Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1865-10-26
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A. Wards Autobiography.
fBY HIMSELF.


ed and properly punctooated, would be, an
addition to che .chaois literatocr Of the day
To the yooth Of Ameriky it would be val
lyble as shown how high 3 pinnkle Of fame
d man can reach, who commenst his career
with. o small canvass tent and pes-green
OK, which he rubbed it off while scratchin
hisseif agin the centre pole, csusin in Rah-
way, N. j., q discriminating mob to say
humbugs would not go down in the villages
The aox resoom'd agricultooral pursoots
shortly afterwards.
i next tried my hand at giyin Blind men
concerts, appearin as the poor blind man
myself. Butthe infamous cuss who I hired
10 lead me round towns in the day time to
exotic sympathy, drank freely ofa spiritoous
Ticker unbeknowns 10 me one day, q while
under the the infooanee he led me into
to the canal. had to either tear the green
bandsge from my eyes or be drownded: |
tho't I'd restore my. eyesight.
- In writin shout these things, Mr.. Editor,
kinder smocsh 'em over. Speak Of 'em as
sccensrissities Of genus.
NV next veptur would hav bin success if
I hadn't tried to do too much. | got up q
series of wax fggers, and among others one
Of Socrates. IsthoSt q wax fgger Of old
Sock, would be poplar with eddycated peo-
pie, but unfortnitly I put Brown linen
duster and u. s. Army regulation cap on
him, which people with classycal eddyca-
tions said it was farce. This enterprise
was unfortnit in other respeoks. At Ger.
tain town I advertised wax fgger Of the
Hon'ble Amos Perkins, who was Railroad
President, and a great person in them parts.
But it appeared that / had shown the same
fgger for Pirut named Gibbscin that town
the preyis season, which created intense
toomult,, & the audience remarked 'shame
INTO me" & other statements Of the same
similsrness. ! tried to mollify ''em. l told
them that any family possessin children
might have my she tiger to plsy with half
day & wouldn't charge 'em cent, but
alas it was of no avail I was forced to
leave, and I infer from article in the Ad-
vertiser of that town, in which the Editor
says, aAltho' time has. silvered this mans
he'd with its fosts, he still brazenly wal
lows in infamy. Still are his snakes stuff
ed, and his wax works unreliable. We are
glad that be has concluded to never revisit
our town, altho', incredible as it may sp-
pear the fellow really did contemplate so
doing last summer; when, still true to the
craven instincts of his black heart, he wrote
the hireling knayes of the obscure journal
across the Street to know what they would.
charge for 400 small bills to be done on yel-
low paper! We shall recur to this matter
again, -,
Isay, I infer from this article that pre-
judiss still exists again me now in that town.
will not speak of my, once being in
straitened circumstances in certain town,
and of my endeaverin' to accoomulate welth
by lettin myself to Sabbath school pic-nics,
to sing ballads adapted to the understandings
of little children, accompanying myself on
olsironett-which forgot where I was
one day, singin instead of "Oh, how pleas
ant to be . little child" o.
Rip snap--set 'em up again,
Right inthc middle Of three cent pie,
which mistake, added to the fact that !
eouidn't play onto the claironett, except
making it howl dismal, broke up the pic.
mic, and children said, in voices choked
with sobs and emotions, where was their
Pc: and I said be quiet dear children, am
your Pa, which made young woman with
two twins BY her side say very angryly,
"Good heavens forbid you should ever be
the Pa of any of these innocent ones unless
ii. is much desirable for them, to expire ig-
minyusly up to 9 murderar's gaiius!
say I viii not speak Of this. Let it be
Berried into OBLIVION
In your article, Mr.. Editor, please tell
'en. what sort of man / am. s-a /
IF you see fit to kriticise my show, speak
your mind freely. do not object to kriti-
cism. Tell the public, in candid and
graceful article that my Show abonEds in
moral and startling curissities, any one Of
whom is wuth bubble the price of admis-
sion.
have thus far spoke of myself excloo-
sively as exhibitor
was born in the State of Maine of par.
ents. As infant / attracted great deal
ofattention. The nabers would stand over
my cradle for hours and say, CHOW bright
that little face looks How much nose p.
The young ladies would carry me round in
tbeirarm sayin I was muzzer's bezzy dar-
lin and sweety 'eety title ting, was nice,
tho WASN'T old enuff to properly appreciate
it.. Pm q helthy old darlin' now.
I have alters sustained good moral char
acter, I was never railroad director in my
life. .- ...
Altho> in early life / did not inva'bly con.
fine myself to truth in my small bills, hav
been gradooaly grown respectabler and
rsspsctabler ev'ry year. l luv my children,
and never mistake another mans wife for
my oyns I'm not member of any meet.
in house, bat firmly bleeye in meetin' hou-
ses, and shouldn't feel safe to take dose
of laudnum andlay down in the street of
village that hadn' any, with thousand dol
Lars in my vest pocket. s@gs=
My temperament is bilious, altho' 7
don't owe dollar in the world
! am early riser, my wife is Presby-
terian. Iimay add that I am also bald-head-