Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1884-03-06

tenance at the cOntretemps.
Poor Gather! Yours was sad end; and
my merry "reminiscences are hushed by the
memory of your fate. He never succeeded
Georgia, and there ended Ills fitfuT eXis
tence with his own hands, cutting the arte-
ries at each wrist with razor, and thus
bleeding to death.
TO BE CONTINUED.
ArEzzzn-
USES OF Hot WATER.-A new cure for
the various ills which flesh is heir to has
sprung up in this country. The drinking OF
hot water was an old-fashiOned practice
among persons with impaired digestive Or
gans. Hot water, as cosmetic has greatly
advanced in favor during the present Lon
don SEASON, while the practice of drinking
hot water, as near to boiling point as is hui
manly possible, has sprung up in the United
States. The probable apochriphal saying
attributed to Diane de Poictiers, that she
owed the preservation Of her beauty to the
use of cold water, is gradually becoming dis
credited, and Phyllis no longer laves her
lovely features in the cool translucent wave,
but in the same, made almost boiling hot
As, a few years ago, people were enthuslas-
tic about cold Tubing, most merltorlous
when the ice on the top required to be bro
ken witha bootack, so is a kind of scalding
propaganda in progress at the present mo-
ment, and those who clung most desperate
ly to the geld tub are now quietly pushed
into lukeWarm if not hot water. The mat
ter Of external application seems thus TO be
settled for the present, but the swallowing
of Scalding water is recommended at Varl-
Gus times and seasons. Many excellent peo-
pie begin the day on it, and declare its ef-
o. ,,-hi1n nfhprS tnnvnr drink
ANYTHING else after dinner" insisting that it
is a sovereign remedy against dyspepsia.
The quantity taken as dose, from one to
two tumblers is little amazing at first, for
there is "mOiSt serious deal o. drinking"
in pint of very hot water. Two tumblers
are generally prescribed, to be taken an hour
and half before eating, the complementa-
ry part of the cure.
NENTRILOQUIsM.-V Ventriloqusm is de-
clared by an expert to be very largely
humbug. There is no such possibility as
throwing the voice to a distance. The old
stories of Wyman the Wizard, in which he
figured as exploiting such ability in the
midst of a crowd, were necessarily fiction.
What passes for ventrloquism consists SIM
ply of mimicry and facial immobility.
The performer must be some distance away
from his audience, or he is pOWerless.
Whenever he wishes to make them believe
that his voice sounds at nc Tf1cic-
ly.-ly,rrre-i it ami indicates the direction for
their imagination to take. He can deceive
them sideways, upward, downward, or
backward, but he never undertakes to pro-
duce the effect of speaker at their rear.
To a listener near by no ventrlloqulst can
be in the least deceptive. Nor Is there
any truth in the theory that he talks with
the top of his gullet, or with aught else than
the organs intended by nature to be vocal:
By holding his lips as fixed as possible, and
avoiding such words as cannot be pronoun-
ced without palpably moving them, he as
sists the delusiOn. But no man is so Skill
full that he can get on without screening
moustach. .,..,s
THE STAR OF BETHLEHEM.-Mr Frank
Gilbert, in his new "Worlds Historical and
Actual" quotes the learned Professor Goun-
mier, as follows: In 1887 the "Star of Beth
lehem," will be once more seen in Cleo
patra's Chair" and will be accompanied by
total eclipse of the sun and moon. The
star only makes its appearance every 3l5
years. 1t will appear and illuminate the
heavens. and exceed in brlliancy even Ju-
piter when in opposition to the sun, and
therefore nearer to the sun and brightest.
The marvellous brilliancy of the Star of
Bethlehem" in 1887 will surpass any OF its
previous visitatiOns. 1t will be seen even
by MONDAY, shining with quick flashing
light the entire year after which it will
gradually decrease in brightness and finally
disappear, and not return to our heavens
until 2202, or 3l5 years after 1887. The star
first attracted the attention of modern as
tronomers in the year 1915. 1t was then
called new star. 1t was no new star, how
ever for this was the star which shone so
brightly B. c., and was the star that lllu-
minated the heavens at the nativity OF
Christ.
Go HOME, BoYs.--Boys, don't hang
around the corner of the streets. If you
have anything to do, do it promptly, right
off, then 90 home. Home is the place for
BOYS. About the street corner and at the
stables, they learn to talk slang, and they
learn to swear, to smoke tobacco, and to do
many other things which they ought not
to do.
DO your business, and then go home. If
your business is play, play and make BUS
mess Of it, l like to see boys play good,
earnest healthy games. If was the town
I would give the boys good, spacious play
ground. 1t should have plenty Ofsoft green
grass, and trees and fountains, and broad
space to run, and jumd, and to play suitable
games. l would make it as pleasant, as
lovely as it could be, and l would give 1t to
the boys to play in, and when the play was
ended, ! would tell them togo home.
IDLENEss NOT HAPpINEss.-The most
common error of men and women is that OF
looking for happiness somewhere outside of
useful work. Ii has never yet been found
when thus sought, and never will be while
the earth stands and the sooner this truth
is learned the better for every one. If you
doubt the proposition, glance around among
your friends and acquaintance, and select
those who appear to have the most enjoy
ment in life. Are they the idlers and pleas
ure seekers, or the earnest workers? We
know what your answer will be. OF all the
human beings it has been our for
tune or misfortune to know, they were the
most wretched who had retired from useful
to enjoy themselves while
the slave at his enforced work, or the hun
Cry toiler for Bread were supremely happy
in comparison.
GOOD ADvICE.-Be extremely small and
lowly in your own eyes; soft and yielding
as a dove, loving loveliness and cultivating
it faithfully. Make good use of every op-
portunity for 50 doing. Do not be quick of
speech rather let your words be slow, hum
bic and gentle, and letyour modest, thought
full silence be eloquent. Bear with your
neighbor, and be ever ready to make ex-
cuses for him. DO not philOsophize over the
which beset you, do not dwell
upon them, but strive to see God in all
things without exception, and acquiesce in
his will with absolute submission.
aag- Knowledge, perfected by practice, is
as different from mere speculation as the
skill of doing thing is from being told how
the thing is to be done.