Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, May 13, 1886, Image 4
Humorous Department. |
A Client Demands Protection.?A
few days ago in the District Court, a prisoner,
who had been defended by one of our ,
young lawyers (who had been appointed by ;
the court) received the highest penalty i
the law allows for horse stealing, fifteen I
years.
After the verdict was announced this lawyer
was observed to speak excitedly to his j
client, whereupon the client stood up and
told the judge that he looked to him for
protection.
His Honor, Judge Noonan, replied that
the sheriff would see that his rights were
not interfered with.
"But that vs not what I mean," urged the
prisoner.
"What do yo mean ?" inquired the judge,
kindly.
"I want you to protect me. This young
man you 'pinted to defend me says he is
gwine to ask you to give me a new trial,
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ana I want you to protect ine, juuge. And
now that young lawyer tells people
that he won't defend pauper criminals without
being paid for it, not even if Judge
Noonan sends him to jail for refusing.?
Si/tings.
Dr. Talmage and the Evolutionist.
It was suggested to Mr. Talmage that he
get up a lecture on "cranks," and relate his
experience with cranky people. He laughed
and said that while his experience was wide
and varied on the subject of "cranks," yet
there was one story that always came to his
mind when the conversation turned on
these peculiar people. He was once very
busy writing in his room at a hotel when a
card came up. He gave the bell boy instructions
that ne could see nobody and dismissed
him. A little while afterward the
card came up a second time and he said to
the bell boy tell that man to call on the next
day, that he wouldn't see the angel Gabriel
if he called to-day, and the bell boy's eyes
stuck out. In a few minutes the card came
up a third time, and then Mr. Talmage went
down stairs to see who his persistent visitor
was. A man stepped up to him and said:
"You are Mr. Talmage?"
"I am, sir."
"Well, sir, I am an evolutionist, and I
wanr to t'iscuss that question with you. 1
am also an annihilationist. I believe that
when I die that will be the end of me."
"Thank God for that!" devoutly ejaculated
Mr. Talmage, as he walked off and left
the man perfectly dazed.
He Could'nt Stand Oratory.?When
Blackburn was first running for Congress
he happened to be present one day at an
execution in Owenton, Kentucky. After
the nreliminaries had been arranged the
sheriff consulted his watch and discovered
that it was not quite 12 o'clock, the hour
fixed for the execution. Turning to the
> prisoner he said: "You have ten minutes
yet to live; is there anything you have to
say in the meantime ?" The prisoner sullenly
replied there was not. At this instant
Blackburn sprang from his seat, and
advancing to the edge of the scaffold, said :
"If the gentleman will allow me the remaining
ten minutes, I will be glad to
announce myself a candidate for your suffrages.
If elected to Congress"?At this
point the prisoner interjected: "Mr. Shersff,
I won't stand on a few minutes when
it's death or listening to one of Joe Blackburn's
speeches. Flip the trap and let me
go." The good natured sheriff obligingly
"flipped the trap," and the next instant the
desperado swung into eternity.
Knew Her Weak Point.?Wife?"This 1
is a nice time of night to come home; ain't
you ashamed of yourself?"
Husband (pulling off his boots and carefully
putting them on the mantel)?"Don't- :
er-scold. Couldn't get away?er?moment
sooner. Had a?hie?big argument."
W.?"Big fiddlesticks."
H.?"Fact, I 'sure you. Wadcher think ?
All?er?boys of the lodge in it. Queshion 1
was, which of us had?er?most amiable. ,
and?er?beautiful wife. I beat 'em all. |
Described you?hie?roses, teeth pearls, lips
cherries?temper?er?hie?likenangel. Of- <
fered to fight 'em if they wouldn't admit <
it. They gave in, 'n here I am?late, late? j
er?victorious, finest wife in?er?world." ]
W. (with a sweet smile)?"You are a sad
fellow, John. I'm afraid you'll never be anything
better. Let me help you take off .
your coat, dear."?Sun AngeloStandard.
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DIDN'T KEEP AN INN.?A neignDOr 01
mine is quite annoyed by having all the
traveling agents, etc, etc., quartered on him
for the night, and the more he entertains,
the more are sent him for that purpose.
One cold night last winter, after he had
stowed two guests in his front chamber and
two in his lower bed-room, he heard another
stop at his door and ring him up at
12 o'clock past.
