Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-02-19
atauside Gatherings.

s6 Do not sin against your fellow
man, for you shall reap that which you
sow,
s@ What a darling world it would
be If everybody were as polite as a
candidate.
R@ Few men sow their wild oats
without getting more or less rye mixed
with them.
R@ It is said that the onion is q
great sleep inducer, and about equal to
quinine for malaria.
s8- A tree recently felled in Oregon
was 12O feet long, while the butt meas
ured only one foot through.
p6E Like food without salt, like. q
book without tale, like the day with
out sunshine, is life without sorrow or
fear.
s@ If you cannot do a kind deed,
speak a kind word if you cannot
speak a kind word, think a kind
thought.
s6r The only genuine original pack
age was filled, not with liquor, but
with original sin. And it is still doing
business at the old stand.
p8 It is only one person among a
thousand who becomes a centenarian,
and hardly six persons among thou
sand who attain rs years ofage.
S@ A southern poet writes: "They
are the happiest who know the most
pain" This will be comforting intel
ligence to persons who have the tooth
ache.
s6r Instead of complaining about the
faults of others, take a good honest
look at yourself, and it is likely that
YOU will find it convenient to let others
rest, while you attend to the beam that
| is in your own eye.
s6 A lady of charitable disposition
asked poor man if she could not help
him by mending his clothes. eyes,
madam" ;" he replied. 81 have button,
and you would oblige me greatly by
sewing a coat to it."
p@ At Sunday-school in Winsted,
Conn.,, recently, the text was, evils
dom is better than rubies." "Do you
understand the text" asked the teach
or of one of the little girl scholars.
"Yessum." "What is it?" "Wisdom
| is better than rheumatism"
~ Don't keep on hand too many
cut-and-dried theories. A foot-rule is
convenient thing for carpenter to
carry about with him ; but man who
is always "sizing up" other peoples
opinions by private rule OF his own is
apt to be bore.
s@ Somehow, if you have patience
imbedded in your heart, there comes a
sort of cheer along with it; and, before
you know what is going to happen,
your whole experience is irradiated as
with sunshine. I think the patient
life is the successful one after all.
p1- care they boys or girls ?" asked
the motherly lady, meeting a pair OF
twins in a baby carriage. "Wan OF
aich kind num-" replied the nurse.
"What are their names ?" snake,
mum, and, Minnie, num-" 30, I see
that's the long and short of it."
p@- "What do you think of this des-
sert?" "What do you call it?'
"Charlotte russe." "Well, Charlotte
knew her business when she named it.
In all my experience I never encount-
cred fimsier ruse for making man
believe he was having something to
eat."
nT Smith-I've taken some of DR..
Quack's medicine; thought I'd try a
new doctor. Do you know much about
him ? Jones-Yes, little. A friend
of mine took some of his medicine
once. "Did eh ? Was it quick to act p
30 yes; there was Grape on the door
next morning."
p9- When God intends to fill soul,
he first makes it empty; when he
intends, to enrich a soul, he first
makes it poor when he intends to
exalt soul, he first makes it humble ;
when he intends to save a soul, be
first makes it sensible Of its own mis-
cries and nothingness.
n8 "Pat, you must be an early riser,
I always find you at work the first
thing in the morning" "Indade, an
Oh am, sor. It's family thrait, Oi do
be thinkin'." "Then your father is an
early riser too, eh ?" "Me feyther, is
| it2 Faix, an he roises that early that
if he'd 60 to bed little later he'd mate
himself gettin' up in the mornin'."
s@ "Say, pop" said Johnny Blim-
kins, "Charley Sawyer is going to elope
with sister Mary tonight. He's got a
ladder hid in the barn." "You don't
say so Wait till I 60 and tell your
mother, SOS she won't think it's burg
lars and kick up racket. An,
Johnny, you can hang around outside
and hold the ladder if Charley wants
ye to-"
Bd A new social game has been in
troduced in the West. One of the girls
in the room takes bite of onion and
young man must discover the fair
bitter by kissing all the young ladies
present. The young man enjoys it
immensely until he strikes the grill who