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.1 £ m '/Xt GREAT rati road depot maj not be the heat achool for a boy, yet poor little Joe liry- an liad scarcely known any other. lie could not re member when the long waiting-rooms, with their tiled floors and dreary rows of stationary settees and crowds of harrying people, were not quite as fa miliar to him and mere homelike than hla mother’s small, bare house, which he knew os little more than a place lor eating and sleeping. At an age when any ordinary baby might hare been frightened into eon- mlslons by the shriek of a locomotive, Joe, securely fastened in his eab, would stare for hours through the great window undisturbed by the in cessant rush and roar of arriving and departing .trains He had been only six months old when the dresdful accident happened which at one f dl stroke made him fatherless and transformed him from a strong, well developed Infant to a piti ful ssreature, which even death refused to take. The old yardmen tell the story even yet—how young Michael llryau, as straight and manly a fellow as ever left his green, old, native island for the better chances of the new world this aide of the sea, came whistling oat ot the roundhouse that morning and stopped hastily from before an incom ing locomotive, neither seeing nor hearing another rushing up the paral lel track, ilia mates cried out to him —too late! Nobody who saw it would ever forget the look of agony which distorted his handsome face in that one horrible instant when be recog nised his doom, or the perpendicular leap into the air, from which he fell back beneath the crunching wheels. In the excitement and consternation of the' time no messenger had been sent In advance to prepare the pom- young wife for her trouble, and she stood in the doorway with her baby crowing in her arms, when the stout bearers paused at her gate with their mangled burden. 8he uttered a terri ble cry and fell fainting—the child’s tender back striking the sharp edge of the door stone. "What a pity that it was not killed ontright,” said everybody but the mother. She herself always insisted that only her constant watching over the little flickering life kept her from going mad in the first dreadful months of her bereavement. When Joe was seven years old his mother sent him to school* lie went patiently day after day, making no complaint, but she awoke suddenly one night to find him sobbing on the pil low beside her. Only by dint of long coaxing was she able to find out the cause of bis grief. Some of the rougher boys—more thoughtless than cruel, let us hope—had called him flumpy, and naked if he carried a bag of meal on his baek. Mary flamed with the fitree anger of motherhood. - “Yon shan’t go another dayl” she de clared. “The ruffians! I won't have my dartin’ put upon by the likes of and the occupants ot the cab wrapped from view in a cloud of smoke. Some hundred yards beyond the depot the track took a sharp upward grade, from which H descended again to atriko the bridge across a narrow .bat deep and rocky gorge. Men looked after the flying locomo tive and then at each otiier with blanched faces. The crowd began to run along the track, some with a vain instinct of helpfulness, some moved by that mor bid curiosity which seeks to be "in at the death.” Rut look! Midway the long rise the speed of the runaway engine sud denly slackens. “What does it mean? She never could a* died out in that time!