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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

The MAHOGANY TREE.--Full grown, the
mahogany tree is one of the monarchs of
tropical A, lerica. It's vast trunk and massive
arms, rising to a lofty height and spreading
with graceful sweep over immense spaces,
covered with beautiful foliage, bright, glossy,
light and airy, clinging so long to the spray
as to make it almost an evergreen-preoenta
rare combination of loveliness and grandeur.
The leaves are very small, delicate and pol
ished like those of the laurel. The flowers
are small andwhite, or greenish yellow. The
mahogany lumbermen, having selected a
tree, surround it with platform abouttwelve
feet above the ground and cut it above the
platform. Some dozen or fifteen feet Of the
largest part of the trunk are thus lost; yet a
single log not unfrequently weighs from six
or seven to fifteen tons, and sometimes meas
ures as much as seventeen feet in length and
four and half to FIVE and half in dame
ter, one tree furnishing two, three or four
such logs. Some trees have yielded $4,000
superficial feet, and at average prices have
sold for $4,000.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

1t was the prayer Of Him who died that
we might live, that blind eyes might be open
ed and deaf ears unstopped. The petition
may we'll be re. echoed to-day, that the men
tally Llind and mute may see and hear the
beauty aud harmony that now lie hidden
from them in the unexplored region Of books.
There stands before us all an open door, the
way into the world of books! Shall we en-
ter er?-Saturday EVENING Coll. -
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

How TO TRAIN THE MEMoRY.-Your
memory is bad, perhaps, but I can tell you two
secrets that will cure the worst memory. One
of them is 10 read subject when interested
the other is to not only read, but shink.
When you have read a paragraph or page,
stop, close the book and try to remember the
ideas of the page, and not only call them
vaguely to mind, but put them in words and
speak them out. Faithfully follow these two
rules and you have the golden keys of knowl-
edge. Besides inattentive reading, there arc
other things injurious to the memory. One
is the habit of skimming over newspapers,
items of news, smart remarks, bits of infor-
nation, political reflection, fashion notes, so
that all is confused tumble, never 10 be
thought Of again, thus diligently cultiyating
a habit of careless reading hard to break.
Another is the reading of trashy novels.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

WHAT THEY KNEW Four THOUSAND
YEARS AGo.-The Popular Science Monthly
publishes extracts from the address of Chief
Justice Daley before the New York Geogra.
phical society, in which he says: From one
of these books, compiled after the manner
of our modern encyclopedias, and the compi-
lation of which is shown to have been made
more than 1000 years B. c., it has been
ascertained, what has long been supposed,
that Chaldea was the parent land of astron.
omy; for it is found, from this compilation
and from other bricks, that the Babylonians
catalogued the stars, and distinguished and
named the consultations that they arranged
the twelve consultations that form our pres
ent zodiac to show the course of the suns
path in the heavens divided time into weeks,
months, and years; that they divided the
week, as we now have it, into seven days,
six being days of labor and the seventh a
day of rest, to which they gave name from
which we have derived our word sabbath"
and which day, as day Of rest from
all labor of every kind, they observed as
vigorously as the Jew or the Puritan. The
motion of the heavenly bodies and pheno-
mena of the weather were noted down, and a
connection, as l have before stated, detected,
as M. de Perville claims to have discovered,
between the weather and the changes Of the
moon. They invented the sun dial to mark
the movements of the heavenly bodies, the
water clock to measure time, and they speak
in this work of the spots on the sun, a fact
they could have known only by the aid Of tel.
escopes, which it is supposed they possessed,
from observations that they have noted
down of the rising of Venus and the fact
that Layard found crystal lens in the ruins
of Nineveb. These "bricks' contain an
account of the Deluge, substantially the
same as the narrative in the Bible. except
that the names are different. They disclose
that houses and land were then sold, leased,
and mortgaged, that money was loaned at
interest, and that the market gardeners, to
use an American phrase, "worked on shares"
that the farmer, when plowing with his OK.
en-, beguiled his labor with short and homely
songs, Two of which have been found and
connect this very remote civilization with
the usages of to-day.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

