The weekly intelligencer. [volume] (Lexington, Mo.) 1891-1901, 1895-06-08

basket before him aud shut his eyes to
dream. Very soon he was Speoulatlng
mentally on what he should do. lie
would sell this basket of glassware for
Just one hundred per cent more than 1t
cost him. With this amount he would
purchase u larger stock, selling That at
The same pr0lit. Having repeated this
process until he acquired sufficient Eau
ital he would then lay in Il stock OF
Jewels. and In "a shOrt time would make
so much money that he would retire
from business. lie wonld dress himself
in the most splendid robes then. and go
tn the palace of the Sultan and demand
the hand of the daughter OF the Grand
Nizier in marriage. Just as lie reached
this point in his dream, Alnaschar be-
came So eXcited that he kicked out
vigorously, knocked over the basket,
| and shattered all his present prospects
and future hopes at u single blow. Ihis
man stands for The typical visionary; he
is not the true dreamer, hut the degen-
crate one.
The true dreamer sees much more
magnificent things than the PERSIAN oyer
saw in his dream, but the vision is based
| upon something more substantial than
Il basket of glass. lie is the apostle of
progress; he Is the prophet. the philoso-
! pher, the poet. the d%iscOverer, the adven-
turel. lie secs tIatsWhicb ~ pot; and
tells the world what may be lie hears
things that are too deep for the ears of
common men, and sees things that to an
ordinary eye are invisible. The practi-
cal man is the man of the present; the
dreamer is the man of the future. The
practical man is the man of works the
dreamer the man of faith. The dreamer
plans the practical man executes these
plans. Many Of them no man a ever
execute, but what Of that3 las not many
IL practical man gone into bankruptcy
because some dreams come tn naught,
shall we say that ne MAJ must dare to
dream AGAIN. Because a few sailors
grow frightened. shall Columbus turn
back and declare that his splendid dream
is only IA dream? because the prOphe-
| cies of many have failed, shall the true
prophets cease to tell the world what
they see? Because there have been fool
ISL men whose philosophy was not
worthy of the name, shall the son of
! SO~phrGniScuS not found "a SCHOOL,
There are times when the practical
man and the dreamer seem to merge
into one, but gen rally it is not difficult
To keep them apart. If the two go
together to the great redwood forests of
California, it is not difficult t. tell the
one from he other. The dreamer
stands, and as he CAGES upon the great
trees. they seem to be pages Of ancient
history. written in "a strange tongue,
limiting at far more than they can utter.
lie thinks of the giant foliage of the
distant past, and wonders what strange
things these great trees have witnessed.
lie listens to the wind rs it stirs through
their leaves. as though he half expected
a voice from tina tree to tell him some
thing of the past. The practical man hy
his side looks at the trees, decides in his
own mind the height and diameter, and
begins to calculate how many shingles
each tree contains.
These two stand again before the great
falls of Niagara. The one il soon lost
in contemplation of the grandeur of the
scene. lie hears the mighty roar. and
sees the sun making rainbows of the
spray daShing high into the air. lie is
nature determined To show man what
music n,ipI,t Inc as mere nlaying , wnn.