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Show do WHEN DREAMERS DIE A few days ago a captain of indus-tryy, indus-tryy, a man of millions, died In. New York. His name was John A. Hill, and he was the publisher of the Engineering En-gineering News, the Mining Journal,' the Coal Age and other trade publlova- r tions. A quarter of a century ago, or i ; a bit more, he was engineer of a freight train in the Colorado mountain. , One day, while the train waited on a siding, both he and his fireman leaned j : from the cab and gazed dreamily at the distant mountain tops. The fireman fire-man spoke first. 'What are you dreaming about, John9" he asked. 'I was dreaming that I'm going to have a million dollars some day," answered an-swered the engineer. "What were jou dreaming about?" 40 I was dreaming that I'll write a book some day," answered tho fireman. fire-man. I The story Is true. The fireman f told it. His name was Cyy Warman F and he published his book several of ? them, in fact and reached the hearts of millions by his songs Thus the dreams of those young dreamers came truo. Ths young workers who hae , followed them have the same dreams and others. And do not laugh at them; most of the things worth while 1 in history have been accomplished by ' the dreamers. For "the dreamer I lived forever, but the toller died in a day," and "of all this broken world, t what else endures, save only dreams?" I Boston Herald. I oo I |