Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, April 22, 1880, Image 4

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j&umijfjius Department. | SLEEPING-CAB COMEDY. A traveler on the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad relates the following incidents of j1 travel: A middle-aged married couple have turned in next to me, having boarded the ;' train at a way station. They have evident- j! ly been much hurried and are out of humor, | for the wife is fretful and excited, and the i husband growls above his breath in this style: "Now, I'll just bet you didn't put my nightshirt in." ; "S'hush ! It's in the basket in the corner," replies the woman. "I've looked in the basket and 'taint there. I s'pose you put it at the bottom under the vittals." "Under the vittals, indeed ! Why, John, what on e a r-t-h are you a-doiu'?" 1.i-1.:..? ..... " X 111 IUU&1II 1U1 IUJ 911 111/. "Don't I that's the wrong basket. You've fone and spilt them pickles all over the bed! never seen such a man r "Never mind, Mary?you needn't tell the whole car." This in a whisper peculiar to the stage. "Looking for your old shirt in the dinner basket! 1 don't see what anybody wants a night shirt for on a railroad, anyhow," retorted the indignant female; and there was a whirring sound, which indicated that she had pitched the missing article into his face just in time to choke off a wicked rejoiner. "S'posen' the cars would run off the track!" added she. "You'd he a nice pictur, wadin' out of a swamp or rollin' down a bank in that, wouldn't you ?" "I'd be just as comfortable and party as you in that?" "S'hush! You'll disgrace both of us with your tongue," whimpering. "My tongue! Well, damn me, Mary if?" "There, now, you're cursing me, you? you?" Breaks off to sob. There's where she had him. I fancied soon after hearing the resonant and beautiful sound of a kiss, but perhaps it was only the angels, and I dropped off to sleep again. On the following day I saw the middle aged couple seated opposite me munching pickles and fried chicken at intervals?as docile and happy a couple as anybody may wish to see. A STRONG*CASE. A Detroit lawyer had a bill of $240 against a certain citizeu put inio his hands forcolhction the other day, and he wrote a note asking the debtor to cah at his office and see about it. The man promptly appeared, look ed the bill over, and said : "Well, I guess that's all coryect." "You acknowledge the indebtedness, do you ?" "I do." "And what arrangements will you make to settle it?' "I'll put in an offVet. I've been feeding two hogs for this man all winter, and my bill . is just 8240. I was figuring it up this very morning." ? "What, 8240 for feeding two hogs for three or fuur months!" exclaimed the astonished lawyer. "Just four months, sir, and the bill is correct." "And what are the hcgs worth to-day?" "Ten dollars apiece." "Well, you'll find it a hard matter t3 convince the court that your hog feed was worth any such money." ' Hog-feed?" shrieked the other, as he suddenly jumped up, "do you suppose I'm charging 8240 for the feed them hogs devoured ? Mo, sir. I put in the feed at only 840, but OOAA - I'v* >M<* CnnJo o lv a t U'KtnK fioll inf A UJC VAUV 13 1ui Iuj uuiiuar uoif ?tihvu ?vm *utv the pen and was gobbled down, and for nnx iety of mind for fear the porkers would catch the mumps from my children. Mental anguish is the backbcne in this ease, sir, and every one of my family will be seated in a row before the jury, and all will begin to weep as I rise to ask that justice be done a man who lost as firfc a cow as you ever saw nine years ago this spring!"' Thf Boy's Discovery.?We have "the" smart boy in Ceutreville. To explain all, I must first tell you of his father. Like many gentlemen here he takes his cod liver oil and whisky each rooming. Of course such an opportunity of impressing temperance principles upon the youthful mind could not be lost. So?each dose went down with a shiver, a terrible frown and exclamation, "Boo! I could stand the cod liver oil.-'but this whis- ( ky"?another shiver?"it's dreadful." "Our boy listened and stored it all up ii\ his youthful mind. The other day he was cleaning out the top shelf of a closet for his mother. "Ma, what's this?" Mother looks cautiously and smells. ' Oh ! rancid cod liver oil." Soon another bottle is handed down, another and anoth er; contents varying iroin a teaspoontui to half a cup, all "spoilt cod liver oil." At last the youngster raised his eyebrows and grave- ; ly remarked: "Ma, it's funny that pa let's all this good cod liver oil spoil, but never a drop of the whisky!" A Bereaved and Economical Husband. A gentleman has been so unfortunate as to have lost five excellent wives. He lately determined to erect a tombstone at the head of each, coinmeueing her virtues, and has only been deterred from so doing by the expense attending the carrying out of the design. Recently he came to the city, a happy thought having struck him, and arranged for the tombstone. The five wives were buried side by side in the same grave-yard. This is the happy thought: The Christian name of each wife to be on a small stone? ''Emma," "Jaue," "Mary," "Margaret," "Elizabeth"?a hand cut 011 each stone, pointing to a large stone in the centre of the lot, and under each hand : "For epitaph see large stoue." "Head us, Somebody."