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No family should be without this map, and now is the time to get one, subscribe or renew your sub scription. The Semi-Weekly Journal one year with one of these maps post paid for only >I.OO. Don't you want one? Address, THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GA. Habits of the Robin. Woman's Home Companion. Let ns hide behind that cinmp of black berry bushes and watch the parent birds as they come to fee* their young. There comes the father robin now; you can dis tinguish him from the mother by his darker plumage. You will notice that In coming with the food he alights on a par ticular twig, hops along a particular branch and alights on a particular side of the nest. If you watch him for a week you would probably see him approach the nest in the same way each time. Now here comes the mother—a lighter colored bird, with gray on the back of her head. You see that she reaches the nest by quite a different route and alights upon the other side of it. and she will do this over and over again. Like men and wom en. birds acquire habits which they rigidly adhere to. unless something happens to prevent them. Through the Tennessee Woods • JFtif/i Joe 'Wheeler After the battle of Shiloh Bragg chang ed cavalry generals, Chalmers retiring to the infantry and General Joseph E. Wheeler, of the Alabama Volunteers, taking his place. Wheeler was at that time a young man of about 36 years, nerv ous motioned and forceful in both man ner and speech, and showing much of the dominant military genlilb which was to make his name so widely known and hon ored. Bragg and Wheeler, with their troops, proceeded to Danville, Ky.. leaving my individual regiment, the Eighth Confeder ate, behind at Columbus, Mies., for re organisation, with orders to rejoin them at that point. In the selection of officers the first lieu tenancy was conferred upon me, and the man elected captain being away on a fur lough, I assumed command at once. We came up with our superior officers the day following the battle of Perryville, and were in time to fall in with the retreating troops. ■Wheeler struck camp a few miles from Danville, and sent a small detachment of men under my command back to the town with directions to watch the move- i ments of the enemy at that place, and re port to him avery few hours. We fol lowed these directions faithfully, remain ing In Danville until late in the afternoon. A number of Yankees were loitering around the streets of the town, lounging and carousing rather noisily, but they noticed us very little, and we them, be yond obeying Wheeler's orders. w About two hours of dusk some ladies passed us in an open carriage and per- j celvlng our uniforms inquired if we be longed to Wheeler’9 cavalry. Being an swered in the affirmative, they informed us that they were returning from Wheel- I er's encampment, which they had found I deserted. They had taken out dinner to I the general and his staff, and offered us I the provisions. As we had not tasted food since morning we gladly availed our selves of their hospitality. Wheeler's departure without our knowl edge seemed at first slightly unceremo nious, but upon reflection we concluded that some sudden information was the cause, or that he had acted with Intent, supposing that as long as Confederates were seen in arid around Danville the j Yankees would think their general not far distant. In short, as usual, W T heeler was covering Bragg's retreat, and as a slight ly unusual proceedings we were covering Wheeler's. A few hours of swift trotting brought us to the second encampment, where free were blazing and preparations for supper and rest in progress. But as soon as that meal was over and the night dews began to fall the buglers sounded "saddle up.” > and each man tightened the girths of his saddle, looked to his accoutrements, and swinging himself across his horse, was soon rifling noiselessly through the rapid ly darkening forest, carnage and death before, and behind him, the woods close around him and the tranquil heavens above. He and his horse a component part of the great Wheeler cavalry. These maneuvres were continued for weeks, Bragg slowly falling back toward the Gap. obstinately contesting every inch of the way. Wheeler covering that retreat by night and the enemy barking at our heels like so many hyenas of the plains all the time. The dawn of each day found the wearied men almost reeling in their saddles, their sleep-hungry eyes endeav oring to pierce the mists that hid the rifles of the federal*, until at or near the first of October we reached the vantage point of Wild Cat Heights, Ky.. where we rested for one night beyond rifle range of the enemy. The next morning, however, we heard their guns saluting us over the ridge. On the afternoon of that day Wheeler rod down the line of jaded, dispirited cavalry drawn up before him and address ing my regiment ordered us to charge across an open field on our right, and across which the enemy’s bullets were singing. Beyond this plain and the fringe of woods that bordered it, he assured us wound a mountain road, where we would be comparatively safe from the Yan kees, and along which Kirby Smith's wa gon train was passing in need of our es cort until the Gap was reached. Unwearied and undaunted, Wheeler looked unusually small and pugnacious on