The Marshall republican., 1906-01-26

the other. give up my search AFTER the
moral philosophers stone. or surren-
der the lease OF my chambers In the
city. For some months I worked dou-
Die tidcs. and hesitated. but at last my
decision could no longer be postponed,
u must be n thing or the other. SO
In my p%erplesity I consulted Fanny
n having laid the whole matter be-
fore her. asked her which course she
thought ] ought to take. Her answer
was prompt and Undertaking. Il was
10 The effect that ! should give up my
profession and devote myself cselu-
sively 10 my Investigations.
You have six hundred a year 20 live
on" she said. "and therefore will not
starvc; and. II you succeed. you will
achieve immortal fame: for you will
have found the way to minister TO a
mind diseased. and. II you fail. you
will have acquired an enormous mass
OF knowledge which you may be able
to turn 20 account In some other way.
] have no doubt myself on the matter.
Think Of what the reward before you
IT,"
] did not quite like Fanny's way OF
putting the matter. She always seem
ed 10 me 20 dwell too much upon the
personal advantages that would re-
suit from my success. Now such n
quest as mino In not for the individual;
Il In for the whole wide world. and for
the millions and millions who are yet
to live upon II. What does II matter
who inds, provided that the truth 10
foundf Why. any right-thinking man
should be glad. n his circumstances
Will permit OF II TO give his life to such
4 cause: aye. even II he knows that. so
FAR ms he 10 concerned. he will never
reach the goal. but be trodden down
and forgotten. He should be glad and
happy. ] say. II he can only think that
some more fortunate seeker will be able
to step a pace to forward on his pros
trate form. But. after all. even the
best and widest-minded women. rs
have found them. win look at things
In a strictly personal light. do not
think that as a class they care much
for humanity at large. or would 20 far
out OF their way TO help Il; OF course. I
mean II they are certain that nobody
will hear OF their good work. But this
Ii only an opinion,
pointed this out to Fanny. who
shrugged her handsome shoulders, and
ssid that really she did not think H.
mattersd much which way one looked
At II: the great thing was to succeed.
Well, l took her advice. partly be-
,ause II fell In with my own views, and
partly because ! have always paid more
attention to Fanny than TO any other
living creature Indeed. to this duy
hold her judgment In almost childish
yeneration. II was q hard wrench 10
ne. giving up the outward and visible
following Of my profession. more espe-
sally Ms W then In a fair a tc
ichieve considerable success In n; but
Z had TO be done. felt II my duty to
10 It, and 70 I made the best Of Il.
what was still harder. however, was
he reception that my decision met
with among such few relatives a.
possessed. and my friends and ac-
quaintances. They demonstrated with
me personally and By letter. and -au-
noysd me In every way. and upon svery
possible occasion. Even relatives with
whom ! had never had the slightest In
tsrcourss thought this . good oppor-
tupity TO i~naugurats IN e~plstolary ac-
QuAintsncs. One old aunt wrote to ask
what amount Of truth there was In the
rumor that I had given up my profes-
sion. and what ! had taken to In place Of
III I replied that was devoting myself
TO scisntihe research. An Answsr came
BY return Of post. TO the effect that,
having heard that J was doing 20 we'll