Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-10-28
Wausiae Gatherimgs.
s9~ Not to love the good is proof
that you are bad.

s9 Make your long prayers in pri
vate, and your short ones in public.
pas- We never get more happiness
than we try to secure for other people
H9- The biggest coward in all the
earth is the man who is afraid to dt
right.
s8" If you want your life to be
success, never be found opposing the
truth.
s6- Abuse is one of the few things
man can get without earning or de
serving it.
s9- In 1900 America had more col
leges, in proportion to population
than she has now.
H@- By doing our work properly We
will not have to perform the same
labors the second time.
B9~ Your life will never rise any
higher than your belief. If you be-
,lieve wrong you will behave wrong.
R| No human head was impressed
on coins until after the death of Alex
ander the Great. All images before
that time were of deities.
H9H The ancient proverb says: "You
cannot get more out of bottle than
YOU put in" That's an error. Be-
sides what he puts in, he can get a
headache, sick stomach, and perhaps
10 days in the lookup.
p@ Every 80 days: Lonesum-Been
married a month today, haven't you,
old fel? Still billing and cooling, /
suppose2 Scrunge (dubiously)-I am
not cooing as much as I was at one
time, but the billing-ah, me
p@ Guest-Who owns this hotel ?
Waiter-Mr. Blank am de proprietor,
sab. "Glad to hear it. I thought
from your actions that the walters
owned the hotel" 80 no, sab. We
don't own muffin but de guests"
pG ~ vas in great luck" "How
vas dot?" "Vy, I find 100 pounds
yesterday belong to dot miser Mark,
und ven I Gift it back to him dis morn
ing he nefer sharge me no interest for
der use of dot monish for "a hours.
Mark vas getting shildish::'
@ A man named Pattison, who re-
Gently died in Queensland, Australia,
began life as a butcher, struck gold,
became very wealthy, went into poll
tics, became postmaster general, lost
all his money, became butcher again
and died in straitened circumstances.
p6r 81 can always tell.when my hus-
band has been drinking" said a young
wife. eyes? ?" said another young
wife. eyes, I know it the moment he
kisses me-" "I can also tell when my
husband has been drinking" said the
other. "Yes?" "When he doesn't
kiss me-"
BG A clergyman, on entering a
country store not long ago, opened
the door just in time to hear man
remark very emphatically, "The dew
il"-"Ah-er-oh-elder, didn't know
you were here was the mans remark.
''No apology is needed" was the re-
ply; "he is no friend of mine."
a9- One way: II say, Sparkins did
you see in the paper today that the
captain of the schooner Emma is to
receive medal for his heroic conduct
in saving five lives?" "Well, what
of it? I've saved hundreds of lives,
and nobody ever gave me a media" "
"You? Impossible How? When ?"
''Why, 1 studied for physician, and
then refused to practice"
19- One of the "notices" in the
porch of the church at Hawarden,
England, near Mr.. Gladstone's castle,
reads thus: "On your way to the
Lords house be thoughtful, be silent,
or say but little. Speak not of other
mems faults; think of your own, for
you are going 5. to ask forgiveness.
Never stay outside; 60 in at once,
time spent inside should be precious. !"
p8 never had any faith in luck at
all, except that I believe good luck
will carry a man over a ditch, if he
jumps we'll, and put bit of bacon
into his pot, if he looks after his gar
den and keeps pig. Luck generally
comes to those who look after it, and
my notion is it taps once in lifetime
at everybody's door, and if industry
does not open it away it goes.-Spur-
geon.
r@- In 1857 General Albert Sydney
Johnston commanded an expedition
against the Mormons, which required
the service of 4,5O0 mules. When
the expedition was abandoned the
mules were sold at Salt Lake City in
1860 and bought by one man, at prices
from $50 to 500 each. The
mules were driven to California in
bands of 500, week apart, where
they were sold at the average price of
$500 each.
s9- Husband in ?" asked the gas
collector, cheerfully. "No," answered
the woman, che isn't at home" eek
pecting him soon ?" asked the collect
Or. "Well," the woman replied,
thoughtfully, ~ don't know exactly !;
I've been lookin' for him II years,
and he hasn't turned up yet. You
travel about a good deal, and if you
see a man who looks as though he'd
make me a pretty good husband, tell
him I'm still awaitin', and send him
along"
aS~ A dog who has eaten up farm
and set of buildings has been found
in eastern Maine. This dog killed a
neighbor's sheep. The neighbor Of
Fered to call it square if the dog was
killed. The dogs master refused to
agree to this, and a lawsuit came next.