his big bay horse that afternoon. Some thing like a school boy with unrecited lessons weighing on his mind, but alert and anxious for the excitement, of the moment. “Captain,” he began; “captain, you must charge across that field and up the road beyond, where, I am Informed. Klrljy Smith's wagon train is passing. You will report to Smith and join his guard until the boundary is passed.” Then, despite the proximity of the ene my. and the bullets continually whistling around his head, he began and finished a harangue, which the lapse of time has obliterated from my memory, but which under the circumstances seemed unneces sarily long. At its termination I gave the command and we charged across the open, reach ing the woods without loss. Continuing in a swift gallop up the mountain road for a mile or so we had begun to check our speed, when the adjacent woods seem ed to suddenly vomit lead. Men and horses went down in the unexpected! as sault. Half ot my regiment wheeled and galloped furiously back. Cqjiing on the men near me to follow I put spurs to my horse, and we dashed at tremendous speed through the surrounding confusion and down the mountainside out of sight. Here we paused to consider. The am buscade had been so sudden we were at a loss to fathom its meaning. Moreover, Wheeler had assured us of safety in this portion of the country. Two men were detailed to make a careful reconnoiter. They reported us in the midst of Smith’s men. We were nearer them than 'Wheeler had thought, and our rapid galloping up the road in the gathering dusk had been mistaken by them for an onslaught of the federate, and they had acted accord ingly, and rather hastily. The result might have been worse. One of the younger members of the company was more frightened than hurt by a spent ball lodging in the back of his scalp, and went around complaining that he was killed, until the surgeon ripped the skin with his pen knife and the bullet fell out. One poor fellow was so seriously hurt that he was sent back to Nashville, where it was found necessary to amputate both of his limbs. We reported to Smith and fell in with his men. He was driving down from the blue grass plains of Kentucky a herd of the finest, fattest cattle I had, or ever have, seen. And so through the glorious golden Oc tober weather that lay like a royal robe over the war-cursed land we rode. Through frosty mornings when the cold, brilliant skies seemed set in a superb, framework of green and blue and opal escent gold, our horses stepping knee deep in the dying grasses, while their riders took their enjoyment in the ever-changing panorama of earth and sky that nature’s hand spread so lavishly for their benefit. Through noons when tae pools curled cool and dark in the shadows of the trees and a wind borrowed from some long dead Maj- sighed through the wayside blooms and sent the forest leaves in showers of autumnal beauty to the ground, while the sound of dropping nuts kept rythmical , time to our horses’ hoof beats. And through cold, still, beautiful nights when the moonlight covered mountain and plain and dimpling stream with touch as soft as an angel's dream—on and on until a subtle intangible presence crept down from the near blue hills and laid a small cold finger upon our hearts, whispering summer was dead. We reached Cumberland Gap to find that Bragg had outraced Rosecrans and the latter was returning to Nashville. Toward the latter part of December, about the 2«th, I believe, Bragg was noti fied that Rosecrans was advancing from Nashville with heavy forces. THE SEMI-WEEKLY JOURNAL. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 5, 1901. Bragg at once began a system of re treats, Wheeler’s cavalry covering his until the Monday following, when Wheel er received notice that Bragg was ready for Rosecrans and to fall back gradually from Lavargne until the main forces were reached. Bragg's army was drawn up in battle array when we came up, and it was through his lines of grim, visaged. deter mined soldiers that we of the Eighth Con federate, in company with the other troops under Wheeler, passed, the ranks closing in behind us as we proceeded to the rear, and every soldier* of Bragg's army saluting the "Boj- Brigadier” as we passed through. The battle began, and with Rosecrans’ forces largely outnumbering his own, Bragg drove back the entire right wing of the federal army in confusion, seizing 4.000 prisoners and 30-odd cannon. Night had put an end to the fighting, and the opposing forces were sleeping on their guns, while the soft, mysterious darkness of night brooded over blue and gray alike, when the buglers of Wheeler's -cavalry sounded "saddle up,” and. barely awake, we rode away through the Ten nessee woods, each man and horse fol lowing the man and horse ahead, the blind leading the blind, as only Wheeler and his superior officers were aware of our destination. All night long we rode, a vigilant, never-resting procession of men and horses, past wood and river and hut, the farm dog wakening to bay his midnight salute to us from some distant cottage that the tread of hoofs and jangle of sabers and spurs had reached. And when the new day came cold and pale across the hills we found ourselves at Lavergne, where we had encamped three days before and Rosecrans’ army in front of us, and not until then did the wearied men and a