Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, August 01, 1878, Image 4
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UNKLE REMUS' REMINISCENCES.
Uucle Remus met Captain Bill Newman
on Broad street yesterday and appeared to be
powerful glad to see him.
"Why, howdy, Mars Willium !" exclaimed
the old man, enthusiastically. "I ain't seed 1
you in so long dat hit's like gittin' fo' 'clock
'freshments at a Sunday school pic-nic fer ter ;
lay eyes on you. Whar you been, Mars
Willium ?"
"Hard at work, Uncle Remus. Where 1
have you been ?"
"Well, I tell yon de God s trufe, Mars
Willium, hit's bin dat hot dat I aint had
time fer to let de sun shine straight at me. i
Fer mighty nigh a week now I bin huntin' i
fer de cool side er my cabin an' I ain't 6ne it :
yit. I wanter ax you, Mars Willium," con- j
tiuued the old man, taking off his spectacles j
and rubbing the glasses on his coat sleeve, :
"wat's all dis 'ere pallitikle hillabooboo w'at
I hear Mars John a readin' unto Miss Sa'ah ?
Dey ain't gwineter bus' no mo' er dera Tilden
bungs, is dey? Case ef dey is I want's ter lite
outer town."
"Oh ! no, it's only people running for Congress.
You don't take stock in politics, do you,
Uncle Remus ?"
"Tween' you an' me an' the i'un wuks,
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it Jan dat little nigger wa't kick up so much
racket befo' Mars Lewis Clarke's sto' do'.
Hit's ez much ez I kin dofer ter sorter scratch
'roun' and git grub for me and de ole 'oman
an' de chillun, an' I brag on myself right
smartually w'en I does dat. W'en de time
comes I sorter sidle up to Mars John an' ax ;
'im ef he's got enny wotin' w'at he wants dun j
dat day ; an' ef he is, den I goes up an' wotes,
au' ef he ain't I goes on about ray bizness.
Dera's my politics, caze, w'en I gits hongry,
all I got ter do is jes hollow on Mrs. John,
an' de fust thing you- know, Miss Sally she's a
sai 1 in' 'round' huntin' in de cuppord and a
lookin' in de pantry an' fillin' up a dish for
de old nigger."
"Well, you used to belong to the Union
League, didn't you ? Come now ! Own up."
"I'm gwine to tell you de God's trufe, Mars
Willium. I did 'ten oneer dem meetin's, but
dey sorter hurted my feelin's, an' I didn't
hang out wid 'era long."
"How was that ?"
"Hit was de cu'ussest times w'at I ever seed.
You see, dey got it ruraorin' 'round dat all de
niggers dat jine dis here w'atcher callum, an'
vote on de 'publican side, wuz gwinter git forty
akers er Ian' an' a mule, and all de money
dey wanted. Well, one night de word went
'roun' de time'd come, and de cullud folks
wuz gwine-ter meet in Mack Marshall's black
smith shop in de night time. I 'members it
jes's well ez ef 'twuz yistiddy. W'en I drapt
in dar wuz a white man standin' up on de
anvil-block a preachin' 'way like be wuz a
wukin' by the job. I hadn't more'n got settled
good, w'en he ups an' says dat ef de niggers
woted with the w'ite folks dey'd all git
inter slavery agin, an' den he sez dat all deze
'ere suddern men?deze 'ere rebels, he called
M J ? _il n.,11.?l
em?was meau uu iuwuuwu, nu aixucwmuu
folks had fer ter 'pen' on wuz Giner'l Grant
an' de 'publican party. Biineby, w'en he
wuz sorter ketchin his bref, I ups an' axes 'ira :
'Boss,' sez I, 'you ain't puttin' Mars John in
dat bunch, is you ?' An' den he raised up his
hau's and holler like a town nigger at a cornshuckin':
'I'm a talkin''bout all un 'era,
men an' wiromen.' I see my son Jim dar,
an' I say, 'Jim, you an' daddy's got some
cheers ter bottom dis blessed night?less go ;'
an' we went, Mars Willium. Dat wuz my
las' speunce."
"But suppose Jim had refused to go ?"
Uucle Remus chuckled. "Dat boy got
sense like grown folks, Mars Willium. He
know who he wuz a foolin' wid' Ef dat boy
had or hung back arter I passed de word I'd
a busted 'im wide open. Hit's all mighty
nice fer de joung niggers?dis 'ere freedom,
Mars Willium?butde ole timers like mean'
my old 'omao ain't got much good out'n it,,
an' sometimes w'en I'm a settin' on Mars
John's back steps, sorter dozen' like, an' hear
Miss Sally's voice soun'n for all de worl' like
old Miss had come back, hit make me feel
< mighty cu'us an' den sometimes I dream I
hear de boys a hollerin' in de corn, an' dehoe
han's a singin' ez dey cum up de lane from de
new groun', an' 1 feel mighty happy ontell I
wakes up an' 'members dat I dunno whar my
vittles fer de nex' day i^a comiu' fum, 'ceppin
I falls back on Mars John an' Miss Sally.
But dey aint never fail me yit,Mars Willium,
an' I'm bettin' on urn unto the eend. Dey
never is ter go back on de ole nigger."
Whereat Uncle Remus reached down and
picked up the stump of a cigar, tipped his
hat to Captain Newman, and went off hunting
for a cool place.?Atlanta Constitution.
Why Jenks Never Married.?"I think
a woman is a tremendous being," said Jenks*
" When she's right, she's the Tightest thing that
floats; when she's wrong she's the biggest ouifc.
sauce that ploughs the sea, even if she is little
and dou't draw two feet of water. Perhaps it
isn't just the thing to say to a boy like you,
hut vmi'Il never SDeak of it if I should tell
J ? k ^
you a little something?"
"0, never," I assured him.
"Well, I suppose I might have been a married
man," and Jenks avoided ray eyes by
pretending to discover a horse shoe in the
road.
"You don't say so!" I exclaimed in undisguised
astonishment, for it had never ocoured
to me that such a man as Jenks could
ever marry.
"Yes, I waited on a girl once."
"Wasshe beautiful?" I inquired.
