Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1898-08-03
dt'ausiae Gatherings.

to suit you, pump up the tire.
u8. People who "brace up" on whis'
XIV are liable to break down on it.
aaS Don't consider task impossible
because you are unable to peform it.
p9 He is worthy of other friends
who makes his parents his best friends
p9- They best honor father. and
mother who themselves live honorable
lives.
p8 He is the happiest, be he king OF
peasant, who finds peace in his own
| home.
u6 Educate the children in temper.
ance matters and you begin at the
right end.
n@ If some men felt as bad as they
really are, it would be useless to call
in doctor.
R@ If some mems regulations were
visible, they would look very much
like porous plasters.
n6r Men are more easily made rich
by diminishing their desire, than by
adding to their riches.
s@ 1t frequently puzzles policeman
to distinguish between a drunken
wheelman and a beginner.
s6r Once in a lifetime we meet a
friend whose hand-clasp is warm
enough to be remembered.
rag There is no man so great as not
to have some littleness more predomi-
nant than all his greatness.
B@ If man pays girl few com
pliments, she is very apt to feel hurt
when he suspends payment.
E9p Economy is half the battle OF
life. 1t is not so hard to earn money
as to spend it well.-Spurgeon.
p@ Don't be sIovenly in your dress
This applies to women only, as men
are not supposed to wear dresses.
B9- In these days of struggle for ex-
istence the working and business man
cannot afford to spend money on liquor.
s9- When Milton spoke of the Crooks
whereon the greatest men have oftest
wrecked" he probably had rock and
rye in his mind.
s@ Figures were used by the Arab
an Moors about 900, and were intro
duced into Spain in 1000, and into
England in 1858.
H9- "What's a civilian ?' "a civil
ian is a man who stays at home and
thinks up ways for the army command
ers to run the war;"
B~ A physician should have a cheer
full countenance. A sentence of death
on his face is as bad as a warrant for
execution signed by the governor.
nag A grain of iron may be divided
into 100000 parts, and gold may be
beaten so fine that it will take l, $780,
900 leaves to make an inch in thick
ness.
aS 1t is said that the demand for
things regulates their supply. In the
case of Intoxicating drink, however,
it seems as if this rule worked the
other way.
B@~ "That luminous paint is splen-
did invention What do they use it
for ?" ave paint the baby so we can
give him drink in the night without
lighting the gas"
nag at is better to put silver dol
lar on the collection plate than five
dollar gold piece" said Bloomfield to
Bellefeld. "How do you figure that
out? ?" "Makes more noise"
g 1t is Is years since the first ia
panese newspaper was established, and
now there are in existence SIS daily
and weekly papers, IS law magazines,
IL scientific, and large number OF
religious journals.
BH A physician says that smoking
makes men bald-headed. Smoking in
the parlor after the lace curtains have
been freshly put up is apt to have that
effect when the smokers wife finds it
out.
BDr A facetious boy asked one of his
playmates how hardware dealer diff
fered from a bootmaker. The latter
replied, somewhat puzzled, "Give it
up" "Why, because the one sold
nails, and the other nailed soles," was
the reply.
s9~ DR.. Jalap-"I hate to speak Of
lit, Mr.. Stikkum, but seeing that it is
more than a year since attended you
and the bill is still standing, I must
say that you are rather slow pay"
"But you must remember it was a
slow fever I had"
sB A witness in an English court
was requested to describe certain
man. He did it in this unique way :
"He looks more like gentleman than
anything else. He walks about all
day doing nothing, going from public
house to public house."
p4r So long as man who has been
in the habit or danger Of intoxication
continues to drink he will 60 where
drink is sold; he will be habitually in
the company Of associates who will
easily overpower his best resolutions.
For such men total abstinence is al
most the only hope.
p@ "Mamma, what's bookworm?
"One who loves to read and study, and