Rensselaer Republican, Volume 21, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1889 — A Man of Expedients. [ARTICLE]

A Man of Expedients.

Of all the dispositions with which moral man may be born, there is no other that on the whole is so likely to assist him to make his way through life satisfactorily as that of being born a man of expedients. .Whatever gifts of wealth one may chance to inherit, he is sure sooner or later to oome to grief, unless he inherits also the art of managing them. It is by no means enough to get a fortune'; it is necessary to use eneV wits to preserve it. But fortune Is, after all, only one of the innumerable elements of which life is compounded, and as it becomes every year necessary to have a large fortune to hold one's own among the wealthy of the land, so does it become every year of less importance whether one does iave a fortune, sinee there is constantly a larger proportion of people whp do not have tin enormous amount which goes tc make up Urn modern fortune* and the majority will assert itself, even to the extent of breaking away from the domination oi wealth. ~ In every department of life, in the greatest affairs with which be is

ed upon to have to do as well as in the most mimute, there is room for the display of this faculty of being "prepared for the emergency. To be a man of expedients it is necessary to TiaVQ much mental dexterity, much power of adaptability, and wide fertility of resource. Indirectly there is needed a large imagination, and the man of expedients is above everything else, perhaps, a man of imagination. Me is able to put himself in j different relations t® any given problem, and if the first’doas not furnish him solution of any difficulty that may perplex him, he is capable of looking the whole matter over from a new standpoint, and-thereby selecting some hitherto unsuspected means of escape from the entanglement which annoys him.— fix.