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Show i The Stupidity Of It All. j 'j :) There comes to Logan not Infre- 1 j) j. qucnllya traveling clairvoyant who i . ' I can reveal tlic past, piesent and fu- l'j ' turc, give infallible advice in business '.; ' .affairs, affairs of tho heart, can cute !all diseases, and is in such close touch with the unseen and unseeable that I nothing is really impossible to him. J' . Although tills gentleman Invariably ; ) wears a Prince Albert that has seen I ,' better days, has a two weeks growth h Jj' ' of whiskers and a hat that is frayed I I r around the edges, lie attracts no little ' t attention, commands confidence and 1 soon has a following that unqiiestion- j ably nets nlm a handsome financial re-j re-j , turn. One need not push the memory , j very hard to remember at least one I'- , I i instance in which such a fakir make j I an exceptionally licli haul in this city. Ii' j Why is it that clairvoyants, who I , , can give others Information about the j ! future course of sUvk--, do not them- i i selves acquire fabulo'.s wealth? Or j ratlier, to pnttlie question accurately, ! I i is it not odd that so many apparently i ; ' sane human beings aie found every i year to trusts palmists, clairvoyants, '' T get-rlch-quick schemes, .and friends "!,' who give them sine thingsonlior.se ' IJJ , j racing, markets and politics? Theut- rjj j i ter absence of fact and evidence seems h ) ' to be one of the most persistent hit- 'ijjfjF man traits, and we presume thai Lo- :' m I I gan citizens will continue to prove iff ' ' victims to tlielr own credulity and the ,1' i oily tongues of these fakes. j! "Collier's Weekly, 'however.is of the . "f opinion that many newspaper men ) , are as great fools. It says: "The ' dupes who imagine they understand the stock market, or who pay live dol- f , lais for a clairvoyant's opinion of the iwi future, are after all on the level Intel-' Intel-' if j lectually with tlie horde of trained W i editors who, thousands of miles fiom II j tho scene, give such precise advice to i i generals In Die Held. Innocent of mil-j i I tary training, Ignorant of the number j and quality of troops engaged, with-j with-j out knowledge of gcogiaphy, lacking. i indeed, every kind of information on j which a conclusion should be based, r newspapers all over the world have been busily telling Kuiopatkin, Oya-ma, Oya-ma, Ktiroki, Togo and Stoessel pre- cisely what to do, and fieely deciding , their faults and merits. The Delphic w , oracle.looking around for men who relit re-lit strleted their convictions to what 'M 'hey had sufficient reasons to believe, ! would tind them as rare today as in ''I . the time of Socrates." M Theie are few wlio cannot call to ft ' mind many individuals who know bet-ij bet-ij " tr how to run another's business ' than tlielr own. The average sinner f can give tlie minister pointers on how I to sormonle: the man who never f J saved a cent nor made ,i successful business transaction in his life can f j Uive bankers and hlg proinotors polnt-f polnt-f rs any day m mo week, and n all '; comes so easy that he doesn't want , Pay for It; many who uciersaw the in-j in-j , side of a print shop and who could not ' ? write a three line local, can tell Just , i exactly how to run a newspaper;pract-,; newspaper;pract-,; ically every old woman in the country knows more about medicine and dis-: dis-: , wises than any physician in the conn-try. conn-try. Thus it goes, cowards and Ignor-, Ignor-, ji amuses light and win wars on paper . I and criticize generals on the Held, and jj those who have followed newspaper 1 j comments on the Eastern situation ff can enter into Comer's remarks In H j good spirit. 8 Cut out clairvoyants, fortune tellers 1 and such like, and hi criticism don't a f HVr it until you know you ae right. Jf voudothls, ten times out of nine I j you won't offer tlie criticism. |