Democratic Sentinel, Volume 13, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1889 — Willing to Do His Best. [ARTICLE]

Willing to Do His Best.

“I’m a little out of funds,” said a seedy-looking individual, “and I’d like to be assisted along to the next town. Could you help me a short distance ?” “Well, really, now,” replied the citizen addressed, “you take me at a slight disadvantage. I haven’t got my heavy boots on this morning, but I can land you two or three feet farther on your way if you insist upon it.” No more fatal error can be cherished than that any character can be complete without the religious element. The essential factors in character-build-ing are religion, morality and knowledge. It is a little singular, to say the least, thut after a man has been painting tho town red he usually feels blue.