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ISSUED SEMI'WEESL^ ^ ii. h. grist & sons, Publishers. j % ^amilg Heirspager: 4or the promotion of the goliticat, Social, Agricultural, anil Commercial Jnt^sfs of the people. | terms^^oo^^e^rjn advance. "established 1855^ YORKVILLE, S. C., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 14, 1900. NO. 31. . ; r ' : : ~ r~r i ~ . 7 LOVE fill BY JEANNETTE 4 ^Copyright, 1899, by Jeannette H. Walwoi Synopsis of Previous Installments. In order that new readers of The Enquirer may begin with the following installment ol this story, and understand it just the same as though they had read it all from the beginning, we here give a synopsis of that portion of it which has already been published: Tom Broxton comes to Broxton Hall from college, having been summoned to his father, who is dying. Mr. Matthews, Tom's guardian, passing "Mother" Spillman's cottage, d rops a bag of papers. The next morning Matthews comes to look for k-A one of the papers which have been lost. He does not find it, but Jimmy Martin, a gardener, soon after brings it to "Mother" Spillman, She pledges Martin to secrecy and hides the paper in the back of an old chair. Tom Broxton visits the room in which his father lies, finds some flowers on an easel and among them an unfinished letter from his father to himself. Through ground glass doors he sees a figure tampering with the papers contained in bis father's desk. Before he can enter the room the figure disappears. Approaching biB father's body lying in bis coffin, Tom looks for a seal ring worn on the finger, but it is not there. Olivia Matthews arranges with her father for a garden party at Broxton Hall on her eighteenth birthday. Her father, riding past the Hall, stops there and sees the mysterious figure standing over Colonel Broxton's desk. After the lawn party Tom Broxton and his guardian sit at the*Hall talking about it, ana Mr. Matthews proposes that Tom, after being graduated at college, shalljjo abroad to study and declares that the Hall must be sold, to both of which propositions Tom demurs. Mother Spillman cautions Tom against bis guardian, but fails to convince him. CHAPTER VIII. an accident. Fixing a coldly rebuking eye upon the moody youug face opposite him, Mr. Matthews tapped the library table impatiently with a paper cutter. "I am afraid. Thomas, you are not giving me your undivided attention." And Tom, blushing guiltily, said he was afraid he was not. He tried to make amends by staring stolidly at the map of Europe which lay spread out on the table between him and his guardIan. The Ivory paper cutter once more resumed.its peregrinations. He could command his eyes and his ears even If his heart had gone astray. By planting his elbows on the table and firmly clamping his jaws between both hands he secured the attention of those useful organs and put them entirely at his guardian's service. But his heart and brains were another matter. Both played truant and absolutely refused to be drawn into consideration of this proposed tour of foreign parts. His day was 'proving distinctly disappointing, but he need not advertise that fact to all the world. With dull ears he heard his guardian's voice. "Now, when your dear father and 1 projected this identical tour our intention was to go directly to Paris"?the paper cutter halted directly over the black 8pot standing for that fascinating metropolis?"and from there"? With rebellion in his heart Tom was summing up his grievances. Olivia had not emerged promptly on hfs arrival. Her long delay had the effect of making him feel crudely premature and not eagerly welcome. All the sparkle had been blown off the day by her tarrying. Her father excused her on the score of a headache, superinduced by loss of rest. When she did appear, however, cool and fresh in her crisp, pretty house gown, with shining eyes and red ripe lips, it was impossible to accept that fiction of a headache. "We planned to remain In Paris six weeks on our first visit, confining ourselves principally to the art galleries and the places of historic interest. You see that was or would have been just after the days of the commune." Tom's ears reported his guardian's words, and when Olivia did come his honrt r>omnlnln<vl. He had cone for ward eagerly to meet her, almost ardently. She must have read all his adoring thoughts In his burning eyes and flushing cheeks. His telltale cheeks had gone flaming hot at sight of her. She had smiled at him as Indulgently aa If he had been a young spaniel frisking at her heels, and for the brief space or time lapsing between his coming and the summons to dinner she bad patronized him so openly that she had successfully imposed upou him an uncomfortable sense of extreme Juvenility. He gnawed his budding mustache in impotent rage. "Poor, dear Rufus!" his guardian droned. "He had the making of a fine artist in him. Doubtless that six weeks in Paris would have been most profitably spent by us. Prom Paris we meant to go by easy stages"?here the paper cutter ambled erratically over the map, descriptive of the easy stages ?"until we reached Florence ? Florence, the home of classic art. the scene of immortal Savouaroln's unappreciated efforts and martyrdom." What a finished young lady the pretty little thing had blossomed