Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-31

Her tears began to fall, and she, tottering
toward me, shed them on my breast:
held her there fast and firm and never
since has she disclaimed the rightto be there.
FATE OF GREAT EXPLORERS.
De Soto and his men-the flower of the
Peninsula chivalry-bravede everything, suf-
fered everything, in their search for Ell Do
RADIO. The hot springs of Arkansas they
thought the tabled fountain of perpetual
youth. They penetrated Missouri from the
South twice crossed the Ozark Hills, and
spent the winter Of 1541-42 among them.
They found the region swarming with fierce
Indians. They fought the PaWnees, who
still do thriving business at scalping sur
veyors and throwing trains along the Union
Pacific Railway in Nebraska; and the
KaWs, of whom miserable remnant yet
survive, to raise ponies, and beg tobacco
and whisky, on the fertile bottoms of the
Kansas River. They smelted ore, and were
disgusted to find it lead instead of silver.
Vernon county, Missouri, still contains ruins
of old Notifications and furnaces, believed
to mark the winter camp of those gallant,
ill-starred soldiers Of fortune.
Their fate served as a warning. For one
hundred and forty years the great river was
left undisturbed, unseen by civilized man.
Then Marquett the missionary, with Jolie
the explorer, starting from Canada, foated
down its silent current to the mouth OF the
Arkansas. Like late travellers, they were
surprised to find the stream so clear and
blue above the mouth of the Missouri, so
muddy and turbid below.
Before reaching the Gulf, they turned
back from dread Of the Spaniards. But af-
fearless. He rode the muddy current until
he had planted the lilies of France at the
mouth of the Mississippi. Louis XIV. was
at the zenith of his glory. In the name Of
the Great King, the bold explorer took pos
session of the entire country, baptizing the
river "St. LOUIS" and its valley 'LOuisi-
ana"
Poor La Sale He hoped for wealth, fame
and honor forhis discoveries. They brought
hardship, heart-sickness and death. For
years he faced appalling disaster with un-
shaken SOUL At last, after long, fruitless
endeavors to find again the banks of the
Mississippi, a beWildered wanderer in north
Texas he fell assassinated by one ofhis own
soldiers. How great explorers, like great
orators, have suffered the most cruel mock
cry of destiny They form the saddest pic
lures in all history. Columbus, of the broad
brow and majestic frame, in an old age OF
poverty and chains Ponce De Leon, feeble
and gray-haired, shot to death by savages,
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La Salle the dauntlesS and tireless, with his
thin arms folded, and his tattered cloak
wrapped about him, cradled in an unknown
grave, among the barren hills Of Trinity
River Raleigh, the early darling OF for
tune, his narrow, bald head under the shin
ing axe, his calm lips murmuring, "Thls
is Sharp medicine, but it cures the worst dis
ease ~ De Soto, lowered at midnight to the
bottom of the Mississippi, with no audible
prayer for his heart-broken comrades, lest
the lurking red men should learn that the
bold leader was at rest after all his wander
ing, in peace after all his troubles
FALSE EPERCEpTIoNs.-The simplest forms
of insanity are those which consist merely
of false perceptions, and they are not of
such character as to lessen the responsible
ity of the individual. There are two forms
of false perceptions illusions and halluci-
nations. Uncomplicated illusions are rare !;
still there is no doubt that there are illu-
sions not the resuts.of disease in the organs
of sense or Of circumstances unfavorable to
morbid condition Of the perceptional gang
liza, and the unreal nature of which is clear
ly recognized by the individual.
Illusions of sight often relate merely to
the size Of the objects. Thus a young
lady who had overtasked herself at school
saw everything of enormous size at which
she looked. The head of person seemed
to be several feet in diameter, and little
children looked like giants So far as her
own person was concerned there were no
illusions. Her own hands appeared OF the
natural size, but those of other people SEEM
ed to be of enormous proportions. Sau-
wages refers to a case in which a young
woman suffering from epilepsy had the illu-
sion of seeing objects greatly magnltled.
A fly seemed to her to be as large as q
chicken. In the case which came under
my observation the unreal character of the
perception was fully recognized, and hence
the intellect was not involved.
Morbid illusions Of hearing unaccompan-
led by other evidences of mental derange-
ment, are not very common. One case only
has come under my observation. 1t was
that of gentleman to whom the ticking
of a clocck was resolved into articulate
words. Generally the expressions were in
the form Of commands. For instance, if at
dinner, they would be, "Eat your soup"
"Drink no wine!" and so on. One day he
made the discovery that if he closed the
right ear firmly the illusion disappeared; ;
but if the left ear were closed the words
were distinctly heard. 1t was hence clear
that the center for hearing on the right side
was the one affected, and that on the left
side was normal. For a long time this
gentleman resisted accepting any Of these
illusions as facts; but after time he be-
gan to be influenced by them to the extent
of regarding them as guides. Eventually
he put clocks in every room in his house,
and professed to be governed altogether by
the direction they gave him-fopu(W
Science Monthly.
How TO GET TRICH.-EverybOdy wants to
get rich. Almost anybody can become rich
If he likes to apply himself to the matter.
The trouble is that every one wants to get
rich at once and without exertion. Many
seek to do this by speculation. fla person
had obtained control of 100000 bushels OF
wheat on Saturday last, which could have
been done by putting up a margin OF one
cent per bushel, he would have made 3d. 900
by Monday, and would have received back
his margin less the brokers' commission.
This would be a reasonable profit for days
work at doing nothing. If he held on till
Tuesday $4,000 of his profit would have
been wiped out, and probably by to-mOr,,
row he would have lost his margin and
everything else beside. Still people only
look on the gaining side of the matter, ana
thousands are striving to get rich In TINS
way. One out of every thousand Will
probably succeed. A gentleman of Detroit,
!, who is worth over 100000 gives his eXpe-
rince in getting rich, and the beauty OF ms
plan is that 999 out Of 1000 can, by talr
: management, get reasonably "well Off,"
while many will become rich. He says
"Young, man, save one-third of your earn
ings. 1fyou get Sc a week, pretend that
YOU get only 81 and put away the other 81.
On no account touch that reserve fund to