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I IIS'; MAUK OF VISUNU. By PEROT BUS8ELL. I tC-'pyrJelit. IW, t y tho Author.] CHAPTER I. It was a straugo and singularly im prcuslve scent-. All tho houses of tho very nnoiout Dravidian villago wero il luminated nioro or loss by earthen ves tt Is containing oil and wick. Not only did these lights bring ont into relief against tho growing darkness the out lines of tho various buildings, but they hud boon ?placed', with that patient, painstaking and iudiffereuco to individ ual labor peculiar to Asia, in tho clefts of trees. Tin y lighted up tho groat bau fau trco, tho speciul pride of this Tumi; or Druv idian region, for it was a tree of inoro than 1,000 trunks, sent down 1 from tho enormous branches, covering | acroB und forming a sort of natural syl van templo, nnd they wero to bo seen glowing amid tho fragrant flowers of its tamarinds that shaded tho bungalow of Sahib Karney, tho indigo plautor, nudsomoof theso lamps wero oven shin ing out atariiko from tho distant hill tops nnd shedding a fitful light over tbu dull bluish green und palo red flowers of his indigo plantation. Far on tho right, too, tho lamps brought into strong roliof tho statoly gopurams, or towors, nt the cntrnnco of a templo, all covorcd with straugo and grotesque figures, and prosoutly oame a burst of flroworks, fol lowed by another and another, which for an instant hrought us tho whole landscape into clear viow, showing hero and thero natives in thoir pioturesquo while dresses, and then fading abruptly into gloom, lighted only by tho many twinkling fltarlikc lamps. In a word, it was tho depuvuli, or feast of light, and it had brought many strangers into Tirunntualli, which, though but nu in significant speck on even tho trigono metrical survey of India, was in its own estimation n pluco of infiuito im portance, hoasting somo of tho grandest and holiest of temples and tho most do vuut worshipers in all southern India. In tho veranda, smoking and reolin ing on low cam sofaliko chairs, wore two Europeans?Charles Karney and David Ross, Ids partner, "Do you know, Ross," said tho for mer, "I'm sorry I let my Bister go on this foolish orrand. I had no idea this feast was due or that it would bring in suoh a swarm of fanatics. " Tho speaker was a man of ahout 00, with a narrow, upright forehead, a straight lined mouth and a general as pect of arithmotio and business in evory lineament. "Foolish errand!" replied his part ner. "Would you bo quito prepared to say as much to Miss Lilian hersolf?" Ross was n great contrast to his com panion, with his hroud, open, genial countenance, warm, exprossivo eyes, nnd good tempered mouth and chin. "I don't know," rojoined Karney, smiling coldly, "but it's foolish all tho same. Hero am I toiling in this beastly ' olimatc, to say nothing of tho visitation to tho boiler house, where wo heat up tho indigo, while nho dispenses tho product among somo of tho biggest ras cals and greutest wretches in tho uni verse. 1' "Somo of tho products," correotod tho other. "Don't oxaggcrato, whutever you do.'' "Too much, anyhow," was tho roply. Aud Karney went on: "I can't diviuo how all this folly began. Why should not Lilian be liko other young ladies in this place? What nro tho peoplo to her * or bIio to thorn?" Ross smokod on without replying. Ho looked rather fixedly nt his friend and partner, but said nothing. After awhile, ho wovor, ho asked, "Of courso, Bho did not go alone?" "Oh, no. Nasihuu went with hor." Ross struck tho table nt his elbow nnd mado tho glasscB on it rattlo, and then in an ordinary touo asked, "And Where is it, pray, and for how long?" "Oh, it's only to that horrihlo bnd hi beyond tho hill?thero, where you see thoso tin-en confounded heathen lights. She's beou making a fuss about want ing to sco her ustardin's face?her toochor, you know?und sent a messago that Bho could not dio huppy unless tho mem sahib wont up. Why, my dear fel low, what's tho mnttor with you to night? There's not hing to mako a both er about. When Lilian is here, sho does nothing hut fuss about graoonnd prayer and doctrines until I'm sick of tho very name of religion." "It wero well if you and I had a lit tlo of her goodness. But haven't you heard tho news yet?" "What news?" "Why, simply this: Somo of tbe lead ing Hindoos bavo hold v/hut they ooll a dhar in Sofar nnd bavo been discussing how thoy can host got rid of all this obnoxious teaching. Haven't you heard that ono had boldly said that no matter what happens they must got rid of the mem sahib, and that if a man was hang ed in soch a cause?aro you listening, Charles Karney??ho would bo but a martyr. Do you know that yonr sister believes thut ono of her converts, Sott - hjanadhun, bus been poisoned, and yot? good God?in the face of all this you let jour faster go up to that old woman on tho hill with no ono to protect hor better than Nusihun. Charles Karnoy, I'm ashamed of you!" And Ross sprang up, knocking down tho table, and paced tho veranda in a state of groat excite ment. Karnoy seemed to toko this vory cool ly. Ho started a little whon tho other rose up so abruptly, but now ho only smiled softly, showing n* bonutifnl set of white teeth, and murmnrod: "My ' dear follow, don't play tho royal Ben gal tiger, pray. Don't lash up yonr no blo rage nn 1 qunrrol with yonr prosai l nnd practical partner. What can I r'o with such a sister? Am I to pauper! i myself und rob you of your share a: 1 placo myself within tho pale of tho crimi nal law because I happen to havo a ro mantic, beantifnl, fascinating sister, who insi-lson carrying out literally tho goRjiel? ?List think. It's all very fine to plunge into noroies, but 1 rather think you joined mo to grow indigo and to preparo that merchantable articlo in a profltoblo way. Eh?" . Robs had cooled down a little. Ho was impulsive, but ho had a dread of ridioulo, especially boforo this exasper ating,- cool, calculating man, whom nothing seemed eapablo of rousing cat of n cold, selfish indifTeronco. Ho oneo ?v more sank into his neat and lit a fresh cigar. "That's right." observed Kornnv. "Now bo a sonsihle follow. When you * joined mo, you told mo you wantod mrncy, ?nd I took you into tho concern bocu?SO I knew you understood how to vnt, ferment and run off tho stuff. You eertainly never fluid you wanted to tnrn missionary nnd preach to tho scum of this bonighted plaro liko my misguided sister. Soum, indeed I Do you think men . liko that Brahman, Prohrada, who call ed on us yesterday aro likely to bo con verted?" Aud Karney fell back on his couch and laughed n little, low langb. CHAPTER II. Neve?' wero brother und > ister more tin illy, than Lib and ?.