Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1897-10-03
81 RICHMOND VA, SUNDAY OCTOBER g. 1884,


from poverty. without being corrupted
Dy great riches. because the soil of his
nature was so generous that tho very
Iootet all evil sprang up to ignmeasurablc
eoou IN II. TO live a life or palm
tui ana painstaking acquisition: 10
"iestie WITH covetousness while climb
ing from early poverty to the
height OF what coyotous heart
could desire and ahen TO nut his
loot upon his gains and their tempta-
lions. like gladiator on a wild beast
vanquishcd-this is the spectacle which
mas made the worlds amphltheatre
tamuituous. Nor Is the shout for the
moment only, to be lost IN the common
noise. SO long as men shall wrestle in
the same arena. and other men look on
II shall ring in the ears OF the wrestlers
ana nerve them 10 win their fight. There
is no Death in victories like this. for such
dectS OF our better nature partake Of
its own immortality.
TRUTH STRONGER THAN FICTION.
There is small need Of fancy in deal
Ing with the story OF tho man and
citizen. Lewis Ginter. for scarce any
thing IN fiction is more strange than
tho actual prose Of it. The child OF
ypoor parents and humble hopes, ne
grew 10 bo a potent factor in the
money market OF the world and 70 prop
with his integrity and credit the flnan-
cial credit OF great institutions. But 1t
is not intended TO deal with the won
ders OF that career as much as with
the mind. tito heart, the Will. the cha
. racter which wrought them. mo man
carlyle tells us. becomes a saint ir
Dis sleep and there is no greater faI-
lacy than the popular notion which sr
often HffTlllfna in
10 luck. There are people. II is true
who stumble into prosperity. and get
place and power by what TO mortal
cyo seems chance. Reputation and the
nonors and profits which follow II are
row and then waited TO a man, like
thistle-down. for no better visible rea-
son tnan that he happens to be out in
the Same wind with them. The crowd
attach themselves often and cling with
devotion TO some singularly favored
person, as burrs do TO his clothing.
simply, as it would appear, because he
walks among them But what seems
does not necessarily represent what is
and a man must be hard to convince,
II, after having used a microscope once
he be not satisfied for life that things
exist and are comprehensive, though he
may neither see nor understand them
himself. What. therefore, may appear
TO be exceptions to the general truth
that great results do not spring from
insufficient causes are commonly found
10 be strictly within it, In the course
Of any long lifetime the logic CT cause
and effect rs apt to vindicate itself In
this busy. stirring, jostling, interested
modern society Of ours. where scarce
ly any one occupies a pedestal-or even
an humber place-but some one else
goes anxiously to work to dslodge him
and get there in his stead, we seldom
find respect or Difference. love or ad-
miration, long yielded to any man un-
less there be that in him which COM
mands them. The world may daily with
It's imposters and it's charlatans--its
trumpery great men, sham heroes, and
mock saints and sages-for a little
while, but they finally go down. for the
most part, into the receptacle-the
huge Noah's Ark--of its spurned and
worthless playthings. The winds of
time and contest blow away the chan
az last from the great grain floor of
humanity, q blessed fact, by the by,
which reconciles US to many tempests
CARVED HIS OWN DESTINY.
He was the son of highly respectable.
though poor. parents who could trace
their lineage, on both sides, 200 years
back to the earliest settlers of the Dutch
Colony of New Amsterdam. His brother
still possesses an old-fashioned clavier,
which has descended as an heirloom
through several generations. and serves
to show that his ancestors were well
to do. as such instruments were by 10
means in common use. THROWN upon
his own resources when little more than
a child, he lacked opportunities of study
and culture which might have been
afforded him, yet he came through the
furnace of his early experiences well
equipped to fight the battle OF life and
to conquer.
He came TO Richmond in 1913. and was
n pioneer in the notion business, though.
he dealt also in toys. His next venture
was in the housefurnishing line, and
later he became a wholesale dealer in
notions, and then, at last. fortune began
TO smile upon him. Then he added white