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THE SUNNY SOUTH, ATLANTA A >AY MORNING, JANUARY 10, 1891. Hello! I* that the Sown y South office? I would like to>peak to Aunt Judy and the Letter Boz en a few minute-, please. Well—And Is tnat you Aunt Judy? I just wanted to tell you that it Is one of those clear, cold mornings that I have heard would freeze the ‘horns off of a brass monksy;" so In self de fense I have been sitting by the tire reading the interesting letters of your nieces and nephews and decided I would like to be one of those honored ones May I, now Auntie? Surely you would not object to a pretty (?) red headed girl calling you Aunt. And the couBins, well if you accept me, they will be obliged to, you know, and I will try to make myself so agreeable that they won't miud. What's tiat? You say I can really be one of the cousins? Obi so much obliged to you. Now, cousins, here 1 am. Will one or two of you at least, welcome me. Earnest Willie, guess who I am. I knew you once in the “sweet past" when I was younger than I am now; and you were not contined to that tiresome bed. Ob! I forgot, Auntie, 1 am leaving right now. (Jood-bye. Dear Auntie: Before the old year has quite gone I want to plead with you for a hearing, and beg a cordial handclasp. There are al ways certain sad, tender memories the New Year speeds over aud leaves in its wake and among these records of the past. I want to place on the honorshelf an accepted intioduc- tion irom you. Now will you, can you refuse this urgent pica aud let me solicit in vain? What are the recommendations any way to get in here and make one of the merry-go-round at the game of correspondence? If they are many aud are exacting I must re tire as I was never much at blowing my own trumpet, it's too fatiguing. Lazy! i am one, somebody says. I neither deny nor admit the charge, so, lest 1 misnaply hit on some more of my rare virtues will make no more suggestive remarks. ■You have no idea what a help in composition it is to see some of your wriiiug in print," a i earlier ambitious for my career said once, and since then 1 ve been sprinkling crow tracks over rods of foolK"ap have been burning the mid night oil and enduring damp, doggish feet as an incentive to my ambitions until 1 feel like a regular correspondent of rejected articles for various papers and maguzines. Once before I tried to run this gauntlet of polite critics, but I ear me 1 made au inglorious retreat aud hid my diminished head under the beckoning arms of the all spreading W. B. Hut from the jaws of death, from the writhing six hundred I've put together mv remaining faculties and creep forth for another sally. You see the precepts of my early reader have been (irmly instilled—the ditty of the immortal “Try, try again" put to practice. I'm as un Conquerable as Twain's Yankee. Avauut my Mernu avaunt! as that same maiden teacher used to say after the storming departure of eaca rejected swain. Now I would like to throw iu same individual chat to each of you cousins, but modesty, that wee cardinal vir.uc that possesses me, wuispers not to presume too much on the acceptance of this solicitation. rio in all fealty I wish to all sweet recollec tions of the pest and fond hopes for the new year, and iu the meantime remain fondly yours, cousins aud Aunt Judy, tjpeculatiugly ihme, FltlNCrSd. A bright happy New Year to all-to everybody whose eyes chance to fall on this I would like '.o extend my hand and give them a good old- fastiionca hearty handshake, and give them a glad new year s greeting. Alas' I would like dearly for the whole wide world to feel as un boundedly, exhilaraiingly happy as I do this bright frosty morning with hod’s blessed, glo- -ious sunshine turning everything to silvery gold. I wonder it I—a brand new member—will re ceive a welcome by Aunt Judy's fireside. Please do, somebody, for i so bate to be overlooked, and 1 know you all will iu time loye me, for that is something X cannot do without. I must have love, or hate, for I can't tolertle indiffer ence. By which remark you will infer that I am an extremist: but you must find out forcer- tain; 1 won't tell vou. i wonder another thing, if Aunt Judy would deem it tally if 1 tell her now nice ami sweet I think she must be aud bow much I should like to know her. if occasion demands I can give any amount of that sweet article, and have been told that 1 could talk love as beautifully as a boy. But if I ever say anything like that to you, Aunt