Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-21


toll she has done will confer upon her
some degree Of right to have her own way,
ill-judged though it may be. The wild
girl usually aspires to prominence in some
social circle or other, and her manners and
conduct, in greater or less degree are de
signed to attract the following of men,
She should remember that followers are
not always admirers, and that the most
sincere admiration man ever feels for
woman in a draWing-room is when he
looks upon her and says in his own con-
sciousness: "She is perfect lady."-Er-
change.
NATURAL BEAUTY OF NAZARETH.-
The valley Of Nazareth is so charming
that it has been called a paradise on earth.
1t is full of flowers and shrubs, and butter
flies and birds. Among the magnificent
blossoms that in this country grow only in
greenhouses, and the foreign birds, with
their gay, glittering feathers, are found
our own loved roses and daisies. our night
ingales, blackbirds, thrushes and larks,
filling the air with their sweet songs ; and
even the little homely sparrow and robin
redbreast, that we consider so peculiarly
our own, hop about and chirp as gaily in
Palestine as here.
The people who live in the "happy val
ley' are more healthy and vigorous than
their neighbors, or than the people who
live in hot countries usually are. The
fresh air from the hills makes them strong;
and how sweet that air must be, passing
rs it does over mignionette roses and many
other flowers cherished in our gardens and
gathered to perfume our rooms, but grow
ing there with all the reckless Joy of ma
ture. There is only one river in the val
ley, little fresh brook dancing down to
the plain below, and here the women, clad
in their pretty dresses, travellers tell US,
were brighter and more picturesque than
those of their neighbors, as if even in the
matter of costume they were to be best of
ALL came in those days, as they still do,
with their great earthen jars, to draw the
fresh bright water from the we'll, and car
ry it home to their families.
WHAT THE TROUBLE Is.-The evil is
apparent to ALL but it is not so easy to APP
ply the remedy. There are too many
laws made and the good laws are not prop
erly or efficiently executed. There is
too much legislation to promote person
al or political interests, and too little at
tenton paid by legislators to the interests
of the whole people. In Congress, in our
State Legislatures, in our Common Coun-
ellis, partisan feeling originates partisan
measures, and States and communities
are plagued and oppressed by the parts
an iniquties perpetrated. Those in pow
er reverse acts and doings Of those who
precede them, and when their miscon-
duct brings on them popular condemna-
ton, those who follow after will change
and overturn all that has been done.
Thus will it continue to be-law disre.
spected and the people plundered-until
! the people choose their legislators and the
Interpreters and executors of the law, not
as the creatures of party, but by the stand
ard of fitness and good personal character.
How DID THEY KNOW?-A writer in
Land and Water says saw curious case
recently of what may call the "heredita-
ry instinct" of animals. / was in field in
which there were some five and twenty
cows and bull grazing. 1t was Sunday,
and all was quiet and still. heard low
roar or below. thought it was the bull,
but every animal in the field lifted its
head and left off grazing. There was an
other loud roar, and all the cows began
walking towards and "centreing" on the
bull, lust as if they were going to moba
dog, and while remained watching them
they kept at "attention," not resuming
their grazing. WombWell's menagerie
was about q quarter of a mile from the
field, and the roar was the roar of a lion.
It must have been hundreds, aye, perhaps
tfious sands of years since the ancestors OF
these cattle heard the roar OF a. lion, but
still they recognized it as an enemy. enemy.
THE DURATION OF A GENERATIoN.-
The duration Of a generation Is the aver
age length oflife forman That is, though,
of a million of human beings born in a
generation, some will die in infancy and
some will live to old age, the average life
for the entire number will be about thirty
three years. This is arrived at by aVerag-
ing the ages of all persons, old and young,
dying within term of years. Different
| localities, different periods, will, of course,
alter the result, but the average for the
race in civilized countries is always ap-
proximately the same.
The average age of population is diff
ferent thing. This is the average age OF
all persons living at any one time, ascer-
tained by summing the ages of persons OF
different age as given by census OF the
population, and dividing this by the
sum total of the population.-Infer- ocean
"Queries."
EXAMPLE Is BETTER THAN PRECEPT.
It has been said that a parent, giving his
children good instruction and bad exam
ple. brings them food in one hand and
poison in the other-Whch is likely to
prevail? The old fable is not without its
! lesson, even in the present enlightened
age: "How very badly my poor children
are waIkingw said crab, in great distress
of mind. II scold and reason and talk,
vet 1 notice nothing but crookedness."
; "Ah! my FRIEND" said listener, if you
so earnestly desired your children to walk
straight, why have you walked crookedly
yourself ?"-7he Quirer.
CURIOsITIEs OF LIGHT.-BishOp Clark,
writing on the curiosities of light, says:
1t seems to be a very commonplace thing
to say that the light makes objects visible
lust what this implies? If it were posi-
bic to makes perfectly smooth surface it
would be invisible. But, as matter of
fact, nothing is perfectly smooth, and it
is the little roughness on the surface
which break up the rays of light, and
thus render the object visible to our
senses. Wonderful deceptions are pro-
duced by the use of highly-polished mir
rors, with the most startling and magical
effects.
THUNDER, LIGHTING AND RAIN
Meterologists have found that there can
be no thunder and lightning without rain.
When thunder is heard beneath the clear
sky, the reports must either come from
distant clouds or be the result of some
other cause than discharge of electricity.
Harvest or heat lightning is produced by
distant storm. Thunder seldom ever
accompanies heat lightning, the sound
reaches only II miles, while lightning is
often seen by reflection upon nearer clouds,
at a much greater distance.