into on the strength of a debut! lie had tried to talk to her of the future, giving It a - i. K tinge or common mien-si?ut-ra, uis, theirs. She had persisted in questioning hlin, with a matronly air of superior age. about his studies and his wardrobe and his physical condition. He had alluded to his guardian's wish that he should travel and intimated that half a dozen words from ner adverse to the project would settle his mind permanently. No power on earth could make him put the sea between her and him If she would bid him stay. Instead she had wrinkled her pretty brows sagely and said: "Yes: papa and I talked all that over before you came home, Tom. dear. It is really the right thing, for you to do. A man is so crude, so Incomplete, you know, until )S A WAT. H. WALWORTH. rth. he has seen something of the world, until he has measured himself by other standards. Now. there Is Mr. West over"? . Tom stared at the map of Europe with hot cheeks. Reason convicted him of having acted very like a fool at that juncture. "Father or son?" he asked bluntly. "Son, of course. "Ollie had answered sweetly. "He Is only three years older than you, Tom, dear, but he Is so polished. so cultivated, so broad, entirely owing to travel, you see." "I admit his perfections," Tom had snapped with the rudeness of an untraveled donkey. "I like him Immensely," Ollle had retorted. with arched eyebrows and frosty emphasis, which had made Tom rejoice In the summons to the dining room. He had followed his lofty young hostess In meek silence. He wondered If she would pin a napkin about his neck and cut up his food for him. She was assuming such vastly superior airs he was prepared for anything, everything. He was ready to snarl at everybody. His lovely vision was fading behind a bank of dark, leaden clouds. Olivia looked at him furtively once or twice during the rather constrained meal. She wished her father had not thought It necessary to warn her against Tom's "boyish foolishness." It had made everything so difficult so awkward, and It was "spoiling the poor dear's holiday." But "papa had said" he would be seriously angered if she allowed Tom to pay her any sort of loverlike attentions. And so the awkward dinner had dragged its slow length from soup to coffee, and Ollle had not followed the men Into the library, as Tom had fondly hoped she would. He could never clearly recall all his guardian had said to biro during that prolix Introductory talk about his own affairs. He knew It had contained hints about financial losses, Investments that had not turned out as they should, depreciation In real estate, failure of railroad stocks to pay dividends, with a lot more of dry business talk which had nothing In the wide world to do with Ollle. At that Juncture there was no other subject under the sun that held any Interest for him. But his conscience smote him with ingratitude to his guardian, who had spent weeks mapping out a pleasant foreign trip for him. and so he closed bis heart and opened his mouth with a valiant show of Interest. "And so from Berlin, you think, I had best go on to Vienna, sir?" Mr. Matthews rubbed his chin reflectively, with eyes on the map. In the pause that followed Tom's question n great clatter of hoofs filled the air. Tom sat facing the yard gate. His elbows shook, and he sat up very stiffly In his chair. Three horses had stopped In front of the gate. Clarence Westover was on one, and the Westover coachman was t Ollie sailed, into the room buttoned to the chin in a pretty dark green habit. on another, leading a third on which was a lady's sidesaddle. Westover alone dismounted and strode briskly up the walk. Five minutes later Ollie sailed Into the room buttoned to the chin In a pretty dark green habit. She held out one small gauntleted hand to Tnm "I'm co snrrv Tom. dear, that papa appointed today for you to spend with us. lie didn't know then that Jeanne Westover had asked me to try a riding horse for her. She Is awfully afraid of horses, but said if I liked sulky silence. Air of a sudden the map of Europe developed an immense fascination for him. He glued his gaze to it to the exclusion of all the world besides. He could hear his guardian outside discussing the horse with Westover. "You say it is a new horse, Westover, one you know nothing about?" "Nothing but what his previous owner tells me. He vouches for the beast's gooduess of disposition. William, there, haS tried him with a riding skirt, and I have been riding him for a week. Oh, 1 guess he's gentle and all that! But Jeanne wanted Miss Matthews' opinion of his gait. She says a man can't judge of what Is pleasant riding for a woman." "She is quite right," said Ollie, with decision. "He caunot." Then she tiptoed to kiss, her fatbpr. "Now, don't this one she would keep It Her brother says it fs a darling." Mr. Matthews got up from the table and walked out of the room by her side. Tom retalued his seat -and a go and spoil my fovefy ride, papa; by conjuring up all sorts of imaginary dangers. You know I can manage a horse, if there is any one thing on earth I can manage, and Mr. Westover says be is perfectly gentle." "Oh, yes, to be sure! A sheep is fiery by comparison, 'pon honor, sir. My sister Jeanne is a notorious coward. You don't think 1 would let Miss Matthews run any risk?" This