The county record. [volume] (Kingstree, S.C.) 1885-1975, November 14, 1901, Image 6
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Eurooean LunaticsProfessor
Zimmcr has published, as
the result of hi* personal observations
and imiuiries in lunatic asylums in Germany.
Austria. Russia and Switzerland,
a magazine article containing the statement
that one patient out of every <Qc
or 90 in such establishments was before
she arrived there a schoolmistress. The
startling feature of this discovery is that
seeing that one out of 350 women in
Prussia is a schoolmistress, such per-ons
arc more liable to psychical derangement
than other Prussian women in
Xhe proportion of four to one. Professor
Zimmer insists, however, that the
young women preparing for this profes
ion incur a still greater risk than those
who have already passed their examinations
and obtained their situations. This
be says is as ten to one compared with
that incurred by other young women
The learned savant adds: "It is not al
all surprising that telephone girls and
shop girls become irritable, for their activity
as such has nothing in common
with female sentiments, but when the
of an instructress of youth
which in its very nature so well har- |
monizes with feminine feelings, is attended
hy dangers in consequence ol
some fault in their training or in the
claims made upon them as such, there
must be some very good reasons fo<
pausing to think and to inquire whet*
the mischief lies."?Loudon Tclcgrcipl
The smallest ex.libit at the Buffalo
Exposition is the California fig wasp,
which can be seen only with a microscope.
The insect is an important aid
in producing tht fruit, and the United
States Governme'it spent $16,000 in establishing
it in the Pacific "coasf fig region.
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Movement Should Be Apriovcd.
y 1KB most other great public
r* reforms. tlm movement in
I favor o? good reads is ex
^ neriencins many difficulties.
ami its promoters many discouragements.
Like ail other such movements
too, it is to some extent being utilized
for private gain, and for the advertisement
of commercial commodities
in one dtrectiou or another. All this
and more, however, is a necessary evil
to the accomplishment of the great
and enduring good which is involved.
This great uioremcu. should continue
to receive the active co-operation
and approval of all progressive minds.
It has within it the elements of the
^greatest possible social gains to the
people of the entire country. When
even a measurable degree of tiie possibilities
of the movement are realized,
,^he St. Paul Globe remarks editorially.
It will advance with giant strides in
every section of the country until we
.have effaced this stigma "of barbarism
which attaches to us on account of the
condition of our public roads.
The convention of the National Good
Roads Association in Buffalo will result
in directing national attention to
the movement. It will enlist the cou
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of its advocates, and will go a long
way toward securing the final intervention
of the State and local governments
in the effectuation of the movement.
In settled communities in the East
it is possible for the Western traveler
here and there to see long stretches of
public roads in the distinctively agricultural
regions, removed many miles
from centres of city population, in as
good condition as our city streets.
And It invariably happens that in such
localities as are thus favored the superior
degree of comfort and prosperity
which prevails among the people
makes itselt palpably clear.
There can be no doubt that the
spread of free rural postal delivery
will have an encouraging effect upon
the good roads movement. Congress
should eniict such laws as would operate
to withhold from the localities
whose roads are neglected the privileges
of free rural delivery. A premium
might thus easily be set by the
Fcderal.Governmenf upon the improve
merit of local roads. If the advantages
and disadvantages involved in
the administration of local roads
could in some such way be brought
home to the people of the several localities
which are well enough popu-'
lated to entitle them to free postal delivery,
it would not be long until there
was a general awakening to the great
importance of the movement.
Of course, the great difficulty which
will be encountered at the outset is the
comparatively great expense of transforming
mud cuts, such as most Western
country qoads are, into decent
thoroughfares. Their maintenance will
bo comparatively inexpensive. Their
establishment will, however, be beyond
the Immediate resources of many communities
otherwise willing to make
the necessary improvements. As the
States advance moneys to their several
counties, for one or other public use.
they should stand ready to do so with
reference to the good roads movement.
The good results coining lrom the establishment
of passable highwayswould
be promptly repaid.
With the holding of the Buffalo convention
for good roads it is not unreasonable
to believe that the movement
will have entered upon a new
and highly encouraging phase.
Agitation For Good Road*.
Sdme sage has said that the civilization
of a country is shown by its
roads. This being true, it Is to be
hoped that the agitation new making
head in different parts of the country
will not cease until we are well provided
for in this way as the best of
the ancients. Of course our railroads
surpass all their facilities for transit,
but if our ordinary roads were to be
left as long without care as some of
the prehistoric highways that have
been discovered in various parts of the
world, they would look like "the roads
in Scotland before they were made.*'
But there has already been progress,
and the methods of Macadam, whom
Scott referred to as the "Colossus of
Roads," are being applied in a modifled
form in every part of the country
thnt boasts of eravel-Dits. Road
building has become a science worthy
the attention of the most skilled engineers,
and experts are already
abroad in the land. The Province of
Ontario has for some years past been
setting an example that might be followed
with protit in all' our States.
