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MY ONE GORILLA. By QBAHT ALLEN. (Copyright. 18UO. by Grant Alles.] I looked tip from my beetles. The saigfet wss wsrm. A naked little black girt crossed the dusty main street of tbe village just in front of my hnt. rying in her hand what ssemed to in the gloaming the largest blos I had ever oheerved airce my ar? rival in Africa. That was ft blossom. It looked like an orchid, pale cream color in hue and very fantastic and bisarre in ebene. But what specially attracted my attention at first sight was its peculiar shining and glisteLing effect, like Iniuinona paint, which made It glow iu the gray dusk with a sort of phosphorescent light auch as one ob? serves In tropical seas on calm summer evenings To a naturalist, of course, such a vision aa that waa simply irresistible. "Hello, there, little girl!' I cried out la Fantee. which 1 bad learned by that time to speak pretty fluently. "Let me sack at yonr flower, will you? Where esj earth did yon get It T" Bat instead of answering me civilly. Mks a Christian child, the scared little savage, alarmed at my white face, set wp a wild how) of terror and amaze ?sent and bolted off down the street as tact aa her small bandy lega would entry her. Wall, science is science. I wasn't to 1st balked of a unique specimen or my great collection by a trick like thai So, flinging away my cigmette and carting out of my hnt I gave chase in eaa tin entry and rushed full pelt down Ac main street of Tulamba. belter and devil take the hindmost in lit of my 10-year-old. B'.t I reckoned withont my host. Obi Id en on the Gaboon beat the record sec the quarter mile. 1 was quite Croped oat and panting for breath be e 1 ran that girl to earth at last by bar mother's door at the far end of the village. A dosen or more of the negroes, ?altering abont on their backs in the asset of the street, bad joined the hue cry with great gusto by that time. didn't know, tobe sore, what the was abont but given a white man? bsatower of mm and money?rushing la mad purenit and a poor little fright black girl scampering away for life at the top of her speed, in Object bodily terror, and you may con idently reckon on tbe chivalry of the Chi boon to range itself automatically aa tbe side of the stronger, and to drive teas unhappy small child hopelessly into a very bad corner. When at last 1 got up with the ob? ject of my quest, she was so alarmed and blown with her headlong career tbat I felt thoroughly ashamed of my aetf Even the' pa rani t of science, 1 will frankly admit, hardly justified me te so chasing that frightened little ?serial through tbe street of Tulamba. However, a m ight English sixpence, a red silk hsndkercbief and the promise at a box of European aweeta from tbe eid he If caste Portuguese trader's shop la the village, soon restored her con? fidence. Unhappily it did not restore ejbat broken and draggled but priceless ea ch id In her headlong flight tbe child bud crumpled it hopelessly up in her hund and distorted it almost beyond ale possibility of scientific recognition. AU I could make out with certainty sue was that the orchid belonged to a aew and hitherto nndescribed species: tbat it was large nnd luminous and ex? tremely beautiful, and tbat if only 1 eenld succeed in securing a plant of it ssy name waa mud s aa a scientific ex? plorer Tbe natives crowded round with die ratere?icd advice and eyed the torn and exaggbi) blossom curiously "It's a aaoon flow?