Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-07-10

, An Eastern man will sit for hours inhain!
the perfume of Il sweet flower and rniuyin:
the music Of Il fountain (murmurng ut TIN
time Il chapter in the Koran, without stop
ping to understand its mrlning) and th'
beautiful objects of nature which Allah ha
. spread before him. He enjoys to-day, bu
. never thinks of preserving objects Whirl
please him in sculpture or painting, how
ever dear to him, for the sake of the pleas;
llrc they might give in the future. Th
their writer's call Il life rich in sensation. -
G'n,W L"'ig'* "("nu'dv"h'' .%'h'i'' il
ENvJh.'
One NAV have all the virtues, and pos
SrSS all the cndOWnlrntS which come from
the benign accidents of wealth and lineage
and yet want the one thing which will make
his life happy and successful. one OF the
curiouS things about such Il bereavement is
that the person whom nature has 30 impOv
criShrd hardly yer, end perhaps never
knows exactly y"what it is"--;,S that rrnoWn
cd ethical philosopher, Josh Billings, would
put it--"that ailS him. lie il Il man o
business, We will suppose, and is strictly
truthful and upright he fuItillS all his en-
gayrlIcntS to the very letter: he i pune
tllal and not Ovcr-cNacting; but hr docs not
have the art to please. He lacks, in short
tact. The stranger who comes to- trade with
him. if he is a merchant, may like the quail
ily Of his goods, and may not dislike hi-
prices but the situation, nevertheless. will
become uncomfortable i'm due time and be-
fore hr knows it the casual customer, whom
Il dealer with little tact would have easily
retained, goes across the street to fill his
subsequent orders.
We all know the preacher who lacks this
lubricltiny quality, and who rants about
matters that irrltatc persons rather than cS-
tablish principles, and who very soon comes
to grief in his parish. He has been scatter
ing dynamite in the most careless possible
way, and wonders why anybody is hurt,
and doesn't hear anything but the rebound
from the explosion.
TO the politician, tact means often Il posi-
! tive and indispensable capital in trade. 1t
! far Supcr>cdrS talent when it stands alone
by itself. 1t j. not probable that there is Il
single profession 50 dependent upon u
knowledge Of human nature as is the pol
tician'S. He must know everybody, and
know their dispositions is we'll. And the
very successful one manages to dO this, and
to enter into the various interests which en-
gage different men with an ease and alacrity
that reach the very summit of art, while the
absence of art is never doubted, or the skill
of the thing is not suspected. The pOliti-
clam who has tact does not let it desert him
the day after the election.
The want of tact in Il lawyer will often
lose him his case, no matter how gOOd it is
or how well read ne is in the law pertaining
to it. Before Il jury, the Gifts Of aGroitly
putting things 50 a. to chime with the feel
ing> and prciudicc- of twelve different men
j. all-imporAnt. 1t gives to the lawyer who
adds to Respectable talents this power, con-
Sumnatc Influence.
Tact in studying the feelings and peculiar
itic- Of his patients i one Of the prime rc-
Iu>itc~ of Il physician. He cannot Success
fully minister To their ailments unless he
thoroughly understands their inmo>t men,
tai prcllliHritrS and succeeds in humorng
them. IIcwill know the English of rIt",br
and the value of bread pills and, i'm certain
ci,Sr<-in most eases, in iact-hr will keep
tine thought of danger i'm ai'ryanrr.
But after all, there Is no place where tact
i not needed. It, usefulness in the daily.
general relations uf life is paramount. 1t
carries for it, pU>~C>>ora gentle, unconscious
persuasion with it. He will make his way
without seeming to know how he made it.
We can all remember one person after
another who is afflicted with an almost
lutlicrollS absence Of this quality, and who j.
pcrprtualIy in Mrs. rartin"t"n's dilemma
who said she never opened her mouth With
arrives who has lately had Il near relative
hung, the subject Of the gaIowS will he at
once introduced, and rNl'atiatrd upon with
peculiar junction. and persistence. ThcWrong
topic i always introduced hy the ill-arran%-
ru individual, and j. sure to be- discussed in
the most ill-timrd and ma!-aprop"S Way.-
1Hc /lr"r.
WHERE THE lIE>>IAN< tAIur>En.-.\n
N II, lam Il,
ct in Trenton, y. j., to make room FORA MAJ
sonic temple about to he erected. 1t Wa> Il
low brick building OF considerable size,
built at King and Second, now Warren and
State streets, in l7i:i, by Abraham Hunt,
and occupied by him IL Il store and dwell
ling. In I71i Mr.. Hunt was postmaster.
His store Wa> the largest in the place and
ne W;iS said to be- the Wrathr-t man in Il
wide circuit. lliS>torr WaS especially noted
for it, abundant stock Of good liquors. He
WAS called 4 Tory, although the imputation
iS denied by his descendants. When the
llr>-ian> occupied Trenton, Colonel Rail-, !
their commander, and his officers quickly
discovered the excellence Of Hunts liquid /
supplies, and his store became their head .
quarters when they had leisure. On Christ
mas night Colonel Rahl. Lieutenant Colonel
Lrh"Irr. of the l.OS>hrr@ regiment; MAJ inr
Won DrrchoW, of the lini iphalI>cn regiment,
and the other choice spirits gathered Il,
Hunts for Il carUlI>r i'm honor of the day.
At eleven O'Clock when the nCrrimrnt was
1T lis hright,a tory farmer from the >r- .
country dashed up to the store .
and sent in by Il colorrd -crvrnt Il letter to
Colonel Rhal. which the latter thrust into
his pocket. Not long afterwards the sound
of firm" was heard in tn" street and Colo .
mel Rahl rushed out in time To find WASH
ington in possession Of the town. and to re-
Crivr his death Wound in King street, with .
in Il hundred yards Of the store. Won Dee
chow WAS shot dead at the same moment.
lsahl lived Il little while after being carried
back to Hunts. The letter, which nc had
no time to read, would have told him that :
WAS crossing the Delaware and
would attack him before morning.
Mr.. Hunt continued I" be postmaster and
to carry on business in the ohl store for
many years. After him the building was
used rs Il hotrl--thr Washington Hotel
for many years, and w:S then devoted to
business purposes. lis reputation ;l> Il place
for obtaining good liquors never deserted it.
MoTuEE VITA long list might br
made nfmrn who have owed their advance
nIcnt in lie tua smart answer given at the
tight moment. One Ot NHpnrUn'> veterans
who survived his master many years, was
wont 10 recount with Sl'al Hlcr now nc ll;ll
,nrr picked up the clnprr"r'> rmkrI hat at
review, when the latter, not noticing that
IT. WAS Il private, said ctr"lr~~y v. "Thank
iuu, Captain" "ln what regiment Sirr"'
instantly asked the ready Wiltrd soldier.
Napoleon, prrcriving his mistake. answer
1t. with smile, SIN my guard, for sec
,ou know low to hc pr"mp.' The nrWl "
nadr officer received his commission next
morning. \ somewhat similar anrc'lotr j. {
ratrtl of Marshall Souv0rnfl. who, when