Show men of nat ive ability an acquaintance once expressed surprise that thomas reed who had keen appreciation or the nice ties of learning should devote much of his time to a man who was famous ly deficient in diction and grammar the remark as repeated to mr reed and his reply was characters ls tic he declared that his illiterate friend was in reality one of the intelligent men he had ever 1 aown that his knowledge though unlettered was broad clear sane and human he added that some of the best educated men he knew were men without book education we find these men of natural and al quiren knowledge in every walk of life it Is the habit of the frivolous ta ridicule their lapses and the thoughtless constantly express won dar that they should amount to any tiling in the life and business of the times As a matter of fact many of the men who have given money tor institutions and whose ideals have contributed much to the development of education itself could not at any time of their lives have passed the examinations of the department of a public school but their intelligence was larger than mere rules we bae unconsciously brought the distinction into our terms of breth w the ready man we accept as ore abo haa the common sense and inform alon in W head he has it at liri fingertips ft e say he knows wl at what we add he la at homo jn situation we add again ani hiligh all the synonyms of plain knowledge at the time we look upon the finely trained man the n nu of learning as one who can grin 1 out ideas who can crim catch an idea catch on get up a subject ai d all U e variations of the ability to use t education which be his acquired we need not underestimate either kir 3 of knowledge in order 0 o appreciate both the difference is simply a 1 tion ol 01 conditions we laughed w en in reply to congratulations upon a signal duty nobly performed in u crisis an american fco vernor replied i seen my duty and I 1 done it 1 ut we never thought even amid our smiles that there was real ignorance igno raice in the man who performed the service and truly tn thebe days of shim milk in fancy vessels it ia a delight to wander into a solid far house and get honest cream fioro he od stone crock saturday bg post |