"Well, I should say fair to middling," responded
Jenks, pursiDg his lips as if determined
to render a candid judgment. "Fair
to middling,barring a few freckles?" I asked.
"No, I didn't leave her on account of her
freckles; she was a good girl, and I waited
upon her. It don't seem possible that I ever
really waited upon a girl, but I did."
"Why didn't you marry her ?" I inquired,
warmly.
"It wasn't her fault," said Jenks. "She was
a good girl."
"Then why didn't you marry her ?" I in- j
sisted.
"Well, there was another fellow got hanging
around, and you know how such things j
go. I was busy, and didn't tend up very i
well, I s'pose she got tired waiting for me?or |
something?aud the fellow married her, but |
I've never blamed her. She's been sorry '
enough, I guess."
Couldn't Fool Her.?A nice young man i
employed iu the Kansas Pacific office resolved j
the other day to present bis beloved girl with |
a nice pair of shoes. He accordingly procur- i
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ionable boot stores on Main street and purchased
a two-dollar pair of shoes. In order
to make the present appear more valuable he
marked 85 upon one of the soles of the shoes,
and at his request the clerk put a receipted bill j
for So into one of the shoes. The presentation
was made and the lovers were happy, as
lovers should be. But mark the sequel.
The girl examined the shoes in the daylight
and was not satisfied. She was convinced '
that her lover had been cheated in the pur- j
chase of such a pair of shoes at that price. She |
decided to go and change the shoes and obtain I
a better bargain. Yesterday she appeared
in the store and selected a pair of shoes, price I
83.50, and politely requested the clerk to take
back the shoes for which she said her husband
had paid 35. The receipted bill was produced
in pi oof, and the boot man found it impossible
to go "behind the returns." The smart
woman took her 83.50 pair of shoes and ob- *
tained 81-50 in money, and went home happy
and satisfied. The boot seller sent a bill for
33 to the young man, who promptly paid the
difference, but he thinks that girl a little too
smart for him.?Kansas City Times.
fife#**"A man who'd set fire to a barn," said
Deacon Slow, "and burn up five horses and
four cows, ought to be kicked to death by a
donkey,and I'd like to do it myself."
Ihc Jarm inA Jire* ii*. |
The Cost of Cotton Culture.?One I
good, active hand can cultivate twelve acree
in cotton or twenty-five acres of corn, which !
may be increased or diminished, according to 1
the character of the soil. The length of time J
required will be about eleven months for the
cotton and seven months for the com. Put- j
ting the wages of this hand at eight dollars j
per month, eighty-eight dollars; with rations, 1
say three and one-half pounds of bacon per i
week and one peck of meal, say twenty dollars;
feed of the mule to plough at forty
dollars, and the smith bill at five dollars,
would make the whole cost of cultivating
twelve acres in cotton, $153. If these twelve
acres would yield only four hundred pounds 1
of seed cotton per acre, then the amount ,
made would be 4,800 in seed, or 1,600 iu lint, j
So the expense of making 1,600 of lint will
be $153, which at $9.50 per oue hundred
pounds would simply cover the cost. But if |
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toe iaoa SUOUIU UlUKC uuc unmaauu puuuwo
per acre, the whole yield would be 12,000
pounds in the seed or 4,000 pounds in lint;
but as the one hand could not pick over half
the crop, the cost of picking the balance,
6,000 pounds, would be about twenty-seven
dollars, making the cost 8180, which, at 84 50
per hundred, will cover the amount, 8180.
So it is evident the expense of making one j
hundred pounds cannot be uniform as to the
cost. The richer the lands the greater will j
be the reduction of the expense, and the reverse
; for if only two hundred pounds had
been made per acre, then the expense would
have run up to nineteeu dollars, and if the
yield had been two thousand poun is, the cost 1
would have been 82.50 per on > huudred
pounds; the cost of the hired haud and the
feed of the mule being the same in both cases.
This plan of estimating the cost will
hold in making corn, though less than that of
cotton, as the time of working and gathering
crop need not be over seven months instead
of eleven.?Southern Home.
Curing Hay.?The season has come when
farmers are curing and gathering their hay
crop. The mooted question will come up as
usual for neighborhood discussion. How
much shall hay be dried before depositing in
bay or scaffold ? Some say one day's sun is
sufficient, if note quite dry, use salt. Others j
say two days. Much depends on amount put j
in body. Years of experience and observation
have confirmed me in the following method
: Regardless of time I have and would i
again dry just sufficiently that it may not
heat in mow, but when moved for feediug or
to the wagon for market, let it throw off its
primitive flavor as wheu from the field. Customers
to whom I have sold have always been
better satisfied than with a musty, smoky ar
tide. Every farmer is too wise, yes, even
deplores musty corn meal, believing it makes
poor milk. Why not musty hay have the
up--* no
same euev't as went nuiuiu^ ucaio ? !/ <*?.
I invite some young man to try the experiment
in two scaffolds side by side, and subsequently
report. Do not rest satisfied with '"I
think so" from'any one, as regards any meth
od of procedure connected with farming in its
various departments, unless that "think so"
is based on actual personal experiment; opinions
may be valueless; facts are what men
need and must have to warrant success in any
business?especially in agriculture. They are
available, young men, to all those who are
willing to investigate.? Cor. Ploughman.
Cayenne Pepper for Fowls.?Fowls seem
to need some stimulating food, or rather occasional
seasoniug of their different feeds of
grain in its varied forms. Some breeders
resort to prepared foods or some of the coudimental
poultry foods which are now so prominently
brought before the public. Some are
undoubtedly most excellent, and a breeder
may be benefited by using them knowingly.
There are some of the preparations, however,
which are to be tried with cautiou, for they
are prepared by those who do not know anything
about compounding preparations of any
kiud. Other things being equal, the simplest
thing that can be used is often found to be
the best. In this connection Cayenne pepper
is largely used, especially for young chicks,
and for young turkeys, too, but it must not
be fed in too large quantities. Better feed
sparingly and often than at long intervals
and in large quantities. It should always be
fed with soft or mixed food, especially with
corn meal. Mix the pepper well with the
meal before moistening it, so as to insure its
being well mixed through. Poultry breeders?
those who raise turkevs larpelv. esDecial
ly, know the value of Cayenne pepper^and
use it accordingly. Full grown fowls, too, are
very fond of it, and it serves to keep them
healthy, sharpens their appetites, and helps
to induce them to lay well and early.
