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WAR SI Private rJ?oi I). 1. Walden, in There were many goo.i men i:i tho ranks of thc Ten t'a Georgia, many true and faithful soldiers who could li . d.. pended upon to do !' i!! nu inure pf duty on ail sorts of < cc.1 -?. -. i" all sorts of onicrgonoic?, h.'ut iii eve was one among us, Tl.cai.'..? .! oh ii -m. w lio.se sincere dcvo; i.m io .. . y. .'. tri ug brave ry and skill! u' :. in the use ol his weapons seemed 1 ? eriiiile li'in lo spe cial consid?r?t ?MI. Ile w:;? large and portly, i liddy, li lit hean eil, jovial and endowed with a remarkable capacity for prom in -r mirth, '.!.'.?.. i'u !:..:. - and xuerrimcnf among those with whom lie niingli 1 and he enjoyed tho sinccie friendship and esteem of a very large proportion of li ii acquaintances, ile had made ? j u i t < ; a reputation, in his native neighborhood, near Jonesboro, Ga., as an expert marksman, by his aptitude at hitting the hull's eye, at shooting matches and his readiness in I bringing down game. He had been to Kansas as a member 01 the southern 1 delegation that went out to oppose the John Brown faction in that memora ble struggle for party supremacy that characterized the early history of that territory, and he was sometimes called "Kansas Toni Johnson," to distin guish him from other Tom .Johnsons in the same neighborhood. When our civil war broke nut Tom enlisted in our company, at Jonesboro, Ga., and while wc were drilling and making Other preparations for our departure ?r the war, Tom became involved in a . ?pule over some trivial matter and was violently assaulted by three stal wart ruffians, who made a desperate effort to punish him for his indiscre tion in differing with them in opinion. By means of dexicrious and well aim ed blows, with his formidable list, Tom very readily repulsed them and inflicted tho greater part of the pun ishment upon them. Notwithstanding his victory Tom immediately left our company and joined another that was being formed in the neighboring town of Fayetteville, but owing to the fact that thc Jonesboro and Fayetteville companies both joined tho Tenth Georgia regiment, wo still kept Tom Johnson with us. After entering into aotual 8ervico Tom's fearlessness aud skill won for him groat fame and his services were io almost constant de mand for difficult and dangerous un dertakings, and his natural love of adventuro found abundant gratifica tion in the perform ince of duties from whioh others, less venturesome than himself, would have instinctively shrunk. His faith in the ultimate triumph of our causo was steadfast and unwavering and he would never under any circumstances admit the possibility of our defeat. While on the retreat from tho pen insula to Richmond, as we were pass ing through an old field, somebody discovered the form of a Yankee sol dier in tho top of a distant tree, ap parently watching the movements of our army and Tom Johnson's attention was called to him. Tom thought ho eould kill him, but others contended that ho was entirely too far off to bo in any dangorfrom even Toni's gun. After parleying for a few minutes, Tom observed that it was a question that admitted of proof and stopping on the roadside, he said: "Now, you just watch aud see how he behaves when I shoot," and adjusting his gun eights to tho longest possible range, he raised his gun to his shoulder, took aim, fired and tho Yankee dropped from tho tree. Of course it was im possible for us to obtain any particu lars of thc man's injuries, but there was uo doubt that he had fallen from the tree. At the battle of Sharps burg, Maryland, Tom was severely wounded by a ball that entered his body in front just below the breast bone, passed almost centrally through ais body, among tho vital organs and came out near thc spiual column, ile was carried homo in October, 1SG2, and remained with his family about two months, when although still suf fering considerably from his wound, lie returned to his command against the earn' st remonstrances of his fami ly, friends and physicians, and re ported for duty. About this time he was armed with a new, imported Whitworth rifle, which was probably the most perfect and up-to-date gun an esi?i? anoe at that time, and assigned to special duty as a sharpshooter, and from that time fujrth, wo saw him only when ho made us an 00. .".ional visit. We beard many thrilling accounts of Tom's daring exploits, but unfortu nately, not having personally wit- ' nessed any of them, very few aro re membered with sufficient distinctness . to j?dmit, of- their portrayal with any <<legiee of acouraoy. Ho beoame one <of tho most efficient and reliable ?couts in the service and waa fre quently sent around in the rear of the enemy's lines on important missions, .and being ever faithful ta the trusts X)RIES. rn. Johnson. Atlanta Journal. .reposed to him, ho won the unbound ed confidence aud esteem ol' his supe ? ri ?r officers. I It was claimed, upon apparently ...