Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, February 11, 1886, Image 4

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I tumorous fejiartracnt. Funny Incident in Court.?When Judge G. B. Strong, of Georgia, was a young man, he was in the habit of using very strong language while addressing the jury. His friend. Judge Early, an elderly man, with a kind heart, saw Judge Strong's weakness, and advised him to restrain himself. "Now," said the good judge, "when you see me lift ray finger, you may know that you are going too far." The young pleader thanked his friend, and said that he would bear in mind the signal of warning. So in court the next day he watched the judge. In the very midst of an eloquent appeal he saw the judge's finger lifted, and the act of rebuke so bewildered him that he paused, stammered, and finally took his seat much chagrined. As soon as the court had adjourned, the orator went to J uage nariy, ana saia : "Why did you lift your finger at me ?" "Lift my finger at you !" exclaimed the white-haired old gentleman, in astonishment. "Why, I didn't think of such a thing. I was brushing off a fly that had lit on my nose!"?Golden Days. A Common Superstition.?The conversation turned on superstition, and a traveling man from Chicago remarked to Will Shileds: "Do you believe in ghosts?" "I do, indeed," he replied. "Come off, now, have you ever seen one?" "You bet I have." "I don't believe it." "Would you believe it if I showed you one?" "Of course." "Well, look at that," he said, pulling out a pocket book so thin an emaciated that the light shone through it like an open window. Not Nice Looking but Liberal.? "Lottie, I hear that you have a new beau. Is it so?" "Yes, he is a real nice fellow, and I like him ever so much." "Is he good looking?" "Well, no; I can't say that he is near as good looking as Charley Smith,whom I gave the mitten last month, but he doesn't mind spending money when we are out, and that, .you know, is better than good looks. Why, the other night he asked me four times to have oysters, and I only accepted three of the invitations. I wasn't feeling well that night, and my appetite has been very poor for a month."?Philadelphia Chronicle. He Served.?Judge Thomas A. Moran, of Chicago, has a large family of children, of all of whom he is justly proud. The day after he had been presented with twins he was listening to jurors' excuses, when a man who had been drawn said, mildly: "Your Honor, I can't serve." "Why not?" asked the court, in tones that had been stereotyped, as he looked out of the court room window. Approaching quite close the juror whispered, "My wife has justgiven birth to a boy, Judge." "No excuse at all," observed the Judge, as he closed his docket with a bang, "my wife had two last night, and I have been here all day." The juror served. The Argonaut. Railroading in Arkansas. The other night on an Arkansas railroad train a passenger called the conductor and asked: . "Are we on time?" "Yes." "Glad. Are we on the track?" "I don't know; but I'll go forward and ask." He went away, and, returning, said: "I am informed that we left the track about five miles back. We are now running on the country dirt road, and if we don't meet * a wagon we'll be all right. You see there's I a bend in the road back here and we save time by taking a short cut."?Arkansas , Traveler. i He Was Used to It.?"So Bangs has gone to jail for forgery ? Who would have i thought it!" "It is very sad. Four years solitary confinement. It will kill him." "Oh, no! he won't mind that part of it at all. He is quite used to solitary confinement." "Indeed. * Has he ever been in jail before?'? i "No; but he has been clerking for six < years in an establishment that never advertised.? Philadelphia Call. < 1?r Several gentlemen were talking in a ' saloon about absent-minded people. Gilhooly said he thought that old Professor Snore, of the University of Texas, was the ' most absent-minded man in the business. He was on his way to the train when he ' imagined that he had left his watch at home. What do you suppose he did?" ' asked Gilhooly. "I have no idea," respond- I Kosciusko Murphy. "Well, in his absent- 5 mindedness he pulled out his watch to see 5 if he had time to go back home and get it." j Only His Peace of Mind.?"Old man ' Penuybunker has married again." "You don't tell me so." "Yes, and he has married a right young girl, forty years younger than he is." "Well, I declare. His other wife died 1 only six months ago and he went on so at 1 the grave that I expected that he would lose his mind." "Well, you see your prediction has come to pass."? Texas Siftings. Intellectual Hair Dressing.?Miss ' Angelina (to Miss Belle, her rival, just now surrounded by a bevy of admirers)?Oh, dear, do tell me dow you do your .hair up so charmingly. What do you doit up on? It looks so intellectual! Miss Belle (who wears her hair high)? Well, I'll tell you dear. I generally do it up over brains, and (sweetly) I don't think you can buy them at the hair stores.?Boston Journal. S&* "When an editor makes a mistake in ' his paper all the world sees it and calls him i a liar. When a private citizen makes a j mistake no body knows it but a few friends, j and they come around and ask the editor to keep it out of the paper. When the private citizen dies, the editor is asked to write of all his good qualities and leave out the bad. When the editor dies the private citizen says: 'Now that old liar will get his deserts."? Oil City Deric.k. What tiiey Were.?Young Lady (visiting in Kentucky)?"What a number of colored people there must have been at the political meeting last night! I see by the morning paper that nearly all of the vicepresidents were colored." Hostess?"Impossible, my dear. Let me see the paper" (looking at the paper). "Oh, 'Col.' don't mean colored; it means colonel." Bazar. i 4-^-^ A Question in Natural History.? j "Pa, does the sausage come out of his hole on Candlemas day and look around for its ! shadow, so as to make an early spring? Ma I says it does." "What are you talking! about?" says the papa to the little boy.' "It is the ground hog that comes out of its j hole, not the sausage." "Well, ain't sausage ground hog?"