The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-08-15
RENO, THE MAGICIAN
Edward Russell Perry Tells Of the
Many Opportunities Which
May be Taken Ad-
vantage Of.


as the audience Sunday. The even
ing program, however, attracted manv
and the tent was well filled, especial
" were the children pleased for Ed
ward Reno, the great magician, gave
his program Of tricks and Illusions in
the evening. In the afternoon Edward
Russell Perry spoke on the subject,
THE Golden Cornfleld." Interpreted,
this means opportunities and Mr.. Per-
ry presented a subject both timely
and interesting in most interesting
fashion He used abundant illustra-
ton to make his points, combined
humor and common sense in degree
to make his talk very interesting.
Mr.. Perry is an excellent talker and
presents plain common sense in a
way to make people-to use a slang
phrase sit up and take notice. His
talk Sunday night came right from
the heart of truth and every worl
struck home. His talk yesterday at
ternoon was of different calibre but
no less sincere nor of less interest
Mr.. Perry said:
"The world is golden cornfeld.
There are opportunities on every hand
for the men and women. But we fail
to grasp them for we fail to see them.
Seventy-seven years ago some farm
ers owned the marsh lands on which
Chicago is built But they thought the
ground too swampy. But not so some
enterprising men. They saw the op-
portunity for building a city and
now they are of the rich men of the
community.
Il wish to bring home to you not
the material side Of life but the fact
that you have opportunities Take the
Leadville mines for instance A man
kicked boulder in stream and be-
cause 1t was resistant knew that some
metal was contained. 1t was assayed
and the lead mines were fact There
are opportunities for every one, and
perhaps If we put ourselves under the
guidance of other men who have
been helped. we might be helped.
Take our chautauquas. They are OPP
portunities. Nine-tenths of the men
who speak from the public platform
come because their heart has bled be-
fore they ever came on the platform.
say this because sometimes we are
so narrow as to let twenty-five or fifty
cents stand in the way The majority
of the people of the United States
have two cent and five cent way of
doing business. They strangle nickel
and lose ten dollars while they are do
Ing it.
Don't go away before you have
finished If you could tie yourself and
apply yourself in this one spot you
would come out all right. But you
must work. No man who is too lazy to
work makes anything in this world A
man drilled 1900 feet for gas once
the customary distance of we'll drill.
ers. He stopped but his employer or
dered him to go ahead and at 5000
feet he struck the gusher. Are you
using your capacity to the fullest, nc
matter where you are?
Humanity VS.. Profits.
In communities you must conside,
the interests of others. Not profits
but humanity. that is the secret or
which any man builds. Many people
believe they don't need education Ii
the coming generation no man will be
able to cope with problems without ar
education Brains, not profits are the
necessity. DR.. Stelzle was offered S.,
700 a month but he refused. Why? Be
cause he preferred to help humanity
instead OF profits.
Can ~ That Is the question we
all ask. You can if you get the righ
purpose and ambition in you Believe
you can do and you can And believe II
Yourself. If you are at the bottom O
the ladder. say good, If you dom
get out of the bottom it's your owr
fault. All you need is yourself Pu
Yourself into life with a view to hell
people.
John Andrus OF New York; Johr