Harvesting Hungarian Grass.?A correspondent
objects to Hungarian grass as teed
for horses on the ground that the seeds are
small and hard, very difficult of digestion,
and liable to cause inflammation, producing
all the symptoms of fouuder; the grass also is
a diuretic, acting strongly on the kidneys and ;
causing weakness of the loins. This is the i
first time we ever heard charges made against
Hungarian grass, and we have known of its ;
being used for a feed for years. The best j
time to secure the crop is when it is in bios- |
som, and before the seeds have formed. The
beards at this time have not reached that degree
of stiffness which the writer thinks causes
injury to the stomach of the horse, while the !
embryotic seed are perfectly harmless. One j
large farmer in this State has to our personal
knowledge, been using it for feed for his hor- I'
ses, at one time keeping eight on it without:
injury ; but then he always aims to cut at the 1
right time.?St. Paul Pioneer Press.
Difficulty in Churning.?Cream grows 1
more difficult to churn as the distance from
the time of calving increases, and the diffi- j:
culty is enhanced by feeding late cut or ripe I
fodder. If early cut hay and roots are used 1 1
for winter food there will be uo trouble with j
churning in winter, though it will require a j
little more time than when the cows live on 1
grass and are nearer the time of coming in. |
The ease of churning cream depends chiefly '
on the size of the fat globules" of which the 1
cream is composed. These are largest in the '
early part of the milking season, aud grow
smaller as the period of milk giving is pro- 1
longed. Other circumstances beiug equal,
the fat globules are largest when the cow has
food rich in fat, such as cotton seed meal, oil-!
cake, greeu grass or corn meal. They are
small when cows are kept on straw, dead-ripe
corn stalks, late cut hay, etc., especially when
they have been in milk a long time.
Employment for Hens.?Hens will tear
around the barn-yard like old scratch if
there is anything to be fouud by the effort.
Scatter a small quantity of corn around the
manure heap, and the hens will tear the heap
to pieces without mistrusting that they are doing
better pulverizing than one hired man
with fork and shovel. Bury their feed and
make them scratch for it, and then they will ;
keep out of such mischief as egg eating, feath- !
er pulling, etc., and the exercise will also prevent
them from becoming too fat to lay. Exercise
is a great essential to the health of
fowls and scratching and picking should be encouraged
by furnishing a bullock's head and
entrails for them to tear at as a occupation.
The Meadows.?This is a good time to
provide the meadows with a fertilizer for next
year's crop. A manure like ashes, or their
equivalent in bone, potash and the like, will
do the best service for next season by being
sown this year and at as early a day as practicable.
These ingredients are "slow" as the
farmers term it, and if applied now will do
well. They will not be lost, as neither the
potash, phosphoric acid, nor other similar ingredients
go off in the air uuder any circumstances.
Nitrogenous manures thus applied,
like fish scrap, guano, and dried blood may
lose a portion of their nitrogen, but this is
not the case with ashes and their equivalent, J
which are wholly without ammonia. i
HJiswHiwefluis Reading. |
OLD-FASHIONED FLOWER GARDENS.
There are fashions in flowers, even. Not,
indeed, in the growth, tinting or perennial
beauty of each particular kind; but, rather,
in the selection and arraugemeut of the different
species. Many of the standard flowers
of former days are discarded from modern
gardens, because, apparently, they are "oldfashion."
It cannot be that some of the
kinds, so much prized by our grandmothers, ,
are rejected from a lack of beauty ; for exam- i
ined simply as flowers, they are exquisite, j
Take the different varieties of the iris, the i
smaller flowered pansies, "ladies'delight," as !
they were called, the hardy pink?"Chinese"
grass and other sorts?the London Pride, Foxglove,
and dozens that we might name, all
beautiful and growing almost without care.
How many flowers really inferior to them
are now crown. Some of the old favorites
0 ? - were
coarse, it is true. Iu the model garden
of the present, poppies would be an offence,
and holly hock quite shocking. Yet a
bed or border of poppies, of the best kinds,
would be pronounced as 9uperb?if we didn't
know that they were only poppies! And
even a thrifty holly hock is a more gratifying
sight than the sickly displays of hot house
plants which we often see struggling for life. j
The rose will staud at the head as the "queen j
of flowers but the most perfect as well as
the hardiest of all the numerous varieties, the
"Damascus" rose, is now rarely seen, except
near some old abaudoued lot iu the country,
outliving the people who planted it, and other ,
generations that neglect it. With the half
filled cellar and the choked-np well, it is often
the only torn shrub left that marks the j
spot of some once "sweet home." Here, year
after year, it still blooms in beauty, as though
its bright petals clothed some lingering spirit
that still found delight in dwelling on the hallowed
spot.
We have nothing but praise for most of;
tho kinds of flowers so carefully cultivated at
the present day. Many of the new comers
are of wonderful beauty, while some of the
older ones have been much improved by the
skill of the horticulturist. Let us have more
kinds still from all quarters of the globe. But
we do like to see one of the old fashioned flower
gardens, with all its lack of arrangement,
its "coarse" flowers, if you please, the bluish
peonies, the poppies, invading the beds of
beets and the cabbage yard, and the toweriug
clump of sunflowers by the back fence.
Look at the fashions in modern "first class"
gardening. All the plants are on dress parade.
Here is a compauy straight as a cord
line, of geraniums? scarlet uniform ; now a
company of another sort?different color;
next, front line centouria?white uniform.
At exact right angels with these, a battalion
of other kinds, alljust the "regulation"
height; see one, you see all. Here a solid
square of coleus, not a stray one any where;!
rose bushes all with 'eyes front' and trimmed
a la mode. In their season come the annuals,
all in rows ; here are plants in triangles, then
iu ellipses, and again in starts, all on parade.