?N. Y. Telegram. A man walked into a third rate downtown saloon the other day, and calling for whisky, poured out a brimming tumbler full. "You must like it," sarcastically remarked the proprietor. "Well I wouldn't drink so much water to get a little whisky if I didn't," was the crushing reply.? i - _ 1 fu mmgwn mar. r J*?r Said William to Martha: "But you j must remember that my taste is better than ; yours." Said Martha to William: "Undoubtedly, when we come to remember that you mar-1 ried me and I married you." And William said not a word, but seemed to be thinking. A Man of Resources.?Once there was a hired man who wasconstantly astonishing i his employer, a farmer. One day the farmer went into the barn and found that his J man had hanged himself. Looking at the j dangling body a few minutes he exclaimed: "What on earth will that fellow do next?" ! Miscellaneous Reading J J THF ARKANSAW TRAVELER. ; tt AS TOLD BY COLOXEL "SANDY" FAULKNER ! |,j ? | The following introduction by an unre- j P' membered "explainer," tells the story of ;!a the origin of the "Arkansaw Traveler." ! J" [Colonel Sandy Faulkner, the original j Arkansw Traveler, was born in George-. town, Scott county, Kentucky, March 3, ila 1803. He came to Arkansaw in 1820 and w settled in Chichot county on the Mississippi River as a cotton planter. In 1839, Col. | Faulkner, (with his father, the late Nicho-, las Faulkner, a Virginian by birth), took ! k, un his residence- in Little Rock where he si died August 4,1874, at the age of seventy- at one years. tr It is well known throughout the North- p( west that Colonel ^aulkner was the origi- [j nal personatorof the "Arkansaw Traveler." in It was his pride to be known as such. The story, it is said, was founded on a little inci- p] dent which occurred in thecainpaign of 1840, hi when he made the tourof the State in com pa- w ny with the Hon. A. H. Server, Gov. Ful- b ton, Chester Ashley, and Gov. Yell. One hi day in the Boston mountain, the party ap- ti< proached a squatter's for information of the pi route, and Col. "Sandy" was made spokes- tl man of the company, and it was upon his hi witty responses the tune and story were h< founded. On returning to Little Rock, a great banquet was given in the famous jj, "bar room" which used to stand near the <^1 Anthony House, and Colonel "Sandy" was ^ called upon to play the tune and tell the story. Afterward it grew into popularity, jjj When he subsequently went to New Or- j) leans, the fame of the "Arkansaw Traveler" ai had gone ahead of him, and at a banquet tc amid clinkingglasses and briliant toasts, he ?< was handed a violin by the then Governor of |j( Louisiana, and requested to favor them fa with the favorite Arkansaw tune. At the tj old St. Charles hotel a special room was devoted to his use bearing in gilt letters over j, the door, "Arkansaw Traveler."] ! j, dialogue. | di Traveler?Hello, stranger. ^ Stranger?Hello, yourself. T.?Can I get to stay all night with you? hi S,?No, sir, you can't git to? T.?Have you got any spirits here ? S.?Lots uv 'em ; Sal seen one last night by that ar ole holler gum, and it nearly skeered her to death. T.?You mistake my meaning ; have you ?' got any liquor? SI S.?Had some yesterday, but old Bose, he got in and lapped all uv it out'n the pot. T.?You don't understand; I don't mean si pot liquor. I'm wet and cold and want some whisky. Have you got any ? fo S.?Oh, yes?I drunk thelastthis mornin.' O T.?I'm hungry; haven't had anything if since morning; can't you give me something to eat? if S.?Hain't got a duru thing in the house, hi Not a moufful of meat, nor a dust uv meal hi here. se T?Well, can't you give my horse something? ci S?Got nothin' to feed him on. hi T.?How far is it to the next house ? S.?I don't know, I've never been thar. gi T.?Well, do you know who lives here ? tl S.?Yes, sir! T.?As I'm so bold, then, what might cr your name be?" d< S.?It might be Dick, an' it might be Tom ; but it lacks a right smart uv it. ui T.?Sir! will you tell me where this road goes to ? m S.?It's never gone anywhar since I've so lived here; it's always thar when I git up w in the mornin'. T.?Well, how far is it to where it forks? S.?It don't fork at all; but it splits up like the devil. ri T.?As I'm not likely to get to any other tA-ni?kf ran'f unil lot mo slppn in tfl HUUOU IVUlgli If Vtiu V J v?v* ?v I, V w*vv^ yours; and I'll tie my horse to a tree, anil do without anything to eat or drink ? D S.?My house leaks. Thar's only one dry spot in it, and me and Sal sleeps on it. And SI that thar tree is the ole woman's persimmon ; you can't tie to it, 'cause she don't se want em shuk off. She lows to make beer dc Dut'n 'em. T.?Why don't you finish covering your di house and stop the leaks ? as S.?It's been rainin' all day. T.?Well, why don't you do it in dry to weather? in S.?It don't leak then. if T.?As there seems to be nothing alive of ibout your p'ace but children, how do you io here, anyhow? fil S.?fiurty well, I thank you, how do you Is Io yourself? th T.?I mean what do you do for a living M tiere ? a S.?Keep tavern and sell whisky. hi T.?Well, I told you I wanted some whis- eli ky. m S-?Stranger, I bought a bar'l morn'n a bn week ago. You see, me and Sal went shars. d? A.rter we got it here, we only had a bit between us, and Sal she didn't want to use at hern fust, nor me mine. You see I had a la spiggen in one eend, and she in t'other. So R she takes a drink out'n my eend, and pays me the bit for it; then I'd take one out'n hern, and give her the bit. Well, we's jetting along fust-rate, till Dick, durned ca skulkin' skunk, he bored a hole in the bot- 0f torn to suck at, and the next time I went to j.e buy a drink, they wan't none thar. T.?I'm sorry your whisky's all out; but, ac my friend, why don't you play the balance ^ of that tune? 0f S.?I'ts got 110 balance to it. T.?I mean you don't play the whole of it. S.?Stranger, can you play the fiddul? T.?Yes, a little, sometimes. tli S.?You don't look like a fiddlur, but ef you think you can play any more onto that thar tune, you kin just try it. f0 [The traveler takes the fiddle and plays the whole of it.] * m S.?Stranger, tuck half du/.en cheers and sot down. Sal, stir yourself round like a V( six-horse team in a mud hole. (Io round ^ in the holler whar I killed that buck this mornin', cut off some of the best pieces, and |1( fotch it and cook it for me and this gentle- w man, d'rectly. Raise up the board under ,J} the head of the bed, and git the old black ft jug I hid from Dick, and gin us some whis- te ky ; I know thar issomeleft yit. Til, drive ,rf Ole Bose out'n the bread tray, and climb j 7V up in the loft, and git the rag that's got the t.