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SOUTHERN RAILWAY.
Schedule effective November 2. 1909.

Schedule effective November 2 1902.
Trans I@ayc iron Penuzy lvlnia Station
$40 a. m. Daily. Local for Harrisonburg,
Narenton. Charlotte. and way stations.
lob a. m Daily Washington and Florida
Limited First-class coaches and drawing-r0on
sleeper % jacksonville. Fla. Dining car service
lO-3I a. m. Daily Laited States Fast Nail
r ifst- ci-ss coaches and drawing room sleeper
10 New Crlesas- Dining car service
4-oi p m Week DAYS Local for Harrison
burg and way stations On Manassas branch
40 p m Dolly Local for WTreuton and
Clariottgsvil.e.
= s-l, p. r. Daily. New Yo-a and Atlanta Ez-
pres t-rst-c-ass coach and sleeper % Arlallz,
5.oa-2y s, wednesdays. and Fridays. Sunset
Route Tourist sleeper Washington 10 san
Ff-nclsco- Pullman buffet service.
$50 p m Daily. New YORK and FTorid.
Express tlrst-ciass coach and sleeper 90 S4-
yannah. Jacksonville. and Port Tampa; sleeper
70 augusta. and connection fJr Aiken DiuIag
1o.OI p Iu- Daily. New YorE ard Memphis
Limited ivia Lyme lbUrg). First-clazs coach and
sleeping car % Roanoke. Knoxville, Chat
tanoos2- and Ne1 phis; sleeper u New Orleans
Dining caE servicl-
1o.45 p. H. IaiIy. Washington and south
western Limited. All Pl.uan train. club 1al
ohser'at-oa cars % Atlanta and Macon; sleep
Ts 70 Nashville, Atlanta. Macon Memphis
New Orleans Dining car service.
TRAINS on BLUEuoNr BRANCH
Leave hashlugtou, g-Jl a. m. daily Week
days. 90 p. In-, s-25 g. ~. $40 2. M and
o-25 p. m. Latter o. LeebGrg oaly. sundays
only, 6;z5 p. m. for Bluem0ut-
through trains from the SoCth arrive Wash
ln-ton G-fZ a. In-. C-52 A. H. 40 a. ru-. GAS
2 m-. 200 2. M, g-l5 ?. m. and $50 D. m
daily Local trains from Hsrri 1n5urc. u 80 a.
N. week days and 9-U5 ,. m. daily. From
Charlottesville, SIS a. n and $50 p. m. daily.
Tickets. sleeping car reservations and de-
tailed information can be had az ticket Offices.
sC5 18th St. 81 Pcnnsylv1n Ave. and Penn
sylvania Station Baggage checked through
from hotels and residences
Phone 1910. p. r. r. Cab Service.
C. Il ACkERT General ManaIe-
S. r. HARDWICK. General Pa-s'r Agent .
L : BROWN. General Agent
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BALTIMORE AND OHIO R. r.

Schedule in effect Nay Is l2Oe
Leave Washington. New jersey Ave. and St.
Chicago and Northwest, 'lo-5o a. n, 'e-20
?.
Cincinnati, ST. Louis. and Louisville, 1905
4 m, '4-I5 p n. ITO night
Pitrsburg and Cleveland. 'l0-5o a n. 'ssl5
P. n and 100 night.
Columbus and wheeling, $50 P
Winchester, ISIS a. n, .i4-l5 and $50
Luray. RivertOu. Front Royal ElksOn. '4.ls
Annapolis. 1880. $50. lilI.5O a. n. 1850.
Frederiek. ISIS. 900, ll1N.5O a m. .-1:ls.
{ 80. and $50 P m
HaseIsSown. Hoes A. n, and $50 p n
Boyd and way points. 6-s5. 300 = n.
~l-l5. 40. $50. --lO-l5 iIl-S0 p n
Gaitlersburg and way points. ils.S5, -. 90 -
m 1870, -'I-l5. ll3-S0, 4-50. 500. $50.
Il7-O5 "-7-2O, --lO-I5. -fIl-50 p. N
Washington Junction aad way points. SIS.
200 a. M. Ills, $50. $50 p N
Baltimore. week days, $3.50, 800, $50.
x .05, 80 Xs 30. SIS. X 80 xl0-lo. u-5O A.
m. xIZ.2O noon, n IS, 700. II 90. II 80.
4-25. x5:O5. SIS. x6-2o, $50. Ds-OO. 1000.
80. Is so. 1850 r. n, xl2-2o. lis. xs-0o.
Is 80. 1855, ESQ, xs.Oo. xlG7Oo. xl1-So Il Is
p m
ROYAL BLUE LINE.
All trains illuminated with Pintsch light.
and the East, 3 80. = 90 (Diner), $50 (Buf-
fet). '-g.0O CDiner). 1880 DINER a n.
-I2-20 (Diaer), 800 ("Royal Limited, -
Diner) 400 philadelphia only), SO
(Diner), 500 and -ll;S0 P H. ,SieePing Car
open at lC-cC o'ciock).
Atlantic City. 7-O5. 1000 a. n. ls.e0
noon. 800 o. m
DAILY. Except sunday. --Sundty only.
NkUpress trains
Baggage called for and checked from hotels
and residences by Union Transfer Co on orders
northwest, New York Avenue an Fifteenth
Strcct and az station
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GEN. GREEDY PAYS A
TRIBUTE TO HIS CORPS
Fine Enlisted Men in Philip
pines and Alaska.
INTELLIGENCE AND COURAGE
Report on Successful Wireless Teleg-
raphy Experiments-Great Need Of
a Trans Pacific Cable.

