Democratic Sentinel, Volume 15, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 February 1891 — Wise Sayings. [ARTICLE]

Wise Sayings.

A true principle never dies. Activity is not always energy. Every man owes a debt to mankind. Be content with such things as ye have. Be the architect of your own fortune. The present is the golden moment of life. In shoal water you know how deep it is. Only very mean men always take the half cent. The most liberal are oftener the most successful. Health is too costly a blessing to be fooled away. } Loyalty to host convictions is an im/ portant duty. No blessino equals the possession of a stout heart A man of business is not a'ways a business man.

A Showman’s Life. - “Haven’t you something of interest to relate about your own circus life and the •how business in general?” I inquired of Dan Eice. “The story of my life is a strange one —a very strange one. Forty years ago I first entered the ring, and since then probably twenty eircuses have existed under my name. For nine years I received §I,OOO per week, and I know all the men who have gained distinction in the ring. I have been worth over 8900,000, and I have given away as much. Forepaugh, Nathan, Cooper, Bailey & Co., E. E. Spaulding, Avery Smith, and; other well-known managers have traveled under my name, and W. C. Coup* who has now the best circus in the United States, was once a side-showman with, me, and is a very likely and liberal gentleman for all that. The jokes of old Dan have been heard in almost every city and town in the entire land. I haveput up tents throughout the entire West which would no more hold the people who flocked to my show than this room would hold the crowds who throng weekly the church of a Talmage or Beecher. There are four circuses traveling now under my name—one in Texas, one iu Arkansas, one on the Mississippi River, and one in Australia. East in the spring, North and Northwest in the summer, and South in the fall is the order of circusgoing. But my mind wanders to-night. Old Dan is not himself any more< A circus-clown is not a very elevate! character in the eyes of the world; but, with all his failings, a circus-clown has a heart, and doesn’t the Bible say, ‘ Judge not, that ye may not be judged?’ ” And so the old man talked for a couple of hours and more. He told of his divorce case, of his intentions to lecture one hundred nights at SIOO per night, and as he now and then recalled the scenes of his former days an expression of sadness would pass over his aged face, for whisky and time are fast doing their work for old Dan. —Chicago Tribune.