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

night. May be he will come to-day. He may
drop in for dinner ~ and the poor, trembling
hands prepare some favorite dish for him.
Dinner comes and goes, but John comes not
with it. Thus day after day, month after
month, year after year, passes, till at last,
s'hope deferred maketh the heart SICK" aye,
sick unto death the feeble arms are stretched
out no longer.
The dim eyes are closed, the gray hairs
smoothed for the last time, and the tired hands
are folded for everlasting rest, and the mother
waits no more on earth for one who comes
not. God grant that she may not, in vain,
wait for his coming in the heavenly home.
Once more say unto you, boys, go home If on
ly for a day. Let your mother know you have
not forgotten her. Next winter may cover
her grave with snow.
MAN AND INSECTS.
The only nerves (worth mentioning) in the
human body which are not under the con-
troll of the brain, are those of the heart and
other internal organs and over these parts, as
everybody knows, we have not any voluntary
power. But all our limbs and muscles are
moved in accordance with the impulses sent
down frcm the brain, so that for instance,
when have made up my mind to send a tele-
gram to friend, my legs take me duly to the
telegraph office, my hand writes the proper
message, and my tongue undertakes the neces-
sary arrangements with the clerk. But in
the insects body there is no such regular SUBJ
ordination of the parts composing the ner-
vOus system to a single central organ or head
office. The largest knot of nerve matter it is
true, is generally to be found in the neighbor-
hood of the sense organs, and it receives direct
nerve bundles from the eyes, attennB, mouth
and other chief adjacent parts but the wings
and legs are moved by separate knots of nerve
cells, connected by a sort of spinal cord with
the head, but capable Of acting quite lndepen-
IDENTIFY on their own account. Thus, If we cut
off wasp's head and stick it on needle in
front Of some sugar and water, the mouth
will greedily begin to eat the sweet syrup, ap-
parently unconscious of the fact that it has
lost it's stomach, and that the food is quietly
dropping out of the gullet at the other end as
fast as it is swallowed. So, too, if we decapi-
tate that queer Mediterranean insect, the pray
ing mantis, the headless body will stand catch
ing flies with it's outstretched arms, and fun
bling about for it's mouth when it has caught
one, evidently much surprised to find that its
head is unaccountably missing. In fact, what
ever may may be the case with man, the in
sect at least is really conscious automaton.
1t sees or smells food, and is at once impelled
by it's nervous constitution to eat it. 1t re-
ceives sense impression from the bright hue
of a flower, and it is irresistibly attracted to-
wards it, as the moth is to the candle. 1t has
no powers of deliberation, no ability even to
move it's own limbs in unaccustomed manners.
Its whole life is governed for it by its fixed
nervous constitution, and by the stimulations
it receives from outside. And so, though the
world probably appears much the same to the
beetle as to us, the nature of it's life is very
different It acts like piece OF clockWork
mechanism, wound up to perform a certain
number of fixed movements, and incapable of
ever going beyond the narrow circles for which
it is designed. .-Graat Allen, IN knowledge.
SINGLE WoMEN.-A clever old maid once
said that it was far better to be laughed at be-
cause you were not married, than not to be
able to laugh because you were. There IS
sound logic in that. 1t is well for woman to
marry if she meets good, true man, who loves
her, and whom she loves but if she be not
suited. better that she remain single. The
majority of old maids are helpful, loyeable and
sweet tempered, and fill their allotted niche as
acceptably as do their married sisters. Are
they not more to be honored than they would
have been had they merely married for home
or position Our young ladies have erroneous
ideas upon this subject. They feel almost dis
graced if they have arrived at mature age
and are not yet able to write Mrs. before their
names. Their whole ambition is to get hus-
band, by hook or crook but get him some
how they must. Consequently, they take the
first man that offers himself, whether he really
suits them or not.
Now, girls, do not marry in haste. Get the
best education possible, help about domestic
affairs, and enter upon some trade or profess
sion for which you have taste, and master it.
Skilled labor is always we'll paid. Don't spend
your time in repining because you cannot see
the coming man. If you never see him you
can live useful, happy lives. You think if you
had husband you would have a strong arm
on which to lean, sharer of sorrow and trou-
BILE. Alas many a slender woman has not
only had to stand alone, but serve also as
prop for children and husband and very few
wives find in their husbands all the sympathy
and companionship they desire. If you are
good for anything you will not be hurt by re-
manning single, neither will you be elevated by
becoming Johns wife. Do your duty in life,
and you will count for one in the world Wheth-
er you are married OF single.
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THE NEWSPAPER MAN.-The reason why
so few men, comparatively, succeed in jour
nalism is because so few have for it the tenn
permanent and the constitution. More than a
moiety of mankind is slow, lacking in alacrity,
and devoid of sense of proportion. The art
of putting things rapidly into shape is not we'll
understood by the public. This is the reason
why we have long-winded sermons, lectures
promotive of somnolency, and magazine work
which presupposes that longevity youchsafed
to the long-abiding old gentlemen and ladies
of the Old Testament.
The public is not inconSiderate-it is only
ignorant. The newspaper is mystery OF the
manufacture of which it knows hardly any
thing. Those who give to it the enthusiasm
of youth, the vigor of manhood and whatever
of wisdom and experience old age may have
brought with it, might have had an abiding
fame in this department of literature or the
other in the field of science, or the arena OF
public affairs Taste OF accident has betrayed
them into humble sphere of human exertion,
nor do they quarrel with their fortune. lie
who drifts into journalism rarely leaves it he
still plods on the daily toll which for him has
a rare fascination. Often there is no fame for
him. The cleverest newspaper man may be
utterly unknown, and not forgotten only pc
cause he has never been remembered. His
heart, however, is stout, at any rate; and
come competence, or the lack of it-come the
highest or the humblest postion-he still tolls
with irrepressible cheerfulness, and hopes,
when all is over with him, that his associates
who survive him will be reasonably sorry or
solemn at his funeral.
A DUN.-That debt is small one, to be
sure, and apparently not worth serious
thought Why not pay it then? Why be COM
pelled to suffer the modification of a dun
WHY not take that little thorn out of your
finger at once? 1t will tester if allowed to
and cause ten times the trouble. Why
not relieve the conscience Of that little load
You will feel better by doingit. You contract
cd tho doht knowinnlv and WillinQlY Did YOU