*' shouted an old yardman. Excitement winged their feet When the foremost runners reached the place the smoking engine stood still on her track, quivering in every steel-clad nerve, her great wheels still whizzing round and round amid a flight of red sparks from beneath. "What did it? Who stopped her?” The engineer, staggering from the cab with the pallid face of the fireman behind him, pointed, without speaking, to where a little pale-faced, crooked- bached boy hud sank down, panting with exertion, beside the track At hie feet a huge oil-can lay over turned and empty. The crowd stared at one another, opcn-moutlied. Then the trnth flashed upon them. “lie oiled the track!” "Rullj* for Crooked Joe!” They caugiit the exhausted child, flinging him from Shoulder to shoulder, striving with each other for the honor of bearing him. and so, in irregular, tumultuous triumphal procession they brought him back to the depot and set him down among them. “Pass the hat, pawls!” cried one. H had been pay day, and the saved engineer and fireman dropped in each : their month's wages Not a tiand in all the throng that did not delve into a pocket. There was the crisp rustle of ! bills, the chink of gold and silver coin. | “Out with yonr handkerchief, Joe! ; Your hands won’t hold it all! Why, | young one, what—what's the matter?” i for the boy, with scarlet checks and ' burning cyen. had clenched botli small hands behind his back—the poor, ! twisted back laden with its burden of deformity and pain. "No! no!” ho cried, in a shrill, high voice. “Don’t pay me! Can’t you ueo WHY THE SEA IS SALT IT RECEIVES MINERAL SALT FROM LAND AND LOSES NONE. A' them!” So Joe’s schooling had come to an untimely end. Yet, meager as was his Stock of book learning, the develop ment of his mind fsr outstripped the growth of his stunted and deformed body. Everybody liked the patient little fellow tugging manfully at hit mother’s heavy water buckets and running willingly to every call of the station men. At twelve years old he had picked np no small amount of in formation, especially on railroad top ics, Be knew every locomotive oa the road, understood the Intricacies of the side trucks and switches, and could tell the precise moment when any par ticular train might be expected with the accuracy of a time table. Yet. the very quickness and ardor of his nature deepened his sense of his in firmity. The glances cast upon him by stranger eyes, some pitiful, some cu rious, others, alas! expressive only of annoyance and disgust, rankled like so many arrows in his heart; not one missed its mark. Bow wistfully his •yes followed boys of his own age- straight, handsome, happy—who sprang lightly up and down the steps of the coaches, or threaded their way aloe the crowded platforms. For one d: 3t such a perfect, nntrammeled life he would have bartered all the possible years before him. Yet he never pnt his yeanlings k . words, even to his mother. “Crooked Joe’sarum ’un," said one of bis rough acquaintances, “lie senses bis trouble well enough, but he don’t •st onto nobody.” - Mr. Crump, the telegraph operator, was Joe's constant friend. It was he who, at odd moments, hud taught thr boy to read and had, Initiated hint Into some of the * mysteries of the •licking Instrument, which to Joe’s Imaginative mind seemed some strange sraature with a bidden life of its own. 11 wss growing toward dark one No Vew tier afternoon. Joe—never an un welcome visitor—sat curled In n corner of Mr. Crntnp’s office waiting for hi* mother to finish her work. lie was la boriously spelling out by the ffcdcd tight the Words upon tt page of un illus trated newspaper, quite .oblivious of the ticking, like that of a very Jerky sod rheumatic clock, whivk sounded iu the room. Mr. Crump, too, had a paper before him, but his care were alive. Suddenly be sprang to his feet, repeating aloud the message which tb.-it moment flatbed along the wire. ‘“Engine No. 110 running wild. Cleat track.’" lie rushed to tlte door, shouting tie news. "Not a w.'Cond to zpsru! bho’ll 1<- down in seven ininu'ex." Tl»e word* pasocti like lightning. In a roomed theyard tvas in a wild com motion. Men/lew hither thither, yard engines stannic J v. Hilly uwny, the switches closing bshin-l them. Tito main truck wss "ber.-ly cl:nr Wlssn 110 esme iu sight, nw.