The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1897-02-23
WAYSIDE
Bus Oh Humor and Nuggets of Truth
for the multitude.

Amy delayed duty, be it ever so
small, becomes irksome and disagreed.
BILE.
january l was made the begin
nlng OF the legal year in England in
There are in France 2 $50 femal.
authors and journalists, and about 700
female artists.
Let him who regrets the loss of
time mak proper use OF that which j.
TO come In the future.
No one is 30 poor as the man VIII,
worries over the fact that he mas moth
log to grumble about.
1t is estimated that about 40, 600
horses wore exported in 1896. a much
larger total than ever before.
Trying to be happy is like trying
to go to sleep. You viii not succeed
unless you forget that you are trying.
Louisiana now remains the only
State which confers the suffrage upon
foreigners in advance of naturaliza-
ton.
l. illness will cover your garden
with weeds. Hard drinking, if you
keep 1t up, will cover your wife with
weeds.
There are some things, such as
the acquisition of knowledge snd be
growth of character, hat cannot be-
hurried.
The small things of life are often
OF more Importance than the great /:
the slow than the quick the still than
the noisy.
There can be no greater folly In
man, than by much labor to Increase
mis- goods, and with vain pleasure to
lose his soul.
When the queen Of Italy enters a
store to do her shopping, the doors are
closed and the public excluded until
she has left.
The public lands still vacant in
this country amount to over 600, 00O-
0OO acres. without including Alaska
with its 1868, 600, 600 acres.
IL it were not for the salt OF the
ocean the whole sea would soon become
a ass OF corruption, owing to the or
ganic matter it contains.
There are 300 distilleries in the
United States. North Car DINA leads
with 1924, and Virginia is next with
1902. Pennsylvania has 139.
Within the last $50 year the IA lie
OF speed OF ocean steamers has trebled,
and the usual horse power increased
from 700 to 10000.
-One reason why more women do
not get their lives insured may be hat
the applicant for life insurance is al.
ways required to make a statement o,
his age.
If the time we spend in wishing
we u q other peoples advantages were
spent In using our own, we would soon
nave as many advantages as We could
wish.
While many ministers are con
siderlng how they may fiji up their
churches, MIR. Moody thinks the great.
est need of the Christian church il
thinning out"
when you become convinced tina,
you have done a wrong thing, it Is no,
q sign OF weakness for YOU to make y
prompt and explicit acknowledgment,
OF the fact.
The demand for frogs has reached
Colleton county, S. c.. and the count,
press think it would be a profitable
business to engage in.
-Mlnnesota and South Dakota ar,
the only two States Of the Union tina,
nave half of their population make ~
VI ioIclS u-DOrn
is the social life of your neighbour
hnod all that could be desired ? Cult
vate the friendship OF good neighbors
IL one to better life.
1t is a waste of energy to resolve
to break of n bad habit, if we ar.
as firmly resolved to hold on to anoLher
God doe. not give us grace to make =
comprt mise with him.
1t has been noticed, saws the
Somcrville Journal, that the moder
ate drinker does not always agree witt
other people in his idca Of what mod
crate drinking is.
When the Bre mariner puts tc
sea, his prayer is, Keep me, nv Cod
my boat is so small, and Thy ocean :,
VIDE " Does not this beautiful prayel
truly express the condition OF each
OF us?
-" Yoh KANT set down no fixed
rule O. conduct in disher life" said
ULcle Eben. Samson got inter trou
ne case ho done got his h'ah cut, an
didn't"
My boy" said old Drywater,
y IN all creation you won't find any ami
mo- SA'op' Hau VINO makes q haDlt o.
smoking" -" Yes, Sir. But neither dc
| know any other animal that cook
his meals"
In P%enobscot County, Me-. the
n imposed on dealers who violate
the liquor law pay all the county ex.
penses., The fines are collected with
as much regularity as if they we're Ii.
censes.
~-Scientists claim that the daily use
OF onions by children will prevent dip.
liberia, scarlet fever and worms. While
the children may BE able TO stand
10, tho delicate aroma of the frag rant
onion is too much for bacteria and
microbes.