Show II I It ItrI rI HA A BOY WITH BRAINS li It II II n T Cl BY THOMAS S I. II It Among the patrimonial assets assets- of young oung Prene nem de cle is a n. title of r f nobility an ail article that has Juan a n great kreal SI at many marty charms 18 for or many l people In the lite Old Vo World r It and for or not a n few folk on this side of the tho sea But the tho sensible little f fellow Moir whose name appears ars above due does not seem to care cate a n. sixpence for fOl the aforesaid It Is all ull his his 1118 by being the son of or Baron de of dis distinguished ls- ls French lineage but the boy with brains declares that he lie wants nothing to do with It It that he lie hede cl de irea to be an American citizen am and grow up uP with the country countr an and asks i Q favors from the Old Oft World gewgaw gew Ow gewgaw gaw and tinsel i w We may mn safely Iy for Cot this boy bor boya bora a splendid future The rh fact that hohas hohas ho has hos the right sort of gray bro matt matter 11 In his pan brain is attested ll b by his attitude attitude atti aUl- tude toward his hits talc au timid and In this land I of r magnificent opportunity he lie i is likely to achieve t the honor honc compared with which the musty heraldries s of the Old World are aro but as dust Clod and Young Rene nene de bei 10 e Is young Is necessarily more or I Is s.- s. d e a stranger to tu Alto tho o of lIe elm hI th world and awl therefore we would bPI bog I to the young gentleman n of nf II on I of if the tho brightest paragraphs in III tit th justly celebrated Conversations al of r Goethe with gl and ancI Gor Gort t One day clay the powers that be he In t th h I Fatherland upon the King j of German Gorman literature a title that I I e J him dangerously near the nobility f f he report of tho the honor was no nil sooner noised abroad than thun Goethe b b. I I gar cun to lO receive c congratulations But i with characteristic goo gociu sense e tin tilt author of or Faust and ancl curtly Informed them that he did dill not care core a fig Cis for tho the honor that had hud cometo come com to him from the court that the w was snot not worth the paper paper it was wa written written writ writ- ten on and ancI that thaL his only title lo to j nobility no no- consisted of his natural endowment endowment endowment endow endow- ment from fron God his God his brain and character char chal 1 acler acter and ancl his hits capacity for fot certain work I such such uch as the thc production of Immortal poems and stories Immortal Goethe has been heen dead a ion long lon time tinH but hut It is good flood to know that hi his spirit spirits is s still marching on and that it is isable isable able to show H Itself lt In 11 such power in inthe I the tho Instance of or the young hero u of our story I ITo To be an American citizen and to live up to tn the full Cull measure of Its glorious glori glori- glorious ous possibilities and obligations is to tobe tobe be bu that Hutt which I Is far for ahead of or any uny foreign for for- eign duke or count who tins has nothing but his hiM dukedom or ter to fall tull fallback pack Jack back upon upon or boast boat of The only nobility in this world that thatIs Is worth a n co copper 1 H l' l is time the nobility of or ortI tI usefulness and honor anti and to In that lint hll hl an any A American citizen may ll riso o who has hns the right stUff in him hint r I |