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of the night, catching cat-naps between the bites. We might not have known when day broke, except for the kindly interest taken in us by a stray hog. The beast crept under the house, and the space was so small that he lifted the boards under our feet with his back When we felt the boards lift we knew that another day had dawned upon the picturesque locality. We left the hotel before breakfast and were home to dinner. Mr. Bowser seemed very much occu pied with his thoughts on the way home, and when we finally entered the house he turned on me and said: “ Mrs. Bowser, I’m a man who can bear a good deal before loosing my temper, but I want to give you-fair warning right here and now that I want no more of your nonsense! The next time you men tion country to me—the next time you dragoon me into an excursion of this kind —I shall be justified in—in !” And he kicked the trunk, pitched his fishing tackle into the back yard, and went out to get some cold cream for his blisters, burns and bites. — De troit Free Press. A Handsome Room on Marietta St. Mr. P. H. Snook’s furniture rooms contain some of the most elegant articles of artisfistic furniture we ever saw. An inspection of the room, alone, will amply repay the time lost in doing so. The walls are lined with elegant French plate. The shelves are filled with bric-a-bric, while the floor is covered with the rarest collection of art goods, parlor suites, fancy chairs, easels, cabinets, and rare novelities of every description. The interior of his establishment is beicg remodeled, partitions taken out and hand some iron colvmns substituted, making when com pleted, the handsomest and coziest show-rooms in the south. Mr. Snook’s display at the “Piedmont Exposition” will be a feature of the show, and will attract a crowd of admirers; and we hope extend his popularity and enlarge his already immense bus iness. * A popular railway conductor says * “ In the early days of railways the idea of running trains at night was not thought of, but at the present time the greater part of the freight traffic and perhaps of the passenger traffic is handled in the hours of darkness. A similar change seems to have been begun in the work of railway building. The feasability of carry ing on grading and even track-laying at night was hardly suggested until recently, but now it is not uncommon. The rush of competition between great lines to reach a given point, and the necessity some times imposed of building a certain distance before a fixed date in order to secure local aid, have ne cessitated the employment of night hours in nume rous cases; and it is found that men and teams work fully as efficiently by night as by day. A contractor who has been doing a large amount of grading on one of the western roads tells us that the men ac complish more between the hours of 7 p.m. and 7 a.m. in shoveling than in the same hours of day light, because their attention is not distracted by other things at night, and in summer the air is cool er than in the daytime. Os course it takes the men some time to become accustomed to the unnatural inversion of the hours of work and sleep, and some of them are inclined to waste the daylight hours in drinking, and are thus unfitted for night toil ; but these worthless fellows are gradually sifted out, and the force engaged in the night work soon accom plishes fully as much as those who work only by daylight.” £ —LIST OZE 1 — H. L Brinkley Lands In Tesas. I. JOSEPHUS TAYLOR SURVEY 640 acres, one mile west of Wills Point, all prairie, $7.00 per acre 2. H. M. DOUGHERTY and WM. JAMES SURVEYS. 606 acres, 7 miles south of Wills Point, all timbered and watered, splendid land, $5.00 per acre. 3. JOHN DEGMAN SURVEY. 640 acres, ten miles south of Wills Point, all timbered and watered, splendid land, $4.00 per acre. 4. J. R. COYGIN SURVEY. 160 acres. 5. MOSES JONES SURVEY. 30 acres. Note.—T. J. McKAIN, at Wills Point, will give all information about lands. For information of above write to R. A. WILLIAMS, P. O. Box 236, ATLANTA, CA. Or H. L. BRINKLEY, - MEMPHIS, TENN. THE NEW WESTERN RAILWAY GUIDE. > Piedmont Air Line RICTIIMfoTaD cfc UAKT-VUjUE IL. K. Is the Shortest and most Direct Route from the Strath and Southwest, via Atlanta, to all points in the Carolinas, Virginia and the East DOUBLE DAILY TRAINS RUN SOLID WITHOUT CHANGE BETWEEN Atlanta A WaoMngtnn# NO CTEA-ATGE OJS’ Pullman Buffet Sleeping Gars Atlanta to New York Also to ATLANTA and ASHEVILLE, N. C., WITHOUT CHANCE. Call for your Tickets via this Popular Route. L. L. HcCLESKET, Div. Frt. & Pass. Agt., JAS. L. TAILOR, Gen’l Pass’r Agent, Atlanta, Ga. No 5—41 Washington, D. C. hiwMII Ww WffWMKM , Soil SI S rwH IS s PRINTERS, THE NICHOLSON HOUSE, Eleclrolypers and Engravers, NASHVILLE, TENN. On and One-half Blocks from Union Depot. PHOTO ENGRAVING and ZINC ETCHING, REASONABLE RATES and BEST OF FARE DINING HALL atUNION DEPOT. ! 26 Wa!nut Streßt - Cincinnati, 0. A. Y. STEVENS, Proprietor. No 6—12 t , __———— Man Alive! 