-."-il authority, that .1 bullet from Tom's rille killed (??crierai Sedgewiek ! and for many years we heard of no at tempt tu contradict the claim, hut j ..??;:;- recently th?; performance of that j important died has been claimed for iim?:.lier and th" ditticulty of verifying ! such a claim aL tlii.s late day, after tho ' witnesses have probably all passed : a\v:.y, will leave L!;-.- incition in per , mancnt doubt, hut To tu'H f* r i. * n ' J will ; always believe that he hilled him or j at least, as one ?d' them lias expressed it. "We know that Toni killed him if the opportunity wai afforded him." Wc have never claimed that thc j Truth (Jcorgi* regiment was present ? or took any part in tito (iring upon ! thc general. Tom Johnson was, at j that time, detached from our regiment entirely. I remember something of ! au account of an encounter Tom had with two mounted Yankees in which TOMI killed both his antagonists, and when ho visited us afterwards, ho showed us two bright new Colt's pis tols, of the latest improved pattern, which he had taken from thc bodies of his victims, but the details of that exciting struggle are not well remem bered. Tom was killed September 17, 18(54, while ho and a companion were attempting to return, through tho famous Chickahominy swamp, from an expedition in the rear of the ene my's lines. They were passing near the edge of a dense thicket of bushes, when they were suddenly (ired upon by a company of Yankees in ambush, and Tom's thigh was broken. He hopped rapidly away, on Iiis other leg, about forty yards, to a rail fence, and while attempting to alimb the fence, he was shot again, through the body and fell upon thc ground apparently dead. His companion mado good his escape and afterwards related to mo theso particulars of Tom's tragic death, although his name and much of story arc forgotten. In November, 1863,fourteen months after Tom's death, his widow received a letter from a man in Virginia who claimed to have found Tom, after he had been mortally wounded, picked him up, carried him home wi*h him, and eared for him till the time of his death, which occurred about twenty four hours after ho was shot. During that time he gave the man the name and address of his wife, diotated a farewell message to her and the chil dren, and requested that it be sent them ns soon as postal communication should be restored. Tom Johnson's family are still liv iug in Fayette county, Georgia, near where Tom left them. BESIEGED BY INDIANS. How Texas Hungers. Saved thc Family of a Buffalo Hunter. "A short time ago," writes a corre spondent, "I took a buckboard at Stamford, in Jones county, which is the northwestern Texas terminus of the Texas Central railroad, and drove to Flat Top Mountain, a distanco of twenty miles, through a pasture, which inclosed under one fence 100,000 acres of grazing land. Flat Top is one of thousands of buttes scattered irregu larly in that region. From its pinna cle one can see as far as vision.eau reach. It is now a hind of farmers and stock raisers, but when I was there, between twenty and thirty years ago, it was a land of death and danger. "In 187(>, the year of thc Custer ca lamity on tho Little Big Horn, oeiug then a Texas ranger, I halted nt Flat Top with a squad of eight rangers. Hy some strange means the Comanches and Apaches just beyond tho Texas border, had learned of the incidont of tho Little Nig Horn, and, elated with thc success of the Sioux, the Southern savages were bent upon massacre Reynolds, a sergeant, called 'Mago, was in command. Standing on tho peak of the butte he saw through his telescope a string of warriors, 200 in number, moving rapidly toward tho site now occupied by Stamford, whero a dugout sheltered tho family of a buf falo hunter. 'Wo must save them, Reynolds said, and iu less than five minutes seven men were trotting to ward the advancing linc of Coman ches. The eighth nun was galloping southward to secure.reinforcements. "Tho wife and children of the hun ter wero taken up behind the rangers, and by a rapid march a rugged hillock was reaohed just in time. Tho rang ers were armed with carbines and re volvers, and Mrs. Carr, tho wife of the trapper, had a looge-rango buffalo gun, left at home by her husband, who had started a week before to trap caver on the upper fork*; of the Colo rado. The Comanches were allowed to ride within close range, when a vol ley unhorsed five of their number and disclosed our position. Surprised and no doubt badly frightened, they re treated in confusion. Our horses, which we had abandoned, were run ning over the range, aud were soon caught by our foes. 4 * I?y thc number of horses they as certained our strength, except that Mrs. Carr was not figured in their cal culations, and thc warriors began prep arations fora siege. We had a few pounds of jerked buffalo meat and a little bread. Water