Show r Popularity ity and Ability BY DR FRA FRANK CRANE There arc are t two k kinds 0 of ablo able men some Somo men arc aLto able to get ol elected d to office of flee fice lice and others are aro able ablo to discharge worthily the duties ditties of ot the thc office Tho The trouble is t that at the two kinds of ability rarely go o together The weak spot in democracy is Us its overemphasis of the tIme value of popular popular- it ity The Ihie power to get ct ones one's self liked l lh h has s its place but does docs not rank very on high in iu the service er ilO of the state I have havo known knowD preachers who were cre IE successful merely L because of this this' as as- set In fact I have ha now to Di Dt- Dt my minds min eye a man a good nin mo who has jut just been blen elected bishop of som somewhere or other who vho as a pastor had haul any of DC the Qualifications tiona of a spiritual leader wb who bad bAr no m message except at second secondhand hand who had not ot even leadership but hut h he had a great way n of shaking shaking- hands when he met you b he be gave ro oit 01 the time impression ion that lie lio bad bad th thought about abut no on one but y you u for a month thon though h you rou ou had never occurred to him and be would cross tho street in the mud to greet a ii parishioner er null and ask nisI about tIm tho bab baby Still he lie wag wp H mi Hool cooJ gool ool man John kin aya IV that a n clergyman jm n i is the tue only ophy workman in ill whom I lu fillY any t JI is excused cl by it sayan saving that h he ho is I. I good a good I know knon T l i tr able ILle de tic devout vomit vout in inspiring irin I conscientious and ami truthful who w s sIs a natural recluse dilT lI nt ami Kril embarrassed in company and ami who liAr land p pe r i er been brn within mil mies 5 of f t tIm tho ho nil t on n Ho lie lost one I holding ill after afler r another loth r mind ami Is HI noi no cut t of a pastorate w time the most capable m man n ill in the state is if ho hosen senator are arc rare We W sent nd to th time tho l legislature or r lit city r 1 tho tile c good fellows ws ill in- st stead arl l of I 0 cor cool l official i it it will be bo s j so o till the end of If time tune It H is a in human ua- ua ture vet a 4 ural lia one nile VVo Wo all I like hike kf to bo be A little attention goes Jor a 1 long way n with its us Anti Ami it is j so v en tW to that Mint th the person Con nho c can cui n li in increase erea crease e our Ott- self bell respect is ill 5 a St alil Lri being Even T in marriage 1 it t Ji tUSas a as if it I time the he airis irl who ea u-au u HU mo easily cosily catch husband m malce the floor poorest t wives wi ami women gift erl Nl in iii wifehood J und motherhood HT are nr pass l luy hr rik r j lime Mip l lv men mN who ean n pick hack wild anti what wife 01 fatter arc time the least qualified io Co o a woman man As a rulo nile ItIS U It Ui i IS ft inen anti ami wom women n are arc so t-I ol nJ it is too late Into that th they arc are com PC tent to c cIt judge S sound wife or tt imber It is rather to p point int moral tn to thi this It Jt is it on one of n nets faett Wc i t t. ourselves hc J tt tn nut limit it mit least eat wo WI 0 can ran learn this thi that flint we hould try t tn ti PICA cut ones one's effect upon u us from rom our Inclement or of his hi ability or worth Braus e a man maim docs not like me mc is no no sign lien he lie i is bad barl Because b he offends me mo is no proof lIe he cannot tb do o his llis work wc well J And Jnet net b because a a. s' s on in n mo is imi no no c evidence t n nc o he loll b ought bt i w y Yet ct ho how few cw I of u is i's can cao come u tIL w L height of f iu indicia honesty 1 I f fo t cannot Jt it is HI well nigh b l lt me nie to o keep from irom thinking o n iua pitS great reat or oJ a woman is is t I ho shows shown me mo he lie considers m me inc a nor I person reon and when she Ji sn mf jn in womans woman's way ay tb tl that ati considers r mo inn rather father interesting l t |