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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
A RIGHTEOUS REBUKE.

The following words, used by Judge Hub.
bard, of Iowa, recently, in passing sentence
upon some liquor dealers in that State, seem
little harsh, coming from the bench Of one
our courts, but there is no man who can deny
the truthfulness or the Righteousness of the
rebuke. He said:
"While there are greater crimes known to
the law, which are punishable with great
severity, there are none which involve more
of those qualities known as despicable mean.
ness and audacity, than the selling of intoxi"
eating liquors
There is something in the taking of hu"
man life or violence, so instantaneous that ii
shocks and terrifes the minds Of all and yet
We look upon the man who takes human
life quite as surely, but by slow, lingering
process, if not without condemnation, at least
without horror. You, who stand before the
court for sentence, are in every moral sense
r7urderers, and you are within the spirit, if moi
the letter, guilty of manslaug ghter; for the
law says, who ever accelerates the death of o.
human being, unlawfully, is guilty of tho
crime. Your bloated victims upon the wit.
ness stand, and who undoubtedly committed
perjury to screen you from the law, not only
abundantly testify that you are accelerating
death. but that you are inducing men to com"
NIT still greater crimes than your own.
You still maintain the appearance of re.
spectability; but how morally leprous and
scrofulous you are inwardly, the ruin, power
ty and idleness, which you are inficting upon
this community, declare as from the house
tops. You are living in idleness and eating
the bread of orphans, watered with widows
tears. You are stealthily killing your vic.
TINS and numbering the peace and industry
of the community, and thereby converting
happy industrious homes into misery, thrift.
less poverty and rags. You are sowing the
seeds of ignorance, and idleness and want,
among the generations to come.
Anxious wives and mothers watch and
pray in tears, nightly, with desolate hearts
for the coming home Of your victims whom
you are Turing with the wiles and smiles OF
the devil into midnight debauchery.
In fine, one can have no adequate concep-
ton of a cataract until he sees Niagara, nor
Of the terrible fury and grandeur Of a storm
in mid.ocean until he has witnessed one; 50
no one can know the utter degradation and
total depravity to which his species can be
brought, until he looks upon the desolate
ruin caused by your trade Observer.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

BR1DEsMA1Ds.-Next to being bride her.
self every young lady likes to be brides.
maid. Wedlock is thought by large pro-
portion of the blooming sex to be contagious
and, much to the credit of their courage, fair
spinsters are not at all afraid of catching it.
Perhaps the theory that the affection is COM
municated by contact is correct. Certainly
we have known one marriage to lead to
another, and sometimes to such a series of
"happy events" as to favor the belief that
matrimony runs like the cholera. Is there
any book entitled "Rules for Bridesmaids" in
secret circulation among young ladies2 1t
seems as if there must be; for all the brides
maids act precisely alike. So far as official
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

BURNING GLASS ExPER1MENT.-Ifa a piece
of wood be plaasd in decanter of water and
&he focus of large burning glass is thrown
upon it, the wood will be completely charred,
through the sides of the decanter through
which the rays pass will not be cracked, nor
in any way affected, nor the water perceptibly
warmed. If the wood be taken out, and the
rays be thrown on the water, neither the ves-
sci nor its content will be in any way afec-
ted; but if piece of metal be put in the
water it soon becomes too hot to be touched,
and the water will presently boil. Though
pure water alone, contained in transparent
vessel cannot be heated, yet, if by little ink
it be made dark color, or the vessel itself be
blackened, the effect speedily takes place.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

time. He does call at the time named, &C
companies the lady home, and goes back to
the office, where he may find another job Of
the same kind awaiting him. The boys like
this better than running off at three or four
in the morning to call some sleepy fellow out
of bed, and, on the whole, it seems a pleas.
anter thing to do-if the woman isn't too old.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

