Idaho semi-weekly world. [volume] (Idaho City, Idaho Territory) 1875-1908, 1889-05-17
BLESSED GREENH0RNS.
so SAYS AMBER" AND ALL WHO
READ ECHO THE SENTIMENT,

Who Is Not quite EerioSs - ''Sio"lio "a
This shrewd and Practical Wcrid.
IL may not be quite SO wise as Solo
mon" remarked man in my hearing
the other day, "but anybody who ex-
pects to get the best of me will get badly
leftr looked at the speaker. at his
shrewd eyes. with their aii ways-at-
once manner of looking at things: his
mouth. p,,rsed and puckered like dried
up pepper pod his smile, as sharp and
wintry as "A frost sparkle; and said in
nv heart, "Well, sir, would rather be
the biggest greenhorn that ever trod the
sod than be your
PEOPLE WE DO NOT NEED.
When man gets SO wise that he has
nothing left to learn, the best place for
him is bookshelf When he gets SO
cunning that you can never catch him
mapping, the best place for him is among |
the stuffed owls in the National museum.
The world has no need of fossils outside
of caves and archaeological collections.
What a dried up channel is to land
scape, such, to the world he lives in, is a
worldly wise nature which has become
lnEuIncTaDIe W u SCllolCiOii anu liSdpdDiC
of a mistake or an enthusiasm. He has
outgrown his chief charm who has out
grown his freshness. He has become a
mere petrifaction who has attained unto
state wherein he is unassailable by the
blunders to which other men succumb.
We do not need such people any more
than full mooned August night needs
signal lights. Better fall down once in
awhile than get to he so ossified you can't
bend out of the perpendicular. Per
lection is all right in butter and eggs,
but man. to be good comrade. wants
enough of the imperfection of human
nature left in him to render him capable
of an occasional blunder. would rather
live with the statue of Liberty on Bed
loes Island than attempt to dwell with
a person who has outlived the possibility
of ever being taken in" or has scared
above the weakness of once in awhile
taking leap without knowing exactly
where he is going to land.
Why, bless your heart, my dear, the
man who always looks before he jumps
misses a fine tumble in the clover! Chill
dren playing together in the haymow
would miss the best elixir of their sport
if they measured every distance and
computed the safety of every risk. And
life, good part of it, anyway, is nothing
more than the venture of children romp-
ing in the dark preternaturally wise
child and sharp man make poor COM
rades in either play or work. What
gives to childhood it's first and greatest
charm? What more than its freshness
and its capacity to enjoy delusionf
When the child outgrows its belief in
Santa Claus and fairies it ceases to have
the nature of a child, and the wiser it
gets and the further from the humbug-
geries of youth the more of that first
, divine freshness and innocence it loses,
} until it becomes, like too many of us
older ones, withered stalk, with neither
dew nor blossom left upon it.
. KEEP US FROM TOO MUCH CoNCEIT.
When we pray for pure hearts let US
add to our petition that, in the grine
and turmoil of sordid living. we may
preserve a little of the ''greenness' o.
life's springtime in our nature Keel
: us, good Lord. from too much conceit il
| OUT own Cullliut3' lIcip 10 NJ" any
! then to take the attitude of little chill
/ dren who have something to learn
a Make singing birds of us rather than 81,
Y old foxes; shrubs of living verdure rathe
a than dusty specimens mucilaged insid
= of herbarium Half the people on
meets are only specimens. They ar
q types, samples in stock, anything bu
v individuals They have been brought u
l. to be conformists, and they are perfect
Is content with their labelling in the com
l. pany of the Great Alike. Usage pluck
u them early, as botanist picks a rose t
- classify it rather than to enjoy its beauty
- and conformity is the musty old hert
"a arium wherein they are pasted and lei
N tered "or all time. Give me the wee
~ blowing in the meadow, wet by shower
; and shaken nv storms. trodden undo
IS foot'by happy children and br6wsed b
r contented herds, rather than the fines
W specimen of fora that any scientist he
in his withered and dried collection.
green leaf with sap in it is better for IT
N freshment than Il forest of dead cedars.
If Bless Cod then, all you who retail
70 enough May time in your hearts to kee
er you green late into the season. Blesse
h be the young man or maiden, the eide
% ly man or matron who. in this age
~ precocity and progress, policy and nerv
y. ~ retains enough of the primal innocen'
N to blush and be abashed on suitable o
f. casion, and are not so wise in their ow
r, conceit but what they may sometim
IN get the worst of Il bargain. The presen'
as of such person in this shrewd and pra
40 teal old world is as welcome as Il
Is Is sight of buttercup in the alkali desei
" " April is never behind with her willo'
,le and catkins, May never forgets her co
id tract with the apple orchards, and Jul
,ir is never late with her roses The rob
m always arrives promptly, although
Ut comes in snow storm, and the bluebl
t ih tarries not in uncertainty, but flash
IL his azure wing on time along the mis-
a hedgerows. If human friends were hs
as constant to the tryst of love as bir
and blossoms are to their season tt
world would never need be exchang
80 for heaven.-Amber in Chicago Tribur
- A Curious Book.
ri A well known Partisan bibliophi
its Baron Double, has just discovered
on DreSeptation cODv of hook written