The farmer and mechanic. [volume] (Raleigh, N.C.) 18??-19??, 1909-02-16

ceited as those who have made fail
ures of their own affairs.
People who have achieved things
nearly always so softly and sing small.
but those who have fallen down or
everything they ever attempted to do
go about with clashing cylnbals and
blowing horns, and ~curiously enough,
the burden of their song is not Iamen-
tations over their own mistakes, but
advice to others abaOut how to manag
their business.
1t is one of the most cynically hui
morous and e~xasperating things in the
world. that the man or woman who
has been left at the post in the race
of life Immediately turns out and be-
gins to hand out sure tips and the way
to win.
Nor do they use their own experl-
ence to point the moral and adorn the
tale. They do not exploit themselves
as an awful warning. Far from it!
1t does not appear to occur 20 the
failure that his sole value consists IN
being a s~ign-pOst Of danger, ana SO
with q bIissfuI lack of appreciation OF
how ridiculous it is for him to pose as
Sir oracle he calmly hands out helpful
hints to everybody that he meets. 1t
takes aGamantine nerve to do this, put
the failure is one gigantic,
palpitating nerve.
& oo S10CA
some reliable recipe for success he is
very slow to make answer, and when
he does, he always says hat NOBODY
can tell another person how to achieve
things.
so much depends on your environ
ment." he says, land your
and the peculiar conditions with winch
YOU have to contend. THAT only you,
who are on the inside, can really tell
what ought to be done, Or can be
done. at any particular moment"
His First Name is Buttinsky.
The fa!iure doesn't wait for YOU TO
ask him for advice. He butts right IN.
Say. old man. he says. III tell
YOU lust exactly what you ought TO 90
to make a bowling success. You just
do SO and so. Now take this from me,
and you can't fail
And then he bOrrows a
from you for lunch. on the strength
of having told YOU exactly how TO
make n million. and he goes bhthely
on his way to scatter rays Of sunshine
in the shape Of advice on other be-
nighted people who are merely getting
along pretty well. thank YOU, in their
own particular lines
1t Is the mar who does not know
enough about work to hotd
down Il good job as a reporter who
takes UP the time and boTes editors &c
extinction by dropping in on them ano
telling them just evactly how they
should run their papers.
He knows, bless you! although ne
can never keep a place, just Wha'
ought to be done to run a paper uE
to a billion circulation. and he has no
the slightest hesitation in saying SO.
Tt is the man who's wife takes II
boarders to support him who drops II
at yOur prosperous grocery and while
he absent-mindedly nibbles away a
90 ohanco love HNUr
the Law to you about how you car
make 81 fortune In less than no TIM
if YOU will only take his advice.
A Cheap Recipe for Millions.
He tells YOU that you are making
mistake piking along in a small way
that you ought to branch out an
rent another store. and buy some I'm
dlivery wagons, and put in piate-gias
front windows. ETC.. etc.
He never earned a dollar in his life
and you have started with nothing ant
have accumulated a comfortable tor
tune, but he is convinced that n
knows 10 times as much abou tn
money proposition as you do.
who are the critics." some on
asked Disraeli, and he replied: "Th
men who have failed in literature an
art Even so. But if You really wan
to know how q book should be writ
ten, it takes the man who can't eve.
: get q NOX fOpOll feJI6E III liz CClIC
~spondence column of a newspaper t
tell you.
If you burn TO know the real inter
probation of Hamlet. the only individ
ua1 who can tell just how Mr.. Sother
ought to play the melancholy Dane
. and where Forbes Robertson fails i
his Interpretation Of the role, is som
man actor who can't get a place t
pack q spear in the back row in
mob scene.
Nor is there q cracked voice must
teacher in the land who doesn't fe.
perfectly able to tell TetraZZini ho'
TO take q high note. or Mary Garde