Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-08-04
HEALTH AND DEBTS.

military authorities to abandon the en-
terprise.
HEALTH AND DEBTS.
A Western newspaper very reasonably
affirms that ones condition for health or
disease often depends upon his pecuniary
state. To insure health, so far as human
effort can control the matter, one should,
above all, be cheerful, contented and
calm. You can not do this if you inten-
tionally or unintentionally incur debt, for
debt is embarrassing and painfully annoy
ing. No person of the least pride or self
respect can possibly be comfortable if in
debt. Debt is something that cannot al
ways be avoided, although it never fails
to produce, in persons Of principle, an
amount of mental worry that is absolute
ly distressing. Mental tension, pecuniary
trouble, is one of the chief causes of in
sanity. Men struggle for a competency
because they, especially those not far
removed from poverty fear poverty, not
for themselves, but for others.
A father will suffer more in the thought
that his wife or daughter may be left pen
niless than he will if the family physician
tells him that the wife has an incurable
cancer and may die any moment, or that
the daughter will be crippled for life. He
prefers even this to the thought that she
that poverty in our artificial state of soci-
ETY. involves all the miseries-hunger,
overwork, humiliation and sickness, yet
we can hardly understand why men should
not choose them all rather than sickness
and physical suffering.
The man who commits suicide from pc
cuniary troubles is, nine times in ten,
found to be one who is OverWorked, or
who has ragged secretly or openly at the
apparent injustice involved in work that
brings no return, or who, haunted by fear
ofpoverty, has lived beyond his income,
incurred annoying debts, and takes his
life to escape the consequent misery and
mental agony. Nothing overturns the
mental balance so surely as long contin-
ued sense of injustice or long continued
debt, and nothing is so frequent cause
for suicide. "Hope is said to spring eter-
nal in the human breast" but in the mat
ter of money making years Of non-success
kill hope and destroy mental vigor and
health. No other form Of misery pro-
duces quite the same financial wrong. To
be a healthy man learn to be cheerful over
the misfortune as we'll as the good fortune
of life. Therefore, the mental require
ments of the laws of health and cheerful
ness, is contentment and calmness, and
that man live within his income, however
small.-PhrenoiOgicM Journal.
MORMONIsM-Thos Of our readers who
suppose that Mormonism is confined to
Salt Lake City and Utah are very much
mistaken. The great mass of the Nor
mon population, which numbers sOme-
thing like 100000 all told, exists, thrives
and breathes the free air of the United
States beyond the border line of Utah.
Like a big octopus, the head is at Salt
Lake City, but the arms stretch far out in
to Arizona, New Mexico, Oregon and
Idaho, where they are at present a po-
itical power. Most of the southern coun-
ties of Idaho are controlled by Mormons,
but recent indictments against them at
Blackfoot leave the impression that the
respectable portion of the community
mean business, and intend, if possible, to
stamp out the vice. Notwithstanding the
crusade against them in that Territory, a
noiseless exodus of MormOns from Utah
to Oneida county, Idaho, has been going
on quietly for some time. 1t is said that
5000 Mormons have already gone there
and that the exodus is still going on.
Idaho is perhaps more firmly in the grip
of the polygamists than any other State
or Territory, not even excepting Utah.
There are thirty Mormon churches in COL
orado, forty in Oregon, sixty in Arizona
and seventy in Idaho.
pa% The following anecdotes of the late
Gov. Seymour are worth reading ana pre-
serving:
These words were used by Horatio Sey-
mour in conversation with Thomas Dun
lap, of New York city, sometime during
the summer of 1885 "Mr. Dunlap, have
lived over the time allotted to man.
look back on the past with pleasure, and
am thankful that l have been allowed to
see our State attain its present prosperl-
ty. While the past is pleasant to
look back at, l am waiting for the final
summons to appear before the great Mas
ter, and / look forward to the future state
with hope and expectation"
1t was related by a gentleman who was
often a companion Of Goveror Seymour
on certain Journeys South and West, that
invariably, either at the beginning or END
of the day, the Governor would take out
his pocket Bible and read a chapter
Such an example is truly beautiful and
instructive, for many of us only read the
Bible under very favorable clrcumstal-
ces, and rarely when we are travelling
Earnest Yorker.
THE LOCAL PRESS BEYOND COMPETI-
TIoN.-The big dailies cannot compete
with the local press in the matter of local
news, and when in connection with this
the live local paper is able also to present
the news of the country and of the world,
its claims to the support of the communi-
ty in which it is published are promptly
and cheerfuly met. The big papers from
the metropolis may be luxuries outside OF
the great city, but the local press IS ne
cessity in its "parish" and is not to be de-
stroyed or even harmed to any consldera-
BILE extent by the competitors from the
utside.-NeWJ,uy (N. " Journal.
nsy- Child-And you wont give me a
penny, mamma? Vet you always say
YOU love me. Mother-When you are
older, dear, you will understand better
how much love you. Child (disparaging-
ly)-Yes, if you loved me so much, mann
ma why didn' you marry the candy-store