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?*4?** v?jkl*- v-^'' / ' ':. . % * ^ ? " ~~ ' " " : lewis m. grist, proprietor. | %it fnkjjcnbcnf Jfamiljr fttfospaptr: Jfor % promotion of % ^political, Social, ^grintlfaral anb Commtrrial |nftrtsls of ijjt j?ouf|. j TERMS--I2.50 A YEAR, IN ADVANCE. VOL. 31. YORKYILLE, S C., THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 3, 1885. ISTO. 36. $?gmal foetrg. Written for the Yorkville Enquirer. HOW I'LL GO TO HER. : BY ARDENT. On the soft, cool aud balmy breeze That comes to herald in the morn, Dancing with joy among the trees Till the leaves in concert lisp a song, And on its sweet, melodious chime Bounding away with it I'll rove Through every realm and every clime, Nor will I halt till I've found my love. k3 And on the sun's bright rays at noon, When all is cheerful, warm and bright, I'll try to find upon them room, And there with joy and great delight I'll go with them as on thev fly, T WAAM*/ Ktr nirrhf A ? /I O \r i^ivr ? 111 x ? un j mj luguif vi V4?j , Till at her feet I prostrate lie, And give mvself to her away! i. And so at night, on Luna's beams, And all the tides that they make flow, Yea, in all my thoughts, in all my dreams, Away to her on them I'll go ; % And were I now from my body free I'd go quicker than a lightning dart, Nor would I weary till I should be Nestled for life within her heart. And on Aurora's golden wings, t The purple blushes of the eve, And the richest odor that ever springs From the bursting flower when it leaves. Rejoicing, on with it I'd go, Swifter than human thoughts can flee O'er land and sea?nor weary, no, Till I my love again should see! Yea, on light of every star That crown with beauty all the sky, Dispensing light both near and far, Yes, on them all to her I'd fly With heart o'erflowing with love and glee, Outstripping far the carrier dove; For there's no rest on earth for me * Till I have found again my love! Then life will be all radiant, ^ Almost equal to heaven above, And each day brighter as 'tis spent, When I have found the one I love, And we in union both find rest, A single mortal can never know, Op'ning a fountain in each other's breast, From whence constant joy will ever flow. Nothing then here shall give us pain, Nor can aught ever come amiss, For whether we lose, or whether we gain, 'Twill add still something to our bliss, Allaviner fear or increasing power, Or giving to hope a brighter ray, As on we speed through life each hour To heaven for us not far away. lite Irllev. TURNED ADRIFT. % * "Rosamond! Rosamond!" "Yes, Uncle Phineas." "It's nine o'clock, Rosamond. The clock's just struck." "I know it, Uncle Phineas." "Well, take off them logs as hasn't got fairly to going and put 'em keerful in the chimney-corner, and kiver up the rest with a good* coat of ashes. Dy'e hear, Rosa^ mond?" "Yes, Uncle Phineas!" with a sigh. "Because you know, Rosamond, nine o'clock's the time folks was abed." "Yes, Uncle Phineas." , * "And be sure you lock the big front door and bolt both bolts, and put a cheer agin the hinges, so't'll tumble over ef any one tampers with the fastenings." "I'll not forget, Uncle Phineas." George Hand rose from his seat, with a smile," as Rosamond Foster's troubled eyes met his own. "Perhaps I had better be going," said he, "Evidently your uncle thinks my room will be better than my company." "You won't mind him?" said Rosamond, faintly. "Not in the least," said George. "He's quite right. Nine o'clock is time to go home. I'll come some other time and finx ish my visit." He held Rosamond's hand a trifle longer 1 *? ? ??>?? MArtAooJft? fnp oe tKi?i\r lliuil inert? >vnn ?ukv iicvbhuji iui, hj mvj parted; and the girl sighed softly as she bolted the great door and adjusted the "cheer" at the exact burglar catching angle. George Hand had been very near saying * the word for which her heart had longed all these months, just when Uncle Phineas' cracked voice made it audible, over the bend of the stairway. It was rather hard, but Rosamond's life had been a succession of mute self-sacrifices, andihis only made an additional one. But Uncle Phineas renewed the subject, next day, with some acrimony. "I tell ye what, Rosamond," said he, "the candle-box is more'n half-empty!" "Yes, Uncle Phineas, it's the middle of January you know," said Rosamond, gently. - "I don'tkeer if 'twas the middle of April," snarled the old man. "That ain't no excuse for wasting candles. Arter this the house has got to be shut up at half-past eight + o'clock at night and all the lights out. I ain't goin to end my days in the poor-house, not to please all the shiftless young fellers in the place. Ef they ain't got homes of their own to set up in I ain't goin' to furnish one for em." Rosamond made no answer. What comment had she to offer? Did not Uncle Phineas remind her a dozen times a day that she was a penniless orphan, entirely dependent on him for the bread she ate, the clothes she wore? To be sure, there had been a hundred dollars for her, when the estate of Eli akim Foster had been divided; but Uncle Phineas had insisted on her laying that aside for a rainy day. Some said it was sensible thrift; some called it an offshoot of the miserliness that underlay his whole nature. But the old man deierned no explanation; he only sniff ed a great sniff when he heard that Rosamond's only brother, Jared, had put his share into an invention of his own which he was trying to push through the patent office. "Humph!" said he. "Fools and their money are soon parted." To-day, however, he had no sooner settled the candle-question, than he broached a new topic. "Give me that there money o' yourn, Rosamond," said he. "I've 'got a good ^ chance to invest it, where it'll double itself 0 in a year or two." Rosamond turned red, then white. She did not speak. "Don't ye hear me? croaked the old man, impatiently. "What are ve standing there for? Get me the money, 7 I say!" "Uncle Phineas," gasped Rosamond,driven to desperation, "I haven't got it; I?I lent it to Jared !" "Lent it to Jared!" thundered the old man. "Flung it into the fire, you meanmade ducks and drakes of it! Lent it to Jared!" "He needed it, Uncle Phineas," pleaded the girl. "And, alter all, he's my brother." "And you never asked me ?" "I was'afraid you would not consent, Uncle Phineas." The old man snarled like an infuriated * wolf; his wrinkled skin turned a dull yellow. "Ef ye're so very independent," said he, "Ye can clear out o' this house; my roof shan't shelter ye no longer. Clear out, I say!" Rosamond stood appalled. "But, Uncle Phineas, I've nowhere to go," she faltered. Ye'd oughter ha' thought o' that afore ye was so free with your money," growled the old man as he held the door wide open for her to pass out. "But it's dark, Uncle Phineas! Audits