The Abbeville press and banner. [volume] (Abbeville, S.C.) 1869-1924, 1897-02-10
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Misfortunate unveils character.
Virtue is the gold of characters.
Sin signs its own death warrant.
Self-seeking means Christ-losing.
The Bible is an intellectual tonic.
Wisdom gives weight to opinion.
Praise is the cream of gratitude.
The best society travels in the mar
row road.
Heart arguments ignore rules Of
logic.
Murmuring is meanness trying to
talk.
Men lose more by selfAhness than
they gain.
Systematic daily study will soon
turn an ignorant man into a. scholar.
The height of wisdom is to live each
day as if it might be the last day.
When God plants an idea, it grows
into reformation.
Treat temptation as the fox does
the hounds-run from 1t.
Breaking your promise to a child is
one way of teaching it to lie.
Accusing another often means moth
ing more than eXcusing ones self.
The self-satisfied man is good com
pany for no one except himself.
No dust affects the eyes like gold
dust, and no glasses like brandy glasses.
Men are just as good as their daily
lives indicate them to be-and no bet
ter.
Fame won by doing good is deplora-
bly, rare, but it is eminently Christ.
like.
One drop of ink will darken glass
of water, and one bad boy will corrupt
a noighborhood.
The shield of innocence inspires con-
fidence when the darts of malice are
fired al our hearts.
1t is of no consequence how good 81
man is abroad if be is really mean at
home.
TO he able to say no at the right
time is better than to be able to speak
half dozen languages.
Don't try to- get rich all at once.
ANY one can be sure of competency
who has sense enough to keep what he
earns.
It is mistake to suppose that only
bad habits are contagious. Try being
pleasant, and see how pleasant folks
around you will become.
Our spiritual blessings are far more
important than anything else and five
use them right. we will surely express
our gratitude.
Courage is not the absence of fear.
ANY one can DO what the worlds calls
brave deed if be is not afraid, but 1t
takes a hero to do it when he is afraid.
There are some things, such as the
acquisition of knowledge and the
growth of character, that cannot be
hurried.
Many men never hear the gospel un'
til they have seen it advertised in q
sanity life. Such life is logic un'
answerable.
We are too easily depressed by an
unpromising outlook. The sun never
shines so glOriously as when 1t breaks
through a heavy cloud in the morning
Try to put yourself in another's
place. ASK, "What should like my
self if l were hard worked, or sick, ol
lonely? ?" Cultivate the habit of SYM
pathy."
The man who is always pious, but
never pleasant, is probably not much
. hal Ii. IF
man who is always pleasant, but never
pious.
The lowest temperature ever re-
corded was Oh December 30, 1871, by
Professor Gorochon, at Werchojausk
Siberia, 81 degrees below zero.
Steel pens are destroyed by corrosion
from acid in the ink. If "a nail or some
old steel pens are put in the ink the
acid will exhaust itself on them, and
the pens in use will not corrOde.
Lightning is zigzsg because as il
condenses the air in the immediate
advance of its path it flies from side tc
side in order to pass where there is the
least resistance to its progress.
A writer in the London Speaker de.
ciares that the greatest aid to digestion
| is conversation at meals and that
laughter is almost cure for dyspepsia
Take equal parts of Florence oil, OF
freshly drawn linseed oil, and lime
water; shake them well together in q
wide bottle, so as to form liniment.
This will be found an exceedingly
healing application for recent scalds
and burns. 1t may either be spread
upon cloth, or the parts affected may
be anointed with it two or three times
day.
A friend recently sent me the follow,
ing simple remedy, which she says has
given her such complete relief that she
wishes every sufferer with corns tt
know of it. Soak the feet in warm
water long time, and take off as much
of the hard skin az possible: then pui
around the toe strip of surgeons ad'
hesive plaster, sufficiently wide tc
entirely cover the corn. Wear the
plaster until it comes off or wears out
and then repeat the soaking and put on
another plaster. The plaster can be
bought at any drugstore, and five cents
worth will last a long. 1t must be
warmed before applying to the corn. -