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Since taking Ayer’s Pills, I have been free from these complaints.’’ “I have derived great benefit from Ayer’s Pills. Five years ago I was taken so ill with rheumatism that I was unable to do any work. I took three boxes of Ayer’s Pills and was entirely cured. Since that time I am never without a box of thesepills.” Peter Christensen, Sherwood, Wis. • Ayer’s‘Cathartic Pills, PEKPARKD BY Dr. J. 0. Ayer & Co., Lowell, Mass. Sold by all Dealers in Medicine. tUUd TEXT BOOKS ’ a rw , T ,s lr= l 1 1 Wk" W t j a £-AND— si.mii - mi —I SELL AT— LOWEST PRICES, HAVING THE COMMAND OF UfflAk AND THE RUN OFTHEJ . MARKETS. COLLEGE ’ STATIONERY, OF EVERY DESCRIPTION D. W. McGregor. Book Store a ATHENS, GEORGIA Railroad News ’ A. then s the Cen tral Point. MORE ROADS Anda New Passenger Depot Is What the People Demand. They also want their houses and signs fixed up by a first—class paint er, and Jno. L. Arnold «8 the man to give them just the work you want. Write him or leave your orders at Lyndon’s Drug Store, and he will give immediate attention to your order. *ALL AMONG THE BARLEY.” It seems so short a time Since dull Oeeemlier'B sun Sex o'er these hedges wet with rime. And furrows purple dun. Since empty fields were dark and drear Beneath ye waning of ye year Green corn, how fast you grew! Spring sun, how bright you shone! Deep wondering heart, how soon you knew What secret was your own! Soft winds, how sweet your serenades Bang through ye ripening barley blades! Oh, what a golden glow Fills all these fields to-night! The while with eager steps I go In yellow western light. Hero where ye barley lies in swath, On either side ye stubble path. Along the seaward slope I take the olden way; A little tender new born hope Sprang in my heart today. Who knows? To-morrow I may bring New carols to my harvesting! -M. a GiUington. TWO SCOUTS REVENGED. From Fort Abraham Lincoln to Fort Bully, both on the upper Missouri river, is a bee line of IGO miles, but the distance as a rider has to make it is fully 200. It is on record that the first dispatch passing between those posts was carried in my pocket, and that at a time when hostile Indians al most besieged both forts. It was on this ride, and about forty miles above Sully, that a strange incident occurred. From Fort Union to Yankton, a distance of 600 miles, the Missouri runs along a chain of moun tains chi the east, while on the west side there is scarcely a hill to be found. While the route down the east bank is naturally more difficult, it is also more sheltered, and that was the route I took on the occasion 1 refer red to. While there were plenty of Indians in the mountains and mountain valleys, there were more of them on the plains, and my journey was considered such a forlorn hope that wagers were made at Fort Lincoln that I would never be heard of again. I had a mustang which had traveled over more of the country than any man living, and in all matters pertaining to frontier life he was as well j>osted as four men out of five. Armed with a Winchester and revolver, and rather proud to have been the one selected out of five scouts to make the trip, I left Fort Lincoln just at dusk one evening in July and proceeded five miles down the river before crossing over. A reconnoissance in force a day or two before had driven the back, but I might count on finding them within seven or eight miles. I had scarcely forded the river, when a mule, which had evidently been in hiding in a thicket near by. came forward with a low whinny and ap peared greatly pleased to see ua A brief in B]>ection proved that ne belonged to a scout named Abner Johnson, who had been dis patched from Fort Lincoln to Fort Ransome, 150 miles to the east, ten or twelve days be fore. The saddle was in place, blanket, coffee pot and other articles secured as usual, 1 and the bridle was intact. I was satisfied that Johnson had been shot from the saddle. Nothing could have induced the mule to run away from him while aliva The animal, as I figured it, was making for the fort and was about fording the stream when the noise of our passage alarmed him and he hid himself to see whether it was friend or enemy. 