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YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. ISSUED TWICE .A. W EEg" W EUPTEBDAY ASTS FRIDAT. i. m. GEIST & sons, Publishers, f ? ^antiliT Braspger: 4or the fromotion of the folitol, Social, g.jgricultural, and ffommqeiat Interests of The ftouth. {TKS3ino?|0c0qpt.>thLecentoKE" VOL. 42. YORKVILLE, 8. C., WEDNESDAY, APRIL 15, 1896. " NO. 31. ^ THE ROAD LAW. A Matter About Which Every Citizen Should Be Informed. ^ Because of the wide-spread interest which is felt in the new road law, and to correct any misapprehension as to the terms of the existing law by which the county commissioners and the public must be governed, the law is herewith published for public information. An act to amend an act entitled "an act to provide a system of county government for the several counties of this State, so far as It relates to the working and maintaining the roads and highways in this State." Section 1. Be it enacted by the genera] assembly of the State of South Carolina, That all roads, highways and ferries that have been laid out or appointed by virtue of an act of the general assembly, or any order of court, or by an order of the county board of commissioners, are hereby declared to be public roads and ferries, and the townships boards of commissioners in each township, together with the county supervisor, shall have the supervision ana ?v>nfroi of thn nublic roads in their re speclive townships; they are hereby incorporated, and the township board of commissioners of such township shall be their corporate name. Thev shall have the right to sue and be sued, plead and be im?leaded, in any of the courts of this State. he township board of commissioners and county board of commissioners, as hereafter set forth in this chapter, shall have full power and authority to order , the laying out and repairing of public roads where necessary, to appoint where bridges or ferries and fords shall be made, to discontinue such roads, bridges and ferries as shall be found useless, and so alter roads so as to make them more useful. Sec. 2. That tne township board of commissioners of the several townships of each count,y subject to the approval of the county board of commissioners or the supervisor or the county, shall, on the first Tuesday of April next, or within four * weeks thereafter, divide their respective townships into suitable road districts, and make a record thereof in a book kept for that purpose, and annually thereafter may make such alterations therein as they may deem proper, and cause a brief description thereof to be made on the township records, and also to furnish each overseer with a description of his road district. The township board of commissioners of each township, at their annual meeting, and annuallv thereafter, shall elect from the qualified electors of their townships liable to road duty, one overseer for each ' road district, whose term of office shall be two years from the date of appointment, and who shall receive such compensation as the county board of commissioners may fix. Such overseer shall not he compelled to serve more than one term ; ana each overseer who refuses or neglects to quality and serve shall forfeit and pay the sum of ten dollars and costs, or be sentenced to the county cbaingang, suit to be brought by the township commissioners before the % nearest magistrate. Money so collected shall go into the road fund of the county, and be credited to the road district from which it was collected. That when any vacancy .shall occur in the office of overseer by death, resignation or otherwise, the township board of commissioners wherein such vacancy occurs shall appoint some suitable person to fill the vacancy: Provided, That such overseer may appoint some suitable person liable to roaa duty ^ on his road a warner, and sucn person shall be exempt from road duty for the time he acts as warner. Sec. 3. The roadbed shall be not less than 16 nor more than 20 feet wide, exclusive of ditches, roots and runners, unless so ordered by the county board of commissioners. The county board of commissioners of the several counties of the State are hereby authorized and empowered to change the location of any of the public roads in any of the counties of this State, where in their judgment steep > bills and rough places in said roads can be avoided by so doing, and where such change would be to the material interest of the traveling public, and in like manner condemn abandoned bridge and ferry sites, and assess damages therefor as herein provided: Provided, that the county board of commissioners shall grant the persons owning the land where such alteration is to be made, and interested in such chance or alteration, notice of the day on which the matter of the change or alteration of such road shall be considered. Such person shall have the right to be heard for or against such change or alteration, and offer testimony for or against the same. For the purpose of relocating such roads they shall have the power to call to their assistance a surveyor, who shall survey and lay off such roads, under their direction, so the grade shall not exceed seven and a-balf inches to the rod wherever practicable. The said commissioners shall have the power to condemn the land so laid off. If the owner or owners of such land, shall signify his or their refusal to the opening of a highway through such lands without previous compensation, the county board of commissioners requiring such right of way shall give ten days' notice in writing to the person or persons through whose lands such right of way is required, of their intention to establish such right of way, naming in such notice a person who will act as referee for them in the location thereof, such owner or owners shall, within ten days thereafter, appoint a referee for the same purpose. The referee so appointed shall, within ten days, thereafter, meet at some convenient place and appoint a third referee, and the three relerees so appointed shall constitute a board of referees for the location of such highway, and to determine the compensation and damages for the same. From the decision of the board an appeal shall be allowed to the circuit court for the /i/Mintvr i?