majority of the officers realize the miuiary genius of the man all called "Little Joe Wheeler.” By a detour of twenty-five miles we had marched entirely around Rosecrans’ army, which was just awakening from its exhausted sleep. Rosecrans himself barely missed cap ture, bflng engaged with his breakfast when the attack was made. The federal provision trains, heavily laden with sup plies of all descriptions, were captured and “in one red burial blent.” By the af ternoon we were back on the front assist ing Bragg. These maneuvres were continued the second and third night, our troops march ing around the enemy under cover of the darkness, attacking and destroying their supplies at dawn, and returning to aid Bragg in the afternoon on the front. During the third morning’s attack Wheeler ordered my company to charge a train heavily guarded by the Rosecrans infantry, assuring us of support from a regiment further back. We charged as ordered, but the support failed to mate rialize, and the federate were too many for us, closing in around us until we were forced to cut our way out as best we could. I was separated from my command, and in company with a handful of men, was forced to spend the remainder of the day and that night lying in the woods close to the pike, waiting for a chance to cross and join the main forces. Often since when I have felt the crisp January air around me and seen a winter moon lying on her back in the northern skies I have thought of that night, now nearly forty years agq, and see again the long level pike stretching like a white and very crumpled ribbon ahead, down which Rosecrans' army came all night long in full and rapid retreat, and again as if by some strange necromancy of mate ter over mind I feel a frost whitened sod cold beneath my feet, the odor exhaled from woods in winter rushes to my nos trils, and once more an Eighth Confed erate volunteer, I am crouching in the shadows, waiting for the dawn. By daylight the retreat qf the enemy became scattered, and we seized an early opportunity to dash across the pike and into the woods beyond. We met a courier and were astounded to learn that Bragg was also retreating, and orders were to leave Murfreesboro far to our right. After the battle of Murfreesboro Bragg and his infantry went into winter quar ters, but as one writer has expressed it, the winter quarters of Wheeler's men were literally in the saddle. The active brain of their general could not and did not remain long idle. Being free to form his own plans, he conceived the idea of patrolling the Cumberland river in an at tempt to waylay and capture northern transports. He accordingly began prepa rations to put his attempt into execution and learning that three transports, under the convoy of one gunboat, were expected to pass a point below Nashville known as Harpeth Shoals, we departed on a forced march for that point. My regiment, commanded by Colonel Wade, was stationed on a bluff overlook ing the river, where a good view both above and below could be had. We car ried well mounted cannon and a number of unusually good sharpshooters. The transports were In advance, and soon came in sight, and after a short skirmish sur rendered. They had a large cargo of supplies and a number of wounded fed erate and their friends on board. The men were ordered ashore, and ashore they came in their high plug-hats and broadcloths very much frightened. We expected the gunboat to put in its ap pearance every minute; indeed, the smoke from its funnel could already be seen above the tree tops on the curving banks of the river. Our men were, therefore ordered to dismount, and with their rifles conceal themselves in the undergrowth and necessary preparations for an imme diate attack made. One of the finelj’ dressed Yankees noting these preparations tame up to me and in a quivering voice asked me what we in tended doing 'with them. I replied that we did not Intend hurting them in the least, but we expected a skirmish in a few minutes and that I advised him and his friends td seek the timber until it was over. They seized the advice and oppor tunity with coipical avidity and it was ludicrous to watch them hustle for the woods. • The gunboat, a sheet-iron affair, con structed after the crazy fashion of those times, came on up the river, shelling the woods on both sides. Its officers had heard that the three transports had been captured bj’ a number of during bush wackers and when Wade ordered them to surrender paid no attention to the com mand. Our battery immediately’ opened fire, and the first ball passed directly through the front door of the vessel’s cabin and out at the back, hurting noth ing or no one. It informed the captain, however, that he had trained soldiery to deal with, and he at once commanded one of his men to hoist a white flag. The man loonshly put his head’ out of the window ahead of his flag and I saw him instantly killed by a sharpshooter from the bank. However, they soon managed to float a white flag and the victory was ouras. I afterwards overheard the can tain explaining to Wade that he had been informed that the transports were in the bands of bushwackers and did not con sider the affair seriously until our battery told him a different tale. Our men were given permission to loot the vessels. A majority of them went for the dinner, to which those on board were just sitting down when the engagement began. 1 remember noticing one man coming away with eighteen solid sliver forks. Just why’ his taste inclined toward forks at that particular time I cannot explain. The officers and the men, in company with the wounded and their friends, were transferred to one vessel, which was sent across the river and an chored out of harm's way. The other vessels were lashed together and burned to the water's edge, and a very pretty sight it made. There was considerable ammunition among the supplies, consist ing of barrels of gunpowder and kegs of shell's and cartridges and these taking , Are exploded with deafening reverbera- BY M. L. WHITE. tions that almost shook the surrounding hills and nearly frightened the Yankees anchored across the stream to death, who imagined this a plan of their enemies to get ri<i of everything at once, t We knew that there was a fleet of Fed eral vessels several miles down the river, and for that reason we compeljed the an chored vessel to remain where it was un til late that afternoon. We did not know though that that same fleet had ground ed on the shoals, and when the first news of the happenings up the river reach ed them had thrown their cargoes over board and were steaming away from us as fast as possible. This exploit caused a considerable rip ple of interest in both north ana south and Wheeler's marines found themselves fa mous for a short time. The day of oqr “nival engagement” had been beautiful, but in the afternoon the weather began to threaten change and by night a drizzling, disagreeable rain set in. We marched until late in the night before finding suitable encamp ment. The next day the rain changed to snow, and by the time we went into encampment the next night a heavy snow fall covered the ground. When the snow ceased and the wind became less fierce the air was Intensely cold. We were glad to come across some old iron works, the buildings of which had been converted in to stables by the mountain farmers, and although they were temporarily tenanted by a drove of wild hogs we soon dispersed our four-footed enemies and took posses sion. The men piled in helter-skelter, car rying with them great armfuls of the fodder lying around outside, with which they stopped the cracks and crevices and made beds for themselves. I lingered out side to feed my horse and make him as comfortable as possible for the night, and when I went inside found only a small space near the door left. I crawled into it with many misgivings regarding its comfort and pulled the fodder around me very carefully, getting as far 6ac«. into the corner as possible, with my head near the wall and my feet close to the door. I began to doze, and in a little while felt a pleasant warmth beginning at my feet, which gradually diffused itself through my entire body, and I was soon fast asleep. All night long while the snow lay thickly on the ground outside, white and beautiful in the brilliant moonlight, and the wind rose and fell above the old stable in a valley of the Cumberland spur, I slept as peacefully and as sweetly as I have ever slept in my own comfortable bed in far-away Virginia, and in the morning when I awoke and began to di vest myself of my foddery covering, an old sow, who had slept through the night, curled up on my feet, roused up with a grunt of Indignation and ran out of the building. M. L. WHITE. Gainesville, Ga. The importance of keeping the liver and kidneys in good condition cannot be over estimated. Hood’s Sarsaparilla Is a great remedy for regulating and Invigorating these organs. ••• JUNE. From “The Vision of Sir Launfal.” And what is so rare as a day in June? Then, if ever, com# perfect days; Then heaven tries the earth if it be in tune | And over it softly her warm ear lays; Whether we look, or whether we listen, We hear life murmur, or see it glisten; Every clod feels a stir of might. An instinct within it that reaches and towers And. groping blindly above it for light Climbs to a soul In grass and flowers; The flush of life may well be seen 1 Thrilling back h(lte and valleys; The cowslip startles in meadows green. The buttercup catches the sun in its chalice. And there's never a leaf or a blade too mean To be some happy creature's palace; The little bird sits at his door in the sun, Atilt like a blossom among the leaves, And lets his Illumined being o’errqn With the deluge of summer it receives; His mate feels the eggs beneath her wings, And the heart in her dumb breast flut ters and sings; He sings to the wide world, and she to her nest— In the nice ear of Nature, which song is the best? —James Russell Lowell. suppose" Suppose the lowly violet, So tender and so frail. Should say, "Because I’m not the rose. No fragrance I'll exhale.” And then suppose the brook should say, "I can’t turn wheels, float ships; Bo I’ll just quit this business Os cooling fevered lips.” In nature such absurdities I challenge j’ou to find. And yet how works the principle Applied to human kind? —FRANK STRICKLAND. Weak Men Cured Free Send Name and Address Today—You Can Have It Free and Be Strong and Vigorous for Life. 