This was entirely too much for human patience.
"What do you want?" said he, opening
the window.
"I want to stay here all night," came the
answer from a voice on the sidewalk below"Well,
stay there, then," was my neighbor's
benevolent response, and down .went
the sash with a jerk \?St. Louis Magazine.
When She Feels Real Glad.?"I tell
you how it is with me, Mrs. Blodgett,"
said the dressy neighbor. "When I goto
church and get all stirred up over what
a desperate wicked set we are, I feel vexed
and put out to think what a shame it was
that Eve didn't mind her own business and
not bring such heaps of trouble upon us;
but when I put on a new dress that fits me
so nice I can't find a particle of fault with it,
and a hat that makes every woman I meet
feel as though she hadn't a friend in the
world, then I own up that I feel downright
r?l a r\ oho urao fr\nr1 nf fruif o n rl T non't Koln
^tau snu >too luiiu ui xxuic, auu x V/au v ugip
it."?Chicago Tribune.
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1ST "Cholly, would you believe it but
Gussie Willoughby was actually bitten by i
Miss De Snook's howid pug dawg lawst i
evening." i
"Gwacious! And it hain't got the wabies, i
I hope?" i
"Cawn't say, you know. Don'tcher know i
butGussie isactually pwoud of it."
"Pwoud of being bitten by a nawsty pug ,
dawg! How strange, to be sure! Why?" <
"He says it's quite English, you know." ,
Cigarettes and vanilla cream for two. i
]
t&~Mr. Cohen?"Repecca, my tear, der (
doctor has given me oop." ,
Mrs. C.?*'Ach himmel! dat is ja schrech- ,
lich!"
Mr. C.?"Id seems hart to leafe you."
Mrs. C.?"Boo-hoo! Ich ben veruckt."
Mr. C.?"Id seems hart, Repecca, und der
busy season is gomin' on in a week. Put (
dot chob lot of combs in der goffin. I'll ,
spring'em on der angels. Hast du gesehen?"
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I6T A Hibernian Senator speaking on the j
subject of preventing suicide, said: "The
only way I can conceive of stopping the
business is to make it a capital offense,
punishable with death."?N. V. Herald.
f&T "A genuine patriot," said an election
" orator, recently, "must at all times be ready
to die for his country, even if it should cost
him his life." [Thundering applause.]?
Chicago Journal.
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OLD PAUL.
THE MYSTERIOUS ROOM, AX J) WHAT ITS
Oi'EXIXG REYEA LED.
Old Paul is dead, and who cares? Nobody.
For Old Paul was a sloven, a glutton,
and a drunkard, and when he died the world
said good riddance from poor rubbish. Still,
Old Paul made a most respectable appearance
as he passed through the village on
his way to the graveyard, the most respectable
he had made in it- for twenty
years. For, instead of his broken down
horse, in a harness tied together with strings,
Old Paul was drawn by stately white horses
in rich trappings, and instead of his crazy
old wagon, with rickety wheels and spliu*
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lerea snaits, uia j^aurs varrmge, uiuu^n iui
some reason few like to ride in it, was in
every way respectable. Nor was the poor
old man visible, with his slovenly dress and
bloodshot eyes and burning face, and grizzled,
shaggy beard, for Old Paul had adriver,
and rode inside, and instead of the crowd
of rascally boys that were wont to follow
him, deeming it rare sport to see humanity
sunk so low, Old Paul was followed by a
long and most respectable funeral train, for
he had many relations, though no friends,
and they were all most respectably dressed
in mourning, though in all the sable crowd
that stood around the open grave I saw not
one quivering lip or falling tear as the first
earth clods fell upon the coffin's lid.
Old Paul's wife left him near twenty years
ago, and the world excused her for it, for
how, said the world, could any woman live
with such a brute ? But old Aunt Prudence
shook her head at this off-hand verdict of
the world. For she remembered that he
was once young, dashing Paul, and Polly
Jones, proud and handsome as she was, met
him more than half way, as the gossips
said, fifty years ago, for he was rich and she
was poor.
"And if the truth must be known," said
Aunt Prudence, knocking the ashes from
her pipe and lowering her voice to a confidential
tone, as if afraid of being overheard
by some tenant of the graveyard, "they du
say," forgetting that the tongues once busy
with such gossip, all except her own, had
long been silent in the grave, "they du say
that Paul married for beauty and Polly for
money, and you know, as old Billy Bain,
down at the poorhouse, says, life's wagon
will go hard when there is no love to grease
the wheels."
