Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-07
BROTHER GARDNER ON OLD FASHIONED FOLKS.

q lament DekaSe Qe Ole-1aSnunNQ mar an
woman had died off, an would be seen no
mo- on airth foreber. I'ze glad on it. De
ole-fashioned man scraped off de measure
when he sold wheat; he believed dat any
sort of food an any sort of bed was good
enough for his chilren; he took de biggest
piece of pie at the table; he ct mo- like a
hog dan q human bein'; if he had sympa-
thy, it wus fur his cattle insead of his FAM
ly. De ole-fashun'd man was a regular at
tendant at prayer-meeting, but he worked
his hired help twenty hours out of twenty
four just de same. He'd drive five miles to
church on Sunday to show his religun, but
doorin' de odder six days of de week he
was a bad man to trade bosses wild. 1t took
his wife six months to git up de courage to
ak him for a new calico dress, an most of
his chill'en growed up an went away from
home widout a reckoleckshun of a dozen
kind words.
"De ole-fashun'd man had two recipes
fur his fellow-bein's. De fust was hard
work, de neX' was boneset tea. He had
but two ideas in regard to boys. DE fust
was lots of work and little schoolin'; de
next was lots o. lickens an no holidays.
He had but two ideas in regard to bizness.
De fust was, git all We kin; de next was
keep all We git. He argued dat a liar could
neber enter de kingdom of heaben, but
would 90 out an lick a sick OK to death
without any fear abouth his hereafter. He
prayed loudly dat de LaWd would increase
his crops, but he kept his hired hands
down to the lowest possible fgger. He
made a great show of submittin' to de will
of Providence, but if 500 pounds of hay got
wet in a rain storm some of de chillen
come in fur a licken befo' night.
"De ole-fashun'd man an woman hev de-
parted, an de world hasn't lost a cent by it.
1t was a good depart. Wicked as some
folks claim the world to be, 1 feel dat I
kin walk in the average crowd an pick
out mo- charity, humanity, religion, SYM
pathy and morality dan could be found
in a ten acre lot of ole-fashioned men. Let
US purceed to bisness.-Detrot Free Press.
THE LAW AS TO PARTY WALLs.-A par
ty wall in law is the wall dividing lands of
different proprietors, used in common for
the support of structures on both sides. At
common law an owner who erects a wall
for his own building which is capable of
being used by an adjoining proprietor, can
not compel such a proprietor, when he
shall build next to it, to pay for any por-
ton of the cost of such a wall. On the
other hand, the adjoining proprietor has
no right to make any use of such wall
without consent of the owner, and the con-
sequence may be the erection of two walls
side by side, when one would answer
all purposes. This convenience is often
secured by an agreement to erect a wall
for common use, one-half on each others
land, the parties to divide the expense !;
if only one is to build at the time, he gets
a return from the other party of half what
it costs him. Under such an agreement,
each has an easement of the land of the
other while the wall stands, and this &C
companies the title in sales and descent.
But if the wall is destroyed by decay or &C
cident, the easement is gone, unless by a
deed such a contingency is provided for.
Repairs to party walls is to be borne equal
ly; but if one has occasion to strengthen
or improve them for more extensive build
ing than was at first contemplated, he can
not compel the other to divide the expense
with him. In some States there are statutes
regulating the rights in party walls, and
one may undoubtedly acquire rights by
prescription on a wall built by another,
which he has long been allowed to use for
the support of his W structure building.
T1IC NJ n U1IO T,AJ1CuS man whose
ha-ha! reaches from one end of the street
to the other may be the same fellow who
scolded his wife and spanked the baby be-
fore he got his breakfast, but his laughter is
only the crackle of thorns under the pot.
The man who spreads his laughter, through
his life, before a late breakfast, when he
misses the train, when his wife goes visit
ing and he has to eat a cold supper, the
man who can laugh when he finds a button
off his shirt, when the furnace fire goes out
in the night and both the twins take down
with measles at the same time, he's the fell
low that's. needed. He never tells his
neighbor to have faith somehow he puts
faith into him. He delivers no homilies ;
the sight of his beaming face, the sound of
his happy voice and the sight of his blessed
daily life carry conviction that words have
no power to give. The blues flee before him
as the fog before the west wind; he comes
into his own home like a flood of sunshine
over a meadow of blooming buttercups, and
his wife and children blossom in his pres
ence like June roses. His home is redolent
with sympathy and love. The neighbour
hood is better for his life and somebody will
learn of him that laughter is better than
tears. The world needs this man why
are there so few of him? Can he be crea-
ted ? Can he be evolved? Why is he not
in every house, turning rain into sunshine
and winter into summer all the year round,
until life is a perpetual season of joy?-
LewiSton (Maine) Journal.
THE SALT oFTHE EARTH.-Ifthe salt for
nations of Nevada were in railroad COM
munication there would be no market in
this country for the foreign article. In
Lincoln county, on the Rio Virgin, there is
a deposit of pure rock salt which is exposed
for a length of two miles, a width of half a
mile, and is of unknown depth. In places
canons are cut through it to a depth of six
ty feet. 1t is of ancient formation, being
covered in some places by basaltic rock and
volcanic tufa. The deposit has been traced
on the surface for a distance of nine miles.
1t is so solid that it must be blasted like
rock and so pure and transparent that print
can be read through blocks of it a foot thick.
At Sand Springs, in Churchill county, there
is a deposit of rock salt fourteen feet in