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i public school* for *11 children between 1 m*l, Indnrtrial, Anricnlinr*! »nd Me- the *ges of *ix and 21 year*, and for the chanical college of this 8tel©. r . <lm*ion of the counties into soitsble Sec. 9. The property or credit of uchool distnet*, as compact in form as' the Htate of Booth Carolina, or of any V practicable, having regard to natural boundurie*, and not to exceed 49 nor be less than 9 square miles in area: Provided, that in cities of 10,000 in habitants and over, this limitation of area shall not apply: Provided, fur ther, that when any school district laid ont under this section shall embrace cities or towns already organized into special school districts in which graded school buildings have been erected by the issne of bonds, or by special taxa tion, or by donation, all the territory inclnded in said school district shall bear its jnst proportion of any tax that may be levied to liquidate Bach bonds or support the public schools therein: Provided, further, that nothiug in this article contained shall be construed as a repeal of the laws nnder which the several graded school districts of this State are organized. The present divis ion of the coin ties into school distric and the provisions of law now govern ing the same shall remain until chang ed by the general assembly. ( Sec. 6. The existing boards of com missioners of the several countiea, or such officer or officers as may hereafter be vested with the.same or similar powers and duties, shall levy an an nual tax of three mills on the dollar upon all the taxable property in their respective counties, which tax shall be collected at the same time and by the same officers aa the other taxes for the same year, and shall be held in the county treasury of the respective counties; and the said fund shall be apjaiftioned among the schoo 1 districts of the county in proportion to the number of pupils enrolled m the public schools of the respective dis tricts, and the officer or officers charged cy law with making said ap pointment shall notify the trustees of the respective school districts thereof, who shall expend and disburse the same as the general assembly may pre scribe. The general assembly jdiall define “enrollment.” Not less than three trustees for each school district shall be selected from the qualified voters and taxpayera therein, in such manner and for auch terms ns the gen eral assembly may determine, except in case* of special school districts now existing, where the provisions of law now governii g the same shall remain until changed by the general assembly: Provided, The manner of the selec tion of said trustees need not he uni form throughout the Htate. There shall be assessed on all taxable polls in the State between the ages of 21 and ttl) years (excepting Confederate sol diers above the age of 50 years.) an annual tax of jfl on each poll, thupro- eeeds of which tax shall be expended for school purposes in the several' school districts in whhh it is collected. Whenever during the next three en- years the tax levied by the said County hoards of commissioiiere or similar officers and the poll tax shall not yield an amount equal to $:i per capita of the number of child ren enrolled in the public schools of «M»©h county for the scholastic year ending the dlsi day of October, in the year 1895. us it appears in the report of the slate superintendent of educa tion for Haul scholastic yevr, the comp troller general shall, for the aforesaid three next ensuing Hscal years, on the first day of each of said years levy Much au annual tax on the taxable property of the State as ho may de termine to be necessary to make up «uch deficiency, to lie collected as other State taxes, and apportion the Name among the counties of the State in proportion to the respective defici encies therein. The sum so appor tioned shall ne paid by the state treas urer to the county treasurers of the ■respective countiea, in proportion to the respective deficiencies therein, on the warrautof thecoinptrollergoneral, *ud shall be apportioned among the Mchool districts of the counties and disbursed as other school funds; and from and after the 31st day of Decem ber, in the year 1898, the general as sembly shall cause to lie levied annu ally on all the taxable property of the 43tate such a tax, in addition to the said tax levied by the said county board* of commisaioners or similar officers, and poll tax above provided, as may be necessary to keep the schools open throughout the Htate for such a length of time in each scholastic year as the general assembly may pre scribe; and said tax shall bo appor tioned among the counties in profior- iion to the deficiencies therein and dis bursed as other school funds. Any school district ranv by the au thority o,' die general ussembiy levy nn additional tux for the support of its scbooli. Sec. 7. Separate schools shall lie provided for children of the white and colored races, and no child of either race shall ever bo permitted to attend a school provided for children of the other race. Sec. 8. The general assembly may provide for the maintenance of Clem «ou Agricultural college, the Universitv of South Carolina, and the Winthrop Normal and Industrial college, a branch thereof, as now established by law, an.I may create scholarships therein; t he proceeds realized from the land scrip gi/.