The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1914-05-30
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SUCCESSFUL AMER1cANs.

l. Inc very cdpuOle men IN the United
States today. asserts a writer in the
Popular Science Monthly. have, with
only few exceptions, come Of the old
American stock. from the Anglo-Saxon
element which has been in this coun-
Try since before the beginning OF tho
nineteenth century. The writer sup
ports his contention with a study az
names in who's Who ana Of the
successful people in even those cities
having large foreign population. He
concludes fl ON this that the stocks
that have come into America in re-
cent years since 1880 have been. very
inferior to those already here in the
seventeenth and eighteen centuries"
Whether the statement Of the writer
to the effect that the very capable men
lin America are all Of Angla-Saxxon
origin IL entirely true or not. his re-
Election on the immigrant stock that
not only unwarranted but IL unscien-
tific: He Judges the Anglo-Saxon
stock OF the seventeenth and eigh-
teenth century by their offspring in
turtles. In other words, he judges the
immigrant fathers Of two centuries
back by their American children OF to-
day. Why not extend the same grace
century and withhold judgment a. to
their worth or worthlessness until say,
q hundred years hence, when they
shall have American great grandchil-
s.
much that IL being paraded as scien.
tific writing nowadays IL entirely out
OF touch with the scientific spirit,
which IL always just and always ac-
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A LIFE THAT REMINDS US.
Lives OF great men all remind us
i we can make our lives sublime, but
they are q long way on and sublimfty
Is reserved for the few. There is
gizing in story that has just been
told about the life Of one wins il not
great and who has hardly reached
mans estate AZ yet. For pluck and
steady persistence against odds Mar
tin Neuman has set an example by
which even great men themselves
might profit. Neuman. who IN now
10 years old, has been blind since
birth. With such aids as are given
the blind he went a. far as the second
to make q living by selling newspa-
pers and latterly he has supplemented
his days work by practicing type
writing: I'm this way he has equipped
himself Tor new business. and.
judged by his record. he should COM
mand succesa He inspires not GOOD
will only. but faith and confidence
also. because what he has actually
4 done spes.4 20 eloquently for him.
while the great men sometimes =op-
Il
US with despair. this boy rsbukes the
despairtng. He makes contemptible
all the little ills that 20 many Of mn
parade AZ an excuse for fhilure ana
| as reason for giving up. Those who
talk Of some stroke Of ~ fortune "a
II all tho powers Of earfk ma AR
were against them ana whine over
their hard luck may get I very usaful
reminder from thig self-reliant young
fellow who was doomed to the hard
4s,Er
that he came into the woild.-Chica-
go Record-Herald.
BIRDS HAVE THEIR TROUBLES.
Il limited observation counts Tor. any,
son Il unusually productive q traseates
| in the bird world. Among the vrersS an
robins particularly disaster has been fre-
nsisn6oriy frendlinoss FOR g ts ns an S;s
the fault. seemingly. has been With the
Wisely nor Wen, ssiee ase G% fs rs1sass
sites to begin with, and adding 10 tiis
earelessness some poor building opera
Judge Of . nest than W are; ana ta,s bird
ness Of building : nest than We do. SIN SIN.
assssns and s, .f ROM sns s ssss pe Of
ststence misdirected 4 Tar from being .
ss.s instinct mt assnsd e y: se
tempts to bulid : mesa II ! windy cave
ures ought 10 sufica. Nor az - re-
that the problem has been enthusiastically
solved when he home building Industry
| eonsiderafeiy l1i6 3 The ersss 81 the he
no; 'front.' csor ssooP, -. e an unfair :hift-
sas TO- sars: ssee & h q s or 49,
1 human sbo1idess. Birds Of iess nsssSSor..
y disgoaation seem 70 have e.caped The