Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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Humorous gcpartraent. Too Old for Them.?The other day a mail with a satchel called into a ferry-dock saloon wherein hfteen or twenty old salts were lying about their adventures on the high seas, and after warming his hands at the stove, he said to the barkeeper: "Sir, I am the agent of a French wine-house, and I should like to sell you a few barrels of a brand now over one hundred years old." The saloonist thought he wouldn't invest, and the man took a pint bottle from his satchel, held it up to the light, and looking around on the crowd, remarked : "Gentlemen, this is a sample of wine over one hundred years old. 1 have no aouot mat you will all do me the honor to taste it." A perfect shower of tobacco-quids and halfconsumed cigars fell on the big stove-hearth, and the crowd had its mouth all ready, when the agent scrutinized the bottle and said : "Ah ! I am mistaken. I left the wine at the hotel, and I brought along my hair invigorator in place of it ? Gentlemen, please remain seated while I go and fetch the old wine." At the end of a long hour he had not returned, and one of the victims slowly arose and said: "Gentlemen, you hear me ! If I meet that man on the street, I will kill him and drink his hair invigorator to the last drop !" "So'll I!" shouted all the others; and they opened their tobacco-boxes and went on with their lying. A Mean Advantage.?A lady sent for the Chief of Police the other day, and complained to him that her husband had, in the most cruel manner, kept her a prisoner at home for the past ten days. "Ah!" said the Chief, "does he lock the doors on you ?" "Certainly not." "Does he have somebody to guard you and keep you from going out ?" "No, indeed?not he." "Well, does he?does he t-t-ie you to any thing ?" "No, sir?he dare not." "Well, I should say, madam, that?prayexcuse me?that you have about all the freedom you could want." "Gracious heavens!" exclaimed the lady, with clenched fingers and flashing eyes, "a horrid mouse tied to the top of the box with my Sunday bonnet in it, and you talk to me about all the freedom I could want." Everybody knows how droll the remarks of children often are. One day a little boy strayed away from home, causing thereby much consternation in the nursery. After a considerable search, the truant was discovered in an adjacent square, disporting himself with some street urchins, with whom he was happily fraternizing. When once more recovered, he was seriously remonstrated with upon his conduct by an old nurse, who read Master Jack a long lecture. "Supposing you had been run over by a big horse and cart, what would you have done then, sir?" concluded the nurse, solemnly. A gleam of sudden glee dispersed the gravity which had been slowly deepening in little Jack's face. "Why, then, I'd have a fun'al," he answered, triumphantly. They Would Wash.?"Do you allow your salesmen to lie?" asked an infuriated customer of a pious merchant a few days ago. "Certainly not, sir. If you can prove to me that^ one of my young men wilfully misrepresented any article of merchandise to you, he forfeits his place at once." The cus tomer explained nis cause 01 aissausiaciion, and pointed out the salesman. "Did you tell this gentleman these paper collars would wash, Mr. Quinn ?" said the merchant, in a severe tone, to the too anxious salesman. "Yes, sir," readily answered the offender; "but I did not tell him how they would look after washing." He was hired over again at an increased salary. ? ? Fresh Eggs.?A minister in the south of Scotland had a parishioner, who, to show her affection for her pastor, sent him every morning, by the hands of her daughter, a couple of what she wished him to understand were new-laid eggs for breakfast. The eggs, on being delivered, were generally warm, as if just taken from the nest; but one morning the minister's maid, on taking the eggs from the girl, observed, "The eggs are no warm the day, Jeanne; are they no fresh?" "Ou ay," said the girl; "they're quite fresh, but my mither couldna get the cat to sit on them this morning." ? Late.? Teacher?"Well, James, late as usual. You know what I promised you, if this occurred again ? Yesterday your father 1 1_ - 1 ' 1 _ _ iL. J L -X* tl Drose nisieg, me uay oeiore yuur iiiouier sprained both ankles. Last week your sister broke her arm on three different days." James?"Yes'm, but it's honest Injin this time. I staid home to see Bob Smith git a lickin'." When he was painfully drawing on his jacket, he said, "I don't keer if you (bo-hoo-bohoo) did whale me (bo-hoo-bo-hoo). It's wuth that jest to hear Bob Smith squeal (b-o-o-ohhoo)." A Quick Reply.?Some interesting applications of Scripture are noted from time to time in connection with revival work. A girl ten years of age, who had become interested in the meetings in a neighboring city, was approached by a friend who thought her zeal was decreasing. "You ought not to put your hand to the plough and then look back," said he. "Guess I want to know how much I have ploughed, don't I ?' was the quick reply. Who Will Come??The latest sentimental agony in songs is a tender ballad beginning : "Who will come, above me sighing, When the grass grows over me?" We can't say, positively, who, but if the cemetery fence is in the usual repair, it will probably be the cow. Papa's Sprain.?A little boy, whose father was a rather immoderate drinker of the moderate kind, one day sprained his wrist, and his mother utilized the whiskey in her husband's bottle to bathe the little fellow's wrist with. After a while the pain began to abate, and the child surprised his mother by exclaiming, "Ma, has pa got a sprained throat ?" A Great Revivalist.?That was a good, though rather a severe pun which was made by an Edinburgh student (and he was not one of the brightest of the class either), when he asked, "Why is professor the greatest revivalist of the age ?" and, on all "giving it up," said, "Because at the end of every sermon there is a great awakening !" A Boy's Reasoning.?A bright little Shoreham boy, who had been