-ylng (rtso •Mo to ship, her wheels threatening to leave the track atexch revolution. f>h<- passed the depot like a meteor, tier bcl; clanging with every lestp of her j i ton, the steam escaping tr- m her wliistl- UK ft dfiOKW. "HOl !to! DON’T PAT MIC!” what It’s worth to me, once—just once in my life—to be a little use—like other folks?” , The superintendent had come from his office. Be laid his hand on the boy’s bead. “Joe,” bo said, "we couldn’t pay you it if we wished. Money doesn’t pay for lives! Rut you have saved us a great many dollars besides. Won’t you lat us do something for yon?” "You can’t! You can’t! Nobody can!” The child’s voice was almost a shriek, ft seemed to rend the air with the pent-up agony of years. “There’s only one thing in the world I want, and nobody can give me that Nobody can make mo anything hut Crooued Joe!” The superintendent lifted him and held him against his own breast. ! “My boy,” ho said, in firm, gentle tones, “you are right. None of us can do that for yon. Rut you can do it yourself. Listen to me! Where is Hie quick brain God gave you and the brave heart? Not in that bent back of yours—tliat has nothing to dc# with them! Let us help yon to a chance- only a chance to worlc nod to learn- and it will rest with yourself to say whether in twenty years from now, if you arc alive, you are Crooked Joe or Mr. Joseph Bryan." Visiting in c— not long ago, a friefid said to me; “Court is in session. You must go wiGi me and hear Rryan.” The courtroom nva* already crowded at our entrance with an expectant audience. When the brilliant young attorney rose to make bis plea 1 noticed with a shock of surprise that his noble lead surmounted au under- sized and misshapen body. He lind spoken but live minutes, however, when I had forgotten the physical du lcet; in ten 1 was eagerly Interested, tfud thent.Iter, during the two hows’ speech, held rpcillotind by the mar- vclons clrqneuce which is fast rat-ting him to the leadership of hit profession iu I.H native city. "A wonderful tnanl" said my friend, as wo walked slowly homeward. Then he told mu <ie story of Crooked Joe.-- S’. Louis Republic, I/ard to Kill. ' “An alligator Is a hard animal to itlll," rays a resident of Jacksonville, i’la. “I recently wont on a trip down on the fit. Johns river and saw over four hundred shot! tired from the bunt at them .tud truly one was killed out right anil lie was struck in the eye. Ills brcjii was penetrated nua he never moved. It generally requires un alli gator’s own weight in loud Ixrforo he fa killed. A man tires at him and he plunges off In the mud and then the hunter Imagines that he Is dead. Rut, if he world wait alittle while ho would ' ace him rine again and look about aa , good os to say: ‘1 haven’t gone any where; try It again.’ Nome of the old rascals rstl or like to be fired at. They arc nsetl to it, and being one of Flori da's attractions they try to do their duty by affording amusement to the traveler, while it doesn't hurt them. There is one alligator a few miles from iiitver Springs that has been shot at with pistols, shotguns, rifles and every other sort of shooting utpnsll except a cannon, every day In the year since the war closed, and he has never flinched.”—SL Louis Globe-Democrat- Ttio Process of Evaporation Releases Water from tbo Oceans, bat tbe Salt Remains. Therefore the Sea Is Coatlnoatljr Grow- Ins More Salty. Why la sea water salt? is- a question that has been regarded as ft mystery and has given rise to some curious specu lations. hut a little consideration on the subject must, I think, satisfy ns all that It wonld bo very wonderful, quite in comprehensible. if the waters Of tho ocean were otherwise than salt as they are. The following explanation was first suggested to myself many years ago when receiving my first lessons in pr.ic- tical chemical analysis. The problem then to ire solved was the separation of the bases dissolved in water by precip