The UNKNOWN ARCTIC REGIONS
10 the Polar circle there is an enormous area,
comprising at least 100000 square miles, Of
which we know simply nothing. We shall
have presently to speak Of the various specu-
lations regarding the nature of this vast ex-
tent of the worlds surface it is enough for
our immediate purpose to say that we do not
know anything whatever about it. Whether
it is land, water or ice; whether the climate
is cold or warm; whether there are inhabi-
tants, animals, plants, or whether it is
howling wilderness-speculation has included
almost every possibility, and almost every
absurdity; but of knowledge such alone as in
telligent men can be content with, we have
absolutely none. To attain some such knowl.
edge is the first object now proposed in Arctic
exp xploration. 1t is considered uniting and
unseemly, in the present state of scientific
progress, that there should be this large area Of
our earth's surface still so utterly unknown.
The examination oft is loudly called for; it
it is q problem of universal interest, the solu-
zion of which appeals not to commercial prof
its, pecuniary advantages, increased facility
for transport and communication, but simply,
in the first instance, to those higher feelings
and yearnings which, whatever our remote
ancestry, now distinguish US from the brutes
We want to traverse this unknown space and
see and know what it is.-Edsnburgh Re.
sw;e,u
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

B9- Nothing gives more mental and bodily
vigor than sound rest when properly obtain
ed. Sleep is our great replenisher, and if we
neglect to take it regularly,in childhood, the
result will be all the worse for US when we
grow up. If we 60 to bed early, we ripen;
if we sit up late, We decays and sooner Or
later we contract disease called insomnia,
or sleeplessness, allowing it to become per-
manently fixed upon us, and then We begin
to decay, even in youth. Late hours are
shadows from the grave.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
SPOILING WOMEN,S NAMES.

Many, if not majority, of the names of
800 or 900 girls from the public schools ex.
amined for admission to the Normal college,
give us the impression that they belong to
mere household pets rather than to young
women who are approaching maturity, and
who are engaged in serious work. These
girls apparently prefer the nicknames by
which they are known in the family circle and
to intimate friends, and therefore take
pains to adopt them in their signatures.
In so doing the public school girls are not
exceptional among our young women, for it
is quite the fashion nowadays for them to
grow so enamored of their nursery appella-
tions that they cling to them as their fixed
and proper names. They may even be Of.
Tended when they are addressed by their
correct names, which they imagine less pretty
than these pet diminutives; and some grave,
grown up women will put Hattie or Gussie,
Mamie or Sallie on their cards as if they
were in pinafores still.
The fashion is American; but our patriot
ism cannot make US grow fond Of it. The
nicknames which appear in so large share
of these public school girls signatures would
do very we'll for pets at dog show. When
they are used to express the afectionate re-
gard of near friends and relatives, they also
may be pretty and appropriate, but they look
very silly in formal signature, and surely
do not benefit the dignity Of womanhood.
We fine, for instance among these 800
names, scores of Minnies or Mamies and only
here and there Mary, much more euphon.
ious and dignifed name. Jane is transform
ed usually into Jennie, Caroline into Carrie,
Ellen into Ella, Elizabeth into Lizzie and
Bessie, Katherine into Katie, Martha into
Matte, Margaret into Maggie, Anne and
Anna into Armies, and Harriet into Hattie.
Such absurd names as these appear quite
frequently: Chattie, Lidie, Mile, Tillie,
Kittie, Rosie, Nettie, Bibbie, Aggie and Mar.
gle.
The great aim seems to be to manufacture
name which ends IN lie, and in accomplish.
ing it the finest appellations for women we
have, names renowned in poetry or history,
and of sweet and melodious sound are
chopped up into childish diminutiyes. They
convey an idea of pettiness, and do not be-
long to girls of dignity and character-girls
like these who are going to the Normal COL
lepe, so many of whom will have their living
to earn. And yet these girls think it is pref
ty to be known by such pet names, and SO
discard, as ugly and old.fashioned, the names
by which they are christened. What would
they think to see a college register which
gave the young mems names as Jimmie, Bill.
lie, Bobbie, Tommie, Charlie, Sammie and
Dickie?
This fashion is extending among women,
and girls are even named with nicknames
only, as if they we're always to be nothing
more than nursery pets. And yet this is
period when women are contending for higher
consideration as rational beings, and when
the range Of their occupations outside Of the
domestic circle is constantly widening and
growing in mportance.-New York Sun.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

scrape belongs to one of the most respectable
families in the country. Just put it down
for once, that one of the parties to the unfor'
nate affair belongs to highly disreputable
family Ifyou don't put it so you will wish
YOU had.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
THE LOSS OF A WIFE.

