Beaufort Republican. [volume] (Beaufort, S.C.) 1871-1873, 1872-10-31
Billings Words Of Wisdom.

This seems to be about the way it IL
did: When we are yung, we run into
difkultys, and when we git old, we fall
into them.
Love seems tew hav this effekt, it
makes yung man sober, and an old
man gay.
Love iz lighted kandle, aud coquets
fly around it. just az miller doz, till
by-and-by they dive into it, and then
what burnt coquet, and miller We hav.
1t amt bekauze lovers are so sensitifi
that they quarrel so often, it IL bekauze
there il so mutch phun in making up.
don't kno but Prude may possibly
fall in love, but if they ever do, they
don't kno it.
About the last thing a man duz tew
korrekt hiz faults il tew quit them.
I should jist az soon expekt tew see q
monkey fall in love as to see dandy.
The wimmin ought tew ketch all them
phellows who part their hair in the mid.
die, and clap red flannel petty-coat on
| them.
The chief end of woman, now daze
seems tew be to wear new silk clothes,
and the chief end ov man seems to be to
pay for them.
About all that this far famed Phi!oso'
PLY kan teach us, iz tew suffer pain, and
not own it, and it seems to hav reached
the hight of its ambishun when it courts
sorrow, for the sake of being martyr.
Pure ignoranse, after all, il the best
alloy for vanity, for vain phool is quite
| harmless.
1t il better to be crater than our con
dishun in life, than tew have our con
dishun appear too CRATE for US.
There il nothing that man kan dc
that should cut him off from pity, the
fakt that he IL human should always en-
title him to commiserashun.
Prudes hoard their virtews, the same
az mixers do their money, more for the
sake ov counting them, than for use.
If yu seek wisdum, mi yung friend
study men, and things, if yu desire
farming, study dikshunarys.
I.think opportunitys are made full az
of.en az they happen.
| have often had grave doubts, which
waz ov the most Importance, the hustle
of men or the hurry of pissmires.
1t IL CRATE deal easier tew look upon
thoze who are below us with pity, than
tew look upon thoze who are above Us,
without envy.
Good common sense liz az helthy az
onions, we often see thoze who are good
simply bekause they hain't got sense
enuff to be bad, and thoze who are bad,
just bekause they hain't got sense enufl
tew be good.
The man who don't kno himself IL a
poor Judge ov the other phellow
Envy il sutch constant companyun,
that if we find no one abuv us to envy,
we will envy thoze below US.
Whoever il a sedate old man at 20,
will be apt tew be frivilous yung one
at 60.
Thare iz no servitude in life so op.
pressive az tew be obliged tew aatter
thoze whom we don't respekt enuff to
praze.
Wit, without sense, il like razor
without handle.
We mingle in sosiety, not so mutch
tew meet others az tew eskape ourselfs.
A STRANGE DISEASE. Intense radia-
ton of heat in the great desert of Sahara
produces extraordinary effects on insects
as well as animals and men. When a
caravan starts out to traverse that wide
waste of desolation, flies follow on in
prodigious multitudes, attracted, no
doubt, by odor from camels, but they
soon drop dead by the intensified heat.
Fleas burrowing in hair, straw, or sacks,
are killed off rapidly. But the moss sim
gular of all is the malady to which men
arc incident after being exposed short
time to burning sands and vertical-sun