Bluefield evening leader. [volume], November 07, 1906, Image 5

About Bluefield evening leader. [volume] (Bluefield, W. Va.) 1906-1911

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WHY HE WAS NOT
▲ SUCCESS.
He became saturated with other
men’s thoughts.
He depended too much on books.
He thought his education was
completed when he left college.
He regarded his diploma as sn
insurance policy agatst failure.
His mind was clogged with theo
ries and Impractical facts.
He mistook a stuffed memory for
ed^jtion. knowledge for power, and
scholarship for mastership.
He knew languages and sciences,
but was ignorant of human nature.
He knew Latin and Qreek, but
could not make out a bill of goods
or bill of sale.
He was well posted in political
economy, but could not write a de
cent business letter.
His four years in the world of
books left him permanently out of
Joint with the world of practical af
fairs.
The stamina of the vigorous. Inde
pendent mind he had brought from
the farm was lost in academic re
finements.
lie thought that his four years’
college course had placed him Im
measurably above those who had not
had that advantage.
He had never assimilated what he
learned and w»r crippled by mental
dyspepsia.
The habit of discriminating mi
nutely, welghiri£ balancing and con
sidering all sides of a question de
stroyed his power of prompt decis
ion.
He thoughth that the world would
bo at his feet when he left college,
und made no effort to win its favor.
He could not digest his knowledge.
He knew enough, but could not
manage It effectively—could not
transmute his knowledge Into prac
tical power.—Success Magazine.
HOW TRAILS
ARE MADE.
How do tho aborigines know their
way through the country ns well as
the wild beasts that Inhabit It? How
do the natives know the way as well
ns the aborigines? How do explorers
and travelers from without find the
pusses and fords of the rivers and
creeks and easiest passages of the
deep waters? How do they get
through the forests and avoid the
labyrinths and deadly tangles of un
derbrush? Then he answers his own
question. The answer Is quite simple.
Instinct moves tho beasts on the
shortest course compatible with their
needs of existence. The Indian fol
lows the trail of the animal. The na
tive white man follows the trail of
the Indian or bears close to It. Ev
erybody follows a trail. Why did
Boone pass into Kentucky through
Cumberland Cap? How did he know
that, bearing to the South from his
North Carolina homo, he would find
a pass through the mountain? Be
cause great herds of buffalo had
passed through thero and Indians
In quest of them. Boone followed a
trail, though later on ho blazed one
of his own for his wagons and first
settlers.Appleton’s Magazine.
WILL MOVE
LEPER HOSPITAL.
NFW SITUATION IN INLAND OF
MATANZA8.
Upon the recommendation of Car
los Qarcla y Vole/, Inspector of pub
lic Institutions, Ran Laznro hospital
at Havana, In which there are seve
ral hundred lepers, will probably he
shortly removed to on Island off the
northern coast of Mantasas prov
ince. The removal of this hospital
has Ion* beeu desired, but the pro
ject has been opposed by the wealthy
private corporation by which It Is
controled.
Americans on the Isle of Pines
are excited over the arrest and Im
prisonment of a countryman named
Holmesburg, on the charge of cut
ting down a tree on the boundary
line of his own property. A committee
ha* gone from the Island to request
Oov. Magoon to depose the present
mayor and appoint as acting mayor
Hecond Lieut Robert Tottonl of the
marine corps. There has been ru
mors for some days past of a pro
jected uprising of moderates In San
tiago province, but no Importance Is
attached to them.
There Is a plant In Chicago that
manufactures more maple sugar In
a month than Is produced by nature
In the whole of thestate of Vermont
In ft year.
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