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THE COURIER.
True Greatness
Really. I enjoy this story telling. I
hail no idea groat mou liked it half bo
well. It is a beautiful scheme, because
it doe not make any great ditference if
it should not work. I will have bad the
fun of trying, as the fellow sayB who has
"loved and lost," and perhaps when it
has failed entirely I can make a g'eat
reputation for myself as a philosopher
by telling why it happened, and explain
ing that it was really not my fault.
The greatest of men is he who tnakec
failure a stepping stone to success;'' so
if you write a poem, and people object
becauso it has neither rhyme, rhythm
nor reason, simply state that through
the care'cssneEs of your private sec
retary, who is greatly over-worked, or
the stupidity of the editor, whb always
ought to know better, and never does,
the labels to your various pioductions
were mixed, and the poem should really
have had the title "Thirsty Thoughts,"
and that it was uot a poem at all, but a
meditation. It is a great thing to bo
able to give to tbn peoplo the credit of
your own mistakes.
I wish I could paint or draw, so that
I could illustrate m anecdotes, and
give a few scenes in addition that would
explain themselves. 1 am sure the
6tories would be much more effective,
and certainly in better form. What
admirable subjects the following would
be. '"The Jigadier Brindie Making
Mud pies; aged live." "The Great
Kighter Looking for Lost Articles Un
der the Sidewalk; aged nine." "Our
Hero Fighting Roosters; aged fourteen."
Jigadier Smoking in the Wood-shed
with his Fathei; ageJ fifteen" But I
can't draw. S3 I will let that part go. It
costs too much to hire it done. It is
bard work to be great, all by yourself.
I am going to tell jou another ance
dotti or two. after which I think I will
wait a while to observe and enjoy re
suits.
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A :BEAT ADMIKKIt OK ELOQUENCE
The Great Commander is an enthu
siastic admirer of eloquence, and has
been 60 from an early age. He was
present on one occasion when a preach
er noted for eloquent lungs and sub
lime gestures was delivering a sermon.
The Jig waB 6t:ll quite young, being
perhaps lees than three years of age.
Vet his mind was active, and he watch
ed with absorbing interest tho athletic
gestures of the man in the pulpit. He
presently slipped away from his mother,
and with his eyes still toward
preacher, made his way to a point
rjctly in front of the pulpit. Then
raised his arms, and with pains-taking
precision, he imitated every gesture of
the eloquent divice before him. As the
speaker would extend one long arm
heavenward, describe generous circles
aloft, and then in mighty sweeps wave
it across and to-and fro in front of him,
finally bring the arm again to bis side
with a resounding slap on his thigh:
and then do the same thing with the
other arm, and then with both arms
together. as the speaker thus empha
sized his rcmarkp. so our little Jig stood
n t sJ irnl tn it nvmo ntfTt it.Al
i them around, then back and forth acd
down to his lrgs in exact imitation, his
face baing suffused meanwhile with
rapture and satisfaction that was tiuly
quite pathetic. Little did the audience
.vhiih then loo'xed upon such perform
ances as saucy tricks of an impudent
child kuow of the great thoughts which
were taking root in the mind of this
child. Little did they know tnat by
such actions the formation of his future
grand character was indicated. Little
did they realize that before them stood
the future Hero of a Heroic people,
Jigadier Brindle Smoke.
A SOFT NMVER TURNETH AWAY WRATH.
No one knows the truth of this say
ing better than Jigadier Smoke. Again
we go back to his youthful days. It
was when he was but four years old,
that the great strategist became in
volved in some misunderstanding with
his mother. (The question under diE
cussion was of small importance, and
is scarcely necessary for the completion
of this anecdote. Still we mention that
it arose from the fact that the little
fellow had tied the two pet cats to-
ths gether by their tails and hung then
di- over a clothes-line." Little Jig and his
he i mother argued for some time, but as
they were unable to arrive at any defi
nite conclusion, h'e mother brought
! forth her final argument, that he was a
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bad boy and needed a good trouncing.
She became angry also, and was about
to settle the whole controversy with
her slipper. Instead of answering her
in the same spirit, Little Jig bethought
him of that advice cf the Wise Man.
"A soft answer turneth away wrath."
and said quickly, and with most won
derful .oresight, "Vou'll have to catch
me before you can spank me," and ran
plafully away. The mother's heart
was touched at once, and as she knew
she couldn't catch him then, she for
got her Bnger and forgave him, and
Little Jig never again referred to tbe
altercation.
There, I have put my scheme into ex
ecution. If it works, I am great. If
it doesn't, I am just as great as ever;
an I it may be I am pretty well satisfied
with myself anyway. The majority of
people are.
R. B. Morgan.
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LITERARY NOTES.
Napoleon on Drunkenness.
Napoleon Bonaparte will appear in the
March Century in a new role that of
temperance advocate. In the second in
stallment of Dr. O'Meara's hitherto un
published "Talks with Napoleon" at St.
Helena, it is reported that, having a
pain in bis side, tho ex-emperor asked
his physician to show him where his
liver was situated; and the latter, in
some remarks on the causes of inflam
mation of that organ, mentioned intox
ication as one of them. Thereupon Na
poleon remarked:
"Then I ought not to have it, as I
never was drunk but once in my life ;
and that was twenty-four ears ago. at
Nice. ...1 drank three bottles or Bur
gundy, and was completely drunk. O,
how sick I was the next daj ! I wonder
how a man who once gets drunk can
ever think of doing it again. Such
headache, vomiting and general 6ick
neEs; I was nearly dead for two days.'
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