Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1907-04-09
STORIES OF MEAN PEOPLE.

Women Returns Skewers 10 Butcher
Miser Paid For Delivering Own Let
ter.
There are some meannesses which
are too mean even for man-woman,
lovely woman. alone can commit
them"
We quote this sentence from "a
shabby genteel story" not as any re-
fiection on our fair readers, but mere
ly as a fitting introduction to an ex-
ample of meanness on the part Of a
lady which we feel sure is quite ex-
ceptional among her sex. This lady
was in fairly good position and lived
in one Of the suburbs Of large town.
One morning she went to her BUTCH
er with basket filed with wooden
skewers. She told him she had saved
them-that they had been weighed to
her as meat, and that she had brought
them to receive their weight back
again in meat!
Is there a man bold enough to car
~ economy so far?
Perhaps the meannesses Of mean
people are more often actuated by
feelings Of avarice rather than those
Of economy. It would be difficult, for
instance to find a worse case than the
following. An old man once wrote
letter to a friend, and wishing to
save his stamp he ordered his SER
want to take It to its address. 1t was
raining and the girl wore a new dress
that she was afraid Of spelling. She
looked into the street, saw q boy she
knew, and calling out to him she said,
Deliver this letter for me, and ! will
give you a penny" The miser heard
the offer and said. "Give me the PEN
ny, and I will carry the letter myself"
What is more, he did so.
'"The meanest person Of whom I
ever heard" says contributor to the
Captain, from which these stories are
taken, was the owner Of certain
sweetshop in Yorkshire village. One
Of my aunts when she was a girl went
to buy a pennyworth Of sweets. Al
ter carefully placing a number OF
the required sweets in the scale pan
the shopkeeper, finding that they did
not quite make the necessary weight,
carefully chose another sweet and ad-
ded It to the pile. But unfortunately
the sweet proving heavier than he
had expected, the arm Of the bal
ance containing the sweets slowly de-
scended. So he took the offending
sweet Off the pile and actually bit 1t
in two, placing one-half back In the
bottle and the other in the paper bag
into which he emptied the penny
worth. Then, without word Of COM
ment on this extraordinary perform.
ance, he handed the bag to my aunt"
The workmen's compensation act
should put an end to examples OF
meanness such as the following:
Early one morning bricklayer was
going up a scaffolding with a hod Of
bricks when he fell to the ground,
sustaining a broken leg and othsr in
juries. The master builder, WHO was
notorious for his closefistedness, VS.
tied the hospital to which the poor
fellow had been taken, and approach
ing the latter's bedside observed,
How on earth did you manage II
Jim?" sheer accident sir, I slipped"
replied the sufferer family. on,
| well, you know, you should have been
bore careful, said the master build
er. Every brick in the rod was
broken, and I find by the time sheet
that you had not earned enough to
paw for them, but as you are injured
won't press the matter further-you
may pay for them gradually when
YOU recoyer."-New York Sun.