snowing hard!" "What is that to me?" shouted the old tyrant.. "Do you mean to start or must I take ye by the shoulders and put ye out? Go, I say!" There was something in the savage light of his eyes that appalled his niece, even while she had opened her lips to remonstrate still further. Without auother word, she glided out into the twilight tempest. Everybody in Berkersfield remembered St that January storm for years afterward. Young people dated back to it; old inhabitants compared it with the memorable storms of tneir youthful days. The snow lay for weeks, full six feet deep. Wild creatures, like foxes, wolves and weasels, crept out of the woods, and, turning traitor to their instincts, sought food and shelter near human dwellings. Roads were impassable for weeks; railways blocked up for days. And not until the spring sun unlocked the icy chain of Plimmit's Creek (one of the deepest and most dangerous streams in the neighborhood,) did they discover the scarcely recognizable remains of a human body, wedged among the roots of a submerged tree. Had it not been for the scarlet shawl which Rosamond Foster had worn when she left the farm-house her remains could hardly have been identified. But they brought her to the old Foster home, and Uncle Phineas gave her decent burial. From that moment, however, he never held his head up. "I knew they couldn't convict me in a r'onrt nf law." lie said. "But it's murder, all the same?it's murder! And I didn't never know afore how fond I'd got to be of Rosamond. There ain't no hired help I've had sence as ever done as she done. Poor Rosamond?poor little girl! And it was me killed her!" They seat for the doctor; but the doctor shook his head. "It is not a case for medicine," said he. "The man is not sick. He has something on his mind." "Ye don't keep no medicine to make a man forget, do ye, squire?" said Uncle Phineas, with a ghastly smile. "If we did, our fortunes would be made," said the doctor. "No, my friend, there's nothing in the Pharmacopeia to meet your case, worse luck!" So the solitary old man peaked and pined as the days went by, hanging moodily over his handful of fire, and refusing to speak to the sympathetic neighbors who came and went. But one day, when the chestnut trees were all in blossom, a carriage drove up to the door, through weeds that had grown knee-deep. "Company ?" said Uncle Phineas, with a side-long glance at the window. "Tell em to go away; I won't see nobody." "But you will see me, Uncle Phineas?" cried a cheery voice. "You will see Rosamond?" Rosamond it was, alive and blooming, with eheeks like her name-flower, and blue eyes shining. Uncle Phineas looked at her with a troubled face. "Rosamond was drowned," said he. "How is this? Are there two Rosamonds?" "Dear uncle, I am so sorry!" explained the girl. "But I never heard until yesterday of the girl who was buried in my name. I met the poor thing shivering on the road ; she seemed to have lost her way, and I directed her as well as I could, and gave her my little red shawl to tie around her neck. I took the train to Scranton, and went to Jard. I didn't know what else to do. And oh, uncle, my hundred dollars has more than quadrupled itself, and Jared's patent steam-saw is a success! He is a rich man, and we can pay you now for all your kindness to us when we were children." "I reckon it won't take much to do that," said Uncle Phineas, with grim sarcasm ; "a thousand-pound weight otf my heart this day! I've missed you every hour, and everyday ! You'll come back to me, Rosamond, won't ye, dear?" "For a little while, if you want me," the girl said, blushing beautifully. "But I saw George Hand at the depot when I got off the Scranton train. He was so rejoiced that I was not dead. And, I don't quite know how it happened, but I have promised to marry him in August." So Uncle Phineas did not keep his niece Rosamond very long after all. But the fact that she was alive and near him was enough to give him-a new lease of life. And on her weddinfr dav. the old man actually relented so far as to give he another hundred dollar bill out of his old green chest that he kept back of the cherry wood bedstead. "George Hand is a smart, forehanded lad," said he. "And Rosamond is a good girl?a very good girl!"?Helen Forest Graves. wmmmmmmmmmmmmmm* Good Advice From a Humorist.?To young men Bob Burdette says: "You take a basin of water, place your finger in it for twenty or thirty seconds, take it out, and look at the hole that is left. The size of that hole represents about the impression that advice makes on a young man's mind. "Don't depend too much on your family? the dead part I mean. The world wants live men; it has no use for dead ones. Queen Victoria can trace her ancestors back in a direct line to William the Conqueror. If you cannot get further back than your father you are better off. Your father was a better man in his time than old William. He had better clothes to wear, better food to eat, and was better housed. "If you are a diamond be sure that you will be found. Cheek, brass or gall never get ahead of merit. "I love a young man who is straight-forward. Ask for what you want. If you want to marry a rich man's daughter or borrow $500 from him, ask him for it; it amounts to the same thing in the end. It is always better to astonish a man than to bore him, "Remember that in the morning of life come the hard-working days. Hard work never killed a man. It's fun, recreation, rei laxation, holidays, that kill. The fun that results in a head* the next morning so big that a tub could hardly cover it is what kills. Hard work never does. "Those who come after us have to work just as hard as we do. When I shovel the snow off my sidewalk, if perchance I. take a three-quarter piece off my neighbor's walk, I put it back, because if I didn't I should be doing him an injustice. "You can't affort to do anything but what ! is pood. \ ou are on uress parade an me time. "Don't be afraid of pounding persistently at one thing. Don't be afraid of being called a one-idea man or a crank. If you have one idea, you have one more than most men have. It takes asmart man to be a crank." Tiie Surviving Generals.?The only j two great commanders now living who j faced each other in making the thrilling 1 and crimsoned annals of the late civil war ; are Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen. ! Joseph E. Johnston. Grant met Lee, Joseph Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnson, Beauregard, Bragg and Pemberton in battle as chief commanders, and of them Joseph E. Johnston, Beauregard and Bucknersurvive. Meade, who met the terrible shock of battle at Gettysburg, was borne to the City of the Dead within a short time of the imposing pageant that committed the dust of Lee to the mother earth, and