The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1877-06-08
The Man Of Destiny.

Of pate in any direction"
And lie hadn't. He wore a seven
anl-a- half hat. aud his towering fore
head reached up inside Of it almost TO
the crown: but it was dome Of
thou ght without a jut or gable on any
side The architecture Was uniform
AID symmetrical-n0 nothing Gothic about
1t. Nothing on it that stuck out and
pointed anywhere.
That il what ais me, said he
Not hing in my mental structure points
anywhere | am spacious in my upper
story, but am too round and smooth.
| am not knobby / haven't phreno-
logical knob to hang a hobby on. l
fe / intellectually large enough for al
most any achievement: but l have such
an equilibrium Of facultie, that can't
make up my mind what to achieve. /
have ambition; but il is as broad and
general as the casing air. and aspires
in all directions at once. ! might be
somebody. if l could only decide unan-
imously who it is want to be.
Il put it to myself, do | want 70 be
poet: | take the ayes and noes on
it. At first the ayes seem to have it.
and | roll up my ;renzied eye balls and
20 for poem Aid when | get down
TO my work. brethren, | can jerk yon
about as able job of verse as any old
professional
But no; this jingitsh language soon
sours Oh my stomach. find that need
excitement aud resort 10 eloquence. /
want yon TO hear me some time when
| = ar (if ever l take a notien to do it
again. For the soaring business is
not my supreme ambition, either) l
can make such noise with my mouth
as there's hurra in, you understand.
Yet can not consent to squander
my abilities out of my throat in that
gushing manner A fellow of real sense
that does it awakes finally to the con-
sciousness of being an ass. brsying for
the peeps. The peeps may like it. So
do they like the clown at the circus.
Bu. it is trivial, sir. trivial and tran
sient.
"Well, suppose l can write some. If
you want to find out what kind Of a
fellow fellow is. put = pen in his
hand have tried that. have slung
columns If editorials that would make
your head ache a brilliant para
graphist. too l wouldn't give a CONT
mental D-nbury Ncwsman a cent
apiece for all he can do in writing round
me in a nippy paragraph with a moral
tai. to it, Provided had tried as hard
and rs long as he has. have never
tried much, though. found soon that
writing for newspaper is n frittering
Of tho immortal mind
Il couldn't be satisfied until l had
got At something soldier or whoier, 50
10 speak Therefore took up law.
mastered it in few days. There. is
10 be sure. great deal of dull aud dis
picable memorizing in it that l didn't
"a over; but absorbed the principles
till they oozed out of me. However,
hen IA little pettifogger, with head
not bigger round than q billiard ball,
fell atoul OF me before one horse
Jackass of the Peace. the said J. +.
ruled Ia favor Of the aforesaid pettifog-
ger So many divers and sundry times IN
aud durlng the course of the period of
one hour, that the attorney for the
plaintiff, to W.T.: your humble relator.
becoming thoroughly aroused, did then
and there, with force and arms, take
the unprincipled court by the nose, nor
did lot 70 of same till your said relator
had procured himself 10 be kicked into
the street, whence he was pranced off
TO the calabooss with a club on each
sile OF him.
Law is 10 v business. as q business.
There arc things in it l never should
like. would prefer medicine. Yet |
haven't had experience enough IN this
to b.come foud Of IT, 1t is an attract
I've study; but the practice is "a bore, l
believe | studied it nearly three
months; AID yet, when had got the
thing all IN my head, l slirred up on
fellow with the measles. doctored
him till be died. and then l and the
whole ncighborhood. men. women. and
children. Just rolled and weltered iD the
small pox till twenty per cent of Us
were planted. ard the res. of US pitted
like this cursed countensrce cf mine,
YOU see,
Il was saved. And this solemn es-
cape gave me call so; me a con-
coriauce. n set oi commentaries. and 8
Greek testament. and went through
theology. By the time | was fit TO be
at large with this here face, was
ready should pity the man who
couldn't preach. With ali the hells We
have. anybody can do it, claim 40
credit far my success. A brain that
might he pat into much smaller hat
than nine would have succeeded quite
as We'll Perhaps be:tey The surplus
of brains have must have made me
wahble ou the orlhossox axis The
bre,hreu noticed il and told iGe sisters.
They said WAS too internally smart.
though aiin't preach hell scarcely at
ait The dcacons waited Oh me and
put flea in my ear sail would
amend. They said had amended too
much. ana that they would advise me
~ qui, it and all tina; kind Of thing
took their advice. | began 10 see it as
they did A smaller and knohhIer brain
was needed fer that kind Of thing
Since then have been in various
pursuits. bat with no decided bent. 81
lar as hsv, noticed, for any of them
Baak president. too much like shap-
keeping for man of great brain
Railroad superintendent; roatlse sni
mechanical Novelist: got tired oi my
characters. collected them, and blew
them up in steamboat. College pro-
frssor: found that the decoction Of
Greek roots Was expected 'o digest
was an overdose. aud threw up Poliil-
cian told the truth - baTesoo;eily ;ha;
the party managers rep0ils,ed me, sni