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Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16
CURIOSITIES OF VISION.

Though vision without the optic nerve
is an impossibility, yet light thrown di-
rectly on the optic nerve or its tibers is not
followed by any visual perception. Only
when the nervous elements contained in
four layers of the retina, and light is
thrown on it does vision result. There is
one spot in the retina more sensitive than
the rest. While the retina in other parts
is purplish red, in this part it is yellow.
The very center of this yellow spot is the
point of vision. We can look at but one
thing at time, though while looking at
the one thing all other objects in the range
of our vision are vaguely seen. When we
look at thing we turn the center of this
little yellow spot on it..
In the eagle every point on the retlna is
q point Of vision. His retina is all yellow.
The brain of the eagle is largely made up
of the knobs of cerebral matter from
which the optic nerve proceeds. SO the
eagle is in an important sense all eye, and
has very little brain for anything else than
vision. We can see but one thing at q
time with that intensity with which the
eagle sees everything within the range OF
vision.
Where the optic nerve enters the eye is
a "blind spot" This may readily be
found by the following experiment: Fix
two cards at the height of the eyes, upon
a dark wall, two feet apart from each
other If the left eye be covered and the
right eye fixed upon the left hand card,
the other will disappear from view at a
distance OF about eight feet from the wall.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16
Selttted gaetrg.
THE TWO MYSTERIES.


We know not what it is, dear, this sleep 80 deep
and still,
The folded hands, the awful calm, the cheek
so pale and chill.
The lids that will not lift again, though we
may call and call,
The strange @ re- white solitude of peace that set
ties over all.
We know not what it means, dear, this desc
late heart-pain,
The dread to take our daily way and walk IN
it again.
We know not to what sphere the loved who
Nor wbV INV we're T i left to wonder still, nor why we
do not know.
But this we know; our loved and lost II
they should come this day,
Should come and ask us, What is Life! not
one of US could say.
Life is mystery as deep as death can ever De;
Yet, oh, how sweet IL is to US, this life we live
and see!
Then might they say, those vanished ones, and
blessed is the thought, So
So death is sweet to us, beloved, though we
may tell you naught;
We may not tell it to the quick, this mystery
of death;
Ye may not tell it if ye would. the mystery OF
breath.
The child who enters life comes not with
knowledge or intent. ,.,
So those who enter death must go as lit'ie
children sent;
Nothing is known, but belieye>that God is
overhead;
And as life is to the living SO death is to the
dead,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

THE BEGINNING OF CRIME.-Many a
passionate child rules the household. The
little baby on it mothers knee goes into q
passion because it's dinner is withheld
from him, or some toy denied him. He
shrieks, and strikes his mother, and the
mother says: "Poor little boy, he has such
, a passionate nature; he can't be crossed" !"
and yields to him. She ought to spank
him-spank him hard-for beipgin a pas
sion, and give him nothing till his passion
has cooled. The child, though he be so
young that he cannot speak, if he be old
enough to lift his fist and strike blow, de-
serves punishment, needs to have a lesson
of repression Taught it. The mother who
neglects this increases the chances of her
sons going to the gallows. When the
child is older, there are better disciplinary
punishments than spanking; but when
the child reaches such an age that they are
useful, it may be too late, his temper may
have grown into dominating force in his
character that cannot be eradicated. Moth
ers sometimes say when child shows a
vile temper and shrieks good deal, that
it would endanger his life to punish him {;
perhaps 80, but you still more endanger his
future if you don't punish him. Many a
gallows tragedy has had its beginning on
the mothers lap.
Day by day I see criminals, hundreds of
them-thousands of them in the course of
the year. I see scores of broken hearted
parents wishing rather that their sons had
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

