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PUBLISHED KV??Y TUESDAY ON3Q d?hlau a v t :a ii Through the Black forest. IIV 1.1.1 ..\ MACMAIION. ? ?i Lk > Kunat was only a little German pjwtor, and BD? was hl? wlfo. Thoy wore quite poor, and quite insignifi cant. They had no place in the great world; in truth, they know nothing of the great world nor the things which belong to It. Nevertheless, they were very happy. _Of worldly goods they had the modestly frugal share which falls to a pastor in tho fatherland. But they bad each other, and in having each otb*r they believed inexhausti ble treasure to be their portion. It will be seon how simple they were, how far removed from tho great world an 1 its beliefs. Otho was all the world?and what a World; greater immeasurably than that which deems Itself the only great odo?Otho was all the world to his Thekla, and Thekla was all the world to her Otho. They wore true husband and true wife?very Bimple folk indeed. Thoy had been married in the month of the' roses, and it was now October, The days wero growing shorter and colder in tho little North-Gorman village whore Otho Kunst ministered. Summer had gono away, and Autumn was dying fast, and tho chills and snows of Wlntor would soon bo upon the land. But within the pastor's tiny rod-roofed house, beside the church, coldness and dreariness found no place. Otho Kunst and his wife were indepen dent of the outer atmosphere. Lovo and peaco kopt their hearts and, their homo very warm and bright. To his wife Otho was a horo. No horo of romance, indocd, was over half so splendid in her oyos as the little spectacled pastor, 'that is the glory and the beauty of truo love. To other oyos the form of Otho Kunst would least of all things have suggested tho heroic. He was a little fat man?a young man, too, scarce thirty?and a fat young man is a poor hero of romance. Moreover, Otho Kunst was vory nearsighted, and peering forward through his largo round crystal specta cles when ho moved or walked had given a curious head-foremost lurch to his gait. With his ungainly carriage, round fat head, on which tho paie oloso-eropped hair stood straight up, and five foot nothing of height, Otho Kunst was a very little man beside his wife. She was tall?very tall for a German woman?and broad, which Otho thought beautiful. In toy-shops?at least, in old-fashion od ones?tho doll has two divisions: tho dark doll and tho fair doll. Thekla was just tho living realization of the, fair doll. Hor hair, which lay across her head in thick-laid plaits, was of a warm flaxen hue, and would have been a glory to tho ladies of tho great world, while hor waist would have been their despair. Her bodily form was large, sorono, oxpresslonless, her soul fair, and calm and trustful. Her faith was Hlinplleity itself. Sho believed?and loved ; nay, rather, sho loved, and so belioved. On that cold clear night in late October a message from one dying came to Otho Kunst. Five miles off, at the other side of the forest valley, one of the pastor's flock lay sick unto death. Tho man had sent for Otho. It was late, it was night, and tho way led two miles through tho forest. Otho Kunst knew that ho should go, and yet ?two miles through tho forest, alone and at night. The forest had an evil reputation? sights and sounds not of earth were - known to haunt it, besides the con crete peril of murder and robbery. But who would rob a pastor ? Who could rob one who possessed nothing ? M I will go for Carl's pony," said Otho to his wife?Carl was a rich parishioner of tho village. Ho rose up valiantly as he spoke, yet a tremor went through his frame. God had given Otho Kunst a beautiful soul, but the splendor of physical courage was not his. He trembled? but ho went. Thekla stood at tho door and watch ed htm as he strode down the empty village street. The moon was one day past the full. It shone down pale and cold on tho fat, ungainly little figure of the pastor as he walked in tho midst of the struggling wooden houses, with their quaint gables stained and weath er beaten, and tho prim row of toy-liko fir-trees in tho centre of tho vlllago " street. Every house was dark and silent. Tho moon and Otho alone wero moving. Without knowing wherefore, a thrill of vague disquiet wont ovor Thekla as her husband's figuro disappeared : but imaginary terrors woro not wont to trouble Thekla. To-morrow, in the early morn, Otho would return, for ho had said, "I will stav with H> ^olf all night." So the "Frau I'astorln " wont back into he/llttlo house, and shut tho door on moonlight and disturbing faneios. And Otho Kunst, mounted on Carl's pony, rodo out by the rock-bound road to the forest valley. Carl's pony and its rider were not conventional in beauty or doportraont. Tho pony was a roan of nondescript breeding. His coat was cut in rougn chunks, and his tall was vory long. Moreover, his body was vory thick, whilo Otho's legs being vory short, Otho's toes thereby stuck out aomowhoro on a level with tho pony's ears. The night was very still, and tho echoes of tho pony's hoofs rang sharply as Otho rodo over tho wdoden bridge. The valley of tho forest was eloso upon tho pony and Its rider. Before thorn yawned tho abyss of the blue pines ready to engulf thorn, deep and dark. Terror, deep and dark, Hashed back again on Otho Kunst?terror unnamod. intangible. Cold sweat broke out upon his face ; strong desiro fell upon him to turn back quickly, and flee away homo to light and warmth, and? Thekla. Yet to go back and leave tho dving to die nlone, unmlnistorod, un consolcd ! The minister of Christ shuddored at the thought; but the heart of the man quailed at the un known perils of the dark valley. All . tho legends of his ohildhood came back to Otho Kunst. Up abovo on tho heights was tho great half-rulned Schloss, the