Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-08
SOME SOUTHWESTERN PROvINCIALISMS.

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SOME SOUTHWESTERN PROVINCIALIsMs.
Rev. H. W. Pielson, in his book, ''In the
Brush," says: Sin attending a conference,
presbytery, association or other ecclesiastical
meeting in the wilds of the country, as the
old veteran and other preachers were pointed
out to me by some friend, he would say:
"'That is Father A.. He is an old
Brush Breaker all the younger men
would press forward to shake his hand and
do him honor or, THAT is brother B..
He has broken right smart chance of brush >
or, That is young brother c., wonderful
ly self-satistied and conceited as you see. The
sisters have tlattered him 80 much that he has
big head badly. He will be sent to Brush
College to break brush year or two, and he
will come back humbled, and make labori-
Gus and useful man. go. This use of the
brush enters largely into the figures of speech
of the people of the Southwest
'sIn returning from church, young cir
cuit-rider said to me: Didn't you think the
bishop got badly brushed in the first part of
the ser1non2 sometimes get so brushed in
my sermons that think l will never try to
preach again. It's comfort to beginner
| to know that an old preacher sometimes gets
| brushed
"Figurative language of this kind abound
| ed among the people of the Southwest, and
was very expressive. These provincialisms had
usually grown out Of the peculiar life and
habits of the people. Many Of them seem to
have originated in the perils of early fat-boat
vigation-when they were accustomed to
float downstream by daylight, and tie up to
some stump or tree for the night! Hence, as
1 suppose, this provincialism. If l made in
quiries in regard to the character of a mali
| who been recommended to me for a Bible dis
tributor, was not told that he was a reliable
or unreliable man, but He'll do to tie to-, or
| He won't do to tie to- and if the case was
particularly bad, He won't do to tie to in
calm, let alone Storm AS there were 50
many perils in this kind of navigation, those
were regarded as extremely fortunate who
reached their destination i'll safety, and could
send back word that they made the trip hence,
to make the trip was a universal synonym
for success And SO, when novice attempted
to make a speech, preach a sermon, address
jury, or engage in any kind of business, the
people predicted his success or failure by say
| ing He'll make the trip or He won't make
the trip They never said of young man,
or an old widoWer, that he was addressing or
courting lady, but He is setting to her. a
figure of speech derived from bird-hunting
with setter-dogs, 1 suppose. When such a
suit has been unsuccessful, they do not say
the lady rejected or 'mitened' her suitor, but
| She kicked him. 80. When many persons
were striving for the same object, or where
there were rival aspirants for the heart and
hand of the same lady, they said Of the sue
cessful one, "The tallest pole takes the per-
simmon.'" ="
A HUMoRIsT ON THE TARRIFF.-During
| the recent debate on the tariff question, Con-
gressman Cox, of New York edited the House
| with the following humorous remarks:
| Before call attention to these taxes on the
babies, I desire to say that if l had a child and
he did not oppose thes> high tariff bounties l
would disown him. Laughter.
The little girl cannot play with her doll, nor
the boy whiz his top, nor the mother wash
her offspring with soap, except at an expense
of from one-third to one-half of their cost
for the domestic privilege. Laughter. II
| the mother gives her child castOr-Oil she pours
down los per cent. al valorem, Laughter
| if the child does not enjoy the dose, there is
| 25 per cent bowl as the recipient of the con-
! tents of it's tender stomach. And though she
'wash it with inter and take to it much soap,
yet the iniquity is marked before me, Saith the
Lord" for the soap is taxed 40 per cent.
God help the child
Mr.. Townsend, of Illinois. How about
candy?
Mr. Cox, of New York. 1 am coming to
that in moment, my honey. Great laugh
ter.
If she wraps the little dear in plain bleach
ed cotton night-shirt, it has nightmare OF
81 cents per square yard specific, laughter :;
when the child awakes in the morning fretful,
she combs it's little head at IS cents ad valorem,
laughter i if she would amuse it she rolls it
over Brussels carpet at 90 cents per square
yard, or gives it confectionery made of refined
sugar at cents pound tax, and % per cent.
ad valorem; if it tears it's little panties, the
gentleman from Pennsylvania Mr.. Kelley
sews them up with spool-thread taxed at three
quarters of it's value. Laughter Why, if
she used shingle to bring the little ''toddllng,
| wee thing'' to it's senses, as the honorable gen.
tlemen can recall, the cost would be at the
rate of II per cent taxation. Laughter.
If the youngster has patriotic inclina-
tion on our Fourth of July, his fire-crackers
are taxed as patriotic luxury at 81 extra box,
and the bunting which furnishes the flag,
though but % cents a pound, costs III per
cent. extra, while the band plays on instru-
ments taxed at 30 cents. She takes him to
the menagerie to study natural history. There
is the zebra, symbolic of a mixed ad valorem
and specific, laughter, and the stately giraffe,
high protection, laughter, the royal tiger and
unicorn of Holy Writ are 20 per cent. And
the procession of elephants Every one ~
per cent. True, Jumbo, for purposes not to be
mentioned, is excluded Oh the affidavit OF
consistent protectionist but the log-chain
that holds his huge legs binds the monster in
protective chains Laughter.
BUSINESS FOR WOMEN.-There is no more
doubt about the ability of women to do good
work, and continuous work, than there IS OF
that of men, The continuity of perseverance
is altogether in favor of women, where 1t has
been trained by exercise the power OF concen-
traton upon a given point, or for given
length of time, is in favor of men. But the
conditions of work are inexorable for both,
and they can not he wished or rsentimentallzed,
or scolded, or even voted away. There are
certain kinds of work that are less fitted for
women than others and, as rule, women
very properly avoid them; there are other
kinds, however, for which women are extreme
ly we'll fitted, some of which men at present
perform, and these women who are wise Will
fit themselves for and try to secure. There IS
no reason why women should be chambermalds
and employees, and men managers and also
proprietOrs. In France men do most OF the
chamber work in hotels and public places, and
women are the managers and superintendent,
the sellers and cashiers. The whole business
of retail buying and selling might be Ill the
hands of women, with very great advantage
TO the buyer and the seller. 1t is a most alb
surd thing that the whole retail provisioning
of our great cities is in the hands OF Ignorant
men and liquor sellers, while while women are
starving in garrets, or making shirts at SIX
cents apiece These men often do not know
the articles that they sell by their names, they
do not know their uses buy in blind way
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