THE VERY ESSENCE OF THE WORLD
"Men will praise thee when thou doest well
to thyself." Politics, religion and social
life, as they generally exist, are all ami
mated with the same principle; every
body expects, as is expected, to do the best
for himself. Children are educated to look
after their own interests; men 60 into bus
mess to secure a fortune for themselves;
people build church or mission to Sc
cure the interests of the denomination to
which they belong; nations 90 to war in
order to exalt themselves, or to attain ter
ritory, or commercial advantages for them
selves. Again, men enter into an argu-
ment to prove themselves in the right; they
play game to show their skill they fur
nish a house to secure their comfort; they
pray to God to ease their conscience and,
from first to last, self is the object of all.
In little country town, the squire cannot
dine with the merchant, nor the merchant
with the shopkeeper, nor the shopkeeper
with the dressmaker, nor the dress1naker
with the servant, nor the servant with
the scavenger, because self would be sup
posed to lose some of its contemplate su-
periority.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

that this new-old religion is finding con-
genial soil. Just in proportion as it is
generative will this world be pleasanter
place in which to live.
The old ten commandments are good.
But the eleventh commandment is the
best. "A new commandment give unto
you, that ye love one another 1t is the
delightful religion of the universal BROTH
erhood of men. I had rather lay one stone
in the foundation of this temple than to
have the ownership of the world, during
my brief stay here.
It means universal charity. Charity of
thought. Charity of feeling. Charity of
Judgment. It means the actual and prac-
tical relief of suffering. 1t means large
ness of sympathy. It means respect for
the feelings and sensibilities of others. 1t
means humanity in its broadest and most
mprehensive sense. 1t means the cultl-
walton of that most lovable habit-the
habit of unselfshness.
There are no professors in this grand re-
ligion.
You either practice it, or you enjoy none
of its manifold blessings.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16
never been born than they had lived to

never been born than they had lived to
bear such burdens of shame and disgrace.
I hear the wailing of disappointed moth
ers, and see humiliated fathers crying like
children because of the sins of their chill
dren. I see mothers growing gray be-
tween the successive visits in which they
come to inquire about the boy in prison.
And seeing these dreadful things till my
heart aches and aches, I say to those moth
ers and fathers whose boys have not yet
gone astray, to mothers and fathers whose
little families are the care of their lives,
teach your children obedience. I want it
written large. wish I could make it
blaze here in letters of fire. wish could
write it in imperishable, glowing letters
on the walls of every obedience,
obedience, obedience! Obedience to law
to household law; to parental authority ;
unquestioning, instant, exact obedience.
Obedience in the family, obedience in the
school! Wherever, from the beginning,
the first glimmering of intelligence in
the child, there is expression of law, let
there be taught respect for it and obedi-
ence to it. It is the royal road to virtue,
to good citizenship; it is the only road
w III lff Fl Round i,e liaClcpe pe7ade,7t. --,
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

The "GREAT AMERICAN DESERT. y
There is no more astounding proof of the
growth of this republic, says the Journal
of Commerce, than the fact that middle
aged men now living have seen the con-
fines of this supposed desert shrink almost
to nothingness. The desert has thus mar
velously &C tracted, simply because it is
not what we should call desert, save in
comparatively few spots. The old theo-
ries about its sterility have all turned out
wrong. 1t was supposed that, because for
the most part treeless, it had no rainfall.
Or, if certain small quantity of rain was
granted to it, then it was assumed that
this was insufficient for farming purposes.
Therefore, at its best estate, the "Great
American DESERT could serve only as
pasture ground for cattle and sheep, as
originally it had served for millions of
buffaloes.
Experience has proved this theory of a
treeless waste and a rainless area to be all
a mistake. There is melancholy want of
trees on the Western plains, but their alb
sence does not entail perpetual drought
anywhere. And small though the annual
precipitation of rain may be in some
places, the pioneer has yet to find the spot
barring alkali lands and pure sand patch
esq where the heavens deny him water for
the raising of grain and vegetables.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

Thomas Palmer, of Yorkville, was wound
ed, it was claimed, by one of the 'Cal-
houn Guards" who was standing SEN
tinel. This unfortunate circumstance Gre
ated bitter feeling among the friends of
the parties. J. L. 8.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

sar The greatest elevation which has
been attained by man is 81 900 feet-about
seven miles-this height having been
reached during balloon ascent made by
Glaisher. At this tremendous distance
above the earth's surface physical exertion
is found to be almost impossible, owing to
the great rarefaction of the atmosphere.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

