Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1906-06-12

arguments of friends end relations
were answered in a spirit equally kind;
but his determination was unshaken.
You are not we'll enough to leave
your room,' urged his physician.
"I will be tomorrow" was the reply.
He did leave it. BY a mere effort Of
will he shook off disease as a loose gar
ment, and, enfeebled and emaciated as
he was, went forth to brave hardships
and dangers from which the stoutest
frame and the boldest heart might
have shrunk without disgrace.
In the early days of the French Rev
olution when courier after courier was
arriving at Paris with the news Of
some fortress taken by the enemy or
some battle lost, instead Of yielding to
despondency, the National Assembly
resolved that the armies Of France
shall win victories" The nations Of
Europe laughed at the seeming folly Of
the resolution, but their smiles were
soon changed to tears. The soldiery
read 1t at first with establishment and
then with enthusiasm. They, too, re-
solved to win victories, and from
that day triumph after triumph gilded
the banners of France until a whole
continent trembled at her frown. So
in individual life, more than half our
battles for existence are won by cour-
age and determination alone. Many
more victims have been destroyed by
fear, or rather weakness, than by all
human system, is subject. There is an
Eastern story which represents a coun-
tryman meeting the Evil Spirit and en-
tering into conversation with HIM
Where are you going?" asked the
countryman.
Il am going to the city," was the re-
ply, ito destroy ten thousand of it's in
habitants."
Six months afterwards they again
met. The countryman reproached him.
SAYING
Thou lying Spirit, thou didst say
thou vert going to the city to destroy
ten thousand of its inhabitants,
whereas thou didst slay sixty thou
sand"
Not so, my friend" was the reply
Il killed my ten thousand only. Fear
destroyed the remainder"
,, The fable was founded upon deep
knowledge of the wonderful organiza-
ton of man. Hundreds, to whom
medical science brought no relief, have
risen from the brink OF the grave SIM
ply because they were determined not
to die. Aaron Burr, who had never
been blessed with robust health, and
who was then suffering from the eff
fects of recent fever, took hiI place by
the side of the rough frontier men, to
whom hardship had been a familiar
companion from infancy, and the
strongest among them was equaled In
iron endurance by the STRIPPING boy.
On the twentieth of September, Ar
nold's command sailed from Newbury-
port to the mouth Of the Kennebec,
where they found a number OF light
batteaux prepared to aid their ascent
of the stream. River and forest were
alike unknown to the desperate ad-
venturers. The hum Of commerce had
never been heard upon the waters Of the
one, nor the footprints of civilized
man pressed the rich mold that had
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the dark shadows of the other Stretch
ing far away to the st. Lawrence were
thicket and brake; the stunted under
growth, and the lofty tree, presented
their rough barriers to the advance OF
the troops, and eXacted heavy toll in
toll and suffering from the worn and
wearied soldiery. Onward, still onward,
through snow and ice; through the
dense shadows that the MONDAY sun
had never frightened, that patriot
band pressed upon their desperate err
rand After a time the natural diff
culties of a march through the piercing
sleet and the painless forest were in
creased by another and a mightier foe.
Gaunt hunger brought its troops OF
gnawing demons, to wither the strength
and crush the spirit that danger and
fatigue had failed to conquer. Boat
after boat, containing the provisions
and ammunition of the little army, was
lost among the unknown rapids and
dangerous distractions of the stream.
,n ha6 rPhp6 along
the bank, drawing occasional supplies
from the boats, but they had now
reached point where it was necessary
to strike into the forest; and, as they
train, the little provision that was
left was abandoned. The pres
ence of so large body frightened the
game to more distant haunts. The
cold and the snow had driven the feath-
cred tribe to their sheltered nests.
and silence, deep and dread, brooded
over the gloomy wilderness. A few
dogs had accompanied their masters on
the expedition. A few reptiles were
discovered on the march. This was
their loathsome food, and when 1t was
exhausted, other expedients We're re-
sorted to- Amid all these trials the
boy volunteer, who had been raised In
the lap of luxury, accustomed to the
most delicate fare and to pillows Of the
softest down. bore up with degree of
cheerful firmness which was long af-
forwards the subject of wondering
comment among his surviving COM
rades.
Come" he said on one occasion to
Matthias Ogden, afterwards a colonel
in the Revolutionary army, come, Mat,
to my campfire tonight and partake
of my supper" Supposing that he had
really something to eat. Ogden gladly
accepted the invitation, and, at the
appointed time. was punctual in his at
tendance. He found Burr engaged in
boiling something in an old tin bucket,
over a huge wood fire. which, on in
spection. turned out to be the top of
one of his boots. Let us eat" he re-
marked, i'm a cheerful tone, when he
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