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AT TIE TABERNACLE. "AS A HEN GATHERETH HER CHICK ENS UNDER HER WINGS." Text of Dr. Talmage's Sunday Morning Sermon-He Complains That Certain Advertisers Have 1een Using His Name Without Authority. BROOKLYN, Feb. 26.-Previous to the sermon in the Brooklyn tabernacle this morning Rev. Dr. Talmage. in giv ing out a number of notices, dwelt upon the fact that certain picture makers ot Brooklyn had used his name as a refer. en::c in their advertisements and circu lars without his authority. Thousands of letters of complaint hve come to him in this respect, and lie wanted it distinctly understood that lie knew nothing of these p-ople or thEir business methods. The text selected for the morning sermon was Matthew xxiii, 37, "As a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." Jerusalem was in sight as Clitist came to the crest of Mount Olivet, a height of 700 feet. The splendors of the reli. glous capital of the whole earth irradia ted the landscape. There is the ten ple. Yonder is the king's pal ice. Spread out before his eyes are the ponmp, the wealth, the wickedness and the coming destruction of Jerusalem, anid he bursts into tears at the thou4ht of the obduracy of a place that he would gladly have saved. and apostrolhizes, saying, ". Jerusalem, Jerusalem, how often would I have gathered thy chil dren together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not!" Why did Christ oslect hen anj chick ens as a simile? Ne:t to the apposite ness of the comparison I think it was to help all public tea,hers in the matter of illustration to _et down off their stilts and use comparisons that all can under stand. The plainest bird on earth is the barnyard fowl. Its only 1dorn. ments are the red coib in its headdress and the wattles under the throat. It has no arandeur ot genealogy. All we know is that its ancestors came from India, some of them from a height of 4.000 feet on the sides of the H1iialay as. It has no pretension of nest like the eagle's eyrie. It has no luster of plumage like the goldfluch. Possessing anatomy that allows flight, yet about the last thing it wants to (10 is to fly, and in retreat uses foot almos' as much as wing. Musicians have written out in musical scale the song of lark and robin red breast and nightingale, yet the lien of my text hath nothing that could be taken for a song. but only cluck and cackle. Yet Cli1 ist in the text, utteredI while looking at doomed Jerusalem, de clares that what lie had wished for that city was like what the lien does for her chickens. Christ was thus simple In his teachings. and yet how hard it is for us, who are Sunday school instructors and editors and preachers and reformers and those who would gain the ears of audiences, to attain that heavenly and divine art of simplicity. We have to run a course of literary disorders as children a course of physi. cal disorders. We come out of school and college loaded down with Greek mythologies, and out of the theological seminary weighed down with what the learned fathers saId, and we fly with wings of eagles and flamingoes and al batrosses, and it takes a good while be fore we can come down to Chrtst's similitudes, the candle under the bushel, the salt that has lost its savor, the net thrown into the sea, the spittle on the eyes of the blind man and the hea and chickens. There is not much p)oetry about this wInged creature of God mentioned in my text, but she is more practical and more motherly and more suggestive of good things than many that fly higher and wear brighter colors. She is not a prima donna of the skies nor a strut of beauty in the ailes of the forest. She dtoes not cut a circle under the sun like the Rocky mountain eagle, but sta'ys at home to look after family af fairs. She (hoes not, swoop like the con dor ot the Cordilleras t.o transport a rabbit from the valley to the top of the crags, but just scratches for ai living. Ilow vigorously with her clawe she pulls away the ground to bring up what is hidden beneath! When the breakhast or dinig hour arrives, she begins to pirepiare the repast and calls all her young to partal.e. I aro in symhi .thy with the unpreten tious, old Iasioned lien, because, like most of' us, she has to scratch for a liv - mng. She knows at the start the lesson which most people of g;ood sense are slow to leF rn-that theo gaining of a livelihood unpillies work, and thi it sue cesses (do not lie on the surface, but are to lbe up)turned by piositive and1( coinmu ous eflort. T1hie reasoni that society, and the church, and the world are so full of f ailures, so lull o1 loafers, so full of (lead beats. is because people are not, wise enough to take tRie lesson which any hen would teach them-that if they would find for themselves and for those dlepenidenit upon them anything worth having they must scratch for it. Solomon said, "Go to the nat tho sluggard." 