CAN SUCCESS IN LIFE BE COMMANDED :?
Can success in life be commanded Not al
ways, yet assuredly much more frequently
than is commonly supposed, three special
qualifications being especially necessary to its
attainment, namely, a definite object in view,
a determination not to be haf1ed, and the ca
pability of exercising continuous selfdsnial.
To the man possessing these attributes, failure
is next to an impossibility. There is, howev-
er, fourth, which is perhaps even still more
useful, and that is belief in ones own pow
ers, for persons who are doubtful of themsel.
yes seldom rise to any special eminence, being
held back, by species Of mental paralysis,
from putting forth strongly the capacity they
may really possess. Such people rather wish
than will. 1t is evident that exceptionally
favorable circumstances are by no means ne.
cessary. On the contrary, the want of such
assistance is often a chief factor in the devel'
opment Of latent power, and the assertion
that genius is but another name for the pow
er of attending closely is not altogether want
ing in trut' THE Spectator.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
THE YOUNGEST PEOPLE.

Who are the people who grow old the
earliest? Not those who work hardest, suffer
most, or feel most passionately, one would
suppose. Their faces may be worn, their
beauty may depart, but there is lingering
touch of youth in all who live however sadly,
to the last-in all who work with hands or
brain, in all who feed their emotions and
keep the fire of thought alive.
Strong feeling, and much brain work
burning the candle at both ends-may drive
men mad but it is vacant life, the purpose
less existence, the absence of emotion, that
plunges them into that condition of old age
known as child1hness
The people who, to many, represent old
age, are mummies still above ground. They
care nothing for those about them they do
not remember their past. They regret moth
ing. Physical pain alone can awaken them
to interest in themselves.
But such old age as that never comes to
those who have lived active lives, who have
lived and worked for others, who have been
interested in the great sub bjects of the day, or
in the humblest affairs of humanity.
The idle rich woman who had nothing
to do in her youth, the stupid poor woman
who toiled grudgingly, who married without
love, and to whom husband was only a
master and children a burden then, these
make the weary, wrinkled, soulless old women
of the world.
And younger people looking at them say,
"poor humanity! it must come to this y
while all around them are women who have
lived manv more wears. who have toiled
who have suffered, who should be worn out,
but who are young at heart still, who re-
spond to a word or glance as quickly as in
early youth, and who will be active human
beings while they live, because they have
nourished their souls.
Women who are prominent in their pro.
fessions do not break down with their toll.
Nay, there are old washerwomen who, from
helping their neighbors, keeping up their own
independence, their religious feelings and
their pride in their work, are bright and
busy in extreme old age.
No woman need fear that feeling or occu.
patton will make her grow old early. A
lack of interest in life, want Of something
to do, the rusting of emotions will age her
earlier than any toll or suffering. And a
woman who loves-whose children are dear
to her, who has friends who need her and
whom she needs, never falls into that condi.
ton of old age from which We shrink with
horror.
Disease will do its work, of course but
give health, and any woman may keep her
heart young while she lives.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

WHAT "CULTURE" Is.-Form a habit Of
quoting from the books you read. fyou try
to quote and fail, don't be discouraged, but
look the matter up and succeed the next time
When you visit, talk about your books rather
than about your neighbors Persevere in
your labor, and great shall be your reward.
Do not be discouraged if at first you do not
like this or that standard author. Remem-
Der that men of culture do like him, and you
will like him when you have made culture
yours. In boyhood, one thinks Yankee Doo-
die on fiddle, or picture Of Peter with
green beard, the perfection of music and art !;
while Beethoven and Raphael have no
charms. But years and culture bring a
change. And so in reading. Persistent ef.
fort in the line of right will bring its reward.
The times are such, the spirit of the age is
such, the circumstances that surround us are
such, the longing souls Of our children are
such, that if we would keep these loved ones
of our households long under the roof'tree
and within the sacred circle Of home, we
must bring to them this culture that they
will not leave US to seek some other where.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05
POLITICAL NEWSPAPERS.