engaged in combat with another boy, was reproved by his aunt, who told him he ought always to wait until tho nthpr hnv "nit.chpd unnn" him. "Well," explained the young belligerent, "but if I wait for the other boy to begin, I'm afraid there won't be any fight." Too Small.?A Chicago minister says that his church employs an English sexton who is not over sure of his h's; and one night, after a particularly full meeting, this sexton came to his pastor, and said, "I tell you what it is, this church is getting too small, and we shall have to build a hell on it, or else we shall never get along." ? ? Doctors' Patients.?A physician, finding a lady reading the "Twelfth Night," said, J "When Shakspeare wrote about Patience on a j monument, did he mean doctors' patients ?" ; "No," she answered ; "you don't find them j on monuments, but under them!" M6F "What would you do if a girl kissed you ?" said one ten-year-old urchin to another, as they discussed the latest society news. "What would I do? I'd kiss her back. What; would you do ?" "Kiss her mouth." 1 Ibe Jam and Jwmtle. whatTour land needs. It is not guano, cotton seed nor compost that your worn-out poor lands need, though either of these properly used will make good crops, even upon very poor land, but what your lands need is vegetable matter. You know that, or should know it, for you know that when you first cut down the forests the land was covered and rich with the vegetation that had been decaying there for ages, and you roust have noticed, if you have any observation at all, that as this vegetation dis appeared the soil grew poorer, until you had to turn the field out as too poor for cultivation. But now lands are not so plentiful and cheap as they used to be, and you have been obliged to take it in again. In doing so the first crop shows you that it recuperated somewhat, for it made a better crop than when you turned it out. Does not that fact give you the idea of what it needs ? While it lay out the weeds and grass grew, died, and dissolved upon the soil. If it should lie out long enough it would get to be as fertile as ever. But you cannot afford thatr-you need the land, and must find some way to restore fertility sooner. Very well. Now go to work to reproduce that vegetable matter, and your design will be accomplished in the most sensible and practicable manner. If it is too much to haul in muck, leaves and grass from the great abundance of those about your grounds, branches, creeks, rivers and uncleared lands, go at it in another way. Plant on your level lands, coating them moderately with the best manures you can get, and set the hill-sides in grasses that will prevent washing (Bermuda will do it,) from which make hay?but don't pasture?to be stripped clean, for remember that your object is to re produce vegetable matter in the soil. Try different grasses until you get one that suits the purpose. Sow down and grow everything that will rot upon and stimulate the soil. It will grow richer every year. When the hillsides are safe bring on the level lands, for now you can change and plaut upon the hill Qt/Tos whinh vnn miilH nnt.Ho while t.hev were OiUVAJ^ KMtVU J VM .. v> - - nude and poor. The grasses can be used to great advantage in restoring worn-out lands, but not much if pastured. Field peas arc still more advantageous if the vines are per mitted to rot upon the surface and we are inclined to think that one crop of pea vines, followed by one of corn fodder, plowed io, will make the land produce one crop about as well as it did when new. Indian clover, or beg gar lice, has the reputation of restoring fertility in a single year, equivalent to fifteen bushels of cotton seed per acre. This weed, or clover is greedily devoured by stock, and has to be planted but once if the laud remains under cultivation. It is, perhaps, the cheapest of all the fertilizing agents with which we are acquainted, and where used as a renovator, unlike the grasses, may be grazed without destroying its fertilizing agency.? Southern Farmers' Monthly. A SHEEP FARM IN GEORGIA. A writer in the Atlanta (Ga.) Constitution says, in 1871 he bought 400 acres of reputed poor land in Glynn county, Ga., and put up? AA 1 T? 10TO l on it iuu sneep. in io<o, uy umunu increase, he had 376 ewes, and had sent to market 73 wethers. His sheep were penned nightly, and every two nights manured a half acre well. Since that time he had brought into a high state of cultivation 100 acres ol land that seven years ago was considered worthless. Since 1871 he has bought 200 sheep, and now owns 1,800 head. He keeps a shepherd, who is paid to attend to his business, and keeps an accurate book account of every dollar and dime spent on account of the sheep, and finds, by castiug up a balance sheet, that it costs him exactly 57 cents a head per annum to keep his flock. They average him about three and a half pounds of wool each. Last year he clipped in May, and again in September, and the clip amounted to five and a half pounds per head. Last year he sold in Savannah and Macon 8,000 pounds of wool, at an average of thirty cents per pounds, including a few lbs., of Merino wool, which make the gross receipts of $2,970. The annual expense of the flock was $1,026. So there was an absolute net profit in the wool of $1,664. Last year he sold m tne aDove cities yz wetners as iuulium for $342, making a total of $2,289. Besides this, he has fertilized the poor wire grass land, so that last year he cultivated 84 acres, and from 41 acres in corn he made an average of 31 bushels; 10acres in sugarcane, that made 56 barrels of syrup; 15 in oats, that averaged 42 bushels to the acre, and on the remainder an abundance of all kinds of truck-farming, receiving for his sales of vegetables in New York a net profit of $284. How to Prevent Rheumatism.?Put away the sheets and counterpane, and sleep in blankets, under and over, and no counterpane at all. The sheets and counterpane do a great deal of mischief. The cotton keepfthe sour heat and perspiration from the body in the bed, and so you breathe poisoned air all night, Summer and Winter, and that poisoned air makes your rheumatism ten times worse. If you were in blankets they would not absorb the perspiration ; it would pass through from one to the other; but in cotton, if it absorbs it?I had better say soaks into it?there it remains, cold, or hot, or clammy.?Mrs. Warren. Clover.?Clover is called "the sheet anchor of American husbandry." It will do more to bring impoverished lands to a high state of cultivation, and at less expense, than any other agency. And just in proportion as the farmer cultivates this plant will he be relieved from the necessity of purchasing commercial fertilizers to enrich his land. While there is no system of cultivation which will enable the farmer to keep up the fertility of his land without resorting to such agencies, yet the use of clover will go very far toward accomplishing it. Clover will cancel notes, "? 