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New York’s Filly Parks. BREATHING SPOTS WHICH DOT THE ISLAND AND ANNEXED DISTRICT. ■■Aral Park Is Best Known and Has Been Made the Most Attractive So Far. Over 5,000 Acres Devoted to the Peo ple** Pleasure—nistorle Spots. LETTER BQ Drib Atnn-Judy and Cousins: Here I am- It has been no long since I paid tbe L. B. a visit that I fear some of the cousins hare forgotten me Well, auntie, let me stay a few minutes anyway, and I'll promise to be real sweet (?) and not stay long. Oh, it has been so cold today! 1 do not enjo7 cold weather very much. I rode horseback for the mail yesterday, and enjoyed the ride hugely, but would have en joyed It much more had I an entertaining com- pamou with me. 5 1 helped my ■ big sis" make her a dress last week, and she thinks it is perfectly lovelv be cause it m all laced up with cord. My friend, of B , who has been vfsiting me siuce the last of August, returned home a >ew weeks ago We certainly had a magnificent time while she was here and I and some one else mihs her so much. I'm reading Robert Elsmere now and thi k it very interesting. Dixie La .shiv will you tell me which State you reside in? Max. I was very glad to see another letter from you. Do write again Claire, where are you? By the way, the tire needs replenishing and every one m the*house has retired, so I’ll take my departure, ’cause I'm ‘ afraid.’ Dr 1 don't Jike to sit up atone. With love from Country Tack. Dkak Lett..:; Boxers: I have often thought of seeking ad mittance into your charming circle, but never could summon courage enough. However I am going to try aguiu. Will some one welcome me? Thank you, I was sure you Would. Did l hear some one say that my face was red? I don't dispute your word, for I've just had a ringing, sti ging slip from my big sis, for dis turbing h*.r repose. She had gone into her room for an afternoon nap and by mistake left the door open. I soon discovered that fact: but thought shv was sleeping too sweetly lor me to disturb her The thought struck me all of a sudden th.it *he might be 'possuiniug just to keep me out. Of course that wouldn’t co, sol 1 commenced to describe her personal charmv whereupon she gave me a slap that caused me to think her slapping abilities greater than her person i.1 charms, i suppose she slept the sleep of the just After that I have come to seek con solation of the cousins. 1 expect some of you thought my face red from embarrassment. Oh, no! that is not it; for since l have made up my miud to pay you all a visit, 1 Sad you so nice and entertaining that J fee', quite at home. Way are so many of you absent? What have you do.ie with yourselves? For the benefit of those who are not here, I will give a definition of ray common place fea tures: One nose, of a rather inquiring disposi tion one month, which mamma says is like an overseer's wages—from year to year; two brown eyes, not so bad, right presentable; two ears, on the name nlan of the generality of ear*; hair, brown, quite independent—every hair standing to itneif, and somebody told me not long ago they would hate to come in contact with it for fear of getting stuck. How do you like me? Please forgive me if I have wearied you. Aunt Judy, kiudly preseut my high regards to Uuele P men. by whom with yourself and the Cousins, I have to be regarded as a friend. Con atnore, Bei,i,e. to get the machine in running’order he told us his own experience as a Letter Boxer. I was like Claire I had been a reader of the Letter Box some time before I conceived the idea of being a cousin, but there w as a feeling of cor geniality about their letters that made^me ,,r ant to be one o ’em, and I wrote a short letter to the Box, hardly daring to hope that it would find a place among them. 1 was all eagerness for the next paper to come, it did not appear in that issue or the next, but the next one. Oh, e?stacy: Oh! delight! I could scarcely believe my eves I couldn’t read it, the w ords would all run together: I looked down at the bottom of the piece, and there I saw in plain English, my own name, “Snarling.” There was no mistake about it. I had beea admitted to the “chaKned circle,” that encouraged me and I became a regu'ar con tributor, and in r!1 truthfulness aud sincerity, I can say that the Sunny South has brought more sunshine and happiness into my life than almost anything else. It has gotten to be so much a part of myself that Idou’tknow whether