< his ?istor to accompany him td India, she bel?g desirous to originate a j?n'an? mi-eon nml fall of trim and gouriino enthusiasm {or tho propagation of Christiaiiityin India. Iu truth, Charles bed behaved with some deception toward hin under, who was as guileless as sho was good. He persuaded her to lend him her portion, and there by he had been enabled to proonro his plantation, and ho for his own part was resolved to muke n fortano. To this end ho abandoned ail idea of marrying yet awhile, or of amusing himself in tho style of most members of bis class. Ho bad taken Ross, a oool, clear beaded yonng Scotchman, and bis little capital into the concern, in return for some twelfth of the net profits nud a vast amount of special skill that young Ross had somehow acqnirod iu tho prepara tion of indigo for markets, the process being in somo respects quite as delicate and involving as niuoh uninterrupted attention us brewing. When Ross took up his residence on tho plantation, ho simply thought at first that Karuey was rather a cold, selfish sort of follow, who was eutiroly absorbed in practicing all kinds of econ omies, and that his lovely sister was a visionary, impraotioablo and somewhat eccentric sort of yonng lady. Sho cer tainly did press her brother on tho sub ject of saying "grace beforo nieat" and would remind him how his Hindoo neighbors never failed to light up onm phor in tho ovoning beforo tho pictures in their houses of Haina or Krishna and to deoornto them with fresh flowers. "And shall wo," she would aBk, "lot ourselves bo outdone by heathens nud idolaters?" Then thoro was n continual conflict between brother nnd sister on tho subject of money. Lilian, hor broth er declared, was always making do mauds on him ou account of hor pro teges around, and ho afllrnicd that nil tho beggars, hypocrites and rascals, malo and female, of the locality pro tended to listen to her preaching because thoy knew that by doing so they would bo freo to her purse. Everybody who lias lived in India in timately among the people knows what a cursn and scourge dobt is to tho mass es. Tho nativoof India, it has been apt ly said, is always iu dobt, and mar riages and funerals alike aro terrible sources of pecuniary trouble, and when it was found that tho mom sahib at tho bungalow of Sahibs Karnry and Ross was easily persuaded to aid anyone who would listen to her preaching and re ceive her tracts it was certain that thero was sonic truth in Karuey's complaints ns to his sister being cften victimized by impostors. Of late, however, Ross, who was Bhrowd enough, had drawn sundry con clusions of his own which wero not much to tho glory and praise of his partner. He was not at this period him self what could bo called a religions man. In truth, ho was of tho typo of tho average prudent, moderately clover, steady, temperate, hardworking young man of tho day, anxious, like so many more, to mako money, and with very vague notions as to what he should do with it when made, hut although ho did not always ngrco with Miss Karuey's profession and practices ho had come insensibly under the spell of her influ ence, of her gentleness, her sincerity and unending sympathies, and ho felt that wero ho her brother it would bo difficult indeed to refuse her aught sho asked in tho mono of charity and Chris tian love. CHAPTER III. If ever there was a living embodi ment of sympathy on this earth, it was certainly to bo found iu Lilian Karney. Sho sympathized up to a certain point with her selfish brother and mndo al lowance for him and his shortcomings which bo dreamed not of. Of herself sho hardly ever thought at all, and sho was aB unconscious of her personal charms ns the nightingale is of its vo cal sweetness. Sho was in truth ono of thoso self forgetting beings who livo moro in tho lifo of tho.-c about them than in their own, and sho did good so far as her powers permitted without premeditation or effort. When her brother had wondered how she, a lady refined and intellectual, could bring herself to como in contact with tho wretched, ignorant beings, old women, hideous and ragged, and often anything but agreeable to the olfactory sense, ow ing to tho ghee wherewith they wero often anointed, sho simply looked as tonished, and only answered that all she had ever thought about was their souls. In fact, Charles Karney, who would not have crossi d the road to save 0 native from drowning, except for pub lic opiniou, satisfied such conscience na be had by saying that no doubt his sis ter enjoyed what she did. Why, then, should he interfere with her pleasures? Her money was in his factory, and all no had to do wns to tako care that she drew as little from bin: as possible. Accompanied only by Nasihan, who generally formed Lilian's bodyguard I on these missions of mercy, Lilian was now rapidly traversing some ricefields, on her way to the Hindoo woman who had expressed so earnest a desire to soo her, nnd as sho presses on It is easy to perceive that she i-; no common mortal. Lilian was of the midd 0 height, singu larly fair and delicate of