1 say, Go to the lien, thou sluggard. In the Old Testament God oompares himself to an eagle stirring up her nest, and ini the New Testenent the IIoly Spirit is compared to a descendIng dlove, but Christ, in a sermon, that be gIns with cutting sarcasm for hypocrites and ends with the paroxysm of pathos in the text, comp)ares himself to a lien. One day in the country we saw su:l den consternation In the behavior of old Dominick. Why the lien should be so disturbed we could not understand. We looked about to see if a neIghbor's dog were invading the farm. We lo:>ked up to see if a storm cloud were hovering. We could see nothing on thie ground that could terrortze, and we could see nothing in the air to ruf'hle the featheou of the hen, but the loud wild, affrighted cluck which brought all ber brood at full run under her feathers made us look again yund un and above us, when we saw tilat high up and far away there was a raplcious bIrd wheel ing around and around, and down and down an,d not seeing us as we stood In the sadow it came nearer and lower until we saw Its beak was curved from base to tip, and It had two flames of fire for eyes, and It was a hawk. But all the chickens were under old Dominick's wings, and eIther the bird ot prey caught a glimpse of us, or not able to find the brood huddled under wing darted back into the clouds. So Christ calls wIth great earnestness to all the young. Why, what is the mat tet? It la bright sunlight, and there can be no danger. Health is theirs. A good homne is theirs, Plenty of food Is theirs. Prospect of long life Is theirs. But Christ continues to call, calls wIth more emphaelsand urge, haste and sa.s iot ascond ought to be lost. Oh, do tell us what Is the Matter! Ah, now I see; there are hawks of temptaon in the air; there are vultures wheeling for their prey; there are beaks of death ready to plunge; there are claws of allurement jeady to clutch. Now I see she peril. Now I under stand the urgency. Now I see the only safety. Would that Christ might this day take our sons and daughters into his shelter, "as a lien gathereth her chickens under her wing!" The fact is that the most of them will never find the shelter unless while they are chick ens. It is a simple matter of inexorable statistics that most of those who do not come to Christ in youth never come at all. What chance Is there for the young without divine protection? There are the !,rog shops. There are the gamb ling hells. There are the infidelities and immoralities of spiritualism. There are the bad books. There are the im purities. There are the business rascal- t ities. And so numerons are these as- I sailments that it is a wonder that hon. t estv and virtue are not lost arts. The I birts Ofprey, diurual and nocturnal, of the natural world are ever on the alert. They are the assassins of the sky. They have varieties ol taste. The eagle pre. t fers the flesh of the living animal. The vulture prefers the carcass. The fialcon kills witl' one stroke, while other styles of tbeak give prolongation of torture. And so the temptations of this life I are various. Some make quick work of I death, others agonize the mind and bo- t dy for many years. and some like the t hving blood of great souls, and others i prefer those already gangrened. But for every style o1 youth there is a swooping winiz. and a sharp beak, and a cruel claw, and what the rising genera tion needs is a wing of protection. Fa thers, mothers, older brothers and sis ters, and Sabbath school teachers, be quick and earnest and prayerful anti im. portunate, and get the chickens un. der wing. May the Sabbath schools of America and (reat Britain within the next n ow months sweep all their scholars inthe the kingdom! Whom they have noot under charge is uncertain. Concernig that scrawny, puny child that lay in the cradle many years ago, the father dead, many remarked, "What a mercy if the Lord would take the child!" and the mother really thought so too. But what good thing that God spared that child, a for it became world renowned in Chris tian literature and one of God's most It. lustrious servants-John Todd. Remember, your children will remain children only a little while. What you do for them as children you must do quickly or never do at all. "Why have you never written a book?, said some one to a talented woman. She re plied; "1 am writing two and have ueen engaged on one work 10 years and on the other 5 years-my two children. They are my life work." When the house of John Wesley's father burned, and they got the eight childran out John Wesley the last-before the roof fell in the father said: "Let us kneel down and thank God. The children are ali saved; let the rest of the place go." My hearers if we secure the present and everlasting welfare of our children, most other things belonging to us are of but little compaiative importance. Al exander the Great allowed his soldiers to take their families with them to war, and he accounted for the bravery of his men by the fact that many of them were born in camp and were used to warlike scenes from the start. Would God that all the children of our dlay might be born in the army of the Lord! No need of letting them go a long way on the wAong road before they tnrn around and go on the right road. TIhe only time to get chickens under wing is whiile they are chickens. Hannah Whitall Smith the evange list, took her little child at 2 years of age when ill out of the crib and told her p)lainly of Christ, and the child beleived and gave evidence of Joyful trust whizh grew with her growth into woman boo]. Two years are not too young. The L,ime will come when by the faith of p)arents children will be born into this world and born into the bosom of Christ1 at the same time. Soon we patents will have to go and leave our children. We tight their battles now, and we stand between them and harm, but our arm will after awhile get weak, and cannot fight for them, and our tongue will he palsied, andl we cannot speak for them. Are we going to leave them out in the cold world to take their chances, or are we doing all we can to get then under the wing of' eternal safety. But we all nieed the protecting wing. 1t you had knaowni when you entered uponi uanhood or womanhood what was ahead of you, would you have dared to undertake life? IIow much you would have beeni through! With many life has beeii a disappointment. They tell me so. They hive not attained that which they expected to attain. They have not had the phiysical and mental vigor they expeCcted, or they h.ave met with rebuffs which they did not, anticipate. You are not at 410 or 50 or C0 or 70 or 80 years of ago where you thought, you would be. I do not, know any one except myself to whom life has been a happy surprise. I never.expected anything, and so when any thing came in the shape of human favor or comfortable position or widen ng field of work it was to me a sutr prise. I was told in the theological seminary 1 by some of my fellow students that IC never would get anybody to hear me I p)reach unless I changed my st,yle, so a that when I found some people did a come to hear me it was a happy sur prise. But most people accordi ng to their own statement, have found life a disappo'nt.ment. Indeed we all need shelter from its tempests. About 3 o'clock on a hot August afternoon you have heard a rumble that you first took for a wagon crossing a bridge, but afterward there was a ~ louder rumbling, and you said, j "Why, that ls thunder!" And, sure 1 enougti, the clouds were beIng convokes I for a full diapason. A whole park of" artillely went rolling down the heavens, f and the blinds of the windows in the sky were closed. But the sounds above h were no more certain than the sounds ii The cattle came to the barsan d moaned for them to be let down that i they mhtcme home toshelter, and t Hamburg or Leghorn or Dominck emka "luck!" Cluck" and tkhei kun tem ali hidunder theSf eathedb the time that the first splash of rain struck the roof. So there are sudden temnete forou souls, and, oh! how dark itgets, ane threatening clouds of bankrupt.y or sickness or erecuntion or bereavement gather and Wickena and blaken ad may be a little chill, but Christ will call us, and we will know the voice and heed the call. and we will come under the wings for the night, the strong wings, the soft wings, the warm wings iod without fear, and in full sense oi afety, and then we will rest from sun. town to sunrise, "as a hen gathereth ier chickens under her wings." Dear net How many souli the Lord bath hus brooded! Mothers, after watching over sick radles and then watching Afterward ver wayward sons and daughters, at ast themselves taken care of by a notherly God. Businse men, after a ifetime struggling with the uncertain ics of money markets' and the change if tariffs, and the underselling of men rho became of their dishonesties can ford to undersell, and years of disap ointment and struggle, at last under vings where nothing can perturb them ny more than a bird of prey which Is 0 miles off disturbs a chick at mid ight brooding in a barnyard. My text has its strongest application or people who were born in the country, vherever you way now live, and that q the majority of you. You cannot hear ny text without having all the rustic cenes of the old farmhouse come back o you. Good old days they were. You new nothing much of the world, for 