They are officered by gayly-accoutred groups
of cantias, palms and other rarities from the
conservatories, and altogether form an excellent,
well clothed, finely drilled, military display.
We do not object to this, for those
who can afford it. There is beauty in it and
science in it; but it isn't our mothers'and
grandmothers' gardeus ; and that accounts in
part, perhaps, for our love for the latter.
Bathing.?Hall's Journal of Health has
the following advice on bathing:
Once a w .ek is often enough for a decent
white man to wash himself all over, and
whether in Bummer or winter that ought to
be done with soap, warm water and a hog's
hair brush, in a room showing at least 70 degrees
Fahrenheit. Baths should be taken
early in the morning, for it is then that the
Bvstera possesses the power of reaction in the
highest degree. Any bath is dangerous soon
after a meal, or soon after fatiguing exercise.
No man or woman should take a bath at the
close of the day, unless by the advice of the
family physician. The best mode of keeping
the surface of the body clean, besides the once
a week washing already mentioned, is as fol
lows:
A a anrm na rmi crpf-. nnf nf hprl in thfi mnrn
ing wash your face, neck and breast; into the
same basin of water put both feet at once for
about a minute, rubbing them briskly all the
time ; then, with the towel, which has been
dampened by the face, feet, etc., wipe the
whole hody well, fast and hard, with mouth
shut and chest projecting. Let the whole
thing be done in less than five minutes. At
night when you go to bed, and whenever you
fiud yourself wakeful and restless, spend from
two to five minutes in rubbing your whole
body with your hands, so far as you can reach
in every direction. This has a tendency to
preserve that softness and mobility of the skin
which is essential to health, and which too
frequent washings will always destroy.
A Bit of Romance.?The determination
of Gen. Sherman's son, Thomas Ewing Sherman,
to become a priest, revives the romantic
story of the life and love of one of Gen.
Scott's daughters. As the story goes, this
daughter fell deeply in love with a member of
one of the foreign legations. The attachment
was reciprocal, but the match was so bitterly
opposed by the old hero of Lundy's Lane that
it was broken off. She cared nothing for the
world after that, and very soon was received
as a nun in the Georgetown convent. Her
lover returned to his native country and was
soon enrolled in the priesthood of the Catholic
church. In subsequent years he was ordered
to Georgetown College, and took his
turn in hearing the confessions of the nuns at
the convent. On one of these occasions Miss
Scott knelt in the confessional to her former
lover, and under such circumstances a recognition
took place. She fainted, went into a
rapid decline aud soon after died, aud he left
the country never to return.
A C,.?T ?k..? I
i iirj utn* l/uu v onui uui l 11 c auu,
even though the carpets suffer a little uuder
his ardent gleam. We are more active UDder
the influence of sunlight, and can think better
and act more vigorously. Let us take the
airiest, choicest, aud sunniest room in the
bouse for our living room?the work shop,
where brain and body are built up and renewed?and
let us have a bay window, no
matter how plain the structure, through which
the good twin angels of nature?sun-light aud
pure air?can freely enter. Dark rooms
bring depression of spirits, :raparting a sense
of confinement, of isolation, of powerlessness,
which is chilling to energy and vigor; but iu
bright rooms is good cheer. Even in a gloomy
house, where walls and furniture are dingy
and brown, we have but to takedown the curtains,
open the windows, hang brackets, and
let the warm sun stream freely in, to bring
health to our bodies and joy to our souls.
More Wonders of the Telephone.?
After describing a simple telephone which
he made out of a tin pot, by opening the
closed end, and tyiug over it a piece of parchment.
through the center of which a fine
string was passed, Mr. Severn says : "Make
a loop in the string about three feet long ;
put this loop over the forehead of the deaf listener,
and cause him to place the palms of
his hands flat and hard against his ears. Let,
the loop pass over his hands, and he will
hear the lowest whisper spoken into the telephone."
If this be true, it is certainly extraordinary.
Reading.?Spend, if possible, one hour;
each day in reading some good and great
book. The number of such books is not too
many to overwhelm you. Every one who
reflects on the former years of his education i
can lay his finger on half a dozen, perhaps
even fewer, which have made a lasting im- i
pression upon his mind. Treasure up these.
It is not only the benefits which you yourself
derive from them?it is the impression which
they leave upon you of the lasting power of j
that which is spiritual and immaterial.
^bildwn'is fPepctment.
WHERE THEY COME FROM.
You'll be shocked, 1 fear, wheu I tell you
that your doll came out of a rag-bag, her curls
from the back of a goat, and her elegant china
tea-set out of a mud hole.
But what will you say when I tell you
that your jelley is made out of old boots, and
your delightful perfumery from horrid-smelling
coal tar ?
You don't own all the made over things in
the family, either. Johnnie's new beaver cloth
overcoat was worn out on the back of a beggar,
and perhaps even played the part of
a scare-crow in some farmyard, before it began
on the world again,;, and the "tabl(j gelaMno
" niki/iK nnnrv arm nf tVi?? fumiltr lilfOQ fn
eat, once did duty on the back of a rat.
It is really wouderful to trace things back,
and see where they come from, aud which has
reason to boast of his ancestors. Queer stories
you would hear if the things arouud
you could tell their history. There's your
tatting shuttle. It ouce made itself useful as
a bone in a horse, while the ivory dice of the
backgammon board adorned the jaws and
crushed the oats of another of the race.
The pearl of your paper knife lined the
shell house of a modest little creature at the
bottom of the sea, while mamma's shell comb
was the co mfortable roof over a sea tortoise.
Your guitar strings were indispensable to
the eternal comfort of some poor pussy or unfortunate
sheep, and your piano would be but
a dumb wooden box without some of the same
iuterual arrangements of a horse.
Your nice hair brush first saw the light on
the skin of a hog. The crinoline that stiffens
the bottoms of ladies' dresses was used originally
toswitch the flies from the hacks of horses,
and the mattress on which you sleep so
comfortably served the same use before it fell
into the manufacturer's hands.