I could exist without it. May the Letter Box continue iu motion, And its pages each week lie unfurl’d, Till the beetle has drunk up the ocean, And a tortoise has crawled round the world. P S.:—Please, Aunt Judy, can’t I add this little postscript, a mischievous afterthought you know. Hassie Earl, you perhaps put, too much con fidence in what i told you last summer about a certain • tooth carpenter.'' I only gave you ray opinion about the matter. He has just gotten back from your house, and this is the message he sent me. * You have played havoc with my plans, and there is one of the two thiugs you have got to stop, you have got to quit telling talcs out of school, or make the people lose some confidence in what you siy. I just talk, d and|pleaded a%bard as I could for two days, and the only answer I could get was a very decided no! and I believe you are to blame for every bit of it.” Now seriously, Hassie, I didu’t think that he was a “matrimonial game,” but he de clares that he is; that show’s that I couldn’t sec straight. There now! I have adjusted my*glasses and I won’t look crooked any more. S. ‘ rfwee'.joys there are, though they be few, Brig'll Isles that dot sad sorrow’s sea. Sad tli.nights come still liking falling dew; An i friends our friends no longer be.” H )W forcibly these lines come home to me. ha increlible tint I C3nid bo soon be so | utterly forgotten. It appears that my duplicity I 04" so sh »’xe l some of our bright contributors a«. to cause them v> abandon our Household. ’ For this i am trut> sorry. I doubt not I am de- I ► pise l, by many of tnc membirs But with Mavwaroi I exclaim—“Ay, do despise me! I’m j the ponder for it! I likes to be despised.’ ’ (In a horn j Wi .l Bysshe, let me grasp your hand. Your letters to the L. B. have evoked a desire to know yon The sentiments expressed by yon Mru k kin ire l chords :n my breast. Bui come close to me, my friend, in 1 let me whisper a word of warning. If you have ever quaffed the contents of the bitter cup a id would tain hear w v:ds of consolation, go el*ewhere for them. Though perhaps the L. B., is different from the H H. tne trouble is you are a boy. you know. J sneak from experience Haii all ye Texas brothers and sisters! You will surely 'trike hands with me iuw that 1 am h Text an * And by the way, how come we did no*mee at the Dallas fair, Bobo answers why. I was there two or three days, and should have been more than glad to see auy one belonging :o our band. Wnile iu I) I was with two old time friends. Two young men I attended col lege with, at Keachre, La. I wonder if there are ii >t ot *rs of this band who attended that institution! if so, I would be glad to know who they italic your last letter was read with much pleasure ani interest. Don’t understand that I Min looking oHt for a partner. I’m a boy. you know Bat 1 take an interest in watching other people A few evenings ago an elderly adv Crttn- in the store, aud wnile 1 was waiting on her, we became engaged iu pleasant con verse one tol l me she was the wife of the min uter of one of the finest churches here. .She -not- ve"*' kindlv to me, and invited me to their •qurch arid Bnuday School, in our conversi- • >3 s q e went on to say that it was the women •i0 made society what it is—whether good or bad Aud mat the life of many a boy is shaped nto t .at of e1 her a good or bad man by a wo man's influence. 1 know that latterclause to be true. i>■> you remember what I wrote you once on this subject Earnest Willie? This evening as I sit here wrapped in thought, my mind goes ’oack through dim corridors of years. An » in r Aiicy i see—g istening through tne mi^ts ot ♦hos-* yearn—a new-mad ; grave iu a quiet coun- ry chur b yard. Over the grove bends a boyish form, with tearful eyes fixed on tbe slab at the head ”lu mem Dry oi my mother,” are the words that hold bis gaze. Faithfully, ZlRIIN£ Ft. Worth, Tex. at. Lbtter Boxers: Long time has passed Since I wrote to y. u last, And various have been the reasons. But with a loving heart Aud a brand-new pen. I uove maze my obeisance. »m‘ Now really, cousins, .that* my own and for me l thiux it’s sira;>;y wouder- » \ never could make words jmgle iu my in i bow those lines happened to enter my urn is something that 1 can t understand. ^ onlv spring. 