Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-02-26
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THE "USESO OF PAIN.

use of pain 1t is scarcely conceivable that
the inaiction has no object" There are OBJ
viously two aspects of this question: in one
Science has an immediate interest with the
other it has a secondary, but not unimpor
tant, concern. The first is essentially physi-
cal. What useful purpose does pain subserve
in the animal economy? The answer is thrust
upon US by daily observation and experience
There are two sentinels posted, so to say,
about the organism to protect it alike from
the assaults Of enemies without and exacting
friends within. The first of these guardians
is the sense of fatigue. When this speaks,
there is need of rest for repair. If the moni
tor be unheeded, exhaustion may supervene;
or before that point of injury is reached, the
second guardian will perhaps interpose for the
vital protection pain. The sense
of pain, however, is more directly significant
of injury to structure, active or threatened,
than an excessive strain on function, although
in the case of the vital organs pain occurs
whenever the pressure is great. Speaking
generally, it may be set down as an axiom
that, whatever collateral uses pain may SUBJ
serve, its chief and most obvious service to
humanity is as deterrent and warning sensa.
tion to ward off danger. 1t is worthy of note,
though sufficiently familiar to medical obser
vers, that the absence of this subjective
symptom, in cases of severe injury, is too often
indicative of an injury beyond repair. The
extinction of pain is. not the highest, although
it may be generous impulse. If there were
no guardian nature, it would be impossible to
live long in the world without selfinAicting
the most formidable injuries. That pain, in
the second place, has an educational value, as
regards the mind and temper, no one can
doubt. Some forms of pain would seem to be
chiefly intended for this purpose; but even in
this view, pain has higher development of
the mind which controls the body, and Of
which the bzain is the formative organ, is
process of physico mental interest governed
by natural laws of which science is perfectly
competent to take cognizance. The subject, as
whole, is one with which the physician and
physologst have much concern.-Lancet.
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WINDOWS. noticing many houses and
seeing the windows curtained. double curtain:
ed and frequently shutter closed from morn
ing until night, I wonder what windows are
for Enter one of these houses. You are
shown to the parlor. 1t is dark as midnight.
The servants, after undoing fastenings, sha.
king and raising refractory sashes, and open.
ing shutters, lets in few streaks of light
just enough to enable you to distinguish, per.
haps, that the carpet is costly and the furni-
ture elegant. But the atmosphere! how
sitting to the lungs; how depressing to
the spirit! Your hostess tries to be enter
tanning; perhaps cordial and witty, and
you try to respond; to talk Of the scenery,
the weather, the country, neighborhood hap.
penings and national events but sentiment,
poetry, friendship, are chilled and chuked in
such place, and, soon as may be, your visit
is ended and you take your leave-glad that
you have called, because you have done your
duty-but glad that you are out again into
the midst of Gods living furniture and
green carpets, whose colors, if changed, are
but beauti6ed by the sunlight of heaven.
Parents, why do you not open your windows
and let in the purifying breezes and the
health giving sunlight? 1t will fade the
carpets? All! are not life and health Of
more value than furniture and carpets? Was
man made for carpet or carpet made for
man? Do you get your furniture and carpets
for the sake of the family or does the family
live for the sake of keeping up show of nice
carpets and furniture? Shame on the folly,
which for appearances sacrifices strength and
health, the wor king force of life, and even
life itself.
To DESTROY RATs.-Farmers are often
pestered greatly, and suffer much loss by the
depredations of rats, and they well know it is
very difficult matter to get rid of the sly
fellows by trapping. A correspondent of one
of our exchanges gives his method of delu-
ding the rascalS, as follows:
Take pan nearly full of bran, set small
steel trap without any bait, put light wad
Of tow or cotton under the pan of the trap,
which press down 60 it is just ready 70
spring; put the trap in the bran, making
place with the hand, 80 that it may be below
the surface when level lastly. scatter few
kernels of corn on the bran pumpkin seeds
are better) and you are ready for your VIC
tim. hardly fail to fool some of the ring
leaders in this way, while younger ones are
easily caught
Another expedient for ridding place of
rats is given by writer in the Scientific
american. He says:
We clean our premises of these detestable
vermin, by making white wash yellow with
copperas, and covering the stones and rafters
in the cellar with thick coat of it. In every
crevice where a rat might tread we put the
crystals of the copperas, and scatter the same
in the corners of the floor. The result was
perfect stampede of rats and mice. Since
that time not foot fall of either rats or mice
have been heard about the house. Every
spring coat of the same yellow wash is Civ
en- to the cellar as purifier as we'll as rat
exterminator, and no typhoid, dysentery, or
fever, attacks the family.
w- When man is fortunate, he boasts of
his good management and shrewdress when
he is what is termed unfortunate, he com.
plains of his i'll luck. 1t is said that Provi-
dence always smiles on the side of the best
and most bayonets and the heaviest guns.
Cannot the same principle also be applied 10
farming2 Success is the result of good man.
agement of the possession Of the best breeds
of cattle, best tools, and the richest soils.
Success springs from economy in saving and
making manures, and in the judgment used
in their application. 1t consists in the proper
selection of seeds, the time Of moving the
grass, the way and manner of tilling the
ground vigilance in destroying weeds, the
care of cattle and the manner of feeding, in
keeping the fences in order and the buildings
in good repair These are few of the ele'
ments of good luck.
WHAT FRESH AIR WILL Do.-1t will
blow all the cobwebs out Of the brain and