Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-19

SWEET-M MINDED WOMEN.-So great is
the influence of sweet minded woman on
those around her that it is almost boundless.
It is to her that friends come in seasons OF
sorrow and sickness for help and comfort;
one soothing touch of her kindly hand
works wonders in the feverish child; a Jew
words let fall from her lips in the ear OF
sorrow-stricken sister do much to raise the
load of grief that is bowing its victim down
to the dust in anguish. The husband comes
home worn out with the pressure OF busl-
ness, and feeling irritable with the world
in general but when he enters the cosey
sitting room, and sees the blaze OF the
bright fire, and meets his Wite's smiling
face, he succumbs in moment to the sooth-.
ing influence which acts as the balm OF
Gilead to his wounded spirits, that are
wearied with the stern realities of life. The
rough school-boy flies into rage from the
taunts of his companions to find solace IN
his mothers smile; the little one, full OF
grief with her large trouble, finds maven
of rest on her mothers breast; and so one
might 90 on with instance after instance of
the influence that a sweet-minded woman
has in the social life with which she is con-
nected. Beauty is an insignificant power
when compared with hers.-SOHhern Church.
man.
DECLINED TO LIvE.-In the Middle Ages
there were TIVE chances of life in the last
moment accorded to malefactor condemn
ed to death, besides free pardon from the
sovereign. One of these was the accident
al meeting of cardinal with the procession
to the executions; the other was the offer OF
maiden to marry the condemned man, or,
in case it was a woman sentenced to death,
the offer of a man to make her his wife.
The claim of the cardinals was curious
one. They claimed to have inherited the
privilege with which the vestal virgins OF
old Rome were invested. In 1909 man
was condemned to be hanged in Paris for
some offence. AS he was being led to exc
cution down the street Of Aubry-le- Bouch-
er he met the Cardinal of Saint Eusebius
named Rochette, who was going up the
street. The cardinal Immediately took
oath that the meeting was accidental, and
demanded the release of the criminal. 1t
was granted. In 1876 Charles V. was ap-
pealed to in a case of a man who was about
to be hanged, when a girl in the crowd
cried out that she would take him as her
husband Charles decreed that the man
was to be given her.
Another instance we quote from the diary
of Partisan citizen of the year 143O. He
wrote: con January 10, 143O, eleven men
were taken to the Halles to be executed,
and the heads of ten were cut off. The
eleventh was a handsome young man of
"a he was having his eyes bandaged when
young girl, born at the Halles, came
boldly forward and asked for him. AS
she stood to her point, and maintained her
right so resolutely, that he was taken back
to prison in the chatelet where they were
married, and then he was discharged"
This custom so stamped itself on the tradi-
tions of the peasantry that all over France
it is the subject of popular tales and anec-
dotes; with one of the latter we will con-
cude. In Normandy man was at the
foot of the gibbet, the rope was round his
neck, when sharp featured woman came
up and demanded him. The criminal look
ed hard at her, and turning to the hangman
said:
ga pointed nose a bitter tongue!
Proceed, I'd rather far be hung!'
-BelgrdUia.