Thomas and Hood, who fought the last great battle of the war at Nashville, both sleep the dreamless sleep of the dead. Sherman and Johnston alone remain of the great commanders who locked horns with each other in the dame of battle. Their campaign from Chattanooga to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the sea was the most brilliant of the war, and they are the only two great commanders who are left to sit down and talk their battles over, i as they often do in the heartiest good fellowship. Of the many commanders of the heroic Army of the Potomac, none remain, ' with the single exception of General McClellan. Scott, McDowell, Burtiside, Hooker, Meade and Grant, who in turn eomi manded that magnificent army, have all gone to join the great majority, and Longstreet is the only one of Lee's great lieutenants who linger with the living. Jackson, 1 Hill, Ewell and Stuart, who were in the great conflict of the Army of Virginia, rest with their great chieftain in the Old Dominion. Joseph E. Johnston and G. T. Beauregard are the only surviving Confederate commanders who led great armies to battle, and they are whitened by the frost of time.?Philadelphia Times. ott /foreign fSandsi SKETCHES OF TRAVEL IN SCOTLAND BY REV. R. BATH AN. [Written for the Yorkville inquirer.] There are many places in Stirling whicl are full of interest to the student of history Here I may remark that without som knowledge of the history of a country th traveler feels very little interest in passinj through it. He may admire its progress ii agriculture, gaze with delight on its hill and mountains, behold with intense deligh its silvery lakes and pearly brooks, bu what is Bannockburn without a know ledge of the fierce contest which took plac on its banks between forty thousand Scotcl under Robert the Bruce and one hundrei thousand .English under Edward the sec ond ? Nothing but a crooked Scotch stream What is Plymouth Rock without a know ledge of the fact that there the Pilgrin Fathers landed ? Nothing but a rock sue) as can be seen all over Massacusetts. Among the old things in Stirling may b mentioned the Mar's Work. This is an un finished structure begun by the Earl of Ma about the middle of the sixteenth century The object in view was the erection of : grand palatial residence. Its exact dimen sions I do not know, but its size correspond with the notions of the age in which it wa built. Huge proportions and massive wall were then considered an essential elemen of beauty. The Mar's work is said to be i ruin. This is not stictly true. It is goinj to ruin, but certainly not fast. It has beei in existence more than three hundred year and the walls are standing to-day. In fac little was ever completed but the walls At present it is without a rool. The masoi work was well done. The cement in whicl the stones were laid was good, and I saw n< pvidpnrp of stnnps readv to fall. Over th | doorways and windows there are som strange inscriptions. They are not hard t I read, but difficult to interpret. I copied some of these and as a curiosit; {they are reproduced, but the reader is lei | to interpret for himself. The letters are al capitals and there is a period between am at the top of each word. One of these is ? as follows: THE * MOIR * I * STAND * ON * OPPIN * HITH' MY ' FAVETIS * MOIIt * SUBJECT * TO * SIGH' Another is: ESSPY ' SPEIK * FOITH * SPAN * NOTHT CONSIDER * VEIL * I * CAIR * NOTHT I have several other inscriptions, but the; are all of the same character. The stones used in constructing the Mar'' Work were taken from Cambuskenneth At bey. The removing of these stones arous ed a general feeling of disapprobation.' Th great Scotch Reformer, John Knox, was or posed to it and predicted that no good wout come out of it. In the center of the build ing, and above the entrance, are inscribe the royal arms of Scotland and on one sid of these the arms of the Regent Mar, an on the other side those of the countest For some time James the Sixth of Scotlan and First of England lived in the Mar' Work. Cambuskenneth Abbey, from which th Earl of Mar took stones to erect the Mar Work, is about half a mile distant fror Stirling. It stands on a neck of land form ed by one of the many crooks in the rive Forth. On this neck, or isthmus, a fierc battle was at one time fought with th Picts. Of the ancient Abbey, only the tow er, seventy feet high, remains. The Abbe, of Cambuskenneth was founded by Davi the First in 1147. In the Abbey of Cam but kenneth, the Scotch parliament at one pe riod met, and in 132G, within its walk the barrons and clergy, with Robert Bruc at their head, met and swore fealty to th infant Prince David. This gave to th Scotch a representative government. I Cambuskenneth Abbev. James the Thir and his queen, Margaret of Denmark, wer buried. In 18G4, excavations were made for th purpose of discovering the extent of th Abbey, and finding the place where Jame the Third was boned. Tradition had eve related that the sp t was near the High A] tar, but so great were the ruins that the lc cation of the High Altar could not be poinl edout. The excavators were successful i that they discovered, with accuracy, the ex tent of the Abbey. The location of th High Altar was discovered, and near b; was found a tomb covered with a large bloci of limestone. In the tomb was found a oaken coffin, and in the coffin the remain of the king and queen. These remain were, in the presence of the Magistrates c Stirling, re-buried and over the spot a moti ument erected in 1865, by Queen Victoria On one side of this monument is the follow inscription: "This restoration of the tomb of her an cestors was executed by command of He Majesty Queen Victoria, A. 1)., 18G5. On the other side is the following: I this place, near the High Altar of the Al bey of Cambuskenneth, were deposited th remains of James III., King of Scots, wh died on the 11th of June, 1488 , and of hi Queen, the Princess Margaret of Denmark. On the west end are the Scottish arms an the Latin motto: "jYemo me impune lacei set." On the east end the Scottish arms ar quartered with those of Denmark. Th whole is very beautiful. James the Third was killed at Lauchic burn about two miles from Bannockburr The circumstances are too long to relat here. Suffice it to say that James and hi nobles were mutually suspicious of eacl other. James determined to arrest thee t .