Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1872-10-17
SKIPPING THE HARD POINTS.

Boys, I want to ask you how you think a
conqueror would make out, who went through
q country he was trying to subdue, and when
ever he found fort hard to take, left it alone.
Don't you think the enemy would buzz wild
there, like bees in hive, and when be was
we'll into the heart of the country, don't you
fancy they would swarm out and harass him
terribly?
Just so, want you to remember, will it be
with you if you skip over the hard places in
your lessons, and leave them unlearned, you
have left an enemy in the rear that will not
fail to harass you, and mortify you times
without number.
"There was just little bit of my Latin l
had mt read," said vexed student to me-
"and it was just there the professor had to
call upon me at examination. There were
Just two or three examples I had passed over,
and one of those [ was asked to do on the
| blackboard"
The student who is not thorough is never
well at his ease; he cannot forget the skipped
problems and the consciousness Of his def
ciencies makes him nervous and anxious.
Never laugh at the slow, plodding student
the time will surely come when the laugh
will be turned. 1t takes time to be thorough,
but it more than pays Resolve, when you
take up a new study, that you will 60 through
with it like successful conqueror, taking
every strong point
If the inaccurate scholars difficulties closed
with his school life, it might not be so great
a matter for his future career. But he has
chained to himself habit that will be like
an iron ball at his heel all the rest of his life.
Whatever he does, will be lacking somewhere.
He has learned to shirk what is hard, and the
habit will grow with years. Now, nothing
we get in this life is to be had for nothing.
Success is not thrust upon man. II you
want any good, you must work for it; The
eve that never quails, is the true element
of victory in the mental and moral, as we'll as
the physical world Don't skip the hard
points.-Schoolday Visitor.
PARENTAL FIRMNEss-Some ladies had
met at the house of friend in rural dis
trict on an evening visit, when the follow
ing scene and conversation occurred:
The child of one of the ladies, about five
wears old, was guilty of rude, noisy conduct,
very improper on all occasions, and partcu-
larly so at strangers house. The mother
kindly reproved her.
SARAH, you must not do So" :,
The child soon forgot the reproof, and be-
came as noisy as ever. The mother hrmly
said:
Sarah, if you do so again will punish
you" =,
But not long after Sarah "did so again" :"
When the company we're about to separate
the mother stepped into neigh!bor's house.
intending to return for the child. During
her absence, the thought of going home re
called to the mind of Sarah the punishment
of which her mother told her she might ex-
pect The recollection turned her rudeness
and thoughtlessness to sorrow. A young
lady present observing it, and learning the
cause, in order to pacify her, said
"Never mind, 1 will ask your mother not
to whip YOU" :,
"Oh!' said Sarah, "that will do no good.
My mother never tells lies"
sD" A Cincinnati youth, guided by the ad.
vice of fortune-teller, sought to make girl
love him by means of electricity working from
under her chair. When the time came she
sprang into the air about three feet, and when
she came down she landed in her lovers hair
and took about two handfuls therefrom, and
then told him that she hated him.