'ou had not seen the world. By law of association you cannot recall he brooding hen and her chickens vithout seeing also the barn, and the kaymow, and the wagon shed, and the kouse, and the room where you played md the fireside with the big backlog )efore which you sat, and the neighbors, md the burial, and the wedding, and he deep snowbanks, an.1 hear the vit age bell that called you to worship, kid seeing the horses which, after )ulling you to church, stood around he old clapboarded meeting house, md those who sat at either end of the .hurch pew, and indeed all the scenes )f your first 14 years and you think ot what you were then and of what you ire now, and all these thoughts are %roused by the sight of the old hencoop Some of you had better go back and start again. In thought return to that place and bear the cluck and see the outspread feathers and come under the wing and make the Lord your portion an:l shel ter and warmth, preparing for every. thing that may come, and so avoid be ing classed among those described by the closing words of my text, "as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not." Ah, that throws the responsibility upon us! "Ye would not." Alas, for the "would note!" If the wandering broods of the farm heed not their mother's call and risk the hawk and dare the freshet and expose themselves to the first frost and storm surely their calamities are not the mother's lault. "Ye would not!" God would, but how many would not? When a good man asked a young wo man who had abandoned her home and who was deploring her wretchedness why she did not return, the reply was: "I dare not go home. My father is sc provoked he would not receive me home." "Then," said the Christian man, "I will test this," and so he wrote to the father, and the reply came back and in a letter marked outside "Imme diate," and inside saying, "Let her come at once; all is forgiven." So God's invitation for you is marked "[mme diate" on the outside, and Inside it is written "He will abundantly pardon." Oh, wanderers from God and happi ness and home and heaven, come under the sheltering wing! Under this call I see you turning from your old way tc the new way, the living way, the gospel way. A vessel in the Bristol channel was nearing the rocks called the "Steep IIolmes." Under the tempest the yes ael was unmanageable, and the only hope was that the tide would change be fore she struck the rocks and went lown, and so the captain stood on the leck, watch in hand. Captain and 3rew and passenge''s were pallid with terror. Taking another look at his watch and another look look at the sea, he shouted: "Thank God, we are saved!I The tide has turned! One minute mnore and we would have struck the rocks." Some of you have been a long while rirfting in the tempest of sin and sor row and have been making for the breakers. Thank God, the tide has turned! Do yo'u not feel the lift of the billow ? The grace of God that bring. sth salvation has appeared to your soul mnd, in the words of Boaz to Ruth, i sommend you to "the Lord God of Is real, under whose wings thou bast some to trust." The Pine Tree Democracy. PORTLAND, Me., March 1.-The fol Lowing letter received from Presi clont-elect Cleveland was read at th', mnuual banquet of the Yonng Men's Democratic Club last night: "Your kind letter received. I am gratified to think you have remembered me. No one appreciates more fully than I the italwart servIce and earnest endeavors i the Democracy of the Pine Tree State,!and, while I hardly expected to see yonr State In the D)omocratic col amn this year, I am mu'h gratified at the substantialgains which you made. Please extend to the mem ers of your club my hearti ~st congratulations upon the creditable art which they have taken in bringing a bout the recent Democratic victory and ny sincere hope that the occasion you ~ontemplate may be one of rare interest Grushed by a Wail,. CuroAGo, March, 1.-By the falling f the walls of John York's burned dry :oods store yesterday morning, seven ueopie were instantly killed and three eriously injured. The wall, have been tanding since the fire, which last win er destroyed the store and the con. ents. The wind shook the tottering rails and they fell with a crash burying wo, houses andi their sleeping inmates. 'hat all were not killed seems to be al iost a miracle. The houses destroyed rere the saloon of John Smith and the swelry store of A. Kunz. Both were 'all istructures, and the second stories rere occupied by the families of the:own ra of tile places below. Wyomlmu's Demoeratto sen stor. DENTER, CoL, Feb. 28.-A special the Republican from Cheyenne says: .C. Beckwlth, Democrat a citizen f' Evanston, and the wealthiest man in lyoming, will be United States Senator >r the next two years. His selection >r that offRce was announced by Gov 'no" Osborn this evening- It became acessary to appoint on account of the egislature adjourning without electing. 