1 should dub ra\self n^DOeV'arm I'd write poetry for the corn- IF-a’ik Leslie’s Popular Monthly! but re- : thpii niect. Yes, a long time has d^-unce 1 have been with you all, but I read vour letters every week, and so many • dear cousins have kindly remembered me vanted to know why so long ij®£/ C ouM 1 hvSe”bit‘space YorSids and 'mi’how much 1 appr’eciate P your thoughtful to me for W be called back again is littinu iu sunshine calm and sweet; serene r, t l t fe?lin4 bud and bloom under the ray. ” e ho» unfortunate that remark you : ‘Vve had'a 0 sTmiUr experience' myaMf. once upon a time .that means a longtime C J 3a ‘ i h a -i > ^L t me ll0 raHvav3 had lots of curi- £d , guessing things and one inWmo^howevei: “iu ? ty P o7f n rb?ide.wMwritten n UP M .nd i commented on. ju^as^ | uown ^‘“ftbeV^erecopied the announcement the livening Journal besides mule- ^aXmTgh’SdrbuUheUt^jtfuresme more ‘orce ian any other mwniug^ ^ ry^u^^^^rjea&ymo^^ f is the elocution teacher in tncrraui.ii In Sit summer •^^Pfher^il one o tbe postoftice for the e o dette, in sackcloth and ashes I beg fmgive- f.Ymv seeming indifference. I did not ,25 treat rour last long letter in this way; ed I did not I have had so little time this mer that I could give to letter writing-a “re I love so well Asa token of forg.ve- , please accept my love, and ere long I nope nd you a great big Ion? letter, lire iugge-sted a r;o" . wtf n ^Mission s last letter. I• ,u8 ' , t take to ir r.it" ; otherc- exp ' <■ J MystifXcra of Science. How arc we to bring down our specula tions ami researches to the level of popular comprehension? some will probably «A Nobody wants you, we reply, to bring down to popular comprehension that which cannot possibly be popularly com pretended, but we do want you to ham, and show that you have, an interest in tbe general advancement of knowledge, and that you regard your specialty, whatever it may be. as simply a higher development of forms of knowledge that are within the popular grasp, and .as being, if remotely, still vitally, connected with the practical concerns of life. If such is not the case, if, on the con trary, you are soaring in a region in which practical views have no place and no pos sible relevancy, then we make bold to say that your so called science is merely a la borious and pretentious idleness. It is one thing to wander far afield in search of that which may at some time or another, if not immediately, prove of value to the human race. It is another and very different one to wander far afield for the acknowledged purpose of getting not only beyond gen eral comprehension, but beyond the sphere of all possible utility. The only condition on which science can claim the reverence of mankind is that it devote itself to human service, and it rests with the serious students of science to make good this claim. In order that the relations lx-tween science and the age may be what they ought to be, the world at large must be made to feel that science ia in the fullest sense a ministry of good to all, not the private possession and luxury of a few; that it is the best expression of human intelligence and not the abraca dabra of a school, that it is a guiding light and not a dazzling fog.—Popular Scienca. CTjurrli Service by Telephone. The attempt made at Christ church, Bir mingham, England, to transmit the church service by telephone to London, Manches ter and other distant points has been at tended with very fair success. Some of the difficulties which have to be overcoma before people cpn listen in comfort at their own fireside to the voice of their favorite minister may be gathered from the follow ing description of the experiment by on* who took part in it: When the morning service commenced there was what appeared to be an unseem ly clamor to hear the services. The opening prayer was interrupted by cries of “Hello there!” “Are you there?" “Put me on to Christ church. ” “No, I don’t want the church,” etc. Put present ly quiet obtained, and by the time tbs Psalms were reached we got almost un broken connection, and could follow tbs course of the services. We could hear Ht- tle of the prayers—probably from the fact that the oifici.it ing minister was not within voice reach of the transmitter. The organ had a faint far away sonnd, bu the sing ing and the sermon were a distinct —London Letter. Preservation of Fabrics. A Belgian chemist is said to have de vised a method of rendering fabrics proof against tbe ravages of decay for an indefi nite period. Noting the fact that rosin played an important part in the woDderfnl preservation of Egyptian mummies, ha