for a in \u who does not understand the business to begin on a large scale, eveu if he had plenty of capital. It 18 safer and more profitable in the end to start cattle raising with two or three head than 20 or 30 ; the sheep busi ness with a dozen than 50 and the hog business with a single good sow than 10 or 20. Starling in this small way, it is within the power of every farm owner aid most renters to make a be ginning. Hut there is one tiling that is abso lutely essential to success : who ever goes into the stock bus;,icss, in a small or large wa}, must not fail to raise good stock. As Mr. LnCroix truly says, two year old cattle tVat weigh only o00 and 400 pounds do not pay at any price, though they of course, sell very low. They must weigh (100 io 1,000 pounds at that age. Kazor-hack hogs eat their heads oil' before they get fat, and scrub sheep don't pay the freight aud commissions for selling. It is then essential that stock to be profitable must be well bred. How then is a farmer to make a start in cattle raising or with sheep or hogs. The only way if he has but little money to put into it, is to stall with native females and get a pedigreed male to cross with. In the case of hogs and sheep, any fanner who has summoned up the resolution to go into the business, can raise enough money to buy a boar or rain. With cattle it is different, but almost auv fanner who will take the trouble to do it, can get several neighbors to join him in buying a good short horn, Hereford or Galloway bull and one will sullice for a neighborhood. A year DofotO a start is made with the stock a pasture of ten or twenty acres ought to be slurlod by Olftfll?li? ?SermUdn grass. *" The second year it will bo'a fair pasture on good land and the third year it will be excellent. This will be a fair pasture on good land ten mouths of the year ; enough food of other kinds must lie grown for the re mainder of the year. In one year's time cattle and sheep will have doubled themselves ; hogs will probably be multiplied by ten or twelve. In five years time even though the beginning may have been small, the herd or Hock Will probably have readied tho limit the owner wants to carry aud be will be getting back BOmo profit. During this time, too, he will have learned the business and have arranged his Holds and pastures to get llio best results. Will it pay? It most surely will. In the North with high priced labor, long wiuteiB and short summers it has always been the most profitable fann ing. In the South, with cheap labor, long grn/.iiig season and short feeding senson and grasses and forage plants that furnish more food for tho cost than anywhere clso on the lace of the carln, the business if at all properly conducted is bound to pay. But one thin^ is needed to soon make the South the greatest meat p.o ducing region ou earth and that is tho fully formed resolution of tho farmers to go into tho business right and mako it so. Wo arc glad to noto that thero arc indications that tho South is on the ovo of awakening to the importance of making this change. Already breed ing stock of nil kinds, but notably of hogs, sheep and poultry aro being sold all ovor tho South and the domand has been afl great. B8 I he. hjp*l brooders ICvcry MH^m^hi us? his influonco I'uff along. J^^ifl^^S tho other half stuck to cotton and ? raised only the sumo quantity or a very little more than thoy are now doing they would get rich. As it is, tho average cotton planter is lucky if he gets out even at the end of the year. VALUE OF CHOWS TO FARMERS. The Department of Agriculture has been making an investigation of crows and their food and habits with a view to determining whether the crows is as lUUCh an enemy to the farmer as he is generally credited. There are few birds so well known as the common crow, hut, according to the department, un like n\C3t other species he does not seem to decrease hi number as I he country becomes more, densely populated. The crow is common I v regarded as a black leg and a thief. Without the dash and bTitian*. V of the jay, or the bold savag ely Of the hawk, he is accused of doing moro tu ich'of ihau either. Tho he does pu'l up sprouting