?Years ago, when Rock Island, 111., was a small village, and its people had lots of fun all to themselves, one sober and dignified citizen put his head under one end of a yoke and a little bull's under the other, to teach the animal how to be useful and work. When he found the bull was running away with him down a dirt road towards a crowd around the country store on Illinois street, he measured sixteen feet at a iump, kept up with the bull, and yelled at the top of his voice: "Look out; here we come, darn our fool souls. Head us, some.? __J ...1 L-ii-J 1 ,1.. I.. utiuy ; uuu wneii uaiieu, ?uu me ^ukc ?vas being lifted from his neck, he yelled, "Unyoke the bull; never mind me?I will stand." B&r A magazine writer says he has been astonished to Bud "how superior women are to men in the vividness of their mental imagery." Women are sometimes surprised at it themselves. When a mouse makes its debut in a room containing three or four ladies, there will ascend frightful shrieks and the fair creatures will clamber on the chairs and tables in a highly sensational manner, all the time imagining that the innocent little rodent is a monster with eleven heads, fiery eyebails and horns a foot loug. A man's mental imagery is not equal to such things j ' unless it is assisted by whisky." ' ? I fcaJ" A clergyman, who had been traveling ( in a remote part of the West, was asked by a 1 pious old lady if he saw any encouraging i signs of the spread of religion. "I heard some- i thing," said he, rather hesitatingly, "which 1 you might possibly call encouraging. As I , passed a cabin, a woman cried out to her , daughter, "Jerushy Ann ! you raeau, snarly- . beaded cuss, come right in to prayers !" ] "Sir," roared a man, out in Nebraska, : .striding up to a neighbor, "Sir, you are a liar." "I am?" exclaimed the astonished neighbor. "How do you kuow that I am ?" ! j "Because I know it; because I have found it j out." "How long have you been living \ here?" "Six weeks." "Oh, well, probably | you do know it then." i $br aud fireside. I IRISH POTATOES. I Our planters and gardeners almost without] pxception know how to plant and raise a good ] spring crop of Irish potatoes. Yet how few; of them make the effort to produce the second ; or fall crop which may be done in shorter time, I and with less attention and work. There are but two or three points of differ- : ence in the modes of planting each crop. To surged in a fall crou. it is the best to ' plant the potatoes you have raised in the spring, and just after digging them, and without exposure to the sun. Secondly, the potato you plant in the fall must not be cut, but planted whole, without regard to its size. This is one important point. If you cut them thev will "bleed'1 and are not likely to come up, and if they do come up, the plant will not l>e strong and vigorous. Thirdly, mulch the entire patch three or four inchest deep, immediately after planting, or after the first rain that follows the planting. This is the most important point, and upon its being faithfully done depends your success. You can mulch with half rotted wheat-straw, pine-straw or oak leaves. We prefer pine straw and oak leaves mixed, if they can be had conveniently. The potatoes may be planted in. rows and manured well with rotted manure the same as your spring crop, only you should not leave any ridges, but have the entire surface of your patch as level as possible, after you have done planting and before beginning to mulch. We have not failed to raise a most excellent crop of Irish potatoes for a lfumber of years past. We plant after a good rain any time in August. The plan we pursue in planting, and which has given us such an invariable success is this: We never dig our spring crop until we are ready to plant our fall crop. We then plow our spring patch with a common turning plow twice in immediate succession. At each plowing we have hands to follow the plow and gather up the potatoes, being careful to place them in the shade until ready to plant. Then with a turning plow six or seven inches run a furrow across the patch at one side?let the plow return in the same furrow; deposit the manure, and on the manure drop the potato, twelve or eighteen inches apart, without being cut. This furrow is filled, and the manure and potatoes covered by running another alongside the one in whfefj they are deposited. The plowman will now return, with his plow, to the end, keeping it out of the ground, and then run a furrow to cover up the last out, which has covered the potato. In this furrow he returns, opening as he did the first one for the reception of manure and potato. By these methods you plant in every furrow. If you wish, however, to give greater distance between the rows, it may be easily done by adding one or more waste furrows. When you have planted in fhe manner described, the ground will be level and smooth and in splendid condition to receive the neeescovir nuiliUiMirr after wliieli lin nth?1* WOvk Ol' attention is required. If the weather is moderately seasonable the potatoes planted in the fall make very rapidly and much sooner than those planted in the. spring. If gathered just before frost, or after the vines die down, they can be easily kept through the winter, and for table use are equal to any obtained from the north. Do not try to keep them in the smokehouse?they will rot in a salt atmosphere?but in a dry cellar, or some other cool and dry place, not too much in a bulk, but spread out thinly on the floor. ExcludeLall light from them?if you do not they will turn green and become soft, and entirely worthless for table use.?Americus liepublican. HOW TO MAKE DRAINS. The distance l>etween drains must be determined by the nature of the soil, their depth and the amoui t of fall. A loose, porous soil, will permit water to reach the drains for a long distance, whil< a tough, compact clay is almost impervious to .eater and requires the drains to l>e made much nearer. In a brack, loose soil, drains at the depth of four feet are suflicient at a distance of ten rods apart, but if the land is - ?