Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22
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USEFUL ACCOMPLISH MENIS.-A Juul-
cious mother will so manage her daugh-
ters that even at the early age of thirteen
they can, in an emergency, prepare a meal
of victuals. A thorough domestic training
is very useful to a girl.
At school, she always has a teacher or a
fellow pupil at hand to help her over hard
places, but if she is set to make batch OF
bread herself, and attend to it from the time
the sponge is set till the loaves are taken,
sweet, fragrant, golden-brown, from the
oven, she learns meantime chemistry, per-
severance, delicate manipulation, selt-re.
lance and neatness, and acquires Skill and
the habit of carrying her work in her mind,
as one.act of neglect or forgettulness at any
point of the process may spoil the whole.
Because some unWise mothers dO not see
in the stated and skillful performance by
their daughters of household services, a GER
tain and valuable culture which cannot be
acquired at school, they are willing to GO
themselves what, in Justice and kindness to
their daughters, they should require OF
them.
Girls, left to their own devices, waste a
good deal of time which might be utilized
to their advantage. A girl who can climb
trees, who can dance hours without fatigue,
or lump rope Ga very dangerous pastime, by
the way), who can take long walks, who can
skate and row, can also sweep, and scrub,
and make bread, and wash and iron, If she
is encouraged to do so these are the &C.
complishments she must possess in order to
make a happy home, though. she may 3ave
half dozen servants at her call.
Those who have sufficient curiosity to IN.
vestigate this subject will find that many OF
the most famous women in literature and
art, were as skillful in those accomplish
ments, considered specially, as they were
with the pen or pencil, or chisel. In train
ing girls to be useful, and ready to meet any
emergency, mothers confer upon them an
inestimable blessing.-Selected.
A CELEBRATED CASE.-A WarterloO,
Iowa, dispatch says: The law suit known as
the 'Jones County Calf Case, "has been con-
cluded in the Circuit Court of this city. 1t
was an action brought by Robert Johnson
against f. V. Miller and six other defend
ants, for $4,000, for malicious prosecution.
Eleven years ago, John Foreman, OF Jones
county, Iowa, had four calves stolen, and
about the same time Robert johnson, a
neighboring farmer, bought some calves for
S. d. Potter, of Greene county. These
calves proved to be the ones stolen from
Foreman. Soon after, johnson was prose
cuted by the Anti Horse Thief Association,
of Jones county, for the theft of the calves.
He was tried twice and acquitted, and IN
1877 brought suit against seven members OF
the association for malicious prosecution,
alleging that they did not have probable
cause for commencing action. The case mas
been before the courts ever since and has
been tried five times, and each time except
one the plaintiff received verdict ranging
from 5000 to 81, $500, but each time the YER
dict has been set aside. The last time the
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the Jury awarded $1,000. The costs, attor-
neys' fees and expenses upon all parties to
the litigation is estimated at over $4,000,
and several prosperous farmers have been
made bankrupt, while the calves in the first
place were not worth $50.
ALASKAN GLACIERs.-James Denman,
Principal of the Grammar school which
bears his name, returned to San Francisco,
from months excursion among the roman
tic islands and picturesque inlets OF Alas
ka. Mr.. Denman devoted much of his atten-
tion to the glaciers, compared with which
he pronounces those to be seen IN SWltzer-
land and other parts of Europe to be "ba-
bies." Muir Glaciers, in Glacier Bay, nam
ed from the distinguished naturalist, is a
spectacle whose grandeur cannot be describ-
ed-a vast frozen river of ice, ever slowly
moving to the sea and piling the enormous
masses higher between the mountain banks
until their summit towers hundreds of feet
in the air. Where the point of the glacier
pushes out into and overhangs the water,
vast fragments breaking apart every Jew
moments of their own weight and falling
with a laundering crash into the sea, to
float away as enormous lceburgs, 1t al
fords spectacle which can only be under
stood and appreciated by one who beholds
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Muir Glacier no less than twenty-nine 9TH
ers are to be seen in various directions, all
grinding and crowding their huge masses
toward the sea, a sight which must certain
ly be one which few other scenes can equal.
DO RA ME.-What was said last week on
the Importance of cultivating the rightkind
of church music, and ofgood congregational
singing, we hope no one will construe into
an endorsement of class of ignorant sing
ing-school teachers that occasionally put in
their appearance. We have met few such
characters. They are generally out of the
piny woods, and in boyhood went to school
about three months. They have learned to
run the ganut after a fashion, and know
how to sing a few familiar old tunes. With
a small stock of brains and big stock of
brass, between "laying. by time" and "cot-
ton-picking time," they make their musical
campaigns. 1t were much better for the
seven-year itch to break out in a neighbor-
hood than for these fellows to strike it.
Young people gather from far and near, not
to sing or to learn to sing, but to frolic on
Sundays. Everything is thrown into con-
fusion and disorder, and nobody has learned
to sing, except, perhaps, one or two women,
who, with voices about as harsh as katy
did's, have been persuaded that it is their
duty ever afterwards to sing "fi6te IN the
double sharps." From these men turn away.
They are pest and a calamity.-4ta6an'o
Christian AdrOcate.
THE RISE OF POSTAGE STAMPs.-It is
estimated that every year about 5O, ,ooO, ,OOO,-
600 letters are posted in the world. Ameri-
ca leads, with about $500, 900, and Eng
land follows with 700,00O,000. Japan, eStab-
lished postal service only ten years ago.
now mails annually 95,0O0,OO0 letters. Pos
tage stamps are of far more recent origin
than many people imagine. Great Britain
was the first country to issue them, and in
1910 prepaid envelope made its appear
ance, designed by w. Mulready. Prepaid
letter sheets were issued about the same
time, there being two denominations, one
penny and two penny. Before that time
postage was prepaid at the postottice, or
what was even more common, collected
upon delivery. Now almost every country
in the civilized world has adopted this
method of preparing postage. Strange as
it may appear, Brazil, in 1913, was the first
nation to follow Great Britain's example.
1t was not until 1917 that the United States
began to use postage stamps, but several
years prior to that time the postmasters at
New York, st. Louis, Baltimore, New
Haven, Providence and BrattleborO had
issued stamps for their own convenience