Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-11-03

when he repeated that great lesson of his, all
embodied in one word "re;oice," and it seems
we need to have it shouted down to us from
the hill.tops to-day. Were it not for the fact
that we are constantly meeting with express
sions of the kind mentioned it would seem
that we do not need to be told how necessary
is cheerfulness in the family, in the street,
and wherever we may be. A generous con-
cea!ment of our own trifing ailments and a
laudable desire to help others to bear their
troubles and possibly forget them, ought to
characterize our every day life The people
who deal so lavishly in commonplace phrases
of pity remind one of the little boy of three
years old, who, upon being told to be silent
unless be had something to say, looked up to
his mother with wide open, innocent eyes,
and said, "But, mamma, l want to talk when
I haven't anything to say."-N. Y Evening
Post.
WOMAN THE GIRLS WoRsr ENENY.-The
damage which comes to needless girls through
the comments of slanderous tongues is to be
traced mostly to their own sex. No man at
tacks the reputation Of youth as woman
attacks that of girl. The man who should
come into his club and whisper about damn
ing stories Of his friends young son, who
should accuse him of dishonorable doings,
such as would ruin the lads character as
thoroughly as the charge of immodesty, tlrt'
ing with married men, and the like, ruin
that of girl, would soon have the room to
himself. But women over the tea-table gath
er up the crumbs of scandal with relish and
appreciation, and even the mothers Of girls
are not ashamed to believe and repeat stories
against their dear friends daughters which
may have. no foundation in fact, and which,
even if true, they have no means of proving
and testing. 1t is the woman, too, who re-
fuses to forgive the grave and undeniable
lapse, and absolute fall, even of the youngest
and most Ignorant Men can be found to
love, respect, and marry girl whom the past
fell into bad hands and suffered where she had
sinned. The women who would take her to
their hearts as her mother, plying, consoling,
rehablitating, might be counted on the fingers.
The most formidable enemy that girl has in
the world is jealous woman old enough to
be her mother or her grandmother. No
generous allowance for youth, with its indif
ferance to appearances because of its igno.
rance of their meaning or construction; no
pity for mistakes made by very innocence !;
no commiseration for the punishment to come
upon folly, and the material desire to allevi
ate what she cannot avert; none of all this
moves her. She is jealous, with reason or
without; and the girl must be crushed. Some
women indeed are jealous of their own daugh-
ters, and envy the success obtained by their
fresh, young beauty. The want of maternal
instinct can 60 no farther than this-save into
depths where it is impossible for US to follow.
PURE CIsTERN WATER AND How TO GET
Ir.-Pure water for domestic use is of great
importance. In most wells the water is more
or less impregnated with lime, or other min
eral or earthly substance, so that it is not so
pure as rain water. Wells are often so deep
that it is hard drawing the water. For family
use I would recommend the cistern. Most
places where we'll can be dug, and where it
it is not so sandy as to cave, cistern can be
plastered with cement without walling with
brick or stone. When I built my house,
four years ago, I dug my cistern back of the
house before built the summer kitchen, 50
as to have it in the kitchen. The flterer is a
small cistern, one or two feet from the other
cistern, one with tile for spout to connect
them. The end of this pipe in the filter is in
closed by small circular brick wall, or a
double wall of two inches each, with a space
of two inches between, which is filled with
pulverized charcoal. The surface of this fiji.
tering wall is scarcely square yard, and
that part of the roof discharging into the cis-
tern is twenty-four feet by forty. Yet it is
only the most violent thunder shower that
gives more than enough water to pass readily
through the 6lterer The main cistern is six
feet in diamter and twenty-fcur feet deep.
This gives US cool water all summer-as cool
as we'll water. We draw it with chain
pump, which keeps the air in the water circu
lated, so that it is pure. prefer to have the
filter outside the main cistern, and being
shallow is easily cleaned. Both cisterns are
covered with brick arch. In the cistern of
six feet in diameter, the arch is started with
a groove cut in the earth for the bottom of the
arch. The earth holds it sufficiently from
where the cistern is plastered. The arch rises
three feet, leaving three feet Of earth over it.
SUNsHINE.-From an acorn weighing
few grains a tree will grow for hundred
years or more, not only throwing off many
pounds of leaves every year, but itself weigh
ing several tons. Ifan orange twig us put in
a large box of earth, and that earth weighed,
when the twig becomes a tree, bearing lus.
,ious fruit there viii be very nearly the same
amount of earth. From careful experiments
made by different scientific men, it is an ascer-
;ained fact that very large part of the
growth of tree is derived from the sun,
rom the air and from the water, and very
little from the earth and, notably, all vege-
alton becomes sickly unless it is freely ex-
posed to sunshine. Wood and coal are but
condensed sunshine, which contain three i'm
oortant elements, equally essential to both
vegetable and animal life-magnesia is i'm.
oortant to any of the tissues. Thus it is that
he more persons are out of doors, the more
healthy, the more vigorous they are, and the
onger they live. Every human being ought
% have an hour or two of sunshine at noon in
winter, and in the early forenoon in summer.
s8- Man doubles sll the evils of his fate by
meditations upon them. A scratch becomes
a wound, slight an injury, jest an insult,
and slight sickness often ends in death by
brooding apprehensions.