skin, with a somewhat aquiline 1 To.'ile that lost.in softness wkafc it RUggi tied in force. Her hair was golden, und her eye?, r.f warm, sympathetic brown, reflected tho innate kindness of her nature. Iu order the more readily to obtain admission into the houses of tho pcoplo Lilian, greatly to her brother's annoyance, had adopt ed tho costume of tho country to pome extent, wearing over her ordinary clothing a silk cloth about 19 yards long and a yard or two wide, ono end gathered in folds held to tho left sido and tho other end wound fonnd tho waist and brought up orcr tho right ? shoulder and down the left sido, where, being tucked in, it fell down tho front In graceful folds. Lilian wore sii!; somewhat against hor inclination, ns sho wore fine gold bnngles on her urn s, but she found ccr tniu advantagOl in hi ing well dressed, sho said, and a facility thence in gain ing tho ear of those who Otherwise might have refused her an audience. Tho Hindoo womi.n sho was visiting had long sinco accepted hrr as an ustar din, or tenchor, and would soon, Lilian believed, becomo iormnlly a Christian. On approaching tho houso, therefore, 9ho was surprised toseo outside a youirg Hindoo femnlo stooping down at tho threshold and tracing white lines with flonr?a charm, she well knew, intended to ward off evil. This woman hod ?meared her faco and such part of her body ns was uncovered with a solution of saffron nnd wnter to mako herself look "fnir." This was ono cf tho super ititious rites from which Lilian had, >ho imagined, qnito weaned her friouds, Xho house was built of sun dried clay bricks, whitewashed with chunnra and having insido tho ontrnnco the nsnal room with n pinl, or raised alcove, on each sido for receiving visitors. Lilian, followed by Nasiban, weut in, the Hin doo woman ontsido simply saying that thoy conld enter. Thero seemed, Lilian thought, somo thing very strange about Cat day, but sho was anxious I and fnnricd to tho < ? part, for females. Sho went iu, and inured as sho wua to lunch that la trying ami startliug, she stood for a moment petrified. Before her, on au evi- j dent bier, in a half sitting postoro and covered with bedclothes, sbe beheld her i late popil with the fatal ground rico | and betel showing between her lips, and on her forehead the trident mark of Vishnu. Lilian know well these sect a rian marks miide with ? sandal wood paste and used to denote what god is worshiped by the person who bears them. Her face flushed with a righteous indignation. Sue oxolaimed in Tamil, "Who has dared to do this?" and step ping forward took ber handkerchief and orased tbo symbol of idolatry. Then, taking some of the pasto that sho per ceived in a jar closo by, Bhe mado a cross on tbo brow of the dead woman, in the impulse of that passionato mo ment hurdly tbiuking what she was doing. While thus ongnged a man, treading innndibly ou his shoeless feet and wear ing the saorcd tbroud banging from his left shoulder totho right sido, stolesoft Lilian, followed b\i Nasiban, went in. ly in, und ns Lilian drow hack confront ed her, asking in a low but peonliar tone, "Why have you dono this?" "Because sho is Christ's," was tho spontaneous reply, and tho fearless and yet kind, compassionate ryes met bis with a power that ho felt though he would not yield to it. "Sho is Vishnu's," he replied, and this time his voico was harsh and threatening. "Had she lived," rejoined Lilian, "sho would have been baptized. You know that sho had loarned to abhor your monstrous creeds nud unbearable oruoltics. You have no right to mark her with your idol signs. " "Tho mem sahib," said tho Brahman gravely, "is unjust and illogical. Did you not teach your pupil that tho band of tho Lord your God wus all mighty and that his eyes sco everywhere? Woll, where is the difference in what you call our idols? You say there is no salvation without faith, hut wo have faith too. Why do you como hero to vex our peo ple" und make thorn die, as this woman died, in despair?" Liliuu had encountered this Brahman before. He was Prohrndn and had done more than any other native in that placo to destroy tho influence of her mission ary efforts among them. She looked at him resolutely. "You moan," sho said, "by dying miserably in despair that sho did not dio in your hideous medley of conflicting creeds. Let the work of Christ stay. Evil will certainly befall Whoever dares to remove it." Lilian drow herself up and looked de fiantly at the Brahmnn, the more so as sho know that ho would not pollute himself by touching n corpse, hut tho next moment iho felt a kind of sickness como over bei. Wits it some emanation from tho bier or was it tho stratige, foil, intensely penetrating eyo of Probrada? Novor bud sho seen such eyes as his before, never had she dreamed that hu man oyescoold emit such aconoeutrated malignity and power of evil, never had sho seen a man's eyes so like those of tbo dread cobra. She half turned away, and then was obliged to look again, and again sho felt sick and weak. Those eyes shot out maguetio rays that fasci nated her as the snake fascinates tho bird. Probrada remained silent, then his eyes strangely altered. They shrank up into their usual sly character, resem bling two small black beads with only a traco of those latent fires which had seemed to scorch her very brain. IIo spoke as before .gravely i "Tho mem sahib is brave, hut not very kind or po lite to our gods. I say she will come to our temple, and I say sho will worship there, and I say, too,'that she will offer up to Vishnu all tho wealth that Sahib Kntney, her brother, has taken from her. Oh, don't think that wo poor Bruh mans uro ignoraut idiots, that wo know nothing. Christians! Why, in this coun try it is held impious to live in a street without a temple, but how many of your streets have, temples? Christians 1" And with that word, uttered in utl in tensely