with an ardent look at Olivia. The three walked down the steps together, Westover cutting at the shrubbery with his whip, Ollle holding her pretty head well up under the little gayly plumed riding hat. Mr. Matthews with his bare head gleaming white and venerable In the bright sunshine. Tom took It ell In gloomily without once losing his Interest In the map of Europe. There was certainly nothing about the new horse's appearance to Inspire apprehension. He stood with his head hung dejectedly, as If he knew and resented the fact of having been recently and somewhat unfavorably criticised. * "Now, papa, does he look dangerous?" Ollle cried, laughing triumphantly as she ran lightly forward to mount the horse block. "I can't say that he does. In fact, I think I may say positively that he does not But be careful, my darling. Westover, don't let her be reckless. She loses her bead when she mounts a horse. I think there must have been a jockey among her ancestors." After watching the start the lawyer turned slowly back toward the house with bis head bent and bis hands folded behind his back. He was In no particular hurry to get back to the library. In spite of all that had been said, a lingering sense of uneasiness beset him. He was always uneasy when Olivia was out of his sight She was bis Idol, his all. What a clever little witch she was, too, older than her years by reason of her lifelong companionship with him! How adroitly she had managed to let Tom Broxton see that there must not be any love passages between them! And such a slight hint he had given her! No; for years yet he wanted no lovers about, but if they must come Tom Broxton perhaps should have his opportunity. Under some circumstances Clarence Westover would be as acceptable as another. The Westovers held a fine position In the world and had the money to maintain it on. Olivia must have both. She was his idol, bis all. For her sake he would? He started and lifted his head. He was back in the library. Tom Broxton was looking at him with such keen directness that his own eyes fell before the boy's. "I have been studying the map, sir, since you have been out of the room, and I am quite satisfied with the route as you haw marked it out. And, Mr. Matthews"?he rose from the table, pushing the map away with an Irritated motion?"we need not discuss the matter any further. I am ready to start as soon as commencement is over, the sooner the better." He was very pale, and his lips were set firmly at the corners. Yes, the day had been an utter failure, and be wanted to get back to Broxton before O'.'le and Clarence Westover got back from their ride. He knew now why Ollle had no welcome to bestow on him. "I suppose I will find my horse in the back lot," he ended abruptly. ' Yes. I presume so. But, Thomas, my dear boy, this Is a very abrupt termination to our talk. I have much to say yet about your own affairs. There are many points we have not touched upon." "I am sorry, sir, but I shall start back to college very soon in the morning. If there is anything of importance, I presume It can be communicated by letter. There are some things at the Hall 1 want to look into before leaving aguiu." He held out his band and looked down into his guardian's face from ills superior height frankly and affectionately. "And rest assured, my dear guardian, that whether we talk'or don't talk, whether you write or don't write, l am content to leave my affairs In tfye hands of the man my dear father loved and trusted." The lawyer's square set Jaws quivered for a moment, but he wrung Tpm's hand cordially. "Thank you, my boy, thank you. A guardian's position Is not an enviable one at best. You have made mine much easier by your kind words." As Tom rode away from the cottage, sore and disappointed about Olivia and smarting with a sense of defeat. It occurred to him that he was rather glad he had made that little speech to bis guardian. It was like exorcising forever any feeling of distrust that might have been aroused by that crazy nonsense of "Mother" SDlllman's. which. In spfte of him, had obtruded Itself once or twice during the day. Yes. he would co back to college early In the morning. He would not even wait to see OIli.e again. He would start on his foreign tour straight from college. He would measure himself by broader standards before he should see her again. He must be without flaw In her eyes when he should Anally ask her to be his wife." Not for a moment did he relinquish that cherished purpose. And so he rode along under the sweet Bmelllng locusts on the shady roadside revising his beautiful vision, but never once doubting the final outcome. How silly he had been to flare up In ~4**'? ?s\P Pin rnnon tl'nof. Hi 111, aiJHC at oi^ui \JL viuivuvx. II wowover! It had all been so simple when explained. lie hoped the dear little thing was having a real Jolly ride. He pronounced himself a sulky dolt. Inherently sunny natured and generous, Tom could never attain to a fully developed case of the sulks. He rode forward whistling softly. He had all the quiet roadside to himself. He would spend this his last evening In the old Hall writing a long letter to I Ollie. He composed It as he rode slowly through the weedy bridle paths ion the outskirts of bis own lands Be swung rapidly through the door and up