Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-08-15
Children's department.
BOTH SIDES OF THE SHIELD.

WOOD. suspended from Tree, mug Oe
tween them strong shield. Why it hung
there, or to whom it belonged, neither knew
and each stopped to question the other.
"Whose is this white shield"
"White? 1t is black"
"Do you take me for blind man or fool,
that you tell me what my own eyes can see is
false2"
And so the talk went on until the dispute
grew violent. Their hot blood was up, and
they we're about to prove their honesty at the
point of their lances Just then came riding
by a strange knight of lofty port, and serene,
calm judging eyes.
Looking at the angry men he said:
"You should be brothers in arms Why
do see these passionate gestures, and hear
these fierce words?"
Each knight hastened to explain the impo-
sition which the other had been trying to
practice upon him. The stranger smiled. To
one side of the shield, then to the other he
rode, and then he said sententiously:
"Do not charge just yet Change places.
And 10 the knight who had seen the
white side of the shield saw now the black
side also; and the knight who had been ready
to do battle for the black was confronted with
the white. Ashamed of their hot haste they
spoke each other fair, and in true knightly
fashion, and rode away through the green
wood in company.
Simple as this story is, it carries with it a
deep lesson. Half the contentious of life
would be at an end, could the combatants
but see at once both sides of the shield The
trouble is that we have not faith enough in
our neighbors. We do not believe in their
honesty as we do in our own. They tell US
that something is black, which from our own
point is white ; and instead Of going around to
their side to investigate, we commence calling
hard names and getting our lances ready.
Only now and then we come across a peculiar
nature, slow and deliberate, wise, capable of
seeing both sides if not seeing both at once,
at least capable of waiting till both have been
seen, before pronounciug any judgment.
PEEPS AT THE PLANETs.-Ne the
most remote of the planets in the solar sys-
TEN, is about 2,700,00O,000 miles from the
| sun.
1t is supposed that Mercury has noun
tains higher than our Himalayas, and volca.
noes in state of activity. .....ss
Out of all the myriad lights in the heav-
ems, the earth is only visible to the Moon,
Mars, Mercury and Venus
The earth is 749 times smaller than Sat.
urn, and its mean distance from US is over
100000 miles.
Uranus can never see US at all, as 1t is
1853, 3,000,0 900 miles from the sun.
The temperature in Mercury is supposed
to be seven times hotter than our torrid zone
therefore if it is inhabited it must be by
people very differently constituted from ou:-
selves.
1t is believed that Venus has an atmos,
phere much like ours and mountain peaks
i've or six times higher than the Tenerife,
their sides bright with flowers, and birds of
brilliant plumage.
The moon never leaves our globe there.
fore it is called our satellite. Though to US
it appears larger than the stars, it is really
smaller than any of them, but much nearer
to US.
Astronomers have calculated that the
mountains and extinct volcanoes in the moon
are higher than any on our earth.
If there were any one on the moon TO see
it, the earth would appear to them a maguif
icent ball. The planets and sun would move
behind it in brilliant succession.
Our globe appears to Mars as the morning
and evening star.
THE THoUGHTLEss SCHOOL GIRLs-"How
all the girls laughed at Miss Afford to-day,
mother, in school! You should have seen
her old dress pieced out under the founces,
thinking it would never show. One of the
ruffles caught on the corner of a seat and rip
ped off half yard Of it. 1t was so old, and
faded, and forlorn that the girls laughed out
loud"
30 Arty" said mother, with look Of
pain on her kind face, 81 am sure you did not
laugh"
II did, mother" said Arty, hanging her
head they all did"
"What if it had been your dress?" asked
the mother; "what if father we're dead, and
you were obliged to get your living by teach
ing, and take care ola feeble brother besides );
what if almost every dollar you could make
went to pay rent, and buy food and fuel, and
medicines and little comforts for the sick
one? What if you had spent hours in ma
king over an old dress, so it might look re-
spectacle in the school. room, hoping others
would never see its defects then how would
you have liked exactly such scene as that
in your classroom to-day p
20 mother, | am so sorry" said Arty,
quick tears coming to her sympathyzng eyes.
$50 would all the girls be, am sure," said
mother, IF they would only think of it..
They are not unfeeling, only thoughtless.
would do my best to atone for the fault by
extra politeness and kindness tomorrow your
example will have some effect on the other
girls"
MARTINS AND THE OwL.-An exchange
has story of pair of Pennsylvania martins
who, having failed in their attempts to oust
an owl that had taken possession of box in
which they were building a nest hit upon a
scheme of revenge that would have done credit
to much older heads They disappeared, but
upon his victory, they suddenly returned with
an army Of other martins, and the first thing
the owl knew, and not a little to his astonish-
ment, they had completely daubed up the en-
trance to the box with mud. Being a night
bird, of course he rather liked the darkness
at first, but when he found there was to be no
end to it, you can imagine his feelings. On
being taken out few days after, he was found
| to have died, perhaps of disgust.
| CARE OF CLOTHES. care of clothing
is very important matter. 1t makes great
difference in the looks and wear Of hat
or coat whether it is thrown down on the
lounge or chair when taken off, or carefully
hung up With two boys the expense of
their clothing is often nearly one-half in diff
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