Part 25 (2/2)

ELIZA COOK

A man who knows the world will not only s he does not know; and will gain norance, than the pedant by his aard atte e wins praise, and often acquires more reputation than actual brilliancy--ROCHEFOUCAULD

”Tact clinches the bargain, Sails out of the bay, Gets the vote in the Senate, Spite of Webster or Clay”

”I never will surrender to a nigger,” said a Confederate officer, when a colored soldier chased and caught hi his rifle; ”it a white man” The officer surrendered

”When God endowed hus with brains,” says Montesquieu, ”he did not intend to guarantee theislature the first tiamon River, he went to secure the votes of thirtya wheatfield They asked no questions about internal improvements, but only seeh to represent theang around the field The whole thirty voted for him

”I do not kno it is,” said Napoleon in surprise to his cook, ”but at whatever hour I call for ood condition” This seee because soht and at other times as late as eleven ”Sire,” said the cook, ”the reason is, that every quarter of an hour I put a fresh chicken down to roast, so that your Majesty is sure always to have it at perfection”

Talent in this age is no match for tact We see its failure everywhere Tact will et more out of it in a lifetime than ten talents will accomplish without it ”Talent lies abed till noon; tact is up at six” Talent is power, tact is skill Talent knohat to do, tact kno to do it

”Talent is so It is not a sixth sense, but it is like the life of all the five It is the open eye, the quick ear, the judging taste, the keen smell, and lively touch; it is the interpreter of all riddles, the surmounter of all difficulties, the remover of all obstacles”

The world is full of theoretical, one-sided, iies of their lives into one faculty until they have developed, not a full-orbed, symmetrical man, but a monstrosity, while all their other faculties have atrophied and died We often call these one-sided eniuses, and the world excuses their impractical and almost idiotic conduct in most matters, because they can perform one kind of work that no one else can do as well A h he -room Adam Smith could teach the world econoe the finances of his own household

Many great men are very impractical even in the ordinary affairs of life Isaac Newton could read the secret of creation; but, tired of rising from his chair to open the door for a cat and her kitten, he had two holes cut through the panels for thee hole for the cat, and a sreat musician, but he sent three hundred florins to pay for six shi+rts and half a dozen handkerchiefs He paid his tailor as large a sum in advance, and yet he was so poor at tilass of water for dinner He did not know enough of business to cut the coupon from a bond when he wanted money, but sold the whole instrument Dean Swift nearly starved in a country parish where his more practical classmate Stafford became rich One of Napoleon's marshals understood military tactics as well as his chief, but he did not know men so well, and lacked the other's skill and tact Napoleon ht fall; but, like a cat, he would fall upon his feet

For his argument in the Florida Case, a fee of one thousand dollars in crisp new bills of large deno in his library The next day he wished to use some of the money, but could not find any of the bills Years afterward, as he turned the page of a book, he found a bank-bill without a crease in it

On turning the next leaf he found another, and so on until he took the whole ahtlessly, as he read Learning of a new issue of gold pieces at the Treasury, he directed his secretary, Charles Lanman, to obtain several hundred dollars' worth A day or two after he put his hand in his pocket for one, but they were all gone Webster was at first puzzled, but on reflection reiven them away, one by one, to friends who seemed to appreciate their beauty

A professor in e, a ”book-wor home some coffee ”How much will you have?”

asked the uess a bushel will do”

Many a great man has been so absent-minded at times as to seem devoid of common-sense

”The professor is not at home,” said his servant who looked out of ain the dark and failed to recognize Lessing when the latter knocked at his own door in a fit of absent- ”No matter, I'll call at another tin in Europe fit to govern, for he could black his own boots The world is full of hly educated, yet who can scarcely get a living

Not long ago three college graduates were found working on a sheep fare, and the other fro brutes! Trained to lead norant, coarse sheep-raiser He knew nothing of books or theories, but he knew sheep

His three hired graduates could speak foreign languages and discuss theories of political economy and philosophy, but he couldbut sheep and fareEven the University could not supply coainst the ranch; and the ranch beat every time”

Do not expect too much from books Bacon said that studies ”teach not their own use, but that there is a practical wisdom without them, won by observation” The use of books reat French scholar: ”He was drowned in his talents” Over-culture, without practical experience, weakens a man, and unfits him for real life Book education alone tends to make a man too critical, too self-conscious, timid, distrustful of his abilities, too fine for the hly polished, and too finely cultured for every day use

The culture of books and colleges refines, yet it is often but an ethical culture, and is gained at the cost of vigor and rugged strength Book culture alone tends to paralyze the practical faculties The bookworm loses his individuality; his head is filled with theories and saturated with other ht froraduates, he is astonished to find that he has lost the power to grapple with s, and is therefore out-stripped in the race of life by the boy who has had no chance, but who, in the fierce struggle for existence, has developed hard coraduate often th He inhabits an ideal realm where common sense rarely dwells

The world cares little for his theories or his encyclopaedic knowledge

The cry of the age is for practicalyou several weeks,” said Coluh at first you treated us like friends, you are now jealous of us and are trying to drive us away You brought us food in plenty everyvery little and the a day The Great Spirit is angry with you for not doing as you agreed in bringing us provisions To show his anger he will cause the sun to be in darkness” He knew that there was to be an eclipse of the sun, and told the day and hour it would occur, but the Indians did not believe him, and continued to reduce the supply of food