itating them one by one in a solid con dition. filtrating away the water from tho first, then from this filtrate prccip- itating the second, and so on until nil were separated or accounted for. But in doing this there was one base that wds always left to the last on ac count of the difficulty of combining it with any acid that would form a solid compouud—a difficulty so greaftlmt its presence was determined by a different method. This base is soda, the predomi nating base of sea salt, where it is com bined with hydrochloric acid. Not only is soda the most soluble of all tho mineral bases, but the mineral acid with which it is combined forms a remarkably solu ble series of salts—tho chlorides. Thus the primary fact concerning the salinity of sen water is that it has selected from among the stable chemical elements the two which form the most soluble com pounds. Among the earthy bases is one which is exceptionally soluble—that is, magnesia—and this stands next to soda in its abnndnnco in sea water. • Modern research lias shown that the ocean contains in solution nearly every clement that exists upon the earth, and that these elements exist in the water in proportions nearly corresponding to the mean solubility of their varions com pounds. Tims gold and silver and most of tho other heavy metals exist there. Sonnenstndt found about fourteen grains of gold to tho ton of seawater, or a dollar’s worth in less than two tons. As the ocean covers nil the lower valleys of the garth, it receives all the drainage from the whole of the exposed land. This drainage is the rainwater that has fallen ni>ou this exposed Surface, has flowed down its superficial slopes or has sunk into porous land and descended nndcrgronnd. In either case the water must dissolve and carry with it any sol uble matter tliat it meets, tho quantity of solid matter which is thus appropri ated being proportionate to its solubility and the extent of its exposure to the solvent Rain when it falls npon the earth is distilled water, nearly pnro (its small impurities being what it obtains from tho air), but river water when it reaches tho ocean contains mensurable quantities of dissolved mineral and veg etable matter. These small contribu tions uru ever pouring in and over nccu- mnlutiug. This continual addition of dissolved mineral salts without any cor- mqiouding abstraction by evaporation has been going on over since the surface of the earth consisted of land and water. Au examination of tbo composHion of other bodies of water which, like tho ocean, receive rivers and rivulets and have no other on Jot than that afforded by evaimration, confirms this view. All of these are more or less saline, many of them more so than tbo ocean itself. On tbe great tableland of Asia, “tho roof of the world.” there is a multitude of small lakes which receive the waters of riveru ami rivulets of that region and haro no outlet to tbe ocean. On a map they ajs pear like bags, with a string attached, the I tag being the lake and tbe string the river All these lakes ore saline, many of them excessively so, simply bveanso they are ever receiving river water of slight salinity and ever giving off vapor which has no x^linity at all. There is no wash throngh these lakes, as in the great American lakes or those of CoUMnuco. Uuneva. etc. Tbe sea of Aral and the Caspian are lakes without any other outlet than evaporation, and they arc saline accord ingly The Dead sea, which receives the Jordan at ono end and n multitude of minor rivers and rivnlets at the other end and sides, is a noted example of ex treme salinity. It 1*. as every Ixsly knows, a sea or lake of brine. The to* tnl area of land training into the great ocean does not exceed oni -fonrth of Its own nrea,.while the Dead sea receiver, the drainage and soluble matter of an nrcit above twenty times greater than its own, and thus it fulfills the demand of the above Mated theory by haring far greater salinity than ha.' tho great ocean. According to this view the salinity of I he ocean innst be steadily though very slowly increasing, and there must bs slowly proceeding n corresponding adap tation of evolution among the inhabit ants. both animal and vegetable. The xtndy of this subject mid tho effect which the incrauang salinity of tho past inns; have had npon the progressive modifications of organic life displayed by fossils Is. I think, worthy of more at tention than It has hitherto received Iroui paleontologists.