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Strength and vigor have completely returned and en largement Is entirely satisfactory.” "Dear Sirs—Yours was received and I had no trouble in making use of the receipt n# directed, and can truthfully \ say it is a boon tb weak men. I am greatly improved in size, strength and visor.” All correspondetce is strictly confi dential, mailed in plain, sealed envelope. The receipt is free for the asking and they want every man to have IF PERRY RETURNS THIS MAY PROVE HIS LAST TRIP ANXIOUS WIFE OF FAMOUS EX- PLORER MAY NEVER GIVE HER CONSENT FOR ANOTHER PERILOUS VOYAGE. (Copyright, 1902, N. Y. Herald.) NEW YORK, May 31.—1 f Lieutenant R. E. Peary returns in safety from his pres ent expedition in search of the North Pole, his wife declares it will be his last trip to the Arctic regions. Mrs. Peary will leave for the north in a few weeks, where she expects to join her husband. She say* if ft is a possi bility that she will bring him back to Washington and keep him here with her. The last that was heard from Lieuten ant Peary he was at Payor Harbor, a place named after Captain Payor, who was head of the Austrian expedition in 1870. The nearest point to this is Cape Sabine. . . . In February last he started for Cape Hecla, and from there he wa* to go due north as far as he could over the ice pack. He expected to return to his head quarters in July, when a ship will be sent sometime in August to pick him up and to bring him home. Mrs. Peary will go to New York very soon to confer with members of the Peary Arctic club to arrange for obtain ing a vessel for this purpose. The mem bers of the club ‘are well known New York millionaires, devoted to the advance ment of science and research, who are backing the expedition. Morris K. Jessup is its president and H. L. Bridgeman its secretary. A meeting will be held to talk over the plans for the trip, and Inspection will be made ot the Windward to decide whether she can be repaired and refitted for less than It would cost to hire another vessel. "My present plans,” said Mrs. Peary, •Is to sail for Peary Harbor between July 1 and 15, but, of course, a great deal will depend upon the season and the flow of ice along the coast. Mr. Peary has to report for active duty in Novem ber. as his leave expires then, and will probably arrive home in October. He will have to go under a surgical operatlo*. A portion of one of his feet was frozen and he will have to have this attended to. But that will be of little conse quence.” "Will Lieutenant Peary make any more expeditions of this character?” she was sslccd. "Indeed he will not make any more such trips, and I don’t think he wants to. It is too far away from home.- He can't send any news, nor can he hear from us. His mother died in November, 1900, and he did not know of it until the fol lowing August.” Speaking of Lieutenant Peary's winter quarters, Mrs. Peary said that the dock house of the Windward was moved ashore sheathed and packed outside with snow, which made him warm and comfort able. He has all kinds of canned supplies, coal, and oil for burning in lamps. The coun try is depended upon for fresh meat. He also had 40 saddles of venison left him and 200 walrus for food for the dogs. A walrus weighs from 1,500 to 2,500 pounds, so the dogs were well provided fob. "I never mention the name walrus but that I feel like a cannibal,” said Mrs. Peary, with a shudder. “Truth to tell, I ate one once. The steaks are tough and have no flavor. The first time I tasted it was when we were out of fresh meats. "I took a small piece from Mr. Peary's plate and found it was not half bad. One of the members of the party thought if I could endure it he could. That started the rest, and after awhile we all ate it and liked it fairly well. It is only tough, and has no fishy taste at all. "The time never hung heavily on that trip, but occasionally I longed for home, especially during the holiday times, when everything surrounding me was dark and dreary. Then I thought of F street and the gay, laughing Christmas shoppers. The contrast made me feel decidedly blue. i “Did the time hang heavily? No. I had my little daughter, who occupied most of my time. I appointed myself school mis tress and taught her. She was the life of the ship, and everybody wanted to play with her. It was hard at times to have her to myself, as she was such a great pet.” Mrs. Peary gave an Interesting descrip tion of the garments worn by the Peary party. The clothes are of fur, with a woolen combination deer skin shirt, fox skin coat, when out of doors, rabbit skin stockings and sealskin boots. The fox skin coat has a hood, the head being pushed into it. An attachment pulls It over the-face, leaving a place for the eyes, or it can be regulated to conceal the face of the wearer, as he desires. All kinds of mittens are used. This costume is copied from the natives, except that their clothes are made shorter. When In an upright position their bodies are covered, but when they bend over, the coat and trousers do not meet, leav ing the body bare at the waist. The’ same is the case at the knees. This opening in the clothes is the method of the natives to prevent pers piration. As they are full of blubbers the cold does not affect them when it strikes the body. The great health precaution is not to perspire. When this happens the mois ture forms into ice and freezes, that being the cause of the injury to Lieu tenant Peary’s foot. To prevent perspir ing the Peary party divest themselves of the numerous garments as the climate changes, or according to their