-4. " they said in their own dialect "Very rare Hsrd to get Obmee from the deep ahades in tbe great forest." "How did you come by it. my cblld? leaked coaxingly of my sob little 10 year-old "My father brooght It in." the child iwered "He gave it me a week ago. He waa out in tbe country of the dwarfs doing trade. He went for ivory, end he brought this back to me." "Boye." I cried to the negrc * who crowded round looking on. "do yon know where it lives? I want to get ose. A good English rifle to any man in Tulamba who guides me to the spot where I "un pick a live moon flower I' The in i) shook their beads and ehru - ;? I their shoulders dubiously "Oh no!' they all answered, like capers at the theater, with one uccord ??Too far: Too dangerous I" "Why dungeroua V I cried.laughing **The moon flower won't bi'.e yon. Who says danger in pickibg a flower?' My bead gnide and hunter stood out from the crowd and looked across at see awe struck. "Oh, excellency I" he said in a hushed and frightened voice. "The moon flower h rare It is very scarce It gr ?wn only in tbe dark forest of sbf tuner land, where tbe ngina dwells No tnsn dare pick it for fear of ?be ogina." "Ohof said 1 "la tbat so, my friend? Then I ?*, not astonished." For ngina. an no doubt you're already aware, ia tbe native West African aame for the gorilla. Well. I took borne the poor draggled blossom to my hut. dissected it care tally snd made what scientific study win possible of its unhappy remains in tbeir much tattered condition, but for tbe Hi-it ten days, as you can readily believe. I could think and talk and dream of nothing hut moon flowera. Ton can't think what a fascination it exerts on a nsturalist explorer's mind ?a new orchid like tbst. as big round as ii dessert piste and marked by so ex traordinsry and bithert) unknown a peculiarity in plants as phosphorescence, for tbe moon flower was phosphorea ceo'.. Of thst I bad not tbe shadow of a doubt Its petals gave ont by night a faint aad dreamy luminoaenees, which toast have made it shins like a moon iedesd in the dense, dark shads of a tropical African forest The wore I inquired of the natives about the new plant the more was my curiosity piquod to posses one. I longed to bring a root of the marvelous bloom to Europe, for the natives all spoke of it with n certain hushed awe or super? stitious respect *'lt is the ngina's flower.' they said "It grows in the dark places?the gardens of the ngina If any man breaks one off. that is very bad luck The ngina will surely over? take and destroy him." This superstitious awe only inflamed my desire to possess a root The ne? groes stories showed the moon flower to be a most unique species I gathered from what they told me that the blos? soms had a very long spur,' or sac. con? taining heneyat its base in great quan? tities; that it was fertilized and rifled by a huge evening moth, whose pro? boscis was exactly adapted in length to the spur and its nectar; that it was creamy white in order to attract the insect's eyes in the gray shades of dusk, and that, for the selfsame reason, its petals were endowed with the strange quality of phosphorescence, till now unknown in the vegetable kingdom, while it exhaled by night a delicious perfume, strong enough to be perceived at some 20 yards' distance. So great a prise to a man of my tastes was simply irresistible. I made up my mind that, come what might, I must, could and woold possess a tuber of the moon flower. One fortnight sufficed for me to make my final plans. Heavy bribes overcame the scruples of the negroes. The prom? ise of a good rifle induced the finder of the first specimen to take service with me as a goida Fully equipped for a week's march and well attended with followers, all armed to the teeth, I made my start at last for the home of the moon flower. To cut a long story short, we went for three days into the primeval shade of the great equatorial African forest. Dense roofs of foliage shot out the light of day. Underfoot the ground was encumbered with thick, tropical brush? wood. We crept along cautiously, back? ing our way at times among the brake with onr cutlasses and crawling at others through the deep tangle of the underbrush on all fours, like monkeys. Daring all