made numerous experiments with sub stances extracted from birch bark, te which the peculiar aroma of Russia leather is due. lie found that the green tar which is left over after the oil used in tanning has been extracted from the white bark of the hirch tree yields neither add nor alka loid, and that in solution with alcohol it forms a liquid of remarkable fluidity, which has the power of resisting when dry the action cf even alcohoh It is claimed' that this preservation possesses the prop erty of uniting with the most delicate and brilliant colors, and rendering them ap parently i m perishable. —New York Tele gram. Mod Slinging Sfcnold Bn Diacoereged. “It is true that I was convicted of bur glary ten years ago," said the candidate ia a low voice. “U is true, as my opponents Charge, that I bad to leave the state hur riedly and with bat little baggage because I thoughtlessly signed another man’s name to a check and didn't notice it tiU Pd cashed it. But, gentlemen,” and he raised his voice and held np both hands, “I appeal to you to show your disapproval of tbs mad slinging methods of the opposition. It is getting to be the fashion in politics more and more to deal in personalities, to dreg in details about the candidate’s Kfs that should not be mentioned, and I trust you will rebuke this tendency by elect ing me to the high office to which ! ' ““ —Pittsburg Dispatch. J. H. Page, of Fort Kent, Aroostook county. Me., must lie about the maddest man in the United States. It is said that long before the king of stallions, Nelson, attracted any attention by his speed, that new famous horse was offered to Page for $500, but tbe Aroostook man refused. Now Mr. Page and all his neighbors are kicking themselves for letting such a bonanza gel by them. I prescribe Simmon* Liver Regulator, and it deserve* all the praise it receives.— D D. W. Atkinson, SUosm Springs, Ark. Among tlie many characteristics for which New York claims eminence among the great cities of the world none jnstiSes the claim more completely than the lib erality with which public parks are founded and maintained. Thirty years ago this claim could not have been substantiated. There were, it is true, a number of small parks or rather open squares in the lower part of the city, hut they were not many, nor were they maintained in any way to re flect credit npon the city. They were valuable, of course, as breathing places; ^ _ s. xne comparative importance or OB- tral park and of the entire park system may be understood, partially at leaat, by a comparison of fignxea. Central park cost in the first place for the acquisition of the land alone about six millions of dollars. The purchase of other and newer parks has cost more money, although the ground was acquired before it grew so valuable as that of Central park was. The purchase of the new parks in tho annexed district, so-called, or tho ground above the Harlem river, in volved an expenditure of five millions of dollars. This last acquisition of the city was made only two years ago and in cludes fl.O-lo acres, or more than four and a half times as much ground as is included in Central park. It is fairly to be called a permanent feature of the city, as it includes all the ground that will be really needed for parks in the new territory, no matter what the growth of tbe city may be. In addition to this other millions have been spent for other land—notably the Riverside and Morningside parks and about a million dollars a year—a little less than that—is spent for the main tenance of all ths parks. It is a difficult thing to say just what New York has spent for parks. The appropriations are spread over so many years, and the rec ords are so involved, that even the em ployes of the. park department have given np trying to learn exactly, but it is not less than $50,000,000 in round numbers. The parks, big and little, are, as was said, about fifty in number. From tbe Battery, which is at the very point of A LOVERS’ nook, central tare. even the smallest are priceless treasures in a crowded city, but in proportion to the necessities of New York they were of little account. In 18.17 the city began the conversion of a great space in the middle of Man hattan island into a park that should lie worthy of the name. It was a great un dertaking, for the ground was not spe cially adapted by nature, excepting in a few places, for park purposes, and it wa* several years before an;,'thing worthy