Show ACQUIKIM KXOWLEDKC V1T1I SOME IT MXXWrSAt USCOX TKOLLAIILE DESIlK Acquiring knowledge may become be-come a positive passiou giving as keen a pleasure ns a constant round of gay amusements to persons o diflerent temiicramcntaiul less lofty ambition 1 it it nuit not be forgotten for-gotten EBJH writer in the Jentlc mant Magazine that this is a practical prac-tical world one In which men and women have to live and die no that I it la Indispensable that omUhng fruitful should accompany the acquisition ac-quisition of learning irofewor Edward Ed-ward Freeman jioUra a perfect torrent tor-rent of Invective on the man who expects a substantial return from hIs labors and who will not work unless lie can sec that some goodwill good-will result from learning Mr Freeman contends that any one worthy to be called a scholar wilt toil merely to acquire knowledge and with no thought of future ru vard anti yet It is obvious that were not somo thought given to thu usual of patient and longcouUnued study thousands of men might tit I generate no other name Is applicable applic-able to them into bookworms readIng nighj and Jay it is true but not incruailns I not the sum enriching of human and cnliglitenhi knowledge II I manMud but till tite while having 110 be inalnbiinetl by the fruit of tIns labor uf other Surely the jusslon of know ltdge 11 such may be carrfoj I too far and amount to HtUo more than a clever lImns hobby Have wo not hllnl of thc scholar whose wife at the Iut of death cent him au urgent nieago to hasten to her side ° Tll I her lie replied when I with somo difficulty 110 lint d grasped to great was his preoccupation preoccupa-tion the full drift of the nits rage to wail a Trw mimiUs I A gain cauiu Uie imploringtuniiiions again tlie scholar pieadeif tor delay r h kfa JO JI And not IIP WLS Infanie4 that tiho was dwd He paused ft moment r r1 1f lihm sighed anti resumed those studies which had 1econu dearer to him than life There 5s nevertheless something Inexpressibly I touching the dying i request of LavoteUjr that his death by the guiUathio might lie I delayed a gjjit time so that he could complete some interesting experiments ex-periments nUll something under the circumstances not altoselher unnatural the part pf thcgovern men that thy republic did no nutchumUta |