-u by the act of congress passed the h mon I day of July, 1882, for the support of an agricultural col lege, and any lauds or fuuds which have heretofore liecu or may h.-reafter be given or appropriated for educa tional pnrp >aes by the cougresa of the United States, shall be applied as county, city, town, township, school district, or other subdivision of the said State, or any public money, from whatever source derived, shall not, by gift, donation, loan, contract, appro priation, or otherwise, lie used, diiectly or indirectly, in aid or maintenance of any college, school, hospital orphan house, or other institution, society or organization of whatever kind, which is wholy or in part under the direction or control of any church or of any religions or sectarian denomination, society or organization. Sec. 10. All gitts of every kind for educational purposes, if accepted by the general asaembly, shall he appliel and nsed lor the purposes designated by the giver, unless the same be in conflict with the provisions of this Constitution. 11. All gifts to the State where rpose is not designated, 'ted property, the net da of all estates or copartners! in the hands of the courts of the State where there have been no claimants for the same within the last 70 years, and other money coming into the treas ury of the State by reason of the 12tb section of au act entitled “An act to provide a mode of distribution of the moneys aa direct tax from the citizens of this State by the United States in trust to the State of South Carolina,” approved the 24th day of December, 1891, together with such other means as the general assembly may provide, shall be securely invested as the Statu school fund, and the annual income thereof shall be apportioned by the general aasembly for the purpose of maintaining the public schools. Sec. 12. All the uet income to be derived by the State from the sale or license for the sale of spirituous, malt, vinous and intoxicating liquors and beverages, nut including so much thereof as is now or may hereafter be allowed by law to go to the countief and inuuicipal corporations of the State, shall be applied annually in aid of the supplementary taxes provided fot in the sixth section of this article; and if after said application there should be a surplus, it shall be de voted to public school purposes, and apiairtoiued as the general assembly may determine: Provid.-d, however, That the said supplementary taxes shall only be levied when the net in come aforesaid from the sale or license for the sale of alcoholic liquors or beverages is not sufiioient to meet and equalize the deficiencies for which the said supplementary tuxes are provided. AliriGJUB XII. CHAFUTAiltiB AND PENAL INSTITUTIONS, See. 1. Institutions for the care of the insane, tiliud, dost and dumb ami the poor shall always be fostered and t,u| ported by this State, and shall be subject to such regulations as the genciul assembly may euaet. Sec. 2. The regents of the State hos pital for the insane and the superin teudent thereof, who shall be a pbysi cian, shall be appointed by the gover nor, by and with the advice and con sent of the senate. All other physi cians, officers and employees of the hospital shall be appointed by the re gents, nnlesa otherwise ordered by the general assembly. Sec. 3. The respective counties of this State shall make such provision as may be determined by law for all those inhabitants who by reason of age, infirmities and misfortune may have a claim upon the sympathy and aid of society. Sec. 4. The directors of the benev olent and penal State institutions which may he hereafter created shall he ap point'd or elected os the general assem bly may direct. Sec. 5. The directors and superin teudent of the penitentiary shall be ap pointed or elec ted as the general aasem bly may direct. See. 6. All convicts sentenced to hard labor by any of the courts in this State may be employed upon the pub lie works of the State or of the counties and upon the public highways. Sec. 7. Provision may be made by the general assembly for the establish ment and maintenance by the State of a reformatory for juvenile offenders separate and apart from hardened eriminals. Sec. 8. The governor shall have power to fill all vacancies that may oo onr in the offices aforesaid, except where otherwise provided for, with the power of removal xutil the next session of the general nsseiubly and until a successor or suceessois shall he ap pointed aud confirmed. Sec. 9. The penitentiary and the convicts thereto sentenced shall for ever lie under the supervision and con trol of officers employed by the State; and in case auy convicts are hired or farmed out, os may lie provided law. their maintenance, support, / n attendance aud discipline shall under tne direction of oflicera detailed for those duties by the authorities of the penitentiary. ARTICLE XIIL MUdTU. Section 1. The militia of this State shall consist of all able-bodied mole citizens of the State between the ages of 18 and 45 years, except such per