con temp tnons tone, Probrada left Lilian where she stood, tor the first time in nil her experience of missionary work among tho natives thoroughly un nerved and frightened at sho know not what Returning to the bungalow, Lilian had encountered Boss. He perceived at onco that some thing hud happened, and although she was not as a rulo given to speak of hor own personal adventures, sho little by little' cotnmuuioatcd the In cident of her encounter with tho Brah man. Boss felt and looked scrlou.9. "Doar Lilian," ho said?"let mo so address you?bolicvo me, I sympathize completely With all you do and desire. I know how hard yon find it to livo with your brother, and I know how ut terly single minded you are. but yon must not run intoporil. Yours is a lifo too precious to bo exposed to danger. You must not think that I am given up to worldly euro as if lifo had nothing else. It is not so long since I thought what can it avail to convert even a few hundred out of thesocountless millions? I think and feel differently now. Wo have individually only individuals to consider, and I had meant to work and help you, but you must let mo protect yon as?as your brother would if ho Were only myself." Ross felt and looked awkward ns ho got out these words, hut Lilian re ceived them in nil simplicity, and rightly hold them ns sincere, which they were. Sho gnvo Ross htr hand frankly and welcomed him ns another helper on hor side, and ho felt within his secret self that now nt all events to touch oil tho lovo he felt for this self denying girl so entirely absorbed In others would bo a fort of profanity. No, bo must work, bopo nnd wait. (COVCM'OKl) N'l.X r WEKK ) ?Tho Un'vorsltv Medical College of New Or'eans has determined to es tablish a training school for n*trro women nn rturfe?. Tbo ehj.-'ot Is to pupply well trained nurses who will serve for moderate pav. Tho trained nurses who aro now in New Orleans aro not numerous enough to meet the demand, and they aro paid for thol services at a rate which > who need thoi The crcatpsfr hindrance to the an HUMAN'S OPINION OF MM HANNA. THE DISO HACK OP TIM?: UI'K CAMPAIGN, The Ohio k?in?'hi ui 1? Kewardcd Tor ilio Wholesale Prostitution of the i Amcrlcau People?Tbo Need for the Election of Senator? by a, Di rect Vote. I'.. It. Ttllman in the N. Y. Sunday World. The attitude of the World in the last campaign was a disappointment to its irieuds who had expected that it would finally come out for froo silver and tben give Mr. liryan a hearty support. Out while Democrat) wcro disap pointed that the great Democratic dally of New York city assumed the attitude it did, the tolling blows whlob It has dealt to trusts and monopolies and the courage and persistence with wbloh It leads the light against corpo rations atcd their liigb priest, Mark Henna, must command the admiration of every true patriot. Wo aro making history very rapidly in this closing lustrum of tbe nine teenth century and the two opposing forces In American politics, tho people and organised capital, are ulready marsballintr tbelr forces for the oon t-st of 1U0U. The last election, al though it witnessed the triumph of money, is acknowledged to have Bot tled nothing, and every student of cur rent events must realize that the con dition of antagonism between man and money of our country is becoming more ami moro accentuated every day. As soon as It became known that Senator Sherman would receive tho portfolio of State in the Cabinet of Mr. McKinley tbe question of his successor came prominently to the front and for two months tho liguro of Mark Lianna ban loomed portentiously above the horizon as tho man who wus to take Sherman's place in the American House of Lords. Thero have been reports, interviews aud surmises almost daily leading tho pooplo to believe that Governor BuBh noll and Senator Foraker would resist tbo demand for Mr. llanna's appoint ment to till the Senatorial vacancy. Thero were patriotic Americans t aln ed In tho old BO boo] of cur politics, both Democrats und liopublicane, who hoped that official subserviency would not steep so far and that tho great Stato of Ohio might huvo as its repre sentative in tho Senato ono worthy to sueeeecd John Sherman. But tho "business methods," for tho first tbno made familiar to tho Ameri can pcoplo In tho recent Presidential canvass, have been too strong. The news came to us within a week that Banna is to bo tbo next Senator from Ohio. Organized capital Haunts in tbo. face of American peoplt tbo commis sion ton seat in the Senate wruug from a reluctant executive, aud tbo 4th of March, which will witness tho with drawal of Sherman, will bo followed swlfily by the entrance Into the Senate chamber of a man who boldly and un blu8h*ngly bought tho Presidency for his friend and patron. I I say patron, for I am not ready to use a harsher term which, however, is floating in tho minds of tho pooplo, nor to btlleve that Mr. McKit loy will per mit himself to become the moro puppet and tool of Hanna and tho men ho rep resents. Tbe two men are very Intimately as sociated and ono owes the other much, very much, hut I shall hope to see the new President perform tho duties of nls high ollico in a manner that will r? fleet credit upon himself aod tbe mil lions of truo Americans who voted for hiin, rather than lend himself to tno scheme of tho conspirators who are pressing madly onward eitber t> defeat or revolution. The American people have done a great deal of thinking since tbe No vember election and tho musses have learned a great deal about tbe true na ture of the issues presented in the \a=l campaign. It is fortunate for those who ha' 0 not despaired of the Republic and who boli v. ? ?v <? e.i..t?j?y (,f men for self gt.v '?! 'ik If anna is to en tof ....