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t OKILKSI AT HOUR, Out leas at home! Th. aharuad circle brokun u daar fac. Mlaatd day by day trom IU accuitoiued plaov, But UaoMci, uud auvad, aud purlectad by grace! Una mora In heaven! On. lea at buiuel One vole ot welcome hushed, and ever more One farewell word apokun: mi the ahore, Where partiug comae not, one aoul lauded more One more In henvou! Oue loss at home! Cblll aa the eurth born miat tho thought would rlNK, And warp our footsteps round, and dim our eyes, But the bright aunheiim dnrteth from the akioe Ona more In houvon! One more at home! Tula U not home, where cramped In earthly mold Our sight ot Christ ia dim our love 1b cold, But there, where face to face wo ehnll be hold, la home and heaven! One luBa on earth! Ita paina, ita aorrowa, and ita toila to elmro; One lens the pilgrim's daily erosato bear; One more the crown of ransomed aoula to wear, A) home In heaven! .One more In heaven! Another thought to brighten cloudy day a, Another theme of thankfulness and pratao, Another link on high our aoula to rniae To home and hnaven! One more at home! That home where separation cannot be, That home where uons are missod etern ally. Lord J puis groat us all a jilaco with Thee At home in heaven! -C'hlcmjo Tribune. THE PANIC AT PER DIDO. From the Atlanta Constitution. Just how or when Perdido entered upon an era of "flush tinien," in a matter of small importance. The village whs connected with the outside world by a stage making daily trips to a river landing, a distance o' about a dozen miles. "Here's the Metropolitan!" snouted the stage driver, as we rolled up in front of a big two-story wooden build ins, with a broad piaz.a running all the way around it, As tbtj Metropolitan was the only hotel in Perdido, I lost no time in e uu ring a room, Then I strolled out on the piazza to take a look at things. "Pow'ful peart town, ain't it?" The speaker was my landlord, Mr. Zeb Duke. I saw nothing to distinguish the place from other villages in the cotton Bait of the southwest, but as it was unnecessary to mention this fact to Mr. Duke, I tell into his mood, and anfiwnnul anonrriiri0lv. "You see befo' you, sir, the comin' metrop'flls of the southwest." "Weil, yes," I replied, "there is plen ty of room (or your expansion." Sir. Duke regarded ine doubtfully fur a moniunt. , But his distrust, if he felt any was only temporary. He introduced the loungers on the piazza with indescrim Inate courtesy, but with significant emphasis when he pronounced the name of Colonel Arper. The colonel would have impressed most people as a find looking man, but I thought that bis face had a reck less, wicked expression. His black moustache and beard matched his hair, and yet in the sunlight eauli sopiuato hair looked like a quivering thread of fire. Be had bold blaok eyes, 'and a dark oompleotion wearing the flush that re sults from deep and strong potations. I did not like this man, and yet it was plain that he was doing his best to be genial and clever. His short round figure was that of the typical jolly man, but although the Colonel made jokes and laughed at them there was a false ring about his mirth. "Cunnle," said Mr. Duke, speaking up suddenly, "How many bales do you count on this year?" About a hundred," was the indiffer ent answer. "Yoi.'l. punl- it o a thousand yet," suggested one cl the crowd. "Oh, ye.V i iJ the Colonel, "when I get so.no more nii-ere. After next year 1 am going to ?. my stake for a thoti3i'd Imlrtd t-vorv season." A little more talk on. this line in formed mo f bat Arper had the finest plantation on the river, that he owned several hund.nl nlaves, and that he was from every pvint of view the big gest man in all that region. As it was my intention to spend some time at Perdido, I found myself interested in much that was dpscussed by these hotel gossips. Something turned the conversation to thp business out-look when Mr. Duke volunteered a piece of information. "Pedder has sued Sexton and swears he will sell him out." A burst of profanity from Colonel Arper shocked roe out of my usual all-possession. "Sexton is a blankety blank fool to stand if ," hs said m conclusion. "But if lie is in.ljbtwd to Pedder, Jiow ca.i he hft!p hiiiiM'.t'" I asked. There was fue;al sii'ile all round the circle.' .A Dike lathed heartily. Colond Arper kid 'i t smile. He frowned, dn i a black ootid seemed to tattle ivw Mh fa:e "Peddei- ti'.V bi nan," he said stonily. "Do you lliink he would sue me?" ' ' "No, Indeed! 