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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-20

Think before you speak. Do not
offend your weak brother. How many
great men have testified that their
whole lives have been influenced by
some single remark made to them in
their boyhood And who canno,
recall words spoken to himself in his
childhood, to whicn, perhaps, the
speaker attached no importance, but
which sank deep and immovable into
his memory, and which have never
lost them power over him? Make
sunlight. The world, at best, is dark
enough. Do what you can to make
\ nes< sbeezful and happy.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-20
THE ENOCH OF CALAYERAS

BIZ BRET HA1TE.
"Weil, dog my cats Say, stranger
You must lave Travelled far
Just food your lower level
And light fresh cigar
Don't tell me In this weather!
You hoofel it all the way?
Well, slice my timbe.s lensthwissl
Why, stranger, what's TO Iay?
Huntin' yer wife, you tell ME!
Well, now dog on my sllin
She thought yod vas dead and buried
And then bestowed her fin
Upon another fellow!
Just put it there, old pard
Some fellows stiike the soft thinss
But you have hit it hard.
I'm right onto yer feelins,
II know how il weIll b. -.-s }.
II my own shurb stopped over
And got away from me.
Say, stranger, that old sage hen,
That's cookin thar inside,
Is warranted the finest wool,
Aud Just square yard vide.
II wouldn't hurt yer, pardner.
But tell you no man
Was ever blessed as am
With that old pelican.
Its goin' on some two year,
Since she was jined to me-.
She was widow prior.
Her name was Sophy Lee
"Good God OLD nan, wh.t's hap2ensdI
Her ! She Is that the one?
That's herr Your wife, you tell me!
Now reach down for yer gun.
never iaje,ei no man,
And no man me, but sIuealed,
And any one who taxes her
Must do it ID well hseled!
Listen? Surely, Certainly
III Let yon look at her.
Peek through the door. she's in thar
Il that your turnitar?
Speak, man Quick You're mistaken!
No! Yours! You recognize
Ny wife, your wife, the same oue?
The man who says SO, lies.
:" Don't mind what say, pardner,
I'm not much on the g,ish,
But this thing come town ON Inc
Like fours upon flush.
If t;.a;'s your w!ie-holl-steady
Tia. bottle. Now my coat.
She'll think me dead It's you were.
Ny pipe. Thar. I'm ahoat.
But le; me leave message.
No; tell her that died.
No, no moi hat way, either.
Just tell her that clie.
1t don't rain much. Now, partner,
BE to her what I've been,
Or by the God that hates you,
You'll see me Lack again!"
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-20

The New York correspondent to
the N'9oS Democrat has the following
to say about Prof. Jim Cherry, who
is pretty well known throughout the
state.
The Chicago Tzb3nc announced 4
few days ago that James Cherry,
otherwise known as Professor Cherry;
mining expert, formerly of Arizona.
was now IN the Tombs PRISON in this
city under $50, 900 bail on charge Of
swindling. 1t is said that the Denver
7izbnxe exposed Cherry last summer
on account of several swindling oper-
atoms of his in Colorado. The z;11-
nne said of him at that time. 1
"He has built mills and smelters
Which have never turned out pound
Of bullion, and has brought the curses
Of defrauded capital upon every camp
wher- he has been. In those places
where he is best known he is careful
not to appear. Nothing seems to oe
,o) small for his avarl e, as nothing is
too large for his cheek. He will filch
a pretty specimen or insinuate himself
into sloo expert job as readily as
strikea capitalist Cor s1oo, 900 to build
smelte- which will never smelt.
The charge on which Cherry is said
to be held in New York IS that he
betrayed his trust as manager Of the
Eclipse Mining and Milling company,
in the San |ua1a country, and that
while working for the Eclipse, he made
arrangements for organizing a new
smelling company near the Eclipse
works. Il is fact that Cherry is in
Jail in this city under $50, 900 bonds,
but ne Is in Ludlow street Jail, a prison
where defendants in civil suits are:
detained, and not in Tombs, prison
for criminals. The New York papers
have net yet taken hold OF the case,
and the whole story viii not be told
tor several days, when the case comes
up IN the courts. Cherry, when cal
led upon yesterday in the jail, was
found occupying a finely furnished
suite OF rooms, and was playing cards
with his wife and daughter, who is
about thirteen years Of age. He said
he didn't want to make statement
One of Cherry's counsel said the whole
affair was one of blackmail. Cherry,
he said, got some Chicago parties to
90 into smelling furnace enterprise
in Colorado, and he made contracts
ahead for some time. Somc Of the
parties objected to his management,
and to his taking contracts 50 far
ahead, although he had $50, 900 in
vested in the scheme. Cherry then
came to New York, his counsel sa.d,'
and company here deSirous of erect
ing smelling furnace in the same
district, made overtures to HIM. He
then resi- gned his connection with the
other enterprise, and accepted situa-
ton with the new company. Some
of the Chicago parties then came to-
New York, and producing affidavits,
induced some of the New York people
to get out An order of arrest
against Cherry as a swindier. We
will push the case to trial in a few
days." said the lawyer, land prove
this to be the grandest blaclnaillng
scheme of the age"
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The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-20

