The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1874-04-21

are most frequently driven 10 despair by
shocks to their social and domestic posi-.
ton, while men are most frequently over.
whelmed by the consequences Of their
vices and crimes, and anxiety for a living
and fortune.
Paralysis, another Of the skeletons Of
modern society, Is also on the increase.
It's prevalence Is peculiar to our modern
civilization. This disease, 1t seems, runs
parallel with the developement Of our
culture and overculture," and "appears
only among highly civilized people" i"
Those who are liable to it are "the gifted,
educated, striving, ambitious, sangulne
natures" rather than "the ungilted, un-
educated, Indifferent, melanchollc and
phlegmatic natures"
Among other skeletons OF our age,
prostitution holds front rank. "Our
modern civilization has not only not
stopped, but rather increased, the pro-
gress Of prostitution" Neither has 1t re-
moved "by all It's sanitary acts the
scourge that goes with its excesses." In
England, 1t seems, that "in the years
1s5O-5o, $3.50 men are reported as dying
OF syphilis; and these figures tell but lit.
lie Of the story.ot the misery suffered and
transmitted by the victims"
"In London, among the deaths by
syphilis, IS per cent, took place among
children in their first year, and in al
England the quota Of children dying by
this disease is set at rs per cent Of all
deaths from the same cause. These facts
are fearful and may well take down the
pride Of our modern civilization by this
righttul spectacle Of the slaughter Of the
innocents.
After alludiDg to other vices that are
so destructively at work scourging society
by their banetul influences and results,
the writer remarks that "it Is not the
drunkardS stagger that does the mischief,
but 1t is the fire in his veins; and so 1t is
with the staggers and convulsions Of hu.
man society, which is still on fire with
hell" He AYERS that I'VE have not the
first essential Of true civilization yet-a
genuine, resolute, and far sighted public
opinion that discerns the solidarity Of
nations, and insists that no nation or party
has right to disturb the peace, or ruin
the business, or poison the health Of other
nations or Of mankind" In the opinion
of this writer Eve need 10 set
our faces against all the mis-
chiefs that sicken and destroy our
race, and to rally all friends OF civili.
cation into q grand Committee oil the
whole against disease corruption and
DEATH" He thinks that tour whole meth.
cd OF amuaements, especially for the
young, should be reformed. Gaslight
should yield to daylight, night vapors in
heated and close rooms should give way
to tresh air under the open heavens, and
our young people should be brought up
TO work and play under the ministry OF
that great solar force which Is the most
benign and god.like agent known to men.
Ardent spirits and tobacco should be
given up, and in their stead thegenial exer.
c,se OF riding, gymnastics, and the dance,
with music and all beautiful arts, should
be employed to stir the languld powers
and soothe the troubled affections"
1.-THE old Greeks taught music and
gymnastics as parts Of education, and
Plato in urging the Importance Of these,
still maintains that the soul Is superior to
the body, and religion Is the crown of all
true culture. Why may not Christian
people take as broad position on higher
ground, and with general and genial
culture associate faith that 70 no
dreamy sentiment or ideal abstraction,
but the best power Of man and the su-
preme grace Of God"