corn, destroy chicken?, and rob the nests of small birds ha < been repeatedly proved. Not are there :>'l of h:s sins, lie is known to eat frogs, loads, salamanders, ami some small snakes, all harmless creat ures that do some good by eatjng in sects. Willi so many charges against him, it may be well to show why he should not. be utterly condemned. The examination of a largo number of stomachs, while confirming all the. foregoing accusations, lias thrown upon the subject a light some.whal different from that derived solely from field ob servation. It shows that the. bird's nesting habit, as in the case of the jay, is not so universal as lias been suppos ed; and that, so far from being a habit ual nest robber, the crow only occasion ally indulges in that reprehensible practice. The same is line in regard to destroying chickens, for he is able to carry off none but very young ones, and his opportunities lor capturing them are somewhat limited. Neither are many loads aud frogs eaten, and as frogs arc of no great practical value, their destruction is not a serious mat ter; but toads are. very useful, and their consumption, bo far as it goes, must bo counted against the crow. Turtles, crawfishes, and snails, of which he eats (pule a largo number, may be consider ed neutral, while mice may bo counted to bis credit. In his insect food, however, the crow makes amends for Bins in the rest of his dietary, although even here the first item is against him. Prcdaceous beet les which are useful are eaten in some numbers throughout the season, but the number is not great. May beetles, "dor-bugs," or June bugs, and others of the, same family, constitute the principal food during spring and early summer, and are fed to the young in immense quantities. Other beetles, neatly all of a noxious character, are eaten to a considerable extent. Grass? hoppers are first taken in May, but not in large numbers until August, when, as might bo OXpoclod, they form the lead ing article of diet, showing that the crow is no exception to the general rub; that most birds subsist, to a large ex tent, upon grasshoppers in the mouth of August. Many buys, some catcrpi lars, mostly worms, and some spiders are also eaten?nil of them either harm ful or neutral In their economic rela tion. Of the insect diet Mr. E. A. Schwartz says: "The facts, on the whole, speak overwhelmingly in favor Ol tho crows." Probably the most important Item m the vegetable food is corn, and by pull ing up the newly sprouted seeds the bird renders himself extremely obnox ious. Observation and experiments with tame crows show that hard dry corn is never eaten if anything eise is to be had, and if fed to nestlings it is soon disgorged. The reason crows lesort to newly planted Holds is that the kornols are softened by the moisture, of the earth, and probably become more, palatable in the process of germination, which changes the starch of the grain to sugar. The fact, however, remains that crows eat corn extensively only when it has been softened by germina tion or partial decay, or before it is ripe and still "in the milk." Experi ence, has shown that they may be pre vented from pulling up young corn by tarring the seed, which not only saves the corn hut forces them to turn their attention to insects. If they persist in eating the glCOll corn, it is not so easy to prevent the damage; but no details of extensive injury in this way have yet been presented, and it is probable that no great harm has been done. In estimating ihe economic status of the crow, the department concludes that he does some damage, but on the other hand, ho should receive much credit foi uiC irSGCfc?. whiofeho destroys. In the more thickly settled parts (if the. country the crow probably does more, good than harm, at lest when ordin ary precautions are taken to protect young poultry and newly planted corn against Iiis depredations. If however, corn is planted with no provision against possible marauders, if liens and turkeys are allowed to nest and to roam With their broods at a distance from farm buildings, losses must be expect ed. The ordinary farmer will doubt less pay much mortvattention to Mid crow as a