1 1 1 pay mortgages, ana Dnng aounaauce wuere there is want. ? ? " Farmers and Rheumatism.?In answer to the question, "Why are farmers so liable to rheumatism ?" the Science of Health says ; "If farmers would avoid suddenly cooling the body after great exertion, if they would be careful not to go with wet clothing and wet feet, and if they would not over-eat when in an exhausted condition, and bathe daily, using much friction, they would have little or no rheumatism." ISr*Salt strewn thickly around any tree or shrub where it is desirable grass should not grow will effectually prevent it. It need not be strewn around the collar of the tree, but a few inches therefrom will be sufficient caution in the case of such plants as might be injured. To some it is a good fertilizer, and especially recommended for asparagus and cabbages. SG&* Too much can hardly be said, says an exchange, in praise of onions for fowls. They are a preventive of and a remedy for many diseases to which domestic fowls are liable. For gapes, onions are the best things that can be fed. The Stock Journal recommends giving fowls as many as they will eat, chopped fine, as often as three times a week. No animal should be killed for food immediately after violent exercise. Under such conditions the meat will keep but a very short time and sometimes it is impossible to keep it sweet with all the salt that can be used. Hogs, especially, should be butchered early in the morning after a quiet rest during the night.? Our Home Journal. Whitewash for a Smoked Ceiling.? For the first coat, mix, to every two quarts of whitewash, one cup of fine sifted ashes. This will prevent the smoke from striking through. After this another coat may be put on in the ordinary manner. gteading fat the JTahhath. CONDUCTED BY REV. ROBERT LATH AN. THE BOATMAN'S LESSON. The little boat went gliding on, And then the winds arose ; The twilight faded on the hills, The day began to close. The boatman spoke, as much I feared Amid the flashing loam, "Oh f master, give it up to me, A nrl T will row VOll hoirifi." So I sat still iu helplessness, Though numbed in every limb, Now up, now down among the waves, And gave it up to him. And skilfully he turned the prow, And plied the bending oar, Until, just as the moon arose, He brought mo safe to shore. And evermore that boatman's words, Ainid the winds severe, As up and down the world I walk, Are ringing in my ear; In sun, in rain, in dark, iu light, Where'er my footsteps roam, "Oh ! master, give it up to me, And I will row you home." 'Tis thus with Him who came to save The ruined sons of men ; We are to trust His power, as I Believed the boatman then. And though the winds smite the waves, And angry surges foam, The loving Christ of Nazareth ?t_mi ;.1 _ tt:? i? >Ylll giuutt ms pcupie uwum. British Workman. THE MATTER OF PREACHING. The power of the pulpit depends very much on two things : First, to know what to preach, and second, how to preach it. God says, "Preach the word"?"Preach the gospel but as no one man can preach it all, and as some parts of it are better adapted to win souls than others, to succeed well, every man must select and adapt his subjects to suit his congregation. Adaptation is essential to sue cess. What suits oue congregation will not suit another; what suits oue occasion will not suit another. Preaching, then, to be effec tual, must be appropriate. "A word spoken in due season, how good is it!" Then let every preacher pray that he may "know how to speak a word in season." Isa. 1:4. Adaptation runs through all the sermons of Jesus Christ, his prophets, evangelists and apostles. Hear the prophet Isaiah to the rebellious Jews. With his soul deeply stirred at their base ingratitude and sottish stupidity, to arouse them, he appeals to iuanimate creation, and exclaims, "Hear, 0 heavens, and give ear, O earth, for the Lord hath snoken: I have nourished and brought up j children, and they have rebelled against me. The ox knoweth his owner, and the ass his master's crib, but Israel doth not know ; ruy people doth not consider!" As though he had said, The heavens and the earth, which cannot hear at all, will soouer hear than these rebellious Jews. As much as to say, "Let the light of heaven shame your darkness, and the f'ruitfulness of the earth your barrenness." As much as to say, The dull ox and stupid ass know more and serve God better than this j rebellious, stupid people. YetGrod, in his in[ finite mercy, spares them, and stoops to reason with them, and says, "Come, now, let us reason together, saith the Lord : Though your sins be as scarlet, they shall be as white as snow; though they be red like crimson, they shall be as wool." Here we see Isaiah's fine idaptation. He first labors to convince, then to comfort. He first thoroughly probes the wound, and then offers the healing balm. With the promise of pardon and a great reward if they repented, and with the threat of destruction if they refused, he most powerfully urged them to repentance. Cease to do evil; learn to do well, and ye shall be forgiven, restored to God's favor, and "eat the eood of the land." - Coming down to the gospel dispensation, we hear the moving appeals of John the Baptist, crying, "Repent, repent ye, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand." And