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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (May 22, 1890)
It is the True Way to Obtain Refreshing Slumber, Sleep on an Empty Stomach To Exhausted. is to Awake Going to bed with a well-filled stoma C U is the essential prerequisite of refreshing dumber. The cautions so often reiterated in old medical journals against late suppers were directed chief - iy = {0 the bibulous habits of those early I When at every late feast the times. drank themselves guests not unseldom under the table, or needed strong as sistance to reach their couch, the canon against such indulgence was not un timely* Naturc and common sense teach us that a full stomach is essential to quiet repose. Every man who has foU nd it difficult to keep awake after a hearty dinner has answered the problem for himself. There are few animals that can be trained to rest until after thev are fed. Man, as he comes into the world, pre - seats a condition it would be well for him to follow in all his after-life. The sweetest minstrel ever sent out of para dise cannot sing an infant to sleep on an empty stomach. We have known reckless nurses to give the little ones a dose of paregoric or soothing syrup in place of its cup of milk, when it was too much trouble to get the latter, but this is the one alternative, Tho li**Je stomach of the sleeping child, as it be comes gradually empty, folds on itself in plaits; two of these make it restless; three will open its eyes, but by careful soothing,these may be closed again; four plaits and tho charm is broken; there is no more sleep in that house hold until that child has been fed. It seems to ue so strange that with this example before their eyes full-grown men are so slow to learn the lesson. The farmer docs it for his pig, who would squeal all night if it were not fed at the last moment, and the groom knows that his horse will paw in his stall until he has had his meal. But when he wishes to sleep himself he Dever seems to think of it. To sleep, the fulness of the blood must leave the head: to digest thq eaten food the Hood must come to the stomach. Thus, deep and digestion are natural allies; one helps the other. Man, by long practice, will train himself to sleep on an empty stomach, but it is more the sleep of exhaustion than the sleep of refreshment. He wakes up after such a troubled sleep feeling utterly miserable until he has had a cup of coffee or some other stimulant, and he has so injured the tone of his stom ach that he has little appetite forbreak fast. Whereas, one who allows himself to sleep after a comfortable meal awakes strengthened, and his appetite has been quickened by that preceding indul gence. The difficulty in recovery comes from the fact that we are such creatures 0i 0Ur habits it is impossible to break " l ? from them without persistent tif'. t, j n this case tho man who has ( iten nothing after 6 o’clock and re tires at 10 or 11 takes to bed an empty stomach upon which the action of tho gastric ' c 1 ' l juices he night. makes If him uncomforta * ho proposes to l, y onr experiment he will sit down and eat tolerably hearty maaL He is bas ^accustomed 4 seas of discomfort to this at that hour and e with it. lie !!' 5 and then ^ once he or twice, or even long tir,t > for gives it up, satisfied bim it is a failure. The trui course is to begin with just ° 32 or two mouthfuls the last thin" forc bc going to bed. And this should be aght food, easily digested. No cake ‘' stl 7 should be tolerated. One “‘Oothful Of cold roast beef, cold lamb, h*< ken, and a little crust of bread 1 d ° t0 bogio with, what is bet ‘eryet, t or, r a spoonful or two of condensed miI k (not the sweetened that Cans 0 comes in ih three times as much Water. warm b:to this cut half a pared peach flic x l i° r o one-fourth sc l uares °* oue-sixth bread, 0f bat or w would be light lunch. Increase a file this very gradually, until at end of a month or six weeks tho Patient ma y in fiulgc in bowl of milk, two a peaches, with a half hard roll or a Cl'USt of boma- made bread. whiff? When I C ROne take baked apples e tIulk . tul strawberries come, cat the r iader till poaches again. rhlS return b th * secret of onr health imi Vitality. ■. Wc often work until SO HT.EV COUNTY NEWS. after midnight, but eating the comfort able meal is the last thing we do every night of the year. This is not an un tried experiment or one depending on the testimony of a single witness. — American Analyst. They Split the Difference. Adjutant-General Mullen was in a reminiscent moed. “I will tell you a little experience I hal down in Louis iana in 1862,” he said. “I was a mem ber of the Connecticut Volunteers. The opposing armies hal come into pretty close quarters, and Confederate o ut pickets, stragglers and skirmishers were around us and doing considerable mischief. Three companies of our reg iment were ordered out on skirmish duty. We marched down, five paces apart, according to regulations, into perfect morass, The water was waist deep everywhere. “I am not very tall, and found it necessary to hold up my cartridge belt to keep it from getting saturated. The Confederates were scattered through this swamp, and we took a number of prisoners without opening fire. I met with a misfortune. My foot caught be neath a couple of parallel branches be neath the water, and I was securely pinioned. My companions continued on their way while I struggled hard to extr cate myself from my unpleasant predicament. I finally pulled my foot out with a desperate effort, but my shoe was left bolnad. I could only secure it by plunging my head beneath the surface of slimy, noxious, muddy water, but it had to be done. 1 had no sooner got the shoe tied on again than a Confederate came in sight from behind some bushe3. Intuitively our muskets were simultaneously raised. “Surrender!