The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1890-05-08
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Many man is ready to raise IN Oh.
lection who couldn't raise cent.-Tex-
y siftings.
Gossips serve Satan without the in
tervention OF Q formal contract. Mil.
waukee Journal.
Sell your confidence at high price,
II at all; to be strong keep your own
sounsel.--Dumas. lbs. ~, ~
lit is hard to be grateful to the man
who fought your battle for you and got
licked. Globe. -. -.
Tho easiest money to spend, and the
hardest money to save, is that which we
have not yet earned.-N. Y. Ledger.
We sleep, but tho loom Of life never
stops; and the pattern which was weav-
Ing when the sun went down is weaving
when 1t comes up tomorrow.
1T is often more necessary to con-
oeal contempt than resentment, tho
former being never forgiven, but the
lattor being sometimes forgot Chester
field.
The true strength of every human
soul is to be dependent on as many no
bier as it can discern; and to be depend
ed upon by as many inferior as it can
reach.
We can not make much of people
who lack stability. And yet how many
there are who have kindly instincts and
good faculties in many directions, but
who spoil their whole livos by simple
want of earnestness.-Ulited Presbyte.
eian.
The only possible cure for bitter
memory is to sweeten it in the unselfsh
spirit that can return good for evil. A
fountain like this in any human heart
will quench every burning resentment
in its overlooking tide.-Journalo of Com.
mercc.
Our chief concern in life is not with
the things that are done to us. or that
happen to us, but with what we do our
and faithful in his relations in life,
nothing can happen to him which con-
tains any shallow of real humiliation
Christian Union.
Slang and exaggoration are the bane
of our speech and literature. We snatch
At by-sayings and phrases of double
meaning rather than sift our ideas and
mako careful selection Of language for
the conveyance of thought. Plain
words lose their moaning, become too
weak to 80 alone, and have to be boil
stored up by adjectives. Marion Har-
land.
!sHow little is known of what is in
the bosom Of those around us. We
might explain many GOODNESS could we
look into the heart concealed from us.
Wa should often pity where we hate,
love where we curl the lip with scorn
and Indignation. 10 Judge without re-
serve of any human action is culpable
temerity, of all our sins the most un-
feeling and frequent
THE DECK COMPLETE.
rwenty Years Spent in Picking Up Pack
of Cards.
Frank Damek, member of the SPORT
ing fraternity of Chicago, has probably
the queerest deck of cards in the world.
He has been twenty years collecting
the pack and is exceedingly proud of it.
He first began by picking up playing
cards in the street when he happened to
run across them. In this way he got fit
teen or more before he began striking
duplicates. Some days he would find two
or three, and then it would be months
before he would see another stray PASTE
board. But he persevered and always
kept his eyes open to add to his strange
collection. In ten years he had all but
thirteen cards necessary to complete his
deck. In the next three years he con-
sfdered himself lucky in finding all but
four. The missing ones were the jack
of clubs, the deuce of diamonds, the
eight-spot of diamonds, and the trey
OF spades. In the course of an
other year he picked up the
eight of diamonds and six months
later was overjoyed to find what
he at first thought was a full deck of
cards lying on the sidewalk on Dearborn
street, between Adams and jackson
streets. He thought his long search
was at an end and that he could easily
complete his wonderful deck. The jack
of clubs and the trey of spades were
there all right, but five or six cards were
missing, and among them the deuce of
diamonds. 1t seemed as though he
would never be able to secure his fifty.
second card, but the other day he enter
ed one of the suburban trains on the
Northwestern, and almost the first thing
he saw was the deuce of diamonds face
upwards in the aisle. It was gilt-edged
and glossy backed, the finest of them
all. He had been searching for it for
five and a half years, and breathed
sigh of relief. The pack is composed of
cards of all qualities, from the cheapest
to the highest priced. Some are clean
and bright and others are soiled and
we'll worn.-Chicago Tribune.
HE WAS IN TROUBLE.
A verdant Jerseyman Encounters
Benevolent Gothamlte.
He came over from Jersey City, but
hung around the station on this side so
long that an officer finally asked If he
was in trouble.
II think I AMI really think I am"
was the reply. Look at this twenty
dollar bill and tell me if It is all
right"
well, take it to the ticket-window,"
replied the officer. And the bill was no
sooner presented there than the agent
said it was bad.
Coming over on the boat" said tho
man, as he received the bill back, "a
young man asked me to change it, so
that he could give poor widow five dol
lars. gave him four fves."
II see."
Sand it was q swindle on me-"
''You bet"
''Well, it's wrong, very wrong. It is
absolutely without excuse No man