'he leading candidates were Mr. New id Mr. Thompson, They and their apporters made such sharp fighting that ie Governorthought to make the least ouble by overlooking both of them." Killed for Ourelag. 8 AVANNAH, Feb. 27.-At 00'erman aet night E. W4Atewart went to the onse of Abe Thomas, colored and shot im dead. Thomas had a few hours reviously cursed Steward, and called Im an spnnohlans name. some run for shelter to a bank, but it i a poor shelter, and others run to friend. ly advisers, and they fall to help, and others fly nowhere, simply because they know not where to go, and they perish in the blast, but others hear a divine call, saying. "Come, for all things are now ready." "The spirit and the bride lay come. And while the heavens are thundering terror the divine voice prof. rers mercy, and the soul comes under he brooding care of the Almighty "as 4 hensathereth her chickenq under he wIg. The wings of my text suggest I warmth, and that is what most folks r want. The fact is that this is a cold I world, whether you take it literally t )r figuratively. We have a big fire c place called the sun, and it has a very 1 lot lire, and the stockers keep the coals a Nell stirred up, but much of the year V ve cannot get near enough to this fire. v >lace to get warmed. The world's ex. a remities are cold all the time. Forget I tot that it is colder at the south pqle I han at the north pole, and that the trctlc is not so destructive as the An arctic. Oace in awhile the Arctic will at ex plorers come back, but the An arctic hardly ever. Whenk at thesouth ole a ship sails in, the door of ice is ,most sure to be closed against its re urn. So life to many millions of people at he south and many millions of people ,t the north is a prolonged sh'ver. But vhen I say that this is a cold world I t hiefly mean figuratively. If you want o know what is the meaning of the irdinary term of receiving the "cold I boulder," get out of money and try to iorrow. The conversation may have ieen almost tropical for luxuriance of 1 hought and speech, but suggest your lecessities and see tt'e thermometer I [rop to 50 degrees below zero, and in ,hat which till a moment before had I >een a warm room. Take what is an inpopular position on some public luestion and see your friends fly as ,haff before a windmill. As far as myself is concerned, I have io word of complaiat, but I look off lay by day and see communities freez. .ng out men and women of whom the world is not worthy. Now it take3 af ;er one and now after another. it )ecomes popular to depreciate and defame and execrate and ie about some people. This is the best world I ever got into, but it is the neanest world that some people ever got Into. The worst thing that ever lappened to them was their cradle, and he best thing that will ever happn o them will be their grave. What people want is warmth. Many years ago a man was floating lown on the ice of the Merrimac, md great efforts were made to rescue im. Twice he got hold of a plank hrown to him, and twice he sliped Away from it because that end of the plank was covered with ice, and he oried out, "For God's sake, gave me the wooden end of the plank this time," Ind this done he was hauled to shore. The trouble is that in our efforts to lave the soul there is too much cold ness and icy formality, and so the im periled one slips off and floats down. Uive it the other end of the plank warmth of sympathy, warmth of kind ly association, warmth of genial sur roundings. The world declines to give it, and in many cises has no power to give it, and here is where Christ comes in, and as on a cold day, the rain beat ing an the atmosphere full of sleet, the hen clucks her chickens under her wings, and the warmth of her own breast puts warmth into the wet fath ers and the chilled feet of the infant group of the barnyard, so Christ says to those sick and frosted and disgusted and frozen of the world come in out of the March windo of the world's crit icism; come in out of the sleet of the world's assault; come in out of a world that does not understand you and does not want to understand you. I will comfort, and I will soothe, and I will be your warmth, "as a hen gathereth hier chickens uinder her wing." Oh, the warm heart of God is ready for all those to whom the world has given the 3old shoulder. But notlee that some one must take ~he storm for the chickens. Ah, the ten takes the storm. I have watched ter under the pelting rain. I have seen 1er in the pinching frosts almost frozen o death or almost strangled in the wa ers. and what a fight she makes for he young under wing