marauder than to the crow as a benefactor. - - ? ? KKKOSKNK Foil roULTitY.?A writ er in BatU>W Courier-luforinanL, advo cates the use of kerosene in the poultry yard. Tho following article will, per haps, he interesting to poultry breeders: The ninny uses that kcroseno can he put to in the poultry yard makes it an almost indispensable nrticlo to bo charged to tho expense account; and no article will enhance the profit of the poultry yards as kerosene diligently and intelligently used for painting the in side of nest boxes; for setting hens thero is nothing equal to it as it surely kills all and prevents other vermin from entering tho neat untd it is thoroughly evaporated, which, if the crude oil is used, will give the hen am ple time to hatch her brood. A few drops in tho drinking wntor occasion ally has a good effect upon tho general health of tho flock, and for colds or croup thero is nothing hotter if care fully applied. Scaly logs may bo cured by simply wetting tho logs of tho fowls fctti^edoecasiounlly , aud tho crude oil ^to|?^HCiiHe also, as it takes a fc^^yaporal o. Whon H BUi^-obiaunMl VALUE OF SEED WHEAT. Tho value of any seed wheat islar<.'? - ly relative; it must he adapted to the BOll and situation, for which it is re commended. Growers of experience know tins, and do not pretend to ac cept the advice of some farmer live 1 hundred miles away. All that he may say may be true, but it is the difference in the sod and surroundings that de termines for each tho question of protil or loss. A common and very satisfac tory way of adapting new varieties of excoptioual valuo to a locality is to mix it with some local variety that is suited to the soil and climate, and developing the result from seed wheat that may be of great value. Nearly all wheat will deteriorate if the seed is taken from the same Hold year after year, and the only way is to obtain new seed. The most satisfactory way is to select half enough seed wheat each year fiom the fiofil, ami then mix it with an equal quantity .of good seed purchased from some other place. See that the two arc <' .' Cerent but good vaiieties. They inviui- , ably mix well, and produce excellent I results, ln this way we constantly cioss the vaiieties and secure all the good that there is in the market. Of course the seed from ' ie held must be selected with the greatest care, aid only tho very laigesl and best grams should be taken. Likewise the pur chased seed shouldjcoine only from reli able parlies, and it shoe'd not be in I'crior in any way to that selected from ihn home fields. in speei.ile'.inir wheat we are reach ing a point that has its disadvantage . It is a good deal like inbreeding in I fowls. Too much of it Ac.ikens the st< ok, and in order to inslil new life and i energy into them ii is of ton uoccossnry to CroSS-hreed. The ral&OlS of line seed wheat have inbred some of the leading varieties to the point whe.e new blood is required to make the ..cod stronger and more productive That is why, 1 believe, that .some years the crops succumb so easily to ,l:y weather 01 (ho attacks of enemies. The seeds are re fined to Iho point of exhaustion, and while under tho most favorable con ditions the plautfrom such seeds might produce the banner crop, a very little thing might blast the whole field. As our crops have to encounter seine pret ty bad weather and many enemies, it seems wiser to have plants with more ruggedncss cveu though they might pi'OUUCO a bushel or so less of w heat (o the acre. In the long run the average wheat field will be in favor of the hardier breeds. We have, inbred fowls Which if kept in a hoi-house may do belter than any other brood, but out doors they are loo sickly to do much. Cross-hroedillg occasionally or often is just ai essential in wheat as in fowls or animals. Mixed varieties of seed wheat is my selection every time, although intelligence must be used in the selec tion.? William Conway, in Wisconsin Ayriculturist. WHAT IS LIQUID AIR? Liquid air is just what its name im plies. It is not u liquid distilled from some newly discovered vegetable, or mineral, but is simply air, such as wo breathe, made so cold that it takes the form of