Anime is like the weather. 1t may
be good, bad or Indifferent, but rarely
remains the same for any great lenStk
II time.
The Elk Mountain pilot., 1882-04-20

Three hundred and sixty-fve dol
lars was raised in three hours, for the
purpose of building srhooa hoose 1t
Tia Cup
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
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THE SQUARE AND THE LEVEL.
We meet upon the level and we part upon the
square;
What words of precious meaning those words
Masonic are!
Come, let us contemplate them-they are worthy
With the highest. and the lowest, and the rarest
they are fraught.
We meet upon the level though from every sta
ton come,
The king from out his palace, and the poor man
from his home ,
For the one must leave his diadem outside the
And the other find his true respect upon the check
cred floor.
have its due, :,
We mingle with the multitude cold' untr'enoiy
crew;
But the influence of our gatherings in memory is
And We long upon the level to renew the happy
scene
There is world where all are equal; we are hur-
rying to it fast,
We shall meet upon the level there, when the
gates OF death are past;
We shall stand before the Orient, and our Masoer
will be there,
To try the blocks we offer with his own unerring
square.
We shall meet upon tne ieVeI thefo, ou1 ho'o'
thence depart;
There's mansion-'tis all ready for each trust
ing, faithful heart; -.
There's mansion and welcome, and multi
tude is there;
We have met upon the level, and been tried upon
the square.
Let us meet upon the level, then, while laborng
patient here,
Let us meet, and let labor, though the labor be
severe;
Already in the western sky the signs bid US pre-
pare
To gather upour working tools and be tried upon
the square.
Hands round, ye faithful Masons ALL the bright
fraternal chain;
Ye part upon the square below to meet in Heaven
again.
O! what words Of precious meaning those words
Masonic are,
We meet upon the level and we part upon the
square
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

PHoToGRAPH1NG THE BABY.-By the time
the start for the gallery is made the baby is
thoroughly exhausted and out of patience.
The whole party 60 along, of course.
When the gallery is reached, coaxing, and
tickling and baby talk all fail to put the sub
ject into good humof. One says she doesn It
see what makes him so cross. Another won
deis what makes him act so. Still another de-
clares that he must be sick. The photograph
er then comes to the rescue. He has had ex-
perience in many just such cases and knows
what to do. He cannot do anything but what
is novelty to the baby, and he generally sue
ceeds in quieting the child and successfully
producing his likeness. He does it in the
midst of difficulties, though. He has all the
elderly attendants Of the baby to combat with
at first. They finally realize the fact that the
artist can do better without their efforts, and
as they 60 homeward one says:
Glow quickly he got the baby still. It's
perfectly wonderful. Some men do take to
children that way and can do anything they
want with them. I don't wonder they take
all their babies to him to have their pictures
taken.'
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
MARCEL 80, 1873

utes at Fair Oaks. The first bullet entered
his left arm the second gave him scalp
wound the third hit him in the foot the
fourth buried itself in his shoulder /; the fifth
entered his right leg. While he was being
carried to- the rear, the first two men who took
him were killed. While his wounds were be-
ing dressed, an exploded shell almost buried
him under an avalanche Of dirt. In being re-
moved farther to the rear, a runaway ambu-
lance horse carried him half mile and dump
hearty, and walks without limp.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