Your dainty toilet soap?dear nae, how can
I fell you f?was made of dead cats and dogs
found in the streets, and the "bitter almonds"
which so delightfully flavor your candy,
came from the horrible smelling coal tar,
while the choisest ales are deliriously flavored
with?putrid cheese.
The scent bags of that offensive animal, the
skunk, furnish some desirable additions to
the toilet table, used for removing freckles and
tan, and the dreadful stuff left in drains is
turned into a fashionable toilet article, aud
adorns the faces of ladies.
To be sure, these disagreeable materials
have some pretty rough handling hefore they
come out in their new colors. They do not
step from the gutter into the jelley kettle, by
any means. They go through a long process
of washing and smoking with sulphur, and
steaming and boiling, before they come out
white and delicate and fit for the table.
The coal tar, to grow into perfumery, goes
through the hands of chemists, who treat it to
I don't, know what dreadful chemical processes
; and the dead cats and dogs are boiled to
extract the grease, purified, whitened and perfumed
before we see them as soap.
The doll whose ancestors inhabited the ragman's
den, endured unheard of operations of
washing, soaking, bleaching, chopping, moulding
and so forth, before she took her place in
the nursery to amuse the little folks, and the
clay from the mud-hole was washed and purified,
and whitened, and kneaded, and baked
and glazed, before it veutured to call itself
china, and take its place on the the tea table.
The horse tails that stiffen the dresses and
stuff our matresses are washed, and soaked,
and boiled, and baked before we use them,
and the intestines which make the voice of
guitar and piano went through a long pro ___
1? 1 u;?
cess or scraping, soaniug 1U i_ytr, nuu tynauiug,
before they were drawn out into the fine
skins with which you are familiar.
The rat skin which we eat under the name
of gelatine first flourished as the thumb of a
kid glove, and after being worn out in. that
capacity went through ever so many purifyiug
processes, somewhat as the old boots did,
and ended on our table.
Nearly all the things we throw away in alleys,
or even through our drains, the most disgusting
things you can think of, are valuahle,
and after going through the hands of skillful
workmen, come out in new shapes, and have
new fields for usefulness.
The feats of old fashioned faries, who turned
pumpkins into carriages, and old gownB into
elegaut robes, do not compare with the wonders
performed in our work-shops by roughlooking
men in shirt sleeves and white aprons.
Soap .Bubbles.?May was mowing soap
bubbles in the open air on the lawn. Oh !
what pretty pictures were painted on them !
She called Grandpa out to see them. He
laughed with her to see her portrait with his
own?her round, rosy face, and his all wrinkled,
yet jolly. They saw Dick, the sober cat,
and the motherly hen with her chicks; the
old homestead all covered with climbing roses,
and the woods with trees almost touching
the blue skies. "Once upon a time," said her
Grandpa, "a painter made a picture of childreu
running away from soap bubbles, mistaking
them for cannon-balls. What would
little May have thought of the picture?"
"Were they making b'lieve to be afraid?"
asked May.
"No, they were frighteued in earnest."
"Then the picture wasn't true," said May.
"I shouldn't have liked it."
"Well said," said her Graudpa; "you are
right in condemning it. Every little boy and
girl knows that soap-bubbles can not hurt
any one. But how thick do you think a
soap-bubble is, little one?"
"Very thin ,indeed," went on her Grandpa.
"The thickest part of a soap bubble is only
the two-millionth part of an inch."
"And a whole inch is only as long as my
little finger!" said May. "The two-millent
part of that? Oh! a soap-bubble is so very
thin, I wonder I can see it at all. But I've
bright eyes."
?- . ? ?
Had to be Bought Off.?A correspondent
of Harper s Magazine, at New Haven,
Coun., gives the following as the deftest way
for a five-year boy to obtain a glass of sodawater
:
We were approaching a drug store, when
Willie said, "Papa, it'll just take thirty cents."
"Thirty cents for what ?"
"Why to treat us to soda."
"How do you make that out ?"
"Why there's just six of us, and it takes a
nickle apiece."
"But, Willie, you don't want any soda-wa-1
ter."
"Yes I do"
"Oh, I guess not; the rest may, but we'll !
leave you. How much will it cost then?" |
".Just thirty five cents."
"Why, Willie, what is the matter with your
arithmetic? If you're left out, it will leave1
only five."
"Yes, papa; but it'll cost ten cents to buy
me off!"
The Precious Little Herb.?Two little,
German girls, Brigitte and Wallburg, werfe 1
on their way to the town, and each carried a
heavy basket of fruit on her bead.
Brigitte murmured and sighed constantly ;
Wallburg only laughed and joked.
Brigitte said, "What makes you laugh so ?
Your basket is quite as heavy as mine, and
you are no stronger than I am."
Wallburg answered, "I have a precious j
little herb on my load, which makes me hardly
feel it at all. Put some of it on your load i
as well."
"Oh," cried Brigitte, "it must indeed be a
precious little herb! I should like to lighten j
my load with it; so tell me at once what it is
called."
Wallburg repled, "The precious little herb
that makes all burdens light is called Patience."?From
the German.
The interesting children were amusing
themselves?in childish fashion?by playing
railways. "What do you call your locomotive?"
says Tom. "Carelessness," replies,
Harry. "What's the name of yours ?" "Col-1
lision." 1
gUiuUng fatthrjtobtortb.
CO H DUCTED BT .
( REV. ROBERT LATHAN.
SHORT SERMON.
! Drink no longer water, but use a little for thy
stomach's sake, and thine often infirmities."?1st
! Tim. v: 23.
Mary worthy Christians apply all the ' i
promises and injunctions of the Bible, from ;
Genesis to Revelations to all men, without
due discrimination, when, in fact, many prom'
ises and admonitions were as personal as Dr.
' Nutgall's prescription for Tommy's whooping
cough, and can only be appropriated by those | j
; possessing precisely the same needs, tempera- 1
I ments and .surroundings of the persons or
people addressed.
Paul's advice to Timothy has excused
many a dram for which there was no corresponding
infirmities; the argument being?
water is bad for the stomach, and wine is
good, else the above words would not been
I written by one of such undoubted uprightI
ness as the Apostle Paul.