The partisan press, in all sections OF the
Republic, are doing the work Of Colossus
in upholding and defending their respective
candidates for the Presidency. This is not
severe task in this campaign, for both can.
didates are gentlemen against whom little
can be said. Yet with paid and unprincipled
hacks of the partisan press this is of no con.
sequence; they have become so trained in
abusing an opponent that they hunt up all
the microscopic faults and flaws in his char
acter, and make him out firstclass no.
body-unworthy of public confidence, and
incapable of filling the humblest Office in the
country.
1t is this gross license of the political press
in this country that gives US bad repute
in Europe. The fore igner cannot under.
stand why we nominate such weak or blotch.
ed characters for our rulers and why, when
they are elected, we condone their faults or
crimes And this indscriminate abuse Of
our public men is regarded as an element
of weakness in republican form of govern.
ment. And in this they are nearly right.
Unlicensed abuse in politics destroys public
confidence, breaks down the barriers Of self
respect which we owe to those who may be-
come Chief Mag strates; and in this way
under mines selfg gyverment.
Undoubtedly there has been great i'm.
provement in political newspapers within
The last third of century. They are less
coarse, less libellous, less personal, and yet
there is abundant room for improvement.
In the first place, our people are more intelli-
gent than they were third of century or
more ago; they need no pensioned journals
to teach them the transcendant principles
of free government; they need no decayed
editorial hack to lash them into the support
of any man. All of us are sufficiently edu.
Gated to know the principles Of the govern
ment under which We live; all Of us are
amply qualified to judge the qualifications
of presidential candidates; all of US know
that political newspapers are generally for
hire, that their influence can be bought, that
their opinions relatively cheaper than stale
fsh-can be had for consideration Woon-
socket (R. I.) Patriot.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

HABIT OF INDEcrs1oN.-There is great
deal of truth in what gifted writer says
concerning habits of indecision or dilatori-f
ness It is so much of it pure habit that
children cannot be too early taught, first the
necessity Of making up ones mind, and then
acting upon it. The trick of Hanging
about" of wasting minute after minute, hour.
after hour, in work as in play-for idlers
never play conscientiously-is often acquired
in mere infancy, in imitation Of elders and
betters, never to be gotten rid of to the end
of life. What is in the boy or girl pure care.
lessness, becomes in the man or woman q con.
firmed popularity which hauDts them like
curse, causing no end of misery to themselves
and to all belonging to them. One BY one
some application is neglected or thrown aside
till the last chance of benefting ourselves or
our neighbor can never be recalled orr re-
morse over an unanswered letter, when the
writer has suddenly gone whittier no kindly
word can reach him more; our regret
over cordial visits unpaid, and pleasant meet.
ings unvalued, till friendship, worn odt, dies
a natural death, or burns itself to ashes like
a fire without fresh Goals. Then we may lay
the blame on Providence, luck, circumstances,
anything or anybody except the true sinners,
ourselves-but it is too late. We can no long
er help ourselves.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

The MILKY WAY.-The milky way forms
the grandest feature of the armament. 1t
completely encircles the whole fabric Of the
skies, and sends its light down upon US, &C
cording to the best observations, from no less
than 100000 of suns These are planted
at various distances, too remote to be more
than little understood but their light, the
medium of measurement, requires for its tran
sit to our earth, periods ranging from ten to
thousand years. Such is the sum or the
great truths revealed to US by the two Her
schels, who, with zeal which no obstacle
could daunt, have explored every part Of the
prodigious circle. Sir William Herschel, at.
ter accomplishing his famous section, believed
that he had gauged the milky way to its low.
est depth, affirming that he could follow
cluster of stars with his telescope, constructed
expressly for the investigation, as far back as
would require 100000 years for the transit OF
its light But presumptuous as it may seem,
we must be permitted to doubt this assertion,
as the sam telescope in the same master. hand
was not 81 fHciently powerful to resolve even
the nebula in Orion. Nor must we forget
that light, our only clew to those unses.rcha-
BILE regions, expands and decomposes in its
progress, and, coming from point so remote
its radiant waves could be dispersed in space.
Thus the reflection is forced upon US, that
new clusters and systems, whose bes'ming
light will never reach our earth, still throng
beyond, and that, though it is permitted to
man to behold the inmensity, he shall never
see the bounds Of creation.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

