This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1914. Excerpt: ... HERE is a type of American business man who works himself up to success because he has the virtues of aggressiveness and fineness of feeling. He is also nervous, sensitive, egotistic and national. When one of these men is at the head of a business system, his personality permeates down through its parts, making it all aggressive and high-strung. There is still another type of eminently successful man who is both American and universal. His fundamental qualities are health, intelligence, honesty and industry. To these are added the virtues of imagination, courage, sense of justice, the desire to serve his times and the ability to deduct judgment from experience. It is a list of high qualities and men of the type are rare. The combination, when it occurs, is generally found in men of middle years. This is because men of this kind make a late metamorphosis from their chrysalis state of earnest, thorough, intelligent young fellows with high personal ideals. The cousin whom Nancy Lynn had dubbed the Crusty Old Person, being versed in men and affairs, believed with deep-seated satisfaction that he discovered promise of such things in John Carter. As yet Carter was only the earnest, thorough, intelligent young fellow with high ideals. His friendships were mostly with older men. If he had had less foundation on which to build, John Carter would have been a plodder. As it was, he was what is called solid; a quality that the world admires yet somehow bewails in a young man. Some ten years or so ago America discovered the weakness of her consular system, especially in the Far East. To remedy this she established in Peking what might be called a consular college. Picked men go there, receive instruction in diplomacy and are sent to various consular posts of the East....