Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-22


to occupy him, that when he began to plough
his field the season of sowing was past; thus
he had nothing to reap.
When you have anything to do, do it at
once for if you are master Of the present,
you are not so of the future and he who al.
ways puts of his business till tomorrow runs
a great risk of never being able to finish any
thing.-P. blanchard.
MoRMoN1sM IN THE SOUTH -Mormonism
would seem to be gaining some foothold in the
South, if ve may credit the following from
the Chatta looga (Tenn.) Times:
A reporter Of the Times has had an inter-
view with Elder Morgan, president of the
Southern Mission of the Mormon Church,
and one of its most important and influential
members. Mr.. Morgan says that the Nor
mon religion is daily gaining strength and
favor in the Southern States. He says that
the people st large are expressing more sym
pathy and friendship toward the Church.
And as they become better acquainted with
its working and details of its teachings, this
feeling becomes the more manifest. They are
now averaging about thirty baptisms each
month in tie Southern States alone, and the
number is continually increasing. The de-
mand for more elders is constantly coming
from the South, and it has at last become
so persistent, that at the April conference
twenty more elders will be ordained and dis
tributed through the South to propagate the
doctrines Of the Mormon creed. There are
now about forty missionaries of that church
in the South, and in addition a number of
local preachers Elder Morgan says the op-
position which was formerly manifested, and
which last year eliminated in the murder of
an elder, is now rapidly dying out, and they
are everywhere meeting with much favor
and encouragement.
A KISSING MATcH.-At party of young
people in Paris, conversation happened to
turn on the subject Of kissing, and the ques-
ton was propounded who of TIE young men
present could boast of having gwen "his girl"
the most kisses. Various we e the replies
this question called out Finally young
man and the girl to whom he was betrothed
bet forty dollars that they could kiss 10000
times in ter hours, providing they would be
allowed to take an occasional glass of wine
"between." Two persons we're appointed
committee to count the number of kisses, and
the work began. During the FIRST hour they
counted 1000 kisses. During; the second
hour the kisses were not nearly as numerous,
for the committee only counted 1000. After
the third hour, during which they managed
to score but $50, further operations were
brought to sudden stand still. The lips of
the young man were seized with cramp and
he was carried off in fainting condition.
The girl a few days later was stricken with
brain fever which nearly carried her of.
When the people who had won the bet de-
manded their money the parent of the girl
refused to pay her share of it. The matter
was then taken to the courts, and there it was
decided that the bet must be paid.
CURIOUS PRAYERS. There used to be an
old colored sister in the borough Of Franklin,
Pa" the tall, thin passenger says, "who was
very unctious in 'pra'r,' and one time, during
revival season, she got down on her knees,
waved her hands in the air and shouted,
"Come down, O, sperrit of the Mahster; come
down, o, good Lord, come right down thru
de roof, an I'll pay fur de shingles 7"
"You remember" said the sad passenger,
"the good brother in Greensburg, Indiana,
who was suddenly called on to lead in prayer
at some meeting, and opened his petition by
saying: "Unaccustomed as we are to public
speaking, O Lord, and being entirely unpre-
pared, we will still endeavor to make a few
rambling remarks"
"And the Kansas preacher" the man on
the wood.box said, "that noble Prentiss tells
about, who referred in his prayer to the polit.
ical condition of the country during very
exciting canvass, and added For the partic-
ulars and details of which, O, Lord, we refer
thee to the columns Of the morning papers, D."
s@ The term "watered stock" originated, it
is said, with Daniel Drew, who was drover
in his early days. T. Carpenter, leading
broker in Wall Street, was son of farmer
in Putnam County, N. Y, where Drew came
from, and he went to Drew one day to sell
him some stock which had been put on the
market at considerably above the actual cost
of the property. Drew said: "That stock
makes me think of old farmer Brooks up in
Put who used to salt and water his stock to
make his cattle weigh heavy when he sold
them" The broker told the story in the
street, and it became an adage.
Fo1LED.--A husband who had been very
unhappy in his welded life left will giving
his widow thirty thousand year as long as
she remained widow, and all of his fortune
if she married again, for he maliciously add
ed ri want another man to know how
wretched she made me, and he may find some
consolation in my money" The widow was
not long in finding another husband, and out
Of spite to her former spouse makes the pres
Of the deceased is an immense factor to that
end. Women are contrary creatures, and
men don't understand them
sap "What is political science p asks an ex-
change. Political science! Political science!
O, yes, we see. When you can make the peo-
PIE believe that you can hold Office better than
the manWho is in, and they have the conf
dence tos.nut you in his place, you have de-
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