when he saw the vile Pharisees and Sadducecs docking to hear him, with his shrewd sagacity, he exclaims, "0, generation of vipers, who hath warned you to flee the wrath to come !" In these stirring words of warning .John shows great power of adaptation. His exhortation to repent and the cutting title, "generation of vipers," he gave those vile wretches, was well calculated to alarm and convince them. While they trusted and gloried in being of the seed of Abraham, when unmasked, John proves them to be of the seed of the serpent, exposed to the wrath of God. Again, for masterly skill in adaptation, let us take Peter's sermon on the day of pente cost. For (immediate) effect and power, this wna thp crrpjitest dav the church ever saw. " o ?j r~ Aud the great emergency arising from it sprung upon Peter very suddenly; yet, with his Christ-like adaptation, he completely mastered it. Suddenly endued with power from on high, the apostle spoke with overwhelming power. The effect was tremendous. Quick and powerful, the word ran like lightning and cut like a two-edged sword. The interest and excitement rose so high they were all amazed, and began to ask, "What raeaneth this ?" Some said the people were drunk; but Peter, rising in the majesty of his strength, boldly said, These men are not drunk, seeing it was but the third hour of the day, nine o'clock in the morning, too soon to get drunk on wine. After explaining that this was what was spoken of by the prophet Joel, Peter went on to prove by overwhelming arguments that that same Jesus whom they had crucified was both Lord and Christ. Stung with grief and pricked to the heart with conviction, thousands earnestly cried to know what to do to be saved. Made up of clear exposition, removing objections, and red hot, overwhelming arguments, for immediate effect, this was the most powerful sermon ever preached. Why so powerful ? It was owing, no doubt, very much to its fine adaptation. Peter hit the .111 A. 1__ *T^ J nan on tne neaci every siroae. jc/very wuru seemed to weigh a pound and to do a world of execution. A similar adaptation is seen in Paul's sermon at Mars' Hill. YVhitefield owed much of his success to his great powers of adaptation. Always appropriate, he made every word tell with poveer. Preaching often with but little special preparation, his sermons, like Christ's, grew out of the occasion on which they were delivered. When he preached at Northampton, for Jonathan Edwards, where they had suffered a great revival almost to die away, he spoke so appropriately of God's goodness to them, and so kindly reproved them of their sius and ingratitude, that they were all melted into tears. The cool headed Edwards wept like a child. The Saviour's parables, with all their beautiful simplicity, were spoken upon the emergency of the occHsiou of their delivery ; hence their perfect adaptation and great power. When the Scribes and Pharasees murmured because Jesus received sinners and ate with them, to silence their complaints, he, with great propriety, spake unto them the parable of the Prodigal Son, showing the infinite Holies of God's frrace. and how willing and ' ? O - - * # w ready Jesus is to forgive and receive sinners when they repent and come to him. The True Method.?The world, if ever it is to be reformed by men, can only be so by the personal intercourse of living men?living epistles, not dead ones. Love, meekness, kindness, forbearance, unselfishness, manifested in souls, uttering themselves by word, look and deed, and not by mere description of these sentiments or essays upon them, can alone regenerate man. Neither money, nor schools, nor churches can ever be substituted for living men. Not ministers going their rounds like policemen, with black clothes and white neckties ; nor elders taking statistics, nor deacons giving alms, nor ladies tracts; all are good, but we want Christians, whether they aresmirhs, shoemakers, tailors, or grocers, or coach-dri: vers, or advocates, to remember their own responsibilities, their own immense influence for good, and to be personal ministers for good.?Norman Maclcod. IpswUatwjms fading. A GOOD FATHER. Dr. Graham having passed a very creditable examination before the Army Medical Board, was commissioned an assistant surgeon in the United States army in 18?, and ordered to report for duty to the commanding officer at Fort M'Kavett, Texas. There were no railroads in the Western country at that time, and the usual way of getting to Texas was by the Mississippi River to New Orleans, and then crossing the Gulf to stage it up through the State. Dr. Graham was very desirous of examining the Western country mineralogically, so applied for and received permission from the War Department to go by way of Arkansas and the Indian Territory. On his arrival at St. Louis lie shipped the greater part of his baggage by the way of the river, and taking only what he could carry on I 1 1. ...... ..*,..1 .... Wl.ilo 1.. llUrStriJilUK, niiUltu nil liinjuunn:;. >i 1111c in St. Louis, at the Planters' Hotel, lie formed the acquaintance of a gentleman who, learning where he was going, gave him a letter of introduction to his brother, who was a farmer living 011 his route in Arkansas. It is not necessary for us to follow him on his road, or tell what discoveries he made in the interest of science ; sufficient it is that one day, toward dusk, he reached the house of the gentleman to whom he had the letter, and dismounting, knocked at the door and presented his letter to the judge (even in those days every one was a judge in Arkansas), who would not have needed it to have accorded him an oi>en-handed welcome, for travelers were a (iodsend, and news was as much sought after then as now. After a short visit he proposed to go on to the next town, about four miles off, where he intended to put up for the night. The judge would not listen to his leaving, and was so cordial in his desire for him to stay that he would have been rude not to have done so. The judge, after directing one of the servants to attend his horse, invited him into the dining-room, where he was introduced to the