those three days we never caught sight of a single moon flower They were growing very rare nowa? days, my guide explained in most voluble Fun tee. When he was a mere boy, his father found dozens of them, bat now?why, yoa must go miles and miles through the depths of the forest and never so mach as light on a speci? men. At last, about noon on the fourth day oat, we came upon a torrent, rr.hb ing with great velocity among huge bowlders and sending up the tpray of its boiling rapids into the trees of the neighborhood. I sat down to rest, meaning to mix the water from the cool, fresh stream with a spoonful or two of cognac from the flask in my pocket As 1 drank it I tossed back my head and looked up. Something on one of the trees hard by attracted my eyes strangely. A parasite stood ont boldly from a fork of the branches, bearing a long, lithe spray of huge, luminous flowers as big as dessert platea My within sight. 1 pointed my finger in silence to the tree. All the negroes with one voice raised a loud shout of triumph. Their words rent the air "The moon flower I The moon flower 1' I felt myself for a moment a perfect SU.nley or Du Chailln. I had discovered tb ? most marvelous und beautiful orchid ki own to science. Jo a moment I had tossed off my brandy, laid down my rifle and. mount? ing on the back of one of my negro porters, was swinging myself up to tho lowest branch of t! tree, where my new treasure shone resplendent in its own dim phosphorescence. I couldn't have trusted any hand but my own to pick or egg oat of that glorious tuber. I meant to cut it bodily from the bark aa it stood and bear it back in triumph in my own atms to Tulamba. I had climbed the tree cautiously, and was standing almost within grasp of the prize when a sudden shoot among my followers below startled and discomposed ma 1 looked down and hesitated My brain reeled and sick? ened A strange sight met my eyes. My negroes, one and all, had taken to their feet down th*? bed of the stream at the very top of their speed and were making a most unanimous and inex? plicable stampede toward the direction of Tulamba. For a moment 1 couldn't iwagino what bad happened to disconcert them. Then, casting my glance casually to? ward the spot whero 1 had flung down my rifle. 1 became aware at once of the cause of this commotion. Their rotreat was well timed. Dy the moss clad bowlders which filled tho bed of the torrent somebody with a big, black face and huge grinning teeth was standing etect looking up at me and langhing. I had never seen the some? body's awful features before, but I had no need, for all that, to ask myself his nama I paused face to face with a live male gorilla. For a moment or two the creature gazed up at me and grinned. Then he raised my rifle in his arms, held it clumsily before him and, to my intense surprise, taking a very bad aim, or rather pointing it aimlessly in the air, pulled both triggers with one hand and discharged the two barrels at mo with one pull simultaneously. The bullets whizzed past me some ten yards off. They knocked off tho twigs beyond my precious moon flower. I don't deny that I was astonished. 1 won't deny that 1 was frightened. To tell the truth 1 wan never in such a hideous fright l>efore in all my lifa I trembled like a jelly?my protoplasm curdled I don't suppose the creature intended to fire or had tbo slightest idea in his dim mind what firing meant No doubt he was only playing with tho unknown object out of pure monkey curiosity. He must have been almost as mt.ch terrified at the result as 1 was. But no matter for that It was awk? ward to find ones* If face to face with bound. The prize was a gorilla alone and without one's rille ?so awkward that for a minute or two I just gave myself up for lost en? tirely The gorilla, however, after bis first flush of loTpi'lse was over did not. as I half