Dr. Nutgall would have been astonished to
j find his rather severe remedy for Tommy's
i whooping cough, going the rounds of the town
! as a sure cure for measles, worms, canker,
rash, teething, fevers, and all ailments to
which children are liable; and no less astonished
would Paul be, could he see to what debasing
habits his prescription to Timothy
has brought many weak Christians, and others
who are too ready to find excuses for depraved
appetites in teachings of the Bible.
Only wine is prescribed in the text, and
yet such a broad insignificance is given to
that word by modern usage, that it iucludes
brandy, whisky, giu, and all poisonous decoctions
represeutiug the outgrowth of the pure
juice of the grape, to which Paul referred as
good for the stomach .of Timothy, which infirmities
were so well known to him.
That pure wine is good for the stomach in
certain cases, no physician will deny, hut all
physicians will tell you that the constant use
of any medicine, lessens its good effect, and
overdoses often produce the most pernicious
results ; while impure compounds are no better
than slow poiaUn.
Such are the manufactured wines and
liquors of the present day, said to be imported
from grape growing countries, bearing so
little comparison to the pure wine of the east
in Paul's day, that the best of them are very
questionable medicines.
Then Paul advised the use of a little wine.
That item in the nrescriotiou is itruored when
one copious draught follows another, and in*
firraities truly become of daily occurrence,
because of such repeated indulgences.
Were the bad results of such medical
treatment of one's self, confined solely to the
victim it would not be a matter of so much
moment, but when wives aud children must
be stinted in food, that this panacea for ?the
"stomach's sake" may be always at hand,
then the excuse for such medicine becomes a
shameful absurdity for which no condemnation
is too severe.
Infirmity ! One would think the infirmity
of a habitual dram drinker lay in his head,
ot io his stomach, until, by the potency of
his drams, he becomes completely infirm, and
past being cured by a little wine.?Selected.
Father, You Never Told Me How to
Die!?And so I see whole families bound together
hy ties of affection, and in many cases
walking on slippery places of worldliness
and sin. The father knows it and the moth- {
er kuows it, and they are bound all together.
After awhile they begin to slide down, steeper
and steeper, and the father becomes alarmed
and be stops, planting bis feet on the ]
"Rock of Ages." He stops, but the rope s
breaks, and those who were tied fast to him t
by moral and spiritual influences once, go :
- rvu t .1 u _ i
over me jjreeipiee. v/u : mere ta aueu a
thing as coming to Christ soon enough to ;
.save ourselves, but not soon enough to save others.
How many parents wake up in the
latter part of life to find out the mistake! t
The parent says, "I have been too lenieut," ^
or, "I have been too severe in the discipline ]
of my children. If I had the littles ones
around me again, how different I would do 1" '
You will never have them around you again.
The work is done, the bent to the character is
given, the eternity is decided. I say this to
young parents?those who are twenty-five, or
thirty, or thirty-five years of age: Have the
family altar to night. How do you suppose
that father felt as he leaned over the couch
of his dying child, and the expiring son said
a* waii Via oo Koon trorxi nrnmJ fcn I
WVJ UIUJ, X UI/I1W1 J J VU UWTV ?'VVM ? V* J guvw vw
me. You have giveu me a fine education,
and you have placed me in a fine social position
; you have done everything for me in a
worldly sense; but, father, you never told me
how to die. Now I am dyiDg, and I am
lust."
The Sweet Looking Old Lady.?"Do
tell me the name of that sweet-looking old
lady who sits behind us at Church. She has
spoken to us several times so pleasantly, and
it is so unusual." Thus said a friend to me
not long since. Her family had attended
that Church for several years. Not only were
they regular attendants, but at the stated
periods they came to its communion-table; ]
they were members "in good and regular
standing;" their faces were familiar to most
of the congregation, yet it was "unusual" for
any one to speak to them. Ceremony is un- '
doubtedly to be observed in this world?it is
often necessary; but may not Church-members
sometimes venture to speak to one another,
even without a formal introduction ? j
There are few of us who have not an intui- (
tive sense to whom we may speak withou^ 1
hurting our dignity. That "sweet-looking 1
old lady" preached a little sermon to our
friends which warmed their hearts for sever- j
al weeks after. i
"I maintain," says Dr. John Hall, "that (
the shaking of hands, rightly administered, I
is a means of grace. So, shake hands at the
market, on the street, and, above all, at I
Church. Some people quit Church for want .
of this means of grace."
?
Meditation.?This word is almost obsolete
in the Christian Church. Our religious (
life is almost entirely active, and outward.
Few of us give such prominence to secret
prayer, the study of the Word and meditation
upon it as did the saints of former ages.
Yet how emphatic are our Saviour's directions
on this point, in Matthew vi, 16. "Enter
thy closet." "Shut the door." "Pray to
thy Father which is in secret." j
England's greatest engineer was said to be S
a man of no great natural talent, yet he per- ?
formed wonders, bridged torrents, pierced
mountains, &c. When he came to a difficulty
that seemed insurmountable he would
shut himself in his room, and neither eat nor ^
drink, that he might concentrate his mind on
that difficulty. At the end of two or three
days he came ont of the room with the look
and step of a conqueror, and gave orders to
his men which seemed to them like inspiration.
So it would be with the Christians if
they spent more time alone with God. They
would come from their closets, as Moses came I
from the Mount, with shining faces; and j
having power with God, they would have ; ->
power also with men.?Pacific. j J
.? ? 8
Kay* A great deal of talent is lost in the j *
world for the want of a little courage. Ev-!
ery day sends to the grave a number of ob-! C
scure men, who have only remained in ob- v
scurity because their timidity has prevented
them from making a first effort, and who if ! "
they could have been induced to begin, would y
in all probability have gone great lengths in j
fame. i n
For my part, I said to myself, as I i
walked home, if I can put ond touch of rosy ' tl
sunshine into the life of any man or woman ^
of my cure, I shall feel that I have worked
with God. He is in no haste ; and if I do what
I may in earnest, I need not mourn if I,
work no great work in the earth.? Qeorge 1
MacDonald. i I
SERGEANT &
GREENSBC
MANUFACTURERS 01
" TROPIC" coo:
. T. M. D0BS0N & CO., Agenl
JOHN R. LONDON, Agent,
A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McC
J. Li. UAKKULiLi, Agent, une?
August 2
The Beiit Family!