-X i. 1 1 tfrw ior conspiracy, uui nicy icnmeu me uu and rebelled. A skirmish was fought nea the Lauchieburn. The royal party wa defeated and James tied. As he rode fron the battlefield he passed by where a woma was drawing water. Surprised by the sud den and rapid flight of the horse, she droj ped her pitcher. This frightened the hors and James was thrown to the ground an badly hurt. He was carried, unrecognized into Braton's mill. Soon some of the enc my came up and stabbed him to death His son, James the Fourth, was with th nobles. For this act James the Fourth, it i said, never to have forgiven himself. Mai garet, the Queen of James the Third, die before her husband. A short distance from the Ladies' Rock i the High Church. The length of this build ing is two hundred feet, the width fifty-tw feet and the height fifty feet. At one en there is a tower near ninety feet high. A onetime this was only one church or plac of worship, but now it is two, which ar known as the Fast Church and the Wes Church. Without any confusion a congre gation worships in each end at the sam hour, a wall separating between the cor gregations. This is the case in several othe churches. At the time of the Reformatio the High Church of Stirling suffered seriou damages at the hands of those whom Joh Knox called the "rascal multitude." 1 the Fast Church Mary of Guise was, b four prelates and twenty-one nobles, const: tuteu Queen Regent of Scotland during th minority of her daughter, Mary Queen c Scots. In the same place James the Sixt of {Scotland and .r irst 01 rmgianu was, o the 2!lth of July, 15G7, crowned. In both churches are many memorial wit: dows. These add greatly to the beauty c the building, throw over it a kind of supei stitious awe, but contribute nothing to it intrinsic worth. At the end church is th burial ground. Some of the grave stonesupright slabs?are very old. One bears th date 152J. One stone, without any date, bu covered with monograms has a number c indentations said to have been cause by bullets shot by General Monck's so! diers when in 1(151 "he was stationed in th Church yard. Nearly all, if not all thes old grave stones have carved on them th emblems of death and the grave, and som of them have the figure four reversed This indicates that the individval burie beneath was a member of the Guildry c Stirling. In the High Church of Stirling, quite & number of noted men have preached the J gospel. It has already been mentioned that 2 Ebenezer Erskine was pastor of the High ~ Church from 1731, until he was thrust out of the Church of Scotland. At the time of the restoration of Charles the Second, Rev. James Guthrie was pastor of the High Church of Stirling. He was a man of emi- h nent piety, unflinching integrity, and like s< ti the Scotch generally, loyal to the House of C . Stuarts. This, as in the case of the Duke of v e Argyle, was not sufficient to shield him t! e from the malicious persecutors. Guthrie o g was accused, condemed and executed at Ed- h a inburgh, on the 1st day of June, 1G61. His ti s head was fixed on the netherbow, his arms d t torn down, and his estate confiscated. For ii t twenty-seven years the head of this good c - man remained a spectacle on the nether- g e bow until a student in Edinburgh College, [i by the name of Alexander Hamilton, at the o 1 risk of his life, took it down and buried it. s It is remarkable that Alexander Hamilton fi i. succeeded James Guthrie as pastor of the s - High Church in Stirling. fl i There is a strange incident in connection g A Uaa/-1 AT Tom/io KhJ A A [1 Willi uic ncnu \jl uc4i iico uuiiu jcj ? inv>ii t without vouching for its absolute truthful- <3 e ness, may here be related. It was at the e ,- instigation of the EariofMiddleton, mainly, li r that James Guthrie was put to death. Soon I -. after the head of the executed martyr was n a fixed on the netherbow, the coach of Mid- t - dleton passed under it, and while passing r s a few drops of blood fell from the head on \ s the-top of the coach. Every effort was a s made to wash out the stain, but without a t success. Chemists were called to examine a into the matter as to whether or not there v g was any natural reason why the blood stain s ri could not be removed. This strange inci- a s dent spread like wild fire far and near, e t That was a superstitious age, and we may t i. well suppose the effect upon the populace a a was very great. To get rid of the blood v ti stain, when every other means failed, the g o old cover of the coach was removed and a t e new one put on. e e James Guthrie was the first individual v 0 who suffered unto death because he was op- d posed to Erastian supremacy, and James h y Renwick the last. The period, the begin- c t ning and end of which is marked by the p 11 martyrdom of these worthies, is with emi- o 1 nent propriety called the "killing time." ii s James Guthrie and James Sharp, after- o wards the notorious Archbishop of Sharp, r were in St. Andrew's college at the same a r time, uuinne as regent unu onurp as a stu- a dent. Sharp was very promising, but Guth- t rie made the following prediction concern- h iug him: \ "If thou, Sharp, die the common death of men V y I'll burn inv bill and throw away my pen." C 1 .y f e 1 e t n M. COQUELIN. d Americans are to have a chance to wit- ( e ness the acting of the great M. Coquelin of a the Comedy Francais, who is to star in this s e country during the season of 1885-80. The j e renown of M. Coquelin is world-wide and i >s he ranks with the foremost actors of Eu- \ r rope. After studying in the "Conserva- t [- tory" the preparatory schools of the Fran- t ?- cais, M. Coquelin was assigned to minor s t- parts in the performances of that company, n He was given a part in anew play, but as t the author had promised to make room for s e the son of Provost, an old actor, Coquelin, s y who was the son of a poor baker, was re- 1 I- niA,ro/l on/1 thn cnn nf Prevent ONI'PTl the I t n piace. To assuage the anger of Coque- s s lin the choice of a part was given him and e s he chose that of "Figaro" in the "Marriage x if of Figaro." During the first four acts Co- c i- quelin was so overcome by stage fright as i i. to fail dismally in every effort, but during s - the fifth act recovering himself, his sono- r rous voice made itself heard. His admira- c i- ble acting held the audience spell bound, t r j and the performance, which promised him t nothing but defeat, ended in a veritable n I triumph, the curtain coming down amid i )- \ thunders of applause. Since then his in- s e j terpretations of the "Valets of Moliere" r 0 have been acknowledged as the standard, t is Moliere wrote three characters for his own t " acting, and therefore they may be consid- i d ered the chief characters of his plays. The r next move that Coquejin made was to try n e the emotional drama, and in this his sue- ( e cess was signal as in his comedy parts. He I i drafted a play called "Jean Dacier," writ- c : ten by Chas. Lamon, and in it scored a c 1.1 great success. He has the power, seeming- f e : ly at will, to force his audience to weep or s j laugh and weep again in turn. After this 1 ti success he essayed the "Heavy villain" in 1 a Dumas''Etrangiere;' but perhaps his best t :t characters are the 'Valet' in Moliere's 1 r "Ftourde," the servant in "Don Juan" and i is the parts, of which there are three, that he 1 1 plays in "Les Fachecux." The personal s n appearance of C'oquelin, does not at first c [- impress the observer, and to look in his c )- youthful face one would scarcely think that c e 1 he had the power to sway his audiences as a d he pleases. He is gifted with a wonder- 1 I, fully sonorous and flexible voice, which he r :- can use to any key, and once having deter- c i. mined upon the tone of his play lie gives \ e it no further notice, as the tones seem to a is emanate spontaneously from his throat. - He is a trifle over forty years of age, and \ d promises to become Europe's greatest actor, j In conclusion it is but fitting to say a few t is words in reference to the "Comedie Fran- i I- cais." It was founded during the latter I ? 