Yes, gold had dazzled and blinded the
one, and beauty had dazzled and blinded
the other, but they soon waked up, the one
to the fact that for gold she had bound her
life to a coarse and brutal nature, and the
other to the fact that beauty, like frostwork
glittering in moonlight, may be brilliant
and at the same time freezing cold.
"How shockingly they have abused them
paus," said Old Paul's wife the day after he
was buried, on returning to the house that
had .been her home for more than thirty
years, where her children had all been born
and most of them had died.
Old Paul was, indeed, a brute, and he was
well mated with one who, under such circumstances,
could think of such petty trash.
But three short weeks had passed when I
heard that Old Paul's wife was sick, the next
day worse and the third day dead, and she
passed over the same road, drawn by the
same richly caparisoned horses, in the same
much dreaded carriage, to be laid by Old
Paul's side.
One day I chanced to take a walk down
to Old Paul's house. The spring was in its
glory. The forest was clad in richest verdure.
The apple trees were in full bloom
and filled the air with fragrance, while the
bees feeding upon the blossoms filled it with
a dreamy murmur. The corn was just
- - 1 a a.i?
peeping irom uie grounu auu me rye ueius
began to wave in the passing breezes. The
meadows were vocal with
The bobolink's clear thrilling strainOf
liquid sweet.
The ground birds were singing in the hedges
and the robins from the trees that overhung
the road.
As I approached the house I noticed horses
tied to the posts and groups of men
standing about the doors, and heaps of old
furniture scattered here and there which
reminded me that it was auction day.
It was a large, old-fashioned square house,
with two ancient elms growing before it,
spreading their giant branches far and wide.
In their thick, damp shade the moss had
accumulated year after year until the whole
front had grown quite green. There was everywhere
an air of dilapidation and neglect.
On all sides there were broken boards, ragstuffed
windows, rickety fences and fallen
gates, all proclaiming the habitation of the
drunkard.
On looking around I found everything
in conformity with the first view from the
road. Fields half cultivated, fruit trees unpruned,
fences that had caught the habits of
their master and had fallen or were staggering
to their fall, gates hanging by one hinge,
plows with broken handles and carts with
broken wheels, manure accumulated about
the barns instead of making the crops look
"lush and lusty." The barns themselves,
ventilated by loss of boards, in the shed
Old Raul's wagon, and tied to a post his
old horse, apparently looking mournfully
forward to'his future prospects in the hands
of the jockey who had bought him for ten
dollars on speculation.
"Going, going at ten cents," I heard in a
harsh, husky voice, "all this lot of pans,
once the pride of Aunt Polly's heart, bran
new only twenty years ago, going, going
and gone to Patrick McFadden for ten
cents."
Ten cents, then, was the public valuation
[)f what had occupied the thoughts of Old
Paul's wife, to the exclusion of all the tender
memories of fifty years as she returned
to her old home.
At length the house was all cleared except
one room.
This room Old Paul kept locked for twenty
years, never permitting any one to enter
it but himself. A jury of neighboring gossips
had more than once had the subject
under advisement, and had brought a unanimous
verdict of "strange and very mysterious."
As no one knew anything about it, every
one felt free to say just what her busy fancy
suggested. Some said it was haunted, and
one cadaverous old maid, who had dried
up in single blssedness, threw out dark
hints about a peddler who had mysteriously
disappeared. Some said lights had been
seen and strangely sweet music heard there
more than once at the dead of night.
The children caught the infection, and, if j
possible, avoided passing Old Paul's house |
in the night, but, if at any time benighted, i
their fear would add wings to their feet and j
eyes to their imaginations, and a ghost:
story was sure to be the result, especially j
if Old Paul's white horse was feeding near
the hou&. This room also seemed to pos-!
sess a strange power over Old Paul himself. |
He seldom visited it, and always left it j
greatly agitated and commonly in tears, j
and after such visits he hadbeen known to
be sober for weeks together.
