The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1886-08-05
THE SHAM AND THH REAL

terfeits. Bad manners and wicked
habits have theirs also; but he who
shans the bad never boasts Of it, whi;e
they who ape the virtues of the good
or simulate the genuine never hesitate
to place the counterfeit before the pub.
lie III their most alluring tones. When
these people initiate they always choose
a pronounced type or popular subject
to copy from; and when they claim to
he as good rs $50 and SO,' the public
may depend upon it that Mr.. $50 and
So" and his article are always the hest
of the kind. Thus the sham is always
proving the genuine merit Of the thing
it copies.
a firm of enterprising gentlemen
produce and p0pularjze an article of
household use, such rs the Royal Dak-
ing Powder, whose convenience, use-
fulness and real merit make for itself
an immense and universal sale. A.,
hundred jmitatOrs arise on every hand,
and as they hold out their sham article
to the public, yelp out in chorus. buy
this; Its just rs good as the Royal and
much cheaper!'' The Royal Baking
Powder is the standard the wo' Id over
and its imitators III their cry tina,
theirs is.''as good as the Royal are all
the time emphasizing this fact. In
their laborious attempts to show hy
analysis and otherwise that the Snow
| ball'' brand has as much raising
power las the Royal;' or that II e
Resurrection" powder is rs whole.
some ''as Royal:'' or that the "Earth-
quake" brand is "as pure us the Roy
al.'' rs we'll as by their contortive
twistings Of chemical ertifcates, and
labored efforts to obtain recognition
from the government chemists and
prominent scientists who have crrti-
fed the superiority Of the Royal over
all others, they all admit the ''Hoyal"
to he the acme of perfection. which it
is their highest ambition to initiate.
But the difference between the real and
these limitations, which copy only its
general appearance. is rs wide AS that
! between the paste and the true lia-
mond. The shams all pay homage to
the "Royal!''
The Lyon County Index, u "scmi.
occasional publication by Miller &
Thompson, bankers and real estate
dealers, of Rock Rapids, Iowa." is re-.
ceived. 1t is neat sheet setting forth
the beauties and advantages of Lyon
county. Editorially Mr.. Thompson
says:
1t is with profound gratitude to our
Heavenly Father, that we pen this, our
greeting for 1856, to our friends and
patrons. One year ago, personally, we
were under great cloud-were in the
"Valley and the Shadow" "but through
the kindness of an all-wise Providence
and the persistence of friends, togeth.
or with a little determination upon our
part, we are today in the enjoyment of
perfrct health, AID the society of our
friends: But how often during the
past year have we realized that ''death
comes unbidden and unheralded, and
time speeds on and strews its pathway
with the wrecks of its resistless wings.
We congratulate Mr.. Thompson on
his restoration to health and add to it.,
don't do So again." The name of the
business men is legion who are drop
ping from paralysis, brain softening,
etc, from taking on too much care
and work and getting too little play
and rest as they 60 along. A friend in
New York writing last year from the
bed of a partial paralytic, said, MY
friend, quit in time" We might ''im.
prove this occasion" to say the same
to all.