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let slip an alth, and there was the door to ye! He had the zeal for the Lord, it wu a fair wonder to hear him pray, but the family has aye had e. gift that way." This father was twice married, once to a dark woman of the old Blw&ld stock by whom he had Gilbert, presently of Cauldstaneslap and, secondly, to the mother of Kirstie. "He was an auld man when he married, a fell auld man wi' a muckle voice— you could hear him routing from the top o' the ky©-stairs," she said "but for her, it appears she was a perflt wonder. It was gentle blood she had, Mr. Archie, for It was your ain. The country side gaed gyte about her and her gowden hair. Mines is no to be mentioned wi' it, and there's few weemen has mair hair than what I have, or yet a bonnier color. Often would I tell my dear Miss Jeannle—-that was your mother, dear, she was cruel ta'en up about her hair, it was unco' tender, ye see—'Houts, Miss Jeannie,' I would say, 'just fling your washes and your French dentifrishes in the back o' the fire, for that's the place for them and awa' down to a burn side and wash yersel in cauld hill water, and dry your bonny hair in the caller wind o* the muirs, the way that my mother aye washed hers, and that I have aye made it a practice to have wishen mines—Just you do what I tell ye, my dear, and ye'll give me news of it! Ye'U have hair, and routh of hair, a pigtail as thick's my arm,' I said, 'and the bonniest color like the clear gowden guineas, so as the lads in klrk'll no can keep tlveir eyes off it!* Weel, it lasted out her time, pulr thing! I cuttit a lock of it upon her corp that was lying there sae cauld. I'll show it ye some of this days, if

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good. But, as I was aayin', my mither On the death of the father there remained golden-haired Klrstle, who took service with her distant kinsfolk, the Rutherfords, and black-a-vised Gilbert, twenty years older, who farmed the Cauldstaneslap, married, and begot four sons between 1773 and 1784, and a daughter, Ilk a postcript, in '98, the year of Nelson and the Nile. It seemed it was a tradition in the family to wind up with a belated girl. In 1804, at the age of sixty, Gilbert met an end that might be called heroic. He was due home from market any time from eight at night till five in the morning, and in any condition from the quarrl&some to the speechless, for he maintained to that age the goodly customs of the Scots farmer. It was known on this occasion that he had a good bit of money to bring home the word had gone round loosely. The laird had sh6wn his guineas, and if anybody had but noticed It, there was an ill-looking vagabond crew, the scum of Edinburgh, that drew out of the market long ere it was dusk and took the hill-road by HermMoh, where it was not to be believed that they had lawful business. One of the countryside, one Dlckieson, they took with them to be their guide, and dear he paid for it! Of a sudden, in the ford of the Brocken Dykes, this vermin clan fell on the la'rd, six to one, and him three parts asleep, having drunk hard,, But it is ill to catch an Elliott: For awhile, in the night and the black water that was deep as to his saddlegirths, he wrought with his staff like a smith at his stithy, and great was the sound of oaths tad blows. With that the ambuscade was burst, and he rode for home with a pistol-ball in him, three knife wounds, th'e loss of his front .teeth, a broken rib and bridge', and a dying horse. That was a race with death that the laird rode! In the mirk night, with his broken bridle and his head sWfemlrc^, he dug hts s*purs to ithe rowels In the horse's side, and the horse, that was even worse off than himself, the poor creature! screamed out loud like a person as he went, so that the hills echoed with it. and the folks at Cauldstaneslap got to their feet about the table and looked at each other with white faces. The horse fell dead at the yard gate, the laird won the length of the house and fell there

