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EFFECTS OF STRONG DRINK.

Most of the misery, want and suffering
the human family endure to-day may be
Justly attributed to our nOn-cOnformity to
the will and design of the Creator. Man
kind is ever too ready to contract habits
that are evil and vile, habits that are pro-
ductive of misery, suffering and crime.
Our useless habits and foolish fashions
draw hundreds down to want and beggary
where monopoly and capital do one; and,
of all the habits that ever cursed the hu-
man race, the habit of using strong drink
as beverage ranks first. That alone has
produced more misery, want, wretched-
ness and crime in the land since the
Christian era than war, pestilence and
famine combined, and has done more to
corrupt the morals and impede the pros
perty of our country than any other
cause.
This old King Alcohol is one of the
most cruel and heartless despots ever
known, one who imposes the heaviest bur-
dens on his subjects, and no matter how
loyal and devoted they may be to him,
they never get any act of kindness or favor
from him in return for their menial servi-
tude; and as soon as one enlistS in his
service he begins to brand and torture not
only him, but his whole household, fami-
ly and friends, and he4Soon destroys every
thing Of value to the poor man. Above
all, he ruins and destroys the great and
priceless gem, the talent or intellectual
power of the mind, that enables him to
bring out and utilize all the blessings
given US by the Creator, the germ that
makes him so superior to the brute. The
continual use of alcohol in any form soon
destroys qualities that are pure and noble,
and arouses passions that are vile, british
and dangerous. Authentic statistics show
that very large percentage of the misery,
pauperism and crime in the land is di-
rectly or indirectly the result of the use of
strong drink as beverage.
We can hardly take paper in our
hands in which is not chroncled one or
more bloody and fatal crimes committed
by some poor drunken fiend who has been
fitted and prepared for this cruel and
bloody work by some avaricious bar-keep-
er or druggist who sometimes seems to
care little or nothing for the safety or
well-being Of the poor suffering wife and
helpless children at the home of the drunk
ard, as long rs the business brings them in
a good profit. The greatest sufferers from
the evils Of intemperance are the poor
and destitute wives and families Of drunk
ards, who are at home in some lonely
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ing, shivering with cold and hunger, and
the little innocent children huddling
around their poor heart-hroken and grief
stricken mother, begging and crying in
vain for bread or something to soothe or
allay the pangs of hunger and cold. Per-
haps this same mother once faithfully
labored early and late with her heart
buoyant with hope, looking forward to
the near future when she should sit in the
midst of plenty, where she and the part
ner of her life, surrounded by children,
could enjoy the highest type of earthly
bliss and happiness; but ere she was aware
this monster intemperance laid his ruth
less hand upon her once fond husband, and
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08
BETWEEN TWO CONTINENTS.

1t was a notable day, even in life of
travel, when I entered the Straits OF Gl-
braItar Coming from Cadiz, and touch
ing at Tangier, the port of Morocco, after
few hours we glided between the two con-
tinents, which here come within hailing
distance of each other, (only nine miles
separating the most Southern point of
Europe from the most Northern point OF
Africa, and are at once in sight of the
rock, which looms up grandly before us.
Although it was but the middle of the
afternoon, the winter sun hung low, and,
striking across the bay outlined against
the sky the figure of lion couchant-a
true British lion, not very unlike those in
Trafalgar Square, in London, only that
the bronze is changed to stone and cut out
of mountain. But the figure is there,
with the kingly head turned toward Spain,
as if in defiance of its former master, every
feature bearing the same character of leo
nine majesty and power. That is Glbral-
tar! It is common saying that some
men achieve greatness, and some have
greatness thrust upon Them" The same
may be said of places; but here is one to
which both descriptions may be applied
which has had greatness thrust upon it by
nature, and has achieved it in history.
There is not more picturesque spot in
Europe. Imagine rock fourteen hundred
feet high-more than three times as high
as Edinburgh Castle, and not like that,
firm set upon the solid ground, but rising
out of the sea-and girdled with the
strongest Notifications in the world. Such
greatness has nature thrust upon Gibraltar.
And few places have seen more history,
as few have been fought over more times
than this in the long wars of the Spaniard
and the Moor; for here the Moor first set
foot in Europe, and gave the name to the
place, Gibraltar being merely Gebel-el-
Tarik, the Moorish invader, and here de-
parted from it, after conflict of nearly
eight hundred years.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

