Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-05-09
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times fatal. He said he had received several
letters since his last lecture, criticising what
he had said and explained to the audience.
One asked him what is genius and was it sy.
nonymous with intellect. The doctor said
that there was vast difference and that
many erred much in their idea of genius.
Hardly any man has accomplished anything
great by genius. 1t was by intellect that Ma.
polson, Fulton, Franklin and many others
had accomplished great things; not at all by
genius, as many believe. He gave some sound
advice as to how much and how long the brain
should be exercised by men of study as well
as by men of labor and how important it is
that regular and sound sleep should be OBJ
tanned by simple remedies. When the nerv-
GUS system is impaired by emotion, excessive
labor or anxiety of mind, person cannot
sleep, and without regular sleep the brain
must suffer waste of tissue. He instanced
the case of Chinese merchant who had been
convicted of a great crime, for which he was
condemned, and the punishment was to de.
prive him of sleep. His suferings exceeded
any torture that could be devised, and the
man died in nine days.
WASTE AND WANT.-Either man must be
content with poverty all his life, or else deny
himself some luxuries and save to lay the
base of independence in the future. But if
a man defes the future. and spends all he
earns (whether his earnings be one or ten
dollars day. let him look for lean and want
at some fu.ure time-for it will surely come,
no matter what he thinks To save is abso-
lutely the only way to get solid fortune ;
there is no other certain mode. Those who
shut their eyes and ears to these certain facts
will be forever poor, and in their obstinate
rejection of truth, mayhap, will die in rags
and filth. Let them so die, and thank them
selves. But, no ! They take sort Of recon-.
pense in cursing fortune. Great waste Of
breath. They might as we'll curse the noun
tains or the eternal hills. For | can tell
them, fortune does not give away good and
substantial goods. She sells it to the highest
bidder, to the hardest and wisest worker for
the boon. Men never make so fatal mis-
take as when they think themselves creatures
of fate; It's the sheerest folly in the world.
Every man may make or mar himself, which
ever he may choose. Fortune for those, who
by diligence. honesty and frugality. place
themselves in position to grasp hold of for
tune when it appears in view. The best evi.
dence Of frugaIty is the five dollars or more
standing in your name at the savings bank.
The best evidence of honesty consists in dill.
gence and frugality.
TALMAGE ON SOUTHERN LoYALTY.-Rev.
T. Dewitt Talmage, of New York, says {:
"During my two weeks at the South, ming
ling with all classes of people, and in per-
petual conversation, often incognito, heard
not one unkind word toward the North or
northern people. My opinion is that if, to-
day, northern man gets hanged in the South,
it is because he deserves to be hanged. Those
Congressional politicians who are enlarging
upon the belligerent States of the South
must have some bad design or be President
making. There is no spirit Of fight in the
South. I do not speak Of what I read |
speak of what l know. My observation is
that there is not 80 much need that the South
be reconstructed toward the North, as that
the North should he reconstructed toward the
South. No man on a lecture platform to
day, in the South, can make any allusion I'M
plying loyalty to the United States Govern
ment, but his voice will be drowned by the
uproar of enthusiasm. There is no more use
for Federal military at New Orleans than in
Brooklyn. Aud yet there are now men
hereabouts who are still cursing President
Hayes because he withdrew the military,
and have not found out in the last fourteen
years that the war is over. Let our newspa-
pers and our platforms quit stirring up the
old strifes There is now absolutely nothing
to fight about. Peace from Passamaquody
Bay to Lake Ponchartrain."
SWEDISH METHOD OF RESTRAINING DRUNK.
debate before the New
York Excise Board, few days ago, the
Swedish Consul was invited to explain the
system adopted in his country to restrain in-
The gentleman replied, with
great modesty and simplicity, that in Sweden
there is no effort made to prevent the sale of
liquors, nor to restrict their con-
The personal right of citizen to
drink what he pleases has never been assailed.
The Government only assumes the right to
say 0here liquors shall be drank. By this sys-
tenn all private bars are prohibited, and the
entire wholesale and retail liquor trade is car
ried on by the Government, through commits.
sion called the Bolag, which is composed of
i've respectable and influential members of
The community. When a thirsty Swede
wants drink, he repairs to the municipal
authorities, procures his glass Of grog, pays
moderate price, obtains pure article, and
rarely, if ever, gets intoxicated. The profits
Of the business do not 60 to enrich tippling
saloons, but swell the revenues of the Govern.
ment and reduce personal taxation.
ENERGY.-Exertion is the price of noble
life. The pursuit of noble object adorns,
and elevates, and ennobles. and WHITES life.
Without definite aim, life is like rudder.
less ship, drifting about between life and
death, buffeted by the winds of circumstance,
and entirely at the mercy Of the waves.
While one with folded arms waits for future
opportunities, another makes the meanest oc.
currences subservient to golden result.
One labors to find something to do; the other
Iabors to do something
When the Alps intercepted his line of
march, Napoleon said, There shall be no
Alps" When difficulties from poverty, and
difficulties from opposition beset him, Frank
lin resolutely determined there should be no
difficulties. Greatness has in its vocabulary
no such word as fail. 1t will work it must
succeed. Happy is he, who at the sunset of
life, can recall the years that have gone swift
footed by, without bringing before him fear
full array of s9uandered opportunities.
DoN'r LOSE M1NUrE.-Keep busy. The
man who has nothing to do is the most miser-
able of beings Ifyou have no regular work,
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