. Successful men of today and what they say of success. , andthe support of the family devolved on him. He soon gota dollar a week extra for copying telegrams for the papers,which he called his first bit of capital. His salary wentfor household expenses, but the dollar surplus he investedwisely, first in the express business, then in sleeping-cars,and, finally, as an outcome of his management of transpor-tation in the Civil War, in a plant to manufacture ironrailway bridges. And so by alertness and economy anduntiring energy he came to be the worlds most distinguishedmanufacturer and philanthr
. Successful men of today and what they say of success. , andthe support of the family devolved on him. He soon gota dollar a week extra for copying telegrams for the papers,which he called his first bit of capital. His salary wentfor household expenses, but the dollar surplus he investedwisely, first in the express business, then in sleeping-cars,and, finally, as an outcome of his management of transpor-tation in the Civil War, in a plant to manufacture ironrailway bridges. And so by alertness and economy anduntiring energy he came to be the worlds most distinguishedmanufacturer and philanthropist, putting as much talentinto giving as he had before put into getting. Another conqueror of poverty was John Hay, who, havinggraduated from law school, became secretary to PresidentLincoln, and was so poor that when Mrs. Lincoln objectedto his eating at her table, he frankly said he could not eatanywhere else, and would eat at second table if he poor youth became the American Secretary of Stateand the world-famed Golden Rule STATESMEN III. WILL AND WORK. If the power to do hard work is not talent, it is the best possiblesubstitute for it. Things dont turn up in this world until somebodyturns them up. A pound of pluck is worth a ton of luck. Luck isan ignis fatuus. You may follow it to ruin, but never to success.—Gabfield. Wake the strong divinity of soul, That conquers chance and fate.—Akenside. There is a good deal of truth mixed into the false proverbthat Circumstances make men, which is nevertheless only awolf in wool. In the ascertained facts as to the larger percentage of menout of jail and in success from the country than the city, fromgood mothers than bad, from the ranks of the poor than fron:those of the rich, from those who early learned to work thanfrom all others, there is a good deal of wool to weave into theproverb ; and yet it is not all wool a yard wide, but adamaging half-truth—that is, a lie. Nine tailors cannot make a man wit
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