hoped, fling down tbe noisy gun and make headlong for the remotest depths of the forest On the contrary, he stood and looked at it for a few seconds in blank dismay . he frowned With bis scowling eyebrows; he gnash? ed his great teeth iu rage He roared iike a waterfall Then he seized tho rifle deliberately in his great hairy bands, bent the barrels almost double as readi? ly as a man wonld bend a bit of com? mon lead gas pipe and flung it away angrily among the mosaclad bowlders After that he looked up and grinned once more diabolically, showing his great canine teeth in the most grew some fashion Well. I don't deny, as 1 say. that 1 was in a state of blue funk at tho crea? ture's gigantic and almost supernatural Then he raised my rifle and discharged the two barrels at me. powers. Bot still the moon flower was at stake, and I wouldn't desert it 1 was so horribly frightened that I don't believe wife or chile or fatherland or freedom would have induced me to stay one moment aloue in such dire ex? tremities. But when it comes to orchids ?well, I say no mere than thai I am. above all things, a scientific explorer Each of ns has bis weakness, and mine is a flower That touches my heart For that alone can I be wrought up to tho ntmost pitch of daring conceivable or possible for me. Bo I looked at the bngh brute, and I looked at tbe moon flower Slowly ami cautiously, gazing down all tbe time as I went to watch tho creature's face. I crept along the branch, took my knife from my pocket and began to loosen the bark all round the spot where tbe glorious parasite was all a-growing and a-blowing. Tbe gorilla from below stood watching me and roaring. His roar seemed like an in? vitation to come down and fight. I never in my life heard anything so awfully human in its deep baas roll. It reminded me of tbe lowest notes of the etage villain in the Italian operas, magnified, so to speak. 200 diameters. Presently, as I went on cutting away tbe bark, as if for dear life, and loosen? ing the precious tuber, my gorilla, who still remained motionless by his mossclad bowlder, left off his roaring and appeared to grow interested in the process of the operation. A change came o'er the spirit of his dream. He looked up and wondered, with vague brute curiosity, not unmixed with a certain strange air of low ennniug and intelligence. It was as clear to me as mud that he was saying to himself iu wardly "Why doesn't the fellow cut and run for his life? Docs ho think I don f know how to climb n tree? Does ho imagine I couldn't be up therj in a jiffy if I liked?to choke him or scrag him? What the dickens does he go on hacking away at the bark so quietly like thut for, when he ought to be all agog to save his own bacon?" I despaired of explaining to so rude a creature the imperative nature of sei ific need. So, with one eye on the orci. 1 and one on the brute, at the risk of contracting a permanent uqnint for life, I continued to egg out that magnificent moon flower, root and brauch and tuber. The longer I went on the closer and the more attentively did tho gorilla take stock of all my acts and move? ments. "Well, 1 declare." I could see him euy to himself in the gorilla tongue, opening wide his hngC eyes and elevat? ing in surprise his shaggy brown eye? brows, "such an animal as this I never yet did come across. He isn't oi?a bit afraid apparently of me, tho redoubt? able and redoubted king of the great Gaboon forest." But I was most consumedly for all that, though I pretended not to be Nothing but the presence before my eyes of that magnificent plant would have induced mo for ono moment to face or confront tho unspeakable brute there. At last I had finished and held my specimen in my hands entire. The next question now was what to do with it I walked slowly and cautiously along the branch of tho tree. The gorilla, with his eyes now fixed