Judy please know that I mean every word 1 say and have been reading about you and admiring you for a long, long time. I think before long I'll pay a little visit to the li. II , but for the present let me tarry here, fer I am very fond of each and all of jou. X think it would he a splendid idea for Aunt lady to putup,beside her picture at the head of this brilliant column: "Ail blues abandon, ye who enter here.” What do you think? I imagine I hear a very aggravating,delightful relative of mine exclaim iu disgust: “Ah h-h some day, my dear girl, you will set the Mississippi on lire with your ideas.” My life would te very peaceable if it were not for this pest of a boy cousin, aud a dear small niece, who tog ther lead me a fearful life. ' I hope I have all of your united I'-mpathy. My boy is very convenient though,if he is pro voking, for he is very fo.d of the theatre, and because I am almost as big a goose as he is about laughing, aud because equally excited when the tragedy begins, he always takes me with him. We are a wonder to a>l beholders, as he has a small habit of, in his excitement impressing a 'act by taking my hand and shaking it wildly, saying iu a stage whisper: “There Cig, didn't I tell you so?” He's a great trial and I don't know what I'll ever do with him. I am hopelessly in love with some of the cous ins and tbe Sunny South in general. I think Nell Nightingale, Starling, Musa Dunn, Basil and so many others are simply splendid. Aud boys, don't allow Darling's appeal go by 'Unnoticed, Now my dear Auntie, I have, I think,sufficient age and experience to help brighten your cosy fireside circle, and please do give me a cordial welcome, for if you don't I’ll become utterly in corrigible and come again. But really how can you resist this letter? Impossible, isn’t it? With a heart full ol love. Ever Folle-Fabinb. at home for any length of time? What can _ mother expect of a son who has been on the streets since he has been old enough to be rolled about in a cariiage until old enough to be in some business? Surely not anything; yet I see many going to their min thus every day. Oh, ye mothers, take better care of the lives God has intrusted to you! Oar country is * losing ground" every day be cause of this way of raising children, or I should say, not raising them. I entreat yon mothers (should any read this), raise yonr boys by keeping them at home, as my mother did me! You can make men of them, if that be your first step, and then they will bless you for it in years to come, as I do mine. Dear cousins, this letter from a boy may seem somewhat out of place but I see so much ruin all around me. and knowing tbe principal cause, I could not refrain from writing some of the many thoughts that clamored for escape when I came upon this subject. If what 1 have written does no good, it will surely do no harm, and with thiB I dismiss the subject. Tnis is mv second letter, and I have made it so lengthy 1 fear it will not meet with the kind reception the first one did by Aunt Judy, but will be turned over to the keeping of the W. B., even if said basket has no other claim upon it. A few words more, please. Auntie. It was with a great deal of pleasure that I read Earnest Willie’s account of nis chair. I hope, dear cousin, that it will help to brighten your pure sweet life, as I would try to do if I was near you. Write another long letter soon. Come often, Francis Leigh, Hedra Helix, Mohur Minnehaha, Hilda, and many others I would like to mention had I time and space, for I alwayseDjoy reading your splendid letters. Goodbye, i may come again some day. Until then believe me your friend. Oneal. Dear A unt Judy and Cousins: "When at the soft, delightful hour of eve The flowers of mem'ry yield a sweet perfume And each sad thought with happy visions weave. At this enchantiDg hour of mental bloom— I think of thee.” Y’es, “at this soft, delightful hour,” just after tea, I am always to te found in my room read ing or writing, which often leads to thoughts of the many unknown friends of the Letter Box. “Home, sweet home;” “Home to mother ” Those are, I think, the two sweetest sentences I ever reid-or at least the sweetest of any that do not contain words more intimately associ ated with Heaven or our spiiitual welfare. I often wonder why it is that there are so few boys who love home as I do, and wish there were more of them ike me in that resDeet. I love home better than any other place on «arth and mother above everything