\ ii-Ki/iK onul in r\r/\r\/\oorl t/\ wuiiij in n mii;u iwiu iwau ia J'iw^wovu v?? be opened, where the trial shall be de novo before a jury, and the judgment set obtained shall be paid oy the county board of commissioners as other claims against the county are paid : Provided, That no road be established as set forth in this act shall be so established jus to run within 50 yards of a dwelling house without the consent of the owner of said dwelling, and it shall be the duty of each and every overseer to work the roads under his charge thoroughly as lie goes, arching the same to centre, with drain on each side to convey the water, and when necessary to protect such drains from washing, by placing in stone gravel, or other substance. Whenever it is necessary to convey water to or provide for it to cross any road, he shall have the drains across such roads laid in stone, gravel, or other hard cubstance, and of such width as to afford an easy crossing where a bridge may not be necessary, and he shall protect the roads by suitable drains from interference by cultivation or otherwise ; to open or cause to be opened all public roads and highways which shall have been or may hereafter be laid out and established in his road district, the same to be kept in repair, and remove or cause to be removed all obstructions that may from time to time be found therein ; for which purpose the supervisors are hereby authorized to enter upon any uncultivated lands or improved lands unencumbered by crops near to or adjoining such roads, to cut and carry away timber, except trees or groves on improved lands planted or left for ornament or shade; and to dig or cause to be dug and carried away any earth, gravel, sand, or stone which may be nccesnary to make,improve, or repair said road, for which compensation shall be made, and to enter on any lands adjoining or lying near the road, to make such drains or ditches through the same as he may deem necessary for the benefit of the roads, doing as little injury to said lands and improvements thereon and timber as the nature of the case and the public good will permit; and the drains and ditches so made shall be kept open by such overseers, and shall not be obstructed by the owner or occupier of such lands, or any other person or persons having the same in charge under the penalty of forfeiting a sum not exceeding 310, or [imprisonment for not less than 15 nor more than 30 days for each and every Offence, to be sued for by the overseer, and paid over when collected by the magistrate before whom action is brought to the county treasurer and applied to the road district from which it was collected. . Sec. 4. That all able-bodied male persons and all male persons able to perform, or cause to be performed, the labor herein required, between the ages of 18 and 50 years, except ministers of the Gospel in actual charge of a congregation, ana persons permanently disabled in the military service of this State, and persons who served in the late war, shall be liable annually to do and perform four days' labor on the highways, under the direction of the overseer of the road district in which he shall reside; and it shall require eight hours, of actual work to constitute a day's work under this section, except in Horry county, where the ages shall be from 21 to 50 years. Provided, further, That if any person liable to road duty shall pay to the county treasurer the sum of $2, except the county of Aiken, where it shall be $1, except the county of Kershaw, where the commutation tax shall be$l, and the same shall be received in lieu of the labor upon the public roads ; Provided, That the county board of commissioners of any county may cause to be levied an additional tax, not to exceed one mill, on all of the taxable property of any township in their county, when so requested by a written petition signed bv two-thirds of the freeholders of such townships, such a tax to be collected as other taxes, and to be expended upon the muds and highways of each township. Sec. 5. That it shall be the dutv of every overseer to make out a list of all persons liable to road duty. Said overseer is hereby authorized to demand of any person or corporation the name of any and all hand! in his, her or its employ; and any person or c rporation receiving of such overseer, or warner by him appointed, such demand, failing or refusing to furnish a list containing the names of all male employees, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offense shall be subject to a fine of not less than $10 nor more than $.10, or imprisonment in the county jail for not less than 10 nor more than 30 days, and place said list in tQe hands oi tne "warner," wun sunn serve notice, either by seeing the parties [>ersonally and giving verbal notice or eaving written notice at the residence of the party, to order out every such person resident as aforesaid, between the first day of January and the first day of'December annually, to do and perform the work aforesaid on the public road to which each person may be assigned, said assignment to be on roads near the residence of said party, or any road to be changed or opened within four miles. And if any person, being warned by such overseer as aforesaid, shall refuse or neglect, having had at least 12 hours, notice, to attend by himself or substitute to the acceptance of the overseer, or, having attended, shall refuse to obev the direction of the overseer, or shall spend the time in idleness or any inattention to the duties assigned bim, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be fined not more than $10 nor less than $5 and costs, or be sentenced to county chaingang not more than ten nor less than five days. Sec. 6. That in case any person shall remove from one county to another, or from one township in tne same county, or one district to another in the same township, who has, prior to such removal, J>erformed the whole or any part ot the abor aforesaid, or in any other way has paid the whole or any part of the amount aforesaid in lieu of such labor, and shall produce a certificate of the same from the overseer of the proper district, such certificate shall be a complete discharge for the amount therein specified. Go.. 1 Tl.at ativ nPiMnn warned to ner form any labor upon the public roads and highways under the provisions of this act shall by himself or a suitable substitute, who shall not be under the age of 16 years, appear at the time and place appointed by the overseer at the hour of 7 o'clock in the forenoon, and shall bring with him such necessary tools and implements used on a farm as the overseer may direct. Sec. 8. That for the purpose provided for in the preceding section of this act, the residence of any person who has a family shall be held to be where his family resides, and the residence of any other person shall be held to be where he boards or may be found. All tramps or persons not having any visible means of obtaining a livelihood shall be subject to road duty. Sec. 9. And every overseer is hereby required to account to the board of township commissioners at their annual settlement for all tools received, material used or funds expended, under oath, under this act, and tney shall also return a full and true list and statement of the names of all persons within their respective districts who have been ordered out to perform the labor as required by this act, and after each working to note the hours actually worked, work each hand does, and he shall make and furnish a list to the board of township commissioners of those who 1 ? ? '' nn.lnnta/) A ?\Orlnen? tlin HHve rfiuseu wr Iirgicuicvi v\? pcuviui cuv siune, and shall hy oath attest the correctness of each list so kept; and all finesand forfeitures used for and recovered under the provisions of this act shall be paid over on demand by the magistrate or constable collecting the same to the county treasurer wherein such tines or forfeitures accrued ; and the several overseers shall also render an account to the township board of commissioners at the annual settlement erf all moneys expended and all property remaining in their hands at the time of the settlement, also all judgments that remain unpaid, and the name of the judgment debtor, and magistrate before whom such judgments were obtained and the amounts thereof, and the township hoard of commissioners shall make such order as to the prosecution of the suits by the overseer of the proper district against such delinquents, as m me jim^incia m mo township hoard of commissioners the interest of the township may require. Sec. 10. That all property that may remain in the hands of tne overseer at the time of the annual settlement with the township board of commissioners shall he turned over to his successor in office as soon as such successor shall be elected and qualified, taking a receipt therefor, and deposit said receipt with the township commissioners. It shall be lawful for any overseer to sue out executions on any judgment that remains unpaid within his proper district at any time when, in his opinion, thosame can be collected, and the money so received and collected shall be paid over to county treasurer as provided in the foregoing section by the magistrate so collecting. Sec. 11. That the county supervisor of roads and highways within the county be, and is hereby, authorized to have the overseer to construct footpaths or bridges over streams, swamps, marshes, and along the highways of his county. Sec. 12. That each overseer within his district may erect and keep up, at the expense of the county, at the forks and crossroads, a post and guide board, or fingerboard, containing an inscription in legi nle letters directing the way and distance to the town or towns, or public place or places, situated on each road, respectively. Sec. 13. That if any person shall wilfully demolish, throw down, alter of deface any guide-board, every person so offending shall, upon conviction thereof, before any magistrate of the proper couuty, be fined in any sum not exceeding $10 and the cost of the suit, or be sentenced to labor on the public works of the county for a term of not more than 30 days, ana the money, when collected, shall be by the magistrate collecting the same, paid over to the county treasurer. Sec. 14. That tne county board of commissioners be, and they are hereby authorized to furnish sign-boards, ploughs, scrapers, or other tools for the use of the several districts, at* their discretion, to be paid for out of any moneys in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated, and turn the same over to the chairman of the township board of commissioners and take his receipt therefor. The township board of commissioners shall take a receipt from each overseer for such implements as they may deliver to him, showing to him the number, kind and condition thereof, and such overseer shall be liable for any injury or damage that may result to such implements, or to any of them, by improper use thereof, or by unnecessary exposure to the weather, during the time the same may be in his possession ; and he shall, on the first Tuesday of February annually, return the same to said township board of commissioners. The amount for which overseers may be liable for such improper use or neglect may be recovered by action in the name of the township board of commissioners, and any person using the plows, scrapers, or other tools furnished by the county board of commissioners for other purposes than the purpose for which the same was furnished, shall be fined not more than $50 nor less than $5, or imprisoned not less than 10 nor more than 30 days. Sec. 15. That the county board of commissioners In the several counties may, In their discretion, authorize and require the county supervisors to hire and employ overseers and laborers upon the public highways under control of overseers, at such compensation as the board may determine. Commutation taxes and such other funds as may be applicable to highways may be used in payment for such work. Sec. 10. That each and every overseer who shall neglect or refuse to perform the several duties enioined on him by this act, or who shall, under any pretense whatever, give or sign any receipt or certificate purporting to be a receipt or certificate for labor In work performed or money paid, unless the labor shall have been performed or money paid prior to the giving or signing of such receipt or certificate, shall forfeit for every such offence not