In comparison with the bss Of wife all
Other bereavements are triAing. The wife
She who fills SO large space in the domestic
heaven-she who is busted, so unweariedly,
for the precious ones around her-bitter, biz
ter is the tear that falls upon her cold clay
You stand beside her coffin and think of the
past. It seems an amber.colored pathway,
where the sun shone upon beautiful flowers,
or the stars hung glittering overhead. Fain
would the soul linger there. No thorns are
remembered above that sweet clay, save those
your hand may unwillingly have planted.
Her noble tender heart lies open to your in
most sight. You think Of her now as all
gentleness, all beauty, all purity. But she
is dead The dear head that laid upon your
bosom rests in the still darkness, upon pill
low of clay. The hands that have admins
tered so untiringly, are folded, white and cold,
beneath the gloomy portals. The heart whose
every beat measured an eternity Of love, lies
under your feet The flowers she bent over
with smiles, bend now above her with tears,
shaking the dew from their petals, that the
verdure around her may be kept green and
beautiful.
There is no white arm over your shoul-
der; no speaking face to look up into the
eye of Love; no trembling lips to murmur,
o, it is so sad
There is so strange hush in every room !!
No light footstep passing around. No smile
to greet you at Mi ghtfall. And the old clock
ticks and strikes, and strikes and ticks-.it
was such music when she could hear it Now
it seems to knell only the hours through
which we watched the shadows Of death gath
ering upon her sweet face.
And every day the clock repeats the old
story. Many another tale it telleth, too-of
Joy past, of sorrows shared, of beautiful words
and deeds that are registered above.
You feel o, how often do you feel that
the grave cannot keep her.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

cape. 1t was held as positive proof of his
guilt that he Immediately married the sister
of the other accused man and removed to Ohio,
then the wilderness of the West.-Lippinc0tfs
MAGAZINE.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23

conduct is concerned, when you have seen
one bridesmaid you have seen the whole fas'
cinating tribe. Their leading duty seems to
be to treat the bride as "victim led with
garlands to sacrifice" They consider it ne
cessary to exhort her to "cheer up" 1t is as
sumed, by poetic fiction, that she goes in a
state Of trepidation to the altar, and, upon the
whole would rather not. Her fair assistants
provide themselves with pungent essences,
lest she should faint at the "trying moment"
which between you and US, she has no more
idea of doing than she has of dying. It is
true she sometimes tells them that she "feels
as if she should sink into the earth" and they
respond, "poor, dear SOUL" and apply the
smelling bottle; but she goes through her
nuptial martyrdom with great fortitude, new
ertheless. In nine cases out of ten the bride
groom is more frustrated" than the fragile
and lovely creature at his side but nobody
thinks of plying him, poor, fellow! All sym.
pathy, compassion, interest, is concentrated
upon the bride, and if one of the groomsmen
does recommend him to take glass of wine
before the ceremony. to steady his nerves, the
advice is given superciliously-as who should
say, "What spoony 'yop are, old fellow.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-23
RESULTS OF A DREAM.

Among the Scotch Irish settlers in Wash.
ington county, in 1912, was family named
Blymire, who occupied comfortable farm
and house. Rachel, the daughter, was en-
gagged to young farmer. in the neighbor-
hood. On a Saturday evening in July, hav:
ing finished her weeks work, she dressed
herself tidily and started to visit her mar
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-09-30
Geary City Items.

Geary has not been heard from for some time, but
the best wheel does not make the most noise.
As election time approaches, it may be well to say,
for the benefit of politicians, that Geary is about the
hardest precinct in the County to influence there
is not man in our town vicinity that could
change a half dozcp votes because most of the PEG
pie around here vote the Republican ticket, and the
different results that have been obtained here have
been owing to some voting here at one time, then mt
another precinct in the Township ut another time.
No man carries Geary's vote in his vest pocket al
though theirs are some who would like to make the
people think they do.
l was ut the Garfield and Arthur flag raising in
Doniphan, and noticed that rs noise-makers, the
Republicans a failure. One dozen Southern SYM
pathizers fDemocrats) can make more noise than
hundred Republicans. The is self-eyident:
the Democrats are q noisy, bulldozing crowd and
the Republicans willing to let them do the shout
ing, as they did in Border Ruiian days, while the
Republicans will quietly knock the persimmons, in
November They can do II as ensily rs they knocked
the eonceit of the Southern Brgadicrs, between
1861 and 1865
Ben. Flckinger hns sold his lcv.e block and house
to Mr. Cook. Geary il growing
Kcntzler is quietly pocketing the shekels, they
come in.
Our Supday-schcol is not prospecting very well, at
present.
Our mill is doing pretty well, and is turning out
better -four than ever.
Mrs. Rouudy has been fixing up her -tore-room
and will put in larger stock Of goods
Mrs. Haggerty is better.
There are two brand girls in Geary-one ut c.
b. Roundy's aud one at Ian. Warmers. ALSO, = boy
at Mr.. Hsggertys.
The sore eyes around here.
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-09-30

Doniphan Items.

