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SUMMER SCHOOL.
Y. M. C. A, Reduced Rates via
Southern Railway.
For the occasion of the meeting
on the Summer School of the N .
M. C. A., at Knoxville, T' nn.. June
10-37, 1597, the Southern Railway
w.ll sell tickets to Knoxville and
return at rate of one fare lor the
round trip; tickets will be sold
J June IGth to 1$) inclusive good to
return until June3oth, 189/. Call
on any agent of the Southern Rail
may f< r information.
lloiihca lii London and Berlin.
I live at Berlin in a Louse where
there aie eight families, each of
course inhabiting a separate part.
Only the inevitable piano practices
break through the barriers, and
that is certainly not less the case
here where the walls are to thin
than with u ■ in our more in;.: sively
built houses. The only real differ
ence consists in this that the “cas
ties” of the Englishmen are built
up close to one another, while ours
are above one another, and that in
consequence thereof we- have our
rooms all on one floor while theirs
occupy several floors. Ono can safe
ly assert that by far the larger num
ber of the houses in London have
frontages of only two or at most
three windows in width. They Jive
on the middle floor, take their meals
on the ground floor and sleep on the
upper floor. Ah a consoqucnee there
is a total absence of reception rooms.
Should any one wish to invite the
court, to a ball, he has to get a large
K temporary room erected in the
courtyard for dining purposes, an
other as a retiring room for the
■ queen, while the refreshments are
B to be found served on the ground
floor—that is, if one succeeds in get
ting down the narrow staircase.
Everywhere there are crushing and
difficulty of moving about. Again
and again you may expect to find in
London mansions the frontages of
which are in bad taste, though of
immense dimensions. The whole
side of a square or of a street may
be composed of one uniform set of
buildings which are throughout in
1 the same style and of the same col
or.—“Moltko’s Letters to His Wife. ”
CA.BTOn.IA.
♦ The he- ~ .
A Fifth Century mosaic.
A correspondent of the London
Daily Graphic in Syria writes: “At
a village on the east of the Jordan,
half way between Salt and Kerak, a
largo piece of mosaic pavement has
been discovered—that is, a floor
made of differed colored tiles, each
about two-thirds of an inch square.
It is about 30 feet long and 15 feet
broad, and is supposed to have been
the floor of a chapel of the fifth
century. It is a map of the country
from Egypt to the Lebanon. Every
thing is dreadfully out of propor
tion. Jerusalem is enormous and
has streets marked. The Dead sea
swarms with fish—although none
can live in it on account of the bitu
men with which the water is mixed
—and some of the fish are longer
than the width of the Jordan.’’
To Cure Constipation Forever.
Take Cascarcts Candy Cathartic. 10c or 25c.
It C. C. C. fail to cure, druggists refund money.
Sumur Reacts.
Mat)}’ delightful summer resorts
are situated on and reached via the
Southern Railway. Whether one
desires the seaside or the moun
" tains, the fashonablo hotels or quiet
country homes, they can be reach
ed via this magnificent highway of
travel.
Asheville, N. C , Roan Mountain
Tenn., and the mountain resorts of
East Tennessee and Western
North Carolina, —‘‘The Land of
♦ the Sky”,—Tate Springs, Tenn.,
Oliver Srpings, Tenn., Lookout
“ Mountain, Tenn., Lithia Springs,
Ga , the various Virginia Springs,
also the seashore resorts are reach
ed by the Southern Railway on
convenient scedules and at very
low rates.
The Southern Railway has issued
a handsome folder, entitled “Sum
mer Homes and R 'sorts,” descript
W ive of nearly one thousand sum
mer resorts hotels and boarding
houses, including information re
garding rates for board at the dif
ferent places and r lilroad rates to
reach them.
Write to C. A. Renscoter, Assis
tant General Passenger Agent,
Southern Railway, Chattanooga,
Tenn., for a copy of this folder.
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JOHNSON’S LONDON.
It Was Practically Intact Up to a Centurj
Ago.
Little more than a century ago
Dr. Johnson's London was practical
ly intact. Old London bridge still
stood, filling with its eminently pic
torial houses very much the position
of the old Pont Neuf in Paris. The
Fleet river still rolled its course—a
muddy and ill smelling course, it is
true—down Farringdon street and
across Ludgate circus to the Thames.