curiously on j tho moon tiower. pnt forth one hairy ' leg iu front of another and, grinning with a sort of diabolical, brutish gcod humor, walked step for step cu the ground just .as cautiously beneath me. I came to the end of the bough and reached the point where interlacing branches enabled me to get on to an? other tree. I did so somewhat clumsily, for 1 was handicapped by tbe moon flower. The gorilla, etill grinning, looked up and remarked in his own tongue. "I could do that lot, I can tell yon. a jojly sight better than yon do.' As h^Miled those words I had lost my 1 ice. and. clinging still to my mooKower in my last chance for life, lowered myself slowly hand over hand to the ground in front of him. With a frightful roar tho creature sprang upon me aud made a wild grab at my precious moon Mower. That was moro than scientific human nature could stand. I turned and fled, carry ing my specimen with me. Bnt niy ursner was too quick. He caught me up in a moment. His scowling black face was ghastly to behold; his huge white teeth gleamed fierce and hideous; his brawny, thick hands could have crushed me to a jelly. I panted and paused My heart fluttered fast, then etood still within me. There was a second's suspense At its eud. to my infinite horror, he seized?not me?oh, no. not me! ? I might have put up with that? but the priceless moon flower. I was helpless to defend myself? helpless to secure or safeguard my treasnrs He took it from me with a grin 1 could nee throngh those sunken eyes what was passing (n the creature's dim and brutal brain Be was saying to himself, liko men at his own low grade of cnr.ning "If that tuber was worth so much pains to him to get. it must be worth just as much to me to keep So by your leave, my friend, if you'll excuse me I'll take it " 1 stood appalled and gazed at him. The brute snatched that unique speci? men of a dying or almost extinct genus in his swurth hairy hands?those clumsy great hands of his?raised it bodily to his mouth, crushing and tear? ing the beautiful petals in his coarse grasp as he went, ate it slowly through ? tuber stem spray, blossom?and swallowed it conscientiously, with a hideous grimace to the very last morsel 1 had but one grain of consola? tion or revenge It was clear the taste was exceedingly nasty Then he looked in my face and burst into a loud, discordant laugh That laugh was hideous. "Aba!' it said in effect "So that's all you've got. my fino fellow, after all, for all your pains and care and trouble!' I shut my eyes and waited My turn would come next He would rend me in his rage for the nastiness of the taste 1 stood still and shuddered But. alas, be meant only to eat the moon flower When 1 opened my eyes again, the brute had turned bis back without one word of apology and was walking off at a leisurely pace in contemptuous triumph, shrugging his shoulders as he went, and chuckling low to himself in his vulgar dog in the manger joy and malignancy It was four days before 1 straggled alone, half dead, into Tulamua I never came across another of those orchids. And that is why at Kew gardens they have etill no moon flower Queer Babtea. These queer monkey babies are very lovable, and as ready to be cuddled and petted as human babies, however cross and ugly they may become when older. They have an endless diversity of character. The little orang outang is very solemn, and his small face is all wrinkled like an old man's. He loves bis tree home, where he can swing and scamper to bis heart's content and drinks the raiu out of the leaf cups rather than come down to a stream, nis mother makes a little bed of boughs for him close beside her. and the branches overhead shelter him from a shower. The baby gorilla Is full of fuu and frolic, and leaps and shouts and rims and claps his hands iu great glee lie rides on his mother's back d>r sleeps In her arms until tu? Is big enough to take care of himself. Baboon babies are the ugliest of all. but they are very jolly and affectionate, ami they love to play on the ground. They play many a pran'. or practical Joke on the old ba? boons.? "Four llaudinl Folk." ?