Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1882-07-20

the open side, he will dash in with a squeak of
delight and can be captured before he discov-
ers that his harbor Of refuge has been block
aded.-Ldppiacot, e
WOMANHOOD AND PROVERBS.
There is one proverb in 'sDon Quixote''
wherein all the old higll-bred Spanish courtli-
ness (which was quite a different thing from
the Teutonic reference for womanhood) is
briefly and Enthusiastically expressed. We
cannot resist quoting it in the original: Ell
consejo de la mjer es POGO, gel que no ton,a es
TOGO. ''The counsel of a woman is not worth
much, but he who does not take it is worth
nothing"
In Puttenhams "Art of English Poetry,"a "a
curious and interesting work, published about
the end of the sixteenth century, the author,
speaking of the tender heartedness of the fe-
male sex in general, alludes to the common
proverb, "a woman will weepe for pitie to see
a gosling goe barefoote." There must have
been touch of real humor about the orgina-
tor of this ancient proyerb, ridiculing, but
nevertheless loving, the prodigality OF tender
ness which caused him such amusement.
Among the notes to the third chapter of his
"IIistory of England, Lord Macaulay alludes
to the vulgar prOverb "that the gray mare is
preference generally given, in the seventeenth
century, to the gray mares of Flanders, over
the finest coach horses of England.
In George Herbert's "Jacula Prudentum," ,"
there are many proverbs which are descriptive
of the lives and qualities of women. Among
others we select the following Empty cham
bers make foolish maids,"a proverb which,
like so many Others, Only eXpresSesa half truth;
for we are willing to believe that some very
wise little maidens have grown into woman-
hood like mOorland blossoms, which only the
grouse. and the adder, and the humble bee
have looked on but "foolisIl" is no doubt
used here in its tersignihcance Of bashful,
in which case the prOVe"b is of course true
one.
"a fairwifeand a fronties castle breed quar-
rels" reads like the sigh of some baronial Ben
edict, who fruitlessly 5hirsted after quetness
in the weary ages Of warfare. mills and
wives ever want'' was no doubt the miserly
conclusion of some mediaval Harpagon: one
can almost recognize the snap with which it
was uttered in tile laconc brevity of the
phrase. 'Who lets his wife 60 to every feast,
and his horse drink at every water, shall neitll-
er have good wife nor good horse" was posi-
bly, the self-exculpaton of Il martinez, who re-
ally objected to the extravaganza Of his help
meets festal garments, but succeeded in per-
suading himself aud his acquaintance that he
was IL very pattern Of magnanimity, exercising
4 iudicious rule over Che morals of his SUBJ
miSSve spouse.
Sin choosing wife and buying sword one
ought not to trust another" Here one de-
tects shade of bitterness the proverb was
probably spoken by one who had tried the same
experiment rs Milton lin his third marriage)
but without Milton's good fortune; possibly
owing to the selection of a less discreet advi-
SER 'In the husband wisdom, in the wife
gentleness." Here we recognize bachelors
ideal it was evidently composed by young
man who was well assured of his personal sap
ience, and desirous of discovering in his bet
ter halfn the high priestess who should assist
him in burning perpetual incense before the
shrine Of that celestial wisdom.
''Choose house made and wife to make" :"
said some strong-minded gentleman, who flat
tered himself that he had moulded the clarac-
ter of the girl whom he had married, who very
probably all the willie had gained entire ascen-
dency over him in essentials by tattering his
weak point of moulding her in non-essentials
The Queen.
EGYPTIAN MUMMIEs.- As for the Theban
fellah mummy-hunting is his hereditary Vo-
cation. He passes his life in digging, finding,
hiding and selling his home is al empty
sepulchre; his shirt is made of mummy cloth :;
his childrens' playthings and his wires orla-
ments are spoils from the dead. His fore
fathers have subsisted for generations by this
equivocal industry, and his descendants Will
sul,sist by it for who shall say how many gene
rations to come? Even now after centuries
of spoliation, the soil needs only to be dug Il
little deeper in order that the spade may strike
or IF II,
true of a mine so long and persiStently work
ed as the metropolis Of Thebes, what must be
the sppulchral wealth of thousands Of other
burial fields. some partially and some wholly
uncXplored ? To this day the mountain ranges
and shifting sands of Egypt conceal some
hundreds Of millions of munmicS, DR.. Blrcll-
counting from B. c., 200O, when mummfl-
cation was supposed to have been first prac-
ticcd, down to \. D. 700, when it may I've
said to have Observation-Disclosures the approXi-
mate number of bodies embalmed during that
period at 420,O00,0O0. But recent eXplora,
tions among the pyramids of Sakkara, and
the discovery of the mummied corpse OF KING
Merena with Dynasty, must henceforth COM
pel us to ascribe Il much earlier date for the
beginning of the art. | would venture, in fact,
to carry it back to B. c., $500, or even to B..
G. 1000, so assigning a period Of 400 years
for the observance of the process, and approx
imately estimating the gross number OF num-
mics of all epOchs at not less than 3,OO0,
OUO-a gigantic total. Yet when it is remem-
bered that the rites of mummification were
performed not only for Egyptian man, woman
and child, gentle or simple, but for every
stranger, no matter what his nationality or
religion, for every captive, for every slave,
for every criminal, for every leper and outcast,
this presumed total of 731, ,000, 600 falls probl-
bly, far short of the actual number-Hdrper' s
Magazine.
A LApLAND SNOw-STORM.-In one of his
Journeys in sleigh drawn by reindeer, Paul
du Chaillu WAS overtaken by Il Lapland snow
storm. His route carried him across a rough
mountainous country, where the wind blew
with the force of Il hurricane and the mercury
approached zero He says:
The tine snow flew so thickly that at times
tile atmosphere became almost dark. | could
not even see my own animals. The fine snow
dust was getting through the open spaces OF
the mask into my eyes.
The small particles then adhered to each
other, gathering on my moustache, eyebrows,
evelashes and hair, and at last forming a
mask of ice which blinded me.
Every few minutes l had to break this that
would be able to see. The ice was scarce
ly removed when it would form again, causing
me great pain whenever broke it.
Suddenly through the mist discovered what
appeared to he the figures of reindeer and
men They were standing still, afraid to move
farther and my animal stopped in their midst.
l shall never forget how the storm ragged as
we lay by Il rock with our backs to the wind.
For three hours we remained still, frequently
almost buried, the thermometer being at fif-
teen degrees below zero.
The description answers well to description
of blizzard in the Northwest, in our own
cnnntry in which the wind pnYeriZes the