The Caldwell tribune. [volume] (Caldwell, Idaho Territory [Idaho]) 1883-1928, 1885-05-22

without means. | have a few dc
lars, and to make this arrangemel
less burdensome to you and mo-
agreeable to me, l will pay half of a
expenses"
"All right, Madison.
Consider it the Monroe doctrine
eh p'
Commercially democratic" l re
piled.
"Now, Talbert, we must consul
each other before expenditures, no
strictly necessary, are made.'
"All right"
'1n the first place, l must call for al
appropriation. do not thing that ou
library is sufficient to meet the de
mands of an intellectual society. There
is one bookstore in town. All the
books are old for / don't sup,
pose volume of print was ever
sold here. Say, before i forget it. Do
you know why this town has the
best whisky of any town 1 have ever
struck?'
mo, do not"
because it attains such great age
before it can reach this place.
Well, now, about tho library. Sup
pose buy about fifty dollars worth of
booksP"
"All right"
He bought the books, selecting them
with excellent taste. He spent the
most of his time in the room, crowd
ing his head, as he termed it. 4;
4
''you are the most avaricious seeker Of
knowledge have ever seen.'' !
my dear fellow" he replied, put
ting aside volume of Buckles Civ.
ilization, 81 am not seeking knowl-.
edge. 1 am seeking entertainment.
Then why do you not read lighter
because it is not interesting. Per-,
Iect entertainment is mental engage
ment, an absorption that shuts out all
knowledge of surroundings. We can
lot bring all of mind to bear against.
something light. A man can roll a
Ieg with such ease that he does not.
Employ third of his strength, but to
oil hogshead requires his nightiest:
Mort. When read something deep,
he effort required to catch the full |
neaning, affords me perfect enjoy |
nent."
80 you do not expect to make use
I the knowledge thus acquired"
Probably not. We do not contem-
late the use of the muscle we acquire
a gymnasium, though it sometimes
omes into good play"
You are a strange fellow, Madi-
,n."
"Not at all. l am useless, but nv
BAR fellow, the useless man is not the
range man, for he is natural"
DO you mean to say that it is mans
ature to be uselessp"
"Of course it is. All worth in man
artificial"
'What about womanP"
"Now you've got me. don't un-.
rsand her. 1t is strange that
an, writing a novel, viii give US ;
apter after chapter of feminine in +
'spection, when in fact it is all sup 4
sltion with him. Nobody but a r.
oman knows what woman thinks; |,
body but man can know what a 4
IN would think"
yet, Madison, some of the strong
male characters ever portrayed
re drawn by George Eliot"
You think they are strong, and m
maps they are, but it was guess To
rk with George Eliot. She talked 10
ID great wisdom, with wisdom so bi
lch deeper than any thought which tr
average reader and the most prom TO
mt critic-who is always a fool m
I'D exercise, that they accepted her ar
found sayings as the utterances &C
almost superhuman insight" 81
Gould not Dickens portray the ar
.racter of womanP" wi
He could photograph her, that's ce
You would recognize the woman DIR
ause the picture was correct, but
art failed him when he attempted thu
inine introspection." frc
Madison, you are literary cvnic." ms
Not at all. The literary cynic sees GU
1ing good in literature. | see a the
Id of good in it.. STA
7 GU do not. however, acknowledge los
ruth" we
No, but acknowledge its thought, OF
in all thought there is good. Now, sus
e's John Stauart Mill. There is the
h good in him because there is the
h thought, still, his philosophy is ing
as u rusty canon" the
nus, our days and the greater part por
II nights were spent. Madison, Is y
ing aside book, would sit during U
s of profound meditation. At gra
time his face was the saddest | mos
ever seen. On one occasion every haii
of life left him. A death-like the
+ spread over his face. The wind hair
med window shutter and he hen
ed n though knife had been Mar
, into his heart. othe
stall
CHAPTER III. of Z
as called into the country, to be d,
II two days. | asked Madison to man
npany me, but he excused HIM TING
saving that he had on hand a roya
OF business which cor''i not colo
+ be neglected. | returned late avn
a Of