4-U.^v o/vntiiKir l\\r T All 1U IJ ! part U1 LUC acvtrilicuin tcuiuij, KTJ ajwuiu d XIV, and was formed by the junction of the si t three leading bands of players then in Paris. ' e Moliere's band was one of these. It is real- \ e ly a company of actors, who govern them- j it selves and after paying expenses and i !- charges divide the proceeds among them- \ e selves. The most brilliant sictors that i i- France has produced have played behind \ :r its footlights. The first to attract universal i n attention was Adrienne Lecouvreur, then r is came Lekan Talma, Mme. Mars, and the c n immortal Rachel, Mme. Favart, Mile. Crai-1 1 n zette, Sarah Bernhardt, (Jot and Coquelin. i y Taken as a whole the company is, without t i- doubt, the most effective theatrical organi- e e zation extant, and is so well thought of that r >f the veteran, Frederick Haase and his col- s h leagues have formed a German theatre af- t n teritsmodel. In addition to educating and c employing the foremost writers of the last t i- two centuries, have been connected with it r >f j C'orneille, Moliere, and Racine; Dumas i '-1 pere, Hugo, Delavigne, de Vigny, de i :s Musat, Scrils and Legoure; Dumastils, Sar- c e | dau, ltugrer and a host of others have been c - represented upon its boards. It is in fact J e an example of that system, prevalent in c it Europe, that forces the novice to begin at 1 >f the beginning and work his way upwards, a d affording to him, as he rises, the opportu- c l- nitles to improve and make himself illuse trious; a system which it would be well for fc e Americans to recognize and adopt. t e a e 8?"-Stables and pens should be airy and t I. well ventilated, but not drafty. Place a t d horse or other animal that is warm from ex>f ercise, in a stall where a draft will strike, v and injury must surely follow to the health ( a of the beast. i |psfcn?ttc<>u;s fusing. Fur the Yorkville Kiiquircr. SOME THOUGHTS FOR THE TIMES. As I was cutting oats in iny field, the past arvest, my attention was drawn to whal eemed to he some very prolific bunches. >n examination, I found in one bunch, 3? /ell grown stalks, in another .'32, and in c hird 23, all the product of one grain. Curisity led me to count the grains of the bunch iaving23stalks;and on actual count, I found hat one grain had produced nineteen hum red grains. This may be regarded as a large ncrease for an unfruitful year as to the oal rop, and shows from little beginnings whal Teat results are possible. Near these bunches of oats grew a bunch f cheat, in which were 37 well matured talks. The average yield of this product i: rom 150 to 200 grains or seed to the stalk o in this instance we have an increase o ive or six thousand grains from one sim ' I a ?+K;, it; grillu suwii, iinu uic piesuinjjuuw in 1111; ase is, this vast increase of cheat was pro luced from a grain of oats?a grain of differ nt variety. This results owing, in part a east, to the unfruitfulness of the season lere is evolution. Apply this principle t( nan, and what would he have become bj his time in his history ? Will not the saux ule apply-to the animal, which does in th< egetable kingdom, and if so is it not mor< pt to work on the descending than on th< scending scale? In the days of the apostles, we read of tlx t'heat and tares, and an enemy is repre ented as sowing the latter. Both the whea' nd the tares were allowed to grow togeth r until the harvest. These facts bring t( he mind another grand fact, namely: foi ges and ages past there has been at work within the limit of God's dominion?twc ;reat principles, the principle of right and he principle of wrong; or the spirit o rror; each having to do with man in the yay of shaping his character and fixing his lestiny. It might be asked just here w-hicl las been the most successful in gaining tlx onsentof man; or, in other words, whicl iredominates in Church and State, the oats r the cheat; or the wheat or tares? This 3 a grave question, and demands the seri us thought of the human family. When we look at facts and figures, \v< ,re forced to the conclusion that wrong has nd still predominates to a fearful extent 10th in the Church and State. I would giv< lonor and praise to God to-day, for the ad 'ances piety has made in the world; noi vould I touch with my sin-stained fingei imp nf hit; ehilrlren. vet I fear that on tlx ast great day, we will all realize to a fear ul extent the truth of the Scriptures when t is said : "Not every one that sayeth un o me, Lord, Lord, shall enter into the king lorn of heaven; but he that doeth the wil if my Father which is in heaven." Say ng and doing are two things. "With tin leart, man believeth unto righteousness md with the mouth confession is made un o salvation." By faith and works we are t< vork out oursalvation with "fear and trem iling." When we look into the church, we see s< nuch that seems to be mere form, so far a ibedience to law and gospel is concerned hen again, as to doctrine, so much tha eems to be erroneous, while only trutl hould be taught. May we not fear tha line out of every ten, at least, will be lost Space will not allow us to note at length easons leading to this conclusion. But w vili mention a thought or two. For in tance: is there any thing in the word o ;atirre of God, to justify man for dividinj he church ; or to show that divisions are t nake and keep the church pure? Nay, ar ve not rather taught, that the church is init, and that the grace of God is its puri ierand that that grace will be given ii proportion as we obey the law and gospel c iod? I am aware, it is claimed, this thing c livision stirs up to search for truth; yet ,vhile this may appear to be true, does no ielf, (or denomination) hold a prominen place all along the line of our search ; am n feeling, at least, it is not the name tha ,ve emphasize? I fear there are but few ii ;he church who have grace enough to en ible them