The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1885-05-29
upon with great emphasis. The
recent order Of President Cleveland
says the agent, will teach a lesson on
the subject long needed.
10 my Boy.
BY Il O B. MoNTFoRD.

The longer we live the more we
learn, and the more we learn the less
we think we know. Such is the in
consistency Of mans ideas, my boy.
The less one knows, the greater his
opinion Of his abilities and wisdom.
IL the morning of life man prides
himself on his greatness, and wonders
to what grand channel he will conine
his talents. He looks upon his
school district as the world at large,
and himself as the great genius in
whose keeping the worlds future
rests. He imagines that when he
speaks nations .tremble and mount
aims totter, and jack rabbit fees. He
imaginest that a gaping and wondering
populace are gazing on him with open
mouthed wonder and iron-clad as
tohishment, and that he holds the
world by the seat of the pants with q
grasp thai is perpetual.
But as the days, and months, and
years, scoot by in rapid succession,
the young man finds out that if he
should wander away or get lost, some
one ornore Of all the people on earth
might not miss him. With each sue
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ceeding year his knowledge grows
and his mind takes a broader hold on
the thingfpf life, and bye and bye he
begins to realize that he is only one
ont of many millions of people, and
that instead Of standing forth as the
centre of attraction, he only fills a
small niche in some obscure orner
and really attract but little more at
tention than a rat-hole that sets up in
Opposition to a cavern.
My boy, taere is no greater de.
triment to the growth and attainment.
of mankind than these human bumps
who arc 81 often found sitting in the
road for the weary traveller to stumble
over. We find them everywhere.
They are the men who don't
know anything, and are too blind to
know it. The less a mar knows the
less he wants to know, and the result
OF it is he breaks down early in the
journey and becomes a wreck, OBJ
structing the way of others.
The Ignorant mas who realizes his
ignorance and who doesn't seek to
pass himself for uore than his worth
is objectionable, but the self-conceited
twenty-cent- on-the-dollar cuss, who
tries to pass himself off at a premium
is to be pitied as well as despised
while the base counterfeit-not-worth
a-tinker sort of chap is too low fol
either pity or contempt.
The best way, my boy, is to .holt
e your self-esteem a little down, AM
/ not rate Yourself to high. The mai
i who climbs the highest has the fartk
est to fall, and it is mo pleasant t
be invited to take a higher seat tina
tits to be kicked out into the bach
l. yard. 1t is more pleasant to be
king in a cottage than a servant in
palace. 1t is better to gnaw a col
j. bone in a cabin than to be a rabbi
peeler for royalty. 1t is better I
II walk than to swing on the tail end
# some coupling pole like a tar bucke
n It is better to bea clear, clean, gen,
Inc five cent piece than to be a bogl
II quarter. In other words, my boy, i
is better to hold ourselves at what
: honestly are worth.
y The world is full of people WI
D. never learn anything, because the
e think they know enough to comment
h with. Thousands of men try
is teach when they need to be taugl
b thousands believe themselves wi,
d when IN reality their ignorance is ]
Is mentable, thousands try to palm thel
1t selves off for pure gold when the
n are only very thinly plated, and tt
e brass shows through in many places
We can't tell what is in a nut ii
we crack the shell. One can't te
whether or not a apple issweet byit
!. looks. We can't Judge Of the worl
by ourselves. The world is large an
It its lessons varied. The wisest ma
3 knows but little. What you and
! know isbut a small drop in a lare
bucket, and what is known by huma,
e ity now is infinitely small when con
n pared with what is yet unlcarned. !
9 glance at the world does not reyes
!; all its beauties and richness and in
:. mensity. The title page Of a boo
e does not explain the contents of tb
Q pages that follow. a little know
8 ledge Of the world and OF life's my.
!. @teries does not give. us a complet
e understanding Of all things that ar
n to be known.
J My boy, the wisest of US are con
: paritively ignorant and thousands 0
). young men who have grand ideas Q
their own abilities will wake up som