Rensselaer Republican, Volume 13, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1881 — “Cheek.” [ARTICLE]

“Cheek.”

Burdette, the sage of Burlington, discourses as followeth: “No, my son, it is not better than wisdom; it :s not better than modesty; it is not letter than anything. Don’t listen x> the siren who tells you to blow pour own horn or it will never be mooted 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, my son. It appears to do so to the cheeky man, but he is the one who is deceived. Do you know one cheeky man in all your acquaintance who ?s not reviled by his cheek the moment his back is turned ? Is the world not continually drawing distinctions between cheek and merit? Almost everybody hates a cheeky man, my son. Society tires es the ?;lare of the brassy face, the hollow inkling of his cymbaline 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 to him. But so they give way, my boy. for a man with a paint pot in each hand. Not because they respect the man with the paint pot particularly, but because they want to take care of their clothes.”

One of the last bills enacted by the German reichstag previous to the close of the session was one which provides for the insurande by employers of the laborers and clerks who may die while in their service. Two-thirds of the premium is to be paid by the employer and one-third by the employe. It will only effect workmen earning lees than SSOO a year.