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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

LAZY CHRISTIANS-There are few in
every Church who are willing to work, and
do work. You hear of them among the poor
and sick YOU find them in the prayer-meet-
ing, and see them in all Church activities.
They are always willing to do more than
their part. You can rely upon them every
time. But the majority of professors seem
surprised that you should expect any work
of them. They come into the Church to
enjoy religion, not to help others-to be
saved, not to work. AS for visiting the sick,
feeding the poor, gathering in destitute chill
dren, or speaking to the unsaved, they nev-
er try it, "have no gift for it," and SO pay
their money, hear the sermon, enjoy the
singing, try to be respectable, and call that
religious living, without making a personal
endeavor to do good from one years end to
another.
1t is surprising what easy Christians smart
business men make. A set OF merchants
who can run bank or mill, and make trade
pay, and know how to manage corporations,
will let a Church run down for the want of
a little religious enterprise, and very likely
call upon the women and children to help
them out. A community of Christian far
mers, who know how to improve stock and
make farm pay, who, on hard soil, will
get good living, and keep theirown houses
neat and trim, will let the house of God be-
come shabby, and the Church die out, be-
cause as farmers they work, but as Christ
ians they do not work. What our Churches
and committees most need is not more talent,
or more truth, or more money, or more op-
portunities, but downrightandu uprig ght earn
est work. It takes but a few people, little
money, and small culture.-Anoa9ynaous
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REGENERATION NOTICE.

VTyHE voters of York county are hereby noti-
1 fed that the books of the Supervisor of Reg
stration for York county will be open in my Of
flee, in Yorkville, on the FIRST MONDAY of
each month, until the first Monday of July, in
elusive, when and where all duly qualified voters
in the county who have not heretofore registered; ;
those who have become of legal age as voters
since the closing of the books after the last reg
stration was made; those who have lost their
original certificates, and those who have changed
their places Of residence since the last registra-
tion, can obtain CERTIFICATES OF REGIS
TRAT1ON by making proper application to me.
w. H. McCORKLE,
Supervisor of Registration, York county.
March27 13 lot
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;salistellaueuas &eadiug.
ABIGAIL ADAMS.

Abigail! Adams. the Presidents wife, was
undoubtedly the most conspicuous Amerl-
can woman of her day, whether by position
or by character. When writing to her nus
band she often signed herself "Portla," IN
accordance with stately, and perhaps high
flown. habit of the period, and she certainly
showed qualities which would have done
honor to either the Roman or Shakspearean
heroine of that name. In her letters we see
her character thoroughly revealed. While
the battle of Bunker Hill was in progress, she
wrote that it was 'sdreadful but glorious;"
and in the depression Of the battle of Long
Island she said: eff all America is to be
ruined and undone by a pack of coWards
and knaves, wish to know it," and add
think me a coward?" When, first among
American women, she represented her ma
ton at the court of st. James, she met with
equal pride the contemptuous demeanor OF
Queen Charlotte; and when her husband
was chosen President, she wrote to him:
"My feelings are not those ofpride or ostenta-
ton upon the occasion; they are solemnized
by sense of the obligations, the lmportant
truth and numerous duties connected with
it," When, finally, after four years, ne
failed of reelection, she wrote to her son:
we retire from public life. For myself, and
family have few regrets......f [ did not
rise with dignity, I can at least fall with
ease" This was Abigail Adams. In per-
son she was distinguished and noble rather
than beautiful, yet it is satisfactory to know
that when she was first presented at the
British court she wore white ute-string,
trimmed with white Grape, festooned with
lilac ribbon and mock point-lace over
hoop of enormous extent, with narrow
train three yards long, looped up by rlD-
bon. She wore treble lace rufties, dress
cap with long, lace lappets, and two Whlte
plumes, these last doubtless soaring stralgnt
into the air above her head in the extraor-
dinary style familiar to us IN Glllray's carl
catures of that period.
1t was, in those days, no very agreeable
task to be the wife Of the President. Mrs.
Adams has left on record graphic sketch
of the White House, where she presided Tor
three months. The change in the seat OF
government had been decided upon for
twelve years, yet the building was still
vast, unfinished barrack, with few rooms
plastered, no main stairway, not bell
within, not fence without; it was dis
tressingly cold in winter, while the chle1
magistrate of the United States could not
obtain for love or money man to cut wood
for him in the forests which then surround
ed Washington. From Washington to Bal
timore extended an almost unbroken
growth of timber, varied only by some
Small and windowless huts. There could
as vet be in Washington no such varied
companionship as had given attraction to the
seat of government at New York and then
at Philadelphia yet at Georgetown there
was q society which called itself eminently
polite, and Mrs. Adams records that she
returned fifteen calls in single day.-Har-
per's Magazine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