>y Thorn Miller. Her Reason. "Why did Mrs. Frizzington. the rich widow who furnished all the money for the business she and you have started, want the name of the firm to be 'Rootle & Frizz!ngton' instead of 'Frlzzlngton & Rootle.' as it ought to be, Boeing that she is much more heav? ily interested than you?" "She didn't want to be referred to as 'the senior partner.' "?Chicago Times Herald. "Hooray!" he yelled at the top of hii shrill voice. An Exciting Incident in the charming story of ad? venture by that successful young- author, Wolcott Le Clear Beard. It is entitled SPIDER'S CHAPS We have purchased the serial rights for the story in this section and will print it in these columns, beginning soon. It will be a Literary Treat?Look for it Fnntlntr. Porsonal experience Is the best teach? er. I have fasted 48 hours at a time without the slightest discomfort, but drank In that period many gallons of water, of the plainest, most Croton kind. I once had acquaintance of a pig that fasted 100 days. A dog can fast two months without being much the worse. Etftbbltf live throe weeks without food, while cold blooded ani? mals can go for years without eating. The bear in a state of hibernation passes into a kind of trance, so wo shall not count him. Tho alligator like? wise "dies" in the long irouths of win? ter, craving no food. There Is a fish called the father lasher that can live a month out of water. That is fasting. Wo have beard the tradition about the toad tbat was sealed in a rock for 5,000 years and bopped about in lively fashion when released from his archa> onomous prison. A horse has been known to fast for a month.?Exchange. -??m*? ii ? ?i - CUBAN OIL cures Cuts, Burns, Bruises, Rheuma? tism and Sores. Price, 25 cts. Sold bv Hogbson-Ligon Go* Atlantic Coast Line of CONDENSED SCHEDULE. Id f fleet January 14th, if CO. BOOTH. NORTH. No No No No ?35 t>7 #32 8 02 Lv Darlington Ar 8 05 8 45 Lv Elliott Ar 7 20 9 25 Ar Surater Lv 6 40 3 46 Lv Somter Ar 6 lc 4 43 Ar Creaton Lv 5 27 5 45 Lv CrcHton Ar 3 50 9 15 Ar Pregnalla Lv 10 00 5 10 Oraogeberg 5 02 6 48 Denmark 4 28 7 55 Augusta 2 30 h m am pmpm ?Daiiy f Daily except Sunday. Trains 32 aod 35 carry through Pullman Palace Buffet Sleeping Cars between Nee York nod Macoo via Augusta. T M EVtBRSON, H M EMERSON, Traffic Mannger. Oen'l Paas. Agt J R KSNLT, Oen'l Manager. Atlantic Coast Line. WILMINGTON. COLUMBIA AND Af QUSTA RAILROAD. Coodeoaed Schedule. Dated January 14, 1900. TRAINS GOING SOUTH. No 55 No 36 P. dj. Leave Wilmington *3 45 Leave Marion 6 34 Arrive Florence T 15 p. m a. m. Leave Florence *7 45 *2 34 Arrive Somter 8 67 3 56 No. 52 Leave Srunter 8 57 *9 40 Arrive Columbia 10 20 11 00 No. 62 runs through from Obarleaton vu Central R. R , leaving Cbarlestoa 7 a. m. .hoes 8 34 a m, Maontng 9 09am TRAINS GOING NORTH No. 54 No. 63 a. m. p n>. Leave Columbia *C 40 *4 15 Arrive Sumter 8 05 5 36 No. 32 a. m. p m Kavc Sumter 8 05 *C 05 Arrive Florence 9 20 7 2? a. ra. iecTe Floreoce 9 50 Leers Marioo 10 34 \rrtv? Wilmington I 15 ?Daily fDaily except Sunday. No 53 runs throngb to Charleston, S. C ia Central R. R., orriving Mann.og 5 41 j u, Lanes 6-17 p 0, Charleston 8 00 p m. Trains on Con way Branch leave Cbadbour: "? 36 p m, arrive Conway 7 40 p m, return ng leave Conway 8 30 a m, arrive Chad bourn 11 R0 am, leave Cbadbourn 11 60 a m .rrivp Hub 12 25 p nr>, returning leave Hut 3.00 p m, arrive Chedbourn 3 35 a m, Daib except Sunday. J R KENLY, Gen'I Manager | T M. EMERSON, Traffic Manager. <* V EMERSON Gen'l Pane A cent. ATLANTIC COAST LINE Morth-Eastern R. R. of S. C wRBMSSEBlMB v%f-? CONDENSED SCHEDULE. TRAINS GOING SOUTH Ha.ed No. No. No No Jan 14, lf,00. 