Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1924-04-15
SHINES Forgot to Smile

Hugo SHINES, sometimes re-
ferred to as the German super
man, is dead. Dead and only
S. years old. He worked
himself into premature grave.
Chauncey M. Depew, chair
man of the New York Central
railway lines, is alive and snnil-
ing at SO years. Mr.. Depew
will celebrate his Goth birthday
April 23d. He is today hale,
hearty and an active business
man. e~ @aa {
Why the untimely death of
one and the long life of the 9th
err Probably the answer to
that question is that one knew
how to live. The other failed
to look into the future.
SHINES was an egotistical
boaster; genius, yes. But at
that he desired only to add one
more gold mark to his already
gigantic fortune. He is said to
have remarked on several oc-
casions that he was the richest
man on earth. He has been
grabbing one German industry
after another.
Never satisfied. SHINES tried
to rule the earth and in 80 do
ing forgot to smile-neglected
to remember that there is just
so much energy and strength in
the human body.
Chauncey Depew has been an
active and successful business
man. He is one of the most
famous after dinner speakers in
America. He has lived and he
has worked, but always with a
smile. Millions have enjoyed
the stories spoken and quoted
from his lips.
Here's one recently told by
B. c. Forbes, financial writer in
the Sunday American. To Mr..
Forbes, Senator Depew said:
y 1"f had little incident last
birthday, an army of reporters
and photographers came to see
me at "a certain hour, and while
the reporters popped questions,
the flashlights went popping.
After they had gone a young
cub reporter breezed into my Of
flee, his hat on his head at
jaunty angle and his whole atti-
tude, oh, so superior.
Il have been sent--I don't
know why-to write something
about your birthday. What is
there about April 20 any more
than any other day that they're
making a fuss about your birth
day" he wanted to know.
Il replied was 80 and that
there We're not so very many of
us left at that age.
What about it, the young
gentleman demanded, his hat still
on his head.
Don't you know, l asked
him, that on April % Shake
speare was born, Saint George
was born and l was born?'
All in the sane year?' ask
ed the cub"
SHINES millions brought him
nothing more than the gold of
a miser. The distinguished New
York ex-senator has gotten as
much out of life as most men
much more than some. He has
lived aAlong and useful life. Mr..
Depew says if you would live
long, you should laugh much,
attributing his nine-tenths of a
century to having early cultivat-
ed the habit of CHEERFUL
NESS.
OF Hugo SHINES, Mr.. Forbes
had this to say a few days ago:
Hugo SHINES, the German
superman, who was rapidly gob-i
bling up German industries and
reaching out like an octopus to
foreign countries, is dead from
overwork at 55.
SHINES was not a lovable char
acter. Patriotism was sacrificed
to profit His first concern was
not for his fatherland, but for
his own pocket and honor. He
freely ruined in order to rule.
His ambitions surpassed those of
Caesar, Alexander the Great,
Napoleon.
He was a queer mixture of
modesty and vanity. He dressed
more carelessly than his own
clerks, ate more sparingly than
his own workmen, travelled more
unostentotiously than his own
minor associates. He lived not
IN castle, but, relatively speak
ing, in a cottage.
Yet he would boast as he pass
ed hotel or newspaper office,
or a bank or other establishment,
Il own all of that" He bragg
ged loudly that he was the rich
est man in the world. He re-
garded himself as a CULVER in
world of Lilliputians. he
would flaunt an enormous ron
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