less than $10 nor more than $50, to be recovered by an action before any magistrate of the county; and it is hereby made the duty of the township board of commissioners to prosecute all offences against the provisions of this section. Provided, That If any overseer conceives himself aggrieved by the Judgment of such magistrate, he may, on giving sufficient security in double the sum of the Judgment found against the party offending, to said magistrate for the payment of the cost, appeal to the court of common pleas, which shall makesuch orderthereln as it may appear Just and reasonable. Sec. 17. That It shall be unlawful for any overseer to perform or cause labor to be performed on any road not regularly laid out and established by law. Sec. 18. That any time during the year, when any public highway shall be obstructed, it shall be the duty of the overseer of the district in which the same may be, forthwith to cause such obstruction to be removed, for wmcn purpose ne Bnuil i^imeuiuu:^ orucr out such persons liable to do work upon the public highways of his road district, as he may deem necessary to remove said obstructions. If the person or persons thus called out have performed their four days' labor upon the public highways, the overseer shall give to sucn person or persons a certificate for the amount of labor performed, and suid certificate shall apply on the labor that may be due for such person or persons, for the ensuing year. Sec. 19. That if any person or persons, corporations, or any conductor of any train of railroad cars, or any other agent or servant of any railroad company shall obstruct unnecessarily any public road or highway by permitting any railroad car or cars or locomotive to remain upon or across any street, public roads or highways for a longer period than five minutes, after notice to remove said cars has been given to conductor, engineer, agent or such other person in charge of said train, or shall permit any timber, wood or other obstructions to remain upon or across any such street, road or highway, to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers, or any person or persons passing along or upon such street, road, or highway, every person or corporation so offending shall forfeit any pay for every such offense any sum not exceeding twenty nor less than five dollars, and shall oe liable for all damages arising to any person from such obstruction or injury to such road or highway, to be recovered by an action at the suit of the township board of commissioners in which such offence shall have been committed, or any person suing for the same, before any magistrate within the county where such offense shall have been committed, or by indictment in tne court 01 general sessions or suit In the court of commom pleas. And all lines so accruing under the provisions of this section, when collected, snail be paid over by the magistrate to the county treasurer for the district in which such offense was committed. And every twenty-four hours such corporation, person or persons, as aforesaid, after being notified, shall suffer such obstructions, to the hindrance or inconvenience of travelers or any person going along or upon such road or highway, shall be deemed an additional offence against the provisions of this act. Sec. 20. That every railroad company or other corporation, the servant or servants, agent or agents, employee or employees, or which shall in any manner obstruct any street, public road or highway, shall be liable to pay all fines which may be assessed against such servant or servants, agent or agents, employee or employees, for so obstructing an> such street, public road or highway, ana such liability as may be enforced by execution against said railroad company or other corporation on the Judgment rendered against such servant or servants, agent or agents, employee or employees, for so obstructing such street, public road or highway. Sec. 21. It shall be unluwful for any railroad company to obstruct the drainage of any public road or highway by its roadbed or otherwise, or empty the water from its ditches into any public road or .highway, to the In jury or Ram nignway ; ana u any raumuu company, being warned by the overseer of the proper district by leaving a written notice with any agent, or Informing any station agent of said railroad company personally, shall refuse or neglect to remedy trie same to the acceptance of the overseer, shall forfeit and nay any sum not exceeding 850 nor less than 820 to be recovered by an action at the suit of the township board of commissioners bpfore any magistrate; and every ten days such railroad company, after being notified, shall neglect or refuse to remedy such offence shall be deemed an additional offence against the provisions of this uct; and the money so collected shall be paid by the magistrate so collecting to the county treasurer, and the money so paid over shall become a part of the county road fund. Sec. 22. It shall be the further duty of such overseer to cause each railroad company to construct and keep in good repair the roadbed of all public roads across the roadbed of said railroad company; and If any railroad company, being duly warned by the overseer of the proper district, by leaving a written notice with any station agent, or by informing any station agent of said railroad company personally. shall neglect or refuse to construct or >' ??i/> uwi'iitjinpe of the overseer, shall forfeit any sum not exceeding if.V) nor less than SfO, to be recovered by an action at the suit of the township board of commissioners before a magistrate of the county, and tlit* money so collected shall be paid by the magistrate collecting to the county treasurer, and the money so paid over shall become a part of the county road fund ; and every live days such railroad company, after being duly untitled, shall neglect or refuse to construct or repair said road, shall be deemed an additional offence against the provisions of this act. Hoc. at. The supervisor shall furnish each member of the township board of commissioners with a sufficient number of printed copies of this act for the use of the overseer and , township board of commissioners, and the county board of commissioners shall furnish