wife and daughter of his host, and also to a substantial Western supper, to which he did ample justice. After supjier they adjourned to the parlor, and he entertained his new-made friends with 1 * ? " xi x *_ 1 J nu.? tlie latest news irom rue ouisiue worm, jliic judge brewed some stiff whiskey punch, which Graham, socially inclined, imbibed qute freely. The old couple retired, and left their daughter to entertain him; and whether it was the punch, or what, at all events he made hot love to her, and finally asked her to be his wife and go to Texas with him, to which she consented. She being very unsophisticated and innocent, took every thing he said in downright earnest, and with her it was a case of "love at first sight." But I am anticipating. During the night our friend the doctor woke up, and remembered what he had said, and it worried him; but he said to himself, after emptying his water pitcher, "Never mind, I'll make it all right in the morning. She's lovely, but what must she not think of me!" and rolled over and went to sleep again. Morning came, and upon his going down to the parlor he found the young lady alone, for which he blessed his lucky stars, and was just about to make an apology, when she said ; "I told mamma, and she said it was all right," at the same time giving him a kiss which nearly took his breath away. "Papa is going to town this morning, dear, and you ride with him, and talk it over; but he won't I object, I know." "But, my dear miss, I was very foolish, I and?" "No indeed ; you were all right." "Well. I will ero to mv nost. and return for you, for I must go on at once." "No; I can go with you." "You won't have time." "0, yes, I will. Papa will fix that. It would be such an expense for you to come back all the way here." "But I have no way of taking you." "I have thought of that; that does not make any difference. Father will give us a team." With nearly tears in his eyes he went in to breakfast, to which at that moment they were both summoned; but, alas! appetite he hftd none. It was not that she was not pretty and nice; but he thought what a confounded fool she must be not to see that he wanted to get out of it. But it was no use. When the judge started for town, Dr. Graham was sitting beside him. The judge saved him the trouble of broaching Che subject by starting it himself: "I always, young man, give Nell her own way; so it is all right; you need not say a word." "But I've got to go on to-day," The old judge turned his eye toward him. He had an Arkansas bowie in each hand, and one of those double-barrel shot-gun looks as he said, "You ain't a-trying to get out of it, are you V" The doctor, taking in the situation, said, promptly, all hope being gone, "No, sir." "That's right. I will fix every thing for you ; give you that black team of mine, and a light wagon to carry your wife's things" (here the doctor shuddered), "and a thousand as a starter. You can be married to-night, and leave early in the morning. That'll suit, won't it V" "Yes, sir," answered Graham, faintly. But on the judge turning toward him, he said, "Yes, sir, certainly." " A eta,, irnn .rat fivorl lit vnnr ivmt, T will pomp down and pay you a visit. I have been thinking about selling out and moving to Texas for some time; it's getting crowded here, and things are a-moving as slow as 'lasses in winter-time." Things were arranged as the old judge said. The marriage took place, and the army received an addition to its ladies in the ]>erson of the Arkansas judge's daughter, and Dr. Graham has never regretted the obduracy of his father-in-law or the unsophisticatedness of his wife. Saving and Spending.?It is not true that the great victories of life are to the sharp and immoral man, as a rule. Here and there, by sharpness and cunning, men rise into wealth, but that wealth is not of a kind to remain. It takes a certain amount of virtue, of self-denial. of morality, to lay up and keep money. In tne lives of nearly all rich men there have been periods of heroic self-denial, of patient industry, of Christian prudence. Circumstances did not make these men rich. The highest moral prudence made them rich. While their companions were dancing away their youth, or drinking away their middle age, these men were devoted to small economies?putting selfindulgence entirely aside. If our readers will recall their companions, we think the first fact they will be impressed with is the measure of equality with which they started in the race for competency or wealth. The next fact they will be impressed with is the irregularity of the end. Then, if they make an inquisition into the causes of the widely varying results,'they will be profoundly impressed with the insignificant part "circumstances" have played in those results. Circumstances? Why, the rich man's son who had all the "circumstances" of the town, has become a beggar. The poor, quiet lad, the only son of his mother, and she a widow, who could only earn money enough to procure for her boy the commonest education, is a man of wealth and has become a patron of his native village. The man who possesses and practices virtue makes his own circumstances. The self-denying, prudent man, creates around himself an atmosphere of safety where wealth naturally takes refuge?provided, of course, that the man has the power to earn it, either in production or exchange, or any kind of manui - :? ill or mieiicctiuu aeiviue.?uw ?.???