We hal n tr.u,.,Jou.lv L,rI ,,;, Ia, S.,rr.ya,,
| evening.
Farmer, mr., Ipsv ..r,,. sr,, corr-cut,;,r
Mrs. NJ. ,. Hoff,n,, and family VII. orI
Hoffman editor and ,ro,ri.tor of III. Uartf,rJ Ks
| Call is nm Waiting uarr,t. Dr w.lsh and family
| Will probablv remain two wo.ts
prr.,on s,si.h., fran, sor,h.-,, R,,.,s m,
last week.
times.
Our butchers dog ebok,,l IN death N, be,f An
extraordinary event p.o.. q, Ii .sh
J,s.,b Rrittai, wa. i'm town No,I., p.nor,.
farmers very bu.v s..d;,,
I, i; ,borr,, Tho, ,h.r,. ,;u h., ,,....- .,,,r,,,
Of wheat .oxp ,b;. fall than amy wear bsr.tosors
Wheat certainly Inns welded mari bnb.I. tn IN. .cre
tbi. s.asop than !, ba. far many war. which m,
COURAGE. furmers IA risk ore acres forno,ber wear
1.-THE weather cont;,ue. fin. all the crane. will be
nick al this well
Mrs Charles TIFFANY and M..,.r H,,b vsr. mn
las, x..k from At,h;.on
Rr;.lm,tin, continues r.,,r,,,... Of ,,. 600,
weather
Tn. bovs say tina, Do,;,b,u ,.. -. b,u,,.J hama.
We hardly ever visit Goarv civ lint w. meet am,
Jie.r in nol;tics n.;,h.r 81 :. ,h tr :, .ns
are AWAY. ready IN give each o,b., n friendly grin
Mrs Scbl.t,b,um has -, much iw,rovsd in b.eI,i,
"A. to ,;.;, h,r fr;.nJ. il, I..v.,,ror,b
Charley Iow NINA, he n h,lIv f.,Io, II, In,
,b-..h.d Oh. ,rhoI,. ho,,or, .ho,. ,o,r,
w. ,,,.uu,.us ,,,., 60 -, oa,.,,o,.o- NJ,
J,v H., ar ., oo,oI,ar po,s ,.o,,5 Len q, To-.
nm e.tr. match ,nt an the sea, of ,b.i, b,.a.bes
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-09-30

Mr.. Hagg had the misfortune to lose his only
daughter. on the aal Of September The many
friends Of the family sympathize with them in their
afiiction.
Mr. Bowman IS lastly engaged putting up resi-
dence.
Those who are crying down this town, and pre-
dieting all sorts of disasters for her future. should
come and see the energy aud vim manifested by the
citizens, before rendering verdict
Posters are out for grand time raising the Han
cock pole, on Saturday next. Hope they viii have a
good time, and not get too enthusiasts.
By the way, heard n remark nIais by certain
individual the other day, that IL to would
not set well the stomachs Of some of the old sol
diers. The remark this: ''when Hancock Is
elected. l will get my pension As the party was
fighting on the .of- side. during the war, the idea
contained in the remark is plain.
The Democrats trying to be jubilant over
the Maine election. They must be somewhat like
the tramp who begged for bacon rind-it takes but
little to make them happy.
number Of our people went up TO Leons, on the
night of the I'D to assist the Leona Odd Fellows in
organizing Lodge, which was successfully done,
starting with 10 members, and fine prospects.
Yes, we have heard from Maine.
Over in Missouri. the Republicans are termed Gar
field Pukes Can you inform us in regard to the
term given Democrats in Illinois
Starr asks US to beg pardon Of Mr.. Philbrisk. Of
Doniphan, and We will try to write 80 thr printer
read. The sentence concerning him should read,
ave hereby vote him brick indeed" He should
rather have gold medal for his nrmness than any
other.
Arrangements are in progress 10 procure Prof. Ne
Carly to lecture. the Friday evening before the
teachers meeting Hope the parties will be success
full.
A second edition of Ole Bull was advertised for n
performance at this place. day last week; but
when the gent arrived, and found he would have to
pay hall rent and license, he suddenly found that
the hall small to accommodate the audience,
and 40 he left vowng that the people Of this place
might live in ignorance for eyer, for all he cared.
II we do not hear of some wanting to be can
dilate for the Legislature, before the Republican
convention. soon, we shall open negotiations with
some members of your Troy Ring" for that pur-
pose. The Democrats will make strenuous efforts
for this office, in this District Our last spring cleo
ton gave them wonderful amount of confidence,
and we much doubt if the parties who then worked
against the Republican ticket retrieve the dam
age they did the party. by harder work for it
this fall.
Died. on the I'd, Miss Amanda Meginity, of Pleas
ant Ridge neighborhood, of eongestve chill, aged
about Is years
Mrs. Kendall will start, Oh Tuesday, for Ohio, on
visit. She will be absent about month.
Starr says he has twinkled out.
The officers of the Fair Association have our
thanks for favors rendered.
Those parties who are aware of incidents suitable
for publication. will confer a favor by leaving them
Mt the post Office, for $50
The Weekly Kansas chief. [volume] (Troy, Kan.) 1872-1918, 1880-09-30