spcetro-haunted castle, with its evil past. To tho strained ears of Otho weird cries and whispor- ? ings seemed to quivor through the sfet of pines from its direction. He was a vory little man, and ho was not a bravo man?at least, if not to know fear means bravery?and tho blood of the North-( icrinan |>ensant Mowed in his veins. Some evil thing, he felt, was close to him?some ovil, ho know not what, only he felt its chill breath upon him n? it faced him in his path. To go back : how oaay !?to go back. Tho pony halted and stoed still as Otho's hand hold him in. Tho man on the pony looked backward, and then forward once inoro into the dark shadow of tho forost valloy. A sensa tion as of physical sickness over poworcd him. Thon Otho Kunst cnught bis brenth, and slid from off bis burly sto?d. With tho. bridle n.issod through Ids loft arm, the pastor knelt down upon the rock-hewn road, - pi.d raided his hv;o to the heaven above. God," he whispered?only whispor o\..Jor bis Hps ? were parehed and bis tougue clave to his palate, and tho uv'i thing seemed mi bin ?cnse? i<> '? \\omtt upca him- -"God, Thun ?atT1 ii'iiiiiini l'iTi grabt m$ strength. and courage?cour age, dour Father. Kor whero Thou art in no night, und in Thy Ahutghty arm? Im perfect safety. jJet nie not turn back from Thy service ; put me not to shame-" The fair, pale light streamed on the upturned face, and struck irridescent pai il.' from the quartz stone oa the road. How many mloutee passed ? That Otho Kunst never knew. Only he knew ere long that round him and about his path a strange and beautiful security seemed to falb And slowly? in11 whether it sbunded in his ear of flesh or merely in his shaken heart bo could not tell?a still small voice repeated, uot once or twice, but all the way along, words sweet, familiar, strong-^ "He shall give His angels oharge concerning thee." Otho'Kunst got tip upon the pony, and rode on through the dark pine forest, through this valley of the shadow ; rode steadily, looking neither to thtf"right hand nor to the left; for he knew that God was with him. A new day was close at band .when the pastor reached Rudolf's hut on t ie other sido of that black valley. And hero a strange thing awaited Otho Kunst. The man Rudolf was better; uay, he bad sent the "Herr Pastor" uo message. * Tho coldness of a terror, now gone by, swept over Otho once more. Vv hence, then, had come that message? A lad had brought it?a lad whose face was not familiar to Otho Kunst. As he lay in the charcoal-burner's hut that night, the simple faith of Otho Kunst could find but one solution of the mas tery. "God did it," he said, in his faithful heart?"God did it, to try me. My cowardlco is my shame," As ho rode homewards through tho forest in tho glory of tho full morning, great joy and groat humility fell upon tho pastor's soul. The sunshino slanted down on him through the high arches of tho pines, the frost-bitten air swept across his face, tho brilliant day gavo tho lie to all his fears. It was still the valley of shadow, but tho light of day lightened its winding glades. Otho Kunst came out once more to tho wooden bridge, now in a blaze of sun, and beyond him, but growing nearer minute by minute, was a gleam of rod roofs ; and now the spire of his church ; and now his own hall door ; and now?Thekla. But yot another strange thing hap pened when ho told his tale to Thekla. For, she said, last night a nameloss terror of impending danger had struck hor too. " Some dangor was upon thee, Otho, for tho fear of it came to ine. I could but pray, my Otho; for God is great, anu His raorcy is over all. And hath He not said, where oven two are gathered together He will bo with them? And wo were together, though parted bodily?wo were together in spirit and in truth." * * * # * * * But that night and all Its ovents had passed outof OthoKunst's memory years and years ago : at loast, memory had shut it close into ono of tho nooks and crannies which sho keeps as a storehouse for tho past. The bristles which did duty for hair on Otho's cranium had got much grey mixed with them; Otho's sons and daughters were grown up around him ; and Thekla had gone before into the rest which such as she bolieved ro maiueth for God's people. Moreover, Otho K mist had boon takon from tho little village in tho Hart/, to a largo town?a town so largo, that it hold a big prison. Now. Ii this prison a man lay dying, and Otho Kunst knolt beside him. Tho chill grey of the prison walls was not more grey than death's shadow on tho dying faoe. It was a bad face, and very drawn and weary?weary with the weight of sin rather than years. A greater contrast to the round fat face of tho pastor conld scarcely bo. Tho dying man had, in truth, little of the Ten tonic raAe in tho form of his features; it was easy to seo that ho had got the latter from his mother, who had been a Spanish-Mexican. Otho Kunst had ministered to this man for many weeks ; and now tho end was come. In all his simple round of pastoral work, no failure.so bitter had met him as this gaunt human wreck, who even now mot death with a half cold sneer upon his bluo lips. The pastor could only pray for him ; Otho Kunst knew not "other refuge but the God who is great. You soo, ho was quite unlearned?only a simple soul. The dying man looked upon tho kneeling ligure, and a gray spasm twisted his faco. "Itaiso me up," he said hoarsely; and Otho Kunst stood up and raised him as he desired. Tho sunken eyes looked into Otho's spectacles. " Herr Pastor, dost thou know me ?" Tho pastor thought he was wander ing, and answered him gently by the name which ho bore in prison. But roason shone clear in the dying eyes. "Stoop"?his voice grow more strained?"I will tell you my name." And as ho uttered it Otho Kunst started ; for this man had once been his