This mystery, whatever it might be, was
now about to be cleared up. A group of
eager gossips had already gathered about
the door, which had to be forced, as the i
key could not be found. One of the shut-j
ters, which Old Paul always kept closed,'
i was opened to let in the light of day, and
i with it all that mystery vanished. Instead
I of a haunt for the revels of spirits of darkI
ness or murder spots that "would not out,".
| we saw only a large square room, furnished
' with an air of gentility and taste that the
dust of twenty years could not hide, and in
| strange contrast with the rest of the house.
The mystery had vanished, and with it
j all that coarse hilarity. Even the rollickling
auctioneer stood mute, his coarse features
covered with a shade .of thoughtful
| sadness.
i More than one lip quivered, and more
i than one hard hand brushed away an obtrusive
tear, as this dusty old room called
up from its oblivious slumber some touching
memory of the past.
There was one old woman who, in the
midst of the bustle, had seemed busy with
her own thoughts, and more than once her
heart had seemed full as some little article
was sold. I had noticed her, and inquired
who she was; and they told me that her
husband had once been a drunkard worse
even than Old Paul, but that he had suddenly
reformed and became a respectable
man; that they had been miserably poor,
with a large family, but after his reformation
became quite comfortable livers, and
i all agreed that she was as good a woman
! as lived this side ot heaven.
As she entered the room her feelings quite
overcame her. The tears coursed each other
down the deep furrows on her cheeks.
"Yes," at length she said, "this is Nelly's
room, just as she left it. What a sweet
creature that was! She was an angel to me
in my poverty and suffering. Hardly a
day passed without her bringing over some
nice little things for poor little Willie, who
was sick so long. But he is well now, thank
God, and they are both in heaven together.
And then she had such a kind way to give
anything that it would make a brown crust
taste good. It was different times in this
house when she was in it. I always hoped
she would be able to save poor Paul, for she
could do anything with him ; but she saved
my poor husband, for he never drank a drop
after she talked to him?so like an angel as
she was just before she died. He could
never speak of her to the day of his death
without crying. She wasn't quite eighteen
when she went away. I always told him
she didn't belong in this world, but was
only here on a visit. What a time that
was the day she was buried! Everybody
seemed to feel just as if they had lost one of
their own family. I didn't see but our
children felt just as bad as when our Katy
died.
"Poor Willie cried till it seemed as if his
heart would break, though she told him but
the day before she left us?for poor child,
suffering as she was she seemed to be
thinking of everybody but herself?to be
patient and good-natured, and not much to
mind if he did not suffer a good deal, and !
he would see her again before long.
"It is enough to make one want to die
just to see the poor child again. But never
mind children I shall be with you soon."
As she said this she looked steadily upward
and spoke in a confidential tone, as if she
saw those dear ones on the very border of
the spiritual world, wating impatiently for
her to join them.
During this simple talk of the loving old
woman, if there was a dry eye in that
a-minute-before careless, jovial crowd,
mine were so blended that I could not see
it, and I felt convinced, more than I should
have been by volumes of panegyrics, that
from that dusty room more than twenty
years ago an angel had taken her homeward
flight, and she had since been permitted,
occasionally to fit across Old Paul's
degraded soul, if, perchance, she might yet
win him from the error of his ways.
But how, thought I, could such a one
grow up under such circumstances and
with such surroundings? How? Why,
in the same way the most beautiful flower
can grow and shed its fragrance under the
cold droppings of the glacier.
The divine goodness is so prodigal?no,
not prodigal, but profuse?in the bestowal
of its gifts that, as there is no place in nature
without its beauty, so there is none
so morally waste and desolate that it does
not produce some flower of Paradise; there
is no thick mantling pool of depravity so
stagnating that its waters are not sometimes
stirred by the rustling of an angel's
wings.?Henry T. Niles, in Toledo Blade.
GRANDPARENTS.
There is nobody like a comparatively
young and lively grandsire or grandmother
to till in the family chinks. Grandfather
roasts bones and compounds savory, hot
messes, well peppered for the hens, and
keeps them laying all winter when the
neighbors are stirring a spoonful of snow
into cake in place of eggs. He keeps the
wood-box well filled with the nicest of kindlings
and the driest of wood, and never forgets
to wind the clock. He oilsthe creaking
door hinges and rusty locks, replaces the
tack that has worked out of the carpet, and
solders the pinhole that has impudently ap
peared in the new tin pail. He pares applesand
brings the rind off in one unbroken
red curl, for the little ones to fling over their
shoulders, to form queer, misshapen capital
letters; nobody can coax corn to pop into
such white flakes as grandpa, and nobody
else can so inend toys, direct the boys about
training the "yellings"or tunneling through
the deep snow drift at the foot of the hill.