(] sugar tied in it. Dick, carry the gentleman's horse round under the shed, and give him some fodder and corn ; much as he kin ju eat. ai Til?Dad, they ain't knives enuff for to sot se the table. m S.?Whar's big butch, little butch, ole th case, cob-handle, granny's knife, and the one I handled yesterday? That's nuff to sot any gentleman's table, thout'n you've ot lost um. Durn me stranger, ef you can't C(J stay as long as you please, and I'll give jn you plenty to eat and drink. Will you ^ have coffee for supper? su T.?Yes, sir. ar S.?I'll be hanged if you do, tho\ we pj don't have nothin' that way here, but Grub Hyson, and I reckon its mighty good with sweetenin'. Play away, stranger, you kin sleep on the dry spot to-night. h, T.?(After two hours' fiddling.) My p( friend, can't you tell me about the road I'm [j, to travel to-morrow ? b, S.?To-morrow! Stranger, you won't git out'n these diggin's for six weeks! But when it gits so you can start, you see that big sloo over thar? Well, you have to git i\ crost that, then you take the road up the ' bank, and in about a mile you'll come , to a two-acre-and-a-half-corn-patch. The; R corn is mitily in the weeds, but you needn't mind that; just ride on. About a mile and a half or two miles from thar, you'll cum ' to the damdest swamp you ever struck in . all your travels; its boggy enuff to mire a hi saddle blanket. Thar's a fust-rate road h about six feet under thar. - ' T.?How am to I get at it? / S.?You can't git at it nary time till the i weather stiffens down sum. Well, about a mile beyant, vou come to a place where * . . . * i* ir iL. TY1 mere s no roaas. iou can iaae me ngm, hand ef you want to; you'll foller it a mile r or so, and you'll find it's run out; you'll then have to come back and try the left; w when you git about two miles on that you w may know you'r wrong, fur they ain't any ec road thar. You'll then think your'e mity j ?' lucky ef you can find the way back to my lfc house, whar yeu can cum and play on that ar tune as long as you please. The Melting Point of Lard.?Mr. A. tc Percy Smith, of Rugby, in a letter says : "The melting point of lard?112 degrees st Fahrenheit?is of the highest importance I>i hen it is used for making pastry. The lalityof the crust materially depends upon . In the hands of a good cook pure lard irnishes a puff paste an inch or more in lickness, while lard of 95 degres melting Dint yields a tough, hard crust, unbreakae by a spoon. I have purposely had exjriments made under my supervision with rdsof various melting points, and the rise t the crust was exactly proportioned with le rise of the melting point of the lard nployed. It is a noticeable fact that pure rd always solidifies with a crinkled surface hile shop lard is perfectly smooth." LEVI ISENSTEIN. Levi Isenstein is a genial gentleman whc seps a clothing store on South Clark ;reet. He is a man of diversified talents, id in addition to his extensive clothing .wl^ Ua in nliitnui! iilaaand tn con unv nooilv ilUC IIC IJ5 aiwajo pitaovu VW .JW uuj IIVW4J ?rsons who have any jewelry they would ke to leave with him for safe keeping, i consideration of a small amount of cash, Mr. Isenstein is also a wit and a philosoaer. The first record we have of any ol is sayings is the remark he made aftei itnessing a performance of "Richelieu." eing a man of business he is not in the ibit of squandering his money on theatre ckets, but on this occasion, he had been esented with a couple of complimentary ckets by one of his customers, so he took is son Jacob and went. On his way home i thus delivered himself: "Shaky, my poy, dese show actors don'd now noding. Don'd you pelief dem, naky. Ven der shendleman in der blay y dere vas no sudg vord as fail, den he ake himself foolish, und don'd you forged I. Shoost hear your fader spoke, Shalcy, er biggest vord in de language vas fail id der smaller der ber shent. to de grediirs der bigger der vord. Shust don't forit dot, Shaky, und ven your old fader vas ?r ground under, und you found you gar il for den cents on der dollar, don't vaiei 11 ter-morrow to do it." The next time Mr. Isenstein displayed is wisdom he was riding on the cars, witi is two sons Jacob and Isaac. The con uctor attempted to collect full tare for Ja >b, and this brought out a remonstrance "Dose tvins on der oder side pays shusi alef, aintit?" "Yes," responded the conductor. "Und dey vas den years old each. Isi 9)) IIV OVjT "I guess so." 44Vell, den you took vone whole fare foi wenty years. Isaac, he was t'ree unci liaky, he vas sebenteen. Dot's dwenty nt it? Veil, den I pays you one whole re. Py shiminy! you fellow you don'< leat me?not if I don't forgot myselluf.' It was not very often that Mr. Isensteir rgot himself but once in a while he did ne morning he found a counterfeit dollai i his pocket. He could not understand it "Py shiminy," he muttered, 44I vondei 'I ain't got some sense at all." Then tc is son : 44Shaky, run quick to Mr. Mosen lum's over, unci puy dwenty five-cenl ;gars." In five minutes Jacob returned with the gars, and Mr.Jsentien went gayly abou is work. The dollar was passed. That afternoon Mr. Isenstein was rummaing in the cash drawer, and he ran across le same dollar again. "Shaky, Shaky, come here quick 1" he ied. "Don'dyougotsomesense! Vere'c )t tollar come from ?" 