~ The October Seri6ner, the closing number Of
the Twentieth Volume, opens with article. in the
series on american Sports, 'Porpoise-shooting'
BY Charles c. Ward, accompanied by striking
illustrations by Burns, Share, and Gibson The
biography Of jean Francois Millct-Peasant and
Painter" which appears here in advance of its pub
LEGATION in France, il continued, with reproductions
Of ten of the artists most noted pictures; its rcVe
lation of the simplicity and herosm of Mlets life is
of the most interesting events Of receut biogra
ply. II. c. Bunner contributes description.
sisted by numerous sketches of that features of New
York city known ~ ''Shantytown,- now fast disap-
pearing before the nroads of civilization. The his
tory of the early life of Peter the Great concludes
in this number with account af the expedition
against and the capture of Azof, and in the Noveu-
Der number the story of Peter the Great, RUicr
and Reformer," will be commenced. This coming
part of this great mans life, promises To be
interesting in both literary and artistic way,
than the preceding chapters. H. c. Hovry gives
an account of his trips of Zone Hundred Miles
in Mammoth Cave aided with illustrations by
artou; and Samuel Parsons, Jr., writes OF sea
side Lawn Planting with sketches by Gibson.
vanderhoof, and others. Therv is also n thoughtful
and timely paper the present condition of affairs,
especially in agriculture, in ''Thc New South" by
Sidney Lanier, who aptly charaeterizcs the large
farming of the northwest not farming ut all, but
mining for wheat There is article the priv
ilrges Of suffrage under the title Of TO Bolt, not
to Bolt by Washington GLADDEN.; proposition for
the establishment of Free Lending Library for
New York. with.thc public schools as branches by
Theodore II. Mead; bright and interesting story,
by Philip Hourke Martson and the final chapters Of
George W. Cables stirring novel, The Grandis-
simes- In Topics of the Time DIR. Holland writes
Of Trees" ''Dr. Tanners Fast" etc. ''lIomc and
Society" ia devoted to Education in Europe :" "Cul
ture and Progress contains reviews Of late books;
Worlds Work describes "a New Electrical Sep
arator" "Gns Fuels" "A New Steam Fire Engine
Boiler etc.
ScRIBSEa is ten years old, and the managers
seem disposed to celebrate the fact by November
number Of unusual strength No fewer than four
large engravings by Cole will be given, and other
welLknown engravers will be duly represented. The
literary quality will be remarkable, and the contri-
buttons will include essay Whitman, by Sted-
man; fine study of Gladstone, by Member of
Parliament; descriptive paper ON the Bordentown
IN J Bonapartes, Of the pat hetic life of Mllet
critique Of the painter Vetldrr, q stirring account
Of the battle of Mobile Bay aPoos Of the statue
of Farragut by st. Gautens and practical sug-
gestions about Tableaux, with illustrations. Tbs
first chapters ttwenty-eight pagesl of Peter the
Great as n Ruler and Rcformer," and Of 'TigerLiy,'
u new short serial, and two other features not
yet to be announced. will make up a rich and able
number.