*?. A Shrewd Farmer.?During the FrancoGerman war two hundred Uhlans arrived in a Norman village. One of the peasants hurried to a neighboring hamlet to warn a well-to-do farmer that he might expect Pi visit from the unwelcome raiders. The farmer was equal to the emergency. Calling his wife and daughters, all went to work with a will. Torn quilts, tattered petticoats, dilapidated gowns, were thrown over the backs of the cattle, enveloping them up to their horns, while their feet and heads were bound with straw. Then the sheep and goats were treated in the same fashion; bottles of medicine were scattered about; a large trough was filled with water, and in the midst was placed a great syringe. Up came the Uhlans; but at the sight of the strangely-attired animals and the monster squirt they hesitated. At last one of the troopers inquired what was the matter. "The rinder i>est," said the farmer. He had to answer no more questions. Ilis visitors turned their horses' heads and galloped off to make requisitions elsewhere. ^ As an old colored man and his son stopped iu front of an umbrella store, the son saw some umbrellas with covers on them, and questioned his father: "What's de covers on them dar um'rellas for?" "Why, chile, dem's put ober de um'rellas to keep 'em dry when it rains," was the father's response. I< A Good Creed.?We have the following sent to us: (1) We believe in God's providential care and in his infinite love. That in all our duties and cares we may feel his presence, and find his guidance and help. (2) We believe that this world is a school for the training, redemption, and elevation of men. (3) We believe that Christ came not to save us from God's wrath, but from our errors and sins, and to win us by his mission to the knowledge and love of a heavenly life. (4) We believe that by all honest and noble work, and all innocent recreations, we may enrich and gladden our earthly lives. (5) We believe that death should be viewed not as our foe, taking from us with relentless hand the dearest objects of our love, but our friend, sent to bear our kindred and friends and ourselves up to other and brighter mansions of our Father's house. (6) We believe that men are to be measured not by their professions, or creeds, but by their fruits?by the aim and temper of their daily lives.?Christian Life. Taking Cold.?The Periscope says, "When a person begins to shiver, the blood is receding from the surface; congestion, to a greater or less extent has taken place, and the patient has already taken cold, to lie followed by fever, inflammation of the lungs, neuralgia, rheumatism Sro All these evils can lie avoided and the cold expelled by walking, or in some exercise that will produce a prompt and decided reaction in the system. The exercise should be sufficient to produce perspiration. If you are so situated that you can get a glass of hot water to drink, it will materially aid the i>erspiration, and in every way assist nature in her efforts to remove the cold. This course followed, your cold is at an end, and whatever disease it would ultimate in is avoided; your sufferings are prevented, and your doctor's bills saved." How Oregon Youth Are Advised.? Young men contemplating marriage have so frequently called upon us to advise them in the manner of popping the all-important question, that we have concluded to give our opinion once for all. Never propose to a young lady oI-'I-av ltooY?fir mmil Tlio iu uumlasl t.n <11 LCI <1 Ileal LJ XUVdli X1IV I/IVVVI AM vv aid digestion, and her imagination is chilled. Nor should it come just liefore a meal, for the longings of an importuned system conduce to anxiety and irritability, and the shock may prove hazardous. It would lie better to select the evening, and invite her to some entertainment which you know she wants to attend, and then propose to her just as she is ready to start. This will l>e greatly to your advantage, for she will easily see that a rejection will upset an evening's entertainment.?Portland (Oregon) Bee. ? Indian Superstition.?An Indian earned the dead body of his sister to the top of a hill at Rosebud, Nebraska, and stationing himself by it with a rifle in his hands, intended to kill the first white man who came within range, so that a white spirit might accompany her to the happy hunting grounds. He stood there six hours, firing occasional but harmless shots at distant persons. Then a white man who had lived many years among the Indians, and whose wife was a squaw, walked unsuspectingly that way. The Indian shot him in the breast, and was satisfied. But the wounded man recovered, and accepted 111 horses, 40 bhuikets, and an ai>ology, in settlement. ? ? r\? /-, T? IO.H fof I AN UJ)L? IXJEIN 1US. 111 lOil I/1I.C1C uicu au Treleaven, Cornwall, England, at the age of 85, a most learned but eccentric divine, Mr. Lyne, for fifty years vicar of that parish. His chief peculiarity was a dread of contamination. He scrupulously avoided not only direct contact with the human species, but with anything that had been touched by others. He allowed no one to approach quite close to him nor would lie put on any clothes until he had fumigated them. He never touched money until it had been washed or brushed. In the coldest weather he never had a fire. His health was excellent. The Dinner Horn.?The dinner horn iz the oldest and most sakred horn thare iz. It iz set tew musik, and plays "Home, sweet heme" about noon. It has bin listened tew with more rapturous delite than ever any band haz. Yu kan hear it further than yu kan one ov Rodman's guns. It will arrest a man and bring him in quicker than a sheriff's warrant. It kin out-foot enny other noise. It kauses the deaf tew hear and the dum tew shout for joy. Glorious old instrument! long may yure lungs last I?Josh Billings. THE GENUINE DR. C. MoLANE'S Celebrated American WORM SPECIFIC or VERMIFUGE. SYMPTOMS OF WORMS. THE countenance is pale and leadencolored, with occasional flushes, or a circumscribed spot on one or both cheeks; the eyes become dull; the pupils dilate; an azure semicircle runs along the lower eye-lid; the nose is irritated, swells, and sometimes bleeds; a swelling of the upper lip; occasional headache, with humming or throbbing of the ears; an unusual secretion of saliva; slimy or furred tongue; breath very foul, particularly in the morning; appetite variable, sometimes voracious, with a knawing sensation of the stomach, at others, entirely gone; fleeting pains in the stomach; occasional nausea and vomiting; violent pains throughout the abdomen; bowels irregular, at times costive; stools slimy; not unfrequently tinged with blood; belly swollen and hard; urine turbid; respiration occasionally difficult, and accompanied by hiccough; cough sometimes dry and convulsive; uneasy and disturbed sleep, with grinding of the teeth; temper