ing the nest egg by the cares of a family
of brothers and sisters, and many frankly
admit that the women they would like to
marry they dare not ask to exchange the
comforts of home for the negative ele-
gancies of humble fiat such as labor can
provide.
"It seems to me the fault lies with US
older heads. We parents and preachers
should do more to bring about that spirit
of contentment which is the architect of
happiness. Our daughters should be fitted
and schooled for the home and the duties
of wife and mother. They should value a
man for his honor, his integrity, his righ-
teous life, and his love, and not subordi-
nate all these virtues to the paltry dollar
or the uncertain standing in a club or
society. When young man is made to
believe that an evening at home with a
80 cent magazine or 60 cent novel is bet
ter than S5 lark with the boys he will
keep at the hearthstone and put his money
in the bank"
A LOW TYPE OF HUMANITY.
Professor Lee ascribes different origin
to the name of Terra del Fuego than is
given in the biographies that were studied
in the schools. These text books said that
the number of volcanoes about give the
country its forbidding name, but the Pro-
fessor says there are no volcanoes any
where about there. The natives of the
country live in long bark canoes, in the
centre of which fire is always burning.
When to kindle fire meant to rub two
sticks together until they started to burn,
the savages were careful not to let their
fires 20 out, and the custom survives.
The name comes from these ever-burning
fires.
The natives have learned the use Of
matches and tobacco, and these commodi-
ties command a high price in Terra del
Fuego. A sheep or baby is considered a
fair equivalent for plug Of tobacco or a
bunch of matches. If the choice of the
price is given the native he will always
give the baby, as there is much greater
demand for sheep than for young Fuegans.
The Fuegans are not Warlike race,
though they are very skillful with their
primitive bows and arrows. The arrows
are not feathered, and the barb consists Of
a triangular piece of glass ground sharp.
Though the Fuegans are very low in the
human scale, they are careful not to offend
the eyes Of strangers. An explorer ap-
preaching a boat sees only the best look
ing squaw of the party. She handles a
paddle In the stern and steers the boat.
Her less comely sister-there are always
two families on a boats hidden inge-
niously under the seats.
There are no old women in Terra del
Fuego. When woman gets to the ri ght
age, about forty-fye, she is considered to
have done her duty. With appropriate
ceremonies, therefore, she is either lanced
or strangled, and the family larder is re-
plenished with her roasted remains.
The women when they see the time of
sacrifice aPproaching never latte attempt to es,
settled fact as that the wind should blow,
and never trouble themselves about it.
The Fuegans are not cannibals further
than this. They never eat children,
young women or men.-[San Francisco
Examiner.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08
THE DUTY OF HEALTH.

|. "NO point in the warfare against dis
ease" writes DIR. Richardson, ''is so i'm
portant as that of getting the women Of
the household to work heart and soul after
good health in the household. Fresh air
and wholesome nourishment, regular
hours and happy surroundings, would
cure many irritable nerves, prevent many
a fit OF passion, and brighten up many
sluggish and torpid mind.
In their capacity of health-preservers,
women should insist Upon all over whom
they have any influence to attend to reg
ular daily bathing, for without it the skin
cannot remain long in healthy state.
If the house mother, as the Germans
call her, is worried and irritable, the chill
dren become dull, depressed, and also ir
ritable; the husband grows discontented
and either adds to the general worry or
seeks his pleasure out-of doors. Many
mothers look upon devotion to their
households, and neglect of themselves as
heroic, and glory in sufferings endured, as
they think for the benefit of their hus-
bands and families; but if they injure
their health by such self-imposed injuries
The best and cheapest physicians are
DIR. Quiet, DIR. Diet. and DR.. Merryman,
but they are not consulted by some wo-ss
men as much as they ought to be. Often
woman will go on laboring at whatev- /;
er she may have in hand, when aching
head and limbs and tired eyes have long
ago indicated that rest was needful. She
says that she does not care what she eats,
and that anything will do for her. She
hurries through her meal, and either runs
about or begins to work directly after
eating. "This is not the way" says DIR.
Diet, "to keep good digestion" DIR. Mer-
ryman prescribes exercise in the open
air, and as much change of scene and
amusement as is compatible with honest
work.
Women ought to be the preservers of
the health of others, but this they cannot
be if they neglect their own health. "Get
health, writes Emerson "no labor, pains,
temperance, poverty, nor exercise that
can gain it must be grudged. For sick
ness is cannibal which eats up all the
life and you it can lay hold of, and alb
serbs its own sons and daughters. / fig
ure it as a pale, wailing, distracted phan-
tom, absolutely selfish, attentive to its
sensations and, affecting other souls with
meanness and mopings, and with minis
tration to its voracity of trifies."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