EFFECT OF BAD TEMPER ON HEALTH.
The effect upon the bodily health Of the
mind harrassed by bitterness and anger is
to propagate arrangements and infirmities.
The appetite lessons, digestion is impair
ed, and then follow other functional disor-
ders. The nervous system suffers from
continual mental irritability and hysteria,
headache, and other painful affections Oft
en- owe their origin to this prejudical in
fuence. AS has been said: can irritable
and fractious temper, whether due to an
active temperament or other causes, be-
comes, necessarily, the instrument Of its
own punishment. And it furthermore
poisons the happiness of all within the
circle of its influence. To so many occa-
sions of annoyance, to many vexations are
we all, even the most fortunate of US, ex-
posed, that the happiness of the naturally
irritable man must be continually encoun-
tering obstacles, and his health consequent
ly be ever liable to injury"
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

The UNsEEN.-It is strange how little
we know even of those who have been
sheltered by the same roof-tree, into whose
eyes we look each morning, and whose
hands have clasped ours in childish sport.
There is veil between US all, thin as
spiders web, but who can pierce its deli
cate folds? The mother knows not her
child; before the dewy light Of infancy
fades from the blue eyes the mystic screen
is drawn, the inner life Of thought and
feeling has begun. She may watch the
glow Of the bright face, or the quivering
of the sad lip, hear the joyous laughter or
stifed sob, but there is hidden realm
which she cannot enter. All of US possess
q dual life-the cold outward existence
upon which the world looks, and the
burning inward life to which we power
lessly strive to give utterance. No grand
harmony ever thrills us with its majestic
sweetness, but in it we catch vague echoes
of this diviner life. Its music runs like
thread of gold through every true poem,
and its beauty mellows in every noble
painting. There is fine bloom upon our
spirits which the careless world would
brush aside, so an airy web is drawn pro.
tectingly over its loveliness. We are all
mantled in an invisible drapery, and who
dare reveal the Isis hidden under the sa-
cred veil?
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

a@r The cost of milk depends upon the
cost of food, hence the more milk received
from cow in proportion to food given the
cheaper the cost.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

THE EXILEs OF SIBERIA.-Some inter-
esting facts and figures regarding the un-
fortunate exiles of Siberia have recently
found their way into print. 1t appears
that on January 1, of this year, the total
number of political and other prisoners OF
both sexes in the provinces of Irkutsk,
Yeneseisk and Yakutsk was 10000. Of
these $4,000 were in fixed places Of resi-
dence, 10000 were employed on different
public works, and $4,000 had escaped from
confinement and were living on "their
own hook" In western Siberia the num-
ber of the escaped prisoners was still great
er, recently taken census of the different
towns and villages showing that the enor-
nous proportion of 81 per cent were mis-
sing-Puris Cor. Ne,O York Star.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

A LITTLE TOO SMART.-I heard the
other day of clerk in a dry goods store
who was smart and quick, splendid man
ager and all that. He had an exalted
opinion of himself, and frequently made
himself disagreeable by remarking to his
associates that the concern could not pos
sibly get along without him. This came
to the ears of the senior partner, and the
old gentleman called the clerk into the
private office and said: "Mr. jenkins,
you have been very efficient, apd! we ap-
preciate your services; but hear that you
have repeatedly asserted that if you were
to die the concern couldn't possibly sur.
and my partner very much, for you, like
all men, are liable to die very unexpected
ly. We have therefore concluded to ex-
pertinent while we are in health, and see
if the concern will survive your absence:
You will therefore consider yourself dead
for one year, and we will make an effort
to so consider you for that length of time"
Globe Democrat.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