of the name of park appeared. Constant care and work, and the expenditure of millions npon millions of money, hare transformed the rongh and rocky ground into one of the famous parks of tbs world. It is not to be contended that the Central park is entitled to rank among the very finest of parks, :ilthongh New Yorkers are fond of thinking and saying that it is. The fact is, how ever, that it will take many years and some millions more of money to bring it to anything like a state of completion. Beautiful as it is, and highly finished as it is in p;irts, Central Park is still rather an indication of what is to be expected than a finished pleasure ground. It contains within its 840 acres of ground many attractions which are really known to only a few, compara tively, of the people of the city. One of the. marvelous things about city life is that so few’citizens realize what they are getting for the money they spend directly or indirectly in taxes. In ths Central park there are miles of ca-riage drives and bridle paths as fine as may be found on earth. There are foot paths through which the solitary strolle.- or the engaged couple looking for society in solitude may saunter for hours almost undisturbed save by the birds and the squirrels. There are great “commons," so called because the people may walk or lie on the grass—a thing that is per force denied elsewhere—where games of ball, croquet, tennis, curling and the like go on, and where picnic parties may enjoy a whole day undisturbed. There is a menagerie, where strange beasts and j birds may be seen almost in a state of nature. There are swings, merry-go- rounds aud playgrounds for the chil- J dren. There are concerts for every-! body. j There is even in one part of the park a sheep fold, with a flock of pure South- j dowi sheep cared for faithfully in tra- j ditional fashion by a shepherd and his 1 little collies. Hardly anything in the 1 whole park delights the children so much ' as the sight of the lambs at play. j All these are maintained in Central park alone by the city. Nearly a mill-! A GLIMPSE OF THE SHEEP. ion dollars a year is spent by New York for the maintenance of her parks, of which Central park is the best known. Thousands, and sometimes, of a pleasant day, tens of thousands, of people visit it, yet there are scores of thousands of citi zens who know nothing about it. The Central park has served, however, several purposes outside of its particular use by the people for riding, walking and the enjoyment of games, concerts, etc. It stimulated local pride to such s degree that several desirable results have followed. First, it aroused public opin ion as to the value of parks generally. The encroachments npon public reserves had begun. As land became more valu able down town covetous eyes were cast on zne nvuo pars*, erne—st. jotmi park—was sacrificed to corporate needs, and sold to the Hudson River Railroad company. Others had been neglected, as, for instance, Tompkins square. There was danger of the city losing its valua ble preserves, but the newly aroused sen timent was sufficiently strong to give rise to the formation of a society for the preservation of public parks. This society has done much. By work ing npon public sentiment it has fairly established a feeling in the community that is so strong that it is safe to say no more parks will be sold, and none will hereafter he diverted from its le gitimate purpose. But, far more than that, the education of the public, largely accomplished by this society, has led to the establisliment of the entire park sys tem of which New York is justlyprond. Outside of the city it is generally imag ined that Central park is the principal pleasure ground of the metropolis. New Yorkers, or some of them, know better. Central park has 840 acres. The total acreage of the parks of the city is 5,158. Central park is one. New York has fifty parks, big and little. THE OLD BLOCK HOUSE. entrance to the city, to the extreme northern boundary of the great metrop olis parks are on every hand. Many of them are on liistoric ground. From the Battery itself, with pre-Revolntionarv traditions, and Bowling Green near by, with a story of a riot in 1770, in which the statue of George IV was cast to the ground, to the upper end of Central park, where the old Block House stands, and the old battle grounds on Riverside and Morningside parks, there are few of the public pleasure grounds that have not