proper, -- libraries for workingmen, societies to pre-
vent cruelty to child and animal, -- these from the
very outset were part and parcel of that self-giving
which fortified him in the stress of business life."

On the very threshold of duties in Omaha, even
upon the train which took him into the West, he is
dreaming of other things besides his own advance-
ment. He will not first make a lot of money and then
hunt up worthy philanthropies on which to spend
it, -- a folly as fatal as that of working one's self
into permanent nervous incapacity and then going
abroad to have a good time. He will begin earn-
ing money and take up some useful service at the
same time.

His justice and humanity are steadily practiced
along the entire way. While he is forming business
habits, he is quite as industriously strengthening
those aptitudes which preserve the distinctively hu-
man touch in him. It is these human inclinations
which shield him from the mere lust of getting rich.
He saw one of the tragic predicaments of extreme
individual wealth; namely, that no one seemed wise
enough to spend it wholesomely and with perma-
nent satisfaction. He observed this and he also
heard it straight from those who had found it out.
He was told, as in a confessional, "The more you
try it and watch results, the more impossible it seems
to bestow large sums with satisfying confidence."

One of our very rich men in the Middle West,

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