Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-09-22

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hope.
All, baby-why couldn't you wait!
Very gently she strokes the bowed head,
and very softly she whispers:
ut is BEST"
And here over the dead form, the eyes,
blue as the wild violet, curtained forever,
the baby hands folded, the wee, tired feet
resting, they stand reconciled, while over
all, like incense, float the odors of hello
tropes and white roses.-DetrOu Free Press.
THE MOTHER.
There is no human love like mothers
love. There is no other such human ten
mothers displaying her love and tender
ness toward her child as in the child's ear
liest years oflife. That time neglected, and
no future can make good the loss to either
mother or child. That time we'll improved,
all the years that follow it can profit by
its improvement. Even God Himself
measures His fatherly love by a motherly
standard. GAS one whom his mother
comforteth, so I will comfort you," He
says; and what more than this could He
say? And many strong man who was
first comforted by his mothers loving and
tender works and ways while he was
helpless child, has never lost his grateful,
trusting dependence on that mothers
ministry of affection and sympathy.
When gruff old DR.. Johnson was fifty
years old he wrote to his aged mother as
if he were still her wayward but loving
boy: "You have been the best mother,
and 1 believe the best woman in the world.
1 thank you for all your indulgence to me,
and beg forgiveness for all that have
done i'll, and of all that have omitted to
do WE'LL" John Quincy Adams did not
part with his mother until he was nearly
or quite as old as this; yet his cry even
spared yet a little longer. Without her
the world feels to me like a solitude"
When President Mott, of Union College,
was more than ninety years old, and had
been for halfa century college president,
as strength and sense failed him in his
dying hours, the memory of his mothers
tenderness was fresh and potent; and he
could be hushed to needed sleep by gen.
tie patting on the shoulder and the sing
ing to him of the old-time lullabies, as if
his mother was still sitting by his bedside
in loving ministry, as she had been we'll
nigh century before. The true son nev- .
er grows old to true mother.
How TO PUNISH CHILDREN.-"How to
punish children" said Prof. Adler, in a
lecture recently, sis one of the burning
questions of the day. Upon it depends in
a greater degree than people imagine the
welfare of the State, the family, society
itself. How many parents know how to
punish children?
"a child will grow up, in nine cases
out of ten, the embodiment Of the infiu
ences that surround him. Never chastise
child in anger. Socrates, the great Pa
gan philosopher, refrained from punish
ing slave until his passion had cooled.
Any angry father acts a perilous example
to his offspring. He exhibits his weak
ness when he should be firm and contain
ed. The child drinks in the lesson, and
his moral nature is lacerated and warped.
"How many children are spoiled by
encouragement? Parents grumble and
chide the livelOng day, and never praise.
1t is wrong. Nothing will so effectually
crush .child's ambition to he good and
noble. The sweet appreciation Of a good
mother is enough to make young man
face fire and death in worthy cause"
LET Us HELP ONE ANoTHER.-This
little sentence should be written on every
heart, and stamped on every memory. 1t
should be the golden rule practiced, not
only in every household, but throughout
the world. BY helping one another, we
not only remove thorns from the pathway,
but we feel sense Of pleasure in our
hearts, knowing we are doing our duty to
a fellow-creature. a helping hand or an
encouraging word is no loss to US, yet it is
benefit to others. Who has not felt the
power of this little sentence? Who has
not needed the encouragement and aid of
kind friend? How soothing, when per-
picked with some mysterious and burden
shoulder and hear kind voice whisper
ing, "Do not feel discouraged-I see your
trouble-letme helpyou What strength
is inspired-what hope created--what
sweet gratitude is felt, and the greatest
difficulty is dissolved as dew beneath the
sunshine.
TRIAL BY ORDEAL IN RUssIA.-A Gu
rious survival of ordeal superstition still
prevails to very large extent in southern
Russia. When theft is committed in a
household the servants are summoned to-
gether and sorceress is sent for. Should
no confession be made by the guilty party
the sOrceress rolls up as many little balls
of bread as there are suspected persons
present. She then takes one of these balls
and addressing the nearest servant, uses
this formula: eff you have committed
the theft the ball will sink to the bottom
of the vase, but if you are innocent it will
float on the water" The accuracy of this
trial, however, is seldom tested, as the
guilty person invariably confesses before
his turn arrives to undergo the ordeal
Chambers Journal.
THE AIR OF THE SEA.-The air of the
sea, taken at great distance from the
land, or even on the shore and in ports,
when the wind blows from the open, is in
an almost perfect state of purity. Near
continents the land winds drive before
them an atmosphere always impure, but
at 100 kilometers from the coasts this i'm
purity has disappeared. The sea rapidly
purifes the pestilential atmosphere Of con-
tinents; hence every eXpanse of water OF
certain breadth becomes absolute obsta-
ces to the propagation of epidelnics. Ma.
rine atmospheres driven upon the land
which they traverse this publication can
be recognized as far as Paris.
ns~ A good reputation is important to
any man in any sphere. Yet a good rep
utation is neither gained nor preserved by
anxiety about it. There is no way of get
ting reputation like deserving it. There
is no way of preserving reputation like
continuing to deserve it. If you would
have others think good deal of you, first
see to it that there is a good deal due you.
If YOU think too much of yourself, others
will not. Ifyou think very little of your
self, others may think more. Not until
you have forgotten yourself will the world
generally feel any responsibility to give
thought to you.-&. S. Times.