Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-11-05

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ful practice, although there is room for the
gravest doubts on this score. When arse
mic eating was first brought before the
notice of the world it was treated as a gross
imposture would be, and the stories about
it were classed with those of Welsh fasting
girls and universal remedies; indeed, the pro-
fession confidently asserted that these Sty-
rian peasants partook Of nothing more un-
wholesome than piece Of chalk, for it
was deemed utterly impossible that man
could, unscathed, consume enough poison to
affect dozen people, and certainly enough
to kill three. Fact, however, is stranger
than fiction, and fact so strange as this
could not lie unnoticed in the region OF
myths. "In my own practice concluded
the Doctor, 81 have known persons suffer-
ing with certain disease for which arsenic
is an antidote and curative, to be able to
consume sufficient quantities and thrive on
it to kill at least three ordinary persons in
health. Thus PERSONS system and stom-
ach being habituated by continued use to
the drug can in time, the same as with OPT
um, consume deadly doses with no disatrous
effects. But the final result, if continued,
is DEATH"
INTENSE ELONELINEss.-P who have
never visited the far west and seen low res
licences, without tree or another house in
sight, can hardly appreciate the Loneliness
of such place. A lady living on one OF
the vast prairies of Manitoba thus relates
her experience:
During these long evenings take up a
hook and think viii read, and l do read
for five minutes or so, and then | 60 out to
try if can see something, but only behold
the everlasting prairie and sky; then l
come in again, not having seen anything,
and l try to read once more, but read l
can't and I must 60 out again and see
something, for something [ must see. And
l 20 out again, and, as before, only behold
the same prairie and sky, as far as the eye
can reach, and then / come in and have
good cry"
In the forest country we have the COM
panionship of trees and birds and vines.
We are hemmed into little narrow world
by objects surrounding us. But on vast
prairie, with only the distant horizon for
a boundery, the world seems larger and
grander, and, by contrast, we feel our own
helplessness: If far removed from other
dwellings, the sense of isolation is keenly
felt. The far-reaching pillows of living
green, like ocean waves fixed and motion
less forever are symboical of eternity
without beginning or ending, so far as the
eve can reach. No wonder sense Of deep
loneliness comes to those situated amid such
surroundings, 1t could only be surpassed
in intensity by the feelings of one alone in a
boat on the bosom of mid -GreenrWe
(Ieras) Banner.
STAGE INTONICATION.-McC last
performance-in ChicagO-WaS under the
effect ofeXcessive stimulus, and this reminds
US that most Of our actors are great drinkers,
| Old Junius Brutus Booth Gather of Edwin,
was rarely sober on the stage, and required
incredible potations to enable him to &c
through his role. Sometimes he got drunk
before the hour, and the audience was
then obliged to submit to disappointment
George Frederick Cooke, the first British
star that appeared on our shore was also a
victim to strong drink, which destroyed a
constitution of rare vigor. Edmund Kean
was another brilliant victim to intemper-
ance. He was the most wonderful perform
er Of his day, but he required great quaint:
ties of strong drink, and the habit Increased
till it destroyed him. This took place in
his 10th year. Like Mccullough he broke
down while on the stage, and sank into the
arms of his son, who bore him off, and the
play was stopped He rallied, but never
reappeared, and in few weeks death
closed his fevered career. Forrest, in his
heavy efforts, used strong drink, but il
never got that degree of mastery which
proves utterly destructive. He was the
most muscular man that the stage ever pro-
duced, and no doubt this was the reason
why he drank less than some others. lntem-
perance, however, is the widespread mis-.
fortune Of the drama.-Nelr York COITes-
pORdeW.
DRINKING HABITS CHANGING.-As a
proof of the great change in the drinking
habits of the people it is shown by official
statistics that the consumption of ardent
spirits in this country in the first decade OF
this century averaged four and a half gal
Ions annually to each head of the popula-
ton. The consumption Of spirits for drink
has gradually declined from that time, until
now it does not much exceed one gallon an:
nually for each inhabitant. The total
amount of spirits produced in the country
and imported for consumption in 1860 was
9S,9GS, ,G5l gallons. From this must be de-
Quoted an export of 3,G04, ,OS7 gallons, which
leaves SG,3G4 5G4 gallons for domestic con-
sumption. If 25,OOO,OO0 gallons be deducted
for use in the arts and manufactures, there
remained 81 ,3G4 ,5G4 for consumption for
drink. In 1884 the total amount of liquors
retained for domestic consumption and i'm
ported was GS,S07, AT gallons. If twelve
manufactures, &C, $50 sos gallons remain for
drink. In other words, 81 ,443,32l inhabit-
ants of the United States consumed in 1860
more spirits for drink than $1,000, 900 inhab-
itants consumed for drink in 1884. While
the consumption of whisky is steadily de-
clining, the use of beer and light wines is in
creasing. -Phi1adelphia Reco'M.
BALANCE WHEELS.-This world is full of
people who lack this valuable essential to
their mechanism. A watch may be full
ieweled, made of the best material, by the
most skillful workman, and placed in the
costliest case but if the balance wheel be
left out, its usefulness becomes as nothing.
With individuals the same condition APP
plies, and we see it every day. a young man
Strong Of intellect, handsome of face and
figure, and endowed literally with all of the
essential elements, lacks balance wheel,
and he becomes machine, useful only when
under a guiding hand. He must be regula-
ted and set constantly to make him keep any
kind of time, and just as soon as his adopt
ed balance wheel leaves him, or neglects
him, he becomes mere ornament, subject
to rust and quick decay. A good wife often
proves perfect balance wheel tOa husband,
and | know men whose sphere OF usefulness
was constantly widening until they were
married. Women are pretty much the
same way, but not quite SO much. Women
are less lacking, as a usual thing, in this par
ticuar than men, but have observed that
when the lack does exist, it seldom is per-
fectly supplied this side of the grave. What
happens afterward am not able to say, but
| imagine the mechanism of all them is not
completed, for we are taught that hades is
an unhappy place. -.MTrhoW Tureifr.