Keowee courier. [volume] (Pickens Court House, S.C.) 1849-current, 1900-05-31
"The Man Who Carried Message to Garcia.

numDcf an essay WHICH H"u TIC Si-
feet 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 new edition Of half mil
lion copies for free distribution. Mr..
Hubbard took for his text, ga fellow
by the name of Rowan" who at tho
outbreak of the late war, undertook
to carry a message from President
Mckinley to General Garcia, who
was somewhere in the mountain
Businesses of Cuba-no ono knew
where. And Mr.. Hubbard thus
philosophers:
The point / 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 at ?"
There is a man whose form should
be cast in dcathless bronze and the
statute placed in every college in
the land. 1t is not book learning
young men need, nor instruction
about this and that, but stiffcning
of the vcrtebr;p which will cause
them to be loyal to trust, to act
promptly, concentrate their cncr-
gics, do the thing-"Carry mes
sage to Garcia !"
No man who has cndcavored to
carry out an enterprise where many
hands were needed, but has been
well nigh appalled, at times by the
imbccility of the average man-thc
inability or unwilingness to conccn-
trate OH thing and do it.
S!ip-shod assistance, foolish mat
tention, dowdy Indifference, and
half-heartcd work seem the rule, and
no man succeeds, unless by hook or
crook, or threat, he forces or bribcs
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 matter to
the test: You are sitting now in
your oflicc-siX clerks arc within
call. Summon any one and make
this request: "'lease look in the
encyclopedia and make brief mem
orandum for me concerning the life
Of Corrcggio."
Will the clerk quietly say, eyes,
sir" and do the task ?
On your life he will not. lie will
look at you out of a fshy eye and
ask one or more Of the following
questions:
"Who was he 2"
"Which encyclopedia ?"
"Where is the encyclopedia ?"
"Was ! hired for that ?"
"Don't you mean Bismarck ?"
"What's the matter with Charlie
doing it?"
"Is he dead ?"
"Is there any hurry"
"Shan't I bring you the book and
let you look it up yoursclf?"
"What do you want to know for ?"
Now, if you are wise you will not
bother to explain to your assistant"
that Corrcggio is indexcd under the
C's, not the KS, but you will smile
sweetly, and say, "nevcr mind" and
go look it up yourself.
And this incapacity for indepcnd-
ent action, this moral stupidity, this
iniirmity of the will, this unwilling
ness to chccrfully catch hold and
lift, are the things that put pure So
ciaism so far into the future. If
men will not act for themselves,
what will they do when the benefit
of their efforts is for all 2"
My heart goes out to the man who
does his work when the 'boss" is
away, rs well as when he is at home.
And the man who, when given let
ter for Garcia, quietly takes the mis-
sivc without asking any idiotic qucs-
tions, and with no lurking intention
Of chucking it into the nearest sewer,
or OF doing ought else but deliver it,
never gets ",id off," nor has to 90
on a strike for higher wages. Civi-
lization is one long anxious search
for just such individuals. Anything
such a man asks shall be granted {;
his kind is so rare that no employer
can afford to let him 90. He is
wanted in every city, town and vii
lagc-in every Office, shop, store and
factory, the world cries out for such !;
he is needed and needed badly-thc
man who can carry message to
Garcia.-Thc Presbyterian Banner.
The easiest and most effective method
Of purifying the blood and invgoratng
the system is to take DcWitts Little
Fairly l,iscrS, the famous little pills for
cleansing the liver and bowels. j. W. Bell.
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