THE CHINESE BAMBOO. "A bamboo, he it
said, can be put to more uses than any other
thing Of the vegetable kind in the world.
What would our opposite neighbors in the Ce-
lestial empire do without it It Is employed
for every conceivable, beside some inconceiva-
Bile purposes, on land and water, and even in
the air for kites are made of 1t, and SO are
the queer little whistles bound to the tame
pigions to frighten cows from the grain fields.
It can be used in the whole cane, in strips, in
threads or in segments, and no part comes
amiss. The tubes are suitable for water-pipes,
and so it answers for aqueducts tits so strong
that foot bridges are constructed Of it, and
light enough for RATS so available that a
whole house can be built of it-the frame, the
lattices, the ttatch, the partitions land it
furnishes material for the tables and chairs,
and some Of the utensils and decorative arti-
cles ; it is SO hard that knives are made from
thin slices, and SO delicate that it may be
carved into the daintiest of boxes, and even
thimbles and necklaces so elastic that baskets
are woven Of it, so fibrous that it may be twist
ed into ropes and cordage. 1t supplies lining
for the chests of tea, strands for fishing-nets,
strips for fans and canes stiff enough for oars
and spears and palanquin poles. 1t is one of
the four things without which China would be
China no longer; rice for food, tea for drink,
silk for wear, and bamboo for everything.
There are said to be more than sixty varieties
of this wonderful thing, which is neither grass
nor tree, yet is in structure like grass /; while
it grows in dense groves, liketrees, and shoots
up to height Of even one hundred and fifty
feet, and is nothing after all but hollow,
jointed reed. ''n' t". -'.. .t',',
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

MISTAKEN KINDNEss.-Every one has read
the story of that down-East woman who, when
entertaining her pastor at tea, poured 50 much
molasses into his cup (she could not afford the
luxury of sugar that he demonstrated, where
upon she assured him that if it were "all mo-
lasses it would not be bit too good for him. :"
Through the very kindness of her heart she
erred. Now there are great many people like
this worthy woman. They will not allow their
guests to cry enough" Their habit of Cheap
ing" food, and giving a little and considerable
more than is asked for, has nothing to be said
in it's favor, and great deal against it. I'm
less one has strong, firm appetite that only
an earthquake or tempest could affect, q
large quantity of food is appalling. 1t is
much pleasanter to send ones plate to have it
replenished, than to be obliged to leave food
upon the plate. In order to clear the plate
one is prone to over eat, from the idea of say
ing the food. Economy does not signify a
lack of plentifulness or stinginess 1t means
enough for each and all, and nothing is wasted,
and when food is served in over-abundance,
waste must be the result, unless, indeed, the
surplus is gathered together again-tbe simple
idea of which is disgusting. Moreover, it is
comfort to get just what one asks for-if
"half a cup of tea," that much and no more.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

AN INJURIOUS Practice The practice of
keeping children after school hours, as pun
ishment, has nothing to recommend it. Pret-
ty nearly every school house in the land is thus
turned into a penitentiary, in which children
are immured every day, some. Of them for i'm
perfect recitatiops, for faults Of department.
This method of punishment might, if the
teachers were all judicious, be resorted to oc-
casionally with good effect ; but teachers are
not all judicious, and thousands Of children
are thus detained every day, to whom the de-
For some trihing breach Of order, like turning
in the seat or dropping pencil, for some small
failure in recitation, or similar trifie which
can scarcely be called fault at all, the chill
dren are shut up in the school houses, some
times during the intermission, often after the
close Of school. Thousands of children in
health, to whom the regular school hours are
too long, are permanently injured by tfissys-
tenn of confinement;
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30
MANIFESTATIONS OF FEAR.