to rise above sect and pleat .imply for God and truth. Among the many things resulting fron his schism of the church, which I fear ar ;o many evils, is what is styled close or re itricted commuuion. I come to this point cind reader, with the very tenderest sympa hy and love for you and all mankind, lit not as a judge of doctrine or practice, bu is a wellwisher both of Church and State \s one allowing you to exercise yourowi "onscience and to entertain your own opin ons; yet at the same time, I know con icience may be biased; and I know we havi 10 right to thinkuspeak and act as we please inly so far as we are free agents. If w< :hoose to think, speak, or act wrong, wi yet God will punish us for that wrong Take the practice above referred to. Doe t not strike at the very vitals of religion md is it not contrary to the nature and won if God? See Luke vi:31. "As ye woul( hat men should do to you, do ye also t< hem likewise." Would not the close com nunionists have men to regard them a nembers of the church in regular standing ind as such, entitled to and worthy o through Christ) a place at the Lord's table1 f so, are they not in duty bound so to regan ithers; so thus judging favorably of others an they, on Scripture ground, exclude then i-ntn +Iiq nnmmiininn Again; the law of God requires us t< ove our neighors as ourselves. Under thi: lead, to illustrate, if my neighbor hap >ens to be in my house at meal time, thi aw requires me to invite him to eat wit! ne. As I have a right to go to my own ta >Ie so the law requires me to extend tin iame privilege to my neighbor. I have n< iption in the ease. Only as a free agent J an refuse to invite, yet, by doing so I in :ur the penalty of the law. This rule wil ipplv in a spiritual sense to the case ii land; so one part of the church can havi 10 right, under the law, to exclude anj >ther part from Christ's table. And, i ve offend in one point, we are guilty of all md sow cheat or tares in the field of (tod. In the next place, I think this practice i vrong, for it is pharisaical. Those who op >ose free or catholic communion, virtually inchurch all other parts of the church ; say ng stand back, I am holier than thou saiah G">: 5. I will confirm from Seiptures, as a fourtl ind last point, what I have already said 'Judge not, that ye be not judged. Fo: vith What judgment ye judge, ye shall b< udged, and with what measure ye mete t shall be measured to you again." Iier< ve are forbidden to judge others; our opin on or word must not be made a law. I ve presume to judge others, we may ex >ect to be ourselves judged. If we will shov 10 mercy, we shall be judged without mer y. Inasmuch then as there are those wh< lave judged their fellow, and in their opin on found him wanting, they in turn wil >e judged and found wanting. He, wh< (xalteth himself, shall be humbled. Tin ighteous God, in his judgemnt, may ob erve the rule of proportion. As ye nov akeout of the book of life, the name o ithers who claim to worship God in sinceri y and truth so God, under his own law nust of necessity exclude you. I ask, then n all candor, where is the spirit of relig on and of Christ to be seen in the practict if restricted commuuion? How do you re oncile your custom to the word of God! Jut you say, "Our church law forbids cath lie communion.'' What is your churcl aw worth if God's word come between ii nd himself? Is a law of the State or natioi if any force, if it is unconstitutional ? It is well to have law both in Church anc itate; yet all human codes, to be worthy o he name of laws, must agree with the law .nd gospel of God. Let us live as God has aught we should, then but little other law han his will be needed. The church and the State make, as il yere, two governments, yet both are o iod, and he has but one purpose in view n allowing men to govern in each of these This purpose is his own glory, and his people's good. Both then, should bo be kept pure. (See Itom. 13th chapter.) From our actions, we might conclude that the State is a foreign power; and that the God of the one is not the God of the ; other. Such is an erroneous conclusion, t Each one emanated from the same source. , God rules in both. We are amenable to ) him in the one just as we are in the other, i What is sin in the church is sin in the State, . and vice verm. As we look into the State i and examine our works, we have reason tc I fear that here is a vast bunch of cheat with . not only its thousands but even its millions ? per centum of increase. Ought we not to be t as cautious in selecting rules for the State t as for the church ? Is a wicked man eligible for office in the State, under the prini ciple of right? Are not the wicked trans 1 pressors of the law ? 3 In our elections I fear we give this thoughl ; but little attention. Nor are we carefu f how we conduct our elections. Party spiril - often runs too high. That the more we car 3 cheat the better. While this thought is . passing before the mind, I would note the . fact, that there are millions of dollars usee t in our State and national elections for the . purpose of buying votes, which practice ai > least savors of dishonesty. The man, 01 r the party, who will buy votes to get intc j office is not too good to sell theirs when ir 3 office. Alas! has it come to this, that mer j expressing a desire to serve their country 3 are willing to ride into office on the merii of a few gallons of whisky, or a few dollars 3 rather than risk their chance on their owr . merit? Have such men any manly merit' t Are such honest, and should they be allowed . to hold positions of trust in a governmeni ) which had its origin with God ? r God is the head of government, anc , should be so recognized, that everything ir > government might subserve his purpose I As one of the powers of God, we have stamp f ed on our silver dollars, this sentence, "Ir 3 God we trust." While we recognize him a; 3 the Supreme Sovereign in theory, do we ir i practice? On this point I remark, there is 3 not a week that the government does nol i criminate itself by allowing railroad trains 3 &c., to run on the Sabbath day. Again, or 3 the Mormon subject, it seems afraid, or ai T least very slow to act, although men are openly, wilfully and wickedly violating th( 3 laws of both God and man. And last, foi 3 the present, but not least, take the subject oi , prohibition. Here language fails to describ* 3 and thought conceive the evils and woes . connected with the sin of intemperance r Eternity only can reveal the evils and sufr fering on earth and in perdition, caused bj 3 this one thing. Yet, notwithstanding this . sin and all the sins brought about by it, ii 5 is claimed that it is unconstitutional to pas! . a law sweeping this curse from the earth . And not only this, but government goes stil 