44Mr. Mosenbaum come der street ofer r.d bought a pair of suspender braces." "Vel, took it back und puy me twenty iore segars. So hellup me, Moses, purt> on I got so many segars, I haf to give vor /ay or I make myselluf sick." Jacob returned shortly, and said : "Mr. Mosenbaum vont took der tollar.' Mr. Isenstein grasped the money, and ished across the street. "Py shiminy! Vy don'd you took dol liar?" he exclaimed. "Do you think 1 make myseilur a loonsn ot tollar was counterfeit." "Veil, you dot dollar took back. My poj laky took dot tollar from you." "Ishdotso? Do you tink I make myllul a fool pecause Shaky do. Veil, J )n'd guess I clo dot." "Py shiminy, so hellup Isaac, you took )t tollar back, or I make itso varm for you t never was. You shust hear me spoke.' "Veil, Levi Isenstein, shust you let mc iot a vile. You tock dot tollar und put il i ycur ear, und go mit it to de dooce, und you don'd go purty quick I kick you owl ' my sthore." Then for about five minutes the air was led with dust and bad English, while enstein and Mosenbaum rolled over on lefloorand pulled each other's hair. Then rs. Mosenbaum camedown stairs and took hand, and Jacob came across the street tc ?lp his father. When the smoke of battle eared away Isenstein lay in the gutter oaning the loss of his dollar, and Mosentum lay under his counter bewailing the image to his store. Isenstein has gone into a decline, brought >out by his inability to get rid of the dolr. It is thought he will recover.?Tin ambler. ? ? TUUTHS TERSELY PUT. The foundation of three-fourths of all sesof consumption is laid before the age twenty five years; in women during their ens. The hereditary element is not of special count as a cause of consumption, as less an twenty-five percent, of cases are clearly consumptive parentage. One of the ruling causes of disease and emature death iti large cities is found in at exhaustive strain of mental energies in ie struggle for subsistece, a death race foi read. A current of the purest air from the poles, r half an hour, on a person sleeping, sitin/ still or over-heated, is a thousand fold ore destructive of health and fatal to life tan the noisomeness of a crowded room 01 ihicle, or the stench of a pig-stye for thrice letime. As no good traveler after having fed his )rse, renews his journey in a trot, bul ith a slow walk, gradually increasing his ice, so in getting up to address an assemy for a continued effort, the first few sennces should be uttered in a low, slow tone, adually intensified, otherwise the voice ill break down in a few minutes with uighingand hoarseness. A growing inability to sleep in sickness omnious of a fatal result; in apparent ?alth, it indicates the failure of the mind id madness; soon the other hand in diase or dementia, a very slight improveent in the sleeping should be hailed as le harbinger of restoration. Water cannot satisfy the thirst which atndscholera,dysentery, diarrhieaand some her forms of disease; in fact, drinking Id water seems to increase the thirst and iduce other disagreeable sensations; bul lis thirst will be perfectly and pleasantly ibdued by eating a comparatively small nount of ice, swallowing it in as large eces as practicable and as much as is anted. Very excessive effort in a short spaceol me, as in running or jumping a rope, etc., is repeatedly caused instant death by apiplexy of the lungs, the exercise sending le blood there faster than it can be purified / the more infrequent breathing on such :casions. No disease ever comes without a cause or ithouta warning, hence endeavor to think ick for the cause, with a view to avoid it i the future, and on the instant of any uneasant bodily sensation, cease eating until has disappeared, or at least for twentyur hours; if still remaining, consult a hysician. The more clothes a man wears, the closer 3 keeps his chamber, the closer he confines imself to his house, the more readily will * take cold, as the more a thriftless youth helped the less able does he become tc sip himself.?Boston Budget. 16?-Once upon a time a certain man gol iad at the editor and stopped his paper, he next week he sold his corn at live cents slow the market price. Then his property as sold for taxes because he didnt know hen they were due. He was then arrest1 and lined eight dollars for going hunting 1 Sunday, simply because he didn't know was Sunday. He then paid a big Irishlan to kick him all the way to the newsiper office, where he paid for four years inscription in advance and made the edi r sign an agreement to knock him dowr id rob him if he ever ordered his papei opped again. Such is life without a newsaper. ; grading far the Sabbath, j 1 CONDUCTED BY LIEV. liOBEUT LATHAN. [Original.] : i THE INCARNATION. i The apostle Paul, in writing to Timothy, | (I Tim. .*}: 16) among other things, says: ; "Without controversy great is the mystery of godliness." The word godliness often means piety or reverence directed toward God. In the New Testament Scriptures the , word is frequently used to denote a spon- j : taneous feeling of reverence in the heart to- | i ward God. It is properly defined when it is ' ' coi/l l?n roliorinimnoaa nr flip niinlitv Or J o?i? l? "v/ .V..5.VUJiiv-w, ?/. - " l V -- I I state of being religious. In this sense the word is used in Acts 3:12, where it is trans-1 ! lated holiness. In this same sense it is used in I Tim. 2:2, where it is translated godliness. It will be admitted that in therever| ence of the heart toward God there is a great , mystery. It is the result of the quickening j and life-supporting power of the Holy Spiri it. It is an unmistakable evidence of the ' new birth. Men dead in trespasses and sins : fear and quail before God, but they do not ! reverence him in their heart. It is a marI vel of grace that they can be so operated upon that they will cease to hate God in ' their heart. ! The apostle, however, did not use the 1 word godliness in this sense, when he wrote to Timothy, saying that "without contro| versy great is the mystery of godliness." . In the succeeding clause, he defines what he 5 means by godliness, by slating that God was , manifest in the flesh, justified in the spirit, I seen of angels, preached unto the Gentiles, believed on in the world, and received up I into glory." It is evident that godliness in , this place means the gospel scheme in which . is embodied a number of particulars, the . first of which is "God was manifest in the flesh." The mystery which the apostle de{ clares to be great is the incarnation of God. This is beyond controversy a great mystery, and must forever remain a great mystery. . No finite mind am comprehend it. and to make this frank acknowledgment is au evidence of greater wisdom than is an effort to i- expiain it on philosophical principles. I While unassisted reason is wholly unable either to understand or explain the incarnaI tion of God, it is most dearly taught in the | Scriptures. Mysterious as the doctrine of ' the incarnation, confessedly is, it is one of j the most important doctrines of the Bible. The incarnate God is Jesus Christ. The r doctrine of the