with bleeding at the nose, 10 had disturbed
sleep and IL had slight liberation of the
mucuous membrane of the mouth, which dis
appeared after discrimination of tobacco
for ten or twelve days. The physician treat
ed them all for weakness and nervousness,
with no avail until they had given up smok-
ing, when health and strength were speedily
restored. The use of tobacco is injurious to
all, but especially so to youth. DIR. Rankin,
Or. Richardson and others who have made a
special study of the subject, all agree in de:
claring that it causes in them impairment of
growth, and premature vitality and physical
degradation. One of its worst effects is the
provocation of an appetite for liquor in both
young and old. Men who want to give up
drinking usually have to give up smoking at
the same time, for they say a. cigar OF pipe
excites desire for liquor very hard to con-
troll The roofing out Of the habit Of tobacco
using will renderit easier to eradicate liquor
drinking.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-08-05

year by year to reduce the debt, the last cent
of which was discharged fourteen years after
the unfortunate transaction with the bogus
Government agent, and only few days be-
fore the death of her husband, to whom she
ever proved faithful and devoted wifes He
never knew the secret Of his wife's burden
While it is pleasant to know that he left his
widow competency, it would be satisfac
ton also to know whether or not the man tc
whom she refunded the amount derived any
benefit therefrom, and also whether or not the
pretended "Government agent" ever received
portion as his share.
CHARITY OF SPEECH.-Charity of speech
is as divine thing as charity Of action. The
tongue that speaketh no evil is as lovely as
the hand which giveth aims. To judge nc
one harshly, to misconceive no mans motive
to believe things are what they seem to be
until they are proved otherwise, to temper
Judgment, to build up churches, establish
asylums and to find colleges. Unkind words
do as much harm as unkind deeds; many q
heart has been wounded beyond cure by
words; many reputation has been stabbed
to death by few little words. They have
separated families, parted husbands and
wives, and broken the ties between the dear
est friends There is charity which consists
in withholding words, in keeping back harsh
judgments, in abstaining from speech, if tt
speak is to condemn. Such charity hearE
the tale of SANDER, but repeats it not; i
will not be the one to help the ball roll. Il
listens in silence, but forbears comment, ane
it locks the unpleasant secret up in the very
depths of his heart. While the busy, cen
serious world is wagging its tongue, charity
sits dumb amid the clatter, refraining from
passing judgment on that of which it has nj
proof and which, even, if it had, would prefer
/ throwing the mantle of silence over the un
pleasant matter.
Could it be possible for SANDER to make
the headway shat it does, if reticence, in
stead of promulgation, was the universe
Daily Republican., 1880-08-27
WHAT SIZE WAS WORTH.

stood by her side when the tide camo In
With It's creeping kiss and It's waiting moan
l held her fast-was she mine TO win2
Might call her, IN some day, my ownf
/ looked in the depth Of her hazel eyes;
Olose TO her feet crept the restless sea;
In the tender tones that fond hearts price,
told her how fair she was 10 me.
/ praised the grace Of her queenly head.
The flashing waves sung low and sweet
The bright eyes shone &C the words said,
While the light foam nestled about her feet.
l praised the sheen Of her chestnut hair,
Never word she said IN me,
But closer she crep' 10 my side down thoro,
BY the restless, tossing, moaning sea.
"Could she be mins !" As held her fast
asked the driver he spsge mo fair;
And taid, ~ he would sell me, III 1T and last,
Fer hundred dollars, the chestnut mare"
-haWkeye.
Daily Republican., 1880-08-27
RarnnOnn alnntfa.