* thundered the Confed erate. “Surrender yourself?’ I returned at the top of my luugs. “Then we stood and eyed each other. Each had his gun cocked and levelled at the other, but neither pulled a trig ger. Why we hesitated is more than I can explain. By delaying, you see, each was practically placing himself at the mercy of the other, or so it would seem. Suddenly the Confederate’s gun dropped and I brought mine down also. 4 4 ‘See here, Yank,’ he began, in a much milder tone, ‘if I should shoot you my side wouldn’t gain much; and, again, if you should shoot me your side wouldn’t gain much. Now, I’ve got a wife and two babies over yonder, and if you dropped me they wouldn’t have nobody to take care of them. Now, it’s a blamed mean man what won’t split the difference. I’ll let you go il you’ll let me go, and we ll call the thing square. What do you say?’ “Well, what should I say? I walked over half way, and we met and shook hands and parted. About a year after a letter came to our camp addressed to ‘Little Yankee that split the differ ence.’ I had told him my regiment, you see, but not my name. The letter was a cordial invitation to visit the man at his home in Louisiana. He wanted mo too see the wife and babies whose members had prompted him to propose to split the difference, and I have al ways regretted that I was unable to ac cept the invitation.”—St. Pawl Pioneer Press. The Child of tho Future. It is a dreadful point about these microbes that tho only way to avoid having them in a virulent form is to have them in an artificial or attenuated form. The children of tho future will not run through the present gamut of infantile disoasc, but they will probab ly be subjected to inoculation with various microbes every few months. First, they will be vaccinated for small pox; when they have recovered from that they will bo taken to a Pasteur in stitute to have a mild form of rabies. Next, they will bo given a dose of the comma baccilli to prevent cholera, and so on through all tho ever-growing series of disease microbes. Oh! luckless child of the future! you will never be ill and never be well; your health will never be awfully monotonous; you will never know the weariness of the first night of measles, when it was so nice to lie in mother’s lap and feel her cool hand on your forehead; you will never know the joys of convalescence, when oranges ware numerous and every one was kind to you because you were not well; and your end will be to die cf debility, How glad we are that we live in the present, with all its ups and downs of health to lend variety to life and death. f OUR WOODLANDS. The Country’s Forests and Their Preservation. Trees Which Are Felled Should Be Replaced, It is estimated, by those whose spe cial study of the subject seems to have fitted them to judge, that the number of acres of land in the United States now covered with wood growth is about four hundred and fifty millions. Of this area, about seventy million acres belong to the United States Govern ment. The rest is the property of in dividuals, except a small amount which belongs to States of the Union. Of the entire forest area, it was as certained that more than ten million acres were burned over in the census year 1880. It is not probable that the annual destruction by fire has fallen oil since that year. It is estimated that twenty-five million acres of woodland are cut oil each year. At this rate of destruction, the woodlands of the United States must speedily disappear if it were not the fact that while the woods in many places are being wan tonly burned or cut away, they arc also growing, not only in a great many sites where they have just undergone des truction, but in many places which have been clear of timber. But although woods grow spon taneously in many parts of tho country and so freely that there is little fear that there will be a net loss of timber east of tho one-hundredth meridian, or a general unfavorable effect upon soil or climate in that region, the new growth, in the forests of the country, does not by any means keep pace with the de struction. It is estimated that while twenty-four thousand millions of cubic feet of wood are consumed annually in the United States, the wood that grows each year on the present forest area of the coun try is not more than twelve thousand millions of cubic feet, it is reasonably certain that, whether tree growths as a whole increase or diminish, the