Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1881-09-20
CAPACITY Of wells or cisterns
for each 8 inches in depth.
Capacity in gallons.
Diam. in clear walls. Calls.

W 1913 10 2i0%
+ + s. s. ;s,s
NoTE-By both tables you will notice q cistern feet
m and ~ feet deep contains sos gallons to each
Two years ago / had constructed cistern.
with filter. &c. Il 5x10 teet-2. 700 gallons The
filter. located between the spout or house and
cistern, is feet square and Q feet deep. with a
division through the center making two pockets
or compartments feet by 1.6 and 2 feet deep
The one nearest the house receives the water
near the top. which passes under the division
(Which Is kept l inch up from bottom:l the
second pocket is filed with gravel. sand and
charcoal. The water passes under the division
the top into the cistern. After rains the water
should be taken from the filter. so the charcoal
&C., can dry. The filter is of brickA-inch walls
In cement mortar, the top level with the ground
ana covered with wood top. l think however
the filter would be better if made of inch white
pine plank So to feet long, Is inches wide and
Is inches deep with division across the center
ana set on brick piers or cedar posts about Is
inches above ground, and hinged door to top
and outlet cock to draw off the water. Four
t men cast-lron pipe or earthen pipe can be used
from the filter to the cistern. loose elbow
should be fit to the main spout, so as to turn the
water into the filter after the dust or dirt has
been washed off the house. We use the water
for drinking and cooking. and find it is better
tfan the spring water and as cool. W. G. P.
Worry and Overwork.
From the Nineteenth Century.
made is natural The use of stimulants in aid of
work is, perhaps, one Of the commOnest forms of
collateral influence suspending the warning
sense of exhaustion. When the labOrious worker,
overcome with fatigue, ''rOuses" himself with
alcohol. coffee tea or any other agent which
may chance to suit him, he does not add unit
OF force to his stock Of energy: he simply narcOt-
ICES the sense of WEAKNESS. and the guard being
drugged, he apprOpriates the reserve. Not I'M
frequently the warning sense is stifed by the
very intensity of the motive power or impulse.
Ambition zeal, love, sometimes fear will carry
man beyond the bounds set by nature No
matter what suspends the functions of the
guard set at the threshold of the reserve. if the
residual stock is touched. two consequences
ensue-waste and depreciation. Without re-
serve of mental energy the mind can no more
continue the heathful exercise of it's functions
than fiabby muscle without tonicity can re-
spOnd to the stimulus Of strong vOlitiOn and lift
heavy weight or strike heavy blow.
The cause, or condition which most commonly
exposes the reserve of mental energy to loss
and injury is worry. The tone and strength of
mind are seriously impaired by its wearing in
fuence, and, if it continues long enough they
will be destroyed. 1t sets the organism OF
thought and feeling vibrating with emotions
which are not cOnsonant with the natural liberia
ton OF energy in work. The whole machinery
is thrown out of gear and exercise, which other
wise would be pleasurable and innOcuOus, be-
comes painful and even destructive. 1t is easy
TO see how this must be. The longest note in
music, the most steady and persistent ray of
hght-tO use an old fashioned eXpressiOn-the
tonic muscular contraction are ALL we know.
produced by rapid succession Of minute
motive impulses or acts, like the eX-
plosion and discharge Of electricity from
alternately connected and separated points in a
circuit; in fact. a series of vibrations Mental
energy doubtless takes the same form of devel-
opment. If disturbing element is introduced
Dy the obtruSlOn of some independent source of
anxiety, or if, out Of the business in hand. the
MIND makes a discOrd. confusion ensues and
Tor the time being harmonious action ceases
Ofhlng under these conditions in obedience to
the WILL the mental organism sustains injury
which must be great and may be lasting. The
junction OF the warning sense is suspended:
the reserve is no longer stock in allowance
and it ceases to give stability to the mind:
the rhythm of mental forces il inter
rupted; crash is always impending, and too
often sudden collapse occurs. The point to
be made clear is this: OverwOrk is barely
possible. and seldom, if ever. happens, while
the mind is acting in the way prescribed by its
constitution, and in the normal modes of
mental exercise. The moment however the
natural rhythm of work is broken and discord
ensues, the mind is like an engine with the
safty-valve locked, the steam-gauge falsfed
the governing apparatus out of gear; break
is one of worry, and the besetting peril is not
depicted in too lurd The victim of worry is
ever On the verge ola catastrophe; if he escapes
the marvel is not at his strenth of intellect SO
much as his good fortune. Worry is disorder,
however induced, and dsOrGerIy work is
abhOrred by the laws Of nat ure. which leave il
wholly without remedy. The energy employed
in industry carried under this condition is
laviShed in producing a small result. and speedily
exhausted The reserve comes into play very
a., So, %-,l
ton is speedily arrested. Sometimes loss of
appetite announces the cessation of nutrition;
otherwise the sense of hunger. present in the
system, is for time preter-nat urally acute, and
marks the fact that the demand is cccasioned
by loss Of power to appropriate instead of any
dimilutiOn of supply. Tie effort to work be-
comes daily more labOrious, the task OF fixing
the attention grows increasingly difficult.
thoughts wander, memory fails. the reasoning
power is enfeebled; prejudice-the shade of de-
funct emotion or some past persausiOn-takes the
place OF jIdgmentphysical nerve OF brain disturb
ance may supervene, and the crash will then come
suddenly, unexpected by On-lOOkers, perhaps
unperceived by the sufferer himself This is the
history of worry" or disorder produced by
mental dissuietude and distraction occasionally
by physical disease.
The first practical inference to be deduced from
these considerations is that bran-work in the
midst of mental worry is carried on i'm the face
of ceaseless peril. Unfortunately, work and
worry are so closely connected in daily expe-
rience that they cannot be wholly separated.
Meanwhile the worry Of wopk-that which grows
out Of the business in hands generally need
less, though not always an avOidable evil In a
large proportion of instances this description of
disorder is due to the lack of education in BRAIN
work. Men and women with minds capacious
and powerful enough, but unframed, attempt
feats for which training is indispensable, and,
being unprepared, they fail. The utilitarian pol
icy Of the age is gradually eliminating from the