The "NEW AMERICAN" is easily leamei
more work with 'ess 'aDor than any other m
application.
AGENTS V
J. S. JIOVEY Manager, 04
Agent tor Yorkville aud vicinity,
J"ly 18 ... j
A. WILLIPOBD,
ROCK HILL. S. C. ''
I '
MORE FINE STOOE !
la . . Vr ? :! i:
HORSES AND MULES!
, ' ; 1 i rf #j.i itJ ..
BOCK HILL SALE STABLES;
. . , t if? r.
: : : * . . i?:>;-/ i
I WOULD respectfully inform the pnblic that
I now have for sale, at my stables in Rock
Hill, FORTY HEAD of fine Kentucky
HORSES AND MULES,
Which I offer for saleON TIME until the FIRST
DF OCTOBER next, at 7 percent, interest, for
Note and good security. BARGAINS
IN HORSE FLESH,
Either on the above terms or for Cash. An infection
of my stock, by all in want of good animals,
is respectfully solicited; and if you are in
i trading mood and do not wish to buy, bring up
four costanogasand exchange them for good serviceable
Horses or Mules with which to cultivate
pour crops, or serve in narness or miner ine saalie.
A. WILLI FORD.
FODDER WANTED.
THE undersigned will pay the highest Cash
prices for 10,000 POUNDS OF GOOD FODDER,
delivered at his Livery and Sale Stables at
Rock Hill. A. WILLIFORD.
March 7 10 tf
IN THE VALLEY,
CHESTER, S. C.
THE subscriber is bet
-" tor prepared, than ever
kind7,of JOB 'WORK,
such as Turning, Scroll
Sawing, Repairing, Ac.
Also, FURNITURE
MADE TO ORDER,
from common to the
^27^' finest. Fine Black
Walnut Chamber Suits,
FRENCH WALNUT SUITS, TRIMMED,
i specialty.
Just received, another lot of METALIC BURIAL
CASES, among them some fine CASKETS. !
\lso, WOOD COFFINS AND CASKETS. All
)f which will be sold as cheap as can be afforded.
I HAVE A HANDSOME NEW HEARSE,
vhieh can be bad at funerals free of charge, in
own ; and in the country at a moderate charge,
iccordingto distance.
You can find me at MORRISON'S OLD STAND
>n Depot street, one door west of Aiken's Cotton
3in Shop. ' J. M. PARISH.
May 9 19 6m
BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY
STATIONERY, AND
BOOK BINDERY.
rHANKING the public for liberal past patronage,
I now invite attention to my complete
itock of
STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY,
:onsisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Midium, Foio
Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Books,
>f every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac,
Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, Penknives,
Writing Desks, Ac. Also,
BOOK BINDING DONE,
n all its various branches. Sheet Music, Period cats,
Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired.
)la Books rebound and repaired.
'RINTED BILL AND LETTER HEADS A 8PE0IALTY
Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash
>rlces. * E. R. STOKES,
155 Main Street Columbia 8. C.
DOWN *|
WITH HIGH PRICES!
3HICAG0 SCALE COMPANY,
68 AND 70 WEST MONROE ST., CHICAGO, ILL.,
Have reduced the prices of all kinds of
? A T . TT! ? !
4-Ton Hay, Stock or Cotton Scale, #C0. \
FORMER PRICE, 9160.
Ill other sizes at a great reduction. pSS* Every
Icale fully warranted. All orders promply .
illed. Circulars, Price List, and Testimonials
ent upon application.
BUY THE CHEAPEST AND BEST.
October 4 40 12m
sTk. marks, |
I
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
GENERAL FURNITURE,
CHESTER, S. C.
January 24 4 81m
IETALIC CASES AND WOOL COFFINS.
[HAVE on hand a good assortment of METALIC
CASES AND WOOD COFFINS- ,
11 styles, qualities and prices?from a FINE
!ASkET, with Silver-Plated Mountings, worth
200.00, to a PLA IN COFFIN, at $7.00. !,
I am prepared, at all times, to furnish these 1,
lofflnsat my Despository, or send them anywhere
in the country. ' : 1
JAMES E. SMITH, Agent.
January 17 3 tf
CLEANSING AND REPAIRING.
rHE undersigned would respect ully inf?rm :
the public that he is prepared to cleanse garnents
of any fabric whatever, rendering them
erfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring tliem to
he original brightness aud lustre of the goods.
)o not throw away your old clothes, but have
hem cleaned and made to look as well as new.
Vork promptly done, and at the most reasonaile
prices. THOMAS BALLARD.
September 6 36 tf '
NOTICE. :
[AM still Agent for the "American" because it is
the best and cheapest Sewing Machine made.
J. R. SCHORB
c McCAULEY,
1RO1 BT* C?,
F THE CELEBRATED'' ' 1 *
KING STOYES'i
PRICE GREATLY REDDED
on Cooking and Heating Stoves,
*4gft '
Hollow Ware And-Irons, and
Castings of al. xinds. Also, on
PLANTER'S PRIDE' PLOWS
and Plow Castings, |
STRAW CUTTERS,
HORSE POWERS,
Saw Mills, Ac.
a, Yorkville, S. C.
Rock Hill, York county, S. C.
lonnellsville, York county, S. C.
iter, S. C.
i
31 tf
/ ;,r '
Buy only the
ifci NEW
a * mn rrt a ht
Only Sewing Machine ..
^flf-^hrtading^hufllr 1
It aas Self Setting Needle. I
1 Never Breaks the Thread.
Never Skips Stitches.
Is the lightest Sunning.
,j The Simplest, the Most Dm able,
and in Every Respect
iewing Machine!
1 does not' pet out o' order; and will do
acmne lllustiated Circular furnished cn
] \u . / i' iiA. v ' '?? ettcfi.JiJ ' . '
WANTED."
