The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1886-04-16
BILL NYE'S LETTER.
talS REPLIES TO coRREsPo NDENT0
WHO SEEK EKENLlGHTENMENT.

Gonfucius q Humarist = Essentially a.
self-Msde Man ~ Remarks Upon His
Death = Concerning the Halo Ger
man seIf-Taaght''-Nota Linguist.
Young Historian - Confueius was the
Latinized name of king of Chinese
humorists whose name was really
Kaing-fu-tse. This name translated
means Reverend Master King. He was o
great man, and many of bis sayings have
been eInbalmed in history and handed down
TO the present time His style of hunlor was
of the profound variety ,ibut his style of pen9
nanship was like that of F.. E. Spinner, who
did some paragraph work at one time for the
treasury department. Confucius is said to
have been kind of Chinese Moses, and peo-
pie who knew both of these gentlemen say
that they had many strong personal charac-
teristics in common.
He was born in Loo on June 10, ISL B. c.,
and when he went back there once to lecture,
after he had become great man, he had
enly $3.50 in the house. His old neighbors
said that he had been very much ovsresti
mated, and that they knew him when he was
Q boy.
Confucius lost his father at the age of 8
years, and SO had to rustic for himself, as he
says. He was essentially self-made man,
and never wore suspenders, even in the best
society He wore style of dress which has
since become very popular in China, con-
sisting of wide pantaloon and oolong cutaway
coat. His complexion was little on the yel-
low order, and his eyes were similar to each
other, though little inclined to sag at one
corner. He became a school-teacher in the
graded school at Loo, and carried cold fried
pork and rat sandwiches for his dinner.
Confucius was great man and the leading
hunorist of his day He published small
paper at one time, doing all the typographical
work himself with marking brush. His
signature was a marvel Of individuality and
looked like the footprints of a kangaroo that
had been scared out Of q mudhole and Lit on
pillow-sham.
But death has claimed him. Like the man
who had done his chores and elected the cat
and blown out the gas, he lay down to enter
into the dreamless sleep which comes alone
to those who have done their work well. Not
in the midst of clashing arms, beneath the
clouds of war, amid the shouts of victory
and frantic yells of defeat; not on the rough
frontier with his boots on, or in the hospital
chased by the phantoms OF delirium tremens,
DNG III CalAu altu SOA4-
fucius accepted his doom. The Chinese
papers very truthfully said: "His death has
cast gloom over our land and filed a long
felt want"
REPLIES TO OTHER INQUIRIES.
James-The halo which you say you see in
SO many pictures is not worn at the present
time anywhere, especially in this climate. In
the early history of the world people went
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halo, and after that gradually adopted the
laurel-wreath, and later on the plug hat
People seem to have grown less and less
robust as the country grew older and civiliza-
ton advanced farther and farther. A cherub
would fly for days with pair of light sum-
mer wings and never feel the cold, but gradu-
ally people began to leave their measure at
the orchard for fig-leaf clothes, and then the
next jump was chest protectors and fur over
coats It's all habit.
O'Rourke-"German Self Taught" will cost
YOU 25 cents. You could then learn style
of German that would aid you in absorbing
beer but you couldn't enter the best society
in Germany and entertain tagging sociable
very we'll Still, most young people in the
United States who learn German do SO not so
much for the>purpose of conversing with
other Germans Dut lnosuy III ofuei W asUoiiion
their parents who do not generally speak
German fluently. Nothing can be more en-
tertaining in family than an accomplished
young lady who can toy with eleven German
words, and who insists on doing SO in the
presence of self-made men. If you want to
please self-made man talk to him freely in
your cigar-box Spanish or mangle-wurzel,
kindergarten German. 1t will generally
tickle him almost to death. 1t is also very
entertaining to a real German. do not
speak the German language myself. That is,
not with pure accent. People who heard
me talk it would discover at once that was
not native of Germany | am not hnguist
in the strictist sense of the term. have
tried it some, but find that | can be suf-
ficiently dull in MY own language.-Bil Nye
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