movements in following the sleds. Mrs. Peary has spent three years and six months in the Arctic regions and dur ing that time she says that she has suf fered no discomforts from the cold. A visitor upon entering the home of Mrs. Peary can see at a glance every evidence of Arctic explorations. The hall way and walls are decorated with curios and relics brought home by Lieutenant and Mrs. Peary from former trips. About the floors of the drawing rooms are mounted skins of the polar bear and other animals of that cold region. On the walls are hung Arctic scenes, the vari ous Implements of the Eskimo and the picture of little Ah-ni-ghl-to Perry in Eskimo Costume. A cabinet in one corner contains f miniature snow shoes, snow ■leds, pikes and Eskimo dogs. The way to renew your subscription: Go to your postmaster and purchase a money order, sending same to us with your request, always naming the pre mium desired and sending full amount, so there may be no delay. He Believed in Rotation. The Little Chronicle. One day mamma told Milton that he was older than the baby and must let the baby have his toj’s if he wanted them, be cause the baby was the littlest. Milton was very good, and went in search of other amusements all day. The next morning we heard a cry from the children, and going to find the cause. Milton was found endeavoring to collect all the toys in the room and at the same time keep the baby away from them. Up on inquiring the trouble Milton said: “I let him have my toys and be the lit tlest yesterday, and now I’m going to be littlest today.” A ROYAL DRAFT. A SHORT STORY. The summer of 1893 was one long to be remembered in the great naval supply house of Gideon Gowenlock & Co., of Charleston, S. C. An August sun poured its steaming rays down upon the steam ing wharf and a hot sea wind fanned the moist heat through the open windows among the perspiring clerks. Aside from the heat, each felt oppressed with a vague feeling of unrest, for it was evident to even the office boy that there “was something doing with old Gid.” It was now Saturday noon, and from early Monday morning the old man had spent ten hours a day in his private of fice, familiarly known among his em ployes as the “glass cage,” and had not been his usual round throughout the es tablishment generally supervising the business. Through the ground glass doors they could see him bending over his desk or hear his measured footfall as he walked the floor. Each wondered if a change was to be made in his department, and, if such a change was made, if his services would be needed any further. Suspense was about at a white heat when the call bell sounded In the outer office. At last “old Gid” was going to act. The important * office boy, Boots, tripped himself twice in bis haste to answer the call. “Tell Tom Colston to come here,” said the old man without looking up. It was needless for Boots to repeat the message, as every ear had been strained to catch each syllable. • Coltson climbed down from his stool and appeared at the door. His brown eyes had a 'dangerous _ light and his jaw an extra firmness about it as he stood waiting. He felt that he was beard ing the Hon in his den. "That is a pity,” whispered the clerks among themselves, "Coltson is a clean, square fellow, but he ought to know the old man would not hear to his marrying Miss Solly. It will be hard for him to get another job in the dull summer ftionths.” "Sit down, sir,” said the old man, wear ily. • Tom seated himself on the edge of a chair and awaited his next move. Some how he felt that he was playing a gamw of chess with an older head, but was gain ing confidence in himself. As usual with the old man when making a trade, he began a rambling story that bore only Indirectly but led up to the matter in hand. “I have watched you. sir from your youth up. I knew your father before you. I was a struggling merchant of little means When he died, leaving you a small boy to be raised by your mother. She had a hard time to make ends meet, but somffiow she managed to rear you re- ( spectably and you have done well by her. I understand that as long as she lived you provided her with a home gnd gave her the comforts if not the luxuries of life. That was commendable and I have advanced you rapidly to where ybu are now—my head bookkeeper." Tom nodded and would have expressed his appreciation, but the old man cut him short by continuing: "You went to school with my daughter Dolly and used to champion her cause among your play fellows. Later in life you was her comforter when she lost her mother, and, as you had lately then lost yours, you consoled each other. I might have seen then what all this would lead up to but I was too blind with grief and tried to forget everything in my busi ness." A tender light, not unmlxed with tears shone in the young man’s eyes. "I have always looked upon Dollj’ as a child, eveh since she took her mother’s place in my house. I am surprised to see she has grown to womanhood, the change has been so gradual I had not noticed it. In my early business experience I learned one secret that has been the very key stone of my success. When I was in doubt about a move, I laid the case in the ab stract before a good woman and asked what action she would take. I have never known it to fail that the first answer she gives you is the right one. She will af