If a cow in the neighborhood is sick or a
sheep refuses to own her lamb, grandfather
is sent for, and he knows a sure remedy.
He has forgotten more than all the neighborhood
know to-day, and yet remembers
more than all they ever knew.
And what is there that grandmother cannot
do ? She is always in order to see company
and never at a loss for something to
say. She is ready to take the baby when
nobody else can give him attention ; she
binds up bruised fingers with soft rags and
wounded hearts with tender words, kisses
and a stray peppermint from the depths of
her pocket or a mysterious little box which
she takes down from a high shelf in some
cupboard. She keeps the thin places in the
stockings and mittens darned before they
become real holes, and her wise counsel and
soothing words prevent many holes in the
peace of the family and neighborhood.
She has great stores of supplies for everybody
far and near. She never forgets where
her sage and summer savory and catnip
are, and her hoarhound candy and thoroughwort
syrup are so delicious that every
coughing child for miles about considers
himself in luck when he gets a chance to
take them.
Grandmother lias weathered the stormtossed
sea of retribution and gotten into the
peaceful harbor of forgiveness. Childhood
is infinitely more tender in her sight than
it is to the father or mother, and what are ;
deliberate wanderings out of the way in j
their eyes are but involuntary slips of the \
untried feet to her. Grandmother knows :
that the hasty word or the unrelenting pen- j
alty of to-day may gnaw forever at the !
heart of the speaker and inflictor. Ah, how
much grandmother knows!
There is never a snowstorm but that
grandfather or grandmother remembers a j
worse one away back in the fabulous times
of thirty, forty or sixty years ago. No late i
springs or early autumn frosts surprise
them, for they know by long experience
that the promises of seed time and harvest
are sure.?Lewhton (Me.) Journal. !
^Usccltoucous ?cadiittg.
PRESIDENTIAL SUCCESSION.
One of the most important laws passed
during the present generation has lately j
; received the approval of the President. Although
it is only a law, which can be re- j
pealed by Congress at any time, it is in
effect a constitutional change?not in the ;
sense of making an amendment of the Con-1
stitution, but in that of changing the constitution
of the Government.
It is provided in the Constitution that
"the Congress may by law provide for the
case of removal, death, resignation or inability,
both of the President and Vice-President,
declaring what officer shall then act as
President."
Under this clause Congress passed an act
in 1792. declaring that in the event so stated
"the President of the Senate, or if there is
none, then the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, for the time being, shall
act as President until the disabilty is removed,
or a President elected."
There is a curious bit of history connected
with this law. It was the general opinion,
even when the act was passed, that the
Secretary of State rather than the President
of the Senate pro tempore ought to succeed
to the Presidency; but so bitter was the opposition
of Federalists to Mr. Jefferson,
who was then Secretary of State, that the
succession was devolved upon the presiding
officers of the two branches of Congress.
The law so passed remained in force ninetyfour
years. It was many times attacked
during that period on various grounds, but
it is only lately that the dangers of the system
excited alarm. Until 1881 there was
alway a President pro tempore of the Senate,
because it was the custom of the Vice
President to leave ^he chair before the close
of the session, in order that the Senate
might choose one.
Rut once every two years, from the close
of one Congress on the fourth of March until
the mesting of the next Congress in the
following December, there was no Speaker
in the House of Representatives. Twice
in the last five years there has been no
President pro tempore of the Senate, in
each case because the Vice President, contrary
to precedent, continued to preside
over the Senate till the day of final adjournment.
Had President Arthur died
after the death of President Garfield, before
Congress met in December, 1881, or had
President Cleveland died after the death of
Vice President Hendricks, last autumn,
there would have been no person designated
by the Constitution or the law to act as
President. It need hardly be said that a
great many times it would have happened
under the old law that a President of different
politics might have succeeded the
elected President. Under that law Senator
Sherman would now become President
in the event of the death of Mr. Cleveland.