AN INDUSTRIAL CONGREss.-An event
which will be of interest to the industrial
world generally, is the convention to be held
at Chicago, commencing May 81, 1884, for
the purpose of organizing a National Indus
trial Congress. The object of the conven-
ton is to consider the condition, wants and
necessities of the industries of the country.
1t is believed that in order to secure an
evenly balanced progress OF all industries,
of agriculture, mining, manufacturing, ana
of commerce and transportation IN all sec.
tions, there should be full exchange OF
ideas, complete harmony of sentiment
and action, looking to the most direct and
rapid development of the latent resources
and industrial opportunities of the country
It is urged that while the nation has vast
undevelOped resources and opportunities
for producing every necessity of the country,
there are still many idle persons needing
employment, and much idle capital waiting
investment; that many industries are over
done, or unduly developed, producing more
than the consumptive capacity of the ma
tion's demands, while many other equally
promising ones are only in part developed
or wholly neglected, and yet the people OF
the United States are annually consuming
products and manufactures costing over 81, )
600, 900, 900 Zone thousand million of dollars),
purchased from other nations not so favor
ably situated, the greater portion of which
should be and can be profitably produced at
home.
An organized and practical discussion of
the question to be considered may result in
great good to the industrial portion OF the
United States.
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(Orlglnal.J
FOR WHAT2

The individual who will take the trouble
can easily discover that a large amount OF
what passes current for religion is nothing
but the most detestable selfishness. Let the
question, "For what did you join the
Church ?'' be put to those who claim to be
Christians, and the answer, which each one
of large number of them will return, will
be in language something like the following:
"I want to 60 to heaven" This is true.
He expected to make good thing for him
self out of his church relationship. The
only being in the universe of whom he
thought was his own preciousself The idea
of serving God faithfully, never, at least,
fully enters the minds of most of those who
profess to be his servants. Said drunken
member of the church to one who admon-
ished him, 81 did not join the church to
quit drinking. 1 joined the church to get
to heaven" This is the sentiment of tri-
fling hireling and not of faithful servant.
All he thinks of is reward-pay for what he
engaged to do, but never intended to DO:
The chief end of man is to glorify God.
For this purpose, and for nothing else was
man brought into existence. For this end
is he, by God, preserved in existence:
The clarifying of God and the good of his
creatures, by whom this glory is declared,
are inseparably connected. All who serve
God in the way in which he, in his word,
has prescribed, will just as certainly reach
heaven as the waters of rivers will run into
the ocean, It is foolish to suppose that the
simple act of Joining the church will save
us. We must serve God, and joining the
church is one way and an important way,
too, of serving him. Every laborer, how
ever, who enters the employment of ancth-
er is not faithful servant. Many of them
are triiing hireings, who have no other OBJ
iect in view except to drag along through a
period of time, and then receivea reward
for what they promised to do, but did not
perform. The earthly hireling who serves
earthly masters, may deceive. cheat and
swindfe their employers, but those who un-
dertake to cheat God make sad mistake,
which they will at some period discover.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

HAND AND HEAD.-It has been the fash
ion to separate handwork from headwork,
as if the two were incompatible. One was
for laborers and mechanics, the other for
professional and literary people; one was for
the poor, the other for the rich. But we
are gradually learning that their harmoni-
Gus union is the only means of the perfection
of either. Ruskin says: eve want one
man to be always thinking, and another to
be always working, and we call one q gen.
tleman and the other an operator; where
as the workman ought often to be thinking
and the thinker often to be working, and
both should be gentlemen in the best sense.
The mass of society is made up of morbid
thinkers and miserable workers. 1t is only
by labor that thought can be made healthy,
and only by thought that labor can be made
happy, and the two cannot be separated
with immunity"
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nANNND Eo,.lA VEAR&
CANCER for IA YEARS.

