Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1881-05-12
WHISKY DRINKING IN A DRY CLIMATE.

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favor with God, and with man also.
WHISKY DRINKING IN A DRY CLIMATE.
The effect of alcohol on the Indians of the
high, dry plains even when taken in small
quantities, is to almost instantly drive them
crazy. The craze is evinced by bloodthirsty
savageness and utter recklessness. The fre'
ouent assaults that have been made by mount
ed Indians, armed with bows and arrows, on
Western trading posts, defended by American
rifemen, sharply indicate the effect OF alcohol
in men of high nervous temperament, natives
of dry country where the light atmosphere
is highly charged with electricity.
So it is with white men. The murderous
acts of the "cow boys" when under the infu-
ence of liquor, are we'll known. When sober,
more hospitabIe and kinder-hearted class
does not exist. When drunk, they exhibit all
the characteristics of the Indians. They are
transformed into bowling, blood thirsty hends.
They shoot and stab each other, as we'll as
upofending strangers with the savageness of
the Cheyennes or Sioux. Most OF these men
are residents of Western Texas.
Almost all of them have lived on the plains
for term of years. The country they inhab.
it is arid and of an altitude of from l,zOO to
5000 feet above the sea. Throughout the
pastoral region the atmosphere is surchsrged
with electricity that expends itself in terrific
thunder storms, in tornadoes, and in the
dreaded dry water spouts. Throughout the
pastoral region the fact that man who has
been acclimated cannot safely stimulate HIM
self with alcohol is we'll known, and has long
been admitted by all thinking men.
In Kansas, above all other Western States,
has the attempt to settle the Arid Belt with
agriculturists been made. Living in this belt
are thousands of voters, and it was the ballots
of these men that accomplished the adoption
of the constitutional amendment prohibiting
the manufacture and sale of alcoholic liquors
in the State. Unconsciously they, by their
votes, recognized the conditions of the climate
in which they live. The adoption was meas.
ure of selfdefence. Democrats and Republic
cans, irrespective Of party, voted for the meas
ure-New York Sun.
SAYINGS OF Poor RICHARD.-Prlde is as
loud a beggar as Want. When you have
bought one Gne thing, you must buy ten more
that your appearance may be all of piece.
It is easier to suppress the first desire, than to
satisfy all that follow it. And it is as truly
folly for the poor to ape the rich as for the
frog to swell in order to equal the OK.
Pride breakfasted with Plenty, dined with
Poverty and supped with Infsmy, and after
all, what is the use of the pride Of appearance.
for which so much is risked, so much is suf-
fered. It cannot promote health or ease pain.
It makes no increase of merit in the person.
1t creates envy it hastens misfortune. What
madness it must be to run in debt for super
fuities Think what you do when you run in
debt. You give another power over your I'D;
erty. If you cannot pay at the time you WILL
be ashamed to meet your creditor. You will
make poor, pitiful, sneaking excuses, and by
degrees lose your veracity, and sink into oase'
downright lying. For the second vice IS ly-
ing, the first running in debt You lose your
manliness and independence. An empty bag
can't stand upright, and those have short
Lent who owemoney to be paid at Easter
THE RESULTS OF PRoH1B1TIoN.-The fol-
lowing extract from letter to the Ne,rs and
Courier, shows the beneficial results in the
little town of Wedge6eld, in Sumter county:
"The few who owned the houses and lands
of the place determined that there should be
no more liquor sold at Wedge6eld, and for
this purpose would neither rent or sell their
lands or houses. The barrooms closed up,
and there has been no such curse here, or
whisky sold in any way since. Soon the
talk Of building church and school house
sprang up in their stead. These have been re:
allied with all their beneficial results, and
other churches still are projected. The place
has grown almost as if by magic. Industry
and thrift prevail. Lands have advanced in
value in ratio exceeding anything previous
ly dreamed of in this county. Population has
increased. A healthy moral tone prevails to
such an extent that if man of any respecta-
bility "gets in whisky" as the common phrase
is, he is ashamed to be seen about Wedge
field, for here public sentiment connects deg
radiation with such a condition. And the
course of events in this good way is decidedly
onward"
saT According to DR.. Maelaren, Of Scot.
land, the types of sanity have changed with
modern times. Acute delrous mania, for ex-
ample, is comparatively rare, but mental en-
feeblement, attended with paralysis, is becom.
ing more and more common, as result OF
the overwork and worry of the struggle for
existence at the present day.