if a dog, or a lawk, or a man come too near! And so he brooding Christ takes the storm for is. What flood of anguish and tears ~hat did not dash upon his holy soul! What beak of torture did not pierce his vitals! What barking Cerberus of hell was not let out upon him from the kennels! WVhat he endured, oh, who can tell, ro save our souls from death and hell Yes, the hen took the storm for the 3hickens, and Christ takes the storm ror us. Once the tempest rose so stud lenly the hen could not get with her ioung back from the new ground to he barn, and there she is uinder the 'ence half dead. And now the rain urns to snow, and it is and awful tight, and in the morning the white iess about the gills and the beak down n the mud show that the mother Is lead, and the young ones come out and annot understand why the mother does tot scratch for them something to eat and they walk over her wings and calf vith their tiny voices, but there is no nswering cluck. She took the storm 'or others and perished. Poor thing! ielf sacrificing even unto death, And does it not make you think of Lim who endured all fter us'? So the rings under which we come for spirit mal safety are blood spattered wings, re night shadowed wings, are tempest orn wings. Ina the Isle of Wight I aw the grave of Princess Elizabet,h, who died while a prisoner at Cariabrook astle, her finger on an open Bible and ointing to the words, "Come unto me, 11 ye that labor and are heavy laden, ndlI will give you rest." Oh, come nder the wings! Rut now the summer day is al most ast, and the shadows of the house and arn and wagon shed have lengthened. 'he farmer, with scythe or hoe on boulder, is returning from the fields. ~ 'he oxen are unyoked. The horses are . runching the oats at the full bin. The fi ir Is bewitched of honeysuckle and Y rild brier. The milkman, pail in hand, e approaching the barnya"d. The owls keeping early hours, are collect rig their young. "Cluck!" "Cluck!" Oluck!" and soon all the eyes of that & iathered nursery are closed. The bachelors of the winged tribe o ave ascended to their perch, but the jy ens, in a motherhood divinely ap- i( ointed, take all the risk of a slumber [ n the ground, and all night long the e ings will stay outspread and the lit-n le ones will not utter a sound. Thus a I t sundown, lovingly, safely, ccomplete r, the hen broods her young. So, if we re the Lord's the evening of our life a will come. The heats of the day will ' ave passed. There wili be shadows, C nd we cannot see as far. The work of i Ife will be about ended. The hawks of temptation that hovered in the sky will have gone to be woods and folded their wing,. Ii iweet silences will comte down. The h iir will be redolent with the breath of b whole arbors of promises sweeter than asinine or evenn primroe-h mai I. THE ROAD LAW. Ohausem Made by the Lema,ature That Are Noaw in Iorco. The road law now in force In this State Is as follows. Sec. 1. Any person liable to ro:ad duty who fails to apnear and work with out justiflable excuse, after being duly warned for twelve hours, shall be 1 deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction before a trial justice, shall be lined not less than $5 nor more than $10, or be imprisoned not less than live nor more thata ten days. Sec. 2. On any extraordiniry occas ion when any highways shall be sud- E denly obstructed by storm or other- ( wise, so as to require immediate labor to i remove such obstruction, it shall be the 1 duty of the ov<.rseer to call out a suf- h flient number of hands to remove the n obstruction. If any person shall, in t such case, perform more days' labor I than is required by law for the year, he shall be paid for any such over plus, at the rate of $1 per day, by the county commissioners, upon tho certiilc,il e of the overseer to that effeet. Sec. 3. The overseer shall allow a man working one day, and also furnish a horse, plough or cart two days' la bor; and one working himself for one day and furnishing a wagon and two horses, mules or oxen, three d,ys' ha- 'c bor. l Sec. 4. All able-bodied male citizens (except such as are exempt by law) be tween the ages of 15 and 50, are re quired to perform each year not less E than six nor more than twelve days' , labor on the public roads under the di- I rection of the overseer. Sec. 5. Teachers and students of schools and colleges and ministers of the gospel who are serving a congrega as pastor shall be exempt from road duty. 8 Sec. A. Overseers shall have full a power to cut down and make use of any 'I timber, wood, earth and stone, in or l near the road, bridges or causeways, for y the purpose of repairing the same, as 1 to them shall seem necessary, making t just compensation therefor, should the same be demanded; and any person who