Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1896-09-26
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E4 Don't look AT Cne pTOCeSSiou auu
you won't want to 60 to the circus.
p8- Hot fat or cutting bread will
soon dull the edge of the sharpest
knife.
aa- If you want your life to be a
success, never be found opposing the
truth.
s@ No church is ready for revival
until its members are living in peace
with each other.
p@ A man can be moral without
being religious, but he can't be relig-
ious without being moral.
a6S Never let the sun 60 down with.
out doing some kind act that will
make your pillow softer.
s6 Unless a mans walk corresponds
with his talk, his influence for good is
not likely to be great.
p@ The only way by which the
devil can manage to carry on business
is by making sin attractive.
p6 Your life will never rise any
higher than your belief. If you be-
lieve wrong. you will behave wrong.
. s@r The fact that Washington never
told lie has been satisfactorily &C.
counted for. He never went fishing.
H@ Germany is the only civilized
country in the world wherein murder
ers are still beheaded with axe or
sword.
p6F The man who "always pays as
he goes" needn't brag too much about
it. Perhaps he has to, suggests The
Beacon.
HaS At the present time there is more
steel used in the manufacture of pens
than in all the sword and guns facto-
ries in the world.
p6 Wearing his hat on the back of
his head is one of the ways in which
a young man can tell everybody he
don't know much.
p@ Head faith believes Christ died
for everybody, and lets it 60 at that.
Heart faith believes he died for me,
and adores him for it.
p@ A good many people don't &C
complish anything because they try to
do too much. Don't take sledge
hammer to crack peanut.
p~ Cultivate a gentle, even TEMPER.
The man who flies into passion upon
every provocation, is like a wasp,
senseless and exceedingly annoying.
p~ A Cleveland (Ohio) parson ad-
vertises in the local papers that his
residence, the address of which is
printed on the card, furnishes "a nice
place for weddings"
p@ 1t is surprising, when we come
to think about it, how many laws
enacted for the public good are "un-
constitutional" while all the bad laws
seem to be without flaw.
s@ The curiosities are not all under
canvas. 1t is claimed that Kansas
man has a wife who has worn one
bonnet % years, and has never growled
about it.
H@ On tomb in a Blairsville (Pa.)
cemetery may be read this curious
epitaph: "a. B. - was good son,
loving husband, fond father, an
able lawyer, but an honest man."
p6r First farmers boy: "My fathers
going to have some men to do thrash
ing at our house next week." Second
farmers boy: "That's nothin'. My
father does thrashin' at our house
every day."
p6- Silk thread is soaked in acetate
of lead to increase its weight, and per-
sons who pass it throug h the mouth
in threading needles, and then bite it
off with the teeth, have suffered from
lead poison.
s6r Somebody told an old man that
if he would repeat the Lords prayer,
without letting single selfish thought
come into his mind, he would give
him horse. "But must have bri-
die too" said the old man.
B65. Avoid making your horses excit-
able, by being cool and level headed
yourself. Horses are imitators just as
men are, and if you are inclined to be
foolish about little things, you cannot
expect anything else from your horses.
H9- Singular, isn't it, that when a
man gives his wife dime to buy box
of hair pins or a gum ring for the baby,
1T looks about nine times as big as it
does when he planks it down on the
counter in exchange for little bitters
for the stomach's sake.
b@ There is no American boy, how
ever poor, however humble, orphan
though he may be, that, if he have a
clear head, true heart, a strong arm,
may not rise through all the grades of
society and become the crown, the
glory, the pillar of the state.
l@- The best thing to give to your
enemy is forgiveness, to an opponent
tolerance, to a friend your heart, to
your child good example, to father
Difference, to your mother conduct
that will make her proud of you, to
yourself respect, to all men charity.
H9e A doctor in the Highlands of
Scotland, whose patients are scattered
over a wide district, takes carrier pig
cons with him on his rounds, and sends
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