Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-06-27

day invoked in its favor the highest power OF
the State-eminent domain. That mill and
miller had to go before you and yours, and
l am happy to revive the memory of the mill
er at the custom mills, who, with equal care
adjusted the sack, upon the horse for the boy
to ride upon, and his logic in support of his
theory in politics or his dogma, in religion"
"A PUPIL OF Lrszr."-The greatest of pi.
anists, Liszt, is very amiable and quite &C.
centric. The following story sets forth the
genial side of his nature. A young pianist
was giving concerts through the provinces
of Germany for her support To enhance
her reputation she deceitfully advertised her.
self as pupil of Liszt
In little town, where she had announced
concert, she was confounded the day before
the concert was to take place, by seeing in
the list of arrivals, and at the very hotel where
the concert was to be given, I'M. Liable
Liszt"
Here was dilemma. Her fraud would
be discovered. Tremblngly she sought the
presence of the great maestro.
Coming into the room with downcast eyes.
she knelt at the old mans feet, and with
many tears told her story-how she had been
left an orphan and poor, with only one gift Of
music with which to support herself the diff
fculties she had encountered, until the fraud.
ulent use of his great name had filled her
purse. ...
"Well, WE'LL" said the great man, gently
raising her up, "let US see, my child, what we
can do. Perhaps it is not 80 bad as you
thought. There is piano; let me hear one
of the pieces you expect to play tomorrow
evening""
Tremblingly she obeyed, the maestro ma
king comments and suggestions as she played,
and when she had finished, be added, "Now
my child, have given you lesson you are
a pupil of Liszt."
Before she could find words to express her
gratitude, Liszt asked, care your programmes
printed2"
"No, SIR" was the answer, mot yet."
"Then say that you will be assisted by your
master, and that the last piece on the pro-
gramme will be played by the Able Liszt."
That concert, it may be readily believed,
was great success.
The DRuNKARD's BABY.-The Richmond
Advocate tells touching story of little girl,
just three years old, and endowed with unusu.
al sprightliness and loveliness, both of person
and disposition, who had been so terrified
by the drunkenness of her father that she
cried out to friend who was taking leave Of
her mother:
20, please take me home with you, and
hide me, so papa can't find me-"
What world of woe is contained in the
plant of this poor babe? And what tragedy
in home life Z: reveals The most loving
thing in all the world, the most trusting, the
most con6ding; and the most innocent in it's
helplessness, is made to turn in agony of ap.
prehension from the one on whose bosom she
should naturally rest in perfect trustfulness,
sure of his protecting love. Rum had conver.
ted him into an object of fear, almost of aver
sion.
o, Rum who can tell the pitiful scenes for
which thou art responsible-the love thou
hast quenched, the hopes thou hast wrecked,
the hearts thou hast broken, the homes thou
hast desolated, the graves thou hast dug
Think of these baby hands raised in piteous
appeal, fathers who are drunkards, and they
must strike like rod of iron on your hearts.
Think of these quivering baby lips and over
flowing baby eyes, ye who sell that which
makes drunken fathers and causes all this
woe, and be warned, lest, in the last great
day, many women and little children shall
say to you, ave owe the untold wretch
edness and agony of our lives to you; our
blood be upon your skirts"
The YOSEMITE VALLEY.-The Yosemite
is situated in the heart of the Sierra Nevada,
about 155 miles in direct line east of San
Francisco. The valley is nearly level area,
about six miles in length and from half q
mile to mile in width, sunk almost mile
in perpendicular depth below the general
level of the adjacent region. Through gh the
centre of this valley runs the Merced river,
passing for twenty miles, after leaving the
valley proper, through grand cahon, the
scenery here almost equalling this wonderful
valley. Because this cafion is approached
by only narrow trail, but very few touriets
travel the full length of the river to view the
cascades and lofty water falls of this wonder.
full region. From time immemorial, the Yo.
semitic Valley had been regarded by the In.
dian tribes living on both the eastern and
western slopes of the Sierras as stronghold,
or place of refuge in time of trouble. In
1850, the white settlers who lived on the
streams which head in this region, finding
themselves unable to remain in peace with
these Indians organized for their protection
a military company, and in 1851 pursued
party of the savages that had been commit
ting depredations, into the Yosemite, where
they had taken refuge. From that date until
the present time, the valley has been resorted
to yearly by hunters and pleasure seekers from
all parts of the world. Prior to 1864 there
was only one actual settler in the valley.
Now it teens with life, and three or four ho-
tells roomy enough to accommodate comforta-
bly, one hundred guests, have been completed
and furnished with every comfort required by
the most exacting ourist.-Boston Post.
The DEATH OF GENERATIoN.-Aw writer
in an English magazine studies from birth to
death, the march of an English generation
through life, basing his remarks on the an
nual report of the register general. The au.
thor singles out, in imagination, generation
of 100000 souls, and finds that of these
more than one-forsth die before they reach
FIVE years of age. During thenext five years
the deaths number less than oneseventh of
those in the first quinquenium. From ten to