The annual report OF Brig. Gen. A. W.
Greedy, Chief Signal Oficer Of the Army.
made public today. says that during the
past two years there have been built and
put in working order in Alaska. under
Circumstance of unusual hardships,
1,121 miles Of land lines and submarine
cables. The report says that along the
whole route OF these lines there are not
a dozen miles OF wagon road.
In the Philippines the system OF land
ard cable lines increased during the
year $500 miles. There are now in the
archipelago 81 submarine cables. 1925
miles in length, and land lines 5.10S
miles in length. making 6,434 miles IL
all, operated by the Signal Corps. This
system has been built up from almost
nothing. fer the insurgents destroyed
practically all Of the old Spanish lines
before the advance OF the American
Army. Speaking Of the work Of the en-
listed men OF the Signal Corps in the
Philippines, the report says;
Praised by Line Officers.
Almost invariably they are men Of
high intelligence, superior character.
and exemplary habits. and their ability
conduct. and Courage displayed from
one end Of the archipelago to the other
have won Rumberless encOmiums from
officers Of the line Of the army. in whose
interest their labors are performed.
The men take ambCshes and attacks
by the natives as matter of course,
and display 4 great deal of ingenuity in
their efforts to entrap the wire-cutters
and ambushing parties"
Speaking Of the need Of a trans-Pa-
cifc cable. General Greedy says that in
war times such a cable would be worth
a half-dozen warships, while not costing
half as much. He advocates general gov
ernmentaI control over such cable
whether in peace or war.
On the subject OF wireless telegraphy
the reports says:
Early in 1899 the Signal Corps OF the
army devised a scheme Of wireless te-
Biography, which was the first ever sue
cessfully operated at a distance in the
United States, It transmitting messages
satisfactory between Fire Island and
Fire Island light. a distance OF ten
miles.
System in Working Order.
This system, improved in details and
Installed more than two years since in
San Francisco harbor. has worked salts
factorily the entire time. except for
few hours needful to replace broken
parts This is believed TO be the long
est record OF satisfactory working be-
tween any stations. and it has been done
not by highly paid experts. but by the
men Of the signal corps, whose skill and
intelligence are worthy Of commenda-
ton
In connection with the army and the
navy maneuvers, il was deemed advis-
able 10 test all available systems. name
y. the D. Forest. the Fessenden. and
the MarconL The De Forest system
gave very good results, but unfortunate
ly conditions fnterfered with the work
Of the experts OF the Fessenden and
Aarconi systems.
Steps have been taken looking 10 the
utilization OF wireless telegraphy on
special sections Of the Alaskan tele-
graph system"
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WASHINGTON SOUTHERN
RAILWAY.

