The Red Cloud chief., 1885-07-03
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The longer We live the more we learn.
and the more We learn the less We think
we know. Such is the inconsistency Of
mans IDEAS. my boy. The less one
knows. the greater his opinion 81 his
abilities and wisdom.
In the morning Of life man prides
himself on his greatness, and wonders
to what grand channel he viii contine
his talents He looks upon his school
district rs the world =. large. and him
self As the great genius in whose keep
ing the worlds future rests He imag-
ines that when he speaks nations rem
BILE and mountains totter. and the jack
rabbit fees He imagines that q gaping
and wondering populace are gazing on
him with open-moutiied wonder and
iron-clad astonishment. and that he
holds the world with q grasp that is
perpetual.
But a the days, and months. and
years. scoOt by IN rapid succession. the
young man finds out that he is possibly
mistaken. and that if he should wander
away or get lost. some one or more of
all the people on earth might not miss
HIM With each succeeding year his
knowledge grows and his mind takes q
broader hold on the things of life. and
by and by he begins TO realize that he is
only n out of many millions Of people.
and that instead of stand nc forth Is
the center Of attraction. he only fills a
small niche in some obscure corner. and
really attracts but little more attention
than a rat-hole that sets up in OppOsi-
ton to q cavern.
My boy, there is no greater detriment
to the growth and attainment OF man
XII than these human bumps who are
so often found sitting in the road for
the weary traveller TAI stumble over. We
lind them everywhere. They are the
men who don't know anyth ne. and are
too blind to know it. The less a man
knows the less he wants 10 know. and
the result of it is he breaks down early IN
tue Journey and becomes a wreck. OBJ
structing the way of others.
iSuOI IL uiIu VIII TetAiLeS His
Ignorance, and who doesn't seek to pass
himself for more than he is worth. is
pardonablc. but the sel~f-cOnceited.
twenty-cent-on-thc -dollar cuss. who tries
to pass himself of ut n premium. is to
be pitied rs well as despised. while the
base counterfeit ot-wOrth-a-tinkcr sort
Of chap is too low for either pity or
contempt.
The best way. my boy. is to hold
your self-esteem n little down. and not
rate yourself too high. The man who
climbs the highest has the farthest to
fall. and it is nor pleasant to be invit-
ed to take a higher sea than it is to be
kicked out into the back yard. 1t is
more pleasant to be a king in a cottage
than a servant in a palace. 1t is better
to gnaw a cold bone in a cabin than to
be a rabbit peeler for royalty. II is
better to walk than to swing on the tail
end Of some coupling pole like a tar
1t is better to be n clear. clean.
five n piece than to be Il
quarter In other words. my
boy, it is better to hold ourselves at
we honestly are worth.
The world is full Of people who never
anything. because they think they
sands of men try to teach when they
need to be taught; thousands believe
wise when in reality their
ignorance is lamentable: thousands who
try to palm themselves off for pure
gold when they are only thinly plated.
and the brass shows through in many
We can't tell what is in a nut till we
the shell. One cant tell whether
Or not m apple is sweet by its looks
We cant Judge of the world by our
The world is large and lis les
varied. The wisest man knows
but little. What you and / know is but
a small drop in a large bucket. and
what is known by humanity now is in
small when compared with what
Is yet un,earned. A glance at the world
does not reveal all its b .auties and rich
ness and immensity. The title PAGE Of
4 book does not explain the contents Of
the pages that follow. A little kncwi-
edge Of the world and OF LIES mys-
does not give us a complete M
Of all things that are TO be
My boy. the wisest If us are compare
ignorant. and thousands of Young
men who have grand ideas of thcir own
will wake up some time in the
TO a realization Of the fac, that
have been laboring unds n a large
sized delusion. Many a young man's
life is gilded by bright dreams that come
in the early stage Of the game. but later
those dreams lose their charms and
become Tut mincc-pie nightmares.
and. oh. how bitter is the change when
it does comet. b. Monyord. ia
Sun.