01 course not!" came in a chorus from the crowd. "Pedder knows me," continued the Colonel "aud he knows my peculiari ties. One ot my peculiarities, as you all know, is a fonduess for the shot gun. The shot gnu, gentlemen, is a great regulator. It will settle a dif ference of opinion quickor than any thing else. No, 1 have never been sued, nor refused oredit, aud such a thing is not likely to occur." . There was an appreciative silence, broken only by a lew abniiring expres sions of approval. The Colonel laid his hand in a- friendly way on my knee. "I am worth, I suppose, fully two hundred and titty tho idaud dollars." said he 'but I owe something like three hundred uud fifty thousand dol lars. Yet nobody sues me, and no body thinks of it, aud my credit is first-class. What do you think 'ol that?" I suggested that the people had con fidence in him. "That's the secret," replied the Col onel. "That is all there is in it. They know my views, my peculiarities, and they have confidence in me. Now, it credit is the life of trade, confidence is the life ot credit. The man who de stroys confideuce in me ruins my cred it, breakes nie up, just the same as kills me, and by O d, for such con duct I would kill any man that walks the earth!" "And serve bint right, too, Cunnle," chimed in Mr. Duke. "I'm with you." The unanimity of sentiment prevent ed discussion, and the colonel's po lite invitation to accompany him to the bar was ucceuted with alacrity. "ThoBe are mine, Zeb," he said with a gruo ful wave of his hand, after we had imbibed our various beverages. "Don't mention it, sir. That's all riht," was Zeb's ready response, as weall filed out ol the room. "Yes," remarked Mr. Duke to me that night, "Colonel Arper is the wust, man J ever struck, htrlckly lion-ahbli-, a pulfick gentleman, but a bad man, sir, from way back." "He seems to have very little re gard for human life," I ventured to say. "Well, that's when he's imposed up ou," explained Mr. Duke. "He 8 naterally kind hearted and lib'ral, but when he thinks a man is trying to crowd him, then look out tor great snakes! "The shot eun," I hinted. "Jesso. The shot gun, or the re volver, or the bowie knife. Why, sir, I'll betcher the Cunnle's got not less than two revolvers two bowie knive on him right now. Such a man lor secretin' concealed weepins, and a hidin.ol 'em in a various manner all over his person I never did see, s'elp me! "Killed many around here?" I asked. "No. Can't say he has. Bnt he left a reg'lar .graveyard out in Texas. You see, he only came here some five or six years ago to take the plantation, when his father died and left it to him.. So he has'nt been here very long." "Is it true that be is so deeply in debt?" "That's nothin'," snorted Mr. Duke. "It's jest as he says. While the people have confidence it's all right. Ine Cunnle has been unlucky in his speculations, and the keards al ways go agin him, but what's the dif ference? His word's as good as his bond?" I went to bed and dreamed that the Colonel had been sued, and that he had shot the plaintiff dead in the oourtroom, and had been serenaded by his enthusiastic fellow citizens. The next morning I had not been on thojiiimn fiv minutes hnfore Colonel Arper made his appearanse with sev eral companions. They were fresh from the bar, and had all been drink ing heavily. As they passed me the Colonel spoke in an angry tone to one of the party, a stranger who had evidently just ar rived. "If your remark was personal," he said, "I'll be blanked if I don't " "Personal," answered the other qui etly. "Take it that way if it suits you I am sure It is all the same to me." The shock partly sobered Colonel Arper. He straightened himself and threw his hand back to his hip pocket. "For God's sake," whispered Mr. Duke to the stranger, "take tceer. The Cinnle's wild this mornin'. He'll kill you if you don't apologize." "I've sized him up," said the stran ger. "Let him alone. I can clean out a dozen like him." Everybody fell back to give the two men a clear field. Colonel Arper drew his pistol. "Your hand is shaky," sneered the other. "Go and take another drink." Arpers face turned pale. The stran ger looked at him with an air of cool contempt. But only for a moment. Before we could realize it, be walked up to the colonel, snatched hii pistol from him, and then could we believe our eyes he deliberately slapped th( desperate man's face, not once, but twicel Nor was this all. The cool stran ger threw the colonel's pistol at hit feet' and walked off with an elastic step down the street, whistling as h went. "Gentlemen," said the Colonel, staring at us, "this means blood!" , "No, it don't" said Zeb Duke, "but it means business. I've put up with your airs long enoush, you triflin', cowardly fraud. You jest plank down what you owe me and git!'' "Why, grear Uoddlemlghtv, Zeb!' "Will you pay up, Cunnle?" Arper muttered something about the first of the month, and without another word sneaked oil, leaving hit fellow-citi.ens looking at each other in speeohless astonishment. I