Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1873-02-27

he was ridiculed by his fellow-students for his
intense application to study. "Why, sirs,"
he replied, II am forced to make the most of
my time that I may acquit myself creditably
when in Congress" A laugh followed, when
he exclaimed: "Do you doubt it? I assure
you if I were not convinced of my ability to
reach the national capital as a Representative
within the next three years, / would leave
college this very day! Let every young man
thus have faith in himself and take earnestly
hold oflife, scorning all props and buttresses,
all crutches and life preservers. Let him be-
lieve, with Pestalozzi, that no man on Gods
earth is either willing or able to help any other
man. Let him strive to be creator, rather
than an inheritor-to bequeath rather than to
borrow. Instead of welding the rusted sword
of valorous forefathers, let him forge his own
weapons, and conscious of the God in him and
the Providence over him, let him fight his
own battles with his own good lance. Instead
ofsighing for an education, capital or friends,
and declaring that, eff he only had these, he
would be somebody" let him remember that,
as Horace Greeley said, he is looking through
the wrong end of the telescope; that if he only
were somebody, he would speedily have all
the boons whose absence he is bewailing. In
stead of being one of the foiled potentialities,
of which the world is so full-one Of the sub
junctive heroes, who always might, could,
would, or should, do great things, but whose
notdong great things is what nobody can un-
derstand-let him be in the imperative mood,
and do that of which his talents are indica-
tive. This lesson of self.reliance once learned
and acted on, and every man will discover
within himself under God, the elements and
capacities of usefulness and honor.
DRINKING TOO MUcH.-Five-sixths of an
animal body is made up of water. A man
weighing two hundred may be dried into
mummy not weighing above sixteen pounds,
including bones of the skeleton. Water,
therefore, is largely employed in giving form,
Aexibility and beautiful lines. Enough is
taken in with food to meet all demands Of the
system. The precise quantity, and indeed
quality, is regulated by sense of thirst. But
that vital sentinel may be corrupted byindul-
gence. When simple water is taken, morbid
thirst never follows. If, therefore, stimulating
fluids are swallowed, morbid craving may
be generated, which, if not restrained, may
become an unsatis6ed passion, to the positive
injury of organs, on the regular functions Of
which, sound health depends. There is danger
from indulging in artificial drinks. Nature
dstil. ever in the stomach by her own chem
ical processes--separating the water from
them, which is used for legitimate purposes,
but rejects all the rest, throwing it out of the
body through the kidneys and skin. By
working the renal apparatus beyond a normal
gauge, to carry off offending elements, they
fall into disease beyond the resources of med
icine. This explains prodigious advance Of
Bright's disease that is, a degeneration and
loss of ability in those organs to do what they
must accomplish for stability in health.
None of the lower animals have kidney dis
ease, because they never drink to excess or
burden the stomach with compound bever-
ages
VALUE OF SwEEPINGs.-It is said that one
of our jeweler manufacturers [Alling Bros.
g. Co.. recently put down new flooring to
their workshops, and that the gold they OBJ
tanned in burning the old flooring, not only
paid for the new one, but for putting two
coats of paint on the entire factory. In an
other, ICarter, Hawkins & Dodd, ] the hands
all work on sort of bracket standing out
from bench in front of them, so that the
filings of gold may fall on tin plate below,
and be returned to the melting-room. The
greatest care is exercised to prevent waste.
The floors, benches and seats are carefully
swept every evening, and the sweepings put
away to have the gold removed from them by
chemical process. Every now and then, stools,
aprons, benches and even the flooring, are
burnt up to get the gold out Of them. Even
brushes, clothes, cotton, wool and rags are
burned. The average quantity saved annu-
ally in this way in this factory, is about $780,
900 worth. All the water in which the five
hundred employees wash their hands is care
fully filtered four times, and the amount of
gold recovered from it averages about Sl5,-
900 year. A barrel of sweepings will fetch
$3.50 pound, and even after they have, as
they think, extracted all the gold from them,
they sell the refuse to the smelters at nine
cents, and even as high as eleven cents
pound.-Newark (N J9 ADVERTISER
p9~ A man who really has anything positive
in him has nothing to do but persistently to
work and live it out. If he is a politician,
or statesman or reformer, or literary
man, he can make himself felt most as a pow
er in the world, and be securest of ultimate
recognition, by living boldly affirmative
life, and doing thoroughly that which is in
him to do, regardless of assault, detraction
and misconstruction. The enemies of any
man, who suffers himself to be annoyed by
them, will be certain to keep him busy. The
world has never discovered anything nutri.
tous in a negation, and the men of faith and
conviction will always find multitude eager
for the food thew hear. Men will continue to