—W. Mattien Wil limns in Science AN EASTERN BEAUTY. Then, on n sadden, rnmo n maid With tai-.ilHini-iiK- ludaiUT /or us— Allah II’ iillahl It irnxslie. The slave *lrl from t he Ivwimrill That Vnastif imrchased rvirnll)-. tsmB narrow ryes, ns him k ns hlnrkt And m-'ltlti!', like (he slr.rs In .lime; Tiawosof lll.tht drawn stniMilhly hark From oyehrowr Ih.e the (-resrenl mono. She pima.il an Instant wtlh Ijowisl head. Then, at a tnotlnn nf her wiist A veil of KtMHaitn-r iiiitsiin-nd And wrapt her i-i a silver mist. Her tuiik- wna of Tint* creeii Shnl Ihnnigli with many a starry nprek; The zone that ehtsis-d It nilith! have Is-en A collar for sryxnei's nsrk. None nf the twenty charm* she lacked Demanded for perfecthn.-sericc; ’-harm Ilium ehnrm In her war parked I .Ike rose ten ver In neortlv vnau. Full In the lanterns’ rnlnred lii;ht She seeiueii n Ihlnn nf piirndlae. t knew mil If I raw e.rlxhl. Dr If my vision told me llin. Those lanlerus spreiul a chcntlnu ala re; Sueh stains they threw from iinuuh to vine. As If the rln- Imys hen-and I here Mini spit, .,-arof hrilllnni wine. An.l then the fountain’*dniww full. The himilnit aloes' heavy w*ei,t. The iltthl. Hie place, the hour I hey all Wen- full of ruhile hlandirlimi-nt, •Thiiiuar Halley Aldrich in llnrpcr'iy Wlist is don*, cannot bt vn< done, especially if ifi boilftd We may render tho wonts ot one iat»- lunigc literally into those of another and I ft hard/ l’ 1 '* l 0 ” 1 ’ tto very spirit of tho whole, but there are ciihcs of what may be called "lyuipatiwUu ttnatlattw,” _ ^! UsT TZECIE Atlantic Coast Line. Covers Now, lliis in the time, more Ilian atljr oihei* Unit', for you to be provided with a first tdas news >aper. ’Yon cannot lx* without one, ami yon cannot grt one that wilt pleiuje you hail jiiuch ;w THE UAUL1NGTON HERALD. Just Try it and See It costs you only ONE DOLLAi l per yeah -’SkdciiTjisa, The Darling The Hartsville Railroad.' Dated Dec. 3,1803. DAILY MIXED TRAIN. Leave Hartsville Jovnnn Floyd’s Arrive Darlington Leave Darlington Floyd’s Jovann Arrive Hartsville 0 00 am 6 20 am 0 35 am 7 20 am 0 30 pm 8 00 pm 8 20 pm 8 40 pm 4. F. DIVINE- Gen. Rnn’t C. & D. and C. & S. Railroads. In Effect 8, Dee. 1804. Take Your Comity Paper. Why Every Family Ought to Have It— No Man Too Poor to Take a Paper. OOINO NORTH. GOINO SOUTH. P. M.' A. M. 7 15 Le. Florence Ar. 7 25 728 Palmetto 7 It 7 38 Darlington 700 7 50 Floyd’s 6 40 7 55 Dove’s 644 813 Society Hill 6 26 8 27 Cash’s 612 850 Cheraw' 600 0 13 McFarland 517 0 30 Mqrven 504 0 54 p m Bennett’s 4 51 10 15 p m Ar. Wades boro Le. 4 80 LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN. Leave Florence Darlington Arrive Cheraw Leave Cheraw Darlington Arrive Florence C. S. GADSDEN. President. Northeastern Railroad. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. Dated Juti. lltMMM. No.3V No, No. «l|No. 23 No^J. i • l -tstt •_ I » ~ * A.M.'A.M. A.M P.M. LoFlorence.; 3 37 « 85. 7 45 725 Klngstrcc I 5 58 8 37 Ar. Lanes 4 52 20 000 Lo.Luni-s.... , 4 52 ; 20 1100 A i-Charlust n 6 50 0 42' 20 1100 JA. M. A.M.iA. M.