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the threshold. To the son that raised him he gave the bag of money. "Hae," said he. All the way up the thieves had seemed to him to be at his heels, but now the hallucination left hlnP—he saw them again la the place of the ambuscade—and the thirst of vengeance seised on his dying mind. Raising himself and pointing with an Imperious linger into the black night from which he had oome, he uttered the single command, "Brocken Dykes." and fainted. He had never been loved, but he had been feared in honor. At that sight, at that word, gasped out at them from a toothless and bleeding mouth, the old Elliott spirit awoke with a shout In the tour son*. "Wanting the hat," continues my author, Klrstle. whom I but haltingly follow, for she told this tale like one Inspired, "wanting guns, for there wasnae tw* grains o' pouder in the house, wi' nae mair weepoos than their sticks into their hands, the fower o' them took the road. Only Hob, and that was the eldest, hunkered at the doorsUl •vhere the blood had rin. fyled his hand wi' It. and haddit op to Heeveo In the way o' the auld Bonier alth. 'Hell shall have her aln again this nlcht!' he raired, and rode forth upon his errand." It was three miles to Brwken Dykes, down hill, and a aire road. Klrstle has seen men from Edinburgh dismounting there in plain day to lead their horm But the four brother* rode It as If Auld Hornie were behind and Heaven in front. Come to the ford, and there wma Dkktisoa. By all tales, he was sot dead, but breathed and reared upon his elbow, sad cried eet to then for heip^ It was at a graceless faos that be salted marcy. As soon as Hob saw. by the glint e* the tasters, the eras ihtslnc aaA the

whiteness of the teeth la the man's face, m. you!" says he ye hae your teeth, hm ye?" and rode his horse to and fro upon that human remnant. Beyond that. Dandle must dismount with the lantern to be their guide he was the youngest son, scarce twenty at the time. "A* nlcht long they gaed in the wet heath and jennipers, and whatr? they gaed they neither knew nor cared, but Just followed the bluld stains and the footprints o' their faither's murderers. And a' nlcht Dandle had his nose to the grund like a tyke, and the lthers followed and spak naething, neither black nor white. There was nae noise to be heard, but Just the sough of the swalled burns, and Hob, the dour yin, risping his teeth as he gaed." With the first glint of the morning they saw they were on the drove road, and at that the four stopped and had a dram to their breakfasts, for tbey knew that Dand must have guided them right, and the rogues could be but little ahead, hot foot for Edinburg by the way of the Peotland Hills. By eight clock they had word of them—a shepherd had seen four men "uncoly mishandled" go by In the last hour. "That's yin a piece," says Clem, and swung his cudgel. "Five o* them!" says Hob. "God's death, but the faither was a man! And him drunk!" And then there befell them what my author termed "a sair misbegowk," for they were overtaken by a posse of mounted neighbors come to aid in the pursuit Four sour faces looked on the reinforcement. "The Deil's broughten you!" said Clem, and they rode thenceforward in the rear of the party with hanging heads. Before ten they had found and secured the rogues, and by three of the afternoon, as they rode up the Vennel with their prisoners, they were •ware of a concourse of people bearing in their midst somathing that dripped. "For the boady of the saxt," pursued Klrstle, "wi' hts head smashed like a hazlenit, had been a' that nlcht In the chairge o' Hermiston Water, and it dunting it on the stanes, and grundllng It on the shallows, and flinging the deid thing heels-ower-gur-die at the Fa's o' Spango and in the first o' the day Tweed had got a hold o' him and carried him off like a wind, for It was uncoly swalled, and raced wi' him, bobbing under brae-sides, and was long playing with the creature In the drumlie lynns under the castle, and at the hinder end of all culst him up on the starling of Crossmlchael brig. Sae there they were a'thegither at last (for Dlckieson had been brought in on a cart long syne), and folk could see what malnner o* man my brither had been that had held his head again sax and saved the siller, and him drunk!" Thus died of honorable Injuries and in the savor of fame Gilbert Elliott of the Cauldstaneslap but his sons had scarce less glory out of the business. Their savage haste, the skill with which Dand had found and followed the trail, the barbarity to the wounded Dlckieson (which was like an open secret in the country) and the doom which it was currently supposed they had intended for the others, struck and stirred popular imagination. Some century earlier the last of the minstrels might have fashioned the last of the ballads out of that Homeric fight and chase but the spirit was dead, or had been reincarnated already in Mr. Sheriff Scott, and the degenerate moorsmen must be content to tell the tale in prose and" to make of the "Four Black Brothers" a unit after the fashion of the "Twelve Apostles" or the "Three Musketeers."

