The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1873-09-11

sbldr your iadgmeut II you say il !
good shall so esteem it. and publish jl
YOU say bad, shal acoepi the deei.
ipn, and burait
Flre away. / auswtred, In The orituta
slyle.whieh j. more srvid than your fam
ofuIlefance IN this deliberate and unim
psss,sned west.
The old gentleman read, aud read, 40,
read J Struggled maufully 70 keel
awake, aud succeeded. When he go
through be paused.
Your honest Judgment, my son.
determined 70 give an honest opm
ion, but said 10 myself, win draw 6
mild ! will not hurt the old gcptlsmapl
fselings will treat him tenderly.
Uncle, said !, the poem may have mer
It's, but fail to discover them Il Is de
tectiye In rythm, utterly aud entirely de-
void Of sentiment, aud atrocious In de
sigu. A more stupid, seuseles. perform
ancc, was never bored with Ii Is hog
I wash. II Is idiocy-it is deliberate idiOcy
( II was conceived ia weakness, ant
I brought forth In insanity. / would, fol
7 your sake, that could call II lunacy, but
/ it lacks the strength and fire that an over
turned intellect would have given st,
cannot say lunacy Ia connection with it,
for to say lunacy presupposes intellect, OF
which this performance gives 40 token
1 II Is drool II is drvcl For the sake
Of your family, do not pubiish H.
/ did not expect this criticism TO pro.
duce th effect 1t did fof il was entirely
honest and just Bat II did not strike
/ the old gentleman pleasantly at all. He
glarcd TT me a moment tiereely, and rais-
ing chair, felled me TO tie floor. He
kicked me ont of the house, protesting
the while that a more insulting dog than
was did not dwell in lspahan.
lie did publish the poem, however and
the public of lspshan sustained my crit
isism. The wits of lspahan and Teheran
made him their butt for weeks. But
when he died, he left me, who should
have been his heir, a bound copy of the
ac0ursed trash.
! followed up this thing for year. !
told an srator that bis peroution was
bosh, and his entire speech was clap
trap. Itold dervish that his whirling
and bowling were only half as good as
they had been a year before. In the most
candid manner, informed an actor who
had invited me to witness and criticise
his performance, that he was the worst |
ever saw-in short, IN that year | made
all enemy Of every man woman and child
in lspahan; and what grieved me was
that in all that time held closely to the
truth, never deviating from it hairs
breadth.
And finally came to blows with Bio
hard himself. He asked my candid opin-
ion OF "a lecture be had delivered, and !
told him what ! thought, as he had in
structed me. | merely remarked that the
badness Of the thought was only equaled
by the badness Of the execution, and that
both together were exceeded by the bad
ness of the delivery, Instead of thank
ing me, he flew into rage.
My son, truth is not the highest wis
dom in ordinary hands, but silence is.
Only very rich men can afford to spread
truth about reckleSsly. Truth is too
precious for everyday use. When rich
man says, | am plain, blunt man, and
am used to speaking the simple TRUTH
call things by their right name, | do"--
set him down as a disagreeable old brute,
who goes about making people uncom-
Portable, because he can do II safely.
When a poor man says that same, put
him down as a fool. | do not advise w.
ing, but beware of too free use of truth.
1t needs to be handled iudiciously. Were
the world perlect-were everybody as
free from weakness as, for instance, my
self, it would never answer, for truth
would thsn be pleasantly but as Il is, be-
ware of it.
Silence, my ingenious friend, is your
best hold. Silence will conceal the fact
that YOU are an inferior being, and will
offend nobody.
Let silence be your rule-speech the
exception. Then shall YOU prosper and
be counted as one Of the wise, But leave
me now, for | would rest
And Abou, after the manner Of the
Eastern sages, mixed him IN lumbIer
the strong waters Of the Giaonr, with
lemon and sugar aud q very little water,
for the water of Trenton is not good, and
swallowed it, saying BE ehesn, but il
IS good ID warns the midriff and makes
one charitable. For an excuse TO repeat,
] would be willing, almost, to heaye out
another chunk Of wisdom. .... ...
And with this oriental ejaculation, he
cIambered Into his bcd.--LOcke's M
ttoaal Monthly.
KEEP m TIP. ...