The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1895-04-18
SIDE OBSERVATIONS.

SHOULD pe foreign 10 every Ao6Il. 4
All people cannot think as we do
and likewise all people cannot see
in us the good qualities which We
are apt to think we possess. II
people do not agree with us in the
things we do, we aught to ascribe
to them the motive prompted by
honest difference. Forgiveness and
concilliation come from generous
hearts and from men and women
who are possessed Of those quail
ties which make them great. The
man who is actuated with the
spirit of revenge and the desire to
get even for real or fancied wrongs,
grows narrow and contracted and
in the end becomes the object of
pity and commiseration. The man
who is truly great is usually
measured by the proper standard
at some period of his life and re-
ceives the reward which is justly
due to him. His proper advance
ment is retarded for a time but he
can find solace IN the thought that
the 6ttest must eventually survive
and that the right always triumphs.
The old coup]et which declares
that truth crushed to earth will
rise again is as true now as ever
and any man who will bide his,
time, and labor for the cause of
humanity is bound to reap his true
reward. It is written that che
that hath light within his own
clear breast may sit in the center
of the night and enjoy bright day,
but he that hides dark soul and
foul thoughts benighted walks be-.
meath the noon day SUM- This
it seems to me applies most ap-
propriately to the man who sees
no good in an hontest, fearless foe,
but who always turks in the dark
to make vengeance upon those who
wrong him. -:
*x* -.
I. have noticed considerable
comment over the fact that mus
4enm giant, who died in Chicago
the other day, was bigger in death
than in life. I do not see any,
thing remarkable about that, we
are all freaks of nature when it
comes to that, and the man who
isn't bigger after death in some
persons opinion than he was in
lie is pretty poor sort of man.
Every one doesn't ''stretch two
inches" after quitting this mortal
sphere, as the shoemaker declared
the big man had done, but most
people stretch several hundred
feet in other peoples imagination.
The man who said funeral was
place for ''pious lies" knew the
elasticity of ones virtues and the
shrinking powers of ones defects
after death. Every great soldier
who dies Immediately becomes
"sincerely mourned'' and "the
bravest hero Of the war; Every
financier is honest; every woman is
a devoted wife and mother or an
earnest worker for the cause of
good. The frivoles, the strong
minded, the cranks and swindlers
and towards never die. Maybe
that's why they increase and
multiply with such cheerful speed.
But if every one is bigger when he
dies, it is sign, not Of hypocrisy.
but that human nature has charity,
with all it's frailties, and is sweet
to the core.
Xxx
In looking over the Listeners
column in the Window Reporter
last week we found the following
cheerful words. Excuse our
bushes: "My publisher says he
is glad that the Listener has found
another brother, besides Gossip,
of the Anoka Union. My new
brother is the Casual Observer in
the WoRTH1NGToN ADVANCE, and
he really surprises me in the
articles he writes; and he is an old
fellow, too; pears to have been
here when the town of Okabena