The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-10-19

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lifelong rule to win success has been
simple" said Mrs. Russell Sage. 1t is
this I have done the best 1 could by
the light of day. If you study that
rule carefully, grasp what it means,
: you cannot help being successful. 1t
| doesn't require genius. Just make the
i most of the opportunities that come
to you"
+ Mrs. Sage had led her visitor to the
big, cheerful drawing room of her sum-
mer home, Cedar Croft, near Cedar
hudst, L. I. Her joy and gratitude
upon the recovery of her husband from
what threatened to be a very danger
Gus illness were evident in her blithe
manner. her beaming eyes, the smile
that was never absent from her lips a
minute at time.
The visitor had claimed her attention
by assuring her that he did not intend
to ask questions about her husbands
health.
Come in" she said gladly, "and I'll
tell you anything you care to know He
hasn't really been i'll, you know. He'll
go to his office early Monday morning.
How the papers go on if he coughs for
a few minutes! It's wonderful. This
little place has been full of newspaper
men for days. By this time I should
think the people must be tired of read
ing the name of Sage in the newspa-
pers. What can I tell you?"
How Mr.. Sage Succeeded.
The visitor hesitated a moment.
Il am a young man, Mrs. Sage" he
said, land not long from home.
should like to know how to be success
full. What made Mr.. Sage successful 2"
The financier's wife smiled reminis-
Gently over her folded hands She
seemed to be looking back over her
husbands many years, years Of I'M
ceasing effort and unremitting toll.
"Pn tell you she replied, but I
fear the telling won't do much good.
You see, everybody wants to get rich
so quickly nowadays"
Upstairs a parrot was talking to
himself volubly and laughing slyly at
his own jokes. In the drawing room
large, fat and fluffy Maltese cat dozed
peacefully on four cushions between
approving blinks at his happy mistress
Every sight and every sound in the
house showed gladness at the recovery
of the master.
81 suppose" the financiers wife be-
gan, that if you were to look for the
foundation of Mr.. Sage'S success you
would find it in the fact that he was
from the beginning as different as he
is now from the young men of the day.
He never wasted time on destination
mean even in the so-called harmless
dissipe tons. Life has always been an
earnest business for him. His regular
habits-eating and sleeping at the
same hours every day and night-have
Kept him in splendid physical health.
Why, he is .eighty-siX years old now,
and he has never had what you could
call days sickness-just a little i'll
ness q TrTIai h11+
real sickness.
He Began to Save Early.
when Mr.. Sage was twelve years
old he left the farm and went to work
for man in Troy al a very small SAL
ary-a salary that the twelve-year old
boy of today would laugh at. Yet,
small as it was, he managed to save
part OF It, His wages were raised ey-
cry year, and by the time he was
tWenty-one Mr.. Sage had saved enough
money to pay off big mortgage on his
j fathers farm. You see, it isn't the
earning, but the keeping, that counts.
Before Mr.. Sage left home his faith
er gave him maxim which he has
never forgotten-Most any man can
make q dollar, but it takes a wise man
TO know how to save dollar Through
all his life Mr.. Sage has lived I'D to
that advice. 1t isn't saving alone that
counts, 1t is the knowing how to save.
No one should stint himself of anv-
thing really needful. Oh there is a
great art in saving. Mr.. Sage has new
er denied himself anything he really
wanted.
When he was twenty one years old
MI. Sage went into politics. He was
the youngest congressman ever sent
TO Washington from Troy and he serv-
ed two terms; but he decided that
there nnthinc
success in politics, SO he went back to
business.
.'Now. through all his business ca
reer Mr.. Sage has kept in mind the
parable Of the faithful servant in the
nineteenth chapter of st. Luke and the
reward given to hinl-'Because thou
mast been faithful in a very little. have
thou authority over ten cities How
many young men nowadays will paw
any heed to that? They all want to be
great, to be successful, but thew won't
take the pains with little things. They
want to jump to the top Of the ladder
right away Here are the reporters
paying ~ apiece to the cabmen to
Drlng them to our house. The fare is
really only 81; but the young men
don't care
80 many young men have the desire
to be Vanderbflts and Morgans. but
they throw away on foolishness what
ever money they earn because they
nope some day to make it in great
quantities. They will not notice little
things. 1 remember young friend of
ours who said to me one day In his
twentieth year: Mrs Sage I am going
to be as rich as Vanderbilt when I'm
forty, and then I'll retire
{ Just PIodded Right AIonq.
We'll L said, don't believe Mr..
Vanderbilt ever spoke like that or
thought like that. He just plodded
along and did what he could By and
by great things were added unto him.
And what do you suppose happened
TO that young man who was going to
get rich quickly? He married when he
was twenty-three, married a girl with
eXtfaVagant tastes. They both had
high social ambitions and they lived
beyond their means. Before the year
was out the young man killed himself.
Mr.. Sage's plan of life has been lust
the opposite of this. Instead of killing
n1mself with too much ambition he has
just plodded along from day to day.
And he didn't marry too young-that is
q great error. And he didn't marry an
eXtravagant wife with her head full of
ridiculous notions-but there! We
didn't come here to talk about Mrs.
Sage but Mr.. Sage.
"Tou know, my husband ALWAYS
makes every minute count He never
smokes. 1t isn't because he begrudges
himself the luxury of tobacco or be-
cause a little of it would injure his
health. But tobacco is a wasteful thing.
Representation may be the thief of
time, but tobacco wastes an awful lot
Of 1T. What do all the poets and writ
ers and lovers of tobacco say about
their cigars? That they lie back in
their easy chairs and Iazily watch the
blue rings float upward and dream
and see visions. Mr.. Sage doesn't lie
back In his easy chair and lazily watch
anything, and he doesn't dream on his
visions. He says that smoking leads
to loafng and idling the time away.