The Washington herald., 1908-01-12
GARIBALDI.

world has preferred 10 look upon him as
a big gun" Of Great Britain, for 1t was
she who knighted him, loaded him with
various decorations and honors, and seat /
ed him in her national legislative body
Always a BTitisher.
Upton. on the other hand. has never
been looked upon as anything ether than
British. Landing in New York shortly
after the close Of the civil war, and with
only little money In his pocket-what he
had managed to save out Of that munif-
cent stipend Of 60 cents a week-he began
drifting about In search of work. event.
ually finding IL on q rice plantation in
South Carolina. Here he was so poor
that he had to sleep IN the fields with the
negro laborers, and he never received any
money until after the crops were gathered
in the fail. when the hands were paid on.
What ne got then was barely enough 10
keep soul and body together, the climate,
luckily. calling for practically no eXpendi-
ture for clothing
Thomas Upton stood this gruellng
existence for two years. then he liz out
and stocked his way on q steamship
from Charleston 20 New York During
the two years he then spent I'm the me-
tropolis he put his hand 10 any task
that offered itself. He was q mighty
happy young Br!tisher when one day
he discovered that at last be had saved
enough money 10 take him back TO
Scotland. and II was not long there
after that his father was welcoming
with open arms the boy who five years
before had taken French leave from his
humble home in Glasgow.
When the father a short time after
his sons return. set him up in business
In little bacon and grocery shop with
the savings Of a lifetime. about @i19,
the young man straightway began 90
put into practice some Of the business
methods he had discovered 20 be so
eminently successful in America. This
is Sir Thomas Lipton's own testimony.
and he attributes all his monetary sue
cess 10 the business lessons ne learned
while a member Of the submerged
tenth Of this country. His career as
a captain Of industry. international
sportsman. and friend Of royalty IS too
well known 70 be repeated here
Gilbert Parker Trained I'm Canada.
Sir Gilbert Parker, who also CRATE
fully Acknowledges HIS debt 10 the
training he received in the New World.
passed his formative years not I'm this
country, but just beyond its borders.
in Ontario
Unlike Upton, he was born on this
side Of the water, az Quebec forty-fve
years ago last November He was one
Of ten children, his father being a
British army captain, and the youngster
spent the first few years Of his life IN
the officers quarters Of the Quebec
artillery barracks. Later on the father
retired 70 the town Of Camden. in
Ontario. where he was a squire When
Gilbert was about nine the family. hav-
ing met with financial reverses, went 10
Western Ontario 10 live on q farm.
about the only earthly possession left
20 them
Horatio Gilbert first name for the great
Nelson). was sent 10 school meantime. the
family hoping that he would eventually
enter the Church of England When he
was about thirteen ne decided that il was
high time for him to help support him
self, especially as his father had plenty
Of other mouths 10 MI, and he secured
employment as a doctors djspensaTy as
sistant He not only helped with the
pills and medicine. but also attended his
employer when he performed operations.
Betimes he studied medicine and sur
gerry, but AZ the end of two years had be-
come so disguised with the sight of hu-
man suffering and the smell of drugs and
blood that he gave up all thought of be-
coming practitioner. and IN \ sort Of
spirit of abandon went 10 a Church Of
England school to prepare himself for the
career long dreamed of for him by his
parents
Made Trips tn Canada.
Here he unconsciously began the period
of training that later made" him. He
became intensely interested I'm the poets
and great prose authors, devoting the
greater Part Of his hours of study to
them. and while at this school and i'm
Trinity College he found HIS recreation in
frequent trips TO the Canadian wilds.
Thus. while he got a firm grasp on the
English language through intimacy with
its masters he was stocking his mind
with the Canadian color that was TO
stand him In good stead when he should
settle down to his lifes work.
The year that he reached his majority |
young Parker passed his examination for
the church was all ready to be made
a deacon. when he suddenly decided that
literature was his field. For two years
thereafter he lectured with mediocre sue
cess on English literature in his alma
mater, then hts health broke down, and
he began his world wanderings, which
took him to California, the Hawaiian
Islands, the Australian bush, Samoa, the
Tonga, and Fiji groups OF islands, New
Caledonia, and then 10 England by way
Of China, India, and Egypt A good part
of this time he wrote for a Sydney news
paper, the trip through the South Seas
being undertaken especially at its behest. /
Returning from this assignment, Parker
was one of the papers editors for a short
time.
1t was the young Canadians idea, on
settling in England, to devote himself to
serious literary work, but after two
months of interrupted self-Introspection /
he came to the conclusion that If he
ever became successful as a writer it
would be of men and things and scenes !
Canadian. So he spent the next few
months travelling up and down and across
the Dominion to get the atmosphere
which he believed ne had Tossed partly |
while absent from his native land. When !
he felt that his system was saturated once |
again with this elusive literary asset he
returned to London, and so well did his
New World training stand him in stead
that, unusual thing for a new author, he
was able 20 make a good living with !
his pen from the very start of his more
serious career.
Friedrich Dernberg, the latest American !
trained man 20 become a European big
gun, came to this country especially TO