The weekly Union times. [volume] (Union C.H., South Carolina) 1871-1894, 1881-01-21

maue IN add. ess to the graduates OF tho |
Packard Business Institute in New York,
on "Hardpan." aud tho New York Sun,
instead OF dcvoting a column or so to his
address, groups together his apicuiated
aphorisu,s in the following effective. style :
ANY kind of au honest job is better than
no job ut all. a
Take dollar day for your work if you
can get no more. II
"a mans best friends nre his, ten flu,
gers
"When evil DAYS come. as evil days will,
no man deserves the title of gentleman it
he does not take honest work to do, regard
less of social influences.
"Wben country boys come to the city, it
they will hold on to the old sweet ways they
can deity the world.
Keep your grip on the bardpan of priu.
ciple aud good conduct, and you will be men
OF good name and good fortune.
"When boy fills house with bugs he is
all right, provided he don't run after hum.
bugs. He has the makings iu him of u
great naturalist.
"a good farmer is better than a poor doc.
tor, and Il good horscshoer is better than q
bishop who breaches sermons that nobody
wants to hear.
"A good days work of what you can
best do is the hard pan to which all must
come.
Society says one thing, and Nature says
another.
"Work is good medicine.
"Only those who make clean money and
do clean things can win success.
"Thc honest man who dies poor is rich if
he only holds his own.
"Slcep eight hours out Of the twenty. -four,
eat three meals day, and walk on the sun.
ny side oil the way.
"tlave reserve force that will come out
| when YOU need it,
"DJn't wind up the solcmnity of court
ing girl with prayer"
WHAT CAUSES GRAY HAIRs.-Gray
hair sometimes comes prematurcly by inher-
ltance, trouble or the large use Of water
containing lime. The sudden banching of
head of hair is frequently caused BY Sc
we're nervous shocks, and numerous histor.
ical and traditional cases may be cited in
which sudden fear or overwhelming news
has turned the hair white in few hours
The case of Marie Antoinette is. one of the
most tender and touching, for in single
night her rich dark hair was changed to q
silver gray. A sepoy of the Bengal army
was taken prisoner in 1858 and the fright
he received caused his hair to become com
plctcly whitened within hall un hour the
change being so rapid as to cause his cap
tors t, exclam, in astonishmcnt "He is
turning gray y Under the influence OF
great fear or any great mental shock the
blood rccedcs from the surface of the body
to the heart, and it is supposed the same in
fuencc may cause the coloring fluid Of the
HAIR to retire to the root bulbs where it re.
mains thereafter. Gray hair has been
known to become dark without the chem.
lists aid. In l774, Nazarcla, man 1O5
years old, was presented by nature with Il
."'orIturf or MS youth. John Weeks was va
blessed with a regeneration of the color OF
his hair short time before his death, which
occurred at the age of Ia and Sir j. Sin
clair, dying at ITO, rejoiced in youthful
head OF hair during the latter years of his
life DIR. Richards has reported the case OF
man who had three changes of his hair
from black to white during his life, the
first liking place when he was about 35
years old.