Robert, Gilbert, Clement, and Andrew— in the proper Border diminutive, Hob, Gib, Clem,and Dand Elliott—these ballad heroes, had much in common, in particular, their high sense of the family and the family honor but they went diverse ways, and prospered and failed In different businesses. According to Klrstle, "th^y had a' bses in their bonnets but Hob." l( tb the laird was, indeed, essentially a decent man. An elder of the Kirk, nobody had heard an oath upon his lips, save, perhaps, thrice or so at the sheep washing, since the chase of his father's murderers. The figure he had shown on that eventful night disappeared as If swaliowed by a trap. He who had ecstatically dipped his hand in the red blood, he who had ridden down Dlckieson, became, from that moment on, a stiff and rather graceless model of the rustic properties cannlly profiting by the high war prices, and yoarly stowing away a little nest-egg in the bank against calamity approved of and sometimes consulted by the greater lairds for the massive and plaold sense of what be said, when he could be Induced to say anything and particularly valued by the minister, Mr. Torrance, as a righthand man in the parish, and a model to parents. The transfiguration had been for the moment only some Barbarosaa, some old Adam of our ancestors, sleeps In all ot us till the fit circumstance shall call It into action and for as sober as he now seemed, Hob had given once for all the measure of the devil that haunted him. lie was married, and, by reason of the effulgence of that legendary night, was adored by his wife. He had a mob of little lusty, barefoot children who marched In a caravan the long milee to school, the stages of whose pilgrimage were marked by acts of spoliation and mischief, and who were qualified In the country-side as "fair pests." But tn the house, if "faither was in," they were quiet as mice. In short. Hob moved through life in a great peace—the reward of anyone who shall have killed his mar, with any formidable and figurative circumstance, in the midst of a country gagged and swaddled with civilization.

It was a current remark that the Elliotts were "guid and bad, like sanguishes and certainly there was a curious distinction, the men of business coming alternately with the dreamers. The second brother, Gib, was a weaver by trade, had gone out early into the world to Edinburgh, and come home again with hts wings slin l. There was an exaltation in his nature nich had led him to embrace with enthusiasm the principles of the French Revolution, and had ended by bringing him under the hawse of my Lord Henniston In that furious onslaught of hts upon the Liberals, which sent Mure and Palmer into exile "-*"4 da?tn -1 the party Into chaff. It was wh sred that my lord, in his great scorn for the movement, and prevailed upon a little by a sense of nelghborllneaa, had given Gib a hint Meeting him one day in the Potter Row. my lord had stopped in front of him. "Gib, ye eediot," he had said, "what's this I hear of you? Polities, poalttics, poallttes, weaver's poalitics, is the way of it, I hear. If ye arenae a* thegether docened with eedlocy, ye'll gang ways back to Cauldstaneslap, and ca' your loom, and as' your loom, man!" And Gilbert had taken him st the word and returned, with aa expedition almost to be called flight, to the hoase of his father. The dearest of his bholttntt was that ftr-"y gift

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Klrstle had isted and the baffled politician now turned his attention to rsUckms matter*—or, as others said, to hsrasy and schism. Bvsry 8onday morning he was tn Croasmicibaei, where he had gathered together, ooe by one. a sect of about a doom wrsona, who called themselves "Qod*s

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Remnant of the True Faithful," or. tor short, "God's Remnant" To the profane, they were known as "Gib's Deils." Baillie Sweedie, a noted humorist in the town, vowed that the proceedings always opened to the tune of "The Dell Fly Away with the Exciseman," and that the sacrament was dispensed In the form of hot whiskey toddy both wicked hits at the evangelist, who had been suspected of smuggling in his youth, and had been overtaken (aa the phrase went}, on the streets of Crossmlchael one Fair day. It was known that every Sunday they prayed for a blessing on the arms of Bonaparte. For this, "God Remnant," as they were "scaling" from the cottage tfrnt did duty for a temple, had been repeatedly stoned by the bairns, and Gib himself hooted by a squadron of Border volunteers in which his own brother,Dand, rode in a uniform and with a drawn sword. The "Remnant" were believed, besides, to be "antlnomian in principle," which mlgbt otherwise have been a serious charge, but the way public opinion then blew it was quite swallowed up and forgotten in the scandal about Bonaparte. For the rest, Gilbert set up his loom in an outhouse at Cauldstaneslap, where he labored assiduously six days of the weefc. His brothers, appalled by his political opinions and willing to avoid dissension in the household, spoke but little to him he less to them, remaining absorbed in the study of the Bible and almost constant prayier. The gaunt weaver was dry-nurse at Cauldstaneslap, and the bairns loved him dearly. Except when he was carrying an infant in his arms, he was rarely seen to smile—as, indeed, there were few smilers In that family. When his sis-ter-In-law rallied him, and proposed that he should get a wife and bairns of his own, since he was fond of them, "I have no clearness of mind upon that point," he would reply. If nobody called him to dinner, he stayed out Mrs. Hobb, a hard, unsympathetic woman, once tried the experiment He went without food all day, but at dusk, as the light began to fail him, he came lnta the house of his own accord, looking puzzled. "I've 'had a great gale of prayer upon my speerit," said he. "I canna mind sae muckle's what I had for denner." The creed of God's Remnant was justified in the life of its founder. "And yet I dlnna ken," said Kirstie. "He's maybe no more stockfish than his neeghbors! He rode wi' the rest o' them, and had a good stomach to the work, by a* that I hear! God's Remnant! The dell's clavers! There wasaae muckle Christianity in the way Hob guided Johnny Dlckieson, at the least of it but Guid kens! Is he a Christian even? He might be a Mahommedan or a Deevil or a Flreworshipper, for what I ken."

