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About five years ago my right ear began to sing, and this kept on getting worse, until I lost ray hearing in this ear entirely. I underwent a treatment for catarrh, for three months, without any success, consulted a num ber of physicians, among others, the most eminent ear specialist of this city, who told me that only an operation could help me. and even that only temporarily, that the head noises would then cease, but the hearing in the affected ear would be lost forever. I then saw your advertisement accidentally in a New York paper, and ordered your treat ment. After I had used it only a few days according to your directions, the noises ceased, and to-day, after five weeks, my hearing in the diseased ear has been entirely restored. I thank you beartily and beg to remain Very truly yours. F. A. WERMAN, 730 S. Broadway, Baltimore, Md. 4 Our treatment does not interfere with your uttual occupation. f °"e and YOU GAN CURE YOURSELF AT HOME ® ata "o” ,nal INTERNATIONAL AURAL CLINIC, 596 LA SALLE AYE., CHICAGO, ILL Suggs’ Bakery< The place to get your .... ALL CASES OF ANY HEAD NOISES? barnesvilTJ! news-g/ Jette, Thursday, February is, iO2. “A GIRL OF TENNESSEE” "AN INCIDENT OF THE CONFED ERATE WAK." (by lei.ia r\ins smythe.) The following beautiful little “incident of the civil war,” entitl ed “A Girl of Tennessee,” was read at the Thursday meeting of the Daughters of the Confederacy in Augusta. The old Crosby place had been the scene of several skirmishes be tween the Confederates and Fed erals. It was one of the largest and finest farms in Tennessee, extend ing for miles and under perfect cultivation. But war has put its blighting touch upon everything, and the fertile fields were torn up and blackened, the outhouses bore the marches of shot and shell, and everything about had a dilap idated appearence. Gun carriages could be seen among the carts and wagons of the place, and many a broken musket told the sad story of war. Even the fine old forest had not been spared, for many of the trunks of the trees bore the marks of bullets. A public road ran by the farm, and accross this road was the for est. There had always been ugly stories about these woods—a law less band had its rendezvous in the darkest places and it was a long time before they were driven out. Belated pedestrians had failed to reach home, strangers were found robbed and murdered. Of course there were natives bold enough to brave the worst, that went through continually, but the country people and negroes would go a long distance out of their way to avoid passing through the woods. Late in the evening of an au tumn day in the sixties, a girl stood among the shrubbery of her home and made a pretty picture with the burnished leaves falling about her. Her eyes had an anxious look, and her red lips had a pathetic droop. She was wistfully gazing at the soft dickering of the declin ing sunlight in a reddened sky. Her eyes fell from the sky to the placid scene about, and a tender smile dispelled the sadness of the lips. Suddenly her pensiveness vanished and site became very pale and a good deal agitated. *ho looked eagerly in the direct ion of the forest. The astonish ment became merged in a visible alarm, and yet the cause was simple enough, just a country woman with a hideous sunbonnet and a basket of eggs upon her arm. With great strides she approach ed the house and stopped when the girl accosted her. “What have you for sale?” “Eggs,” the woman replied. Her voice was harsh and coarse. The girl looked startled and darted a dozen looks into the big sunbon net. She met a pair of fiery black eyes. “Mrs. Cullom sent the eggs to your ma,” said the woman. “Wait here and I’ll take them to her,” said the girl. “1 wont to see your ma. You look skeered. I ain’t a going to bite you.” “We havesickness in the house,” said the girl. “Why shoiild I< fear?” The woman came closer and laid her large hand upon the girl's slen der arm. “Is it the wounded officer?” she asked in a whisper. “There is an officer here on pa role,” answered the girl. “And has the general come?” asked the woman. The girl's cheeks grew pale, but she answered very quietly. “The general has not come.” “ You do not seen to fear the forest,” she continued, looking intently at the woman. “You country people never come through the forest. You are the first, one I have ever seen do so.” The woman laughed. “T ain’t afraid of nothing,” she replied. “You must be a stranger,” the girl said. “Your face is a strange one to me.” “I am a stranger,” replied the woman. I’m Mrs. Cullom’scousin, Abby Lucas, and 1 ran away from the Yankees.” “Wait,” said the girl, as the wo man turned to go. “The general is not with us, but a good many Confederates are about, hunting for a man who is a traitor and a spy.” “I don’t know any such person,” j said the woman sullenly. “As you don’t want the eggs, I’ll go.” She turned abruptly from the young lady and went in the direct ion of the forest, disappearing among the shadows. With a low exclamation of