else. I have the best mother, I often think and say, who ever lived, and she has taught me to love home. I could never repay her for that one lesson, if *t was the only one for which I was indebted to her. It may be that many boys are driveufrom borne (whit else can I call it?) be muse theirs are not the right kind of mothers. Girls, too, are likely to love other places— theaters, balls and other places of amusement— tvBtter than home, but not as much so as boys. A child will naturally love home if it is made Dleasant for it, and is not •'mamma” the principal one to do this? Of coarse, fathers have a good deal in this line resting upon them, and mine does a great deal to that end. But, a mother's love and care ■surpasses all else. •*WeU may hearts cease all repining, In a mother’s love secure; Love that needs no fire’s refining, Ever watchfnl, ever sure.” '•Love that’s like a pure steam weUing From a heaven-fed mountain crest! Love all earthly love excelling! Love the truest and the best!” Bister and I (there are only us two now since brother's death) have an exceptionally happy home, and I often look around us and see oth- ers not so blessed, and pity them. I would be Ifod to help them more than it is in my power todo for I see too plainly the cause, which is my reach. Sometimes it is one thing and Sometimes another, but it is oftencst because they scarcely know how. Mother has let them Lc uku' by nurse, and since they have been old enough, let them go by themselves any and everywhere, until they are almost miserame W Couid one expect a child almost literally raised from home-sty on the streets of a village Srcity—to love or even be the'least contented Dear Aunt Judy: I have been thinking for some time about comingoverand asking adm it tance in your circle of happy neices and neph. ews. Thanks. I know you could not have the heart to deny my request, and I love you that much' the better than if you had turned me oil', because that shows a kind heart, and a liberal one, too. I was awfully glad to hear you would have some photos taken, for I am going to have one of them or break my neck, and I don’t mind sending twenty-five cents, for what a small sum of mouej that is to me, and 1 who handle, money iu and out as the days come aud go. Why, I would send live dollars if neeesf ary, to get your photo. Zirline, 1 ihink I know the trio who boarded the traiu at Marshall, Texas although I.may be mistaken about them. Was not the young lady who made the mistake iu seats a b onde? you called her “Grace.” If so she is the same; she is married, and the young cau with Hum was her husband, and the other young lady his niece and not married. That makes the dent in your side all right. Does not It seem a mar ried blonde caused it. I wish 1 had known when you pa-sed through Atlanta, Tex is, on your way to Fort Worth. I would have been at the depot aud per-uaded you to have gotten oil' aud spend a few nays iu Atlanta. Let me know when you come through Atlanta again. Dixie Lassie, you never were more mistaken than now. burely you got iuto a wrong plat e somewhere iu Texas. There are ai many pretty girls in the “Lone Star State” as you ever saw Huywhere. I wou't deny the compliment paid to “Mustangs boys,” they are a handsome set of fellows, aud as good hearted boys as you could meet anywhere, aud have many noble manly traits of character. Hut, Dixie Lassie, younnust take every word of that back about the Texas girls. Why, there is Zirline; 1 am sure he will agree with me, for some of the prettiest girls 1 ever saw were iu Fort Worth. 1 wuiidei it ' Southern Soy 11 dio. m*i fnxt “matrimonial yoke” upon his neck ail too soon. However, old ‘fellow, I wish you a jug full of happiness, and always be good to that little girl; and • Elbe.” I beg pardon; I should have said ‘ Miss Elbe,” be good to “Southern Boy,” too. Best wishes and happy new year to every one. Will Joe “Yes the yeir is growing old And his eyes are pale and bleared Death with frosty hand and cold Plucks the old man by the beard” ‘Sorely—sorely!’