never saw a town so completely torn up as Perdide was in tho next half hour. One feature of the business surpris ed me beyond ineasuie. Pedder brought six suits against Arper that very day. All the merchants follow ed. For a week it fairly rained decla rations, bills in equity, attachments, suits tor damages, Kurnishments. eic. The effects were far reaching. Men whose sole claims to credit consisted in certain bits of paper signed by Ar per were sued right aud letc. The place appeared to be in the hands of the sticri!!, his deputies and the bailills. As the panic spread, 1 accidently detected Zeb Duke in the act of running of most of his liquor and tobacco to hide them from hie creditors. Every stage brought mer chants and lawyers to look after their claims. It was evident that the Colo nel's fall had hopelessly ruined the en tire town. I left before the trouble was over, and lett without seeing the Colonel. It was rumored at the time of my de parture that he hud slipped o II tt Texas. At any rate he disappeared. After the panic at Perdido it wus not safe for him to remain. Hcrjreniit AlcComb Itelates Hi Kxperienco iu Illinois. From the St. Low is Globe-Democrat. I spent the Fourth of July in apart of Illinois where the farmers hadn't any rain for a month and were pray ing for it to come. I was in the house of one of these farmers, a strong beleiv er in the ellicncy of prayer, and he told me he thought that the Lord was sending them the drouth to punish them for their wickedness. After din ner I went out into the woods and lay down under a tree. Pretty soon a bit dead limb dropped off a tree close to my head. I had lived in the country long enough to know that was a good sign of approaching rain. Then, a lit tle while more I heard a tree-toad chirp. Kain sign No. 21 Then I heard a rain-crow caw and I sat up to listen. Sign No. 3! Presently 1 heard a loco motive whistle and the train rumble over a track I knew was fifteen inilee away. Sign No. 4! I got up and went into the house and told my friend that I had been out praying for rain to come before night, and added that I was confident of getting what I wanted. He looked at me inourniully and said in a hope less way that he euessed not. It wan not for an irreligious man from St. Louis to come out there and outpniy all the good people ot that neighbor hood . I took trim out in the yard and showed him the clouds. "Oh," said he, with a cheerfulness, "that'll pass around us. We've had that to occur before." But I made him make everything secure and before long tliorc came along a rain that would have drowned a man if he had been out in it. The farmer was in ecstacies and would have canonized mo if he had known how. I lett while my laurel were green, and I suppose my friend hasen't yet decided whether or not J posess supernatural powers. Kough Ou the Chaplain. New York Tribune. General N. P. Banks tells a story about one of his army ohaplains which never fails to "bring down" the G. A. R. camp fires. The chaplains of the regiments during the war had charge of the mails for the regiments to which they were attached. The mail for the regiment of this particu lar chaplain had not come to hand for many days. The regiment was out of the line of communication. Every day from one half to two-thirds of the Boldier boys filed up to the chaplain's tent with such stereotyped inquiries as these: "Any mail yet, chaplain?" "Have you heard from the mail?" "Do you know when the mail will come?" The good man was so pestered with inquiries that he had no time to prepare his weekly sermon. He wat obliged to spend all his time in explaining that he had no mail, that he had heard nothing about the mail and that he knew nothing about th mail. It occurred to him that he might put an end to his troubles by sign. Prconring the bottom of an old hard-tack box be marked it with char coal and nailed it on a tree in front ol his tent so that all might see this no Mce: ... THK CHAPLAIN DOES NOT KNOW WHKN TUB MAIL WILL AHHIVE. The next anxious enquirer whe came along was a reckless young wag He gazed for awhile at the notice, and discovering the piece of charcoal, which the chaplain had dropped oc the ground at the completion of tin sijm, he seized it and added these words: see '0 AND HC DON'T CASS. A D K. ' -er The chaplain took in the sign anc never put out another one, Mrs. Rose Terry Cooke and her hue band are shortly to be received intc the Protectant Episcopal church bj Bishop Williams, of Connecticut. FUR WIT U RE Stoves and House-Furnishing Goods ON TIME PAYMENTS AT TEXAS INSTALLMENT CO., 751 ELM ST., DALLAS, TEXAS. Hell on cusy week I v or monthly payments, evel ythlug needed to luruWh a house com plete n-nnH'ellnr toUsrret. 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