Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-09-03

GOOD ADVICE FROM A HUMORIST.-TO
young men Bob Burdette says:
"You take a basin of water, place your
finger in it for twenty or thirty seconds,
take it out, and look at the hole that is left.
The size of that hole represents about the
impression that advice makes on young
mans mind.
"Don't depend too much on your family
the dead part 1 mean. The world wants
live men it has no use for dead ones.
Queen Victoria can trace her ancestors back
in direct line to William the COnqueror.
If you cannot get further back than your
father you are better off. Your father was
better man in his time than old William.
He had better clothes to wear, better food
to eat, and was better housed.
"If you are diamond be sure that you
will be found. Cheek, brass or gall never
get ahead of merit.
81 love young man who is straight-for-
ward. Ask for what you want. If you
want to marry rich mans daughter or
borrow $500 from him, ask him for it; it
amounts to the same thing in the end. 1t
is always better to astonish a man than to
bore him,
"Remember that in the morning of life
come the hard-working days. Hard work
never killed man. It's fun, recreation, re-
taxation, holidays, that kill. The fun that
results in head the next morning so big
that tub could hardly cover it is what
kills. Hard work never does.
"Those who come after us have to work
just as hard as we do. When l shovel the
snow off my sidewalk, if perchance ! take
three-quarter piece off my neighbor's
walk, put it back, because if l didn't |
should be doing him an injustice.
"You can't atfort to do anything but what
SC, oil
time.
"Don't be afraid of pounding persistently
at one thing. Don't be afraid of being call
ed one-idea man or a crank. If you have
one idea, you have one more than most men
have. 1t takes smart man to be crank"
THE SURVIVING GENERALS.-The only
two great commanders now living who
faced each other in making the thrilling
and crimsoned annals of the late civil war
are Gen. William T. Sherman and Gen.
Joseph +. Johnston. Grant met Lee, Joseph
Johnston, Albert Sidney Johnson, Beaure-
gard, Bragg and Pemberton in battle as
chief commanders, and of them Joseph +.
Johnston, Beauregard and Buckner survive.
Meade, who met the terrible shock of bat
tie at Gettysburg, was borne to the City OF
| the Dead within short time of the impos-
| to the mother earth, and Thomas and Hood,
who fought the last great battle of the war
at Nashville, both sleep the dreamless sleep
of the dead. Sherman and Johnston alone
remain OF the great commanders who lock
ed horns with each other in the flame OF
battle. Their campaign from Chattanooga
to Atlanta, and from Atlanta to the sea was
the most brilliant of the war, and they are
the only two great commanders who are
left to sit down and talk their battles over,
as they often do in the heartiest good fel-
lowship. OF the many commanders of the
heroic Army of the Potomac, none remain,
with the single exception of General Nc
Clellan. Scott, Mcdowell Burnside, Hook
er, Meade and Grant, who in turn COM
manded that magnificent army, have all
gone to join the great majority, and Long
street is the only one of Lees great lieuten-
ants who linger with the living. Jackson,
Hill, Ewell and Stuart, who were in the
great conflict of the Army of Virginia, rest
with their great chieftain IN the Old Do
minion. Joseph +. Johnston and G. Il.
Beauregard are the only surviving Confed-
crate commanders who led great armies to
battle, and they are whitened by the frost
of ftime.-PhHadeLphio Times.