Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-06-30
OF he was elected United States Senator,
to which position he was since reelected,
serving with distinction to himself and
credit to his State.


credit to his State.
, YOUNG GIRLS SHOULD TEACH.-What
can girl do to help the community in
some way? Teaching at present is the
greatest and noblest profession open to
women. If that is entered upon direct
from school, there is little fear of life being
wasted in an idle desultory way. TO
many a girl, teaching, know, seems
dreadful drudgery, but then with it there
comes sooner or later, the satisfaction of
having been laborer in the grandest work
of all life-the spreading of knowledge.
Teaching, however, is not for every girl.
With some, circumstances do not require
it, and social position does not admitOf it.
70 such would say do not give it up al
together; if you cannot make profession
of it you can at least teach the poor of
your neighborhood in the Sunday school,
etc. Let not this branch of the work be
despised, for it is one of the most difficult,
and to it properly requires much prepara-
ton. Then there is parish work of other
kinds, such as district visiting, all of
which, if engaged in, keeps q girls life
from being failure.
Supposing none of these works are posi-
BILE to girl, there is always in these days,
when good classical literature is so cheap,
the possibility of forming a regular plan
Of study at hometown right earnest
reading for certain space of each day.
However small this is, if is done with
definite aim in view, and not merely for
selfish enjoyment, great good will come
into girls life from it. There is always
natural bent in every ones mind-a natu-
raj genius for one kind of work more than
for others; let a girl then, not try to do
little of everything, but work steadily at
that in which she has put her heart, so
that when the time comes for her to rem
der account for her talent there may be
said to her, as to each of those in the
parable: "Well done, good and faithful
servant; enter thou into the joy of thy
Lord. CasseWs Magazine.
PECULIAR SUICIDEs.-One of the evils
inseperable from the modern general diff
fusion Of all sorts of news is the encOur-
agement of criminal imitation. 1t was
long ago noticed that peuliar crimes are
apt to be copied, and that this is especial
ly the case in regard to suicide. Most
readers probably remember the story of
the grove of trees that Napoleon caused
to be burned because it was found impos-
sible to prevent the soldiers from hang
ing themselves in it. A similar story is
told of military sentry-box. 1t was
found necessary to build cage over the
gallery at the top of the London mon
ument, because it had become favorite
place for suicidal plunges. A similar rep
utation attached for many years to Water
loo Bridge in London. In France, some
years ago, foolish young couple, saturat-
ed with Rosseauism, fastened themselves
with gay colored ribbons, and threw them
selves into the Seine. The idea took, and
for time this mode of suicide was quite
the fashion. Statistics show that the av-
erage number of suicides remains tolera-
bly, constant in proportion to population,
though it no doubt rises when some wide
spread convulsion disorganizes society.
But the ways of committing suicide
change, and people not only exercise
choice in the matter, but are Influenced
in selecting the mode by the recent oc-
currence Of any striking events of the
kind.-New York Tribune.
JUBE EARLY's Niger JOE.-One of
the best known characters in Lynchburg,
Va, is Jube Early's nigger "Joe." Joe
is an old negro with all the dignity of
body servant Of the slavery days, and his
affection for the General amounts to wor-
ship. Jube owned Joe before the war,
and owns him still, Joe having never
been freed, scorning to accept what he
says does not belong to him, and saying
as long as Mass Jube was alive Joe is his
slave. Early is very fond Of his slave.
and would shoot quicker in defence OF
the negro than anybody else. He has
given Joe carte blanche to buy what he
likes in the town, and has instructed
storekeepers, no matter what Joe wants,
or how much it will cost, to give it to
him and send the bill to his master.
Sometimes Early gets rather worse for
whskey and then comical sight is seen.
Joe follows him like dog, and when the
General gets very drunk Joe will say:
"Mass Jube, you mus come home"
"Why you black rascal, what do you
mean? Pm your master"
Eyes, Mass Jube, when you'se sober;
when you'se drunk Use massa."
"Well, reckon you are right, old man.
I'll 60 with YOU"
VAGAR1Es OF FEMININE FAsHIoN.--lt
is hazardous to criticise Woman's dress.
Fashion has nothing to do with fitness,
and woman's dress is governed by fashion
alone. Men groan over the terrors OF
trains, and will continue to groan until
trains give place to the still greater abb
surdity of crinolines. There is barbarlc
splendor in great lady sweeping through
palatial rooms, with her train t1OWlng IN
graceful curves behind her; but the sight
of Mrs. Jones gathering up her long
skirts, and forcing them into the small
space allowed to her in crowded subur-
ban draWing-rOom, is painful 10 those
whose sense Of humor is not OF that rOpust
kind that rejOces in the ludicrous. Chau-
Ger decaimed against trains, ana our
great-grandsons will no doubt continue 10
do the like. A few years ago some wo-
men made feeble attempt to pOpularlZe
a pretier styIe of dress, but the female
aesthetic took the idea and burlesqued 1T TO
death. The vagaries of female fashion
are among the things that men have TO
bear as best they can. We can at least be
thankful that we have not as yet returned
to the crinoline age.
"WIIAT IS LIrE"'-"What is Life?'
some one asked Montford, and he Deautl-
fully replied: "The present life is sleep
ing and waking; it is good night on 60
ing to bed, and good morning on getting
up: it is to wonder what the day will bring
forth it is rain on the window as one
sits by the fire; it is to walk in the garden
and see the flowers and to hear the birds
sing it is to have news from the east, west,
north and south, it is to see pictures and
hear music; it is to have Sundays; tits to
pray with a family morning and evening;
it is to set in twilight and mediate; it is
to have breakfast dinner and tea; 1t IS TO
belong to town and have neighbors, and
to become one in circle ofacqualntances;
it is to have friends and love; II IS 70
have sight of dear old faces, ana WIN
some menit is to be kissed by the same
loving, lips for fifty years, ana IL t;S,eS is 90
a day. in many places by children, grand
children and many friends"