was a gravo con sideration, and wo felt the more con cerned because of the fact that the children were already crying from thir>t. After dark we found a email spring at the foot of our natural for tress, and we soon lilied our canteens. Tho food supply was placed in Mrs. Carr's hands, and she proved a vivan di?re worthy of thc trust. We ascer tained afterward that during the thir ty-six hours of the siege she ate noth ing, dividing her share auiong her little ones, and leaving all the rest for the men. ''To cut the ??tory short, thc Coman ches made desperate efforts to rush our furtress, each time retiring with loss, Mrs. Carr slaying a big buck with u bullet from her heavy c- hiuc. Our courier returned at sunset on thc sec ond day of the siege, accompanied by Mr. Carr and thirty cowboys from a Coleman county ranch. After a fierce battle the reinforcing men broke through the cordon of savages and en tered oar fortress, bringing plenty of food, ammunition and water. Tho day following the Comanches raised the siege and departed toward the Double Mountaiu fork of the Brazos river. They left their dead, seven teen in number, being in a hurry to get away, because, as we afterward learned, Major John 13. Jonen, the commander-in-chief of the ranger f orce of Texas, was approaching thc scene from thc Panhandle, with three troops j of his noted Indian fighters, following the trail of tho raiding red men. "Tho youngest of the Carr children died of croup during the siege. Three of our garrison were wounded by tho bullets of our foes, having been in cautious in thc efforts to obtain ad vantageous shots. One of the three, John Ward, died. We buried the child and the ranger in the same gravo, one of the men reading tho Episcopal burial service. "Tho grave of John Ward and little Lucy Carr can still be discerned by the inscription it bears, roughly out with a tomahawk on the sandstone monument we placed at the head of the doublo grave. It is a ruggd stone, honey-combed and lichen-grown, and weighs a ton or more, lt took our combined strength to turn it over. All the tomahawks we oould procure were worn out chipping a smooth sur face for the epitaph, whioh reads: " 'Here lies John Ward, a ranger, and Lucy Carr, in whoso defence he died. Soft rest tho prairie turf upon tho breasts of tho ranger and the little child.' "Major Jones overtook the warriors, recovering our horses and many more tho raiders had captured. While re treating and fighting the rangers, in reverse, they ran into a squadron of United Statua dragoons, and between tho rangers and the regulars the Co manches were pulverized, losing, to gether with those slain in the siego of the butte, 114 of the 200 warriors who started that moon on the warpath." St. Louis Globe-Democrat. General Evans Makes Correction About Abbey. General Clement A. Evans, com manding the Confederate Veterans of Georgia, has written a card in which he corrects thc impression that Charles Broadway Rouss-would not pay $100, 000 to the Battle Abbey. Gen. Evans says: Editor thc Journal: The Journal made a singular mistake Monday af ternoon in announcing in headlines that the heirs of Mr. Rouss would net pay his donation of $100,000 to the Battle Abbey. There has already been paid tho sum of $G0,000by Mr. Rouss, which is safe in tho treasury at Rich mond and the heirs of Mr. Kouss are anxious to pay thc remaining $40,000 as soon as tho contributions from other sources reach $100,000. Tho gift by Mr. Rouss was made on the condition that tho friends of tho Con federate veterans would raise another $100,000 so as to make the whole $200, 000. "Thero is yet about $50,000 to raise to meet this amount and the work of Dr. J. M. Jones, who is now superin tendent of tho Battlo Abbey, is to raiso this amount and as much more as possible. Dr. Jones is well known in Georgia and all over the South, and I feel sure he will succeed. I fear that the statement by the Journal will give trouble unless cor rected, because the Journal has a wide circulation, and I will, therefore, ask the Jourual to make the correction. Yours truly, Clement A. Evans. Stops the Couflh and Works off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets our? a eold in one day. No eure, No Pay. Price 25 oents. The St. Louis Flying Prizes. In order to encourage those who are engaged in that field of invention, the directors of the Louisiana Purchase exposition have appropriated the sum of $200,000, of which $50,000 will Le reserved for expeuses connected with the competition and exhibition, $100, 000 will be given as a grand prize to the exhibitor of the most perfect ve hicle shown in thc form of an airship, and $50,000 will be awarded in smaller prizes to other inventors. The competition is open to all com ers without limitation as to the power used or the mechanical principles in volved, hut 00 one will be admitted who has not already made a flight of at least one