traditional interests a century or more old. For it is to be remembered that New York is hiking rank among old cities. It was well established among the cities of the world more than a century ago, and when the struggle of the Revolution began it was the most important point in the New World as it is today. The old Block House that still stands on the line of the aqueduct, inside the limits of Central pari; marks the site of the bat tle of Harlem Plains or Harlem Heights —antiquaries are now quarreling about the real name of the fight. British for tifications still stand, anrJJ 1 Washington's Headquarters” are still pointed out in New York parks. It is of the new parks, however, that New Yorkera will have most to say in the next century. In the vast territory that was acquired by annexation there was a great space especially available for parks, and this was bonght and set aside for the purpose. A chain of pleas ure grounds was established. It con sists of the Van Cortlandt, the Bronx, the Crotona, the Pelham Bay, the Clare mont and the St. Mary’s parks, and three parkways, so called, which are connect ing strips between those named, and are really parks of themselves. These are the Bronx and Pelham, the Mosholu and the Crotona parkways. It is in these parks, indeed, that the city has its best chance to establish pleasure grounds that shall he worthy of the name. They are laid out on ground that has never been diverted from rural purposes, and has therefore retained its natural beauty. As the steady expendi ture of money on Central park has con verted it into a garden of great beauty, and as the constant accumulation of treasures of art has enriched the effect! produced by skillful gardening, so, it ia almost certain, the progress of two or three generations will transform the; rougher beauty of the new paries into a finished attractiveness that will vie suc cessfully with any of the great pleasure grounds of the world. 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Open throughout the entire year. Students can enter at any time. Near Virginia Beach and Old Point comfort. Business men in want of competent stenographers and book-xeepers should correspond with ns. For circulars, address. I. W. PATTON, Principal, 745 ly Norfolk. Va. - iSTOFPED FREE Marvelous success. , Insane Persons Restored (Dr.KLINES GREAT NerveRestorep -«//Rrain Sc Nrr’.'r Disposes. c.lytur< cure /or Nerve Affections. Fits, Epilepsy, etc. I INFALLIBLE if taken as directed. No Fits after Ifirst day's use. Treatise and $2 trill bottle freetc I Fit patients, they paying express charges on bo*r when J received. Send names. P. O. and express address of J afflicted to Dr.KLINE.oti Arch St.,Philadelphia,Pa. B Druggists. BEIVARE OF IMITATING FRAUDS 741 IF JL QTUII A TAFT’S A8THKALK2T1 I f>HFCI|ne»er fails; send us your address, we will mail trial WlllfcllBOTTLKjai^pa — WM T«TMSS.M.M.aKIESTa,N.r.r REE 774 6t eow Have you used* Soap? HOLMES’ SURE CURI Inti Wash aid Dentifrice Cure* Bleeding Gums, Dicers, sore Month, Son Throat, Cleanses the Teeth and Purifies th< Breath; used and recommeded by leading dan tlstA Prepared by Dm. W, B. Holmes 4k Mason, Dentists, Macon, Georgia. For'Sale by All Druggists & Dentists Bore Throat, Croup, snd Hoarseness Cured by Turing Holmes’ loath Vash and Dentifrice Persons wearing artlfical teeth should dm Holmes’ MouthWash and dentifrlce.lt will keei the gums healthy and free from soreness; keep* the plates from getting loose and b morning of tensive. * A pure Breath, Clean Teeth, and Healthy Gums by using Holmes’ Mouth Wash and Den tifrice. Try it. A Persistent feeling of Cleanliness remains for hours after using Holmes’ Mouth Wash and Dentifrice. 571 ly. THE GEORGIA RAIT.ROAD. * Georgia Railroad Compant ) Office Gkx’l ManaSSB, 1 Aoousta, GA.,Miy 21 th, JO. J Commencing the 25th instant, the (ollowtSS Passenger schedule will be operated: NO. 27 WEST-DAILY. Leave Augusta 745 s Leave Washington 7 20 a Leave Athens 8 2S a Leave Gainesville 5 55 a Arrive Atlanta ... 1 » a No. 28 EAST-DAILY. Leave Atlanta 145 p a Leave Gainesville \ 6 56 a a Arrive Athens 7 05 p ■ Arrive Washington 7 20 p a Arrive Augusta 816 p ■ DAY PASSENGER TRAINS. NO. 2 EAST DAILY. NO. 1 WIST DAILY. UMMER OFFER B UY in August, Septembef; or October and pay when crops are sold. Spot ( nib Prices. The Lowest known, •last a little cash dovFn, balanor December loth. No Interest. Our entire stock—any make-’ price or etyie. BEST Sura*.