Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-10-28

os that renowned burgomasteri
Frederick, the Fat, there came to the
City of Riches, on the great inland
sea, a lovesick damsel of the name Of
Ruth. This maiden had bravely Set
out alone upon her journey, and why
she left the provinces and what be-
fell her in the city will be truly set
forth.
Now the damsel Ruth was the only
child Of a great lord who held in fee
a league of fat corn land in the region
round about Peoria, where the dis
tillers are. He had an hundred herd
of swine, and his writing on a check
could be read with alacrity by the
paying teller of many famous bank.
Yet albeit he was rich lord and
mighty, the old man dwelt in a mean
mansion, which had fallen into decay.
1t was not that he was stingy, but
that his lady being deceased and his
daughter not yet having awakened to
the social call, there was no woman
to prod him in the fifth rib and say:
Let US now repaint the walls ana
have a new parlor carpet, for the way
we live is q disgrace to the neigh
borhood." For he was one of those
lords who do not bother about the
biscuits, even II they be burned, and
who must be reminded on the Sab
bath day that the time has come to
put on a change Of linen.
So the child Ruth abode with her
father and grew up into a sweet and
gracious damsel, yet shy withal.
There was the color of apple bios
SONS in her cheek, and unfathomed
depths of love in her speckled eyes.
She had reached her nineteenth year
when a great and wonderful thing
happened to her-such thing as
happeneth to all women-but never
before, she believed, came in so Won
derful a way to any other maiden
since the world began.
For it came to pass that certain
young and goodly knight errant, one
Sir Jimmie, known among his breth-
rem of the Order of the Quill as the
knight with the Nose for News, rode
up to her fathers door one day, and
cried:
Hello"
And when the damsel appeared he
lifted his helmet and made profound
obeisance.
us my lord at home?" he asked.
Nay, he hath gone across the fields,
but he will return within an hour.
lHSIl Will yOul i1SAOuS PSA
sion 1 will even wait" said the young
knight, for must have speech with
him."
When the old lord had returned Sir
Jimmie opened up his heart upon the
business that brought him thither,
and the twain found that they were
of one mind about it, and being press
ed to remain the Knight with the Nose
for News put his gasoline car in the
barn and he and his squire, the chat
feur, abode there seven days.
On the first day, when Jimmie had
finished writing a report to his boss
and had sent it away by his squire
he told the maiden about the beauti-
full City of Riches.
On the second day he told her about
his own lord, who was the king of the
editors, and was even then waging a
great war against the grafters, trying
to drive them from the realm.
On the third day he told her Of his
quest, and of how he won his golden
spurs of knighthood in the present
war
On the fourth day he told her about
his boyhood, of his dear dead mother,
and of how he had found no other wo-
man worthy to be loved in all his wan
derings until the present happy time.
And ever the damsel hung upon his
words listening with lowered eyelids,
and he would look at her, observing
how the lights and shadows played
across her face; and If, perchance, she
lifted her lids to look at him for one
fleeting glance, then he would forget
his tale and become silent for a spell.
On the fifth day he took her in the
gasoline car to the village and they
had an ice cream soda and a box of
chocolate bonbons, and they were as
happy as two children at a Sunday
school picnic.
But on the sixth day Sir Jimmie was
silent and did wander moodily about
the fields, and on the seventh, when
he came to say good by, he held her
hands for time and looked at her and
was about to speak. Yet he remained
silent, and so rode away on his quest.
BY and by the damsel grew wistful,
and she began to pine away so that
even the old lord her father could OBJ
serve it.
What aileth thee, child?" he would
say, for not even to him could she say
that she had the love sickness.
But at last one day he found her in
tears and when he gently chided her
she said:
IF 1 stay here longer I shall die,
daddy. Let me go TO the City of
Riches"
Thou art a good girl" quoth he,
"and dad blame it, thou shalt go where
ever thou wilt. But first l will write
to Old SkeeZinks, who is the chieftain
of all the dealers in swine and Nigh
ty man out at the yards. l have had
dealings with him, and we have drunk
en- together many time and oft. He
is a good old scout, and thou shalt go
to his house, and abide there, and his
will -hnNy fhaa tho -
When my Lord SkeezinkS received
the letter he took it to his lady, who
was a gentlewoman of great renown,
having her name at the top of the list
in the social register and her picture
in the Sunday supplements.
Send for the girl and do right by
her." quoth he, for although her dad
hath hayseed in his hair he is a great
lord in the provinces, and the damsel
herself, when it pleaseth Providence to
let the old man kick the bucket, will
have a store of gelt even greater than
my own"
Thus it came to pass that the dam
sci Ruth came to the City of Riches,
caring naught for the glories thereof
and deeming it, indeed, but a noisy
and hurry stricken place.
She was made guest of honor in
SkeeZink's castle. but on the first day
she grew wise to herself and that night
she wrote to her old man, saying:
Dear Dad: l am like TO die of
shame here, because of my old fash
ioned and dOwdy raiment. l am such
a fright that even the witchen wenches
giggle at me- And ye love your daugh-
ter, send me a piece Of money so that
! may buy me some duds."
When he had read this letter the
old lord smote himself upon the knees
and roared with laughter, so that he
was like to split. But he sent her the
price of a hundred fat pigs being in
deed more than fifty score of simol-
cons, and said, GO it, Kid. If this
be not enough HE thee to the big ba-
zaars and have all that thou needst
charged to the old man."
Now my Lady SkeezinkS was an apt
teacher in the gentle art of spending
money, so she took Ruth to the ba-
Zaars, and there were great dOings
along State street. even from one side
Of the loop to the other. and when the
bills began to come in TO the old man
he did not have heart disease, for he
was d game old sport. and he wired in