rival, and, so it had seemed to Otho, afterwards oven his enemy, becauso Thekla had loved him best. Something like a grin distorted the grey face. "So! Now you know mo? Well, I cannot harm you now ; but once I had killed you, only time and chance played mo false. Tell me?toll me "? tho laboring breath was getting every moment wearier of its appointed task ?" tell me, I have often longed to know, who were those that rode with thee through the forest that night?? What ??canst thou not remember tho night that a message was brought to thee from Rudolf Heisch, the charcoal burner ?" Out of its nook and cranny, Moraory was slowly bringing up that night onco more to Otho Kunst. That night! yos: It was in tho first year of his mar riage Then remembrance flashed quick and strong. " Who sent that message?" " I did," said tho man who was facing death. "It was a trap a snare ?to kill you; you, whom?Thok?she?" Tho voico faltered and grew still, but Otho understood. "But'.'?with a deep panting breath between the words?those othors spoilt my plan. Throo men, and I alone: it was too much ; and the .next day I-Tell me, who were tho men? I could not see their faceSs" " What men ?" asked Otho patiently. ITo thought the man's brain was cloud ed. A gesture.of irritation moved the man in his bed. " Two men who rode beside you, ono on either side powerful fellows, each on a big white horse, and you on Carl's pony in tho midst." Some palo travesty pf a smile crossed the speaker's 11 ps at Otho on Carl's pony- / ? " You rode all three," tho voice wont on once more. " I was midway in tho black valley, and saw you pa*s mo close, and go onwurd together. What white horses they woro, with the moonlight gleaming on them through tho trees'! Whoro did you pick up with them? for I saw no man in tho village nor by tho bridge. Who woro thoy ?' Otho Kunst turned very pale, and trorablod oxcoedingly. 141 know not, ' he whispered slowly, his lips awe-struck, " unless the angels of God himself." " Buh !" said the other, " thoro is no God. Thoy were men and tholr horses. Thoy rode with you, and passed me, I tell you, out into tho moonlight. Keep yo u* secret: it is no matter now |" "I havo no socrot," said tho pastor ' v. i bit, lie had. though he knew It not! tbu hWjws* of tho i*,Vo In heart. I SHI HI . THK WOMEN. Kill As'|? 1><m>m Not Understand Why i.Hi- fiiMurauoo Companies Do Not TakeRIrtkaon Women. Atlunta ' entt tutlon. i Once morn I rise in bot ?!' of the womeu. My recent lettor on life in surance ha? provoked some correspon dence with young men, married and unmarried, who desire to insure their lives and ask for further information. I havo no ax tc grind and no special .?dinj.unit's to favor, but two letters re ceived from ladies provoke me to ask some questions myself, for until re cently I did not know that lifo insur ance was only for men and horseH and other cattle?women are generally ox eluded. They can't even get an acci dent policy that will provide a Weekly 1 allowance in case they are injured. This was a revelation to me, and I made inquiry of an intelligent agent of ! a life company and he said that it was presumed that men supported the women and therefore Women did not need insurance as long as the father or tbe husband lived. That - reasoning will not do in these days. No suoh charitable considera tion moves the companion to make the distinction. Life insurance is a busi ness?not a charity?and business rules govern it. Another agent told me that females were too great a risk on account of the perils' of childbirth and that woman would not submit to the critical exami nation that waa required, and still another agent said his company would insure thorn, but had to charge a higher rate. None of theso reasons seemed suffi cient to mo, and at last I did find a company that had ignored all theso objections and was in the Hold as tho champion of womeu and Insured her lifo upon equal terms with our sex. Woll, why not* Tho embarrass ment about the examination amounts to nothing, for tho old family doctor ia near at hand and knows his patrons and his patients. Tho men may do col vo him, but tho women will not try to. As to tho perils that environ mater nity, they will not compare with the perils that onviron tho majority of young and middle-aged men?perils of occupation, perils of Imprudence, in discretion and indulgence of passion and appetite. Women do not drink nor chew, nor smoke nor handle, guns or pistols, nor climb trees nor build houses, nor run on tho trains, nor com mit suicide. If 1 was an insurance company, I would prefer women to men. The risk is not so great, and the rate ought really to be cheaper. I would employ women for agents to solicit in surance, and in cities I would hove fe male doctors to examine tho applicants. Here is a wide field for an interesting company. Thousands of young women would embrace the opportunity of in suring their lives if it was offered to thorn. Tho time was when tho neces sity did not exist, for woman was al most unlvorsally supported by man? not so now. Everywhere wo see wo men struggling to earn their own liv ing. They aro in tho stores and print ing offices and box and candy factories and book blndorlos. Thoy are tho typesetters, typewriters, photogra phers, secretaries and bookkeepers? everywhere thoy aro advancing and encroaching upon such occupations of the men as aro fitting to their sex. Tho number of these busy women in Atlanta is already up in the thousands, not Including those whose homo is in the cotton mills. Almost all the wo men havo somebody to work for?some body dependent upon their daily labor ?and, therefore, they should have their llvos Insured for at least one thousand dollars. Last night while ruminating upon a lettor from a young widow who wishes to Insuro hor life for the benefit of