1 sought to drive him into the water and on his way, but he was determined to accompany me, and, after finding him obstinate, I dipped the iron bit out of his mouth, that he might gnatch at the grass, and rode off, with him e close follower. Between the river and the foothills then was a level varying In width from 50 to SLX feet This was grown to grass. Along the bank of the stream, with hardly a break foi miles and miles, was a line of trees and bushes. The foothills were covered with scrub growth, and between them and the base of the range there was fair traveling and good cover. At every mile or two there were breaks in the foothills by which one could turn in from the leveL I did not intend tc travel far that night, the main object being to get beyond the hostile lines and take an early start next morning. Up to the time of crossing the river my mustang’s feet had been muffled with oat sacks, so that be could leave no trail There had been no rain for two or three weeks, and no living Indian could have traced me. Once across the stream I removed the bags. I should leave a plain trail, but mtlst thereafter trust to luck and my own sagacity. It was a starlight light, and os 1 rode forward I routed up a deer or other wild game every fifty rods. This satisfied me that no Indians were near, and I contin ued my ride until midnight By this time 1 was at least twenty miles below the fort and I went into camp to wait for daylight. Go ing into camp consisted of unsaddling the two animals, rolling myself in a blanket and plumping down at the roots of a cottonwood. I was asleep in five minutes, and when 1 opened my eyes it was daylight The animals were close at hand, and each had his nose in the air and was scenting like a dog. I was hardly on ray feet before I smelled tire. There was a light breeze blowing up the valley, and the camp fire was below me, or in the direction 1 proposed to go. 1 moved into the belt of timber and began to crawl forward for an observation, and after going about a quarter of a mile I saw the smoke. I waited five minutes before advancing nearer, but seeing no movement I crept forward. I saw the body of a white man lying on the ground under the trees. 1 knew it was by the dress, and now, thinking I had come upon a gov ernment scout or some white hunter, I rose up and advanced into the camp. No man ever made a more appalling discovery. It was the body of Abner Johnson, dead and horribly mutilated, and between him and the river, a distance of twenty feet, lay the dead bodies of nine Indian warriors. While a glance sufficed to prove that they were dead, it took me some time to satisfy myself as to the cause. I finally found a stone bottle, holding about two quarts, which I remem bered to have seen in Johnson’s possession. It had contained whisky, but was now empty. The posture of the bodies was proof that every warrior had died of jxflson, but I did not know until a month that Johnson fixed up the dose before leaving Fort Ransome on his return. He seemed to have a presentiment that he would be captured, and he bought two quarts of whisky and dosed it with strychnine, knowing that it would surely re venge him. Johnson had evidently been driven out of his direct course. As I saw by scouting over the ground he was well in the lead of his nine pursuers when a chance shot from a rifle struck him in the right hip and tumbled him from his saddle. His mule had gone on and the Indians had gone into camp to torture the wounded man. They had cut off his left ear, gashed his cheeks, severed three or four toes, and inflicted other cruelties when the poison which they had imbilxxl in the whisky began to work. There must have been a high old time among them for half an hour, during which interval the prisoner probably bled to death. Johnson’s eyes were wide open, and if the eyes of the dead can reflect anything fate surely reflected exultation. The ponies of the Indians were in a grassy dell a quarter of a rule away, and each was hobbled It seemed an awful wicked thing to do, but I approached each one in turn and drove my knife to his heart. Then I gathered up sad dles and blankets and lariats and Hung them into the river. 1 took the rides, tomahawks, knives, wampum, and headdresses of the nine warriors and made up a load for the mule, and after covering Johnson’s body with brush atid stones to keep it from vultures, I went forward on my journey, which was completed without a further incident worth mentioning. A couple of years later I was trongferred to Fort Davis, in the Guadulupe mountains of Texas, and in the Apache country A com mission was sent to the east to locate a post on the Rio Pecos river, and us the country was full of hostiles the party was made pretty strong. There were six scouts, thirty private soldiers, three or four officers and same seven or eight prospectors and huntersand trappers who wanted to get right of that country The distance from the fort to the river Is about sixty miles, and all open country, and we were accompanied by two wagons and an ambulance. While we did not number over fifty all told, each man was heavily armed and well mounted, and 500 Indians would have hesitated to attack us in the open. All the scouts were paired off, and the name of my partner was Calvin- He was a rough and rugged man of 50, and most of his life had been spent in the Indian country. Ho had had a dozen of close calls, and the scars he