1t Is now said that Baroness Burdett
Coutts, OF London, is not married to
her young Secretary Bartlette, and does
not intend to be. An intimate lady
friend of the Baroness denies the whole
story, and says: "Why should she
marry him : II she wants to make
him rich she can. If she wants his
whole and entire services she can have
them. II she wishes to leave him her
property she can it is her own to deal
with as she pleasss. 1t is not entailed,
It is not hampered with conditions.
Why, ask, should this famous and IL
lustrious lady of 10 make herself ridic.
ulous and throw sort of blight on her
glorious name by marrying dependent
Of eight-and-twentyi Lady Burdett-
Coutts does not intend to marry Mr..
Bartlett, and never did, all the semi.
authoritative articles in the papers
notwithstanding. Some interested per-
son has probably started these reports
to iniure Mr.. Bartlett. He is good
deal envied on account Of his influence
with the Baroness.
Daily Republican., 1880-08-27
A ChIla'B Heart.

Free Pres8.
The other day curious old woman
having q bundle in her hand, and
walking with painful effort. sat down
on a curbstone up Woodward avenue
to rest. She was curious because her
garments were neat and clean, though
threadbare, and curious because smile
crossed her wrinkled face as children
passed her. II might have been this
smile that attracted a group of three
little ones, the oldest about nine. They
stosd in row in front of the old wo-
man, saying never word, but watch
ing her face. The smile frightened,
fingered, and then suddenly faded
away, and E. corner of her old calico
apron wsnt up to wipe away a tear.
Then the eldest child stepped forward
and asked:
'Ars you sorry because you haven't
got any children p
IL had once, but they are all d.
dead = whispered the woman, sob in
her throat.
I'm awful sorry said the little girl
as her own chin quivsrsd. 'Pd give
you one of my little brothers here, but
you see haven't got but two, and l
don't believe I'd like to spare one.'
God bless you, child-bless yon
forever p sobbed the old woman; and
for full minute her face was buried in
her apron.
But pll tell you what I'll do, se-
riously continued the child. 'You may
kiss US all once, and II little Ben isn't
afraid you may kiss him four times,
for he's Just as sweet as candy y
Pedestrians who saw three we'll
dressed children put their arms around
that strange woman's neck and kiss
her were greatly puzzled. They didn't
know the hearts of children, and they
didn't hear the woman's words as she
rose to 90: IL
,'Obl children, I'm only poor cid
woman, believing I'd nothing to live
for, but you've given me lighter heart
than I've had tor ten long years ~
Daily Republican., 1880-08-27
72T-lm(
hIOTLCE-ELEOTION.
CASTLE COUNTY, SIS.

[~~)THE STATE OF DELAWARE.
SEAL. To THE SHERIFF OF NEW CAsTLR
(~~~) COUNTY, GREETING:
Whereas, Jane X. Kelley, by her petition
to the judges of our Superior Court, filed In
the Office OF tho Prothonotary OF the said
CouI t, In and for n ew Caslle County, for tho
cause Of complaint therein alleged, has made
application 10 our said Judges that decree
may be pronounced dissolvtrg the marriage
existing between the petitioner and her hus.
band, Henry N. Kelley. We Therefore COM
mand you, as you have heretofore been con-
manded. that you summon ttenry N Kelley
80 that he be and appear before the said
Judges of our said Court at the next term
thereof to be held at New CASTLE, on Monday
the twenty.second day OF November next, to
answer the allegations OF the said Petition,
and als1 TO show cause. If any he has, Why o
decree OF the said Court should not be made
disselving the marriage existing between him
and the said petitioner according to the Act
OF Assembly In such case made and provided.
And also to do and receive what the said
Court shall then and there consider concern
ing him In this bshalf, as to the Court shall
seem meet and consistent with tho provisions
Of the said Act of Assembly
Witness the Honorable Joseph p. Comegys,
Esquire, at New Castle The twentv.eighth
day OF May, A. d, Eighteen Hundred and
Eighty.
ISSUED June 18th, 1880
CHAS. BtASTEN, Prothcny.
The above is a true copy of "alias sum.
mons" libel for divorce, No. 10, to November
Term. A. D., 1880. JOHN PYLE. sheriff
New Castle. July 18th, A. D., 1880 slS