Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-09-02

duces apoplexy in the minds of the jury
A Nebraska newspaper thus punctuated (
paragraph about their new school house:
"Our new school house which was burnt las
week was large enough to accC .modate thre
hundred pupils four stories high. The schoo
house will be rebuilt by a brother of the for
mer architect who died last summer on 1
new and improved plan"
These instances of bad punctuation shoulc
warn every one who sends a telegram oi
writes paragraph for a newspaper to sex
that it is properly punctuated.
GOOD SOCIETY.
Many parents who have sons and daugh
ters growing up are anxious for them to &c.
into good society. This is an honorable anx
iety, if it interprets good society after some
lofty fashion.
Parents, your daughter is in good society
when she is with girls who are sweet and pure
and true hearted who are not vain or frivo
lous; who think of something besides dress
or flirting or marriage; between whom and
their parents there is confidence; who are use
full as we'll as ornamental in the house; who
cultivate their minds, and train their hands
to skillful workmanship. If society Of this
sort is not to be had, then none at all is pre-
ferable to worthless article. See to it that
you press this on your children, and above all
that you do not encourage them to think
that good society is matter of fine clothes,
or wealth, or boasting to somebody. AS you
value your child's soul, guard her against
these miserable counterfeits; and impress
upon her that intelligence, and simplicity,
and modesty, and goodness are the only legal
coin.
The same rule holds for boys as well as for
girls You would have these enter into good
society. Do not imagine that you have &C.
complshed it when you have got them in with
set of boys whose parents are wealthier
than you, who dress better than your boys
can afford to dress, and who pride themselves
upon their social position. Good society for
boy is the society of boys who are honest
and straight forward, who have no bad habits,
who are earnest and ambitious. They are
not in a hurry to be men. They are not am
bilious for the company of shallow, heartless
women, old enough to be their mothers. and
are not envious of their friends who fancy
there is something grand in dulling the
edge of their hearts hope upon such Jaded
favorites.
There is nothing sadder than to see either
young men or women priding themselves
upon the society which they enjoy, when
verify it is Dead Sea apple that will choke
them with its dust, when they need some
generous, juicy fruitto cool their lips and stay
the hunger of their souls~- Christian Register.
BAD EFFECTS OF BEER DRINKING.
The worst effects from accidents in London
hospitals are experienced by the draymen.
Though they are apparently models of health
and strength, yet if one of them receives a
serious injury it is nearly always necessary to
amputate in order to give him the most dis
tant chance of life. The draymen have the
unlimited privilege Of the brewery cellar.
Sir Ashley Cooper was once called to a
drayman, who was powerful, fresh.colored,
healthy. looking man, and had suffered an in
jury in his finger from splinter of a stave
The wound, though triAing. suppurated. He
opened the small abcess with his lancet. He
found, on retiring, he had left his lancet
Returning for it, he found the. man in dy-
ing condition. The man died in short time
DR.. Gordon says: "The moment beer-drink-
ers are attacked with acute diseases, they are
not able to bear depletion, and die"
DR.. Edwards says of beer.drinkers "Their
diseases are always Of dangerous character,
and in case of accident, they can never un.
dergo even the most triAing operation with
the security of the temperate. They most
invariably die under it,"
DR.. Buchanan says: "Malt liquors render
the blood shy and unfit for circulation hence
proceed distractions and inAammations of the
lungs. There are few great beer.drinkers
who are not pbthisical, brought on by the
glutinous and indigestible nature of ale and
porter. These liquors inaame the blood, and
tear the tender vessels of the lungs to pieces"
DR.. Maxson says :'"Intoxicating drinks,
whether taken in the form of fermented or
distilled liquors, are very frequent predis-
posing cause of disease"
The hospitals of New York show an equal:
ly unfavorablessecord Of the Incorporate, and
private practitioners everywhere have the
same experience.
INSANITY AS A GooD.-A German ply
sician has started a pleasing theory with re-
gard to insanity. 1t is, he thinks, a mistake
to look upon it as an unmitigated evil. 1t
is in many cases boon rather than the re-
verse to the person Immediately affected.
The loss of reason lands the sufferer from a
sea of trouble into one of comparative calm
often into one of decided happiness; and
attempts to restore such person to sanity
would be cruel rather than kind. Moreover,
be- insists that without certain amount
of insanity, success in life, in the ordinary
acceptation of the term, is quite impossible.
All "eminent men," he contends, are decid.
edly more or less mad. Many of them. are
dangerous monomaniacs, whom it would be
desirable on public grounds to shut up; but
who, nevertheless, achieve grand careers and
are credited with doing vast amount OF
good. This false notion he attributes to the
fact that the greater mass Of mankind are
also insane, and quite unable to distinguish
between good and evil. Whole nations are,
he says, occasionally seized, like individual
persons, with attacks Of madness, and like
eminent madmen, either destroy themselves
or their neighbors These paroxysms are, he
admits, undoubtedly dangerous, but when
madness is blended with just sufficient self
control to keep it within bounds and prevent
it from betrayiug itself, it displays itself in
nervous energy and enables the lunatic to
exercise immense influence over his fellow
creatures.
Poor PoLAND.-For participation in the
insurrection of 1S63.64, eighty-three thou
sand four hundred and thirty.four Poles
were condemned to perpetual expatriation
,,d +ronsnortoJ +o S;hor;o or Russia's o1t-