N. Charles Street, ItaUimore, aid.
JT. TV. ROBERTS.
29 . ly
A NEW AND INTERESTING FEATURE
OF THE
EDGEFIELD ADVERTISER.
ABOUT the first of July, the Advertiser will
begin the publication of a series of Biographical
Sketches, giving, in synopsis, the lives of
many prominent and distinguished sons, dead
and living, of South Carolina. In connection
with these, there will appear in our columns each ? ^
week, a portrait of the individual whose life is
sketched, done in the highest style of modern
photographic art From the great and good men
of the past, such selections have been made as
John C. Calhoun, George JiioDnftle, Judge A. P.
Butler, Chancellor F. Bf. Wardlaw, Governors
Pickens, father and son; Gov. P. M. Butler, Colonel
of the Palmetto Regiment; Senator Louis T.
VFigfall, Judge O'Neal, Gen. Waddy Thompson,
Gen. James Jones, Edmund Bacon, Esq., alias
D.ono it u 11 ar-i.?
VII iuc vxcurgu* owncs, major
Jack Jeter, Hon. Preston Rrooks, Gov. S. D. Miller,
and others, whose names we have not space
to mention just now. i
Later we will take up such men as Hon. J. P.
Carroll, Gov. M. L. Bonham,Gen. Abner Perrin,
Gen. M. W. Gary, Gen. R. G. M. Dunovant, Generals
Kershaw, Kennedy, Logan, Connor, Wallace,
McGowan, Hagood and Bee; Col. Thos. G.
Bacon, Col. Thos. G. Lamar, Col. Joseph Abney,
Col. W. C. Moragne, Speaker John C. Sbeppara,
Col. Arthur Sirakins, Gen. James Cliesnnt, Hon.
W. D. Simpson and others, whose names shall
occur to us in the future.
Subscription Price, $2.50, per annum, in advance.
Address: ADVERTISER,
Edgefield, 8. C.
June 27 28 tf
YORK VILiJLE ; ~
SALE AND FEED STABLES.
TVgrrx THE undersigned respectfully
/X/\ inform tho public that they have
formed a partnership for the purpose of conduct<ng
SALE AND FEED STABLES
in the town of Yorkville, and will have constant- ^5^
ly On Hand HORSES AND MlJLESof all grades,
which will be sold CHEAP for cash, or on favorable
terms on time?note and approved security,
payable the first of October, 1878.
FEEDING AND GROOMING.
We would also call attention to the fact that we
are well prepared to BOARD horses or mules by
the day, week, month or single meal, Animals
placed in our care will be well fed and well treated,
at the LOWEST PRICES. Persons coming in
from the country and leaving their horsee at our
Stables can have the satisfaction of knowing that
while they will be properly cared for, tbey will
also be more secure than when hitched up in
some back lot, liable to break loose and stray off,
or be stolen. Give us a trial, and we guarantee
satisfaction. Stables near old Masonic Hall.
We wish to buy Corn and Fodder, for which
the highest cash prices will be paid at our stables.
WHITAKER <fe WILLIFORD.
January 10 2 Jy J
YORK MARBLE YARD. \
THE undersigned is
still conducting the Mar#?fcSP EIirible
Business in York
x nMtn^ vine, uiju wuuui rcspcui*
I piffljjjw I **e can 8UPP'-V those
STONES with anything
lowest cas.n prices. Monuments designed and
finished in the most elaborate style, and in point
or workmanship and material warranted equal A
to the work of any establishment in the country.
Head and Footstones, in various styles, from
plain to highly-carved work, furnished at short
notice, and satisfaction guaranteed.
Specimens usually on band, to an inspection of
which, those in want of marble work are respectfully
invited.
Estimates and any other desired information
cheerfully given at any time.
Work delivered at any point on the Chester
and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between
Chester and Dallas, or at any plaoe between
Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Columbia
and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for
transportation.
Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed
UDon mv establishment, my determination is to
merit a continuance of the same.
F. HAPPERFIELD.
January 8 1 " ly
T. S. JEFFERYS,
AGENT
17I0R Standard Fertilizers, Machinery of almost
; every variety adapted to this country, such
as Steam Engines, French Burs, Bolting Cloths,
Portable Wheat and Corn Mills, Turbine Water
Wheels, Smutters, Shafting, and Mill Machinery
of any kind desired.
The Celebrated Winship Gins, Hall's Self-Feeding
Gins, Needle Gins, Gin-Feeders and Gin
Condensers, Gin Saws and Brush Ribs, Ac.. Ac.
COTTON PRESSES.?The Centennial, Boss
and Smith Hand and Power Presses.
PRAIRIE CORN 8HELLERS, only $6 50;
STRAW CUTTERS, $10.00.
I keep on hand a good supply of SASH,
BLINDS and DOORS, and will furnish Builders,
by the quantity, at exceedingly low prices. In
a short time, I will have the latest and best
improved Machine for SHARPENING GIN
SAWS, which will make the saw as perfect as
when the Gin was received from the Factory;
giving each tooth the desired briar hook shape.
The work is done without removing the saw shaft
from the Gin. An expert in GIN REPAIRING
will be sent to the Gin Houses, to operate the
Machine at reasonable charges. Persons desiring
to have their Gins sharpened in the best style,
will do well to leave their orders with me, early.
A small lot of NAVASSA GUANO on band.
May 9 19 tf
TRIAL JUSTICE' S BLAYKS.
RECOGNIZANCES, Warrants of Arrest, Summons
in civil action, and Executions. For
sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE.
(The forMle flNquiw.
TKRM8--IN ADVANCE t
One copy, one year. $ 3 00
One copy, six months, 1 50
One copy, three months, 75
Single copy, 10
Two copies, one year, 5 00
Ten conies, one year, 25 00
^9-To persons who make up clubs of ten or
more names, an extra copy of the paper will he
furnished one year, free of charge.
Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per
square, for the iirst insertion, and fifty cents per
square, for each subsequent insertion. A square
consists of the space occupied by eight lines of
this size type. Contracts can be made for three.
six or twelve months, and a reduction obtained
from the regular transient rates.
1