For Richmond. Va. and points South. via
Alexandra and Fredericksburg. Leave station
otn and y streets. 4-30 a. m. as D. m daily
dining earl for Richmond aud points on Az
lantic Coast Lane and Florida. lO.4I a. m.
go p m. daily (Florida and METROPOLITAN
Limited. for Richmond and points on SEA
board Air Like and Florida, 1871 a. m. train
connects al Richmond with C. x o. Rv for
Newport News Old Point Cc1nf9-t etc. :. 20 a.
H. week days, AS D. m daily. for
Richmond only Pullman or parlOr cars on all
above trains Accommodation for Quautico. 7-sG
a m, sunday only; 4-25 p. m week davs:
90 p M. except saturday
T. T. ID. MYERS ". D. DUKE. W.P. TAYLOR.
President General Mgr, Traffic Mgr
klchmnni. "
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PIRATED MUSIC.
Keeping II Of of London Streets Is
a Hard Task

q nara TASK
The new law forbidding the sale OF
pirated musical compositions IN the
streets OF London has continued TO cause
much commotion Of a small sort since
It went into effect. October /. and mem
bers OF the Musical Copyright Associa-
ton and others INTEREST," in its en-
forcement are kept fully occupied
There is str a large trade in this mu-
sic. and Il Is beginning 70 be worked
On system, the actual seller only hay
ing one copy Of each song. so that II
a seizure Is made not much is lost
Other men keep the sellers supplied
with copies as required, and il some
cases the stock IS kept in saloons the
music being haEded over the counter 10
the sellers. Among the music most in
demand are such pieces as "Eyerybody's
Loved BY Somebody" Il Can't Tell Why
/ Love You" Tell Ne. Pretty Maiden. j"
shes Ny Wife" shes a Sensible
Girl" AMI Dolly Grey"
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RAILROADS.
FOR MOUNT VERNON,
ALEXANDRIA. AND ARLINGTON

ALEXANDRIA. AND ARLINGTON
ELECTRIC TRAINS. STATION Islz & Pa. Ave
For Mt. Vernon. every hour week days. frof
10 a. m. 10 p. m.
For Alexandria and Arlington every half hour
Round trip to Mt. Vernon, Soc Round trip
% Alexandra. CSC. Round trip 20 Arlington.
2oc. Round trip to Mt. Vernon, includirS
Arlington and Alexandria. e0c.
WASH. ALEXANDRIA & MI. VERNON RY-
SEE TINE TABLES At HOTELS. auI-tf
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FOR SALE-LOTS.

FOR SALE-Cheap. lot in Tvining CITY. D.
C.; southeast; room for two houses. Inquire
az COS 9Th 81. NV. mag
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trade OF sell cheap for cash. NEW YORK
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FOR SALE-BICYCLES.

FOR SALE-Cents' bicycle 81; also Iadys. s.;
both good condition. BOX 822. this Office.
FOR sALE-Chainless Crescent wheel in good
order. BOX 293 this Office es.s
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COUNTRY PROPERTY.

FOR SALE OR EXCHANGE-Fine truck farm
50 acres. acres Original growth timber. :
miles rom Norfolk, Va Immediate possession.
Illness cause Tor selling Address BDX 2u
this Office nals
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PRIVATE LOANS

On personal notes without indorser. reference
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THE EQUITABLE

Was organized in 1879, and twenty-three years old
1t has issued I27.22I shars-To 39I45 shareholders
The average shares held by shareholder. 81.
The of dues $3.50 monthly 0535SI56
Amount paid returned shareholders 66S6750I6
Leaving IN the Association their credit 356S3l4O
The monthly payment by each shareholder
Average saved and held by each shareholder includm
earnings NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.. northumberland. 1904
The earnings been. .... g4l 2O4
Of which paid withdrawing 746232
Leaving earnings hand the 2l2794
Systematic continuous monthly saving of yr-aT
amounts the Equitable, with profits added, will surely
muate, and lay foundation home
property.
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STEAMBOATS,.
NORFOLK & WASHINGTON
STEAMBOAT COMPANY.

Every day N the year from foot OF -
s. Tor p Monroe. Norfolk. Newport
News. and al points south BY the sll-
pero, powerful steel palzce steames
- Newport News ..Noraoil -
- W ash inst0n.
" ashington $50 pm I4v. Portsmouth 500 Pm
Lv- Alexandra 800 DIN Nv. Norfolk 900 ~.
AT p Monroe 700 am.Iv. - Wonroe 90 ~,
At NoriolS---- S 90 am Ar. Aexan3ria $50 an
Ar Portsmouth Sis am Az Washington --C.o -
z through connections s-,ade AZ Nor
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ton
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BIRDS, DOGS, ETC.

o.. 1.-Two tine beagle hounds; tip-top
200, l- s2l North Capitol 81 ns-3
~ ..--i-,..uI Du,ch f4n bulbs sUch
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etc SChAID'S BIRD STORE. IL 18th st. IA,
Se2s-1
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FOR RENT-STORE.

