Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-01-01

ana just tuel L NdS CidPpSu uPoh sHN
shoulder with a "Helloa, my old friend
tine telegraph operator L shook
Lands with him, and at once he began
10 tel me of his affairs. Getting along
all risu,," he said. Haven't got quite
as much freedom as l used to have
but | reckon it's better for me. Wife
thinks 50 much of me that she's jeal-
JUS of the boys-dont want me to stay
yut With them at night. Don't reckon
there's anything more exacting than a
rag. BIT / had to have one. Without
calico there ain much real fun in this
fife. But enough of calico's society is
about the enoughest enough a man
can fetcn up in his mind. Tell you
what-Ill run on home and come back
ana tnen You can go with me-"
no, / couldn't think of putting you
to so much trouble"
Wont lie any trouble. Simply don't
want to surprise her, you know"
I'll call on you before long, but now
/ must go TO the tavern"
All right, and If can get off I'll
come over to see you. And II tell you
what we'll do along about IL o'clock
Well go over to Atchersons store with
i rot It telIers and COOK sJme eggs in
the top of a paste board hat box. Ever
cook them that way? It's word
.eater. Just break the eggs in the lid
IF the box and put it en- the stove and
there you are. Finest stuff you ever
eat. But while you re eating you
mustn't let them tell that jug story
Couldn't eat a bite after that Well
/ leave you here"
Fearing that the operators rag
might fail in the strict enforcement OF
the regulations that had been thrown
about the night time movements Of her
husband, that he might break out OF
the circle of his wife s fondness and
call on me at the tavern, left that
pace soon after supper and resumed
my walk about the town. In some dis
tant place where the land was dry a
shower of rain had fallen, for the air
was quckened with the coming of that
dusty, delicious smell, that reminis-
cent incense which more than the per-
fume of flower or shrub takes US back
to the lanes and the sweet lettering
places Of youth. Happiness will not
Lear a close inspection to be flawless
il must be viewed from a distance
we must look forward to something
remembered; and my happiness on
this night was not perfect, for sense
Of loneliness curdled it with regret
but here and there, as l walked along
I found myself in an ecstasy-my
nerves thrilled one another like cross
ed wires, electrified. / knew that II
might be a long time before l should
near from Guinea, but l was still drunk
with the newness of the feeling that
ne loved me.
Prayer meeting bells were ringing
and old men and old women came out
Of the dark shadow of the trees, into
the light that burned in front Of a
church-hearts that with age were
slow and heavy, praying for the bless
ing of an Infinite Mystery. I entered
the church and knelt down to pray, for
am not so advanced a thinker as the
man who questions the existence OF
God; but l must admit that my
thoughts were far away from the
mumblings that 1 heard about me, far
indeed, from the mutterings Of my own
lips; and so l went out and shifted the
prayer of nature, the smell Of rain that
came from far off down the dusty road
Early the next morning 1 went to
Conkwright's office, to tell him that for
time I preferred to study in the coun-
try. The old man was walking up and
down the room, with his hands behind
him.
Did you find that woman?" he ask
cd.
Yes, and let no one see me-"
Good. You gave her the twenty
dollars. and-is that all you gave her?''
why, that was all you told me to
give her."
IS, | know, but didn't you give her
some Of your own money? Speak out
now No shilly- -shallying with me-"
well, she was so wretched that
gave her five dollars of my own mon
ey."
You did, eh? The money you bor-
rowed from me, you mean?'
NO, money that old Perdue thinks
I earned. He insisted upon my taking
twenty-five dollars"
Its all right, my boy. Yes, it's all
right, but you'll have to be more care
full. 1t is noble to give, but 1t is not
wise to look for an opportunity. II
is better to give to the young than to
the old, for the good we do the youth
grows with him into a hallowed men,
Dry-stimulates him to help others
while the memory of the aged is fitful
Whenever you see a boy trying to
amount to something, help him, fer
that is a direct good, done to man.
kind. Now to business. Have you read
Blackstone"
Yes, but not thoroughly. I have
never owned his book"
There he is on my desk. l keep
him near me. The lawyer who out
grows that Rockwell, l may be an
old fogy on the subject, so I'll say
nothing more except to commend the
treatise to a lawyer as l would the
multiplication table to a student of
mathematics. And now let me say
that when you have been with me one
year we will begin to talk about 9TH
er matters, the question Of money, for
Instance. Don't be eXtravagant-don't
give money because you don't know
what else to do with it-and l will see
that you shall not want for anything
Oh, yes know you are thinking Of get
ting married, but it won't cost much to
keep your wife. Well fix all that
and if l don't make a lawyer out OF
you l am much fooled. You are in
love and are mighty sappy just at
present, but you'll come round all
right: yes, sir all right after a while