-1 /v,? fa #1 voin if f hnrAiirrlilv IKIJLU Jiclll U1 a~Sl.HL tiaj , uvjr Uiaui iv vm/ivu^mj the distance apart should be from four to six rods. But few persons in this part of the country realize the great advantage that deep drains have over shallow ones. In my extensive acquaintance in this and adjoining countries among drainers, I know of but few that drain to a depth averaging over one and a half to three feet. Farmers pay taxes on their lands all the way down (and on wet lands it often amounts to rent), but never get any agricultural benefit from it any deeper than they drain; but they do get the benefit of it that deep, even if it is eight feet; in fact, an orchard or vineyard should not be drained less than that depth. The time is probably not far distant, when such shallow drains will be taken up and put down again at the proper depth. Persons often say that it costs too much to drain so deep, when the fact is the cost is less. For instance, it would cost but very little more to dig two drains to the depth of four feet than it would to dig three to the depth of two and a half feet, and the two deep drains will drain fully as much land as the three shallow ones, and will drain it much better and save the expense of a third line of tile. But the depth of drains is not always a matter of choice, as very often the outiet is not sufficient, and I have very often noticed that persons are sometimes extremely contrary about giving their neighbors above them an outlet, and very,often spend more time and money in lawing about it than would do the whole work, besides creating a bad feeling. In making an improvement of this kind, that is to last for all time to come, it is much better to secure a good outlet in the first place, if it does cost something more, especially it' the land is Hat and you have but little fall; but in all cases it is best to have a good outlet, so that the water will fall from six to twelve inches when it leaves the tile. Cold in the Head.? Most people look upon a cold as as a small matter. "Oh," they say, "it is nothing but a cold." And yet a cold may prove speedily fatal, or l>e a soiirce of life-long harm. The danger is more apparent when we remember that a vigorous person but seldom takes cold, but mainly those persons in whom the power of vital resistance is already weakened. A cold may run rapidly into pneumonia. It may give rise to rheumatism, and thence disease of the heart. It may throw itself with dangerous symptoms on the bowels. It may bring on a kidney complaint. It may inflame, and close up the gall-ducts, and thus cause indescribable agony from the distention of the inflamed bladder by the accumulated bile. Finally, it may result in cold in the head. The original attack?it is slight and brief fever?is general. The point of special harm is from the consequences which remain when the fever is over. Of all colds it is generally thought that one in the head is of the least significance, beyond l>eing annoying. But, at a late meeting of the j New York medical society, a paper was read ; by Dr. Roosa, in which he declared it to be the most frequent cause of certain chronic diseases?and indeed of very many of the maladies which terminate life before the age of seventy. He added: "The first great precaution to' be taken by each individual is to keep himself in good general condition; and to do that he j must studiously avoid all that tends to disor- j der the skin and the functions of all the or-: gans of the body. Children must be clothed in flannel the year round; must be made to know that the staples ! of diet are milk, bread, meat, vegetables and j fruit; and that tea, coffee, and pastry of all kinds are to be used only as the greatest of j luxuries, and, therefore, in small quantities and at long intervals.?Youth's Coutjmnion. Soda for Burns.?All kinds of burns, including scalds and sunburns, are almost iinme- j diately relieved by the application of a solution of soda to the burnt surface. It must be remembered that dry soda will not do, unless it is surrounded with a cloth moist enough to dissolve it. This method of sprinkling it on and covering it with a wet | cloth is often the very best. But it is sufli-! cieut to wash the wound repeatedly with a [ strong solution. It would be well to keep a bottleof it always on hand, made so strong that more or less settles on the bottom. This is what is called a saturated solution;and, really, such a solution iis this is formed when the dry soda is sprinkled 011 and covered with a moistened cloth. It is thought by some that the pain of a burn is caused by the hardening of the albumen of the flesh which presses on the nerves, uid that the soda dissolves the albumen ami relieves the pressure. Others think that the burn generates an acrid acid, which the soda neutralizes. + + ? ? It has been estimated by reports received it the Agricultural Department of Georgia that SO per cent, of the farmers who raise their supplies make money by farming. 75 per cent, if those who give liens and mortgages and pay high rates of interest on supplies fail to make expenses. HpSttHMMus fading. A MAN FROM THE "NARTH." There has never been much said in this J State about the pistol trade of this town, and j no explanation has ever been made of this ' neglect. Yesterday, a man who views this I subject through the spectacles of importance, entered a hardware store and became so much interested in a conversation about the different kinds of pistols, that to give a few of the points to the public may not be out of place. Just here itjnay be appropriate to remark that the man had just come from the"Narth," where discussions of our revolver trade are entered into with great spirit by people who believe that the "sucking bottle" in this State shoots six times. "rou have quite a Jot of revolvers, I see. I am from the Narth, and don't know much about pistols." "Yes," said the dealer, "we have a magnificent selection." "Have you a revolver chamber of commerce in this city "Oh, yes, regularly organized. We meet in a church, and our president, the parson, is said to be the best shot in Little Rock. One of the deacons threw a hymn-book at him one day, and the parson, calling the attention of the congregation to the feat he was about to perform, drew a pistol and shot the dea con's ears off. He had a split bullet in the pistol, and arranged the shot so that the ball divided just as it reached the deacon's nose, and performed this wonderful piece of work. Since then his salary has been increased.' It is wonderful how ignorant your Northern people are." "Very remarkable, indeed. I am a correspondent of a religious paper and I will make a note of it. Whht kind of a pistol do you call this!" pointing to a large Remington. "It's called companionship. It is principally used by old friends wlio kill each other earnestly and mannerly. It is not recognized, though, in polite society. You rarely ever find one in a ball