the necessary books and blanks for the use of the township and the township board and overseer. The township board of commissioners shall not lay off any portion of any incorporated city, town or village In any roud district. Sec. 24. That the pnssage of this act shall not be held to have altered or changed any actions which may have occurred to any one under an act entitled "An act to regulate the roads and highways of Burn well county." The roads, bridges and highways of the counties adopting the contract system shall be worked as hereinafter provided. See. 25. That if the county board of commissioners conclude to adopt the contract system for working, mainlining and operating the several sections of yfie highways, roads, bridges, and ferries in the several townships in their respective counties, or any part thereof, the county supervisor, ha soon as practicable thereafter, may advertlsp in the newspaper i j published In the county once a week for three weeks, and by notices posted In two or more conspicuous places in the several town- I ships, or the township to be worked by the I contract system, for bids from responsible I persons for the performance of the work as above set forth, and shall furnish speclflcatio ;, of all such work or contracts as have been advertised. Any and all bids made I shall be In writing, sealed, and addressed to the county supervisor, and by him opened In the presence of and submitted to the county board of commissioners, and it shall be the duty of said board to accept the lowest bid made by a responsible person or 1 arty: Provided the county boara of com- p missloners shall have power to reject any and t all bids; and said board Is hereby empowered 11 to hire overseers and laborers, and have the work performed as in Its judgment may be most expedient and for the best interest of 81 the county: Provided, farther, That the 1. county supervisors of the counties of this State are hereby authorized and empowered y to arrange to work the roads of their respective counties, or to lease to or from the county tl board of commissioners of any county, upon fl such terms as may be agreed upon by the re- , spective county boards of commissioners, tl any convicts sentenced to perform hard labor v upon the public works or any county, and said convicts may be worked upon the roads, 11 highways, bridges or other public worKs ot a the county where convicted, or of the county to which they have been leased. ft Sec. 26. That the county board of commis- K sioners of said counties be. and they are hereby, B authorized to levy annually a sum not exceeding one mill on all taxable property of the re- t] spectlve counties, which shall constitute a part of the county road fund, to be expended by the ? said board In the same manner as Is provided J by law for the use and expenditure of the commutation tax in lieu of road duty; and such tax shall be collectecf tit the same time and q manner as is provided by,lawforthe collection "? of taxes levied for ordinary county pusposes ; Q Provided, That the provisions of this section a shall not apply to Orangeburg county. Sec. 27. That the county treasurers of the w counties of this State are hereby authorized and empowered to receive from any and all persons liable to road, duties in the counties D of Abbeville, ? dollars to be fixed by the ti county board of commissioners ; Aiken, one dollar; Anderson, onp dollar; Barnwell, one B dollar; Beaufort, twoj dollars; Berkely, one n dollar; Chester, two dollars; Chesterfield, one dollar; Charleston, ode dollar; Colleton, two dollars; Clarendon, two dollars; Darlington, h one dollar; Edgefield! two dollars; Fairfield, ? two dollars; Florencfc two dollars; Georgetown, two dollars: Creenvllle, one dollar; 8l Hampton, one dollan; Horry, two dollars; u Kershaw, one dollar! Lancaster, one dollar; Laurens, two dollars I Lexington, one dollar ; Newberry, one dollar {Marlboro, two dollars; fi) Marion, two dollars ; Pickens, one dollar and . fifty cents; Richland, two dollars; Spartan- tl burg,one dollar; Saluda, two dollars: Sum- @ ter, one dollar; Union, one dollar; Oconee, , one and one-half dollars; Orangeburg, two 0 dollars: Williamsburg, two dollars; York, y one dollar as commutation tax ; and all moneys so paid shall be set apart and known as the county road fund : Provided, that such p commutation tax be paid for the fiscal year . 1896 between the first day of March and the 11 first day of April, and hereafter said commu- p ration tax shall be paid for the succeeding , year when State ana county taxes are paid, " and that the county treasurers shall furnish a a receipt to the person so paying the same. Sec. 28. That the county treasurer of said K counties shall fhrnisb the county supervisor of ti their respective counties a list containing the names or all persons who have paid their commutation tax, and the chairman of the town- ti ship boards of commissioners shall also prepare and furnish to the supervisor a list of all persons liable to rood duty in their respective e: townships; and the said supervisor shall check off the names of all such persons reported on the list of the county treasurers as having paid ? their commutation tax; and all persons whose names shall remain on the list so checked shall be required to perform road duty not 81 exceeding in the aggregate four days, and n shall be assigned to such duty by the county _ supervisor under one of the contractors in the i township having under control the section or sections nearest the residence of such person . or persons. It shall be the duty of the con- D roniAi. nf onv oiififlnn fi> iw?Airf> Qiiph nersnn w or persons f!b assigned to him by the county , supervisor, and shall allow to the county h board of commissioners such sum per diem f] for the labor of any such person or person as , may be agreed upon by contractors and the c county board of commissioners, and said sum shall be credited upon the amount due or to become due said contractor by the said board as hereinbefore provided; b any person assigned to work under a contractor as herein provided and refusing or falling to do so shall be guilty of a mlsde- '1 meanor, ard fined In a sum not less than five nor more than twenty dollars, or Imprison- a