Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1885-10-22

NO. 43.
that many people in the east forget this diff
ference when coming to the Rocky noun
tains. Often some tenderfOotwhoh has heard
much of the imaginary dangers of the
west will come to the mountains with
22-calibre revolver, and feeling convinced
that he is prepared to put all the highway
men in the west to flight. He is ignorant
that the dangers he looks for are imaginary,
and if they come he will be utterly incom-
petent to cope with them.
In the mountains of this State there is
less danger than in the cities of New York
and Chicago. A man can travel through
Colorado wholly unarmed and never meet
with an enemy nor encounter the slightest
danger from man or beast. lie can lie down
upon the mountain sides in peace and sleep
in perfect safety, or he can stop at some
ranchman's cabin and receive cordial well
come. Rarely does it occur that a murder
is committed in this State where the MUIR
derer lies in wait for the victim. The hon.
icides of Colorado are usually committed
in bar-rooms and the victims are generally
frequenters Of such places.
But it will be a long time before the peo-
pie of the east learn that these things are
true. AS they will continue to believe in
scalp dances on the streets of Kansas City,
so the people of st. Louis, Chicago and Gin
cinnati will for years to come think that
desperadoes are met at every turn in Color
ado, and that every canon conceals band
of robbers. What the citizens of Ohio, IL
linois, and Missouri condemn in New Eng
land with reference to their States, they
are themselves guilty of with reference to
the Rocky mountains.-Denrer Tribune.
\ TERRIBLE WARNING.-The German
spelling for 'beer'' is "bier." The English
equivalent for "bier" is ''cofin." The step
from beer to the grave is very short. For
some years a decided inclination has been
apparent all over the country to give up the
use of whisky and other strong alcohols,
using as substitute beer and other COM
pounds. This is evidently founded on the
idea that beer is not harmful, and contains
a large amount of nutriment; also that
bitters may have some medical quality
which will neutraliZe the alcohol which it
conceals, etc. These theories are without
confirmation in the observation of physi-
clans. The use Of beer is found to produce
species of degeneration of all the organs;
profound and deceptive fatty deposits, di-
minished circulation, conditions of con-
gestion and perversion of functional activ-
tiles, local inf1ammations of both the liver
and kidneys, are constantly present. Intel
lectually, a stupor amounting almost to pa
ralysis arrests the reason, changing all the
higher faculties into mere animalism, SEN
sual, selfish, sluggish, varied only with par
oXysms Of anger that are senseless and bru-
tai. In appearance the beer drlnker may
be the picture of health, but in reality he
is most incapable of resisting disease. A
slight injury, severe cold, or shock
to the body or mind, will commonly pro-
woke an acute disease ending fatally. Com
pared with inebriates who use different
kinds of alcohol he is more incurable and
more generally diseased. The constant use
of beer every day gives the system no re-
cuperation, but steadily lowers the vital
forces.-,Scientifc american.
BLACKsMITHs' HAMMER SIGNALs.-The
force of the blows given by the backsmith's
hammer indicates the force of the blow it is
required to give the sledge.
When the blacksmith gives the anvil
quick, light blows it is signal to the help
er to use the sledge or to strike quicker.
| The blacksmith's helper is supposed to
strike the work in the middle of the width
of the anvil, and when this requires to be
varied the blacksmith indicates where the
sledge blows are to fall by touching the
required spot with his hand-hammer.
! If the sledge is required to have lateral
motion while descending the blacksmith in
dicates the same to the helper by delivering
hand-hammer blows in which the hand
hammer moves in the direction required
for the sledge to move.
If the blacksmith delivers heavy blow
upon the work and an intermediate light
blow on the anvil it denotes that heavy
sledge blows are required.
Ifthere are two or more helpers the black
smith strikes blow between each helpers
sledge hammer blow, the object being to
merely denote where the sledge blows are
to fall.
When the blacksmith desires the sledge
blows to cease he lets the hand hammer
head fall upon the anvil and continues its
rebound opOn the same until it ceases.
Thus the movements of the hand-hammer
constitute signals to the helper, and what
appear desultory blows to the common OBJ
server constitute the method of communl-
cation between the blacksmith and his help
er.-BlacksnlM and WheelacrigM.
The INVENTION OF INK.-When ink was
introduced does not seem to have been de-
cided, but given the paper and the pen,
colored medium which would show on
light surface was so obvious want, and
one so readily found, that there is no extra
ordinary credit due to the unknown inven-
tor. Itappears to be only of comparatively
late years that black ink has been almost
universal. Roman ink was red, purple and
gold, and inks of blue, green, violet and
other shades were not uncommon. 1t is said
that simple as is the combination OF ink,
"we possess none equal in beauty to that
used by the ancients the Saxon manuscripts
written in England exceed in color anything
of the kind" Modern ink-makers will de-
nv the superiority of the ancients; but who
shall say whether words written in the ink
manufactured to-day shall stand as vividly
centuries hence as those Saxon manuscripts
have stood? It is difficult to see how the
writing materials of the present day can be
improved upon, for convenience at least,
setting aside questions of lasting inks, which
the generation that uses them cannot settle.
Paper, rough and smooth, fluent inks OF
any color that the writer may believe suit
able to his eyes, pens as fine as needle or
as blunt as spade, are all to be bought on
every street. The great lack of the age
seems to be ideas at once more novel and
sensible in the record Of which these SER
viceable materials may be mployed.-Lo'a-
don Standard.
SCHOOLS AND PRESS OF MEXICO.-1t is
lamentable fact that but small portion
of Mexican people are able to read and
write. The total number of illiterate per-
sons is not definitely known, there being no
accurate census returns to which reference
can be made. The most reliable estimate
that can be arrived at places the number at
100000, or fully two-thirds of the entire
population.
it is safe to say that Of all the daily pa
pers published in the City of Mexico no one
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