* Yes death has secured a saving hold on the whiskers of old 1S90 and in twe more short days will have yanked him out of existence and out of our lives forever. Never again will we enjoy tbe perfume of the flowers that spring brings annually, or be funed by tbe zephyrs, or serenaded by the gay plum age minstrels of nature, under the reigu of our old departed friend. In vain may we cry: 4 Backward, roll backward, O time iu thy flight!” Heedless of all appeals ,the great wheel moves on. As well expect tbe sun or moon to cease their daily voyages over the universe at the bidding of man. Many of us would fain call back tbe past year and with penitential hands rectify the errors or misdeeds of which we were guilty and cau now so plainly see, but too late. It has passed on out of rtach of the hand of mau to rectify or blot out, to be numbered with the ages past and gone. There is something of sad ness in the decease of the old year, an old friend whose presence we have enjoyed for three hundred and sixty-five years, and whose pets and foibles we have become accustomed to, ha8gone never to return and bis successor of whom we know nothing is about to be usher ed in, in whose reign we know not wuat will be'all us. AH is uneertaihty. It is a great deal safer to review the past than anticipate the hidden pitfalls of ibe future but the safest course of all is to neither trust the future nor linger over the past, but improve each opportunity as it comes. Act act in a living pursuit, heart within aud God overhead, for each stroke of the heart is a drumbeat iu our funeral marches Christmas is nearly over, cousins, and I have been lioused up all tbe time unabled to take any of it tn, so surely you and Aunt Judy won't object to mo inflicting a little chin music on you. Since I was last permitted to occupva portion of your space, I have turned my back on the home of my childhood and pitched my tent in a strange land amongstranger, hoping by this procedure to win a stray smile lrom fortune, but through an accident which happened to me some three weeks ago 1 am once more at home. On my arrival here I found my sister suffering from a dislocated shoulder, which for bids all thought of music, and everything read able in the house has been read and a portion reread, so as my ramblings are confined to the house I thought I would vary the sameness by venturing in to see if any one retains a green spot in their memory for me, or if my fate is among the names forgotten. Was that a voice fro m Earnest Willie’s new chair saying welcome,or the wild winds wafting back the sad echo, forgotten? Little Nell, though I thought so, it seems you hadn’t forgotten me, for dfd you not tell some one some time ago to give me a flower? Suppose vou write and enclose me one. Cousin Cecil, as I was being whirled along with lightning s oeed by the great iron horse to my place of operation via Nashville, I won dered if I was passing your home. Cyclo, I am glad to see you back again. Write often. Spicy, you are a darling. You remind me so much of a friend of mine. The latest society fad is the “gripp.” It is also thought society will sneeze the balance of the winter. Uncle Punch, Aunt Judy and all the cousins, a merry Xmas and happy New Y’ear. Youre mucnly Nemo. CONSUMPTION CURED. An old phyilcizn, retired from practice, had placed In hia hands by an East India missionary the formula of a simple vegetable remedy for the speedy and permanent core or Consumption, Bronchitis, Catarrh. Asthma and all Throat and Long Affections, also a posi tive and radical cure for Nervous De bility and all Nervous Complaints. Hav ing tested its wonderful curative powers in thousands of oases, and dealing to relieve human suffering, and I will send free of charge to all who wish It, this re cipe In German, French or English, with fhll directions for preparing and using. Sent by mall, by ad dress lng,with sump, naming this P.^ _ 820 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N. Y. * 781-121. Affections of the bowels, so prevalent In children, cored by Simmons Liver Regulator. Beeeham’s Pills act like magic on a weak stomach. Itch on human and horses snd all ani mals cured in 30 minutes by Woolford’s Sanitary Lotion. This never fails. J3old by all druggists. The Horsemen in the Air A Weird Tale of the First Year of the War. NE SUNNY afternoon In the autumn of the year 1861 a soldier lay in damp of lanrel by the side of the road in west era Virginia. He ley at full length upon hie stomach, his feet resting upon the toes, his bead upon hie left forearm. His extended right hand loosely grasped his rifle. But for the somewhat methodical disposition oy his limbs, ana a slight rhythmic movement of the cartridge-box at the back of hie belt, he might have been thought to be dead. He was asleep at hie post of duty. But If detected he would be dead shortly afterward, that being the Just and legal penalty