Rensselaer Republican, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1879 — “Cheek.” [ARTICLE]

“Cheek.”

No, my son, cheek is not better than wisdom; it is not better than honest modesty, it is not better than anything. Don’t listen to’the siren who tells you to blow your own horn or it will never be tooted upon. The world is not to be deceived by cheek, and it does search for merit, and when it finds it merit is rewarded. Cheek never deceives the world, son. It appears to do so, to the cheeky man, but he is the one who isdeceived. Do you know one cheeky man in all your acquaintance who is not reviled for his cheek the moment his back is turned? Is not the world continually drawing distinctions between cheek and merit? Almost everybody hates the cheeky man, my son. Society tires of the brassy glare of his face, the hollow tinkling of his cymballine tongue, the noisy assumption of his forwardness. The triumphs of cheek are only apparent. He bores his way along through the world, and frequently better people give way for him. But so they give way, my boy, for a man with . a in each hand. Not because they respect the man with the paint pots, particularly, but because they want to take care of their clothes. Avoid cheek, my son. You can sell goods without it; and your customers won’t run and hide in the cellar when they see you coming. Burlington Hawk-Eye. In Baikal (Siberia') soundings have been obtained which, for a lake, are truly astonishing. In the upper part the depth is 3,027 metres (about the height of mount Etna), but downward the bottom constantly descends, and near the opposite end, a distance of some 350 miles, the depth amounts to 3,766 metres. The measurement far exceeds anything to be found in the Mediterranean Sea, which, in its deepest part, has only 2,197 metres of water. How such an extraordinary depression as that of Baikal could have occurred in the midst of a continent is a problem which greatly puzzles geologists, but the generally accepted idea is that it was the result of some volcanic eruption in past ages, and a consequent subsidence of the crust of the earth to avast extent. The lakes in the centre of New Zealand are equally remarkable in point of depth. The extreme depths of the Taupo and Waikari lakes in the north, and Lake Wakatpu in the south, have never b6en fathomed. They are known to be very far below the sea-level,