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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
TESTIMONIES TO GENICS.

The New York correspondent of the Ro-
chester Democrat writes The fact that Burns
"Cotter's Saturday Might" and also Poe's
"Bells" have each been published as gift books,
profusely and elegantly illustrated, is one of
those testimonies of genius which so generally
come too late The lives Of these authors were
brief and miserable. Burns died at thirty
seven and Poe was but year older. Burns
last days were passed in extreme poverty, ag-
gravated by intemperance, and the closing
scenes were marked by extreme distress. Foe,
on the other hand, died of intoxication in a
lookup at Baltimore, having been picked up as
tramp. This was done on the eve OF elec-
tion for the purpose Of securing him as vo-
ter. When the time came to Gberate him he
was found dead, and it was then learned that
the unfortunate man was one of the leading
authors of the day. Such incidents, however,
are so frequent in the annals Of genius that
they only awaken momentary surprise. The
tCotter's Saturday Night'' is not one of
Burns best productions, neither is the ''Bells'
the best of Poe's, but they are available for
the artist and this explains the selections.
The popularity of Burns is due to his power
over the emotional nature, while that of Poe
is found in his skill in the speciality ofmystery,
in which he is unequaled. Another striking
instance of posthumous popularity is found in
Coleridge's "Ancient Mariner" This book
has been more frequently issued in illustrated
editions than any other of its day, and yet
when it first appeared it was complete fail
ure. It was published in volume Of ''Lyri-
cal Ballads" written by Wordsworth and
Coleridge, and an edition Of 500 copies was
more than found purchasers. Wordsworth as
cribed the failure of the work in no small de-
gree to the "Ancient Mariner" which, he
said, nobody understood. The public, howev-
er, has continued to appreciate this wonderful
production which is now illustrated by the ge-
MUS of Dore, while Wordsworth has continued
to drop into obscurity until he is rarely men-
toned, while his works are hardly known even
by name
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02


How TO USE Your NAPKIN AT DINNER.
The law Of the napkin is but vaguely under
stood. One Of our esteemed metropolitan CO.
temporaries informs an eager inquirer that it
is bad form to fold the napkin after dinner;
that the proper thing is to throw it with negl-
gent disregard on the table beside the plate, as
to fold it would be reflection on the host,
and imply familiarity that would not beft an
invited guest. But the thoughtful reader will
agree with US that this studied disorder is like
ly to be a good deal more trying to fastidious
hostess than an unstudied replacing Of the
napkin in good order beside the visitors plate.
The proper thing is to fold the fabric with un-
ostentatious care and lay it on the left of the
plate far from the liquids, liquors and coffee,
and thus testify to the hostess that her care in
preparing the table has been appreciated:
The napkin has played famous parts in the
fortunes of men and women. 1t was one OF
the points admired in Marie Stuart that, thanks
to her exquisite breeding in the court OF Marie
de Medici, her table was more imposing than
the full court of her great rival and execution
er, Elizabeth. At the table Of the latter the
rudest forms were maintained, the dishes were
served on the table, and the great Queen helped
herself to the platter without fork or spoon,
page standing behind her with silver ever to
bathe her fingers when the flesh had been torn
from the roasts. At the court of the late
empire, Eugene was excessively fastidious.
The use of the napkin and the manner of eat
ing an egg, made or ruined the career of
guest. The great critic, Sainte Beuve, was
disgraced and left off the visiting list because,
ut breakfast with the Emperor and Empress,
at the Tuilleries, he carelessly opened his nap
kin and spread it over his two knees and cut
his egg in two in the middle. The court eti-
quette prescribed that the half folded napkin
should lie on the left knee to be used in the
least obtrusive manner il. touching the lips,
and the egg was to be merely broken on the
larger end with the edge of the spoon and
drained with it's tip. The truth is luxury and
invention rush table appliances so far that few
can be expected to know the particular con-
vention that may be considered good form in
any diversified society. The way for young
fellow to do is to keep his eyes open-which,
unless he is in love, he can do-and note what
others do
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02

lB Typographical errors are fruitful source
Of mischief as well as of fun. When man
telegraphed to his agent concerning certain
stock "No-price too high" he was nearly
ruined because the clerk at the ticker wrote
it, mo price too high" It was mere mat
ter of punctuation, but it caused one pocket
book, at least, to collapse.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02


