Show ACRES agree OF DIAMONDS DIAMOND lecture by russell II if conwell clergyman platform oral orator lor pastor ot of the ithe baptist temple philadelphia it since 1882 and president of temple college born la in south worthington mass february 15 1843 3 the most famous tt of his series ot of popular lectures delivered on many platforms 1 continued from last issue but the people who make the greatest mistakes are the farmers when I 1 could not keep my fathers store ile he set mo me to work on the farm knowing that as the ground was nearly all rock I 1 could not do much harm there bere laughter 1 I 1 know by experience that a very ordinary man can be a lawyer I 1 also know that it does not take lake a man with a gigantic intellect to be a preacher it takes a greater man than either to male make a successful farmer today the farmer will be more success till fill when be gives more attention to what people want and not so much to what will grow though he needs both but now the whole time of most of our farmers is taken up with the finding out of what will grow I 1 was going up through iowa a while ago and saw the wheat decaying lit in mud and I 1 said to the farmer why is it that all this grain here Is decaying oh he said it Is the awful monopoly of the of the railroads ile he use the word awful but he used a word that lie he bought was more emphatic baughier Laug laughter hier I 1 got into the train and I 1 sympathized with the poor downtrodden down trodden farmer the conductor came along and I 1 asked him how much dividend does this railroad pay on its stock he looked at itie me and said it has not paid any for nine years and it has been in the hands bands of the receiver the most of the time then I 1 changed ray my mind if that farmer had bad raised what the people wanted not only would he have been rich but the railroad would have paid interest on its stock applause I 1 was at evansville indiana and a man drove up tip in his beautiful carriage and told me eighteen years ngo ago I 1 borrowed two hundred dollars and went into farming I 1 began leegan the ft first clieaf and tye but the second year I decided to raise what the so r V plough ed the ground over and put in small fruits now I 1 own this farm and a great deal more they told me at the hotel that lie he owned two thirds of the stock in the bank of which lie he was president he had made his money all because he planted what people wanted let me go down through the audience now and ask you to show me the great inventors here you will say that mean met mel but it does mean you gleat inventors that hear me now oh you will say we dont have any inventors here they all live away oft off somewhere else dut but who are the great inventors always the men who are the simplest and plainest they are the great inventors the great inventor has the simple mind and invents the simplest machine did you ever think how simple the telephone and the telegraph were now the simplest mind Is always the greatest did you ever see a great nian man great in fit every noble and true sense wt so you could walk right up to him and say how are you jim just think of the great men you have met and you find this true I 1 went out to write the biography of t general garfield Garft eld and found him crowded with other people I 1 went to a neighbors to wait until they had gone rut but the neighbor told me that it if I 1 wanted to get a chance to see him I 1 had better belief go over at once and lie he offered to introduce me lie he took his old hat and stuck it on the back of his head and climbed over the fence and went to tile the back door of the house and shouted jim jim jim very soon jim came to lo the door and the neighbor said here is a 1 man who wants to see ou I 1 went into the home of ode of the grandest men that america ever raised to his neighbors he was jim a plain man a simple man applause I 1 went to see president lincoln one time when I 1 was an officer icer lu in the war ot of IS 61 I 1 had never seen him before and ills his sec secretary sent me in to see him as one would enter a neighbors office simple plain old abe applause the simple men are the greatest al ways did you ever see sec a man strut proudly along puff puffed ed up tip in his individual pride not willing to notice an ordinary mechanic do you think he Is great do aou ou really think that man is great he is nothing but a puffed up lip balloon held down dowil by his big feet there may be greatness in self respect but there is no greatness in feeling above ones fellow men applause I 1 I 1 asked a class in minnesota linne sota once who we were re the great inventors and a girl hopped up and said columbus laughter columbus was a great inventor columbus married a wife who owned a farm and he carried it on just as is I 1 carried on my fathers farm we took the lice and went out and sat down on a rock dut but as co lumbus sat on that rock on the island of porto santo canto spain he was thinking I 1 was not that was a great difference columbus as he sat on that rock held in his hand a hoe handle he looked out on the ocean and saw the departing ships apparently sink into the sea and the tops of the masts went down out of sight since that time other spanish ships have sunk into the sea applause said columbus this world is like a hoe ice handle the farther off the farther ther down just like a hoe handle I 1 can sail around to the east indies how clear it all was yet liow how simpie simile the mind it is the simplest minds that hat observe the very simplest things which accomplish the greatest marvels I 1 went up into new hampshire and when I 1 came back I 1 said I 1 would never go goto to new hampshire to lecture again and I 1 said to a relative of mine who was a professor pio fessor a I 1 harvard 1 I was cold all the time I 1 was there and I 1 shivered so that my teeth shook said baube Sa Ube he why did you shiver because it was so cold no that Is not tile the reason you shivered then I 1 said 1 I shivered because I 1 had not bedclothes enough no that is not the reason well said 1 I professor you are a scientific man I 1 am not I 1 would like to have an expert scientific opinion now why I 1 shivered he arose in his facetious way and said to me young man you shivered because you did not know any better belter you have in your pocket a two cent paper 11 oh yes ye I 1 had a herald and a journal that is it you had them lit in your pocket and if you had spread one newspaper over your sheet when ou went to bed you have been as warm as you lay there as the richest man in america under all his silk cover lids but you shivered because you know enough to put a two cent newspaper on your bed and you had it in your pocket applause it is the power to appreciate the little things that brings success how many women want divorces and ought I 1 to have them too but how many divorces originate like this A man will hurry home from the factory and his wife rushes in from the kitchen the potatoes that have been taken out before they are done and site she puts them on the table fo for her husband to io eat cat lie he chops them up and eats them in a hurry they go down in hard lumps he feel good and he is full of crankiness he frets and scolds and perhaps swears and there is a row in the family right there and these hearts that were almost divinely united will separate to satanic hatred what Is tile the difficulty the difficulty is that that lady linow know I 1 what all these ladies adlea ladi adi do know that if with potatoes raised in lime soll soil she had put in a pinch of salt when she put them in the kettle she could have brought them forth at the right time anil and alipy would have been ready to 0 o laugh themselves to pieces with edible joy ile he would have digested them readily and there would have been love in that family just for a little pinch of salt applause now I 1 say it Is tile the ap appreciation of these things that makes the great inventors of the world I 1 read in a newspaper the other lay day that no woman ever invented anything of course this refer to gossip but machines and improvements if it had referred to gossip it would have applied better to that newspaper than to women who invented the jacquard loom sirs mrs jacquard who invented the printers aLers roller A wo amna who ini indented anted the cot cotton to ngin n gin sirs mrs green although a patent was talen taken out on an improvement in mr whitneys Whit name who invented the sewing machine A woman sirs mrs howe the wife of ellas elias howe if a woman can invent a sewing machine if a woman can im indent ent a printing roller if fr a woman can invent a cottongin we men can invent anything under heaven laughter and applause I 1 I 1 say that to encourage the men lAny anyhow how our oui civilization would roll back if we should cross out the great inventions of women ien though the patents were taken out often in the names of men the greatest inventors are those who see what the people need an and d 1 then invent something to supply that need let me illustrate only more I 1 suppose I 1 were to go through this house and shake hands with each ot of you and say please introduce me to the great men and women in this hall tonight to night you would sayd say great men we dont have any here there are none in this audience if you want to find great men you must go to tome some other part of the world great meu men al fron from esa to be continued |