terwards waver and change her mind a score of times, but the first answer is correct. She arrives at a conclusion in a way no one can explain, but ninety-nine times ,out of a hundred, it is the correct one. I have real long discussions on the mental equality of woman and man, but I tell you it is wrong, all wrong. A wo man's mind Is not a man’* equal, it is his superior.” He wheeled his chair about and pointed at his desk. "Look at that pile of mall. It Is enough to make a man sick. One hundred and twenty drafts sent out in the last ten dgys returned unpaid in that file. There is a letter from the Neptune National bank saying that further time cannot be extended on my overdraft and today one of my checks was returned marked in sufficient funds. In the early summer I placed mortgages on my real for about one-tenth of and that money was insufficient to carry my busi ness through this dull season. The loan is not due for a year, but it stops further borrowing from that source. As you know, I have thousands of dollars on my books in good accounts, but you see I can not realize a cent on them, because the small merchant and shipper has no money and won't have till cotton comes in this fall. In the meantime, my credit will be ruined, outstanding claims pressed, and I will be squeezed to death for the want of a few thousand of ready money. It is simply maddening to see my thrifty years’ struggle end in failure, for lack of a sum that I have given annually to charity." Great beads of perspiration stood out on his forehead and his voice sounded hollow with despair. Tom’s eyes flashed sympathetically and he started to speak but the old man grew calmrand spoke on in a determined way— “ Since Dolly’s mother died I have al ways asked her about business. I would carefully simplify matters so she could understand the story. I would 'tell her and I found she had her mother's same keeh sense for pointing out the right way. I laid the case before Dolly last night and waited for her first answer, knowing I eould not go wrong. She was not in the humor for answering my rid dles and she said: 'I would ask Tom Coltson, the man I love.’ ” "Bless her dear heart for that,” whis pered the young man, tenderly. "She climbed upon my knee and said: 'Father, I have no mother now and I must tell you,’ and the dear child told me that you two had exchanged vows to marry this fall if I gave my consent. It was a surprise and a revelation to me. I would not say then what I would do. I hoped some time in the far off future to have my daughter make a brilliant match with one of our grand old southern fami lies, but ” “Mr. Gowenlock, I have seen for the past month that you was battling against fearful odds, and. as the times grew hard er and collections more difficult, that your ruin was inevitable unless your partner or partners making up the company came to your assistance to tide you oVer till fall. I was not sorry, I was glad of It. I see one Insurmountable object between me and happiness, and that is j’our money. "The rich Mr. Gowenlock would never consent to his daughter’s marriage with his bookkeeper, Tom Coltson. Employers generally regard their office force as an aggregation of animated adding machines and seldom credit them with being men of spirit, with human hearts and minds like themselves. I have been Dolly’s friend from childhood and I could not help but love her. I told her so, but she bade mo wait till fall before I spoke to you, as she said it was too soon after her mother s death. I promised, but I knew then that the crash would come in the meantime and I had hoped that you would look more favorably then on m>’ suit. I know that she ta far above me, but I love her— do you understand me—l love her, and will give her a life ‘of devotion to in a measure make up the difference between us.” v The fire of splendid young manhood was blazing in his eyes as he towered above the surprised old man. “I am not ungrateful for what you have done for me, and if your partners will not come to your assistance all that I own shall be converted into cash and placed to your credit in the Neptune Na tional, but it will not be a fourth of the amount required.” The old man choked as he wrung the young man’s hand, but he grew calm and replied: "No, lad, that would never do. You speak of my partners; I have never had but two. The one, my wife, is dead; the other, my daughter, is the only living partner L have. When I was your age I was quick to think and act; now I am old and slow and can only see that 30 year* of labor is to be wiped away in 30 days' time. Dolly said to ask you, and,” he continued, like a drowning man catching at a straw, “if you will find away out of thqse difficulties you shall have my daugh ter and become a full partner with m 6!” The young man caught his breath and exclaimed: “What! Do you mean it? You consent that I have Dolly?” Coltson’s nimble brain was acting now like lightning. His eyes wandered around the room x and fastened themselves on a map of the world that hung on the wall. Unconsciously’ he began to trace the Ibng dotted lines that .mark Uie cofirse of ves “Thirty days’ time; a fight for thirty days’ time.” kept pounding through hi* brain at every violent heart-throb. Several of these lines joined at Constan tinople. His eyes wandered back to the office desk piled high with returned drafts. "I