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Show BRAINS AND FRAUD. Since Mrs. Chadwlck's downfall the comment has been made frequently that if she had engaged In business her talents would have mado hor rich. Such a belief falls to appreciate the limited nature of many intellectual gifts. Sometimes It almost seems as If thero were a special fraud centre which is highly developed In some specimens, as the cells or routes In the brain which control musical appreciation, apprecia-tion, let us say, might be in another Tho ability to deceive seems In some of theso creatures as distinctly specialized spe-cialized as tho ability of a carrier pig con or a cat to take the route for home though, of course, In part of the crlm lnals tho talents which they use might have been convertible and adapted to more legitimate success. Similar observations ob-servations may bo mado about tho re latlon of money-getting of a legal kind to other forms of the Intelligence. How generally, for Instance, would it be true that a man who had shown the power to amass great wealth would turn out to be able In some other wa1k of life? Business men need executive ability. Therefore it has been assumed as-sumed that successful merchants would mako good mayors, but the theory the-ory has not been any too brilliantly supported by experience. Mr. Rogers or Mr. Morgan might not organize a government In the Philippines a3 wel-as wel-as Judge Tnft. General Grant had organizing or-ganizing and executive ability, but it did not show in his business enreer or In tho Presidency. Tho powers of Mr Roosevelt and Mr. Rockefeller aro both executive, but they might not prove Interchangeable. Mr. Hanna Is the only case we think of In our recent history In which a notable American business man took up an entlro'y different dif-ferent line with very high success. Tho law has been tho profession from which ability has seemed most trans fcrable. Mr. Taft and Mr. Root have tho same occupation not only as Mr. Cleveland nnd President Harrison, but as Lincoln, Stanton, and most of the ablest statesmen of their time and of the preceding generation, which was headed by Webster, Calhoun, and Clay. Collier's. |