Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1910-08-30

meath which he had won his victories.
Our friend Ernest raised himself on
his tiptoes, in hopes to get a glimpse
of the celebrated guest; but there was
mighty crowd about the tables anX-
ious to hear the toasts and speeches
and to catch any word that might fall
from the general in reply: and a VOL
unteer company, doing duty as
guard, pricked ruthlessly with their
bayonets at any particularly quiet
persons among the throng. So Ern-
est, being of an unobstrusive charac-
ter was thrust quite into the back
ground, where he could see no more OF
Old Blood and -Thunder's physiognomy
than if it had been still blazing on the
battlefield. To console himself, he
turned towards the Great Stone Face,
which, like a faithful and long-re-
membered friend, looked back and
smiled upon him through the vista OF
the forest. Meantime, however, he
could overhear the remarks of various
individuals, who were comparing the
features of the hero with the face on
the distant mountain side.
"'Tis the same face, to a hair!
cried one man, cutting a caper for JOY.
Wonderful like that's n fact" res
ponded another.
Like! why, / call it Old Blood-and-
| Thunder himself, i'm a mOnstrous look
ing glass;" cried a third. And why
mot? He's the greatest man of this or
any other age, beyond a doubt"
And then all three of the speakers
gave a great shout, which communi-
Gated electricity to the crowd, and
called forth a roar from thousand
voices, that went reverberating for
miles among the mountains, until you
might have supposed that the Great
Stone Face had poured it's thunder
breath into the cry. All these COM
ments, and this vast enthusiasm, serv-
ed the more to interest our friend: nor
did he think Of questioning that now,
at length, the mountain-visage had
true, Ernest had imagined that this
| long -looked-for parsonage would ap-
pear in the character of n man OF
peace. uttering wisdom, and doing
good, and making people happy. But
taking an habitual breadth of view.
with all his simplicity, he contended
that Providence should choose its
own method of blessing mankind, and
could conceive that this great end
might be effected even hy a warrior
and a bloody sword, should inscrutahle
wisdom see fit to order matters so.
THE general! the general" was now
the cry. Hush. silence; Old Blood
and -Thunder's going To make a
speech"
Even so; for, the cloth being remoV-
ed the generals health had been drunk
amid shouts of applause, and he now
stood upon his feet to thank the COM
pany Ernest saw him. There he was,
over the shoulders of the crowd, from
the two glttering epaulets and en-
| broidered collar upward, beneath the
arch of green boughs with intertwined
laurel, and the banner dropping as IL 10
shade his brow! And there, too. WIS.,
ible in the same glance, through the
vista of the forest, appeared the
Great Stone Face! And was there, in
deed. such a resemblance as the crowd
had testified. Alas. Ernest could not
recognize it. He beheld a war-worn
and weather-heaten Countenance. full
of energy, and expressive of an iron
will: but the gentle wisdom, the deep,
broad, tender sympathies. were alto
gether wanting in Old Blood-and-
Thunder's visagc; and even If the
Great Stone Face had assumed his
look of stern command. the milder
traits would still have tempered it.
This is not the man of prophecy,
sighed Ernest. to himself. as he made