Warren sheaf. [volume] (Warren, Marshall County, Minn.) 1880-current, 1910-11-10
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Copyright, 1910 by American Press
Association.

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Robert SpooDer and Lars Gibson
at five were going about with their
arms around each others neck; at
twelve they enjoyed boys sports to-
gether; at eighteen they conferred as
to what field in life's work they should
enter.
The bond that drew them together
was a dissilnilarity of disposition
Spooner was bright, impulsive, daring
even to recklessness. He would cas-
lily fly into passion and was quick to
do penance for his acts while under
its influence. Gibson was Of very
equable disposition. His amiability
was never seriously interfered with
and seldom rufled. These compli-
mentary dispositions welded their
hearts when they were children, and
the affection born of their tender years
was never permanently broken.
Both about the same time secured
situations in different mercantile
houses. Spooner was very quick to
learn and endowed with great natural
energy. The consequence was that he
advanced rapidly. Gibson was slow
In his motions, not over quick to un-
derstand, always willing to do what
was required of him, patient to a
fault and quietly persistent. During
these early years Of their career
Spooner would confer with his friend
complaining Of what he called the stu
pidity Of those Immediately over him.
chaing because he found it difficult
to make them understand that he dis
covered ways of doing things quicker.
palmer. more correctly than they.
Gibson would say:
BE patient. Bob. Your natura
ability will win in the end. whereas
if you try to go too fast you may get
backset that you will be years in
making up
81 know you're right, my boy" Bob
would reply. you're always right
about everything, but it's mighty hard
to see things going wrong when a
suggestion from me would right it and
AOt luc SuSScSt1Ou.
"How do you know they would ap-
preciate it? And woul1n't they be
liable to tell you to keep your place
and mind your own business. If you
were in their place would you listen
to suggestions from them?"
II listen to suggestions from them:
Not much
Cali things come to those who v~ait."
Bob SpOOner could not help feeling
himself a better man han his friend
in everything except patience. gentle
ness. endurance. He did NOT s.Xvs.l
Lars to make murh hc::d'vay in The
world: indeed. be WAS ami .o.!S T."
make a Su'reSS for himself that hc
might share it with the man H." loved
1t was not long before $,',mlltr broke
away from his employers and set up
for himself. He had no capital. but
had capacity for inspiring conf
dence. He succeeded from the start
Both young men married. Spooner
welded girl who saw in him means
to acquire what was the wish of her
A6lI PloLAAhCANV 1lUSOu AAdI
ried a girl who loved money for mon
ey's sake rather than what she could
acquire with it. Mrs Spooner spent
all her husbands income. Mrs Glib
son exerted herself to prevent her
husband from giving away all his fam
lily did not positively require From
the time of their marriage their wives
stepped into their shoes and enacted
the balance of their lives for them.
No, not all: at the end they acted for
themselves.
1t was their desire that their wives
should feel as warm friendship for
each other as was theirs. Spooner. with
his natural enthusiasm. expected this:
Gibson. with a certain longheadedness
or horse sense. knew that it could not
be- There was nothing to bring the
two women together-indeed. there
was that to drive them apart. Each
wife was jealous of the influence ex-
erted by her husbands friend. 1T is
singular" Mrs. Spooner would say.
how you can see so much in that dull
fellow. You are more capable in every
way" And Mrs. Gibson would say.
''Your frier Spooner looks down on
you: he considers himself vastly your
superior" A..
Spooner made money so fast that the
very rapiditv Of his accumulations ac-
celebrated hi accumulative desires. just
as man owning an automobile that
will do forty miles an hour desires one
that will do sixty: One morning the
newspapers announced the failure o..
a large and long established banking
house. 1t was the signal gun for the,
opening ola commercial panic The
house Of Spooner & CO. Went down in
the crash, and the head OF, the firm was
obliged to take the benefit of the bank
ruptcy law.
- For two or three years values
shrank. Gibson, who had saved.-or.
rather, whose wife had saved-considz
cradle money, saw an opportunity to
buV DrOnprtV chnan and made invost