could show in proof counted up a dozen or more. I did not know until we had started on the march that he had prepared any trick against the Indians, who would be sure to menace us, but at our first camp be ’ me a canteen of whisky, which he said was poisoned. He had about half a pound of smoking tobacco in a bag, and ;>oison bad been mixed with this. While the rest of us hated Indians as bad as Calvin did, no one else had prepared any such weapons. Indeed it was not looked upon as exactly honorable in a white man. We reached the Rio Pecos, opposite Cor poral’s Peak of the Castile mountains without being annoyed by the Apaches, although we saw numbers of their scoutsand had no doubt that a considerable force was hanging on our flanks. We made our camp in a defensive spot, and, after a rest, small parties scouted up and down the river to examine the lay of the country. On the third day Calvin and myself, accompanied by a corporal and two private soldiers, rode up the Pecos about ten miles, crossed over and started to come down on the other side. The ground was more broken on the north side, and we had hardly turned to go down stream when we found the redskins more numerous and far bolder. The soldiers had seven-shooter carbines and Cal vin and 1 had Winchesters, and* wo felt no alarm even when we knew the Indians tc number fully one hundred. An ambush was the only thing to be dreaded, and we got into one in spite of our vigilanca Two miles lie low where we crossed the river the ground came very rough and was cut up into gullies. This extended from the river back as far as we could see, and we could not flank it. We could have crossed the river here, but our or ders were to come down on the north bank. Every man knew that if the Indians meant tc ( attack they would do it here, and the first notice would lie a volley from one of the blind ravines. In this emergency we strung out in single file, the corporal leading, Calvin next, 1 third, and the two privates making fourth and fifth. We had not advanced forty rods into the “bad ground," and had not caught sight of so much as an Indian’s feather, when we received a volley from twenty-five In dians in a gulch. They were only 200 feet away, and one would have thought every man of us would have been riddled. On the contrary, however, the last three of us were untouched, and not one of our horses was hit The corporal and Calvin were both wounded and their horses killed. Simul taneously with the volley a hundred or more Indians exhibited themselves in front and on our left, shouting and firing. In such an emergency every man acts for himself. The three of us wheeled and retreated os fast as our frightened horses could run, all the time under fire. But as soon as we bad cleared the “bad ground” we took shelter in a small grove on the edge of the stream and prepared for defense. We were charged by sixty or seventy warriors on foot, who perhaps im agined us badly frightened, but we pegged away at them so steadily that they broke and took to cover, leaving six dead men in plain view. This was at 10 o’clock in the morning, and we did not get another glimpse of an Indian until 4 in the afternoon, when I climbed one of the trees and saw a body of them making off to the mountain. I then made a scout of the neighborhood, and soon ascertained what had occurred. Both Calvin and the corporal had been put to the torture, but they had been amply revenged. The six we had killed lay where they fell, as our fire commanded the spot. We found, in a sort of pocket, covered with bushes and limbs, eleven other dead, every one of whom had died of poison. One was Chief White Bird, a noted warrior, and the others were veteran warriors of his band. The bottle was empty, and the tobac co bag had been turned wrong side out. Three or four years afterward I met an Apache who was present on that occasion, and he said that White Bird and his chosen few drank the whisky and then smoked their pijx;s while the others were making the pris oners ready for torture. The corporal died before they could make ready, and when the warriors began to die of the poison Calvin was soon dispatched by a blow of a toma hawk. The bodies were badly mutilated, but it was mostly after death. The band lost seventeen to our two, and was so dis heartened that it retreated and went into mourning for weeks.