St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-13
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more real estate to conquer to mis- possessions.
The question agitating-nay engrossing all
his mental faculties is Investment sure and
solid.
According to the grade and ambition of the
time this acquisitive young gentleman is al
ready distinguished beyond the youth of his
acquaintance.
By curions contrariety / have been read
ing good bit about Arthur II. Hallam, son
of the historian and the subject of Jenny
! sons magnificent wall, In Memoriam.
His character is summed up thus: 81
have met with no man his superior in meta
physical subtlety; no man his equal as
philosophical critic on works Of taste; no man
whose views on all subjects connected with
| the duties and dignities of humanity were
more large and generous. and enlightened.
And all this said of youth of twenty"
Now don't imagine 1 am going to work up
! any parellel between this brace of young
men. The factis there for you to make the
right inference--or the one which accords
best with your notion of ambition and sue
cess. To put the matter to the decisive Am
erican test of a vote, it would be tolerably
certain to wager that the young fellow
Of the hundred lots, with the number in
creasing al the while, would carry the adj
miring suffrages Of the majority against the
erudite In Memonam Hallam.
| This authoritative number of his fellow
citizens would rather read the real estate
| transfers of the young centurion Of lots than
any intellectual production Of the age, and,
| instead of the Tennysonian Pegasus bearing
the young man to intangible fame, this ma
jority would rather see the fleet nag of the
real estate man toting possible purchasers
"without extra CHARGE to the scene of solid
values on the steady increase.
This prudent turn is rather the part of ma
ture manhood when the supposed beautiful
and usually wholly unsordid ambition OF
youth has been oSerlaid by Disappointment
in laggard opportunities-or been hopelessly
chilled in the harsh air of uncongenial effort.
But it is rather exceptional to say the least
when this prudent turn is the first aim and
move of youth.
There is story Of Chicago man, told by
David Swing, whose business so absorbed
him that his Inflammation grew to be that
his mind ran wheat in other words that his
mental apparatus had become only hopper,
and his one interest in life grain. What
frightful pauper the man had made himself
for all his wealth.
Can you easily fancy a young man of
twenty regarding the beautiful world within
the city limits. and merely parcelling it in
his shrewd minds eye into desirable building
lotss
Not readily you will be inclined to admit,
and besides perhaps you might be tempted
to add such an extraordinarily sharp young
man would seem rather uncanny, and
scarcely attractive as comrade
He is graft of the earth, and his congo
ners should be earthly. No generous enthus-
iasm fushes such brain. IT'S only sensi-
BILE to the cool current of calculation. No
precipitate impulse is ever master Of the sit
uation the very selection of such an occu-
patton argues methods alien to all airy activity
to any play of nonsense or romance.
You may say that positive devotion to any
! one thing is apt to make people one-sided-
just as one char acter acting on the stage
gives mannerisms which take ineradicable
hold on every other assumption.
The scholar loves his books. thinks of little
else, and is negligent, often totally defective,
on the material side of life
The matter-of-fact, absorbed business man
thinks books and hifalutin' culture well
enough, but gives them rather wide berth,
as hindrances to money making. When he
has made his pile, he says to himself, there
will be time enough for them. And so, with
incredible egotism, he believes he can do what
no mortal has ever done. He promises him
self that he can take up the fine aptitudes of
youth, and ''into the eye and prospect of his
sour' put the manifold beauty of culture, and
the surprising refinement of high thinking.
What grieyous delusion, when the best
quality of intellect takes lifetime for its
slow earned results, and even then is not
half satisfied
''The oak and the ebony'' says Lander
''take along time to grow up and make wood,
but they last forever.''
1t is perhaps the best tribute to the fasci-
mating enjoyment5 of culture that every mGn
immersed in making money is buoyed with
the anticipation of a more enjoyable expe-
rience in travel, observation of the arts, and
social privileges.
But does he get what he is calculating
upon?
As far as money goes ipdisputably he does,
yet who that is lacking the apprehension and
the trained appreciation the subtle sense of
ease, mastery and long familiarity can make
money his medium.
In the collection of the South Kensington
Museum there is an analysis of a man which
we read in the description as follows:
First man contains so much water, and
there you have the amount of water in
bottle; so much albumen, and there is the
albumen; so much phosphate of lime, fat,
haematin, fibrine, salt, ETC., etc.
Then in the next case, so much carbon;
so much Phosphorus bottle with sticks of
phosphorus; so much potassium, and there
is bottle with potassium; calcium, etc.
They have not bottles of oxygen, hydrogen,
chlorine, ETC., but they have cubical pieces of
wood on which is written, the quantity of OK
ygen in the human body would occupy the
pace of ITO (e. g. cubes Of the size of this
Append to this analysis the thousands or
millions of dollars the man has made, and
how much more can you say for the general
ity of the mere money makers of our time?
Just that and nothing more.
80" snarls Mrs. Harris, ''but YOU do tire me-
There isn't a woman in the whole city that
wouldn maneuyre to have Mr.. Centurion
Lots for Il son-in-law. He would be worth
any Campaigner's while like Mrs. Mackenzie
in the Newcomes if he didn't have a senti-
mental unworldly old father like the Colonel.
Brains of the scholarly sort are well enough
if you can knock enough to eat out of them.
By the way Barnum offers $500 for poem
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