At last the" many perils and inconveniences
of the ancient statute have led Congress
to pass what is known as the Hoar
Presidential Succession bill. The principle
of the new law is to make the several
members of the Cabinet, beginning with
the Secretary of State, followed by the Secretary
of the Treasury, and so on in order
through the list, President in cause of the
inability to act, from any case, if both the
President and Vice-President. It is also
provided that the cabinet officer succeeding
in such a case shall fill out the elected President's
full term. Under the old law there
would have been a new election unless the
term was nearly completed? Youth's Cornpan
ion.
Ol!R MANNERS.
I No one quality of the mind and heart is
more important as an element of success in
this life than good manners. A good manner
is the best letter of recommendation
among strangers, civility, refinement and a
1.. TT;oft fnnoafo rwr&v anfl
(IlillJiy UCilllllg. 11IOIUIJ Ibpvuiu ?TV> ?...V.
over again, examples showing that it is the
bearing of a man towards his fellow-men
more than any other quality which promotes
or retards his success or advancement
in life. ^Success or failure often turns upon
the manners of the man. Civility and a
genial bearing is not only one of the essentials
of high success, but is a small fortune
of itself.
Honesty, refinement and gentleness of
character are everywhere worth 100 cents on
the dollar. They are passports to hearts
and homes, while awkwardness, coarseness
and gruffnessare met with locked doors and
closed hearts.
Says Emerson: "Give a boy address and
accomplishments, and you give him the
mastery of palaces and fortunes wherever
he goes" ; and if to these qualities we add
honesty and integrity of purpose, we have
a solid foundation for a grand success in life.
There is no occupation or profession where
good manners are not necessary. Manners
are really minor morals. A rude person is
ofteu assumed to be a bad person. The
manner in which a person says or does a
thing furnishes a better index to his character
than what he does or says,, for it is the
incidental expression given to his thoughts
and feelings by his looks, tones and gestures
rather than by his words. The manner in
which a favor is granted, or a kindness is
done, often effects us more than the deed
itself.
A favor may be grauted so grudgingly as
to deprive us of all feeling of obligation,
or it mav be so courteously refused as to
awaken a far greater feeling of kindness
than if ungraciously granted. Let us ever
be mindful of .the fact that every act of our
own affects in a greater or less degree some
other individual, and it is a binding obligation
to ourselves, our friends and our neighbors
that we be truly polite and gentle.
True courtesy will oil up. the machinery of
life to a wonderful degree, and make many I
glad hearts, thus really lengthening our !
days and promoting our usefulness in the j
world.
1)0 ANIMALS THINK ?
A great deal has been written to show |
that animals think and reason, just as man j
does, though in a lower degree. Perhaps i
some of our readers may notice things in !
animals which show that they have a great |
deal of intelligence, even if they do not
reason. Mr. Paul Brocca, the French au-1
thor, devoted much attention to this sub- J
ject. It has been said of animals, writes
Mr. Brocca, that their actions are mechani- j
cal and without method. This may be true j
of domestic pets, who are influenced almost
entirely by the human being, around them, j
but does not the beaver change his plans, |
acting now as builder, now as miner accord- j
ingto circumstances? Besides this, every
one knows that the bee frequently substi-:
tutes pentagonal, or five side, for hexagonal,
or six-sided cells, and that alteration in the j
work is made only when necessary. It has :
also been said that animals do not reason. '
NVhat then is done by the foxes, which in
Thrace are driven on to the ice to test its
strength ? These animals step carfully and :
lightly, with their heads inclined, and turn
back suddenly directly they discover by the j
sound of the ice cracking that it is not safe
to proceed farther. A dog which, in follow- j
ingascent, arrives at a cross road is seen'
to stop, consider for a moment, then plunge
along one of the roads, sniffing cautiously,
turn back and try another road in the same
manner, and finally dart unhesitatingly
down the third. It is evident that his logic
tells him that as his prey has not taken one
of the first two roads examined, it must:
necessarily have taken the third road, so
he does not waste time in further investigation.
That this is not mere instinct is
shown by the fact that a dog sometimes i
makes a mistake in such a case, and that j
when the fact becomes evident he slinks j
out of sight of the hunters, looking a picture
of shame and humiliation.
