Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1889-12-14
Varieties.

Sprees are mile posts along the road
to ruin.
The value of thing depends upon
our use of it.
He who stays in the valley will
never get up the hill,
He never makes friends who never
made foe [Tennyson.
With the great our thoughts and
, manners easily become great.
The shortest way to do many things
is to do only one thing at once,
Cigars are much like Dead Sea
truits-they turn to ashes on the lips.
A citizen who has been run into by
safety bicycle says it hurts just as
much as the old kind.
The raisin cultivators appear to be
engaged chiefly in raisin' the price of
their product just now.
Occasionally you see a very rich
man who is so economical that he
would enjoy being poor.
More is accomplished by doing each
days work faithfully than by crowding
two days work into one.
He (smiling softly)-"Oh, would 1
were a birdP She (absent minded)-
ooh, would were a gum
Let us be of good cheer, remember
that the misfortunes hardest to bear
are those which never happen.
Many an object in life must be OBJ
tanned by flank movements; it is the
zigzag road that leads to the top.
One Of the great causes of trouble
in this world is the habit people have
of talking faster than they think.
Two things we should never fret
about, first, what we can prevent; and
second, what we cannot prevent
1t is easier to lug heavy shotgun
ten hours through an impenetrable
swamp than to put up clothes-line.
Never lose sight of the truth that
you are held in great measure NOR
ally responsible for those of your house
hold.
We can all give good advice, but
constant vigilance will hardly insure
us setting good example half the
time.
The philosopher is like the moon
his brightness is due to reflection. He
is not always bright when he is full,
however.
Only by slow and painful degrees
can we fight our way upward and
break loose from the clinging hold of
selflove.
There is no surer mark of the alb
sence of the highest moral and intel
lectual qualities than cold reception
of excellence
Ninety-nine per cent of ambition to
try and l per cent of talent is all
that is necessary to success in whatever
we undertake.
Sacrifice being the essential basis of
virtue, the most meritorious virtues are
those which are acquired with the
greatest effort
Beware of prejudices they are rats,
and mems minds are like traps. Pre-
JUDGES creep in easily, but it is doubt
full if they ever get out,
General Spinner, ex-Treasurer of the
United States, says that silver is no
longer precious metal. All the same,
it is precious hard to get.
Seamless trousers are all the rage
among our dudes, but it is hard to see
how any trousers could make dude
seem-less than he really is.
What is our life but an endless flight
of winged facts Or events In splendid
variety these changes come, all putting
questions to the human spirit.
eyes," admitted the visitor, when a
proud mother exhibited her baby, che
has his fathers nose but don't worry,
it may not always be that red"
"The cowboy is a queer type Of hui
manity," said the snake editor to the
foreman. eyes," replied the foreman,
"he's doubleleaded type, usually"
Elderly Female you keep all
kinds of plants here ?" Florist-"Yes,
ma am" "Well you can give me a
couple of electric light plants, | guess"
Doctor Ito dying patient)-"Death
does not end all, my dear friend" Dy-
ing man-"Right, doctor You and the
undertaken send in your bills after
that"
Philanthropist to small boy-And
so you have little sister at home have
YOU, sonney? What do you do when
YOU get together? Small Boy, laconi-
cally-Fight.
One objection. How intense are
the fires Of lovep CALCULATED the poet.
eyes" answered the father of six mar
riageable daughters, "but they take an
awful sight o coal"
Every attempt to make Others hap
by, every sin left behind, every temp
tation trampled under foot, every step
forward in the cause of what is good,
is step nearer to heaven.
The Rev. DIR. William H. Furness,
of Philadelphia, over ninety years old,
can still make glowing address when
he gets warmed up. There must be
something in name after all.
Disposition, intellect, genius, come
pretty much by nature but character
{ is an achievement-the one practical