variable, but generally irritable, &c. Whenever the above symptoms are found to exist, DR. C. McLANE'S VERMIFUGES will certainly effect a cure. IT DOES NOT CONTAIN MERCURY in any form; it is an innocent preparation, not capable of doing the slightest tn th* mntf ttnrftr itlf/lttt. .,.v ..y The genuine Dr. McLane's Vermifuge bears the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming Bros, on the wrapper. ?:o:? DR. C. McLANE'S LIVER PILLS are not recommended as a remedy "for all the ills that flesh is heir to," but in affections of the liver, and in all Bilious Complaints, Dyspepsia and Sick Headache, or diseases of that character, they stand without a rival. AGUE AND FEVER. No better cathartic can be used preparatory to, or after taking Quinine. As a simple purgative they are unequaled. BEWARE OF IMITATIONS. The genuine are never sugar coated. Each box has a red wax seal on the lid with the impression Dr. McLane's Liver Pills. Each wrapper bears the signatures of C. McLane and Fleming Bros. Insist upon having the genuine Dr. C. McLane's Liver Pills, prepared by Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the market being full of imitations of the name McL<ine9 spelled differently but same pronunciation. February 13 7 ly on * i HllVT CHAR* HICB08C0PE. CHEAPEST or THS WORLD P^ll S*u[ ynP ClrtuUr *1 November 21 47 6m BARBER SHOP. THOSE in want of an EASY SHAVE, a fashionable and stylish cut of hair, or a pleasant and luxurious Shampoo, are reminded that THOS. BALLARD, Professor of the Art Tonsorial. is still in business, in his old Shop next door to tne Enquirer building, where it will afford him great pleasure to wait upon all who may desire his services. Razors boned and sharpened, and any other work of that kind promptly done. THOMAS BALLARD. October 3 40 tf WRAPPING PAPER. i"~kLD NEWSPAPERS, of large size, suitable If'for wrapping, for sale at do cents per uuu-i dred, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. J ?he fatMl* ^ttquim. TERMS IN ADVANCE : 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 copies, one year, 25 00 To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, an extra copy of the paper will be furnished one year, free of charge. Ttfr" Advertisements inserted at One Dollar per square, for the first insertion, and fifty cents per square, for each subsequent insertion. A square consists of the space occupied by seven lines of this size type. Contracts can lie made for three, six or twelve months, and a reduction obtained from the regular transient rates. A. WILLIFORD, FEED AND SALE STABLES. BOCK HILL. S. C. MORE FINE STOCK! I WOULD respectfully inform the public that I have just received FORTY young, fat KENTUCKY MULES, Which are now offered for sale on the moat accommodating terms, at my stables in Rock Hill. These mules are all in fine condition, and I am prepared to offer Bargains to all who want FINE FARMING STOCK. I will sell them cheap for cash, or on time, with note and good security. I also have a number of fine SADDLE AND HARNESS HORSES, Which I offer cheap. When you come to Rock Hill, don't fail to call round at WILLIFORD'S SALE STABLES. If you wish to buy stock I will give Bargains in almost any grade of stock desired; and if you don't want to buy, but have an animal that you wish to swap, come and see me, as I am prepared to exchange on fair terms. A. WILLIFORD. NOW IS THE OPPORTUNITY I AVAIL YOURSELF OF IT1 PRESERVE YOUR BOOKS, PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS AND MUSIC. ALL families have old Books, Periodicals, Newspapers, Music, Ac., which they desire to transmit to their posterity. Then HAVE THEM REBOUND! Which will preserve them and make them look almost as well as new. Old Books, Ac., should not only be rebound, but the current literature of the present day should be put in a durable form for preservation as well. This can be done in the shortest possible time, with the best material, in the most handsome ana durable style, and at prices which cannot be duplicated anywhere, by E. R. STOKES, Stationer, Book Binder and Blank Book Manufacturer, No. 155 Main Street, COLUMBIA, S. C. Send in orders at once. February 13 7 tf THE VERY LATEST AND VERY BEST. ? THE "FAMILY FAVORITE IMPROVED" Sewing- Machine. F IGHT-RUNNING, Noiseless, no Gears, no I A Cams, no Springs, new and elegant styles of Woodwork. Simple, Easy to Learn, Requires no Repairs, Instruction Book so plain no other teaching required, largest Shuttle used. If you see it you will buy it. Prices as Low as any First-Class Machine. LATIMER & HEMPHILL, Agents, Yorkville, S. C. February 6 6 tf CLEANSING AND REPAIRING. THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he is prepared to cleanse garments of any fabric whatever, rendering them perfectly clean, and if unfaded, restoring them to the original brightness and lustre of the goods. Do not throw away your old clothes, but have them cleaned and mane 10 iook as won as new. Work promptly done, and at the most reasonable prices. THOMAS BALLARD. August 22 34 tf CHATTEL MORTGAGES, MORTGAGES of Real Estate, and Titles to Real Estate. For sale at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. November 21 47 . . It The Best Family The "NEW AMERICAN" is easily learn more work with 'ess labor than any other r application. AGENTS 1 J. S. DOVEY Manager, 6 Agent tor Yorkville and vicinity, July 18 SERGEANT A GREENSBG MANUFACTURERS 01 "TROPIC" coo; T. M. DOBSON & CO., Agent LONDON & IHRIE, Agents, A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, McC J. L. CARROLL, Agent, Ches August 2 MILLS AMD MILL MACHINERY. mHE undersigned take this method of informI ing the public, that under the lirm name ol WELLS BROTHERS, they are engaged in the MILLWRIGHT BUSINESS, and are prepared to enter into contracts for the building or repairing of MILLS and MILL MACHINERY of every description, from the largest and most complete Flouring Mill, to an ordinary Cotton Screw. Each member of the Arm is a skilfull workman and has had the benefltof a number of years' experience. We are, therefore, prepared to guarantee that all work entrusted to us, will be executed in a