mile and return. A course has been prescribed within thc expo sition inclosnre which must be fol lowed for not less than ton or more than fifteen miles at a speed of at least twenty miles an hour. Thc trials will take nlace between June 1 and September 30, 1004. Vari ous prizes are offered for other eon tests, which arc open to balloons, air ships and other aeronautical vehicles of any type. Five thousand dollars for the great est altitude attained. Five thousand dollars for the long est time in thc air. Five thousand dollars for the long est distance traveled in any direction. Five thousand dollars to thc man who starts from St. Louis and lands nearest the Washington Monument, in the city of Washington. Thc management of thc contest will be in the hands of an international jury, which will be made up of famous men of science. Already notice has been received that fifteen entries have been made, including all of tho most advanced airships yet known. Pro fessor Alexander Graham Bell, the inventor of tho telephone; Pro fessor Langley, of the Smithsonian in stitute; Dr. Maxim, who has devised many remarkable guns; Santos Du mont, the Brazilian, who has taken thc big prizes in Franoc; Octave Cha nute, Mr. Stevens, an Englishman; Professor Laurence Botch, of Blue Hills, Mass. ; Count von Zeppellin, a Bavarian, and other aeronauts in Eu rope and America have already enter ed or aro expected to enter. The competition if creating more interest on the other side of the Atlantic than here. The largest sensation in the way of a flying ship has been constructed by Count von Zeppellin, who has been experimenting all summer from a float anchored in Lake. Constance, Switzer land, where he has a large open space without obstructions. As his float swings with the wind the longitudinal axis of the airship is always in the line of the direction of the wind.' His ship is a 24-sided polygon, oigar Bhp.ped, 410 feet long and 30 feet in diameter. The framework is composed of six teen rings of aluminum, 26 feet apart, ' fastened to a central rod by wires radiating like the spokes of a wheel. The framework is first covered with a netting of ramie fibre, remarkable for toughness and tensile strength, then with a gas ard water-tight rubber composition, and further protected by an envelope of tough cloth. The cylinder is divided into seventeen compartments like a steamer, each of which is filled independently with gas, HO that if the ship meets with a col lision only a portion of it will be in jured. It has a capacity of 350,150 cubie feet of hydrogen gas, is propell ed by four benzine motors and steered hy four aluminum propellers, two at eaoh end below thc- central axis. The cylinder rests upon two oars of alumi num, 22 feet long, six feet wide and three feot high, and is connected with the axis by coiled springs to break the force of a fall upon the ground. If the car should descend in tho air, the weight of the lower works would keep the wheels beneath it, and the springs would prevent the cylinder from being mashed by contaot. Prof. Boll was experimenting in Nova Scotia last summer, and thore have been report? of successful flights by him. Prof. Langley has also been engaged with his flying maohino, but they aro not yet prepared to disclose what they have accomplished. ' Tho St. Louis peoplo havo received many curious suggestions. One man writes that he is training teams of buzzards, eagl"? and other big birds to haul a car through tho air, and in quires as to his chances of winning the $100,000 prize.-Chicago Record Herald. _ Popping the Question. A bashful Irish swain wished to j make a proposal of marriage, bnt his oourage failed him, and he induced his sistor to bcoome an intermediary, he romaining outside the half dosed door, hidden, but within earshot, to hear the result. It was not favorable. The fair ono saucily tossed her head and replied: "Indade, now, if I'm goodenough tobe married, I'm good enough to be axed I" Hearing this, the anxious lover thrust his head inside the door and said beseechingly: "Norah, darlin,' will ye do what Maggie axed ye?" Ways of the Mexicans. School children study their lessons aloud. The best grade of coif ec ?re sold at tobacco stores. The Mexican meal consists of moro kinds of meat than vegetables. Railways, street cars and cabs all provide three classes of conveyances. In the cities real estate is sold by the square meter instead of the front foot. j Fruit and vegetables are not sold by j measure, but by the dozen or by \ weight. Theatre managers arc fined if they j do not produce the cast and features advertised. Many tailors take thc clothes of their eu->Louiers tu the patron's home to try them on. j Mexican men of the lower classes ! wear the biggest hats in the world, tho women none at all. Sunday is thc great amusement day. , All big entertainments are reserved for this general holiday. A servant is called or a coach