her child, I inquired of my family how many widows there were in town. 1 wished to compare them with the widowers. Wo mado a list of those who were within tho circle of our ac quaintance, taking them street by street, and counted forty-nine. Of these only four were mado widows by tho war. Then we numbered the widowers and there wero only ton. What does that signify? I thought that maybe the climate had something to do with it, for they told mo In Texas that that country was good for men and mules, but mighty hard on women and stoors. Maybe It is tho reverse up here. Again I thought that, perhaps, it signified that widowers married again, while widows remained loyal to tho memories of their first and only love. This did explain it in part, for we found nine widowers who had married again and only ono of them married a widow. Tho greedy fellows seem to want a young girl overy time. So it will be soon that tho women outlive tho men. If -they aro sick a good deal, they don't die but live on and on and on. The difference is manifest and decided. Thon why should an Insurance company hesitate? Why not break through these old rules and prejudices and keep up with the progress of the timea in other thinga. They insure horses and horned cattle in Atlanta. Why not women? Now this voung widow has an income of $40 a month that came from*her husband's lifo poliey and sho wishes to invest $5 a month in a poliey that wi'.l go to tho child when she dies or revert to hor if sho survives tho child., What better investment can a company make; what better investment can she make? and yet women aro left out or uro charged as extra hazardous by most all of the life companies. It is a mistake. It is more than that. It is a wrong, an in justice dono to the female box. Now let tho insurance companies rise and explain, if they can. Last week i visited tho good old Dutch town of Newberry in South Car olina. It was a delightful trip of sun ny days and moonlight nights and ovor ono of tho best roads in tho South. People used to say that the Georgia, Carolina and Northern was just ono road too many, but they don't say so now. its tratiic is Increasing all the timo and its service is llraWlass. From Athens to Newberry is a bright and productive country, and -tho peoplo seem happy over their abundant crops. Newberry expects to handle hor usual allowance of 25,001) bales of cotton. There is a mill there that consumes 7,000 bales and an oil mill that works up tho seed. Tho town is solid and ()rosperous. Tho now publie school milding that cost $17,000 Is comploted and occupied. Tho Lutheran college adorns a distant bill and tho beautiful homos of tho people aro embowered among ahado trees and flowers all around in tho suburbs. The mayor took mo around to the dispensary?not that ho or tho people were proud of it. but because it was now a part of Now I berry and must be exhibited to strung ers. Somo said it was a degradation. Some said that It was bettor than sa loons, but all admitted that it lessoned drunkenness and would bring in a rev enue. Tho whiskey waa on tho sboives in pints and quarts. Its price and quality w^ro on the InbolH and tho pal metto tree was blown in the glass. Kvory man who buys signs an applica tion, pays his money, gets his bottle or his jug and dopnrts. No loafing round Is pormtttod. TJio negroes who haul in tho cotton aro tho liest customers. The prioo la high but thoy must havo it. The profit is divided jjqually be tween tho town and tho" county. In August tho profit was only $25. In Soptembcr It was $250 and tho estimate for October was $400. Tho State had already got its share when tho goods wero invoiced to this dispensary. So it seoms that tho Stato and tho towns and tho counties are all to fat ton on this business and this will make it pop ular with the tax-payers. Whothor it is constitutional for a. Stato to run a business for rovenuo is to bo testet! by the courts, but they say that Georgia used to run tho Stato i all* oad*and that Franco buys and soils all the tobacco. Whon South Carolina dmw anything it is done by wholesale. Thief nil cleaned up at one sensf in Georgia wo have a veto in every district, and sonn? have feuces and m>mo have uone. In Carolina every body approves the jdoek law aud the people would in Georgia if it was pass ed. I wish that our legislature had the nerve to do it. Hii.r. Arp. PREACHER VERSUS LiAV.'YEH. Recording a MortguKC In llio Wroug County. i One of the best lawyers at the local bar in Birmingham, Ala., tells a truo story at his own expense. He was employed in tho summer to go into Calhoun County and look after a claim of some $3,000, which a Sehna, Ala., merohaut hod on a farmer aud a {>reacher named Tayloo. Tho firm had leard that Tayloe was preparing to swlndlo them and instructed the law yer to proteot them. The attorney went down, and, with very little dif ficulty, found Tayloe's house. The farming- preacher and his good wife treated the lawyer' liko a lord, and gave bim ono of tho best dinners he ever ate. They had the best of every- j thing, and ho was givon the cream of j what they had. After dinner Tayloe. having learned tho lawyer's business soon after his arrival, invited tho lat ter to look around the place?with him. The dwelling and garden wore on one side of a pretty creek, and all of the laud in cultivation, tho stook, stables, tool houee, etc., were on tho other side. The lawyer says he never saw a prety tior crop. Tho cotton was as high as a horse s back, and tho corn was extra flno. It was a big place, and the law yer says he never saw a prettier crop. Tayloe called tho lawyer's attention to alf thoBO things, and begged him to be patient. Ho explained how a fraction of his crop would pay tho claim, where as it would take his whole crop and his laud, too, for that matter