Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-07-30

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quickly forward and closed and bolted the
door Of his cage, thus securing themselves
from further molestation from him.
Five horses were found killed, as also we're
three ponies, and four more we're so badly
manned and wounded that they were killed
in mercy, to end their Observation-Disclosures
lis Herald.
AVERSION TO MANUAL LABoR.-The prac-
tice of educating boys for the professions,
which are already overstocked, or for the
mercantile business, in which statistics show
that ninety-6ve in a hundred fail of success,
is fearfully on the increase in this country.
Americans are annually becoming more and
more averse to manual labor and to get a
living by ones wits, even at the cost of indie
pendence and selfrespect, and fearful wear
and tear of conscience, is the ambition of a
large proportion of our young men. The re-
suit is that the mechanical professions are be-
coming monopoly of foreigners and the
ownership of the finest farms, even in New
England, is passing from Americans to Irish
men and Germans. Fifty years ago father
was not ashamed to put his children to the
plow or to mechanical trade but now they
are "too feeble" for bodily labor; one has q
pain in his side, another slight cough,
another "a very delicate bodily constitution" :"
another is nervous; and so poor Bobby or
Billy or Tommy is sent off to the city to meas
ure tape weigh coffee, or draw molasses. 1t
seems never to occur to their foolish parents
that moderate manual labor in the pure and
braciDg air of the country, is just what these
puny, wasp-waisted lads need, and that to
send them to the crowded and unhealthy city
is to send them to their graves. Let them
follow the plow, swing the sledge, or shove
the foreplane, and their pinched chests will
be expanded, their sunken cheeks pumped
out, and their lungs, now "cabined, cribbed
and confined" will have room to play. Their
nerves will beinvigorated with their muscles !;
and when they shall have cast off their jackets,
instead of being thin, pale, vapid coxcombs,
they shall have spread out to the size and
confguration of men. A lawyers office, a
counting room, or grocery, is about the last
place to which sckly youth should be sent.
ONE DOG COMMUNICATES GooD NEWS TO
ANoTHER.-In the fall of 1861, my son, Sid.
ney c., entered the Federal Army, leav-
ing behind him two favorite dogs, both Of
whom greatly lamented his absence. He was
soon captured by the enemy and held pris-
oner until the spring of 1862, when he was
exchanged, and on returning to his command
came past the old homestead in the country,
in Bollinger county, Mo. Both the dogs hap
pened to be about 300 yards from the house,
barking up tree at a squirrel. After some
time, however, the smaller one became tired
and came to the house, the large one remain
ing at the tree. The little fellow came bound
ing in the room where his young master, who
had been so long absent, was sitting, and re-
cognized him, and of course, had quite ta-
king on over him. The pleasure of once more
meeting his kind master was too great to be
enjoyed all alone, so he quickly turned his
course in the direction of his companion in
the woods, and in all speed made his way to
the tree, and communicated to the large dog
the fact of his young masters arrival home /;
when, in an instant, both the dogs were ma
king for the house with all their might, the
larger one, who had remained at the tree, ta-
king the lead, and not Stacking his speed until
he bounded in the room where Sidney was
The strange part of this story consists in the
fact that the small dog not only communica-
ted to the large one the fact that Sidney had
come home, but in some way told him, the
identical room in which he would find him,
as he ran around the house and in at the very
door where Sidney was sitting, without ever
halting or even turning his head toward sew
eral other doors which he had to pass in ma
king the circuit.-St Louis Globe.
How TO DETECT LYING.-Dr. Williams,
of Chenango county, New York, has found
out how to detect juvenile prevaricator.
The other evening several mischievous boys
broke into the school.house in that place,
built fire in the same, and were preparing
for a hilarious time, when they discovered
that the board of education was after them.
Although the school-house was surrounded
before they got wind of the danger, they man
aged to slip out of the building unobserved.
Some of them had been recognized in the
building, however, and were brought up be-
fore the physician mentioned for examination.
The first boy put upon the stand "knew nothing
about the affair."" and asserted his innocence
with all the manifestations of yeracity in his
countenance. The doctor was not satisfied.
He took hold of the boys wrist and felt his
pulse The pulsations were unnaturally fast.
Looking into the boys unwavering eye and
imperturbable face, he said: "Young man,
you are lying! You have not uttered one
word of truth about this matter! Your pulse
is now running as high as 40, and no person
enjoying good health, and telling the truth,
would have as rapid pulsation as that"
The problem of centuries was solved the
boy acknowledged that he had broken into
the school.house. Although the heart sent
no tell-tale blood to the face, it throbbed its
confession to the tiny pulse and science had
again triumphed where human ingenuity had
been at fault-Utica Herald.
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