ment In the county Jail for a period of not less n than ten nor more than thirty days, or sentenced for the same period on chaingang. Sec. 29. The county board of commissioners are hereby authorized to work the high- _ ways in their counties, or any part thereof, by 11 chaingang, without regard to the system or systems used In other portions of their coun- ^ Sec. 30. All acts or parts of acts lnconsls- fl tent with this act be, ana are hereby, repealed, j Sec. 31. That this act shall go into effect on Its approval by the governor. V Approved the 23d day of March, A. D., 1896. ^ b LONG-SIGHTED BUSHMEN. g n The Men of the African Woods Have Tel- I) escoplc Eyes. 0 There is a race of men who can see fi as far with the naked eye as an ordi- n nary man can with a telescope. They ti live in a wild state in the south of A Africa, among the tribes of bushmen. c The name "Bushmen" is an Anglicism a of the Dutch word "Bjoseman,," mean- a ing "man of the woods." These human o telescopes have derived their extraor- h diuary power of vision, according to s Mr. Herbert Spencer, through necessi- b ty. If it were not for this they must n have long ago become extinct. They a are remarkably small in stature for h wild men, and they offer an easy prey *J for'the large fierce beasts that infest certain parts of Southern Africa. And on account of their diminutive size, ^ they are not equal to fight on equal 6 terms with their warlike and larger ^ proportioned neighbors. b Travelers in the region of the long- z sighted bushmen have reported some ^ truly remarkable feats with the eyes. ^ Ono don while a Flnrnnoan wan walk. ? ing in company with a friendly bushman, the latter suddenly stopped, and pointing ahead in some alarm, ex- ? claimed, "A lion." The white man ^ stared until his eyes ached, but he ^ could make out nothing. Thinking ? that the native must have made a mis- s; take, he insisted on going forward, ^ though his companion urged him to ? retreat. When tbey had advanced a little farther the bushman came to a 0 halt and absulutely refused to go an- r other step, for, as he explained, he ^ could distinguish not only a lion, but a number of cubs. It would be dan- c gerous, he said, to tamper with a lioness while nursing her little ones. The ^ European, however, still unable to see a lion, much less the cups, pushed on boldly. When he had advanced a y quarter of a mile he saw an object mov- y ing slowly along in the distance at the ^ point to which the bushman had directed his gaze. Still doubting that a human being could possess such mar- ( velous power of vision, he approached nearer, and finally distinguished the y form of a lioness making leisurely for ^ a line of forest. The limit of a man's ^ power of vision is established by necessity. If our existence depended on j our abibity to see twice as far as we do, this additional power would be acquired by practice. * ? * B< VeF -There are two sides to every ri question, a right side and a wrong. It is hardly necessary to say that the si wrong side is not the side upon which t] you are looking. 3 b KISS MADAM. By OHEBEAD. [Copyright, 1805, l>y P. T. Neely.] CHAPTER L An old man and an old woman, a ale young fellow and a girl, sat at a ible placed upon a long veranda. "Now I wonder who that can be?" lid the old man, craning his neck and aoking down the road. The girl and the oung fellow got up that they might oblin a better view, and the woman, with n air of keen curiosity, leaned over be table, gazed down the road, and, rith u woman's quickness to discover atention, declared: "He's goin to stop, ee, pap?" clutching the old man's rm. "He's goin to come in at the big ate." "He's not goin to do no sich of a hing," the man replied. "He's?hangd if he ain't. Wonder who he can be. tidin putty good stock, anyhow." The horseman who bad thus turned a uiet noon hour into a speculation of eep concern rode up to the yard fence nd, following a time set fashion of bat part of the country, cried, "Hello!" "Git down and come in," the old ran answered. He bad arisen from the able and was advancing to meet the branger. "Come right in, suh, and lake yo'self at home." The girl vanished. The young fellow ung about and stole an occasional peep t the visitor. It was evident that tr angers were rare* in that neighborood. "We have jest been eatin a snack," aid the old man, when he had shown be stranger into the house. "Won't yon at a mouthful or so? Don'.t reckon, owever, that you will find much to o' taste." "Pap," the woman suddenly interosed, appearing in the door and wringis her aDron in embarrassed conscious ess of tbo temerity of thus presenting erself, "if be'll wait a minit, I'll kill obicken and bake some biscuit, for, oodness knows, we ain't got nntbin bat is fitten for a body to eat" "Oh, don't let me pot yon to any rouble 1" the visitor protested. "I'm re that anything you've got is good uough for me." He was so easy in manner and so ordial of voice that the woman, yieldig, though reluctantly, it could be seen, aid: "Waal, if yon think yon can pnt p with it, yon are perfectly welcome, 'ap, fetch a cheer for the gentleman." They seated themselves at the table, ut the girl and the yonng fellow did tot reappear. The girl, peeping from iebind the ash hopper and speaking to he young fellow, who had taken refuge ehind a corner of the smokehouse, said: "He looks mighty fine, Little Dave." "A fiddle ain't no whar to him," the oy answered. "Little Dave," the old man called, 'why don't you and Miss Madam come long here now and finish eatin yo' diner?" "Don't want no mo'." The visitor looked np, and the girl nd young fellow dodged out of sight In some parts of tine country tms rould have been regarded as an odd amily, but in a certain wild region of Kentucky old man Bradsbaw's "folks" rere quite conventional The head of he household was somewhat of a neighorhoood character. He was tall and aunt, with a large, pioneer sort of ose, and with an uneven, grayish earcL He had a backwoodsman's ideas f the ludicrous, that broad estimate of on which, when refined, but not too inch toned down, approaches the esablishment of a distinctive class of imerican humor, and emphasizing his onception of the ridiculous, as though n atonement must be offered, there