>- ^ bale. Ii-? advent murks a further step downward, a '"lower deep" in tho debauchery of American politics. Tim (Lotion to tho high of tieo i f bis Democratic predecessor by bribery ha:- been charged with much show of truth, and r.o evidence to dis prove it ever saw tho light of day. What, with tho fact that Oh to oast ouo veto In the recent flection for ev ery throe and three-quarter Inhabi tants and now rees the manipulator of that election transplanted to tbe Sen ate?it is easy to see that the down ward course, tbo ''easy descent to hell,1' is being rapicTytrod. The '?busi ness methods" which have brought about these results and the reward claimed and obtained so unblushlagly must mark an epoch in American his tory. Tbo seat tilled by bluff, honest old Ben Wade and "Grand Old Man," Al lan Thurmau, Is to bo occupied by Mark Banna, and tbo question natur ally presents iiseif, what is tho reason for thus honoring this man? Is it be cause he. I tu opprc.-sed aud robbed labor? Thnt ho is in fact the em bodiment of modern Republicanism which is uoro cruel tiian the ex .-lavcholders of the South und knows no God but Mammon ? Let ti.o cuuso bo what it may, the American people have only themselves ;o blame for tho conditions in which they now find themselves. Tho strug gle for tho control of tho government by tho trusts and corporations has Caused us to witmss strange sights ' t;in recent years. The Federal pat I .age und tho possession of tho veto i?o vt r uro tho prizes fought for In tho Presidential elct'on A teat in tho Sonate, whh.'h I- the fortress of tho wealthy elis-e- and la vorcd interests, is boeomln..' tro va u?v bio that the election of a Senator it. any State, North or South, whole moo oy can bo used, is no hiofc'i r left tn rro pooplo or their representatives. Par tisan feciir.g runs SO high hi to ib; oat en rioting and bloodshed. Wi'ms- the com-;, In Kentucky last spring, and see the situation In Orrgrtn now. Then the elections for Senator in Snu'.h Dakota, Idaho and North Carolina are too ro acut, to need more than an allusion. Tb? y all cry with trump .-t voice for the elo? Lion of Senators by a direct \oto of t people. Tho robbery of the pedplo by hi ill moro oppress! ve 1'gtslatton than thoy now ?ndu?v. caniw t bo scceinfi'tded i xcept by 1 ghdalivu MCtl 'If, Hfid a > ? ? in the S nato in the rqua1 y-balapcod condition of panic- become {? more and u.oro a prize to bo> fojgl.t for and ? a us, I u.utt say it?bought. The It ?? publican chairman, who is to become Senator, has been actively at work so curing Vi t ;s in t!iat b<>dy. When Congress convenes In extra session ho will himsi lf bo a membtr of lt., and his inlimuto relations with tho now IV? aident will naturally give him more we ght than any man In the S na e? Thus h> bery. the wbob tarn d butchery of t> e ballot, D re war.1 ri y tii ? U g o-st honor and InHti no ? The highest honor In the gift of tbe S a o i-> toe pi zo for the w i b fade prom Button of ibe American p ? pi . Ag on I -u> it murks un ? poCh In < u?* counter's liis orv. e ul it ?? .unin- to he BCCO Whether the trjn i ph of wrong over right, of falsehood over truth, of dishonest?/ and corruption (hall bo pi r neu.en'. I ren<-at th'lt the brnz ? frnntery which hai brought about t ita object m s-.on Is fort jnato for t. o causu of humanity and p ill lotism. "The mills of tho gods grind flow, but they grind exceeding flue." The people of great, wer l'.h who uao such unscrupulousmothnds to Increase thoir il'-gotteu gains are only damming up the water. ? V.\, never 1 ) m Our I mp r with ig something of Value along utm A FRATKltNITY BADOE, President McKinley Reoeftven a Sou venir from iheBlgtua Alpha Rp?t Ion Fraternity. An ong tho honors bestowed upoi , Presldoot McKinley during tho past i week was a beautiful badge of the 8. A. 1 Es, presented by a delegation of tho national fraternity, which was headed by Postmaster General W. L. Wilson,fcof West Virginia, and Hon. John G. Capers, of South Carolina- The pre- ; mm)union took place the day before the inauguration, and the following account i is given by the associated press cor- j respondent: About 9:30 o'clock notice came to Mr. ' McKinley that a delegation sought to ' meet bim to make a presentation. Tho appointment had been made In advance for this call, so the president-elect de scended from his rooms to the second floor of the hotel, whore the delegation ] was in waiting. It was headed by Postmaster-General Wilson and includ ed Hop. John G. Capets, of the attor ney-general's oilier ; Rev. Walter B. Capers, of Virginia; Representative Hurrlson, and W. D. Duulap, of Ala bama; Nathan Heard, of Penusy lvama; Judge Charles Howry, of tho court of 11 aim.-* benob, and A. M. Austin, of Ohio. They were all members of the bigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity, and were there to present a badge of the order. Toe prcaident-eleet greeted his cillcrs with trie greatest cordiality. He was in good spirits, and seeing Postmaster WiUon in tao van ho was reminded of the old days of their ser vices in tho house. Taking him by the baud, he exclaimed : " I have oot seen you since tho storm of last November. Come over by the window where I uan boo you plainly ami mako sure you lrok us you did in the good old days when you wore on on one side ami I on tho other." After reciprocating this greeting in tho samo spirit, the postmast r gen oral proceeded to make a llit.o speech in entirely informal language. He was charged with tho presentation u> tho president-elect of a badge whioh unfortunately he did not have himself. As an earnest of his good faith ho produced the recoipt of the express company and a telegram announcing tho shipment of the article, but up lo the i me for tho presentation of it, it bad not arrived. It was hardly possible that ttie president elect coul I sparo tho time for another appointment, so the committee thought It best to make this explanation aud bend the badgo itse lf along later. When tho