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Show INSISTED ON QUICK ACTION This Father About as Sensible as Many Who Expect Wonders From Correspondence Cor-respondence School. Henry P. Davison was talking about the numerous correspondence courses in five lessons each lesson to be mastered mas-tered in one evening over the after-dinner after-dinner cigar which teach a man bow to become a Napoleon of finance. 'Ton can't learn to be a Napoleon of finance or anything else so easily," he said. "These courses remind me of the man who brought his son to the school of mines and growled : "'I want you to learn this here hoy to be an expert miuiu' engineer, but loolc a-here I don't want him to waste his time over a lot of book nonsense about strata and denudations, and don't bother him with minerology and crystals, neither. What I want him to learn is how to find gold and silver and copper in payin' quantities payin' quantities, mind you and I'll call for him and put him in to work Monday a week.' " |