of his crime. The country was wooded everywhere except at the bottom of the valley to the northward, where there was a small natural meadow through which flowed a stream scarcely visible from the valley’s rim. This open ground looked hardly larger than an ordinary dooryard, but was really many acres in extent. Its green was more vivid than that of the In closing forest. Awsy beyond It rose a line of giant cliffs similar to those upon which we are supposed to stand in our survey of the savage scene, and through which the road had somehow made its climb to the summit- The configuration of the valley. Indeed, was such that from our point of observation It seemed en tirely shnt in, and one could not but have wondered bow the road which found a way out of it had found a way into It, and whence came ana whither went the stream that parted the meadow 2,000 feet below. No country Is so wild and difficult but men will make it a theatre of war Con cealed In the forest at the bottom of that military rat trap, in which half a hun dred men in possession of the exits might have starved an army to submis sion, lay five regiments of Federal in fantry. They had marched all the previous day and night and were rest ing. At nightfall they would take to the road again, climb to the place where their unfalthfol sentinel now slept, and, descending tbe other slope of the ridge, fall upon a eamp of the enemy at about midnight. Their hope was to surprise him, for the road led to the rear of hia camp. In case of failure their position would be perilous in tbe extreme, and fail they would should accident or vig llance apprise him or the movement. The sleeping seDtinel in the clamp of laurels was a young Virginian named Carter Druse. He was the son of wealthy parents—an only child—and had known such ease and cultivation and hign liv ing as wealth and taste were able to com mand In the mountain country of wes tern Virginia a quarter of a century ago. His home was but a few miles from wher9 he now lay. One morning he rose from tbe breakfast taoleand said quietly, but gravely: ‘-Father, a union regiment has arriveu at Grafton, I am going to join it.” Tbe father lifted his leonine head, looked at the Bon a moment in silence, and replied: ‘Go, Carter, and whatever may happen I hope that you will do what jou conceive to be your duty. Should we both live to toe ena of the war we will speak further of the matter. Your mother, as the physician has in formed you, is in a critical condition; at the best she cau not be with us longer than a fe-.v weens, but that time is pre cious. It would be better not to disturb her,” So Carter Druse, bowing reverently to his father, who returned the salute with a stalely courtesy which masked a break ing hears, left the home of his childhood to go soldiering. By conscience and courage, by deeds o’ devotion and daring, he soon commended himself to his fel lows and his officers; and it was to these qualities and to some knowledge of the L-tut-itj tLat—S'Cwtd —in- oommadder was permittii r (ha man of hia escort to water their open In plain view from a mlts. Druse withdrew his eysi Icy and fixed them again i ous duty at the extreme outpost. Never thelees fatigue had been stronger than resolution and he had fallen aBieep. What good or bad angel came in a dream to rouse him from his state of crime, who shall saj? Without a movement, without a sounu, In the profound silence and the languor of the late afternoon, some in visible messenger of fate touched with unsealing finger the eyes of his con sciousness-whispered into the ear ofhfs spirit the mysterious awakening word which no human lips have ever spoken, no human memory has ever recalled. He quietly raised his forehead from his arm and looked between the laurels, instinct ively closing his right hand about the stock of his rifle. His first feeliDg was a keen artistic de light. On the colossal pedestal of the cliff, motionless, at the extreme edge of the capping rock, sharply outlined against tne sky, was an equestraiu statue of impressive dignity. Tne figure of tbe man sat the figure of tbe horse straight and soldierly, but with the repose of a Grecian god carved In tbe marble which limits tne suggestion of activity. Tbe gray costume harmonized with its aerial background; tbe metal of accouterment and caparison was softened and subdued by the shadow; the animal's skin had no points of highlight. A carbine, striking ly foreshortened, lay across tne pommel of the