sons as are now or may lie exempted by the laws of -the United States or this State, or who from religious scruples may he averse to bearing or whilVgoing to or rntorning from either ol the same. Sec. 3. The governor shall have the power to call out the volunteer and militia force*, either or both, to exe cute the laws, repel invasions, suppress insurrections and preserve the public peace. Sec. 4. There shall be aa adjutant and inapector general elected by the qualified electors of the State at the same time and in the same manner as other State officers, who shall rank as brigadier genera), and whoso duties ami compensation shall be prescribed by law. The governor shall, by and with the advice and conseut of the sen ate, appoint such other Stuff officers as the general assembly may direct. Sec. 6. The general asaembly is hereby empowered and required, at its first session after the adoption of this Constitution, to provide such proper and liberal legislation a* will guaran tee aud secure au annnul pension to every indigent or dhh|h^d Confederate if tfflk ifctato snd of itea who are also to the ate soldi- sary to call a convention to revise, amend or change this Constitution, they shall recommend to the electors to vote for or against a convention at the next election for representative*; and if a majority of all the electors voting at said election shall have voted for a convention, the general assembly shall, at its next session, provide by law for calling the same; and snch con vention shall con :<rt of a number of members equal to that of the most numerous branch of the general nseem- bly. ARTICLE XVII. WILCELLANEOrra MATTE US. Section 1. No person shall be soldier and sailor of the Ute Confederate citizena of this State, ai indigent widows o: Con ers and sailors. directed in the acts appropriating the , Mr " ,s > um * shall be organised, offioere I, Ha me: Provide.I, That tb general as- "'“"'i 1 U"‘l ) l , >” 1 ““d discipline l as the aemhly shall, as Boon as practicable, j ss-eml.ly may by i,.w direct, wholly separate Clafi.i, College from L ^ , Tol '™ te, ' r *' llJ militia, Clafiiu university, au.) provide for a f ”rces ahull (except for treason, felony | against each of snob am separate cores of professors aud in- “ nd ‘ reach of the peace) be exempt ar itely. 8fcrMot>r.s themn, itiou to i»o fr**hi arrest "J warrant or other pro-j See. 3. Whenever two+thirdfl of th© given to men and women of the negro * hlle ' n Hctiv0 or "'tend- I membirs elected to each branch of the race; uud it shall be the Colored Nor j ‘“3 mUBtL ' r or t!le oilioera, j general assembly shall think it uuoes- ARTICLE XIV. EMINENT DOMAIN. Section 1. The State shall have concurrent jurisdiction on all rivers bordering on this State, so far os such rivers shall form a common boundary to this aud any other State lamuded by the same; and they, together with all navigable waters within the limits of the State, shall be common high ways and forever free, as well to the inhabitants of this State as to the citi zens of the United States, without any tax or impost therefor, nulees the same be expressly provided for by the gen eral assembly. Sec. 2. The title of all lands and other property which have heretofore accrued to this State by grant, gift, purchase, forfeiture, escheats or other wise shall vest in the State of South Carolina, the same as thotlfgb no change had taken place. Sec. 3. The people' of the State arc declared to possess the ultimate property in and to all lands within the jurisdiction of the State; and all lauds the title to which shall fail from defect of heirs shall revert or escheat to the people. ARTICLE XV. IMI-F.ACHMENfk. Section 1. Thehouseofrepresenta- tivos sUall have the sole mower of im- peucbmeiit. A vote of two-thirds of uil tne members elected shall bo re quired for tin impeachment Any offi cer impeached shall tUen-br be sus pended from oilicc until judgment in the case shull have lieen pronounced; uud the office si.all be tilled during the trial iu such manner as may he provi ded by law. Sec. 2. AU impeachments shall be tried by the senate, and when sitting for that purpose they shall be trader oath or affirmation. No person shull be convicted except by a vote of two-thirds of all the members elected. When the governor is impeached, tha chief jus tice of the supreme court, or, if he be disquaUfied, the senior justice shall preside, with a casting vote in all pre liminary questions. Sec. 8. The governor and all other executive and judicial officers shall be liable to impeachment; but judgment in such case shall not extend further than removal from office. The per- sous convicted shaU, nevertheless, be liable to indictment, trial and punish ment according to law. Sec. 4. For any willful neglect of duty, or other reasonable cause, which shall njt be sufficient ground of im peachment, the governor shall remove any executive or juiUcial officer on the address of two-thirds of each house of the general assembly: Provided, That the causoor causes fur which said removal may be required shall be stated at length in such address, and entered on the journals of each house: And provided, further. That the officer intended to be removed shall be noti fied of such cause or causes, aud shall bo admitted to a hearing in his own defense, or buy hia counsel, or by both,before any vote for snch address; and in all coses the vote shall lie taken by yeas and nays, and lie entered on the journals of each house respective ly ARTICLE XVI. AMENDMENT AMD REVISION OF THE CONSTITUTION. Section 1. Any amendment or umendmeutB to tlic Constitution may be proposed in the senate or house of representative*. If the same be agree, to by two-thirds of the members elect ed to each house, snob amendment or umeudments shall he entered on the journals respectively, w[th the yeas aud nays taken ther. ou; ■ fcmi the same shall tie submitted to ft he qualified «lectors of ttie State qj the next geu«,.