The central Presbyterian. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1856-1908, 1873-02-12
Encourage Your Mechanics.

One of the surest methods of promoting
the prosperity of any place is to encourage
its own mechanics. Do not send away be-
cause you hear that the work can be done
at some larger town or village for few cents
less. You will lose in the end by failing to
build up your own community. The follow
ing suggestions on this subject are worthy
Of consideration:
Do not send abroad for help, if you have
work to do, when it can be done in your own
town. Encourage your own honest, indus
triOus, faithful mechanics. They need all
the work they can get. By such a course
you keep money at home, assist the worthy,
and have just as good work performed. Il
is the only way to make your town prosper
to support your own schools, churches and
press. Where there is disposition to send
hundred miles for an article that, to say
the least, could be manufactured as we'll at
your own door, there will always be little or
10 business done in that place. The church.
es will be thinly attended, and all kinds of
labor extremely dull. Wherever mechanics
are the best employed, prosperity is seen;
the social virtues predominant, and kindly
brOtherly feeling is experienced, which is
the source of unspeakable happiness.
Whatever you have to be done, look around
and see if your own mechanics cannot do it.
If you have house to build or a shoe to
tap, saddle to be made, tin ware to mend,
house to paint, or pack of cards, bill heads,
letter heads, circulars, or anything of that
kind to print, just look among our home
folks before you send abroad, and if there is
none in your own capable of doing the task,
it will be time enough to look elsewhere. 1t
is wrong idea to think nothing is servicea-
bic that is made at home We know of many
an instance where men have refused to pur-
chase work made by their neighbor, and sent
to a distant city for the articles they needed,
and paid a third more for them, when, be.
hold, they have been manufactured and sent
away to sell by the same neighbors of whom
they refused to purchase.
Let the motto Of all be, I will encourage
my own mechanics. In turn you will be en-
couraged also. A natural feeling of good
will and kindness will spring ub in your midst,
and prosperity will be observable in every
street and in every dwelling.
AMERICAN DIET.-We are greasy PEG
pie; from the pork.fat of New England to
the ham-fat of the South, We wallow in
greasy food. This becomes rancid on the
stomach, and produces what DR.. Urquhart
pronounced the sum of all diseases-dys
pepsia. We drink tea that would brighten
a Chiuaman, and coffee that would serve as
an antidote to opium. We pour down doses
of alcoholic fluids which eat into the coat
ings of our iatestines. and destroy the gas
trio juices. We go TO bed oVertasked, body
and mind, sleep with sluggish blood in a
state of stagnaton, and get up only when
the broad sun is staring in aDgrily at us
through our bed room windows. We are
reckless in our pursuit Of pleasure; we strain
our mental powers to their utmost tension
and end, old men and women before our
time. or die, or fill a cell in an Insane asylum.
VIOLENT TREMoBS CAUSED BY TOBACCO
The trembling, which is one of the usual
symptoms of acute, is also common result
Of chronic, nicotism. A very distinguished
Partisan physician had hands which shook
80 much that he could not write Whenever
he remained without tobacco for any length
of time, these trembing8 Disappeared
Another case mentioned by Blatn is note
worthy. A man of forty-fve years con
suited him respecting violent and numerous
attacks of vertigo. When he felt one of
them approaching, he was obliged to lie
down wherever he might be, in order to
avoid falling. In the country, where he had
plenty of exercise, they were less frequent
than in town, where his occupation was sed
entary. Cessation from tobacco and tonic
regimen quickly restored him. A physician
of fifty two was afflicted with similar dsa-
greeable symptoms, and was also cured by
abstinence. Habit had become so strong
that he could not resist at times the tempta,
ton to slight indulgence. Finding that
these returns to tobacco were Immediately
followed by his old painful attacks, he re-
nounced it fOrever.-POpular Science Month.
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