The Cairo bulletin., 1904-08-28

; the oriental replies. II nave taken on
naturalization papers, and am fre
citizen. can live as 4 choose Blu
the officer answers, mo; you IRE unde
legal restrictions. II you continue {,
violate them we shall send you to pris
on as bigamlst."
The land Of the free? Yes. il yot
obey our laws, but not otherwise. Yol
are free TO Do as you will in your owl
| home that Is if yoa do not abuse youl
offspring If You do, as All agent FOL
the Society For the Prevention Of Cruel
ty 70 Children can step i'll ana take
your children away from yoa Thu
land 81 the free. lcs, Int you dare
not sell to my children obscene pic
lures for il you % l con make you
wear conyict's stripes, The land OF
the frecf Yes, II is the land Of the
free If you DO not try to forcibly
enter my home, or rob my store, or re-
fuse to pay your taxes, cir TO 80 TO war
ms N American soldier when you are
drafted, or to serve III the jury box
when you are impanclcd, You are
free IN social sense ollr when your
liberties do not conflict with the equal
| liberties of some one else.
| Not onlf does man have LIS physical
! limitations ana social limitations, but
also his mental limitations. AS the
| United States government first has its
| national legislature, ANA then this ma
tlonal form of government is sabdiyid-
cd into states, and these states into
counties, and these countios into town
ships. so | find the great human race
il divided and subdlyldcd aud again
rcdlyidcd In reference to it's limitations.
And in no way can you trace these
limitations more than in the mental
makeup Of the individual.
Educational Limitations.
Under The Old educational system ey-
cry American college used to exact
hidebound course The Young man
who was a candidate for the b. A. de-
gree had to take Just so much Of mathe-
matics, 50 much Of languages, so much
Of the sciences, so much of philosophy.
so much Of this and that ana the other
thing. Bur now our college systems
have become hroadoned. Tho elective
system" is in vogue Great educational
leaders have come to the logical and
right conclusion that what is meat for
one brain may be poison for another
Charles Sumner was one of The great
est men America ever produced, but It
was simply an impossib,luy for
Charles Summer to grasp mathematics.
AS q result DC this deficiency Sumner.
one OF The greatest Of an Masst-
chusctts' scholars was unable TO grad /
uate from Harvard college When my /
father graduated from college Howard /
Crosby then a professor ia the New I
York university declared he was The /
finest student Of "bcllcs lcttrcs" who /
mad over studied within the walls OF t
New York's great institution Of learn /
ing. But, though. my father was strong I
in certain studies. he was very weak
in others. Among his weaknesses WAS
his inability To grasp 4 foreign tongue, 4
For years lie wanted to 80 forth, as
did my Uncle John, as n missionary 10
foreign lands. He was, however, de,
tered from this purpose by the TO him)
almost insurmountablc difficulty OF lie
coming proficient in foreign Ian
guage.
Sometimes there is born a child as
was Edmund Clarence Stedman. with a
brain Of myriad possibilities As an
American poet he treads closely upon
lie heels Of our greatest poets Yet
Stedman the poet is also Stedman the
Vail street banker, as he was also Sted
nan the famous war correspondent
But such minds as that OF Edmund |
,larence Stedman are the rare eXcep-
ions For the most part God gives 10
nan but one first class talent and not
en-. The reason Theodore Parker be
anne the great power he was in his day
vas because, as he said Everything |
yer saw or did | ground up into The
mental grlst for my sermons was
orn a preacher and can do nothing else
ut preach When Z. S. Grant drew
Is sword rs commander Of the AmCri-
an armies. he carved out for himself
ne Of the greatest names in American
istory, but T. S. Grant made q failure !
t everything on earth he ever attempt I
q except the vocation Of q soldier (
llny soldier has been a failure as a
.atesman; many a statesman has
roycd his utter lncapacity when he
led to command an army
Heccher mud Ais Father.
The limitations OF brain power can be
ell illustrated by comparing the men
4 makeup Of Henry Ward Bcechcr
it'll that Of his iilustrious father Ly-
an Beecher. one Of The greatest ecclc. Z
aslical leaders OF has day. The "a
Gus pastor of plymouth pulpit was in
cry sense a prose poet lie spoke. he
fought he lived. Ia symbol and pictur-
que vcrhage. The songs of thc birds.
e beautiful wardrolua OF tlc flowers
10 autumnal sunsets. tile boclivos. the
low banks. The murmuring hrooks-aH
n 70 him u message Lyman Bccchcr
az made Of angular Puritan granite
@ was IN every sense lo-iciau and Il
Ilemic. Like John Calhoun. De was
illful IN argument Grant his simple
cmises, and you must grant bis con-
lsions. lie appealed mostly 90 The