hinders, forbids or opposes an overseer in using such timber, etc., shall be guilty of a misdemeanor. Provided, that no overseer shall cut any timber trees re erved by the owner in clearing his lands or fields, around the springs, or about the dwelling house, nor cut any -ail timber when other timber may be p:ocured at or near the place. Sec. 7. For the purposes of road duty, the residence of any person who has a family shall be held to be wnere his family resides, and the residence of any other person shall be held to be where he boards. Sec. 8. All public roads leading di rectly from any part of the State to Charleston, Georgetown, Columbia, Camden, I1amburg, or Cheraw, shall be thirty feet wide, and all other roads shall be cleared twenty feet wide. 6ec. 9. The county commissioners are hereby authotized and i I-quired to divide the public roads of tie county into highway districts of such size as they may deem advantageous, and ap point an overseer for each district, and assign such hands to each district as they may see proper, having regard to the importance of the road and the res idence of the hands so assigned. Sec. 10.jEvery person so appointed overseer, unless exempt from road duty, shall be required to serve as here inafter provided, and any person ref us ing or neglecting to serve when ap. pointed sha'l forfeit to the county the sum or twenty-live dollars. The term< of oflice of such overseers shall be two years from date of appointment, butl no overseer shall be required to serve t too terms in succession, and sall be exempt from road duty for two years immediately succeeding such term. t Sec. 11. The county commissioners shall furnish such overseer with a list of all persons liable to road diuty who 11 are assigned to work upon the high- a way district over which such overseer Is appointed, and it shall be his duty t to warn out such hands and at the e times and places designated by the county commissioners, and at such times as the exigencies of the weather may necessitate. Sec. 12. The county commissioners shall require all persons liable to road duty to work upon the public roads not less than six nor more than twelve days in each year, and eight hours of actual work to constitute a days' work under this section. Sec. 13. It shall be the duty of each overseer to keep a list of the hands un der his control and note the hours of actual w.>rk which each hand per- j forms, and to return to the county commissionera after each working ord ered by them a list of each hand uinder his control who works, amnd the num i ber of hours lhe has actually worked. IIe shall also keep a list of sutch hands as refuse or fail to work, and make his return to the county commissioners with his certiilcate attached thereto as to the correctness of such retmn. Sec. 14. The county commissliners shall direft the times of working said road, and the place In each district at which the work shail begin, andl t1'e overseers in each (district shall proceed to work the road uinder his charge thoroughly as he goes, arching the same to the center, with drains on each side to convey the water, taking care to protect such Orains from wash ing, iIe may make the road twenty feet wide, and shall protect it by suita ble drains from interference by culti vation. Sec. 15. The county commissioners shall provide such overseers with such number of picks and scrapers as they may see proper, and such overseers shall be responsIble for the custody of the same. All hands warned to work the road shall bring such wcrking tools as the overseers may direct. Sec. 18. Any hand may compound for his work by paying to the overseers and taking his receipt in writing there for, the sum of $6 per annum, and all sums so received shall be returned by such overseer to the county commis sioners at their next meeting thereafter with a list of the persons paying the ~ -same. Sec. 17. All moneys received as aforesaid by the county commissioners shall be expenped by them ror the im provement of the road in the district where the moneys were derived,. Sec. 18. It shall be the duty of the county commissioners to enforce the provisions of this act, and for any ne glect or refusal they shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall each be punished by afine of not.less than $10 nor more than $50 for each one, by way of refusal or neglect. Bieaufort's short Postanater. BEAUFORT, February '23.--Last night United States Commissioner TV. (G, White, afterexamlnation of the resp>nsl. bility ol the bondsmen who signed for Marion F. Campbell, the defaulting postmaster, concluded that the bondI Was not sufficient, and required the dlefendant to a ppear before him and( stronghthen his bond. This Campbell couldl not do to the satisfaction of the commissioner and he was committed to Jail in default of the necessAry smietles, E~l'orts are beIng made arrong the colored people to make a sal s'%ctory bond. Will Stand by len. COLUMBIA, S. C., Feb. 24.