was pathetic note somewhere in the gamut f his voice. When a young man, he ad built a house on a hillside, near a pring that gushed from under a rugged luff, green the year round?eternity's loss covering the rock of ages. Here he nd his wife had spent many a year of ail. and it was here, in an old orchard, bat they expected to be buried. The woman, too, was, in her way, a ppe. She had two great fears?one that he might not possibly have received nongh of the Spirit when, years ago, be had sprung up from the mourners' ench and shouted in the almost frenied ecstasy of her soul's deliverance rom torment She was supremely, she bought divinely, happy for months aftrward, but gradually she began to fear bat her conversion had been too vioant, and that satan must either have ad a hand in the work or had at least brown in a suggestion or two. Someimes her faith would be perfeot, and ot a cloud could she see in her serene ky of hope. Then she would go about be yard, singing. Everything seemed o inspire her, and new songs came to er as she stood, with her' arms resting n the fence, gaziDg down the lonely oad. The breeze that stirred her hair ras a whisper of love, and the sunlight bat fell in the lane was a smile of enouragement. Suddenly, and without a earning gradation from this mount of ssured paradise, she would sink into be valley of doubt. The breeze that tirred her hair was harsh with reroach, and the sunlight that fell in the ane was a threatening flame. Then she ?ould hasten to the field where her husand was at work. "Pap, I jest know I ain't elected." "How do you know? You ain't seen 11 the votes yet, have you?" "For mussy sake, don't talk that way rhen a body is in sioh distress. Oh, I lave done the best I can, the Lord nowsl" "Waal, if you have, you are all right, reckon. You trust in the Saviour, on't you?" "Oh, yes, with all my soul." "Waal, then, nothin can't hurt yo' duL Go on baok to the houso now and ast easy." If one of these supplicating visits hould happen to be near the noon hour, tie old fellow would slyly hint that he idn't feel very well either, and thai a ite.to eel wonld help him mightily, Mrs. Bradshaw's other fear was that people who visited her house might go away and "norate it around" that they didn't get enongh to eat while there, and she had been linown to slip ont at night and kill a chicken to keep down the possibility of slander. The old man often said that nothing on the place was safe, not even a sitting goose, whenever anybody chanced to "drap in." Once, when she was delirious with fever, her husband awoke at night and found that she was gone. He heard a chicken squawl, and then he found her in the henhouse, reaching up and tugging at the feet of an old Shanghai rooster. With regard to the comer who had so cheerfully agreed to take pot luck, even though be was courteous and cordial, there arose grave suspicions, and those fatal words, "norate it around," seemed to whisper themselves into the woman's mind during the meal, but after dinner, when they sat in the "big room," talking with pleasant freedom, -* 3 3 I- ?? #.?. ..aaJ A sue WUDUertfU UUW BO gUUU uatuicu u man could posgibly "slander a body." "I have hadyo'hoss pnt up and fed," the old man remarked when the visitor, slightly leaning buck, looked toward the fenco. "I didn't reckon you wanted to go any farther this evenin." "No; if you don't mind my staying all night. I have ridden pretty bard today and am somewhat tired." "You are mo' than welcome, suh. Let's see, what is yo' name?" "Andrews." "Any kin to Pete Andrews, over in Hackett county?" "I think not." "Waal, you needn't be ashamed to claim kin with him, for he's much of a man. Seen him tie a feller bigger'n him one day at Boyd's mill. Jest snatched a hold of him, suh, and nachA "Pap, I tell you It was Liza Perdue." ally tied him. And eat 1 Let me tell you. One time a passu] of ns at a log rollin 'gunter talk about eatin, and John Sanderson, the one that married Sis Perdue"? "He married Liza Perdue," Mrs. Bradsbaw mildly suggested. "The one that married Sis Perdue," the old man repeated. "Pap, I tell you it -was Liza Perdue, for I recolleck mighty -well the day they was married. I was standin at the big gate, and here come Sam Hargiss on the old mar' that he afterward swopped to Sol Faldin and 'lowed, he did, that Jeff Hawkins had split his foot open with an ax and that John Sanderson had jest married Liza Perdue. I recolleck it jest like it was yistidy." "All right," said the old man. "Have it yo' own way, for it don't make no difference nohow. What I was goin to say is this: A passul of us 'gunter talk about eatin, and John Sanderson"? "The one that married LizaPerdue," Mrs. Bradshaw observed, slightly inclining her head toward the visitor. "Waal, ding it all, the one that married Liza Ann Perdue"? "Her name wan't Liza Ann, pap. It wan't nothin but Liza. You are thinkin bout Lizzie Ann, the one next to the youngest." The old man was silent for a few moments, and then, stroking his beard, said: "I wish I may die if I ever seen the like. Confound the Perdue family anyhow 1 The old man borrowed a bull tongue plow from me once, and I wish I may never stir agin if he didn't swop it for a shuck collar and a pair of hames. But," he added, nodding at the visitor, "what I wanted to git at is this: A passul of us was at a log rollin, and the question of who could eat the most come up, and John Sanderson 'lowed in a sort of offhand way that he did reckon he could eat mo' roasted goose eggs when he was right at himself than any man he ever seen. Now this was a leetle grain mo' than Pete An drews could stand, 00111 a mgn uuruug sort of feller, aod ho spit his tobacker out of his mcath, he did, aud says, 'Are you right at yo'self today?' And then John Sanderson sort of felt of himself and stndied awhile and 'lowed that he reckoned he was. 