It is said that the Emperor Charles the
Fifth, reading an epitaph. 'Here lies one
who never knew fear" remarked, ''then he
never snuffed candle with his fingers" 1t
Is certainly somewhat absurd, though IA
vorite claim for popular hero, that 'he new
er knew fear" No one possessing human
nerves and brain could say this with truth.
That brave man never yields to the emotion
may be true enough but to say that at no pc
riod of his life he experienced fear is simply
impossible. As Lord Lytton expresses it:
ut shames man not to feel mans mortal fear,
It shames man only If that fear subdue."
There is story Of young recruit in the
Thirty Years. War going into action for the
first time in his life in the highest spirit :
"Look at JOHANN remarked one Of his COM
rades as the troops were drawn up ready to
charge, che is full Of jokes; how brave he Is. "
'Not at ALL" replied the veteran addressed {;
che knows nothing of what is coming. You
and L, old comrades, are far braver we sit
still on our horses, though we are terribly
afraid.'
Fear certainly is one Of the most irrational
of the passions. 1t is not always excited by
the presence of danger. Men who can be cool
and collected in cases of real peril will tremble
at some fanciful alarm. The Duke Of Schom.
berg could face an enemy with ready courage,
but fled from room if he saw a cat in 1t. A
very brave French officer tainted at the sight
of mouse. The author of the Turkish Spy''
states that if he had sword in bis hand he
would rather encounter a lion in the desert
than be alone in room with spider. Many
people have similar fanciful antipathies, which
excite their fears in a manner real danger
would be powerless to do. Fear of infection
is dread that embitters the lives of many
sensible people. There is legend of an Eas-
tern dervish, who, knowing that the Plague
was about to visit a certain city, bargained
with the disease that only specified number
of victims should fall. When twice the num-
Der perished, the Plague explained it's appa-
rent breach Of contract by asserting "Fear
killed the rest" In all times of epidemics
doctors can tell similar tales. During the
Great Plague of 1866, an unfortunate man
died purely from fright practical joker who
met him in the street pretended to discover the
fatal ''spots'' upon him, and the poor man
went home and died, not Of the disease, but OF
sheer terror A long obituary list might be
compiled of the victims of fear from the
criminal in the Middle Ages, who, reprieved
after he had laid his head on the block, was
found to have died ere the axe could touch
him down to the poor nun mentioned by
Horace Walpole, whose disreputable abbess
literally Enlightened her to death'' by visiting
her at night and telling her that she was dy-
ing.-London Daily Neacs.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

HOME EDUCATION.-The mother, unwil-
ling to subject her six-year-old boy to the
impure air, bad light and other evil influences
sometimes found about the rooms, grounds,
and eut-buildings of the school, though her
self unable to add q ledger column with accu-
racy and dispatch, yet teaches him to count,
and write small numbers. She tears from
some old arithmetic, a leaf containing easy,
properly graded examples in addition without
answers-as, for instance, pages II aud IL OF
Fetter's practical arithmetic; and, by some
reward, trifling in value, perhaps, but priced
by the child, induces him to add the examples
until he does it accurately and rapidly. Then
Jhe gives him the next two pages, but only
when they are fully mastered, the next and so
on, until at length--it may not be till after
two or three years-the child has mastered
thirty pages Of examples, and is able to add
long examples on the 10th page with as much
ease and accuracy as he can count ten, and
would be trusted by his father to foot up his
ledger pages Under the mothers supervis-
ion, with very little instruction on her part
ut the beginning, she furnishes examples for
nm incentive to practice !; the child has learned
by practice to do what she cannot possibly do,
and will probably never be able to do; what
few high school graduates or teachers can do
namely, to add columns of figures Of whatever
length with accuracy and rapidity. mi ,,i,, f,..
The mother has in this case done the very
best kind of teaching Though she has SEEM
ed to do but little, she has induced the child
to do great deal, always in the right direc-
tiOn, and with such gradual progress from
shorter examples to longer ones as to make as
sistance almost unnecessary. >. . r.,r,..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