- «1 election thereafter for represeuta- tives; and if a majority of the electors quulifi.-d to vote for members of the general assembly, voting thereon, shall vote in favor of snch amendment or amendments, and a msjority of each branch of the next gen.ml assembly shall, after snch an, election, aud be fore another, ratify the same amend ment or amendments by yeas and nays, the same ihnll become part of the Constitution: Provided, That such amendment or amendments shall have been read three times, on three several days, in each house. Sec. 2. If two or more amendments shall be submitted at the same time, they shall be submitted in such manner that the electors shall Tote for or udmenta sep- elected or appointed to any office in thia State unless he possess the quali fications of an elector: Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not apply to the offices of state librarian and department.il clerks, to either of which offices anj woman, a resident of the State two years, who has at tained the age of 21 years shall be eli gible. Sec. 2. The general assembly may direct by law, in what manner claims against the State may be estab lished and adjusted. Sec. 3. Divorces from the hoods of matrimony shull not be allowed ia this State. Sec. 4. No person who denies the existence of a Supreme Being shall hold any office under this Constitution. Sec. 5. The printing of the laws, journals, bills, legislative documents and papers for each branch of the general assembly, with the printing required for the executive aud other departments of the State, shall be let, on contract, in such manner as shall be prescribed by law. Sec. 6. The general assembly shall provide for the removal of all causes which may be pending when tnis Con stitution goes into effect to courts created by the same. Sec. 7. No lottery shall ever be allowed, or advertised by newspapers, or otherwise, or its tickets be sold in this State; and the general assembly shall provide by law at its next session for the enforcement of this provision. Sec. 8. It shall be unlawful for any person holding an officeof honor, trust or profit to engage in gambling, or be.tiug on games of change; and any such officer, upon conviction thceof, shall become thereby disqualified from the farther exercise of the functions of his office, aud the office of said person shall become vacant, as in the case of resignation or death. Sec. 9. Tlie real and personal prop erty of a woman held at. the time of her marriage, or that which she may hereafter acquire, either by gift, grant, inheritance, devise or otherwise, shall be her separate property, and she shall have all the rights incident to the same to which an unmarried womau or a man is entitled. She shall have the power to contract aud be contracted with in the same manner as if she were married. Sec. 10. All laws now in force in this State and not repugnant to this Constitution shall remain aud be en forced until altered or repealed by the general assembly, or shall expire by their own limitutiona. Sec. 11. That no inconvenience may arise from the change in the Constitu tion of this State, aud in order to carry this Constitution into complete opera tion, it is hereby declared: First. That all laws in force in this State, at the time of the adoption of this Constitution, not inconsistent therewith, and constitutional when en acted, shall remain in full force nntil altered or repealed by the general as sembly or expire by their own limita tion. All ordinances passed and rati fied at this convention shall have the same force and effect as if included in and constituting a part of this Consti tution. Second. All writs, actions, causes of action, proceedings, prosecutions, and rights of individuals, of bodies corpor ate aud of the State, when not incon sistent with this Constitution, shall coutinae as valid. Third. The provisions of all laws which are inconsistent with this Con stitution shall cease upon its adoption, except that all laws which are incon sistent with such provisions of this Con stitution as require legislation to en force them shall remain in force until such leuislation is bad. Fourth. All fines, penalties, forfeit ures and escheats seeming to the State of South Carolina under the Constitu tion aud laws heretofore in force shall accrue to the use of the State of South Carolina under this Constitution, ex cept as uerein otherwise provided. Fifth. All recognizances, obligations ' and all other instruments entered into or