Iron County record. [volume] (Cedar City, Utah) 1893-1982, 1903-12-26
ABOUT SOME EASY ERRORS.

AbOO SOM z EASY EHHOhS-
When | saw the word weird"
printed where the word three" should
have been the only thing | could do
was to invest it in this kind of re-
port.
A man sold me a fifty-cent micro
scope for three dollars. When found
out the value of it | told the story
for a New York magazine and they
sent me $2.S5.
Soon after the microscope expert
ence | found log in a path which
led from a railway station to my home.
II the train happened to be late
would use that path in the night, and
II the night happened to be dark that
log was apt to make me trouble.
asked the owner Of the log how
much he would take for it. He named
the price and | took him up; then
asked neighbor IL he would turn
that log into stove wood and put half
of the wood in our shed for the other
half of the wood for his own shed. He
said yes, and did so.
the price of the log and the quality
of the wood they felt that I needed
some kind of an education that ! had
not secured But. when that New York
magazine sent me so per cent more
for the written report than paid for
the log, my people began to think that
/ did know something.
The other day | went to a suburban
station at /: 80 p. m, and the day was
Thursday. | soon found that the 1875
train which | had come to take ran
Saturdays only. This made me feel
like framing sentence for my own
use, and | soon saw that the informa-
ton at the top of column is as i'm
portant as the train time in the col
umn.
What to do with the hour in hand
was the next question, and after max
ing a couple of calls near the station
whom | had met several times. 1t was
with some diffdence that | opened the
subject. but believe that the forty
minutes spent with him were as usefu
to me as any forty minutes that cave
ever invested.
Recently, while at hotel in a south
western town, went to the letter boz
late in the evening to post some mail
The box was near the clerks desk IL
the hotel. and on it hung card. Th
hook which held the card was larg
piece of hoop iron bent at both ends
I had read the card before, and We
at the time | was so thoroughly occu
pied with some foreign subject tina
with considerable effort pulled dow
the shutter and dropped in my mail.
With that act my mind dropped tn
foreign subject, and seemed to b
ready to rest, and then | re-read tn
card on the box, which said, Han
mail to the clerk for trains east an
west"
Just how | could get that shuttle
down and the bent hoop iron made
particularly difficult, is something ths
is not very clear to me at present, bl
' teachers claim that one can be s
/ thoroughly occupied with an idea this
many things can be done unconsciou
ly. You may have heard OF the MAJ
while taking a bath, who got to thin
= ing in an original way and continue
l wiping one of his feet for twenty mi
: utes until he finished his line
thought and came to himself. l hear
Cough say that during one OF his or
D tions he seriously injured his har
}. by striking a railing near the tabl
p hut that he did not know of the !
Q Jury until after he had finished h
o Grafton. One of the best busine
b men of Chicago left basket of crap
d on the train and never saw them aga
because he left the train in the mid
Il of ananimated conversation with
L friend. When we go to bed we want
sleep and get rested. When we wo
we want to concentrate in a way to W
and when we start on line OF orii
!" nal thought we should have spec
time for that kind of brain work.