The National tribune., 1896-12-24
rnfTn1-S CHAT.
a s.cn.,,rr OF tl,e Editorial staff Deserves
ner Na.e-fsoosS-By Black-book.
WORKERS.

.,,o- 81 -,,r Editorial staff Describes
prr Aa.e-fsoca-Wy Black-book.
Ts, Les,ere Sherwood
NV only roasen fer calling 1T biack'oooA IL
l~rruse il has a black cover. 1t as IN truth
very elaborate and useless cash book, whieh
hare converted TO better uses and Transformed
into quotation hook.
wander IL any of you hare similar BOOKS
If not, then secure one to-day ana lay ine
foundation for mach pleasure and proht.
Ny original idea was to keep asystemafic ano
yrall.rerulate6 quotation book. but as am pS
nomeaus a systematic or wel!-reeulatea person
a.. ,,,ot nstursliy assumed the personality oil
wri;er.
>, sorry ! have not kept Wy book better
80. fbe shabby little volume, well h'teo
-, TIA los, thoughts of others, is enc OF my
treasures, ana / take no greater aeiighs thsu
in coming over the quotations
In order 10 hare quotation DOCK you NUS
do three things: tirsL gel d., eeSono' A~>f -
third. write in u.
Do NOT try to cony familiar quotations or 20
opote from books which yon read anu re-re
or 10 which you have ready reference: oais
,re,sure thonphts and sayings which impress
vnn st,n.,r,y. and which would be lest 10 you
unless nrcserred in your little book.
Jot Gswn bits of poetry and forcioie sayings
that VIII tie heipfri to you. Seldom Tau
laoi. .i,bn,,t my black-book by my side IL
scribble down anything that makes a deep IN
preston.
I often find dates and hits of history, TOO
fhz. want to remember. 1 never can Tenem
Der dates unless in connection WIZ something
III literature or the fine arts. +,
Never mind If son do net write IN your oooR
regularly. Sometimes l have neglected mins
for months, only to pick it up again Win re
neweG interest
Resides oao,a.iens. my book often contains
the names of the leading characters IN standard
novels. notieeably Dickens, Thackeray. Scott
and George Eliei 1t is actually like reading ins
l.oo,, 10 read over the characters in It. BY Ink
law of suggestion the whole story is unioioee
tome.
A literary person would consider my poo
little book beneath contempt, and MEMORIES
one would greatly disapprove; enf ior an oru'
merry irregular reader il serves every pufpose
Perhaps there are more peeaie like mysel
who would enjoy just snch scrappy. Ifag
uenfary little book, and who will be gratein
for the suggestion.
Tie title.page contains the motto OF oui
reerless George Washington. 80 me the creates
OF al heroes
Strive to keep alive in yeur breast ina
little spark of Gee iiial fire. conscience.
u
schools of thought Ii would be hard to fnt
anything more orthodox than this from LII
Roman pagan, Marcus Aureiias:
We must study the four chief virtues, eaci
of which has its proper sphere: Wisdom, or tn
knowledge of coed aud evil; justice, or To
giving to every man his due; for.itcde. or tn
enduring of labor and pain. and temperance
which is moderation in all things"
Here is a quaint little Arabian legend wbic
j like: "Nhen the devil, banished fror
Heaven. resolved en- the 5emptaiion OF man
kind. be loved to make use of music, whlc
had been known 10 him as heavenly privIlea
when be was still member of the eterns
hosts.
But the Almighty deprived him Of hi
memory, SO he could remember hut eingl
strain. aud THIS mysterious. bewitching strai
is called in Arabia the DEVILS strain, Or Al
bein.'"
The very hest quotation in my biack-boo
is this from Emerson: "A man is man onl
rs lie makes life and nature happier TO rs.