room. Here's the fashionable pistol in summer," taking up a small Smith & Wesson, "but it's rather too light for winter use, except on low neck and short sleeve occasions. I have been thinking of making my wife a*present of this one. And this one," he continued, taklug up a pearl-haudled self-cocker, "I shall present to my son upon his debut into society. It is a very fine article, and is only used to shoot people gentlemanly and politely. Here is a Sunday pistol," taking up a carved and flowered weapon. "It wouldn't be polite to kill a man with it only on Sunday. Here's an old horse-pistol. Ain't she a tuotherlv old gal, though?' i he man trom the "jNarth" mane notes 01 I he information, and the Gospel Messenger, the Truth Vindicator or the Holy Wrestler will no doubt give us a few columns of interesting reading matter.?Little Rock Gazette. SU/CII)lf BY ANIMALS. That auimal3 commil suicide for various causes, such as shame, disappointment, love, loss of friends, despondency from ill health, Dr. Lindsay firmly believes, and contends for in his book on "Mind in Animals," and he cites the following examples : A case of suicide iu the dog is given by Morris, as illustrative of man's pitilessness to his worn out animal dependents. The poor animal was old, infirm, paralyzed, use ie.-s. an outcast, and a wanderer. Prior to its suicide by drowning, it was characterized by ! sadness of look. It obviously pondered its course of action, exhibited for a time hesitancy, and at last came to a decision, and noted upon it with promptness and resolution. It preferred death to its experience of life, and refused to allow itself to be saved. In another instance, cited by the same author, the dog was old, diseased, distracted with pain. It, too, drowned itself with the utmost deliberation, first casting a last piteous, "longing, lingering look" at its master, who had suspected it of being affected by, and probably bad discarded it for the sus pected rabies. An old collie (shepherd's dog), in Caithness, troubled with the infirmities of age, including deafness and the loss of teeth, in 1876 committed suicide?here again by drowning. "Evidently age was a burden to him. The dav before the last scene in the drama was J * enacted he was observed to take a general survey of the locality he was about to quit forever?in a very shaky way. He tlun wended his way ovr ground familiar to him, in his hunting days, to the sea shore?a distance of about two miles?and, without tak ing a long, lingering look behind, he plunged into the sea and expired. The act was witnessed by a number of persons on the shore." A Newfoundland dog, of great age, had his feelings wounded by being scolded, beaten in prefence only by means of a pocket handkerchief, and having a door shut in his face when about to leave a room with his usual rompanions?a nurse and her group of chil? dren. Sooti after he was found alive, but with his head almost altogether or partly submurged in a ditch. He was dragged out. But now he refused to eat or drink, and before long he was found in the same position, in the same ditch, but this time dead. He had succeeded in this second determined attempt at. drowning, but failed in securing his purpose with sufficient rapidity and directness by starvation. Give Him Your Eye.?Looking at the preacher encourages him to believe you are attending to and are interested in what he says. If it would be uncourteous not to look at a person holding a conversation with you, it is less so to avert the eyes from the preacher while he is addressing you. As a teacher of the most momentous of all truth he has a right to every testimony you can give him of your interest in what he preaches, and looking at him is one of those testimonies. Look at the nreacher. because vour erood 1 " * w o example will aid in recalling the wanderiDg eyes of others, rebuke their inattention, and restore their lost sense of propriety. Looking at the preacher is eminently favorable to keeping up the mind's attention to his message. The eye helps the ear; and both help to fixedness of thought upon what is uttered. Correct Speech.?Nothing bespeaks a true lady or gentleman or well-bred child more than the use of correct language; pure, clean speech. Cultivute good English in evcry-day conversation. Unclean speech is in keeping with a smutty face, begriinmed hands and soiled clothes. Strange how easily, how unconsciously, one slides into a careless, slip- | shod way of talking, even when the rules of. grammar are quite familiar. It is not un- j common to find people learned in all the rules j of syntax who apply them to the art of wri- I ting, yet habitually talk incorrectly. Early I culture and association with refined persons 1 are quite essential to give purity to speech ; I but if one has been unfortunately deprived j of these he should continually watch his j words till he gets in the habit of using deceut: English, for nothing so mistakably marks one ! with vulgarity, no matter how elegant is the ! outside covering, as shabby, low-born speech. ' jB@" The Kansas Pioneer gives the following advice to people who contemplate coming into 11 the Western country : The one thing should be taken into consideration by those who come West to seek a home, and that is, this { country is not filled with milk and honey, ami he who succeeds must of necessity have , learned economy and the great lesson of liv- ! ing within one's means. One is apt, when he , comes to the country and comes in possession ] of his first farm, to imagine that a living and i wealth follow as easily. Right here is where ' the mistake comes in. It takes hanLhip and 1 very many self denials to succeed in this ] country as well as it does in the most thickly settled Eastern States, and those who cannot come here fully realizing the fact that they ( must endure many privations, then it will be j better for them to stay away. * 1 1 fUadiug for thr $ abfcafb. CONDUCTED BT REV. ROBERT LATHAN. [Original.] MOCKING AT SIN. Sin lias lieen well defined to lie "any want of conformity unto or transgression of the law 1 of God." The essence, so to speak, of sin