The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1899-04-14

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n n ALL this Cuban business there is
II one man stands oul on the hori-
zon of my memory like Mars at
II Perihelion.
When war broke out between Spain
and the United States, it was very
necessary to communicate quickly with
the leader of the insurgents. Garcia
was somewhere in the mountain fast
nesses of Cuba-no one knew where.
No mail nor telegraph message could
reach him. The president must secure
his cooperation, and quickly.
What to do!
Some one said to the president,
There's fellow by the name of Row.
an will find Garcia for you, if anybody
can"
Rowan was sent for and given a let
ter to be delivered to Garcia. How
"the fellow by the name of Rowan"
took the letter, sealed it up in an OIL
skin pouch, strapped it over his heart,
in four days landed by night off the
coast of Cuba from an opAl boat, dis
appeared into the jungle and in three
weeks came out on the other side of
the island, having traversed a hostile
country on foot, and delivered his let.
ter to Garcia, are things / have no
special desire now to tell in detail.
o
The point l wish to make is this:
Mckinley gave Rowan a letter to be
delivered to Garcia: Rowan took the
letter and did not ask, Where is he
att" BY the Eternal! there is a man
whose form should be cast in deathle IS
bronze and the statue placed in every
college of the land. 1t is not boo.l-
learning young men need, nor instruc-
tion about this and that, but a stiffen-
ing of the vertebrae which will cause
them to be loyal to a trust to act
promptly, concentrate their energies:
do the thing-"Carry a message to
Garcia!"
General Garcia is dead now, but
there are other Garcias.
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No man, who has endeavored to
carry out an enterprise where many
hands were needed, but has been we'll
nigh appalled, at times by the imbecil-
ity Of the average man-the inability
or unwillngness to concentrate on a
thing and do it.
Slip-shod assistance. foolish inatten-
tion, dowdy Indifference. and half
hearted work seem the rule; and no
man succeeds, unless by hook or crook,
or threat, he forces or bribes other
men TO assist him; or mayhap. God in
His goodness performs a miracle, and
sends him an Angel Of Light for an
assistant. You, reader, put this mat
ter to a test: You are sitting now in
your offce-siX clerks are within call.
Summon any one and make this re-
quest: please look in the encyclo-
pedia and make brief memorandum
for me concerning the life of Cor
| reggie
| win the clerk quietly say, Yes, sir"
| and go do the task?
on your life he will not. He Will
| look at you out OF a fishy eye and ask
one or more of the following questions:
who was he?
(which encyclopedia?
Where is the encyclopedia?
WAS l hired for that?
| Don't YOU mean Bismarck?
whats the matter with Charlie do
! ing it?
as he dead?
"Is there any hurry?
"Shsn't bring you the book and lei
you look it up yourself?
what do you want to know for?
And I will lay you ten TO one 'ha
after you have answered the qurs
tions, and explained how to find tho
information. and why you want it, Tho
clerk win go off and get one Of th'
other clerks TO help him to find Garcia
and then come back and tell yol
| there is no such man. OF course
may lose my bet, but according to thu
law of average, I will not
| Now if you are wise YOU will no
bother to explain to your assistant
that Correggio is indeXcd under tn
C's, not in the KS, but you will smil
sweetly and say, Never mind ant
go look il up yourself.
And this incapacity for Independent
action, this moral stupidity, this In
frmity of the will, this unwillingnes
to cheerfully catch hold and lift. ar
Il - Ill