The very name of New Bridge street
was probably derived from the
handsome structure at Bridewell,
which formed part of Wren’s fine
scheme for the rebuilding of the
city after the fire. From a river the
Fleet sank to be a ditch, and then
it became the underground sewer
which it has ever since remained.
Then you might still be relieved of
your purs«: by highwaymen on
Moorfields or be molested by “fresh
water pirates’’ in the Pool.
The old privileges of the guilds
were in full force, ami the great
offices of the corporation were mat
ters of bargain and sale. Yet. even
when Farmer George was young,
we may see the beginnings of the
city which we know today. The
streets were uncomfortably crowd
ed, the pavements were shocking
and the roadways almost as bad.
When poor Mrs. Gilpin jolted and
lurched along in her chaise, “as
though (’heapside were mad,” the
noise must have been deafening.
And, for the matter of that, so rapid
and thorough have been modern
improvements in London, within
and without tire walls, that it is
difficult to realize that well within
the last 20 years Fleet street itself
was still paved as Cheapside was
tiie day the Gilpinswent to Edmon
: ton and Ware. The aldermanic tur
tle is almost as modern as the city
pavements, for it was not until 1768
that it first appeared at those civic
feasts which it was destined to grace
in perpetuity. It is true that well
paved streets were not so important
m the days when the Thames was
1 still the highway of the genteel and
when even the lord mayor’s proces
sion was a water pageant.
I It may be doubted whether Lon
don ever was a very quiet place. A
hundred years back it must have
been almost as noisy as it is now.
When there were no drays or
“chariots” to roll over the cobbles,
j there were still the criers of “fine
strawberries” and the hawkers of
all manner of eatables, the purvey
ors of lavender and dozens of other
itinerant venders. So late as 30
I years ago “London Cries” was a
popular nursery book, despite the
villainous illustrations. In this mat
ter of town noises municipal admin
istration has made but little prog
ress, though it is only fair to say
that the city is now a far quieter
place in the late evening than Ken
) sington or Belgravia. Much that
we find in Mr. Welch’s book reads
I curiously ancient. Yet it is not so
, long since the Tower received polit
' ical prisoners—Mr. Wilkes and Sir
Francis Burdett were both sent
there by an exasperated legislature
1 —and lotteries were officially drawn
:at Guildhall. The Tower, though
still technically a fortress, with no
ingress or egress after a given hour
i of the night, is now mainly a muse
um, and the wheel of fortune which
once revolved in Guildhall yard has
given place to the Mansion House
relief funds.—London Standard.
CASTOR IA
For Infants and Children.
The fee- ... .
St. George’s Lake.
St. George's lake, in Liberty, is
said to be one of the handsomest
sheets of water in Maine. It is fed
almost entirely by springs, and its
waters are so clear that objects on
its bottom can be seen plainly when
the water is many feet deep. The
water at the outlet of the lake passes
down a descent, and the fall in three
quarters of a mile is estimated to be
175 feet.
Better Position.
Mrs. Mann (meeting former serv
ant) —Ab. Mary. I suppose you are
getting better wages at your new
place ?
Mary—No, ma’am. I’m working
for nothing now. I'm married.—
Boston Transcript.
Everybody Says So.
Cascarets Candy Cathartic, the most won
aerft.l medical discovery cf tl.e age. pleas
ant and refreshing to the taste, act gently
and positively on kidneys, liver and bowels,
cleansing the entire system, dispel colds,
cure headache, fever, habitual constipation
ana biliousness. Please btiv and try a box
of C. C. C. to-day; 10. 25. 50 cents. Sold and
guaranteed to cure by all druggists.
HIRES Rootbeer con
tains the best herbs, berries
and roots nature makes for
rootbeer making. Take no
other.
Made only by The Charles F. Hires Co.. Philadelphia.
A Ijc. package makes 5 gallons. Sold everywhere.
J YOUNG PEOPLES UNION.
Chattanooga, Tenn , Reduced
Rates via Southern R. R.
For the occasion cf the Seventh
j Annual Convention of the Baptist
Young People's Union of America,
Chattanooga, Tenn . and return at
rate of < ne fare for the round-trip
' Tickets will be sold July 13th, 11th,
[ and loth 1897, good io return July
21st, 1897.