consists in disobedience to God's law. All sin is disobedience and all disobedience is sin. i Disobedience may consist in doing what God commands not to be done, or it may consist in ' not doing what God commands to be done. The former is said to be a sin of commission ; the latter is denominated a sin of omission. In the sight of God, both are equally heinous ; but so far as society is concerned, sins of commission appear to l>e the more flagrant. To characterize some acts of disobedience as sins of omission, and others as sins of com mission, is or no practical utility, because whoever neglects to do what God commands, is sure to do what God forbids to be done. In other words, those who do not love God, hate him: and those who do not serve (rod, render homage to some false god. To sin is easy. It requires 110 effort, either of body or mind. No capital is required to violate all the precepts of the moral law. The beggar, who has no home, and 110 means of securing one, is capable of relielling against the God that made him. The greatest difficulty every human being has to encounter in this world is to refrain from sinning. Those who set the Lord always before their faces would do good, but evil is always present. The good that they would do they do not, and the evil that they would not do that they do. One of the characteristics of the true child of God is, not that lie does not sin, but that he sincerely desires not to sin and strives to live Godly in Christ Jesus. It is characteristic of the unregenerate man that he looks upon sin as a little thing. God is not in any of his thoughts. He may be punctual in the discharge of his duties to his fellow men. He may be truthful, strictly honest in all his dealings with his fellowjnen,. kind and sociable, but still he is unconcerned about rendering an obedience to God. Not only so, but the multitude of worldly men make a mock of sin. They not only break God's law, but have pleasure in all those who trample his precepts under their feet. . I11 the Bible we are told that "fools make a mock at sin." A fool is one who is either destitute of sense, or makes a bad use of his sense. Whoever makes a mock at sin merits the name "fool." He puts his s<ense to batf use because lie does not reflect that whoever sins conspires against the greatest and best of all lieings. One of the elementary principles of all sin is ingratitude, and this is aw indication of both ignorance ;uid degradation. Ingratitude sinks the human below the brute. To sin is an evidence of mental derangement, because it attempts to accomplish an impossibility. Sin is rebellion, and rebellion is an attempt to alter the law and change the ruler. What stronger evid?pce could be given of mental and moral insanity than is presented by a human being attempting to dethrone God? The world would stand amazed at the man ...i. _ 1.1 ~ 1.L ,1 ' 11.~ ...... 1,G. wuu wuum aneinjit iu ur.tg wie sun nuiu ma place in the universe. Such an individual would he ajudged a fit subject for a lunatic asylum. His folly would be manifest and no one would hesitate to pronounce such an individual a fool. To remove the sun from his place in the physical universe would be an easy task compared with changing the moral law or dethroning the Almighty. Ilence rebellion against God is folly in the extreme. It is a vain .attempt to accomplish an impossibility. Only fools make a mock at sin, because were it possible for sinners to succeed in their rebellious devices they would bring upon the world a series of calamities which no finite mind can estimate. Suppose the law which governs and controls the material world were changed or suspended, 110 one dare say what would be the consequence. Suppose the silent but powerful law of gravitation was suspended for one moment, what would be the result? The whole system of worlds would l>e thrown into confusion and every living thing dashed into fragments. The universe would be wrapped in wild ruin. This earth upon which we live, the sun, the moon and themyriads of stars which deck the blue vault of the sky would be affected in a way which 110 mathematician can calculate. In the twinkling of an eye the blood would cease to flow in our veins, and all the animal organs cease to perform their functions. The rocks would rend, the oceans empty out their waters, and the earth itself fly in countless millions of atoms. * But what are these results compared with those which would take place were the moral law suspended.and God dethroned? Nothing, and less than nothing. lie tlait mocks at sin is a fool, because lie does not consider that if sinners succeed they accomplish the inevitable ruin of all things. What has the soul to sustain it but the moral government of God? What foundation is there for hope but in the fact that the Lord reigns in righteousness? "Stand-bys" and "Stand-offs"?"The Stand-bys" of our churches need a good word now and then. They will continue to come and work whether they are commended or not. Their devotion is of a healthier kind than that which has to be fed 011 thittery and praise. Hut they deserve honorable mention. They are always at church, near the front, looking pleasant and speaking encouragingly. They come not only "to be ministered unto, but to minister." The pastor knows not their faces merely, but their hearts. He sees them at every meeting, and has their help in every good work. Many a time, in secret, he thanks God for them, and begs a blessing on their devotion. They are not a few, though entirely too few. We can't do anything without thein, and it is such a pleasure and help to have | them, we would not. God bless the faithful few who stand by the cause. There is another class larger than this, the "stand-offs" of our churches. They fulfill the mission they have undertaken, and they fulfill it with a painful perseverance. The pastor knows the chronic frown their faces have worn ever since they joined the church. They are the discouraged and discouraging division of the church militant. It is impossible to do anything with them; they have taken a stand, but it is the "stand-off."