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Show no tunnels beneath the Hudson tho burber would continue to wield tho surgeon' knife upon patients tor tured for the lack of anesthetic mercy. mer-cy. You're just an ignoramus you wou't learn the Indisputable truths. Education Is wasted upon yon you don't uso It when you possess It Opportunity Js squandered every t;me you arc given a chance. Yon bestow nothingupon humanity except harm, you arc a greater enemy ene-my to society than the thief for you would steal the very seed of Inspiration Inspir-ation from which betterment take3 loot. To be pessimistic in this hour of illustrious deeds to proselyte de-pair de-pair in a century which has dlsprov-cn dlsprov-cn the Impossibility of Impossibilities. Impossibili-ties. Is to insult society and wear the livid brand of confessed incompo-tence. incompo-tence. Herbert Kaufman in the National Na-tional Magazine for August. Copyright. 1909. TO THE PESSIMIST. j You are the most utterly useless of all humans. The apace which ou oc-cupv oc-cupv upon the surlace of the earth is a wnstod spot. Without the ability to create, you aim to kill the spirit of creation, without the skill to pro duce. v oo seek to cluck the advance of progress You are a poison oak in the forest a creeper without the strength to cli.nb on your own stein. You not only are fruitless, but one degree worse than sterile you absorb vitality vital-ity to no purpose and hurt everything every-thing with which you couio In contact. con-tact. Despite the evidence of all the ages you still refuse to recognize that nothing noth-ing can be achieved without trial that nothing can be accomplished unless un-less U is attempted with courage and i inhiisiasm and still 'u r,,ako o( yourself a checkreln wherever there is a call for a spur you persist m kicking with discouragement every driver wh. needs the helping hand f confidence. , J Four hundred years aso f" wo'-'l I have stood In the ranks of the hooting hoot-ing mobs that stoned and reviled the chain-laden Columbus. As a Puritan biot, vours would have been the hand that fired the fagots at Salem. Were all men cast iu .vor narrow measure, there would be no traa-r traa-r ronilucntal rails; do' eighteen-hour trains from Chicago to New York |