Foresight is a quality the possession of
which no one will deny to ants and bees,
and the former certainly have a sense of
compassion. This is displayed in the tender
care bestowed on the wounded during
the terrible battles fought between different
tribes of ants. The suffering and helpless
ones are not left to perish, but are carried
off the battlefield by a regular "ambulance
corps." No one doubts the existence
of memory in animals, and as to ambition,
is it necessary to recount the pitched battles
which take place in bee hives between
the different candidates for royalty ? How
can one pretend that man only has the gift
of language! He must be blind indeed
who does not see that all animals have some
means of communication with each other.
To give only one example : there is no possible
doubt that ant9 make themselves
understood by their fellows, by means of
the touch of their delicate, sensitive anteme
or feelers. Before the war a council
is held, and messengers hurry about.
Scouts or spies are sent out, and the attack
is hastened or postponed, according to
their reports. All this could not be done
without a very complete method of communication,
for the giving and receiving
of orders, etc. Moreover, if animals had
no language, how could they teach their
young? That they do teach them is evident
from the fact of young foxes in countries
where the animals are hunted being
infinitely more wary than full grown ones
in other lands ! How else are we to account
for this than by saying the parent
foxes tell their children of the danger, and
how to avoid it??American Agriculturist.
WONDERFUL CAVES IN 0E0R01A.
We first reached the Blowing cave in Decatur
county, Ga., which is situated in a
large plantation on a hill, surrounded by a
broad valley, with the exception of the
east, which is a little higher than the rim
of the cave and ten miles from Pelham,
says a correspondent. The rim of the cave
is thirty feet east and west and twenty feet
north and south, funnel shaped, about 12
feet from surface of rim, and has two openings
or mouths, though which it breathes.
Its suction is in the forenoon and it blows
out in the afternoon, and the draught is
sufficient in the morning to suck in leaves,
pocKei-nanciKercnieis, oranyming 01 iigm
weight. In the afternoon it blows out with
equal strength. I placed my head to one
of its mouths and heard a noise like the
roaring of a distant wind. This cave must
have immediate connection with the Gulf
of Mexico, which one would reasonably conclude
is the cause of its respirations. This
cave is the property of Thomas A. liarrows
and he says that he often goees to its
mouth of hot evenings in summer and gets
a refreshing breeze, for if the weather
marks ninety-five degrees, put the thermometer
to the mouth of the cave and it
will fall to seventy-five degrees, which
shows it has no connection with the dreaded
place, and then the breeze is pure and
healthy.
South of this cave about a mile is a beautiful
waterfall, the rim of which is about
two hundred and forty feet in circumference,
funnel shaped, and it is the funnel that
receives a stream of water which approaches
through a narrow channel at a depth of
twenty leet from the surface of the land
and pours over a rock into a funnel about
forty feet. The bottom of the funnel is
twenty-five feet across, and there have been
seen in it an alligator and rattlesnake. The
water is conveyed from the funnel by a
subterranean passage.
Next I visited the great lime sink about
six miles from Pelham, which belongs to L.
O. Jackson, of Bainbridge. The sink is the
receptacle of a large creek, and the bottom
is about two hundred feet below the surrounding
country. There is a grist mill on
its verge and the natural water power would
run a vast amount of machinery. The fall
of water into the sink is ninety feet, which
presents a grand sight as it falls. One can
easily go down into this sink, which is the
approach to a great cavern one hundred feet
under ground.
On my return to Pelham Mr. Hand proposed
to take me to another cave two miles
from Pelham. This one is on a large plantation
and is a beautiful funnel shaped cave
about two hundred and twenty-five feet
deep, and has two mouths to breathe
through, and it was blowing out strong
while we were there. Like the other cave
it sucks the air in the morning and blows it
out in the evening, and the air is cool and
pleasant.?Atlanta (C/a.) JVews.
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rating THE YORK COUNTY MEDICAL AND '
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May (i IS f>t
SLITS.
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thuf I hesitate to mention it, except for the
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my forty years of suffering to obtain relief from
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years of age) have met with a remedy that has
cured mo entirely?made me a new man. I
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October 1"> 31 12m
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THE STATE OF SOTTII CAROLINA,
COUNTY OF YORK?COl'RT OF COMMON PLEAS.