to do it at that time. This all looked reasonable, and tho lawyer, after examlniug tho county records of Calhoun County, and finding no mortgagos nor liens against Tay loe's crop or land, decided that It would be a sin to break tho man up. The farmer choorfully agreed to givo a mortgage on tho whole of his crop and all of his stock to secure the debt, and tholawyor drew up an instrument by which Tayloo and his wife pledged overy growing thing and every domestic animal then on their place in Calhoun County. This was properly signed, acknowledged and recorded In Talladega County. The lawyor wroto Ins client that no had had the dobt abundantly secured, and that he might feel entirely safe about It. Finally tho dobt matured again, and, as crops bogun to move, it was expoctod that it would certainly bo paid. It was not, however, and the lawyer wont down to foreclose his mortgage. Ho and an officer of Calhoun County wont out to take charge of tho property. They reached tho house. The lawyor pass ed It and started to cross tho creek. " What are you goingover there for?" asked the officer. " That is Talladega County. That creek is the dividing line." The truth flashed over tho law yor in a moment. He hurriod to tho county site of Talladega and Inspocted tho records. There woro recorded mortgagos bearing dato long before his was filed In Calhoun County and covering everything that Tayloe own ed in tho former county. Tho farmer, however, had gono with his wife to Texas, and there he is today, preach ing. Tho lawyor wrote tho facts to his client aud told him he would sorvo him as a slave the balanoo of his life, but the merchant was charitable, and let him off with a basket of champagne. Cauoiit a Tartar.?On a recent trip through Ohio a pccular incident occurred which I think will bear toll ing. A fellow drummer who repres ents a Chicago house and myself were on route to Cleveland and at a station at which our train stopped, among tho Idlers and sightseers that wore con gregated about the depot was a tall, hulking fellow with his trousers in his boottops aud his hands thrust deop into his pockets. Just as our train was ready to start my companion thrust his head out of the car-window, and, addressing tho rustic individual just mentioned, said : " How far is it up to the farm?" "What's that?" said the rustic. "I say, what's tho name of this town ?', " Oh, this is Chen worth." Just then our train began moving away from tho station and tho drum "mor, to havo some fun with tho coun tryman, yelled at him: "You're a fool. You don't know beans !" " Who's a fool I" exclaimed Mr. Rustic. "You are," retorteVl tho drummer, shaking his list at him, as tho train dissappoared from the station, then closed tho window and joined in tho laugh caused by his rencontre. Just then tho train came to a stop and com menced backing up toward the depot. My drummer friend realized suddenly that his rustic acquaintance might want to renew tho subject lately under discussion and amid the roars of laugh ter from overy man in tho "smoker" mado a break for tho baggage car, and none too soon, for tho moment tho train came to a standstill on a siding to allow a west-bound train to pass in rushed tho excited rustic, with " blood in his eye." "Where is ho?" he exclaimed. "Show me the feller that says I'm a fool," looking right and left in search of the drummer. " I'll tear hi, heart out and feed it to the dogs." Just then tho west-bound train ar rived and our train commenced to move forward again, and to avoid be ing curried away our enraged rustic was obliged to hastily leave without tho heart of the hiding drummer, who soon came back into tho car. amid the jeers and gibes of Iiis fellow-travelers. At tho next stop our joking drummer completely ignored tho gaping rustics at tho station.?New York Recorder. IT SHARPENS the appetite, improves digestion, and restores health and vigor; all the organs of the body aro roused to healthy action by Doctor Pierce'a Golden Medical Discovery. More than all, tho ? liver?and that's tho key to tho whole system. You havo pure blood or poisonous blood, t'ust as your liver chooses. The >lood controls the health, tho liver controls tho blood, the "Discovery" controls the liver. You can escape just about half tho ills that flesh io heir to,- by being ready for them. Brace tho aystem up with thia medioino, which prevents as well as cures. For all diseases caused by a disordered liver or impure blood?dyspepsia, bilious ness, the most stubborn skin, scalp and sorofulohs affections, the " Dis. covery" is the only remedy so oer* tain and cffeotfvo that it can be guaranteed. If it doesn't benefit or oure, you have your monoy baok. You pay only for tho good yon get. Catarrh is cured by usin Sage's Remedy. Highest of all in Leavening Power.?Litest U. S. Gov't Report Baking Powder ABSOLUTELY PURE MOUNT VERNON AM) ARLINGTON. BY PROP. G. M. HAMMBLL, Fourteen miles from Washington, on the West bank of thut suporb tidal stream to which the Indians with line poetic feeling gave the name, " River of Swans," is Mount Veruon, whither, after a day in the streets of the Capi tal and the Halls of Congress, I pil grimed on a day of unsurpassable blue of sky and charm of sunshine. Tho contrast was genial and recuperative. 