The Laurens advertiser. (Laurens, S.C.) 1885-1973, 1901-12-04
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ELL Says We Learn Something
Evefy Day of Our Lives

4 pedia of Universal Knowlodgc-som
4 thing they cuu.d turn TO for refer u'
1 or instruction or entertainment. Cycl
pe,iias cost much money, but u
4 amount spent in year or two for a
/ sorts of modc'n literature would pt
for Apploton's ~ some other standal
work Twas ruGAinating about this b,
carse my f.iena Murphy told me th5
the woOdc4cS di| not raise her youn
in nest, but carried tn, IN about undo
her wings aud fed them as she journey
ed from place to place. Murphy i
considered authority on hunting am
fishing, but we do not give full crcdi
to lishermen's yarns, and so urn,'
to the cyclopedia and found il just a
he said. The bird rarely has NOR
than two young ones and caries then
about with her nestled under he
wings. This reminds me that OLD Ton
Price, an iIliierate man of great obser
vation, said that the big owl laid bu
one egg and when ii was hatched an,
the young bird feathercd she land an
other egg and made the young blrt
cover 1t and hatch it while she was
foragiug around for food for both.
Observation and experience arc goot
school teachers, and if man has n
! good cyclopedia for reference he can
get II pretty good education. And
there is the comfort OF studying the
lives of great or notable men and wo
men. In idle moments it is rccrcu
li0n to open a vOlumc,at random and to
read these brief but lucid Biographies
of Socrates, Plato, Gallilco, Seneca,
Archimedes and other grand old men
of the oldcn time, and OF Mozart,
IIandl, Raphael, Beethoven and the
great masters of art and music. The
other day chanced upon Cer' ntcs--
a Spaniurd- author of "Don
QniXOtc." and il was a revelation. If hu
had been an Englishman he would have
Cakcn rank with Shakespeare and Mil,
ton and Pope. Indeed most OF the
English writers borrowed from him for
they could translate bis bright sayings
and quote thcm in English without
fear OF detection.
"Don QuiXote" pronounced kec-
ho-tc) is not his best work, but is thc
most enjoyable and ii cifcclually par
alyzcd the prompous chivalry and
knight errantry of the time. The
Knights soon became the butt of univcI-
sal ridiculc, and yet there is not
malicious or malignant line in the
book. One who enjoys such sarcasm
can read and laugh until he has the
side ache Philip III saw student
reading book and convulscd with
laughter. He said: "That young man
is crazy or he is reading 'Don QuiX
xOLe." Ccrvantes became Il soldier
in early life and joined the Christian
army against the Turks. He was dcs
peratcly wounded at the great battle of
Lepanto and lost the use OF his left arm
for life. But he soon joined the army
again and was taken prisoner by the
Moors and kept in prison for five years.
He was ransOmcd and then b, gan his
literary career.
Dante and Tasso had then begun tn
illuminate the literary world and
Shakespeare was close behind, bm
Ccrvantcs was seventeen years older
than Shakespeare and they died OH the
same day in tho same year. For DIX.
lms and epigrams Ccrvantcs never had
an equal. They have become house
hold words in all the worId-wo find
some of Jhum in Shakespeare, but they
we're borrowed from Ccrvantcs. "Make
hay while the sun Shines" {" a bird in
nand is worth TWO in The bush !" "Mur-
lcr will out" -" Little said is soonest
ncndcd," 4" More knavc than fool"
=" Faint heart nc'cr won fair LADY,"
Lock bcluic you leap" "The proof
of The pudding is the eating of it,
= Never build castles IN the arr"
* Honesty is the best policy" "The
,,ot should not call tho kettle black"
4" A peck of troubles" Don't count
your chickens before they are hatch
d." "Don'L loook for birds in last
cars ncsLs,' Z" Plain as the nose OH Il
mans facc," "You have got the wrong
SOW by the car" and scores of others
Ill came from Ccrvantcs.
TO cap the climax of his character,
ne was good man-good TO his wifi
md children and always cheerful and
had no enemies. Once he WAS put iIi
prison for IL little debt and wrote him.
Hlf out by selling sketches to the press.
President Gilman says that the young
people read TOO much and cog lhciI
minds with mass of trillcs and trash,
but reading the biography of grcal
hinkers, writer's, inventors and mas
Lcrs of art and music is storing away
useful Knowledge. The examples sci
" the good helps to mold our ow'
characters, for, as L1ngfcllow SAID:
"Livts Of great men all romind us
We may make our lives sublime,
And departing leave behind us
Footprints on the sands OF time
What debt of gratitude we owe to
those who have gone before us. Old
DR.. Johnson sard to Boswell: "W,
can never pay it, sir-noL ii 1.-THE OF il /,
but il is every mans duty TO do some
thing for pOsteriLy. He should writ,
goo bOrk or invent some useful
thing or raise up son who will be Il
good citizen and fight the battles Of his
country. If he can't do anything l.c,
sir, he can plant tree or n vine that
will give fruit or shade to those who
come after him. Let no man live a
, blank and die like dog"
believe that our education begins
here in infancy and continues through
youth and manhood till we die and
goes on without recess or vacation