saddle, kept in place by tne right hand grasping It at tbe “grip”; the left hand, noicing the bridle rein, was invis ible. In silhouette against the sky the profile cf the horse was cut with the sharpness of a cameo; It looked across tne heights cf air to the ciitt beyond. The (ace of the- rider, turned slightly to the left, showed oDly an outline of tern pie and board; he was looking downward to the bottom of the valley. Ma ‘nified by its lift against the sky and by the soldier's testifying sense of the formid ableness of a mar enemy, the group ap peared of heroic, almost colossal, sizs. For an Instant Druse had a strange, half-defined fetling that he had slept to the end of the war aud was looking upon a noble work cf art reared npon that commanding eminence to commemorate the deeds of a heroic past, of which he had been an ingierions part. The feel ing was dispelled Dy a slight movement of ths group. Tbe horse without moving its feet had drawn its body slightly back ward from the verge. The man remained immobile as before. Broad awake and keenly alive to the significance of the situation Druse now brought the butt of his rifle against his cheek by cautiously pushing the barrel forward through the bashes, cocked the piece, and, glancing through the sights, covered a vital spot of the norsetnan’s breast. lA touch upon the trigger and all would have been well with Carter Druse. At that instant the horseman turned his head and looked in the direction of his crouching foeman— teemed to look into his very face, into his eyes, Into his brave, compassionate heart. Is it, then, so terrible to kill an enemy in war, an enemy who has surprised a secret vital to the safety of one’s self and comrades, an enemy more formidable for his knowledge than all his army for its numbers? Carter Druse grew deathly pale; he shook in every limb, turned faint, and saw the statneeqne group be fore him as black figures, rising, falling, moving unsteadily in arcs of circles fn a fiery sky. His hand fell away from his weapon, his head slowly dropped until his face rested on the leaves in which he lay. This courageous gentleman and hardy soldier was near swooning from intensty of emotion and excitement. It was not for long; in another moment his face was from earth; hie hands re sumed their places on the rifle; his fore finger sought the trigger. Mind, heart, ana eyee were clear, conscience and reason sound. He could not hope to cap. tors that enemy; to alarm him would hot send him dashug to his cunp with his fatal nows. The duty of the soldier was plain; the man most be shot dead from ambush; without warning, without a moment’s spiritual preparation, with never so much as an unspoken prayer, he most be sent to hia account. Bat no— there is a hope; he may have discovered nothing—perhaps be is bnt admiring the sublimity of the landscape. If permitted he may torn and ride carelessly away in the direction whence he came. Barely it will be possible to judge at the instant of his withdrawing whether ho knows. It may be well that his fixity or attention— Druse turned his head and looked below. Through the depth of air downward, as from the surface to the bottom of a trans- luoent sea, he saw creeping across the green meadow a sinuous line of the figures of men and horses. Some foolish horses in the hundred sum from the vsl' ipon the group oi man and horse in the sky, and again it was through the sights ol his rifle. Ho was calm now. His teeth were firmly bnt not rigidly dosed; his nerves were as tranquil as a sleeping baby's; not a tre mor affected any muscle of his body; his breathing, until suspended in the act of taking aim, was regular and slow. Doty had silenced conscience; the spirit bed said to the body: “Peace, bo still.” He fired. At this moment an offloer of the federal force, who in a spirit of adventure or in quest of knowledge had left the hidden bivouac in the valley, and climbing the slope had made his way to the lower ledge of a small open specs near the foot of the cliff, was considering what he had to gain by pushing his exp oration forth* er. At a distance of a quarter of a mile before him, but apparently at a stone’s throw, rose from its fringe of pines the gigantic face of rock, towering to so great a height above him that It made nim giddy to look np to where its edge cut a sharp, ragged line against the sky. At some distance away to his right it presented a clean, vertical profile against a background of bine sky to a point