Show PULLMAN AND HIS sorts I 1 in cutting ot off ills his sons with a shilling in his will what was george M pullmans thought V was aa lie he angry that they were spendthrifts or did lie he hold bold that hist hl fortune was but a trust and that it would not be a fair accounts accounting rig to leave it where it would be thrown away did lie he ever think that possibly their natures were due to the rigid thrift that before and after they were born developed in rebellion against the environments and in infinite inn ing tor for a more generous gener oui life on the part ot of their mother when men keep their eyes on the ground always there Is iq much in the air around them that they do not sec this applies to the inner as 99 much as to the outer vision the men who sacrifice crince sa everything to business me and whose dally daily and nightly thought Is to pilo up a fortune land and keep an unsullied business reputation as it a lule iule are not blessed with sons soni to be proud ot of when tile the heart and soul are both starved in both husband and wife there ll Is not the nourishment which great creat souls have to bo be fed u upon PO n in their passage to this world daniel webster once gave a flashlight flash light picture of his own fathers nature which all young married people ought to read lie ire was a strong roan man in ills his little new hampshire narrow and poor environments his neighbors wanted him to accept some honorable office in his bis state but he declined when the delegation went ment away daniel who was then but it a lad said bald fattier father why did you decline that office the answer we copy merely from a long ago memory was in substance this 1 I have declined many such offers since you yon and your brother were vere born and for two reasons first I 1 could but halt oil fill them at best tor for I 1 have riot not the learning leaming necessary to perform the full duty required by them and second I 1 can by hard bard work and your nin mothers give you and ezekuel 1 t the he advantages of a modern schooling end and my thought Is that with that you and your brother will in your lives reflect brick back more glory upon me than I 1 could ever win for myself and I 1 will not for a temporary office get in my heart an orice longing which might cause me to neglect the higher duty to which my life Is 13 consecrated of 0 equipping you fairly lor for your corning battle with thu the world we believe it was till this talk which gave daniel the years liter later to give his famous answer to president Jac jackson klion the president was visa visiting now new england and webster vc lister was accompanying himl him fresh from the rich soil of 0 tennessee li the president looked around upon tile the sterile hills and suddenly asked what in the world do you raise from this soil roll webster turned lila somber her eyes upon the great creat captain and gravely replied we build schoolhouses on this soil and raise men those two brothers nete cie born with grea great t soula 9 which were nere first bor born n in ill t abo he s soul ou I 1 0 ot f their father that stately nature that it as a s it filing to devote a ufa life to giving to the world in perfection two intellectual giants the elder died in ills his prime but before its his tame fame had much extended outside his own state but ills lil great brother always insisted that ezekiel 1 was the creates greate tit man and d lawyer that he had ever met dan daniel let lived to three score years and ten and trod the earth 3 very colossus well M oil we tear car that george pullman never pave gave his sons any such buch chanco chance for or expansion lie he doubtless began by de clarl nf that sometime he would be alth as much as some neighbor who had bad or the only expansion that lie ho ever eve Knew was as to increase his longing to to to tens ot of million and ilden hen it all cami to 1 him lin the r rule le ot of its ills youth had become second catule and he was helpless to I 1 i it hi k p 11 rua ni inc lents nta i n all 1 I b hi imi lf it on brine absolute iv just juat but there was no touch of pity in ills his nature no consideration for human weakness the chances axe are lie never gave any sympathy Bym pathy to or drew any from his children when ho he finally looked up and recognized t the he barren fla turca of 0 him sons in his hl set el lie h believed bellev rd thy they were A ere ungrateful and unworthy never thinking how their rouls had boen been starved on tile the cold remnants chich alch their fathers a soul had toward tossed to theirs beffie and after their birth anil and so BO lie moved down the ocean of life as aa an iceberg floats dou down n from within the arctic circle glittering in the sunlight of 0 hla his wealth but freezing till all the air around him until at lt last mith tile the dry rot of 0 the years lie ho suddenly all at once crumbled to frac fritty ments and disappeared |