The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-07-25
SIDE OBSERVATIONS.

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You may not be missed a great
deal by a very wide circle of peo-
pie when you die, and it won't be
necessary for you to leave much
money for tomb stone. The few
people who love you, who tenderly
and truly love you, will know
which mound covers your sleeping
figure, and they can find it by the
ferns and grasses that wave above
it, and a monument ninety feet
high won't make strangers care
for you, nor make them love you.
You may not be- missed a great
deal when you die, but that isn't
what you want to think about.
You waut to make yourself felt and
noticed while you are here. That
is what you want to do and that is
more than most people do. Now
and then you will meet man who
actually rejoices in mean, envious
sort of a way.to think that in a few
years his most popular and sue
cessful neighbor will be dead and
forgotten. It may be true that
this big, wide world is SO busy
with the living she does seem to
forget her children when they fall
fast asleep. But you will notice
that the man who rejoices in this
is usually man whom she has
forgotten while yet he lives; one
who is not noticed zone who is not.
felt or heard of in tie world.
Go ahead and don't stop to wonder
whether the world will remember
you or miss you one hundred years
from now-little you will care for
this old world in an hundred years
from now. When you are gone the
world will get along without you;
but while you are here make it un-
derstood that you are running
part of this show yourself, if it is
nothing more than standing at the
tent door and directing the people
to pass to the right and move along
in front of the cages.
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The young man without some
trade or profession is like a ship
without a sail, that drifts about
with every breeze. He works at
one thing or another wherever he
can get the best wages, sort of a
"Jack-o' -all-trades and master of
none," until at last he gets to mid
die age with nothing in view, and
no better off than when he started
out. It is somewhat discouraging
to the young man learning a trade
when he sees his companion per-
haps working at something he is
making two or three times as much
as he, and if the matter is not
looked at as it really stands it is
not very pleasant to contemplate.
It should be remembered, however,
that when a trade is learned that a
stock of capital is laid up that will
never be loss in an insolvent bank
or anything of that sort. Take
boy who has learned a trade, and
if he has been faithful and becomes
good workman, you will invar-
iably find that he has developed
spirit of self-reliance and ability
to 60 ahead with his work that
gives people confidence in him. "
It is the boy who attends strictly
to business and makes his employ
ers interest his own, who will make
his mark as a business man. An
industrious, energetic, painstaking,
boy never wants for place, and
these, with stability of character,
are all the recommendation needed.
And these are SO plain that every
business man reads them and
mentally concludes: "That boy
will succeed because he deserves
success CASUAL OBSERVER.
: Temperance Picnic Entertain
ment Wednesday, July 81.