CHARACTERISTICS OF OLD AGE.-The
characteristic changes which 60 along with
old age, and to which the final stoppage of
the machinery of life is due, are seen to be
mostly degeneration of structures in which
the normal active tissues are replaced by
materials of inferior quality. Fat and
lime salts are very poor substitutes for the
healthy, contractile muscle, or the trans
parent structures of the eye. 1t has been
thought by some that if we could prevent
the introduction of earthly salts into the
body by way of food and drink, the right
arteries and degenerations generally of age
might be prevented. The plan proposed
for thus forestalling age is as follows:
Drink nothing but distilled water, or a
drink containing phosphoric acid and the
juice of lemons, of which distilled water
is the basis. Eat no vegetables containing
much of the earthly salts. This would ex-
clude spinach, cabbage, etc., from the diet.
No tea nor coffee. Take plenty of milk.
A much more rational diet would be one
containing but little albuminous food,
plenty of milk, no eggs nor lean meat, but
as much fats as can be taken without dis
comfort. 1t has been observed that calca-
reous degeneration is almost always pre-
ceded by chronic changes in the kidneys,
and these are certainly hastened by diet
Of lean meat, eggs and the like.
Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1888-05-16

SCHOOL Work AT HOME.-The amount
of school work to be done at home is a sub
ject in which parents and teachers are
equally interested. Aside from the physi-
cal injury already referred to, caused by
carrying loads of books to and from school,
is the time consumed out Of school hours
in the preparation of lessons. No one with
the least knowledge of physiology will
contend that ten hours day of intellectu-
al labor is a reasonable tax upon growing
child. The teachers themselves are paid
only for One-half of that time, and some
have even been known to rebel at the oc-
casional necessity of prolonging their labor
two or three hours beyond the limit.
Confinement at a desk in schOol-room
should not be followed by an nalmostequally
close confinement at home for the rest OF
the day and evening. Fresh air and ex-
ercise are of infinitely more consequence
to the child, than the successful reduc-
tion of certain number Of pounds to
certain number of pence, or the ability to
recite the listof all the Kings of the Saxon
Heptarchy. Parents, too, have q right to
protest against being continually called
upon, perhaps in hours they themselves
can i'll afford to spare, to help their chill
dren solve problems or write compositions.
For such service are the teachers en-
ployed and paid. AS such work belongs
to the school-room, it should be done there.
If, in order to get it done at all, it must
needs be crowded into the hours rightly
belonging to rest, recreation or home du-
ties, then less should be attempted, that
the teacher may have opportunity to per-
sonally superintend the labor which is le-
ultimately hers.-Curoline 3. LaRo,U.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-03-27
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Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-03-27
A Partisan Ball.

Toe W.saingtou cotrys .ontsrt ~ he
Commsrcla BaIstir. nfmocfsilc pap :
which sirots.y advocate, frcs rr.ic Pfin
cip.rs, ts.egr,phs
TIE ffamsr. % tse Mils hil have 40
tiuln.,ae,i tie chance % kspu1uc,u saP
port ~ tae mlfs-i fi,cf'mInstiOn Ia favor
% Souihsru az agsiasi Northern pfp'acis
az iriustris. Tbs al Ctasr inticsiions
point o. an unfae prominsrcs giVsn - %
llticsI I. opposed - Commercial All hasi.
uss. cotsifersilcus. in he vork % he
ffam.rs ard msrAgsrs % tie btu
TIE sane cofrsspotdtui tslsgrapas That
thsfy = s1Eie tispo.ltiuu 10 deter inV 'ois.
.u ofisr - avoid disclosing ths division 10
tas nsmocfstic party The Commsfci.
Bulistin- properly couismn. his plsn. a.
caiCaiatsd - snpose AZ intastry d ssfiou'
lo.s thfough dtlr sni uncertainty, an
urges sith patriotic e,fus.ines. iaai
prompt actiou 10 . tuiy hat Democfatc
msm'frs Are rot ssut % Wsshiugtnn o.
.sgislaic for his party 90 that, Bat Tor he
co1ntry. snf TIE couuIy Nil bold then y
tAsif responsibility
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-03-27
STATE NEWS. .

