El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1911-08-26

through the seven cities which claimed
hinn-dead; Mohammed, who changed
the face of empires, was an orphan at
eight and afterwards a camel driver;
Andrew Jackson. the penniless and
fricndless son OF an Irish immigrant,
became the seventh president of the
United States; Copernicus, who intro
duced the modern system of astronomy
was the son of a baker, while Kepler.
hardly less distinguished was a waiter
boy: Stevenson inventor of the loco
motive and Watt, pcrfector of the
steam engine, were both of poor and
humble origin; Shakspere, to whose far
reaching, all embracing genius the
world does honor was the son of a
wool carder; Daniel Webster, when
student at Dartmouth was so poor that
when a friend sent him a receipt to
grease his boots, he sent back word:
But my boots need other doctoring;
they admit water and even gravel
stones Henry Clay, whose passionate
appeals and fervid periods placed him
first among American orators, was
'.the mill boy of the slashes." His
widowed mother being so poor she
could not send him to school, but con-
scious of his oratorical abilities he
began TO speak in a barn with only a
horse and cow for an audience; Cor
the wealthiest families of modern
times. with the $50 his mother gave
him Of her savings, bought small
sailboat and transported garden truck
from Staten Island to New York city.
Edison's Humble Start.
Edison. the most useful man of the
2eth century, began life as newsboy;
John Wanamaker, merchant prince,
began life's work in a brick yard at IA,
obtained employment in Philadelphia
publishing house at s1.25 a week;
George Peabody, whose name is SYM
onymous with magnificent charities
honored of two hemispheres. instead of
asking for food as a gift, when II
breakfast at a country tavern by saw
ing wood; Stephen Girard. the second
richest man in his day, came to Amer
lea as a cabin boy in vessel and COM
menced life in the new world with a
six pence
John Jacob Astor's Start.
John Jacob Astor beat furs for Hay
man Levy at a dollar a day: James J.
Hill, the most interesting of all the
captains, of industry, builder of the
Great Northwest, began life as ship
ping clerk in ST. Paul. Charles NJ.
Schwab. after clerking in a country
store for SO a week drove spikes for a
dollar day and became in a few years
the highest salaried man in the world.
Daniel Defoe was a butchers son:
Franklin. son of a tallow Gambler and
soap boiler; Farraday, the son of a
blacksmith, excelled even his master,
sir Humphrey Davy. in the art of lu-
cidly expounding the most abstruse
points in natural science Whitfield was
the son of an innkeeper Virgil. the
completest representative of the deep
est sentiment of his countrymen, was
the son of porter, Demosthenes was
the son of a cutler; lord Eldon, Eng
lands greatest chief Justice, too poor
to buy books, borrowed and copied
three volumes of precedents and the
whole of Coke and Littleton.
Arkwright Barber.
Richard Arkwright, founder of cotton
in England, began life by !
shaving people in a cellar at a penny |
a shave.
If there were no difficulties there |
would be no success Working hard and |
faring meanly seem to be the essential |
conditions of success. Those who be- |
gin with fortunes often lose them: |
those who begin life on crutches al |