Idaho news. (Blackfoot, Idaho) 1887-1891, 1889-09-14

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or all tho dispositions with which
mortal man may be born, there is no
other that on tie whole is so likely to
assist him to make his way through
life satisfactorily as that of being born
a man of expedients. Whatever gifts
of wealth one may chance to inherit,
he is sure sooner or later to come to
grief unless he inherits also the art of
managing them. 1t is by no means
enough 10 get fortune, it is neces-
sary TO use ones wits to preserve it.
But fortune is, after AL, only one OF
the innumerable elements OF which
life is compounded, and as it becomes
every year necessary to have a larger
fortune to hold ones own among the
wealthy of the land. so does it become
every year Of less Importance whether
one does have a fortune, since there is
constantly a larger proportion OF peo-
pie who do not have the enormous
amount which goes to make up the
modern fortune, and the maj ority will
assert itself. even to the extent of
breaking away from the domination of
wealth.
In every department OF life, in the
greatest affairs with which he is
called upon to have to do as we'll as in
the most minute, there is room for the
emergency. To be man of expedi-
meuts it is necessary to have much
mental dexterity, much power of
adaptability and wide fertility OF re-
source. Indirectly there is needed a
large Imagination. and the man OF cx-
pedients is above everything else, per-
haps man of imagination. He is
able to put himself in different rela-
tions to any given problem, and if the
first does not furnish him solution Of
any difficult that may perplex him. he
is capable of looking the whole matter
over from anew standpoint, and there
by selecting some hitherto unsupported
means of escape from the entangle-
ment which annoys him.
In business this faculty is the most
valuable that can be named, perhaps.
BY it man is enabled to be always
ready for whatever may come. He
never looses an opportunity, since his
| temperament allows him to devise tine
means of improving any circumstance
as soon as he is aware OF its existence.
His plans are always ready because
they are born Of the need to which
they should apply, and there is moth
ing to do but to put them into practice.
The slow and plodding man looks on
with impatient wonder ut the swift
ness with which his rival conceiyes
and executes his schemes. He can
not understand this fertility OF re-
source, this seemingly inexhaustible
storehouse OF means for ail possible
ends. He laboriously elaborates or
often enough is unable to find way in
which adequately to meet experiences
If they chance to be at all out OF the
ordinary course of life; and the man OF
expedients, who is never at loss,
seems TO him little less than wizard.
endowed with powers that are certain
~ unchiistian and probably unholy.
There is something positively dishon-
est, to the thinking of the dull man, in
this extraordinary cleverness, this to
him superhuman command of circum-
stances. He views it with suspicious
anger and looks npon its results as un.
pleased. And meanwhile the other
does not in the least trouble himself a:
to what the dull man does or does moi
think, but goes on his serene way tC
conquer the earth, and to enjoy tht
fullness thereof. Boston Courier.