Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-11-30
Nnmuruus department.
HE KNOCKED OFF FOUR.

In riding over to Lost Mountain from Ma
rietta, l came across young man who was
digging post-holes for barbed wire fence,
and when told him what wanted, he replied {:
''I'll 60 with you. was in that fout my
self, and kin point out every position"
When we reached the ground he began tel
ling where this and that regiment was sta
toned, and finally he halted beside huge
boulder, and said:
Fright here, stranger, was where / squat
ted for four long hours. l rested my gun
right thar on that ledge, and reckon | kill
ed exactly q Yanks that day"
'sNo!"
S'Solemn fact, know Il dozen men who'll
swear to it,
s:Let's see? This battle was fought in the
year 1864 %
''K'rect you are.''
That's about eighteen years ago!''
':.Jis about.'
And you are about twenty-five years old %
Il was 25 this spring."
Then looked at him for a long time, but he
never WINGED. When we were going home,
and after long period of silence, he sudden
ly remarked:
stranger, don't you believe was thar -
''Perhaps you were, but you see YOU were
not quite seven years old on the day OF that
fight -
''That's what have been figuring on" he
continued in a very serious voice. 'l'll tell you
what I'm willing to do
''Well!'
I'll call it "a instead of 2S dead Yanks in
front of my position! That's fair, isn't it ~
told him nothing could be more liberal,
and cordial relations were at once re-estab-
lished.
THEY DIDN'T SELL STOvEs.-Four or five
weeks ago a woman with an undecided look
on her face entered Detroit hardware store,
threaded her way for sixty feet among coal
stoves Of every pattern, and timidly inquired !:
'sDo you keep stoves here? -
"Yes'm.''
''Coal stoves?'
'tYes'm."
She said she had been thinking of getting
coal stove for the winter and the clerk took
her in hand. He showed her how the doors
worked and how the hampers were arranged
and the flues situated, and he talked OF dOu-
BILE drafts, great savings, increased cheerful
ness, reduction in price, and all that, and
she said she'd think it over and drop in again.
In about three days the woman reappeared
and inquired of the very same clerk it they
sold coal stoves. He replied that they did sell
one now and then, and he cleared his voice
and began the usual thirty minute lecture on
the Michigan, the Detroit and Peninsular
base-burner. The beautiful nickelplate, the
place for the tea-kettle, the ornamental legs
the anti-clinker shaker-all points were touch
ed upon and praised and explained, and the
woman said she wouldn take one along under
her arm just then, but would call again. She
called again the same week, heard the same
lecture from the same clerk, and started for
the bank to draw the money to pay for base
burner. That was the last seen of her for 4
week. Then she walked softly in and nno-
Gently inquired:
. II suppose you keep coal stoveS?'
mo ma'am."
mot any kind ?"
mot one. We used to, but went out of
the business year ago."
There were twenty coal stoves on the floor,
but if she saw them she didn't let on. She
heaved a sigh of disappointment, glanced
around her, and went slowly out with the
remark:
''Well, don't know as want to buy one,
but l thought it wouldn't do any harm to
look at some of the latest makes. ."-Detrou
Free Press.