Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1873-06-12
Miscellany.
THE MAN WHO DIDN'T.

In seems hard that a mans mother bv
the conformation she gives his head, de
veloping this bump, suppressing that, may
shape his course to happiness or misery
before he has voice in the matter Yet
ever do great effects hang on little hooks
Of causes. Mr.. Spurzheim tells us if that
little bonv process is flattened whereunder
Hope is supposed to tabernacle, the man
is predisposed to melancholy, to the black
blues, to selfdestruction, in fact
Iy Tom had brave olive face, but his
fleece must have grown over that bump
depressed, Us grass grows over a sunken
grave. You see | want TO handle Toms
case impartially, to find excuses for him
If | can. You have no right to Judge a
man before looking at all the motives un-
der which he moved
When Tom was very Young. finding
himself in the mud, he determined to
stand high and dry as soon as endeavor
could put him so. He took hold of life
with his might, Now every son of Adam
must expect to be turned out ofhis garden
once or twice in his lifetime. The trouble
with people Is that they expect too much
OF the world. Tom held it only honest of
the world to give him success for his hon
est endeavor, But the world is Just a
"leetle mar" like Barkis, hard-fsted in
dealing out rewards to beginners.
Toms natural bent was towards journal
ism. SO he besun in the chrysalis state OF
carrier, and wriggled through the inter
mediate stages of printer, reporter, cor
respondent, hoping in time to sport in the
nigh sun OF prosperity, a full-spread,
qlsel6aeted editor-a mighty editor who
should reach all over the nation and
mould the masses That was Toms ideal
Tom And do say, and shall maintain
till my lates, breath, ii Is noblcr to point
your arrow ut the sun and miss it, than to
spend your life growing vain over your
ability to bring down game flying on a
level with your nose
Toms peculiar genius was not appre-
ciated by the public He was a procres-
siye, independent fellow. but failed to
make himself "the style" He was a faith
FIJI reporter, ran up and down whole
Bahels OF stairs, played Nero over fires
till he could scent flame for miles, outran
the coroner to every murder, and knew
everything that was going on almost be.
fore it happened But there were things
my spirited Tom did mt do. He never
borrowed Jenkins Quill, and went to Mrs.
GrUndy's ball with Webstcr's Unabridged
under his arm to squeeze dry Of adjectives
on the dry-go0dS there Whirled before
him. lie never whispered to the public
how lovely the refined and elegant Mrs.
a looked in sand-papered founces, how
Miss Florence NJ on this occasion found
something to wear in the shape of trans
cendtnt ro5e St Sose, finished by an elabo-
rste dress-coat with tails en- train, and the
stately Misses B disportcd themselves
in superb and oyerpowering point shawls
But he was father TO many of those
startling paragraphs, now so common 10
tile reporter that they cease to shock YOU
Instead OF telling you that Patrick AIur
PLY fell Of train and was killed he
would dish you Up a spicy item about
1r Nurphy's diving from the TOP of a
car after his hat when running at thirty
miles an hour, and his sons tfIfaIIy wear
Ing hat hat II the funeral next day.
Unfortunately, just rs Tom was COMING
oat nervous corresp spondent, he fell in
love Now, generally speaking, it is rood
70 fall il love. The best mental exercise
you are capable of, is loving. 1t isn't
the 'saddest of all the sad things of life"
- Mr.. Nillard sings Nor life. nor death.
nor principalities, nor powers, can sepa-
rate our souls from the crowns which rest
on them when we learn this selfrenunci-
alton. You had better even love hui
man grlnd-stone, and have it wear YOU TO
intense keenness and sensibility, than
tumble about rusty and blunt all your
days. But no two people look at thing
IN the same light Ny ardent, impassion3
ed Tom expected as large a return from
his investment in matrimonv as he did
from his investment in business He
hadn't learned large charity for his kind
ile was young. And truly few have
learned it when they are old
he tore his hair, and neglected his
Wofk, It'll the angel was in his arms Then
.,, @'s.E brief reyel, he stared to discover
Ia angels take a deal of pluming. are
- leleGs in their desires, and fret to fly
!, - liei lnan q single poor newspaper
1nSn : gun will carry them. IfTom had
married ms grandmother. or the strong.
minced lll.,, woman Of the present dav, with
her straight skirts and umbrella or + he
had met the queen Of Women. that iarors
true, passionate, strong, mobile crect1~e
who takes hold of the world and hIeSsos
ller whole passage through il, how dif
lerenl might Toms record have been,
but ne married Ada Ada had briebt
haT, but 1t shone like the sun-aboye