Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-09-18


Oh magical flame, whence pulsing came
This passion of the mocking bird?
4nmuruns department.
yANCEs UNCONVENTIONAL LEANINGS.
heard Zeb Vance telling how he cap
tured the vote of backwoods settlement in
North Carolina when he first ran for Con-
gress. He said he had never been in that
settlement and didn't know the boys. He
rode over the mountains and found about
sixty sovereigns at a cross roads grocery,
and he got down and hitched his horse and
began to make their acquaintance and crack
his Jokes around, and thought he was get
ting along pretty we'll with them, but he
noticed an old man with shaggy eyebrows
and big brass spectacles sitting on chunk
and marking the sand with a stick. The
old man didn't seem to pay any attention
to Vance, and after while Vance concluded
that the old man was bell-wether of the flock
he sided up close to him, and the old man
got up and shook himself and leaned for
ward on his stick and said solemnly: ''This
is Mr.. Vance, believe ?" eyes, sir" said
Vance. "And you have come over here to
see my boys about their votes, I believe %
Yes, SIR" said Vance, "that is my business" !"
sWeH, SIR" said the old man, "afOre you
proceed with that business would like to
ak you few questions"
ssCertainly, sir, certainly" said Vance.
"What church mout you belong to ?' said
the old man.
That was ockdologer-Vanced didn't be-
long to any church. He knew that religion
and meeting was a big thing in the back
woods and controlled their politics, but he
didn't know what their religion was, for
North Carolina was powerfully spotted
But he squared himself for the responsible.
ty and says he "Well, now my friend, !
will tell you about that, for it is fair ques-
ton. Of course it is. Well, you see my
grandfather came from Scotland, and you
know that over in Scotland everybody is
Presbyterians. Here he paused to note the
effect, but saw no sign Of sympathy for his
grandpa.
the Episcopal Church." He paused again
and the old man marked another mark in
the sand and spit his tobacco away Oft.
ssBut nv father was born in this country
in a methodist settlement and so he grew up
a Methodist" Still no signs of approval
from the old man, and so Vance took his
last shot and said "But my good old moth
er was Baptist, and it's my opinion that
a man has got to 60 under water to 60 to
heaven"
The old man walked up and taking him
by the hand said "Well, you are all right,
Mr.. Vance," and then turning to the crowd
said F: ';Boys, he'll do and you may vote for
him; thought he looked like Baptist"
Bill Arp in the atlanta Constitution.
Music AND INsANITY.-The theory OF
the close connection between music and
insanity was never more closely established
than in the case of Mr.. Bertram Bolter, OF
this city, who was an inmate of a private
asylum here for ten years. At the expira-
ton of that term he suddenly recovered his
reason, and was able to give perfectly
lucid account of how ne had lost it. In
1878 Mr.. B. lived next door to a boy who
was learning the piano. The lad was an
ardent young musician, and one night play
ed "Come, Birdie, Come" 139 times in
succession in order to learn it properly.
Mr.. Bolter was found on the floor of his
bedroom next day day devouring a Eureka
hair mattress, and raving maniac. On
recovering his reason he told the above
facts to his keeper, who, forgetting that
hearing the tune again might agitate his
patient, said thoughtlessly: "Why, that's
rather pretty tune, 1 always thought.
Goes something like this, don't it?" and he
Whistled the first -four bars plaintively:
"How's that?" he said. "Is that like it?'
But the query was in vain. His jaw had
fallen, and Mr.. Bolter was dead.-Sa1
Francisco Netcs-Letter.
A FAR-SIGHTED OFFICIAL.-Bank Pres