have It!” he exclaimed, “draw a draft on the Sultan of Turkey for 110,000 and de posit it with the foreign bankers. Messrs. Wix & Wing. Tell them you desire to check against it. They have often solic ited your foreign business and know noth ing of your embarrassment. The draft will be more than 30 days in transit. Even if they cable the refusal of payment, you will have time to regain your lost ground and can reimburse Wix & Wing for tho draft when returned by a local check on the Neptune National. The high standing of thte house, the boldness of the stroke, the credit of the Turkish government make the thing possible. Os course, the draft will be returned, but not till fall cotton shall have turned the tide in your favor.” The old man rose and clapped the young man on the back in admiration. “Capital, boy, capital! Draw on the Sick Man of the East! Sounds like a ro mance. Tq his Imperial majesty, the Sul tan of Turkey. There is life in the old land yet!” he exclaimed, like an excitea schoolboy. “Who would have thought my bookkeeper such a Napoleon of finance!” Nearly thirty days later a draft wa* presented by the imperial Bank of Con stantinople to the Turkish minister of finance. “I have no record of our indebtedness to this Gowenlock & Co., of Charleston, 8. C.» U. S. A.,” and he frowned as he gazed at the handsome lithographed draft drawn up in Coltson’s dashing chirography. "Send it back,” he snapfied at the tremb ling collector. . "Send what back?” said a voice behind him and the grand vizier of Turkey swept into the chamber amid a host of fawning (Officials. i "Your highness, this is a draft drawn by one Gowenlock & C 0.,” he said, in his most deferential way. "They are of Charleston. S. C., U. S. A., wherever that, may be, and it 4s for 250,000 piasters. I cannot find that we are Indebted to the infidels,” and he handed him the draft with a low bovr. / The distinguished diplomat took the pa per and merely glanced at the fqce. Turn ing it over hej-ead the endorsements. It bore the names of Wix & Wing, of Charleston, S. C.; Morgan, Fellrock * Vaster, of New York; Rothschilds & Co., of London; Credit Lyonnaise, of Paris; Banca Italiana Commerclale, of Rome, and the Imperial Bank of Constantinople. "By Allah! these infidels, Gowenlock * Co., have royal nerve, but do you not sdh in what a position it places us? If thlr draft is returned unpaid it must go back the same channels through which it came. We are negotiating a loan of fifty million pounds sterling from the Rothschilds. If this draft is returned through them they will think us a bankrupt natiop, not even able to pay the paltry sum of 250,008 pias ters. Think of what Turkish securities would suffer in Lombard street. It is but a trifle. Pay it and protect our credit” Ninety days later he was surprised to receive another paper from Gowenlock it Co., but this time it was a check for tha amount, together with Interest, and a let ter of thanks for their enforced loan. Across the wide Atlantic in the parlor of Gideon Gowenlock in the city by the sea a young man took a sweet-faced girl in hl* fond embrace and whispered: "I drew a draft on royalty and the re turns brought me a queen.” Look at our clubbing offer* and re new now before your paper is discon tinued. - . HOMER AND MILTON. Relative Merit* of the Iliad and Para dise Lost. The Salt Lake Herald. To say that “Paradise Lost” has given greater pleasure to a large number or to any number of readers than the “Iliad” Is to state something that had probably not occurred to any man who has read both works. It is well within the bounds of reason to say that hardly qne in twenty of the people who start to read Milton’s wonder ful poem ever finish It. On the other hand, hardly one in twenty who begin any good translation of Homer’s magnum opus, fail to read every line of it. The pleasure derived from the "Iliad” is hard ly to be compared with that derived from the work of Milton. It is not necessary to read the former in the original Greek, although to appreciate it in all of its full, ripe beauty it should be read In the orig inal. There are a number of translations, however, that retain practically all that is best i» the "Iliad;” at least they con tain so nearly all of it that proficiency in Greek is not a sine qua non in its per usal. It may be said with reasonable certainty that for every one who has read "Paradise Lost” In Its entirety, 100 have read the "Iliad.” From the quar rel of Archtiles with Agamemnon and the Greek army to the burial of Hector, the "Iliad" is full of action, of noble thoughts and of lofty sentiments. The Cingalese and the Master*’ Eye. Homeward Mail. A Ceylon tea-planter with a glass eye wanted to go away for a day’s shooting. Approachlng'his men. he said: "Although I myself will be absent, yet I shall leave one of rnj- eyes to see that you do your work.” And, to the surprise of the na tives. he took out the glass eye, placed it on the stump of a tree, and left. For some time the natives worked like ele phants, but at last one of them, seizing his tin in which he carried his food, ap proached the tree and placed it over the eye. As soon as they saw that they were not being watched they all lay down and slept peacefully until sunset. A Toast to The Journal. , (Auguata Herald.) Here’* to the Sunday Morning JournaL W« afternoon papers are “it,” after alt