3b* 23* 63* 51* % m p m am L? Florence 2 24 7 46 9 40 Kiogttrss ? 46 Ar L?nes 3 '8 9 04 p re 11 20 Le banes 3 ?.b 9 30 6 43 11 20 \rClariejtou 5 04 10 55 1 80 1 CO TRAINS GOING NORTH No. No No No 78* TJ* 62* 60? am |) tii :. v ? p m ,cCharleston 6 33 4 49 7 oo 4f0 it J.aupp 8 16 C 15 B 33 5 39 iS Lac.ee 8 16 0 15 5 39 .? Kingetrec 8 32 : t Florence 9 25 7 25 7 05 am pn a u. p m a Daily fbaiiy except Suudny. No 52 ruuo through to Golioicia vtu Oei r&l R. ft of S O. Trams Noi. 78 and 32 ruu via WllSOfJ anc faycttSVille?Short Line?end mako c\ob< Xnneetion lor all pointe North. Tiaine on C. k D R R leave Florence daily except Sunday 9 60 a iu,arrve Darling ton 10 16 a n , Hartbvillo 9 15 am, Cbcr?? 1130 a m, Wadeeboro 2 25 p m. ' uv. Florence duily except Sunday 7 65 p db, ar^ rive Darlington 8 20 p w, Bennettevtlle 9 17 p m, Gibson 9 46 p m. 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Schedule No. 4?In effect 12.01 a. m., Sun? day, December 24, 1899. Between V Camdeo S. C , sod Blsoksbnrg, S. C. WEST. EAST. 2d cl 1st si l.- cl 2d et ?35 ?33 Easrera time. ?32 ?34 p m p m STATIONS. p m p m 8 20 12 50 Camdeo 12 25 5 30 8 50 1 15 Dekalb 11 02 4 60 9 20 1 27 West vi I ;e 11 to 4 30 10 50 1 40 Kersbaw 11 35 4 10 11 20 2 lo Beatb Soriost 11 20 3 15 1135 'A 15 Pleasant Hill 11 15 3 00 12 30 2 35 Lancaster 10 55 2 35 1 CO 2 fO Riverside 10 40 1 00 1 20 3 00 Spricgdell 10 30 12 40 2 30 3 10 Catawba JuLCtioc 10 20 12 20 2 50 3 ? ) Leslie 10 10 11 00 3 10 3 40 Rock Hill 10 00 10 40~ 4 10 3 55 New Port 9 35 8 20 4 45 4 (?2 Tirsab 9 30 8 00 5 30 4 20 Yorkville 9 15 7 30 6 00 4 35 Sharon 9 00 6 50* 6 25 4 50 Hickory Grove 8 45 6 20 6 35 5 00 Smjroa 8 35 6 00 j 7 00 5 20 Blacksburg; 8 15 5 30 pmpm auaam Between Bltckeborg, 8. C , and Marion. N. C WEST. EAST. 2d cl 1st cl lot cl 2dcl ?11 ?33 Eastern lime. ?32 ?12 am p m STATIONS. am p m 8 10 5 30 Blacksburg 7 48 G 40 ~ 8 30 5 45 Earls 7 32 6 20 8 40 5 50 Patterson Springs 7 25 t> 12 9 20 6 00 Sbeiby 7 15 6 10 iU 00 1 20 Lattimore 6 55 4 tO 10 10 6 28 Moctrrtioro 6 48 4 40* 10 2* 6 38 Betitelt? 6 38 4 20 10 50 ? 55 Forest CHy 6 20 3 60 1115 7 10 R?herfordton 6 05 3 25 11 35 7 21 Mi.lwo/ d 5 t6 3 05 11 45 7 35 Golden Val ey 6 40 2 60 12 06 7 40 Tberroa, Ctty 5 37 2 45 12 25 7 58 Glenwood 5 17 2 2<L 12 50 8 15 Martou 5 00 2 00 pmpm ampm -? West. Gaffoey Division East. 1st Class I EASTERN TIME. Itt Clues 15 1 13 ! STATICS. I 14 I 16 praam a m p m 1 00 6 00 Dlacktburg 7 *0 3 06 1 20 6 10 Cherokee Falls 7 30 2 40 1 40 6 40 , Gaffoey 7 10 I 20 praam am p m ?Duly except Sunday Train No 3- leaving Marion, N. C, at 6 a in. making close connection at Blacksburg, ? r, wi'h the Southern's train No 36 for Char? lotte, N C. and all points East and connecting with tbe Southern')) vestibule going to A'lanta, (la, and all poicts West, and will receive pas? sengers going East from train No 1t?, on the C A N W K H, at Yorkville, SC, at 8 45 a m. and connects at Cam den, S C, with tbe Southern's train No 78, arriving in Charleston, 8 17 p m. Train No 14 witb passenger coach attached ? leaving Blaek?lurg at 5 SI a tn, and connecting at Keek Hill with the Southern's Florida train for all joints South, Train No 33 leaving Camden, S C, at 12 51 p m, alter the arrival of the Southern'? Char? leston train connects at Lancaster, S C, with the LA C H K, at Catawba Junction witb the P A It, going East, at Kock Hill, S C, with** the Southern's traia, No 34. for Charlotte, N O, and all points K?st, Ccnneicts at York? ville. S C, with t?ain No 9 on the C ? N W K R. for Chester, SC. At Klaiksbmg wi'h the Southern'* vestibule going East, and the South rrv'p train No 35 going West, and connecting ?I Marion N 0 with tbe Southern both Kast'aad West. A BAU I* FL HUNT, President. A. TRIPP, SuperinU dent, b V '.LUMPKIN, Gen'l Passenger Ag-ot.