1 further, and gives men liberty to make anc . sell intoxicating drinks, while the cry ofth< 3 widow and orphan all over the land, th< ; wail of millions from the regions of despai . and the voice of God from the throne, pit 3 eously ask for the passage of such a law . that this work of death might be stayed ii the land. What is a constitution worth 3 which fills the land with suffering, and hel s with convicts. Although our motto is, "Ii ; God we trust," in action we say, "Who i t the Lord that we should obey him ?" Wha ti a reckon i ng awai ts us, as a people, and wha t an awful reward ours will be for permittinj ? wrong in some of its most prolific forms ij when, under the laws of Heaven, we couh e rightly take hold and sweep these sins fron [- the earth. We have rank bunches of tare r and cheat, in both Church and State, bring y ing forth their thousandfold increase, whiel o we daily cultivate. w. w. r. e a Lying in Bed.?One of the most usefti _ and neglected of all the arts is that of lyin, q in bed. The damage which is done by pei (f sons getting up is past all reckoning. A1 the mischief of crime, the counterfeitin; ,f and forgery, the murder and theft, are pei ; petrated by parties who persist in gettinj up. Not only individuals do wrongly b; t leaving their beds, but rivers as well do ai 3 immense amount of damage. What mai t was ever dunned by a creditor, had his eye n put in mourning by a too close proximit; with some one's fist, broke his leg on a slip j pery pavement, was run over by an omni bus, who lay in bed? a What great achievements have been ac e complished in war, in poetry, in literature by genius abed! "Coming events cast thei J?Ann r\f fhn tnncf momnrfi ' ble lines in the English language?origina I ted with the gin-loving poet, Tom Campbell t one morning before he had risen. Longfel low thought out that exquisite poem, "Tin ^ wreck ot the Ilesperius," after he had re _ tired, Ben Franklin said, "Early to be< . and early to rise makes a man healthy e wealthy and wise." There is a fatal mis . take. People who rise early are sure t< 0 catch the malaria. The ground is full o 0 half-hatched poisonous worms; the sun i not up and has not warned them into life a giving them wings and set them adrift Poor, mistaken man, he rises, inhales then j all; they fructify and poison his entire sys j tern ; hence chills, fever, malaria, and hal 3 the ills that human flesh is heir to. Rise before the sun, g And make a breakfast of the morning dew, Served up by nature on some grassy hill; You'll find it nectar." ? Was ever more arrant nonsense written' j Fancy a man getting up on acold, rainy morn ing and climbing hills on an empty stom j ach and leaving his French coffee and ho rolls, poached eggs and oysters to eat} what? Why, dew ! How long would tha: g fellow last ? Wouldn't he be a fit candidal for Lone Mountain, and no questions asked 3 Yes, but the sharp boy knocked thedelusioi j on the head when he said : "Fatlier, there' the point; what in thunder did the worn a get up so early for?" He trifled with desti ~ ny; he tempted fate; he should not hav< [ done it. The boy was a benefactor to tin human race. He was sound on the lie-a-bet 1 question. 1 Facts About Coffins.?There are in thi 3 United States about forty coffin factories, lo f cated principally west of the Alleghanies ' where suitable lumber is more plentiful am ? cheaper than in the east. The largest concern is located in Cincin s nati, and there is another at St. Louis, whicl " has a flooring space of 88,000 square feet f and employs 100 men, beside* several wo " men, who are employed in making buria clothes and shronds, e business that is of re cent date and which is rapidly growing. 1 The coffin manufacturers of the Unitec States are banded together under the nam< r of the National Burying Association. The^ 2 meet four times a year, in different cities > and probably they can control the price o - thoir nrndncts hetter than anv similar or " ganization. f A few years ago there was quite a rage fo " metalic burial cases, but of late the prefer ' ence is for coffins. A considerable number of American cof } tins are shipped abroad, mostly to England ' South Africa, Cuba and the South Americai 1 States. Those made for export are of th< y "knock down" style, and are put togethe: i at their places of destination, except thos< * shipped to Englahd. '' Walnut is mostly used for the best clasi 1 coffins, but some very nicely finished one: " are made of sweetgum. When finished u{ ? finely it resembles cherry somewhat, and i: ? called "satin walnut." * [ Poplar is used to a greater extent in th< J business than any other wood. It is cheap j easily worked and adopted to the require * ments of the business. Neither the kind of wood of which a cof ! fin is made nor its probable durability af k fects its price, which depends upon the styh 1 of finish, and ranges from ?2 to $3 up to the full extent of the customer's ability to pay ' Much of the labor and wealth of the coun ' try is annually buried in the soil through fl [ fashion that calls for ridiculously expensive * funerals. V3F The want of pure and fresh water ac t counts in many instances for the lack of egg? f during the winter season. Fowls require n , constant supply of water, and without il . will not lay. ; Correspondence of the Yorkville Enquirer. LETTER FROM NEW ENGLAND. South Coventry, Conn., Aug. 25,i880. I One of the most attractive places to visit, in i New York, is Central Park ; so called, I i presume, because it occupies about the centre ! of Manhattan Island, itseems to constitute i the northern boundary of the city proper, though the corporate limits include the , whole of the island, and all of the county of i New York that lies beyond Harlam River, i being coextensive with the county itself, i We walked about in the Park as long as it ) was pleasant to do so, and then rode around s in a Park-carriage, which, for the modest i sum of twenty-five cents, takes you to all the principal"points of interest, allowing you to stop as long as you please at three of these, including the Obelisk, and the Metropolitan Museum of Art. t The Obelisk looks very ancient indeed? I as would naturally besupposed. All four of t the corners at its base are worn off, and it is i only made firm upon its pedestal by the use 3 of iron props at these corners. Even now it i seems as if a good puff of wind would make I it topple over. } At the Museum of Art you can see t sculpture, ancient and modern, representr ing anything in the rational world from ) a hero of our own times back to the gods of i mythology; and all manner of handiwork i in wood, the metals, and earthenware, out , of all nations and kindreds and tongues, t Saint Patrick's Cathedral, on Fifth Ave, nue, nearly opposite to