the stairway. switching at the fair Intrusive hearts of sumac and sassafras bushes that brushed against his stirrups. He would tell OUie how Impossible It was for him to go so far away as Europe without letting her know of his love and asking her to wait awhile until be should come back less crude and Incomplete, better proportioned for having measured himself by other standards. What a churl he had been for getting so vexed with her that morning! Everything she said showed her interest in him, and if she did prick him with her little patronizing airs It was the result of her being the sole companion of the man who had to look after him and his interests and who doubtless had often consulted her. By the time he reached the outer gate to his own parklike Inclosure Olivia stood absolved In his loyal heart. She was altogether lovely and trustworthy. He, Tom Broxton, was an 111 mannered cub, not worthy to button her pretty boots. Sun never shone upon sweeter maiden. It was meet and proper; he should go through some sort of probationary toil to render him less unworthy of her. He never could be quite worthy of her? oh. no. never! But she would be his after a little while, all his. His pulses bounded joyously. Life was assuming rosier tints with the passing of each moment. It made him glad to think It would be In his power to gratify her every wish, let her wish for never so costly or unattainable a thing. For your sake, my sweet, I am glad of all the wealth that is mine, glad of the store of gems hidden away somewhere, all for you. Ollie?all for you, my beloved! The breath of wild clematis (Hied his nostrils; birds piped musically in the larch branches over bis head; splashes of sunshine flecked the brown earth of the narrow bridle path. He whistled aloud in the fullness of his boyish content. At a rapid canter he swung Into the open before the Ilall door. A strange group clustered about his front doorsteps sent him forward with a bound. Jessy wus there leaning over something that lay prone on the veranda floor. Martin, his own yard man, was flinging his legs over the horse Clarence Westover had ridden away from the Matthews gate an hour before. Westover was walking up and down, with bared head and blanched cheeks, wringing his hands and giving wildly Impossible orders to everybody at once. Still, white and motionless, Olivia, bis Ollie. lay the central figure of this excited group. Tom's tall form was soon added to It He pushed Westover away without apology. His grieved young face was terrible in its stern wrath. "You have killed her. How dared you mount heron an untried horse?" Westover was too utterly miserable to resent this masterful arraignment. "An Idoit fired a gun behind the hedge. Both horses bolted. Broxton. If 6he dies I'll blow my brains out." "You have none to blow out," said Tom, with brutal candor. Then, stooping and lifting the unconscious girl In his arms, he swung rapidly through the door and up the stairway, followed by a wailing and useless group. TO BK CONTINUED. THE PIANO DETECTIVE. Work That Keepa a Slenth Bnay Mont of the Time. "Did you ever hear of a piano detective?" The city hall detective scratched his head reflectively and then was compelled to admit that he had never heard of Buch an individual. "Well, there are a dozen or more of them in Philadelphia, and they make good money too. "Their work Is simple. You see, a great many piano firms sell Instruments on the Installment plan. That Is, the purchaser pays, say. $50 down on a $500 or $GO0 Instrument and agrees to make good the remainder at so much a month. By far the greater number of ' such purchasers are as honest as the day Is long, but once in a while a man comes along whose little scheme Is to move out the piano a day or two after It Is delivered and sell It for a couple of hundred. "It is the business of the piano detective to circumvent this sort of thing. ? AS & rule, SOUll' suspicious uiuvcmcui on the part of the would be defrauder of the piano dealer causes him to be placed under suspicion. The dealer can't step In and take his Instrument away under the contract, and the only thing he can do Is to watch It Here Is where the piano detective comes In. He hovers around the bouse In which the suspected purchaser lives, night and day, watching any attempt to make way with the piano. Usually three or four weeks are long enough to settle the question one way or another. If the piano buyer Is crooked, he Is practically certain to make some sort of a move before the expiration of that time. If he doesn't, Ifls pretty safe presumption that the suspicion Is groundless and the piano detective Is called off by his employer, with no one but himself and two or three-others tne wiser. But the precaution Is a necessary one." 2Ni5crUancou5 Smiling. NEW PENSION LAW. Passed at the Recent Session of the General Assembly. THE CONDITIONS TO BE FILLED. TP..11 Tnrf nf thA Art That Is of Interest to All Old Soldiers In South Carolina. The following is the new pension law, based upon recommendations of the Confederate Veterans' association of the state. The bill was introduced by Mr. Patton, of Richland, at their request. The act was approved, February 19th, by Governor McSweeny. It reads: Section 1. Be it enacted by the general assembly*of the state of South Caroliua: