Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1901-05-18

in Yorkville. It passed as such things
usually do, with it's modicum of COM
pliments and cuts-a pleasure to some,
a disappointment to others, and it was
over; but the next issue of The Pioneer
had "A Description of a Fourth of
July Ball." under the new and singular
nom de plume of 1.-The Wasp" and it
had a sting, for it was surely "our
BALI depicted. Home actors were GER
tainly drawn; and so well, too, the
take off could hardly be called bur-
lesque. Maj. Doublehead," was un-
doubtedly meant for Major Darwin;
Becky Bitter" was true portrait of
one of our village beauties, whose
tongue, alas! many of us knew to our
cost, "cut like a two-edged sword"
The Misses Eggleston, admirable young
ladies, was a deserved compliment to
the Misses McMahan; as too, was the
description of an accomplished young
gentleman of very fine manners and
ON Witherspoon. "Mr. Fudge" was
Charley Coggins, and no one hesitated,
it was so plain who was meant, to say
that the vinegar faced little girl des-
cribed as Betsy Cruit," was Miss Bet
sy Chambers. "As good little thing,
if she was sour looking" uncle Ben
Chambers swore, "as was in town." and
no one could put her derisively in the
papers with impunity-he'd break
every bone in Carey's trifling car
cass."
Carey had put forth one wasp and
found himself in a nest Of them. More
than one individual went to ask him
what he meant by personalities so
pointed. In vain he declared the arti-
Gle was sent to him two weeks before
the ball, and he had delayed it's publi-
cation. He got no credence. The ver-
dict "was that he was lying out of the
matter"
In the midst of this tempest in the
teapot" a gentleman from Chester
rode into town. In giving the news Of
the day from Chester, he mentioned
that The Pioneer had been received a
little while before he left, and the peo-
pie were quite indignant over a des-
cription it contained Of their Fourth
of July Ball." He then began to emu
merate the different individuals with
whom Carey had taken the unwarrant-
ed liberty of showing up in ludicrous
light to the public. Chester, too, had
Maj Doublehead," "Mr. Fudge" and
Miss Becky Bitter" The excitement
at hand began visibly to decline. We
were forced to subside and believe Ca
reys statement, and felt very sheep
ish that we had been fitting caps on
our neighbors.
20 wad some power the giftie gle us
To see ourselves as others see u.s."
Carey, fortunately. had lodged Ben
Chambers until the denoument, and
saved sore bones if not broken ones.
Paddy Carey was fond Of his cups.
Alas! they wrought his ruin, and over
them he was apt to grow pot valiant
One night Carey and Alternately were
in Joe Martins office. A decanter and
glasses had been put down on the ta-
BILE. and as they socially drank, they
busily talked. From their accounts,
they certainly had not held the doc
trine Of Hudibras, that
"He who fights and runs away,
Will live to fight another day"
for Carey told of a difficulty he once
got into while he lived in Tennessee.
1t was during the war of 1S12-he said
"a recruiting officer was stationed in
Rogersvile, and some men he had were
a good deal disposed to bully the citi-
zens. One day three of them-Carey
said-got into a dispute with him, tried
to hector" it over him; but he told
them he was not the man to take any
thing off of any man, much less their
inSolence. With that, one Of them
made at him. and-Carey said-he just
took him a cuff on the butt of the ear
with his fist that made turn somer-
sault equal to a circus man. Another
of them came at him and he gave him
such blow in the chest that he didn't
draw long breath in week. The
third soldier, seeing his comrades get
ting such rough handling, sprang to
aid them, but-Carey said-he boxed
him right and left till he learned him
manners to his betters. "They' were
Carey-"bigger, heavier
men than he was. but 1 taught them
a lesson that they, I don't think, they
forgot soon."
Alternately said that Carey's fight re-
minded him of one he had about the
same time. He was in service-he said
in the war of 1912, and part of the
time, on duty at Point Peter, Georgia.
While there he got into a row with
some sailors. There We're four
he said-in their party, and he
was alone. They all came at him
at once: but he dubbed his gun and
knocked two into the sea; but his gun
breaking in two, he dropped the pieces
and caught one of the other sailors by
the throat with his left hand and chok-
ed him into an apopleXy, and with his
right hand gouged the other fellow un-
til he cried "'nough" in right good
earnest
Joe Martin listened to these tales of
prowess in silence. Not
having been in the war, he had naught
to match them. Suddenly he jumped
up. and going to mis- desk and opening
if. took out a dirk, stuck it hurriedly in