Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-10-06
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ROBERT L. TAYLOR sss.se
The Taylor family of Tennessee is des-
tined to furnish that State wifk Its next
governor. R. L. Taylor is the choice of
A Taylor, is the Republican nominee.
Although the Republicans have been gain
ing ground in Tennessee, the State still
has solid working Democratic majority,
therefore the odds are in favor of Robert
L. Taylor. Speculation on the result of
this contest can be only conjectural how
ever, and the returns will be looked for
with interest. Robert L. Taylor was
born in Carter county, of Tennessee, and
is thirty-six years old. His boyhoOd was
spent on farm and he did not enter the
political arena until 1876, when he was
sent to Congress. He soon became dis
tinguished for his ability as an orator. In
1886 he was prominently mentioned for
United States Senator, but after spirited
contest was defeated by Howell E. Jack
son. In 1882 his name was mentioned for
governor, but the choice fell on Gen. w.
B. Bate. In 1884 he was chosen presi-
Dental elector at large on the Democratic
ticket.
CHARACTER.-There is nothing that
weighs more heavily upon right minded
man than the slow progress he makes
in overcoming his faults. Here we are
at twenty with the faults of childhood
upon US; peevish, ungovernable, insatia-
Bile ; at thirty with the faults of youth;
vain, inconsiderate, pleasure-loving; at
forfx of;II u,oo r;po tho hoduos Of rlv
folly; proud, passionate, sensual; at fifty
or sixty, but not yet wise with the expe-
rience of life; selfish still, unsympathetic,
ambitious, full of conscious weakness and,
perhaps, with an ill-repressed brood of
evil habits and the characteristic vice Of
age-avarice. Yet all the while we may
have been striving after the good, curbing
the evil, keeping our faces heavenward;
all the while aiming to fear God and keep
His commandments; never at any time
wholly given up the strife after ideal ex-
cellence. This, after all, is the tragical
features of life; that it is linked with so
much failure in character; that it Is given
for wisdom, and yet we are not wise for
goodness, and We are not good; for over
coming evil, and evil remains; for pa
thence and Sympathy and self-command and
love, and yet we are fretful and hard and
weak and selfish. This makes the bitter
ness of death and calls out the cry: Vani-
ty of vanities; all is vanity!
1t is the struggle, and not the attain
ment, that measures character and fore
shadows destiny. Character is not deter
mined by faults and weaknesses and peri
odic phases of life, nor by limitations and
accidents of present existence; but by the
central purpose, the inrnost desire of the
heart. If that be turned toward God and
His Righteousness, it must at last bring US
thither.-Dr. Munger.
A FRAGMENT.-Time steals on with
muf1ed tread, and we are not inclined to
take note of it. To-day is scarcely real
lied and utilized till it is displaced by to-
morrow, and that, in its turn, goes the
same way and with the same funeral
march. Childhood, youth, manhood and
old age, following rapidly on the heels OF
each other, soon wind up this troubled
dream called life, and then the curtain
falls, the actors retire to appear no more.
In the rush and whirl of the surging tide
of humanity we meet and smile, then sigh
and part. Some fine face, some sympa-
thetic feature, is photographed on the
heart and mind, hung up in the gallery of
memory, and carried, in fading and fall
ing beauty, through this weary pilgrim
age, till all is merged in the cold riverthat
divides the real from the ideal. It Is not
all of life to live, nor all of death to die,
but there is a hereafter, divinity, an i'm
mortality in both that stretches out with
illimitable reach. Philosophy establishes
the indestructibility of matter, and that is
Synonymous with the immortality of mat
ter, and abolishes the blotting out and OBJ
literating process of what we call death,
or the end of life. This is beautiful
world, with all its sin scars, darkness and
gloom. Ties are woven and friendships
formed that bind US to earth with cords
that it is painful to sever, and we shrink
from death and shudder as we approach
the deep, dark tomb, because we look
upon that as the end of life's pilgrimage,
and though it may have been rough, long
and weary, yet we cling to it and sigh to
give it up. 1t shuts out all we know OF
life and love and happiness, and brings US
face to face, with the untried, and the un-
known.
THR AURoRA's HEIGHT.-Many at
tempts have been made to fix the height
of the aurora borealis, but the estimates
have given discouragingly wide range
of figures. The aurora has been observed
WneQ II S6elueu W lcot VI tIC Col III oul
face, and at other times has appeared 81
multaneously at stations so widely sepa-
rated that it has been supposed to be two
or three hundred miles high. In expert
ments with his powerful voltaic battery,
practical demonstrations of the effects of
electrical discharges in rarefied air were
made by DIR. De Ia Rue. These forced
him to the conclusion that thirty-eight
miles is probably the height at which the
most brilliant auroras takes place, thata
pale and faint glow may possibly be pro-
duced as high even as eighty-two miles,
but that at a height of one hundred and
twenty-four miles no auroral discharge Is
possible.
~-"One of the great problems of the
South" says the New Orleans 1fnaes-Dena-
ocrat, "is education. 1t is the immense
amount of illiteracy in this section that
has held it back in material progress.
With large proportion of its population
unable to read or write, the heritage OF
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