The sum of two hundred thousaud dollars shall be annually appropriated to pay the pensions provided for by this act, and in case the same, or such amount as shall be appropriated shall be insufficient, then the amount so appropriated shall be distributed proportionately among those legally entitled to receive the same: Provided, That those pensioners described in subdivision (a), section 4 herein, shall have been first paid in full. Sec. 2. The applicant must have been a resident of the state for two years prior to the time of the application. Sec. 3. Id order to obtain the benefits of this chapter the applicant unqualified by residence must also show : (A) If a man. 1st, That be was a bona fide soldier or sailor iD the service of the state or in the Confederate States in the war between the states; and 2d. Either (a). That while in such service be lost a leg or arm, or received other bodily injury whereby he has become disabled; and further, that neither himself nor his wife has an income exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars per annum, nor property sufficient to produce such an income; or (b) that be has reached the age of 60 years, and that neither he nor his wife is receiving annually an annual income of seventy-five dollars from aoy source nor possessed of property sufficient to produce such an income. (B) If a womau. 1st. Jhat she is the widow of a man who was a bona fide soldier or sailor iu the service of the state or of the Confederate States in the war between the states; and 2d. That she has never remarried ; and 3d. That either (u) she is 60 years of age; or (b) that her husband lost his life in the service of the state or of the Confederate states in the war between th6 states; and 4th. That she has not an income of $100 per annum nor property sufficient to produce the same. Sec. 4. The persons described in the preceeding sections shall be entitled to a pension upon complying with the other provisions of this act, and shall be paid the amounts hereinafter set forth, to wit; (a) All soldiers^and sailors who lost both arms or both legs, or sight, or who are physically helpless, the sum of $8 per mootb. (b) All soldiers or sailors who lost oue arm or leg in the said service, the sum of $4 per month. (< ) All other persons entitled to pensions under the provisions of this act, the sum of $3 per month : Provided, That all soldiers and sailors, now citizens of this state, who were in the service of the state or of the Confederate States in the war between the states, and who are totully disabled by paralysis, aud who have no income, and who is unable to make a living, shall receive pensions as provided by this act the same as those under classv"A" of this section. Sec. 5. Before any soldier or sailor shall receive any payment provided in this act, be shall make an application, in writing, through the township representative, addressed to the county pension board, to be appointed as hereinafter directed for each county of the state, setliug forth in detail the uature of the disabling wound, if any, the company and regiment or battalion in which he served, and the time and place of receiving the wound, and showing that neither he nor bis wife is in receipt of the income as hereinafter specified, and showing further, the time and place of residence within the state by the applicant. Such applies /* J L.. ?L. IL. tion shall De verinea oy me oaia 01 iue applicant, made before any officer in the state authorized to administer oaths, and shall he accompanied by the affidavit of one or more credible witnesses, stating that tbey knew the applicant was a soldier or sailor or the wife of such, as the case may be, and believe the allegations made in the applications to be true; Provided, That said applicant is not drawing a pension in any other state. Sec. 6. Such application shall be verified also by a certificate of the auditor of the county in which the applicant resides, showing amount of tax return, and that his income does not exceed the amount stated, and that he is not posi-e-sed of sufficient property to produce such income; and it shall be the duty of the auditor to furnish such certificates, if he shall find the facts, without fee or charge. Sec. 7. In each county of the state i 1- ? u .ii toe sain application eunu ucsuummcu to a hoard composed of four ex-Confi derate soldiers or sailors (to be chosen as hereinafter provided,) who shall not be holders of or applicants for a pension, and a regular practicing physicion to be selected by them, which said five persons shall constitute the county pension hoard. They shall meet on the third Monday in January of each year, and shall examine each applicant under rules and regulations prescribed by the state board of pensioners. After first being duly sworn, fairly and impartially to discbarge the duties of their office, and after said oaths are duly filed in the office of the clerk of court, the said county pension board shall proceed with the discbarge of the duties imposed upon them, and shall certify their approval to the state board of pensioners, giving in detail the reasons which influenced them to grant or oppose each application, accompanied by all the evidences upon which they made their decisions. Sec. 8. Four members of said board shall