I will close by saying that I hone tho true
sportsman will not take offense at anything I
may have said in tho foregoing lines. The
sportsman with the money, the leisure and the
spirit of tlie sportsman all united is an object
of envy, but tlie young man with neither of
these attributes, who fancies ho looks well in
copper-rivetted duck suit and puts money into
a §SOO cun when his wife or liis washerwoman
is entitled to it, makes a mistake.
Does the American youth imagine for a mo
ment that Benjamin Harrison, who a few days
ago was dumfounded and thunderstruck by a
committee coming like a stroke of lightning
from a clear sky to tell him that he had been
nominated for the presidency, would ever
have attained so conspicuous a position if he
had frittered away his time ami money fool
ishly while young? No,indeed!
lie fished plainly with a peeled hickory pole
and caught more than anybody. He and Gro
ver Cleveland both can now carry split bamboo
rods on both shoulders because they are able
to do so.Jbut in their early days they used a tin
peppor-box to hold their bait,or put tho angle
worms in their pockets with their smoking to
bacco, Bill Nye.
Tlio Monkey as a Scientist.
From the American Naturalist.