The MORMON TEMPLE.-The Salt Lake
Ne,os calls the attention of the tithe-payers to
the fact that the walls of the temple are now
up about sixty eight feet, which it considers
splendid thing. Taking this as a abasesfeE es-
Inmates, the people who contribute every
month for the temple fund can figure how long
it will take to run it up to one hundred feet,
the height laid down in the specifications. 1t
has now been nearly thirty years since the tenn
ple was started. Only seven courses Of stone
we're laid this year. Now the question for the
Aeople who pay the monthly tax for the temple
fund to consider is, how much it cost to lay
the seven courses as compared to the amount
put up. At the last semi-annual conference,
in the midst of all the old musty financial re-
ports handed in, there was no mention what
ever made of the Salt Lake Temple fund.
President Taylor dismissed the matter in his
easy, off-hand way, by saying, Brothers, we
don't exactly know how the temple fund
stands. There is no need of keeping any ac-
count There is the building going up before
your eyes, and you can all see for yourselves.
We will now sing the three hundred and thir-
ty-sixth hymn" Several millions of dollars
have already been dumped into the Salt Lake
Temple fund accohnt, and the people have
spent one hundred thousand dollars on it in
money so far; and the people who are sub
jected to the monthly assessments are not per-
mitted to know where the rest Of the money
goes to. .... . ..
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-30

We would not think it courteous" One add
ed. "When women insist on this as right,
YOU may be sure it is not love that prompts it !;
it is suspicion. I have tried to be equitable
toward my husband in all my married life, to
trust him with the grave consideration due to
any gentleman. especially to man with high
public trusts. do not want to know the Sc
crets of the men who confide in his discretion.
There are thousand ways of nagging hus-
band this among the most fruitful Of all l
have studied to avoid them" This was given
with modest dignity in answer to my asking
her the secret Of her fresh and youthful looks,
though the mother Of grown-up daughters,
and the companion secret Of her husbands
love-like and proverbial devotion to her.
The FIRST YEAR.-In all cases, the first
year of married life is most trying. Either
party may start by expecting too much of the
other, forgetting that life is real and earnest
business, and that life ought to be more prof.
tably employed than in always making tender
speeches or indulging in a gushing fondness.
These expectations or tendencies are sure to
result in disappointment and yexation, but
they are errors that will be quickly got over.
The kindly tone and tender look Of intercourse,
the constant endeayor to please and crafty,
and the ever ready sympathy, will early be
recognized as the fruits Of true affection,
and be received in loving sympathy by a kin
dred sentiment. It is woman's place to
make home attractive as it is mans to pro-
vide for and remain in it. A young husband
cannot retain the freedom Of bachelor with
the benefits of settled home. He has serious
and responsible duties to perform has to Sc
cure the comforts and well being Of the woman
who has confided her happiness to his care, to
seek her sympathy and confidence, to avoid
neglect, or the seeming to prefer, much more
the preferring, the company Of others to hers;
to contribute to her intellectual culture, to
ease her burdens, and in all things to be her
guide and support. He must bear in mind
that the society Of those who were his compan-
ions in youth, and early manhood must now be
enjoyed at his own home, and that the hunting
for pleasure in his former hannts will leave
a dearth of it at his own ireside. Duties,
professional or business gatherings, will call
him away often enough, but of these absences
no real wife will complain. Pleasure parties
which are unsuitable for his wife are equally
unsuited to him. She should be his compan-
ion always, both at home and abroad. -
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WIVES AS PARTNERs.-Emma Jones, in

WIVES AS PARTNERs.--EmmaJ Jones, in a
Washington letter to the albany Aamad Ig
something here about wives as unreserved
partners in their husbands correspondence,
and uice rersa, because often hear it discussed
here. 1t was brought home to me of late, by
chance remarks Of two Of the happiest wives
and best bred women have ever met. Each
said to me, on a separate occasion, 'My hus-
band and never open each others letters.