Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-07-25

orable gentleman does not mean to read
that large bundle OF papers, and to bore
us with long speech into the bargain"
Burke was 80 suffocated with rage as to be
incapable of speech, and rushed out of the
House. "Never BEFORE" says Selwyn,
'did T see the fable realized of lion put
to flight by the braying of an ass."-The
Gentleman's Magazine.
BELLS.
Of all the articles in common use, alike
in our public and private life, there is
none that appeals to more emotions than
the bell. There is none which has figured
more prominently in not a few of the
great tragedies of history and in many of
the cherished recollections of childhood.
Its history is full of romance, from the
time when the drops of water in the clep-
cydra, the water-clock of antiquity, were
made to sound like our most diminutive
bells, to the present, when the largest bell
in the world, noWin actual use in Moscow,
weighs 12S tons. It is story upon which
volume might be written, for the histo-
rians, the poets, the musicians and even
the nursery tales would furnish abundant
material. '.'
In England, for centuries, the parish
bell has tolled for the death Of the poorest
and the richest alike, and this custom has
prevailed to some extent in New England.
English history when the bells pealed
mingled notes of triumph and mourning.
The same ship that brought the news of the
great naval victory at Trafalgar conveyed
also the remains of Nelson, and when it
arrived all the bells rang out merry peals,
broken at intervals by the passing toll for
the loss of the hero who had won it.
In earlier times two of the most dreadful
tragedies in all history were ushered in
by the ringing of bells. 1t was upon
Easter-tide in 1882 that John of Procida
had fixed for his attempt to free Sicily
from the French and Charles Of Anjou.
The signal for the rising and the onslaught
was to be the first sound Of the vesper
bells on the appointed day. In the
massacre that followed, more than 5000
Frenchmen perished, and the event has
since been known as the Sicilian Vespers.
The massacre of the Huguenots occurred
in 1857 and the signal for its commence
ment was given by the ringing of bell in
the church of st. Geormain u AuZerrois,
opposite the east facade of the Louvre.
Bells, indeed, played an important part
in all the strife and turmoil of the Middle
Ages. They rang in the cities taken and
given over to pillage, or in token of ran
som by victor who dared to be merciful,
or by the joyful garrison when from their
unconquered walls they saw the besiegers
departing. One of the first acts Of gen.
eral, after capturing stronghold, was to
break or pull down the bells, and if oppor-
failed to melt down the cannon Of the op-
pressors, in their turn defeated, to make
good their loss.
In England, William the Conqueror
made the curfew bell an instrument of op-
preston. After Mahomet II had taken
Constantinople, in 1853, he permitted large
bodies of the Greeks to return to their
homes, but he would never allow their
bells to be rung, knowing how easily they
might be used as signal for insurrectlon.
While the bell has sounded the knell to
many hopes it has pealed merrlly and
hopefully to many ears. 1t made the for
tune of Wilmington, when it seemed to
say:
"Turn again, Wilmington,
Lord Mayor of London"
Moore sang beautifully of those "Even-
ing Bells" and Father Prout has celebra-
ted "The Bells Of Shandon" in verses that
will as long as that classic river flows.
The DOLL QUEsTIoN.-The irony of
criticism has received fresh illustration of
late in the onslaught made upon Miss
Willard as the enemy of childhood, espe-
cially of that favorite toy, the doll. Per-
haps few women have devoted their lives
more exclusively than she has done to the
interest Of the home, or have set more
forces in motion to defend That "citadel OF
purity and peace" as she is wont to call
it. But Miss Willard did say that the
doll, as we have it in these modern days,
fostered love of dress and display. This
is the head and front of her offending.
To the oldfashioned, sinply-attired doll
we find her making no objection indeed,
she says that with such she used delight
edly to play. Her view is, that living
pets educate children on q higher plane
than French dolls that the fatherly in
stinct needs development more than the
motherly, and hence the doll should be
for boys as we'll as girls, and that too exclu-
sive devotion of the latter to the care of
their dolls often deprives them of needed
outdoor exercise, du!ls their curiosity con,
cerning the mechanism of the world, and
may help to explain why women are not
vet inventors. She claims that the care of
dolls does not impart the instinct of moth
erliness, but that in every Woman's heart
/ that instinct is the central motive power,
whose broadest manifestation is found in
those women who through the kindly
channels of the Christian Church, and the
phianthropies that it develops, have
shown themselves to be mother-hearted
toward that most Winsome, yet most way
ward of all children, whom we call "Hu-
manity." Miss Willard desires US to say
that she is confident that the editorial
gentlemen who have reflected upon her
Womanliness of character, will, in the light
of this explanation, gladly do her justice
by publishing her true position as herein
given.-[Union Signal.
A DOZEN GOOD RULEs.--We were struck
lately by the orderly behavior of large
family of children, particularly at the ia.
ble We spoke of it to their father; and
he pointed to paper pinned to the wall,
on which were written some excellent
rules. We begged copy for the benefit
of our readers. Here it is:
l. Shut every door after you, and with
out slamming it.
9. Don't make practice of shouting,
jumping or running in the house.
3. Never call to persons upstairs or the
next room; if you wish to speak to them,
60 quietly to where they are.
4. Always speak kindly and politely to
everybody, if you would have them do
the same to you.
5. When told to do or not to do thing
by either parent, never ask why you
should or should not do it.
6. Tell of your own faults and mlsdolngs,
not of those of your brothers and sisters.
7. Carefully clean the mud or snow OH
your boots before entering the house.
s. BE prompt at every meal hour.
8. Never sit down at the table or in the
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