Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1892-12-08

these fellows who think theyW,i i
and think won't, but rather think
they won't-1o cents a dozen 81 like
eggs in warm weather, and fofsthe
same reason.
There was darkey who hfd :
mule, and he said he had TO- hitch
him by tying him to tree by III.
tail to keep him from i1sgolng
through his collar.
You get after great many peo'
pie and they lay it all onSAdan
Poor old Adaml ~:
Adam is too far off. Yeu; put
two drops of water in the Atlantic
ocean, and the poison gets mighty
thin when it gets to tho other side
Adam is too far. 1t is our OWL
devilment that is kicking nI
thunder. 81
When the devil got Jobs wife
on his side hegot trump Scsrd.
A mule kicked negro 'on' the
head, and couldn't put his fool
down. ~. 81
I have got a government jot
keeping Sam Jones straightr;
There are lot of people, whe
like to say other people aressoft.
headed when they are doing Igbt.|
They got the impression Eonl
their own heads.
1 go into some churches here
the preacher looks like. som big
monument and the people Atdk
like head stones and I go dFn
among them and 1 say "Sam jobs,
you are among the dead" III 4
PH1LosoPHIc.
Men and money are two antsor
site forces in this country. n
Men and money are each stT-
ing for the mastery with the dds
largely in favor of money.
There is nothing sublimer tin
man. There is nothing ME
hurtful, more dwindling to wp-l
hood than the misuse of money.
David said to Solomon his q, |
"Be thou strong and acquit vi
self a man" /.
Nine tenths of the people of ae
country are after money, and hea
other tenth are after a good tins
I would not give one grand Tah;
for all the cotton that wa5 Ga
raised .Mt Il aRaa.i6ssiigzfoand 8 negro and a S1lls;s
80 Is big job to raise q nan
in this country.
You say, "Every man has lis
price," 1 don't believe that.
Selfshness is the meanest thing
on earth. Selfshness is the fist
born of Avarice.
There is not good institution
or enterprise born of God to-day
but what is going begging from
door to door.
Cussin' is a very low-down type
of a rascal.
Sin is in the blood like acancer
A man may stop cussin' on hi
tongue, but it will break out OF
his hand, and he will ge t. tc steal
ing.
He who can eliminate selfJhnes
and avarice from himself, i
enabled to stand on top Of very
tb;no that ever ruined q man.
The grandest manhood and VIC
manhood is that which has fol
gotten self and is consecratsd t
the service of others.
There is the stature of a uma
in New Orleans. She has her ha.
combed in the sweet, good old va.
down over her temples'and she
holding out baskets of fruit an
children are crowding around ne
!, She lived working for and helpir
, the poor of New Orleans and VIE
she died the bankers and the brol
ers and the capitalists ali came o
in front of their Offices and stood
the sun with their hats off whi
the funeral procession of her w
was one of the grandest women
America went by.
Convince a man in the chur
, that he will reap two for one and
g will plank down.
This country is running on t
]. dollar, and just as certain as Ro'
q fell because of a too greatly c'
e tralized military power, so cert'
: will the United States run into d
8 truction on silver dollars as whet
+ unless the course is changed.
g tt ia not how much money b,