water. The fact that air can assume that form is a recent discovery, as is also the method <.f obtaining the intense cold necessary to this result. The tem perature required is 812 degrees below zero?a temperature farther below the coldosl arctic wilder than that is below a tropical summer. Yet persistent ef forts have at last developed a method by which it is readily produced. When air is cooled down (o this de gree it changes to a misty vapor ami gradually fonns into drops that fall like rain to the bottom of the vessel con taining tt. Ily a proper arrangement it may then be drawn oft into an open i receptacle ready for us. When seen in an open vessel ii might be mistaken for boiling water, as it sinunets and gives oft a white vapor. When first pourod out it boils violently, throwing oft a clou I of vapor that rolls down the sides of the vessel. Hut as soon as the receptacle has cooled to the tem perature of the liquid it quiets down to a simmer, which continues until all has evaporated and returned to air. This may require several hours if oarc is taken to keep the vessel away from every conductor of heat. Hut if it be placed on a plate of iron or even on a block of ice it will bod violently and very soon mingle with its native air. II poured out on a conductor, as iron or ice, it will assume the gaseous state, so rapidly as to amount loan explosion. As a freezing agent the power of liquid air is terrific. It freezes pure air very readily, and freezes mercury so hard that it may be used as a hammer to drive nails into hard wood ; and so thorough is the chill given Unit tho mercury retains the solid slate for sev eral minutes. It will scar living llosh like a red hot iron and may take the place, of all chemical cauterizing in surgery. As a rcfrigorator, liquid air will be easily controlled and it can be made lo lower the temperature ol a room very slightly or to produce a de gree of cold that no life could endure For a minute. As an explosive j' g6r ~tainly has great power anil experi ments already made indicate that it may be used in both gunnery and blasting; and it may thus take, the place of both gunpowder and dyna mite. ASTHMA Uukk.?The season is on now when many of our best medicine plants arc maturing. The catalpa bean is now at its best. This is a tree and grows along the sidewalks in many towns and roadsides in tho country; grows usually about twenty feet high, has beautiful branches of lilac colored liowois in spring and lata- long bean pods. These bean pods arc a valuable remedy in many kinds of asthma, and especially the cases that involve, the heart. Take a good handful of the bean pods and bruise with u hammer or mallet; put in one quart water and let boil gently until nearly half is evaporated; strain, add one-thud good whisky or brandy, and bottle. Tako 0110 lablcspoonful lour or live limes daily. In sonic urgent cases, however, tako a teaspoon!in every hour. Ad ministered in this way it has a more telling and rapid effect. If the nervous system or heart arc involved tills is one of our most useful remedies, if con stipation is present, take irom live to llfteou drops cascdra aromatic four times daily* If the touguo is pale, take ii huii tuitbpoonful of bicarbonate soda in hnlf cup liot water three times daily until tonguo is a normal color, htir the soda until dissolved. If tho tongue is rather red und dry drink one or two glasses lemonade three or tour times daily until the tongue is moist. Thcso two conditions must ho corrected in any disease before a remedy can act kindly, and especially is this the case with chronic disoascs. Gather a supply of tho catalpa btana and mako thoui op into m&diciuo. It costs little, and may fcp^?m Iuraiis of saving a dear ony from THE TRUST PROBLEM; | Tho tluancial journals of tho couutry ! ore full of reports of consolidation., of giant manufacturing, mining, tians portation, banking and Other interests into huge trusts. They tell us that the aggregate amount of capital stock rep resented in these trusts (hat have secur d charters in the Slate of New .Jcisoy alone exceed three aud a lmlf billion dollars. iTiiis enormous amount exceeds two to one the aggregate