Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-03-18

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serbs and condenses the nurtritive gases in
it's pores to the amount of twenty to eighty
times it's own bulk. These it stores up for
the plants, which readily consume them.
Charcoal, like lime, tends to check rust
in wheat, and mildew in other crops, and
in all cases mitigates the ravages where
it does not wholly prevent them.
SIZED HER UP WRONG.
Old Col. Portertield was hard man. He
worked his wife-a good, patient woman-to
death upon his plantation. On her DEATH
bed, when too late, his eyes were opened to
the great wrong he had done, ana ne Degged
her forgiveness.
at is easy enough for me to forgive" she
gasped, "but my forgiveness will not cause
your coming punishment to be lessened. |
feel that you are going to be punished on
this earth" She turned her face away from
him and died.
The colonel's season of grief was not long
He soon put on his best clothes and showed
himself at the hog killings and other places
of amusement. His friends were shocked,
but said nothing. Soon there came into the
neighborhood a graceful woman, Antoinette
PoWorth. The colonel met her and was
charmed. He called on her. She received
him kindly and eventually they were mar
red.
Six months of almost unbrOken happiness
flew away, but now the colonel's face some.
times wore an anxious expression. His wife
was not so fair as she had been, and the COL
onel had discovered that the waving hair
which he had so much admired was some
times at night hung on the mantelpiece.
He found also that he had been deceived in
other ways, and the spirit of revenge arose
in his injured breast.
"Antoinette," the colonel one day re-
Marked in voice which had lost much of
its wonted gentleness, "Caroline is ill to-
day, and l want you to go ont and weave
jeans for the negroes. 1 get good price
for the stuff and 1 cannot afford to see the
loom idle.
"Well, then, don't look at it," Antoinette
carelessly replied.
The colonel nibbled his lips and sternly
said:
"Woman, want no fooishness."
"Don't have it then"
II won't. Go out there and weave or
you'll feel the ungentle force of retributive
authority"
Antoinette laughed. The colonel took
hold of her nose and gave it turn as though
he would unscrew it. Antoinette put aside
a stocking she had been darning, knock cked
the colonel down with lightning-like slap,
put one foot under him, threw him across
the room, sat down and resumed her peace
full occupation. After awhile the colonel sat
up and gazed upon her in astonishment.
"Antoinette, he feebly said.
"What, dear"
"You needn't weave"
"Thank you, dear"
"You have convinced me that a woman
should have few rights, but, say, how did
you do it? Where did you acquire the facts
which you have just embodied into such an
unanswerable argument"'
"Colonel," she replied, "pardon me for
not sooner telling you. For many years l.
was the cannon ball woman and the IRON
iawed maiden in the circus. Don't get ex-
cited, dear. I shall not give you another
exhibition until you attempt to get a divorce
from me. Then will take you up in my
teeth and shake you"
The colonel went out, leaned on horse
block and groaned. His first Wife's predic-
ton was verified.-Arko1SaV Traveller.
A PLEA For OLD MAIDs.-The mere fact
of woman not having found a partner in
life places her at once at certain dlSad-
vantage in the estimation of the world. If
a man remains single, it is "because he pre-
fers it," but who would seriously believe
the lady who gave the same reason for not
having been married. Consequently she
rarely ventures upon such an assertion.
No; she is single-because she could not
help herself. And henceforth she is accred-
tied with all the weakness and eccentricities
of old-maidism. A married woman may
like cats and parrots without criticism if a
single woman makes pet of either of these
animals it is because she is an old maid.
Should a spinster by chance not care about
pets it is held that, being spinster, she
ought to do 50. If mother carries a small
bag in her hauds when out walking, it is
nothing more nor less than bag carried tor
convenience or fashions sake. In the old
maids hands the same article becomes
reticule-the spinster's badge. When Mrs.
Somebody is orderly in her house and tidy
in her person, if an obser\. Ion on the sub
ject is made at all, it is as follows: "Why,
full compliment paid to the miss. No one,
of course, denies that there is such thing
as old-maidism 1--WE employ this word for
want of a better), to which some women are
evidently born, as some are also driven into
it. But as the tastes and habits of married
WOmen differ, so.likewise do those of single
women. 1t is, therefore, rather unjust to
label eveIy lone woman with the badge
which she may be inclined herself to ridi-
cule in others. And if such one be OF
sensitive nature, she would greatly apprecl-
ate the privilege of being able to keep the
world in ignorance of her real position-es-
pecially, perhaps, when traveling-by not
being compelled to reveal it, in her title of
miss.
MORMONIsM IN ALABAMA.-Alabama
correspondence of the Atlanta Constitution
says: "Clay county, Alabama, is the scene
Of great Mormon triumphs OF late: Mr..
Landers, a preacher of Oak Ridge Church,
which he used as school during the week,
entertained Mormon elder two years ago
and allowed him to preach on Sunday:
The result was the conversion of Landers'
wife and son to M0rmonism, to the cha
grin of the deluded father, who left the
country. Later the Mormon elders sWho had
increased in numbers, were requested to
leave, but declined defantly, saying that
they were ready to spill their blood. They
have now converted about the entire popu-
lation of Shinbone Valley, and warn peo-
pie not in sympathy with them to leave in
thirty days Several such warnings are
now out
The Gentiles retaliated one night last
| week by gathering around the house of Ell
der Harrison and notifying him that he
should not continue his work. The next
day the elders son bought a supply Of am
munition, and Harrison had stuck up on
trees this notice: "Come to our house an
other night and some Of you will eat break
| fast in hell next morning" Deserted
homes, separated families and changed
| friends to bitter enemies are some Of the re-
suits already accomplished by Mormonism
| in Alabama, and the end is not yet. I'm
der the cloak of religion they are stirring