1 I needed to get away for a time from that new olty whose history dates only I from 1871, to some quiet plaee?saerecl with accumulated historic associa I tiouc I wont, therefore, to tKc tomb land home of tho first President; but] i Instead of going by boat, which per- j haps is tho Ideal mode of making the ! I trip, I took passage on tho ferry to 1 I Alexandria, and thence by tho new 1 electric railway through woods and by I marshes?a mode of locomotion un- , unticiputed by tho founders of the I Republic. Leaving the Seventh Strejt wharf at 0:30, I reached my destination at 10:50 - tho cost of ride and udmis- | sion boing only sixty cents. Passing tho porter's lodge, 1 faced tho white front of that " mansion " to which, at the close of tho Revolution, Washing- ; ; ton returned from Annapolis, hoping, as he said, " to movo gently down the ! stroam of life until ho should sleep with his fathers." At right and left, connected with the main building by j curvod colonnudes, aro various annexes < ?family and state kitchen, houses of butler and gardener, smokohouse and spinning houso, and the barn built of brick brought as ballast from England In 1733. Entering tho hall, I passed from room to room, rapidly surveying thoso restorations and relies that mako tho old houso so fascinating to lovers of history. Hero aro seen the black key of tho Bastile, presented by La fayette ; Washington's swords and ! Hute: tho harpsichord presented to Nollie Custis?besides scores of other articles, large and littlo, identified with tho lifo of Washington and his family. Tho music room, banqueting hall, West parlor, Mrs. Washington's sitting room, tho family dining room, tho library (containing a proof of tho "Farewell Address," with revisions in Washington's own hand), the river room or guest-chamber, tho room of Nollie Custis, and tho chamber in which died tho General and his wife ?each has its peculiar interest and individuality. From tho mansion (which, without its portico, is a rather plain frame building) I wont to tho original family vault, where tho Gen eral's remains, after lying in state, wero first deposited ; and then to tho rod briek mausohpum to which they were removed in 1831. Both tombs havo been " restored," and therefore have only a secondary historic value, dependent upon the exactness of repro duction. Standing at the iron gate way of tho inolosure in which moldors the formless dust, it was dilllcult to realize that, after thirty years, I was actually on that sacred spot, of which, as a boy, I had road and heard?tho Tombof Washington at Mount Vernon. There?there is the sarcophagus of marble bearing the immortal name and tho emblematic coat of arms: and there, on tho wall, aro the sacred words of tho Lord of Life : I am the Resurrection and the'Life J he that bc lieveth in me, though ho wero dead, yet shall ho live"?tho perpetual testi mony to faith in Jesus Christ. Mak ing a pencil sketch, 1 returned to the lawn and sketched tho" river-front from tho view-point usually selected by artists, and later in tho afternoon, sitting on tho South porch, painted in "ater-color (using water from Wash ington's well) the view of lawn, wood land, river and distant hill. A work man engaged in making repairs on tho houso voluntarily expressed his opin ion that I bad got itbut 1 fear that there Is an element in tho scene which my pencil cannot reproduce, a BUbti beauty of atmosphere and com bination of color which no palette can express. At 3:31 p. m. I returned to tho city, bearing with me as mementos j two cups turned from Mount Vernon trees, a piece of wood cut from the Southeast corner post of the house, and a hand-made lath-nail, given me by the appreciative mechanic to whom I have referred. Tho wood has been half eaten by borer-worms, and tho nail is badly rusted ; but wood and nail wero once a part of that historic house in which the great Washington lived and died. It seemed fitting that Arlington should succeed Mount Vernon in my plan of sight-seeing?once tho home of John Custis, father-in-law of that "belle of Williamsburg " who subse quently became " Martha Washing ton "?and later, tho homo of Robort E. Loo. It lies immediately opposite tho city, but is only reached by a cir cuitous route through Georgetown, over tho aqueduct above Analostan Island, and by a winding road among tho hills. Instructed by a metropolitan policeman, I rode by cable-train to Georgetown, expecting, to cross the aqueduct and take an electric car at Rosslyn : but on reaching the Western end of tho bridge I saw only a number of (load cars in a shed !?the track was blocked, half buried in weed and bi'own with rust. However, having the requisite amount of grace and two good feet, I followed tho course of the railway that is to bo, to Fort .Slyer, and came by tortuous ways to Arling ton Cemetery, passing the parade ground, whore four companies of ??Indian lighters" wore drilling. I re viewed them from u convenient point in tho shade of a sapling, and entered tho welcomo shade of that groat grave yard, the resting place of sixteen regi ments of Union soldiers. I cannot hope to impart by pen or voice all the impressions received at historic Ar lington, as I walked alone through* tho avenues of the dead, stood in the deserted halls of tho manor-house, traced the course of tho vine-etnbower cd circle where G. A. R. posts aro wont to assemble, listened to tho sonorous noon-stroko on the big iron triunglo at the water tower. So much ?has happened hero ! Tho beauty of tho place cannot conceal its tragedy. The. light of tho August sun cannot dispel the sorrow, the sadness of '01. No picture that I havo ever seen convoys adequate impression of the sense of majesty that is produced by the place itself. Sitting within that noble portico, modeled after ancient Pnsstum, temple of Neptune, near Mount Albutnus in Southern Italy, T read tho story of that April day in 1801, when Colonel Robert E. Leo, U. S. A., " in tho prime of healthful and vigorous lifo," rodo away from Arling ton, down tho hill, ovor Long Bridgo, into tile city, for tho purposo of resign ing his commission in the army. A glo rious rango of rivor, city and hill stretches away North, East and South. At the left is Georgetown ; in front is tho Capitol, with its dome and monu ment (both unfinished in tho anto-war dayH when the Lees lived horo.) At