Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1886-07-21
business over the counter of the Congress-
ional bank, and some of them pile checks
up as high as $50, 900 in a single session.
EVILS OF SOLITUDE.

EVILS OF SOLITUDE.
Said a physician noted for his skill in cur
ing nerve diseases, "there is a certain heal
thy, helpful influence which naturally
comes from human beings to each other.
One of my patients drained all of which
her friends had to give years ago. We need
occasionally a fresh moral and mental at
mosphere, just as much as fresh material
air to breathe"
Another physician, visiting in a country
house where the mother, a delicate, affec-
%tionate, self.sacrificing woman, who lived
but for her husband and children, lay i'll,
with no disease, apparently, but extreme
weakness and WEAKNESS, ordered her to 60
to the city alone; spend a month in abso-
lutte idleness, mixing as often as possible
with crowds of people who were interested
and excited, at church, at concerts, even in
public meetings. The patient, a shy, diff
fdent woman, oheyed, and came home with
new color in her cheeks and new life in her
heart.
II once asked" said a well-known law
yer, the famous preacher, BascOm, what
was the secret of his power as an orator;
how he contrived to sway large numbers of
men to his will.
"'First,' he answered, Il bring them close
to me and to each other. Leave no empty
benches between you and your audience.
The electric spark will not cross a gap from
one mar to the other.'"
These ideas may seem fanciful to some OF
our practical readers, but there is a solid ba-
sis of truth under them all. Physicians
usually bring all their skill to bear in cur
ing the ailments of the body. There is a
human magnetism which we are all apt
to overlook in our materia medica. Hard
working. women in the isolated villages
of the country often find themselvs grow
ing irritable and nervous.
They do not need tonics or moral disci-
pline. They need friction with unfamiliar
minds, new ideas, novel scenes, just as their
lungs, after using up all the oxygen in a
close room need the air of out doors.
Young girls are too apt, voluntarily, to
force themselves into this state; disappoint-
ed in their natural longings for a genial
companion they resolved to live alone, and
shut themselves in their own souls. The
resources are not sufficient to keep off fam
inc.
"Only a God or a brute can dwell in soil
tude," says the wise old German.
HEALTH RULES o THE AGED.-1n dis
cussing the cause of premature old age in
mature life, that eminent authority, DIR. b.
w. Richardson, points out that indulgence
r. o,>ooff<,p y>0ccion or hQI h hIfS
anticipates age. Grief, vain regrets over
what "might have been," hatred, jealousy,
unchastity, all have this effect, and those
who wish to prolong their lives to a "green
old age" in reasonable health and vigor,
should avoid them with the utmost care.
But when, as it must, old age has really
come, its march toward final decay may be
delayed and the way made smoother by at
tention to those rules of conservatism by
which life is sustained with the least fric-
ton and waste. The prime rules for this
purpose, DIR. Richardson suggests, are:
TO subsist on light but nutritious diet,
with milk as the standard food, but varied
according to season.
To take food in moderate quantity four
times in the day, including a light meal
before going to bed.
To clothe warmly but lightly, so that the
body may in all seasons maintain its equal
temperature.
TO keep the body in fair exercise and the
mind active and cheerful.
TO maintain an interest in what is going
on in the world, and to take part in reason
able labors and pleasures, as though old
age were not present.
TO take plenty of sleep during sleeping
hours. To spend nine hours in bed at the
least, and to take care during cold weather
that the temperature fthe bedroom is main
tanned at 60 degrees F.
Toavoid passion, excitement, luxury.
THE NATIONAL CAPITAL.-Why was
Washington, the seat of government located
on Virginia and Maryland) Southern soil
in 1893? Can any Of our school-boys tell
the reason of it's Southern location?
Its location is the resultof a trade between
the party leaders and Congressman. The
Northern States, the theatre of most of the
Revolutionary battles, were burdened with
debt, while the States South of Maryland
were free from large debts. Congress first
assembled at New York, then at Philadel-
phia, and it was proposed to make Phila-
delphia the national metropolis, and this
was advocated by the New England and
Middle States.
AS a compromise with the South, a trade
or barter was made that the site should be
on Southern soil, located by Gen. Washing
ton, provided the United States pay twenty
millions ($20, 600, 000) of dollars, due by all
the Northern States. So the Northern
States were relieved of their State debts and
the South gained the seat of government.
Washington favored the settlement of the
vexed question, located and planned the
site on the Potomac, and in November, 1900,
the National Capital was transferred from
Philadelphia to the forests and flats laved
by the Potomac and in sight of Washing
toms home. Its thirty avenues $50 to 100
feet wide and named after each State, and
its wide streets were all planned by him in
whose honor it was named, and to whom
the highest monument (G55 feet) in the world
is erected.-Meby aurora.
WHEN TO EAT FRUIT.-The fruit season
is upon US and those who are fond Of small
fruits, such as berries of different kinds,
cherries, &C., can luxuriate upon them.
One of our exchanges, speaking on the SUBJ
ject of fruit eating, says: Fruits, to do their
best work, should be taken on an empty
stomach, or simply with bread-never with
vegetables. In the morning, before the
fast of the night has been broken, they are