-, mer offer we ever imuitv Write for Circular— SUdl-HER OFFER 181)0 LUDDEN&BATESj SAVANNAH,CA, > Lv Atlanta 8 00 a m Ar Gainesville..815 p m Ar Athens 515 p m Ar Washington.2 30 pm Ar Augusta 3 15 p m Lv August*.... 11 06 Lv Washington 1110 am Lv Athens 8 40 *■ Ar Gainesville. .8 25 pa Ar Atlanta 5 45 pa NO. 4 EAST-DAILY. I NO. 3 WEST-DAILY. Lv Atlanta....1115 p m Lv Augusta....11 00 pm Ar Augusta. ...6 35&m|Ar Atlanta 6 30am DECATUR TRAIN—Dally except Sunday. Lv Atlanta 8 55 amiLv Decatur 9 45 am Ar Decatur 9 23 am Ar Atlanta 10 15 av Lv Atlanta 3 25 pm Lv Clarkston... 410 pi Ar Decatur 3 40 pm|Lv Decatur 4 25 pi Ar Clarkston 4 05 pm Ar Atlanta 4 50 pi COVINGTON ACCOM N—Daily except Sunday ;.v Atlanta 6 20 pm Lv Covington...5 40 an Lv Decatur 6 56 pm Lv Decatur 7 25 *0 Ar Covington... 8 35 pm Ar Atlanta 7 55 an Cheap Excursions to Fla HOME SEEKER3’ RATES. * Only One FareTor Ronnd Trip * From all points North. East and West. Tickets on sale Sept. 9th. 23d and Oct. 14th • Limited 30 days to go and return. SEE THAT YOUR TICKET3 „READ VIA Florida Central & Peninsular R. R. IMMIGRANT RATES ONE AND ONE-HALF CENT PER.MILB Tickets on sale Sept. 9th ; 23d and 30th, also Nov. 11th and 25th and Dec. 2d. Tickets will be sold from all principal points in the territory of the Trunk Line. Central Traffic, Western States and Southern Passenger Association, at one and a half cents per mile. Tickets limited to con tinuous passage to any point iu Florida reached via the Florida Central & Peninsular system. Remember and ask the Ticket Agent to route the Ticket via “The Florida Central aud Peninsular R. R. For Maps,Time-Cards and all information, ad dress N. 3. Pennington A. O. MacDonell, Tratfic Manager Walter G. Coleman, Gen*I Trav. Agent. Jacksonville, G. P and T. A 3. Beerbower, P. and T. A. Florida. The Florida Trank Lino, THE FLORIDA CENTRAL AND PENINSULARRAILWAY, Firmerly the F. R. & N. Co., offers Incre&M futiities this season for travel to Florid*, hxv in< In addition to its old and popular conn*! lion. The Louisville & Nashville K. B., at River Junction, arranged through Itl new connection the Georgia Southern and Florida, (the 3uwannee River route to Florida) lor quick service from North and North-western point*. The road has now no less than Six Points of Connections with the North, namely, Fernaudina, Callahan, Jacksonville. Live Oak. Late City and River Junction. The Florida Central and Peninsular Bail Hoad Is the great artery of travel through the flaei) parts of Florida, traversing twenty [our coun ties—Gadsden, Jefferson, Duval Alachua, Lata, Pisco, Leon, Suwannee Nassaw, Leroy, Orange, Hillsboro, Wakulla, Columbia, Clav, Marion, Polk, Manatee, Madison, Baker, Bradford, Sum ter, Hernando and DeSoto—in their richest, par tions. It runs through the Middle Florida Region of Hill Country, s hare are the fine old Farming Lands. and the new Tobacco Farms, (reached by no other line) soma of them con ducted on a largo scale. Here are Quincy, Ta; lahassee, the capital, Mouticello, Madison and other towns, from whose comfortable, amp!* dwellings, reposing in a fertile country, is com ing a renewed energy to employ the resourcal lavished about them. Stretching down through The Peach Country of Baker Bradford, Alachua and Levy count!**, through the prosperous Strawberry Farms of Ltw’.ey Starke aud Waldo—perhaps superior in profit to the orange grove—it goes throigh the heart of the State, penetrating soma of its finest groves, one body being 70,000 Full bearing Orange Trees, passing nearly a mile between them—making 1*A wiy Southward to the Gulf, and to the more tr epical sections of the State- in all portions of the State It reaches point* ot Scenic Interest. Wakulla Springs in the West, the Suwanne* river, as beautiful aud romantic as It is famoui; Silver Springs, in the lake region, and th* Lakes themselves, with their surroundings ot rolling land, interspersed with pleasant homes in green groves, sloping down to the clear lake fronts By means of this road you can most readily reach the Hunting and Fishing Ground* of the State. Tarpon fishing has of late attracted much attention from enterprising sportsmen. We are the shortest line to this region. The settler will find on the line of this road a E eater opportunity for a varied selection oi nd than on any other road in the State—from lightest soils to those underlaid with clay and marl, and of richest hammock—whether for Regular Mixed Farming, Stock or Dairy Farming, Peach or Strawberry Cult- ture. Orange Groves snd Vegs- table Gardens. The tourist will be gratified with its scenery, the health-seeker on its ample rente can find some spot adapted to his want*. On th* hard clay roada of Middle Florida the horseman will ride with speed snd satisfac tion and the Florida Central and Pensacola Is th* Sportman’s Route old. ■ Koto.