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Show RESOURCEFUL. CREATIVE MAN Hearst's Magazlno recalls a story that attracted country-wide attention at tho timo of Its occurrence, as being Illustrative of tho wonderful cfll-cloncy, cfll-cloncy, resourcefulness nnd creative ability of a wide-awake, alert intelligent intelli-gent mnn who has cultivated tho natural nat-ural faculties with which God has blessed him tho Intolllgonco thnt sots him nbovo the bensts. Incidentally It couvoya tho lesson that no man blessed with theso natural faculties, and with hcnlth, should over despair and roiiBltlcr himself helpless. The article follows: "On August i or loBl year Joseph Knowlos, a Iloston nrtlst, plungol Into tho forests noar Sponco I.nke, Maine. n was naked, lie had no weapons, tools, food or raiment of nny kind, lie piomlscd to como out of tho woodB October t in prlmo condition. "Ho kept his promise, nnd on tho day set ho reapjieared, clad In tho skins or uccr una uincK near, wwi good mossaclns on his feet, nnd a pack on his back containing a Arc machine and other tools which ho had fashioned. "Thero Is :i mighty truth all of us can learn from this naked mnn In tho wilderness. "Wo often hear young men asking what Is tho secret of success. "Tho wholo secret of any real achleoment lies In the brain and spirit of man. Thoio Is no other real falltiro than that or tho dull brain or tho daunted spirit, "Advantages mean nothing to tho soul. I'ull means nothing. Influence, opportunity, help, rrlends, nil mean nothing In the ultlmnto struggle. "It Is always the man himself, and tho Bluff that's in him. "Tho purso means nothing. ris something, nothing: 'twas mine, 'tis his, and has been Blavo to thousands. "Wo should call no calamity a pun-Ishmont pun-Ishmont of heaven sent us, except such n happening ns dims our Intolll-cfiico Intolll-cfiico or lowers our courage "Wo thank Kuowles for his experiment. experi-ment. It Is n uoblo pleco of poetry. A naked man against the tooth and claw of Nature and coming out victor -clothed, fee healthy; It Is a deal moro comfortl g to our proper human prldo than tho erection or a Wool-worth Wool-worth building. "Por we aro apt to forgot that there 'h but ono unconquerable thing In tho universe. It is mnn. It Is not monoy, or gunpowder, nor institutions. It is man, this llttlo dynamic fraction of God Almighty. "All " you who whlno becnuso you havo lost your monoy, ,or hnvo bcon dismissed from your position, or arc poot or unappreciated, or lonesome, got .that plcturo of tho naked man In the .woods beforo your mind, nnd buck up! . "Healthy bodies, good blood, clear minds, and unnrrald Bplrlts theso are thosoytrcasuroB that neither moth nor dust doth corrupt, nor thieves break flCL through and steal.' rai "Whoever con raise tho courage nl quality or tho peoplo ono degree has jgWJf done moro for his country than ono JETM who ndds to tho peoplo's wealth a mm billion dollars." jtlHg |