incarnation, as held by what is known as orthodox Christians, is briefly r stated thus: "The Son of God became man, j by taking to himself a true body and a reas. onable soul, being conceived by the power t, of the Holy Ghost in the womb of the Virgin Mary, of her substance, and born of her } yet without sin." This is a brief and clear I statement, and the only question to be determined is whether it is Scriptural. The doctrine of the incarnation is one of 6 the first things taught in the Scriptures. In the third chapter of Genesis, after narrating ? with great minuteness the transgression of [ Adam, the inspired historian states that Adam and Eve "heard the voice of the Lord God walking in the garden in thecool of the ' day." The words "walking in the garden," r warrant the conclusion that the person r whose voice they heard had a form which , they could see. It is worthy of note, in this connection, that it was not the voice of God (E/ohem) that they heard, but the voice of i the Lord God (Yehovah Elohem). A name i which, in New Testament times, become Jesus Christ, or the God-man Saviour. The l facts connected with the meeting of Adam and Eve with the Lord God after they had eaten the forbidden fruit are very minutely ' stated, and all favor the notion that the r Lord God appeared in a human form. Adam and Eve "hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden." The plain reader of the Scriptures readily concludes that Adam and . Eve made the effort to escape the notice of " Im im nr? n Kumon fnrm T h a no iicq I I ix uciu^ Jlav <v uuiuau jui mi* auw v?uuv i of their flight seems-io have been the fact , that they were both naked. [ It is manifest that our first parents inter[ preted the curse whteh God pronounced upon the serpent to contain a promise of a deliverer. Between the seed of the woman 5 and the seed of the serpent eternal enipity i was predicted, and it was specially predict, ed that, while the seed of the serpent would, during all time, bruise the heel of the seed of the woman, the seed of the woman would j bruise the head of the seed of the serpent. ( Not only did they interpret this to mean a i promised deliverer, but they interpreted it to mean that the deliverer would be in hu, man form. After Adam and Eve had been driven out of the garden of Eden, Eve gave birth to Cain. She said, according to the ! King James translation of the Scriptures, ? "I nave gotten a man from the Lord." This is an interpretation not a translation. A literal translation is, "I have gotten a man, the Jehovah." Eve was mistaken, in - that she hastily concluded that Cain was the | promised deliverer who would bruise the ; head of the deceiver; still her'conclusion shows that from the earliest period of the , human family Jehovah incarnate was expected to come as the deliverer o! his people. J When the Old Testament Scriptures are carefully examined, it will be found that I they contain a great many references to the incarnation, and some of them are very re1 markable. Their remarkable feature con\ sists of in the fact that the Lord appeared in human form long prior to the time that Tmho r'hiMcf nrrtc hnrn in Rofhlphpm Thp 1 Lord appeared to Abraham in the plains of j Mamre, and he, in human form, wrestled \ with Jacob at the brook of Penuel. He ap| peared to Joshua, a man with a drawn t sword in his hand and announced his name ' to be "the captain of the Lord's host," and Joshua worshipped him. As a man of God ' he appeared to Manoah and his wife and to | many others he appeared in human form. ' So often is the incarnation spoken of in the New Testament that it ctm scarcely be regarded as necessary to make a single quo; tation to prove it. John in his gospel de1 clares that "the Word was made flesh and 1 dwelt among us." He had previously , stated that "the Word was in the beginning ! with God and that the Word was God." j1 Paul says of Jesus Christ that he was made of the seed of David according to the flesh and declared to be the Son of God, with j power. ' The humanity of Jesus Christ was never called in question. ' The Jews admitted [! this. It was his divinity that they denied. ; | In the New Testament Jesus is styled somei! times the Son of God and sometimes the ! Son of Man. It is a remarkable fact that ' he never, except on one single occasion, , John 17:3, appropriated to himself the [ name Jesus Christ, and never except in what ; is called oblique discourse, does he speak of ' himself as the "Son of God." The only : r places in which he took to himself the title 1 ' i "Son of God" will be found in Matthew I 11:27, John 9: .35 and 11:4. When in the [! hands of his enemies they asked him if he II was the Son of God, he replied, ye say that! 1 i I am. The title by which he generally \ ' styled himself was "the Son of Man." This ! ! is'the title by which he speaks of himself ! " i more than forty times in the gospels. : j It is another remarkable fact that none of j - the evangelists, while relating the history j, ' of his earthly ministry, speak of him as i < ! "the Son of Man," nor was he, so far as is j | recorded, ever addressed, either by friends 1 -1 or foes, as "the Son of Man." After the j I 1 resurrection of our Saviour, Stephen calls ' ' j him "the Son of Man." ' | The phrases "Son of God" and "Son of Man" mean, respectively, God and man. , 1 In other words, when the Saviour is spoken j 1 of as "the Son of God," the meaning of the ! phrase is he was God, and when he is called j "the Son of Man," we are to understand by I ; the expression that he was man. That j Jesus Christ is God is evidently the doctrine s of the Bible. To him are ascribed all the I ' | attributes, both communicable and incom'; municable, which belong to God. The j ; works which he did demonstrated his divin> I ity. lie made the blind to see, the deaf to j r hear, the dumb to speak, the lame to walk, j and raised the dead. His own resurrection ! i is a proof of his divinity. By his almighty '; power he burst asunder the bands of death I ! and rose from the grave. The humanity of, 1 j Jesus Christ is proven by the fact that he *: was hungry and thirsty, was weary and I faint and actually died. The divine nature I and the human nature were united, not1 ? mixed, in one person and this is the incarnation. This is what is meant by "the Word became