The people's journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1891-1903, 1897-03-18
WAYSIDE GATHERINGS.
Bits OF Humor and Nuggets OF Truth
for tho Multitude.

Some men win q reputation for
what they don't say.
There arc moro Germans than
Irish in tho United States.
1t doesn't take many pints of
whiskcy to make peck Of trouble.
dwell not on misfortunes look
forward to retrieve them.
- Bear littlo trials patiently, that
you may learn how to boar great ones.
Tho reward Of performing one
duty is the power to perform another.
-lSecollection is the only paradise
from which we cannot be turned out.
-Somo children arc like velvet
they catch every spcck Of dirt there Is.
- Many men get rich by doing the
work which tho other follows neglect.
Very many of lifc's nshipwrecks
arc 10 be traced back to a schooner of
beer.
-Ihcre is nothing SO strong or safe
in any emergency OF life as the simple
| truth.
"A mournful fact--lt is difficult to
make the pot boil with the fire of
genius.
When people are ~orazy to marry
thcy attach no consequence to conse-
qucnccs.
Tho muscles which close the hand
arc moro powerful than those which
open it,
"A contemporary says lawyers are
noted for losing their patience. How
about doctors ?
Happiness consists not in having
vast rich possessions, but being fitted
to enjoy what We have.
TO be able TO sit on the fence is
political talent. TO know just when
to get OF is genius.
If q girl likes q young man she
ought to help him out, and if not, let
her father do tho job.
-Hc who will not reason is a bigot;
he who cannot Is q fool; and be who
darcs not is slave.
"A sound discretion is not SO much
Indicated by never r.aking Il mistake,
as by mover repeating it.
Not one unmarried woman in a
hundred tells the truth when she Is
asked why she never married.
-" Hero is another idle shattered"
SAID the young man whose father in
formed him that he must go to work.
There arc still living in Connect
| icut Gwcnty-four daughters OF soldiers
who fought in tho Revolutionary war.
1T takes fraction less than three
seconds Tor message to go from ono
end OF the Atlantic cable to the other.
The man who can't keep up with
the procession in this world mustn't
expect to en- joy tho music of the band.
,;-, 49," ,y Why did Josae9ph'ss brethren cast
MIN into tho pit ," because they
didn't want him in tho family circle"
| 1t is easier to keep q COW from
| shrinking than to restore the vie Id
after it has once been allowed to lessen.
Imperfect teeth are q sure sign
OF civilization. Perfect teeth are
iound, rs q rule, only among tho saw
ages.
Circles around the moon are some-
times largo and sometimes small, be-
cause they are formed at different
heights in tho air.
1t requires 100000 cows to sup
ply the demand for milk In this conn
try, and the products Of go, ,000, 900 acres
of land to feed them.
The slippery elm contains in it's
inner bark great quantity of muci-
lagc, which gives it its peculiar prop
crty and name.
New York and Pennsylvania in
1896 cast larger vote than all the
United States did in 1S40 The total
presidential vote. in 1910 was 2,41O,77
-" That is a curious looking cane,
colonel. Is 1T a mcmento of the war %,
= Yes. 1t was made from the log oc-
cuplcd during the battle of Lookout
Mountain"
-Greek and Roman doors ALWAYS
opened outward, and when man was
passing out Of q house he knocked on
the door, 90 as not to open it in the
lace of passerby
The Bank of Franco has camera
SO trained tnat the picture Of any sus-
picious visitor may be secured with
| out the suspected individual knowing
that he has been caught.
--Sincc tho death Of Mr. McCullagh,
| the editor of the Globe-DemOcrat OF
st. Louis, 1t has been discovered that
he was an extensive owner Of silver
mine stock, although ne was ono Of the
stiffest gold men in the United States,