The Ouachita telegraph. [volume] (Monroe, La.) 1865-1889, 1871-05-27
The HALLWAY MISUNDERSTANDING In
& resting About II.
From III. Chicago Railway Review. ]

ana tpp.lAlltht rNrrrlSt OF tho bptllN
functions tends to develop and strength
en- the entire muscular system; and
that, in analogy to this principle, cNer-
else of the mental functions cducatrS
and develops them. not merely III one
direction. but in all their powers.
In no other department, of busy life,
with its thousands of complications and
conflicts. is this principle so admirably
cNcmpiitied and illustrated as in that
OF railway management. In the hurry,
jostlc and jar of an exciting business
life. with its many cares, anN ietitH' and
duties, our railway men, ;lS the rule,
stand prc-rn,inrnt for their quickn ness
of perception for mcthodical habits of
thought by which they are enabled to
grasp and comprehend at uicc--at \
very Slanc.'-thc difficulties and per
plcXiticS Of amy given, sudden rnlcr
gcncy and for mas,crly executive abil-
ity in the issue of prompt, efficient in
StructionS in the hour Of danger or dis
astcr--hc it physical, financial or po-
litical. Many are the men known in
this profession who would have made
most excellent admirals or generals! {!
We hazard the arcrmcnt that nine in
naval or military commanders in our
late war, than the same proportion of
men taken from any other profession
cSprcially when COMPARED with the
''politic,i generals ut whose hands we
suffered so much disaster in the outset I!
The reason for this is obvious. TO
illustrates: If a man he kept driving
shOe-pcgS exclusively for years, he will
degenerate bodily and mentally into q
moro machinc-a very L"Xtcrous one,
il may be, but still nothing better t'an
II shoc-pcg manipulation. Put that same
man in n forge or machine shop, and set
him to handling pondcrous s!tdgcs and
dc,linu with intricatc nu,, nice ma
chinrry. and he will devotion all his
phvsiure. oven if he docs not become n
skillful artisan. so, too, let II man he
confined TO the pcnnv-hatfrrnny deal
mos and trade of an Obscure country
grocery, the magnitude of whose opera
tiouS NAV he measured TN. Il Gill Gun
and a herring, and such Il one. if he
does not lrrenc cratc into an exceedingly
snou srrcimeu of hunluuity will at
any rate never lcNelOp a C,ilI-SiZcd
llihcral-mindrd, generous n,anhond.
R,;lv.,v mo, or.. o,,uc,t.d IN ,rn ,t
tb. VOW, ,n.t scI,,n,. fnr ,,.nt,, di..
ni,>,;,,, I-x.c,t i, tho r,r, ipst,rccs
| in v,h;ch hy ,rc;frnt nf Cnrt,n, mon
;,.h"..y nc i ,vrrc =, commemorative M.
| s;,;n, j., five rror,...;nu t,r,i ,hc,, thoy
| G,,l thon,sclrc. ,,unn,Ic.l +, Lnfnr ~
,L, ,,;,,;n,S amt ,;,.;.. ,c ,,tt,,., nr,,,
nnr;,n.r, thr rr,,t ,,,i,r;t,. h,xo -.
| ..o,1,d Nv s,,cco.c;>, ,pI i,t,r;,,,,
ut,,,c tho I,,l,Icr ,h;ci, ,c,,l. from, m,
,.n,,,t;nr-rn,u Stool in 1,,nr,;,w,,, luc;
no..s nt,;cr To cnn,m,nj;ur ,n.it;nn. in
,rr,,, cnr,,,r,t;nns whrrc thr;r int,r,.
',a,,; =. f,It ~ w, .,I,,,',,, ,,,,;nr,I =, nv,
I
| - is in .uth , schn,L th.; .,,,, mon
,,n ,,l,r,trJ and ,lcvrIorrL ,s ,rbomn-
.n, scott G,rr,tt \.,ntI,r,,i,t f;ould
| 4. S,,,;tI, n,,J.,, I,.- -rr,., n,,,u
I,, r1,clLstnnn phiI,;n. Parsons Dim
I'm, NI.tu,Io,,ub tb, I,n,cntnI T,,rncr
and :, host of others ,r whom orr conn.
trv n,uvwcll fccl proud. and WHO would
Inc it, nridc in any nrnfi.s.ion. Such
circumstances, and ds,,rr,uuLin,r. cannot
fail of cvrrtin,, tIrir r,tur,I md >,,u
,LI. ;nt,urnrrs u,,nn mind and cb,r,c
b,hit. and command of thnurbt
# i. mot every ono /, br surc who cam
,tt,iu s,,r,, prr-rmincncc \ man must
possr-4 the native cnnmruiIul material
to he cultivated and wrought upOn or
all the training of a lifetime will provo
fruitlCS4.
Accordingly we arc well prepared to
find. nS We do. that our i:-tiuguiShcti
| railway managers are, ~ II class, men
| of fine native abilities. We find them
| to be. almost without exception, pos
SrSStd Of vigorous intcllcct%, whose pro-
cC>Sc- arc peculiarly rapid ana arcur:.tr;
! of comprehensive. liberal views. enter
| priSinE and extensive purposes and gen
| crOuS emotions; and these excellent
Faculties ana characteristics are not con