flesh." That the incarnation is "a great mystery" no one will doubt. Itis-all-important, however, that we have a clear knowledge of what the Scriptures teach on this subject. A Christ which is not the Christ revealed to us in the Scriptures cannot save us from our sins. The Apostle's Rule.?An honest Christian reserves his strictest judgment for himself. Self-love will suggest excuses, and even tempt a man to ignore his own faults, or at all events to change their names ; but o atinromo Irtuo t\f rirrhcnr?h na ought to possess the Christian mind, keeps conscience at work, and enjoins self-judgment and self-correction. Then, as to the comparative seriousnss of faults, there is a strong tendency to regard one's own misconduct with leniency, though meting out a hard censure to similar delinquency in others. Ours is the mote or chip and our neighbor's is the beam. But when the Spirit of Christ enters into us all this is changed. Ours is the beam; our iniquity is great; our fault is heinous. We know what checks and warnings we have had to keep us from it, wlfat remonstrances of conscience, and what impulses and examples to counteract the evil temptation. And yet we are at fault. Nay, we have persisted in what we know to be wrong till it has acquired the force of a habit, neutralizing good, and unfitting us to exert a healthy moral and religious influence on others. The beam is in our own eye. It is our neighbor who has the mote or chip. So at least it should appear to us in the judgment of charity. By this it is not at all meant that we are to make light of evil, or out of good nature to affect not to see what is censurable. It is not charity, but a morbid feebleness of the moral nature, which cannot bear to con demn anything but strictness, anu gnoiy excuses or lightly tolerates conduct that is vicious or dishonest. Nothing in our Lord's teachings may or can be construed into a sanction of that species of leniency which makes all its allowance on the dangerous side. On the contrary, it is required by our loyalty to Hirn and to the best interests ol society that we endeavor to maintain ourselves and promote in others amoral tone that is brisk and vigorous, honoring the virtues of truth, justice and purity, and reprobating the opposite. But there is no reason why this tone of rigorous discrimination between good and evil should not be combined with a gentle and charitable judgment of the character and motives of our neighbors and fellow-Christians. "Have fervent charity among yourselves, for charity covereth a multitude of sins," Such was the rule of the early Christians, and it is as much in force as ever.?Rev. Dr. Donald Fraaer, London. Prayer is an act of friendship. It is intercourse; an act of trust, of hope, of love, all prompting to interchange between the soul and an infinite, spiritual friend. We all need prayer if for no other purpose, for that which we so aptly call communion with God. We all need friendly converse with him whom our souls love. "He alone is a thousand companions; He alone is a world of friends. That man never knew what it was to be familiar with God, who complains of the want of friends while God is with him."?Phelps. YORKVILLE ENQUIRER. Prospectus for 1886. A BUGGY AND TWO CASH PREMIUMS! IN issuing our prospectus for 188f?, we deem it only necessary to announce that the leading features which have characterized the editorial conduct of the Youkvillk Enquirer for more than a quarter of a century will be retained, and what it has been in the past will be an assurance of what it shall bo in the future. The leading departments of the paper will be retained as heretofore, and they will be conducted with the same labor and care that have marked our efforts in the past. The Sabbath Department, which, under the control of Rev. Dr. Lathan, has been an interesting feature of the Enquirer for seventeen years, will be continued. 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To club-makers for the approaching volume, we offer THREE PREMIUMS for the three largest clubs, as follows : For the largest club, ONE BREWSTER SIDE-BAR PIANO-BOX BODY TOP BUGGY, with leather quarters, leather cushions, full leather trimmings, silver rail around seat, double perch and well ironed. The Buggy is of standard grade, of the latest style and is valued at $75.00. For the second largest club, a Cash Premium of TWENTY-FIVE DOLLARS. For the thjrd largest club, a Cash Premium of FIFTEEN DOLLARS. The Buggy premium will be delivered to tho successful competitor, at the Enquirer office, free of charge for freight. CONDITIONS. The three Premiums mentioned above will be awarded on the following conditions : The person getting up the largest club of yearly subscribers to the Enquirer, at ?2.00 per annum, for each subscriber, will be entitled to the lirst choice of one of the above Premiums ; the person getting up the second largest club, at the same price, to the second choice; the person ge* ting up the third largest club, to the third choice. The time for completing clubs under the above oiler is limited to 1 o'clock P. M., on the SECOND MONDAY OF MARCH, 18SG. Competitors may begin to secure subscribers at once?the time of subscription to commence whenever the name is handed in. The.money for each subscriber is expected to be paid at the time the name is entered upon our books, and no name will be counted in competition fora premium until the subscription price has been paid. To persons who make up clubs of ten or more names, but who may fail to obtain a premium, we will send the Enquirer one year free of charge; and to those who send a Club of twenty or more names, but who may fail to get a premium, we will forward the Enquirer one year free of charge, and a copy, one year, of any weekly newsFaper or montiily magazine published in the Tnited States, the publication to be selected by the person entitled to receive it. It is not necessary that the names of a club should all be at the same post-office. Names may be taken at any number of places. One name for two years will bo equivalent to two names for one year each. All subscriptions must be forwarded to us at the expense of those sending them. We will be responsible for the safe transmission of money only when sent by draft, registered letter or money order drawn on the Yorkville post-office. In senditig names, write plainly, giving county, post-office and State. " All subscriptions will be discontinued at the expiration of the time paid for. A separate list will be kept for each club-maker, who will be credited with every name sent, so that the number sent by any one person can be ascertained at a moment's notice. ?