Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1877-07-19

IhlS being g00d c0nductOr OF neat-in Iact
the very best liquid conductor and the only
cold one-appears to be the best liquid for
hardening steel cutting tools. The best steel,
when forged into shape and hardened in
mercury, will cut almost anything. Wehave
seen articles made from ordinary steel, which
has been hardened and tempered to deep
straw color, turned, with comparative ease,
with cutting tools from good tool steel hard
ened in mercury. Beware of inhaling the
vapor while hardening.
ADVANTAGES OF CRYING.-A French ply
sician is out in long dissertation on the adj
vantages of groaning and crying in general,
and especially during surgical operations.
He contends that groaning and crying are
two grand operations by which nature allays
anguish; that those patients who give way
to their natural feelings, more speedily recov-
er from accidents and operations than those
who suppose it unworthy a man to betray
such symptoms of cowardice as either to
groan or cry.
He tells of a man who reduced his pulse
from one hundred and twenty.six to sixty, in
the course of a few hours, by giving full vent
to his emotions. If people are at all unhap-
py about anything, let them go into their
rooms and comfort themselves with loud boo
hoo, and they will feel hundred per cent.
better afterward.
In accordance with the above, the crying
of children should not be too greatly discour.
aged. fit is systematically repressed, the
result may be St. Vitus' dance, epileptic fits,
or some other disease of the nervous system.
What is natural is nearly always useful, and
nothing can be more natural than the crying
of children when anything occurs to give
them either physical or mental pain.
DoN'r WORRY ABOUT YoURsELF.-To
retain or recover health, persons should be
relieved from anxiety concerning disease.
The mind has power over the body-for a
person to think he has disease will often
produce that disease. This we see effected
when the mind is intensely concentrated upon
the disease of another. We have seen per-
son seasick, in anticipation Of a voyage, be-
fore reaching the vessel. We have known
people to die of cancer in the stomach, when
they had no cancer in the stomach or any
other mortal disease A blindfolded man,
slightly pierced in the arm, has tainted and
died from believing he was bleeding to death.
Therefore, persons should have their minds
diverted as much as possible from themselves.
It is by their faith that men are saved, and it
is by their faith that they die. As man
thinketh, so is he. If he wills not to die, he
can often live in spite of ,disease and, if he
has little or no attachment to life, he will slip
away as easily as a. child will fall asleep
Men live by their minds as we'll as by their.
bodies. Their bodies have no life Of them.
selves they are only receptacles of life-ten.
ements for their minds, and the will has much
to do in continuing the physical occupancy or
giving it up.
SENs1T1vE-Most children are sensitive,
and it is wrong to wantonly wound their feel
ings by censuring them too harshly for their
faults. Time cures great many thingsy
children outgrow in6rnities and faults, and
if right principles of action and feeling are
instilled gently, constantly, wisely, the re-
suits will ultimately appear. 1t is mere cru
city to make the weak points of child
source of teasing and ridioule, as is often done
ia schools and families. A mental infrmity
should be treated as tenderly as a bodily de-
formity. A quick temper, an irritable or IT,
morous or teasing disposition, requires far
more tact and judicious management than
mere physical in6rmity. When grown to
maturity, our sensitive children become the
poets, musicians, artists, writers, leaders of
their times. Help them, too, with their tasks,
which to many Of them seem hopeless. Def
initions are hard to remember the geography
lesson is difficult to comprehend and won't
stay fixed in the mind history is dull and
dead arithmetic hopeless tangle of figures,
and grammar more puzzling than any possible
conundrum. The little folk need help; they
need cheer and encouragement, and who
should be so ready, so willing, so able to give
as the parent?
WISE MAx1Ms.-Mr.. John McDonough,
the New Orleans millionaire, has engraved
on his tomb series of maxims, which be had
prescribed as the rules for his guidance
through life, and to which his success was
mainly attributable: Remember always that
labor is one of the conditions of our ex-
istence. Time is gold throw not one minute
away, but place each one to account. Do
unto all men as you would be done to. New
er covet what is not your own. Never think
any matter 80 trifing as not to deserve notice.
Never give out that which does not first come
in. Never spend but to produce. Let the
greatest order regulate the transactions ofyour
life. Study in the course of life to do the
greatest amount of good. Deprive yourself
Of nothing necessary to your comfort, but
live in honorable simplicity and frugality.
Labor, then, to the last moment of your ex-
istence."
h9- Some years ago there was protracted
drouth, and an old lady in the country was
afraid her garden would come to naught for
lack of rain. One day Methodist minister
came along and paid her visit, and she re-
quested him to pray for rain, after relating
her fears about her garden. The good DOM
mie at once offered prayer, and most fervently
asked the Lord for refreshing showers to bap-
tie the earth. Shortly aherward heleft, and
during the night there came up tremendous
thunder shower, as if the very food gates of
heaven had been let loose. The good old Ia
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