The Elbert County tribune., 1903-12-03
ABOUT SOME EASY ERRORS.

When saw the word weird"
printed where the word three" should
have been the only thing could do
was to invest 1t In this kind Of re-
port.
From past experience have found
that investment of trouble is an eco
nomic way of handling IT,
A man sold me n fifty-cent micro
scope for three dollars. When found
out the value of 1t | told the story
for New York magazine and they
sent me s2.s5.
That was fifteen years ago. and ever
since then | have felt that trouble
might in some cases be key which
would open door to desirable oppor-
tunities.
Soon after the microscope expert
ence | found log in path which
led from railway station to my home.
If the train happened to be late |
would use that path In the night. and
r. the night happened to be dark that
log was apt to make me trouble.
I asked the owner of the log how
much he would take for II. He named
the price and took him up; then l
asked neighbor II 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.
When my people found out about
the price of the log and the quality
of the wood they felt that l needed
some kind of an education that had
not secured. But when that New York
magazine sent me GO 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 suburban
station at -:30 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.
tion 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 couple of calls near the station, I
made third call on gentleman
whom had met several times. 1t was
with some difiidence that opened the
subject. but l believe that the forty
minutes spent with him were as useful
to me as any forty minutes that have
ever invested.
Recently. while at hotel in a south
western town, went to the letter box
late In the evening to post some mail.
The box was near the clerks desk in
the hotel. and on 1t hung a card. The
hook which held the card was large
piece of hoop iron bent Mt both ends
| had read the card before, and yet
mt the time | was so thoroughly occu-
pied with some foreign subject that
with considerable effort pulled down
the shutter and dropped in my mail
With that act my mind dropped the
foreign subject. and seemed to be
ready to rest, and then l re-read the
card on the box, which said, Hand
mail to the clerk for trains east and
west"
Just how I could get that shutter
down and the bent hoop iron made 1t
particularly difficult. is something that
is not very clear to me at present, but
teachers claim that one can be so
thoroughly occupied with an Idea that
many things can be done unconscious
ly. You may have heard of the man.
while taking bath, who got to think
ing In an original way and continued
wiping one of his feet for twenty min
utes until he finished his line of
thought and came to himself. I heard
Cough say that during one of his ora
tions he seriously injured his hand
by striking railing near the table.
but that he did not know of the in
Jury until after he lad finished his
Grafton. One of the best business
men OF Chicago left basket of grapes
on the train and never saw them again
because he left the train in the midst
OF ananimated conversation with
friend. When we go to bed we want to
sleep and get rested. when we work
we want to concentrate in way to win
and when we start on a line Of origi-
nal thought we should have special
time for that kind of brain work. Can
we have time of day for original
study and cause the spontaneous
and original helps to flock in
on us at that time? Is ii possibility
bv practice?