Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-05-06

but was called Minnesota Territory, to
distinguish it from the State of the same
name. In 1861 the Territory of Dakota
with it's present boundaries was estab-
lished by act of Congress. Such is the long
process by which, through the occupation
of the country for settlement, by pushing
the frontiers farther away into the noun
tains and the wilderness, and by the prog
ress of civilization, American States are
made. 1t is a system of evolution and
growth possessing great interest for the STU
dent of politics and history.
SOUTHERN TRAITS.
The South is not only noticeaby gentle
and courteous, but responds instantly to
gentleness and courtesy, however promptly
and passionately resentful of rudeness, and
even childishy sensitive. 1t is childlike
race in some respects, compared with the
business trained maturity of the North, but
with the charm as we'll as the unreason Of
childhood. Its women-I hardly know how
to say it without offense, and heaven forbid
I should in one jot offend my dead New
England, our royalty roWdy west, or any
remotest section of the Great Republic; nor
can perhaps say it with consistency, and
there is no need of saying it all yet l will
hazard the suggestion that Southern women
are prettier than Northern women 1t is not
that the Withered wisp of the Underwater
settlement" is more beautiful than the per-
feet final flower of Northern culture, or the
saxifrage of the New England frontier farm
hardy plant, that has as little time, as its
Southern counterpart has turn, for the es-
thetic of the garden of God. But the ordi-
nary Southern woman on Columbia Heights,
on the South Battery, in Forsythe Park is
pleasant to the eye. Neither men, nor
women have the color and contour, the rich
costume, the aggressive prosperity of the
never-ending procession going down to the
Everglades in search of health-portly men,
full bearded and ruddy, close-buttoned to
the chin; buxom danes, every one with
sealskin sacque on her shoulders and su-
perogatory camel's-hair shawl over her
arm-weighted with money, beaming with
satisfaction eating and drinking the best of
everything and plenty of it, Southern Wo-
men are fragile in figure, delicate of COM
plexion, with soft, bright, abundant hair,
soft, melodious voices in which a certain
fatness of enunciation becomes far from dis
agreeable. Their dress is of modest cost
and palpably homemade. Worth and Red
fern-a plague O. both their houses! feather
no nests from these quiet birds. The SOM
bre blacks and heavy fabrics which long
winters drag even into our short summers,
count ill beside these cheerful taffetas and
fresh cambrics whose lightness suit well the
graceful forms. And their Wearers meet
kindly the stranger that is within their
gates. Brusquely accosted, roughly touch
ed where their heartsare sore, and no doubt
thesek kind eyes would flash with angry fire.
the pale ashes of secession still cherish vi
tai spark-but why approach them brusque-
ly? They endure a suffering all their
own. They have felt the hand of the North; ;
let them feel now only its ministrations.
AS pathetic and tender prophecy, / cher
ish an Easter gift of Easter lilies on Easter
morn, and the most precious tribute of the
-tree-from the avowed secession South,
to the avowed anti-slavery North-and feel
that in deed and in truth Christ the Lord is
risen.-GaH Hamilton in the Forum.
MAKING A FIELD-FIFE TALK.-"There
were great many war melodies" said a
musical man, "that never went even AS far
as words. We had in our old brigade, I re-
member, man who made the fife as much
wonder as Ole Bull made the violin.
This was Capt. Lou Houk, and he was kept
with the regiment through the influence of
the commissioned officers, who made it to his
interest to remain. 1t was his custom to
play every night just before tattoo, and very
frequently he INDUCED in impromptu COM
positions that electrified the camp. Hun
dreds of nights the boys went to sleep to
the soft airs of Lou Houk's fife, which alb
solutely talked to them of the sweet memo
ries OF home.
"IIe could make fife talk. [ remember
on one occasion a deserter was to be shot.
The whole brigade was formed on three
sides of great square. AS the condemned
man, accompanied by the chaplain and the
guard and the men carrying his coffin,
marched along the lines each regimental
band took up the strains of the funeral
march. AS the little group reached the
head of our regiment instead of the band
taking up the strain Lou Houk's fife took
it up. Whether he was in sympathy with
the man to be shot or not, his fife walled out
such pitful cry Of grief, such expressions
of heart-break that the heads Of more than
half the men in the regiment went down
with sob.
''There was something in the music so
like wonlans cry, so full of more than
mans tenderness that the man who was in
few minutes to be shot raised his head
and stepped more proudly, as though some
one had spoken to him words of sympathy
and encouragement. He went along the
| line beyond with step in which there was
more of soldiers pride than he had ever
exhibited before, and when other bands
took up the plaintive music it was observed
that he listened closely for the sound of the
fife still waiing, waling in speaking ten
derness That was twenty-four years ago,
but can hear the sound of that fife ringing
in my ears yet."-Hter ocean "Ctn0Sfone
G'ayons."
| FUNNY CAUSE OF A PANIC.-In some
stories of John b. Cough, the Temperance
lecturer, printed by the Philadelphia Times,
occurs the following: zone of the most ter
rible scenes ever witnessed throughout my
forty years career as public speaker, and
yet one with very ludicrous side to it,
occurred in DIR. Herron's church, the first