Wm. H. Vanderi bilt's home, is well worth an hour or so of any Protestant's time. It is open all the I day long, and visitors are allowed to walk fc around in the aisles except when the priest or some other of the clergy are holding I service. At all hours, good pious Catholics i step in, say their prayers, cross themselves . with the holy water, count their beads, bow - to the images about the altar, and go their i way rejoicing. A very fervent but very 3 ignorant (?) Irishman of whom I asked a i question tried very hard to show me "the i way." He said if I should be saved at all t out of the Catholic faith', it would only be , through ignorance. i At Old Trinity (High Church Episcopat lian) I did not see the silent worshipper of j a weekday doanything more un-Protestant i than the counting of beads. Some of the tombstones in the old buryingground around f this church date back nearly two hundred J ycnrs. > The elevated railways run up and down . about half the avenues in the city. That along Sixth Avenue goes as high up as r 155th Street to the extreme northern part of 3 Manhattan Island, some ten miles above t South Battery. After you pass Central 3 Park, you find very few buildings, but . the streets are all regularly laid out. By 1 the time the upper part of the Island is all 1 occupied like the lower (which doubtless 3 will be at no distant day) New York will 3 have numbered at least two millions of r people. There is nothing about the city that I en, joyed more intensely than I did the sight l and study of the great Brooklyn Suspension , Bridge. From the New York to the Brook1 lyn side, it stretches across East River, a i mile and a shird in distance, and it is broad s enough and strong enough to have a patht way in the centre for pedestrians, and on t each side a railroad track and a wagon road. y These five pa&sages, running side by side, i, are entirely disconnected from one another. I I walked across once (fare one eent); rode a across on the train, (fare three cents), and s then crossed on a ferry-boat just below the bridge (fare two cents), and in this way I h got to see it in all its aspects. It is wonderful how such a structure, at a cost of so many millions (sixteen, I believe), can be il made to pay with so light a toll; but one of S the conductors told me that at least 50,000 persons cross once every day on the train, II which runs each way every three minutes f? of the twenty-four hours ; and about half that number walk over daily. Sothesecret ? lies in the number of tolls. y No one should ever go to New York withn out going up the Hudson?the American 'i Rhine?on theboatby daylight. Thewests ern shore is lined with steep rocky banks, y nearly all the way up to West Point, and - also with the great West Shore Railroad for - a part of the distance; whilst on the eastern shore, the New York Central and Hudson <- River Railroad may be seen all the way up, ? and also many beautiful villages, and the r country seats, magnificent to behold, of such - men as Jay Gould, Samuel J. Tilden, of the ,- I nrpspnf. nnd Washington Irvinsr. of the past i generation. West Point occupies a grand old site. Bee sides all that nature and history have done - for it, the National purse-strings have been 1 loosed many a time in its behalf. And ta, king it all in all, it is just the place to train - a soldier to think noble things, and to doing ^ great deeds. All the surroundings are calf culated to elevate and ennoble. Whilst s standing there I could not help but think > how hard a struggle it 'must have been for such men as the great and noble Lee, and i the Christian soldier, Stonewall Jackson, to - sever the ties which began to grow right f here in their school-boy days, and which, as they grew stronger with age, bound them closer and closer to the National government. Persons down South, reared up under the doctrine of States-rights, and who , from a practical stand-point, hardly knew there was such a thing as a Nation of States, can never appreciate the great sacrifice ' these and other men of their kind, made c in casting their fortunes with the Southern Confederacy. Surely their memory should be honored all the more for it! 3 Brooklyn is a very pretty city about two thirds the size of New York, but with much 1 more room for expansion, of course, and in the evening all the bustle of Brooklyn seems 1 to be transferred to its principal avenne, I Fulton street. This, I suppose, is because 3 so many residents of Brooklyn do business 3 in New York, and return thither when the 1 day's work is done. Greenwood Cemetery is the most noted place in the city for e one to visit. The arrangement for getting . over the grounds is about the same as in Central Park, and to me they were equally j attractive. It really seems as if the most restless mind could wait here in patience . for the glorious light of the resurrection 1 morn. Our g:mde was decidedly of the Hibernian castor mind as well as of thatex! traction. He amused us very much in his 1; description of the old maid's row, and in . his mention of one who had been "noted for his charitable deeds during hie life," and of \ another who had been "formerly an exj Mayor of New York." When asked whethr; er an image represented Faith or Hope, he i said he really could not tell, as he was not f much on religion. Coney Island is about six miles south of T)1,.? nr, lir> cv-in + riarn ehnrp f?f LonfT : J J l XJKjn. Ij 11 Ull 11IC OWUiUVtii W?*v?v W. ? 0 r Island, and is easily reached by numerous . excursion railway coaches from that city, j as well as from Bay Kidge, a ferry boat sta. | tion on East Long Island, to which boats go from South Battery, New York, about I every twenty minutes. The Hotel Brigh? ton and West Brighton Hotel, are about r three-fourths of a mile apart, being connect21 ed by a beautiful drive along the beach, and also by an elevated railway. The whole 3: Island fairly teems with life in the even3 ings and on Sundays, and the eye can take > everything in by one's going up in an ele31 vator to the top of an observatory near the centre, something over three hundred feet ? high. ' i I would like to say something about New ! i England, but I have written too much already. c. e. s. [ A Curious Tradition.?-The Abyssini> ans have a curious tradition as to the cus[ torn of burying the dead. They say that when Adam found the body of the mur| dered Abel he carried it about on hisshoulL ders for twenty days, not knowing how to , dispose of it. The Almighty took pity on him, and sent forth a crow with a dead young one on its back. The crow flew be- ^ fore Adam until it came to a tract of sandy i ground, in which it dug a hole with its feet 11 and there buried its young one. When Adt am saw this he dug a grave in the sand and buried his dead boy in it.