Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-08-06

ness. During Cne nlSnC Cne DOQy LnrOWS
off, through the invisible pores of the skin
much impurity, and to make up bed
while mattress, sheets and blankets are still
sweltering with animal heat is thing no
neat, intelligent housekeeper should ever
do under any pressure of hurry. The rest
of the room can be set to rights, and the
bed clothes spread over chairs, with windows
open, until late hour, and nobody will be
hurt. When bed room IS the common
sitting or sewing apartment Of a family, it
should be thoroughly aired for half an hour
before dark, everybody vacating it for the
purpose, and again before the occupants re-
tire.
A STORY OF INGRATITUDE.-Wef find
this story in a New York letter to the San
day Oregoniaa: This hotel, by the way,
was built on the ground once occupied by
the mansion of Nathaniel Prime, the Jay
Gould of fifty years ago. 1t may be added,
parenthetically, this same banker, Prime,
once when poor young man, went to a
Southern planter, on a visit at the time to
New York, and asked for the loan of $1,000.
"What security can you give?" asked the
planter.
1.-THE word of,an honest man." answered
Prime"
The planter eyed him for an instant and
then replied: ''You shall have it,"
This sum gave Nathaniel Prime his first
debt. Years rolled on and he became the
leading banker of the city. One day the
planter, who had befriended him at the out
set of his career, came to him in poverty
and asked him for the loan of the same sum
that he had lent Prime so opportunely.
The banker remembered him we'll, but ask
ed:
"What security can you give?"
"The word of an honest man," answered
the planter echoing Primes own words OF
years before.
"That won't do in Wall street," was the
bankers reply.
The planter seemed dazed by such an an
swer and left without word. The man
who was capable of such ingratitude had
become miser, a monomaniac on the sub
insane in the midst of wealth over the
thought that he might by some possibility
die poor. committed suicide by cutting his
throat in his mansion that occupied the
site, as already stated, of the present Wash
ington building.
Mr.. DAVIS AND GEN. GRANT.-Some
time ago the Boston Globe wrote to Hon.
Jefferson Davis for his opinion as to Gen.
GranL'S military career. VII. DdNlS auo"ci.
ed the request on April End, but directed
that it should not be published until after
Gen. Grants death. The following is Mr..
Davis answer:
BEAUvolR, Miss, April 2, 1885. STR
Your letter asking me to give my views on
the subject of Gen. Grants military career
has been received. With most respectful
consideration for you and the influential pa
per you represent, must decline to comply
with the request for the following reasons
Gen. Grant is reported dying. Although he
invaded our country with ruthless track il
was with open hand, and, so far as l know
he abetted neither pillage nor arson. When
his armies were SO successful that General
Lees army had not even the power further
to retreat, Gen. Grant gave terms both lib
eral and courteous, and has since the war
1 believe, shown no malignity nor perpetu
ated SANDER against the Confederates, either
of the military or civil service. Therefore
instead of seeking to disturb the quiet O
his closing hours, T would, if it were in my
power, willingly contribute to the repose O
his mind and comfort Of his body.