Mary J. Guthrie, Plaintiff, against Arthur Williamson
and Bettie Williamson, (children of
John X. Williamson, deceased); Martha
E. Carter, Sylvanus Williamson, Harriet
Ragland, Louisa Carter and Lerov Williamson,
(children of J. Glenn Williamson, deceased)
and the widow (name unknown) of'
Robert Williamson, deceased, (also a son of y
the said J. Glenn Williamson); John M. Williamson,
Sarah Ann Jones, and Addie Williamson
(married, name not known), (children
of Milton F. Williamson, deceased); H.
Leroy Williamson, John Williamson, Samuel
Williamson, Tazwell Williamson, Alexander
Williamson, Bettie Williamson, Emma
Williamson and Williamson (name
not known), (the children of Samuel E. Williamson,
deceased); William A. Williamson,
and John J. Williamson, (who, with the
Plaintiff, are the children of W. Lewis Williamson,
deceasod); James L. Williamson,
Mary E. Wilson, and Robert J. Williamson,
(the children of Sylvanus Williamson, deceasod)
; F. Leo Erwin and John R. Erwin, .
(the children of Ann B. Erwin, deceased)?
heirs-at-law?and Robert K.Guthrie?as Administrator?of
J. Harvey Williamson, de
ceased, Defendants.?Summons for Relief? tk
Complaint not Served.
To the Defendants above-named, all of whom, ^
nvoont Tnmoa T AX* I 1 1 L' i
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Guthrie, are non-residents of the State:
YOU are hereby summoned and required to
answer the Complaint in this action, which
is this day herewith tiled in the ofliee of the Clerk
of the Court of Common Pleas, for said Countv.
and to servo a copy of your answer to the said
Complaint on the subscriber, at his office in
Yorkville, South Carolina, within twenty days
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this action will apply to the Court for the relief
demanded in the Complaint.
[Summons and Complaint filed April 28, 1880.]
[r.. s.] Jos. F. Wallace, C. C. Pis.
Dated Yorkville, S. C., April 28, A. D. 1888.
C. K. SPENCER, Plaintiffs' Attorney.
April 28 17 Gt"
C. & L. NARROW GAUGE RAILROAD ~
SCHEDULER of Mail and Passenger Trains
from Lenoir, N. C., to Chester, S. C., taking
effect at 12 o'clock, Noon, Sunday, February
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going south.
Leave Lenoir 0.00 A. M.
Arrive at Hudsonville/ 0.24 A. M.
Arrive at Lovelady/ 0.40 A. M.
Arrive at Hickory 7.10 A. M.
Leave Newton 8.05 A. M.
Arrive at Maiden/ 8.33 A. M.
Arrive at Lincolnton, 9.10 A. M.
Arrive at Hardin's5 9.48 A. M.
Arrive at Dallas, 10.07 A. M.
Arrive at Gastonia, 10.23 A. M.
Leave Gastonia 10.40 A. M.
Arrive at Crowder's Creek/ 11.07 A. M.
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Arrive at Yorkville, 12.05 P. M.
Leaye Yorkville, 12.25 P. M.
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Arrive at Lowrysville/ 1.30 P. M.
Arrive at Chester 2.00 P. M.
GOING NORTH.
Leave Chester, 4.25 P. M.
Arrive at Lowrysville, 4.55 P. M.
Arrive at Guthriesville, 5.30 P. M.
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Arrive at Crowder's Creek 7.10 P. M.
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Leave Hickory, 10.50 P. M.
Arrive at Lovelady, 11.20 P. M.
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Arrive at Lenoir, 12.01 A. M.
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February 18 7 tf
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rUHE undersigned would respectfully inform
X the public that he now has in operation, on
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Steam Engines, and agricultural machinery of
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Prices reasonable. Terms, cash on completion
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1886. WEST LIBERTY STREET. 1886.
Ytrkrille Livery and Feed Stables
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shown in the Livery business in Yorkville, and
surpasssed by none. Everything will be kept
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vinced.
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hand. * '
FOR FUNERALS
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on hand that I will give a big bargain in, if sold
<0011 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.
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APPLICATION FOR DISCHARGE.
N'OTICE is hereby given that the undersigned.
Administrator of the estate of I. MILTON
WALLACE, deceased, has made a final settlement
with the J11 dire of Probate of York countv.
niul on Saturday, the 22nd day of May, 188<>, at *11
o'clock, A. M.,\vill make application for a final
discharge from liability as Administrator of the
said estate.
K. H. MKNDKNHALL, Administrator.
April 22 1(5 at*
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