Beverly banner. [volume] (Beverly, N.J.) 1877-1964, 1890-04-26

the less they know about 1t.
Who despises all that is despicable,
is made to be impressed with all that
is grand.
Woman may be a conundrum, a
puzzle, but the world will never will
ingly give her up.
The love of praise, however conceal
ed by art, reign more or less and grows
in every heart.
A MAI may know what is best for
his neighbor although ignorant of his
own necessities.
Conduct is the great profession.
Behavior is the perpetual revealing of
us. What a man does tells us what
he is.
Never dispute with a man who is
more than seventy years of age, nor
with a woman, nor with any sort of an
enthusiast.
Every MAJ ought to be as good as
his word. Nothing is expected of
those who never have a good word
for anything.
JUDGE think you might be honest
if you were to accustom yourself to it.
Prisoner-May be so, Judge; habit is
a queer thing.
The lessons of life make deep impress
sions than the lessons of books, because
| thau to,,oh fha hoorf Loro,o 4lo,x ,oool,
the head.
"Now, Richard, why did the Israelites
make a golden calf?" "Why, cause
they didn't have enough gold to make
a COW, l 'spose.
One of the most effectual ways of
pleasing and of making ones self loved
is to be cheerful; joy softens more
hearts than tears.
When a man is going down hill he
finds the attraction of gravitation and
the encouragement of the public a
great help to him.
Very often the only difference be-
tween something unfortunate and some
thing funny lies in whether it happens
to you or somebody else.
The coinage of the one dollar gold
piece, the th~ree-dollar gold piece, and
the three-cent nickel piece is henceforth
to be prohibited by law.
Man is not born to solve the problem
of the universe, but to find out what he
has to do, and to restrain himself with
in the limits of his comprehension.
First Messenger Boy-"I hear Gully
is goin' to be expelled from the Mes
senger Boys Labor Union" Second
M. B.-"What's he done?" F. M. B.
"He was caught runnin'."
A Deceptive Thought.-Rev. DIR.
Primrose-When you were stealing
the cake, my young friend what thought
did you have ?" Little johnnie
thought nobody was looking.
Angry thoughts canker in the mind
and dispose it to the worst temper inm
the world-that of fixed malice and
revenge. 1t is while in this temper
UIldI IHOSU IIlcu DtCdIlC CIllllllldIS.
Aim to follow the most perfect ex-
amples, for though you may not be
quite able to reach them, you should
set the rule high and then use all your
vigilance and exertion to approach as
neal as possible.
If you have talents, industry will
improve them; if moderate abilities,
industry will supply the deficiencies.
Nothing is denied to well-directed
labor nothing is ever to be obtained
without it,.
To be worth anything character
must be capable of standing firmly on
its feet in the world of daily work,
temptation and trial and to bear the
wear and tear of actual life. clustered
virtues do not count for much.
Tramp-"It is needless to ask you
the question, madam you know what
| want" Lady-"Yes, l know what
you want badly, but I've only one bar
of soap in the house and the servant is
using it. Come again some other time"
Our times of greatest pleasure are
when we have won some higher peak
of difficulty, trodden under foot ONE
evil, and felt day by day so sure a
growth of moral strength within us
that we cannot conceive of an end of
growth.
Briggs-"What the dickens are you
applauding that jay for? Why he
can't sing any better than a fourteen
year-old boy" Baggs-"I know he
can't but | thought | would applaud
him for his magnificent exhibition of
nerve.
A sick dude called on a doctor.
"What he needed" advised the physi-
clan, sis absolute seclusion and solitude,
with nothing whatever to excite him."
"Leave him alone with his thoughts"
promptly said his friend, as they
withdrew from the room.
Magistrate (to prisoner)-"You say
Uncle Rastus, that you took the ham
because you are out of work and your
family are starving. And yet under
stand you have four dogs about the
house." Uncle Rastus-"Yes, sab
but l would't arsk my family to eat
dogs, yer honah.
Oh, look not at thy pain or sorrow,
how great soever; but look from them,
look beyond them, to the Deliverer !
whose power is over them, and whose
loving, wise, and tender spirit is able
to do thee good by them. The Lord
lead thee, day by day, in the right
way, and keep thy mind upon Him, in