Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-07-16

The Right Hon. William Henry Smith,
the Secretary of War in the Marquis OF Sails
bury's ministry, is the son of Mr.. H. w.
Smith, of the Strand and Bournemouth,
Hampshire, bookseller, publishera and news
agent. He was born in Duke Street, Gros-
venor Square, London, June 9th, 1925. He
was educated at the Grammar School of
Tavistock, and became, in due course, part
ner of the we'll known firm in the Strand.
In July, 1865, he unsuccessfully contested
Westminster, in the Conservative interest,
but his candidature was renewed, with sue
cuss, in November, 1868, WheHhe defeated
Mr.. John Stuart Mill. He has continued to
sit for Westminster ever since. In 1874 his
popularity was such that heran ahead OF all
his fellows, and was returned at the head of
the poll. Upon his appointment as Secreta-
ry of War, it became necessary that he
should be reelected, and there were rumors
that the Liberals would leave no stone un-
turned to defeat him. When, however, the
election did take place, June Goth, 1885, he
was returned without opposition. In 1874
he was made Financial Secretary of the
Treasury, serving in that capacity until Au-
gust Sth, 1877, when he was appointed First
Lord of the Admiralty, and a Cabinet Min
lister. This promotion gave rise to the fam
ciful conceit of Sir Joseph Porter, X. G.. b.,
in Gilbert and Sullivan's opera of "Pina-
FORE" of which the couplet-
'Stick close to your desk and nevergo to sea,
And you may be the ruler ofthe Queens navee, y
directly applies to William Henry Smith.
In this position he succeeded the late Mr..
Ward Hunt. When the Conservatives went
out of office in April, 1880, Mr.. Smith went
with them. He was member of the first
and second School Boards of London, but
retired therefrom in 1884. The University
of Oxford conferred on him the degree of ID.
G.. l.. in 1879, and in 1880 he was given the
freedom of the Stationers' Company. The
Russia makes the position of War Secretary
an especially important one.
EXTINCTION OF THE BUFFALOES.-The
buffaloes were all right until about seven
years ago, when the Indians were conquer
ed, which opened up the country and letthe
hide hunters in. 1t took about seven years,
beginning with 1870, to eXterminate the
buffalo along the line of the Union Pacific
Railroad, which in the good old times could
have been seen blackening the Platte River
bottom for miles. These poor, silly beasts
were so easily killed, and, from their abun-
dance, offered so rich a reward to the hide
hunter, that every idle fellow in that part
of the country could make good wages
butchering them. The Union Pacific Rail-
road split the herds in half, and left mole
ty to the north and lnoiety to the south.
Those in Texas were soon used up by sports
men and professional hunters but the
great northern herd fled to Wyoming and
Montana, where Sitting Bull and his fol-
lowers took charge of and protected them
until Uncle Sans soldiers began chasing
him around the country as we'll as the bison.
From 1875 to 1880 fully 100000 of these
brutes were killed by soldiers and other
white men.
CHILDREN's LAUGHTER.-There are no
sounds so sweet to a mothers ear, except,
perhaps, the first lisping of an infants pray
err Chidren's laughter! How dull is the
home wherein its music once so jOyfully
echoed, but now is heard no more. How
still is the house where the little ones are all
fast asleep, their pattering feet are silent
How easily the fun of child bubbles forth.
Take even these poor, prematurely aged lit
tie ones, bred in the gutter, cramped in un-
earthly homes, and ill-used it may be, by
drunken parents, and you will find that the
child nature is not entirely crushed out
They are children still, although they look
so haggard and wan. Try to excite their
mirthfulness, and ere Tonga laugh rings out
SO wild and free as If there was no such
thing as sorrow in the world. Let the little
ones laugh, then; too soon, alas! they will
find cause enough to weep. DO not try to
silence them, but let their gleefulness ring
out in gladstone appeal, reminding us of the
days when we, too, could laugh without a
sigh.
aay~ When a man is faithful you see then
that he concentrates many healthful virtues
around him; the otherwise scattered chan
nels are converged, ond empty their cur
rents into one tide, lifting him up and float
ing him on towards the shore of all perfec-
ton. Such a man becomes the object and
centre of providential dealings. The wings
of many influences, like the ravens of old,
are heavy with the nourishment they bring
him. m.-Muray.