Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1901 — "Plus” Man Ever in Demand. [ARTICLE]

"Plus” Man Ever in Demand.

The “plus” man is one who is more than appears on the surface, b.'gger than he looks, stronger than be seems, abler than be shows in ordinary affairs, better than the world judges him, constantly rising to great occasions and accomplishing more than is expected of him, writes Victor Smith In the New York Press. There are many such men to whom great occasions never come. There are a few whose “plusness'’ has a chance to Illuminate the earthy every day. Perhaps the finest type of “plus” man was President Lincoln. Grant, too, was plus. It might be confessed that plus, in the sense used, is nearly synonymous with successful. In commercial life Mr. Morgan is heavily plus. In railroading William K. Vanderbult and Edward 11. Harriman have loomed up rather suddenly as plus. Commodore Vanderbilt nnd Jay Gould were plus. Croker is plus. Odell is plus. In tho contracting line John B. McDonald is heavily plus. It Is not every man of affairs who can take hold of a $35,000,000 job aud carry it along successfully without losing a pound of flesh from worry. Plus men seldom worry. They have great nerve but no nerves.