president ? Let was in augurated governor ofOaio ho woro on tho lapel of his coat a very pretty badgo and tomorrow on his inaugura tion as president ho will again wear his college fraternity pin. This time, however, the badge, though smaller in design, is more elaberato and costly, and is the gift of tho fraternity at large. Tho national convention of the order in St. Louis in Docotubor passed a resolution for the purchase und presentation of tho badge and it is sup posed to ho tho most handsomo and COvtly badgo possessed by any member of the organization. Tito president elect thanked the deleghtlon In suit tble terms and promised to wear the bad tie if, as ho remarked jocosely, there really wus any such badge, and his visitors wero not joking. This point was soon mi t, however, for just as the party started away an express mes senger brought in baste tho delayed package. Postmaster General Wil-on immedi ately opened It, assisted by tho presi dent* loot and disci >scd a beautiful work of tho jeweler's art, studded with diamonds, Whon this ceremony was over tho president-elect spent somo time in exchanging greetings with tho friends who had gathered In the parlor, and it was noticed that he gave a particularly warm greeting to Representative Banner, of Pennsyl vania, und hold a whispered conversa tion with him. mi,i, ,u;r on i>iii;sn>r,\is Tho Story of Andrew Jackson's Sec ond .Man'lage to Ills Wife?Facts About Other Occupants of the w hite lloiISC. Two weeks ago Tho Evening Con st 'ulion, in itt weekly symposium, a-tked which ono of the presidents was married twice to the siimo woman. Tho answer was given tho succeeding week, and since then I havo received a number of litters wanting lo know w by iiouhtl ss there aro a great many more who havo not tic It ss to any bio graphy Of Andrew .Jackson, and would liko to know why bo was twice mar ried to his only wife. And so for I no diffusion of knowl ?dgre It is a good t;mo to tell theso Inquirers the I'oraanco of that marriage, for with miirt men and women marriage is tho ino>-t important event of their lite. Rachel Donelson was u beautiful, sprightly and Interesting girl?tho beet horso woman and tho best dancer in all the country. She. married Cap tain Robards, who proved to be a ty rannical and jotlous husband. Ho took her lo Kentucky to live with his mother, bet soon alter, in a fit of jcal ous rage, sent hor back to Nashville. Her mother, who was a widow, was keeping a bearding housu, and among her patrons were Goners 1 Jackson and J udgo Overton, b >th of thorn high toned, honorable gentlemen. Indeed, tho general was noted for his purity of oh; ? ? -ter, bis homage and chivalrous roe, ? v ? ir.r.r.. When Captain R Sards camo there to mako recon e!l tthm with his wife, he took olfonsi ?t Jackson's pi litcncss to lit r. Hi und Jaokson had hot word j and further trouble was foared. Jscksoo changed his boarding-house and Robards wo.? t hack to Kentucky ar.d threatened to return ant] 1 aunt his wife and make her lifo miserable. To escape his [tor s'icnt'ons s'jc r moved to Nat'he/, where she had friends nnd relatives, in tho meantime Einhards applied to the Legislature of Kei t. icky for leave to tue for a divorce, for that whs then the law. Loavo to mm whs grant d to him, and It was gcntra'ly supposed that he had hucd in Kentucky ami bad obtained a dlvorco. Acting on this belief, .Is); Kson wont to Natchez and married her. For two y- ars they lived together In Nushvlllo r.s man ?ud wife whon to their prent surprLe It was discovered that Rohards did ritt soouro his di vorce i ntll a yea- after her second ii? < ??? -lo> Jackson procured au nt ? i o i titu add W ? s married to her a ?o'i'i.ii time. For forty years Ihey i rjoyed nn hor.oniHo and happy wed 1 u k. His devotion to her was intense and his pistol was over ready to avenge her fair name fri in 6candal. Ho had many political enemies, but ho taught them early that not oven a whisper to her prt j id ice would bo allowed. Rachel D nelson was a true and noblo woman. It I;* a singular fact that five of tho first thirteen presidents married wit' o*??. Wvshif gton set the examplo and was followed by Jefferson, Madison and Pulmo' . Tue last n lined was raar riod t.-. i ??? ? n 1 fo was John Tyler. Andiow .1, I n on's wife taught him to write af . r they wero married. His humble Or Lin and vocation and his rise to the highest oHIoo have long hcon elti d to illustrate tho difference hotween a ropuhlloan and a monarchi cal government, but ho was not the only president whoio youth was marked by toil and Ignorance. Plllmoro was ap prenticed to a wool carder when be was fourteen years of ago and was bound to the t ado for sovon years. When he was nineteen he bought his unnerved time ami bought a diction ary. He em'd road and writs a little, but bad not bad accor-s to any hooks, for his father bad none save a H'll> and a hymn book. Ho had n- vor seen a map of the United States nor a copy of Robinson Crusoo. It. Highest Of all in Leavening Power.? Latest U.S. Gov't U^hj.. Bakin bwder ABMWTEfiV PURE being born again for a young man of nineteen to begin to acquire the rudi ments of an education. But ho did It and climbed slowly, but surely, upward until he reached the top of tho ladder. He made a better man than Andrew Johnson and was far moro dignified and happier in his office. Fillmore became president because he was worthy of it. Johnson was rolled into the office by the tidal wave of the civil war. But they wero self-made men. Garfield was known as tho teacher prosideat, but John Adams and Arthur also taught school. Eight of tho ear lier presidents had no collegiate educa tion, but this is no argument ngainst the great advantage that suoh an edu cation gives. College education is a great comfort, independent of its being a in lp to progress nod advancement in science und art. The limited knowl