> 1 , ?-5I1 nr.! I'ersoils >vuu ciuiiiueuuc V.111 ./o, ....I Ilu. 1)0 permitted, after the names have been entered [>n our books, to transfer the names to another [dub-maker's list. The time in which additions maybe made to clubs under this proposition, will expire on the SECOND MONDAY OF MARCH. 188(5. Therefore, persons who desire the benefit of club rates, must subscribe and pay for the paper before that date, as after the expiration of that time it will not be furnished for less than 82.50 unless new clubs are formed. All letters should be addressed to L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C. J. 13. BEAL, Manufacturer of Doors, Sash, Blinds, Mouldings, Balusters, STAIR-RAILING, Xnvel Posts, Brackets, drc., GA8TONIA, N. C. TpSS" Correspondence and Orders solicited. August 27 35 dm* ANNUAL RETLRNST ~ I EXECUTORS, Administrators, Guardians and j others acting in a fiduciary capacity, are notified that their RETURNS MUST BE FILED in inv ofliee during this present month and February next. J. BEATTY WILLIAMS, Probate Judge. January 21 3 fit GARRY IRON RO 1 Manufacturers of all kinds of j IRON ROOFING CRIMPED AND CORRUGATED SIDING, Iron Tile or Shingle, FIRE PROOF DOORS, SHUTTERS AC., THE LARGEST MANUFACTURERS 0] May 10 J ED. JEFFERYS. | NTEW FURNITURE STORE. DISSOLUTION OF COPARTNERSHIP. i j FT! HE copartnership heretofore existing be-; JL tween the undersigned is this day dissolved j by mutual consent. All persons indebted to the late firm are here- j by reqnested to make payment on or before the 1st of FEHRUARY, 1886, as the business must be settled up by that time. We hope that you ! will respond promptly, and save costs. J. ED. JEFFERYS, JOHN R. ASHE. January 1st, 188(1. j I I ! ! NEW FIRM. The undersigned thanks his friends for the liberal patronage bestowed upon the old firm in the past, and respectfully asks a share of the same in the future, at the old stand, in the Lowrv Building. J. EI). JEFFERYS. FOUNDRY AND Machine Shop. THE undersigne.-l would respectfully inform the public that he now has in operation, on his lot on King's Mountain Street, a FOUNDRY AND MACHINE SHOP, in which he is prepared to do all manner of work in light iron and brass castings, and general machine work. REPAIRING, Of all kinds, promptly done on snort notice. Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of any kind overhauled and repaired. Besides, any class of work that may be Wanted in hisshop, he will attend any call for repairing stationary engines, doing the work on the premises, thus obviating the necessity of moving the engine. Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion of the work. - EDWARD THOMAS. TO REDUCE STOCK. TO reduce my large stock of WATCHES, CLOCKS, JEWELRY, SILVER-PLATED WARE and FANCY GOODS, before the dull season, I will offer my large stock of the above goods, For The Next Sixty Days, At less than they can be bought for in any market. A great many articles at and below cost. Now is your time to buy goods cheap. Call Soon and Secure Bargains. I have entirely too many goods on lianas for the dull times is my reason for closing out as many as possible while there is something in the country. I have a large stock of SILVER WHITE, For cleaning Silver and Plated Ware, the best preparation ever offered for the purpose, 10 cents a box?worth 25. Jewelry Soap, Jewelry Cleaning Caskets, Ac. All at low prices tor cash. Old Silver taken in exchange for goods at cash prices. Call at JOHN F. SPECK'S Jewelry Store, at the Sign of the Big Watch. TO THE CAROLINA STOVE TRADE. 1 RESPECTFULLY inform Stove Buyers all over the Stale that I carry in stock, for Fall and Winter trade, 550 Cooking and Heating Stoves & Ranges. By actual count, requiring Store and Warei ? O" L,. OCA frtnf fA f o i n thn atnclf noubt* ruuin, uy **>\j icci t>v wuvu?u ?i*v m?w..7 and can till orders promptly. COOKING STOVES FROM $8.00 UP. Warranted to give satisfaction. Best Box Heating Stoves from $2.50 Up. The goods are bought from parties who sell large jobbing trade only, and challenge a comparison of quality and prices of Stoves with any market North, South, East or West. pti- Write for circulars giving prices and a full description of Goods, and SAVE MONEY. I am very anxious to get a sample Stove sold in everv neighborhood in the State. TERMS CASH ON DELIVERY. J. D. RATTERREE, Chester, S. C. October 15 31 . 12m The Howe Machine Company's LIGHT RUNNING, HIGH ARM, | NewHowe " WHICH IS TH^BEST SEWING MACHINE EVER MADE. I CALL special attention to the following features : The NEW ITOWE is a new niacnine throughout, differing in every point from the machines [ heretofore manufactured by the company. The j needle is self-setting. It has the most room un- j der the arm; the perfect Howe stiteh: no holes 1 to thread, except the needle; the easiest shuttle j to thread ; the most perfect take up ; the loose I balance-wheel; the largest bobbin ; absolutely j no vibration; the most perfect tension. It is the lightest running; noiseless, and the most I pleasing in appearance. Prices within the reach of all. Call and get a ! descriptive circular, and see the machine, which j is always on exhibition at my Photographic Gallery. PHOTOGRAPHY. I would inform the public that I am yet mak- j ing PHOTOGRAPHS in all the various styles, j Also, Ferrotypes and other cheaper styles of i j pictures. Pictures by the photographic process ! enlarged, and all work done in the best style of j the art at reasonable prices. Gallery on'West Liberty street, near the jail. J. R. SCIIORB. 0ts&?kmZp&^si 5" SmA9fHvM^m tPs&kroit 1886. sZBZt W1U be milled FREE to all applicant*, tnd tocuitomeriof laet year without ordering It. It contaloa about 1*0 pifti, ?00 llluetratlone, pricea, accurate deecrlptlone and valuable dlraotlone for planting all varietlea of VEGETABLE and FLOWER SEEDS, BULKS, etc. Invaluable to all, eepeelalljr to Market Oardenera. Send for It. D. M. FERRY 4t CO., Detroit, Michigan. Bwflmber 10 50 3m OFIIVG COMPANY, ,iB IRON ORE PAINT And Cement. fiSeffii, \ 152 TO 158 MERWIN STREET Cleveland, O. rjSp J Send for Circular and Price m ' List No. 75. F IRON ROOFING IN THE WORLD. _o C.