FOR RENT-Large store: dry cellar; water in
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ESPUTA-DALY MUSIC SCHOOL

Music reading. piano and singing. II2s ST.
ne. NINE. J. ESPJTA-DALY may-T
PIANOS and Organs tuned 81 Helbig's Mus-
Sore. l7i3 eth 81 el5-sO
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CHEAP MONEY.

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DAIRY AND POULTRY.
INTERESTING CHAPTERS FOR OUR
RURAL READERS.
Tow Successful Farmers Operate This
Department OF the Parma Few
Hints as to the Care o. Live Stock
and Poultry.


From the Farmers Review: Our ex-
perience with the Cornish Indians
covers almost two years, and in that
time we have made a very careful
study of them in every particular be-
ing a constant breeder. l think l
have given them trial enough to be
able to answer for them from prac-
teal and a fancy standpoint ! must
confess that at first I was prejudlced
against them. yet they have gradually
won favor with me, until they now oc-
cupy the front row as an all-purpOse
fowl. If one is raising practical poul-
try only, surely he finds all he expects
in the Cornish Indian. They are very
hardy, good layers OF large brown
shelled eggs, and are the best table
fowl that can be found to-day. The
hens are good si,.--s. very gentle and
careful mothers, and the males are no
more pugnacious than the Brahmas,
Plymouth Rocks. or Wyandottes. Ia
one particular they are like the Amer
lean Indian-willing to hunt for their
living, and will find most of it II
given free range; yet trey are easily
yarded and bear confinement very
well. AS a market fowl they have no
peer, being very quick in maturing,
with plump bodies, nice yellow skin,
and legs, and are as large as the Ply
mouth Rocks and Wyandottes.
From a fancy standpoint they are
truly a gentleman fowl, being very
stylish with erect carriage, broad
shoulders, strong legs, set we'll apart,
they command the attention OF any
body. AS to the females they are
when properly bred, and of the proper
color, which is for ground color, a nut
brown, with each feather evenly laced
with two rows of narrow black. Won
der to behold We know of no fowl
that will come as near filling all the
requirements for the farm and fancler,
as the Cornish Indian, and We are Oft
en- asked why are they growing so
popular? and for an answer We tell
them that, embodied in them. We find
all that recommends any fowl to the
farmer, the market poultryman and
the fancier.-Frauk H. Thomas, Nor
gan County, Illinois.
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Hortion,tura, sight. Abro.4.

