tream and window screen
down the stream, they began the culture of trout. They afterwards moved
to the Hudson, and since then he has become the authority in the United
States upon the raising of fish, and he has been next to the highest on
the United States Fish Commission in Washington. My lesson is that man's
wealth was out there in his back yard for twenty years, but he didn't
see it until his wife drove him out with a mop stick.

I remember meeting personally a poor carpenter of Hingham,
Massachusetts, who was out of work and in poverty. His wife also drove
him out of doors. He sat down on the shore and whittled a soaked shingle
into a wooden chain. His children quarreled over it in the evening, and
while he was whittling a second one, a neighbor came along and said,
"Why don't you whittle toys if you can carve like that?" He said, "I
don't know what to make!" There is the whole thing. His neighbor said to
him: "Why don't you ask your own children?" Said he, "What is the use of
doing that? My children are different from other people's children." I
used to see people like that when I taught school. The next morning when
his boy came down the stairway, he said, "Sam, what do you want for a
toy?" "I want a wheelbarrow." When his little girl came down, he asked
her what she wanted, and she said, "I want a little doll's washstand, a
little doll's carriage, a little doll's umbrella," and went on with a
whole lot of things that would have taken his lifetime to supply. He
consulted his own children right there in his own house and began to
whittle out toys to please them. He began with his jack-knife, and made
those unpainted Hingham toys. He is the richest man in the entire New
England States, if Mr. Lawson is to be trusted in his statement
concerning such things, and yet that man's fortune was made by
consulting his own children in his own house. You don't need to go out
of your own house to find out what to invent or what to make. I always
talk too long on this subject.

I would like to meet the great men who are here to-night. The great men!
We don't have any great men in Philadelphia. Great men! You say that
they all come from London, or San Francisco, or Rome, or Manayunk, or
anywhere else but here--anywhere else but Philadelphia--and yet, in
fact, there are just as great men in Philadelphia as in any city of its
size. There are great men and women in this audience. Great men, I have
said, are very simple men. Just a