The government employs an engineer
to oversee road-building and to teach
the art to all municipalities willing to
learn. In this country the agitation
has been left largely to interested
parties, the bicyclists and automobile
interests, but the good work is grow?
ing, as shown by the convention recently
held in Buffalo.?The Observer,
in Harper's Weekly.
Good Koacis.
"7'rcd~Crun(ly in Farm and Fireside
tells us he has been watching "roadkeeper"
care l'or ton miles of black
earth read, and lie has kept it in good
condition, not by macadamizing it or
by covering it with crushed stone, but
by providing good drainage, by tile in
most places to take the water off. and
by digging out some of the worst
places about eighteen inches deep, and
tilling with broken brick, tile, coal,
cinders, or whatever will make a firm
foundation and allow water to drain
through. Then if the roads are rounded
up to allow the water to run off.
and they get a little attention after
every rain, they are easily kept in
good condition. The results are much
better and the cost much less than
they were for the annual turnout of
the district to mend, or often to make
worse the roads, the job being xpected
then to be done, until the same season
comes around another year.
LITERARY PRETENTIOUSNESS.
Teople Who Frequently Discus* Iiook*
Have Seldom Head Much.
"There is one curious thing about the
most famous and best known things
in the literature of the world." said a
gentleman who keeps in touch with
mittove thnt is in tllO
fact that the persons who talk so
much about the masterpieces have
never rftid them at all, and. ui fact,
whatever knowledge they may have
of these matters is gained by reading
popular criticism. They have glanced
at the poem, oy the masterpiece in
prose, but they have never had the patience
or the- inclination even, to plow
through the printed matter. Take
Milton's 'Paradise Lost.' and just pass
back over your own experience. Now,
I have never read it myself, and while
I may be a little below the average
among literary people, still my own
case may furnish a basis to figitre on.
Not many persons outside of bookworms
aud religionists have ever had
the patience to read 'Paradise Lost,'
and yet you tind many persons who
write and talk elaborately about this
bit of philosophy poetically put. The
same, thing might be said about other
masterpieces. There is Homer's 'Iliad,'
for instance. How many men among
the number who write and talk about
'Iliad' have ever read the whole thing
from end to end?
"I venture tlie assertion that very
few have read it, ami there are many
persons who have never glanced upon
the 'Iliad' in its entirety. This same
thing is true about many of the other
pieces in literature that are talked so
muhh about. I knew a man once, a
young and sturdy fellow, who was
particularly fond of economic studies,
and lie was constantly spouting Adam
Smith, and seemed to know more
about 'The Wealth of Nations' than
any other man I had ever met. I asked
him one day when he read Smith, and
was amazed by the frank statement
that he had never even seen a copy of
the hook. This, of course, is merely
illustrative, and it shows just exactly
what I have been saying?that a very
small per cent, of the persons who talk
about the heavyweights is the litcra
lure 01 ino worm uave reaij iuw uuuns
they talk about. Iieall.v, from 1113- own
experience. ten per cent, is a big estimate,
ami I think I have gone over
the conservative line somewhat in
making it. Among my own acquaintances
I am sure that if I should say
only two of every 100 had read the
books they talk about?books I mean,
of the classical kind?I am sure I
would come closer to the truth of the
matter. There is nothing in the matter
to be ashamed of, either, because
they have been able to get a good, idea
of the masterpieces by following the
critics, and lrequently their views are
much clearer than the views of men
who have really read the works, so
far as the essence is concerned."?New
Orleans Times-Democrat.
Tlie Brauy Eye Now.
"The brassy eye is the latest afflic
lion which has fallen to the lot of
street car conductors and motorinen,"
said a prominent physician recency.
"The 'brassy eytf Is a peculiar affection
of the eye paused by rubbing the
eye with ~he hand while the latter is
.covered with verdigris from the brasswork
of the cars. The symptoms of
the disease resemble a slight inflammation
of eye, such as might be due
to the presence of any small foreign
body. After a few hours the inflammation
increases and is accompanied
by severe pain the sufferer being almost
unable to see. An excessive flow
of tears accompanies this stage of the
disease. In' the acute stage of the disease
the intiamed condition of the conjunctiva
covers the whole mucous
membrane, producing a continuous
flow of mucus and a blurred vision.
Motormen, who generally wear gloves,
are not so apt to contract the disease
as conductors, whose duty makes it
necessary for them to shin along the
footboard of the car, grasping the
brass seat rails with their hands. The
'brassy eye' was noted first some time
ago, and many cases of this peculiar
disease have been reported in various j
Eastern cities."?Washington Star. I
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