Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-08-18

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ERNEST CATENHUYSEN.
The National Saengerfest which is now
being celebrated in Milwaukee, is with
out doubt the grandest success yet achlev-
ed by the Northwestern Saengerbund.
For years it has been the custom of this
association of societies to hold reunions,
and each succeeding festival has esclipsed
its predecessor. Singing societies from
all parts of the Union participate and the
meeting usually winds up with a picnic
and general jollticatiOn. The chorus IN
the present festival numbers from 1000 to
1000 voices and some of the most distin-
guished soloists have been engaged for the
occasion. Ernest Catenhuysen, the gen.
eral musical director of the Festival, has
for years been associated with the musical
affairs of the Northwestern Saengeround.
He took prominent part in the Chlcago
and Buffalo reunions. He is flfty-one
years of age and before coming to Ameri-
ca enjoyed the advantages of thorough
musical education; studying in the musl-
cal centres of Germany, France and Italy.
He was employed in the Royal Theatre OF
Berlin and just before his departure Tor
America was engaged to play in the Royal
Opera.
HARD WORKERs.-There is one class
of laborers who never strike and seldom
complain. They get up at five O'Clock in
the morning and never 20 back to bed
until ten or eleven o'clock at night; they
work without ceasing the whole of that
time, and receive no other emolument
than food and the plainest clothing; they
understand something of every branch OF
economy and labor, from finance to cook
ing; though harrassed by hundred re-
spOnsibilities, though driven and worried,
though reproached and looked down upon,
they never revolt, and they cannot organ
iZe for their own protection. Not even
sickness releases them from their posts.
No sacrifice is deemed too great for them
to make, and no incOmpetency in any
branch of their work is excused. No es-
SAYS, or books, or poems are written IN
tribute to their steadfastness. They die
in harness and are supplanted as quickly
as may be. These are the housekeep-
ing wives of the laboring men.
MAKING HOME COMFORTABLE.-Men
grow sated of beauty, tired of music, and
often, too, wearied of conversation-how-
ever intellectual-but they can always ap-
preciate we'll swept hearth and smiling
comfort. A woman may love her hus-
band devotedly-may sacrifice fortune,
friends, family, country for him. She may
have the genius of Sapho, the enchanted
beauties of an Armida but, melancholy
fact. if with these she fails to make his
home comfortable his heart will inevita-
bly escape her, and women live so entire
" in the affections, that without love their
existence is void. Better submit, then,
to household tasks, however repugnant
they may be to your tastes, than doom
yourself to loveleSs home. Women Of
higher order of mind will not run the
risk they know that their feminine and
domestic duties are their first duties.
BLUE, GRAY AND GREEN EYES.-The
New York Commercial Adrertiser devotes
an editorial to the relative merits of the
blue eye, the gray eye and the green eye,
citing wel-knOwn literary works as au-
thOrties. While it tries to he non-com-
initial and wavers between gray and blue
as the desirable color, it does not hesitate
to declare that 'as rule the green eye is
not admired" Anthony Trollope does
not appear among the authors cited, for if
he did the green eye would have found a
decided champion. In his novel. "Ihe
Eustace Diamonds" false, tricky and un-
principled Lizzie Eustace has eyes "blue
and clear, bright as cerulean waters"
while the author adds: "HOW few there
are among women, few perhaps also
among men, who know that the sweetest,
softest, tenderest, truest eyes woman can
carry in her head are green in color"
TIE BOYS UNDERsTOoD.-SOmet teach
ers know how to deal with boys. The
members of certain high school, aftera
long debate decided that the marking sys-
tenn was injurious and unfair, and peti-
toned the principal to abolish it. 1--WE
know" said the spokesman, "whether we
have prepared our lessons or not ; the
record of an accidental miss may be quite
misleading. There was grand baseball
match impending in which the whole
school was intensely interested. Let us
try it on the ball ground first" said the
teacher. "In the coming match keep no
score. You will know whether you play
we'll or i'll, and as for errors, they are Of
ten pure accident; why record them ?'
The boys smiled and withdrew. The
reasoning was too much for them.-Ner
York Ledger.
FLOATING IsLANDs.-Three years after
date the floating islands Of pumice thrown
up and into the sea by the stupendous
volcanic eruption at Krakatoa, in the Java
seas are found to have drilted along the
Indian Ocean in the last twelve months,
67G miles in the direction west by south
from where they were one year ago, or
about five rffiles day. This accidental
help to photographers and all who study
ocean currents and drift, is probably the
best they have ever had, because the orl-
gin of the pumice is well known, the
floating eXpanse of it is so large that 1T
cannot escape notice, and the dates and
other particulars about it are all matters
of record.
He COULD EARN A LIVING ANY
following advertisement
appeared in q German newspaper of the
wear A. ID. 1910: Isaac Markell, barber,
wig-maker, hool-teacher, shavesand cuts
hair for two kreutZers; for which he also
pomade on the hair. He makes
and patches boots and shoes, bleeds and
applies leeches cheap. He teaches dane
ing at private houses, and sells perfumery
of every kind, including axle grease, salt
herringS, honey cakes, brushes, mouse
traps, and other confectionery, including
bitters for liver complaint, seed potatoes,
sausages and other vegetables"
RSg Life'S harmony must nave Its dis
cords; but as in music pathos is tempered
into pleasure by the pervading spirit of
beauty, so are all lite's sounds tempered