Spartanburg S. c., March IA, 1884.
have for IA years been a sufferer from run
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Mr.. w. H. Gilbert, Albany, Ga. says:
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ed UP until it had nearly reached his eye. The
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Il ONE EFLEsH.-Doctor-" -"Have you got bet
ter of the ague yet?" .,......
PatientS"No, sor; me and my wife is as
bad as iver, sor."
,poctor-'Did you g get the whisky and
Patient Eyes, sor but it did no good
at all, at ALL" :,
Doctor -.'That is strange. You took it
according to directions, suppose" ,
Patient-"Yis, sor you know man and
his wife are one"
Doctor -"What has that to do with it "'
Patient ye see, sor, bein' as we
are one flesh, I TUX the whisky and gave
Biddy the quinine.-Philadelphto Cal.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

A WOMAN VOTERS. NJ. Thomas, of
Laurinburg, N. c., communicates the fol-
lowing singular story to the Raleigh Chron-
icle:
II don't suppose you or your many read
ers are aware that a woman was ever allow
ed to vote in this State, yet such is the TACT
In November, 1848, at Mount Gilead, Mont
then consort of Hon. Edmund DeBerry (who
represented that District for a number Of
years in CongresS cast her vote for Taylor
and Fillmore. Only few Democrats voted
at that precinct at that time. Late in the
evening g-after all the Democrats had re,
turned home, the managers of the polls (all
Whigs) sent for Mrs. DeBerry. (who was
shopping) and told her for the high regard
and respect they entertained for her late
husband, they wanted her to vote, and she
did so but the transaction was kept dark
from the Democrats"
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na% The only place on this earth in which
the primary principles of Christian civ:
ilization can be correctly learned is around
the fire-side, and the only successful teach
ers of the fundamental principles of Chris
tian civilization, are parents. This is Gods
order and cannot be violated or neglected
without serious consequences.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

CURE FOR RHEADACHE.-Moreh headaches
arise from q disordered stomach than any
other cause. Use Norman's Neutralizing
Cordial to correct your stomach and you
will not be troubled with this painful mala-
DIV which has become the bane of your ex-
istence. Try it.-Adrt.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

p@ 1t is a big mistake for preacher, Or
layman, to think that everything must be
kept at home, and that we ought not to do
anything for anybody except, ourselves.
This is not the spirit of the gospel and brings
only dry rot and death. 1t goes from the
preacher to the officials, and from the Off
cials to the rank and file of the membership,
until everybody in the church believes that
everything is to be kept at home, and then
the PASTORS support suffers as much as the
collections that were feared.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

NEW POSITION IN POLITICs.-"Do you
see that man over by the post office corner
lounging so carelessly?" asked Jones of a
friend the other day as he was exhibiting
the sights of the dingy metropolis. >.
ooh, yes see him, of COURSE" replied
his companion. "I don't see anything re-
markable about him."
-s'''Why, he's a politician, you know runs
the machine in all the big jobs; makes |
don't know how much money, and just
how Why, look at him Don't you no.
tice nothing remarkable?'
"Can't say do"
"Why he's got his handsin his own pock-
cts ~
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

w ASS a party of tourists were being rowed
across q lake in Scotland, a squall OF unusual
fierceness came up and threatened to cap
size them. When it seemed that the crisis
was really come, the largest and p Physically
strongest of the party, in state OF mo most m
my man. shouted the bluff old boatmanl,
'let that little man pray; you take an oar"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

R6@ Those who do least for Gods cause here
on earth are generally the greatest grumb-
lers. They want to get much and do little.
AS in the State so in the Church. Those
who pay large amount of tax seldom COM
plain, while those who pay nothing, or com
paratively nothing, are seldom satisfied.
The former are cheerful while the latter are
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

@~ 1t so happens that in every communi-
ty few persons have all the burdens of that
community to bear. The masses enjoy the
benefits of civilization without contributing
anything to its support. The same thing, is
true with respect to the institutions of the
church. The multitude enjoy the blessings
of Christianity, but all the expenses connect
ed Herewith are borne by the few.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

~If heaven could be bought with money,
there are some persons in every branch of
the Church who would not make the pur-
chase. Not because they do not love heav-
en-, but because they love money more.
They would spend their days in efforts to
beat down the price. They want cheap
religion, and they do not want this much.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

w Every wide-awake pastor will seek to
keep his people alive to the great issues OF
the times, to elevate and broaden their SYM
pathies, and to prompt them, however poor
and weak in numbers, to have some part IN
all the great benevolent enterprises OF the
Church,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

