Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-06-22

and also picture or Aaron buFr, WHO utcdine
her second husband. Other works OF art
adorn it's walls combining the past and the
present in a very interesting manner.
TEXAS CArTLE.-Westward from Hous-
ton the country becomes drier, though there
is still much low prairie. All along the road
through this region one sees many cattle, and
soon learns the meaning of the accounts, so
often repeated, of cattle being able to ''live
out all winter, without feed or shelter"
They do live so; at least some of them do.
Many die from starvation. l saw their bodies
everywhere, and many of those still alive
were wretchedly emaciated. Hundreds OF
them were to use an expressive Southern
phrase, ''on the lift - that is when they laid
down they are so weak that they are unable to
get up; but if they were helped to get up they
could walk about and feed, until WEAKNESS
or weakness prompted them to lie down again,
when the process had to be repeated l saw a
great number of dead animals i'll the pools
and bitches, where they had come to drink,
al and being too weak to struggle through the
mud they had fallen into the water and been
drowned. The owners appeared generally
to hold the same cheerful philosophy with
man with whom talked at Corinth, Nissis-
sipp, who though he did not lose much when
hundreds of his sheep died from want of food
or shelter, because, as he said 1--WE git the
WOOL" So those Texas cattle men seemed
satisfied with the hides. Hundreds and
thousands of the cattle die when the grass
begins to Gomez so 1 was told everywhere.
Tie explanation is that the cattle, weak from
starvation and ravenOus with hunger, eat ex-
cessively of the fresh grass. They have no
'dry feed' to serve as a corrective, and the
surfeit of green food kills them. The whole
system and plan Of cattle-laising in this State
seems to me to be enormously wasteful, yet
the industry is a source Of wealth. 1t would
however, be much more profitable with better
methods; and as population becomes more
dense, and the rage of cattle circumscribed,
these will of necessity be adopted. Nearly
every pursuit in the South is to great ex-
tent carried on, or rather goes on, with SINH
lar wastefulness Of method and result OF
course no business thus managed produces so
much as it would if prosecuted with even
moderate energy, foresight and prudence. |
should not like to express my opinions upon
such matters 80 fOrcibly as Southern men
express theirs everywhere atlantic.
Go0D-HEARTED.-N was term more
generally abused than this one Spendthrifts,
lavish and oily-tongued persons are said to be
goOd-hearted, when in truth they never had
enough goodness within them to know the
meaning of the words-when they are abso-
lutely evi-hearted, and live their prodigal
life but for this false praise, and to figure as
leaders in the moral corruption of all with
whom they come in contact. The free spend
ing of money, constant self-praise, and Shiny
paIavering is too often allowed to cover the
sins of base and malicious person, without
realization of the cost. The cunning and
artful sinner is the worst of villains, and
should in either sex, be promptly turned over,
by all right minded people, to the criminal
sphere. in Justice to honesty and innocence.
It is very we'll to say one should steer clear
of the wiles of such people, and not be en-
shared by them, etc, but that should not IL
cense their deleterous influence, even if hold
ing ones self aloof from them would ensure
safety from their INJURIES which it does not.
Great flatterers are often really malicious peo-
ole. who gain their ends by the credulity OF
their Victims They prey upon the weak.
Yet their apparently, frank, open way, is
often taken for good-heartedness Continu
| ously lavish persons cannot well be good-heart-
ed: egotism is too prominent feature III
their character; they are neither friends to
| themselves nor anyone else they are too sell
! fish to spend their money in creditable mall
ner on themselves, but that would not matter
so much if, in spending it on others, they
would refrain from doing positive harm \
jovial spendthrift, Il cunning slanderer, or
other artful and evil-doer, should not be con-
sidered good-hearted for freely and recklessly
squandering his money. A man should not
be thought benevolent for having voluntarily
paid the expense of a nights revelry and de-
| baucl for himself and companions, when he
would probably not give a farthing to aid a
worthy one in distress, except such ones were
watching the act as would not fail to advertise
his gift. Let us not misplace the words good
hearted and thereby lessen their value
COSTLY DRESs.-The love of dress keeps ev-
erybody on the strain. The poor strain to keep
up with the well-to-do people the well-to-do
strain to keep up with the rich and she rich
strain terribly to keep up with one another.
The only ones exempt from the pressure are