edge I acquired in a three-years' course could not be bought with money. It furnished tho tools of my trade. There is a positive comfort in knowing tho origin of English words?tho old ones and the new ones that aro bel?g continually coined to keep up with soionee and discovery. It is a comfort to know how to moasjro the distances of the sun and moon and stars and to calculate eclipses und why tho little honey beo builds thoctl's in the honey j comb in hexagon shape and tho laws of light and gravity. It is a comfort to an old man to bo looked up to by his childron and grandchildren as the pupils did to tho eehoelmastor in Gold smith's school? "And still they gazed and still the wonder grew That one email head could carry all it knew." Tho dangor of college lifo is, how ever, very great, and no boy should he sent there just for tho fun or the name or tho polish of it. Tho Hthletic sports of it serin nowadays to bo a prominent feature of college education. My ideas aoout that may be prejudices, but if so they are so strong end I am so antique that I cannot change them. I have no nv)ro boys to educato aud they who havo must take their own responsibili ty, but 1 fool as helpless as discour aged when I read tho programmes of tho matched games that aro already arranged for tho coming summer among tho colleges. lean do nothing but tako a back scat and let the ore cession proceed. Hill Art. A NA It HOW B80APB. Scruggs Played a Joko on His Dog and t?ot (lie Worst of it. There is a clerk in tho war depart ment *t Washington with a keen sense of humor, who, for tho purpose of identification, I will call Daniel Webster Scruggs. He is what people call "a funny iuhd.1' He spends about half th?s time bo should devote to bib oflicial duties thinking up conundrums, puns, practical jokes and other dls agreeal.l3 things. When his f. l ow clarks find inucilago iu their ink b >ttl< s and crooked pins in their chairs they always bless Scruggs, but he has been warned by tho chief of his division so many times that he. is leu* humorous in the otlico nowadays than ho used to bo. Hut ut home, with his wife and six children, thero is no ono to re strain him, and the neighbors are good-natured. Mrs. Scruggs is a put-out, long suffering woman, and says she's bo "used to it" that she "doesn't mind him any moro."^ She is nursing Scruggs just now with a devo tion that shows her gonuino u fl eet ion for tho man who has been a perpetual torment during seventeen years of married life. For Scruggs is a victim of his own humor. About a week ago Scruggs connived tho idea of shaving olT his abundant whiskers, aud ono evening after office hours, without saving a word about bis intention, left them on the floor of a barber shop. When ho got home ho thought ho woul 1 havo some fun with tho children. So ho turned his coat and hat inside out, let him.'olf into tho hallway of his residence with a hitch key, and, hunching up hi' shoulders like a tough, made some queer noises. Tue children rushed out of tho sitting room, followed by their dog, which is about as big as a Hour barrel, and i stopped with alarm as they saw what they supposed to be a tramp. But tho dog was not at all friuhtoned. Ho sprung at tbo stranger with an eloquent growl, and iu an instant ho and Scruggs . wcro rolling over and over on tho hall . (loor. The children screamed, and , their mother camo hurrying from the kitchen. Scruggs shouted and coaxed snd swore, but the dog didn't see the 1 joke, aud didn't recognize hla voice, and Mrs. Scruggs, and tho oldest boy wore a long time separating the com batants. They sent for the doctor, who cau terized the wounds and hound them up carefully. Ho say* that Suruggs had a narrow escape, and will net be able to roturn to bis duties for a fortnight. The clerks in tho otllce say that it was 1 good enough for him. THE LAURENS BAR. It. Y. SIMPSON. C. 1). BARKSDALE SIMPSON & BARKSDALK, Attorneys at Law, L AUKENS, SOUTH CAROLINA Special attention given to the i nvestl gatlon of titles and collection of claims W. H. MA KT IN, Attorney at Lew, Lauhkns, - South Carolina. Will practice in all Courts Of this State Attention given to cnlluutlons. 1. T. JOHNSON. W. lt. KIOMKV JOHNSON ?S IUGUJ2Y, ATTORNEYS AT LAW. LOrFiOB?-Flomlnir'Ooruor, N orthest side of Public Square. SOUTHERN RAILWAY. CoaUomictt Sottodula In l.iV. ?a v>> NOV. 15, 1SDU. STATIONS, arleaton. ,t. Columbia ... M Prosperity.. Ar. Nsw?rrT .. Ar. Nlnntybfx.. M Green wood Ar. Abb?vttt? XKTSeiton_ Ar. AmWaon . Ar. Greenvilla" Atlanta_ STATIONS. Lt. Orcenvhle .. " Piedmont.... " WilllaniHton Cv. Audnrson_ Lv. Helton. Ar. Donmddj .._.. Lv. Abbevilla Lv. HodgM.. . " Qroonwood. " Nlnoty-Stx.. Lt. Newborrjr .. M Prosperity.. Ar. Columbia , Ar. Charleston. ??ny|?si51 I o|Ni>.18j "T&jpj 7 l?aiLv Hs?nhl ftOo)" ?o;h|12 isp ?? 10 0 In 1 25pf " ioaoftl 202p |080tt 223p 10 64n| 2 37p "1 26aI Ulup 1 ifta BBBpjLv 8 4?p! 7U0piAr STATIONS. Ar . Tftiarleaton... . Uolumbiu ... Alston.. .. ... Hint no.... ... Unit??. . JoilCHVlIlO .... Pacolot? Spart unburs, ^pnrtiuihurg. A.slii'viiif?. ^5mTt~ No. II. f T? a_rs. Tl 00 ? in 12 11 p na 12 22 p 1-. 1 25 p m 1 45 p m 2 2C p ra 8 68 p in 8 10 p jii "3 !C> p Ii-, 4 "53 p w I 9 B? p Vu Tmlljr No. 12 lo 90 n in 10 .V, n in 11 1> n 111 11 05 i\ ?n 1! . . h in 12 i>2 p m 11 <:> a ra i2~20 p m 1 mi p in 1 2.^ p ir. 2 28 p in 2 :>? p m a tti p m s 00 p in JT?fiylTMii No.U|No.ft Ar 1 K OOpiTI U\i ' "tTSSp 0 Bsp 2 4f>pl ? 4;? 1 25p 7 W'v 1 0T?u ; SOu 12 2-lp 0 m 12 Up n 47) Lv n ir-a s*jf Ar II 2 ill A ? i Lv] * Wal B 06$ ?r p. m. "A." a. m. Trains 0 and 10 carry rlcRnnt Pullntaa ?lneptng cars tint wren Onr.mbia and Ai-lievtll?. ?nrouto i^ally batwact Jacksonville atidCinotn Mtl. Trains tenvo Spnrtanhnrg, A. A 0. division, northbound. 0 42 a.m.. n.4r p.m., 0:W p. in., (Vestibule Limited); southbound I:': la. in.. 1:16 p. m.. 11 :if? a. m.