half the way down and of distant hills hardly less blue thence to tbe tope of the trees at its base. Lifting his eyes to the dizzy altitude of its summit the offloer saw an astonishing sight—a man on horseback riding down into the valley through the air. Straight upright sat the rider,In milita ry fashion, with a firm seat in the saddle, a strong clutch upon the rein to hold his charger from too impetuous a plunge. From his bare head his long hair streamed upward, waving like a plume. Hu right hand was concealed in the cloud of the horse's lifted mane. The animal’s body was as level ss IT every hoof stroke en countered the resistant earth. Its mo* tions were those of a wild gallop, bnt even as the offioer looked they ceased, with all the legs thrown forward as In the act or alighting from a leap. Bnt this was a flight. Filled with amazement and terror by this apparition of a horseman in the sky —half believing himseif the chosen scribe of some new Apocalypde—the officer was overcome by tbe intensity of his emo tions; his legs failed him, and he fell. Almost at the same Instant he heard a crashing sound in the trees—a sound that died without an echo, and all was still. The offioer rose to his feet trembling. The familiar sensation of an abraded shin recalled his dazed faculties. Pull ing himself together be ran rapidly ob liquely backward irom the cliff to a point a naif mile from its foot. Thereabout he expected to find his man, and there about he naturally failed. lathe fleet ing instant of his vision his Imagination had been so wrought upon by the ap parent grace and ease and intention of the marvelons performance that it did not occur to him that tbe line of march of aerial cavalry is directly downward and that he could find the objects of his seaich at tbe very foot [of the cliff. An hour later he returned to camp. This officer was a wise man; ho knew better than to tell an incrediole truth. He said nothing of what he had seen. But when the commander asked him if in his scout he had learned anything of advantage to the expedition he an* swered: “Yes, sir; there Is no road leading down Into this valley from the south ward.” After firing his shot Private Carter Druse reloaded his rifle and resumed his watch. Ten minutes had hardly pasted when a federal sergent crept cautiously to him on hands and knees. Druse neither turned his head nor looked at him, but lay without motion or sign of recognition- “D;d you fir6?” the sergeant whispered. “Yes.” “At. what?” “Ahorse. It was standing on yonder rock—pretty far out. You see It is no longer there. Iam p, great marksman; you know I once shot a mitch with the devil in hell and beat him ” The sergeant was shocked ard star- tied. He looked searchiugiy at Druse. The man’s face was white; nts eyes were restless and glittered witn a strange, un canny light. The sergeant, still on hands ana knse3, Involuntarily backed a little way from him. “Sie here, Druse,’ he said, after a mo ment's silence, “it’s no use making a mystery. I order yonJtojmport. Was Jtherfu.anybodykzS the horse?” “Do you moan the horse which had WiDgj?” “Well, yes. If that’s the kind of hors 9 you shot. Was thera any one else?” “Y’es.” “Who?” “My father.” The sergeant rose to his feet and walked rapidly down the road toward the vailey.—Ambrose Bierce. I jhme Trawl. Medicated Oxygen INHALATIONS FOR Head, Throat and Lungs Only. Quiets Cough, Softens Tubercles, and Heals the Lungs, Purify ing the Blood. BY MEANS OF SPRAY BULB SEPARATE SPECIFICS USED FOR CATARRH AND HAY FEVER. What People Sap About Specific Oxygen. Home, Ga., Oct. 28, 1889. Gentlemen: I feel it my duty to give expres sion to my honest convictions as to the curative Jropertics or powers of Specific Oxygen. I be- ieve there is no other remedy in use that will compare.with it. J. A. Tignek, M.D. Nashville, Tenn., Sept. 4, 1890. Gentlemen: I had a severe attack of bronchitis last winter. Mr. George Geer, of my church, told me about the .Specific Oxygen treatment- how it had relieved him of a distressing bron chitis, a chronic ease of fifteen years’ standing, I l>egan to use it myself, and in a few weeks wat entirely cured. Rev. Lewis Powell, Pastor McFcn-in Memorial Church. Arborville, Neb., July 18,1890. Gentlemen: Your treatment lias certainly done wonders for me. The Nasal Spray Bulb and Catarrh Specific are just grand for curing "atari-h. Bert T. DeBoise. Hillsboro, O.JOct. 2fi, 1887. We have used Specific Oxygen in our family, and find it a most excellent remedy for colds and chronic throat trouble. Rev. Mbs. W. .T. McStbelv. Gallatin, Tenn., April lfi, 1890. I am highly pleased with the remedy. It has done me more good than any tiling I have ever tried. I feel that I will lie cured. 