?Central Baptist. On tiie Way.?A Scotchman was dying in 1 Scotland. It was a Sabbath evening. Ilis 1 daughter, Nellie, sat by his bedside. The ' church bells began to ring for the Sabbath i evening service, and the old man in his dying , dream thought he was 011 his way to the 1 church, through the cold, across the bridge, 1 over the river, and he said : "Hark, the hells are ringing, my lads, the bells are ringing; we will be late to church; make the horse strike j out swiftly." And then the old man shivered, and he said, "Bring the buffalo robes up closer, my lads. It is cold ; but we shall soon be there, we shall soon be at the church?we shall soon be over the river, my lads?we are there now," he said, with a smile. lie could afford to smile, for he had reached the church, not the church on earth, but the Church of Hod on high. Over the river there God hushed that old man to sleep. As one whom his mother comforteth, so God comforted him. How beautifully it is ordered, that as , many thousands works for one, so must every individual bring his labor to make the whole! j { The highest is not to despise the lowest, nor the j lowest to envy the highest; each must live in all and by all. Who will not work, neither i shall he eat. So God has ordered that men, being in need of each other, should learn to . love each other and bear each other's burdens, a *jgT All nature around us seems to proclaim that each and everything has for its own the happiness, first of man and then of the lower animals. But none of these things can an-, swer those ends, unless used as they were intended to be used. Used in any other way, j instead of blessings, they become curses. In-; dead of happiness, they produce misery. tfg>- Men dare not, as bad as they are, appear i >pen enemies to virtue. "When therefore, they -i [lersecute virtue, they pretend to think itcoun-j J terfeit, or lay some crime to its charge. I ' THE YORKVILLE ENQUIRER FOR 1880. 1 PREMIUMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. Seventy-Seven Prizes to be a warded to Subscribers. REDUCTION IN SUBSCRIPTION PRICE. : ( TIMS OF SlSCMPTil-FlIE IF PISTABE. Having perfected arrangements for reducing the expense of publication during the year 1880, we have determined to give our subscribers a share of the benefits, and announce the following reduced rates, to yearly subscribers?subscriptions, in all cases, to be paid in advance: Singlocopy, one year, $2 SO Three copies, one year, 6 00 Ten copies, one year '20 00 And an extra copy to the person securing a club of ten names anu paying the subscriptions on the same in advance. PREMIUMS TO SUBSCRIBERS. In order that our subscribers may have the opportunity of receiving Prizes, we have determined to distribute the following articles by lot, at 10 o'clock A. M? on the FIRST SATURDAY OF OCTOBER, 1880: KUDVP WaaA tin,,.\runl.lnoa r.Violf 1 lllkinj " COVI UO TT 111^ iumillllto?IUIIV.J ?? ? case, with drop leaf and two drawers, the retail price of each of which is $50. TWO No. 8 Tropic Cooking Stoves, with fixtures complete, the retail price of each of which is $25. SEVENTY-TWO Four-bladed buck horn handle Pocket-Knives, manufactured by William Thomas Staniforth, of Sheffield, England, the retail price of each of which is 81.50. The Sewing Machines and Stoves are fully described elsewhere in this prospectus. The Knives will be manufactured by the celebrated cutler, William Thomas Staniforth. Sheffield, England, and imported to our order expressly for this purpose by Messrs. Hart Co., hardware importers, of Charleston. The cutlery made by Staniforth is of the best quality, and wherever used gives universal satisfaction. This knife, made to ur order, is of convenient pocket size, contains two large and two small blades, is made of the be?t materials, finished in a superior manner, and is warranted to he equal to any pocket knife that usually retails in the stores at $1.50. In the distribution of the above Prizes, the following plan will be observed : The names of all persons who pay for one year's subscription, whether in a club at $2, or ?s a single subscrilier at $2.50, between this date and the first Saturday of October, 1880, will be printed on slips and fdaced in envelopes of uniform size and deposited n a cylinder prepared for the purpose. Slips of paper'of uniform size, to the number of seventyseven?one for each prize?enclosed in similar envelopes, will also bo placed in another cylinder, with the words "Sewing Machine" printed oh three of them; "Cooking Stovo" on two; and "Pocket Knife" on seventy-two of them. On the day designated, after thoroughly mixing the envelopes in each cylinder by revolving the #ame, an envelop will ho taken from each cylinder, ?nd the name of the person drawn from the cylinder containing the names, will be entitled to the Prize drawn immediately succeeding from the Prize cylinder. The cylinders will be revolved and the envelopes containing the numbers and names thoroughly mixed preceding eacli drawing. The drawing will be conducted by three responsible and reliable citizens, and the opportunity afforded for any subscriber to he present who may desire to do so. The result or the drawing will be published in the Exquirkr of the succeeding week, accompanied by a statement as to the fairness of the drawings and awards. Persons snHscribing for the Enquikku and having the paper sent to other addresses than their own, shall be entitled to the advantages offered by tiie prize drawing, provided they give notice previous to the drawing that such is their desire. Subscribers who sfecurethe Sewing Machines or Cooking Stoves, will have them shipped to their order at their expense for freight; the Sewing Machines from New York, and the Cooking Stoves from-Greensboro, N. C. The PocketKnives will be delivered at our ptblica ion office, or sent by mail at our exponse, at the risk of those entitled to receive them; or they will be sent in registered package on receipt of 10 cents to pay the registration fee. Alfletters should be addressed to L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. January. 