great forests of the country must disaopear unless something is done to check their destruction. What the effect upon the far Western or more arid section of the country would be if the mountain forests were entirely swept away—as they must be under present conditions, since in that region the woods do n;>t ordinarily spring up again when cut down—can be anticipated by observing the effect upon the water flow in New York State of the partial destruction of the Adiron dack forests. It is officially reported that tho cut ting away of woods in the Adirondack region has diminished the reliable water supply in the Mohawk and Hud son Rivers by from 30 to 50 per cent. The loss begins to affect unfavorably navigation in the New York canals and rivers. In the Ricky Mountain and Facific coast regions, the drying up of the sources of water supply by the cutting away of the mountain forests seriously endangers the supply of water for the irrigation of the plains below, and thus menaces tho habitability of those regions. Further east the question is equally a practical one, though not as threatening. The practice is to destroy without re placing. We commonly trust to the unaided operations of nature to put back the wood growths we take; but nature does not always put them back. The experience of the old xvorld has proved that steady and profitable supply of wood may be drawn from forests, and a revenue from them de rived by those xvho own them and the forests maintained in good growth at the same time, to supply still further revenue and to exercise their equalizing and preserving influence on climate, rainfall and water supply. This lesson of profit and loss should not be a hard one for the practical American people to lea^n, and there are many indications, both in the direc tion of private enterprise and in pro jects for legislation, that they are learning it. President Harrison, in January, sent lo Congress a special message calling attention to tho necessity of preserving tho forests on tho public domain, and urging early legislation to prevent the destruction of forest areas. The legis lation which is most actively .urged provides for the withdrawal of public forest loads from sale or pre-emption, and the protection of the forests from destruction by fires and by the depreda tions of those who tak 3 the publio timber without paying for it. — Youth’i Companion. Women’s Family Names. There is a lawyer who does a good deal of real estate conveyancing, one of the chief of whose grievances in life is the scant respect that women show to ward their names. The fact that a certain alteration takes place in the name at marriage destroys, so he claims, whatever regard a woman might be ex pected to pay to an exact rendering, and the fact that any legal significance can in any case attach to the form seems to be quite beyond the grasp of the average feminine brain. If a girl baby is christened Elizabeth she will sign herself when called on to put her name to a deed after she is grown, Lizzie, Lisa, Elisc, Lisbet or Lisbeth, according to which diminutive happens to be her favorite for the year, and will omit her middle name, give it in full or by initial, or sign instead of her own her husband’s name, according to her sweet liking. The task of the lawyer who has io trace up half a dozen of these signatures to make sure that they all refer to the same person is not calculated to make easy the task of his wife who has to soothe his ruffled temper with a good dinner. That the married women should in all cases retain her own famly name, preceeding it by her given name and following it with her husband’s family name is the lawyer’s pica if lie is to be saved from insanity. Frances Folsom Cleveland, Julia Dent Grant, Louise Chandler Moulton, Julia Ward Howe, Ella Wheeler “Wilcox and other set in this respect a good example. Two Fish United by Hooks. Nearly a year ago Fisherman W. T. Van Dyke, while pursuing his occupa tion off shore, invitingly threw out a fishing line with two well-baited hooks. Presently there was a jerk—the bait had “took.” Van Dyke was hauling in hand over hand, when suddenly the tension ceased, and the line was grace fully and adroitly whisked into the boats minus both hooks. Last fall Mr. Van Dyke in emptying one of his “pounds” of its over-night catch, discovered among his catch a pig fish and a sea bass united by a fish ing cord, which he readily identified as his own. A hook had penetrated the jaw of each fish, and, becoming im bedded there, the flesh had grown around their barbs and securely fas tened them in position. Thus held to gether for nearly a twelvemonth, they had coursed the briny in double team, held by a singlo twine, until death cut their thread of life in twain. The skeletons of this curious pair of accidental Siamese twins, together with the hooks and line which constituted their sole domestic tie, now adorn the walls of the fish house of Mr. Van Dyke. — Ix>ng Branch News. How to Fall Asleep. Nearly everyone has experienced the misery of lying awake in bod desiring to sleep, but unable to do so, and wished for a means to successfully woo Morpheus. Reciting