Show A TINN philosophers ERN explanation ol of tic the kundit lon of the man who was TO bo bora rn tired unconquerable disinclination to work which it was impossible to overcome Oyei comB no desire in hs his heart to change his condition loo looked ked with pity on the toilers boilers who fail at last the season of th the e tramp has come and soon eoon lie he will spread over the land like little toads after a rain in summer the tramp being poor is always with us lis one tramp goeth and another cometh As a being separate and apart from froin the ibe rest of bi his fellow men he is interesting as a study anil and not as a companion the louisville cour ier journal got a very interesting study of the philosophy of tramping from one of the craft it ilis is interesting it mi might bt be said to be philosophical from the peripatetic point ol of view it eert certainly erta aidy is the tramp interviewed by the courier journal says there is a philosophy of tramping and then lie he proceeds eda to tell w hedein it consists lie ile declared there were rea lons ions why he fie chose to live as lie ha did upon reflection ha be was convinced that the principal one was an absolutely unconquerable dis work he said paid lie he was brought up well but was al ammu f would say eay that he was always ft arr r laziness for wh what at a after a 1 la is laziness but lack of energy this man mail said he had watched the efforts of other mii m anif ii had observed their success and their failure but he be had never endeavored to dt do anything in his life 1 I detest exertion said he it was born in me I 1 have haap not the energy to try to overcome it men have have said to me try to do something be a man ex exert ert yourself to action persist in irving try ins and you will overcome laziness and will aquire energy as a part of your character they might as well stand by the bedside of a sick pick man and say de be well take the puro pure blood and the health and strength that are in my body and lecup get up and be strong again are there not mental diseases as pronounced and as incurable as physical ones they have the energy I 1 have not and nothing can ever give it to mo me I 1 cao can accustom maieli to anything passive pa and negative as rags and poor plod fiod f iod but it is impossible for me ma to get used to fuch a positive and active thing as work do not think that 1 I have never tried here at this place we must work for our car foor food and lodging and I 1 in as aa put to sawing wood I 1 made an effort but was soon discouraged coura cou raged 9 ed and refusing to try any moie more I 1 was told that I 1 must leave if I 1 would not cot work it is ie not that hat I 1 would not but I 1 cannot so fo I 1 lain alln going to 10 leave in a few min minutes alt all that is but introduce tory to his real system of philosophy here is the system as ha be epitomized it I 1 have no desire to ile he otherwise other wisa than I 1 am consequently I 1 am nearer to contentment than many many many men mca of better fortunes who are Cormen tormented ted with hope and fear all and are always consumed with dissatisfaction with their present and apprehension of their future affairs excitement wears nen men out as ag mo me tion does machinery inert ioa rusts them as it does steel and iron but I 1 have a gentle motion of mind and body sa 6 that I 1 neither rust nor wear out ism I 1 am without responsibility ibi lity or ea care re or trouble nothing that may happen or that anybody can do can disturb my serenity I 1 do not care if it rains for I 1 do not mind being wet the weather does not concern tile me for in the winter I 1 am in the south clothes enough 0 are given me his I 1 get croul enough lb to ca eat tand and smoke I 1 belie believe ve nothing I 1 hope nothing I 1 expect nothing in short I 1 am as contented as a human being may be and I 1 call myself a phi philosopher lo sopher I 1 have more right to that title than men who torment themselves with speculations about infinity and the tha soul of map man and a thousand other things thing 9 which are of no consequence in this world I 1 live what I 1 preach and that is nothing bothin g from my position of peace and contentment I 1 can look with ith pity upon men who struggle agle only tu to fail at last whose desires are never realized rea lied who expect much and receive little and who finally lay down their wearisome burdena and are glad to die happy am I 1 to escape these things and to live or to die with an equal indifference and con contentment tent all that has the true philosophic twang for what is philosophy but coate contemplation mp lation and ic i cf lection where action begins there philosophy ceacer this man mail this tramp this weary V waggles agles of thy the wayside says he has found contentment can the world give man more than that lias has not the task of the philosophers bioni thales to hartmann been to find the way to perfect contentment contentment is peace and peace is the longing of each human soul peace is the new jerusalem of the lie christian the nirvana of the buddhist this tramp calls himself a opher obber and does he not justly call himself one this gramt tramp has told us of his thought but not of his lii action ile he says he was born without i energy but lie he signally fails to complete his accost of himself when lie he ne neglects to state how it is ib that he gets 0 energy enough to tramp from one town to another fur for he cannot always hit the brake 1 it may be that the tramping occurs durine a temporary aberration abe ration of mind a time when philosophy is not in tile the ascendant and it may lio ile that there is a talismanic force in the words move ilove on words so lami aar to the tramp philosopher though he be who he knows |