the effort.
s'What has happened ?" she asked, in Won
dering tones, as an exclamation of deep graft
tude, coupled with term Of endearment
which, at the moment, he could not repress,
escaped his lips.
"You were thrown from your horse; your
head is hurt. Don't try to move yet," he an
swered, trembling with the endeavor to con-
troll his emotion, and already anxious to atone
for his indiscretion, which he trusted she had
not noticed.
Am badly hurt I don't feel so. i am
only little giddy, think, she said, slowly
putting her hand to her forehead. WHAT'S
this Water ?"
"a wet bandage-don't touch it, I beg. 1t
was tied there to stop the bleeding. have
sent for a conveyance, which will soon be here.
Are you sure you are not otherwise hurt ~
|! sNo. am all safe," she answered, slight
ly moving her limbs as if to assure herself of
the fact. "Please help me to my feet, Mr..
Erskine ; I am sure can stand"
'And am almost sure you can not ; how
ever, you shall try"
She did succeed, though not without diff
Guilty, in regaining her feet, with his aid but
was soon glad to have him support her to
seat on the spreading roots of tree close by,
where she could lean back her head, and thus
await in comparative ease the arrival OF the
expected conveyance from the hotel.
Mr.. Erskine could not calmly stand by and
look at her. He walked restlessly up and
down, picturing to himself all the while how
he should have felt if she had been killed-if
those beautiful eyes had never Enclosed. to
reassure him with their soft glances again.
The accident had completely unnerved him.
In fact he was more shaken by it than Sophy
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now where to find it. In my vest pocket-the
gray one-you will find some keys; one of those
unlocks the secretary down stairs in the back
parlor In the secretary to the left, is pri-
vate drawer press the spring and it will open,
and in it you will find the document in ques-
ton, tied up with red tape"
every good, "said the Captain. "Anything
else ?'
Eyes. When was talking to Saunders,
the other evening-whenever it was, for I've
lost count of the time-I forgot entirely to
hand him little sum I had put aside, all
ready for him, to defray some expenses of that
boy of his. Will you kindly give it to him for
me It's in my desk. Ifyou can let him have
it to-morrow-or to-day, is it it looks like
morning-I'll be much obliged"
s'Your wish shall be obeyed."
"Another thing" continued Mr.. Erskine,
speaking more slowly, after pause, II have
a message Toto little Sophy-if don't see
her again"
Another pause.
"What is it 90 asked the Captain.
''Gve her, please, my love-my very best
love. Tell her" The sick man hestated
again, as if casting about for suitable form
of words. "Tell her." he went on, ''that
beg she will never let the remembrance of any
thing that has passed between us cast cloud
over her friendly recollection of me that I
want her to remember me as one whose only
aim was to secure her happiness, who never
meant by word or deed to cause her pain. Can
YOU do this for me 20
"Of course 1 can," replied the Captain.
"But 1 don't see your reason for sending
such message Sophy thinks the world and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
0rigiual goetrg.
Written for the Yorkville Enquirer.
ROTH HOPES AND FLOWERS FADE.
BY ASAPH.

BY AsAPH.
How many flowers bloom;
How many of them fade,
And find an early tomb
Before the fruit is made!
Thus human hopes arise
And suddenly depart,
And sting rs by surprise,
And fill with grief tho heart
And yet there is cline
In some far distant realm
Beyond the bounds of time;
But where. there's none can tell
Where nothing knows decay
Or touch of sims dark blight,
Nor beauty fadesa
But ever grows more bright!
Oh! beauteous land of rest,
Where no change or SORROWS come
To heave the immortal breast,
In the pure spirits home!
Oh ! thither would I fly,
And join those gone before,
And there with those on high,
Rejoice for ever more!
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02

ley. Four of these furnaces were then in op-
Grafton, producing in the year named l,b8
tons Of charcoal iron, but three others had
been ''out of repair for twenty years" and
the remaining furnace had been abandoned.
In 1856 there were also three small rolling
mills in the State-one on Pacolet river, in
Spartanburg county one on Broad river, in
Union county and one on the same river, in
York county. At the first two of these mills
dry wood was used in the pudding aud heat
ing furnaces
In 1856 the three mills made 1,210 tons of
bar iron and nails. In the same year there
were also in South Carolina two bloomaries,
one connected with the rolling mill in Union
county, and the other connected with the roll
ing mill in York county. Their joint product
was $40 blooms. But South Carolina no longer
makes iron. Every iron producing establish
ment in the State isto-day silent, and has been
silent for many years, and all are in more or
less dilapidated condition. South Carolina
furnishes the only instance in the history OF
the country of State having wholly abandon
ed the manufacture of iron.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-03-02
YOUNG MEN BEGINNING BUSINESS.