2 tf BEST IN THE WORLD I Impure Bl-Carb Soda Is of a lightly dirty white color. It mayappear white, examined by Itself, but a COMPARISON WITH fHIIROir <fc CO.'S 44 Alt in AND IIA2UITIER" BRAND will show the difference. See that your Baking Soda li wh ito and PURE, as should be ALE SliTIIL All SUBSTANCES used for food A pimple but govern teat of the eomparstivo value nt different brands ot Soda is to dissolve s tb.fsert spoonful of each kind -with about a pint of wut*r (hot preferred) iu clear glasses, stirring until nil is thoroughly dissolved. The deleterious insoluble matter in tho inferior Boda will be shown after settling some twenty minutes or sooner, by the milky appearance or the solution uml the quantity of boating flocky matter according to quality. Be sure nnd ask for Church & Co.'s Soda and see that their name is on the package and you will gi t tho put est and whitest made. The use ot this with sour milk, in preference to Powder, buvcs twenty times its cost. See one po-nd package fur valuable informs* ion and read carefully. SHOW THIS T6 YOUR 8R0CER. January 15 3 4m ?thbTfavorite of the world. THE Family Favorite Improved Weed. These \Tuo)iinou tmvp Iippii remodelednnd finnroved until they are almost perfect in all respects. The parts are all of Steel and Wrought Iron Forcings. Every Machine sold by us will be fully warranted. Prices as low as any First-Class Machine, either for Cash or 011 Time until the lirst of November next. W. G. RE ID CO., Furniture Dealers, Rock Hill, S. C. February 19 8 tf STATE OF SOUTH CAROLINA, YORK COUNTY. WHEREAS J. F. WALLACE, C.C. C. Pleas, ? has applied to me for Letters of Administration, on all and singular, the goods and chattels, rights and credits of WM. LATTA, Senior, { late of the county aforesaid, deceased. These are, therefore, to cite and Admonish all J ind singular, the kindred and creditors of the j <aid deceased, to lie and appear before me at our next Judge of Probate's Court for the said conn- c ty, to be holden at York Court House on the 14TH *DAY OF MAY, next, to shew cause, if any, why the said Administration should not be , granted. jiven under my hand and Seal, this 1st day of -j April, in the year of our Lord, one thousand . eight hundred and eighty, and in the 104th year of the Independence of the United States of America. _ J. A. McLEAN, Judge or rrooate. April 1 14 Gt GARRY IRON ROOFING CO., md Cement. 70 and fil Columbus Street, . CLEVBUjANrD, OHIO. I Send for circulars and price lists. \ February 20 9 ly rpHE Win.IAiffiTON pEUAI.E rtOLLEGE ' 1 At If Win ^uxntoir, Jr^0 Carolina, q llriLar rwfwitfoHjr oflWw lu ?*rri<^ Li%^prrnt?Mj/wwh to aecntt 'm Ur their diughtrri, at rrjuon?bl? rato/w^^ruuaM^X.-iymrDetrvul cult!' ^ vatluy of Ltoll?etuy|y6p^raltpoj^l0^h U conducted on q what it called KM wliA<SkMj-AJt:?CAt CovuR ? or Strut; and/by a lu tow eatm ^ *n? mad? iljllYUtwcyi^J^ j^o\dl^^j^/!nprv\9 tbtlr pm'lrytt. Jli Couri^llu^ In plnt-Cla? EVbmU CollvytK to our CtaiiurV??rurJie/tjJlolar*hlp in tta vaiiou? di ]?rvmeala n7wit|^ wt vlba/thk palm to a>v. tamlr nib *?vrral Vfkr Vaivabu Pbcuuab Kaatcua, aim fully ?*|?lA^?j>^nur new Catalogu* KjbJ for on#, aod eiaaiinr It, to ttot Hrau?MM?i, H..H iukUiM r*r* r?? ? it l?f mu w*. August 21 34 lyeaw Notice. [AM still Agent for the "American" because it i the best and cheapest Sowing Machine made. J. R. 8CHORB. "ALL QUIET ON THE POTOMAC!" fHE WAR OVER! PEACE DECLARED ! BOTH SIDES VICTORIOUS! PIANO BLOCKADE RAISED! The long strike and lockout in New York Piano factories ended. All factories open. 5,000 locked out workmen again at work. A new piano turned out every ten minutes. Workmen happy. Pur' chasers who wanted Pianos and couldn't get them also happy. We have had a sorry time for the past two months, to furnish pianos to impatient purchasers who wouldn't understand that pianos had to be made before being delivered, and it has worried us muchly, but the "winter of our discontent" is now over, and we are ALL RIGHT NOW. Pack orders will be filled at short metre, and new ones by lightning express. Our stock on hand is very large, and it ^s only certain styles that we have been short of. These are "coming, \ oomiiur." 300.000 more and don't vou forget it! ; Beat of all, read this: % ' PRESENT PRICES GUARANTEED. t Having made new contracts with leading manufacturers, which hold good until July 1, next, we engage to fill all orders received by that date at our present prices. Come what will we shall not raise prices again until the fall trade opens and the fall prices are established. We have advanced retail prices but a small percent, notwithstanding the large advance in wholesale cost, and our present prices are still extremely low. BUYERS CAN NEVER BUY CHEAPER ? And tlwy will lose time and money by waiting. Wo 1.uunclfll hoi-trflina to cash buVCre. New instruments, new styles, new prices, new terms. Send for Catalogues and Descriptive Illustrated Price Lists, giving full information. Address HIDDEN ABATES, SAVANNAH. GEORGIA, WHOLESALE PIANO AND ORGAN DEALERS. April 22 38 * 9m ~THE BICKFORD~ AUTOMATIC FAMILY KNITTER. n n it? Knits all sizes of work, narrows and widens it; shapes all sizes complete. Knits over 50different garments, Socks, Stockings, Mittens, Leggins, Wristlets, Gloves, etc. It knits every possible, variety of plain or fancy stitch. 