—New York Sun. Be Was an Odd Genius, k Professor F. V. Hayden was the founder of the system which developed into the geo logical survey of the United States. Ho was a man of great genius and a renowned scholar, but erratic and peculiar. It was not uncommon for strangers to follow him for several blocks, their atten tion arrested by his bowed figure as he almost ran for a few steps—then suddenly stopped, with his gray, sharp eyes fixed on the pave ment—then ran again as if a sudden thought had struck him; then they would inquire. “Who can that poor insane man be?" While Professor Hayden was exploring the land of the Bioux Indians some years ago he once, in his enthusiastic i»asrion for geological research, wandered away from his party; he had loaded himself down with large speci mens of mineral, and while tramping slowly along in his absent minded way the Indians captured him. They whooped and yelled at their prize at first, but upon seeing all the “rocks and worthless stones” which the poor man was staggering under, and his composed, abstracted manner, they decided that he was “afflicted with a foolish mind.” They took him without protest on bis part, which only confirmed their fears; and after a few hours’ captivity the old scientist with “his rocks” was led to the nearest j>oint of civilization and “turned loose" lest the Great Spirit should punish them for any “harm done the foolish or simple minded." He w as daring, fearless and reckless in dan ger; a most distinguished scientific man, and much beloved by the young men of his sur vey.—Pittsburg Dispatch. ONLY THREE MORE BAYS LEFT TO GIVE AN ORDER OBJ A. SUIT, In which we guarantee to save you $5.00 to SIO.OO. Measures taken and FIT GUARANTEED. Our stock of DrcssGoods, Carpets, Shoes, &c, iscomplete M. Myers & Co The Christian’s Walk. Christian! walk carefully— danger is near; On in thy journey, with trembling and fear; Snares from without and temptation within, Seek to entice thee again into sin. Christian 1 walk cheerfully— though the fierce storm Darken the sky with the clouds of alarm, Soon will those clouds and the tempest be past. And thou wilt dwell safely with Jesus at last. Christian ! walk humbly— exult not in pride ; All that thou hast is by Jesus supplied ; Holding thee up, he directeth the ways, To him be forever the glory and praise. Christian ! walk steadfastly— while it is light; Swift are approaching the shadows of night! All that thy Master bath bidden thee do. Haste to perform, for thy moment’s are few ! Christian! walk prayerfully— oft wilt thou fall If.thou forget on thy Saviour to call j Bat safe shalt tnou walk through each trial, and care, If ‘thou art clad in the armour of prayer. Christian ! walk hopefully— trouble and pain Cease when the Leaven of rest thou dost gain; This, from the lips of the Judge, thy reward, “Enter lor ever the joy of thy Lord 1” HOW THE WORLD MOVES. The Very Latest By Telegraph and Cable. Negaunee, Mich., is horrified at the sight of the eyes in the head of a brakeman, , named Thomas Higgins, opening after a freight car had separated the head from the trunlj of the body. The new State of Washington holds its election for Governor and Congressmen and Supreme bench today. The Dt mo- I crate concede the two former to the Re publicans but claim a division in the latter. The excessive rains in Mexico, have ruined the corn crops there, and entailed 1 great suffering. Two new Professors were chosen yester i day, for the Charleston (S. C.,) college. A hundred aspirants from all points of the world applied tor the chairs. A Charles , ton man and a Virginia man were chosen. I■ I The South can’t be beaten! A strike ordered by the brick layers Union in New York has thrown about 400 men out of employment. The force of 1000 workmen who have been employed by the State to effect re pairs at Johnstown, Pa., Lave completed their work and are leaving that afflicted town. A fire consuming nearly $400,000 worth of buildings occurred in Butte, Mont., yes terday. The citizens of Pensacola, Fla., want the members of the Internal congress from South and Central America to visit them. They have sent secretary Blaine a petition to that effect. John Fricse shot and fatally wounded Miss Georgia Rone at Baltimore on Sun day. He says it was not intentional and has surrendered himself. The Associated Press infoims us that Mr. Gladstone has a slight cold and is con fined to his loom. The cold was brought on by bis becoming overheated in cutting down a tree on Saturday. •JThe Atlantic and Danville railroad from Danville, Va., to Milton, N. 0., was for mally opened yesterday. B. B. B. (Botanic Blood Balm). If you try this remedy you will say as many others have said, that it is the best blood pu rifier and tonic. Write Blood Balm Co., At lanta, Ga., for book of convincing testimony. J. P. Davis, Atlanta, Ga., (West End), writes: “I consider that B. B. B. has per manently cured me or rheumatism and sci i aticu.” R. R. Saulter, Athens, Ga., says: “ B. B. B. cured me of an ulcer that had resisted all other treatment. E. G. Tinsley, Colvuibiana, Ala., writes my mother and sister had ulcerated sore throat and scrofula. B. B. B. cured them.” Jacob F. Sponcler, Newnan, Ga., writes: B. B. 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