The DeLamar nugget. [volume] (DeLamar, Idaho) 1891-1900, 1899-06-09
.'The Nan Who Can Carry Message
TO Garcia"

the March number an essay which haC
the effect of not only selling the entire
edition within three days after its
appearance, but of inspiring Mr. George
Daniels, general passenger agent of the
New York Central, to order a new
edition of half a million copies for free
distribution. Ar. Hubbard-took as his
text "a fellow by the name OF Rowan,
who, at the outbreak of the late war,
undertook to deliver a message from
President Mckinley to General Garcia,
who was somewhere in the mountain
Businesses of Cuba-no one knew where.
And Mr. Hubbard thus philosophers;
"The point | wish to make is this:
Mckinley gave Rowan letter to be
delivered to Garcia; Rowan took the
letter and did not ask, where is he att
By the eternal, there is man whose
form should be cast in deathless bronze
and the statue placed in every college
of the land 1t is not book learning
young men need, nor instruction about
this and that, but stiifening Of the
vertebrae which will cause them to be
loyal to a trust, SO act promptly, con
centrate their energies; do the thing
Garry a message to Garcial'
General Garcia is dead now, but
there are other Garcias.
"No man, who has endeavored to
carry out an enterprise where many
hands were needed, but has been well
nigh appalled, at times by the embecility
of the average mantle inability or
unwillingness to concentrate on a thing
and do it.
slip shod assistance, foolish inatten-
ton, dowdy Indifference and half
hearted work seem the rule; and no
man succeeds unless by hook or crook,
or threat, he forces or brides other men
to assist him; or, mayhap, God in His
goodness performs miracle, and sends
him an angel of light for an assistant.
You, reader, put this matter to test
You are sitting now in your ofiice-siX
clerks are within call. Summon any
OhC blllo lOAuCoL. L lCdoC |
look in the encyclopedia and make
brief memorandum for me concerning
the life of Corregio.'
xviii the clerk quietly say: Yes, sir,
and go do the task?
son your life he will not He will
look at you out of flashy eye and ask
one or more of the following questions:
"'Who is hep
(Which encyclopaedia
"'Where is the encyclopaedia
"'Was hired for that?'
T'Don't you mean Bismarck
"'What's the matter with Charlie
doing it?'
is he dead?'
"'Is there any hurry?'
"'Shan't bring you the book and let
you look it up yourself?'
"'What do you want to know for?'
"And will lay you ten 20 one that
after you have answered the questions,
and explained how to fad the informa-
ton, and why you want it, the clerk viii
go off and get one of the other clerks to
help him try to find Garcia--and then !
come back and tell you there is no such
man. Of course, | may lose my bet, but
according to tho law of average l will .
not.
"Now, if you are wise you will not
bother to explain to your assistant
that Correggio is inJeXed under the C's,
not in the KS, but you will smile
sweetly and say: Never mind and go
look it up for yourself.
"And this incapacity for Independent I
action, this moral stupidity, this in
trinity Of the will, this unwillingness to
cheerfully catch hold and lift, are the
things that put pure Socialism so far
into the future. If men will not act
for themselves, what will they do when
the benefit Of their effort is for all?
"My heart goes out to the man who
does his work when the boss" is away !
as well as when he is at home. And the
man who, when given letter for Garcia.
quietly takes the missiye without asking
any idiotic questions, and with no Turk
ng intention of chucaing it into the n
nearest sewer, or Of doing aught else Il
'ut deliver it, never gets laid Of nor =,
has to go on strike for higher wages.
is one long anxious search
or just such individuals. Anything
uch man asks shall be granted; his
ind is so rare that no employer can
ford to let him go. He is wanted In
very city, town and village-in every
tice, shop, store and factory. The -