The sun., 1890-10-19
READ RorR SIDES.
Thls ts what Vylshed Mes EEas - say
~ Behalf ot gIeheauesa

"of course, II live by nv wits" said the man.
III didn't, I couldn't live az all, aud as have
distinct preference for this world, and no de.
siro whatever to 20 under ground preparatory
to going aloit or down below, naturally take
things as nnd them, aud where ind them.
That is to say, live by my wits and use the
means that q kindly Nature. with n big, big N,
has placed in my hands, or rather In my brain
pan. l am brain worker, you see, and n
other peoples brains are not 40 good a. mine
then work their brains as we'll as my own
And that IL precisely what everybody else docs.
Suppose everybody know rs much as-well as
Prof. Huxley. for instance where would HuI-
ley fiud himself Who would buy his books or
60 to his lectures7 Thomas would surely fnd
himself out In the cold. And 40 il 10 with all Of
them, and ovorywhero. Big dog eat little doG
bic brain work little brain. and the devil take
tho hindmost ertrenum octipet seabies"
You know Latin, thenH"
"Oh, that's scrap Latin" said the man. but
as matter OF fact 1 do know Latin aud Greek
and French and German and Italian AID spon-
ish. That Is one reason why live by my wits.
and have to do 80. You remember the old
couplet:
And when he arrived at mans estate
Twas all the estate he had
well, an education was all that my father
gave me. and brains was oil that myself had.
and when you put those two things together
and don't mix them with anything else, why.
naturally there you have tho very choicest ma
terial with which to construct q man who lives
by his Wits and as think I have said about
thousand times before. o man who is obliged
to live by his wits. The more brains and the
more education, the more o man wants OF
things that he can't have. unless he uses hi.
natural and acquired weapons to mako in
roads upon other peoples preserves and got
the wherewithal to secure what he needs in
tho way OF art OF all sorts. music. paintings.
what not. literature. wine. good horses. yachts.
travel-in short. everything he wants and, as
man OF cultivation-for scorn the word
culture must have.
Il should think he would travel OF to iail oc-
casionally."
WELL" said the man. he has to run his
risks on that score Just as every body else has to
run his risks. But the risks OF iail that he runs
are not half 80 many as the risks he would run
OF dying OF starvation. mental and physical,
II he acted in any other way with the means he
has at hand. that Is TO say. with his bare brain
and hts-his-his what might call his very
much higher education. You see 1t is oil only
choice OF risks. and wiso man will take the
fewest. Besides. in such n case rs min. ne
cessity knows no law, assuredly not the law Of
the land. Needs must whom the devil drives.
especially when he, drives tandem with the
first out Of Ignorance by Pride, or out of Joint
By Thunder. assure you don't know which.
iusfng not in the books, conjectural and there
has been much quarreling over it. But It
pose the devil knows his stud and whom he Is
drying; II he doesn't. lt's high time he did; y
Bus how do you live by your witsS 1nwhas
How does tramp trave?. When the road
Is level he goes on u level road when he comes
IN he VI hAn hA rEn hAAn n u
down be goes: when. be comes 10 farmhouse.
in he goes; when he has scared the women and
reaches a bridge, over he goes: when he comes
TO hnystack. under he goes. and so on through
aecom@odstes acc m @ himself Ito to circnm stances. and
that is precisely what do. 1t ie also precisely
what you do. and precisely what everybody
swindle my mother out Of about 1000 almost
It is hardly. likely that, would deal more
lenienty eI1 with aaybody else;% eL,n ..
No; no. no. no. no! | was speaking about
pas '1S The t Comes @ ' SetWeen wee the
wind tSr aRd fSrgs{I my nobility"
oh yes" said the man. but when a man
Of brains and education forges. as sometimes
he is Obliged to, he knows whose name to put
prosecute. 1t was by forgery that got the
and R
matter but was dea5 to her~t5Ss 5so very aRPhis
old lady went 70 live with grandmother, and
suppose she is living yet: thavent heard @ from
or or. as as Rudyard Kipline would say. that's
It f. very kind Kind Of to ad
The moral law is exclusively for people
who have morals and you see haven't any,
| sure shouldn't know how to get along. handi-
capped as I am. and having nothing but brains
Tbs had Ga brSins and ID qGqcSsOn @ Plus moraty then
lshould DO precisely the man ior man IKE
symDathize syn @ % with me, because we could meet
| mentioned, anu he would deem 1t his moral
| duty to help SO bralny person out OF diticul-
| ties. Now /, being not immoral, but simply
non moral. would see in my frlond the com;
Get up a bargain perfectly satisfactory to both.
| II were immoral should certainly have
taE0s BEING. as 2 SAID, Simply moral cOasSenSe
happily thing p1En9wn ,a to me, Sras als sns Il
the es very hishsr eduSation" % % father Should
say that when ono has but these two things.
Is hghy fortunate for hip that thets os
my own purposes, It is better to meet with
people who know the moral law and live up TO
man like the one have Iust hoeP z, taking
A''Eii Sid You e nsts over 'H murder -i -anybodyS,
Not directly" said the man. "b but know
| OF several Instances In which people with
whom | have ESd dealings haye died q !, e
point. Her father became bankrupt through
| my fundamentally, and thon had the sublime
assurance TO ask me to support him1m,. the
helpless; me. without morals and gifted only
| with brains aud the much higher education!
explained to him that i was imp po.sible. Then
c94paPy with his excellent wi,o They 6Gta Ds,,a
| went Into o decline; and In tho words OF
Washington Irving, she sank into the grave.
tho Violin OF u broken heart Then there
are other instances in point, but you have
only 10 look Rt Watercd stock In railroads and
such things TO SEQ what ] mean"
Sleep well q niRhist
20. splSndidlY, splendldlyw said the pnn.
| mono better! You 500 hayo NO bnd habits.
All my inStss are roined and detvst Vulggrlty.
WHY sir ! have known men Wth whom ..
| cams nc luRintod mt ono or other u the elubs
OF viii b ] am member, e leaYs the tlnsst ot
on q some beer shop at midnight and there hsIs
thai were str.ng enough % x lrGSk oSIo a iIPE9 mIPE9
or O'clock IL tho 9orniHG The beasts o.
sure oGn't Imagine But u. ior n". my sleep
| 10 ~ thO Slunbsr OF - bate. and this aip suTJ
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