Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-08-08

-. AUGUST 3, Is
transformed him into a brute, and now
her burden of poverty, shame and wretch
edness becomes so great that in her frenzy
and despair she takes her own life or the
lives of her dear little ones whom she
would gladly have laid down her own life
to protect before this monster intemper
ance invaded her once happy home. Oh I!
have the mind, talent and energies of our
American people become so dwarfed that
they are unable, or the avenues to the
heart 80 closed, or the heart itself 80 cal
loused, or eyes so blind, that they cannot
be made to feel, see and realize the fearful
responsibilities resting upon them?
Very often, in stating events or circum-
stances, the subject is exaggerated and en-
larged, but in portraying the evils of in
temperance it is impossible for the greatest
artist to overdraw the picture, as his great
est efforts and grandest results come far
short of the reality. No pen can write, or
pencil paint, the fearful anguish that is
perienced to be realized. Let no one think
or feel himself guiltless who treats this
thing lightly or turns these things to one
side as of no account.
This vile curse, with its sad effects and
results, has become thing Of so common
occurrence that it fails to excite in US that
degree. Of horror that it otherwise would.
Some of the brightest and most aspiring
youths of our land, those who bid fair to
rank high in intellectual ability and use
fulness, ere they are aware of any danger,
are environed with the powerful meshes
of this vile curse and have begun to de-
scend the drupkard's ladder, which is
made for descending but never to ascend.
The rounds or steps in this ladder are
named in the following order, commenc-
ing at the top: Evil associations, tea, to-
bacco, rum, crime, delirium and death.
The evils of intemperance are not so COM
mon out in the country as in our large
towns and cities, where you will often
find the depraved of both sexes joining in
drunken carousals.-[ George w. Cook, in
the "Battle Axe of Temperance"
DON'T SNUB THE BOY.
Don't snub the boy. He is going to be a
man by and by. Perhaps he will be Presi-
dent. Who knows:
If he wants tail to his kite, don't treat
his request as if it was of no consequence.
Why, half the happiness inl life depends on
having tails to our kites.
If you have boy, make him happy. if
you can. 1t is something to have pleas,
ant childhood to look back upon. A small
boy is, in his own estimation at least, a
badly used specimen of humanity. He
to shoot his grandfather with them. He
can't have any gunpowder to play soldier
with, because sometime some bad little
boy, somewhere, blew up the barn with
gunpowder. He can't have tirecrackers
on the Fourth of July, because Portland
was burned up, one luckless Fourth, by a
firecracker. His big sister will not have
him in the parlor when her beau comes,
and he is obliged to listen at door-cracks
and key-holes to find out what she says to
him, and what he says to her, so that he
can report it to the other boys.
The society with the long name will not
allow him to tie old tin tomato cans to
dogs tails, or SINCE the hair of stray cats.
The grocer threatens to call the police If he
takes handful of dried apples out of
barrel.
He can't stand on the seats in the railway
cars and fool with the bell-rope. He can't
stick pins into the conductor while he is
punching tickets. He can't steal a ride on
freight car without being chased by the
baggage man. ,,,.,,a
they get to sleep and snore.
His rights are curtailed in many ways.
He is boiling over with desire to do
something to have some fun, and all Gre
alton is in conspiracy to prevent him from
having it. 1t is little singular that ev-
erything boy wants to do is wicked but
GOOD. moral people tell us 50 it is, and we
must accept their version.
But we hate to see boy snubbed. We
hate to hear somebody say 80, get out
of the way, you boy, there! Strange that
boys will always be where they are not
needed J"
Why, a boy has just as much right in
the world as a man. He is very impor-
tant part of creation. Let him learn.
Let him enjoy. Let him observe. He is
educating hilnself-he is laying the found
ations Of the structure called character.
Don't dodge hisquestions. Answer them,
if you can. 1t is not likely that you can,
however, unless you are a second Socrates;
for the average boy has habit Of putting
mon into the lunatic asylum to answer.
Don't snub him. When he asks you
why it is wrong for him to swear, and
why it is not wrong for you to swear, don't
tell him that "ittle boys should be seen
and not heard )" but come up to the scratch
bravely, and tell him that you are wick
ed old sinner, and that you don't practice
what you preach.
Don't deny him little pleasures which
he Graves. Let him have dog. Let him
wear watch chain, if it is any satisfac-
ton. Don't keep him eternally at work.
Listen to his opinions. Treat him like
companion, and you will find one in him.
For all in the world there is nothing no.
bier, and sweeter, and more delightful,
than an honest, truthful, healthy, whole
souled, merry-hearted boy Kate Thorne.
THE MECHANISM M THE HEART