horror, the girl ran into the house. As the lights went out one by one in tht' home, a man pushed his way through the thicket and step ped out into the road. He remain ed in a listening attitude for some time, then with noiseless steps approached the house. The howl of a dog rang out on the night air prolonged and mournful. The man shivered slightly and for a moment his head was bowed. Ht> threw his head defiantly back and with a muttered curse, again slowly went forward. He paused again and raised his convulsed face to the moon, whose light re vealed a tear upon the bronzed cheek. - His fiery eyes swept over the land scape, softened and lovely in the moonlight. The fields lay under the silver spell. In the forest were moon shafts. There were fiery islands in the sky fioating in a great incandescent sea. A little lake formed by streams from the mountains, like glass. The oltl homestead stood massive and silent amidst trees and shrub bery. The scene was only too familiar to the gaze. In the lake he had fished; the mountains he had climbed, and down a pretty path, visible in the moonlight, he had wandered with the friend of his childhood, tin* love of his maturer years. Great beads of agony were upon his brow, his broad chest heaved convulsively. He stood in the moonlight in manly beauty, a per fect Antnies, all glorious in magni ficent strength, proud, distinguish ed and fallen —a traitor to his peo ple, a traitor and a spy. The momentary hesitation pas sed. He opened the garden gate. There was a great deal of shrub bery in the garden, consequently the place seemed full of shadows. As the gate opened a slender shadow fell across the path in front of the bold intruder. The man sprang back and pre sented his pistol. “Fire!” said a low-toned voice, “and you are ruined !” The voice was a woman’s. “Are you here?” was the angri ly-spoken answer. “Did you imagine that you could deceive me this evening?’ she said, “when you came here in ( lie disguise of a country woman. Your eyes and voice betrayed you, Marcus.” “You were anxious for your lov er lying concealed in the house,” lie replied. . “I have in the thicket sufficient force to capture your lovely colonel.” “I am not afraid of you, Marcus, but for you,” she said calmly. “The general came, and brought enough troops to surround your friends in the thicket. I have waited for you.” “You knew 1 would come?” “Alas, yes!” she said sadly. “I knew' the strength of your hate, and your desire for revenge.” “1 do not believe you,” he said sullenly. “It is true’” she answered stern ly, “and I would save you from your own wicked will.” “Who made me wicked?” he said, turning upon her savagely. “Who made me a demon, a traitor and a spy. Your perfidy, Rhoda Crosby.” “It is all a mistake,” she said in a quivering voice, “a dreadful mistake, Marcus.” “Your lover is this moment ly ing wounded in your house attend ed by you ” “No! No!” she sobbed. “Stand back!” he said fiercely, “I’ll soon know.” H< • raised his pistol. “For Cod’s sake, Marcus! she said. His answer was a pistol shot. The quiet, peaceful „scene became one of animation. Rushing feet could be heard and low words of command. “Do not permit yourself to be captured, Marcus,” she implored, “for God’s sake follow me before it is too late.” “I do not care,” he answered. “But you must care,” she said, “for my sake and the blessed days of our love.” “For the sake of those days, Rhoda,” lie said, as he followed her flying feet. By the spring, hidden by clus tering bushes stood a horse. “Before I go,” he said, now quite subdued, “let me tell you, Rhoda tonight’s work is the first treachery to my country. It has failed, thank God and I will atoue in the future.” He held her slight form a mo ment in his arms and relinquish- CASTOfHA Tlio Kind You Have Always Bought, aud winch been in use for over 30 years, lias borne the signature of -and has been made under his per sonal supervision since its infancy. Allow no one to deceive you in this. 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As the last sound of the horse’s hoofs fell upon her ear, the girl raised her arms heavenward. t “Thank God he never knew,” she sobbed, “that I loved only him.” The war ended and a gentleman came to Augusta and established a wholesale grocery store. Two years later he went to Savannah, where his mother joined him. Then for long years a curtain of mist shut upon the past. One day a letter came to him whose words were faint and irregu lar. “I loved you then, and I love you now,” the writer said. “And I am dying.” The first train found him hurry ing to her, but his love was dead. She had passed from this troub led world forever, Kodol Dyspepsia Cure Digests what you eat. To oure SICK HEADACHE, HABITUAL CONSTIPATION, and all diseases arising from In digestion. They will purify your blood and make yourcomplexlon as FAIR AS A LILY. They are gelatin coated. PRICE 25 CENTS. I- ■ —J A DANGER SIGNAL. You have got a cough and you don’t worry. Don’t you know a cough is something terrible. 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