To try and write you an article on
the horticulture l saw in EUROPE
would be bewildering, writes b. r.
Bones in Wisconsin Horticulturist.
Nothing seems impossible with those
FreEchmen as florists, gardeners or
fruit growers. I saw men independ-
emily rich on five acres OF ground. /
saw caulff1owers eight inches across
and leaves touching the body Of cherry
trees on which there were no less than
six bushels to the tree. Forty-eight
hours after the caulifiower was cut and
the cherries picked the soil under the
tree was planted to another crop!
How they can do this is a mystery,
and as my French is limited to about
forty words l could not ask many
questions. The gardens between Rouen
and Paris are probably the finest in
the world and the neatness of the
homes beyond compare; stone houses
with red-tiled roofs, DO weeds, no
waste material lying anywhere. Pears
of all colors loaded the trees, and
trees trimmed in fantastic shapes,
cherries bending with fruit and, east
of Paris a few miles, so many that
they fairly colored the landscape.
III L airs 1 Sd" clSduuSTS LldI L cOulC
climb and at Treves tree roses, ditto.
AT the latter place, in the great rose
garden of Europe, as late as Aug. 1,
thousands of roses We're still in bloom.
What must it have been in June For
shade trees they have no elm equal to
ours; their linden is not to be COM
pared with ours, and we can beat the
oaks of old England. The sycamore is
the great ornamental tree of Europe,
and you are never out of sight of them
in any town from the Mediterranean
to Rotterdam.
OF grapes l saw no end, thousands of
acres; the terraced banks Of the
Moselle and the Rhine are one continu-
Gus vineyard. In France if you fur
nished two casks they would fill one
and take the other for pay, so great
was the vintage, this the ordinary
wine. The apples of Europe are not
as good as our windfalls. In Covent
Garden Market, London, We're hun
dreds of bushels of gooseberries larger
in size than green gage plums.
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The most marked variation in the
character Of the COW pea is to be
found in the color of the seed, which
may be of any of the shades of black,
white, red, brown, yellow, gray, green
and purple, or they may be speckled
with two or more of these colors. In
shape they may be round, fat or broad
kidney shaped or fiattened at the ends
The period of ripening required by
different varieties varies from sixty to
more than 200 days, and the same va
riety will ripen seed in less time from
late than from early planting and in
less time in dry seasons than in sea-
sons of an abundance of rain, while an
excess of nitrogen in the soil retards
both fruiting and maturity. increasing
the yield of vine and not infrequently
decreasing the yield of peas, as COM
pared with less fertile soils.
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How to avoid the Hessian fly is one
of the great problems that confronts
the wheat culturist From time to
time discoveries are being made that
may make it possible to in the future
greatly lessen the violence of the at
lacks. 1t now seems probable that
where wheat is lacking in thriftiness
it is more injured by Hessian fly at
lacks than where it is vigorous. This
is a principle quite generally accepted
as to fruit tree insects. Prof. Andrew
NJ. Soule of Tennessee says: Wheat
on thin and impoverished land suffered
most from attacks of the Hessian fly.
From the results obtained in sowing
wheat on different dates, it is apparent
that the date of seeding wheat deter
mines, to a considerable degree, the
amount of injury done by the fly, and
it is further evident that if wheat is
sown on carefully prepared land OF
good quality where there is an abund-
ant supply of available food that 1t
will stool out and in a measure make
up for the original shoots destroyed
by the fly. These shoots, however,
will not be so vigorous. nor will they
fill so we'll as those first thrown up"
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From Farmers Review; I havs
been trying to find time to write you
an article on spring care Of sheep for
a long time, but l have never found
that time and spring is right on us
and l Will have to give You just a few
points. Plenty of good feeu and eXer-
else with protection from bad storms
bring sheep through the winter in
good condition, and that is the proper
preparation TO q successful crop of
lambs. Give the ewes the right kiad
of chance and they will DO their
part. DO not stop the dry feed too
soon. for it will be some time before
the grass has sufficient nutriment in
it to keep the sheep healthy and
strong. Many f!ockmasters think that
sheep must necessarily go back in con-
dition for some time after grass comes
but not so if the dry feed is not
stopped too soon. No pasture field is
complete without goOd-sized rape
patch in it, well MANFRED every other
year. and a temporary fence around
it. so that the sheep can not get at it
until the middle of June. Plow the
ground and SOW rape as soon as warm
weather comes, so that oats could be
sowed. Sheep can never do their best
unless 4 constant supply OF salt and
pure water i afforded them. Shear
early. but keep them out of cold
spring rains afterward. Watch the
ewes closely at lambing time; it will
pay. fcr many a lamb and often a eve
| is saved.-MaX Chapman, Union Coua-
ty Chic.
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The Summer Faifow.

The good old advice to summer fall
low is no longer passed on from father
to son. The plan originated in the
days of the Hebrew patriarchs, and,
we doubt not has had something to dc
with the barrenneSs that is now said to
be the state of many of the hills on
which it was practiced. When sci
ence took up the matter it found that
no fertility was conserved by permit
ting the land to remain idle 1t was
even discovered that a crop of weeds
was far superior to a. crop of nothing.
Summer fallow-plowing up the land
and leaving it bare for a season
causes losses in several ways. The up
per layer of soil becomes dust under
the fierce rays OF the sun. In this
dry dust chemical action sets in and
annihilates every vestige of organic
matter-the humus, This humus was
the great factor in the retaining OF
moisture and of nitrogen. A crop
would have shaded the ground and
prevented chemical action of the ma
ture mentioned. The loss of humus
changes the physical properties of the
soil, causes it to be less retentive OF
moisture, lighter in color and heavier
in weight per cubic foot. Rotation OF
crops, including the legumes, is better
than summer fallow.