The third brother had his name on a door-plate, no less, In the city of Glasgow, "Mr. Clement Elliott," as long as your arm. In his case, that spirit of innovation which had shown itself timidly in the case of Hob by the admission of new manures, and which had run to waste with Gilbert in subversive politics and heretical religions, bore useful fruit in many lngeni. us mechanical improvements. In boyhood, from his addiction to strange devices of sticks and string, he had been counted the most eccentric of the family. But that was all by now and he was a partner of his firm, and looked to die a 1 al ie. He, too, had married, and was rearing a plentiful family in the smoke and din of Glasgow he was wealthy, and could have bought out his brother, the cock-laird, six •Jmes over, it was whispered and when he slipped away to Cauldstaneslap for a well-earned holiday, which he did as often as he was able, he astonished the neighbors with his broadcloth, his beaver hat, and the ample piles of his neckcloth. Though an eminently solid man at bottom, after the pattern of Hob, he had contracted a certain Glasgow briskness and aplomb which set him off. All the other Elliotts were as lean as a rake, but Clement was laying on fat, and he panted sorely when he must get into his boots. Dand said, chuckling: "Ay, Clem has the elements of a corporation." "A provost and corporation," returned Clem. And his readiness was much admired.

The fourth brother, Dand, was a shepherd to his trade, and by starts, when he could bring his mind to it, excelled in the business. Nobody could train a dog like Dandle nobody, through the peril of great storms in the winter time, could do more gallantly. But if his dexterity were exquisite, his diligence was but fitful and he served his brother for bed and board, and a trifle of pocket money when he asked for it He loved money well enough, knew very well how to spend it, and could make a shrewd bargain when be liked. But he preferred a vague knowledge that he was well to windward to any equated coins in the pocket he feit himself richer so. Hob would expostulate, "I'm an amature -erd," Dane! 'vould reply, "I"! your sheep to you when I'm so minded, but I'll keep my liberty too. Thir'B no man can coandescend on what I'm worth." Clem would expound to him the miraculous results of compound interest, and recommend investments. "Ay, man?" Dand would say, "and do you think, if I took 'lob's siller, that wouldn.ie dr! it or wear it on the lassies? And, anyway, my kingdom Is no of this world. Either I'm poet or else I'm nothing." Clem would remind him of old age. "I'll die young, iko Robbie Burns." lis would

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No question but he bad a certa-i accomplishment In minor verse. His "Hermiston Burn," with Its pretty refrain— .•» "I love to gang thinking whaur ye gang 1'nklng,

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his "Auld, auld Elliotts, clay-cauld Elliotts, dour bauld Elliotts of auld," and his really fascinating piece about the Praying Weaver's Stone, had gained him in the neighborhood the reputation, still possible In Scotland, of a local bard and, tho gb not printed himself, he was recognised by others who were and who had become famous. Walter Scott owed to him the text of the "Raid of Wearie" in the "Minstrelsy^* and'he made him welcome at his house, and appreciated his talents, such as they were, with all his usual generosity. The Ettrlck Shepherd was his sworn crony they would meet, drink to excess, roar out their lyrics in each other's faces, and quarrel and make up again till bedtime. And besides these recognitions, almost to fee called official. Dandle was made welcome for the sake of bis gift through the farmhouses of several contiguous dales, sad was thus exposed to manifold temptations which he rather sought than fled. He had figured on the stool of repentance, (or once fulfilling to the letter the tradition of his hero and model. His humorous verses to Mr. Terrenes cm that occasion—"Kesspeckle, hers my lane I stand"—unfortunately too indelioate for further citation, ran through the country tike a fiery cross they were recited, quoted, paraphrased awl laughed over as Car away as Dumfries oa the one hand aad Dunbar on the other.

