The mirror. (Stillwater, Minn.) 1894-1925, 1909-12-09

advic to waits t this charitable
were: "Bo. do not watch
the clock; save your penn es; sift ashes
and Unnecessary carry water" Then he
broke loose upon them with that we'll
worn chestnut of how Jane: A. Garfield
rose fr o m barefooted boy, driving
mules on the towpath of canal, to the
Presidency, as Self Made Man. Fellow
members, everyone who has read the
life of James A. Garfield knows that,
while his early life as boy and young
maG was full of hard struggles and
honest endeavor, at the same time no
man had more influential and boosting
friends to push him forward to the
heights he in after years attained. Sum-
ming up the boast of Charles Schwab's
selfcreation it is dollars to doughnuts
that without tn Q influence, financial
assistance andiboosting power of An
drew Carnegie and under other environ
ments, he might today be in the Pan
anna Canal Zone helping to dig the big
ditch or member of a Pierian Circle
in some state institution! Whoknows?
In the prison library there are two
books dealing with the lives of two men
who came as near to being self made as
it is possible for man to come. Yet,
these men fell far shor literal 20 at
tanning b a t distinction. l refer to
Robert Goodyear, the inventor OF the
hardening process of rubber and
through whose efforts it became adapt
able to all manufacturing industries
and beneficial to the human race the
world over-the other man, Elias Howe,
the inventor Of that great domestic in
vention, the sewing machine. Icannot
in this paper go into t h e struggles,
deprivations, discouragements, despair
and the many obstacles these men met
with, the disappointments andi blasted
hopes that doomed them to long, weary
years of incessant toll before success
crowned their lives with victory. Yet
in order to attain success, influence and
financial assistance were rendered to
both these mental toilers. We can only
compare the tremendous struggle that
Goodyear and Howe engaged in to the
easy, plain, go-as-you-please fight that
Edison and Marconi made for suco ess,
with all Europe and America as their
financial hackers.
There is no such specimen in Gods
creation as Self Male Man. M n is
so created that to very great extent
he is dependent, either directly or in
directly, upon his fellowman. Especi
J ally is this SO il. our daily lives as VIZ
strive for success in attaining the OBJ
: jects of our desire. If we accept assist
ant e, financial or otherwise, in our hou
of need, though it be but b O g h
from another's brain, a suggestion, ad
3 vice or benefit rendered in any manne
or form and apply them in the working
out of our success, then we are indebt
r ed to others for that much of their al
!, sistance that has helped us forward. O
I, what use are all the shoes manufacture
: if the pc ,ple will not wear them =? Whs
: is the need of investing millions in raj
r. roads if the people will not ride on, {
!? send freight over themp What is the n
d cessity of digging the ore and minera
y out of the earth if the people will nj
t. utilize them in manufactured state
4 Fellow out these principles of depen
IS ancein every channel Of human activi
a. and daily life and then compare the
le with the declaration and assumption
n, the Self Made Egotist.
e., General John A. Logan was made
n, United States Senator from the Sta
of of Illinois by the intellectual talents
BY q brainy wife. During his entire pol
h. ical career this wonderful woman
ID, plenished his dull intellect with the
of forceful ideas and political thougl
A which carried him to the Senate Cha
) ~ ber and made Impossible ::for mof
1T ment to be erected to him after deaf
lu- Wherever b 9 English Language
rs, spoken or read Ben Hur hasi found
ers place on every libraryllshelf and int
me duced itself into every intelligent hol
on Lew Wallace is given worldwide ere
a n and fame as the author of this bo
ell.' (Continued IN column this pa0e.)