the right is a droam-llkod vision of " bl?o Potomac" and distant hills. On tho brow of tho heights aro the monuments of Shorplun and Ci'ook, and just South of the mansion is an <pcji, telnplo-liko structure, bearing on its fueado tbo names of Washington and Lincoln, Fan-aunt and Grant, and on its eight columns the names i f Union Generals?Thomas, Garfleld, Sedgwiek, McPherson, and another quartet of hero soldiers of '01. The name of Leo, once honorod hore, has no place on tho roll of the nation's defenders. At Richmond, on the James, thore stands a noblo monument to his memory, and in that city no eulogy can exaggerate tho morit ot the master of Arlington House, who was loyal to his State. A Dense Popci-at'ion.?There are some interesting facts to be gleaned from the completed report of Mr. Baines, the census commissioner of India, which bus just been published. Tho uulicnt feature is the density of its population. VVhilo comprising only percent, of the land surface of the globe, India contains about 20per cent, of its computed inhabitants. Exclud ing Burma and Assam, tho population is crowded upon the soil at the rate of 271) persons to the square mile. This rate exceeds that of any other largo agricultural country on tho earth. Franco has 13ti persons to tho square mile, Austria 191, Prussia 22:t, tho German Empire 237, and Italy 245). Even in England, wherovor tho density approachos to 200 to tho square mile, it ceases to bo a rural population. Mr. Baiues's general conclusions are that the soil of India as a whole still sullicos for tho wants of tho population, and that tho rate of increase in tho popula tion is not greater than tho still unde veloped capabilities of the country may bo fairly oxpeeted to keep pace with. Ho finds that of tho females between fifteen and forty years of ago no fewor than 84 per cent, aro married, where as in Europe, omitting Hungary, the average is not above 40 per cent. Ho also shows how the Indian custom of very youthful marriages brings on successive generations at a rapid rate, but about 2(> per cont. of tho children born do not live to tho end of their first year. Tho average duration of lite is a little over twenty-four years in i India, as against nearly forty-four years in England, and tho rate of in crease in the population is something less than 1 per cent, a year. Notice. Be modern. Don't harass the system with noxious drugs. Monterey cures Malaria. Nervousness, Indigestion and Bowel Complaints. It is simple, pleas ant to taste and leaves no bad etl'ects. ?.ludgo Aldrich thinks that a return to the whipping post would bo the moans of decreasing crime in South Carolina. Japanese Liver Pellets aro the best family medicine for liver complaint and constipation. f>0 pills in vial 25 cents. Sold at Carpenter Bros., Green ville, S. C. ?rnmmMY *? - Mental depression, wakcfulness, lost manhood caused by errors of youth or later excesses quickly e?ved by Mag netic Nervine. Guaranteed b,v Car penter Bros., Greenville, S. C. - mm% ? * ? -ja?' An operation or injections of carbolic acid are extremely dangerous. Try Japanese Pile (Jure. Positively guaran teed by Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. Johnson's Magnetic OllCUres'0ramps and colic and internal neuralgia: 40 and 7") cents. Sold at Carpenter Bros., Greenville, S. C. ? A gold find in paying quantities has been discovered in East Ten nessee, thirty miles from Athens, near the Great Smoky Mountains. The assays show rich ore. The vein will be mined by a Cincinnati syndicate who have purchased machinery and a stamp mill, and will begin work at once. JOHNSON'S MAGNETIC OIL! Instant Killerot Pain. Internal and External. Cures RHEUMATISM. NEUKAL OlA, l.uino Hack, Sprains, Jlniice^. Hwelliiw, Slilt Joints, COI.IO mill ('KAM rs instantly. Cholera M -r Jbus, OrOUPjDIpthorla, hoto Throat, _pIKADAOllK, as if bymp.fflc. EUfiQex UDAMD Especially proparod for IIU HOL Uli AN U, Block, Doublo Htrou,rtll, tbo most Powerful nnd Pouotrntlnel.lnlinontfor Miiu or 11en.-1 in existence. J.ui i;o $1 aizo 7Ac., 60c Biso40c. JOHNSON'S ORIENTAL SOAP. Medicated and Toilet. The orout 8kln Cure) and Faoo Boautiflor. Ladies will And it tbo most delicnte and highly perfumed Tollot Honp on '.ho raarkOt. It in absolutely PUr?. Make? tbo Uln ooft and velvety and restores the lost oom olexion; in a luxury for tbo Bnth for Infants. it nlays itching, cleanses tho nciilp an l promote* <2io urowth of hair, PriOOSSi Vor sale by Carpenter Bros , Greenville,S c MONTEREY. 1760. THE MONK'S REMEDY. 1845 S$9 A TON IG, NERVINE, BL90L PUR1 PI ER LIKE CURES LIKE. ? The Poison of the Swamp has its Antidote in the Swamp. For Malaria, Nervousness. Indiges tion. Dvsonfery and Bowel Complaint, ask your dealer for MONTEREY. If he does not keep it. wo will send you a large bottle, expiess prepaid, on re eelpt of $l.uo. MONT EH EV CO., Floreneo, s. c, Props, and M'frs. K. W. WAGENER ? ( '<).. Charleston, S. C. State Agents. SOI Til CAROLINA HA 11 AVA Y. -:?-:?c,. i.oave i linrlotiort. 7 80 flirt Arrive* olumbin.11 l? nm Lonvo i bnrloston. q 00 pin a rrlve Columbia ..... . . I* 10 pni Lonvo t ohimbtn. ft.10 am \ rrlve Charleston. ? 80 am Lonvo Columbia. 4 20 pin Arrive Charleston .. 8 411 pin Through Irums lietweon ChnrlcBtdn and Anliuvhlo and through service between Charleston nnd Wnlhnlln, com Outing at Helton for Oreon\tfflo Qutok thus between tho mountain* a'ld aon shore. For ial?s and folders nn ly to K. I*. \\ \ HI Nil, (I P. A. Chariest ?ton, S.O. t ?FOR SALE BY ?who j^t^ib:? WHITENER & MARTIN? They are our Fashionable Hair Cutters and Shav ers. Hen Delia Hote -the freshest Groceries, Fruits, Canned Goods, and CONFECTONS H at ^ 1 13 IKeninedy Br?sI a v We have a supply ot MI) II YK i 1 J2i. You had better purchase before it I is all disposed of at KENNEDY'S. NEXT DOOR TO THE POST OFFICE. MACHINERY! Wood Working Machinery. Briete and Tile " Barrel Stave " Qi tiuln ir " Grain Threshing " Haw Mill RlCfl ITnlllng ?