These four brothers were united by a does bond, the bond of that mutual admiration—or, rather, mutual hero-worship— which is so strong among ths secluded fiua*

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Dies who have mueh ability sad little culture. Even the extremes admired each ether. Hob, who had as much poetry as ths toags, professed to ind" pleasure In Daad's verses Clem, whe had no more religion than Claverhouse, nourished a heartfelt at least an open-mouthed, admiration of Gib's prayers and Dandle followed with relish the rise of Clem's fortunes. Indulgence followed hard on the heels of admiration. Ths laird, Clem aad Dand, who were Tories and patriots of the hottest quality, excused to themselves, with a certain bashfulnees, the radical and revolutionary heresies of Gib. By another division of ths family the laird, Clean, and Gib, who were men exactly virtuous, swallowed ths dose of Daad's irregularities as a kind of clog or drawback In the mysterious providence of God affixed to bards, and distinctly probative of poetleal genius. To appreciate the implicit simplicity of thlr mutual admiration it was necessary to hear Clem, arrived upon oae of his visits, and dealing in a spirit of continuous irony with the affairs and personalities of that great city of Glasgow where he lived and transacted business. The various personages, ministers of the church, municipal officers, mercantile big-wigs, whom he had occasion to introduce, were all alike belittled, all served but as reflectors to cast back a flattering side-light on the house'of Cauldstaneslap. The Provost for whom Clem by exception entertained a measure of respect be would liken to Hob. "He minds me o' the l&ird there," he would say. "He has some of Hob's grand, whun-stane sense, and the same way with him of steiking his mouth when he's no very pleased." And Hob, all unconscious, would draw down his upper lip and produce, as If for comparison, the formidable grimace referred to. The unsatisfactory incumbent of St Enoch's Kirk was thus briefly dismissed "If he had but twa fingers' o' Gib's, he would waken them up." And Gib, honest man would look down and secretly smile. Clem was a spy whom they had sent out into the world of men. He had come back with the good news that there was nobody to compare with the Four Black Brothers, no position that they would replace, no interest of mankind, secular or spiritual, whioh would not immediately bloom under their supervision. The excuse of their folly is in two words scarce the breadth of a hair divided them from the peasantry. The measure of their sense is this: that these symposia of rustic vanity were kept entirely within the family, like some secret ancestral practice. To the world their seriiou8 faces were never deformed by the suspicion of any simper of self-contentment Yet it was known. "They han a guid pride o' themsels!" was the word in the country side.

Lastly, in a Border story, there should be added their "two-names." Hob was The Laird. "Roy He puis, prince ne daigne he was the laird of Cauldstaneslap—say fifty acres—ipeisslmus. Clement was Mr. Elliott as upon his door-plate, the earlier Dafty having been discared as no longer applicable, and indeed only a reminder of mlsjudgment and the imbecility of the public and the youngest, in honor of his perpetual wanderings, was known by -the sobriquet of Randy Dand.

It will be understood that not all this information was commualcated by the aunt, who had too much of the family failing herself to appreciate it thoroughly in others. But as time wenit on, 'Archie began to observe an omission in the family chronicle. "Is there not a girl too?" he asked. -,-ui (To be Continued.) 1 "X

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7 West. Ex*. 1.40 am 15 Mall & Ac*10.15 am 5 St. L. Llm*.10.05 am 21 St. L. Ex*.. 2.33 13 Eff. Ac 4.05 11 Fast Mail*. 9.04

Arrive from the West. Leave for the East. 12Cin. Ex*... 1.00am 6 N. Y. Ex*.. 3.80 am 14 Eff. Ac 9.30 a 30 Atl'c Ex*. .12.32 8 Fast Line*. 2.05 111 2 N. Y. Llm*. 5.05 ni

ISCln. Ex*... 1.10am 6 N. Y. Ex*.. 3.25 a 4 Mail & Ac. 7.30 am 20 Atl'c Ex*. .12.37 8 Fast Line* 2.10 2 N. Y. Llm* 5.10

MICHIGAN DIVISION.

