The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1897-07-25

sands 1t is in short the story of Rob-
ert Bonner, the millionaire founder Of
the New York Ledger. I give it to you
as nearly as 1 can remember in the
words in which, in response to my
questions, he told it to me.
BONNER AT SEVENTY
But first let me tell you how Mr..
Bonner looked the other night as we
chatted together in his home on Fifty
eighth street, New York. He has q
face and form much like that of eX-
President Harrison, but he seems to
be ten years younger. The fact is
that he is ten years older than MIR.
Harrison. Mr.. Bonner's complexion is
rosy. HaIrisen's is dead and doughty.
Bonner's hair and beard have but few
gray strands while those of the eX-
president are as white as snow. Still
MI Bonner is now seventy three He
does not appear to be sixty, and he
moves about with the energy of a man
in his prime. He had spent the whole
day upon his farm at Tarrytown, in
epecting the training Of some of the
fastest trotting horses of the world, but
he did not seem to be tired. During
rooms in the upper part of his house
to verify matters to which he referred.
AS 1 was about to leave I asked for
his Photograph. He went up again to
get it, and when I offered him my
pencil to write his name upon it, he
said he preferred to use O pen, and
that he would run upstairs to write it.
I found Mr.. Bonners soul as young as
his body. He is in sympathy with
young men who wish to succeed, and
when I asked him as to his life and
those elements in it which had con-
tributed to his success, he answered
z freely.
Discomfort AND SUCCESS.
1T have had one principle in my life"
said Mr.. Bonner, (which I think has
largely contributed to my success. 1
don't know how I got the idea, but it
is we'll expressed in q quotation from
Ralph Waldo Emerson, which reads:
80, disconnected man; Whatever
you want pay the price and take it.
II saw those words when l was a
boy, and they took fast hold of my
mind. 1 early learned that whatever
] got had to be paid for either in work
or money, and 1 had been willing to
pay the price,
but you are naturally energetic,
Mr.. Bonner?"
No, am not" was the reply.
when I was a little boy 1 was the
LATEST mortal about the house
hated to move, though naturally was
not deficient I remember one story
they tell about me. My family were
Scoch-Irish Presbyterians, and I was
brought up upon the Bible and the
shorter catechIsm. 1 had to learn much
of the Bible and was rather apt at
quoting from it. One day when I was
about eleven years Of age they tell me
was lying in front of the fire enjoying
my laztness when my father asked me
TO get some wood. I arose slowly and
stretched myself, and, looking at the
fire, exclaimed:
JOB. fifth, seventh: Man is born to
trouble as the sparks fly upwardsr
This laZiness of mine continued un-
til came to this country about a year
later and until I went into a. printing
office at Hartford, Conn., Then L shook
1t off,. saw that if wanted to sue
coed l had to work and 1 did work
My hours were from in the morning
until at night, and my wages were
for the first year $25; for the second
$50, and for the third, $45. Of course i
got my board and clothes in addition
Inc paper on which 7 was employed