Limits may be extended to Au
gust loth. 1897, if tickets are de
posited with agent Chattanooga,
before July 19th.
Call on any agent of the South
ern Railway for information.
CA-STOTLIA.
Bimue _y / yrs j every
clgzz-.'ue wrapper.
He Took One Load.
It is reported of the late William
H. Vanderbilt that his father, the
commodore, did not give his son,
when a young man, much credit for
business ability. Absolute verifica
tion of this is doubtful, but a good
story is told of an incident wherein
the son proved that he, too, carried
in his head some of the astuteness
in commercial intercourse that his
father possessed. The commodore
presented him with a farm on Staten
Island, informing him that he might
live there, and to make the land
pay, as that was all be cared to con
tribute toward the lad’s support. A
short time later the commodore in
quired of his son how ho was get
ting along.
“Not very well, father,” the
young man replied. “What I need
badly is some means of improving
the earth. ”
“Well, suppose you go up to my
stables and get a load of refuse, but
mind, I shall only give you one
load. ”
“All right,” replied the son, and
he took one load; but, to the aston
ishment of the commodore, when he
went to the stables they had been
entirely cleaned.
“How many loads did that boy of
mine cart away from here?” he in
quired of the stableman.
“One, sir,” replied that function
ary, “but he carried the stuff away
in a barge, sir. ” —Harper's Round
Table.
First Recorded Land Sale.
The first real estate transaction
recorded was the purchase of the
field of Macphelah by Abraham, in
the cave of which he buried Sarah,
his wife. Abraham paid 400 shekels
of silver for the field.
Hundreds of thousands 1 ave been
induced to try Chamberlain’s
Cough Remed}’ by reading what it
has done for others, and having
tested its merits for themselves
are to-day its warmest friends.
Far sale by H. IL Arrington.
How to Stop Snoring.
To those who snore and are aware
I of the infirmity and wish to get rid
of it we would commend the follow
ing: There are two channels in
which the air travels in going to the
lungs—namely, the nose and the
mouth. These two passages unite
in a common cavity, and from that
point there is but one tube leading
to the lungs. There is a bone, called
the hard palate, which forms the
roof of the mouth and the floor of
the nose, separating these two air
channels from each other. At the
inner or posterior end of the bone
is a little body called the soft palate,
made of muscle and covered with a
delicate skin. This soft palate is
attached at one end to the hard pal
ate. The other end hangs loose and
moves or laps in the act of breath
ing, something like a window cur
tain when acted upon by a current
of air. This is its condition while
we are asleep or awake, though dur
ing sleep it is much more relaxed or
liabby than when we are awake.
Now. in order to snore one must
keep the mouth open as well as the
nose, and in this condition the two
currents of air passing in and out
together during the act of breathing
catch this little current between
■ them and throw it into rapid vi
bration. This vibration, more or
; less intense and sonorous, is what
we call snoring. It is only with the
mouth open that snoring can he ac
! complished. Try to sleep with your
mouth closed, and if you can suc
ceed in doing so you will cure your
self of a very disagreeable perform
ance—certainly disagreeable to oth
ers if not to yourself.—New York
Ledger.
Bucklen's Arnica Salve.
Ihe Best Salve in th* world for
Cuts. Bruises, Sores, Ulcers, Salt
Rheum, Fever Sores, Tetter
i Chapped Hands, Chilbins, Corns
and all Skin Eruptions, and posi
tively cures Piles or no pay re
quired It is guaranteed to give
perfect satisfaction, or money re
funded. Price 25cents per box.
I for sale by H. H. Arrington.
Re Doomswomun
“With power to bless,
and power to curse.”
A Talc of True Love
in Southern Climes
IS THE
Next Attraction in these
Columns.
By special arrangement we are > ermitted ,o publish
in serial form THE DOOM WOMAN, the
most powerful love stor, ts the ray.
Soon to begin—Watch for it
Card Etiquette.