They were developed at least hundred
years ago by curious sumptuary law,
regulating the dress of slaves and colored
people of free condition, law which al.
lowed considerable liberty as to material
and tint, prescribing only form. But these
fashions suggest the Orient; they offer
beautiful audacities of color contrasts; and
the coiffure, above all, is so strikingly
eastern that you cannot help wondering
whether it was not first introduced into
the colony by some Mohammedan negro
slave Lafcadio Hearn, in Harper's Mag
aZine.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08
THE MECHANISM OF THE HEART.

In the human subject the average rapid
ity of the cardiac pulsation of an adult
male is about seventy beats per minute.
These beats are more frequent as a rule in
young children and in women, and there
are variations within certain limits in
particular persons, owing to peculiarities
of organization. It would not necessarily
be an abnormal sign to find in some par
ticular individuals the habitual frequency
of the hearts action from sixty to sixty
five or seventy-fve to eighty per minute.
AS rule the hearts action is slower and
more powerful in fully developed and
muscular organizations, and more rapid
and feebler in those of slighter form. In
animals the range is from twenty-five to
iorty-five in the cold blooded and from fifty
upward in the warm-blOoded animals, ex-
cept in the case of horse, which has
very slow heart beat-only forty strokes
q minute.
The pulsations of men and animals diff
fer with sea level also. The work of q
healthy human heart has been shown to
equal the feat of raising ) tons hundred
weight foot per hour, or 125 tons in twen-
ty-four hours. The excess of this work
under alcohol in varying quantities is often
very great. A curious calculation has
been made by DIR. Richardson, giving the
work of the heart in mileage. Presuming
that the blood was thrown out of the heart
at each pulsation in the proportion Of 60
strokes a minute, and at the assumed
force of 8 feet, the mileage of the blood
through the body might be taken at POI
yards per minute, miles an hour, 16S
miles per day, Gl,32O miles per year, or
5,15OSSO in lifetime of eighty-four years.
The number of beats Of the heart in the
same long life, would reach the grand to-
tai of 2,SG9, ZIG, ,0OO.-[ Medical World.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

RECKL LESS EXPENDITURE OF YOUTH
"To be sure the youth must have enjoy
ment, he must be amused, interested, en-
tertained and diverted, but l wish the
young child might be got at and his train.
ing so directed as to make the price of
pastime smaller than it now is. talk to
young men every week about this very
waste of years-this reckless expenditure
of youth, time and money, but the defense
is more than / can controvert. Many
have never been taught how to read or
where to read or where to look for the
best thoughts and the best books of men,
but pay the highest price for the little fun
they call life. Others are kept from saw
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

nag Some men use no other means to ac-
quire respect than by insisting on it, and
it sometimes answers the purpose, as it
does highwayman's in regard to money.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

