Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1880-11-04

charges from the bowels, they should be fire.
quently washed.
The sick room should be kept we'll ventilated
day and night.
The greatest possible care should be taken
with regard to the drinking water. Where
there is the slightest risk of it having become
tainted with fever poison, water should be got
from pure source, or should at least be boiled
before being drunk. Immediately after the
illness is over, whether ending in death or re-
covery, the dresses worn by the nurses should
be washed or destroyed, and the bed and room
occupied by the sick should be thoroughly dis
infected.
These are golden rules. Where they are
neglected the fever may become deadly
scourge where they are strictly carried out it
never spreads beyond the person first attacked.
A SAFE BUSINESS.
A man of industry and good, sound judg-
ment, under favorable circumstances, will
make himself comfortable home and accu-
mulate conn etence on the farm. His indus
try will cause he acres to bud and blossom,
and his judgn MT will keep him out of risky
side-enterprise nd from getting head over
heels in debt. hp .urse of any man or of any
business is deb and outside speculation usu-
ally leads the farmer into it. AS a rule, it is
best to stick to one business. With few ex-
ceptionS, the man who gets too many irons in
the fire will get some of the irons burned, and
will be very lucky if he does not get some OF
his fingers badly. .scorched So almost univer-
sal is the operation of this rule that the world
is accustomed to wait patiently for the down.
fall of any man with two or three kinds Of bu-
siness on hand, and if such man happens to
get through all right, instead of.gettiug credit
for being legitimate exception, he is turned
off with the simple exclamation, What a lucky
fellow! Successful farming requires all the
force and ingenuity of one brain. Slipshod
farming will conduct itself, but not so good
farming. Anybody can plant and SOW, and
anybody can gather what grows But it isnot
everybody that can do either as it ought to be
done. Farming is complicated science the
grand aggregate of all sciences-and it re-
Quires hard study and close application.
Entertaining the now pretty generally eX-
ploded idea that anybody can farm, or that the
farm will take care of itself, many farmer
has tried to live on the farm, and devote the
most, or, to be reasonable in expression, part
of his time to other callings. In ninety-nine
cases out of a hundred disaster has resulted,
and both farm and outside business have been
smashed and in view of what the past has
shown in this particular, the best advice that
can be given is to stick to the farm if you have
u
mined to enter upon or continue in some other
business.
The risks in farming, as already stated, are
comparatively few There is no danger of
ruin arising from competition there is none
arising from the treachery of business aSSOci-
ates. The farm, under ordinary circumstances,
is sure to furnish enough to make the family
comfortable, al d extraordinary circumstances,
which are of providential character always
are not very al to exist. The farmer is en-
gagged in the production of articles which the
public must have. 1t makes no difference
what else the people do without they must
have bread. They can wear their old clothes,
but they must have new flour, and while de-
preston of the times may limit the demand, it
cannot wholly destroy it. Thus is the farmer
engaged in business which is always active.
If other kinds Of business are tlouriShing, ag-
riculture must be on the very tOpmost round !;
if other kinds of business are depressed, agri-
culture must still be on round little above
any other business.
In mercantile or purely speculative business,
there is no certainty of safety for week, and
scarcely for an hour. Financial panics may
come and swallowup values until the merchant
is ruined and the speculatOr stranded compe-
tition may bankrupt one, ten, or scores of mer-
chants. But if news should come that a farm
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debt, and had been raising good crops all the
while, had gone into bankruptcy, it would as
tonish every one, except that they would ac-
count for it upon the grounds of outside spec
ulation. Farming is pretty sure business,
and if it can b. relieved of some of the unjust
burdens that are pressing it down, the farmer
can afford to be content Western Rural.
WATCH THE CH1LDREN's FEET.-Life-
long discomfort and sudden death often come
to children through the inattention or care
lessness of the parents. A child should never
be allowed to 60 to sleep with cold feet; the
thing to be last attended to is to see that the
feet are dry and warm. Neglect of this has
often resulted in dangerous attack of Group,
diphtheria, or d fatal sore throat. Always on
coming from school, on entering the house
from a visit or errand in rainy, muddy OF
thawy weather, the child should remove its
shoes, and the mother herself ascertain wheth-
er the stockings are the least damp. II they
are. they should be taken off, the feet held be-
fore the fire and rubbed with the hands till
perfectly dry, and another pair OF stockings
and another pair of shoes put on. The reserve
shoes and stockings should be kept where they
are good and dry, so as to be ready at min
ute'S notice.
GOOD ADv1CE.-When horse stumbles,
never raise your voice-the creature breads its
masters chiding; never jog the reins-the
mouth of the horse is far more sensitive than
the human lips never use the lash-the horse
is so timid that the slightest correction over
powers it's reasoning faculties: Speak to the
creature reassure the palpitating frame, seek
to restore those perceptions which will form
the best guard against repetition of the faulty
action.
FIRE.-To avoid suffocation in a house on
fire, steep handkerchief or towel in water
tho nnNarnor mouth