The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1911-12-19

tation, Limitation is the sincerest fat
terry yet few people know the author
Of this famous epigram- In previous
chapter of these "Reminiscences of a
Newspaper Man in Topeka this quo
tation was made, and omething was
said of the wonderful man who was
the author of the phrase.
Day after day the use Of this same
quotation is suggested by the imita-
tions which so often follow a success
full project. Substitutes are daily Of
fered for the original; these substi-
tutes are often declared to be "just as
good yet in few instances is the sub
stitute as good as the original
The state Journal started numerous
features recently and its rivals are
scurrying about to see what they can
do along the same lines; in some cases
with laughable results. This is true
in the case of "daffydiIsi" This paper
started "daffydils'' in Topeka five or
six weeks ago and has been running
them daily ever since. A few days
ago another daily paper in Topeka
thought it must run daffydils- This
is one of the results that is laughable-
Other. results are merely amusing
Marion Harland is the greatest au-
thoritv on household affairs in the
United states The Chicago Tribune
pavs her a very large sum of money
for her daily work. The Topeka State
Journal through an arrangement with
the Tribune. obtains the same service,
page every Saturday and about two
columns the other five days of the
week. There are imitators, many of
them, but there is only one Marion
Harland and she writes for the State
Journal and the Chicago Tribune, and
answers all inquiries made by the
readers of these papers.
So it might be said of Mutt and jeff |
and many other features that this pa
per has secured and is publishing
daily McCutcheon, for instance, the
great cartoonist, draws for the State
Journal as his only Kansas newspaper; |
and McCutcheon, our readers know, is |
simply great.
The author of the expression used
several times in this paper, Imitation
is the sincerest fattery," was an En-
glish preacher, the Rev. Caleb Charles
Cotton, and he wrote scores of cpl
grams and bits of well worded phil
osophy equal and superior to the one
extract Bartlett gives. which is the
one above quoted. Chapter XLVII
will give something more about this
man Cotton, part of which was printed I
some time ago in a previous chapter,
but which will bear repetition. In this
chapter by far the greater part of the
quotations which viii appear in this
department on Thursday will be more
quotations along the lines of those
given below:
From ''Lacon.' by Rev. c. c. Cotton:
1.-THE great examples of Bacon, of Mil
ton, of Newton, of Locke, and of 9TH
ers happen to be directly against the I
popular Inference, that certain Wild
ness of eccentricity and thoughtless-
ness of conduct, are the necessary ac-
compartments of talent, and the sure
indications of genius. Because some
have united these eXtravagances with
great dem onstrations of talent, as a
Rousseau, a Chatterton a Savage, a
Burns, or a Byron, Others finding 1t
brilliant, have therefore adopted the
one, in the hope that the world would
give them credit for the other.
But the greatest genius is never SO
great as when it is chastised and sub
dued by the highest reason; it is from
such combination, like that of
Bucephalus, refined in by Alexander,
that the most powerful efforts have
been produced.
"And be it remembered, that
minus Oh the very niSnGSl OIu01s WIZ
have given an unrestrained course to
their caprice or to their passions,
would have been so much higher by
Subduing them; and that SO far from
presuming that the world would give
them credit for talent on the score of
their alterations and their extrava-
gances, all that they dared hope or
expect has been, that the world would
pardon and overlook those extrava-
ganceS. on account OF the various and
manifold proofs they We're constantly
exhibiting Of superior requirement
and inspiration. We might also add,
that the good effects of talent are uni
versal, the evil of its blemishes con-
fined.
s.The light and heat of the sun
benefits all, and are by all enjoyed.
the spots his surface are dis
coverabIe only to the few. But the
lower order of aspirers to fame and
talent have pursued very different
course; instead of exhibiting talent in
the hope that the world would forgive
their eccentricities, they have ex-
hope that the world would give them
credit for talent.
"Avarice begets more vice than
Priam did children, and, like Priam,
survives them all. It starves its keep
er to surfeit those who wish him dead !
fcations to lose heaven, than the mar !
tyr undergoes to gain it.
"Avarice is a passion full of para
dox, a madness full of method;
for although the miser is the most
of all beings, yet he
serves the worst master more faith
fully than some Christians do the best
and will take nothing for it. He falls
down and worShips the god of this
world, but viii have neither its pomps,
its vanities. nor its pleasures for his
trouble. He begins to accumulate
treasure as a means to happiness, and