An eventful day is it for the youth who be-
gins to work for his own living. The days Of
school or college are over, and the toll of book
study is to be exchanged for the steady en-
ployment of store or Office or factory. For
months or years the young man has been look
ing forward to this day, perhaps with high am
bition. It is the critical time of his whole
career. On the way in which he begins busi-
ness depends much Of his failure or success in
manhood. If he has been petted boy with
plenty of leisure time and holiday enjoyment,
the life on which he now enters presents some
features which are in lively contrast with his
past experience .......
Perhaps the boy has gone to be with sharp
and grasping employer, VINO Wlli WORK \, MN MN
from seven or eight in the morning until well
in the evening hours, giving him only very
few dollars week for his service. Common
fame says that there are such men in the world
and that some Of them expect an underpaid
and overworked boy to render as much service
as an able bodied and fairly paid man. Per-
haps it is because such men know how it was
in their own boyhood, when they did hard
work for poor pay, that they want to take it
out of the boys Of the present generation and
teach them to bear burdens. 1t is an unpleas-
ant experience for young men to bear bur
dens which are too heavy or too hard. Yet 1t
fits him for other burdens which he must bear
during manhood. Nobody who is OF any ac-
count ever got along without bearing some
burdens and enduring many very disagreeable
things, The more clearly the young man un-
derstands this when he sets out on his business
career the surer is his road to prosperity.
There are boys and young men who are be-
ginning business who think that because their
pay is small their work is of little Importance.
Therefore they perform their duties in slip
shod manner, caring little as to whether they
give satisfaction or not. A youth who thus
conducts himself stands in the way of his own
advancement. He has a very narrow view OF
the possibilities in store for him in the coming
years. He who has keen eye to the future
will look sharply and closely to the interests OF
his employer, for in doing so he is regarding
his own. The lad who is prompt, accurate,
polite and trustworthy has good show for ad-
vancement almost anywhere, for there are
plenty of careless and lazy fellows who will al
ways be found standing aside so that he can
march them past.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15

Stinson, German farmer living near Monroe,
Wis. He confessed that he did the killing in
the woods while they were hunting, and that
It was agreed beforehand with The victims
wife that he should commit the deed and then
marry her.
SURGEON GENERAL WALES, who has
charge of the National Museum of Hygiene,
recently authorized by Congress, is preparing
to open the museum for the benefit of the pub
lie. He will probably cause the establishment
of National exposition upon sanitary and hy-
gienic subjects next year. A large number of
very valuable contributions were recently
made, including works upon hygiene from
DIR. A. n. Bell, of New York, late Passed AS
sistant Surgeon OF the United States Navy.
A large collection OF illustrated food products
a fine collection illustrative of perfect aud de-
fective sewerage have been presented by Prof.
Baird.
JAMES B. SHERIDAN, of New York,
has been appointed Pardon Clerk of the De-
partment of Justice at Washington, and
James Ranken Young of Philadelphia, Sc
lected to succeed Mr. Millikin as Chief Clerk.
The Major Opera House, Buhr's Ho-
tel, Lee & Mangans' livery stable and several
dwellings were des royed by fire at Frankfort,
KY, on the 11th. Loss, $4,000. The fire was
caused by the carelessness OF a negro puttiug
away hay with lighted pipe in his mouth.
A SANTA ANNA, Cal, dispatch of the
1lth says that Josiah B. Smith, fisherman
OF that place, murdered his fourteen-y car old
son by cutting his throat. He and his wife
were insane on religious subjects and claim
that the Lord commanded the sacrifice.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15
The Puritan Migration.

The 21 900 English Puritans who came
over to New England before the meeting
of the Long Parliament have now in
creased tonearlY 13, ,000,0 600. According
to the most careful estimates, at least
one-fourth of the whole population of
the United States at the present moment
is descended from these men. Striking
as this fact may seem, it is perhaps less
striking than the fact of the original mi
grafton when we stop to contemplate it
in its full meaning. In these times,
when great steamers are sailing every
day from European ports, bringing hun
dreds of emigrants to country which is
at least as far. advanced in material civil
lization as the country which they leave,
the arrival of q thousand new citizens
each day has come to be commonplace
event. But in che seventeenth century
the transfer of 81 900 well-to-do people
within twenty years from their comfort.
able homes in England to the American
wilderness was by no means a common
place event. 1t assumed somewhat the
character of the migration of a who e
people. In the quaint thought of some
of our forefathers themselves it was sptly
likened to the exodus of Isreal from the
Egyptian house of bondage.-John Fiske
in Harpers Magazine for December.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15
A Substitute for Black Walnut.

Black Birch, which is rapidly. coming
into favor, is q close-grained and very
handsome wood, and can be easily STAIN
ed TO resemble walnut exactly. 1t is just
as easy to work and is suitable for near
ly, if not all, the purposes to which black
walnut is at present applied. Birch is
much the same color as cherry, but the
latter wood is now very scarce, and con-
sequently dear. 1t is difficult thing to
obtain cherry at $50 per 900 feet, while
birch wood can be had at any saw mill
at 81 per thousand. When properly
stained it is almost impossible to distin-
guish the difference between it and wall
nut, as it is susceptible of beautiful
polish equal to any wood now used l.
the manufacture of furniture. In the
forests throughout Ontario, birch grows
in abundance, especially if the land is
not too boggy. There is great differ
ence in the wood of different sections.
Where the land is high and dry the wood
is firm and clear; but if the land is low
anu wet the wood has q tendency to be
soft, and often of blush color. In all
the Northern regions it can be found IN
great abundance, and as the tree grows
to great size, little trouble is experienced
in procuring it in large quantities.-To-
ronto Globe.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15

