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Show "MOnNIH, MARS JESUS." How an Aeronaut VVn flreeled by a Tollto OIil Alnlmitirt Npbto. Not long after tbo ttvr n i rotta eamo In Montgomery. It woo tho flint, circus that had been tlicro tn a Iour time, and, sai llio Atlanta Constitution, alt r.utod an Im monao crowd,' oapectally of nerrroos. Tho moat lutcrcallng foaluro of thn entertain merit vvmo tlio balloon nviimlon Ihr negroes had never seen nny thing of that kind, and regarded tlio i t.u 1 1 of a man sailing up Into llio cloud m rv much an they would liavo looked upon I.n i ih going up In lus chariot of Are lhe l iiioon iuIIch an ay eight or ton miles and niiu uowti it . a Hold wbcro somo neirrocu w ei o plowing Tcrrlllod at llio spocliiclo of a elmilolcom Ing down from Heaven, they vorily bollovci tlmt tho last great day bad come, nnd'ro membcring all their short onmingu, tied away In terror at the approach of tho awful judge. Ono gra -bended and rbcumatlo old negro was unnblo to get away. Ho could follow tho plow, but ho could not run, and tlio chariot cauio down upon turn with terrible swiftness. In that awful inoinonl bis whuli life, rushed upon Mm, bo thought of all tlio petty sins ho bad committed nnd tho ghosts of n hundred chickens oocmod to ruo up In Judgment against him. Hut in that dcxpoi-ato dcxpoi-ato emergency Ids mind did not desert htm, and remembering that polltonoss alwajs counted with bis earthly master, bo qulcklj decided to greet tho Loid of Heaven and earth In a becoming stylo As tho aeronaut touched tbe earth nnd began to untatiKlu himself from tho roosliea about Ids car tho old darkey, with nn nlr of profound obei sance, rornovul tho vvoOf hat from his slilnj pate, bow cd low, nnd said Willi pious unction unc-tion I ' Mornlu', Mars Josus, ltow)Oulnt' jour pal" |