Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-16
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men owe you grudge, for they never
pay anything.
p6- If find a man vhas honest und
copyright doan' 60 back on him be-
cause he eats NIT his knife.
s9 Lawyers and doctors get paid
for their advice. Other people give ii
away with generosity that is sub
lime.
sd He is happy whose circumstances
suit his temper; but he is more ex.
cellent who can suit his temper to
circumstances.
H65 The sacred Scriptures teach US
the best way of living, the noblest
way of suffering, and the most COM
Portable way of dying.
R6- It is better to have good inten.
tions for one hour than not to have
them at all. There is no man who is
not the better for the pure, unselfsh
resolves, however brief they may be.
n6g The old scare that the worlds
coal is near exhaustion is now pretty
we'll exploded. New coal areas are
constantly being opened, and the old
ones are by no means exhausted.
p@- Many years prior to the British
occupation of Egypt some of the peo-
ple of the country worshipped the
crocodile as a god, there being nothing
else like him. They fed him on danties
and decked him out with jewelry.
e6- The British authorities in India
have been oblighed to discontinue the
bounties on dead snakes, because the
natives went into the business of breed.
ing the reptiles on large scale in
order to get the reward paid for their
dead bodies.
rdr Marchioness Ii, wife of Ii Hung
Chang, is said to be very beautiful,
and looks not more than 80, although
she is 80. One thousand servants an.
swer her beck and call. Her feet
have been compressed until she is
unable to walk more than a few yards
at time.
p1" A fond grandmother tells the
following story of grandchild: An
aunt was talking to her of Gods laws
and of obeying them, when the child
surprised them by saying: "Well it
is a good deal easier to obey Goo S
laws than it is grandma's-she has so
many.
D6- The English government makes
no examination to determine the val
idity of device for which a patent is
asked, but takes it for granted that
every invention is new, and grants a
patent to every applicant, leaving his
claim, if contested, to be subsequently
determined by the courts.
s8r It is said the oldest rosebush in
the world, of which there is authentic
record, grows in a churchyard and
against an old church at Heldersheim,
Germany. Eight hundred years ago,
so the records say, Bishop Heplio,
caused trellis to be built on which it
was supported. Today the main stem
is thicker than mans body.
s4 Jenkins playfully remarked to
his wife that in her he possessed five
fulls. "Name them, my love-" "You
are beautiful, youthful, dutiful, faith
full and an arm full" "You have the
advantage of me, my dear" "How
so, my precious ?" 81 have but one
fool" Jenkins made no further in
quiry.
R@"A year ago." he said, 81 sold
out my drug business and went to
Wall street, and in less than weeks
time 1 doubled my capital. That's
making money fast, eh ?" ayes, in
deed. You must be very rich now ?"
"Well, no, not very. At the expira-
ton of the second week I left Wall
street, and am now clerking for the
man I sold out to-"
H4 Their first lesson: Mistress
Mercy on me, what kitchen! Every
pot, pan and dish is dirty, the table
looks like a junk shop, and-why, it
will take you a week to get things
cleared up! What have you been
doing? Servant-Sure, mum, the
young leddies have been down here
showing me how they roast a potato
at the cooking school.
Bd A workingman was urged by his
employer to do some work on the
Sabbath day. The man courteously
but firmly declined to do it. "Why,"
said the employer, "did not our Lord
himself say that 'the Sabbath was
made for man p" eyes," replied the
workingman, "you are right; the Sab
bath was made for man, and is, there
fore, not to be taken from man."
H4 The father of a family, becom-
ing annoyed at the fault-finding of
his children over their food, exclaimed
in rage one day at dinner: "You
children are intolerable; you turn up
your noses at everything. When I
was boy, 1 was glad enough to get
dry bread to eat" "Poor !" said
Rose, the pet of the family, II am so
glad you are having such nice times
now living with mamma and u.s."
BT A man living in an outlying dis
trict of Concord, N. H., recently
opened bank account in that city,
depositing $500. He was given lib
eral quantity of checks, which he used
so ignorantly that he was soon brought
up and told that he had overdrawn.
When asked to settle, with great in
dignation he made this reply /:
Didn't you give me all these checks,
which are not half used If I owe
you anything, I will draw check
and pay you"
s9 A student said to distinguished
lawyer one day, ~ cannot understand