Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1869-06-10

WIN a volume, whose manifold pages viii mark
All the good, all the ID we have done. -, '-s.
You win go-when the roses their coronals cast
When the bobo-link bushes his glee-
Down the River Of Tiune TO those Isles Of the Past
Lying sJeen In EierritS's sea. ~
The Stnry Teller*
JOHN ST0TT'S DIFFICULTY.
Less than forty years ago, 10 certain west coun-
Try town of England, lived Nj: John Stott, head
Of the ccnstabulary, 50 astute thief catcher that
his friends thought it apity be should throw his
wits away upon provincial vagabonds, and not give
them broad and noble scope as Bow Street run
ner. His enemies, the local scoundrels, thought
the same but eontented themselves with observ-
ine darkly that he was 50 sharp that he would
one day probably cut himself, or that he was too
clever to live" In spite Of these intellectual ad-
vantases, or in consequence Of them, Mr.. Stott
was as vain as peacock, and made the not un-
common mistake of imagining himself even acev-
erer fellow than he really was. He kept the little
town (for it was little one them SO clear Of evil
doers, and got 50 comphmented thereupon by the
bench Of magistrates, that he could not conceive
that any misdemeanor could be committed which
his sagacty should be unable to ferret out or should
fail to bring it home to the true culprit Il don't
pretend for to say was one Of his favorite re-
marks, "as was never puzzled in my profession,
but this will say, as no man ever took me IN
twice and then he would resume his pipe with
the air of man who has modestly confessed to a
weakness, which no other person would have
dreamed ofattributing to him Even his wife, be-
ieved in Mr.. John Stott, and so doubtless would
his valet de chane6re, if he had happened to have
kept one; :s
he, sententiously, as he sat smoking after supper
in his snug little parlor, oDesummer evening, while
his wife mixed his gin punch after his own pecu-
liar recipe.
''You have got the wretches, Of course" OBJ
served Mrs. Stott, pairing the lemon peel so that
you could see through it, ''or else it would not be
my John"
"Well, no." returned the great man. rightly ap.
preciatiug the last observation as a compliment
rather than an expression of doubt as to his per-
senal identity ''The fact is, it's very queer; but
have not got the wretches. shall have them
tomorrow, but at present they are absolutely at
large" -s.(
+,Lor, John I can scarcely believe you when
you tell me. Why, how on earth could they have
got away from you? They could not have been
ordinary burglars"
"You are right, ma am,' - returned the chief con-
stable, with gratifed look; "you have hit the
nail exactly on the head. They were not ordinary
men; they we're aerobats.
sAcrobats!" 7" answered Mrs. Stott softly; 'dear
me!' -
She had no very accurate idea Of what 'sacro-
bats were they might be religious sect, or they
might be savage tribe, or, possibly, even both.
But she had long passed for woman of sense and
sapacity, through maintaining discreet silence
except when her husbands talents seemed to de-
mand her eulogies, and she was not going to risk
that reputation now She had full share Of the
curiosity of her sex, but she had more than their
ordinary patience She waited to be informed up
on the subject in question, without hazarding the
remark which occurred to her, that acrobats had
white hair, and pink eyes, and therefore could at
least be easily recognized by the eonstabuary; and
she had not to wait long.
Eyes, it must have been them Tumblers, "
mused Mr.. Stott, slipping his punch out Of the
teaspoon; and less than three and the boy could
never have done it. It was her Ladyship's dres-
sipp-room window, as looks out on the back, as
they broke in at, and no ladder could have been
nut there because of the flower stand. 1t must
have been that little devil in the tights and spran-
ples at the top of the three others. I have meas
ured the height from the ground and it just taies.
That's what comes from allowing them itiuerants
to be in the place at all. The idea Of the mayor
letting them have the Town hall to show their
tricks in. I'd put stop to everything Of that
sort, if had my way, and will do it, too, in fu.
ture"
but YOU will not interfere with Mr.. Shaw,
John, do hope, since he has been 80 pleasant and
civil"
"No, ma am, no. Mr.. Shaw is a man of science,
in his line, and what is more man of substance.
Mr.. Shaws exhibition is itinerant, it is true, but
fbat is from the necessity of the case His coiiec-
ton of wild animals is interesting, in high degree,
as the rector was observing to me only yesterday.
But them acrobats is quite different matter.
However, Gssom as they are, they must run lit
tie faster, and climb little higher can promise
them, before they can get ont of the reach of John
Stott"
''They stood upon one another's shoulders, and
the boy cambered up them, I suppose"
eyes, ma am, that was their ingenious method,
and if they had to do With common mind-al-
though say it, who should not say 1.-THE man
uer in which the thing was done would have re-
NAMED mystery. If ladder had been used, it
must needs have made some mark upon }he mign-
;opette box. My men were all agape when I stated
that circumstance, and began looking up in the
air as though some bird had done it But, Of
course, when said Them Tumblers!' they saw
everything clear enough. Sir Robert, who assist,
ed our investigations in person, was 80 good as to
say that reminded him of Christopher Columbus
aud his egg. >.
"You don't say so!' said Mrs. Stott admiring'
". and wondering within herself What that story
was, and whether Mr.. Christopher Columbus
could possibly have been an eviparous animal
"And did her Ladyship lose much?"
"Some rings and pins, and three or four pounds