Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1919-12-16
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Stories Concerning Folks and Things
Some Of Which You Know and
Some You Don't Know-Condensed
for Quick READING.

Some of Which You Know anc
Some You Don't Know-condensec
for Quick Reading.
The discussion on a street corner
in Rock Hill the other afternoon rar
to men-average men and one gentle
man asked the other lust what is
your conception of a real man." And
the other man replied l can't tell you
my conception of sure enough man
in so many words; but | can read you
something l came across in some paper
a long time ago and which answers
your question to my way OF thinking:
Teach me that 60 minutes make an
hour 16 ounces one pound, and 19l
cents one dollar. Hold me so to live
that l can lie down at night with a
clear conscience, without gun under
my pillow and unhauntcd by the faces
or those to whom 1 have brought pain.
Grant that l may earn my meal ticket
on the square, and that in earning Ii
/ may do unto others as | would have
them do unto me. Deafen me to the
jingle of tainted money and to the
rustic of unholy skirts. Blind me to
the faults of other fellows, but reveal
to me my own. Guide me so that
whenever l look into the faces of my
friends l will have nothing to conceal.
Keep me young enough to laugh with
little children, and sympathetic enough
TO be considerate of old age. And
when comes the day of darkenCd
shades and the smell of flowers, the
tread of soft footsteps and the crunch
ing of wheels in the yard-make the
ceremony short and the epitaph simple
Here lies a man."
Yet They Will Not Heed.
Man from over on hoy side nearly
died the other day from drinking toe
much of q patent medicine that had
something else beside grain alcohol in
it," remarked Fort Mill township
farmer a few days ago. They still
drink all sorts of stuff and it looks
like they would not learn dcsnite the
fact that several over in Charlotte
have been knocked out of the game en-.
tirely by getting hold of the wrong
thing. =-In-thjs connection the follow
ing New York dispatch of yesterday
is interesting: Deaths from wood al
cohol poisoning in New York have in
creased greatly since prohibition went
into effect, it was stated at the chief
medical examiners Office today. Three
sautopsies completed yesterday showed
positive tests for the poison it was an
.nounced. In the month of November
there were ~ such cases. Before pro
!hibition, wood alcohol deaths were IN
usual, it was asserted.
A Bit of Philosophy.
" There are days and days. some cold,
wet and disagreeable, some durin:;
which the gentle sunshine floods
through the balmy air. like a ;oretaSte
of heaven and some hot and suffocat-
ing like a disquieting experience of the
other place. Now and again there is
a day in which every one you meet
scenes too distant, reserved and suspi-
Cious and again there comes another
and agreeable that you are almost
made to feel as il walking on air. On
some of these days you feel that If there
were any satisfactory way of getting
nF 10 off
justifiable blame, you would like to do
it. and on other days you are ready 10
declare that if the future state offers
anything better than this, you will
have to be shown before you can be-
licve it. Just why it is this way is
probably beyond human explanation.
1t is true that philosophy suggests
that If it were not for the heat you
could hardly appreciate the cold ana
except for the repellant force of a
snarl, there would be less attractvencss
in a smile. But this is hardly q salts
factory solution. 1t would not be in
foul keeping with that cOunder doc
trine which teaches that your pleasure
and happiness arc not so much de-
pendent upon others as upon yourself:
that your highest happiness comes
more from what you give than what
you receive. But with all this how
ever, lot us ever pray TO he delivered
from the condition in which we will
find ourselves when we are unwilling
to yield to others the pleasure of Civ
ing us pleasure.
Changes of the Times.
Times change and men change with
Them" reflectively remarked an old
friend of the reporter up at Glover the
other day. The speaker was a man
who is well past sixty five years OF
age, and who is known not only as a
close observer Of events with a long
memory: but man who is wise in his
day and generation. The reporter GiC
not answer the Introductory observa
tion: but listened quietly to hear wha
further he had to say. The old FRIEND
went on. Il used to drink liquor wher
! was a young man years ago. 1t wa!
because l did not know any better.
have not touched the stuff for years
| have learned since then. But DO yOl
know that there are mighty few mel