|P. N. TRAINS GOINO NORTH. It is the cheapest thing he cau buy. Every time a hen clucks and has laid an egg his paper is paid for that week. It costs less than a postage stamp, less than to send or receive a single letter. What Good Does it do You ? It instructs you and broadens your views. It interests your wife, and it educates your chiidrcn. It comes to you eveiy week, rain or shine, calm or storm, bringing you the news of the busy world. No matter what happens, it enters your door every week ns a welcome friend, full of sunshine and cheer and interest. It opens tbe door of the great world and puts you face to face with its piop'c and its great events. It shortens the long summer days, and it enlivens the long winter nights. It is your adviser, your gossip, and your friend. No man is just to his children who does not give them n good paper to read. No man is good to himself and his wife who does tut take his county paper. Read Every Word of This. Neglect at any time is bud enough, but if there is any time more than another when a man needs a first-class weekly news paper, H is now, and to neglect supplying yourself with one is nothing more than working your own injury. Lively Times Ahead ! For lively and interesting developments in Slate politics the next six months will lie without parallel in any similar period since th»: war, and even now the great campaign is under way. Where do You Stand ? Where any patriotic American ought to stand, >lon’t you ? Then why not help yourself and help your neighbor by subscribing to THE DARLINGTON HEilALD. No. 78 No. 00 No. 14 No. No. 52 • I • I • ♦500 Lft.Cliarlestol Ar Finncs 1*0 fiAIIOS.... KitiKStree Ar.Kloreuce. 3 5V» 5 an 5 30; r, k 7 10 8 41 DATED Out. 8th, 1802 Lou vo Weldon Arrive Uock}’ Mount Vi’*'* "•Irj. rs Leave Goldsboro Leave Warsaw Leave MairnoUa Amvo Wilmington.. Going south. Leave Wilson Arrive Selina Arrive Fayuttsvtlle No. 23 daily. *2 80 p m 825 520 OOINO NOROH. Kk Dated may 81, 1802. j e=E is j* 12 35 154 Leave Wilmington. Gave Mairnolla Leave Warsaw Arrive Goldsboro , 286 Leave Fayetteville.. .. Leave Selma Arrive Wilson ... Leave Wilson Arrive Rocky Mount.. Arive Tarooro... Leave Torboro... Arrive Weldon . a. m 885 400 a. m. I*, m a. m. ft 16 1057 n ii 12 08 a. m •S3U 1138 p. m J23H p. m. 1288 13ft •S3U a. m. 6 m *218 1258 p. m, 288 p. m 4 211 B 02 BIS 7 10 p. m. 8 04 83ft p. m. 11)00 •Dally except Sunday. W., C. & A. Railroad. GOING SOUTH. Dated Dec 8, 1803. County. No. 55. Leaves Wilmington * 8:20 p. i.. Marlon 6:11 Arrives at Florence 0:50 No. 58. Leaves Florence •7:!0p. m Arrives at Sumter 8:28 Arrive Columbia lomo No. 58. Lewes Florence t 7:45 Arrive at Sumter 0:20 No. 52. Leave* Sumter *0:53 a. ii Arrive* at ('olntnbih 10:05 C., 3. dt il R-R J AH Trails DailyiRxccpt 8u NORTH BOUND. SOUTB 1 STATIONS. A. M. - 8 10 Lv. Prognalls 816 Harleyvtiie 8 84 Pecjts.-F 87 Boll; OUND. 8 18 850 002 017 029 085 044 0 52 10 05 10 20 Ar. 0 10 25 Lv. 10 88 10 51 1101 11 10 1180 Darlington ngtn Mont Clare 11 45 Ly. 12 00 12 11 Robbins Neck 12 20 Mandeville 12 40 Ar. Bennottsyille 12 48 Breedens f 12 58 Alice 105 Gibson 120 Glio 1 85 Ar. namlet P.M. 2 -Ar.ft-60 rleyvtne 8 40 ecks-F ; , a w 8 25 dlflliU’ 4 ** *8 21 Conners F Eutawville Vances Merriam’s r St. Pan! Summerton Silver Packsvllle Tlndal Snmter Sumter Oswego St. Charles Elliotts Lamar Syracuse 815 807 7 55 7 i? 7 80 a m 8 40 a m 11 20 a nt 1 00 p m 4 00 p m 5 00 p m P. M, 7 05 845 P. M. A. M. P. M. P. M. P. M. A. M. IA. M.'P. M. r. M.!]'. M M. * D**ly f Daily except Sunday. Trains Nos. 501 hml 500, New York anti Florida S|>ccitil, carrying only first class passengers In-lding Pullman uc- conimndations—Pally except Sunday No. 52 runs through to Columbia' via Central U U. of S. C. Trains Nos. 500, 78 and 14 run vl* Wilson and Fayellci ille—Short L‘ne— anil make close connection for all points North. JNO. F DIVINE, Gen’l Snpl. J. B.KENLV, Gcn’l Manager. T. M. EMERSON. Traffic Manager. Wilmington & Weldon R. R. OOINO SOUTH. GOING NORTH No. 51 Leave* Colunddr • 4."0 a. it. Sumter 5-57 a. in Arrives ut Florci.ie 7:14 j». it Nt). 