Card etiquette is more pronounced
on the continent than in America,
for society as a whole is more con
ventional and social customs are
much more matters of form. Emo
tions are expressed by cards, and, as
an example, Katherine de Forest
tells of a bride whose husband had
lived in Paris 10 or 15 years before
she married him. The proper thing
for her to do on her arrival was to
leave cards with all her husband’s
friends—that is to say, at the places
where he was in the habit of visit
ing, or with women who had said
to him that they hoped his wife
would call on them. Nearly all these
cards were returned within a week
in person—that is to say, the right
hand corner of the card was turned
down. And when the woman leav
ing it had a reception day not en
graved, it was written in the lower
left hand corner. It so happened,
however, that two of the husband's
visiting acquaintances were not
pleased with his marriage and did
not care to know his wife. They
simply left cards with no corner
turned, and the wife did not call
again. A year later a little misun
derstanding that had crept up be
tween the two families was ex
plained away, the two ladies left
cards with corners turned down and
their day written upon them, and
the course of social intercourse ran
smoothly ever after.—San Francisco
Argonaut.
Taking the Wrong Boats.
Dwight L. Moody, in addressing
his great Bible class in The Ladies’
Home Journal on regeneration, il
lustrates his teachings with this ex
cellent story: “A Methodist minis
ter, on his way to a camp meeting,
through some mistake took passage
on the wrong boat. He found that,
instead of being bound for a relig
ious gathering, he was on his way
to a horse race. His fellow passen
gers were betting and discussing the
events, and the whole atmosphere
was foreign to his nature. He be
sought the captain that he would
stop his boat and let him off at the
first landing, as the surroundings
were so distasteful to him.
“The story also goes on to relate
how, on the same occasion, a sport
ing man, intending to go to the
races, by some mistake found him
self on the wrong boat, bound for
the camp meeting. The conversa
tion about him was no more intelli
gible to him than to the man in the
first instance, and he, too, besought
the captain to stop and let him off
the boat. Now, what was true in
these two cases is practically true
with every one. A true Christian is
wretched where there is no fellow
ship, and an unregenerate man is
not at ease where there are only
Christians. A man’s future will be
according to what he is here pre
pared for. If he is not regenerate,
heaven will have no attractions for
him. ”
A Mismanaged Compliment.
“I guess,” remarked Willie Wish
ington hopelessly, “that I have said
the wrong thing again.”
“To whom?”
“Miss Seeranbraun. I was com
plimenting her on her costume, and
on a venture I told her that she
looked the part completely—that it
was positively lifelike. I have just
found out the character she was as
suming. ”
“What was it?”
“A lady of the preceding cen
tury.”—Washington Star.
piCH RED BLOOD is the foun
■ V dation of good health. That is why
Hood's Sarsaparilla, the One True
Blood Purifier, gives HEALTH*
BUSY MONTH
FOB FARMERS
The Work That Should Bd
Done During June. I
MR, NESBITT'S MONTHLY LETTFBj
Georgia'* Commissioner of Agrlcnltnr®
Gives Some Hints on Harvesting Wlieatl
Oat and Clover Crops—t orn Approach*
ing Its -Most Critical Period of Growtlil
Keeping Down Weeds ami Grass. 1
Department of Agriculture, I
Atlanta, Ga., June 1, 1897. I
The harvesting of the wheat, oat andl
clover crops, which usually falls in this
month, together with the imperative!
demands of the corn and cotton crops,
not to mention those of the minor for
age and othercrops, make June a month
of hard work for both brain and mus
cle. With all the various claims press
ing for attention, a certain amount of
judicious planning is an absolute ne
cessity. The work cannot be taken upl
haphazard. The careful farmer will,
not delay preparations for harvesting
his grain crops until the last moment
and then put everything on the farm in
commotion and confusion by his hur
ried and unconsidered directions. Often
valuable time is lost by waiting to en
gage a machine or to supply some
needed part of the one already on hand,
and then when a messenger is hastily]
dispatched to the nearest available poinfl
to secure what is necessary, it is found
that no machine can be hired, or that
the "missing link” must be ordered and
shipped from a distance. These de
tails, which, if attended to at the
proper time, seem insignificant and
easily adjusted, if allowed to wait for
attention until the last moment, are
often magnified into mountains of care
and worry. Another mistake often
made is to become so absorbed in the
harvest held as to allow the other crops
to suffer for attention. If necessary,
and it is possible to do so, any needed
extra labor should be hired, even if a
little more than the usual price has to
be paid.
