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Show M, ; jf, i SCHWAB'S RETIREMENT. B So the great Schwab has retired from the E !l. presidency of the Steel combine His friends Hj , t give reasons for his course, opposition party pa- B ' ; 1 pers give other reasons. The real reason, how- H ' j ever, is said to be that the strain of the place H ' ; ,j was too much, that under it his nerves gave B i f i j away, that now his only hope lies in perfect quiet B I ' ' and in the avoidance of all excitement. The H j (a, machinery of his body and mind was intended H f II !! for one thousand horsepower, he worked it up H ' I ' 'I to fifteen hundred and held the pace for a while, B p , ; then tho valves began to brok and the grates H jf j to burn out. B iJi He had tue most enviable position in all the B f ! industrial world; from the ranks he advanced un- B i jii til he held the foiemost place in the working B I'U '' world, to the presidency of the most gigantic 1 bi J J industrial force thjit the world ever saw. An III I ( army of men was under his command; the work L that he superintended was a controlling factor '' ' in both the industrial and financial world. He f s jJ i was conscientious and tried to meet and per-l per-l J ; form all the duties of his position until, under t fe ; the strain, he collapsed. He should have taken 1 Is i lessons from his surroundings. A.11 his life he has H PI 'j been seeing wornout boilers and engines, burned H HI ',','. out grates, and even steel crystalized until it B III could be broken like pottery ware, but he re- H f if M fused to believe that his flesh and nerves were H I ' !p not stronger than iron, more elastic than steel. H h It is a pitiable case Old Mother Nature is most BB P'lll exacting. She gives only a certain fiber to her H 1 ' ' material, she does nothing to restore what comes Hj I 1 J of burning a candle at both ends. There are 11m- Hj a Ji j ltations to life. When a man crowds forty years H fj SHI ino ten the thirty are taken from the further B j ijjtl end of life. Rated by the work he has performed, B iff! Mr. Schwab has reached three score years and H L j"i tfen, and now if his life if continued yet, its H J jjf "strength will be labor and sorrow." The scrap m fllj pile is just beyond. |