60. Leave* Florence 7:40 a. i Marion 8 23 Arrive at Wilmiugnni 11-10 No. 53. Leave* Columbia *4:10 p. u Arrives at Sumter 5:34 No. 50. Lv. Sumter Sun ter 5.45 p. m Ar. Florence 0: i i p. ui 71 720 7 10 700 6 47 Lv. 6 30 Ar. 6 10 558 5 45 535 520 g on Ar, 4 50 433 4 20 405 Lv. 3 50 3 42 3 37 325 3 10 Lv *2 55 P.M. “F” Flag Station Trains stop only on signal or t o take on and let off passengers. J. IT. AVERILL, General Manager. Cape Fear & Yadkiir Valley R.R. Condensed Schedule, Dec. 3d, 1803. NORTH BOUND. No. 2. Daily except Sunday. Leave Wilmington, 7 00 a m Arrive FayettriUe, 10 10 Leave Fayetteville, 10 27 Leave Fayetteville Junction 1080 • Sanford, 11 48 Leave Climax, 1 43 p m Arrive Greensboro, 2 15 Leave Greensboro, - 2 55 Leave Stokesdalc, 3 48 Arrive Walnut Cove, 4 20 Leave Walnut Cove 4 88 , Leave Rural Hall, 5 10 Arrive ML Airy, 6 25 SOUTH BOUND. No. 1. Daily except Sunday. Leave Mt. Airy. I) 45 am Leave Rural Hall 11 06 a m Arrive Walnut Cove 11 35 p m Leave Walnut Cove, 11 42 Stokesdalc 12 06 p m Arrive Greensboro 12 52 Leave Greensboro, 12 50 Climax 127 Sanford, 312 Arrive Fayetteville Junction 4 25 Arrive Fayetteville 4 30 Leave Fayetteville, 4 45 Arrive Wilmington, 7 05 NORTH ROUND. No. 4, Daily except Sunday. Leave Bennettsville, 6 25 a m Maxtor.. 7 37 Red Springs, 8 17 Leave Hope Mills, 0 12 Arrive Fayetteville 0 35 SOUTH ROUND. Daily e Leave Fayetteville, Hope Mills, Red Springs, Maxton, Arrive Bennettsville. NORTH ROUND. No. 16, daily except Sunday. Mixed Leave Ramseur, 6 50 a m Leave Climax, 8 40 Arrive Greenslioro, 9 25 Leave Greensboro 040 StokeHtlalc H 00 Arrive Madison noo SOUTH BOUND. No. 15, dally except Sunday. Mixctl. Leave Madison 12 30 p m. Leave Stokesdalc 1 05 Arrive Orecnshoro 2 35 Leave G reensboi o, 8 00 I/eave Climax 355 Arrive Bsmseur 585 Trains No. 2 and 4 make close con nection at Farettovillc Jumtion with the Atlantic Coast Line for all points North and at Walnut Cove with N. & W. Systi m for Wnston-Salem. Train No. 16 conned* at Madison with N. & W. for Roanoke and points West. Train No 1 raakra close connection at Fayetteville Junction with Atlantic Coast Line for Char’eHton, Savannah, Jacksonville, and nil point* South. Junction point* nt Maxton with S. A. L., at Bennettsville with C., S. & S. R. H., at Sanford with S. A. L., at Greens boro with the Richmond and Danville System. W. K. KYLE, J. W. FRY, Gen. Pass.Agent Oon. Manager. No. 52. runs through from Lliarlustoii vis Central Railroad, leaving Lace* 8.40 a in., Manning 9.1? a. m. No. 3, Daily except. Sunday. ■I 50 p m 5 13 6 (« 6 47 800 DARUNCTOMjS, 6. •Daily. tD-iily, except Sundai. No. 53 runs through to Charleston, vli. Central K. It., arriving at Manning 6:15 p. m., Lane* 7:0(1 p. m., CharloHlmi 8:15 p. m. Trains on Manchester A Augusta II. K leave Sumter daily, except Sunday, at 10.50 a. m., arrive* at Rimini 11.50 a. in. Returning leave* Ifiuiiui 1.00 p. in., ar rives at Su-iler 2.10 p. in. Train* on Wilmington Ciindbourn A Conway railroad leave Chadixuitn 10.10 a. m., arrive Conway 13.80 p.m.,returning leave C mway at 2.00 p. m. arrive Clind- bourn 4 40 p. m. Leave Clmdlxiurn 7.<U a. m. au 15.15 p. in., arrive Hull at 7.44 a. i in. and 6.00 p. m. Heluniiug leave Hut i 8.15 a. m. and O.JO p. in., arriv e Chiulhottrn 0.00 a. m. and 7.15 p. m. Daily except ; Sunday. J. It. tvENI.E Y,(ieuer«l Manager. , T. M. EMU-toON, Traffic Manage). i, f, DiVuNE. bicuuittJ Suputiului tiool EXPRESS IT TO JmsMaeKUmte, ' v 285 King St., Charleston, S. C., And have it ]ti!; iu thorough order. Fine Watch Work a Specialty and Warranted Ouc Year. Chief Inspectors of Watches for Atlantic Coast Line, South Carolina liailwuj’, Plant System Rail ways. Itcudipuirtet's for WEDDING PRESENTS, DIHONOS, JEWEIRT, WATCHES, FINE LAMPS, STERLING SILVEflWARE. On ers :Yom Ike ('tiunfry receive irompt attrition. '' Reliable Goods. Reusonttble Prices. A largo itock always on hand, THIS PAGE CONTAINS FLAWS AND OTHER DEFECTS WHICH MAY APPEAR ON THE FILM.