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All these, Third Street, Philadelphia; Western File and Index Co., and other LABOR-SAVING DKVICES for business men can be 109 Wabash Avenue, Chicago; Schlicht & Field Co., Limited, seen at the office of the undersigned agents. Toronto,Ont.; SCHLICHT & FIELD CO., 622 F Street, N.W., For particulars and catalogues address Washington, D. C.; Shannon File Co., Limited, North Street, Moorfields, K. C. London, England. C. K. JUDSON, Manager for Southern States, o«hli«bi & FleM ©o.» H . franklyn stark, ROCHESTER, N.Y. Agent for Atlanta, Whitehall St. USES OF MAGIC INK. How It la Made and How It May Be Ad j vantageously Employed. to make an ink, black at the time of writing, but which shall dissapear after a short time, boil nut galls in aqua vity put Roman vitrol and sal ammoniac to it, and when cold, dis solve a little gum in it. Writing done with this ink will van ish in twenty-four hours. Thus affirms the Scientific American. At first we could not imagine what practical use could be made ink, but upon careful consideration, there are many ways in which it may be advan tageously employed. For instance, when a well dressed, highly polished stranger, with a tongue well lubricated, and with manners guilelesss and bland, wants you to sign a receipt, or some in nocent document, “merely as a matter of form,” why do it at once, but use the magic ink, and when the aforesaid gentleman with the lubricated tongue, twenty-four hours later, endeavors to convert the innocent document you signed into a promissory note, presto! your good name has vanished! Another good use of magic ink would be in the writing of spring poetry. The poems would then be valuable, because the editor could use the paper to write editorials on. Hasty letters, abusive letters, love letters, letters relating your personal grievances, letters filled with gossip about your neighbors, letters dilating upon some scandal, letters advising young people not to marry, and letters ordering your paper stop; ed would be improved if written with magic ink that the fatal characters may not again confront you in the inevitable day of repentance. Yes, there are many good uses to which magic ink may be put; in general to the recording .of all thoughts to which folly prompts expression.- Western Christian Plowman. A CENTURY'S CHANGES. The Towels, Soaps and Hair Trunks Which Once Blossomed in Hotels. Bill Nyein New York World. Look at the great changes that have been wrought in hotels during the past century. llow marked has been the improvement and how won derful the advancement. Everything has been changed. Even the towels have been changed. Electric bells, consisting of a long and alert wires with an overcoat button at one end and a reticent boy at the other, have taken the place ot the. human voice and a low-browed red elm club. Where once we were compelled to fall down a dark, narrow staircase, now we can go down the elevator or wan der down the wrong stairway and find ourselves in the laundry. Where once we were mortified by being compelled to rise at table, reach nine feet and stab a porous pancake with our fork, meantime wiping the milk gravy out of a large yellow bowel with our coat-1 ail, now we ean hire a tall, lithe gentleman in a full dress suit to pass us the pancakes. One hundred years on their swift pinions, have borne away the big and earnest dinner-bell.and the Gw: y -back hair trunk suipnscd a Ulan SO when he sat down on it to consider what clothes he would put on first. All these evidences of our crude embryotic exist ence are gone, and in their places we have electiic bells and Saratoga trunks wherein we may conceal our hotel room and still have space left for our clothes. .... . Men, as well as hotels, and hotel soap, have changed. When once a cake of soap would only last a few weeks, science has come in and perfected a style of pink soap, flavored with vanilla, that will last for years, and a new slippery-elm towel that is impervious to moisture. Hand in hand this soap and towel go gaily down the corridors of time, wel coming the coming and speeding the parting guest, jumping deftlv out of the hands of the aristocracy into the hands'of a receiver, but always calm, smooth and latherless. Backing: Up Their Prayers. A number of years ago, during the grasshopper raids in Dakota and other parts of the West, Elder Blodgett held a series of revival meetings in a small place° in the southeastern part of the Territory, where the settlement then was chiefly confined He had preached a powerful sermon, and had induced about two-thirds of the congregation to come for ward and indicate their desire to unite with the church. Fearing that some might not fully under stand the new duties the step would involve, he be gan to explain what they must do in the future. You must stop lyin’ and cheatin and Sabbath breakin’,” he said, “ an’ if any of you’ve been stealin’ you’ve got to stop that, too. An’ there musn’t be no more covetin’ or neighborhood quarlin’ and no more swearin’ ” “ Elder ” said a grizzled old fellow who was kneeling in front of the pulpit, as he raised his head, “ye say we must swear no more?” “ That’s it—you musn’t swear at all. 0 sir. ,> Well, that lets me out then!” and he rose and started back. “Me, too!” put in a dozen others, as they began t °‘Mlo'ld on!” shouted the elder, as the fruits of his labor began to vanish. “Come back, an’ I reckon ve can swear ’bout the hoppers a little. Cuss em quietly when there ain’t nobody ’round, an then pray that they won’t come next summer. This is the third year they’ve been here, an’ I’low myself it’s ’bout time we backed up our prayers with a little something kinder strong. ” Dakota Bell. The Modern Office-Boy. “Tommy, my inkatand is almost empty. Fill it as soon as you can.” Office-boy to Bookkeeper —“Boss wants smink ritoff.” Merchant—“ Tommy, send this letter up in the box to Mr. Scrivner, and see that he takes it out. Office-boy puts the missive in the box and glues his thumb to the bell button. Mr. Scrivner (with the voice of a ,Ute chief) — “Well, what’s the matter down there?” Office-boy (calmly)—“Plup box.” The box is pulled up. 15