Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1883-05-17

not always godliness. 1t is with them large
ly emotional and has been almost entirely
separated from convictions of moral duty.
Offences against good morals are of common
occurrence with the consciousness Of guilt.
The conscience has not been trained to a
careful discrimination between right and
wrong, and but little effort has been made
to mold the life in truth and purity. Many
are employed in positions requiring honesty
and truthtuneSs; many are trusted custom
ers, servants or tenants; many have good
standing in the public mind; there is with
many of the older people a very loyal at
tachment to their former masters; many
stories are told of their faithfulness in the
time of the war and Of their kindness to
their impoverished masters, and yet Fed
eral soldier could always trust them; still it
appears to be true that religion and godli-
ness have been widely separated in the
minds of the great body of the people.
There is ample evidence that their general
standard of purity is low, but there is also
evidence that they can be, and that many
are educated into the virtue of the gospel
life. The schools Of the higher grade estab-
lished by the Churches are doing a good
work in this direction, but Il general inn
provement may be looked for only when
the freedmen have an educated and godly
ministry of their own race.
1t is Just there the great need of the freed
men lies. They have political rights and
power, they are increasing in intelligence,
they are slowly aggregating capital; but
their own religious instruction is not meet
ing their moral and spiritual need, and I'M
less that need is met they will become an
exceeding dangerous element, weak in
moral principle, but strong and ready to be
led by evil men. This essential need is a
thoroughly Christian education, an educa-
ton that builds up the life from the very
foundation in the love and likeness of God:
The public schools cannot give this; it
must be furnished by the Churches through
institutions we'll established and wisely
BILE, training schools for the whole practical
life, so as to send forth Christian leaders
qualified to take their race as they find it
and lift it up to its proper plane of intelli-
gent citizenship and godly living.
The need for this is unspeakably great
and is urgent. The time is favorable, for
the spirit of education is growing with
both races, and Christians recognize this
need of more thorough training into
righteousness of life. What may be done
is seen in our schools and similar institu-
tions. There is no ingrained vice as asagainst
the saving power Of the gospel and grace
of God. In this complete Christian train
ing lies the solution Of the difficult problem
before us, and therefore this is the direction
Of present duty.
NEW WAY OF CURING CONsUMPTION.-
A good story is told ola well-knoWn Boston
physician who was much puzzled to know
how to treat consumption. Learning that
the disease was unknown among the lum-
bermen of Maine, he instituted an inquiry
as to diet and habits Of the wOod-chOppers.
TO his surprise he found that their chief
diet was salt pork, and their principal
drink was whisky, Whereupon he prescribed
pork and whisky for his Boston consump-
tive patients, not however, with happy re-
suits. The real secret Of the immunity of
the lumberman was thathe lived in the pine
open air. Two Paris physicians MN. de
Bore and Beaumetz, have invented sys-
tenn of treating consumption which is said
to be quite successful. 1t consists in a prac-
tice styled experimentation which is not
only Overfeeding but forced feeding by
means of pumps and other appliances. 1t
is found that patients who can not retain
food in their stOmachs in the ordinary way
are not inconvenienced when literally i'm
mense quantities of food are introduced
into the system by a pump. The diet is a
composition of minced lean meat, which
is dried and then pounded into powder.
1t is then mixed with milk or bouillon,
and sometimes raw eggs are added. This
is found to be highly nutritious and easily
dieested, and has proved etficacious in hys-
terra, and other wasting diseases as in con-
sumption, for which it was first devised.
The first dose given is not more than
twenty-five grammeS per meal, but the
quantity is gradually and rapidly increased
until the large portion of six hundred gram
mes is daily given, which is equivalent to
about four pounds Of lean meat. How
large this quantity really is shown by the
fact that one pound of meat is quite Sutfi-
cient for an ordinary wOrkingman, and
two litres of milk and several eggs are
required in the administration of the dose.
The report is that the consumptives, II
not too far gone, have rapidly gained in
weight under the process, their daily, aver
age increase having ranged from eighty to
one hundred grammes. The cough is less
frequent, and the lungs begin to heal under
this forced feeding, which, it is added,
works as we'll in dyspepsia as in phthlsls,
never producing nausea or vomiting, the
food being passed down the throat without
any objection on the part Of even hysterical
woman. No doubt the experiments of
these French physicians will soon be tested
in this country.
BIG GSNAKEs.-AndansOnO observed snake
in Senegal that was fifty feet in length and
two and half in diameter, while Walton
tells US that Spaniard showed him a skin
at Angostura, the Capital Of the Orinoco,
that from it's thickness he judged to have
been that of a serpent seventy feet long.
Baldaens, the author, found serpents in Cey-
lon thirty-six feet in length, and in Java he
saw one that had swallowed stag entire.
Owen, in his Natural History of Serpents,
gives the length of one as fifty feet, and Fa-
ther Gumilla, in his History of Orinoco, re-
fers to serpents forty feet long; so that it
would seem fair to suppose that snakes 90
attain what might be called gigantic dimen,,
sions. On the Rio Branco the traders and
natives report that snakes swallow full-sized
cattle, and this can be readily conceived.
The horns, of course, are not swallowed:
The snakes lie in lethargic condition until
they drop off.
The great comondi snakes of South Amer
lea have habit of hanging from trees over
the water, with portions of their bodies con-
cealed, so that they would easily be taken
for the great vines that grow so luxurant!y
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