poetry or prayer, or counting ticks of clocks or other de vices may have besn tried in vain, and when they have been the situation is only aggravated by the dread of insom nia and consequent insanity. A physi cian said on this subject the other even ing: “Sleep can be induced without diugs. Persons who find difficulty in going to sleep might try tho experi ment of placing a small bright object, seen by reflection of a soft and distant light in such position that the eyes are strained upward and back at such a dis tance as to make the eyes squint. That will induce sleep. Why? Why, simply because the person will magnetize him self. A bright dime suspended from a cord at tho head of the bed ■would do for the bright object. This is not a new discovery. I’ve seen it in books, and if a person can’t, so to speak, mag netize himself into sleep this way, he’ in danger of Bedlam.”— Stir-Saying*. A Discourager. Mrs. Fjgg—Isn’t there any way to get rid of that young Jinx who keeps calling on Clara without* positively in sulting him? Mr. Figg—Why, certainly. Just give him the baby to hold tho next time he comes.— Terre Haute Express. SCIENTIFIC SCRAPS. Dr. Ifanau of Zurich has successfully propagated cancer in rats by inocula tion. The ice-breaking steamer Martaja, built in Sweden for the Finnish gov ernment, is capable of fording her way through a thickness of twenty-five inches of ice. The geological survey of Florida, be gun by the Government at Gainsville, is expected, among other things, to de velop the little-known phosphate depos its in that State, and important results are expected. A rule for determining the normal weight of man, which is both ingenious and approximately correct, is that a man should weigh just as many kilograms as he measures centimeters in height, after deducting one meter. A new departure in museums is an nounced from Florence, where a ‘ Psy chological Musoum,” for the collection and display of “all documents serving to illustrate human passions,” has been established by ministerial decree. Regarding the suspected influence of the climate of Japan in the causation of rheumatism and neuralgia in resident foreigners, it is interesting to note that horses imported in o Japan from China and other countries are soon more or less disabled by rheumatism. A deposit of bismuth has been dis covered in an abandoned mine in Mon tana. The metal is worth $2.80 a pound. The ore runs as high as 40 per cent., and if the deposit prove to be extensive, it will be the grearest mine of the kind in the world. A medical journal points out that the French are gradually dying out. Dr. Lagncau has predicted that if mat ters go on as at present there will not be a singlo Frenchman in existence less than live centuries hence, and that without the aid of wars or epidemics, A number of medical men in Lon don have united to form a hypnotic society, the purpose of which will be to prevent by law public exhibitions of mesmerism and hypnotism. Another object will be to study “privately and in a scientific manner the phenomena of those morbid states. A recent writer says that persons who earnestly desire to live can keep a mor tal disease at bay much longer than those who arc comparatively indifferent to their fate. A resolute determination not to succumb is, as every nr my sur geon knows, the salvation of many a wounded soldier, who without it would assuredly die. The use of nitro-glycerine in cases of emergency instead of alcohol is recom mended by an English physician. A drop on the tonge rouses a fainting man, and it may restore life in the case of apparent death, as from drowning. It has quickly relieved headache, heart pains and asthma and strengthened weak pu.se in fevers. An Infant. Escort. The messenger service occasionally offercs its contribution to the humor of metropolitan life. A few nights ago a sedate woman close to the lino of mid dle life found herself detained at a friend’s home until quite midnight. As she was without an escort it was deemed prudent by both her friend and herself to ring for a messenger boy (that Dcver-failing resource of a woman in all manner of emergency and dis tress!) to see that she reached home in safety. In a few minutes the ring was answered. And such a wee, sleepy, forlorn mite of humanity as presented itself. 4 i He was not more than 10 years old, I am sure,” said the object of his protection. “He was red haired and freckled, and wore a look of the most abject misery. But we started bravely out, my escort leading the way. On the upper step of the stoop he tripped and fell nearly the length of the steps. I picked him up, replaced his cap, felt of his biuises and mothered him as if he were my own son—as, indeed, he might have boon. When wo got into the street car I saw the amused look that came over tho faces of the half dozen passengers in the car. I didn’t wonder. I wanted to giggle myself. But I didn’t; I only took my proteewr by the hand as we left tho car and led him gently on until I dismissed him at *iy heme. Another time 1 requre such a service of the messenger company I shall specify that no infants be de spatched. —JYa# Tori Sun .