& L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD OCHEDULE of Mail and Passenger Trains io| from Newton, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking offoof of W /\'r?tn<.lr Vnnn Sntilkv Vnvpmhpr Hlh, 1885. GOING SOUTH. Leave Newton LOO A. >1 Arrive at Maiden,* 7.35 A. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 8.15 A. M. Arrive at Hardin's* 8.53 A. M. Arrive at Dallas, 0.22 A. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 0.42 A. M. v Leave Gastonia 10.05 A. M. ^ Arrive at Pleasant Ridge,* 10.22 A. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek,* 10.32 A. M. Arrive at Bowling Green,* 10.45 A. M. ArriVe at Clover, 11.05 A. M. Arrive atYorkville, 11.52 A. M. Leaye Yorkville, 12.10 P. M. Arrive at Philadelphia,* 12.24 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville,* 12.37 P. M. Arrive at MoConnellsville,* 12.53 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville,* 1.18 P. M. Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M. GOING NORTH. Leave Chester, 4.30 P. M. Arrive at Lowrysville, 5.04 P. M. Arrive at McConnellsville, 5.27 P. M. Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.37 P. M. Arrive at Philadelphia, 5.50 P. M. Arrive at Yorkville, 6.05 P. M. Leave Yorkville 6.20 P. M. Arrive at Clover, 7.00 P. M. Arrive at Bowling Green, 7.10 P. M. Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.31 P. M. Arrive at Pleasant Ridge, 7.40 P. M. Arrive at Gastonia, 8.00 P. M. Leave Gastonia, 8.20 P. M. Arrive at Dallas, 8.37 P. M. Arrive at Hardin's, 0.08 P. M. Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.40 P. M. 4 of MniJnn lA T> \f iviiivu IIL tuaiucii, * Arrive at Newton, 11.10 P. M. * Flag Station. G. R. TALCOTT, Superintendent. November 19 47 tf JOB PRINTING. OWING to our superior facilities with the best machine presses, an abundance of type and lirst-class appointments throughout our office, we are prepared to execute all manner of JOB PRINTING in superior style, and at prices that will compare with New York or Philadelphia '-"v charges for the same quality of work and materials. We have recently "made a reduction in prices for the following classes of work, to which we invite the attention of business men : V. IJIEL HEADS. For 500 For 100'. * . Half-sheet Bill Heads, $3.50 $<5.00 Fourth-sheet Bill Heads, 2.25 3.50 Sixth-sheet Bill Heads 2.00 3.00 Monthly statements at same price of sixth-sheet I oill heads. We will fill, an order for bill heads, ! giving any desired number of either size of sheet j at proportionate prices. LETTER HEADS. For 500 For 1000 Commercial Note, $2.15 $3,25 Packet Note, 2.25 3.50 Letter (large size) 3.00 5.00 For the above work we use a superior quality of paper, and guarantee entire satisfaction in everv instance. V; \Ve also give special attention to the printing of Briefs, Arguments and Points and Authorities, which we furnish strictly according to the requirements of the Justices of the Supreme Court, and in proof reading exercise the utmost care to ensure accuracy. We are prepared to furnish all other kinds of printing, irom a visiting card to a large volume, and will be pleased to furnish estimates for any style of work desired. Address, L. M. GRIST, Yorkville, S. C, 1886. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886. Vnrlvillo T.ivorv nnd FppiI SItnhlpv: JL VI II T 1UL JU1 I VI J U1IU JL VVU MWvjivu ARE still on a boom, and the year 1886 finds me with some of the finest Vehicles ever shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and surpasssed by none. Everything will be kept in the best style. Give me* a trial and be convinced. Cincinnati and Columbus Buggies Of every description will be kept. Spring Wag- ^ ons, Pluetons, Ac., of the best make, always on hand. FOR FUNERALS I have a fine Queen City Hearse and a Clarence Coach, which will be sent to any part ef the county at short notice. Terms reasonable. A Big Bargain. I have a Jumpseat Phaeton and some Buggies on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold soon to make room for my new stock. HAVE YOUR HORSES FED At the Yorkville Livery and Feed Stables, where thev will receive the best attention. F. E. SMITH. January 28 17 tf TAX RETURNS FOR 18*5-86. OFFICE OF COUNTY AUDITOR,) * York County. > Yorkville, S. C., November30th, 1885. j IN compliance with law, the TAX BOOKS OF YORK COUNT V, for fiscal year 1885-6, will open on the FIRST DAY OF JANUARY, 1886, and CLOSE ON THE 20TH OF FEBRUARY, 1886, after which time a penalty of fifty percent, will be added to the property of such tax-payers who fail to make returns in the time prescribed above. This applies as well to REAL ESTATE as to PERSONAL PROPERTY. There will be a RE-ASSESSMENT of real property by the township boards. For the convenience of taxpayers I will attend at the following places and the times stated, for the purpose of receiving the returnsof tax-payers : * At Yorkville, from February 4th to February 20th, 1886, inclusive. I request tax-payers to meet me in their respective townships^ and thus avoid the usual rush at the office in Yorkville. W. B. WILLIAMS, Auditor York County. December 3 49 tf nurii'D. OFFICK OF COUNTY COMMISSIONERS,) Yorkville, S. C., January 18, 1886. j NOTICE is hereby given to all whom it may concern, that no bill hereafter contracted in behalf of the County for the current year, will be paid until after the close of the tax books next December. The Commissioners deem it proper to say that the Board levied 3 mills for ordinary county pnrposes, both for 188oand 1886, but the Legislature, in each case, cut the levy down to 21 mills. J. N. STEELE, JAMES B. ALLISON, R. W. WHITES IDES. January 28 4 tf APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE. NOTICE is hereby given that the undersigned, Administrator of the estate of JAMES JACKSON, deceased,has madea tinalsettlement with the Judge of Probate for York county, and on Saturday, the 6th day of March, 1886," at 11 o'clock, A. M., will make application for a tinal discharge from liability as Administrator of the said estate. JONATHAN F. JACKSON, Administrator. February 4 5 5t ?hc ?flffevilk $ttquiw. 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