@ "Nein, Herr. Silbermann, I don't buy
dot ring off you for no hundert dollar, un' |
dom do pizziness NIT you votever, don't
it?" "Vy I didn't buy dot ring off Silber-
man, eh? Veil, Silbermann vas goin' to
marry nay wife vunce; un' he didn't. Ven
a man was schmarter as 1, 1 dom do no piz-
ziness nit him, amt it it?"-Adapted from
the German.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

REPLENIsHING A WARDROBE.-Mrs b.
Do you know, dear, that I haven't a decent
dress to my name" =,
Mr.. B.S"Why, what has become of all all
those YOU had in your wedding trousseau"'
. Mrs. B.-"They are all worn out"
Mr.. B.-"Well, dear, I dom know what
can be done, unless we separate tor awhile" "
- Mrs. B.-''Separate ?"
B.-"Yes, you can 60 home and stay
afew months, and then will come courting
and we will be married over again.-Ph'la-
delDbiu Gull. .lf,.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

CRUEL.-Old Mr.. Topeasy fell overheard
the other day. He was fished out and was
sent home, and while tearfully recounting
his misfortune to his wife, he said:
81 swallowed about a gallon of water"
"rhen you know how it tastes at least"
returned Mrs. T.
He wished he had been drowned.
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b. F. CALDWELL. J. c. DICKSON.
CALDWELL & DICKSON.
JUST RECEIVED

4 FULL stock of Canned Goods, which we Of
N fer at low prices:
gallon cans of Apples at so cents.
gallon cans Pie Peaches at 25 cents.
bound cans Dessert Peaches at 25 cents.
3pound cans Tomatoes at Is cents.
pound cans Tomatoes at 10 cents.
3 bound cans Okra and Tomatoes at 20 cents.
pound cans Sweet Corn at 20 cents.
pound cans Salmon at 20 cents.
pound cans Mackerel at Is cents.
pound cans Potted Ham at 15 cents.
pound cans Royal Baking Powder at Is cents.
Quart bottles Pickles at 25 cents.
Pint bottles Pickles at Is cents.
Call at CALDWELL q DICkSON'S.
March 20 6m
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sg When the Judge says, II sentence you
for life" the grammarian and the prisoner
look upon it quite differently. The one
thinks it very brief sentence, the other
thinks it couldn't we'll be longer.-Boston
Times
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

a9~ Every parent has discovered that chill
dren are anxious to undertake to do what
they are incapable OF doing and disinclined
to undertake what they are able to do. This
seems strange, but it is more strange that
grown persons should exhibit the same pc
culiarity we'll developed. We all frequent
ly attempt to do what we really cannot do,
and the things which we can dove purpose
lv naplect
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

s@ To give to the cause of God, what we
do not want, or cannot use or sell, is to treat
God as if he were a miserable unknown
tramp ready to perish, to whom we are will,
ling to give few bread crusts and meat
skins that we may get rid Of him.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

naS "How are you ?" asked Denman.
"Pretty we'll, thank you; but pve just
been to a doctor to have him look at my
throat"
"What's the matter?"
"Well, the doctor couldn't give me any
encouragement. At least he couldn't lind
what wanted him to find 2"
"What did YOU expect him to find ?'
"I asked him to look down my throat for
the saw-mill and farm that had gone down
there"
"And did he see nothing of it ?"
s'No, but he advised me If l ever got an
other to run it by water"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

WHY SHE DIDN'T LIKE THEM.-"ld don't
believe in those secret societies." said one
lady to another.
"rhat's very singular" replied the other:
"Your husband is a Mason, a Knight OF
Pythias and a Knight Of Honor, and you
will have at least $4,000 when he dies" ,,
was the fearful response, "when he never
dies ?" and the poor creature burst into
tears.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24

p@ A clergyman who recently held SER
vice in Auburn prison preached from the
text, "Go home to thy friends" His hear
ers were all willing, but couldn't seem TO
arrange it.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-04-24
NEW BARBER SHOP.

TAMES REESE, late of Columbia Practical
Oh Barber, respectfully informs the citizens of
Yorkville and vicinity that he has opened Shop
two doors below the Yorkville (Rose's) Hotel,
where he will be pleased to wait upon all who
desire the services of tirst-class Barber. De,
lightful Shampooing, Elegant Hair Cutting and
Pleasant Shaving.
November 8 45 6m"