Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-04-23

and to act on the smallest of these waves
more powerfully than on the largest. The
light thus scattered is the diffuse daylight
SO entirely satisfactory and pleasant to the
eye, and so inimitable by artificial systems
of illumination. The light thus scattered
has preponderance of small waves, owing
to the minute size of the scattering parti-
cles, and hence it affects our sight organ
with the sensation of blue. BY this scatter
ed light shadows are mellOWed, the inten-
sity Of direct sunlight is mitigated, and the
whole expanse of sky gloWs with a perfect
lustre, etfectually drowning the light from
the more distant celestial bodies. Above
the top of high mountains dust is almost alb
sent, and there the sky has been observed
at times to look almost black, and stars are
sometimes visible in ght-LOaadOn Nd
tire.
BARRIos' REMARKABLE ECAREER.-Justo
Ruffino Barrios was native of Guatemala,
born in 1885, by profession lawyer. In
1867 he entered the political arena, ,storming
the barracks of San Marcos, his native place,
and continuing his revolutionary operations
with varying success till, in 1871, having al
lied himself to the influential exile, Grana-
dos, the object of the risings were accom-
plished. Barrios, as commander-in-chief
under the new regime, intrigued against
Granados, and finally, in 1873, ousted him
from the Presidency, and became dictator.
For twelve years Barrios ruled Guatemala
with rod of iron. The lash was piled re-
lentlessly upon the backs of those who had
provoked his hatred or suspicion, he him
self would summon an opponent to his pal
ace, cut him over the face with his riding
whip and bid the bleeding wretch return
next day to thank him and receive further
orders" Merchants were thrown into Jail
orI Aoc,rro6 or to Iohor On tho StrpptS
with the ball and chain eating into their
ankles The compositor who set up an ar
ticle criticising the Government died under
the lash, though the Constitution of the Re-
public guarantees the freedom of the press.
No people could have been more thoroughly
terroriZed-in fact, so complete was his as
cendancy that Barrios could ridicule their
bungling attempts at overthrowing or assas-
sinating him. He administered public af-
fairs with marked vigor and ability, found
ing military and trade schools, building rail
roads and promoting commerce, his object
being the development Of Guatemala's re-
sources so that he could extend his rule over
the four other Central American States. To
accomplish this result he had labored since
1875; finally, on the 18th day of February,
he proclaimed the union of the Republics
under his dictatorship, marched upon San
Salvador, and was defeated and slain.
Barrios had accumulated, by enterprise
and eXtortion, fortune of several millions.
He had handsome house on Fifth Avenue,
in New York, where he had invested some
50, ,OOO, 900 in securities and real estate, by
way of providing for "rainy day." His
wife is one of the handsomest women in
Central America Struck by her beauty he
betrothed her to himself educated her, and
Overcame her fathers reluctance to the un-
ion by confscating the old gentleman's
property and sending him to the chain gang.
One of their sons is being educated at West
Point.
FIRST SETTLEMENT OF THE EARTH
According to the opinion commonly re-
ceived, the general deluge, recorded by
Moses, occurred about the year Of the world
1850, and 1850 before the Christian era.
There is difference, however, among chro-
nologists, of from one to three hundred
years, on account of different ages assigned
to antediluvan patriarchs. About one nun
dred and fifty years from the deluge, thatis
about two thousand two hundred years be-
putatOn, the inhabitants were considerable
in the part of the earth where they lived,
there being then five generations, including
the sons of Noah who lived to great age.
The building or the attempt to build Babel,
the separation of the human race and their
dispersion into distant regions is usually
fixed at this period. Some of them, the
children and grandchildren of Ham, went
south to Canaan or Palestine, and thence
some of them into Egypt, where the climate
is mild and the soil rich, and soon became
numerous people. Japhet settled in more
northern or northwestern parts of Asia, and
thence passed into Europe. And the de-
scendants of Shem settled Chaldea, and
thence emigrated into the eastern and
southeastern parts of Asia. The people OF
India are certainly an ancient race. Some
people suppose that Noah himself lived
three hundred years after the flood.
THE ETEMPER.-If persons generally knew
what an advantage to them it was to be
cheerful there would be fewer sour faces in
the world and infinitely less temper: A man
never gains anything by exhibiting his
annoyance by his face, much less by burst
ing into passion. AS it is neither manly
nor wise to yield like child pettishly to
every cross, so it is alike foolish and
absurd to allow feelings of anger to de-
prive US of self.control. There never was
a man in any controversy who lost his tenn
per who did not come near losing his cause
in consequence. If ever person plays the
game Of his enemies it is when he is in
passion. Acquaintances shun men of prov
erbial ill-temper; friends drop away from
them; even wives and children gradually
learn to fear them more than to love.
Thousands of men owe their want OF sue
cess in life to neglectng the control OF their
temper. Nor has the excuse thatit is an in
trinity which cannot be restrained excused
them; for Washington, though naturally of
a passionate disposition, disciplined himself
until he passed for a person utterly lmpass-
ive No man who neglects his temper can
be happy any more than he makes those
happy around. Good temper is gold, is
beyond price. Bad temper is curse to the
possessor and to society.
AGRICULTURAL WEALTH OF MEXICO.-
The quality of Mexican grain has always
been excellent, and Mexico took the first
prize for wheat at the Philadelphia eXposi-
ton. The Mexicans take one crop of wheat
and two of corn from the land in two years,
and the average yield is twenty bushels of
wheat and forty of corn to the acre. The
wheat growing region covers about $1,000
square miles, an area larger than England
and nearly as large as Georgia 1t is be-
lieved that One-third of this could be kept
in wheat with due regard to the other crops
Corn is, however, the great staple of the
country, taking the place in the native diet
that wheat does in the American. ltgroWs
in the table-lands with wheat and in the
hot lowlands as we'll.
The yield for the last available year is
estimated by leading Mexican statistician
to have been worth $112 ,000, 600, against
SIT ,OOO,O 900 worth of wheat, 100000 worth
sugar, $S,O0O0OO of beans, $4,000, 600 each OF
coffee, tobacco and straw, and 81 ,OO0, 600
each of rice and cocoa, the whole agriculture
al products reaching SIT 200, 900 exclusive
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