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The Florida Central and Peninsular Ball Boad Is the great artery of travel through the finest pans of Florida, traversing twenty four coun ties—Gadsden, Jefferson, Duval, Alachua, Laka, Pasco, Leon, Suwannee Nassaw, Leroy, Orange, Hillsboro, Wakulla, Columbia, Clay, Marion, Polk, Manatee, Madison, Baker, Bradford, Sum ter, Hernando and De8oto—iu their richest por tions. It runs through the Middle Florida Region of Hill Country, where are the fine old Farming Lands, and the new Tobacco Farms, (reached by no other line) some of them con ducted on a large scale. Here are Quincy, Tal lahassee, the capital, Monticello, Madison and other towns, from whose comfortable, ample dwellings, reposing in a fertile country, is com ing a renewed energy to employ the resource, lavished about them. 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We are the shortest line to this region- The settler will find on the line of this road » greater opportunity for a varied selection of Snd than on any other road in the State—from lightest soils to those underlaid with clay and marl, and of richest hammock—whether for Regular Mixed Farming, Stock or Dairy Farming, Peach or Strawberry Cnll- ture, Orange Groves and vegs- tabls Gardens. The tourist will be gratified with Its scenery, the healtn-seeker on its ample route can find some spot adapted to his wants. On the hard clay roads of Middlo Florid* the horseman will ride with speed and satlsfas- tlon and the Florida Central and Pensacola it 1110 sportman’s Bouts Koto.—Passengers from Northern connection, naving tickets over the Florida Central and Peninsular to points In South Florida have the privilege of being token Into Jacksonville over th e company’s line and allowed a stop-over with- COVINGTON ACCOM’N—Daily except Sunday Lv Atlanta 6 20 pmiLv Covington.. .5 40 as Lv Decatur 6 56 pmlLv Decatur 7 25 aaf Ar Covington.-.8 35 pmlAr Atlanta 7 55 az» MACON NIGHT EXPRESS—DAILY. NO. 31 WESTWARD | NO. S2 EASTWARD. 'JJNION POINT WHITE PLAINS K. Leave Union Point *10 10 am * 5 40 pr* Arrive at Siloam 10 35 am 6 05 pni “ at White Plains 1110 am 6 40 pm Leave White’’Plains *8 00 am *3 30 pm “ Siloam 8 35 am 4 05 pm Arrlveat Union Point 9 00 am 4 30 pm ♦Daily except Sunday. No connection for Gainesville on Sunday, Sleeping car to Charleston on Trains No 4 Trains Nos. 2, 1, 4 and 3 will, if signalled ato* at any regular schedule flag station. Trains Nos. 27 and 28 will stop and receiv* passengers to and from the following station! only: Grovetown, Harlem, Dearlag. Thompson^ Norwood, Barnett, Craw f ordville, Union Pointi Greenesboro, Madison, Rutledge, Social Clrcl* Covington, Couyer3, Lithonia, Stone Mountain and Decatur. 27 makes close connections for al] points north and northwest. Trains i and 2, dinner at Union Point. Train No. 28, supper at Harlem. J. W. GREEN. E. R. DORSEY, Gen’l Manager. Gen’l Passenger Art* JOE W. WHITE, T. P A., Augusta, Ga. In the going limits of the ticket, with return to their route for destinstion free of extra charge Send for best map of Florida. Mailed free. MACDONKLL, u. a. Am Jacksonville, Florida. N. S' Penning D.X Mexwel on. Traffic Manager. General Manager. Improved Train Servioi BETWEEN MEMPHIS &ID THE SOUTHEAST. The Palaoe Car Line of the South—th Kan sas City, Memphis A Birmingham B. B -non has two through passenger traliu daily betwsss MemphisandBirmlngham, making dose and ■ureoonnaeUsna with the trains of all ponnao- tinc lines. Night trains have through sleeping oars between Atlanta and Memphis (in tlon with the Georgia Pacific B. R.), the short est route, quickest fine, and the only line Tu ning through eats between those cities. Dag trains have Palace Reclining Chair Cars (seat, free to holder, of tint-class through ticket* through between Birmingham and Kenaea City. | points in Arkansas, Texas and the Weat Northwest. Everything new and ikat-elara Through tickets via this line on sale st SB through ticket offices. | |For any desired Information, tor huge may and time table folder, address. H. D. ELLIS, J. £. LOCKWOOD, Gen’l Agent, G. P. and T. Ag’t, 839 Main st. Yaums City. Memphis. $230 A WONTS. 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