Show JOHN BURKE OPTIMIST D J Jele ele Plain Dealer 1 This is the tory story of John Burke uan It would do you good to know Burke Burlo Whether YOU are high In the world orid or low whether you ou count your our wealth by the million or whether the pay envelope at the end or of each woks hard work Is aU all you ou maI count count as I your OUr own whether whether YOU live In 8 a stone i I e or whether four rooms on the I third floor roar to cover your head had contented o of just so long as You aro ro human to and you are would come away better and more marl content with the world ax ag It Is after atter a talk with him But It i is for you to know him He ent a Pub public lic character I ut you can read his story It Is the tho story ot of a man and f therefore good reading He Ha t much to look at as Its 10 i before you ou now John Burke BurI o I Ho will toll on when you get to know him well enough h that once he WM was different But now there thre is an arm and 4 log both on the same side an eye ts Is dead in its Ita socket and ono one side ido ot of his face faco Is considerablY wrecked from stopping Do a section ot of boiler plate m in Its toward the fresh air He Is isn no n watchman atchman and arul makes makH 9 a week and Ire he and his Invalid wife manage to live In their thel flat In considerable I Comfort C om f o rt But best beet or of all they are al almost most cont contented and have havo not net given up I hoer and this I ii the marvellous part ot of the tho story ston Future Promised Big Things I Twenty years ago o Burke was as 25 5 years i old Ho was waa ft a printer and he had a 9 knack for inventing special machines and appliances that caused people to predict that be bad a great future be J foro him Hardheaded business men said ho would make a lot of money be before fore he died and his employers paid him the wages of n a foreman because ot of the aforementioned inventions Incidentally they made mad thousands thou sands an s ot of dollars because of those these tiona but that Is il ft a matter of business and not concerned with the matter of urke So well did lie he progress in this t stAge of lita bis career that Burke told lie was justified In getting married Then he settled down downto to work as hud hand au as bo body and mind let him for tOle the success that he was wag his I due lIe was young and andl l his faith in the world Was brand new and unshakable Burke Perfects Big Invention It was when hen Ito he WItS was 31 that he had h fIr first t invention completed The oth others f ers rs were merely but this was different It was something new something l that no other othel man had hade e ever r conC conceived ed in similar dipolar form before and it was Burkes alt all Burkes It presented r just five years of his 11 life sears ealS or of when hen eel every spare hour effort and thought was the ma lilacs wilen the l test lit of the world matter so 10 long lone as the machine neared perfection Burke kept It a se set ret t from aU all Ravo ao his llis young wife until It was already and he was vas rood ready to spring It on the market If he had done 8 a little press agent work ork and let a few people know ho had such a under construction construct on he het t have saVed himself a fortune and a a rIght to tG call the machine his own As it was waR ho he took It to two men who wh 5 ere naturally interested tel in his Invention tion They questioned Burke closely after the they had bad carefully exan the machine Had lie he shown tIll thin to any anyone one me H Had d he talked over oel the thing with any auy one Did an any one know that 1 1 had contemplated making such a or that the making or of It were IJ i ble Sharks Steal the Invention b because cau e ot of the faith lie be had in tint world answered the questions aU all guilelessly J and truthfully truthful The Tho men him bins to leave his mod model l Burke did o He returned the next day and I th t two o men received him eol coldly L pion J 1 Iw We they found that thu t Mr 11 I rourkes s machine was almost an exact copy y or of one lately installed in their I t e stern works worb key p did tot slot wish iah to I use Mr 11 Burke ot copying their theil ma lime not to say ay stealing it but It was f rb l remarkable coincidence as Mr r Burke must iH so There was wal a 11 fU fuss EI I but in the end they in stem steal l linn inn Mr 11 Burkes ma machine hine quitE and ga gave hint him a bad name flame the mein or of his trade besides lIe He lost his hI position and amI was as forced to take an another other anti and poorer one Five years ears Is he a good share or of a 1 mans 1 life t No bud buries five man years far in It a j grave and recovers From it qUickly I urku Durke never tried hied his hand rit at I Ho He had lost the taste for fm I I nut Fut he did devote wen well to air nis l I In est lIt waa 1 more practical no noeLi I eLi he began t tp sato 0 money Soon uon he hei I 1 i 1 1000 laid by and he started a I I hop or of own He went wem along sW lie He got deeply Into debt ai a I it f st but he pulled up anti and was Waft ot oe ott t r than just touching Su fU with hid hie finger the ne ac net t came Old boilers are I things Burke used a boiler i to furnish the power ill in hj S l of nt business When hen the boiler 1 up It wu waa Burke who took the I ot of the explosion Io The left li leg rd 1 mm arm one eye and t a crushed fa fare f I re le the things that the explosion cost ost 4 I tar far this reads nad like the bad hid had 1 lurk lId tory story that is concocted occasion ocla ion lIh when n t a man wants wanti to explain sty hY he does not win success lu e but the sc ot of t this one Is that the man manfrom from It most atte affected ted refuses to he be hee ive e that his is down despite the faCt i hat tt there is every reason wh why ne he I Refuses to Admit Defeat I IH Tt H was I a long time Ume before Burke re rel l werl from the Ule effects or of th the cx ox 1 it Hift He was waH un iou for rk mentally t for and bod fee fot two lo lr try When finally he ws able to oft 1 his 1118 feet kill his bop wn was A thing t the past pilat his money none wa aU all gone one tid hi his wife Ue D now W a confirmed Invalid tirs t living on the charity of rely Ives l was Wail a wreck it a roan ever was reeked He wu was a n misfit in the world Im and friends say My the they see R e just what Burke Butke h to live for fot But J Burke urke knew It wax impossible for tor him to et t ark at lils old trade It was impossible im sible ible for him to pC get any kind of highly r employment Burke knew anew th just as Yell well aft as he knew and knows ou that i h his tOl fot success ns as it 1 reckoned have bt gone gUm gUmTI TI ring Into the past would have a sat at on nn roost most i n s I shoulders Burke Burket hustled around a r much au as a man may hustle ou a at al l 1 t ll leg Jete and weak wak body an got a ai i lob o aft an watchman He worked for sly sh RaVIn saving and sacrificing in a manner r that approached actual starvation tion Then b be surprised his wifE Ii H mI for h he In w fib ot of a kind kindhearted hearted cabby lIe He put her ht b and tool took hr her to b a furnished tumlehed two 1 flat Tt That was Wail more than ten oarS ate CO They are there yet in t twide wide flat Burke BIrk atilt tut has th the tame job he had when the they came cam there thre Hf He Hea an a i the job as long as In ht lh liver He will hold it as long nt as he i is able to peg way way from the little flatto Ut flat to fo the warehouse and back again Each laeh da fay he be goes e through the same rutine of pork life and knows that there Is nothing else elM ahead or of him binI Each EaI day dayl l prepares the morning meal puts the flat fh t in order and goes UeS to work return jig at night W mike mako another meal for tor himself find and wife lt and always he is 18 t ont despite the UtO tact fact that he fir is a broken man and that he should be 1 lIlee o eese IJ Ia Burke Success or Failure Burke Sa is a failure ot of course a dis disT T rat failure u AS failure i is g but after you see him and know kno him you au begin to realize what a aie ie p the popular idea or of suc success q is and you see that Burke and broken brokon hall bas succeeded in ung a mu melt with the tho things that f re tats gh it him AS tall falls to the thelt thelt lt to tn I d 1 f any man on this mundane ar |