The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1888-03-05

whom the world hears little; proCGbly his
name will never reach as many eyes as did
that of Gen. Bragg, when he pronounced
his famous epigram in nominating Mr..
Cleveland at the Chicago Convention-'We
love him for the enemies he has made. y
Gen. Bragg is brilliant man as we'll as a
brilliant orator. When the Democrats re-
districted Mr.. Guenther out of his Congress
| sional seat three years ago, he went into that
which Gen. Bragg represented and beat him
on his own stamping ground. The brilliant
man gave way to the plodder.
PLoDDERs ON THE STAGE.
Henry Irving once said that he never
made success in life that was not the re-
suit of hard persistent work. Look at his
methods and you can see for yourself. His
production of Faust, whose splendors de-
| lighted the eyes of thousands, was given
| eighty-seven laborious rehearsals in London
before it was produced, and after the COM
papy was letter perfect in its parts. The
brilhancy that comes from such drudgery is
not the spontaneous outburst of the great
leader or the popular idol, but the result of
Flooding. Augustin DAILY is not brilliant
himself, though he attans brilliant ends. If
there were ever one who could be numbered
among toiling MASSES he Is certainly that
one The piQuant wit that we all make
merry over, and the delightful little love
spots of Rehan and Drew are not reeled off
liked so much cotton on spool In the
hours after the curtain has rolled down, the
theater darkened and the audience dismissed
to peaceful dreams, a bright light shines in a
single nook of the theater, and there amidst
old stage properties and forgotten relics, Mr..
DAILY sits for hours every night trying to
gather thoughts for the world to laugh at
Next morning he Is down bright and early
rehearsing his company, porting over the de
tails that after years of labor he has welded
into harmonious whole which meets with
approval everywhere. Mr.. DAILY is never
seen where distinctively brilliant" men
gather and draw their inspiration He plods
in world of his own. 1t is small one as
some people view it, but it has brought the
greater one into its orbid to lavish its
praises and rewards
Take Bronson Howard, whose "Hennri-
eta" is convulsing thousands. Composition
is to him the most laborious task ever set
man. One act of 1.-The Henrietta" was
written six times before he let it 60 out
of his hands, and zone of Our
Girls was gone over entirely four times in
the slow process that he practices. His deli
cate bits of repartee and clever dialogue are
the result Of patient search for the best that
he can accomplish, and no matter
how long it takes him he plods away
at the lines until he has them as he wants
them.
phia made the terse reply to an inquiry
about his success in life that it came from
''toiling, trying and thinking all the time"
A. 7. Stewart, whole name will last at the
head of American dry goods merchants for
generations, plodded until the day of his
death. lie was always at work. Flooding,
mastering details was his lifeblood, and as
the brilliant man goes into ecstacy over
tale well told or song we'll sung, so this
al rr1a
come the success of the currents of trade
that he directed while he sat toiling at his
desk.
SOME PHILADELPHIA SAMPLES.
You have dozens of plodders among the
successful men in Philadelphia. Thomas
Cochran, President of the Guarantee Trust,
and of dozen other corporations, is enc of
them. 1t is his enjoyment to plod away
quietly in the background rather than to
bask in the sunshine of tickle public favor
An illustration of his plodding methods is
before the world to-day-the Reading re-
organization. Few p8ple know that he had
a prominent hand in Nat work, yet the fact
is that he worked all the details of the plan
of which Austin Corbin is the head Mr.
Cochran is now so years old, and he got his
first start when he was e. Since
then he has been toiler in the vineyards
When he was asked the basis of his success
repeated it to me: ''Work That is the
secret of success in everything Genius and
all that sort of thing is tomfoolery. l don't
believe in it. Work, though, tells every
time.n
OF our railroad Presidents, who toll as
does George B. Roberts, of the Pennsly-
vanial The result is that he has a road
confessedly the best-managed and best
equipped in the country, If not in the world
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of the railroad system he created, it stood
where the Pennsylvania does to-day, be-
cause he was toiler and got down to the
practical side of every question. The sons
and grandsons that have followed him han
die the iron monster with velvet gloves
They have their box at the opera, their
Newport villas and their half million-dollar
I yachts. Other hands and other heads TO do
the work the old Commodore left for them
to do as he did. Kesulti Another line
takes the lead
1t isn't true to say of these men-these
plodders in life-that they get no equip
meat i'll it, but give up ali to the glitter of
gaudy gold. To them life is real, and it is
earnest, and ambition lights the way that
genius darkens to others. They make the
successes that stand for ages and mean
something in the material progress of the
world. How many of them look back
when it is too late and are suddenly awake to
the truth of the old song that the mill will
never grind with the water that is paste
Only few days ago / read the obituary of
dead newspaper writer, of whom it was
said:
Poor fellowl He was the brightest on the
staff. The most brilliant articles were from
his pen. He could have been at the top Of
his profession, but"
There you have it:
The inevitable "but"-it belongs TO the
brilliant man. You can ALWAYS fiud it
in his obituary. IL. l.. SToDDARD.
REMARKABLE PLAGIA RISM.