The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1899-07-27
MORE ABOUT SENATOR DEPEW.

There are three college mates OF
'Chauncy Depew living here. They find
it most fascinating subject to review
the career OF a young fellow who wa:
lone Of the boys" in the college days
and in due time becomes one of the
most influential politicians of his State
the president of the richest railway
corporation in America, and also one
of the most celebrated orators of the
times. 1t is the first union of exalted
positions in American history. In look
ing over the Birthday Addresses OF
this remarkable man there is much TO
be found that should be read by every
young man. For, after all, il is the
talk of the doer and not of the preach
er that takes hold of young men. And
it is not Depew, the railroad president
only that attracts them, but the man
who, knowing much of life, instructs
men and women and children.
He says in a late address that men
have said that his long personal pros
perity had untitled him to understand
the limitations of the ordinary wage
Garner in the pursuit of happiness.
Read his reply: This is not the case.
Happily for me my father, success
ful man with an iron will and fixed
purpose, having given me a university
education and a profession, threw me
out with the remark that / would
except in his will. But for that ap-
parent cruelty, we would not be here
tonight. There was not a hard time
possible in the experience of early
The old gentleman would sit in his
room with the tears strolling down his
cheeks at my difficulties and hardships,
but he never relented nor rendered one
particle or assistance. Twice through
over confidence in friends, and fatal
weakness for endorsements my accu-
mutations have been swept away and
a load of debt assumed. 1t was after
that rule of life was suggested, the
results of which have been so happy
that they easily form a code for en-
jOying existence applicable to every
condition of Life" Mr. Depew, then
refers to Epictetus, who was the slave
of a Roman, who broke his slaves
leg, because a slave got more pleasure
out of life than his master with all of
his wealth.
Then he continues: Certainly my
own career is rich in great disappoint-
ments which have proved significant
blessings
1.-THE best informed. allround man,
and the most contented, I ever knew,
was "a barber. He was a success as a
barber; he would have failed as a mer-
chant. His shop kept him comfortably,
and furnished a surplus which, with
great discrimination, he invested in a
library, every book in which and every
author in which was his intimate and
familiar friend. He was the encyclope-
dia of his neighbOrhOod to the
preachers lawyers, and the students;
with valuable suggestions as to his pa
tent for restoring their hair on the
outside of their heads. no customer
ever left the chair without getting
something of value lodged in his head
Another man whom | watched from
early boyhood to middle age, was a
carman in my native village who had
a vital faith in the doctrine that what
ever is for the best, and comes from
on high, and though his troubles We're
many, his song in the street as he
trundled by with his load, was an an
them OF joy, ringing through the
houses and fairly causing the clans lin
the bottom of his wagon to open their
shells His Observation-Disclosures, loudly
proclaimed in the weekly prayer meet
ing, aifted saints and sinners out OF
themselves to a closer contact with
their better selves and clearer vision
pf the Pearly gates and the Golden
Streets
Mr.. Depew only reissues with his
stamp ON it, the current coins OF WIS
dom of all the ages, but one takes and
looks at it, when it is thrown out by
the hand of man, whom many re-
gard as the most successful all round
in America. He, with oceans Of wealth
tapping at his feet, standing on the
heights of personal popularity and
oratorical fame. Surely not. For II
modern society gave its opinion about
the matter. it would shout with thun-
der tones: mo contented BARRIERS for
u.s. and the business men will say
these maxims about contentment are
like the gongs the Chinese use in war.
not intended for fighting purposes
but admirable cOntrivances for keep
ing up the courage.