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Foreign subscription $1.50 Canadian subscription $1.25 If you are discontented with your present position you are either on the road to success or failure; success if you have determined to increase your knowledge, vowed never to allow the steam of energy to run down; failure if you are discontented and make no effort to better your condition but are willing to rust and rest a satisfied worker. The power of steam was discovered by a man who was discontented -nations were made and overthrown by one discontented man. The generator of action is discontent, it prods the laggard and spurs the incompetent man and woman to greater effort. Morris K. Jesup. Banker, Philanthropist and Financier. "He When Morris K. Jesup, the philanthropist, banker and financier, died on Jan. 23, 1908, the world lost a valuable and most notable citizen. Harper's Weekly, of New York, says: came here from Connecticut about sixty years ago, got a job in the Paterson Locomotive Works, started a brokerage firm at twenty-two, and four years later a bank. He prospered rapidly, got rich, and retired from active business, after twenty-eight years of it, in 1884. So far it is not an unusual story. The interesting part of it lies in Mr. Jesup's use of money and of leisure. He was great in his public services and very interesting in the great variety of such services that he put his mind and money into. For seven years, until a few months ago, he was president of the Chamber of Commerce, and when it met to take action on his death, Mr. Choate, among others, spoke at some length of the remarkable scope of his public labors and benefactions, and of his constant growth in knowledge, sympathy, and interest in the work of the world. He was a religious man, and a very wise and liberal giver to religious objects. He was a great philanthropist, benefactor of colleges, officer and supporter of a long list of charities, and promoter of education in the in the North, in the South, and as far away from home as Asiatic Turkey. He was also president of the Natural History Society (to which he gave a million dollars in his lifetime, and another million in his will), and a great promoter of exploration and scientific investigation, being president of the Peary Arctic Club, the Audubon Society, and the International Society of Americanists. Coincident with his ceaseless activity in charities, and educational, religious, and scientific projects, he kept such a hold on every-day affairs as is betokened by his long presidency of the New York Chamber of Commerce. It was while a member of that organization that he started in 1884 the movement for forest preservation which resulted in the New York State Forest Reservation in the Adirondacks. Reaching the age of seventy-seven, he lived his fruitful and beneficent life well out, active and useful to the very end of it in adding to human knowledge and making human life a richer possession. Great Success in Living. It is a timely privilege to dwell upon Mr. Jesup's noble career, because of the wide diffusion of the propensity to believe that great fortunes are a sort of blight on civilization; that . they represent the wresting from the common fund of an undue share of the means of support, and that every rich man represents in a greater or less degree the impoverishment of his fellows, and some sacrifice of the best interests of the human family. Delusive fancies such as these are the natural fruit of the socialist notions that are now so prevalent. No doubt excessively rich people, who are extravagant, wasteful, and worthless, add somewhat to the burdens of society, but great fortunes which are not viciously or very wastefully used are useful as accumulations of capital, while fortunes used as Mr. Jesup used his are like great public funds, of which the expenditure is directed by much better intelligence than could be hired, and probably at a comparatively low cost of administration. Moreover, Mr. Jesup was a living contradiction of the charge that all that rich Americans know, or care to know, is how to get money. He was a very valuable example of true success in life; success in the first place in winning power and leisure, and then in using them profitably for himself and to the immense advantage of society. He not only succeeded in life, but he succeeded greatly in living-two things that are not identical, and of the latter of which shining examples are rarer than of the former." A photograph of Mr. Jesup appears on the cover page. "It's the early bird that catches the worm." "It's the animal in the front of the herd that gets the choice, long juicy grass." "Men often sit with their dish upside down. while it is raining opportunities. After the shower is over they wonder why they didn't get anything. Moral: One minute of action at the right time is worth weeks of groans and regrets. Always act promptly-never put anything off."-Lincoln. "Far better is it to dare mighty things to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank among those poor spirits who neither enjoy much nor suffer much, because they live in the gray twilight that knows not victory nor defeat." -Theodore Roosevelt. "Opportunities have come and gone, and will come and go, but if you don't take advantage of them, they never exist for you. No one will give you money, but they will give you a chance to make money because they need your help."-Hanna. Tolstoi's Sons. The Russian-Japanese War caused great family dissension in the Tolstoi household, and the aged Count was much distressed because his three sons joined the army and went to Manchuria against his will. The Count is old and feeble, and it is said that he weeps a great deal. One of the world's greatest reformers, he abhors war and denounced this particular war with intense ardor, so that he was subjected by the Czar to administrative surveillance. The sons of Tolstoi are utterly different in every way from their father. He has never been able to make any impression upon them with his moral teachings. None of them resembles him in face or nature. They affect the heavy swell and they follow the lead of the Grand Dukes, being dissolute, fast, and cruel. They have been in the habit of spending long periods in Paris where they have lived the fastest life. They are all rich, for their father divided his estate several years ago, gave to each son his share of a great fortune, in this way protecting his estate from possible confiscation in the event of exile, not knowing where his reforming mission might eventually lead him. Three sons were with Kuropatkin, they having left the wolf-trails and the boulevards of Paris for the promised glory of man-hunting for the great white Czar in the East. Only one member of the large Tolstoi family is. in sympathy with the old Count's views, the Countess being utterly at variance with her husband on account of his published denunciation of the conflict. Tatyana, the eldest daughter, it is who adheres to her father's views and seeks to give him consolation. This daughter is a gifted woman, and is her father's secretary, and it is said adds the finishing touches to much of her father's work. The Tolstoi family is one of the richest in Russia, gold mines having been discovered upon the estates many years ago, making the family wealthy. The family has been titled ever since the time of Peter the Great, and a very interesting little story is told of the ennobling of the founder of the family who was, during the reign of Peter the Great, a simple doorkeeper before the apartments of the Emperor. One day as he was standing at his post a nobleman approached and asked to be admitted. The doorkeeper, however, refused to let him in, declaring that the Emperor had given positive orders that no one that afternoon was to be admitted to his presence. "But," said the noble, "I am the Prince "Still I cannot admit you, sir," said the doorkeeper. Exasperated, the nobleman struck the doorkeeper across the face with his riding-whip. "Strike away, your Highness," said the other; "but, nevertheless, I cannot let you in." The tumult had been overheard by the Emperor. He now opened the door and asked what the trouble was. The noble told him. He listened in silence, and then said: "You Tolstoi, were struck by this gentleman for obeying my orders. Here, take my stick and strike him back." "But, your Majesty," exclaimed the noble, "this man is a common soldier." "Then I make him a captain." "But I am an officer of your Majesty's household." "I make him colonel of my life guards.' "My rank, as your Majesty knows, is that of a general," protested the nobleman. "Then I make him a general, too, and thus the beating you are to get will come from a man of your own rank." The noble then took his punishment philosophically. As for the young soldier, he was next day commissioned a general, and made a count. From him the present family of Tolstoi is descended.-World's Events. Ignorant Billboard Advertisers. "The billboard advertiser is an ignorant advertiser. He likes to see his picture or his name on the side of a church or a cliff, where the ignorant like himself can read. It appeals to his vanity. "Why, there are places along the lines of railroads in Vermont where you can put up a billboard for three bottles of beer and a circus ticket. "Now the whole responsibility for these bill boards rests with the women. You can come pretty near being the whole thing in the advertising world. You must refuse to buy articles advertised on the billboards. "If the advertiser learns that you will not buy his goods because he is a billboard advertiser, he will not buy space of the billboard contractor, and he in his turn will not buy his right to erect the boards."-Nathiel C. Fowler, Jr. |