A l,rss 30. factory l. 70 b bslt a. SO
Bsr-ict tais spfiug
TAsfv hu hssu a Lacrosse % wages 10
ous % TIE Bath .aip yard.
A stem mil q, Fnrt Fsiiesli va ha'u.
&c L9s ab0ats, 90 irsarsd iof ~ Coo
TIE faculty o. iss state Cousg, have Dc
cited ~ l,t tas college hiue suisf TIE state
COlsge L.aEu.
4 ciilt-n % Strong ootAluei verdict Of
slg5 fof malicious Imprisonment, 10 The
Suprsms Court A. fsrmiugton.
Ssus,tousl reports o., ne-,y discovered
svtisuce lu he stain case are cous'stily
81 AZ Thsy ar PROBABLY part truth snc
part sensation.
Nrs Hs-sy. % West Fhlllip.. vas q
quilted 10 iae Trial Coz poisoning Der bus
hsud Her husband .ssmei to bs a. mach
~ iced a. any ous a. he r,salt
TIE discovery GA gold ans sl'sr mln.
a. whit~cslf d. r,poFtsd A comp,nr 10
o. - formed ~ oucs ,ni . shan sunk.
rhe Dispatch failed 90 state hov much
uouey ~0uii Be- satf
TIE operator a. ~ "huctsi shop 10
nf'tsf,ft q missing. as hi. sccoutis ar
500 short. hs.itss vh.ch ~ 70 consider.
49, infshtst ~ ssvsfsl ifms In he city
f1r groceries. iufuliaf,. etc.
Oxford Democrat. [volume] (Paris, Me.) 1833-1933, 1888-03-27
SOUTH PARIS.

TIE opsretts, Gyp. Jonlor. ~h'eh Was "a
have ben given Wednesday evening. met
With bad weather. AMI vss postponed anti
Nobtsy evening. The 2sih.
J. a. Ksut.y has sold oui bis lutsrsi IN
ihe frm W n Royal q Co.
". A. Shuftis h>s Pot IN an slsgsht 80
"a fountsin- II Il The New IRA, The beat
In The msyket.
N Cummings has purchased hous'
iot co Nj fiessant. scar Rev. A. q fitIs
Mr.. Holt. his esrp-utsr. bsgins work Mon
dsy, MsrSh 18Th. lie vii bald q neat
tasty clttAgv
Abambsr % yoong men Who are inter
,.,ed Ia bsse ball net ss Engise Hall last
Ffiisy evening Qilt. si0t % enthusiasm
90. manifested. IL -s decided 10 form
an as.oeisiiou. J II. Hslte., Charles Hay
dsn snd Chuiss Tiicomh were sppointe'
. committss 10 solicit msmosrs AMI funds.
TIE orEsnitstlon vii b. formed soon.
school commences April gnd. &. A
Records. % The sophomore class. Ba,e'
Coli~gs. assisted ~ Mis. M,rt l. Lutte
% Aabaru. have charge of The tigh school
Both teachers come highly recommended
Misses CrOoksr. Shurtisr ,rf Ls,ch Vii
retain tasir former po.ltions, which ihe,
have falihfally c He'd N The satisfaction OF
al
AtAoagh the sysnlpg vas rsihsr M.
'avofahls ne ladies' ~ Paris Grange hat
their sutsftainmsnt Friday evening. The
bal "a. vi Q lsd TIE literary stsfcis.
q we're The hsst they ever gave. cartlitl
oai their advertised prusrsmme Win .sv
era Zee additioo. u 4 Chsse bad NJ
god fort1ns b. secure The quilt Th'
picture for The hAnfsomsst lsdy ptrseul
"a. awarded % Mr.. ffsuk Stafhifd q.
,hs h,d good m'i1fliy % votes over 81
opposlng esniiiais.. Receipts Of N
svsniug some over so
TIE lsfiss ~ SOuth Paris personally
sppsafcd- AZ Grant Array Hall 90 lss'
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~m X Kimhsn fost. q a r, srd pre-
., ntsd ne Fosi with go ~ - The fs'n.'
oftAslf suppsr .ud tbtsriAlrmsui on 10
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