Port Tobacco times, and Charles County advertiser. (Port Tobacco, Md.) 1845-1898, 1871-08-25
Perfect MACHINERY. g.

All machinery. the most perfect piece
of mechanism which ever came from hu.
man hands. will wear out. because there
is friction. Its cogs, its wheels, its bear
ings, its axles and its cylinders all move
upon one another. more or less directly
Such motion implies. friction. and friction
causes loss Of substance necessarily. 1fif
lions Of money are expended every year
for the purchase of oils and other lubri.
cants, to lessen the wear and waste in the
running of our locomotives, the trains on
our railroads and the machinery of our
numberless mills and manufactures. But
the living human body came from the
hands of the Infinite One It is the per-
fection of mechanism, and has within it.
self the power Of growth and development;
and more, it makes its own repairs and
provides its own lubricants; works inces-
sanity, day and night, Summer and Win
ter, seed-time and harvest, for hundred
years. It tnever stops, it never wears out.
until the work is completed for which it
was made and the Master Builder bids it
run no more. 1t is made of its hundreds
Of muscles, and hands. and sockets. and
hinges. and pulleys, all playing upon or
dragging across each other. The very
smallest of these motions involves waste !;
indeed, not single crook of the finger,
not bend of the arm. not twinkle of
the eye. not thought Of the brain. but is
at the expense of some solid portion of the
human machine; and yet, at the end of a
century, it remains whole in all its parts.
while the most perfect constructions of
man come to dead stop in a very few
months, and would stand still forever, un-
less some new cog. or pin, or pulley was
applied. But the tongue which speaks to-
day spoke a hundred years ago just as
we'll. and the eyelid winks as easily at
forescore as in infancy. It does not even
wink tiredly. And all this. not because
there is no waste of substance in this wou-
derful frame of ours. but because it is as
promptly repaired as made.
How TO MAKE Town PROSPER.
best way to build up town is for every
man to advertise his business. thereby
presenting to the people through the pa
pers an array of business houses equal to
the number of business houses on the
street. It draws strade. produce and
draws money to the town. If man
wants to buy anything he goes where be
sees the most competition in the sale OF
the article he is in quest Of. If he wants
to sell he goes to the man that advertises,
for he knows where to find him and what
he has to sell This is undoubtedly the
grand secret of the success of many flour.
ishing towns. But there are business
men who have not availed themselves oi
the advantage offered by advertising. To
all such we would say. follow the example
of your more prosperous neighbors and
advertise freely. Judicious advertising
will always pay large percentage on the
money invested in such purpose.
re- The maddest man 10 Indiana live,
at Potaka. He told his wife he was 60
ing down cellar to commit suicide, and die
go down and fred broadside into porl
barrel. His wife kept right on knitting
and after awhile the man came up stairs
swearing that the woman hadn't any feel
ing.