executed before the adoption of this Coustitutiou to the State, or to any county, township, city or town there in, aud all fines, tuxes, jieualtieB and forfeitures due or owing to this State or to auy (Niuuty, township, city or town therein ami all writs, prosecu tions, HClions and proceedings, except as herein otherwise provided, shall con tinue aud remain unaffected by the adoption of this Constitution. All in dictments which shall hare been found, or may hereafter tie found, for any crime or offence committed before the adoption of this Coiiatitutiou may be prosecuted as if no change had bceu made, except as otherwise provided herein. Sixth. All officers, State, executive, legislative, judicial, circuit, district, county, towunhip and municipal, who may be iu office at the adoption of ibis Constitution or who may be elected before the election of their successors as herein provided, shall hold their respective offices until their terms have expired and until their successors are elected or appointed and qualified as provided tu this Constiution, unless sooner removed os may tie provided by i.iw, aud shall receive the compensa tion now fixed by the statute laws iu force at the adoption of th.s Constitu tion. Seventh. At all elections held for members of the general assembly in case of a vacancy, or any other office. State, county or mnnicipal, the qndli- fications of electors shall remain us they were nnder the Constitution of 18C8, until the first day of November, 1896. Eighth. This Constitution, adopted by the people of Soath Carolina in convention assembled, shall be in force and effect from and after the 31st day of December, in the . ’ear 1895. Ninth. The provi ions of tne Con- stitntioo of 1868 and amendments thereto are repealed by this Constitu tion, except when reordaiued and de clared herein. Has CHEAI 1 BOOKS. How the Price of Publications Been Reduced. Fifteen years ago Mnnro, the greot American pirate, surprised the public, amazed booksellers aud precipitated international copyright by issuing standard works at 15 to 25 cents c volume. They were in newspaper type, in awknrd shape and badly printed. They were received us a miracle of cheapness. Whatever else they ac complished they destroyed the profits of the respectable New York 12mo and 8vo pirates, and the big bookselling firms, after half a century of piracy, were all instantly converted to inter national copyright. Ten years ago there began to be is sued at 10, 20 and 40 cents a volume, iu paper 12mo editions of standard works, which again amazed the public by their cheapness. They were in aa large type and as well priuted as the 1 franc. 25 centimes books with which Levy revolutionized the French book trade 40 years ago. They were better printed and covered a wider range than the shilling volumes of Rutledge, in England 25 years ago, the predecessors of many shilling series since. ' Five years ago various failures, liquidations aud speculations brought great blocks aud stocks of these issues on the market and they fell to 10 cents. This seemed about as far as they could go, but the past five years has seen a great change in the cost of producing cheap books. Paper has fallen iu value, typesetting machines have redneed the cost of composition, presses are run at a speed before un known, while new machines fold,stitch and cover the volumes ns they come from the pressaiul tie them iu bundles. The reault is that one New York firm has made a contract to deliver 2,000,- 000 complete paper covered books at 2) cents a volume,wh’^e another cheap book firm is delivering all its large list by the 1,000 at 2 j cents a volume, less 6 per ceut. for cash. This is probably as cheap as the book is likely to go and even at these wholesale prices the book is not as cheap ns the newspaper.—Philadelphia Press. KLb.M*r.iwa Diir.bi' IN. Typographical Errors Found in All tha Bunks Ever Printed. I remi mber once of a publisher in London who made up his mind to publish a book that should have no typographical errors whatever. Ho had his proofs corrected by his own proof-readers, until they all assured him that there were no longer any errors in the text. Then he sent proofs to the universities and to other publishing houses offering a prize of several pounds sterling in cash for every typographical mistake that could be found. Hnndreds of proofs wire sent out in this way and many skilled proof-readers examined the pages in the hope of earning a prize. A few errors were discovered. Then all the proof-sheets having been heard from the publisher felt sure that his book would appear before the public an absolutely p-rfect piece of compo sition. He had the plates cast, the edition printed and bound between expensive covers, bucanse as a perfect sjiecimen of printers’ art it was of course unique in literature and ex ceedingly valuable to bibliophiles. The edition sold well and was spread all over the country. The publisher was very much phased with himself for having done something that had hitherto been considered an impossi bility. T hen his pride had a fail, for six or eight months later he received a letter calling his attention to a cer tain line on a certain page. Then came another letter annonneing the discovery of a second error in this perfect book. I believe before the yeat was out four or five mistakes were fonnd.