constitute the quorum. A majority of the members of the board present may determine any matter presented to them, subject, however, to a right of review of the state board. As soon as such county board completes its list as above, giving the names of the pensioners, their residences and amount per month to which they are entitled, they shall certify the same to the state board of pensioners, to be reviewed by them. The compensation of the members of said board shall be $2 per duy for each day's service, not exceeding, however, five day's service in any one year. Sec. 9. The state board of pensioners shall thereupon pass upon the names contained in said lists, and shall certify to the clerks of courts of the various counties the lists of the names and amounts approved by them, and said < clerks of courts shall record the same in a book, and said roll so made up shall be designated "approved pension rolls for 19?," and such persons shall constitute the pensioners entitled to receive the aid herein provided for the current year. Son 10 C.uopv annlinalinn nnnrnvpri by the county board, with all papers upon wbicb tbey act, sball be filed in the comptroller general's office by tbe first day of February of each year, to be by bim submitted to tbe stale board 1 of pensions for their review. Ib tbe examination of tbe applications of eacb person for a pension, tbe said board shall inquire particularly into all the facts set forth in tbe application, and shall have the right to examine such evidence as to determine tbe right of such applicant to a pension, and for the purpose of this chapter the chairman of each county pension board shall have the right to administer oaths. In making their report to the state board of pensions, they shall set forth, in detail (and separately) their findings upon each material allegation contained in the application. Sec. 11. Each of the county boards i shall keep a book in which they shall make a list of the applicants for pensions, setting forth the approval .and disapproval, wbicb book shall be filed in the office of the clerk of tbe court of common pleas for each county; and the clerk shall from such book certify to the comptroller geperal, on or before the first day of February of eacb year, tbe number of pensioners who are still alive and entitled to the pension. Sec. 12. Tbe state board of pensions shall have tbe authority, and it shall be tbeir duty to revise the list of pension claims allowed by each county board, and to confirm or reject any pension claim allowed by such board, oa tKnw mnu Hoom rtpnnpr anH richt WO WUVJ "-J J/.VJ.V. O upoD the facts presented by (be said board, or upon such additional facts couuected therewith as tbey may be able to procure; but tbey have no right in any case to grant a pension unless the same has been regularly approved by the county board of pensions. Sec. 13. The county board of pen sions shall be constituted as follows: On the first Saturday in August of each year the surviving soldiers and sailors of the state or Confederate States, in the late war between the states, in each township, shall meet at a time and place therein designated by the chairman of the county board, by two weeks' public notice, and hav ing organized by electing a chairman and secretary, shall elect by ballot, au ex-Confederate soldier or sailor, not a holder of nor an applicant for a pension, as a representative of the veterans of said township. The representatives so elected shall meet at the county courthouse on the first Monday in September following, and having organized by electing a presiding officer and secretary, shall elect from their own number four, who, having selected a competent physician, and elected oue of themselves as chairman shall constitute, together with such physician, the county pension hoard for the year or until their sue cessors are elected and qualified. In those townships where the veterans fail to select a representative as herein provided, the chairman of the county pension hoard shall appoint some person otherwise qualified as representative until such election shall be had ; and in those counties where the survivors failed to organize a county board as herein provided, the state board of pensions may appoint four ex-Confederate soldiers or sailors otherwise qualified, to organize and constitute said county board. Sec. 14. In case there shall be in any township no person- qualified to act as representative, then the veterans may elect, or in case of their failure so to do, the chairman of the county pension board may appoint, some properly qualified veteran residing elsewhere in said county. Sec. 15. The comptroller general shall be chairmau of the state board of pensions, aud he, with three ex-Confederate soldiers, uot holders uor applicants for pensions, to be selected by the United Confederate Veterans association at their annual meetings, together with a competent physician to >? oulonUH K? t hum uhull nrmatif ilto ur OCICVIVU WJ V?\ IMJ VUMI* vvuw?