< K NGINES AND It () I I. E R s. State Agency lor Titlbott A Sons' En gl neu and Boilers, Saw mid Grist Mills; Brewers' Brick Machinery, Dnntde Serew Cotton Presse?; Thomas' Di root Acting Si ?rtii (no bolt**); Thomas' S<?ed Cotton RlovHtors: Hail & Im.hik1 Gins; Englfbert.' Hic?? Hollers; II. II. Smiib <V Oo.V Wood-Working Machin ery, Planer?, band Sawp, Moulder*, Mor Users; Te (tenors' cotnpriHlng tomiilote equipment for Sash, Door and Wavon Factories] DcLoacho'tt Plantation s^w Mill*, varittbln iced. BELTING, FITTINGS AND MAC II IN? BUY SUPPLIES. glfF"" WrltO um' lot prices. V. ('. liADHAM, ManHiror, Coliiiiibln, S. W. L. DOUGLAS S3 SHOE noTWp. Do you wear them? Whon next In need try a pair. Best In the world. I8.00^PF^*3.00 44.00? 1^2.50 If you want a fine DRESS SHOE, made In the latest style?, don't pay $6 to $8, try my $3, $3.50, $4.00 or $5 Shoe, They fit equal to custom mado and look and wear as well. If you wish to economize In your footwear, do so by purchasing W. L. Douglas Shoes. Namo and price stamped on tho bottom, look for It when you buy. W. I.. DOUGLA8, Brockton, Maas. SolJ by For Sale by the LAURENS ('ASH COMPANY. Laurens, S. C. Wiien When the "'pay car" CO in OS along the line the boys all smile: when your mother-in-law pays you her annual visit you begin to wish she had waited until next year. When the last Of the month conies yon just begin to realize the difficulty of st retching the month's salary to cover the month's bills. When your wife's next, birthday conies you will have the golden opportunity to make her happy for life by pres enting to her a New High Ann Vertical Feed Davis Sowing Ma chine, and as you see the smile of satisfaction on bei' dear face every time she uses it in after years, you will be repaid a thous and fold. Remember that " The Davis'' has no equal as a family sewing machine. Alexander. Bros. & Co., Greenville Music House. Pianos, Organs, Sewing Ma chines and Sheet Music. 07 and 111 Washington Streot Green? ? y villo, s. cx THE LAUKENS BAR. H. V. SIMPSON. C. 1>. RAHK>DALH SIMPSON & IIA 11 USD ALU, Attorneys at Law, LAUHKNS, SOUTH U A KOLIN A SpiHtlnl Htteiitlou rivou to tin1 Investl gation ol'titles mid <ol lection of claims, b. \v. U.m.i.. i., \V. sl.MKINK. \V. W. liALI. BALL, SIMFvlNS & BALL, Attorneys at Law, Lauhkns, South Caiu i.ina. Will prHOlloo in nil Stnio niol United Sihips Court. SjiooIhI intention niven . collections. J. T. JOHNSON. W. It. KIOISKY. JOHNSON & RICHKY, ATTORNKVH AT law. okpior- i'lomiHi;'s I di'lier, Northwest siilo of i'ntii Si|il;ii i . LAL'UKNS, - SOUTH CAROLINA. W. II. MAKTIN, Attorney at Law, Lauhkns, - Mouth Carolina. Will |>racth'? in nil C urlaof tlii- Suite. AUv-ntion aiven to collcctieiiH, Is Life Worth Living? That Depends On THE LIVER. For more ills lesult from an Un health) Liver than any other cause. When you arc Bilious take.L1V er-a1d. When you are Constipated take liver-aid. When you feel Dizzy take liver-aid. j When you have Dyspepsia take liver-aid. W hen v?ni have ho Appetite take liver-aid. When your Skin is Sallow take liver-aid. When you are Out ol Soils t.\ke liver-a id. No Pain?No Ghjpes in Liver Aid. A graduated medicine glass goes free with each hottlc. LI VIOK-AI I) Cost nly 50 et-. And 11 Cores You. All of the flbove Manufactured by -the Howard & willet drug company, AUGUSTA, OA And Sold ny H. MARTIN and 15. F. POSLY, AgcnlS, laukens, s. c. (.SPHCiAiJSTS. (itcguliir '..i ..limit..... ) the tending niul inott anccosffulapoclaltatsand .rill i;i .1 you bolp. V.ionft and mid dle i./. '1 men. Remarkahla re nuiiH have follow cd our treatment, Mimv you ra of varied niul niriT?j. fui expei'lftnca In Uic Uii> of eura tlvc method* unit wo alone ownnn.v coi.iioI for nil <!!?? orUciKi.f i.it it who have weak. untle< vclopod or ills Seated or?nnii, or |WhO 8re tuiffcrliiff ifroin orrori or 5.Hi ami excoa lor wtm oro nervous fund Impotent, ItllO Br?l ii Of thult jfoltowi n n ii tho contempt of thi'lr friend! and com I ? .'. I .i> - lends US to Bnnrmitrr to nil patient*, 1/ Ihey can poislMy hi' rcntored. our OWfl rxcluslvo treatment will afford n cure. WOMPA'I Don't you want to get cured of that treakneaa with a treatment that you c?n use at home without Instrument?v f)ur wonderful treat ment h'ia cured other*. Why not you? Try It. OATAnRff, nnd diseases of tho Skin, Blood, Heart, 1,Ivor and Kidney*. 8TPnir.f.S-The in-?t mrld. f..fe nnd effectlvo remedy. A eomplcto ('uro Oiiiiruiiteed. SKIN IH?ir:.\M|-'t of nil klndt cured where maoy oibcrt have failed. VNXATTTRAI. DISCH.inOEa promptly ciii cdlniid w ii.n > Onlck, sure, aud aafc. Thfit Includes Olrct nnd OOnorlKBO. TRUTH AND PACTS. We have eared case* of Cir-wile Pfsiwtes that have failed to pet cured nt tho hand* of other special htiand me l >ui Institutes. -REM KMIir.R that there in tmpj for Yo'.i. Cui llR no Olli r, in you may wasto valuable timo. Olr.aln our IfOAlmi nl al once. newarr of freo and cheap treatments. Wo gtvo the heut und most ?? l.-iillile. treatment at moderate pr'ces-a* low y rr.n lie ilono for safe pnd ik'Uful troatmeii'. FICEK ronsultittloii at thoofD.cor hy null. Thorough examination and careful <iinK no?li. A nomo treatment can he given lu amalorlt) of ci.nBend for BytrtPtOrn Wank No. 1 for Men No 'i for Women; No. :i fur 8kln Dlseato*. All com jpondonco-niwored promptly. Business atrlctly con ?.<li'iitl?l. Kntiro trcAtmcntscnt froo from oliaerva don. Kefer to our patients, huaks aud business tutu. Address or call on DR. HATHAWAY & CO , --to South Broad Street. ATLANTA. < i II. .1. Hayhnwobth. L. W. I'ARKBR HAYNS WORTH & PARKER, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, ?OiMninSt - - (iiet nvillo, ?.C