Idaho tri-weekly world. (Idaho City, Idaho) 1875-1875, 1875-04-21

o.nst hine bout Socrates.

l Socrates WIS OeeSs01
nm i The technical sense, he was no
L Philosopher. He found philosophy te,
.s,iods, ruthless stuff = continent :. OF
/ .ist-clouds, and protested against It's
!, rash and waste. he said the topics
,,,at men should study were, human
nature "why man is here, anu
!, what is the path Of nobleness!'
aKnow myself was his perpetual
Y I, function. He never wrote a book.
10 was not . student. He was a
y me missionary. His method OF IN
!. ruction was by direct conversation,
!. I'D his field was wherever ne could
~,ot into easy, natural relations with
4, ZEN. He did not look like . philoso'
7, her. To the Athenians he seemed
xe a dissolute and loa6ng jester an
! nbodied joke. His head was pump
.,;n-shaped, his eyes protruded, so tna'
he boasted he could look both ways at
nee. He had an odd way, when ne
. said good thing, Of holding his
zhsad quite still and rolling his huge
). yes round upon his listeners to drink
! its effect. he went barefooted, with
! sloucbing gate and seedy dress.
'l,ut he had thcws Of brass, sinews OF
s,k. He could sit out the night over
/, warm discussion, and rising with
ne sun, proceed,upon his rounds
To discover the true relations OF
.$s,,crates to the Athenians, just mag
,e him here to-day. At IL, see him
) rop counsellor who, with brief in
and, is just fidgeting to getp
IL to court, to inquire whether it Is
.oper to save even friend from JUS
ce. and to remind him that there Will
no eminent counsel for villains at
!, re last assize. At IL, he. would be
:, opping in among the merchants up
Main street. At |, you would be
IRE to see him turning into a chop
l use, and dropping into seat by
\ .e side of a friend, who is stirring the
x.~essing for salad; he orders nothing
/ ,ihimself, but falls to arguing that eat
gis notadesirable occupation; thatto
;ltivate an appetite is like contract
...y an itch for the pleasure Of scratch
jig; that man would as senslbly
sh for an erysipelas, that he might
'..ve the pleasure Of rubbing it down
18th teal duck and venison, and that
L he insisted in making so much OF
is dinner, he deserved, in future
ate, to be set filling colander with
:. sieve. At2, he would visit our
:. ,stmaster, and expound to him the
;,inciples of the ms and the Outs
-..tting forth the difference between
!. e love of country and the love o.
ne treasury Of the country-in the
tier case part being mistaken FOL
e whole. At 3, he would be visit
g the saloon.keepers, expatiating up
the evils Of drinking; the example
the rising generation; the wicked
alterations of liquors, and the drair
BON the mental and physical man il
irning night into day. At twilight
would call upon our Schoolmaster
inquire whether ignorance was blis
some circumstances of life, or j
rtue ever was inculcated by words
= really in any other way than BY ex
ample. Att, be would be interview
9 Uncle Johnny c., to learn tn
sses and gains in the stock opera
!; ms of the day, and if the great be
.nza was really all that had been REP
! scented. He would advance th
opposition that stock operators wer
Gamblers, and that gambling was NO
"a employment, but the most infa
,nns idlennss At 10 he would ar