*%uvv the said state board of pensions. That the comptroller general shall appoint a suitable person to serve as clerk to receive a salary of $600 per unnum for his services. In case of ; failure to select by the said veterans' association, tnree memoers properly qualified shall be appointed by the governor. The term of office shall be for one year and until their successors are elected or appointed aDd have qualified. Sec. 16. The compensation of the members of the county pension boards shall be $2 per day, not to exceed five days, and the compensation of the state board shall be $2 per day, not to exceed five days, and the latter shall be allowed mileage at tbe rate of five cents per mile. Sec. 17. In the counties where tbe survivors fail or refuse to comply with the provisions hereof, the state board shall make such regulations for the distribution of the fund for such counties as they deem best. Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the comptroller general to issue on the 1st Monday in April of each year to the party entitled to receive a pension hereunder his warrant for such sum as may be herein prescribed, so long as such name shall remain on the pension roil as above prescribed, or until informed of the death or removal from the state of such pensioner; Provided, That the comptroller geueral shall forward the amount due the pensioners of each county to the clerk of court of the several counties of the state, to be paid out by said clerk of court without additional compensation. Sec. 19. It shall be the duty of the comptroller general to prepare and cause to be printed forms in blank on which such applications, certificates and affidavits may be conveniently made, and he shall cause the same to be distributed in the several counties of the state in such number and such manner as in bis judgment may be necessary. Sec. 20. Whenever the name of any person who has been declared entitled to receive a pension under the laws of this state shall have been omitted, by any accident, from the proper lists, it shall be the duty of the state board of pensions to allow, and the duty of the comptroller general to issue his warrant for, the amount of the pension to --M which such person , would have been entitled ; said amount to be paid out of the next regular appropriation for pensions, after the fact of such accident shall have been determined by-said state board of pensions, and said amounts shall be paid out of 3aid appropriation before the same ?hall be apporiioutfu uuiuug tuo pciouuo cumtied thereto. That sections, 939, 940, 941, 942, 943, 944, 945, 946, 947, 948, 949, 950, 951, 952, 953, 954, 955, of the revised statutes of 1893, and all acts amendatory thereof, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Sec. 22. Until the election of the county pensions board and the state board of pensions shall be bad, as provided for herein, the several pension boards as now constituted shall continue to exercise their respective functions. , FIRST AMERICAN PATENT. Granted at Boaton la 1048 and Called a Monopoly. To the genera] court of Massachusetts belongs the honor of granting the first American patent This was In 1648 and was then designated as a monopoly. It was confined to the region controlled by Massachusetts, and the one issue apparently Included all the invention of the inventor connected with engines that depended upon water for their motive power. The limit of the monopoly was 14 years, and the court not only retained power to forbid exportation, but to prevent exorbitant charges upon the public for their use. The patent was Issued in this form: "JENKES MONOPOLYE. "At a generall Courte at Boston the Gtb of the 3th Mo 1648. xne con consld'lnge ye necessity of raising such manifactures of engins of mils to go by water for speedy dispatch of much worke with few hands, and being sufficiently informed of ye ability of ye petition to peforme such workes grant his petition (yet no Othr per sen shall set up or use any such new invention, or trade for 14 yeares wthout ye license of him the said Joseph Jenkes) so farr as concernes any such new invention, & so it shall be plwayes in ye powr of this co'te to restrain ye exportation of such manufactures & ye prizes of them to moderation If. occasion so require." This inventor, Joseph Jenkes, or, Jenks, as it would now be spelled, came from Hummersmith, England, settled In Lynn in 1643 and died in 1682-83, aged 81. He was a Dlacksmith and machinist, made the dies for the coining of the "Pine Tree" money and built the first fire engine in this country, altogether a man of great Inventive genius and the ancestor of a large number of descendants. One of his sons removed to Rhode Island, where he built several mills.?Boston Transcript AN ABSENTMINDED BRIDEGROOM. Robert Dewar. brother of Lord William Dewar, the British scientist who was the first experimenter to liquefy air, Is a remarkably absentminded man. It Is said that on one occasion he left his home early one morning and repaired to the bouse of a friend. In which there was a fine library to which he had access. That afternoon his relatives and friends searched the neighborhood In vain for him. At length he was run down in this library. By his side was a new suit of clothes. "It's a nice man you are," ironically said the spokesman. "What's the matter now?" returned Robert Irritably. "Your bride and the preacher are waiting for you this two hours. Don't you know this is your wedding day, man ?" "I declare," said the groom, "I'd forgotten all about It! Walt till I dress, and I'll go along with you."?Saturday Evening Post.