amount of actual money of all kinds in Uns country, including gold, silver and paper. These trusts arc not all incor porated in the State of New Jersey, but perhaps half of them are. This would pan out for the last year seven billion dollars of slock, or S100 for each man woman and child in (he United Stales. This docs not include Umso previously Incorporated, nor docs it even include hanking and transportation corpora lions. It is a fact easily proved, and denied by those only who arc in one way or j another interested, that thoso stocks in these trust companies represent in stock about ten dollars, some times , twenty, to every dollar of actual cash , originally invested in the plants winch form the combine. The object of thoso combinations of industrial or manu? ] facturiug enterprises is then plain?to do away with Competition, to save ex penses bv discharging drummers and clerks, to (ill all orders from one. com mon center, to cm tail and control labor, to purchase raw materials at I lower price and sell their products at higher prices; in other words, to in i crease the margin of pi olit between the ) price of the raw and the finished prod* I nets in such rations will pay dividends > 00 from live (o twenty live times the j original stock of the companies com bined. A recent statement to the point : T?VO giant combines control SO per 1 cent, of the tobacco manufactured iu ; the United Stales. A few eiitei prises have held cut against thoiu, trying to force the trusts to let them in on hot ter terms or because they do not be lieve, in the trust's methods. Now and then they fell in, however. One of the two giant combinations very recently gulped in three other plants. Six hundred hands were Immediately discharged and the wages of those re tained cut at the .rate of two dollars out of every live. They tell the public that these combinations are beneficial; they regulate prices belli of raw and finished products, and give staple, un changeable pay to labor. But facts prove the contrary. With such conditions lacing us, should not the common people of the country unite for self protection and to learn bow to throttle thoso gi Ult coin 1 i iocs? Something must bo done, und 1 without organization and united effort I nothing can be done.? Vrogrcsswt Farmer. i Li BUT. WlNSHIP'S BltAVR ACT.? F.mory Wlnship, assistant ongineor in the navy, hcki im ent r ? r gtment of Filipinos lit bay svliilo Ii!;*? yf ihm com rades escaped u> their boats. Whib. a party from ttn> Bonulngtoo wore mak* j Fug areconaol8saDoe at Malabon, Win ship was sunt ushoro in ol?.at'go of tho ntoam cutler eonveying thi'CO opon boat loads of it en. Tho landing part) wont inshore too far without sending ot t scouts and was surprised by an overpowlng foroe (f Dativ ?>?, who pur sued then) liercely. Tho Amorluaua r?* treated toward tho shore, hotly pur sued. Winahip wa alouo In ihc launch, and at one i realizing the desperate situation, ho unlimbcred the revolving e.mnim of the launch and opened a steady lire upon the enemy. He was, of course, tho mark of tho. whole bat talion, but he kept his place unllinch lligly, his linger on the trigger, and point d a deadly lire upon the Filipinos u.itil thoy turned and Had, leaving thirty dead on the shore. Then the brave young olllccr fell back with live 'millets in his body. Commodore Taus slg says that but for Wmshlp none of the pivrty wornd have osoapi I. The gallant young man who did this Is a native of Georgia and graduated tiir..o >cars ago from lLo uaval aca demy. ? V special di.-e-.'oh to the All ml v .Ion- nal says that Wa-<hli 'i County, Ca.. h?s tho < riinolon cotton picker In f t Smith. Illaiiam.! I? Mr. John Due: it,, * h ?, i OA. v, r. dtu a great deal wh.n he plofci J 48? pounes ol ueei c'?Mon. He did this last week at the piaco of Mr. J. F. Webster, neur Tali made, six mile* west of Tenu'l c. For m v iral years past ho has under* iak? ii the task of li at ng tho record of John s a.u.oh- "?