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[Entered at the Post;offick, in Atlanta, Qeoroia, fob tbanspobtation tiirocoh the United States Mai is at Second Class Bates,] PUBLISHED ] xr/\r t TWICE A MONTH.} V OJ-J. L ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 1, 1882. No. 21. { ONK ayeail AR being about T% feet long, and Its height at the withers five feet. The horns set on the crown of the head, are strong and lofty, the ears large and sharpened to a point, and in Northern Africa the color of the animal varies to a light brown, with a thick and dark-brown tail. In this region, which is its peculiar home, it is known as the desert cow-antelope. A South Africa species, called the hind-antelope, has a longer and narrower head and stronger horns with a more decided curve. Its general light brown color is varied with black stripes and white spots, the latter nearly covering the belly and lower parts of the breast. The habits of the various classes of an telopes here described do not greatly differ. The colored antelopes are found in great in the mountainous parts of South Africa, Written specially for the Southern World. HOME IjIFE IN FLORIDA, BV HELEN IIARCOURT. Second Paper. “Where shall I Settle T ” In our first and initial paper we considered the above all important question in its more general application, with regard to the great range of temperature and productions throughout the State. Let us now look at the subject from a more local point of view, and this we cannot do better than by paying a brief visit to the several different divisions of Florida, to wards which the great bulk of immigration is setting with a rapidly increasing impetus, namely, the Southern parts of Eastern and their own particular localities. Now wo would respectfully suggest that this is rather an unjust accusation; true, the State has been “sectionalized, u but it is the Creator who has done it, not poor, finite human be ings. God sectionnlized Florida when he laid down one portion several hundred miles nearer to the equator than the other, just as lie has sectionalized Southern and North ern California, New York and the Hudson Bay territory. What is it that the settler from the North and West seeks in coming to Florida for a home? Health, tropical and semi-tropical fruits and a warm.winter climate. Well, the Northern parts of the State can give him health, no doubt, and a far milder winter than he has left behind him, but no tropical fruits, and a very few semi-tropical Antelope* of Africa. The transition from the gazelle to the heav ier species of the antelope family is not im- mediate', but between them, and partaking of the qualities of both, are the cow ante lopes, a group having in turn its own sub divisions. These have some leading charac teristics in common. They are tall, strongly built, with high withers, a sloping back, long and wide-snouted head and a short neck. The colored antelope, which is a member of this group, stands about four feet high, with a length of five feet or more, not including the tail, which is some eigh teen inches long. The horns are black and about sixteen inches high, and are first bent outward, then backward and upward. The color of the animal, as its name partially GROUP OF AFRICAN ANTELOPES. indicates, is marked and variegated. The sides of the head, the neck, the back and sides of the body are purple or reddish brown. The ears, the hind-cheeks, and the under side of the body are white, while the upper parts of the thigh are black and the tail white with a black tip. A conspicuous feature of the animal is the “blaze” which beginning between the horns descend and overspread the forehead and almost the whole face. A smaller variety of this spe cies, in which this peculiarity is strongly marked, has received on that account the name of “blaze antelope." In the interior and western part of Africa is found the Senegal antelope, specially characterized by its short, knobby and slightly curved horns, set close together at the roots, diverging at the middle, and again nearly meeting at the points. Its prevailing color is gray. In ize it nearly approaches the moose, its body always preferring the desert regions with standing waters. In such localities, where they are seldom molested by civilized huntsmen, they may be seen in droves, licking the salt out of the dried sloughs, and among them are occasionally a few os triches, the two races fraternizing on the most amiable terms. From Capeland, where antelopes were formerly numerous, they have been made objects of chase by the farmers to such an extent that they are now nearly exterminated. The Senegal antelope inhabits the interior parts of Africa, be tween the Kir and Djur rivers. In the wet season it resorts to the dry, open cattle- ranges, the drove usually numbering from ten to thirty head, and seeking their pastur age in the broad meadows among the ter mite-hills, whose proximity does not prevent them from finding an ample subsistence. They are fine specimens of theanimal world. Middle, and all of South Florida. The great central lake region, of which lakes Santa Fe, Kingsley, Geneva and Orange, are the largest of the group; the great lake region of South Florida, of which lakes Griffin, Harris and Eustis lying close together and connected by the Ocklawaha and Dead Rivers, are the central points; the St. John's River region, the Indian River region, and the country around Tampa and Manatee—these are the chief objective points towards which the eyes of thousands of “Florida fever" patients are wistfully turning; and mark well the fact that they are nearly all in South Florida. There has been a great deal written and said by the. people of West Florida and the northern parts of East and Middle Florida, in complaint of what they call “ sectionaliz- ing” the State, namely: holding up the more southern portions at the expense of and these with the everpressing danger of being killed "root and branch " by the fre quent winter frosts and icy nights; having said this, we need not say much on the warm winter question. These papers are written in the interest of the settlers who comes to Florida, as nine out of every ten do come, seeking a warm climate and the tender fruits belonging to it. Therefore, without the least wish to divert attention from other divisions of the State, it is our duty to point significantly to the more southern sections, where alone these objects can be fully attained. Still, to those who seek only mild, not constantly warm winters, and other occupa tions than tropical fruit-growing, the more northern portions of Florida are very at tractive. Let us take Leon county as a type of the rest and see how it is there.