—Harper's Hound Table, liwaililf iSACUK UUPBJS. Supposed to Ke the Oldest Owelltnfl In This Conctry. Contrary to general expectation, eaya the New York Times, the famous Crailo manor house is not to be de molished. This will be extremely in teresting news to many people throughout the United Stater, but more particularly thoie of Eastern New York. The historical old place ‘Best School of Journalism. It is impossible, in my judgment, that there should be auy special school which will take a young man intend ing to pnrsifnthe profession of jonrn- aliim. after he has finished his college stuuies, and give him much valuable iustiuction iu the duties and labors of the future professional life, ’ and in that general experience in business which I recommend as most indis- p usable. There ia only one school for that purpose, and that is the news paper office, and the better the news- puper office tho more complete, the more varied, and the more extensive the labors that it aims at and per- foims, and tjio better educated the young man who ia going to learn hia trade there, the more effectually will he barn it. The newspaper office is the best post-graduate coin ?e that the student of the newspaper profession Csn have. Let him get the best edu- • ation possible s id then go to work in a newspaper office, and the better the • ditorthe hitler the instruction.— Charles A. Dana. OLDEST DWELLING IN THE US stands in one of the piotnresqaa streets of Oreenbaffi, jnst across the Hudson Kiver from Albany. It wjv near thia house that “Yankee Doodle” was written. For years the old block bouse has been fast dcoayin? nnder the ruthless ravages of time and tha element*. The Hociety of Colonial Dames, recognizing the valne of this, the oldest house in the United States, , has leased it for a term ol fifteen years. When the improvements now in prog ress shall have been completed a cus todian will be placed in charge. By the payment of a small entrance fee it will be accessible to all visitor*. The building was erected in 1642 as a manor honse and place of defense, and was known ns Fort Crailo. It was General Abercrombie’s headqutrter* while that doughty warrior was march ing to attack Fort Tioonderoga, in 1758. It was at the cantonment east of this house, near the old well, that the Army Burgeon, B. Shuckburgh, composed the immortal song, “Yankee Doodle." Too house is the original; homestead of the younger and larger , branch of the Van Rensselaer familv, ‘ after whom the county was named. ; According to the best histories, the building was erected by Killian Van Rensselaer for his son Johannes be tween the veirs 181J and 1642. Tha building is a two-story and attic brick structure of most substan tial construction. Tue walls nre of great thickness, and arc still pierced with two of the nine stoaa loopholes which once commanded tha ap proaches. Tha beams of hewn pine are of unusual size, some of them !'£- iug sixteen inches square. About the middle of tha eighteenth century tha rude fortreaadike dwelling was trans formed into a nauiUome residence, end an addition was made in the re.ar in 1749. The main entr incs is in middle of the r.yer front and access to a small uali, fn open door* loading to tue ma' on either side. At the end of springs an arch, tho imposts and fits of which are ornamented with delicate garlands in low relief. A second and much larger paneled hall, opening unon the porch at the left, intersects this hall at the centre of the honse. The old Crailo manor house is most curiously planned. All the rooms connect with each other, usually by means of closets, but as there are several levels ou the same story the doors in some cases open several feet above the level of the floor of the lower room. There is no ap parent reason for this difference of level, unless it was purposely designed to increase the difficulty of capture in the event of the house being taken by an enemy. Tho bnilding some years ago passed ont of the hand* of the Van Rensse- laers, and the property was in litiga tion for nearly two years. During that time it was the retreat of a band of yonng ruffians who broke the win dows, defaced the woodwork, and de molished the mantels and balnaters. Prior to that time tha old manor was visited by people from all parte of the United Btates. It is famous in history and song. 1 In the Same Boat. “Is it true that youl richest man at the beach last i I heard you were engaged to him.’ “Of course I was engaged to himt Do yon think I wanted to be the < girl that Was not?”—Truth. She Wee Astonished.'— As a Chicago woman cyclist taking a run on her wheel along I country road, a woman rushed wild 1 out from a small cottage many yar from the highway, waving her apr and hallooing madly. The wheel worn stopped short and waited. The wo on's husband was probably dying ai she wanted to send for a doctor. Cn ous, she tarried while the rural dai drew near. As she came up, pantl: and breathless, she ejaculated: “’Fe Ood, lady, tell me how ye over to set on them wheels." A "versatile genius" Is really a .7a of-all-trades, aud master of uonc.