Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-04-08

great sections fairly teeming with the ele-
ments and coalitions Of fertility. Broad re.
eions are loaded with annual harvssts which
almost surpass computation, while beyond
these still wider tracts stretch illimitable, un-
touched and untitled, keeping their untold
treasures of plenty for the millions yet to
come. The farms in the thirty.eight States
and Territories, at the last census, nine years
ago, contained 407,O0O,OOO of acres. The
mighty tide of westward immigration, during
the last year or two, must have raised this
total to nearly or quite 500,0O0,oOO acres.
GRANTS Op1N1oNs.-The Mexican CORES.
pondent of the New York Sun has served up
rich tropical treat for the readers of that
paper. Grant and his party are interesting
the people Of the Mexican capital, where live
curiosities are rare. But, according to the
correspondent, the tropical climate has quite
removed the reticence for which General
Grant was once 80 remarkable. He and his
friends have become decidedly communica-
tive. 1t seems that he is candidate, and has
never been anything else since the war ended.
He regards the proposal to put him at the
head of an interoceanic canal con pany as
scheme Of politicians to get hinl out of the
way. He thinks he was elected President in
the first place, by the almost unanimous wish
of the American people, and if the politicians
were cut of the way he would be elected now
without opposition. But the newspapers, con-
trolled by these politicians, are against him
and make deal of trouble. Still, he was
elected in spite Of them once, and would be
again. Heis very poor. The failure of the
Government to- provide pension for its ex-
Presidents, leaves him, an old man without
profession and with nothing to depend upon.
Hence he ought to be elected President.
Then, but for his energetic measures, it is very
doubtful whether Hayes would heve been
able to take his seat after he was counted in;
he made all the necessary military prepara-
tions for the Inauguration Of Hayes, and had
there been the least disturbance, would have
imprisoned the Democratic senators and seized
any State government that made objection to
such high handed acts. "The present incum.
bent," as he calls Hayes, is very weak man,
and there may be trouble in the coming elec-
ton, when it is very important that the Re-
publican candidate should be strong man.
This is said to be Grants idea of the situation.
The Grant Republicans will hardly circulate
such reports for campaign purposes.
WHY PEOPLE ABE POOR.
It is stated, on very excellent authority,
that "the poor have ye with you always"
The remark was true when uttered, and has
been true ever since, and from appearances al
ways will be. There are those who have no
disposition to save; who Give from hand to
mouth, so to speak who take no thought
for tomorrow. Having enough for the pres
ent hour they are content, and leave the fu-
ture to take care of itself If property were
to be equally divided among the people Mon
day morning, before Saturday night the ma.
iority would he in destitute circumstances,
dead broke, while the prudent and saving
would be on the road to pecuniary indepen-
dence. One class of people spend whatever
money they get hold of, and as fast as they
get it, while others save means that come into
their hands, judiciously invest the same and
become rich. There are those who not only
do not know how to save, but they do not
know how to spend. If they get anything,
it goes for what they do not need for articles
that could be dispensed with. Those who are
destitute of the comforts of, life as rule, may
blame themselves therefor. If they have
anything, they do not take care Of it. They
buy articles that people in better circum-
stances would think they could not afford.
So they are always poor. Relieve their wants
to-day and they are no better off tomorrow.
They are bound not to save-to have nothing,
and are generally bound to be in debt if they
can find anybody to trust them. Of course,
we understand that people are sometimes un-
fortunate. They get sick, or those dependent
on them become so. We know that people
are sometimes overtaken by misfortune but
where there is one case of this kind, there are
fifty in which the entire trouble may be found
in the indisposition to save.
BILL ARP ON THE PREss.-Your paper is
q great comfort to me. In every number find
something to put away in mind and memory
something that I did not know before, and
which will be of advantage to me in time to
come. If a man can read he can get good
education by taking one good paper; he can
keep up with the world, and make himself an
entertaining member of society hecan talk
up little on most any subject. Book learn
ing is a very good thing, but know man
who has power of that, but he never reads
the papers, and he passes for fool in his
Some papers are not much ac-
count to appearances, but l never took one
that didn't pay me, in some way, more than
paid for it. One time an old friend started
little paper away down in Southwestern Geor-
gia, and sent it to me, and subscribed just
to encourage him, and so after awhile it pub.
lished notice that an administrator had an
order to sell several lots of land at public out
cry, and one Of the lots was in my county.
So inquired about the lot, and wrote to my
friend to attend the sale and run it to fifty
dollars. He did so, and bid off the lot for me
at thirty dollars, and I sold it in month to
the man it Joined for hundred, and so I
made sixty.eight dollars clear by taking that
paper. NY father told me that when he was
young man, he saw notice in paper that
school teacher was wanted away off in
distant county, and he went down there and
got the situation, and little girl was sent to
him, and after awhile she grew up mighty
sweet and pretty, and he fell in love with her
and married her. Now, if he hadn't took that
paper, what do you reckon would have be-
come of me Wouldn't I be some other fel-
Ter, or maybe not be at all?-Di1ie Farmer.
WHY THE LAW IS UNcERTA1N.-Lan-
guage is an imperfect instrument for the ex-
preston of ideas. Not a few of its forms are
ambiguous that is, they speak'i two ways.
Readers and hearers are left in old Isaac's
perplexity. The voice is that of Jacob, the
hand is that of Esau.
Many of the terms of language are;equivo-