Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1868-03-06

The Genius to plan, the pluck 10 un.
dertake, and the money 10 do with, ars
the three great essentials I'm all grea,
and successful enterprises. Each Il
good In its way, but each 10 powerless
without the other. L. Ia but rarely
that all these qualifications are com.
bined, either In an individual or com-
pany; hut when they are, difficulties
vanish and magnificent results are OBJ
tanned. Old Colonel Tom Benton was
thought a man of genius. yet he never
planed "A railroad across the Rocky
Mountains except where practicable ~
but the old hard money senator il
deal, and the world aud its people and
! it, ideas have moved bn. TIE NuckS
Mountains don't iottk as higl, as they
did, and, like many other difficulties
that seemed insurmountable In the dis.
taiice, they have been got oper with
out unusual effort. The locomotive
will run mp to their highest summit at
grade of only eighty feet TO the mile,
upon slope of ninety feet. while the
Baltimore IL Ohio Winds It's climbing
way over the Alleghanies at an incline
of one hundred and sixty feet 10 the
mile, for twenty miles together
| A few men saw that Pacific Rail-
road must be built. There was no 9TH
| er way To the Pacific without travers.
ing the oceai, at great cost and money.
The denles Of the Alps were not high
er than Evans Pass, and, as they were
being tunneied and traversed why
not the Rocky Mountains? SO Cen
ius sent out It's Topographic ical and en-
gineerirg corps, aud after two or three
years of surveying and mapping,
| IL was reported that 4 practical line for
the great inter-oceanic highway had
been found. Genius further saw, that
when hnished, for magnitude and
amount of tariff 1t wouid he the won
ders OF the world. but arithmetic said,
Nothing less than a hundred millions
of money will create it, Pluck, noth-
I ing dnunted at these figures, replied,
LET us bring I'm all the great parties
in interest mud do our best with them" :"
The United States Government wanted
IL the "wnrst way" Uncle Sam had
afi immense farm of millions of square
miles lying waste, of which nobody
would buy an acre until he had built
a railroad through 10; and then noth-
ing else would civilize those trouble
some Indian tenants. Besides, the old
gentleman was pretty deeply i'm debt,
and his enterprising family were will
ing to help him cut, If he would only
open u way to his great gold mines !;
aud so he came down with AN offer to
lend fifty million dollars i'm bonds, and
make liberal donation of lands, IL
Pluck would go right to work and
put the road through" . a...sr
Pluck accordingly went to work
with will, and Congress chartered
the Uuion Pacific Rahrosd Il Company.
Most of the .solid" men laughed at
him others would venture but tri-
fle, when few brave spirits pledged
their fortunes to the result. Two
brothers invested million of dollars
AMI several others invested falFa
million each, and the road was begun.
But Money, or Capital, was still tim
III, aud Congress- wisely gave nothing,
except US each section of the road was
finished. The truth was, that If tile
child lived, thrived, and grew strong,
old Capital was willing to pat him on
the back, and tn lend him u helping
hand but he was to be kept out i'm the
cold to see Ii he had inherent strength
enough to stand Ii. Then If he did not
freeze TO death. he WAS tD be taken In
family. He did live, and, under the
name of Union Pacific, he became a
giant, and has built. and is running
o longer line of railroad than any 9th.
or body or company besides I'm the
country. Ola capital still runs after
him, and begs that he will borrow his
money at the lowest rate, and the pub
lie buy Union Pacific first mortgage
bonds faster than the company can
cOntiL ue tO issue them, at the present
price. It is this united and irresistible
power of Genius, Pluck, and Money,
that drives the work SO bravely on, ,
and promises the contamination Of our
material national union, so long and
devouteiy wished for, In 1870. Ifail
the worlds great undertakings could
secure al h IL combination, we should
hear little OF delay and less of failure.
Boiis--A Boys .Com t,os.i-
tion."
A boil IL generally very small ut frs:
and feilnw hardly notices II. but In a
few days IL gets to he the biggest M the
two, aud the clap tliat has II is of very
little account IN comparison with his
boil. which then 'slls.s him. Boils mp.
pear mysterialsly upon various por-
tions oi the human body, coming out
when mud where they darn please, -
and often I'm very inconvenient places.
Sometimes solitary boil is tile sum
total of tile affiietion, but frequently
there In t'ruitbishin' lot OF 'em" to
beip the first one. III a boil comes any.
where on = person., tilat person always
wishes that Ii had come somewhere
el~e, although II would puzzle him 10
say just where.
some persUns call them "damboiis, !,
but such persons are addicted t0 profan.
ity--tile proper name ID boil. If u chap
has boil lie generally gets good deal
of sylllpalhy from offers. I'm si,orii."
Whoever asks him Whist ails him laugh
xt him for his pains 10 answer, while
many unteeIing persons make game Of
him, or Of his tii-fortiiiie. or boil. It
is very wicked to make sport of persons
with boils; they cannot help IL, aud
often feel very badly nls0ut IL. Physi.
CLANS don't give boil patients much sat
isfactioD ~ general (lsing, although
y0uuH physicians Who are just bsyin-
hing o practice are fond of trying
their lancets on them. B0ils are said
I'D be healthy, aud judging frotn the
way they burn, and grow, aud raise
Cain generally. there IL no doubt they
ute healthy and have good coiistitu-
tWuS- my s0'e kSHSiMJ SsCss1sciJ
aud playful at night, and iti very fun
NY 10 see y chap with gsDd large one
prospecting around lIis cauch for y
piaTe where his boil will tit In with
out hurting" Boils tend to purify
tile blood, strengthen Ihe system,
calm the nerves, restrain the profanity,
tranquilize tile spirit, Improve tile tenn.
per. and beautify thenppearalee. They
are Iussd things for married men who
spend thsirlevenil,ys away from home.
as they give them AN opportunity 70
rest lheir night keys, and get acquaint-
ed with their families. IL is said that
boils save the patient "fit ofsick ness :
but Ii the sickness ID not the best to
have. IT must be an all-fired mean
thing. II IL also said that = person II
better after he has had them, and there
L. -. 1ln,ahf thaf % fx,nle s,a.1I. haffor