THE FOLLY OF HASTE TO BE RICH.-
Chancellor Howard Crosby, one of the best
preachers and best thinkers in New York
City, has an article in the Forum in which
he says:
"rhe greatest need of our land to-day is
an education away from the fearful danger
of haste to be rich, cultivation of the
quiet and improving arts, and encourage
ment of genial and benevolent lives, a
preservation of home virtues. a teaching
OF the truth that moderation best serves
the cause of happiness, and a demonstra-
tion that in helpfulness to others man best
helps himself.
"While wise laws can do much to sup
press some of the worst features of gold
hunt, it is to the press, the school, and the
church, that we must look for the inculca-
ton of the purer and loftier ideas that
will meet and overcome the materialism
which the peculiar conditions of our coun-
try have fostered, and which the thought
less minds of our youthsso readily iaccept.
Contented minds are more conducive to
happiness than riches, glory or fame. In
our life work let us remember that it will
profit US but little if we gain a world of
wealth and lose contentment and happi-
neSSn
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

No DREAMS IN PERFECT SLEEP.-A
theory is that in perfectsleep there is little
or no dreaming. This is supported by
various considerations. The natural pre-
sumption is that the object Of sleep is to
give reA, and that perfect sleep would i'm
ply the cessation of brain action; and it is
found that "the more continuous and un-
interrupted is our dreaming, the less re-
freshing is our Sleep" Recent expert
ments appear to confirm this view. The
effect of stimuli, whether of sound, touch,
smell, sight or hearing, in modifying the
dreams without awaking the sleeper-or
in awakening him-all point in the same
direction; and though there is always
some sense Of time when awakening, which
proves that the mind has to some extent
been occupied, in the soundest sleep, it is
so slight as to seem as if the person had
just lain down, though many hours may
have passed. Whereas, just in proportion
as the dreams are remembered, or as the
fact of dreaming can be shown by any
method, is the sense of time the longer.
1 do not speak of the heavy, dull sleep
which without apparent dreams, results
from plethora, or sometimes accompanies
an overloaded stomach, or is the result of
overeXhaustion, or occasionally supervenes
after protracted vigils, but Of the very
sound sleep enjoyed by the working classes
when in health, or by vigorous children.
-TRev. J. M. Buckley.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08
WHAT is TIME2

Sometimes have stood before the clock
in yonder observatory and watched the
hands as they approached the hour Of
midnight; twelve O'Clock strikes, and l
slip from to-day into tomorrow. Where
has the day gone? Yes, where do these
beating seconds go? So f1eet-winged that
they fsse hero, tfoy have flown, vanished
into the dim past! Do they travel on
ward forever through universal space, as
some have fancied our words and actions
do? Might we by some magic overtake
them and live them DER again? Vain
hope! They are gone eirretrievably. Only
the present is ours. What we give to that
present as it passes will endure forever,
but it can never be adulterated or recalled.
Have you ever thought of the difference
in this respect between time and space
We are limited by the latter as well as
by the former; we can be in one place
only at a time; and if we speak of abso-
lutte space, perhaps we can never revisit
the regions we are now passing through,
unless the endowments of future life en-
able US to track the devious course we are
now pursuing, for owing to the motion of
the solar system, it comes to pass that
even at the end of the year we do not ar
rive at the spot where we were twelve
months before, but strike out into before
untrodden realms of infinite space. But
practically, as far as place has any inter
est for US, we are free to come and 60 at
will. We can revisit old scenes and ex-
plore new ones, being only limited by
earth's extent. But with time how differ
ent! Past seasons we can recall only in
memory future ones we can anticipate only
through our imagination. So that time is
mere evanescent and, perhaps we might
say, ideal conception Of space. Both
conceptions have, when we come to
analyze them closely, many elements of
mystery. But time partakes pre-eminent-
ly of the marvellous. The fraction that is
with US now we accept without thought,
but this infnitesmal fraction is linked by
indissoluhle bands to an eternity past and
to an eterity to come. The fugitive mo-
ments are golden, for though we shall new
er see them again, they are building up
for US character and destiny which shall
last forever.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