Work properly done in June will
bring in better returns than at any
other period during the year. It is
now that the corn crop is approaching
its most critical period of growth, and
it shoujd not be allowed to suffer for
the work, which is so essential to its
fierfect development, and which, if de
ayed beyond the proper time, can never
afterwards perform the same important
office. Upon the promptness and char
acter of this cultivation depends the
success or failure of the crop. Keep
the plows running, but set just deep
enough to stir the surface. The finely
pulverized surface soil will act as a
mulch to conserve the moisture, which
during the hot days is ascending from
lower depths and which would other
wise escape into the surrounding at
mosphere. After the corn plants at
tain their full growth, they will serve
to shade the ground and themselves aid
in conserving this moisture. When
giving the last plowing see that it is as
near level as possible and sow peas
broadcast. Don’t allow the
WHEAT AND OAT STUBBLE
to grow up in weeds, which will mature
seeds and thus multiply the vexations
of farm life. These seeds will not only
be scattered far and wide to spring up
in succeeding crops, but the plants them
selves will take up present fertility,
which ought to be utilized in producing
some useful crop for the maintenance
of the farm. At the south the field pea
crop fully fills this need.
Don’t neglect to put out as many
SWEET POTATOES
as time and space will allow. While
potatoes do not equal corn in feeding
value weight for weight, they furnish
no mean substitute and are valuable as
giving the necessary variety to the food
ration. Another point is that a good
crop of potatoes may be grown on sandy
land which will fail to bring » paying
corn crop. Under favorab'a conditions
FORAGE CORN
planted all through this month will ma
ture sufficiently to furnish good silage.
It should be planted thick in the drill
and close in the row, but care should be
taken not to crowd it to such a degree
as to shut out sunlight and air and thus
prevent it from forming an ear on each
stalk. Corn, which is managed so as
to enable it to mature a full ear up to
the glazing stage for each is much
more valuable for feeding than if only
nubbins are formed and these at inter
vals.
To maintain the
COTTON FIELDS
in such condition as to keep down the
weeds and grass and preserve a pulver
ized surface to the depth of one or two
inches is the main object in cultivation
at this season. Cotton will stand a
much greater degree of bad treatment
than corn, aud under favorable condi
tions recover from the check and go on
to a moderately satisfactory maturity,
because it has a longer season in which
to repair such backsets. But it is an
expensive crop at best, and when to the
usual bills for fertilizers and labor in
making and gathering, is added the loss
from neglect to cultivate properly and
at the right time, it is no wonder that
this crop, from which we should receive
a certain revenue, in many cases will
scarcely pay the cost of production. In
HARVESTING
the grain crons, attention should be
given to the "careful forming of the
shocks, in order that they may be able
to resist injury from the heavy rains
which sometimes set in at this season.
A compact, well made shock will resist
even ; rotitwted rains, while heaps
loosely thrown together seem to invite,
and are certain to meet with, immense
loss in case of bad weather. Another
mistake to be guarded against is allow
ing the crop to stand too long before
harvesting, in which case much is lost
by the shattering of the grain. Clover
and grass, after being cur, should not
be allowed to remain on the ground ex
posed to the sun after it is well wilted.
At this stage the heaps should be made
up and the curing completed in that
shape. This will secure good hay of
full feeding value, without the loss of
either leaves or bloorp.?.
R. T. Nesbitt, UoffiTtussioner.
nooga National Military Park/
many of the most beautiful monu
ments being located near the tracks
and in plain view from the trains.
Parties going to the Centennial
at Nashville should not fail to stop
over at Chattanooga and visit this
beautiful Park
Trains of the C . R. & 0. R. R.
arrive at and depart from the Cen
tral Station at Chattanooga. For
parties of fifty or more special
trains will be furnished on short
notice.
For further information commun
icate with.
11. C. Knox, T. P. A., Chattanoo
ga, Tenn. J. N. Rush T. P. A ,
Summerville Ga.
C. B. Wilburn, T. M., Rome Ga.
Eugene E. Jones, Receiver, Rome,
Ga. —Constitution.
How To Find Out.
Fill a bottle or common glass with
urine and let it stand twenty-four
hours; a sediment or settling indi
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the kidneys. When urine stains
linen it is positive evidence of
kidney trouble. Too frequent de
sire to urinate or pain in the back
is also convincing proof that the
kidneys and bladder are out ol or
der
What To Do.
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scalding pain in passing it, or bad
effects following use of liquor,
wine or beer, and overcomes that
unpleasant necessity of being com
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