| Show TJ n I LYMAN J 1 J Lyman J. J Gage former hanl banker cr former secretary of or the treasury I Is reported as having ln theosophy an and his purchase of a home directly adjoining that of the lie high priestess of the lie cult in southern California I Is described at nt length in tho the papers Mr Mi ra Gage Gag Is one of the tho gentlest humbugs humbugs hum hum- bugs that ever er carved initials on tho the scroll of ot fame manie lie He was one of an ai anold anold old Chicago family each member o of which possessed ed lar large e quantities o of real reub estate estate which which other uther people were making more and more valuable every year and when David failed for Cor something like a million to square quare accounts as he lie went out of i the time treasurers treasurer's office Lyman like Brer Rabbit he hc he lay low io lIe He didn't rush rusl madly into the market and anti soil sell his land and give David Davd clearance He lie just waited And at after Jo a while his land was wa so valuable that he became a rich man an and then one day because tho ho di directors dl- dl rectors wanted a solid soUd citizen at the lie head of or the institution he lie was made president of tho the First National bank of Chicago It is stated slated on goo good au authority au- au that what Mr l Gage didn't know about finance would make a big book But nut there are arc men still living wh who will testify that he lie could sit in the thc pretty room at nt tIme the sunny corner cOlner of or the tho bank hank listen to a 3 re reporters reporter's re- re porters porter's question close else his loaf deaf eyes I begin hl hIs liis answer Hutler th the eyelids with withal all the Inscrutable speed of hummingbird hum bird ming wings open the eyes ees sweetly sweet sweet- ly Iy and complete the tho utterance utterance utterance-of of nothing In times lines of great financial stress newspaper people have gone to President President President dent Lyman J. J Gage with an Inquiry as to whether the lie bank would be bo open next day and have been dodged He lie could sa say less In a given of words than any man in or 01 out of the witness chair It was a n plasant day ay for him when Frank A. A Van Vander- Vander er- er lip discovered him The rhe latter latler is a financier and was from the lie begin begin- ning Ho lIo knew that by l' instinct Just Justas as some sonic men c can n look at cat a piece of copy raid and tell you the number of or words to the time page lage and how ho much It will ill make male down loWn the thc column Mr anderup took look Mr Gage in hand and coached coache him From that da day the Iho Utterance ut- ut terance nce of th the banker was lucid not lucid not not verbose e r you tn understand l but t clear l r. r as asfar asfar far as it it went Words were were economized ec cc no- no as were dollars But nut even en in that new ne' pose Lyman Lynian never nevel went ent beyond Instructions An And so sago sage were ero his sentences so deep was the significance of or his oracular remarks so pregnant with meaning were his epigrams that when President McKinley Mc- Mc Kinley came canie to choose a secretary of the treasury there was but one man manIn manin manin in the whole United States who seemed logically fit for fOl the job And that was Lyman True he was wa a Democrat and alwa always s had been but buthe buthe he lie ha had said some things about finance In that campaign which made every everyone everyone everyone one forget his party larty and Da David d. d anti and remember only the wisdom of or Lyman Ho lIe wore a pretty lit little tie sorrel wig vig and amid It never came camo off from the tho day ilay he acc accepted tho lie tips lips of or Mr Van lie He ent through gh four foul years ears at the Ole head hea bf the lie treasury lila his preceptor and friend as an his first assistant assistant as as- and never made mado a wobble He lie graduated from Washington ton to lo the tho head of or a big New York banking house But nut Mr did not go with him hint He lIo hud hind done one his full duty He lie hall had work worl of or his own an and he dl did it handsomely But nut from flom tho the day he lie left Lyman's side that passive power quit emitting wisdom His Ills epigram epi gram foundry was closed and dark Activity was suspended in the tho adage 6 mill And all the windows of the house where the sybil sat were dark dark- en coed ened ed Wise Iso Lyman J JJ He lIe is the tho original man of whom It was wa aforetime written written writ writ- ten len Everything comes to lo him who waits He lie it is of or whom the prophets saying And verily ho knows which side Ide of or his bread Is buttered How fittingly he ho glides the neutral neutral neutral neu neu- colors of theosophy With what propriety his being is gently Inducted Induct Induct- ed cd into the tho faith which never has to tobe tobe tobe be explained Rest Hest you Lyman J. J Adjust the pret pretty wig and anti flutter the eyelids for Nirvana Is lI going to sit up imp and take tako notice when you ou presently arrive |