- Washington County, Missis* op I, . I ll's inun l.. ld tho r< com of "KJU pounds in day, 11 is :?. \, cult r uoiuotueuco i.iiat both ol tiiM cha pion pickers should hail fro'O coui ics by the sa1 *p name u dliTirct Stal s. Mr. Dool; tl -p.oud of the reco d be has mac , ami no has eve y rlghi to b .. ? " Wo do not claim," says tho ForV lan I, Mi , Adven iser, " to i> ? too l> ; gest pr' . rs and nub is iers :>> t > world, bu w> do e -dm to r>avo tin bigg dt'duvll' "i lb..- conti py in o ir offtc . He ii; K b n HI ,: Miard, ?.f Hin iah', N. II., and wh a he is ;i good trim v ij it, IO? MOUIICf, but Ik s a little thin tbi euminer vnd m v woij '.a 'A?'l pouada. lie la only IS yeai - old, and hold? th" ruodal f r chap n'on hejtvy ,v.';,'. bjmejpjj., bav log gained considerable notoriety in this line." A DEATH BLOW TO THOSE AILMENTS OF YOUR BODY WHICH "SNEAK IN" ON YOU AND POISON YCrtJH SYSTEM. IT PURIFIES YOUR BLOOD. OhaMOBO His Mind.?Nosniltb, of Oregon, had never boou at tho capital until nftor his election as Senvt^r, and hlsnow surroundings. He was sworn In alohe, bclDK escorted to the v'oe nresldont's desk by a Sonator i *om I'onnsylvaula, and tho scono (illod him with awe. Some months later, when bo had grown familiar with his follow Senators and surroundings, and been discovered tu be tho most compaulon ablo of mon, ho was asked as U his fcolings when ho tlrst cntorcd the Son ato chamber. Ho replied that when ho walked down the aislo to tako the oath and viewed tho white aud vener able heads on either sldo of him, his heart jumpod tJ his throat and he could bai'dly refrain fron saying aiojd, "Nesmlth. now the dev'l did you over get here!" ?'Well,'1 Bald tho collea gue, "no.v that you hate b^on with us six months and aro no 'eager a stranger, what a'v your feelings as you look over tie an? ist bjdy ." '? Will,*' repl'^d No8n?Uhi "now that I've had u oha-ico to uieot you all and tako the nci- ire of each, 1 'ook on I the old bald ptttei by which I am hedged i,i and lovolUDtari'v ink my t jlf. " NcsinllU, bow the devil did they get bore V" SOUTHERN CoikIi ii't il Sobr 1? KiY. Ort'i'ii vll I - , \\ Northbound. Lv. Atlnntn, O.T. " Atlnntn, B.T. " < im ., will?'. " Lulu. " Oornolla. " Toccoa.... " Hell! . " Greenville " Hpnrttinburg. " GtilTneya. " Hlnoksfmrg " Gnstontn. " Charlotte At . Gr? i'ii Ii iro Lv . i Ai . Noi : :. Into Ol Si Sopt. RAILWAY. I'lUNentfor Train* .'Ith. 1399. ?mi ami i li>' K n't. No.liliNo. 8? Dully Dally. 7 5u n 12 OOtJp I B ? n I ml'.p io r 10 j ?i 42 it 25 |i| 3 OU .! SS li ft a l l* 6a |i 234 p 3UJ p no p !.. |l 6 o \> n ./i p 0 62 p|l0 47 18 ? 22 0 la tl 4-1 7 oa B ia No. ao Dally. .! .VI p l; 60 a 2 ?6 i\ -1 15 p is ao n Ar. Danville. .. li . u 'I V Ar. Richmond 7. I neu ai 0 00 al. Ai .Washington " RmHiu'oPHK. ?' Phtlndolphtn. _^_N?w York ,|. i? i'olll .11 I'. . .1 i.. l Atlant > ~~|NoTfj; Southbound 1 hilly. TPTTTiT. 13 F.1 I n 44 iii. i H OJ hi Hi 15 a IM l.l in. . !???< II v I i So 25 ii (Hi |) 1 Al r. 25" .. 1> OS v ...11 26 i ,... I 2 66 n I 0 28 n ; A lau in l),l i. I Dully No. i i " Philadelphia. " flnlllm ire. "_waalini? ii. I.v. Richmond Lv. I hinville I.v. Norfolk Ar Greensboro . Lv. Groonsltoru Ar. ( Im riot to . Lv. (iu*toidn. " Ulncksburg . " GntTui-ys " ?iMirtnnhurg. '? Greenville.... " Seneca . '? Toccoa. " Cornolla. ?' hula. " ritiinosviiio Ar. Atlnntn, lv '1'. Atlnntn, O.T. Ar, Homo " Chattanooga, Ar. Cincinnati. " i<oula\ilui.. .1 .v 4 IW 1 .1 .V, |. <i 20 p ii i ? ?) ii_ji 112 ?Inn111 uo j> I ft 02 i>i 5 60 n h ;t5 |> 6 If 11 Ol i? ll 111 ii 7 24 ]>| 7 <C> ii' 7 ii7 n 10 I A) \t\ tl 25 nl . > u'.iii In I.' l' 10 n7 nj 1 12 p 11 :il n in 47. a 2 01) t) 10 10 ?? imv ui iii 11 31 li HI 45 n 11 l.l p in 5s a Iii 20 a 11 ill n i 1 26 a 12 30 n 1 2 2s n 1 :;a i. a 17 n 2 18 1 08 1 ill! 3 in p :t is pi 2 oil p 2 24 1? :i ih 130 5 16 i?! 030 pi , 10 p - TW I, .i in p . ?>-. p ... a :t7 p hos p 0 10 n' 4 55 p 1.1 mi p 6 M ftj 3 65 p 0 00 p 0 25 n 7 "H? p 7 36 p it 26 p] .' 00 n s to p| 6 m n 7 45 a OiKI p 7 55 id 71 5 p Htriiiiindiam.il I 90 n lo in p Ar. Now Orlonnn 8 00 p! 7 4 ? n! .....| Ar. Columbus.Gnl 0 30 nl ft 05 i> . ...i. " Macon 8 2<i nl 7 lo j> I 10 nit " Brunwwioh i a ' i Ar .i:i. k*invllio, ; i NATION? i,v. I Til? ' I tili a' ? < mil riailv |Nr>lti.|Ko.l2. iivniiiinii Ar \ i'. ?? 11 ~ I a At i. .. ?.'ll.n l? .-ton Ai' Brnn.hvlllo . " iinbiii hurry. " nwood.. ' 'i JOS. ." 