The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-04-29
wAYSIDE GATHERINGS.
Bits OF Humor and Nuggets OF Truth
for the Ml,ltitude.

There is village called A b G
in Now York State.
There are moro republics in the
world than mOnarchies.
Nothing except tho mint can make
money without advertising.
-" Learn to labor and to wait" Do
| not forget that labor Gomez first.
If we have good in us it Is sure to
como to the surface whenever it has an
opportunity.
-Education Is good thing when it
does not directly unit u man for work
ing for living.
There was never but one original
man, and that was Adam. The others
| are limitations.
--Af1jctiou Is good school; but
mcst people would rather be excused
FROM attending 1t.
There Is one kind of canned goods
that goes off quicker than any other
| gunpOwder
When q man considers himself as
lone in thousand" he naturally re-
CARDS others as ciphers.
With q single blow OF his insig-
nificant tell an elephant can knock
down the strongest man.
|
them out so rapidly as do tho sun and
rain, rust and exposure.
TO the end of tho world the most
| delightful people will be those who
mind their own business.
Tho inhabitants of the United
States consume more than half the
| qulniue produced in the world.
"A tender heart hurts occasion
| 1llV. hut pnho6y whn hao friob np,
will exchange it for the other kind.
his property to his wife, She eloped,
and he is now in the poorhouse.
If sOmo men could only be con-
vlnced that 1T pays to be good, they
colldn't be kept out of church with a
gun.
-" Papa, why do we wish people q
good Appetite but Unot q good
thirst p" " Because that isn't neccs-
| sary."
Chicago has frontage Of % miles
on Lake Michigan, and u navigable
frontage on the Chicago river of about
% miles.
Marriage seems never so much a
failure TO u man as when something
goes wrong at home that he can't pos
sibly blame on his wife.
No man need expect to play on
golden harp in heaven who only con
| tributes to the church collection on
mouth harmOniCa basis.
Let us remember that peace as
| we'll as charity begins at home and
| try to keep back the unkind word end
| the angry look.
China imported 13,O00, 900 square
I feet of American lumber last year,
| most of it from the States of Oregon
and Washington.
The bill establishing the gold cur
rency standard in Japan only awaits
the signature Of the Emperor in order
| to become Il law.
The people Of the United States
smoke one hundred and fifteen thous-
and tGr.s OF tobacco year, to say moth
ing Of cigarettes.
-tvoI Il siugie ship bearing the
United States .:ig passed through the
| SueZ canal last ycl., according to the
report OF the consul at Carlo.
"A man living in Herman, No.,
ordered either from Europe, and
when it arrived he found that the in
strument had occn made in his own
State.
There are two classes of things in
| the world that it is unwise to fret
about: First, the things which can
not be helped. Second, the things that
can be helped.
What do you think OF q man who
will, at the tab'c, t,ll the Lord he is
thankful for tho things before him,
but as soon as he says " Amen" will
begin storming about the cooking?
"A young wife who lost her hus-
band by death, telegraphed the sad
tidings to her father in these succinct
words: Dear John died this mcrn-
ing. Loss fully covered by insurance"
The kindly treated horse is the
gontle horse : the gentle horse Is tho
est priced horse, other things being
! equal, and Is the kind treatment coined
into dollars.
Tho Agricultural Department has
issued Il statement showing that tao
Mississippi HOOD covers an area OF
$4,000 square miles, having Il pUpula-
ton Of nearly 400, 900, with farms and
| livestock valued at $4,000, 900.
| The timo to do good thing Is
when you can. Unimprovcd 0pp0r-
tnnitics never return. n you find IL
| In your power today and hero TO help
81 struggling soul, you arc guilty before
tOd IL you lal! 10 strclcn out your
| hand. Tomorrow will be too late.
"A building four hundred feet
square, with great ornamental towers,
the entire structure to be covered with
rolled silver, and to contain tho min
cral exhibit Of tho West, il to be the
great feature OF tho trans Nj issssp ppi
exhibition at Omaha In 1898.
-" hh," exclaimed tho merchant,
coming into the Office ana discovering
one OF his clerks smoking "yOu aro
diapbcying one OF my rules, air. | sup.
pOso you arc familiar with tho old
ndnPo, Where thorc's smoke thorc's
ilrnT" And thu clerk was promptly
lirod.
90 a Russian baptism under the ritual
OF tho Crock church Is IL curious core
mony. a large wooden bowl is Gllod
with wntor, and tho priest takes tho
child in his arms, stuIls wadding into
ita onrH and nostria, nnd then plungcs |
tho llttlO hOnu unlOr tito water three |