—Passengers from Northern connection* naving tickets over the Florida Central and Peninsular to points in South Florida havo ths privilege of being taken into Jacksonville over the Company's line and allowed a stop-over with in the going limits of the ticket, with return te theirroutefor destination free of extra charge Send for best map of Florida. Mailed free MACDORCIX, G. P. A., Jacksonville, Florida. N. 8- Pennington, Trafiic Manager. D. X Maxwell. General Manager. S230 A MONTH. Agents Wanted. 99 best *M* loir articlesSu the world. 1 sample FY** Address N. A. MARSH. Detroit, Mick 720 ly HENRY W. GRADY. Wc want agents to sell a good picture i of Mr. Grady. We also do a General \ Copying business and will copy your f own picture at agent** ' rices for a sam- (pletot**!. i J Address South* |crn iJnp- .* '’'■‘♦vStreeti Al lbU .. • „ 769 _ MACON NIGHT EXPRESS—DAILY. NO. 31 WESTWARD | NO. 32 EA8TWAKD. ^JNCOX POINT & IVHITK PL ATS'} R. B Leave Union Point *10 10 am * 5 40 pas Arrive at Silourn 10 35 am 6 05 pa u at W T hite Plains 1110 am 6 40 pa Leave White Plains *8 00 am *3 30 pa “ Siloam 8 35 am 6 05 pa Arrive at Union Point 9 00 am 4 30 pa ♦Daily except Sunday. No connection for Gainesville on Sunday. Sleeping car to Charleston on Trains No 4 Trains Nos. 2,1, 4 and 3 will, if signalled atop at any regular schedule flag station. Trains Nos. 27 and 28 will stop and recelvt passengers to and from the following station only; Grovetown, Harlem, Dearing,Thompson, Norwood, Barnett, Crawfordville, union Point, Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge. Social droll Covington, Conyers, Lithonia, Stone Mountslll and Decatur. 27 makes close connections tor all points north and northwest. Trains 1 and 2, dinner at Union Point. Train No. 28, supper at Harlem. J. W. GREEN. E. R. DORSET, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Passenger Aft, JOE W. WHITE, T. P A., Augusta, Ga. - 1 THE — •" East Tenn. Va. & Ga. R. R. The only Short and direct line to the North, South, East and West. liman Sleeping —BETWEEN— Atlanta and Knoxville Atlanta and Brunswick Cincinnati and Jacksonville Chattanooga ds Jacksonville Chattanooga aud Memphis Rome and Washington Rome and Philadelphia Chattanooga and New York —WITHOUT CHANGE— For any information call on or write W Chss. N. Kight, B W. Wrenn A. G. P. A, G. P & T. A. Atlanta, Ga. Knoxville, T*nn, Th&d. C. Sturgis, T. P. A., Atlanta, Ga, Improved Train Service BETWEEN MEMPHIS m THS SOUTHEAST. The Palace Gar Line of tho South—th Kan sas City. Memohis & Birmingham R. R —now has two through passenger trains daily between Memphis and Birmingh *ra, making close and sure connections with the trains of all connec ting lines. Night trains have through sleeping cars between Atlanta and Memphis (in couneo- tion with the Georgia Pacific R. R.), the short est route, quickest time, ani the onlv line run ning through cars between those cities. Dty trains have Palace Reel! ling Chair Cars fssatt free to holders of first-class through ticket) through between Birmingham and Kansas City, This is many miles the shortest and by far th* best equipped Passenger Line between point* in the East aud Southeast aud Memphis, and *11 points iu Arkansas, Texas and the West and Northwest. Everything new aud flrst-eias*. Through tickets via this line on sale at all through ticket offices. For any desired information, for larg* rat? aDd time table folder, address. H. D. ELLIS, J. E. LOCKWOOD, Gen’l Agent, G. P. and T. Ag’t, 339 Main st Kansas City. Memphis. If Yon Are Going lost AND WANT LOW BATES To Arksnsai, Texas, Missouri, Colorado, Oregon and Califor nia, or any point WEST or NORTHWE3T-caU onor address Alx. S. Thwkatt, General Traveling Agent, 8, H- Hardwick, Ga. Pacific Railway, Gen. Pass. Agent, Atlanta, Ga. Birmingham, Ala. iflER RESORTS, EXCURSION RATES, 2 GENTS par mile traveled. No iron clad tickets to annoy families traveling without male escorts. The most liberal ar rangements ever offered. For information apply to Agents E.T.V. & G. Railway System, or to iiRia