Ar the Louisville Convention, by request
of the President, Miss Willard, Mrs. w. A.
Ingham, of Cleveland, read paper ON the
Origin and History of the Woman's Na-
tional Christian Temperance Union. 1t
originated at Chatauqua in August, 1874,
as many of our readers will remember, and
the suggestion came from Mrs. Matte Nc
Clellan Brown, of Alliance, Ohio. Mrs.
Brown, together with Mrs. Jennie F. VIII
ling, Of Illinois, Mrs. G. w. Manly, of
Akron, and Mrs. Ingham, of Cleveland, ar
ranged the preliminaries for the:first meet
ing during the Assembly, and the organ
izing convention was appointed then and
held at Cleveland, o., in November of that
year. Forty States andITerritories are now
represented, and the Union has thirty three
Departments and sixteen hundred Auxil-
liaries, and in nearly all parts of the world
the power and influence of this woman's
temperance movement is felt and acknowl-
edged.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15

potent. Its effect was intensified by the
other frauds and forgeries which actually
reversed the attitude ofthe State Committee
and thus controlled the organization ofthe
Convention. Then came the Incredible
folly of putting the most odious machine
politician in New York at the head of the
new State Committee, to manage the cam
paign. The same insolence of the machine
that prompted this came out in the brazen
boast that they didn't care what the dis
satisfied Republicans thought they could
have million dollars TO elect this ticket.
Their folly degenerated into idiocy when
they put up Howard Carroll for Congress
man-at-large. Then the reverse in Ohio
weakened them; and Pennsylvania and
New York acted on each other, each max
ing the trouble in the other worse. 1t
must be admitted, too, that Mr.. Folger did
not prove good candidate. His letter of
acceptance was unfortunate. His letter
about the influence of Republican defeat
on Wall Street was worse. His loss of his
own county produced bad impression,
anu his hOiulnS On " MS PioSS oe " s@on-
ington deepened it. But, after all, the one
controlling cause of the defeat was the
same here, in Pennsylvania and elsewhere.
The people will not tolerate Boss rule,
whether in President or his underlings
and they wish Mr.. Arthur to take notice
of their displeasure. Well will il be for
him if he have the wisdom to do it.
as the party hopelessly injured by this
process of disciplining its Bosses' We do
not think So Can it pull together again in
time for 1884? We do not have a doubt of
it. The organization that is strong enough
to venture on yesterdays work is strong
enough, and wise enough, and united
enough yet to rule the country. Its chances
for 1884 are better for the results of 1882. +"
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15
Where to Settle.

This question has been sent me by 60
many, am bound to give it attention.
My advice to every man who is doing
comfortably well where he is; who with
his family, needs no change ON account
of climatic influences; who has no money
to waste experimenting to see whether
change would suit, to remain content
edly where he is.
But visit the West before you deter
mine to break up the home East. Every
change is at first attended with financial
loss, and most costly of all, sacrifice
of the tender associations which cling
about the place we have always known
as home. Then, too, we are apt to select
the most brilliant colors with which to
tint the picture of Imagination, and
when the duller shades of reality present
themselves, as they are sure to do when
the reaction from excitement comes, the
roses fade from our picture and gloom
settles for time upon it. 1t needs a
brave heart, a strong, earnest determin-
alton to be contented, to carry any one
through the first year in q new home,
far away from all acquaintances of the
past. Given these and few can fail to
noAe iOi 1ncIhsoircs q piodsdnts PIosPSi-
Gus home here. But do not count upon
having roses strewn In your paths, or
tiumpets sounded to lead you on to the
delectable hills. Every man is for him
self here as much as elsewhere. In some
instances, ho doubt, persons go away
who can honestly say, II was stranger
and they took me in,'" but if you keep
your eyes open and don't start out with
the belief that you know it all, and lit
tie more, you hold as good q hand as
other players in the game of life.-L. d
c., in the Cincinnati Commercial.
The Wellington enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 1867-188?, 1882-11-15

''Do hogs payf" asks one of our edi-
torial brethren, whose work is an effort
to solve agricultural and such problems.
Not TO any great extent, dear brothei.
They attend church month after month,
but when asked to help support the
preacher, don't pay; that is, hogs don't.
They take a newspaper and read till at
least three new pair of spectacles are
worn out, yet don't pay. They borrow
all manner of things of neighbors, but
they don't pay, They live in the vicinity
of free lunch counters, but don't pay.
The production of pork is quite often
profitable to those engaged therein, but
hogs don't pay.-Exchange