Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1857-04-16

rubs his hands at thoughts of the good old times
pone.bv and wonders how so many "up-starts"
are pushing ahead with such lailroad speed, he
never seems for moment to reflect that the news
paper is telling to fifteen huadred subscribers and
to five thousand readers, that his rival has 'just
received fine assortment of the latest Spring
styles-Buchanan Vests, Raglan Coats, recherche
Ladies' styles, beautiful Mantillas and elegant
Robes and magnificent Crinolines, and countless
other attractions, at remarkably low prices" &c.
&c.! All this is something he does not and
perversely will not understand. Presently "Jesse
Holmes makes his acquaintance the crash
comes; and the sold stand" the scene OF many
a fond recollection, passes into the charge OF a
paruenu rival! Do we paint faithfully! Marx
the picture, and time will tell.
In the kaleidoscope of Imagination, we behold
Folly reflected in another phase. Bending over
few withered fowers-emblems of unreqmted
love-we perceive weeping maiden with "the
worm + the bud" preying son her damask cheek
She clasps in her hands lock of hair, and as the
breezes of heaven fan aside her golden ringlets and
kiss lovingly her paling cheeks, seen, pressed
to her tintess lips the miniature of loved, false
one Poor simple fool like the Maria OF Sterne she
awakens our sympathy, but we cannot help THINK
ing that her education has been but o mockery,
that her parents have been but negligent guar
dians of so much innocence and beauty or she
would have the moral power to cast the image OF
falsehood and duplicity from her heart and live
for the first week on the s'milk apd water" of
Tom Moore,
"Fare.thee-well, I'd rather make
My bower on some icy lake
When thawing suns begin to shine
Than trust to love so false as thine"
We draw the veil over this scene Of romantic
folly, but advise the victim Of "hope deferred,
to beware of novels, Eau dc Cologne, and beauti-
fnl pair of moustache. We shall not be gallant
enough to write STOOL" here. The paragraph suits
the place. merely because there is, and should be
poetry in every thing.
How many fools there are, verify! We thought
so, when we turned, one day, tolook at demure'
spruce-looking old lady, in neat cap, who was
irving to make, in three hours, full-grown man
out of o noisy urchin, by o prescription OF "old
wives fables" wise-saws and uninteligble jargon
about the ssman in the moon," the devil Us. bad
bows, and long lecture on the snfulness of ma
king noise. The good creature never seemed to
realize the fact that 'nature is nature" and that
sooner or later, lawfully or unlawfully, it will
find an outlet for its own inherent energy. This
very truth prompted that "Village Hampden' to
exercise his lungs, to be naughty, to be always
JOYOUS /; and, though the old lady succeeded in
keeping him quiet and in persuading him to caress
and "kiss the cat" she had no sooner left the
room than he began to to let off the steam-made
sundry exhibitions of military skill, kicked the cat
out of doors, and paraded with the ''cutty gun,"
and brought on the finale by an attempt at
speech This brought the dame back, and the
safety-valve was shut down and the boys native
energy again imprisoned. We mused-and came
to the conclusion that the kind-hearted ma'am
might better have served the ends of morality, if
instead of attempting to suppress dangerous ell
ement, she had chosen to direct it in the proper
channel. 1t was the error of good heart; but,
nevertheless, the subject belongs to the category
of which we write.
But there are more fools yet; for, Messrs.
Editors, the biggest fools Of ALL is that class Of
your readers, who occupy the Sabbath day in find
ing fault with, and making ''monkcy faces" at you
behind your back, because you will advocate the
cause Of Temperance, Justice and Truth, and
don't put in enough of "bear stories" and big guns
about the Indians, Salamanders and rattlesnakes.
But we suppose you think, and it strikes us in the
same light, that people who understand lying so
well themselves, need no stimulus from your COL
umns. We might continue to "catch the manners
living as they rse' until every person would be
astonished at the catalogue of FOOLS for there are
numerous species yet unmentoned, to say nothing
of those who have the euphonious title "thrust
upon them" on 'sAll Fools Days" but we will let
the curtains fall here and when they rise again,
unless our kaleidoscope loses its rejecting power,
we will display new panorama to the readers of
JUNIUS.