Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1874-10-29
VERY OFTEN THE CASE.

Mrs Busybee took a great interest in pub
lie affairs. She attended women's rights meet
ings, was always on the qus vive for any fresh
scandal about Adamsvilles females, and was
member Of several societies whose object
was the ameliorating of the condition of the
benighted heather in foreign lands, to the
neglect of the numerous heather nearer home.
One day Mrs. Busybee called on a neig ghbor,
Mrs. Roberts, to see if that lady would inter-
est herself in a society to be formed, the pur-
pose of which was to provide clothing for the
Patagonian savages. Mrs. Busybee stated
that she'd been informed that the Patagoni-
ans we're in the habit of going about in pasrls
,,aturalibus, which really was very, very shock
ing to think of. Mrs. Roberts said that per-
haps they were used to going without clothes
and that they couldn't be made to wear them.
But Mrs. Busybee replied that that was no
reason why they should not attempt to i'm
prove the savages' condition. Several ladies
had already said that they would become
members of the proposed society, and it would
delight her Mrs B. to have dear Mrs. Rob-
erts lend helping hand to the good cause.
Mrs. R. respectfully declined becoming a
member. She said she had large family OF
children, and it was hard enough work to
keep them clean and decently clothed, with
out bothering her head about "them" Patago-
mans who get along just as we'll without soap
and clothing. She called Mrs. Busybee's at
tention to somewhat ragged-clothed, dirty
little boy who was playing in the street, and
said that probably his mother belonged to be.
nevolent and missionary associations, and
hadn't leisure to attend to her own children.
The visitor was indignant, and wanted to
know if Mrs. Roberts intended to insult her
by making such remarks. Mrs. r. disclaimed
any such intention, and wished to be informed
why she thought so. Did Mrs. Roberts know
who that boy was to whom she'd just referred
She didn't! Well, then, her curiosity should
be gratifed. That was her darling son
George Augustus Busybee-and what did she
say to that? Say? Why that it was great
pity he wasn't Patagonian, for then the So
ciety now forming might present him with
some new clothes-something he sadly needed.
As he wasn't one of them she really pitied
the unwashed and uncared for little darling.
She thought, if she must speak plainly, that
charity and caring for others began at home.
Mrs. Busybee said she'd often been informed
that Mrs. Roberts wasn't lady, and now she
was sure OF it; and what was far worse, that
she was rnean, stingy, nasty thing, and now
she was going to let the world know it, so that
she mighS be prayed for, as she didn't do it
herself, and was so ungodly. Exit Mrs Bu-
sybee, greatly enraged.-Neso York Dispatch.
LONDON THREATENED WITH AN ANT
PLAGUE.-No little anxiety, says the Pail
Mali Gazette, has been caused in the neigh
borhood of London, during the last few days,
by the sudden appearance of myriads of ants.
A vanguard of those insects has even been
seen marching over Waterloo bridge, and it is
impossible to deny that our position is at the
present moment one Of extreme peril. At
any moment the invading army may be upon
us, and we shall then be exposed to all the
horrors of an ant plague. Those who are ac-
customed to look on the ant as an industrious
but significant creature will probably smile at
the idea of its presence, even in swarms, being
a source of serious inconvenience. Without
any wish to cause an unnecessary panic, but
merely with the view of preparing Londoners
for possible contingencies, it may be as we'll
to call attention to the proceedings of an army
of ants that some years ago invaded the island
of Grenada. The ants on that occasion "de-
scended from the hills like torrents, and the