-The ame of Governor Tillman's fight for he rights of the Slate with the railroads as probably reached every corner of he country. I[e received yesterday a infiqvie lettir from towa, which is given xactly as it Is wrliten: "2 14-93. "Siam, Taylor, Co.. Iowa. lBel Tillman Oove of S)nthl Carolina '1 e(nd lien friend because a ma i alter ly own heart I rou.ght against. S. (. in far of Rtbelian 37 Mon'ths ut if you et inl a tite with the It. It. or anley )ough faced Judges I will c'mia aii elp you out and I think tlh-'. P>leni.y ot Ne Old Boys would ito with yoiit a rovernor is not a King lIep of lilj State . one horse Gudges and M.trha's cln tun his Busness we want to know it I ave said for the last 20 years tha. ve lui', controle It It or they would - roleus let us know it'you want iii Alt )odge, once of It 5 lowa lit. If you want Me and others call o-i uis tidl we of lie lil and yotn4 ot' the Itt. Nut will be. together this tim I iways have l1in a lleliuv-.. i State ,ites. Alt Dodge. Siam taylor Co Iowa Stand up to them lien the conikao I> >lkes that lillii u) the armies wiil see 3 a iroo (good luak to you. Hle ling MlcKCialey. . 1icAu(0, March 1. --Trusie! II. II. hleatt lias practically decitlel to atop ppo8in- the wishes oi' Maj. MeKinlevi3 iends, an-I to receive whatever fuuti ley may decide to send towaviul paying le $95,000.worth1 o" l'abililesie ot' te u )rtunate aid deceived Gov1-rnor of )hio. The o:e dollar contribut.ion cheme meets with alin,)t un aitnious pproval in the Major's own State. 'he trustee is receving many idollars by ,ail, and at first being oppsod to the lan, he sent one m'Uis contribut>n iack. Thereupoi the CItributor r - urned money, with a p'ertinen', q ite stii z t- Mr. Kohlsattle autLhr.ty to rej -ct token of esteem. So mativ ihave now indorsed the t'.ing that iirther olec ion will probably be waived. Pz'1n<>s anl, orga,x. Where to buy Pianos and Organs 'epresenting the world's great,est mia cers. Steinway & Sons p1imos, Ma hushek Pianos, Mason & l1amlin Pi muos, Sterlin 1tanos, Misoin and 11am in Organs, Sterling Organ.s. Lowest prices always. Easiest terms possible. All freight paid. Complete o 11uit. free. Five years guarantee. One price to 1ll. equare dealig, Moniey saved. We do not ask big prices as many lealers do, and then come do wn. Otir motto- One price to all and that the lowest. We ship on fifteen days' trial to any depot and paY freight bo*i ways if not satisfactory. Write for Illustrated catalogiie. N. W. Trtinip, Columbia. S. C. ' HIGlHLY SATISFACTORY. -0 Jailuary .', t i:s .ut. W. .1. olnnEy, AMainagq r, Itock 11ll, S. C. Dear Sir:--I have before nie a stateiiient if the various op)tionls oiredf in set tlemienut f miy maituiring 'Tonitine poli'y in the Ejpii eblo lf Assuranco Society. I have eon luided to acceplt the surplus and contLinun lie policy. TIhe restults are highly satisfactory and I eartily comminend the Eqluitable Society m11 the TIontine System as prac:iced by it r) persons desirintt safe and prohi table in 'ouifs very Lv tily, TH'ios. S. HliiF.. 'iNSLIllE IN TlE Equitable Life. ts Contract, its Security andi .Its Surplus ' il itesourices are U nexcehll in tihe W orahl. !essu on - FRUiND"~ it ANi Nh M<~I iI nit sho tes...h..r .e.sens IPain, D)uninishes* I ).muu.' t life of Mlotihei a nd hl i. ho..k to "' Morsi,. 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RES ALL.5KIN AND V*~i. 1'. V.. 1% 4 1% 1-h-I'id collbil hall Ff..It fli,lfart,i ,-r the cuM,Of at h of hnatm r v on .1 er* an 10 Hh CUi et:t icreS-a r ! '" " ...... .n rl, 614 (. ~ ~ hx- LjLtC;1' O !I All wOatmouac Ltvnb iE r , '10:y Ah, PoO -- e tcr IeULt r. 1 oii -AS Ith this ecellent lli Feeder, andind g it qualto th bes mi~a,kesuha .li . Acmlt stock. on hand and pri ThW areEXlSdnarer lo forSa ill,ainning and (lrawIc otManey, as ill ahs elearm Waolrdr and ceof And, ig -t0(11 t te best A Aes, suc W.in H.d GIBBESuo, wR. h&, (CCd., t Tlb.A od toe& on ns,dpi W.NEH. GIBESt,JR &.C , MAW MIl1le. CA'OTT ~ON IN , COTON PREINgg ip le'e equIpment for harge and small' iInne il* es on -, os.'honroved plans. r Th'lomas dlirect netinig Steam P'ress aud' IElevator syst"m Is beyond questIon C. T1he best (vet- ,t, /OntAed. hiot's Engine's and 89,wv Mills. V'an Wlaikle andi bummnus (Glna C. BADHAM, abl1)I-1 V.o.UaA ., I$160.00 TO $90.00,8> ROINES&RBOIleRS1 TO SUIT. 100 IN STOCK4 MrBARD & 00. ug ef DiYV )vidends annually gJter tNN the firstycar to reduce pret AL meums or Increase iusurance. Grea I '' s.et dIvIdend abilIty. (Ine 1 .2qualled securIty. Address J. U. LA ND, Gen'I Agt, YEAR Columbia, 5' O.