Leave for the North. Ar. from the North 52 St Joe Mall.6.20 a 54 S. Bend Ex.4.00

51T. H. Ex... 10.55 am 53 T. II. Mail. 7.00 pm

PBOBIA DIVISION.

Leave for Northwest. Ar. from Northwest.

75 Peoria Mail 7.05 am 77 Decatur Ac 3.55

78 Decat'r Ac. 11.00 am 76 Peoria Mail 7.00

EVANSVILLE & TERRE HAUTE.

NASHVlIiliK I.INK.

Leave for the South. Arrive from South. 5 & N Llm*. 1.21 am 3 & Ev Ex*. 5.28 a 7 Ev Ac 10.20 am 1 Ev & I Mall* 3.15

6 N Llm* 2.44 a 2 E&x* .11.15 am 80 Mixed Ac.. 4.45 4 & Iml Ex*11.10

EVANSVILLE & INDIANAPOLIS. Leave for South. Arrive from South. 33 Mull & Ex..9.00 am 49 Worth. Mix.3.30

48 Til Mixed. 10.15 am 32 Mall & Ex. 3.15

CHICAGO & EASTERN ILLINOIS. Leave for North. Arrive from North. 6 & N Llm* 2.49 2 -ft Ex.11.20 a in 10 Local Pass 5.00 4E&C Ex*. 11.20 in

•5C&N Lira*..1.16 am 3 & E Ex*.. .5.20 am 9 Local Pass ..9.20 am 10 & Ev Ex.. .3.00

C. C. C. & I. BIG FOUR. Going East. Going West. 36 N Ex*....1.31 am 4T & CEx.8.00a 8 Ex & Mull*.3.05 ui 18 Knickfo'r* ..4.31 ni

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35 St Ex*... 1.32 am 9 Ex ts Mull*10.03 am 11 S-W Llm*.. 1.33 5 Mat toon Ac 7.05 pm

IQTHE,

SOUTH

OMB WAV VMKITS MLO

At Cents a Mile

Prom

ths nqrth ov«r

iouiivilli MAaMVikkS

n. n.

To individuals on the First Tueiday,

ransiiT

and

to parties of seven or more on the Third Tuesday of each month, to nearlv all points in the South and on special dates excursion Tickets are Bold at a little more than One Pare for the round trip.

For full information write to J. 1. EID&ELY, I. ¥. Pats. Agent, CHlcago, IH C. P. ATMORE, Gea'l Pass. Ait., Louisville, Ky.

'-—SENT FREE. Write for County Map of the South to

A FEW FACTS

Those who contemplate a winter's trip to tills amiable climate will be:tr In mind the

BIG FOUR ROUTE

is the "Best Line" geographically and subKtantially from all F.ast. Northeast. North. Northwest and West. Solid trains or nmienlfleetit Wagner Huffet Kleeplmr ('ara. Buffet Parlor ('sirs, elegant Coaches and Dining Cars d,illv from New York, Boston, Huffulo, Clev.-hiwl. Columbus. Sandusky, Chicago. Ht. Louis, Peoria. Indianapolis and Intermediate oolnt.H to Cincinnati, where direct connect .de in Central Union Station without

Hcross the city, with through

li-.lnsof I'n lman Iln« Curs to .laclwnUile. via Crescent Route aad LotiM'ille ft'N.'i-livllle l.' lway.

Foi iu'll particulars ci ri agent "Hl& Iour Route" or address

E. E. SOUTH, General Agent, T.

B. Martin, Gen. Pass- & Tkt. A«t.

O McCormlck, Pass. Traffic

Mgr.

IF YOU WANT

I THE

BEST GARDEN

In your neighborhood this season PLANT OUR FAMOUS

SEffiS'PlANtS

all of which are described and illustrated in our beautiful and entirely New Catalogue lor 1896. Anew feature this season is the Free delivery of Seeds at Catalogue prices to any Post Office. This "New Catalogue" we will mail on receipt

of a

2-cent stamp,or to those who wi!! state where they saw this advertisemer^the Catalogue will be nailed Free

PETER HENOERSOH &80.

3S*37CortlanAt$9t., W«wYo?k.

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