87 p 7 00? .1 15 :t TWn (Mj, H.p h i. p n o? p a bop ,' 00 p 12 201> n :ap 12 25 p i- ? i i i.) ii 11 Ul ft 5 :V p 1 I 15 ft l 2y"a (3 Sp 12 20 :. 11 :i4 ft '.' ii I pi 7 03 :> ; ? K i> 1 60a s , tjVTn 7 16 p i "in :l "N" night.' i-pt Sunday, in. tiotunv luily oxoopl liialiiri^ con botwcou Oo ? ill.' Ai M in_Ar ? ?? -.'.n At "n villi 7. I.v 5 .5?i0.v..<ii.'.' ? illo Al ii 13 ii Ar Hpurtni I urpr I.v 0 45 Hi " . AslulVillo .. " 121i> " ? Knoxvilio " 45nIAr .t'liii'lni ui t.v jT85p 7 55niAr. Ijoui .'! ? Iivl "A" ill m. "V" p. in. "rd" n^on. Trniiifl loavo Kingvlllo, < illy vx for Onmdoii 10:16 n ni nnd 4:115 p Inn lonvo Cannloii i'or Kltigvillo, BlUldliy. 8:16 ii. in . niwl ? mi p. in., neotton at Kiugvillo with Iraiiia lumbtn and < 'linrloston. Trams loavu HpnrtnnburR via S. u. divia londai:\ l-..r if ??i.'.i?:.-. .1 iMvi?o. I.'nton nnd Oohun'iift nn t hitornipdinti p ants 11:45 ft- in. and 0:16 p. in. Trnliis lonvo 'i.on. da. fi?r Blborlon, Qa.. dniiv oxcopt Sinidny, YilKm in. and H:40)i. m Hetii niag lonvt Hlborlou, daily oxiutpt Sun* day,'.? :<" a- in. niii I:'";., m., tnfiklnir coniioiv lion nt Toooon wlih trams botwoon Atlnntn. to. on IIlo und tho Ifinst t ii laponko Lino Stonmor* in d:iii\ Borvlco bolu 11 n Nort-.iii and iJaltlnv ro. Nos. :<7 nnd 38? I Inily. WnMhington and south west or n Vostibwlo Liinltod. Through Fnlhnan elcopinu cureliotwoon Sow York and NowOr loans, via Wnsldngton, Atlanta and Montgom or\. nnd nlRo 1? t woon Now Vi irk and Moniphla. via Washington, Atlanta ami Birmingham. Also ftlogailt I'll.i.MAN L1HUAKV i'i^HlCUVA? TI?N i'AKs Ih>iwcoii Atlnntn nnd Now Vork Firntclnrtii thoronghfiirn conchoj t>ot woon Wash ingtonnud Atlnntn. Dining en i> norvoal) moftlii on route. Piilliiininlrnwing*roi m Blcvpiugoarr) between Groonslxiro nnd Norfolk. Clpso oniy nootlon at Norfolk forOLD POl n'T comKORT. Als.nii Atlnntn with Pullman L) R. slooper ?,>r OhatlaniKign nnd ??iioiimatl. Nos. lt.5 und IM?Uullod s.tut.<.s Knst Mall runs solid IhiIwooii WaaliUlgtOti nnd Now Or lonim, bolng coinposod of hajgago car and eoaolica. ihrough without ohango for pnsBongorfl o( all olasmift. Pullman urawing room Blooping earn liotwoon Now Vork and Now Orleans, vin Atlantaaud Montgomoryand botweon Charlotte and Birmingham. Len\ Inn Washington enoh Tuesday nnd Friday,a tourist ?looping mr will run through between Wnahiogtou und San Franolscii vvltiu -.it ohango Dining cars ?) re nil molds onronto. MOS. 11.83. IM and 12? l'ullmnn Bloonlnp onr^ but woon Riolimondand Chariot to, vir? I >nn\ ilio, touUtbound Nm 11 and 3:1, northbound Noil Mum'. 12 i lonnoetlon al Atlanta with through Pnllmnn l>. R. nlooplng car for .Tackaonvllloi also Pullman nlouplng car for Dronswiok. Oonnontlon made nt Bpartanhurg with thrO'JffJl ''ullinnu sloroor for AnllOvlllej KnoXi ' villo and i in i innti;?rs?'aV(johirnbiri ror*"Ba vnnnah nnd .In >ICHOnvill0. FRANKS. (4A N N'ON. J. m.ttlM.P. Thlr: v r ,v i ion. Mgr., Trntflo M'?'r. Washington, i>- O. Washington, D. C W. A TURK, ?. It HAHDWlOK, Goii'iPass. Ag'l . Ass'tGou'lPik yt'afltiinglon, l>. PtMM.Ag'U. A.tlaatai On PITTS' Antiseptic Invigorator! FOR Tho Stomach, The Idver, Th ? Bowels, The K idnej b, The lllootl, The Nerves, OoNTAoioua Disk a s k.s. Antisontio Invigorator i? a p;orm-killor, a diuretic, a blood purilior, a Rtomaoh and nerve tonic, a Btiiru'aiit for Iho liver anj ' bowels. Manufactured iiy Pills' Antiseptic Invigorator C THOMSON, OA. Kor aale by druggists ovorywhi Sold by OAKPKNTKR UROS.. Oreenvlllc, 8. ?JAPANESE CURB A N.? ri i Complete Treatment, i nnlstlnsT m ?UPPOSI r< >kiks. Captures 01 Ointment sstdlwo Boxet ol Ointment. A tjjevcr-falllng cum far fUss of every nature and degree. It mikcAanaperratfas) with tl<e knifi', which is 1'nltiful, and oft? rsTs?lt? in death, unnecessary; nhy endure tkin tsrrwe disoaso? Wo pack a Written Guaraata* In m?M $1 Uox. No Cure,'No Pay. 50c. and p u baas, < as* ,?5. Bent by mail. Samples free) OINTMENT, ?6o- and Mtab CONSTIPATION grc a LIVER m<l stomach rkoula' Ft I OOD PURIFIER. Small, bum and ' ike: es-iecimly a.inptwl (or cWklrata** '??