'Well, then,' said Pete, 'about how many do you think you can chamber?' John studied awhile and 'lowed that he didn't know exactly how many he could chamber, but that he would eat agin Pete and have an understandin that the one that eat the least had to pay for alL Waal, they pitched in, and Sanderson swallowed 11, but Andrews he raised a great shout of victory by swallowin 18. I tell you he wan't no common man even in them days, when great men was a heap mo' plentiful than they are now. So yon wan't no kin to him?" "No; I have no relatives in this state." "Yon live away off yander some whar, I reckon?" "Yes; a long wayB." "Don't look like yon been nster doin much work?" "Pap," the woman interposed, "don't talk thater way. Everybody don't have to work themselves to death like us." "Waal, 'Lizabuth, I sholy didn't mean no harm, for I had an old uncle in No'th Klina that never done no work, and he was a putty good sort of a fellow, too, I'll tell you." The visitor laughed in so good natured a way that the man laughed, and then from the outside there came a tittering that caused the old woman to hasten to the door. "Miss Madam, what's the matter with you andjittle Dave out tharf" sbe asJtea. "uancyou behave yo'selfs and not dodge about a-gigglin like a lot of geese?" "Geese don't giggle. They squawks," came from the outside "Let 'em alone, 'Lizabuth," said the old man, smiling. "Let 'em enjoy themselves while they can." "They.are your children, I suppose," the visitor remarked. "Waal?that is to say?partly," the old man answered. "Miss Madam is our daughter?the only child we ever had except Jedge, that the guerrillas killed durin the war?but Little Dave ain't no kin to us. We took him to raise beta' Miss Madam was borned, cause he was a little bit of a crippled thing that nobody didn't want, but be always was a mighty peart child, and, bless yon, he can do a power of good with a hoe now. He's crowd in 20 potty close, and Miss Madam is goin on 17." "Why do yon caliber Miss Madam?". "I reckon that name dosonnd strange to folks that don't understand it, and I'll tell yon exactly how it come abont: A long time ago, when me and wife was movin ont here, our boss?the one we had?drapped down in the road and died. Laws amnssy, how we was trou bled, for we didn't know what to do, not bavin but a few dimes, and we know'd that thar won't no use in tryin to go on without a hoes, as we oouldn't, do nothin arter we got thar toward raisin a crap. While was standin thar, mournin, along come a carriage, and right close to it come a man on a hoes. The carriage was Se bright as a new dollar, and the man looked like a governor. Waal, when they got np to whar we was, they stopped, and the man asked, 'What's the matter with yo' hoes?' 'Nothin's the matter with him now, snh,' I said. 'He might have been ?-1 pUWdiUl D1UA. a lew UIJJLIIWB a^U) uuv he's dead now.' 'Is that the only hoes yon've got?'he asked. 'Yes,'said I, 'and I ain't got him now, and the Lord only knows how I'm goin to make a crap.' Jest then the sweetest face I ever seen?the face of a woman?showed at the winder of the carriage. The dogwood blossoms and the redbud bloom had give her their oolor, and the deWdraps from the grapevines had fell in her eyes. When she seen my wife a-standin thar a-cryin, she asked, 'And is that really the only hoes yon had?' " 'Yes, maih,' my wife answered, wringin her hands. " 'And yon say yon can't make a crap?' " 'We can't do nothin now that the hoss is dead, and we moot as well die too.' ' 7 "Then the woman sorter leaned out of the carriage, and, with a smile that put me in mind of a mornin in spring after a rain had fell the night befo', said, ' Jedge, get down' and give them yo' hoes I' , " 'Madam,' said he, 'it shall be jest as yon say,' and, befo' I knowed what was bein done, I was so astonished, the bridle rein was in my hand, my wife was on her knees, and the carriage was gone. We never oould find out thar ? " v W.j J names, Ail we anowea was ?ieuge sou Madam. So when our boy was barned ?the one that was killed?we called . bim Jedge, and when the little girl oome we oalled her Madam, bnt bein snob a little bit of a thing, and Madam so on din most too big for her, we added the Miss. 'Lizabnth, step thar to the do'and tell the children we won't go out to the field agin this evenin." TO BE COFTiaCEB. CHRIST'S SECOND COMING. A Convention of Minister* to Discos* the Bible Prophecies. Arrangements are being made for a convention in Pittsburg for the study of the Bible prophecies in regard to , the second coming of Christ. A prominent minister who is com- N mitted to the doctrine that will be under consideration, said: "We are not classed as cranks; but hold a doctrine which is gaining rapidy. It is asserted by one of the leading ministers of the Presbyterian church that there are at present five ministers committed to this interpretation of the prophecies where there was one ten years ago. Some of the greatest minds of the country are in line on this subject, and we will show this in the convention which will doubtless be held. "What we believe is simply this: A thousand years before the final judgment Christ will come personally to the earth and inaugurate bis kingdom of righteousness. At that time there will be a resurrection of all the right j- ?J C0U8 U6ftU? liiC icouiicvuvu vi vuv wicked wili not take place until the end of the 1,000 years, and then the filial judgment will be held. Whether the Lord will remain on the earth during the millennial period we do not pretend to say." When asked what was held in regard to the final abode of the righteous and the eternal habitation of the wicked, he said : "We do not know?at least at this time we cannot understand what is written on these points. That is one purpose of our meeting, to try to throw some light upon what is now comparatively dark to us. However, we are ali clear as to the correctness of the position on which we have declared ourselves."? I u:?tohitf<T llianairh to Philadelnhia X IVVOVUlg { Bulletin. Build One Another Homes.?A novel co-operation system has lately been started among the carpenters and painters of San Francisco, through which the individual workmen are becoming owners of homes of their own without any cost for construction. As soon as any member of the local organization has saved enough money to buy a lot and the necessary lumber, all his fellow workmen turn out the next Sunday and build the house for him. In one o? the suburban additions of the city a little colony of these "Sunday homes" has already grown up. The houses are not pretentious, but are solidly built and comfortable.?Chicago Chronicle.