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Show ABOUT SOME EASY ERRORS. ' When I saw tho word "weird" printed where tho word "three" should havo been tho only thing I could do was to Invest It In this kind of a report. re-port. A man sold mo a flfty-cont microscope micro-scope for threo dollars. When I found out the vnluo of It I told tho story for a New York magazlno and they sent me $2.85. Soon nftor tho microscope experience experi-ence I found a log in a path which led from a railway station to my homo. If tho train happened to bo Into I would uso that path In tho night, and If tho night happened to bo dark that log was "apt to make mo trouble. I asked tho owner of the log how much ho would tako for it. He named the price and I took him up; then I asked a neighbor if ho would turn that log into stove wood and put hnlf of tho wood In our shed for tho other half of the wood for his own shed. Ho said yes, and did so. When my peoplo found out about tho price of tho log and the quality of tho wood they felt that I needod somo kind of an education that I had not secured. But-whon that Now York magazine sont mo 60 per cent moro for the written report than I paid for the log, my peoplo began to think that T llr1 1mxr onmatfilnfr I did Know sometning. The other day 1 went to a suburban station at 1:30 p. m., and tho day was Thursday. I soon found that tho 1:35 train which I had como to take ran Saturdays only. This mado mo feol llko framing a sentonco for my own uso, and I soon saw that tho Information Informa-tion at tho top of n column ls as Important Im-portant as tho train tlmo In tho column. col-umn. What to do with tho hour In hand was tho next question, and after making mak-ing a couple of calls near tho station, I made a third call on a gentleman whom I had met soveral times. It was with somo dlindonco that I opened the subject, but I bollovo that tho forty minutes spent with him were as useful to mo as any forty minutes that I .avo ovcr invested. Recently, whllo at a hotel in a southwestern south-western town, 1 went to tho letter box lato in tho evening to post some mail. Tho box was near tho clerk's desk In tho hotel, nnd on It hung a card. Tho hook which hold tho card was a largo piece of hoop Iron bont nt both ends. I had read tho card boforo, and yet nt tho tlmo I was so thoroughly occupied occu-pied with some foreign subject that with considerable effort I pulled down tho shutter and dropped In my mall. With that act my mind dropped tho foreign subject, and seemed to bo ready to rest, and then I re-read tho card on tho box, which said, "Hand mall to tho clerk for trains east and west" Just how I could got thnt shutter down and tho bont hoop Iron mado it particularly difficult, Is somothlng that ls not very clear to mo at prosont, but teachers claim that ono can bo so thoroughly occupied with an idea that many things can bo dono unconsciously. unconscious-ly. You may havo hoard of the man, while taking a bath, who got to thinking think-ing In nn original way and continued wiping ono of his feet for twenty minutes min-utes until ho 'finished his lino of thought and came to himself. I hoard Cough say that during ono of his orations ora-tions he seriously Injured his hand by Btrlking a railing near tho table, but that ho did not know of tho injury in-jury until after ho had finished hlB oration. Ono of tho host business mon ot Chicago loft a basket of grapes on the train and never saw thom again bocause ho left the train In tho midst of ananlmnted conversation with n friend. Whon wo go to bed wo want to Bleep and got rested. Whon wo work wo want to concentrato in a way to wlu and when wo start on a lino of original origi-nal thought wo should havo upoclal tlmo for that kind of brain work. |