->os .15 1 cuts. FREE.?A vial of these famous little [Ivcn with a ft box or more of PUt Cam it i I'm ? ' n IN8 FSUSH J AT AMBUS ffcTUS ? ? ;k i,.; s.i>c ouly by Sold oyiDr. B.P. Posey, Laurens, S. C. HINDIPO KEsroRES VITALITY Made a Woll Man of Me. j l< EAT PI I II REMEDY produces the nWe result In -10 days. Curti tfervout 1 '??biltlv.Jmf'Otency. ncoeele, Failing Memory, Stops all drains und ics caused by errors of youth. It wauls oil in ?tv ml Consumption. Young Men regain Man ? I . ii I OM Mm retOVCI Youthful Vigor. Ii \lg iv finds zc to shrunken organs.and fiti .? i .1 business 01 marriage. Easily carried in v< ket. Price tn PTC 6'loxesfs.Si plain pack.QU L 1 O. nee. wltl ? n fcu tiuiitec. DR. JEAN 0 HAKIt5, Pari! Sold bv IK B. P. l'osoy, Luurena Easily,Quickly,Permanently Restored MAGNETIC NERVINE ? anlet to t in <? Insomnia, Fits, Dizziness, Hysteria, Nervous Debility, Lost Vitality, Seminal Losies, Failing Mcmoi / ?the result of Over-work, Worry, Sickness, Errors ol Youth or Over-indulgence. Price 60c. ond 31 ; 6 boxes IB. For quick, positive and lasting;results In Sexual Weakness, Imp t- ? v. Nervous Debility and Lost Vitality, use Blue Label Speoial?double Strength?will give strength and tone to every part and elicit n permanent cure. Cheapest ana best. ioo Pills : ny mall. FREE?A bottle of tlie famous Japanese Liver Pellets will be given with a fi bos or more of Mag netic Nervine. Irce. Sold only by Suhl by Dr. 15. P. PoeUV, LuuriDS. Jar To Atlanta. Charlotte, Augusta, Ath ena, \\ llmlDgton, New Orleans and Now York, Huston, Richmond, Wash Ington, Norfolk, Portsmouth.?Sched ule in clicet Dec 11, 1898, BOUTU BOUND. No. 403. No. 4 Lv New York, Pemr.lt.K..?11 00am ,900pm Philadelphia. l 12pm 1205am linltimorc. 3 lftpm 2 bUam Washington. l 40pm l 80am Richmond, A. 0. L. *.i 00pm 006am Norfolk via 8. A. L. ?8 30pm*006am l'or I smotiib .... H 40pm i) 20am Weldon.*ll 10pm*ll 60am Ar Henderson.*1267am *i 60pm Ar Durham via s A L.17 32am 14 16pm Lv Durham _ . t7 Odpmt 10 19am Ar Raleigh via SAL.*2 10am *8 34pra Ban ford. 8 33am 606pm bo Pines. 4 23am 6 68pm Hamlet. f> !>7am li 5;ipm Wadosboro. 5 63am 810pm Monroe. Ii 43am !) 12e n Ar VViiml igton._ ??i2U.>pm ""Cbarl.iio via S.A. P.. .* 7 ./'am* in 20pm ChcBTcTVialj A L_ *7ToSam* in fiiipin Lv Ottltiinbia.C. N. iV. N Lit.?Ii OOpm Ar C hnton , 8. \. I.*U 4?am*12 Ham d reeuwood.10 86am l 07a Abbeville.ii 03am l ;;.;am ttlberton.12 07pm 2 -Han. Ar Athens. 1 13pm 3 43am Ata\Vinder. I wpm 4 2yam Ar Atlanta (central timo.. 2 60pm 6 20am NORTHBOUND. No. 402. No. 38 Lv Atlanta cent, t. S.A.L.. *12 00nn*7 tOpm I \ W inder . 2 40pm 10 40pm Lv Athens. 8 lGpni I 10pm IC Iber ten. 4 16 pm P.'31 am Abbeville. R 16pm 1 .'.'Oam tircenwood. 641pm 2U.Sam l 'liuton. 0 00pm 2 ,'ifmm Ar Columbia U N A L K i<.*7 4;">am L\ Chester, b. A. i.. "7 63pm l :'jani Ar Charlotte viaS A L_MO26pm*7 60am Lv Moii roe-S .V L..""."SMOpm li U5ain Ham lei ?. ?.li lftpm 7 v5am Ar Wilmington. ?1206pm Lv E>o ines.*l2u7am *U'Wanj Raleigh.*2 loam li lhun Ar Henderson .. . 3 28rm *1260pm \i Durham via8 A L .t7 b~2am *4 16pm Lv Durham. '7 oupn ?11 lUan Ar Weldon HA I.*l ?.nur ?2 6Upg liichmond, A. C. 1. .s4iam 7 12pm Washington viaPennKUli 31pn< li lOpni Baltimore. I 4?pm l 08ani Philadelphia. 3 50pm ;s .?Uan. New York.....*ti 23pm *b ?3am Ar Portsmouth, b, A. li.... 7 26am 62Upm Norfolk .*7 35am 30pm ?Dally, fbally Kx. buuday. Nu. 3,>, Daily leaves Athenso 05am, arrivot :ti Atlanta at |o 40 am. No, oft, Daily leaves Atlanta 5 30 pin. ar rives at Athens at 8 05 piu. Nos. 103 and 402.?"The Atlanta Special, Solid Vo8tibulcd I rain of Pullman Sleepers aud Conches between Washington and At lanta, aloo Pullman blcopera between Ports mouth and I nesler. b, <!, Nos. 41 and 3?.?" The S.A. L. K.\preas,' Solid Train, Coaches and Pullman Hlecpere between Portsmouth and Atlanta. Com* pany Sleepers bei ween Columbia and Atlanta. Uolh naiiiB make immediate connection at Ailanta for .M on i.emery, .Mobile. New Orleans I'exas. California, Mexico, I Italia oga, Nashville. Ml in phis. Macon. Klor ida Por Tickets, blcopera, etc., apply to B, A NKWLANO, (i. /\. P. 1). . w. H mi.NTg.T. P. A. (J Kimball Bouse Atlanta, da. Charleston and Western Carolina B. R, AUOUSTA AND ASHKVILLB BllOKT Link. In effect .1 uI\ 23. IMM).