workmanlike manner. * By permission, wo refer to the following persons, for whom we have worked: W. J. Rainey, Blairsville, S. C.; J. B. ?ft R. M. Wbitesides, Hickory Grove, S. C.; Major T. P. Whitesides, R. N. McElwee and Ellas Ramsay, Yorkville, S. C.; W. D. Lessley, Clover, 8. C. We are also agents for the sale of "Excelsior Bolting Cloths," and improved Mill Machiner" of every description. Our post office address Antioch, York county, S. C. W. 8. WELLS, M. R. WELLS, J. W. WELLS. September 20 89 ly* THE YORK MARBLE YARD. I AM still conducting the MARBLE BUSINESS in Yorkvllle, and am prepared to tarnish MONUMENTS, TOMB STONES, or ANYTHING IN MY LINK, as low as the lowest. , As an evidence of this, I can furnish Tomb 8tones for CHILDREN from $3.00 upward ; for ADULTS, from $8.00 upward. ptr Monuments and Tomb Stones designed and finished in the most elaborate style, ana in point of workmanship and material, equal to the work of any establishment in the country. Specimens always on hand, to an inspection of which, those In want of marble work are respectfully Invited. Estimates and other information furnished on application. Work delivered at any point on the Chester and Lenoir Narrow Gauge Railroad, between Chester and Dallas, or at any place between Rock Hill and Winnsboro, on the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta Railroad, free of charge for transportation. Thankful for the patronage heretofore bestowed upon my establishment, my determination is to merit a continuance of the same. F. HAPPERFIELD. Januarv 2 1 ly STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA. 00UHTY OF YGBK?00UBT OF 00KM0BT FLEAS. Elizabeth C. Happerfield, Plaintiff, against Jane A. Garvin, Margaret Russell, David 8. Rus? 1. *_1 /"! D .monl I U.,~h VX TJ.lQQoll WtO. sen, tiuun u. ituNwn, uu6u <> kiel T. Russell, George R. Russell, James A. Russell, Jesse Russell, Leander Russell, Margaret E. Hale, Green B. Hopkins, and the children of Mary W. Hopkins, names unknown, Defendants.? Summons foi Relief? Complaint not served. To the Defendants above named. "?70U are hereby summoned and required to X. answer the complaint in this action, which is this day died, filed in the office of the Clerk of the Court of Common Pleas, for the said County, and to serve a copy of your- answer to the saiu complaint on the subscribers, at their office, in Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days after the service hereof, exclusive of the day of such service; and if you fail to answer the complaint within the time aforesaid, the plaintiff in this action will apply to the Court for the relief demanded in the complaint. Dated January 29, A. D. 1879. HART <fc HART, Plaintiff's Attorneys. January 30 5 6t HOUSE PAINTING. THE undersigned would respectfully inform the public that he has resumed the business of HOUSE PAINTING in all its departments? a trade to which he has served a regular apprenticeship, under a tirst-class painter,and in which he has had several years' experience. Work done in the most durable manner, and at the lowest prices at which it can beafforded. MARBLING. GRAINING in imitation of different woods, and all kinds of FINE INTERIOR PAINTING done in as good style as can be done by any painter in this section "of the country. 1 can be seen or addressed at Yorkville, ana will cheerfully make estimates on work in any part of York, or the adjoining counties. References.?As to my skill an a workman, I respectfully refer to the'following gentlemen: L. M. Grist, W. A. Moore, Hon. I. D. Wither spoon, A. W. Ingo!d,J. F. Wallace, Lawson JonI Hr,u rv,l w H Mrtfnrkle. Dr. H. G. Jackson. I Dr. J. F. Lindsay, James L. Clark, James Ei Smith, Hon. A. S. Wallace, Yorkville ; J. 8. R. Thomson, Spartanburg; R. M. Wilson, Gaston; J. A. Briee, Fairfield; J. Harvey Smith, Chester. NELSON DA VIES. July 11 28 ly BLANK BOOK MANUFACTORY STATIONERY, AND BOOK BINDERY. THANKING the publio for liberal past patronage, I now invite attention to my complete stock of . STAPLE AND FANCY STATIONERY, consisting, in part, of Flat Papers, Midium, Folio Post, Demy, Letter and Note. Blank Boobs, 4 of every variety; Envelopes, Slates, Ink, Ac, Fancy Stationery, Gold Pens and Pencils, PenKnives, Writing Desks, Ac. Also, BOOK BINDING DONE, in all its various branches. Sheet Music, Periodicals, Law Books, Ac., bound in any style desired. Ola Books rebound and repaired. PRINTED BILL AND LETTER HEADS A SPECIALTY Orders promptly attended to, at lowest cash prices. E. R. STOKES, 165 Main Street Columbia 8. C. August 15 33 tf ROSE'S HOTEL, YORKVILLE, S. C. 4 THIS HOUSE has been tboroughly renovated from cellar to garret, and newly furnished, inTT ThMI eluding GRAFTON'S PATENT SPRING BEDS. In view of the times, our motto is a fall House at a moderate price. TERMS?$1.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL. Sample Rooms reserved especially for Commercial travelers. HENRY W. SMITH. August 30 34 tf J. R. SCHORB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 18T HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. a arTPTPRTOR Slrvlitrtat- a trallerv with everv j\ convenience, andf a determination to do |ny best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in want of correct and nattering likenesses. Cloudy weather is as good or better than sunshine for all subjects, except small children. June 27 28 ' tf Buy only the ^ NEW W AMERICAN i* 18 t,ib Only Sewing Machine ^ which Bab a rami |(lf-|h?ading|hulili It nas Self Setting Needle. Never Breaks the Thread. Never Skips Stitches. Is the Lightest tanning. The Simplest, the Moat Durable, and in Every Respect i; ; i. . Sewing Machine! ed. does not get out of order, and will do nachine Illustrated Circular furnished on WANTED. 4 Charles Street, Baltimore, aid. HUNTER & OATES. iy C u JL-IJCK .M. , RO, N. C., r THE CELEBRATED . . KING STOVES! PRICE GREATLY REDUCED on Cooking and Heating Stoves, Hollow Ware And-Irons, and . Castings of al. <inds. Also, on PLANTER'S PRIDE* PLOW8 STRAW CUTTERS, HORSE POWERS, Saw Mills, do. a, Yorkville,S. C. Rock Hill, York county, S. C. onnellsville, York county, 8. C. ter, S. C. 31 . tf