VIRTUE OF PURE AIR.-How is 1t pos
sible to teach people the virtue of pure air
and what it really is? Everybody agrees
as to it's value, and goes on living in rooms
aired once day or in sweeping, which
draw breathing supply from tt: cellar and
the infected ground about it, strongly
tinctured by the escapes Of water closets
and drain pipes. They breathe this shock
ing mixture over and over, charging it
more heavily with organic poison at every
breath. They sleep and breathe their own
breath ten times over in the course OF the
night. TO be sure they are enlightened,
and strictly careful to have the window
down two inches at the top, but how much
water can flow into cistern already full
which has no outlet? People do not un-
derstand there must be one place for the
air to 60 into room and another in the
opposite wall for it to 60 out, or there is no
change in the body of stagnant air unless
the breeze is blowing directly in the win.
dow. If they knew what they breathed
they would get up and open that window
top and bottom, and take the stopper out
of the stove-pipe hole, or the front out of
the fire CRATE, and three weeks after their
friends would be saying "How much
better and fatter you look than you used
little while ago."
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

The HIDDEN CRoss.-To all, sooner or
later, Christ comes to baptise them with
fire. But do not think that the baptism
of fire comes once for all to man in some
terrible atfiiction, some one awful convic-
tion of his own sinfulness and nothingness.
No; with many, and those perhaps the
best people, it goes on month after month
and year after year. BY secret trials,
chastenings which none but they and God
can understand. The Lord is cleansing
them from their secret faults, and'making
them to understand wisdom secretly;
burning out of them the chaf of self-Will
and self concet and vanity, and leaving
only the pure gold of righteousness. How
many sweet and holy souls, who look
cheerful enough before the eyes of men,
yet have their secret sorrows! They car
ry their cross unseen all day long, and lie
down to sleep on it at night; and they
will carry it, perhaps, for years and years,
and to their graves, and to the throne OF
Christ, before they lay it down; and none
but they and Christ will eyer know what
it was-what was the secret chastisment
which God sent to make that soul better
which seemed to US already too good for
earth. So does the Lord watch his people.
and tries them by fire, as the retiner of
silver sits by his furnace watching the
melted metal till he knows that it is purg-
ed from all its dross by seeing the image
of his own face reflected on it Kingsley.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

WEST INDIES FINEST MINED RACE
A population fantastic, astonishing-apop
ulation of the Arabian Nights. AS the
general tone of the town is yellow, so is
the general tint of the people, in the inter-
blending of all the hues characterizing
griffone, mulatresse, metisse, messive, cha
bine, ca presse, quadroon-a general effect
of rich brownish yellow. You are in a
population of half-breeds, the finest mixed
race of the Antilles.
Tall, supple, straight as palms, these
colored women and men impress you pow
erfully by their dignity of carriage and
easy elegance of motion. They walk with
out any swinging of the shoulder; the per-
fectly set torso seems to remain rigid yet
the step is long, full stride, and the whole
weight is poised sprngily on the very tip
of the bare foot. All, or nearly all, are
without shoes the passing of all the hum
dreds of naked feet makes great whisper
ing sound over the burning pavements.
But what produces the most novel i'm
preston on the stranger is the singularity
and brilliancy of the women's costumes.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-05-14
Marine Cha ia 9eS.

The following changes of masters have
been made among the vessels in the
Hawaiian trade:
Captain D. B. Penhallow takes command
of the barkentine Planter, vice Captain
Perriman.
Captain J. II. Robertson, formerly of the
bark w. w Case, takes command of the
brig Consuelo, vice Captain E. B. Cousins,
who takes command of the bark Alden
Bessie, vice Captain J. IL. O'Brien.
Captain E. w Christensen, formerly OF
the schooner Rosario, takes command of
the brig ]. D. Spreckels, vice Captain G.
s. Friis, who takes command of the ship
Alex. Mcneil, vice Captain j r. Howard.
The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1888-05-14
A Consaiar Announcement.

The German Consul at San Francisco
has received the following notice from
the Imperial Government to be publicly
announced:
In pursuance with an order of the I'm
perial German Government the following
is hereby brought to public notice:
The port of Jaluit is declared to be the
only port of entry of the Marshall Islands.
The masters of those ships which come
from any port outside of said islands have
to enter the port of Jaluit and to report
to the Imperial Commissioners said last
mentioned port before touching any other
one of the said islands.
Any violation of any of the foregoing
provisions shall be punishable by fine Of
not exceeding 6, 1000 marks. This fine may
be enforced against the ship and cargo,
without regard to the owner Of the same,
and the forfeiture of the ship may be adj
Judged.