stop ped by hissing or clappiug the hands instead cf shouting or whistliug. Pork and beef markets are, as a rule, separato institutions, as a liceuse is exacted for the sale of each kiud of meat. Gentlemen not only tip their hats to ono another, but they are as care ful to remove them in your office as in their own. The streets in most of the smaller towns aro lowest in the middle, slop ing from thc sidewalks to tho drain on tho surface. The Mexicans are great smokers, the cigarettebeinggenerally preferred, but chewing tobacco is practically un known among tho native population. Bread is universally baked lu small French loaves that retail for 2 cents each and an entire piece is served to each person at a meal without cutting. The delivery of all light retail goods, such as groceries, queensware, etc., is effected by cargadores, who carry the packages in baskets or boxes on their heads. New? Year's Day is an important anniversary. Presents are exchanged quite as generally as upon Christmas and friends send cards bearing liest wishes for the new year. Mexican gentlemen recognize a lady acquaintance first when they meet upon the street and the lady, as a rule, returns only the most formal bow without change of facial expres sion. All checks, bills and documents of record must bear revenue stamps, and the prinoipal books of commercial houses are liable to inspection from Government tax authorities at any time. As alfalfa and grass grow all the year round in most parts of Mexico, dry hay is practically unknown. City animals are supplied with green fod der delivered in small bundles every day. It is delivered from house to house loaded on burros. Tho licenseb of street peddlers and small boothB are collected daily. The collector for tbe city calls every morn ing and determines thc tax from the amount cf stock on hand. Taxes are collected as low as a few cents a day. Coupon tickets are given as receipts. -Modern Mexico. -"William D. Crawford, 15 years old, of Now Jersey, haR a band of re markable rats, whioh he has trained after six months of patient work. Eaoh has an apartment in a oagc. At tho boy's call eaoh rat will respond to his name, oomming forth from the cage with a flag of a nation. They form in line and go through military evolu tions in sharp time. Then a. sham battle follows. ?L I SHiGadaohe* mn There's many a cause for headache. Men are not often troubled by headaches. When they are it is generally due to bil iousness or indigestion. But womea have headaches which seem peculiar to their sex, frequent nervous throbbing headaches. Does it not seem as if such headaches peculiar to -women must be at once related to womanly disease?. Wom en who suffer with diseases peculiar to the sex do not realize the drain of vital strength and nerve force they undergo as a consequence of disease. It is this which causes the familiar headaches of sick women. , . Dr. Pierce's Favorita Prescription cures such headaches by curing the cause-irregularity, weakening drains, inflammation, ulceration or female weak ness. ?Favorite Prescription" invigor ates and tones up the entire system, en courages the appetite, quiets the nerves and gives refreshing sleep. ? I \ros troubled with congestion of the o tenn and female weakness for BY* years"writes Mrs. Robt. Kerwin, of Albert, H*?tlnrj Co. Ont. ? Was so weak and nervous I ?coM hardly do ?ny work. Had serer* paid h? back, also ?Mi nees and pola In head. My heartwoaVd beatso hard andTast ot times X would hove to tit edit tiU I got aU right again. But ?ACT taking foer hottlea of Dr. Pierce's Fa^t* Prescription and one of hi* .Golden Medical Disedregr* ? fett entirely waa 1 ah? used one bim of'lotion Tablets' and ona cT^PPOshorks'ss directed. All the symptoms cf my trouble hare disap peared and I om completely earea. I thank you for your kind advice and your medicine.* Dr. Pierce's Pleasant Pellets dear the complexion and sweeten the breath. Thc Kind You Have Always Bought, and whieii has be?a in uso for over 30 years, lias borne tho Signatare of ^-/? ? ur and has been niado under his pcr X>&ffl7^^/ sonal supervision since its i?'f"acy, \0u&ry% /-???C/U/lt Allovi no ono to deceive you in thu*. 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Try us and yon will stick to us. Your truly, VANDIVER BROS. JUST R?CEIVED, TWO CARS OF BUGGIES, ALL PRICES, from a 835.00 Top Buggy up to the finest Rubber Tired job] -AL80, A LOT OF WAGONS, That we want to sell at once. We keep a large stock of Georgia Home Made Harness Cheap.j The finest, light draft Mower In the world. Come and see it. Yours in earnest, VANDIVER BROS. & MAJOR. Have ?Tust Received Two Gars Fine Tennessee Valley Red Cob Corn. PERFECTLY SOUND. You run no risk in feeding this to your stoc. Will also make the very finevi meal. Come quick before it is all gone. On Om ANDERSONJ A LONG LOOK AHEADi M. M:. MA.T?I80N, STATE AGENT, People?' Bank Building, ANDERSON 8. ?