75 per cent, profit'in manufacturing'knit?oods. Farmers can treble the value of their wool, by converting it into knit goods. Agents wanted in every State, County, City and Ti.wn, to whom very low prices will be made. For full particulars and lowest prices for the best Family Machine, send to BICKFORD KNITTING MACHINE MFG. CO., Brattleboro, Vt. February 26 .9 ly S|Ml.es,S| Ipfle RuiyviQq tensions %.6t . I Mmerican $ & Scflinoifafline #<?2 IHe B^TrttheWorid. pj,? L_l BALTlM0RE,MD.V LmJ TEE AMERICAN SEWING MACHINE IS as good as any on the market. The ladies like it and recommend it. For sale by KENNEDY BROS. & BARRON. ROSE'S IIOTEI.,, YORKVILLE, S. C. THIS H0USE haa been tboroughly renovated from cellar to garret, and newly furnished, ineU^SSBr eluding GRAFTON'S PATENT tDDTVii iivny Tn iiinii- r>f fhn times nnr mot 3A UlJV/K^I Alt ? IV. ... y o is a full House at a moderate price. PERMS?81.50 PER DAY, OR 50c. PER MEAL. Sample Rooms reserved especially forCommer:ial travelers. HENRY W. SMITH. ----- NOTICE. [RESPECTFULLY inform the public that I am prepared to sharpen razors, scissors, shears ind other tine-edged instruments. Prices?for loniugand sharpening razors, 2o cents, and for harpening scissuis or slicars, 10 cents each, and atisfaction guaranteed or no charge. TOM BALLARD, Barber. | SERGEANTA GREENSBO MANUFACTURERS OF c TROPIC 55 COO] T. M. DOBSON, Agent, Yorkv LONDON & IHRIE, Agents, ! A. F. LINDSAY, Agent, MeCc J. L. CARROLL, Agent, Cheat G. H, O'LEARY. SADDLERY DEPARTMEJIT. T F AVE a number of Saddles of my own mani u/acture, whicb were made before the recent advance in leather, and which I will sell at the old price. Now is the time to buy. G. H. O'LEAKY. HARNESS. BR1 DLES.&C. BUGGY and Carriage Harness, Riding and Blind Bridles, Halters, Collars, Whips, Plow Backhands, Haines, Trace Chains, Saddle Blankets, etc., at G. JI. O'LEARY'S. IXKNITURE DEPARTMENT. [AM constantly receiving new goods in the Furniture Department, in a!l its branches. Call and see me; I never fail to please and seldom fail to sell. O. H.u'LEARY. CLOCKS. SKTH THOM AS'one and eight-day Clocks for Hale by G. H. 0;LEAKY. JUST ARRIVED." SOME handsome new CHAMBER SCITS, latest styles, at lowest living prices. Call and see tiiem. Also, some Ratan Chairs, exceedingly pretty and quite new in this market. Oor stantly on hand. Wardrobes, Bureaux, Washstands, Cane and Ratan Rockera, Chairs of various styles, and a new supply of Pictures. G. H. O'LEARY. COOK INGSTOVES. THE Iron King and Elmo Cooking Stoves on hand aud for sale. Any piece of these Stoves replaced when worn out, or any of the pieces of the fifty different styles of the Charles Noble & Company Manufacture of Stoves, can be had by calling at G. H. O'LEARY'S. BEDSTEADS AND MATTRESSEEL BEDSTEADS, handsome and plain, to suit all classes. Mattresses cheap, at GEORGE H. O'LEARY'S. C. & L. HARROW GAUGE RAILROAD. CHANGE OF SCHi:i> ULE. SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE,) Yorkville, S. C., April 6, 1880. j THE following Schedule of the Mail and Passenger Trains will take effect on the 7th of April, 1880. . * going north. Leave Chester at 3.00 P. M. Leave Lowrysvilleat 8.35 P. M. Leave McConnellsvilleat 4.00 P. M. Leave Guthriesville at 4.10 P, M. Arrive at Yorkville at 4.40 P. M. Leave Yorkville ail 4.M P. M. Leave Cloverat 5.36 P. M. Leave BowUng Gieen at 5.45 P. M. Leave Crowder's Creek at ~..5.55 P. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge at 8.10 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia at 8.30 P. M. Leave Gastonia at 6.40 P. M. Arrive at Dallas at 7.0.) P. M. going south. Leave Dallas at 7.00 A. M. Arrive rft Gastonia at 7.2*1 A. M. Leave Gastonia at 7 40 A. M. Leave Pleasant Ridge at 8.00 A. M. Tieave Crowder's Creek at 8.15 A. M. Leave Bowling Green at 8.25 A. M. Leave Clover at 8.40 A. M. Arrive at Yorkville at....., 9.2#> A. M. Leave Yorkville at 9.30 A. M. Leave Guthriesville at 30.0.'? A. M. Leave McConnellsville at..... 10.20 A. M. Leave Lowrysvillo at 10.40 A. M. Arrive at Chester at 11.10 A. M. JAMES MASON, Superintendent. April 8 lo tf ATLANTA AN]) CHARLOTTE AIE-LIHE RAILWAY. PASSENGER DEPARTMENT. Atlanta, Gam December 29th, 1879. CHANGE OF SCHEDULE. O N and after January 1st, 1880, trains will run on this road as follows: DAY PASSENGER TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gaston in, 2.10, P. M. Leave 2.17, P. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 11.37, A. M. Leavell.88, A. M. NIGHT PASSENGER TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 2.16, A. M., Leave 2.17, A. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 1.08, A. M.t Leave I 09, A. M. LOCAL FREIGHT TRAIN. (eastward.) Arrive at Gastonia, 2 45, P. M.f Leave 2.58, P. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gaston li, 7.10. A. M., Leave 7.30, A. M. THROUGH FREIGHT TRAIN. 'eas-pward.) Arrive Gastonia, 5.55, A. M., Leave 5.5>, A. M. (westward.) Arrive at Gaston la, 5.00, P. M., Leave 5.00, P. M. Connecting at Atlanta for all points West and Southwest. Connecting at Charlotte for all Eastern points. Through Tickets on sale at Greenvilleand Spartanburg to all points East and West. G. J. FORE ACRE. Gen'l Manager. W. J. Houston, Gen'l Pass. <fe Ticket Agent. January I 1 tf NOW IS THE OPPORTUNITY !AVAIL YOURSELF OF IT I PRESER VE YOUR BOOKS, PERIODICALS, NEWSPAPERS AND MUSIC. ALL families have old B^oks, Periodicals, Newsnaoerw. Music. Ac., which they desire totransmit 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, butthecurrent 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 moat handsome and 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. g e or get.1ch or r, photographer, CHESTER, 8. CAROLINA. PICTURES taken in all kinds of weather, and pains taken to please every customer. Old Pictures COPIED AND ENLARGED, as low as can be done in any city, North or South. Have on hand a fine selection of CHURCH AND PARLOR ORGANS, which are offered very cheap. Instruments guaranteed to bo firstciass. Call and see for yoursejves, at the PHOTOGALLERY, opposite the "Cotton Hotel." Also, authorized agent to receive Subscriptions, Advertisements and orders for Job Work for the Yorkville Enquirer. GEORGE T. 8CHORB. jr^ SCHOSB'S PHOTO-GALLERY, 1ST HOUSE EAST OF THE JAIL. A SUPERIOR Skylight, a gallery with every convenience, and a determination to,do my best, enables me to promise satisfaction to all in want of correct and flattering likenesses. Cloudy weather is as good or better than sunshine for all subjects, except small children. February 13 7 tf oldIewspapers, OF large size, suitable for wrapping, fb:r sale at one cent each, at the ENQUIRER OFFICE. January 8 2 tf c McCAULEY, ro. N. c., ' THE CELEBRATED KING STOVES! PRICE GREATLY REDUCED nn Pnnl: incr nn:1 HAnHnc Sfrvvfls Hollow Ware And-Irons, and Castings of all kinds. Also, on 'PLANTER'S PRIDE' PLOWS STRAW CUTTERS, 1 Saw Mills, Ac. ille, S. C. Rock Hill, York county, S. C. mnellsville, York county, S. C. or, S. C.