Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1878-10-03

NO. 40.
HEREDITARY INFLUENCE OF ALCOHOL.
:, The hereditary influence of alcohol mani
tests itself in various ways. 1t transmits an
appetite for strong drink to the children,
and these are likely to have that form Of
drunkenness which may be termed paroxys-
NAL that is, they will 60 for a considerable
period without indulging, placing restraint
upon themselves, but at last all the barriers
Of selfcontrol give way they yield to the ir.
resistible appetite, and then their indulgence
is extreme. The drunkard, by Inheritance, is
a more helpless slave than his progenitor,
and the children that he begets are more
helpless still, unless on the mothers side there
is engrafted upon them untainted stock.
But its hereditary influence is not confined
to the propagation of drunkards. Itproduces
insanity, idiocy, epilepsy and other affsc.
tions of the brain and nervous system, not
only in the transgressor himself, but in his
children, and these will transmit predisposition
to any of these diseases. Pritchard and
Esquirol, two great authorities upon the sub
ject, attribute half of, the cases of insanity in
England to the use of alcohol. DR.. Benja-
min Rush believed that one-third of the ca.
ses of insanity in this country were caused by
intemperance, and this was long before its
hereditary potency was adequately apprecia.
ted. DR.. S. G. Howe attributed one-half Of
the cases of idiocy, in the State of Massachu-
setts to intemperance, and he is sustained in
bis opinion by the most reliable authorities.
Dr. Howe states that there were seven idiots
il one family, where both parents were drunk
ards. One-half Of the idiots in England are
Of drunken parentage, and the same is true of
Sweden, and probably Of most European coun.
tries. 1t is said that in st. Petersburg most
of the idiots come from drunken parents.
When alcoholism does not produce insanity,
idiocy or epilepsy, it weakens the conscience,
impairs the will, and makes the individual
the creature of impulse, and not Of reason.
DR.. Carpenter regards it as more potent in
weakening the will and arousing the more
violent passions, than any other agent, and
thinks it not improbable that the habitual
use Of alcoholic beverages, which are pro.
duced in such great quantities in civilized
countries, has been one great cause of heredi.
tary insanity. In work on the Diseases Of
Modern Life" DR.. Richardson remarks" :"The
solemnest fact of all bearing upon the phys.
ical deteriorations and upon the mental aber.
rations produced by alcohol, is, that the
mischief inflicted by it on man, through his
his own act, cannot fail to be transmitted to
those who descend from him while the pro-
pensity to its use descends also, making the
evil interest compound in its totality."
GLASS MnLsToNEs.-The Manufacturer
and Builder calls the attention of manufac-
turers who can cast heavy pieces of glass, and
also of millers, to recent German discovery,
that the finest -four is produced BY those
millstones which have the most CLASSY texture
and composition, and the consequent discov-
ery that the pieces of glass combined in the
same way as the French burr. and similarly
grooved on their surfaces, will grind better
than the burr millstones. The consequence
Of this discovery has been the invention of
the glass millstones, now made by Messrs.
Thom, and used in Germany and in Bor-
kendorf with great satisfaction, as it is found
that they grind more easily and do not heat
the -four as much as is the case with the
French burr stone. In grinding grist, they
run perfectly cold. In order to make such
stones, blocks of glass from 6 to II inches wide
are cast in shape similar to the French
burrs, but more regular and uniform they
are connected with cement in the same way,
and dressed and furrow.cut with picks and
pointed hammers; but it is believed that dia-
mond dressing machines might be pro6tably
applied. It is said that these millstones,
made of Jumps of hard glass, do not wear
away faster than the burr stones. Stones of
Al feet in diameter, driven by six horsepower
ground 220 pounds Of -four per hour, and did
It while remaining cold. The grist is drier,
looser, and the hull more thoroughly sepa-
rated from the kernel than is the case with
other stones.
b6r A theological student, who ventured
out from an Ohio college recently to preach
in little village near Cleveland, learned while
there, that countrymen are appreciative OF
literary art. He preached sermon on the
mystical Importance of the number 3-tbree
kinds of mineral, vegetable and animal;
Noah had three sons faith, repentance, and
baptism, the three things necessary to saliva
ton, etc. After the service an aged deacon
approached him and said "Really, your dis
course was one of the most ingenious | ever
listened to- was sorry that you did not car.
ry your illustrations in regard to that WON
derful number just little farther. For in
stance: there are three aisles running through
this house there are three lamps in the chan
delier hanging yonder; three books lie upon
the pulpit; there are three inkspots on this ta-
BILE, and, better than all, I noticed three color
ed men in the gallery."-Esshangs.
TRUE STRENeTH.-We must measure a
mans strength by the power Of the feelings he
subdues; not by the power of those which sub
due him. And hence, composure is often the
highest result of strength. Did We ever see
man receive fragrant injury, and then reply
calmly? That is man spiritually strong. Or
do we ever see man in anguish, stand as if
carved out of solid rock, as if mastering him
self? Or one bearing hopeless daily trial
remain silent, and never tell the world what
cankered his home peace? That is strength.
We too often mistake strong feelings for
strong character. A man who bears all
before him, before whose frown domestics
tremble, and whose bursts of fury make the
children of the household quake because he
has his way in all things, we call him strong
man. The truth is that he is weak man /; it
is his passions that are strong-he, mastered
by them, is weak.
py If we die to day the sun will shine as
brightly, and the birds will sing as sweetly to.
morrow. Business will not be Suspended a