Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1920-10-16


start playing or cash his checks.
He chose fishing as his hobby. one
evening he became so absorbed in
was pitched dark and he was
amazed to find that even on a pitch
black night a trout would consist
emily pick a black gnat from q
brown hackle. He began TO study.
as a hobby, the optical structures
and powers of fish. He is finding
himself in a new field fairly bris-
Ting with miracles But timid folks
who stir up the dust on the beaten
path merely think of him as a
crank on fishing.
When l was a boy, there was
an old German merchant who lived
in a little cottage. On Sundays he
used to go out and knock chips off
the limestone lodges along the Mis-
sissippi and he had great tonnage
of these chips, all labelled and cat
alogued The chips contained lit
tie fossil backbones Of some de-
funct creatures called chrynoids.
The townspeople regarded this gem
tie old fellow as Just a little bit alb
normal but harmless.
Best Path To Doorway.
"Pretty soon the paper began to
report the arrival of certain per-
sons with names Of strange lustre.
and many titles. 1t was whispered
that these visitors We're great sCien-
lists. some OF them from foreign
lands, and some were among the
worlds greatest psychologists.
They came to visit the harm 'ess old
man, and to hear his pronounce
ments on chrynoids, and they aC-
cepted these pronouncements as
law. When the old German died,
the town awoke to the fact that he
was a world authority on his sub
ject; creator of knowledge; a
maker of scientific history He was
a great mana man beside whom
the local captains of industry
were mere bushwhackers
Now the point is that these
people are not born to greatness;
they are just ordinary intelligent
folk who during their leisure hours
have the courage to step into un-
trodden paths, the persistency to
follow them, and that natural rev
erenCe of the works of God which
Christ described as "eyes to see,
and ears to hear"
"Of course not one in thou
sand of such Adventures attains
fame, but every one of them at
tains that abundant life. beside
which fame is merely irrelevant.
"Cheaters" Are Scored.
"Now of course there are blind
alleys which look like short cuts to
adventure, in which lazy, stupid,
and irreverent men have from
time immemorial gotten their feet
muddy, and have come back to the
straight and narrow path, If at all,
with nothing more gained than
bad taste in their mouth. These are
the materialists, the jazz dventur-
ers. of whom Isaiah said that they
feed on ashes, deceived hearts have
turned them aside, and there is
lie in their right hand. These are
the cheaters. who try to see the
universe without a ticket. That
ticket Is clean living, without
which no mortal body may hope to
sustain the keen appreciation OF
beauty which Job had.
Not Life of "Highbrows."
"I shall count this day a failure
If leave with you the impression
that these paths of high adventure,
which have tried to describe, are
open only to 'highbrows,' on the
contrary they are closed pretty
tight to such persons, because these
pursue knowledge and distinction
as detectives and like those that
pursue salvation, disqualify them
selves at the outset from even un-'
Outstanding the object of their pur-
suit. Neither is 1t at all true that
only doctors and paleontologists
may tread therein; a good healthy
curiosity is better equipment with
which to venture forth than any
amount of learning or education
Education is attained by and not
for these things. Ard schooling,
which | hold to be an entirely sep
arate thing, is only period or leis-
ure whose object is to show us
where an education is to be found.