% (Vaatlbnla Mmllo I.) Trains Icnve Green villa. A. ami (j division northbound, ?>:45 ft. in., 2:81 p. m. and b "?p. in., (vMtlbulod Limited):anutbbound, 1:20 a. m. 4:20 p. m.. 12:28 p. m. (Veal Untied Limited) PuiiiiiKii Kcrvlen. Pullman palu.-o V. oping cai t o>i Trains SB and IB, 07 and 88, on A ami 0. division. W, IV UHKBN, J. M. et l.P Gf n Pnj erlnten 1. nt, Ti :-.^<- M'g'r, WaaiiiiiiMou, L>. '!. WashinL'iini, 1) O. TT, A. 1 uuk, s. n. HA ROW IOK, 4jK-n i'rs-,. A;j't. As'l Uea. Push Ax't. Wablilnffto'i. D O. AOuiita.Ga Who is Will Whitener ? He is our Fashionable Hair Cutter and Shaver, -IN BEZNOhTLL A M' > 1 Fl . WE WANT TO EXCHANGE Pianos, Organ j or Sewing Machine} -FO R -Good Horr WOMKN LlVR THE LoNO.kh.--We Are accustomed to look upon wotnon ?? as dolloat? creatures, but It is a v.< 11 0? tall* stud fact that oq an average they live longer than men. Statistics which ve recently been osrofully Collect ? :i Cnglund clue that out of every 1.000.000 persons 22't women arid only W in?, n are allvo ut tt.u uko of one hundred. That Is to say nearly three times as many women us men become centenarians. When wo remember that women or** more sensitive than men, that their nervous organism Is higher, that they aro more subject to disease and that they suffer more than - men, this fact becomes the more won dorful. It may be said that women do n< t. ps a rule, havo to work as hard as men, but most of tho women who reach extreme old age are found in the labor ing clasps and almost. Invariably they uro mollers. It must b?. that whilo women aro more duilcato than men the very nucuoss of taeir flher Is an element of strength, jusl as steel is stronger than Iron though Qaor B. W. BAL Ii. 1.. W.NIMK'NS. W. W. HALL 15ALL, SIMKIN8 ? HALL, Attorney* at Law, Lauukns, South CAROLINA. Will practice in all State and Onlted States Court. Special attention giveu collections. southern ra lway, PI It DM O.N't' Alt: MNI9% Oomlrmr.l Schedule <?'? I'll longor Train?. ii:nv?t j in i i. is ?7. Moil hliomxl. I Vo*. l-t INii. 3 i v... imiiy.l On Til 'Si. IS SOXii.1? Kx. |\. I'nUj sun. Lv Altniitn, O.T " Atlanta, 13. T " koivihwhi. ? ? ?? Hufurd. " Onincsvlllo., . " LuIh. I Ar. <'?>! tn-'i?. ... i Lv. Mi. Airy .... ii 'j , .(.,.,,?. " Wvstiutn ilei 12(10 n " 5S 1 :; *- -M> 1 I a; ": i M 0 >p ln'ii ii 7 Uftp. ?* Con I nil ... " to < invillo .. " Kpnrttinlmrt ?? Onffnovs.... " HliK'kKhurK ? Ktng'x Mt.. " Gnatoutn Lv Charlotte Ar. i>:m\ itlo " Wcsimlustor ?* TtHkilll. 41 Ml, Airy .... " Cornell i. ?' Lain. " (-iulnosvillo, " Uuford " N..i Ar. Atlanta, K. T. Ar. Atlntitn, ?. T. T 118 ii S' M i sIv II01 i {?13 i rt l ) nllOM i j, :> ? i 9?0 i>j S "A" u. in. "P" p. tn. "1.1" i'OOn. "N"nlul?t^ Nofl.87nnd88?-Dally. NVnnh iprton nud*lSouth western v. iiiiutc Limited. L'nrouijli Pullman ?looping ours Immwooii Now York ami Now Or* lews, via WnshinKtoii, Allan ;> nud Moiitgom* cry. mid :i)*> In i woen Now V >rk nnd '..-inr>lii?., viaWnftliington, At Inn In niul > irinlnuhson. Pull? limn kIooi in;; ? nrs hoi ween Now Voi k und Now Orioni ,!.n uonnoctlon with Uod" lining tor s-un Franc lonviiij; .lorsty City Tiiowdny roturiunit, leuvo Now Oi '< re Bnturdnys. This irnla n h i Augusta slooniuK cars l>otv Charloito. First <-:.-iv? th<> botweon Washington nnd At udu. DiningonM serve all inonlson routn. Nou. it) tiii't 116? United rniis soli'.l liotwoon \Vnshhi Icons, vin Sou thorn Hnliwi y ii-, i L..'. N. lt. lt., Ix'hi? et l cur nnd con -tier,, liiiougn ?v i pnRMmiTors of nil eins <-s. i room Bleeping ours bet woo ; Mow 0rl< os, vi;? Atlanta Jjoavtug YVusl ington ouch t . sleeping car \\ II run Ihrou 1 Ina ton nnd Knn l<"rnntl.wl l?< ut l^-o. i Nob. SI coil?Now y?>rlc n?l Flo In Llm* ; pod. Vo utiulod tinni lietv on No.v > irkntid Bt. AnciiHitno,\ln \VnHhln'(| m,Ohn .otio.tv? \ luinhin, Stivninmli niul -in -k : of Pull in mi clinwini* room j n>nn oiitn):nrlim-nt onrs, I'u I cms nnd ilinht|? enrs, lonvh I Bt. A?BUHtnio (tonninnl pc i Bumtny. This trnln nlsootu ? dlllwhlK loom hlilTot sl<<-; ;i I An;."-' i nn 1 Now Vork. Noil i'. Pulhniiasic ptngcnrsootwoen Riol,nu n . mill Dnnylllu. Tlio Air I.Inn Polln Iri I i. Nos, 171 1 13, l>o twoon Atl:i nn uud (joruo.iu Wa., < > i xcoj>. Biunlny. \\ . H. OKKEN, J M. GULP, Gon'l Bunt., 'i i ?Hlc " I g'ry Wuslli IKtOO, D. O. W:..!,! I! on, D.O. ! \V. A. TIIKK, B. 11. '' A!.,)' . k*. I Qon'l fuss. Ag't., Ass't'.^cn'lI'u Ag't.. . '.".-i, ) ? ? A num. Ct?. CHARLESTON ho "Hum ot 1 -iin m, sein I-weekly, und Knturdnysj w i 1m days nnd !i tii-s Ki'.'lonond ? M Onnvilln nnd ii ;hfar<i oonoli?.i . t;iiFust isrntl i. ? nnd New t) V, iV \ '. P. It. u.. ?-?< -i o. Ittiggni^B U'.ut fl'-'iiuo t< r 'nlhnf.n druwlnfl ? .'.-Inoj" iIlly an 1 nd M< nfgoinery, Uirda? . i lonrl i h ! nil ? u Wu.sn :i I 10, < nsiMtUlg .n .- ; Pu'.t ii ill ii ill <-i > iiion j \'ov '? Ol U nr I .t i it ? ( xri'|,t lW( . ? ?? sv'otiou cars hotwoou "Augusta and Ashovitl ? Short Line.' Buhodule in effect V b. 7, 1800. I.v Augusta.IMi?n A r i ? reo i ivoi id.12 1' pm g Anderson. I.nurons. . I i pin dreonvillo. ion '. lonn Springs.... 4 0 pin SpA-tniihurg.3(( pin Pnliida_ .-'? i?m llonderoonvillc. .. ft ' |?'n Ashevillo. 7 0 p a Lv shevillo.8 2e n .i Spartan burg .ill pin ti Clin Sprli gs ... 10 a am Orcciivillo .11 ?'1 nin I. iurcim . I 81 pm Anderson . (Ircenwood _ 2 ''- ton Sr August a ... .... 5 OOJpm I.v BpArlanhurg . (ireom illo.. ? ? . Ar Clinton. . N o\\ 1 crry . Prosperity ? . . Columbia . Kuintor. Chtrlostoti . I.v Charleston Wumtor Columbia... Prosperity.. New norrv ? ? Clinton. Ar Uroeuvillo.. Spartan burg Lv Augusta. 2 iV> pm Ar AHondalo. 00 pm Fain a \ . .r> 15 |>m Yemasfco.08oam 0 20pm lie uf -rt .H? ;i am 7 'JO pm Port I toy *l I.in,Ham 7 80 pm Bavannan. 8 00 pm Charleston_ . 8 08 pn f,v\( harleston. o fxi nm ? -ioiali. 0 f)0 am n^jI. i\: jun 7 40 am * .7 1- pm 7 60 an? 1 .3 I pm u lo um . 10 20 am' A uWOOd for nil jtstKway, aud '?08,