Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-01
af9istellameuns &eading.

PERSONAL DEFICIENCIES persons
who freely admit the Importance of all pur-
suits that minister to the idea of utility, eX-
press only contempt for those which supply
the needs of Imagination, the cultivation OF
sentiment, the production of beauty, or the
means of amusement. They really seem to
think that they are proving their intellectu-
al depth or moral superiority by boasting OF
their utter Indifference to things that inter-
est, cheer and inspire multitudes. One of
the lord chancellors of England declared in
open court, that he would not 60 across the
street to hear Madame Catalani sing.
Doubtless he spoke the truth-and yet it
was truth which good sense should have
taught him to conceal, rather as personal
deficiency than to boast of. If he had been
deaf he might have asked for sympathy, put
would hardly have eXulted in his misfor-
tune, and his inability to appreciate tones
that filled thousands with wonder and rapt-
ure, could certainly entitle him to no other
Sentiment than that of pity. Sothe unwar-
ranted manner in which persons throw con-
tempt upon poetry, art, fiction, the drama,
simply because they lack the sentiments to
which they respond, is merely proof of
their own deficiency. Let them modestly
keep silence upon matters of which they
can only speak to expose their ignorance.
LOOK UP."-A llCCle DOy CdilIe W IilC
foot of ladder and looked up. He heard
the hammers of the workmen, tar up above
him on the roof, and he wanted to climb
up and see what they were doing. He pull
ed himself slowly up round after round,
until he had reached considerable height.
He became alarmed and then began to
tremble. His head became SO dizzy. A
man came along and exclaimed, "That boy
is going to fall ~ These words frightened
him still more. He thought now that the
ladder was reeling to an fro! He thought
the houses and street were rocking like
ships on the sea. But he suddenly heard
another voice, "Boy, look up!". He did look
up. Cali right now, come on!' The boy
was no longer dizzy. He climbed little
higher and the hand of the carpenter grasp
ed his little hand. The CHEEKY word had
saved him! That boy became man of
genius, known all over America, and to the
day of his death he believd that all he had
done in life was to be attributed to those
words, "Look up, come on "'-PdnSy.
All SIN PLAYS ANOTHER CUTE TRICK.
A clergyman's wife, says the New York
Tribune, was telling of her experience with
Chinese pupils in the mission schools.
them that, when they embrace it, they do
so with great earnestness. There is no-half
way work with them; and they are more
strict in small matters than American
Christians. We had some of, them at a
church sociable few nights ago, and we
had at supper some candies which are roll
ep up in paper with printed couplets in
closed-some of them extremely silly. The
Chinese boys read them and looked sur
prised at seeing such things served in a
church parlor, but were too polite to say
anything about them. Soon afterWard they
gave an entertainment, and the same sort
of candies were provided; but when we
unroled the papers we found they had taken
out the foolish verses and had substituted
texts of scripture printed on little slips of
paper. Some of us felt that we had receiv-
ed well-deserved rebuke."